The 4 cases are:

1) The Abergavenny Murder
That's Abergavenny the lord, not Abergavenny the town. The scene opens on Holmes dabbling with his chemistry set and trying to keep his brain alive through a period of mind numbing boredom, because of the dearth of cases. Watson tries to help with suggestions of tea. Then a desperate and dishevelled man stumbles through the door begging for help and collapses, dead on the rug. Holmes snaps to attention. His mental faculties are focused - and he's off ...

2) The Shameful Betrayal of Miss Emily Smith;
A young, kind hearted and gentle woman is murdered. She's a children's teacher, well thought of, private and unassuming. She has no enemies. Her body is discovered by a doctor and his wife out walking in the snow. The mystery is, how did the killer stab her and leave her in a snow covered field without leaving any foot-prints but the victim's. Only the most incisive mind is going to solve this one.

3) The Tragedy of Hanbury Street
When a 16 year old girl kills herself, leaving an enigmatic suicide note, her heart-broken adoptive parents want to know why. She left home for work as a volunteer in a clinic for the poor, in a seemingly buoyant mood, then took her own life. What happened in the intervening hours to cause this fatal change? Holmes and Watson are on the case.

4) The Determined Client.
A business man receives an unwelcome visit from his nephew - the son of his disinherited brother. Things turn ugly and the business man apparently shoots his nephew, then overcome with guilt, he shoots himself. That's how it looks to the people who walk into the study and witness the ghastly scene. The business man's daughter has reason to believe the scene can be read differently if only the police had the wit to look beyond the obvious. The police are quite satisfied with the obvious however, so the young lady turns in desperation to the famous sleuth.

I enjoyed listening to all the plays. Bert Coules managed to capture the spirit of Conan Doyle's famous detective convincingly, in my opinion. Clive Merrison and Andrew Sachs are very good in the roles of Holmes and Watson and the other actors also play their parts well. If you enjoy the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, you will probably enjoy these plays too.

The titles of the 4 cases are:
1) The Abergavenny Murder;
2) The Shameful Betrayal of Miss Emily Smith;
3) The Tragedy of Hanbury Street;
4) The Determined Client.

I enjoyed listening to all the plays. Bert Coules managed to capture the spirit of Conan Doyle's famous detective very convincingly, in my opinion. I agree with the previous reviewer, that the first story, The Abergavenny Murder, is the least interesting of the four, but it's not too bad - just the least memorable of a generally well crafted collection of cases.

Clive Merrison and Andrew Sachs are very good in the roles of Holmes and Watson and the other actors also play their parts well. If you enjoy the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, you will probably enjoy these plays just as much.