The Adventure of the Resident Patient: Part One
2/5/202634 min
Holmes and Watson receive a house call... from a very agitated physician.
Dr Percy Trevelyan’s wealthy benefactor, a man by the name of Blessington, has been spooked by a visit to the surgery from a pair of mysterious Russians.
Can Holmes diagnose the case correctly? And what’s the prognosis for Blessington?
A Noiser podcast production.
Narrated by Hugh Bonneville
Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Produced by Duncan Barrett
Sound Design and Audio Editing: Tony Onuchukwu
Sound Supervisor: Tom Pink
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[suspenseful music] Hello, listeners. Some eagle-eared detectives amongst you might notice that the first few minutes of this episode bear a striking similarity to the opening of "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box," which we released a few months ago. That's the rather gruesome tale featuring the two severed ears delivered to a lady in Croydon. But we aren't investigating a mysterious case of déjà vu. It's just a quirk of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's writing process. "The Cardboard Box" was originally published in the Strand Magazine in January 1893. But when Doyle's next short story collection, the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, was released later that year, it was deemed too horrific to inflict upon readers again. Doyle put the story away, and it wasn't seen again for another quarter century when it was included in the final Holmes collection, his last bow. But in the meantime, the author had lifted a brief section of it