The Musgrave Ritual: Part One

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

Noiser

Books, Arts, Fiction, Drama

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

When the great detective’s old school friend comes to him with a strange tale involving an ancient family ritual, Sherlock suddenly finds himself drawn into a centuries-old mystery. Featuring a series of cryptic calls and responses, the so-called “Musgrave Ritual” has long been seen as merely an eccentric tradition. But when the family’s butler disappears after becoming obsessed with the ceremony’s verses, they begin to suspect there’s more to it than meets the eye. Now Holmes must decipher the meaning behind this ancestral riddle before innocent lives are lost. 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 George Tapp Compositions: Dorry Macaulay and Oliver Baines Mix & Mastering: Liam Cameron Series Consultant: Dan Smith For ad-free listening, bonus material 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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0:33.3	I'm Hugh Bonneville and welcome to Sherlock Holmes short stories,
0:38.3	the series where we delve into the files of fiction's most brilliant detective,
0:43.3	following his keen mind and unerring instincts from the first subtle clue to the final dramatic revelation.
0:51.9	This time we embark on one of Sherlock Holmes's first ever cases, the Musgrave ritual.
0:59.0	Over two spine-chilling episodes, we'll follow a young Holmes as he unravels a twisted mystery hidden within the walls of a crumbling manner home.
1:09.0	There'll be devious butlers, hidden treasure, secret passageways,
1:14.2	and at the centre of it all, an ancient family ritual with a forgotten purpose.
1:20.9	From the Noyser Podcast Network, this is The Adventure of the Musgrave ritual.
1:28.4	Part 1. Music this is The Adventure of the Musgrave ritual, part one.
1:41.2	An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most
1:45.7	methodical of mankind, and although also he affected a certain quiet primness of dress,
1:51.9	he was nonetheless in his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow
1:58.4	lodger to distraction. Not that I am in the least conventional in
2:02.6	that respect myself. The rough and tumble work in Afghanistan, coming on the top of a natural
2:08.6	bohemianism of disposition, has made me rather more lax than befits a medical man. But with me,
2:15.8	there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in
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