THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
One of Arthur Conan Doyle's personal top 12 favorites, this story has Holmes defusing an International incident by discovering the location of a damaging letter.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales. |
| 0:34.4 | Just a few quick notes before the show. |
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| 0:56.4 | And now our story, The Second Stain, |
| 0:58.6 | a Sherlock Holmes adventure from Arthur Conan Doyle. |
| 1:02.0 | And for you Holmes fans, Sherlock Holmes is the most popular of all our series style |
| 1:06.2 | episodes on all of our shows. And now, the second stain. |
| 1:23.6 | I had intended the inventor of the Abbey Grange to be the last of those exploits of my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, which I should ever communicate to the public. This resolution of mind was not due to any lack of material, |
| 1:27.0 | since I have notes of many hundreds of cases |
| 1:29.0 | to which I've never alluded. |
| 1:31.4 | Nor was it caused by any waning interest on the part of my readers in the singular |
| 1:35.1 | personality and unique methods of this remarkable man. The real reason lay in |
| 1:41.6 | the reluctance which Mr Holmes has shown to the continued publication of his experiences. |
| 1:47.0 | So long as he was in actual professional practice, the records of his successes were of some practical value to him. |
| 1:54.0 | But since he has definitely retired from London and be taken himself to study and be |
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