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Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the complete works of Sherlock Holmes - four novels and five collections of short stories.

Fully-dramatised adaptations of all 60 Sherlock Holmes stories, brought to life with a full cast of actors, sound effects and music 'A remarkable undertaking... applauding them, and particularly Clive Merrison's Holmes, made my hands sore' The Times Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective...

The bombastic Professor Challenger is convinced that a sentient being lurks in the mantle of the Earth. Aided by Edward Malone and Peerless Jones, he must drill down through the Earth’s crust to alert the creature of humankind’s existence. After his debut in The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle went on to develop the grandiloquent Professor Challenger in four other works. When the World Screamed is the fourth in the series, and a satisfying addition to the canon.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A mysterious death. An ancient family legend. A creature said to haunt the Devon moors. "The Hound of the Baskervilles" blends the logic of Sherlock Holmes with Gothic fiction in this classic murder-mystery novel. Arthur Conan Doyle presents...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. I came back from Afghanistan with a bullet in my shoulder, a hand that shook, and no money at all. A friend at St Bartholomew's introduced me to a young man looking for someone to share rooms, and within an hour of meeting Sherlock Holmes I had agreed...

Most famous for his tales of crime and deduction, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also had a passion for suspense, the supernatural and the macabre as demonstrated in this collection of gothic short stories. This set contains the stories: The Horror of the Heights, The Lord of Chateau Noir, The Nightmare Room, The Ring of Thoth & The Brazilian Cat. So get ready for Doyle’s vivid spine tingling imagination to unnerve and thrill you in equal measure!

Scandal, treachery and crime are rife in Old London Town. A king blackmailed by his mistress, dark dealings in opium dens, stolen jewels, a missing bride - these are cases so fiendishly complex that only Sherlock Holmes would dare to investigate.

Emmy award-winning actor Sir Derek Jacobi reads all 12 stories from this last collection to feature Holmes and Watson.

Folge 6: Das Kassenbuch Knapp drei Wochen vor Heiligabend 1896 wird der Krämer Ezra Tomlin tot in seinem Laden in Bermondsey gefunden, und die Kasse des Weihnachtsklubs, in die rund vierhundert Familien das ganze Jahr eingezahlt haben, ist leer. Inspektor Lestrade übernimmt den Fall; was nach Selbstmord aussieht, klingt ihm zu ordentlich, und bis zur Auszahlung bleiben nur wenig Zeit.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if dinosaurs had never disappeared—and somewhere beyond the borders of civilization, a forgotten world was still alive? In *The Lost World*, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the legendary creator of Sherlock Holmes, takes listeners on an extraordinary...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tales are rightly ranked among the seminal works of mystery and detective fiction. Included in this collection are all four full-length Holmes novels and more than forty short masterpieces - from the inaugural adventure A Study in Scarlet to timeless favorites like “The Speckled Band” and more. At the center of each stands the iconic figure of Holmes - brilliant, eccentric, and capable of amazing feats of deductive reasoning.

Folge 7: Der Sammler Knapp drei Wochen vor Heiligabend 1896 wird der Krämer Ezra Tomlin tot in seinem Laden in Bermondsey gefunden, und die Kasse des Weihnachtsklubs, in die rund vierhundert Familien das ganze Jahr eingezahlt haben, ist leer. Inspektor Lestrade übernimmt den Fall; was nach Selbstmord aussieht, klingt ihm zu ordentlich, und bis zur Auszahlung bleiben nur wenig Zeit.

Knapp drei Wochen vor Heiligabend 1896 wird der Krämer Ezra Tomlin tot in seinem Laden in Bermondsey gefunden, und die Kasse des Weihnachtsklubs, in die rund vierhundert Familien das ganze Jahr eingezahlt haben, ist leer. Inspektor Lestrade übernimmt den Fall; was nach Selbstmord aussieht, klingt ihm zu ordentlich, und bis zur Auszahlung bleiben nur wenig Zeit.

Three years have passed since Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty vanished into the abyss of the Reichenbach Falls. In that time the criminals of London have been able to sleep safe in their beds. But the capital has never been in greater need of its protector.

Here is the precursor to Jurassic Park. Victorian explorers have heard there is a remote plateau where dinosaurs still survive, and a group set outs on a dangerous mission to find out more about it.

Set in the middle of the 14th century, Sir Nigel is a swashbuckling story of the eponymous hero as he seeks his fortune and the hand of his lady-love in England and France in the early part of the Hundred Years War. It is full of high romance and chivalry, battles and brutality, humour and sheer rumbustiousness as the impoverished Nigel Loring and his lascivious attendant Aylward seek their fortunes.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A gigantic hound is said to haunt the Baskerville family. Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the yew alley of his own estate, his face twisted with terror, and the footprints of a monstrous animal are found nearby. Sherlock Holmes is skeptical —...

Who would suspect that the same mind that created the most famous literary detective of all time also took on the eternally popular genre of vampires? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a contemporary of Bram Stoker, gave us some fascinating works of vampire fiction. From the bloodsucking plant in "The American's Tale" to the bloodsucking wife in "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire," he reveled in the horror created by creatures who survived on the blood of men and women.

The second volume of classic Sherlock Holmes stories on audio, brilliantly performed by John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson.

A rich American is murdered in mysterious circumstances in a manor house in Sussex, England. Sherlock Holmes, accompanied by Dr. Watson, is invited to help the investigation. Though Holmes solves the mystery at hand, his attention and indeed the mystery itself shifts to the coalfields of North America. The heart of the matter is corruption - the date is 1875. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle outs his finger with uncanny accuracy on civil corruption which so blighted North America in that century.