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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com [http://hotaudiobook.com] Title: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Naval Treaty Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Narrator: Will Green, Jane Seaton Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 7 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 Naval Treaty' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Dr. Watson reveives a letter from an old friend, now a Foreign Office employee, who had an important naval treaty stolen from his office. Watson refers the problem to Holmes, who takes to the case with considerable interest.... Members Reviews: Superb plot In this story, Dr. Watson receives a letter, which he then refers to Holmes, from Percy Phelps, a former schoolmate who is now a Foreign Office employee from Woking and has had an important naval treaty stolen from his office. It disappeared while Phelps had stepped out of his office momentarily late in the evening to see about some coffee that he had ordered. His office has two entrances, each joined by a stairway to a single landing. The commissionaire kept watch at the main entrance. There was no-one watching at the side entrance. Phelps also knew that his fiancée's brother was in town and that he might drop by. Phelps was alone in the office. Phelps pulled the bell cord in his office to summon the commissionaire, and to his surprise the commissionaire's wife came up instead. He worked at copying the treaty that he had been given while he waited. At last, he went to see the commissionaire when it had taken some time for the coffee to arrive. He found him asleep with the kettle boiling furiously. He did not need to wake him up, however, as just then, the bell linked to his office rang. Realizing that someone was in his office with the treaty spread out on his desk, Phelps rushed back up and found that the document had vanished, and so had the thief. It seemed obvious that the thief had come in through the side entrance; otherwise he would have passed Phelps on the stairs at some point, and there were no hiding places in his office. No footprints were seen in the office despite its being a rainy evening. The only suspect at that point was the commissionaire's wife, who had quickly hurried out of the building at about that same time. This was followed up, but no treaty was found with her. Other suspects were the commissionaire himself and Phelps's colleague Charles Gorot. Neither seemed a very likely suspect, but the police followed them both, and the commissionaire's wife. As expected, nothing came of it. Phelps was driven to despair by the incident, and when he got back to Woking, he was immediately put to bed in his fiancée's brother's room. There he remained, sick with âbrain feverâ for more than two months, his reputation and honour apparently gone, and his career in dire jeopardy. Holmes is quite interested in this case, and makes a number of observations that others seem to have missed. The absence of footprints, for instance, might indicate that the thief came by cab. There is also the remarkable fact that the dire consequences that ought to result from such a treaty being divulged to a foreign government have not happened in all the time that Phelps has been ill. Why was the bell rung? Holmes gathers some useful information at Briarbrae, the Phelps house, where his fiancée, Annie Harrison, and her brother Joseph have also been staying. She has been nursing him days while a nurse has been employed to keep watch over him at night. Joseph, it seems, is along for the ride. After seeing Phelps at Woking, Holmes makes some inquiries in town.
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