Mono Noir
Crime, mystery, and noir stories told through immersive radio drama. Mono Noir combines dialogue, music, and sound effects to bring its stories to life. Writing, voices, music, sound effects, and artwork are created using AI tools, with human listening, review, and revision shaping the finished episodes.
The Case of Lot Twelve · Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
Hours after Saturday's race at Gum Flats, the chief steward of the Moreton Turf Club flies halfway round the world to Baker Street, insisting the result cannot be allowed to stand. What happened in that race that a steward would cross the world rather than trust his own stewards' room?
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On a sweltering Sunday near midnight in November 1986, Holmes and Watson...
The Pale Squares · Holmes NYC
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
A historic gallery is about to close over a Pollock the lab calls a fake, and its director has sent for a detective she cannot be sure will clear her. Who made the painting, and who gains if the Harlan falls?
Listen as a podcast, with full transcripts: https://mono-noir.transistor.fm/
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
A new editi...
The Man in the Harbor · Special Matters Pilot S01E01 · Continuing Superhero Audio Drama
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
How does a man drown in a dry room bolted from the inside? PILOT · S01E01 of Special Matters, a continuing noir superhero audio drama from the Mono Noir Super Series. Start here.
Listen as a podcast, with full transcripts: https://mono-noir.transistor.fm/
Boston, November 1950. A young dockside lookout is found drowned in his own bedroom, with the door bolted from the inside and not a drop of water on the f...
The Case of the Diplomatic Baggage · Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
On a thundery September evening in 1982, a secretary telephones Baker Street: Chief Ojo has been seized from the pavement outside his own front door, in full view of her office window. Why would kidnappers work so openly, with a witness looking on?
Listen as a podcast, with full transcripts: https://mono-noir.transistor.fm/
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
London, Septe...
The Case of the Marlowe Flagstone · Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
On Easter Eve 1941, a woman walks from Stepney to Baker Street to say her sister went out after dark on Good Friday and never came home. What took a woman out into the blackout on the one night when London stood still?
Listen as a podcast, with full transcripts: https://mono-noir.transistor.fm/
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
On Easte...
The Case of the Dark Kitchen Stair · Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
A nanny goes down to a Belgravia basement to make a pot of tea and never comes back up. Her mother rings Baker Street before the police have finished with the house. Who was waiting on the dark kitchen stair?
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
On a sleet-soaked Friday in December 1976, Holmes and Watson are scrubbing a scorch from the Baker Stree...
The Case of the Lakeside Daybed · Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
Within hours of his wife's death, a doctor in Ohio puts an overseas call through to Baker Street and asks Sherlock Holmes to come before "the Cleveland papers decide what happened." Why is a grieving husband racing the newspapers instead of the police?
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
London, August 1956. It is a close, thundery Sunday evening; rationing has only just ended...
The Case of the Deaf Vault · Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
Someone has stripped the vault of a Nice bank of twenty-nine million francs and posted the bank's English clerk a photograph of the wreckage, with one word on the back: Merci. An inspector of the Police Judiciaire carries it to Baker Street and lays it face down on Holmes's table. Why would a thief go to the trouble of thanking the clerk?
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with...
The Midnight Steamer · Vienna Files
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
Who slipped Julian Crewe a warning before his Monday-at-ten interview, and why would a colonel hire a private detective rather than trust a single member of his own staff?
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
A new edition of “The Midnight Ferry”, rewritten from the ground up.
Vienna, spring 1953. An envelope with no sender lands on a private detective's mat: twenty po...
The Green Tag · Holmes NYC
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
A parcel from Beijing is stopped at JFK under a green tag, and the supervisor who signed the hold has vanished. Who needed that shipment held, and who needed it to fly?
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
March 2017. In a Brooklyn brownstone with dead radiators, Holmes is charting the super's broken promises on graph paper when Paige Winters, a customs supervisor at JF...
The Case of the Furled Umbrella · Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
Hours after a broadcaster dies of a fever, his widow telephones Baker Street because Scotland Yard has stopped listening. Yet the Yard's own inspector turns up at her door after midnight. Who is uneasy about a death everyone is calling natural?
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
London, November 1976. Holmes is buried in his commonplace books, sentencing letters about missing tortoises, when the t...
The Case of the Misprinted Caption · Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
A will in a dead billionaire's name turns up on a lobby desk in Salt Lake City, and the man it makes rich begs the police to burn it before he will so much as call a lawyer. Why would an heir refuse a fortune before he has even read the page?
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
In the wet June of 19...
The Case of the Vanished Admiral · Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
Nine days after the Admiral vanishes from a London gallery wall, a letter reaches a Fleet Street night desk demanding £210,000 for pensioners' television licences, and Scotland Yard calls it the work of a crank. Why would a thief who wants the money announce himself to a newsroom?
