The Return of Sherlock Holmes Audiobook | The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter - Conan Doyle

Listen to "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter" from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic collection, "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"[cite: 25]. ▶ Listen to the Complete Playlist:    • Sherlock Holmes: The Return of Sherlock Ho...   On the eve of the crucial Varsity rugby match against Oxford, Cyril Overton, captain of the Cambridge fifteen, rushes to 221B Baker Street in despair: his star player, right-wing three-quarter Godfrey Staunton, has vanished from his London hotel following the delivery of an urgent note[cite: 25]. Staunton, the heir to the immense fortune of his miserly uncle, Lord Mount-James, appears to have left without a word of explanation[cite: 25]. Examining Staunton's hotel room, Holmes deciphers the remnant of a desperate telegram on a sheet of blotting paper: "Stand by us for God's sake"[cite: 25]. Tracing the wire to Cambridge, Holmes confronts the secretive Dr. Leslie Armstrong, who fiercely conceals his friend's whereabouts[cite: 25]. Employing Pompey, a keen-scented draghound, and a clever trick involving aniseed oil sprayed on the doctor's carriage wheels, Holmes and Watson track the trail across the Cambridgeshire countryside to a secluded cottage—uncovering a poignant domestic tragedy rather than a sinister crime[cite: 25]. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TIMESTAMPS: • 00:00 - The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter[cite: 25] • 01:15 - Cyril Overton's Urgent Plea at Baker Street[cite: 25] • 03:00 - The Disappearance of Godfrey Staunton[cite: 25] • 05:20 - Investigating Bentley's Hotel & The Blotting Paper Clue[cite: 25] • 07:30 - Lord Mount-James: The Miserly Millionaire Uncle[cite: 25] • 09:40 - Uncovering the Telegram Destination[cite: 25] • 11:30 - Confronting Dr. Leslie Armstrong in Cambridge[cite: 25] • 14:00 - The Mystery of the Doctor's Secret Carriage Rides[cite: 25] • 16:30 - The Aniseed Trick & Pompey the Draghound[cite: 25] • 19:00 - Tracking the Carriage to the Lonely Cottage[cite: 25] • 21:15 - The Deathbed Scene & Godfrey Staunton's Secret Marriage[cite: 25] • 23:30 - Holmes's Compassion: Protecting the Secret[cite: 25] (Note: Adjust timestamps slightly if your final video cut differs.) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THE STORY: First published in 1904, "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter" is one of the rare Sherlock Holmes stories driven not by malice or greed, but by loyalty, love, and grief[cite: 25]. Featuring sporting drama, tracking hounds, and Holmes's moral discretion in keeping a private family secret, it offers a deeply human chapter in "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"[cite: 25]. Subscribe to the channel for more unabridged classic audiobooks, public domain detective fiction, and vintage mystery literature. #SherlockHolmes #ArthurConanDoyle #Audiobook #TheMissingThreeQuarter #TheReturnOfSherlockHolmes #DrWatson #ClassicMystery #DetectiveAudiobook #PublicDomainAudio