sherlock holmes a study in scarlet audiobook

He is the acclaimed narrator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and recently recorded The Tales of Max Carrados - which earned Fry the accolade of 'quite irresistible' from the Washington Post. And, exclusively for Audible, Stephen has written and narrated nine insightful and personal introductions to each title.įry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, comedian, film director and all round national treasure. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the complete works of Sherlock Holmes.

Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, read by Stephen Fry. '.it was reading the Sherlock Holmes stories as a boy that first turned me on to the power of writing and storytelling.' (Stephen Fry)Įver since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled millions of fans. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award.' ( AudioFile magazine) And I look forward more to next year's release of Laurie R Kings' second part of 'The Language of Bees.'Fry's Holmes is crisp and high-handed, his Watson enthusiastic and bemused, and the rest of the narration colorful without being mannered.

I will persevere on to other of Conan Doyle's novels or short stories, but without as high expectations. Also, the recording quality of my download was a bit wonky - I didn't bother to re-download to see if that corrected the sound glitches (probably would). The original Holmes is still a great invention, but Conan Doyle didn't create great fiction around him, in this novel anyway -Even Simon Prebble couldn't make this a great listen to me (and sometimes I wonder if Simon was bored - this is not his best narration).

I was delighted to see new versions of the Conan Doyle's classics and eagerly wanted to listen to this one -Perhaps my expectations were just too high. I've become enamored of detective fiction only in the last year, and I came to Holmes through his reinterpretations by authors like Laurie R King and Nicolas Meyer. This is probably heresy to Holmes fans but.

Sherlock holmes a study in scarlet audiobook