The Resident Patient (TRUSTED)

Blessington finds footprints in his room and appeals to Holmes for protection, though he remains untruthful about his past.

Blessington sets up Trevelyan in a Brook Street practice, taking residency to monitor his "investment". The Resident Patient

The narrative follows Dr. Percy Trevelyan, a talented but penniless physician who enters into a singular business arrangement with a mysterious benefactor named Mr. Blessington. Blessington funds a prestigious practice for Trevelyan in exchange for a large share of the profits and a room in the house as a "resident patient". The case shifts from a medical curiosity to a capital crime when Blessington is found dead under suspicious circumstances, eventually revealed by Holmes as a calculated act of revenge. Blessington finds footprints in his room and appeals