The Adventure of the Crooked Man
"It's every man's business to see justice done."
A violent crime, a terrible betrayal, a shocking death… and mongeese. From The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, “The Adventure of the Crooked Man” is a complicated and compelling puzzle of a story that circles around betrayal, disability, empire, real-world events and Victorian geopolitics.
Listen to our narration of the story:
From The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" by Arthur Conan Doyle, narrated by Dan Heidt.
This narration was read by Dan Heidt. Dan is a songwriter and podcaster from Columbus, Ohio. His podcast, "Flies in the Kitchen" features conversations with creative folx from all genres, in all settings. Dan previously recorded several stories for Librivox, an online audio archive of public domain publications, and when not blabbering into a microphone, he is building SUVs for Honda Manufacturing and enjoying life with his wife and 4 cats. His debut album, 'The View From Up Here', is available on all streaming platforms as well, for your listening pleasure.
Further reading:
“The Cesspool of Empire: Sherlock Holmes and the Return of the Repressed,” Yumna Siddiqi
Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination by Gautam Chakravarty
Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism by Patrick Brantlinger
Civilizing War: Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture by Nasser Mutfti
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic: Realism, Sovereignty, and Transnational Experience by Lauren ME Goodlad
Mysterious Bodies: Solving and De-Solving Disability in the Fin-de-Siècle Mystery, by Kylee-Anne Hingston
Jekyll and Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Music credit: The song “Denmark (Live)” by the Portland Cello Project is featured with an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).