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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes #9

by Arthur Conan Doyle, سالي أحمد حمدي (ترجمة)

Doctor Percy Trevelyan brings Holmes an unusual problem. Having been a brilliant student but a poor man, Dr. Trevelyan has found himself a participant in an unusual business arrangement. A man named Blessington, claiming to have some money to invest, has set Dr. Trevelyan up in premises with a prestigious address and paid all his expenses.

Genres: Mystery, Classics, Short Stories, Fiction, Crime, Audiobook, Detective

62 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1893

About the author

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.

Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.

Reviews

[Diamond Cowboy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an other great adventure of Sherlock Holmes.

[Aishu Rehman · Rating 3 out of 5]

As with a good number of Sherlock Holmes stories, initially there doesn’t seem much of a crime for Holmes to investigate in The Adventure of the Resident Patient; the man named Blessington simply having employed a doctor. When faced with the facts though, Holmes is immediately worried for the safety of the Resident Patient.

Blessington though, doesn’t want the assistance of Sherlock Holmes, and so Holmes decides to drop the case, although the death of Blessington soon puts the detective back on it.

The Adventure of the Resident Patient is not a story where the reader can solve the Holmesian case alongside the detective, as most of the pertinent facts are only revealed late on in the story. So rather than a who dunnit, The Adventure of the Resident Patient is simply a good story to read.

With The Adventure of the Resident Patient Conan Doyle once again shows that it is not always legal justice that deals with criminals, and as with The Adventure of the Five Orange Pips, natural justice that eventually sees the downfall of the criminals.

The Adventure of the Resident Patient was adapted by Granada TV, an adaptation which saw Jeremy Brett play Sherlock Holmes. This episode of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was first aired on the 15th September 1985.

[Isa Cantos (Crónicas de una Merodeadora) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Creo que este caso sí fue bastante más obvio en el sentido de que siempre supe quién fue el cómplice del asesinato. De todas maneras me gustó cuando revelaron la identidad de los otros criminales y cómo nos presentaron unas historias de fondo que nunca me imaginé.

También es interesante ver que cuando no atrapan a los criminales, Conan Doyle siempre dice como "bueno y la gente cree que se ahogaron en un barco". O sea, como que los criminales siempre tienen su merecido en estas historias.

[Razvan Banciu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Again and again, nothing special. A young doctor has settled for what looks to be an unfortunate deal.
The plot is average, the characters are unpleasant, the introduction is more valuable than the content...

[Dystopian · Rating 3 out of 5]

"The game is afoot."

The pacing is just right, keeping readers engaged and eager to uncover the truth.
The resolution of the case is satisfying, tying up loose ends while leaving room for reflection.

[Raoufa Ibrahim · Rating 3 out of 5]

رواية بسيطة ..لا يوجد بها تحليلات معقدة لكن دائماً شخصية شيرلوك مميزة حتى لو لم يحل الجريمة ..كمية المعلومات في رأسه دائما ما تدهشني
قراءة كتب شيرلوك لها مذاقها الخاص ..على الرغم من انها قصيرة لكنها تساعدني دائما على التركيز في التفاصيل الصغيرة وتحليل الاحداث في حياتي!

[Katja Labonté · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.7 stars (5/10 hearts) This is an interesting story, with some unique characters. I appreciated the more medical flavour—with the acting, the treatise, and how the inspector instantly realized who the villains were, while the two doctors were completely blank. And the “hunted” aspect of the story was intriguing, as well as Blessington’s ambiguous positioning in our sympathies…

Content: language, gruesome description of a hanged man, smoking, drinking.

A Favourite Humorous Quote: “Is there not one alternative,” I suggested, “grotesquely improbably, no doubt, but still just conceivable? Might the whole story of the cataleptic Russian and his son be a concoction of Dr. Trevelyan’s, who has, for his own purposes, been in Blessington’s rooms?”
I saw in the gaslight that Holmes wore an amused smile at this brilliant departure of mine. “My dear fellow,” said he, “it was one of the first solutions which occurred to me, but I was soon able to corroborate the doctor’s tale. This young man has left prints upon the stair-carpet which made it quite superfluous for me to ask to see those which he had made in the room. When I tell you that his shoes were square-toed instead of being pointed like Blessington’s, and were quite an inch and a third longer than the doctor’s, you will acknowledge that there can be no doubt as to his individuality.”

