Holmes LA
A modern Sherlock Holmes in Los Angeles
- 8episodes
- 3 h 43 minof drama
- 2002–2026setting years
Sunshine, freeways and secrets: Holmes and Dr. Watson take on modern cases in Los Angeles, where nothing is quite as simple as it looks from a car window. Each story uses the technology of the year it is set in, with the same patient method underneath.
The cases are loosely inspired by real Los Angeles stories from 1990 to today. Every name, place and figure is changed and the solution is invented, so these are fictions, never news reports.
The writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork are AI-generated, and a human listens to and revises every episode. How it is made.
Episodes in Holmes LA
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?
Held in Trust
In Los Angeles, a bank swears it never sent the statement that woke a widow when it came over her fax at midnight. At the end of the week she must sign for a new building, her money sits with a financier, and she is waiting in her car at the foot of Sherlock Holmes's steps. Who faxed her that statement?
Dust and Diamonds
A Los Angeles jeweler was burgled over the weekend, and the papers say up to fifteen million dollars is gone. The manager of the building his shop stands in lost nothing, yet the investigators keep coming back to her, and tonight she asks Sherlock Holmes to come. Who emptied the vault?
A Borrowed Voice
A Burbank studio chief calls in Sherlock Holmes: a photographer half a world away has phoned her about expenses she was kindly promised on the telephone and never repaid, yet the chief swears she has never spoken to the woman in her life. Who has been telephoning a stranded photographer in a studio chief's voice?
Word for Word
A producer's lawyers quote a woman's unfinished memoir back to her, word for word, though no one has ever seen those pages. Who has been reading what she has not yet published?
The Case of the Gallery Sovereign Auctions
Who is selling a dead admiral's estate on a midnight television channel, when his daughter never agreed to part with a single piece of it?
The Ghost Intake
A federal agent is threatened over a man the county swears it never booked, and the recordings he made inside the jail have vanished with him. Who wanted him gone before his tapes could reach a federal court?
Phones in a Basket
The phones went into a bread basket at the door — so how did a foreign envoy know, before breakfast the next morning, what the senator had decided at her private dinner?
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