The Sherlock Holmes Collection

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Stephen Scalon

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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Wonderful stories!

Loved every word of every story. Sir Doyle was a remarkable story teller and his words, spoken beautifully by Mr. Scalon, has given many a evening of enjoyment.

Very Satisfying Version

If you're fond of Sherlock Holmes you know the stories, or most of them. This is an excellent way to enjoy them again. The narrator is not very dramatic, which works well - makes the experience more like reading and lets the writing speak for itself. I like the way he does women - not the silly falsetto some male narrators use. His American characters are so believable it makes me wonder is he is really British.

I took the word of some reviewers and picked this version over some others - I haven't tried any others but I really like this one.

I love that these are a bunch of short and engaging stories.

The value was fantastic for over 60 hours of audio of great stories. Overall, the content was very clean. I was, however, disappointed that the author used the Lord‘s name in vain a number of times.

Oh How I Enjoyed This Collection !!

I have been reading and listening to Sherlock Holmes all of my life. This has been one of the best readings that I have heard in my life, I believe that other fans will be impressed with this one!!

Scalon's narration is superior to Fry's

A few months ago, I purchased the SH collection narrated by Stephen Fry and had a difficult time getting into the series.
When the option to buy this series narrated by Stephen Scalon for less then a dollar, I jumped at it.

For the first few chapters, I alternated between narrators but it became clear that Scalon's narration was superior to Fry's...at least for my audio pleasure.