The Adventure of the Copper Beeches”
“Crime is common. Logic is rare.”
From The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches” is narrated by Sarah Kolb.
“The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" is one of the nastiest tales in the canon - complete with a skin-crawling villain named Jephro Rucastle. It also stars one of our favorite women - the intrepid Violet Hunter.
Sarah and Marisa check in with Holmes and Watson after our break from the stories, the creepy horror of this tale, some other iconic stories with horrible things hidden in the attic, and more.
Listen to our narration of the story below!
"The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" is narrated by Sarah Kolb. Sarah is Colorado-based writer, podcaster, and arts marketer, with a passion for unconventional storytelling, detective stories, and rude women. You probably know her as the co-host of However Improbable! During the day, she’s a professional advocate for regional theatre, art education and gender parity in the arts. She's the marketing director at the Arvada Center, one of Colorado's largest theatre companies, and a board member of Athena Project Arts, a nonprofits that advocates for women's voices in artistic expression. Her first foray into podcasting was Superstition, a Southwestern gothic audio mystery.
Music credit: The songs “Denmark (Live)” by the Portland Cello Project is featured with an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Further reading
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
A Guest In The House, Emily Carroll
Sherlock Holmes’s War of the Worlds, Manly Wade Wellman and Wade Wellman
The Picture in the House, H. P. Lovecraft
“Bluebeard” - French folk tale