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The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is contacted by Miss Violet Smith of Farnham, Surrey about an unusual turn in hers and her mother's lives. Violet's father has recently died and left his wife and daughter rather poor. There was an ad in the news asking about their whereabouts. Answering it, they met Mr. Carruthers and Mr. Woodley, the former a pleasant enough man, but the latter a bully.

A young woman explains to Holmes that an unknown man has been following her by bicycle on her weekly trips from the house where she works to the railroad station. Having met two friends of her recently deceased uncle, one of the men, Carruthers, hires her as a governess and later proposes to her. The young woman, being already engaged, declines. The other man, Woodley, disturbs her with rude behavior and romantic advances. Holmes connects the clues and arrives in time to solve the mystery of the unknown cyclist and to save Smith after she is kidnapped by Woodley.

'The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes takes on a peculiar case involving Miss Violet Smith, whose life took an unusual turn when two men arrived from South Africa declaring that they had known her recently deceased uncle. The pair offer Violet a job as a live-in music teacher, but things go awry when they make unwanted advances on her, and she notices that she is often followed by a strange man on a bicycle.