[midnightfaerie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Holmes does it again in what starts out as a simple case about a doctor with a nervous and almost paranoid patient. Then another patient arrives and suddenly the doctor's life is turned upside down. Who to go to with questions other than the notorious Sherlock Holmes? Holmes solves almost the whole thing just by listening to the man, but then runs off to find out a few last answers. A fun and quick mystery.

[Jack Heath · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 Stars. Conan Doyle's stories are so well written. And the English is only occasionally removed from current usage. Remarkable. This story is 130 years old, yet it flows easily. Rarely does a term surface which requires a second thought. That's the good part! Unfortunately, the early portion of the story can only be described as somnolent. Sleepy. As usual the author uses the first pages to demonstrate Holmes' talents at analysis and deduction to the amazement of Dr. Watson. These exhibits can become irritating. We actually start on page 4. A doctor arrives at Baker Street with a puzzle for Holmes and Watson. Dr. Trevelyan is known in the medical field as an expert on the nervous system, but research hasn't filled his purse! When a stranger, Mr. Blessington, offers to establish Percy Trevelyan in his own practice on prestigious Brook Street, he grabs at the opportunity. But there are two conditions; Blessington takes a major share of the profits, and he gets to live upstairs to be near the doctor when he needs treatment. He's the resident patient. There is something unknown agitating Blessington greatly. To understand, Trevelyan needs Holmes. Don't worry. It picks up. (Au2022/Mar2024)

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كتاب صوتي.

[Greg · Rating 3 out of 5]

"... even when he had pointed them [deductions] out to us, we could scarely follow him..." Well, yes, typical . (Too much snort?) Still, Doyle tells a good story .

[Bill · Rating 3 out of 5]

A doctor receives funding from a patient, but Sherlock Holmes soon discovers that things are not quite as they appear to be.

[Jaksen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another Sherlock Holmes story which I thought was just 'all right.' Involving a man who takes up 'residence' with a young physician. The man helps the physician financially; in return he lives with a doctor who can assist him with his illness, chronic condition, whatever.

However, in this case the resident might have other cause for living with said physician, and when he is found dead, well then, it's up to Holmes to figure out what's what.

Not a very complex story. I think a modern reader would figure it out quickly enough, and even though I'm not Watson I saw the solution racing at me like a kid on a mad bicycle. (Well, I was knocked over by a kid on a mad bicycle once. And that's what he said to me, before apologizing, 'that bike is mad.' And it was the 80's, so...)

Three stars, just about.

[Crime Addict Sifat · Rating 2 out of 5]

Specialist Percy Trevelyan presents to Holmes an unordinary issue. Having been a splendid understudy yet a poor man, Dr. Trevelyan has gotten himself a member in an uncommon business course of action. A man named Blessington, guaranteeing to have some cash to contribute, has set Dr. Trevelyan up in premises with a lofty address and paid every one of his costs.

I didn't imagine that this short was the best of the various that the writer had composed. Truth be told, it was genuinely normal yet there were as yet the agreeable characteristics of a decent closure and sensible conclusions.

[Iamhimalaya · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.8/5 Another Nice Short Story!

I liked this Line -

you will see that though that shield may fail to guard, the sword of justice is still there to avenge.”

[Rob Thompson · Rating 4 out of 5]

One evening in October, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson return to their Baker Street apartment to find that a client is waiting to see Holmes. The client is a doctor named Percy Trevelyan. He has come on behalf of his resident patient, a man named Blessington.

During his student days, Percy Trevelyan was recognized as having great potential by his professors. He won a prize for a paper which he wrote and hoped to become a well-known specialist in catalepsy. To become an acknowledged specialist, a doctor needs to set up a practice in the West End of London. This requires renting and furnishing a house, employing servants and keeping a smart-looking horse and carriage. Percy Trevelyan did not have enough money to do any of those things. A few years ago, Dr. Trevelyan was approached by Blessington, a man whom he had never seen before. Blessington offered to help Trevelyan set up a practice. He said that he would rent and furnish a house in the West End for Trevelyan, pay the servants and even give trevelyan some pocket money. In return, Blessington would take three quarters of all the money which Trevelyan made and stay with him as a resident patient. Blessington said that he required constsnt medical supervision due to his weak heart.

