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forward slash express. 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 we venture into The Man with the Twisted Lip, a tale that begins in the opium dens of Victorian London's East End,

where a respectable businessman has vanished without a trace.

Across two immersive episodes, we'll follow the great detective from the fog-shrouded docks of the Thames to the quiet country estates of Kent,

as he unravels a mystery in which nothing can be taken at face value.

A blood-stained window-sill, a coat weighted with pennies, and a beggar with a twisted lip.

All pieces of a puzzle that only Sherlock Holmes can solve.

From the Noisor Network, this is the Man with the Twisted Lip, Part 1.

Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., principal of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some foolish freak when he was at college.

For having read De Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations,

he had drenched his tobacco with Lordnum in an attempt to produce the same effects.

He found, as so many more have done, that the practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many years he continued

to be a slave to the drug, an object of mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives.

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