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Sherlock Holmes Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Stephen Fry - introductions (Author), Stephen Fry (Narrator),

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"Fry's Holmes is crisp and high-handed, his Watson enthusiastic and bemused, and the rest of the narration colorful without being mannered. Have fun. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award." (AudioFile magazine)

"...it was reading the Sherlock Holmes stories as a boy that first turned me on to the power of writing and storytelling." (Stephen Fry)

Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled millions of fans. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the complete works of Sherlock Holmes. And, exclusively for Audible, Stephen has written and narrated nine insightful and personal introductions to each title.

Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, comedian, film director and all round national treasure. He is the acclaimed narrator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and recently recorded The Tales of Max Carrados - which earned Fry the accolade of "quite irresistible" from the Washington Post.

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62 hours and 52 minutes
Author

Arthur Conan Doyle, see all
Narrator

Stephen Fry
Audible release date

February 27, 2017
Language

English
Publisher

Audible Studios
ASIN

B06VWQTBZ9
Version

Unabridged
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Listening Length	62 hours and 52 minutes
Author	Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen Fry - introductions
Narrator	Stephen Fry
Audible.com Release Date	February 27, 2017
Publisher	Audible Studios
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B06VWQTBZ9
Best Sellers Rank	#3,635 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #27 in Traditional Detective Mysteries (Audible Books & Originals) #164 in Traditional Detective Mysteries (Books)

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ira_est_a_donum

BEWARE The US Audible Version is the NON DEFINITIVE VERSION - Missing 9ish hours of audio

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2017

Just be aware that the US Audible site has the NON DEFINITIVE VERSION. So its missing the last part vs the UK site showing the full version. I will update this to a 5 star review when the US site has the whole collection available. I assume its not available at this time for some type of copyright issue here in the USA.

Amazon UK site has approximately 9 more hours of audio that the US version does not have
Chapter 113: Introduction to The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Chapters 114-125: The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes and Closing Credits

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T. J. Doss

I'm not moving

Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2017

LOVE Sherlock Holmes. LOVE Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. LOVE Stephen Fry.

HATE that the "Casebook of Sherlock Holmes" including the final (12) Sherlock Holmes short stories (narrated by Stephen Fry) are only available in the United Kingdom version and not the United States version of this product.

I don't really feel like I should have to immigrate to England in order to get the entire Sherlock Holmes canon read by Stephen Fry.

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Montana Man

We enjoyed Stephen Fry's portrayal

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2017

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Wife and I are dedicated fans of Sherlock Holmes. Jeremy Britt's portrayal of Holes is our gold standard. We enjoyed Stephen Fry's portrayal,of Jeeves, and decided to try his reading of Conan Doyle's Holmes stories and think it is superb. Highly recommended for all ages,mellow, all ages over 14 or 15 (my own start date as a Holmes fan).

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Very well done

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2020

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The reader is a fantastic actor

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pinklemonade

This is the one you want to listen to!

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2018

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Best Sherlock Holmes audio recording hands down!

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S.R.

Excellent narration and additional information

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2017

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Stephen Fry does an excellent job in narration and the additional information provided before each section creates even greater anticipation for the stories to come.

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Deane

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2017

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Great author Great reader

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FictionFan

Great stories, great narrator, and the indexing question has been resolved...

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2017

This fabulous new audio collection from Audible includes all the short and long stories*, set out in the traditional order. Fry gives a short introduction to each of the five books of short stories and individually to each of the long ones. The collection runs to over seventy hours, so needless to say I haven't listened to it all yet, but will have great fun dipping in and out of it over the coming months and years. I started by listening to The Valley of Fear.

*I've just had it drawn to my attention that in the US, The Casebook is not included. I suspect this is to do with different copyright laws. The US price seems to be lower, presumably to take account of this.

In the intro to this one, Fry puts the book into its historical context, telling the story of the Molly Maguires, a secret society active among the immigrant Irish coalminers in Pennsylvania during the 1870s; and of the Pinkerton agent who infiltrated them, ultimately leading to their destruction. He points out how soon after the Civil War this was, and that the bosses of the Pennsylvania mines were effectively their own law and could hire people of their own choosing to enforce it. He also tells the other side of the story – the appalling working conditions and extreme poverty of the workers. He manages all this without giving any spoilers for the story to come. An excellent introduction – brief, but interesting, clear and informative.

His narration of the story itself is great! He had to compete with my favourite Holmes narrator, the wonderful Derek Jacobi, so he was going to have to work hard to convince me. And I found myself laughing sympathetically because ACD didn't make his task an easy one. Almost every character has his accent described, usually something like “half-English, half-American” or “Chicago with a hint of Irish” or “German overlaid with the twang of the new country”. And then there are the characters who are not who they first seem, so that when their true identity is revealed, they change to their real accents. I must say Fry did brilliantly with all of them and, despite there being a pretty huge cast in this story, he managed to differentiate them all quite clearly. There are two characters with straight Irish accents, so to make them different, he made one sound Northern Irish and the other Southern, both done totally convincingly. Even Inspector MacDonald's Aberdonian accent got a high pass mark from me. He brings out the humour and the warmth of Watson's character, and makes the adventure parts suitably exciting without over-dramatising them. I always think you can tell when a narrator loves the material he's reading, and Fry's strong affection for the Holmes's stories comes through clearly.

There was an issue at first with there being no adequate indexing but Audible has now rectified this by issuing an accompanying PDF which tells where to find each story.

My love for the Jacobi recordings remains, but these are just as excellent, and the little introductions are a great addition, making this a fabulous collection which I highly recommend to all Holmes fans out there.

NB The audiobook was provided for review by Audible via MidasPR. Lucky me!

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