The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Chapter 7 in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes book. Short story first published in the Strand Magazine in 1891
Watson visits his friend Holmes at Christmas time and finds him contemplating a battered old hat, brought to him by the commissionaire Peterson after the hat and a Christmas goose had been dropped by a man in a scuffle with some street ruffians. Peterson takes the goose home to eat, but later returns to Holmes with a blue carbuncle his wife had found in the bird's crop...
Reading by Mark F Smith
