A Russian Count and his mysterious son make an appointment with a doctor to examine the Count for catalepsy. Catalepsy being the doctor’s speciality, it makes sense. But the resident patient who lives at the doctor’s office may have a lively, or is it deadly, interest in the Russian visitors, unbeknownst to the doctor. What could possibly go wrong? Everything, unless Sherlock Holmes can penetrate the fog of crime in this short story by the inimitable Conan Doyle.
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Your audio narrator, Rick Reiman, takes you from London to the English Midlands, as we journey with Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and “the stockbroker’s clerk,” in quest of the solution to a mystery and a hideous crime. Sherlock Holmes solves it only at the very end, and only with the aid of one of the criminals involved. See, or rather hear, if you can beat him to it.
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Movies may entertain us, but they also reflect our innermost thoughts and feelings in the time in which we make and watch them. Here I, a Professor of History, reflect on how the themes in the new movie, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” whether consciously or unconsciously meant by its makers, possess undercurrents of meaning warning us to take into account how we remembered in the past, and how dangerously many of us remember today in this moment of the MAGA movement.
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