The Fourth Student

The Redacted Sherlock Holmes

By: Orlando Pearson

Narrated by: Steve White

The sequel to canonical story "The Three Students".

Holmes and Watson are just back at their quarters, having solved the case, when the wrongdoer they have just identified interrupts their breakfast. A fourth student, his main rival in the long jump, is behaving in a very peculiar manner and is carrying all before him in the field.

The trail takes Holmes and Watson to a barber’s shop where they acquire a preparation that the barber markets as a performance enhancer, but this is by no means the end of a murky trail to discover how to win Olympic gold.

©2018 Orlando Pearson (P)2018 MX Publishing

Ties together two canonical tales

Interesting way to follow up the canonical adventure of The Three Students as well as to provide context for The Creeping Man which is the weakest of Doyle Holmes stories in my opinion. I enjoyed explaining the latter tale more than I enjoyed the continuation of The Three Students as the consistency between the original tale and this sequel wasn’t quite there for me.

Doping or not

Sherlock Homes and Doctor Watson’s breakfast is interrupted by a student who is leaving for Africa where he has a job waiting for him. He mentions that he has seen a wealthy student in a cheap barbershop and that this student always wins in long jump in competition, but is behind in training. Doctor Watson goes for a shave and conversation. Homes investigates and are shocked.