A few weeks ago, Blessington, in an extremely agitated state, told Dr. Trevelyan that there had been a burglary. Therefore, they should put stronger locks on the windows and doors. Blessington was so troubled that, for a while, he stopped taking his usual pre-dinner walk. After a few days, Blessington calmed down and returned to his normal routine.

Two days before he went to see Holmes, Dr. Trevelyan received a letter. According to the letter, a Russian nobleman suffering from catalepsy would come to consult Dr. Trevelyan at 6:15pm the next day. The Russian nobleman arrived accompanied by a muscular young man, who said that he was the man's son. The young man said that he would wait outside while his father consulted Dr. Trevelyan. During the consultation, the Russian appeared to suffer from a cataleptic attack, he fell silent and stared ahead blankly. Dr. Trevelyan went to get some gas to revive his patient. When he returned, the Russian nobleman and his son had both gone. Trevelyan's page, a boy who had not been in his service for very long, claimed that he had not seen anyone leave. Blessington returned home from his pre-dinner walk shortly afterwards.

The following evening, the Russian nobleman and his son returned. The old man said that, when he came to and found himself in a strange room, he walked out. The young man said that he left with his father because he assumed that the consultation was over. The young man waited outside while Dr. Trevelyan spoke with his father for thirty minutes. Again, Blessington returned home from his pre-dinner walk shortly after the men left. Soon afterwards, Blessington began to complain that an intruder had been in his room. Nothing had been moved or taken but Blessington pointed out large footprints on the carpet. At Blessington's request, Dr. Trevelyan went to see Holmes.

Holmes and Watson go back to Trevelyan's house with him at once. As they approach blessington's room, Blessington turns off the light and shouts out that he has a gun. Dr. trevelyan has to reassure Blessington that the two men who are with him mean no harm. Blessington tells holmes that he is worried about intruders because he keeps all of his money in a box in his room. He says that he does this because he does not trust banks. He claims not to know the true identities of the two men who pretended to be a Russian nobleman and his son. Holmes says that Blessington is lying and that he will not help the man until he tells the truth.

On the way back to Baker Street, Holmes says that the two men were looking for Blessington. The old man only pretended to have catalepsy. Holmes knows that the condition is not difficult to fake. He did not mention that in front of Dr. Trevelyan to avoid embarrassing him.

The following morning, Holmes receives a hastily written note from Dr. Trevelyan which tells him to come over immediately. When Holmes and Watson arrive, Trevelyan says that Blessington has committed suicide by hanging himself from a hook in his room. It is explained that Blessington kept a rope under his bed so that he could escape out of the window in case of fire. Holmes and Watson go up to Blessington's room and find Inspector Lanner of Scotland Yard there. Inspector Lanner says that Blessington appears to have killed himself at five o'clock in the morning, which is normal for a suicide. He adds that some screws and a screwdriver were found on Blessington's wash-hand stand and that he smoked four cigars during the night.Holmes notices that the four cigar ends are from a different type of cigar to the one which is left in Blessington's cigar case. He also sees signs that the four cigars were smoked by two different men. Holmes announces that Blessington's death was not suicide but murder.

From footprints on the stairs, Holmes realizes that three men entered the house, the men who pretended to be the Russian and his son and a third unknown one. He reasons that they must have been let in by an accomplice in the house, probably the page. They obviously picked the lock on Blessington's bedroom door. They probably gagged him before holding a mock trial. The men smoked the cigars while holding the mock trial. The screws and screwdriver suggest that they brought the materials to make a simple gallows with them. However, when they saw the hook, they realized that they did not need to build a gallows. After the men killed Blessington, the page let them out and bolted the door again.

Sherlock Holmes goes off to continue his investigation. He tells Dr. Trevelyan and Inspector Lanner to come to see him at Baker Street that afternoon.

Holmes says that Blessington's real name was Sutton. He was a member of a gang of five bank robbers who were led by a man named Cartwright. During one of their robberies, a man was killed. The five bank robbers were arrested. Sutton turned informer. On his evidence, Cartwright was hanged and the other three men were sentenced to fifteen years in prison. The three men were released early. Blessington became nervous when he found out they were free. he invented the story about a burglary in the area to try to convince Trevelyan to improve the security of their home.

