Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1 (BBC Radio)
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes: BBC Audio {Conan Doyle} (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Volume I)
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Collection of spellbinding complete and unabridged short stories, read fittingly by Edward Hardwicke. Sherlock Holmes is the enduring and eternally likeable detective figure and never fails to be wise to the machinations of the criminal mind. Accompanied by his trusty sidekick Dr. Watson, the pair will delight a listener with their inimitable sleuthing style and ever-charismatic idiosyncrasies. Good old Detective tales full of intrigue and twists. Full Listing: The Adventure of the Empty show more House - Watson receives the shock of his life on seeing a familiar face, coinciding with the seemingly motiveless murder of one Ronald Adair The Adventure of the Devil's Foot - A Cornish holiday ends with a murder investigation for our intrepid duo when a woman is found dead besides her two insane singing and laughing brothers The Adventure of the Abbey Grange - An early morning awakening leads to an investigation at a grand house, where a suspected bungled robbery has left more than a few rifled drawers behind. show lessTags
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The most famous fictional detective in the world is Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. However, Doyle was, at best, ambivalent about his immensely successful literary creation and, at worst, resentful that his more "serious" fiction was relatively ignored. Born in Edinburgh, Doyle studied medicine from 1876 to 1881 and received his M.D. in show more 1885. He worked as a military physician in South Africa during the Boer War and was knighted in 1902 for his exceptional service. Doyle was drawn to writing at an early age. Although he attempted to enter private practice in Southsea, Portsmouth, in 1882, he soon turned to writing in his spare time; it eventually became his profession. As a Liberal Unionist, Doyle ran, unsuccessfully, for Parliament in 1903. During his later years, Doyle became an avowed spiritualist. Doyle sold his first story, "The Mystery of the Sasassa Valley," to Chambers' Journal in 1879. When Doyle published the novel, A Study in Scarlet in 1887, Sherlock Holmes was introduced to an avid public. Doyle is reputed to have used one of his medical professors, Dr. Joseph Bell, as a model for Holmes's character. Eventually, Doyle wrote three additional Holmes novels and five collections of Holmes short stories. A brilliant, though somewhat eccentric, detective, Holmes employs scientific methods of observation and deduction to solve the mysteries that he investigates. Although an "amateur" private detective, he is frequently called upon by Scotland Yard for assistance. Holmes's assistant, the faithful Dr. Watson, provides a striking contrast to Holmes's brilliant intellect and, in Doyle's day at least, serves as a character with whom the reader can readily identify. Having tired of Holmes's popularity, Doyle even tried to kill the great detective in "The Final Problem" but was forced by an outraged public to resurrect him in 1903. Although Holmes remained Doyle's most popular literary creation, Doyle wrote prolifically in other genres, including historical adventure, science fiction, and supernatural fiction. Despite Doyle's sometimes careless writing, he was a superb storyteller. His great skill as a popular author lay in his technique of involving readers in his highly entertaining adventures. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1 (BBC Radio) (BBC Radio)
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- This is the BBC radio dramatisation of the first set of four stories of the Adventures, with Clive Merrison as Sherlock Holmes. Please do not combine it either with the book, with other dramatisations, or with o... (show all)ther volumes in the same series.
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