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The Red-Headed League | Arthur Conan Doyle | A Bitesized Audiobook

One of the best-loved Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, in which the detective is consulted by Mr. Jabez Wilson, who is upset at the loss of his well-paid but bizarrely pointless part-time employment... The story begins at 00:01:25. See below for some notes on the text. Narrated/performed by Simon Stanhope, aka Bitesized Audio. If you enjoy this content and would like to help me keep creating, there are a few ways you can support me (and get access to exclusive content): Occasional/one-off support via Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitesize... Monthly support on Patreon:   / bitesizedaudio   Donate via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted... Visit my Bandcamp page to hear more of my performances of classic stories, and you can purchase and download high-quality audio files to listen offline: https://bitesizedaudio.bandcamp.com/ Become a Bitesized Audio Classics member on YouTube, from $1 / £1 / €1 per month:    / bitesizedaudioclassics   Timestamps: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:25 The Red-Headed League 00:58:50 Credits, thanks and further listening The music used at the beginning and end of the story is an extract from 'Duet for Two Violins' by Luigi Boccherini, Op 5 N2 Larghetto. If you enjoyed this recording, you may like to listen to some of my previous Sherlock Holmes readings:    • Sherlock Holmes Audiobooks   About the author: Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a Scottish doctor and author, celebrated for his world-famous creation Sherlock Holmes, the consulting detective who set the standard for crime fiction into the 20th century and beyond. In addition to his Holmes stories, Conan Doyle is also remembered for his fantasy and science fiction novels and stories, including 'The Parasite' and 'The Lost World' series of novels, his historical fiction, and for numerous short stories contributed to magazines over a 40 year period. He was knighted by King Edward VII in the 1902 Coronation Honours. From his debut in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887, in 'A Study in Scarlet', Sherlock Holmes established himself as the first, the best and the most famous of all private consulting detectives. His serialised adventures in The Strand Magazine, starting with 'A Scandal in Bohemia' in 1891, developed the character into a literary sensation and in the 20th century he was to become the most portrayed character in screen history. 'The Red-Headed League' was the fourth Holmes story (of 60), and the second episode of the short story serialisation in The Strand Magazine. It first appeared in the August 1891 issue, with illustrations by Sidney Paget. It was subsequently printed in book form as part of the first short story collection 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', published in October 1892. It has gone on to be one of the most popular Holmes stories, and was chosen by Sir Arthur himself, in a 1927 retrospective, as one of his personal favourites (he ranked it 2nd, after 'The Speckled Band'). Textual notes: Holmes uses two quotations, in Latin and in French, in this story. (1) He speaks the Latin expression "Omne ignotum pro magnifico" after Jabez Wilson says "I thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see that there was nothing in it after all." The phrase can be roughly translated as "everything unknown appears magnificent." In the Granada TV adaptation of the story with Jeremy Brett and David Burke, Watson translates more loosely as "everything becomes commonplace by explanation". (2) At the end of the story, Holmes quotes the French novelist Flaubert writing to his fellow French author George Sand: "L'homme c'est rien—l'œuvre c'est tout," which translates as "the man is nothing, the work is everything". The chronology and dates in 'The Red-Headed League' are internally inconsistent. The story begins by saying it took place in "the autumn of last year", but the newspaper advertisement about the League is dated April 27th 1890, which Watson says was "just two months ago". Later on, the notice announcing that the League is dissolved is dated October 9th 1890. Incidentally, the newspaper quoted by Watson, the 'Morning Chronicle', ceased publication in 1865... although there was a 'Daily Chronicle' in circulation from the 1870s until 1930. The police inspector in this story is "Peter Jones", who is not mentioned in any other story, though Watson is clearly acquainted with him. His reference to the events of 'The Sign of Four' suggest that Doyle may have intended to re-introduce Inspector Athelney Jones from that story. Perhaps the simplest explanation is that his full name is Peter Athelney Jones and that it is the same man in both stories. I think that they must surely be the same person, not least because both make very similar condescending reference to Holmes and his "theories". Recording © Bitesized Audio 2025