

Red-Headed League, The
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator: Stephen Thorne
Unabridged: 54 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 03/27/2018
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator: Stephen Thorne
Unabridged: 54 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 03/27/2018
Arthur Conan Doyle, a Scottish writer whose works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays, romances, poetry, and nonfiction, is best known as the creator of the detective Sherlock Holmes. While Holmes was the embodiment of scientific thinking, Doyle himself did not exhibit the same rationality, believing in fairies and occultism. His Sherlock Holmes stories have been translated into more than fifty languages and have been made into plays, films, radio and television series, cartoons, and comic books. By 1920, Doyle was one of the most highly paid writers in the world. Other works by Doyle include The Lost World, the first book in the Professor Challenger series; The White Company, one of his many historical novels; and The Great Boer War.
Doyle was born at Picardy Place, near Edinburgh, in 1859. He was educated in Jesuit schools and studied at Edinburgh University. In 1884, he married Louise Hawkins. Doyle qualified as a doctor in 1885 and practiced medicine as an eye specialist in Hampshire until 1891, when he became a full-time writer. Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, was published in 1887 and introduced the detective's faithful associate, Dr. Watson.
During the Boer war in South Africa (1899-1902), Doyle served several months as the senior physician at a field hospital. There he wrote The War in South Africa, in which he expressed the imperial view. He twice ran unsuccessfully for Parliament but nevertheless was knighted in 1902. In 1907, fourteen months after his wife died, Doyle married Jean Leckie. After his son Kingsley died in the first World War, Doyle dedicated himself to spiritualistic studies at his home in Windlesham, Sussex. He died himself in 1930.
“As a rule,” said Holmes, “the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.” I suspect it is the quirkiness of The Red-Headed League which makes it one o......more
Update: “The Red-headed League” is #2 on Arthur Conan Doyle’s list of his favorite Sherlock Holmes stories. I wasn’t all that impressed with it the first time I read it, but I decided to reread it with an open mind, and you know? I liked it quite a bit more the second time around. The concept is qui......more
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