Adult Storytime

Aug 14 2020 4 ep. 37 mins 51

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Short works read aloud to you by Saint Paul Public Library staff.

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"The Horror of the Heights" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Aug 14 2020 36 mins

For our fourth Adult Storytime podcast, we're changing things up a little. Our story is by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle but it's not a Sherlock Holmes story nor even a mystery. Instead it's a horror story—actually a science fiction horror story, since it's set about ten years into the future from when it was written, and involves more advanced airplanes than existed at

"The York Mystery" by Baroness Emma Orczy, from The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Jul 15 2020 37 mins

One of the more unconventional crimesolvers created during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is known only as the Old Man in the Corner. Relying on newspaper coverage and courtroom proceedings, he theorizes solutions to unsolved mysteries, which he shares with a female journalist named Polly Burton while sitting in the cor

"The Coin of Dionysius" by Ernest Bramah from The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Jul 06 2020 32 mins

Saint Paul Public Library librarian János reads "The Coin of Dionysius" by Ernest Bramah from The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes. As the Golden Age of Detective Fiction emerged in the wake of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, it behooved authors to distinguish their character both from Holmes and the other crimesolvers proliferating in the pages of magazines. Ernest B

Adult Storytime: The Lenton Croft Robberies

Jun 10 2020 45 mins

Saint Paul Public Library librarian János reads "The Lenton Croft Robberies" by Arthur Morrison, from The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes. When Arthur Conan Doyle first began publishing his Sherlock Holmes short stories in 1891, they became an instant hit in Britain and North America. The popularity grew so overwhelming to Doyle, who feared that the stories were overshadowing his