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Podcast: Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Episode: NEW! “The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone,” A Sherlock Holmes Theatrical Drama
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“The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone,” by Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle, was one of two stories in the canon which was told not in the voice of Dr. John Watson but in third-person. Intended as the basis of a play, a one-act drama, it consists mainly of dialogue between two individuals at a time. Most of the time Holmes is one of the two persons, but not always. The device was necessary to make the surprise of the story possible. The story was published in the UK and in the US in 1921. It is one of Doyle’s later co...