Ep.242 The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes: The Sign Of The Four: Timbertoe

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

Detective, Fiction, Crime, Arts, Radio Show, Mystery, Tv & Film, Performing Arts, Drama, Old Time Radio

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Sherlock Holmes, fictional character created by the Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The prototype for the modern mastermind detective, Holmes first appeared in Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet, published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual of 1887. As the world’s first and only “consulting detective,” he pursued criminals throughout Victorian and Edwardian London, the south of England, and continental Europe. The Sign of the Four is the second of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels. In ...

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0:00.0	Jonathan Small
0:07.0	Maromet Singh
0:11.0	Abdulah Khan
0:15.0	Dost Akbar The Four. The Four. The sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, dramatized in two parts by Bert Cools,
0:43.3	with Clive Merrison as Sherlock Holmes and Michael Williams as Dr. John Watson.
0:49.3	The Sign of the Four, Part 1, Timbertoe.
1:13.6	Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat Morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers, he adjusted the delicate
1:20.9	needle and rolled back his left shirt cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully, upon the sinewy forearm and wrist, all dotted
1:34.6	and scarred with innumerable puncture marks.
1:39.0	Finally, he thrust the sharp point home and pressed down the tiny piston.
1:52.7	Which is it today?
1:57.1	Morphine or cocaine?
2:02.6	Cacaine? Seven. morphine or cocaine? Cicane. Uh, seven percent solution.
2:06.6	Did you care to try?
2:08.6	No, thank.
2:10.6	Perhaps you're right, Watson.
2:13.6	Yes, I suppose its influence is physically a bad one.
2:19.1	You suppose if you have any doubts in the matter, I should be delighted to dispel them.
2:24.8	I find it so stimulating and clarifying to the mind, however, that its secondary action is a matter of small moments.
2:35.0	Small moment.
2:37.0	It's a pathological and morbid process.
2:40.0	It involves increased tissue change and leaves a permanent weakness.
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