A woman struck dead after hearing a haunting whistle. A series of child-like drawings scrawled throughout a country estate. A prize horse wandering the moors without an owner.

To the regular observer, these are merely strange anomalies. But for the master detective, Sherlock Holmes they are the first pieces of an elaborate puzzle.

This christmas, listen to Sherlock Holmes Short Stories, narrated by Hugh Bonneville.

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