Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator: Joshua Ilon
Unabridged: 43 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Weird Treehouse
Published: 12/30/2020
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Private Investigators, Traditional British
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a British writer best known for his creation of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. In addition to being considered a father of detective fiction, he also wrote a series of science-fiction adventures starring the brilliant, daring, and comical Professor Challenger.
if there's one thing the white straight male authors of yesteryear love, it's accidentally writing a female character who's more compelling than their whole lot of interchangeable bozo men combined. they're always trying to create this Villainess, this Cold and Emotionless but Beautiful and Charming......more
Opening line:“To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.” Well this was a surprise; the classics and especially mysteries are not my usual fare but due to my recent obsession wi......more
This is a very interesting article with some background on Conan Doyle and Sherlock: [URL not allowed]-w... I quote from the article: Wearing his now-iconic hat, clamping a pipe between his teeth, Sherlock Holmes endures as the very definition of deductive reasoning. His encyclopedic......more
More like 3.5/5 S*T*A*R*S really. The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime. It seems to me that Mr. Holmes is an exceptional crime investigator. And more than that. He's a character I'll be most delighted to make an acquainta......more