The Noble Bachelor
Complete textA society marriage becomes a public mystery when Lord St. Simon's American bride disappears soon after the wedding. He asks Holmes to restore order to a situation he finds both baffling and insulting, while small incidents at the ceremony suggest a different account of her departure.
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The contrast between aristocratic entitlement and the bride's unknown history gives the investigation its social comedy. Holmes attends to details that his client considers beneath the dignity of the occasion. Watson's retelling lets apparently scandalous behavior be reconsidered as evidence of obligations and motives that polite society has not bothered to imagine.
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Investigate a vanished bride's case in which social prestige and a husband's assumptions obscure the significance of small wedding-day incidents.
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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle. Language: English. Reading edition: 28 October 2026.
Opening excerpt
The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of this remarkable episode.
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