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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, Holmes and Watson are called up to Aldershot. A scandal has erupted in the

famous military town. Colonel James Barkley,

a decorated officer of the Royal Munsters, has been found dead inside his own home. Just moments

after engaging in a blazing row with his wife, Nancy. Now she lies insensible as the police prepare to charge her with his murder.

But as Sherlock Holmes begins his investigation, he discovers a curious clue, a small, oddly shaped

pawprint outside the house. From the Noyser podcast network, this is The Adventure of the Crooked Man, part one.

One summer night, a few months after my marriage, I was seated by my own hearth, smoking a last pipe and nodding over a novel, for my day's work had been an exhausting one.

My wife had already gone upstairs, and the sound of the locking of the hall door sometime before told me that the servants had also retired.

I had risen from my seat, and was knocking out the ashes of my pipe

when I suddenly heard the clang of the bell.

I looked at the clock.

It was a quarter to twelve.

This could not be a visitor at so late an hour,

a patient evidently, and possibly an all-night sitting.

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