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The Whole Art of Detection
- Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Internationally best-selling author Lyndsay Faye became enamored with tales of Sherlock Holmes and his esteemed biographer, Dr. John Watson, as a child and later began spinning these quintessential characters into her own works of fiction - from her acclaimed debut novel, Dust and Shadow, which pitted the famous detective against Jack the Ripper, to a series of short stories for the Strand Magazine, whose predecessor published the very first Sherlock Holmes short story in 1891.
In "The Lowther Park Mystery", the unsociable Holmes is forced to attend a garden party at the request of his politician brother and improvises a bit of theater to foil a conspiracy against the government. "The Adventure of the Thames Tunnel" brings to Holmes' attention the baffling murder of a jewel thief in the middle of an underground railway passage. With Holmes and Watson encountering all manner of ungrateful relatives, phony psychologists, wronged wives, plaid-garbed villains, and even a peculiar species of deadly red leech, The Whole Art of Detection is a must-listen for Sherlockians and any fan of historical crime fiction with a modern sensibility.
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- U from the Sault
- 2020-09-05
An enjoyable read
I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys the Sherlock Holmes saga. The narrator is excellent. I listened to this after listening to the complete Sherlock Holmes unabridged stories read by the same gifted narrator and it was almost seamless in its transition. The author cleverly weaves in her stories into the fabric of some of the more famous cases.
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- Gentleman Gamer
- 2017-09-19
As Good as the Originals, and Some Surpass Them
The biggest trouble with looking for good Sherlock Holmes' pastiches is finding those that capture Watson's voice as narrator as the originals do. Not to get me wrong, this isn't a requirement for Sherlock Holmes handled by other novelists to be good- Laurie R King's Mary Russell series is a prime example of that, though admittedly I've only read two novels- but it is something I hope to find. Anthony Horowitz's House of Silk (let's not even BEGIN to get into Moriarty) came close, but something about it felt a bit... off; close, but not quite.
Here as in Dust and Shadow, Lyndsay Faye brings off Watson's voice very well, making you truly feel like you're experiencing another set of his adventures as could've originally been written by Conan Doyle, not by a supremely talented American woman a century later. His is not the only voice however, as Holmes also his say in a couple tales (of sorts) of his own, and capture him equally well.
It's not just the voices either: the stories are as intriguing as always, be they mysterious, eccentric, creepy, thrilling, or merely adventurous. There's even some... *gasps*... character development here and there, done in such a way that feels true to the Holmes and Watson we know from the original stories. 19th and early 20th century London too comes alive vivaciously as well through her prose, making it easy- even for a 21st century Canadian- to picture the sometimes bleak, sometimes bustling, always interesting English metropolis in my mind's eye. Add all this to some excellent narration done by Simon Vance- who also did an audio-book edition of the ENTIRE Holmes canon a few years back- and you've got a masterstroke on your hands.
If you're on the fence, take my advice and just pick this up; you won't regret it :)
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