Trevelyan's page is arrested but is released due to a lack of evidence against him. Blessington's three murderers are never seen again. They are believed to have been on a ship which sank off the coast of Portugal.

The Adventure of the Resident Patient is not a story where the reader can solve the Holmesian case alongside the detective, as most of the pertinent facts are only revealed late on in the story. So rather than a whodunnit, The Adventure of the Resident Patient is simply a good story to read. Doyle once again shows that it is not always legal justice that deals with criminals, and as with The Adventure of the Five Orange Pips, natural justice that eventually sees the downfall of the criminals.

[Nadin Doughem · Rating 3 out of 5]

ثاني قراءة لـ أرثر كونان دويل، وهذا رأيي في أول رواية أقرأها له لغز بلدة ريغيت

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لغز المريض المقيم كانت مفاجأة بالنسبة لي، حيث انني في البداية لم أحبذ رفض هولمز استكمال القضية عندما احس بعدم صدق بلسنغتون، خاصةً عندما وجدوه منتحرا في صباح اليوم التالي. ولكنني كنت علي ثقة بأن تلك ليست شخصية هولمز التي اعتدتها، وكان كما تصورت، فلقد كان هولمز علي حق وقد كان الرجل العجوز لا يستحق مني تلك الشفقة.

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انا في انتظار ان أقرأ له رواية قادمة، ولربما قد أدمنت روايات هولمز :)


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[Emily · Rating 2 out of 5]

An average Sherlock Holmes story with Holmes picking up on details that lead to the solving of the case. What makes me give it a lower than average rating, though, is that little of the evidence is available to the reader. In order to connect the murder of Mr. Blessington to the Worthingdon bank gang, you would have to know of the gang, and even Watson didn’t know of them. Also, Holmes gets the boy who helped the gang enter the house without the reader knowing how; he just shows up saying he got him. A lot of information is given about Dr. Trevelyan that seems to have no connection to the mystery at all. Maybe that’s the point - to make the reader have to sift through what is important and what isn’t? Even if that is the case, I think much of importance was omitted for the reader to be able to engage in a story of a gang snitch who is found out and murdered by his gang years later.

[Yousra · Rating 4 out of 5]

قرأتها سريعا قبل النوم

جميلة ومشوقة ... مختلفة عن غيرها ... ومحيرة نوعا ما فلقد شككت في الشخص الخطا ةظللت حتى آخر الوقت أتوقع ارتباطه بالقضية بشكل ما

أحب شيرلوك هولمز حقا وأحب كثيرا هذه الحقبة حيث تدور المغامرات فهي مثيرة للخيال بكل ما تحتويه من وصف لأسلوب التعامل وأسلوب الحديث بين الشخصيات وكذلك وصف الأماكن ومظهر الشخصيات وسلوكهم

[Riju Ganguly · Rating 4 out of 5]

This story, despite being a canonical classic, is comparatively less discussed. However, it sets a few solid styles for the future works. They serve not only several other Holmesian detections, but also sets a pattern for others.
Recommended.

[John Yelverton · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good mystery and a great way for Sherlock Holmes to stretch his detecting muscles, but the ending left much to be desired in my opinion.

[Rahaf İbrahim · Rating 3 out of 5]

وين مالقيت قصة لشرلوك لازم اقراها♡

[Dreamer80 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book.

[Roberto Mattos · Rating 5 out of 5]

