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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Sherlock Holmes Short Stories · The Stock Broker's Clerk - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · 27 Jun 2026 podcast

You should soar above it.

You're not in your true sphere.

Now I'll tell you how it stands with me.

What I have to offer is little enough when measured by your ability, but when compared with Mawson's it's light to dark.'

"'Let me see.

When do you go to Mawson's?'

"'On Monday.'

"'Aha!

I think I would risk a little sporting flutter that you don't go there at all.'

"'Not go to Mawson's?'

"'No, sir.

By that day you will be the business manager of the Franco-Midland Hardware Company Limited, with a hundred and thirty-four branches in the towns and villages of France, not counting one in Brussels and one in San Remo.'

This took my breath away.

"'I never heard of it,' said I.'

"'Very likely not.

It has been kept very quiet, for the capital was all privately subscribed, and it's too good a thing to let the public into.

My brother, Harry Pinner, is promoter, and joins the board after allotment as managing director.

He knew I was in the swim down here, and asked me to pick up a good man cheap, a young pushing man with plenty of snap about him.

Parker spoke of you, and that brought me here to-night.'

"'We can only offer you a beggarly five hundred to start with.'

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