Bedtime Classics

The Man with the Twisted Lip — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


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A quiet reading of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Man with the Twisted Lip" by firelight, with soft rain and a low fireplace. Fall asleep to Sherlock Holmes.


A respectable husband disappears from a first-floor window above an opium den, and the only witness is a beggar. Holmes traces the strange double life.


Narrator: calm British voice, ~60 minutes

Rain ambience: Pixabay CC-BY "Calming Rain" by Liecio

Text: public domain via Project Gutenberg (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1892)


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