The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
Description
After a noble family pawns their coronet to a bank in exchange for a 50,000 pound loan, banker Alexander Holder brings it home and locks it up for safekeeping, telling only his immediate family of its hiding place. Holder is later awakened by a noise, and he discovers his son Arthur holding the crown, which is now mangled and missing three stones. Holder infers that Arthur's gambling debts account for his motive, but Holmes thinks Arthur is innocent.
The classic Sherlock Holmes tale of a financier father apparently apprehending his son while trying to steal valuable gems from an ancient crown left in his care. Holmes is asked to obtain a confession but he finally solves the mystery from the silence of a suspect.
A famous Sherlock Holmes story about a banker father who seems to catch his own son attempting to steal precious jewels from an old royal crown he was trusted to protect. Holmes gets called in to make the suspect confess, but he cracks the case by figuring out what someone refuses to say.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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