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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You mentioned your name, as if I should recognize it, but I assure you that beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you."
familiar as i was with my friend's methods it was not difficult for me to follow his deductions and to observe the untidiness of attire the sheaf of legal papers the watch charm and the breathing which had prompted them our client however stared in amazement
"'Yes, I'm all that, Mr. Holmes, and, in addition, I am the most unfortunate man at this moment in London.
For heaven's sake, don't abandon me, Mr. Holmes.
If they come to arrest me before I have finished my story, make them give me time so that I may tell you the whole truth.'
"'I could go to jail happy if I knew that you were working for me outside.'
arrest you said holmes this is really most gratis most interesting on what charge do you expect to be arrested upon the charge of murdering mr james oldacre of lower norwood
My companion's expressive face showed a sympathy which was not, I am afraid, entirely unmixed with satisfaction.
"'Dear me!'
said he, "'it was only this moment at breakfast that I was saying to my friend Dr. Watson that sensational cases had disappeared out of our papers.'
Our visitor stretched forward a quivering hand, and picked up the daily telegraph, which still lay upon Holmes's knee.
"'If you had looked at it, sir, you would have seen at a glance what the errand is on which I have come to you this morning.
I feel as if my name and my misfortune must be in every man's mouth.'
He turned it over to expose the central page.
"'Here it is, and with your permission I will read it to you.'
Listen to this, Mr. Holmes.
The headlines are Mysterious Affair at Lower Norwood, Disappearance of a Well-Known Builder, Suspicion of Murder and Arson, A Clue to the Criminal.
That is the clue which they are already following, Mr. Holmes, and I know that it leads infallibly to me.
I have been followed from London Bridge Station, and I am sure that they are only waiting for the warrant to arrest me.
it will break my mother's heart it will break her heart he wrung his hands in an agony of apprehension and swayed backward and forward in his chair i looked with interest upon this man who was accused of being the perpetrator of a crime of violence
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