The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

“Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.”

The Adventure Of The Noble Bachelor by Arthur Conan Doyle is the ninth short story about Doyle's famous detective, Sherlock Holmes.

Lord Robert St. Simon's new American bride, Hatty Doran, has disappeared. This happened immediately after the wedding. Servants prevent an old love interest of his from forcing her way into the wedding breakfast. Hatty had been seen in whispered conversation with her maid. Inspector Lestrade arrives with the news that Hatty's wedding dress and ring have been found floating in the Serpentine. Holmes swiftly solves the mystery. He finds Hatty at a hotel with a mysterious man who picked up her dropped bouquet after the ceremony. The man turns out to be Hatty's husband Frank. She believes him dead in America. He managed to locate her only moments before she was to marry Lord St. Simon. Frank and Hatty had just determined to go to Lord St. Simon to explain the situation when Holmes finds them.

A well done mystery but not the most exciting of tales. More intriguing than anything else. It provides an insight insight into Holmes's character and his view of different levels in society. Of course, Holmes is opinionated but not (too) insulting.