Gone Away · Holmes NYC

This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4. 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? 🎧 Full episode of Holmes NYC: a modern Sherlock Holmes audio drama, a radio mystery set in New York and performed by a full cast. Listen as a podcast, with full transcripts: https://mono-noir.transistor.fm/ Stories, transcripts and the schedule: https://matezz.com 🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction. Brooklyn, July 1992. A week past the fireworks, with the heat unbroken, Dr. Watson is quarrelling with a baseball call-in show on his radio and Holmes is sorting spent firecracker paper by maker when the doorbell rings. It is Marta, who has kept house for Mrs. Thorne for twenty-six years, with a tape knotted in a handkerchief. Holmes calls a grown woman's absence in summer no crime, and a housekeeper cannot pay their rent, until Watson mentions the knot. In Mrs. Thorne's bedroom the bed is made, her handbag on the chair still holds her keys, her wallet and her spectacles, and a bottle of her heart medicine is nearly full. Nobody of eighty-two, Holmes observes, goes away without her spectacles. Marta last saw her at noon, cursing the firecrackers, and came back from her sister's to an empty house and a message; the precinct sergeant closed his book. At noon Captain Arroyo, folder in hand, thinks Mrs. Thorne has simply gone off. That night, in Marta's kitchen in Astoria under the elevated line, Holmes hears the message: Mrs. Thorne has gone up to an old friend on Riverside Drive for a rest. Marta has played it forty times. The next day, five flights up, the friend says Mrs. Thorne never came. Did she ever reach that door? From the series Holmes NYC: a real New York crime reimagined as a modern Sherlock Holmes radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast with an original score and sound design. Loosely inspired by a real New York case of the 1990s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including an elderly homeowner, her housekeeper and household, her lodgers, her friends and neighbours, anyone suspected or accused of her disappearance, the prosecutors, the investigators and the police — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, state, public body or newspaper is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the townhouse, the apartment building and the precinct named in it are invented too. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual, company or organisation is accused of any act shown here. Setting: Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens, New York — July 1992. Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced — and then cast and performed with our new casting and voice direction. Chapters:0:00 Firecracker Paper and a Radio Call-In2:42 Mrs. Thorne's Bedroom by Full Dark4:14 The Next Morning's Stairs5:31 Noon in a Crowded Front Hall7:02 An Answering Machine on a Lace Doily8:35 Five Flights Up on Riverside Drive9:53 Cedar and Old Programs in the Study11:18 A Furniture Van at the Curb12:18 A Path Worn in the Study Rug13:48 One Card to a Fact14:38 Candlesticks Nobody Would Light15:47 A Last Loose End Before Uptown17:16 Back Up the Five Flights Toward Evening19:02 Mid-Morning in the Study20:37 The Evidence Cage in the Basement22:17 Back to the Front Hall23:59 The Captain Leads the Way at Dusk25:31 Brooklyn Again, the Fan Still Going #MonoNoirRadioDrama #SherlockHolmes #AudioDrama