The Adventure of the Resident Patient: Part One

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

Noiser

Fiction, Arts, Books, Drama

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Holmes and Watson receive a house call... from a very agitated physician. Dr Percy Trevelyan’s wealthy benefactor, a man by the name of Blessington, has been spooked by a visit to the surgery from a pair of mysterious Russians. Can Holmes diagnose the case correctly? And what’s the prognosis for Blessington? A Noiser podcast production. Narrated by Hugh Bonneville Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Produced by Duncan Barrett Sound Design and Audio Editing: Tony Onuchukwu Sound Supervisor: Tom Pink Compositions: Dorry Macaulay and Oliver Baines Mix & Mastering: Ralph Tittley 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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0:31.2	Hello listeners.
0:36.4	Some eagle-eared detectives amongst you might notice that the first few minutes of this episode bear a striking similarity to the opening of the Adventure of the Cardboard Box, which we released a few months ago.
0:44.4	That's the rather gruesome tale featuring the two severed ears delivered to a lady in Croydon.
0:50.7	But we aren't investigating a mysterious case of deja vu, it's just a quirk of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's writing process.
0:58.2	The cardboard box was originally published in The Strand magazine in January 1893.
1:05.1	But when Doyle's next short story collection, the memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, was released later that year,
1:11.4	it was deemed too horrific to inflict upon readers again.
1:15.7	Doyle put the story away, and it wasn't seen again for another quarter-century when it was
1:20.9	included in the final Holmes collection, his last bow.
1:25.3	But in the meantime, the author had lifted a brief section of it to bulk out
1:29.4	the story you're going to hear today, the adventure of the resident patient. So it is that the
1:35.4	Holmesian canon contains two stories in which Holmes and Watson have the exact same conversation
1:41.6	with each other. Ironically, about Edgar Allan Poe's fictional detective, Auguste Dupin,
1:48.0	who was a key influence on the character of Sherlock Holmes.
1:58.7	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.
2:15.4	This time, Holmes and Watson receive a house call from a very agitated physician.
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