
About this episode
When a well-respected businessman named Neville St. Clair disappears from a seedy opium den in London’s East End, Holmes and Watson are drawn into one of their strangest mysteries yet. A series of macabre clues leads Holmes to believe that St. Clair was murdered, and suspicion falls upon a mysterious beggar with a horrifically scarred lip. As Holmes and Watson descend deeper and deeper into London’s seedy underbelly they discover a world in which nothing and no one are quite what they seem.
A Noiser production, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Narrated by Hugh Bonneville
Produced by Katrina Hughes and Addison Nugent
Sound Design and Audio Editing by Mirianna Latham & Thomas Pink
Compositions: Dorry Macaulay and Oliver Baines
Mix & Mastering: Cody Reynolds-Shaw
Series Consultant: Dan Smith
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