In this story, Doctor Percy Trevelyan brings Holmes an unusual problem. Having been a brilliant student but a poor man, Dr. Trevelyan has found himself a participant in an unusual business arrangement. A man named Blessington, claiming to have some money to invest, has set Dr. Trevelyan up in premises with a prestigious address and paid all his expenses. In return, he demands three-fourths of all the money that the doctor’s practice earns, which he collects every evening, going over the books thoroughly and leaving the doctor five shillings and threepence (5/3d) of every guinea (21 shillings or 1 pound/1 shilling in pre-decimalized currency) from the day’s takings. Blessington is himself infirm, it turns out, and likes this arrangement because he can always have a doctor nearby.
Everything has gone fairly well for the doctor since the arrangement began. Now, however, something has happened to Mr. Blessington. He has become excitable and agitated, this after he said that he had read about a burglary somewhere in the city.
Shortly thereafter, the doctor acquired a new patient, a Russian nobleman with cataleptic fits. His grown son brought him in the evening while Mr. Blessington was taking his usual walk. The son insisted on waiting out in the waiting room while the doctor saw his father. During the consultation, the patient had a fit, sitting bolt upright and going quite rigid. The doctor rushed for some nitrite of amyl for his patient to inhale, but upon returning, found that both his patient and his son had left.
Surprisingly, the same two men came back the next evening, the son claiming that he had seen his father walk out into the waiting room and assumed the consultation was over. He then had taken his father home, only later realizing that something was not quite right. The doctor had another consultation with the Russian gentleman, and after they had left, Mr. Blessington was utterly beside himself. Someone had been in his room. There were footprints to prove it. It could only have been the Russian nobleman’s son, but why did he go in there? Nothing had been disturbed or stolen.
At this point in Dr. Trevelyan’s story, Holmes thinks that it would be wise to go to the doctor’s Brook Street practice right away to see for himself what this odd case is all about. He discovers firsthand just how paranoid Blessington has become: he greets Holmes, Watson, and Trevelyan with a gun, but the doctor convinces him that the visitors mean no harm.
Holmes asks Blessington who these men are, and why they want to molest him. Blessington nervously says that he cannot answer the first question, but by way of answering the second question, he says that he keeps all his money in a box in his bedroom, as he does not trust bankers. Holmes knows that it must be more than this. He leaves in disgust advising Blessington that he can expect no advice if he tries to deceive him.
Shortly after leaving, Holmes outlines to Watson his train of thought. He knows that two men, perhaps more, are out to get Blessington. The catalepsy was faked, just to keep Doctor Trevelyan busy so that he would not notice the other man going into Blessington’s room. They did not wish to steal anything, as can be seen in their failure to rummage around in the room. They chose an appointment in the evening knowing that there would be no other patients in the waiting room. Holmes also knows just looking at Blessington that he is afraid for his own life, and deduces that he must therefore know who is after him, for no man could have such enemies without knowing about it. Also, it was only by chance that Blessington was not in both times that these two men came; they were obviously not familiar with Blessington's personal habits.
The next morning brings news that Mr. Blessington has hanged himself. Dr. Trevelyan’s brougham is sent to 221B Baker Street to bring Holmes to the scene. When Holmes and Watson arrive, Blessington is still hanging there from a hook in his bedroom ceiling. Inspector Lanner is there. He believes that it is a suicide, but Holmes soon deduces otherwise. The cigar ends and other clues tell him that three other men were there, and for a while. They were let into the premises by a confederate inside, as the door was still barred in the morning. Suspicion falls on the new page, who has vanished.
It seems obvious to Holmes that the men came to “try” Blessington, and reached a verdict of guilty, and a sentence of death, which they then proceeded to carry out.
A little digging at police headquarters brings up the rest of the truth. All four of the men were once members of a criminal gang that robbed banks. Blessington’s real name was Sutton, and the other three, two of whom played the Russians, were Biddle, Hayward, and Moffat. After robbing the Worthington Bank of 7,000 pounds in 1875, Blessington (or Sutton) had turned informer, and as a result, another gang member, Cartwright, had been hanged for murdering the caretaker, and the other three had each been given 15 years in prison. Blessington’s “paranoia” was indeed a very real fear, caused by news of their early release, not by some burglary, as he claimed. The murderers chose hanging as their form of execution to avenge Cartwright.
Eventually, the page turns up, but the case against him falls apart for lack of evidence. As for the other three, they are never heard from again, and it is believed that they perished in the wreck of the Norah Creina off Portugal.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

“However, wretch as he was, he was still living under the shield of British law, and I have no doubt, Inspector, that you will see that, though that shield may fail to guard, the sword of justice is still there to avenge.” -- SH

It’s odd there is never talk of pay, but only someone seeking Holmes’ advice and assistance. But, it’s understandable that Watson omits this as it’s considered unimportant and he’s documenting only the interesting bits.

Watson is a retired army surgeon.

Holmes has a habit of just ‘being there’ when Watson wakes. Creepy.

