The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Crooked Man Audiobook by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Title: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Crooked Man
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator: Will Green, Jane Seaton
Format: Unabridged
Length: 35 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-19-17
Publisher: One Media iP LTD
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective
Publisher's Summary:
'The Adventure of the Crooked Man' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes invites Watson to witness the final stage of an investigation. A colonel is dead, and his wife is considered the prime suspect. While all the signs seem to point to her, Sherlock seems to think otherwise.
Members Reviews:
Amazing Plot
Another amazing plot and "elementary" deduction featuring Sherlock Holmes! Holmes calls on Watson late one evening to tell him about a case that he has been working on, and also to invite him to be a witness to the final stage of the investigation. Colonel James Barclay, of The Royal Mallows based at Aldershot Camp, is dead, apparently by violence, and his wife Nancy is the prime suspect.
The Colonelâs brother officers are quite perplexed at the Colonelâs fate. Most of them have always believed that he and Nancy were a happy couple. They have observed over the years, however, that the Colonel seemed rather more attached to his wife than she to him. It also hasnât escaped their notice that the Colonel sometimes had bouts of deep depression and moodiness for no apparent reason.
As a married officer, the Colonel and his wife lived in a villa outside the camp at Aldershot, and one evening, Nancy went out in the evening with her next-door neighbour Miss Morrison on an errand connected with her church, coming back not long afterwards. She went into the seldom-used morning room and asked the maid to fetch her some tea, which was unusual for Nancy. Hearing that his wife had returned, the Colonel joined her in the morning room. The coachman saw him enter, and that was the last time that he was seen alive.
The morning roomâs blinds were up, and the glass door leading out onto the lawn was open. When the maid brought the tea, she heard an argument in progress between Nancy and her husband. She heard Nancy say the name âDavidâ. She fetched the other maid and the coachman who came and listened. Nancy was very angry and shouting about what a coward her husband was. His words were softer and less distinct. Suddenly, the Colonel cried out, there was a crash, and Nancy screamed.
Realizing that something awful had just happened, the coachman tried to force the locked door, but could not. He remembered the outside glass door, and went outside to get into the room through that. He found that Nancy had fainted, and the Colonel was lying dead in a pool of his own blood. The coachman summoned the police and medical help. He also found, to his surprise, that the key was not in the locked door on the inside, either. Later, a thorough search failed to turn it up.
A peculiar clublike weapon was also found in the morning room. Although the staff has seen the Colonelâs weapon collection, they do not recognize this weapon.
Holmes believes that the case is not what it at first appears to be. Although the staff are quite sure that they only heard the Colonelâs and his wifeâs voices, Holmes is convinced that a third person came into the room at the time of the Colonelâs death, and rather oddly, made off with the key. This Holmes deduces from footmarks found in the road, on the lawn, and in the morning room. Odder still, the mystery man seems to have brought an animal with him. Judging from the footmarks, it is long like a weasel or a stoat, with short stumpy legs, but bigger than either of those animals.