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Planned, not promised. Production runs every day, so the lineup, the order and the dates can change. This page is refreshed several times a day. Last updated Friday 13 November, 11:15 pm Central Time.
Saturday 14 November
The Case of the Harlan Park Gold
In Los Angeles, a junkman finds stolen gold-plated Laurel statuettes in a supermarket dumpster and has the best morning of his life: a reward, his name in the papers, a handshake from the Guild. By evening the police want his fingerprints and he is begging Sherlock Holmes for help. Who stole the Laurels?
A Head for Eisenstadt
A sexton in Eisenstadt says she laid the head of the composer Matthias Altmann in his tomb yesterday, after nearly a century and a half in Vienna. Half of Austria wept. Now she stands at a Vienna detective's door with a parcel in an altar cloth. Why was a stranger's funeral card hidden inside his sealed casket?
Sunday 15 November
Forest Park Drop
In New York, a federal agent has arrested a man from a Moscow delegation at the airport and needs Sherlock Holmes to prove she was right before they fly out on Friday. Six years ago someone tried to buy the plans of a missile shield from a Long Island engineer, and nobody ever saw his face.
Monday 16 November
Ghost in the Machines
In Los Angeles, a flower shop's website is drowned by a flood of requests the day its ad runs, and its engineer cannot fix it. The cooler is full of roses nobody comes for, the owner is sure it was meant to finish her, and Sherlock Holmes is called in. Who drowned the website, and why?
Tuesday 17 November
The Case of the Room Four-Twelve
A Geneva inspector brings Sherlock Holmes an unwelcome errand: the ruined premier of a German state is dead in a hotel bath, the verdict of suicide was typed before the post-mortem, and his widow will not accept it. Did the man end his own life, or was the book closed too soon?
Wednesday 18 November
The Case of the Sable Road Crossroads
A wife's cable from Nairobi tells Sherlock Holmes to come at once and clear her husband, and never says what he is accused of. When Holmes arrives, an earl has been shot dead on the Sable Road and the Thornbury Club has already passed sentence on the husband. Can he be cleared, and who shot the earl?
Thursday 19 November
Still at the Office
A man is killed at his desk in a New York office, and the police put it down to a junkie's robbery. The very next evening his insurer's claims man drives through the rain to Sherlock Holmes's Brooklyn door and asks him to stand in that office first thing in the morning, before anyone else.
Friday 20 November
Silent Copies
In Los Angeles, a film star's private photographs keep turning up on a website, four of them this morning, and so far nobody has asked her for a cent. She phones Sherlock Holmes from a film set and asks him up to her house in the hills tonight. Who is behind it, and what do they want?
Saturday 21 November
The Case of the Thief's Postcard
The Keeper of the Marlby Picture Gallery climbs the stairs at Baker Street without having been to bed: the same small portrait has left his wall again, for the fourth time. Why does this one keep going, and how did a thief cross a gallery whose alarm stayed silent until the picture came down?
Beneath the Odalisque
In Moscow, long after midnight, Nina, who buys pictures for a bank, stands on the detective Maksim Volkov's landing and will not come past the mat: if she steps inside, she says, it becomes real. She fears the painting the bank paid a record price for is not what it claims to be.
Saturday 28 November
The Extra Carbon
In Vienna, late in 1945, the Americans have read some two hundred secret cables on the oil talks, and the Russians want the leaker. The Chancellery's cable chief wants the right person found quietly; if the detective finds no one, the Russians will choose, and whoever they take is never seen again. Who is the leaker?
Saturday 5 December
The Orphans' Train
In wartime Istanbul an American envoy comes pounding up the stair to the detective Kemal Arslan's rooms. A train of orphans stands at the Bulgarian frontier with its engine uncoupled, and the envelope sent to pay for its transit stamps has come back cut open with nothing inside but paper. Who is lying to him?
Saturday 12 December
The Silver of Josefov
In Prague in 1991, a museum curator tells the detective Antonín Zima that overnight someone emptied every case in her silver hall, silver that came to the museum in the war from towns with no Jews left. The police have forty burglaries to get through; she has a catalogue of every piece. Who emptied the hall?
Saturday 19 December
The Midnight Cash Run
In Moscow, a cash-van driver stands on a detective's landing and will not come in: the word "thief" is marked on his door, and the vault of the bank he drove for is bare, three point six billion roubles gone overnight. His name is on the sign-out sheet; he swears he never signed it.
Saturday 26 December
Bells at Three O'Clock
Moscow, autumn 1997. An old night guard from a Petersburg gallery, whom the papers call a coward, climbs five flights to a detective's door. The militia gave him four minutes, and when he raised one small thing more, the lieutenant shut his book. What was that small thing?
Being finished
Recorded and in their final pictures and checks. Release days will be set soon.
The Case of the Bare Gallery Walls
The Case of the Empty Chair
The Case of the Lunchtime Lodger
Before the Bell
Double Hung
The Whistling Wallet
Thirty Cents
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