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The Sherlock Holmes Collection

By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Stephen Scalon
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Summary

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning (somewhat mistakenly - see inductive reasoning) and astute observation to solve difficult cases. He is arguably the most famous fictional detective ever created, and is one of the best known and most universally recognizable literary characters in any genre.

Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that featured Holmes. All but four stories were narrated by Holmes' friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson, two having been narrated by Holmes himself, and two others written in the third person. The first two stories, short novels, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887 and Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891; further series of short stories and two serialized novels appeared almost right up to Conan Doyle's death in 1930. 

  • A Study in Scarlet (Starts at Chapter 1), 
  • The Sign of the Four Starts at Chapter 15
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Starts at Chapter 28
  • The Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesStarts at Chapter 48
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles Starts at Chapter 61
  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes Starts at Chapter 76
  • The Valley of Fear Starts at Chapter 95
  • His Last Bow Starts at Chapter 110
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The Narrator Makes Such Difference

I also have the Sherlock Holmes Collection narrated by Stephen Fry. But I really didn't like his narration. He makes it sound like the book is all about him and his voice and the story is secondary. I was very disappointed. But I have now bought a Sherlock Holmes Collection that is narrated by someone I've never heard of and it it's so much better. I am really enjoying listening to the stories. The narrator is Stephen Scalon. I far prefer his narration. With the Stephen Fry book I gave up listening. But with the Stephen Scalon narration I listen every chance I get. Much, much better in my opinion. It shows how crucial the narrator is to whether an Audio book is enjoyable or not. Good idea to listen to the sample to try and get an idea.

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Great BUT play at 1.2x speed!

Certainly a great deal on the entire famous collection, and essentially well read, but the speed is painful. I kept finding myself waiting for the next sentence. Sped up to 1.2x though this problem was resolved.

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It has other stories entirely unrelated to Holmes.

Missing Chapters. It has other stories entirely unrelated to Holmes and so many chapters are missing.

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Amazing narration

This narrator is absolutely the best. I was almost convinced at some point that there was at least three different people doing the narration.

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Loved everything

Loved this from start to finish but got a little lost with the chapters as it would continue the chapter count from the previous book soon got used to it however

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Could have been better

Enjoyable overall but not the complete collection I had expected. Half a dozen or so stories are inexplicably left out. The performance is also strange, with words like 'Progress' pronounced in the American fashion and, halfway through 'The hound of the Baskervilles' Sir Henry loses his American accent, only to regain it towards the end!

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download error 7 times, always around 1300mb

it's all one huge file, and downloading it takes hours, and I get so far and it says download error. I have tonnes of room for the file size and theres nothing wrong with my connection. its very frustrating, please look into this, or separate the file into each book rather than one massive job lot

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Confused and confusing

The bits that were as the title were good, but this is a mixed up collection of things other than Sherlock Holmes stories. I've given up with it and couldn't recommend it.

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really badly read

really bad and annoying voices used for the dialogue. clearly bot a professional actor reading.

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Enjoyable

Great set of stories.
Narrator mispronounced quite a lot of place names and older words, but because they were pronounced phonetically they were comprehensible.

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