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 can look into it from the road, you see.
That is about the only bit of consolation I have had to-day.'
Lestrade was not there, but his head constable did the honours.
They had just found a great treasure-trove.
They had spent the morning raking among the ashes of the burned woodpile,
and besides the charred organic remains they had secured several discoloured metal discs i examined them with care and there was no doubt that they were trouser buttons i even distinguished that one of them was marked with the name of hyams who was oldacre's tailor
I then worked the lawn very carefully for signs and traces, but this drought has made everything as hard as iron.
Nothing was to be seen, save that some body or bundle had been dragged through a low privet hedge which is in a line with the woodpile.
All that, of course, fits in with the official theory.
I crawled about the lawn with an August sun on my back, but I got up at the end of an hour no wiser than before.
Well, after this fiasco I went into the bedroom and examined that also.
The blood-stains were very slight, mere smears and discolorations, but undoubtedly fresh.
The stick had been removed, but there also the remarks were slight.
There is no doubt about the stick belonging to our client.
He admits it.
Footmarks of both men could be made out on the carpet, but none of any third person, which again is a trick for the other side.
They were piling up their score all the time, and we were at a standstill.
Only one little gleam of hope did I get, and yet it amounted to nothing.
I examined the contents of the safe, most of which had been taken out and left on the table.
The papers had been made up into sealed envelopes, one or two of which had been opened by the police.
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