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This is not a single story but a series of unique explorations that challenge the intellect and ignite the imagination. Journey into the world of suspense and deduction, and discover a new book with every episode that unravels the intricate web of human motives and the pursuit of truth. Let each narrative draw you deeper into the labyrinth of mystery, where every twist and turn offers new insights into the characters and their fates.]]></description><atom:link href="https://www.spreaker.com/show/7130141/episodes/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><language>en</language><category>Books</category><copyright>Copyright 1900s genre</copyright><image><url>https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/d83c6d3b8d7db1a3779b89e2b8eb7bf4.jpg</url><title>Valley of Fear (Version 4 Dramatic Reading)</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/valley-of-fear-version-4-dramatic-reading--7130141</link></image><lastBuildDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:16:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><itunes:author>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:name>1900s genre</itunes:name><itunes:email>spreaker77@podcastlibrary.org</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/d83c6d3b8d7db1a3779b89e2b8eb7bf4.jpg"/><itunes:subtitle>Immerse yourself in a realm of mystery and intrigue, where the cunning of a detective meets the shadows of criminal masterminds, as suggested by the evocative title. 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Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. 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First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its serialization was complete. Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. 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Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. 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First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its serialization was complete. Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. 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Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. 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First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its serialization was complete. Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. Dunn: Rich Brown Lawler: Keith Salis Operator: Michelle Purdy Telegrapher: redrun Professor Moriarty: Cavaet Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>11916</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/d83c6d3b8d7db1a3779b89e2b8eb7bf4.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Social War of 1900-Simon Landis</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/social-war-of-1900-simon-landis--74526706</link><description><![CDATA[The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its serialization was complete. Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. 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First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its serialization was complete. Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. Dunn: Rich Brown Lawler: Keith Salis Operator: Michelle Purdy Telegrapher: redrun Professor Moriarty: Cavaet Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>8953</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/d83c6d3b8d7db1a3779b89e2b8eb7bf4.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Valley of Fear (Version 4 Dramatic Reading)-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/valley-of-fear-version-4-dramatic-reading-sir-arthur-conan-doyle--74496027</link><description><![CDATA[The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its serialization was complete. Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. Dunn: Rich Brown Lawler: Keith Salis Operator: Michelle Purdy Telegrapher: redrun Professor Moriarty: Cavaet Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74496027</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:08:28 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74496027/valley_of_fear_version_4_dramatic_reading_sir_arthur_conan_doyle.mp3" length="186585672" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its serialization was complete. Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. Dunn: Rich Brown Lawler: Keith Salis Operator: Michelle Purdy Telegrapher: redrun Professor Moriarty: Cavaet Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>23299</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/d83c6d3b8d7db1a3779b89e2b8eb7bf4.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Four Noncanonical Sherlock Holmes Short Stories-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/four-noncanonical-sherlock-holmes-short-stories-sir-arthur-conan-doyle--74456444</link><description><![CDATA[The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its serialization was complete. Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. Dunn: Rich Brown Lawler: Keith Salis Operator: Michelle Purdy Telegrapher: redrun Professor Moriarty: Cavaet Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74456444</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:07:45 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74456444/four_noncanonical_sherlock_holmes_short_stories_sir_arthur_conan_doyle.mp3" length="47656455" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its serialization was complete. Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. Dunn: Rich Brown Lawler: Keith Salis Operator: Michelle Purdy Telegrapher: redrun Professor Moriarty: Cavaet Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>5951</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/d83c6d3b8d7db1a3779b89e2b8eb7bf4.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Shakuntala-Kalidasa</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/shakuntala-kalidasa--74424246</link><description><![CDATA[The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its serialization was complete. Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. 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First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its serialization was complete. Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. 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This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. 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First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its serialization was complete. Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. 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Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. Dunn: Rich Brown Lawler: Keith Salis Operator: Michelle Purdy Telegrapher: redrun Professor Moriarty: Cavaet Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74337999</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:32:48 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74337999/adrienne_lecouvreur_ernest_legouve_euge_ne_scribe.mp3" length="70708349" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its serialization was complete. Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. Dunn: Rich Brown Lawler: Keith Salis Operator: Michelle Purdy Telegrapher: redrun Professor Moriarty: Cavaet Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>8830</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/d83c6d3b8d7db1a3779b89e2b8eb7bf4.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Funeral or Grief A-La-Mode-Richard Steele</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/funeral-or-grief-a-la-mode-richard-steele--74195776</link><description><![CDATA[The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its serialization was complete. Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. Dunn: Rich Brown Lawler: Keith Salis Operator: Michelle Purdy Telegrapher: redrun Professor Moriarty: Cavaet Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74195776</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:08:43 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74195776/funeral_or_grief_a_la_mode_richard_steele.mp3" length="83659871" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its serialization was complete. Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. Dunn: Rich Brown Lawler: Keith Salis Operator: Michelle Purdy Telegrapher: redrun Professor Moriarty: Cavaet Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>10447</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/d83c6d3b8d7db1a3779b89e2b8eb7bf4.