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B. J. Harrison Reads The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Inspector Lestrade is investigating a series of break-ins in London which have one thing in common: shattered Napoleon busts. After many unsuccessful attempts to solve the case, Lestrade comes to a dead end and is forced to ask Sherlock Holmes for help.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Horror of the Heights (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Joyce-Armstrong is a pilot, whose allies dies while they are trying to break the current height record of 30,00 feet. The man is curious over the mysterious deaths and thinks that his friends have been caught in what he calls “air-jungles”. Hay Connor a
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
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B. J. Harrison Reads Playing with Fire (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: A small group of friends decide to attend a seance at a local art studio. While some of them are very sceptical about the whole thing, others believe in the medium’s abilities. The group starts a discussion about a new painting of a mythical creature,
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
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B. J. Harrison Reads A Case of Identity (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: A young woman named Mary Sutherland is engaged and about to marry Hosmer Angel, when he unexpectedly disappears. In her despair and anxiety, Mary decides to ask Sherlock Holmes for his help. This seems to be a simple case for the great detective. After
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: London is such a large city with so many various crimes and mysteries waiting to be solved. In “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, you can find the most notable, complicated and intriguing stories about the great Sherlock Holme
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Lost World (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Edward Malone is a young journalist at the “Daily Gazette”, who is eager to impress his girlfriend Gladys. To do so, he requests a dangerous and complex task. After a few days, he is assigned to an expedition leaded by the notorious Professor Challenger
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes” is Sir Conan Doyle’s second collection about the great detective. In this collection we meet the same two protagonists, namely Holmes and Watson, but the cases and mysteries that must be solved are completely new. The
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
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B. J. Harrison Reads A Study in Scarlet (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Dr. John Watson comes back to London to recover after being heavily injured at war. However, thanks to his scarce pension, Watson cannot afford a decent apartment. One day he serendipitously meets an old friend named Stamford with whom he shares his pl
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Dying Detective (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: The great detective, Sherlock Holmes, is dying from a highly contagious tropical disease called Tapanuli fever. Dr. Watson is shocked when he hears about his friend’s illness. He travels to examine him, but Holmes refuses his help. Instead, a man ca
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Adventure of the Dancing Men (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Hilton Cubitt visits Sherlock Holmes to show him a sheet of paper with a weird sequence of drawn figures. When these odd messages began to arrive at Cubitt’s house, fear and panic overwhelmed his wife Elsie. She is afraid her past is catching up with
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are discussing the lack of interesting new cases when a man bursts into the room. The panicked young man is McFarlane and he believes that he will be arrested for the murder of 52-year-old Jonas Oldacre. Oldacre’s burnt
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Hound of the Baskervilles (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Dr. James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson for advice, after finding his friend Sir Baskerville dead. According to the official version, Baskerville died from a heart attack, but Mortimer thinks that something terrible happened to his frien
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
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B. J. Harrison Reads Lot No. 249 (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Abercrombie Smith and Edward Bellingham are neighbors and fellow students at the University of Oxford. Smith is a medical student and athlete, while Bellingham is a specialist of Eastern studies and the owner of many Egyptian artefacts. A series of stra
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Speckled Band (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Helen Stoner goes to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. She is afraid that her stepfather, Dr. Grimesby Roylott, may be trying to kill her. Helen’s sister died mysteriously two years earlier, right before her own wedding. Her last words, which Helen n
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Gloria Scott (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes is still a student when he receives his very first case. While still in college, he is invited to the house of his good friend, Victor Trevor. There he meets Trevor’s father, who challenges Holmes to analyze him, so that he can test th
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Ring of Toth (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Mr. John Smith is a British student of Egyptology who travels to Paris. The main purpose of his trip is to visit the Louvre and research some papyri. Unfortunately, tired from going round the museum, Smith falls asleep in one its the many corners. Whe
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Leather Funnel (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Lionel Dacre is a young man who lives in a small house in Paris. Because of his large interest in the occult, Dacre has gathered a huge library of occult literature and many mysterious items. One of these items is a leather funnel next to which the youn
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Three Apples (EN)
– Anonymous: One day a poor fisherman finds a large and heavy chest. Caliph Harun al-Rashid buys the chest, thinking that it encloses a treasure. Instead, he finds out that it contains a woman’s corpse sliced into pieces. Following this discovery, the caliph orde
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B. J. Harrison Reads Sinbad the Sailor (EN)
– Anonymous: Sinbad is a poor man who works as a carrier under the regime of Harun al-Rashid. Every day, obediently, the man carries the heavy load on his head. One day he feels that fatigue taking over him, and he decides to sit and rest for a few minutes. While S
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Tale of Two Viziers (EN)
– Anonymous: After their father’s death, the two brothers, Nur al-Din and Shams al-Din, agree to marry two sisters on the same day. The main idea is that Nur wants to have a son, while Shams wants to have a daughter. And so it happens. Shams al-Din has a daughter
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter (EN)
Ambrose Bierce: Monk Ambrosius arrives at a rural monastery and the last thing he expects to happen is to be drawn into sympathy with a young girl. Her name is Benedicta, the local hangman’s daughter. Ambrosius is not allowed to spend time with Benedicta but he oppos
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B. J. Harrison Reads An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Tales (EN)
Ambrose Bierce: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Tales” is a collection of 23 stories by the American author Ambrose Bierce. It consists of some of the author’s best known works such as “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, “Chickamauga”, “A Horseman in the
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Middle Toe of the Right Foot (EN)
Ambrose Bierce: A man named Manton killed his wife and his two children and managed to get away with it. Ten years later he returns to the house where the crime was committed. He is recognized by the locals and he is provoked into a duel which is to be held in the haun
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Moonlit Road (EN)
Ambrose Bierce: Joel Hetman Jr. is summoned home because his mother was found dead. The only thing his father saw was an unknown man fleeing their home. The murderer was never found and the crime case turned to a mystery. One night Joel and his father were walking do
