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Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

The Adventure of the Gloria Scott: Part Two

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

Noiser

Fiction, Arts, Books, Drama

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Part two of three.  The plot thickens, as the young Sherlock finally cracks the coded message - but it’s too late for poor Mr Trevor.    And a note from beyond the grave answers a number of outstanding questions… even as it raises others.    A Noiser podcast production.    Narrated by Hugh Bonneville   Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  Produced by Duncan Barrett  Sound Design and Audio Editing by Mirianna Pitman Latham  Sound Supervisor: Tom Pink  Compositions: Dorry Macaulay and Oliver Baines  Mix & Mastering: Josh Latham Series Consultant: Dan Smith  Executive Producer: Katrina Hughes    For ad-free listening and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Just click the subscription banner at the top of the feed to get started. Or go to noiser.com/subscriptions  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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She partied most nights and now can't afford her flight back to the UK.

0:05.0

Her parents are annoyed, but not too worried.

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0:31.9

Welcome to Sherlock Holmes short stories. I'm Hugh Bonneville and from the Noiser podcast network, this is The Adventure

0:39.2

of the Glorious Scott, part two. Last time, Holmes shared the story of his very first case,

0:46.7

the extraordinary affair of the Gloria Scott. At the centre of this mystery was a seemingly

0:52.1

innocent message about game, supplies and fly paper,

0:56.1

which somehow struck a Norfolk landowner dead with horror.

1:00.1

Holmes told Watson how, during his college years,

1:03.5

he had formed an unlikely friendship with a jovial fellow student named Victor Trevor.

1:09.3

Despite their differences, they bonded, and Holmes accepted an invitation

1:13.1

to Trevor's family estate in Norfolk. There, Holmes met Trevor's father, a wealthy widower and

1:19.7

justice of the peace. During dinner one evening, Holmes demonstrated his powers of observation,

1:26.5

deducing that Mr. Trevor had boxed in his youth,

1:29.1

had done physical labour, visited New Zealand and Japan, and had once been intimately associated

1:34.7

with someone with the initials, J.A., whom he later wished to forget.

1:40.6

This final observation caused his friend's father to faint.

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