The Adventure of the Red Circle author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the Red Circle – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Doyle's inclination to travel to the United States, figuratively speaking, for his material in Sherlock Holmes stories again comes to the fore here. Traveling between the two countries, his characters bring their pasts with them, and find they cannot escape their enemies or their demons by traveling to another land.



Mrs. Warren, a landlady, comes to 221B Baker Street with some questions about her lodger. A youngish, heavily bearded man, who spoke good English although with a foreign accent, came to her ten days ago and offered her double the rent that she had asked on the condition that he get the room on his own terms. He went out the first night that he was there, and came back after midnight when the rest of the household had gone to bed. Since then, Mrs. Warren has not seen him, nor has her husband or their servant girl. The lodger insisted on having the Daily Gazette every morning, and sometimes requested other things. All requests were printed, in single words, on a slip of paper left on a chair outside the room, where meals were also left.



Mrs. Warren has brought some spent matches and a cigarette end from her lodger, hoping that Holmes can read something from them. It is clear that the cigarette has been smoked without a holder, which is quite unusual for a man with whiskers. He also eats very little, and never receives visitors or messages.



After the landlady leaves, Holmes remarks to Dr. Watson that it seems likely that the person in Mrs. Warren’s house is not the bearded man who made the arrangements. The evidence lies not only in the cigarette, but in the fact that the lodger’s knowledge of English is not quite as good as the bearded man’s (he wrote MATCH as one of his requests, for instance, not MATCHES), and in the fact that his “return” on the first night was very late so that no-one would see him. He has also taken great pains to make sure that no-one has seen him since.



About the Narrator

David Ian Davies is a talented actor and acclaimed dramatic reader that has given voice to the popular Star Wars video games and many classic stories, including works penned by Shakespeare, HG Wells and Oscar Wilde. His Sherlockian audio performances are arguably his best to date, with reviewers raving about his truly amazing skill in bringing the stories to life.



“…to refer to David's Sherlock Holmes productions as simply dramatic readings is a major understatement, as he brings a wonderful range of distinctly unique voices into play as he essays each of the characters, creating a marvelously layered and rich listening experience that showcases Arthur Conan Doyle's masterful use of language.”

Charles Prepolec

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