The Adventure of the Resident Patient

"The Adventure of the Resident Patient"
Short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
Blessington, Trevelyan, Holmes and Watson, 1893 illustration by Sidney Paget in The Strand Magazine
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CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Detective fiction short stories
Publication
Published inStrand Magazine
Publication dateAugust 1893
Chronology
SeriesThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
 
The Adventure of the Crooked Man
 
The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter

"The Adventure of the Resident Patient", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The story was originally published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom and Harper's Weekly in the United States in August 1893.[1]

Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Resident Patient" eighteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Smith 97 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (20 September 1992). Baring-Gould, William S. (ed.). The Annotated Sherlock Holmes:The Four Novels and Fifty-Six Short Stories Complete. Wings Books. ISBN 978-0517481028.