The Resident Patient E-Book

Arthur Conan Doyle

• Herausgeber: SAMPI Books
• Kategorie: Krimi
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 31

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

In "The Resident Patient" by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the strange case of Dr. Percy Trevelyan, a physician with a peculiar financial arrangement. His benefactor, Blessington, insists on living in his practice but becomes increasingly paranoid. When Blessington is found dead under mysterious circumstances, Holmes unravels a sinister plot tied to a criminal past.

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The Resident Patient

Arthur Conan Doyle

SYNOPSIS

In “The Resident Patient” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the strange case of Dr. Percy Trevelyan, a physician with a peculiar financial arrangement. His benefactor, Blessington, insists on living in his practice but becomes increasingly paranoid. When Blessington is found dead under mysterious circumstances, Holmes unravels a sinister plot tied to a criminal past.

Keywords

Murder mystery, suspense, deception

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The Resident Patient

In glancing over the somewhat incoherent series of memoirs with which I have endeavored to illustrate a few of the mental peculiarities of my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I have been struck by the difficulty which I have experienced in picking out examples which shall in every way answer my purpose. For in those cases in which Holmes has performed some tour-de-force of analytical reasoning, and has demonstrated the value of his peculiar methods of investigation, the facts themselves have often been so slight or so commonplace that I could not feel justified in laying them before the public. On the other hand, it has frequently happened that he has been concerned in some research where the facts have been of the most remarkable and dramatic character, but where the share which he has himself taken in determining their causes has been less pronounced than I, as his biographer, could wish. The small matter which I have chronicled under the heading of “A Study in Scarlet,” and that other later one connected with the loss of the Gloria Scott, may serve as examples of this Scylla and Charybdis which are forever threatening the historian. It may be that in the business of which I am now about to write the part which my friend played is not sufficiently accentuated; and yet the whole train of circumstances is so remarkable that I cannot bring myself to omit it entirely from this series.

I cannot be sure of the exact date, for some of my memoranda upon the matter have been mislaid, but it must have been towards the end of the first year during which Holmes and I shared chambers in Baker Street. It was boisterous October weather, and we had both remained indoors all day, I because I feared with my shaken health to face the keen autumn wind, while he was deep in some of those abstruse chemical investigations which absorbed him utterly as long as he was engaged upon them. Towards evening, however, the breaking of a test-tube brought his research to a premature ending, and he sprang up from his chair with an exclamation of impatience and a clouded brow.

“A day’s work ruined, Watson,” said he, striding across to the window. “Ha! the stars are out and the wind has fallen. What do you say to a ramble through London?”

I was weary of our little sitting room and gladly acquiesced. For three hours we strolled about together, watching the ever-changing kaleidoscope of life as it ebbs and flows through Fleet Street and the Strand. Holmes had shaken off his temporary ill-humor, and his characteristic talk, with its keen observance of detail and subtle power of inference held me amused and enthralled. It was ten o’clock before we reached Baker Street again. A brougham was waiting at our door.