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The Greyhound of the Baskervilles

By: Arthur Conan Doyle, John Gaspard
Narrated by: Steve Hendrickson
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This is a new edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic mystery, The Hound of the Baskervilles. It’s the same story. Mostly. That is, it contains the same characters, the same action, and much of the same dialogue.

What’s different? Well, it’s a little shorter, a little leaner, a little less verbose in some sections.

But the chief difference is that it’s now narrated by a dog. A greyhound, in fact, named Septimus.

In this new edition, he tells his story of how he became “The Greyhound of the Baskervilles.”

©2020 John Gaspard (P)2020 Spoken Realms Literature & Fiction Mystery Traditional Detectives Detective Fiction

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Loved this audible book. Story told from a dog's perspective. Hope they'll do more in the series.

Great twist to an old story!

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The narration is excellent. However, this is clearly a piece of fan fiction and, like everything else in that genre, it is amateurish. Conan Doyle knew he had to work hard to make sure every particular was correct in his stories or else he risked losing his audience. So when the dog narrator in this story starts injecting 21st century language and concepts into a re-write of Doyle's most famous mystery, you know this writer is not up to the job nor very respectful of the original work. Here are just a few of many examples. The word “kibble” in a 19th century context means small nuggets of coal not dog food. Chipmunks did not exist in England at that time and never have. No dogs have ever fought in the bizarre fashion the writer imagined. In the Victorian era, a greyhound’s running gait would not be described using modern terminology. And so on. A professional publisher would expect to correct errors like these before publication, but it seems that did not happen.

It is very cheeky to charge so much for this novella when, for only a little more, you can listen to the complete Holmes anthology read by Stephen Fry. That is great value for money. This is not.

Interesting idea, poorly executed.

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