The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
“Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety,” he answered, smiling, “and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.”
Runaway brides, rude lords, and the return of Doyle’s American West. In “The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor,” Holmes finds himself assisting a Lord with a personal problem: his new bride vanishing the day after their wedding. Sarah and Marisa talk about armchair detective fiction, Watson's traveling war wound, Lestrade's wet laundry, and which one of us gets to propose marriage to Hatty Doran first.
Find a transcript - Further reading for this episode
NOBL makes a brief mention of what Doyle calls “Apache Indians” - we want to clarify that the Apache are a group of culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwest, including Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Mimbreño, Ndendahe (Bedonkohe or Mogollon and Nednhi or Carrizaleño and Janero), Salinero, Plains (Kataka or Semat or "Kiowa-Apache") and Western Apache. Currently, the San Carlos Apache Tribe in southeastern Arizona is engaged in a legal battle to stop their sacred land of Oak Flat from being handed over to mining corporation Rio Tinto. Read more about this here: http://apache-stronghold.com - and find some essential reading about this ongoing legal battle for indigenous freedom in the Southwest on our Further Reading page.
Listen to our narration:
This episode was narrated by Rosie French. Rosie is a qualified primary school teacher and Holmes enthusiast living in the South West of England. They spend most of their free time writing, reading sci-fi novels, and attempting to learn fibre crafts without much success. They have played about ninety-six hours of Hades in lockdown and are working on watching all of John Carpenter's pre-2000 films. Rosie is also the co-host of Reversing Polarity, a Classic Doctor Who podcast, rewatching the show in a completely random order and presenting evidence to support our thesis that Doctor Who has always been gay, actually. @polaritypod.
Music credit: The songs “Denmark (Live)” by the Portland Cello Project is featured with an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Further reading:
Fer-de-Lance and other Nero Wolfe novels by Rex Stout
The First Detective: The Complete Auguste Dupin Stories-The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the Mystery of Marie Roget & the Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
Murder in E Minor by Robert Goldsborough
I Hope You’re Listening by Tom Ryan
Doctor Who episode “The Runaway Bride”
Other cases mentioned in this discussion: STUD, RESI