Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life, credited to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read in English by Peter John Keeble; Greg Giordano; Anna Simon; Lynne Thompson; Lori Arsenault; Tanica; Dewaldo; Suprada Urval; Leanne; Claudia Salto This is a collection of short stories focussing on the problems that present themselves to physicians and surgeons in the course of their work. The volume is named "Round the Red Lamp" as a reference to the red lamps that marked general practitioner's offices in Arthur Conan Doyle's times. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life
• Author credits: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 7:20:03

Catalogue topics

• Mystery
• physicians
• surgeons
• medical life
• patients
• doctors

Track guide

1. 01 - Behind the Times — 11:58
2. 02 - His First Operation — 15:08
3. 03 - A Straggler of '15 — 35:52
4. 04 - The Third Generation — 23:32
5. 05 - A False Start — 33:15
6. 06 - The Curse of Eve — 25:21
7. 07 - Sweethearts — 13:49
8. 08 - A Physiologist's Wife, Part 1 — 29:02
9. 09 - A Physiologist's Wife, Part 2 — 28:12
10. 10 - The Case of Lady Sannox — 24:19
11. 11 - A Question of Diplomacy — 32:02
12. 12 - A Medical Document — 26:07
13. 13 - Lot No. 249, Part 1 — 24:46
14. 14 - Lot No. 249, Part 2 — 19:19
15. 15 - Lot No. 249, Part 3 — 28:00
16. 16 - The Los Amigos Fiasco — 17:40
17. 17 - The Doctors of Hoyland — 27:18
18. 18 - The Surgeon Talks — 24:23

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