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Phoebe Reads a Mystery

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, pt. 1

Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Vox Media Podcast Network

Drama, Fiction

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Phoebe reads a story a day from Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Read along. Our other shows are Criminal and This is Love. Donate to Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:50.0

The adventure of the Barrel Coronet Part 1.

0:57.6

Holmes said, I, as I stood one morning in our bow window, looking down the street,

1:02.6

here is a madman coming along. It seems rather sad that his relatives should allow him to come

1:08.1

out alone. My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands in the pockets of

1:14.8

his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It was a bright, crisp, February morning,

1:20.8

and the snow of the day before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the wintery

1:26.7

sun. Down the center of Baker Street, it had been plowed into a brown, crumbly band by the traffic.

1:35.3

But at either side and on the heaped-up edges of the footpaths, it still lay as white as when it

1:41.0

fell. The great pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but was still dangerously slippery,

1:47.7

so that there were fewer passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the Metropolitan

1:53.9

station, no one was coming save the single gentleman whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention.

2:01.6

He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly and imposing, with a massive, strongly marked face

2:08.1

and a commanding figure. He was dressed in a somber yet rich style, in black frot coat,

2:14.7

shining hat, neat brown gators, and well-cut pearl-gray trousers. Yet his actions were an absurd contrast

2:24.0

to the dignity of his dress and features. For he was running hard with occasional little springs,

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