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The Adventure of the Resident Patient, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes . The story was originally published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom and Harper\'s Weekly in the United States in August 1893 . Doyle ranked The Adventure of the Resident Patient eighteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories . In this story Holmes turns away a client who is murdered that same night .