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I'm Hugh Bonneville and welcome to Sherlock Holmes short stories,

the series where we delve into the files of fiction's most brilliant detective, following his keen mind and unerring instincts from the first

subtle clue to the final dramatic revelation.

This time, a young woman, Miss Mary Sutherland, walks into Holmes's Baker Street rooms with a tale of heartbreak

and confusion. On the very morning she was due to marry, her fiancée, Hosmer Angel, vanished without a

trace. Was he the victim of some dreadful fate? Or could there be something far more calculating

behind his disappearance?

As Holmes begins to unravel the case, he senses deception lurking close to home.

From the Noyser podcast network, this is A Case of Identity, Part One.

My dear fellow, said Sherlock Holmes, as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street,

life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out

of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the

queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings,

the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events working through generations, and leading

to the most utre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen

conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

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