The Collected Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Twelve BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (910 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1910281778 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jenniferlll said My favorite book of all time!. I only got around to reading Sherlock Holmes this year, despite it being a classic must-read. I only really knew Holmes by the campy movies, with his silly hat, tweed coat and magnifying glass. It wasn't until the movies starring Robert Downey Jr came out that I began to g. It is elementary my dear reader that Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective in all of world literature! C. M Mills A foggy night in London as smoke and rain emanate from the beehive of Victorian London. A hansom cab is inhabited by consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his chronicler Dr.John H. Watson. The creator of the Holmes canon is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) who gave up. Bad Formatting Even with an updated version, this still has no table of contents. There is no way to find a story without scrolling every page. Not worth the free download.
--John Le Carré, author, The Constant GardenerArthur Conan Doyle is unique in ushering in a genre of writing that, while imitated and expanded, has never been surpassed. No wonder, then, if the pairing of Holmes and Watson has triggered more imitators than any other duo in literature. Doyle's modesty of language conceals a profound tolerance of the human complexity. --Stephen Fry
Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in this collection of twelve stories from the unique fully dramatized BBC Radio 4 canon, based on Arthur Conan Doyle's original short stories. The 12 dramatizations are A Scandal in Bohemia; The Red-Headed League; A Case of Identity; The Boscombe Valley Mystery; The Five Orange Pips; The Man with the Twisted Lip; The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle; The Adventure of the Speckled Band; The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb; The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor; The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet; and The Adventure of the Copper Beeches.12 CDs, 525 minutes.