The Man with the Twisted Lip: Part Two

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

Noiser

Books, Arts, Fiction, Drama

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Just when Holmes concludes that St. Clair has met a tragic end, the man's wife produces proof that her husband is still alive. Determined to uncover the truth, Holmes and Watson embark on an early morning journey through the English countryside which ends in a grimy London jail cell. There, they confront the mysterious beggar, Hugh Boone and make a shocking discovery. But as the mystery surrounding St. Clair’s disappearance unravels, Sherlock is faced with a moral dilemma… A Noiser production, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Narrated by Hugh Bonneville Produced by Katrina Hughes and Addison Nugent Sound Design and Audio Editing by Mirianna Latham & Thomas Pink Compositions: Dorry Macaulay and Oliver Baines Mix & Mastering: Cody Reynolds-Shaw and Liam Cameron Series Consultant: Dan Smith For ad-free listening and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Autopilot Order. Now, informal, the strong urge felt at the ordering kiosk or drive-through
0:05.6	that takes over the entire body and mind and results in a person ordering a Big Mac without even
0:10.6	having to think. Related phrases, looks like I've ordered a Big Mac again. The Autopilot Order at
0:16.0	McDonald's. Surf from 11am, subject to availability.
0:26.2	Welcome to Sherlock Holmes short stories.
0:30.9	I'm Hugh Bonneville and this is The Man with the Twisted Lip, Part 2.
0:39.9	Last time, Dr Watson headed to East London to retrieve one of his patients from an opium den. While there, he ran into a cleverly disguised Sherlock Holmes, who was in the process of investigating a very different case.
0:46.4	A respectable businessman, Neville St. Clair, had vanished from this same den, spotted briefly
0:52.3	at a window by his terrified wife, before disappearing
0:55.7	without a trace.
0:57.4	All that remained were his clothes, traces of blood, and a mysterious beggar named Hugh Boone,
1:04.0	who denied all knowledge.
1:06.6	Holmes has grimly concluded that St. Clair is dead.
1:10.6	But as he delivers this verdict to the missing man's wife at her home in Kent,
1:15.2	she surprises Sherlock by producing a letter received that very day
1:20.6	written in her husband's hand. Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been galvanized.
1:40.3	What? he roared.
1:42.3	Yes, today.'
1:44.4	She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of paper in the air.
1:48.5	"'May I see it?'
1:49.6	"'Certainly.'
1:50.8	He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and, smoothing it out upon the table,
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