A young man-about-town, impoverished but with great expectations, receives an unexpected invitation to visit a distant – and rather wealthy – cousin, lately returned from South America with a menagerie of exotic pets...

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Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a Scottish doctor and author, celebrated for his world-famous creation Sherlock Holmes, the consulting detective who set the standard for crime fiction into the 20th century and beyond. In addition to his Holmes stories, Conan Doyle is also remembered for his fantasy and science fiction novels and stories, including 'The Lost World', his historical fiction, and for numerous short stories contributed to magazines over a 40 year period.

'Round the Fire' was the title of a series of mystery and suspense short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, published in The Strand Magazine in 1898 and 1899. After the apparent death of Sherlock Holmes in the 1893 story The Final Problem, the Strand (which had originally published all the Holmes short stories to date) was keen to retain Conan Doyle's talents and persuaded him to compose this new series of unrelated tales. The stories proved to be highly popular with readers in both England and America, and were later published in book form (under the title Round the Fire, although a number of other Doyle stories were also included in the volume) in 1908.

The Story of the Brazilian Cat first appeared in the December 1898 issue of The Strand Magazine, with illustrations by Sidney Paget.

All 12 of the original 'Round the Fire' stories, narrated by Simon Stanhope, are now available on Audible and iTunes.

Recording © Bitesized Audio 2020.