In this classic Sherlock Holmes tale of treachery, murder, and theft, “The Crooked Man,” a long-lost love returns horribly changed, revealing an awful treachery that has been kept secret for decades.
The story is read by a true master, Edward Hardwicke, a talented actor who plays Sherlock Holmes’s associate, Dr. Watson, as seen on the popular PBS series Mystery!
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a writer and physician most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, the first scientific detective, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Before becoming a writer, he attended the University of Edinburgh to train as a physician, and it was from his teacher, Joseph Bell, that he learned much of what would inspire Holmes’s skills of deduction. He also wrote science fiction stories, historical novels, plays, romances, poetry, and nonfiction. After his son Kingsley died in the first World War, he became a convert to spiritualism and a social reformer who used his investigative skills to prove the innocence of individuals.View all by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
