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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They were not so far as I could judge of any great value,
nor did the bank-book show that Mr. Oldacre was in such very affluent circumstances.
But it seemed to me that all the papers were not there.
There were allusions to some deeds, possibly the more valuable, which I could not find.
This, of course, if we could definitely prove it, would turn Lestrade's argument against himself, for who would steal a thing if he knew that he would shortly inherit it?
Finally, having drawn every other cover and picked up no scent, I tried my luck with the housekeeper.
Mrs. Lexington is her name, a little dark, silent person with suspicious and sidelong eyes.
She could tell us something if she would, I am convinced of it.
But she was as close as wax.
Yes, she had let Mr. Macfarlane in at half-past nine.'
She wished her hand had withered before she had done so.
She had gone to bed at half-past ten.
Her room was at the other end of the house, and she could hear nothing of what had passed.
Mr. Macfarlane had left his hat, and, to the best of her belief, his stick, in the hall.
She had been awakened by the alarm of fire.
Her poor dear master had certainly been murdered.
Had he any enemies?
Well, every man had enemies, but Mr. Oldacre kept himself very much to himself,
So, my dear Watson, there's my report of a failure.
And yet—and yet—he clenched his thin hands in a paroxysm of conviction.
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