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
In the last days of September 1963, Sherlock Holmes is so bor...
The Case of the Midnight Lagoon Rendezvous · Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
A day after his brother is shot dead in Rio de Janeiro, a man calls at Baker Street and begs Sherlock Holmes to act where he officially may not, afraid the killer will "walk free." Why does he fear a killer who has not yet been found?
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
In the wet June of 1954, Dr Watson is losing a qua...
The Case of the Clockmaker's Ticket · Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
What sent the Marenna to the bottom in two minutes, and why has an insurance director flown through the night to put the question to Sherlock Holmes?
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
January 1977. In the sleet outside Baker Street, an insurance director named Frau Liebenau waits for Sherlock Holmes with an urgent request. A cargo ship, the Marenna, has gone down with...
The Case of the Silent Farmhouse · Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
A baby girl is found alive in her cot, fed and crying, while her parents lie dead half a mile down a New Zealand country road. A cable reaches Baker Street asking Holmes not to clear a man, but to say who fed the child. Who tended her through that night?
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
On a warm June evening in 19...
The Case of the Salt Lake Parcels · Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
Hours after his wife dies in a parcel blast on their own porch, a Utah widower rings Baker Street and begs Sherlock Holmes to come before the police settle on the people who lost their money with him. Why does a grieving man turn away the answer he has been given?
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
On a wet December evening in 19...
The Case of the Stopped Clocks · Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
A ship that could not sink is towed into harbour with not a soul aboard: her lamps still switched on, coats still on their hooks, both her clocks stopped at the same minute. Twenty-two people sailed in her, and none came home. Was it the sea that took them — and why would anyone abandon a ship that would not go down?
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full vo...
The Case of the Five-Barred Gate · Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
Threatening letters in block capitals, a ewe's head spiked on a farm gate — and then a bomb beneath the driver's seat of a sheep farmer's car. Who planted it?
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
London, one spring in the 1980s. Holmes has spent a fortnight indoors with the miners' strike and his tobacco ash, and he has just won a bottle of port...
The Case of the Loyal Parrot · Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
A bank's chief cashier swears that a voice all India knows from the wireless telephoned him and ordered fifty lakh rupees sent off in one steel trunk — and the office it seemed to speak for says no call was ever made. Was there a call at all, and if there was, whose voice was on the line?
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
Londo...
The Case of the Blue Shawl · Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
How could a telegram from Moscow quote a promise a young dancer had written in only one place — a sealed letter he left at his Paris hotel desk?
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
London, May 1960. A gale is moaning in the Baker Street chimney when a call comes through from Paris: the young star of a Soviet ballet company on tour begs Ho...
The Case of the Late Bus Home · Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
Who would shoot a quiet hotel waiter dead beside his pregnant wife — and why has she scrawled across the newspaper report, “This is not my husband”?
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
A new edition of “The Bracken Halt Affair”, rewritten from the ground up.
London, July 1973. Baker Street is wilting in a heat wave and Holmes is quarrelling with a carriage cloc...
The Case of the Empty Socket · Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
Thirty crates went home to Moscow, and the socket in the radar nose came back empty. Who took the great valve from the Soviet jet at Hyakuri?
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
A new edition of “The Ghost Interceptor”, rewritten from the ground up.
London, November 1976. Rain is drumming on Baker Street when Inspector Lestrade arrives with an American engineer...
The Case of the Forty Empty Desks · Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
Half a million pounds of motorists' claims money has vanished from a collapsed insurer, and the auditor who signed its accounts begs Sherlock Holmes to prove him not innocent, but merely a fool. Where did the money go?
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
A new edition of “The Sealed Move”, rewritten from the ground up.
London, July 1966. The city talks of...
Phones in a Basket · Holmes LA
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
The phones went into a bread basket at the door — so how did a foreign envoy know, before breakfast the next morning, what the senator had decided at her private dinner?
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
A new edition of “The Obituary at Seven”, rewritten from the ground up.
Los Angeles, June 2021. Holmes is on the sofa above Echo Park, objec...
Forty and a Half · Holmes NYC
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
A monthly statement shows four thousand shares bought at a price the stock never touched. Who put a number the market never paid on a client's statement?
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
A new edition of an earlier Holmes NYC episode, rewritten from the ground up.
Brooklyn, December 2008. Sleet is ticking on the bay window, the radio is counting the a...
The Case of the Silent Doorbell · Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.
A woman living alone in Rome is strangled in her flat, and the London claims man whose company insured her can find nothing wrong with the claim. So why can't he bring himself to sign it? Who killed her?
🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.
London, autumn 1959. Rain has fallen all week, Holmes has been idle a fortnight and is shooting a loyal...