Considering his expertise, Doctor Trevelyan is a fool to not negotiate his pay with Mr. Blessington.

The first half of the story is somewhat boring. Nothing actually happens until Blessington cries intrusion. Now, I’m no detective, but I’m surprised that Holmes initially finds enough of interest to bother with this case. I’m also shocked that Watson, being a medical doctor and this being in his wheelhouse, doesn’t ask any questions such as what medications Blessington is taking, if there are side effects, and any more detailed reasoning behind his physical and mental capacities, especially since Blessington’s death is considered to be a suicide. Too bad this, Watson could’ve really shown.

I’m also SOOO tired of hearing about how amazing Holmes is when it comes to identifying cigars and cigarettes. Doyle repeats this particular ability too often. But I will admit that the step-by-step deduction of Holmes’ analysis of the scene is really quite good: matching the cigarettes to the cuts and holders, the screwdriver and screws with the hook and rope, and the odd hours of the latest patients to the disappearance of the page, etc.

Although this isn’t one of my favorite stories, it’s not bad, just needs a better start.

[Meg · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dr. Trevelyan seeks the help of Holmes and Watson to solve the mystery that has befallen his new medical practice. A rich man, Mr. Blessington, hired Dr. Trevelyan to be his personal physician and set him up in a practice in a prestigious location and is paying all the bills. Still, Blessington's ailments do not require full-time attention so the doctor sees other patients. One such patient is an old man, accompanied by his son, but they leave suddenly only to return again the next day. Blessington, who has been growing more agitated about potential burglars of late, insists that someone has been in his room. Holmes confirms his suspicions by finding footprints in the rug. However, Blessington insists that he does not know who that man could be so Holmes departs, refusing to help if he is being lied to. The next day, Blessington is found dead after apparently hanging himself. Holmes, upon a cursory examination of cigar butts in the ashtray, more footprints and scratches on the woodwork, determined that he was murdered by the old man and his son. Holmes figured out that Blessington was using a fake name and that he was part of an old robbery gang. When the gang was caught, Blessington turned on them and ratted the other members out to the police. Now that they are out of prison, they have come to get their revenge. That was why Blessington has been behaving so erratically. I have no idea how Holmes can tell so many different footmarks on stair treads that have been trampled over by not just the killers but by Holmes, Watson, Dr. Trevelyan and Scotland Yard.

[Elysa · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a nice story, not one of the best Holmes shorts, but definitely interesting and worth the read.

A poor doctor calls upon Holmes after a strange business arrangement. A man named Blessington has offered to invest in the doctor by providing him a nice place to work as well as handling other expenses. His request is 75% of whatever the doctor makes, which he collects each week. However, Blessington is becoming increasingly paranoid after a supposed local burglary and it's clear he fears for his life. We won't really have all the clues to figure out what's going on ourselves, but I don't mind not being "in on" the clues if the story is good and the conclusion works well. Which this one is and does have respectively.

[Donna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just finished reading “THE RESIDENT PATIENT” (THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, 8) by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. I read this short story from the hardcover book “THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND OTHER STORIES” while listening to the audible version narrated by DAVID TIMSON. In this story Sherlock Holmes investigates a case brought to him by Dr. Percy Trevelyan. A man by the name of Blessington has set up the doctor in practice, with Blessington staying as a resident patient within it. Holmes though has to find out just why the Resident Patient is so worried.

[James · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was an ‘ok’ story by Arthur Conan Doyle, not one of his best. The story revolves around a doctor who comes to visit Sherlock Holmes about two strange Russians who come too see him, mysteriously leave and return the following night and a patient who is staying with him.

Although the story and premise of the book in essence is good; the issue I have with it is when Holmes comes to solve the case, you are kind of blindsided as, there are no clues in the story to help lead you to this conclusion.

[James · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was an ‘ok’ story by Arthur Conan Doyle, not one of his best. The story revolves around a doctor who comes to visit Sherlock Holmes about two strange Russians who come too see him, mysteriously leave and return the following night and a patient who is staying with him.

Although the story and premise of the book in essence is good; the issue I have with it is when Holmes comes to solve the case, you are kind of blindsided as, there are no clues in the story to help lead you to this conclusion.