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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Random House Audiobooks

FORMAT: CD-Audio

ISBN: 9781408469552

RRP: £25.50

PAGES: 6

PUBLICATION DATE:
August 4, 2011

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Carleton Hobbs Sherlock Holmes: Further Collection

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Carleton Hobbs

Full Cast

Norman Shelley

Carleton Hobbs established the ‘sound’ of Sherlock Holmes, with Norman Shelley as his superb Watson. Now these unique recordings are available together for the first time ever, with specially commissioned introductions by Nicholas Utechin, who edited The Sherlock Holmes Journal from 1976-2006. This collection contains: ‘The Copper Beeches’; ‘Thor Bridge’; ‘The Sussex Vampire’; ‘The Three Garridebs’; ‘The Three Gables’; ‘The Retired Colourman’; ‘The Boscombe Valley Mystery’; ‘The Crooked Man’; ‘The Cardboard Box’; ‘A Case of Identity’; ‘The Naval Treaty’ and ‘The Noble Bachelor’. Twelve stories – available as a collection for the first time – as heard on BBC Radio. 6 CDs. 5 hrs 32 mins.

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write stories while he was a student.Over his life he produced more than thirty books, 150 short stories, poems, plays and essays across a wide range of genres. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, who he introduced in his first novel A Study in Scarlet (1887). This was followed in 1889 by an historical novel, Micah Clarke. In 1893 Conan Doyle published ‘The Final Problem’ in which he killed off his famous detective so that he could turn his attention more towards historical fiction. However Holmes was so popular that Conan Doyle eventually relented and published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901. The events of the The Hound of the Baskervilles are set before those of ‘The Final Problem’ but in 1903 new Sherlock Holmes stories began to appear that revealed that the detective had not died after all. He was finally retired in 1927. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on 7 July 1930.