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Blessington sets up Trevelyan in a Brook Street practice, taking residency to monitor his "investment".
The consulting detective who unmasks the deception behind a staged suicide. The Resident Patient
Holmes’s loyal companion and the story's narrator.
Accomplices and former gang members who use a medical ruse to infiltrate Blessington’s quarters. Incident Timeline The Resident Patient by Arthur Conan Doyle - short-stories
A specialist in nervous maladies and catalepsy who seeks Holmes’s help after his practice is "intruded" upon.
Holmes dismisses the suicide theory after examining the scene, noting that the cigars found in the room and the complexity of the hanging required multiple participants. He deduces the following: Accomplices and former gang members who use a
Two men posing as a Russian Count (suffering from catalepsy) and his son visit the doctor. While the son "waits," he explores Blessington’s private rooms upstairs.