A quick, entertaining listen
I love Sherlock Holmes stories, so I was really excited to see this full cast production with a short original play by Yuri Rasovsky. Overall I was very satisfied. Martin Jarvis as Holmes was particularly entertaining, and I liked the use of sound effects. The stories are read in the order I liked them. There was a lot of action in the first, and you know it’s going to be a good story when Moriarty is involved. My main issue with the second story, “The Speckled Band,” was that one of the female narrators, the voice of Enid, was quite screechy. There was one part of the story where she’s hysterical, and I had to put the audiobook on mute until I thought it had passed. Still, I liked the way they arranged the story, making it a court scene and then later getting to Holmes’ participation. The third story, the original play, was my least favorite for two reasons: 1.) I’m sort of a traditionalist when it comes to Holmes, and the final story puts Holmes and Watson at odds with each other—very much at odds with each other. 2.) There was really no case to solve. The best part of a Sherlock Holmes story is watching him solve the case. Still, I appreciate the humor and think it was cleverly done. Great narration and clever adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories make this an entertaining listen.