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Sherlock Holmes and the King's Evil

And Other New Adventures of the Great Detective (Unabridged)

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Sherlock Holmes and the King's Evil

By: Donald Thomas
Narrated by: John Telfer
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In these five tales, Sherlock Holmes is shown at the height of his powers: he co-operates with a young Winston Churchill in the famed Siege of Sydney Street, helps defeat a plan for a German invasion outlined in the Zimmerman Telegram, establishes a link between two missing lighthouse keepers and the royal treasures of King John, contends with a supernatural curse places upon an eccentric aristocrat, and discovers a lost epic of Lord Byron. But it is all in a day's work for the great detective, who continues to defy the odds and lives to fiddle and ratiocinate another day.

©2009 Donald Thomas. All rights reserved. (P)2011 AudioGO Detective Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Fiction Royalty Sherlock Holmes Great Classics
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I've listened to quite a few 'new' Holmes books and this is the only one I failed to finish. The stories are twice as long as they need to be, wordy and waffly, seem to be trying too hard to be clever. Disappointed as it's the only Holmes book I haven't enjoyed. That said the narration is ok.

Waffly and dull

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The stories keep you interested thought out the book which increase your interest at every turn

Great stories

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I have listened to many post Doyle "books" but this is by far the best. In my opinion. The narration, and stories are excellent, some based on true, we'll researched, happenings.

excellent

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It is great to get another wide range of cases for the great describe to solve. Good narrators always a blessing

Never a bad Sherlock book

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Sometimes when reading a book set in the past I get the impression the author has done an awful lot of research and is determined to get his money's worth out of it. That is the case with this one. There were long passages of descriptions and scene setting which seemed only there because it was good stuff and shouldn't got to waste. Not to say that stuff isn't interesting because it is - but if you edited it out you'd still have a good book, albeit about a fifth shorter.

This author has written several of these Sherlock Holmes books and they actually are in keeping with the Conan Doyle stories - the set up is that Watson wrote all these stories after Holmes died but they were too inflammatory to be published for the next 100 years or so until all those involved had died. This works very well and is how all the research comes in as the stories often reflect historically accurate events from the period. If you have enjoyed his other books I would definitely recommend this one. If you are trying him out for the first time I would start with an earlier one.

Not his best but still good.

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