The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by Simon Vance

Winner of the 2014 Audie Award for Classics

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. By his side is Dr. John Watson, his steadfast assistant and our trusty narrator. This set is a must-have for every discriminating bibliophile and Sherlock Holmes fan.

• Volume 1
  A Study in Scarlet: A Novel
  A Sign of Four: A Novel
  Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Short Stories
  
• Volume 2
  Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: Short Stories
  The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Novel
• Volume 3
  The Return of Sherlock Holmes: Short Stories
  The Valley of Fear: A Novel
• Volume 4
  His Last Bow: A Novel
  The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes: Short Stories

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: Sep 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781469211572

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) nació en Edimburgo, donde más adelante cursaría la carrera de medicina. Una vez finalizados los estudios se decidió a abrir su propia consulta, pero la afluencia de pacientes era más bien escasa de modo que empezó a emplear el tiempo libre del que disponía en escribir historias cortas. Así nació el célebre personaje que le daría la fama, Sherlock Holmes, cuyo fulgurante éxito lo llevó a abandonar la práctica de la medicina para dedicarse exclusivamente a la literatura. Conan Doyle posee una extensa bibliografía que, al margen de los títulos de Holmes #Estudio en escarlata, El signo de los cuatro, Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes, Las memorias de Sherlock Holmes, El regreso de Sherlock Holmes, El perro de los Baskerville, El valle del miedo, Su último saludo y El archivo de Sherlock Holmes#, incluye novelas históricas y de ciencia ficción, cuentos de misterio, ensayos políticos, crónicas de guerra y algunos textos sobre espiritismo.

Reviews for The Complete Sherlock Holmes

[Dalese Stockwell · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This was fantastic. My son and I spent hours listening to it and trying to come up with our own theories about how the stories would play out. Also- the narrator was superb. I’d give this more stars if I could.

[John Douglas · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Simon Vance does a spectacular job with diverse voices and accents. Well done!

[Andy Phillips · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Absolutely useless table of contents. Quite annoying not to be able to see what story is playing. Good narration, though.

[Laura Ahumada · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I love this book, it is one of my absolute favourites. I believe that I enjoyed this audiobook because it was narrated in a very good manner.

[Thokozani Tembo · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Absolutely brilliant! I have thoroughly enjoyed it. Brilliant! I'd definitely recommend it any day.

[Ben Borgelt · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Absolutely fantastic. Excellent narrator as well. Best read in installments, though, as it can be a bit formulaic.

[Farmer Courtney Sullivan · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

everything about this book was amazing we have listened to it three times in a row and it’s still my absolute favorite ?

[Anton · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Purely epic! Very well read and excellently written. For anyone who enjoys detective stories, this is the grandfather of them.

[knsievert · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I had a hard time figuring out a rating for this first volume, because I really disliked the first two novels (weird Mormon tangent, anyone?), felt indifferent about a few more, and loved some others (especially Hound of the Baskervilles). On average, my rating probably falls between 3.5 and 4.

[Dottie Schritchfield · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Absolutely wonderful! Loved every minute of it! It was read beautifully as well!

[Stacy · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I'm about half way though the book, and have been very much enjoying it so far. The narrator does an excellent job throughout, and has a good repertoire of voices and dialects that he uses for different characters. Would definitely recommend this reading to anyone looking to listen to these stories on audio book.

[Steven · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I loved this whole thing. The voice actor did well, and the books themselves are written very well. I recommend the read.

[Cameron St.Michael · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A perfect collection of Sherlock Holmes brought to life with wonderful narration.

[eidde bmal · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It's Sherlock Holmes, what else needs to be said ???

[Kristine Gammer · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I like the stories just fine but within the first thirteen chapters the audiobook skipped forward so far in time it was hard to follow the story. it's some kind of tech glitch. would not recommend this audiobook.

[Lisa Headen · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The most complete collection of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson’s adventures I’ve ever found. Fantastic narration! I really enjoyed this. Thank you Scribd.

[Tyler Thomas · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Very well read. The reader does an excellent job of acting out the different characters.

[teknokat · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Read this a couple years back...

Sherlock Holmes embodies my view of myself: "I am smart enough to be annoying, but not smart enough to not be annoying." Sure Holmes is curious, observant, and tenacious, so he gets the job done. But along the way, he alienates anyone with an ego.

So 5 stars for an awesomely clever collection of tales - 1 star for the painful kick in my ego-ass = 4 stars. (Yes, my review is biased. In the immortal words of William Golding: "Who says life is fair?")

[TP · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Amazing English narrator, very complete collection, great stories. A solid 5 star audiobook.

[tjwilson_1 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I would have left Sherlock Holmes on better grounds if I had read a selected collections book instead of the entirety of the works. There are some great concoctions in here, but I think, in this case, the inspirations that followed are much better realizations than, sadly, the original.

[davischristopherjohn · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I was initially excited to tackle this collection, but it quickly turned into a chore. Doyle followed such a strict formula for these stories that many are barely distinguishable from each other. Most begin with Watson saying that this case is "most singular" or "one of the strangest cases in my memory." Like episodes of your favorite sit coms, Sherlock, Watson, Inspector Lestrade, Mrs. Hudson, etc. make it through all 58 hours of languid prose without much growth or change. Sherlock takes wild guesses (that almost always turn out to be correct but are sometimes more ludicrous than clever) and he relies heavily on suspect profiling, which was likely innovative in 1900 and troubling for audiences in 2023. For the most part, I enjoyed Doyle's flowry writing-style, and it's a testament to the forward-thinking author that only ten-ish of these stories now read as irredeemably racist, sexist, antisemitic, or otherwise brutally ethnocentric a hundred years later. "Three Gables," "The Sign of Four," "Shoscombe Old Place," and "The Yellow Face" were especially cringey. "The Valley of Fear" was weirdly pro-unionbusting and 100 pages too long. Ultimately, it's easy to see why, a hundred-and-fifty years later, there are so many adaptations and fanfic-style reincarnations of Holmes and Watson. It's nostalgic, historical, soothingly repetitive, and Holmes always gets his man (accept Irene Adler, who should have been a recurring character).

[Cole Norville · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Excellent! Vance does a great job at capturing the different voices and accents of Doyle's menagerie of characters.

[Stephanie Davis · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Singular.

It would be better if I could but leave the peculiar utterance, but alas this is not possible.

[Roger Beshears · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Masterfully done. My first intro to Holmes and Watson were the great movies by Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. I could see them all through the great audiobook.

[Kevin Gilles · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Perfect! Just read it, you can't go wrong and it's super well read!

[Clare Gaia Russell · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Exceptional narration with over a dozen stories I'd never heard of before this. It was great to listen to the adventures of an old friend.

[Anne Fisher · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

This audiobook recording is defective with stories interrupted mid-sentence and never continued. Middle parts of stories are suddenly dropped into others.

[Bob Brin · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Simon Vance is a superior narrator. So many characters from one mouth!

[mighty peculiar · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book is a great manual on deduction. It’s all elementary from here on out once you’ve completed the whole Sherlock Holmes series.

[arkrayder · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

What can be wrote about Sherlock Holmes that hasn’t already been written? This is an excellent collection of all Conan Doyle’s Holmesian stories. I think I’ve finally read all the novels and short stories now and I’m glad I have. Sherlock Holmes is a character that the reader can go back to again and again. A beacon of logic and justice in a world of uncertainty and unfairness. The only problem with this book is the typos and at times poor formatting. This seems to be a constant in Barnes and Noble editions. Apart from this highly recommended.