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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 goes toe to toe with one of his most formidable adversaries in

The Adventure of the Illustrious Client.

When a beautiful young woman falls under the spell of the notorious playboy Baron Gruner,

Holmes is asked to break up their engagement.

As Holmes delves deeper into the Baron's past, he discovers a trail of ruined lives

and broken hearts.

But Gruner is no ordinary scoundrel.

He's a man who treats violence and murder as a gentleman's game. And this time, the stakes are Homes' life.

From the Noiser podcast network, this is The Adventure of the Illustrious Client, Part One.

It can't hurt now, was Mr. Sherlock Holmes's comment, when, for the tenth time in as many years, I asked his leave to reveal the following narrative. So it was that at last

I obtained permission to put on record what was, in some ways, the supreme moment of my friend's

career. Both Holmes and I had a weakness for the Turkish bath. It was over a smoke in the

pleasant lassitude of the drying

room that I have found him less reticent and more human than anywhere else. On the upper floor of

the Northumberland Avenue establishment, there is an isolated corner where two couches lie

side by side. And it was on these that we lay upon September 3rd, 1902,

the day when my narrative begins.

I had asked him whether anything was stirring,

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