Audibly Speaking: Listening to History

Audibly Speaking: Listening to History


NEW! “The Adventure of the Three Students,” a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle

June 17, 2022

In this rather offbeat addition to the Sherlock Holmes Canon, Holmes somehow finds himself on a college campus battling the timeless forces of student cheating. Three students are each suspected of taking an advance and fraudulent peek at test questions for an exam qualifying them for an important scholarship. Only one can be guilty. When the examiner knows that Holmes is on campus, he implores our hero to find the “rascal” and expose him. It seems Holmes cannot escape the world of crime no matter where he travels. Unlike in “The Regent Squires,” however, Holmes does not welcome this particular intrusion in his plans. He has to be converted to it by the interesting nature of the problem. In my audio narration, I adopt the style of Jeremy Brett, in my view the best Holmes ever to appear on film. Read for you, of course, by Rick Reiman.




















The Adventure of the Three Students, Drawing by Sydney Paget in the Public Domain




Gilchrist confesses in "The Adventure of the Three Students"