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Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the complete works of Sherlock Holmes - four novels and five collections of short stories.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tales are rightly ranked among the seminal works of mystery and detective fiction. Included in this collection are all four full-length Holmes novels and more than forty short masterpieces - from the inaugural adventure A Study in Scarlet to timeless favorites like “The Speckled Band” and more. At the center of each stands the iconic figure of Holmes - brilliant, eccentric, and capable of amazing feats of deductive reasoning.

http://www.adfreebooks.com - 500+ audiobooks, all ad freeAlthough the Sherlock Holmes canon traditionally consists of four novels and 56 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, there are many Sherlock Holmes stories outside the canon. Most of these noncanonical stories were written by authors other than Doyle, but there are four short stories about Holmes written by Doyle that are nonetheless excluded from the canon, for various reasons. This album consists of these four noncanonical stories. The first story, "The Field Bazaar", was first published in 1896 in a special issue of a ...

Beginning with A Study in Scarlet and concluding with The Hound of the Baskervilles, this epic project took over 8 years to complete - and this landmark collection contains the extraordinary result. Here is the world's first ever fully dramatised Sherlock Holmes canon: 56 short stories and 4 novels, all made by the same team of directors, producers, dramatists and leading actors, and packed with the high production qualities of a film or TV drama that set it apart.

A treasure chest of timeless short stories by some of the world's greatest authors.

Could the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by the gigantic ghostly hound which is said to have haunted his family for generations? Arch-rationalist Sherlock Holmes characteristically dismisses the theory as nonsense.

Scandal, treachery and crime are rife in Old London Town. A king blackmailed by his mistress, dark dealings in opium dens, stolen jewels, a missing bride - these are cases so fiendishly complex that only Sherlock Holmes would dare to investigate.

Five seminal science fiction classics are brought vividly to life in these gripping BBC Radio dramatisations, with casts including Robert Glenister, William Gaunt, Carleton Hobbs and Joanne Froggatt. Titles include Frankenstein (1994), The Time Machine (2009), The Lost World (1975), R.U.R. (1989) and Solaris (2007). Accompanying this collection is a bonus PDF file featuring extensive sleeve notes by Andrew Pixley.

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume One is a continent-hopping, century-spanning collection of 15 essential classic novels by British, American, and Russian authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Stephen Fry, Jason Isaacs, Adjoa Andoh, David Rintoul, and many more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Charles Dickens; Franz Kafka; Herman Melville; Leo Tolstoy, amongst a host of others.

Here in one recording is every Sherlock Holmes story ever written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Originally appearing in serial form, these famous stories are here presented in the order in which they were first published beginning in 1887. Included in this definitive, award-winning collection are four novels and 56 short stories, a total of 60 titles. The 56 short stories are aggregated into five named collections, just as they were originally published in book form.

Originally named A Tangled Skein, this is the first Sherlock Holmes story. The real strength and the unique quality of the novel lies in the introduction of Holmes and Watson to each other - and those dark early scenes when a corpse is discovered in a derelict house in southeast London. The ultimate crusader against crime and criminals, Holmes' genius is revealed here for the very first time.

Emmy award-winning actor Sir Derek Jacobi reads all 12 stories from this last collection to feature Holmes and Watson. The Adventure of the Illustrious ClientThe Adventure of the Blanched SoldierThe Adventure of the Mazarin StoneThe Adventure of the Three GablesThe Adventure of the Sussex VampireThe Adventure of the Three GarridebsThe Problem of Thor BridgeThe Adventure of the Creeping Man

Three years have passed since Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty vanished into the abyss of the Reichenbach Falls. In that time the criminals of London have been able to sleep safe in their beds. But the capital has never been in greater need of its protector.

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Ein mysteriöser Moorleichenfund führt Holmes und Watson zurück nach Devonshire, wo sie einst gemeinsam dem Hund von Baskerville auf der Spur gewesen waren. Diesmal geht es allerdings nicht um eine alte Familienlegende; vielmehr weist der Leichnam anatomische Besonderheiten auf – könnte es sich um den ersten Urmenschenfund Englands handeln?

Der mysteriöse, winterliche Tod einer jungen Sportlerin durch einen Sturz vom Balkon – ist es Mord oder Suizid? – führen Holmes, Watson und Holmes' junge Assistentin Miss Adler diesmal in die Welt des Frauentennis', eines noch jungen Phänomens im viktorianischen England.

Watson und Mary ziehen vorübergehend in der Baker Street ein, da scheint auch schon der nächste Fall ins Haus zu stehen: Der leitende Architekt der Londoner U-Bahn wittert Sabotage beim Bau der Tunnel. Holmes ist zunächst wenig überzeugt - bis sich in einem von ihnen ein Leichnam findet.

Ein frischvermähltes Ehepaar wendet sich an Holmes und Watson, um Licht in eine dunkle Familienangelegenheit zu bringen: Mehrere Verwandte der jungen Mrs Bedford sind unter ungeklärten Umständen verstorben. Das Problem nur: Die Todesfälle liegen Jahrzehnte zurück; einzige Informationsquelle ist eine Handvoll Briefe.

Als im Londoner Elendsviertel Whitechapel die schrecklich zugerichtete Leiche einer jungen Frau auftaucht, ist die Aufregung in ganz London groß - ist Jack the Ripper zurück? Als plötzlich an unerwarteter Stelle ein Frauenfinger auftaucht, scheint der Mörder überführt - oder etwa nicht? Holmes, Watson und Isabelle Adler ermitteln an der Seite von Scotland Yard und versuchen, einen Aufruhr abzuwenden.

Eine Ärztin sucht Holmes und Watson in der Baker Street auf, weil eine Patientin von ihr verschwunden ist – eine Prostituierte aus Whitechapel. Könnte sie einer dubiosen medizinischen Behandlung zum Opfer gefallen sein? Holmes, Watson und Miss Adler ermitteln.