Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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2,747 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Aug
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Then I took my watch from under the pillow.
It was three in the morning.'
What on this earth could my wife be doing out on the country road at three in the morning?
I had sat for about twenty minutes, turning the thing over in my mind, and trying to find some possible explanation.
The more I thought, the more extraordinary and inexplicable did it appear.
I was still puzzling over it when I heard the door gently close again, and her footsteps coming up the stairs.
Where in the world have you been, Effie?'
I asked as she entered.
She gave a violent start, and a kind of gasping cry when I spoke, and that cry and start troubled me more than all the rest, for there was something indescribably guilty about them.
My wife had always been a woman of a frank and open nature, and it gave me a chill to see her slinking into her own room and crying out and wincing when her own husband spoke to her.
"'You awake, Jack?'
she cried with a nervous laugh.
"'Why, I thought that nothing could awake you.'
"'Where have you been?'
I asked more sternly.
"'I don't wonder that you are surprised,' said she, and I could see that her fingers were trembling as she undid the fastenings of her mantle.
"'Why, I never remember having done such a thing in my life before.'
The fact is that I felt as though I were choking, and had a perfect longing for a breath of fresh air.
I really think that I should have fainted if I had not gone out.
I stood at the door for a few minutes, and now I am quite myself again.
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