Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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8,885 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 22 Jul

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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For I have known him to lock himself up so that no one might approach him until his dark hour was past.

He sleeps badly, and I have heard him shouting during the night.

But his cabin is some little distance from mine.

And I could never distinguish the words which he said.

This is one phase of his character, and the most disagreeable one.

It is only through my close association with him that

thrown together as we are day after day,

That I have observed it.

Otherwise he is an agreeable companion.

Well read and entertaining.

and as gallant a seaman as ever trod a deck.

I shall not easily forget the way in which he handled the ship when we were caught by a gale among the loose ice at the beginning of April.

I have never seen him so cheerful and even hilarious as he was that night.

As he paced backwards and forwards upon the bridge amid the flashing of the lightning and the howling of the wind.

He has told me several times that the thought of death was a pleasant one to him.

Which is a sad thing for a young man to say.

He cannot be much more than thirty, though his hair and mustache are already slightly grizzled.

Some great sorrow must have overtaken him and blighted his whole life.

Perhaps I should be the same if I lost my flora.

God knows, I think if it were not for her, that I should care very little whether the wind blew from the north or the south tomorrow.

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