Audibly Speaking: Listening to History

“Juneteenth,” a Podcast Episode for North Square The Emancipation Proclamation, from The Library of Congress

READ FOR YOU BY RICK REIMAN. In this story by Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes must represent a client being blackmailed by the notorious criminal, Charles Augustus Milverton. Once again, Holmes uses the practices of the criminal himself, something he seems all too eager to employ in more than one of the stories in the Sherlock Holmes canon. Watson joins in the effort and the result is an action story p...

A commemoration for North Square.

Here I share some insights into what I have learned about the hidden Sherlock Holmes, from reading and narrating the Conan Doyle stories. To do this I use one of his most popular stories by way of illustration, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band.” You can listen to my narration of this classic short story elsewhere on AudiblySpeaking.com. Reference Links Narrations by Rick Reiman on Audibly Speak...

Once again, as in “A Study in Scarlett,” Arthur Conan Doyle reaches across the pond for material for a Sherlock Holmes story. In this case, it is a short story, about the long reach of the past and the legacy of the Ku Klux Klan in America. Three generations of Englishman face death from the grandfather’s involvement in the racist activities of the Klan. This is one of the few stories where, altho...

Read by Rick Reiman, this was Doyle’s anticipated ending to the Sherlock Holmes story, the story that would “finish” Holmes off in the early 1890s, and leave Doyle free to write about other characters whom he was not so tired of. But it was not to be. Doyle’s readers, including Queen Victoria, insisted that Doyle resurrect Holmes. And so, by a rhetorical slight of hands, Doyle later saves Holmes f...

Read for you by Rick Reiman Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes's Older Brother, who "is" the British Government in the case of the Bruce-Partington Plans

“I think that we are both agreed, Inspector that the fragment of paper in the dead man’s hand, bearing, as it does, the very hour of his death written upon it, is of extreme importance.” -Sherlock Holmes

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Richard A. Reiman, host of AudiblySpeaking and author of the article above, narrated this article, published in The Journal of Perpetrator Research, 2(2), 2019, 180-226,  and available as a Create Commons document at https://jpr.winchesteruniversitypress.org/3/volume/2/issue/2/ . Today’s recording is a reading of Part 1 of 3 of this article. Coming soon: Part 2.

In “The Gloria Scott,” Conan Doyle, through the agency of Sherlock Holmes, explains how Holmes stumbled upon his first case. It is an adventure of characters high and low, and  action turbulent and violent, with reason once again serving as ballast to restore order and sanity to a chaotic world.” Rick Reiman -

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In this episode, I both read and annotate Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Adventures of Silver Blaze.” Elsewhere on this site, I have a narration with no paused for annotations. In this new version on this page, I interrupt the narration from time to time to explain the significance of each passage that we encounter.  Let me know if you enjoy this presentation, please!

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A Trailer for Conan Doyle's "The Yellow Face," Coming the first Week in April

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Sherlock Holmes returns to life in this thrilling story by Arthur Conan Doyle.  Doyle had killed off the greatest consulting detective in the world, but the reading public insisted he rethink his plans. So Holmes returns from the dead in this classic story from the pen of his creator, Doyle.

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