Holmes NYC
A modern Sherlock Holmes in New York
- 10episodes
- 4 h 31 minof drama
- 1992–2022setting years
Holmes and Dr. Watson work New York City, from Brooklyn brownstones to the cargo docks at JFK, in the age of cell phones, cameras and databases. Every story uses the technology of the year it is set in, from landlines and flip phones to smartphones and security cameras, but the method has not changed: observe everything, trust nothing, and ask the question nobody else is asking.
The cases are loosely inspired by real New York stories from 1990 to today. As everywhere on Mono Noir, 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 NYC
Velvet and Gold
Paloma, a Chelsea dance instructor and Dr. Watson's patient, turns up at Sherlock Holmes's Brooklyn door with her engine still running. Her savings, eleven years of private lessons and no vacations, are in a fortune-teller's hands, and she wants them back. Who is Desmond, and why is his name on every bill Paloma got back?
The Case of the Corvane Ledger
Overnight, cash machines across Midtown paid out one point nine million dollars, all in twenties. Nobody needed a crowbar: someone overseas had lifted the withdrawal limits on a batch of prepaid accounts, and the cards did the rest. Now a card processor's security chief wants Sherlock Holmes on the case before the banks open. Who emptied the machines?
Loose on the Wall
An Anselmo Vidal drawing priced at 110,000 dollars was stolen from a Manhattan gallery eleven days ago, and it has already been mailed back. The owner has a homicide captain on the case, yet he sends for Sherlock Holmes for one thing only: a name. Who stole it, and why would anyone send it home?
Gone Away
An eighty-two-year-old woman has vanished from her Manhattan townhouse in the summer heat, leaving her handbag, spectacles and heart pills behind. The precinct has closed its book, but her housekeeper brings Holmes and Watson an answering-machine tape: a message that says she has gone away. Where did Mrs. Thorne go?
The Dead Button
A Manhattan jeweler says a masked gunman made her open her own safe. Her insurer's investigator says no door was forced, no safe was drilled, and the line to her panic button never once showed a fault in fourteen months of nightly checks. Was she robbed at gunpoint, or did she rob herself?
A Quarter to Seven
Who waited on a Manhattan sidewalk at a quarter to seven in the morning to shoot a company chief dead, and why does the whole city know the gunman's smile but not his name?
The Ghost Users
Why would nearly every letter sent to three million students come back undeliverable, when the bank had sampled the list and signed for it, and who stands to lose if Friday's launch goes ahead?
The Pale Squares
A historic gallery is about to close over a Pollock the lab calls a fake, and its director has sent for a detective she cannot be sure will clear her. Who made the painting, and who gains if the Harlan falls?
The Green Tag
A parcel from Beijing is stopped at JFK under a green tag, and the supervisor who signed the hold has vanished. Who needed that shipment held, and who needed it to fly?
Forty and a Half
A monthly statement shows four thousand shares bought at a price the stock never touched. Who put a number the market never paid on a client's statement?
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