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About this audiobook
The Adventure of the Empty House, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.Public pressure forced Conan Doyle to bring the sleuth back to life, and explain his apparently miraculous survival of a deadly struggle with Professor Moriarty. This is the first Holmes story set after his supposed death at the Reichenbach Falls, as recounted in "The Final Problem". The Hound of the Baskervilles had seen the return of a pre-Reichenbach Falls Sherlock Holmes, which only served to whet readers' appetites.Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Empty House" sixth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories.The story takes place in 1894, three years after the death of Sherlock Holmes. On the night of March 30, an apparently unsolvable locked-room murder takes place in London: the Park Lane Mystery, the killing of the Honourable Ronald Adair, son of the Earl of Maynooth, a colonial governor in Australia. He was in his sitting room, working on accounts of some kind, as indicated by the papers and money found by police. Adair liked playing whist and regularly did so at several clubs, but never for great sums of money. It does, however, come out that he won as much as £420 in partnership with Colonel Sebastian Moran. The motive does not appear to be robbery as nothing has been stolen, and it seems that Adair had not an enemy in the world. It seems odd that Ronald's door was locked from the inside. The only other way out was the open window, and there was a 20-foot (about 6 m) drop below it onto a flower bed, which now shows no sign of being disturbed. Adair was killed with a soft-nosed revolver bullet to the head. No one in the area at the time heard a shot...Famous works of the author Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Stories of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, General Fiction
Length46 mins
Narrated byPeter Coates
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMar 11, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Adventure of the Empty House - Opening credits
2The Adventure of the Empty House
3The Adventure of the Empty House - Closing credits
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The Coming of the FairiesArthur Conan Doyle3h 40m$7 · $0.00
The Case for Spirit PhotographyArthur Conan Doyle3h 35m$7 · $0.00
Englische Detektiv-KrimisArthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Edgar Wallace, Josephine Tey, G. K. Chesterton, Paul Rosenhayn, Joseph Smith Fletcher, David Christie Murray, Anna Katharine Green, R. Austin Freeman, Edmund Edel, Matthias McDonnell Bodkin, Walther Kabel249h 54m$1.50 · $0.00
Neues von Sherlock Holmes - Die Hörbücher - Folge 28: Sherlock Holmes und die andere FrauArthur Conan Doyle, Klaus Peter Walter1h 16m$12 · $0.00
Pheneas SpeaksArthur Conan Doyle4h 59m$7 · $0.00
The Spiritualists' ReaderArthur Conan Doyle4h 47m$7 · $0.00
The Great ShadowArthur Conan Doyle5h 2m$7 · $0.00
The Surgeon of Gaster FellArthur Conan Doyle2h 11m$7 · $0.00
Collected Short Stories, Volume 2Arthur Conan Doyle9h 1m$7 · $0.00
The Speckled BandArthur Conan Doyle2h 37m$7 · $0.00
The Case of Mr. George EdaljiArthur Conan Doyle2h 20m$7 · $0.00
The Mediumship of Florence CookArthur Conan Doyle20m$7 · $0.00
A Study in ScarletArthur Conan Doyle4h 44m$7 · $0.00
Collected Short Stories, Volume 3Arthur Conan Doyle9h 48m$7 · $0.00
A New Light on Old CrimesArthur Conan Doyle49m$7 · $0.00
Jane AnnieArthur Conan Doyle1h 55m$7 · $0.00
Collected Short Stories, Volume 8Arthur Conan Doyle7h 38m$7 · $0.00
The Love Affair of George Vincent ParkerArthur Conan Doyle30m$7 · $0.00
Collected Short Stories, Volume 7Arthur Conan Doyle7h 39m$7 · $0.00
The ReunionJana Deleon6h 31m$26 · $0.00
Animal 3K’wan6h 33m$20
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Novels & Stories (4 Novels + 56 Short Stories)Arthur Conan Doyle71h 48m$1 · $0.00
To Hold and ProtectSandra Owens7h 59m$8 · $0.00
Extinction WarNicholas Sansbury Smith12h 1m$23
Savy WisdomPeggy McColl2h 53m$15
3 a.m. Premium: Books 1–5Nick Pirog15h 27m$25
The Labyrinth of the SpiritsCarlos Ruiz Zafon27h 55m$53 · $0.00
Tracing Killer EvidenceJodie Bailey5h 46m$12 · $0.00
AGATHA CHRISTIE Premium CollectionAgatha Christie37h 15m$2 · $0.00
Sign of the MakerBrian Shea7h 13m$17
No Sin UnpunishedLynDee Walker7h 43m$17
Sherlock HolmesMade for Success14h 22m$25
Sons of War 4: SoldiersNicholas Sansbury Smith, Tom Abrahams12h 54m$25
Murder in the TowerRoy Lewis8h 23m$20
Glen AffricKarine Giebel22h 51m$46 · $0.00
JAMES BOND 007 Complete CollectionIan Fleming102h 36m$2 · $0.00
Deadly Badlands PursuitSharee Stover5h 53m$12 · $0.00
Crime and Punishment (The Unabridged Garnett Translation) (Annotated)Fyodor Dostoevsky24h 26m$2 · $0.00
Who Killed the Earl of Moran?Stephanie Laurens8h 46m$23
Body Refinement in a Beast Tamer’s World, Book 1Seth Ring14h 7m$27
EmberJeffrey Wilson, Brian Andrews13h 58m$23
The Complete Works of Jane Austen (Unabridged)Jane Austen88h 8m5 (1)$1 · $0.00
Desperate MeasuresBrenda Jackson8h 59m5 (1)$28 · $0.00
Searching For ThanksgivingS.E. Smith4h 24m$20
Naughty 4Brenda Hampton7h 30m$17
The Dance with Me TrilogyShelley Shepard Gray21h 44m$35
Anne Shirley (Complete 14 Book Collection)Lucy Maud Montgomery125h 28m$2 · $0.00
The DopemanJaQuavis Coleman5h 25m$20
Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate CollectionArthur Conan Doyle59h 49m$5 · $0.00
WhistlerAnn Patchett10h 45m4.2 (12)$29 · $0.00
Grand Opening 2Carl Weber9h 16m$20
Sons of Valor II: Violence of ActionBrian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson12h 34m$23
Malevolent MagicMildred Abbott7h 13m$17
Bikes, Toys, and Hot BoyzGenesis Woods, Shantaé13h 9m$23
War LordBernard Cornwell13h 21m$33 · $0.00
Ghetto BastardK’wan7h 37m$20
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m$18 · $0.00
The Vineyard BrideKatie Winters5h 5m$15
The Fyodor Dostoyevsky Complete CollectionFyodor Dostoyevsky266h 5m5 (1)$200 · $0.00
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