Rodney Stone

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Rodney Stone is a Gothic mystery and boxing novel by Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1896.[1]

The eponymous narrator is a

thuggery
, of gambling and cheating, and of dangerous horse-drawn chases.

It was adapted into a 1913 silent film, The House of Temperley, directed by Harold M. Shaw.

The novel was dramatised as a four-part serial on BBC Radio 4 in 1983, which was repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra in March 2020 and June 2022. Available online via BBC Sounds.

External links

  • Rodney Stone at Project Gutenberg

References

  1. ^ Green, Richard Lancelyn, and John Michael Gibson. A bibliography of A. Conan Doyle. Clarendon, 1983.