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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Mr. Holmes, Effie loves me.
Don't let there be any mistake about that.'
She loves me with her whole heart and soul, and never more than now.
I know it.
I feel it.
I don't want to argue about that.
A man can tell easily enough when a woman loves him.
But there is this secret between us, and we can never be the same until it is cleared.'
"'Kindly let me have the facts, Mr. Munro,' said Holmes, with some impatience.
"'I'll tell you what I know about Effie's history.'
She was a widow when I met her first, though quite young, only twenty-five.
Her name then was Mrs. Hebron.
She went out to America when she was young, and lived in the town of Atlanta, where she married this Hebron, who was a lawyer with a good practice.
They had one child, but the yellow fever broke out badly in the place, and both husband and child died of it.
I have seen his death-certificate.'
This sickened her of America, and she came back to live with a maiden aunt at Pinner in Middlesex.
I may mention that her husband had left her comfortably off, and that she had a capital of about £4,500, which had been so well invested by him that it returned an average of 7%.
She had only been six months at Pinner when I met her.
We fell in love with each other, and we married a few weeks afterwards.
I am a hop-merchant myself, and as I have an income of seven or eight hundred—
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