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A quiet reading of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Red-Headed League" by firelight, with soft rain and a low fireplace. Fall asleep to Sherlock Holmes.
A pawnbroker is paid handsomely to copy out an encyclopedia — then the absurd job suddenly ends, and Holmes sees what it was really hiding.
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)
New classic-literature bedtime readings every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evening. Subscribe to fall asleep to Dickens, Brontë, Poe, Stoker, Wilde and more.
By Bedtime ClassicsA quiet reading of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Red-Headed League" by firelight, with soft rain and a low fireplace. Fall asleep to Sherlock Holmes.
A pawnbroker is paid handsomely to copy out an encyclopedia — then the absurd job suddenly ends, and Holmes sees what it was really hiding.
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)
New classic-literature bedtime readings every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evening. Subscribe to fall asleep to Dickens, Brontë, Poe, Stoker, Wilde and more.