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The Man with the Twisted Lip by Arthur Conan Doyle | The Midnight Archive ā Classic Detective Audiobook
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- Jun 30, 2026
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š Patreon ā ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month) https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales Sent to fetch a friend from a riverside opium den, Dr. Watson stumbles instead upon Sherlock Holmes himself ā in disguise, and deep in one of the strangest cases of his career; a respectable gentleman named Neville St. Clair has vanished from an upstairs room of that very den, his wife having seen him at the window in evident distress only to have him torn from sight, and now his clothes are discovered in the room, his coat weighted with coins and sunk in the river below, with the only person found on the spot a hideous red-haired beggar with a grotesquely twisted lip; there is no body, and yet all London is convinced a murder has been done and the beggar is charged with it, until Holmes, sitting up the whole night behind a wall of cushions, reasons his way to the one answer that fits; this is one of Arthur Conan Doyle's cleverest and most humane Holmes adventures ā a mystery with no killer in it, turning on a secret about money, shame, and disguise that few first-time listeners ever see coming, first published in The Strand Magazine in 1891 and collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, presented complete and unabridged, exactly as Arthur Conan Doyle wrote it, from the Midnight Archive ā Nocturnal Tales' library of the classic detective stories that built the genre. ā¹ļø FOR LISTENERS This is a complete, unabridged reading of The Man with the Twisted Lip by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in 1891 and now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive: three nights of classics every week, alongside four original Nocturnal Tales mysteries. š³ļø YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXT The Archive is deep ā more Sherlock Holmes? Violet Sā¦