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Digging into his tin box of papers one day, Holmes recounts for Dr. Watson one of his earliest cases. In it, Holmes must decipher the ancient Musgrave Ritual to solve the mysterious disappearance of schoolmate Reginald Musgrave's butler and maid, after Musgrave terminates the butler for secretly reading the text of the ceremony.

When Dr. Watson returns to London from a weekend seminar, he finds hat Sherlock Holmes has been arrested. Inspector Lestrade refers Watson to a questionable psychiatric hospital where Holmes is jailed for mental incapacity.

'The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. In this frame tale, Holmes recounts the events of a particular case he worked on in relation to a university acquantance, whose domestic staff vanished after secretly reading a family document. The document was in fact a riddle, which - in order to understand the peculiarities of the case - Holmes must solve.

Los Musgrave eran una de las familias más antiguas de Inglaterra. Uno de sus descendientes creó y instauró un ritual de la familia por el cual todos los primogénitos tenían que hacer un juramento muy especial al llegar a la mayoría de edad. Sir Reginald Musgrave va a contratar a Sherlock Holmes para que averigüe que es lo que ha sucedido con dos de sus empleados domésticos más queridos: Raquel, una de las doncellas y Richard, el mayordomo de la casa toda la vida, que han desaparecido.

The butler of Reginald Musgrave, one of Holmes' former schoolmates, has disappeared, and the local police can't solve the case. Holmes travels to the Musgrave estate and once there not only discovers the butler, but also finds out about the origin of the centuries-old Musgrave Ritual.

Enjoy this collection of Sherlock Holmes' mysteries, narrated by David Ian Davies, which includes: "The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place", "Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow", "The Problem of Thor Bridge", and more.

This Sherlock Holmes story was originally published in the Strand Magazine in 1893, and was collected later in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Unlike the majority of Holmes stories, the main narrator is Sherlock Holmes not Doctor Watson, with Watson providing only an introduction.