The Vanishing Herd
Holmes and his trusted companion Dr. Watson travel to England moor country to solve a kidnapping case involving the son of the Duke of Holderness. Holmes and Watson manage to trace the route of the boy abductors, but they are baffled by the number of cow prints they find in an area where only sheep graze.
The famous detective Sherlock Holmes works to find a rich nobleman's missing boy who vanished from an expensive private school. To crack the case, Holmes must hunt for evidence under the hoofprints of wandering livestock before the animals trample all the clues into nothing.
Sherlock Holmes takes on the case of a wealthy aristocrat whose son mysteriously disappeared from a prestigious boarding school. In order to solve the case, he must quickly search for clues beneath the tracks of moving cattle before they are stomped cleanly away.
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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“The Vanishing Herd.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, January 29, 1981.
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