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Heart's Kingdom (version 2 dramatic reading)-Maria Thompson Daviess</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/heart-s-kingdom-version-2-dramatic-reading-maria-thompson-daviess--74148888</link><description><![CDATA[The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its serialization was complete. Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. Dunn: Rich Brown Lawler: Keith Salis Operator: Michelle Purdy Telegrapher: redrun Professor Moriarty: Cavaet Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74148888</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:08:59 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74148888/heart_s_kingdom_version_2_dramatic_reading_maria_thompson_daviess.mp3" length="196899326" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its serialization was complete. Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. Dunn: Rich Brown Lawler: Keith Salis Operator: Michelle Purdy Telegrapher: redrun Professor Moriarty: Cavaet Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>24588</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/d83c6d3b8d7db1a3779b89e2b8eb7bf4.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>New Chronicles of Rebecca (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)-Kate Douglas Wiggin</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/new-chronicles-of-rebecca-version-2-dramatic-reading-kate-douglas-wiggin--74109333</link><description><![CDATA[The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its serialization was complete. Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. Dunn: Rich Brown Lawler: Keith Salis Operator: Michelle Purdy Telegrapher: redrun Professor Moriarty: Cavaet Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74109333</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:08:09 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74109333/new_chronicles_of_rebecca_version_2_dramatic_reading_kate_douglas_wiggin.mp3" length="180544491" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its serialization was complete. Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. Dunn: Rich Brown Lawler: Keith Salis Operator: Michelle Purdy Telegrapher: redrun Professor Moriarty: Cavaet Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>22546</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/d83c6d3b8d7db1a3779b89e2b8eb7bf4.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Study in Scarlet (Version 7 Dramatic Reading)-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/study-in-scarlet-version-7-dramatic-reading-sir-arthur-conan-doyle--73389715</link><description><![CDATA["Study in Scarlet" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a captivating tale that introduces readers to the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusted companion, Dr. John Watson. This dramatic reading brings to life the intricate plot that unfolds through themes of justice, morality, and the quest for truth, resonating with listeners even today. The story's exploration of human nature and the complexities of crime offers timeless insights into the darker aspects of society. As Holmes and Watson navigate through a web of mystery and intrigue, their dynamic partnership showcases the enduring appeal of detective fiction, making this audiobook a must-listen for fans of classic literature and mystery.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73389715</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:33:57 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73389715/study_in_scarlet_version_7_dramatic_reading_sir_arthur_conan_doyle.mp3" length="138659020" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>"Study in Scarlet" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a captivating tale that introduces readers to the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusted companion, Dr. John Watson. This dramatic reading brings to life the intricate plot that unfolds...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA["Study in Scarlet" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a captivating tale that introduces readers to the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusted companion, Dr. John Watson. This dramatic reading brings to life the intricate plot that unfolds through themes of justice, morality, and the quest for truth, resonating with listeners even today. The story's exploration of human nature and the complexities of crime offers timeless insights into the darker aspects of society. As Holmes and Watson navigate through a web of mystery and intrigue, their dynamic partnership showcases the enduring appeal of detective fiction, making this audiobook a must-listen for fans of classic literature and mystery.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>17315</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/d83c6d3b8d7db1a3779b89e2b8eb7bf4.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Valley of Fear Version 4 Dramatic Reading - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/valley-of-fear-version-4-dramatic-reading-sir-arthur-conan-doyle--72691545</link><description><![CDATA[The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its serialization was complete. Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. Dunn: Rich Brown Lawler: Keith Salis Operator: Michelle Purdy Telegrapher: redrun Professor Moriarty: Cavaet Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72691545</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:57:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72691545/valley_of_fear_version_4_dramatic_reading_sir_arthur_conan_doyle.mp3" length="186392278" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915, this novel was published as a book three months before its serialization was complete. Doyle went on to write more Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Valley of Fear was his last novel about the character. This novel is the only one of the four in which criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty appears, and one of only two stories by Doyle in which Moriarty plays a direct role; despite the prominence that later Sherlock Holmes adaptations have given to Moriarty, this antagonist plays a minor role in Doyle’s original oeuvre. In writing The Valley of Fear, Doyle used a similar structure to that of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet; both novels are divided into two seven-chapter parts, the first part focusing on Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of a murder and the second part exploring the murder’s backstory. Inspiration for The Valley of Fear came from the life of real-world private detective James McParland and his investigation of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society. Further inspiration came from Groombridge Place, a moated manor house in England on which the novel’s Birlstone Manor is closely based. This novel has sometimes attracted controversy due to its negative depiction of trade unions. For example, the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes dramatized all of Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels except The Valley of Fear, which was excluded because its depiction of trade unions was considered too political. Consequently, a radio adaptation of this novel did not appear until 1960. Other media adaptations have included films, television episodes, and a stage play. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy John Douglas: Algy Pug Jack McGinty: Greg Giordano Cecil Barker: larryhayes7 Alec MacDonald: Adrian Stephens White Mason: Craig Franklin Mike Scanlan: ToddHW Ivy Douglas: Jenn Broda Ettie Shafter: TJ Burns Ted Baldwin: Yoganandh T Carter: bwg1214 Ames: James R. Hedrick Brother Morris: Chuck Williamson Tiger Cormac: rssmith121999 Harraway: Farzan Sergeant Wilson: john warren hart Teddy Marvin: Joe Bergin Arthur Willaby: chuckconvr Gower: Beeswaxcandle Manders: lorda Fred Porlock: Larry Wilson Dr. Wood: Michael Broomhill Policeman Evans: Jaime Kurzweg Policeman Hunt: Ted Perkins Jenkins: KevinS Jacob Shafter: arbycoors James Stanger: Tad Davis J.W. Windle: Tomas Peter Reilly: Scott Caulkins Mansel: Alan Dove Young Wilson: John Payton James Murdoch: Peter Dann Mrs. Larbey: Carol Sutton Josiah H. Dunn: Rich Brown Lawler: Keith Salis Operator: Michelle Purdy Telegrapher: redrun Professor Moriarty: Cavaet Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>23299</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>doyle,dramatic,fear,holmes,moriarty,novel,onward,shafter,sherlock,valley</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/d83c6d3b8d7db1a3779b89e2b8eb7bf4.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item></channel></rss>
