Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen

by Arthur Conan Doyle

It’s elementary that any Conan Doyle fan will want this splendid set of Sherlock Holmes mysteries—twelve timeless classics performed as radio theater, linked by violin music interludes.

The great Sir John Gielgud stars as the sleuth of Baker Street, with Ralph Richardson as his venerable companion, Dr. Watson, and Orson Welles as the nefarious Professor Moriarty. With three giants of the theater in such colorful roles, it’s no mystery why this collection is so popular.

Includes:
“The Blue Carbuncle”
“A Case of Identity”
“Charles August Milverton”
“The Dying Detective”
“The Final Problem”
“The Golden Pince-Nez”
“The Norwood Builder”
“A Scandal in Bohemia”
“The Second Stain”
“The Six Napoleons”
“The Solitary Cyclist”
“The Speckled Band”
 

Genres: Classics

360 pages, Audio Cassette

Published October 1, 2001

About the author

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.

Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.

Reviews

[Ruth · Rating 5 out of 5]

I feel like you can't get much better than Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson portraying Sherlock and Watson.
Then throw in an episode with Orson Welles playing Moriarty? I thoroughly enjoyed this!

The only issues I had with it was maybe the order of the stories? They had the case that has Watson and Sherlock meeting for the first time towards the end and the one where Sherlock and Moriarty "die" was in the middle. Silly, but it was something I noticed.

Also, if you're listening to this with headphones on, be careful, some of the sound effects/music/screams will blow out your eardrums, as they are exponentially louder than the rest of the audio.

[Phil · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good old-style dramatization of these classic old stories.