The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist: Part Two
1/8/202628 min
Miss Smith’s strange case takes a drastically darker turn when a violent confrontation on a lonely country road leads to a desperate race against time. And a sinister plot is laid bare as Holmes unmasks the young woman’s shadowy pursuer.
A Noiser podcast production.
Narrated by Hugh Bonneville
Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Produced by Katrina Hughes and Duncan Barrett
Script Supervisor: Addison Nugent
Sound Design and Audio Editing by Mirianna Pitman Latham
Sound Supervisor: Tom Pink
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[music] Welcome to Sherlock Holmes Short Stories. I'm Hugh Bonneville, and from the Noiser Podcast Network, this is The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist, Part 2. Last time, we met Miss Violet Smith, a music teacher who sought Holmes' help regarding a mysterious cyclist who'd been following her on her way home from work in the Surrey countryside. Miss Smith explained her situation. After her father's death, Mr. Carruthers and Mr. Woodley, two men who claimed to be acquaintances of her long-lost uncle in South Africa, appeared. Carruthers offered her a well-paid position teaching music to his daughter at Chiltern Grange. Woodley proved to be an unpleasant suitor who made a series of unwelcome advances towards Miss Smith. For several Saturdays, when cycling to Farnham Station, Miss Smith noticed the same bearded man following her on a bicycle. He always maintained his distance and disappeared at the same spot near Charlington Heath. On her most recent journey, she tried to confront him, but he fled. Holmes, occupied with another case,