The Adventure of the Second Stain: Part Two

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

Noiser

Books, Arts, Fiction, Drama

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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As days pass without progress, the threat of war looms ever closer. Luckily, a curiously placed blood stain on a carpet in the murdered spy’s house leads Holmes to a revelation. But when the great detective finally unmasks the thief, he must choose between the truth and mercy. A Noiser podcast production. Narrated by Hugh Bonneville Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Produced by Katrina Hughes and Addison Nugent Sound Design and Audio Editing by Josh Latham Compositions: Dorry Macaulay and Oliver Baines Mix & Mastering: Liam Cameron Series Consultant: Dan Smith 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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0:33.7	Welcome to Sherlock Holmes short stories.
0:36.8	I'm Hugh Bonneville, and from the Noiser podcast network, this is The Adventure of the Second Stain, part two.
0:45.9	Last time, two illustrious visitors arrived in Baker Street, the Prime Minister of Britain,
0:51.8	and his Secretary of European Affairs, Lord Trelawney Hope.
0:57.0	Just that morning, a highly sensitive letter from a foreign leader had vanished from Hope's dispatch box,
1:04.0	a document so explosive that its publication threatened to plunge all of Europe into war.
1:10.0	Even the police couldn't be informed of its theft, for fear of the scandal reaching
1:14.8	the newspapers.
1:17.3	Holmes quickly deduced that the letter must have been taken between 7.30 and 11.30 the
1:22.9	previous evening, and likely passed directly to one of London's three most notorious spies.
1:30.3	The great detective immediately zeroed in on one Eduardo Lucas, but was then shocked to learn
1:36.3	that Lucas was dead, murdered the night before in his Westminster home.
1:43.3	But before the pair could go and investigate, Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope, the European Secretary's
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