Other than horse-racing, this is is the only Sherlock Holmes story featuring sports. In this case it is a missing football player, not a race horse, that confounds Holmes. Listen to this preview now.

Inspector Lastrade of Scotland Yard informs Holmes that someone is robbing peoples houses of their busts of Napoleon and smashing them to bits in situ or a little distance away. What can be the meani

Peter Carey, an English Sea Captain, with the reputation of being tyrannical and hard-hearted, is given the name Black Peter before he is killed by an unknown visitor to his home. Sherlock Holmes mu

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches was the last short story published in Conan Doyles first book-length collection of short stories, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892). It does not follow th

Here is my take on one of the most famous novels of all time, A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. Why is it so great? What the dickens was Dickens up to when he wrote it? And what should be

In this, our second episode of Puzzle Pieces, in which we examine a separate mystery in American history, we look at the weaknesses of the Warren Commissions efforts in 1964. This first investigati

Your host, Rick Reiman, narrates The Adventure of the Engineers Thumb, by Arthur Conan Doyle. This is rather one of the more graphic of the Sherlock Holmes tales, not for the faint of heart. But it

This is your host on Audibly Speaking, Rick Reiman. Today, March 31, 2023, is the 60th anniversary of the taking of the famous backyard photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald, holding the rifle he would l

Your host on this podcast, Audibly Speaking, Rick Reiman, narrates this classic by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. That master of all detectives in literature, Sherlock Holmes, has once again to deal with t

In this unabridged audio narration, I read my article for The Journal of Perpetrator Research (2019) Vol: 2 Issue: 2. There were only three actual shots in Dealey Plaza on that dark day, of course.