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Reginald Musgrave, a school friend of Holmes, saw his butler searching through private family papers. Then, Butler Brunton got caught red-handed with an ancestral ritual of the Musgraves as well. The ritual seemed worthless to the family but Brunton was determined to decipher it. A few days after Brunton disappeared. Arthur Conan Doyle’s gripping short story is brought vividly to life by Robert Hardy.

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.

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 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.

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.