Between the Thames and the Tiber, Ted Riccardi
Between the Thames and the Tiber, Ted Riccardi
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Between the Thames and the Tiber
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in Britain and the Italian Peninsula

Author: Ted Riccardi

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Unabridged: 9 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/15/2011

Synopsis

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson traverse the British Isles and the Italian peninsula in a rousing new series of adventures. After a thrilling jaunt in the Far East, Holmes and Watson return to England to address an inheritance left by one of Watson's relatives in Cornwall, half of which he gave to his dear friend, Sherlock Holmes. Financially secure, the two are now free to spend as much time on Baker Street and the Continent as they please, and the duo find themselves as comfortable in Rome on the banks of the Tiber as the Thames. As Holmes rationalizes and ratiocinates his way through case after case, from "The Case of Two Bohemes" to "A Singular Event in Tranquebar," it's all in a day's work, until clues surface that his great nemesis, Professor James Moriarty, might still be alive…

About Ted Riccardi

Ted Riccardi is professor emeritus in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, New York. Among his special interests are the history and cultures of India and Nepal, where he has lived and traveled widely and about which he has written extensively. Riccardi lives in New York City with his wife, Ellen Coon, and their family.

About Simon Prebble

Simon Prebble, a British-born performer, is a stage and television actor and veteran narrator of some three hundred audiobooks. As one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices, he has received thirty-seven Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie in 2010. He lives in New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bev on July 20, 2020

The audio novel version made pleasant listening through most of the stories. Simon Prebble does an excellent job representing Holmes and the good Doctor as well as providing distinctive intonations for the various characters they meet in their adventures. I found most of the stories to be just intri......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on January 24, 2015

Of course, no one can recreate Sherlock Holmes, but this was a weird attempt. Some of the basic Sherlock characteristics were ignored, the stories were not well developed, and most of the stories didn't really seem to have an ending. If they did, 9 times out of 10, Sherlock was bested, which also is......more

Goodreads review by M.R. on February 07, 2015

A real disappointment after Riccardi's Oriental Casebook, which I enjoyed tremendously. It needs more action, by which I don't mean running around and high tension, but simply things happening. Each story is an exposition and solution, without much process in between.......more

Goodreads review by Peter on July 09, 2011

Ted Riccardi wrote a marvelous set of Holmes Short Stories years ago attempting to explain the missing years problem in the Holmes Cannon. This new set of stories, set between London and Rome are really quite nicely done but lack the brilliance of the first collection of stories.........more

Goodreads review by Denton on March 29, 2017

Neither as creative nor engaging as many other pastiches I've read.......more

Quotes

“A treat for Holmes addicts…Riccardi’s narrative voice sounds like Dr. Watson’s, and the stories slot nicely into the Holmes canon without too much effort. For fans of Conan Doyle’s original stories, a sure-fire hit.” Booklist

“Riccardi brings variety and clever roman à clef strokes to this volume while maintaining the core charm and panache of the Holmes oeuvre.” Kirkus Reviews

“Filled with fascinating detail, and provides an answer as to what Holmes was up to during those missing years.” Anne Perry on The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

“There’s no way to dance around it: Ted Riccardi’s work is absolutely brilliant. Once you’re a few pages into these stories, you would swear that these were newly discovered manuscripts, unearthed by Conan Doyle’s estate. Riccardi has it all down—the cadence, the language, everything. It is as if each and every tale in this volume was written at the turn of the century.” BookReporter.com on The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

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