Doyle, The Red-headed League

Published: July 19, 2020, 9:51 p.m.

b"Join me to listen to a Sherlock Holmes story that was one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's own personal favorites. Great fun, and one of his cleverest plots.\\n\\nOf the world that Doyle created, Vincent Starrett wrote, with great affection, a poem entitled 221B:\\n\\nHere dwell together still two men of note\\nWho never lived and so can never die:\\nHow very near they seem, yet how remote\\nThat age before the world went all awry.\\nBut still the game\\u2019s afoot for those with ears\\nAttuned to catch the distant view-halloo:\\nEngland is England yet, for all our fears\\u2013\\nOnly those things the heart believes are true.\\n\\nA yellow fog swirls past the window-pane\\nAs night descends upon this fabled street:\\nA lonely hansom splashes through the rain,\\nThe ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.\\nHere, though the world explode, these two survive,\\nAnd it is always eighteen ninety-five."