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 and Watson go up to university.

Someone at St. Luke's college has cheated on their Greek exam,

threatening to bring this ancient seat of learning into disrepute.

With three potential suspects in his sights,

can Sherlock Holmes tell his alpha from his omega before the guilty

party scoops a grade they don't deserve, and with it, a coveted scholarship?

From the Noyser Podcast Network, this is The Adventure of the Three Students, Part One.

Music of the three students, part one. It was in the year 95 that a combination of events into which I need not enter,

caused Mr Sherlock Holmes and myself

to spend some weeks in one of our great university towns, and it was during this time that the

small but instructive adventure which I am about to relate befell us. It will be obvious that any

details which would help the reader to exactly identify the college or the

criminal would be injudicious and offensive, so painful a scandal may well be allowed to die out.

With due discretion, the incident itself may, however, be described, since it serves to illustrate

some of those qualities for which my friend

was remarkable. I will endeavour in my statement to avoid such terms as would serve to limit

the events to any particular place or give a clue as to the people concerned. We were residing

at the time in furnished lodgings close to a library where Sherlock Holmes was pursuing some laborious researches in early English charters,

researches which led to result so striking that they may be the subject of one of my future narratives.

Here it was that one evening we received a visit from an acquaintance, Mr Hilton Soames,

tutor and lecturer, at the College of St. Luke's.

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