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The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Narrated by: Simon Vance, Anne Flosnik
- Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A modern short-story collection featuring the great detective. Stories included:
"A Sherlockiana Primer", © 2009 by Christopher Roden
"The Horror of the Many Faces", © 2003 by Tim Lebbon
"The Case of the Bloodless Sock", © 2001 by Anne Perry
"The Adventure of the Other Detective", © 2003 by Bradley H. Sinor
"A Scandal in Montreal", © 2008 by Edward D. Hoch
"The Adventure of the Field Theorems"; © 1995 Vonda N. McIntyre
"The Adventure of the Death-Fetch", © 1994 by Darrell Schweitzer
"The Shocking Affair of the Dutch Steamship Friesland", © 2005 by Mary Robinette Kowal
"The Adventure of the Mummy's Curse", © 2006 by H. Paul Jeffers
"The Things That Shall Come Upon Them", © 2008 by Barbara Roden
"Murder to Music", © 1989 by Anthony Burgess
"The Adventure of the Inertial Adjustor", © 1997 Stephen Baxter
"Mrs. Hudson's Case", © 1997 Laurie R. King
"The Singular Habits of Wasps", © 1994 by Geoffrey A. Landis
"The Affair of the 46th Birthday"; © 2009 by Amy Myers
"The Specter of Tullyfane Abbey", © 2001 by Peter Tremayne
"The Vale of the White Horse"; © 2003 by Sharyn McCrumb
"The Adventure of the Dorset Street Lodger", © 1993 by Michael Moorcock
"The Adventure of the Lost World", © 2004 by Dominic Green
"The Adventure of the Antiquarian's Niece"; © 2003 by Barbara Hambly
"Dynamics of a Hanging", © 2005 by Tony Pi
"Merridew of Abominable Memory" © 2008 by Monkeybrain, Inc.
"Commonplaces" © 2008-2009 by Naomi Novik
"The Adventure of the Pirates of Devil's Cape", © 2009 by Rob Rogers
"The Adventure of the Green Skull", © 2008 by Mark Valentine
"The Human Mystery", © 1999 by Tanith Lee
"A Study in Emerald", © 2003 by Neil Gaiman
"You See But You Do Not Observe", © 1995 by Robert J. Sawyer.
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- stewz
- 29-11-2020
Improbable indeed...
If you enjoy the Conan Doyle canon, and particularly the logical and/or rational underpinnings of the Holmes character, this collection may not be for you. The foreword to the book riffs on the Holmes maxim of "once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains - however improbable - must be the truth", and prefaces these stories as imagining Holmes in impossible scenarios. How open the listener is to such a proposition will have a considerable impact on their enjoyment.
Some contributions are arguably no great departure from the Holmes classics, such as ones that tell the story of cases that Conan Doyle referenced in his works but never gave any detail beyond a name-check. But as for some of the others? Holmes and Watson matching wits with an antagonist using a Megalosaurus to kill trombone players around London? Jack the Ripper explained as an alien insectoid killing people to use as nests for its eggs? An alternative explanation of Holmes' resurrection after the events at Reichenbach as an effect of quantum physics phenomena which also explains why we've never made contact with alien life forms?
If you're open-minded and looking for any Sherlock story, regardless of the scenario in which it takes place, this may be worth a go. If however you're a fan of the classics...
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