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Phoebe Reads a Mystery

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Red-Headed League, pt. 2

Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Vox Media Podcast Network

Drama, Fiction

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 33 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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0:39.0

The Red-headed League Part 2

0:43.0

Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the roof will face behind it until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every other consideration

0:53.0

that we both burst out into a roar of laughter.

0:56.0

I cannot see that there is anything very funny, cried our client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head.

1:03.0

If you can do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere.

1:07.0

No, no, cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from which he had half risen.

1:12.0

I really wouldn't miss your case for the world. It is most refreshingly unusual.

1:18.0

But there is, if you will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it.

1:24.0

Pray, what steps did you take when you found the card upon the door?

1:29.0

I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called the be offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything about it.

1:37.0

Finally, I went to the landlord, who was an accountant living on the ground floor, and I asked him if he could tell me what had become of the Red-headed League.

1:46.0

He said that he had never heard of any such body.

1:50.0

Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him.

1:57.0

Well, said I, the gentleman at number four.

2:00.0

What, the Red-headed man? Yes.

2:04.0

Oh, said he, his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor, and was using my room as a temporary convenience, until his new premises were ready.

2:13.0

He moved out yesterday. Where could I find him?

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