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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It was the simplest thing in the world for him to take a wax impression from the seal, to moisten it in as much blood as he could get from a pinprick, and to put the mark upon the wall during the night, either with his own hand or with that of his housekeeper.
If you examine among those documents which he took with him into his retreat,
I will lay you a wager that you will find the seal with the thumb-mark upon it.'
"'Wonderful!'
said Lestrade.
"'Wonderful!
It's all as clear as crystal, as you put it.
But what is the object of this deep deception, Mr.
Holmes?'
It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.
"'Well, I don't think that it is very hard to explain,'
A very deep, malicious, vindictive person is the gentleman who is now waiting us downstairs.
You know that he was once refused by Macfarlane's mother.
You don't?
I told you that you should go to Blackheath first, and Norwood afterwards.
Well, this injury, as he would consider it,
has rankled in his wicked scheming brain, and all his life he has longed for vengeance, but never seen his chance.
During the last year or two things have gone against him—secret speculation, I think—and he finds himself in a bad way.
He determines to swindle his creditors, and for this purpose he pays large cheques to a certain Mr. Cornelius, who is, I imagine, himself under another name.
I have not traced these cheques yet—
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