Showing posts with label The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans. Show all posts

SUNDAY, May 26th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street

Back to Holmes & Watson!  The Tea Time Crew is joined this week by friend Elrik Merlin.


THIS WEEK: "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" The monotony of thick smog-shrouded London is broken by a sudden visit from Holmes' brother Mycroft. He has come about some missing, secret submarine plans. Seven of the ten pages — three are still missing — were found with Arthur Cadogan West's body.

West was a young clerk in a government office at Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, whose body was found next to the Underground tracks near the Aldgate tube station, his head crushed. He had little money with him (although there appears to have been no robbery), theatre tickets, and curiously, no Underground ticket. The three missing pages by themselves could enable one of Britain's enemies to build a Bruce-Partington submarine.

In a rare appearance, Sherlock's brother Mycroft is an active participant, and the initiator of this case.  Seven years elder, Mycroft wields great power and influence with the national and international machinations of Britain.  Holmes says to Watson, "One has to be discreet when one talks of high matters of state.  You are right in thinking that he is under the British government.  You would also be right in a sense if you said that occasionally he IS the British government."

Da5id Abbot, Elrik Merlin, Kayden Oconnell, and Caledonia Skytower present the adventure, live on stream from the Seanchai Fireside Room.

A 1908 map of the London Underground.  The today's tale was
first published in 1912.

SUNDAY, March 2nd @ 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street


Corwyn, Kayden, and Cale continue with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's for Holmesian short story collection titled "HIS LAST BOW: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes."  TODAY: "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans."

The monotony of thick smog-shrouded London is broken by a sudden visit from Holmes’s brother Mycroft. He has come about some missing, secret submarine plans. Seven of the ten pages — three are still missing — were found with Arthur Cadogan West’s body. He was a young clerk in a government office at Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, whose body was found next to the Underground tracks near the Aldgate tube station, his head crushed.  The three missing pages by themselves could enable one of Britain’s enemies to build a Bruce-Partington submarine. Holmes must solve the mystery and regain possession of the missing plans for the safety of the Empire.

Presented live in voice, downstairs in the Seanchai Fireside Room.