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John Huxford's Hiatus
- Author
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrator
- Sam Kusi
- Publisher
- Lauscher Audiobooks
- Publish Date
- 26 July 2025
- Run Time
- 58 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrator
- Sam Kusi
- Duration
- 58 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 July 2025
- ISBN
- 9783711932242
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Lauscher Audiobooks
- Genre
- Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction
Synopsis
John Huxford's Hiatus is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published anonymously in The Cornhill Magazine in june 1888. Brisport, England. Recently unemployed, John Huxford accepts an offer to work at Sheridan & Moore, Montreal in Quebec. He agrees with his fiancée that he will first travel alone to prepare everything for a few weeks before she can join him. Unfortunately, weeks, months pass and she gets no news from John. Sheridan & Moore even say they never saw him in Montreal. Many years pass, and it seems that he has died somewhere or started a new life.
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