Sherlock Holmes and The Case of the Jousting Yard Ransom

By: C. Thorne

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

What begins with a pleasant Saturday evening gathering at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Watson, where Sherlock Holmes relates a solo case undertaken in a graveyard in the English Midlands, gives way on Monday to an ardent plea for Holmes’ help in returning a young kidnapping victim to her terrified parents. The only clue at the investigation’s start is a harsh ransom note in which the brutal abductors vow to send back one of the girl’s fingers should outsiders be brought into the case. Making haste to the home of a learned astronomer and his wife in a rural village east of London, Holmes and Watson plunge into “The Case of the Jousting Yard Ransom,” the puzzling ninth tale in The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes….