The Boscombe Valley Mystery: Part One

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Holmes and Watson head down to Herefordshire… where an Antipodean murder mystery is playing out.

But who has killed local landowner Charles McCarthy, two decades after he returned home from Australia with his family?

And what light can the dead man’s final words – ‘A rat!’ – shine on the mystery?

Narrated by Hugh Bonneville 

Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Produced by Duncan Barrett

Sound Design and Audio Editing by Tony Onuchukwu

Sound Supervisor: Tom Pink

Compositions: Dorry Macaulay and Oliver Baines

Mix & Mastering: Josh Latham

Series Consultant: Dan Smith

Executive Producer: Katrina Hughes