Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Carpathian Horror 04/14/1947
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Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
29 min
10 speakers
4 chapters
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How does the Choice Classic Radio episode open and introduce Sherlock Holmes?
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Now let's drop in for our weekly visit to Sherlock Holmes' friend and ours, Dr. Watson. Well, Dr. Watson, how are you this evening? Never better, Mr. Bell, thank you. And you? Fine, thanks. Ah, I see. You've kept your promise to open your dispatch box and bring out your files in connection with the adventure of the Carpathian Horror.
Indeed I have, Mr. Bell, just as I promised. And a most macabre adventure it was, too.
I'm eager to hear it.
So you shall, Mr. Bell, so you shall. But first, am I correct in deducing that you'd like to have a word with our listeners?
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It all began with this very letter which I have here in my hand, Mr. Bell. A letter from a most prosaic firm of solicitors. Holmes and I were at breakfast one spring morning in June 902, shortly after the end of the South African War. Holmes had been bored and restless since the conclusion of our last case. And this was the first time that I'd heard him laugh for days. I must say, Watson... that the Morning Post has brought at least one unusual communication. For a mixture of the modern and the medieval, of the practical and the wildly fanciful, this letter is really the limit. Oh? Why, Holmes? Listen. 24, Gray's Inn, London, June the 4th. Re-vampires. Re-what? Re-vampires. The legal mind is always precise, no matter how odd the subject.
The letter goes on as follows. Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Sir. Our client, Count Paul Romany of Grasnia in Carpathia, whose trustees we are, has made inquiry from us in a communication of even date concerning vampires and demoniac possession. As our firm specializes entirely in trusteeships and chancery work, the matter hardly comes within our purview, and we trust that you will be able to take the matter in hand. We hope you will call upon us at your earliest convenience with a view toward undertaking the case. Please ask for our Mr. Atterbury. We remain, sir, faithfully yours, Wilkinson, Wilkinson, Entwistle, and Dodd. Scott Holmes, that's the weirdest farrago of legal jargon and sheer nonsense that I've ever heard.
I wonder, Watson, the mention of Carpathia is most significant. Significant to what? For one thing, that remote and mountainous section of southeastern Europe has been the stronghold for centuries of all the legends of vampirism. Oh, rubbish. Oh, come, come, Watson. Where's your spirit of adventure? After weeks of lying in the doldrums, he has a fresh breeze from the unexpected environs of Grey's Inn. Come on, it's a beautiful morning for a walk. Where to? Wilkinson, Wilkinson, Entwistle and Dodd. And then, I hope, Carpathia.
Carpathia
Really, Holmes, of all the forsaken spots that I've ever seen, this is the worst. Not a light in sight, not a sign of human habitation. And you've dragged me two-thirds of the way across Europe on what will unquestionably prove a wild goose chase. At least we have our fishing rods with us, my dear fellow. And we can always console ourselves with the promise of some of the best trout streams to be found anywhere. And you must admit that this mountainous Carpathian country offers some superb scenery.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How does the Choice Classic Radio episode open and introduce Sherlock Holmes?
0:00–6:18
2
What prompts Holmes and Watson to investigate the 'Re‑vampires' letter from Gray's Inn?
6:18–14:13
3
How do Holmes and Watson travel to Carpathia and what is their first impression of the castle?
14:13–20:54
4
What unsettling evidence does Count Romany describe about his dreams and the opened family vaults?
20:54–29:18
Speakers
10 identified
Sherlock Holmes (Tom Conway) 13 min
Count Paul Romany (alternate label) / (If only one Count role intended: Count Paul Romany) 4 min
Joseph Bell 3 min
Mr. John Robert Powers 2 min
Anton (servant / old Anton) 1 min
Peter Hallish (cousin / Mr. Hallish)
Maria Morton (Powers girl / model)
Choice Classic Radio Host
Inspector / Police officer (local inspector)
Count Paul Romany (the Count)
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