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Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist: Part One

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

Noiser

Fiction, Arts, Books, Drama

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

When a beautiful young music teacher notices she's being followed by a bearded stranger on her lonely bicycle journeys through the Surrey countryside, she turns to Holmes for help. But what begins as a seemingly minor case quickly devolves into something far more sinister.   A Noiser podcast production.    Narrated by Hugh Bonneville   Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  Produced by Katrina Hughes and Duncan Barrett  Script Supervisor: Addison Nugent  Sound Design and Audio Editing by Mirianna Pitman Latham Sound Supervisor: Tom Pink  Compositions: Dorry Macaulay and Oliver Baines  Mix & Mastering: The Soundhouse Studios Series Consultant: Dan Smith  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.3

I'm Hugh Bonneville and welcome to Sherlock Holmes short stories,

0:38.8

a series where we delve into the files of fiction's most brilliant detective, following his keen mind and unerring instincts, from the first

0:44.7

subtle clue to the final dramatic revelation.

0:48.5

This time, Holmes and Watson pursue a mysterious stalker in The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist.

0:57.2

When a beautiful young music teacher notices she's being followed by a bearded stranger

1:02.2

on her lonely bicycle journeys through the Surrey countryside, she turns to homes for help.

1:08.3

But what begins as a seemingly minor case quickly develops into something far more

1:13.8

sinister. Soon, Holmes and Watson find themselves in a race against time, as they unravel the

1:19.8

carefully woven web of deception the young teacher has become trapped within. But will they

1:25.3

discover the true identity of her shadowy pursuer before it's too

1:29.4

late? From the Noyser podcast network, this, Mr Sherlock Holmes was a very busy man.

1:56.1

It is safe to say that there was no public case of any difficulty in which he was not consulted during

2:01.6

those eight years, and there were hundreds of private cases, some of them of the most

2:06.9

intricate and extraordinary character, in which he played a prominent part. Many startling

2:13.3

successes and a few unavoidable failures were the outcome of this long period of continuous work.

2:20.4

As I have preserved very full notes of all these cases, and was myself personally engaged in many

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