Can Sherlock Holmes solve an impossible locked room murder?

Arthur Conan Doyle, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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Arthur Conan Doyle faced immense public pressure to bring back his famed sleuth

after his showdown with Professor Moriarty

at the Richenbach Falls. Today's story is included in the anthology, The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

I hope you like it. And now, The Adventure of the Empty House by Arthur Conan Doyle.

It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable world dismayed,

by the murder of the Honorable Ronald Adair, under most unusual

and inexplicable circumstances.

The public has already learned those particulars of the crime, which came out in the police

investigation, but a good deal was suppressed upon that occasion, since the case for the

prosecution was so overwhelmingly strong

that it was not necessary to bring forward all the facts. Only now, at the end of nearly

ten years, am I allowed to supply those missing links, which make up the whole of that remarkable

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