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Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the complete works of Sherlock Holmes - four novels and five collections of short stories.

Scandal, treachery and crime are rife in Old London Town. A king blackmailed by his mistress, dark dealings in opium dens, stolen jewels, a missing bride - these are cases so fiendishly complex that only Sherlock Holmes would dare to investigate.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the most terrifying creature on the moors were not a supernatural beast, but a secret waiting to be uncovered? In *The Hound of the Baskervilles*, Arthur Conan Doyle delivers one of the greatest mysteries in detective fiction. Against the...

In The Adventure of Silver Blaze, Sherlock Holmes is hired by a young clerk, Hall Pycroft, who has been lured from a solid London job by a suspiciously generous offer from a new firm. The “employer,” who looks uncannily like Pycroft, sends him to Birmingham on busywork while a look-alike takes his place at the original firm. Holmes, Watson, and Pycroft arrive in time to find the impostor and his brother—the Beddingtons—caught mid-robbery of the stockbroker’s office. The scheme collapses, and the stolen securities never leave the building.

After a draining case on the Continent, Holmes recuperates at a friend's house near Reigate, where a nearby burglary is quickly followed by the shooting of a coachman. Holmes treats the two crimes as connected and focuses on a scrap of a torn note found in the dead man's hand. The trail leads to the wealthy Cunninghams next door, who staged the burglary to hide a forgery and then killed their coachman when he threatened to expose them. Holmes tricks the pair into betraying themselves, and the torn note supplies the proof that closes the case.

Three years have passed since Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty vanished into the abyss of the Reichenbach Falls. In that time the criminals of London have been able to sleep safe in their beds. But the capital has never been in greater need of its protector.

Originally named A Tangled Skein, this is the first Sherlock Holmes story. The real strength and the unique quality of the novel lies in the introduction of Holmes and Watson to each other - and those dark early scenes when a corpse is discovered in a derelict house in southeast London. The ultimate crusader against crime and criminals, Holmes' genius is revealed here for the very first time.

Join Holmes and Watson as four exciting mysteries from the acclaimed series unravel. Deductive reasoning leads to murder and suspense in the thrilling escapades of history's greatest detective.

Could the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by the gigantic ghostly hound which is said to have haunted his family for generations? Arch-rationalist Sherlock Holmes characteristically dismisses the theory as nonsense.

Sherlock Holmes Ki Romanchak Kahaniyan is the Hindi adaption of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. A series of 12 mysteries featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Ein brillanter Ingenieurstudent aus Cambridge steht vor einer schweren Entscheidung. Die Wahl wird noch schwieriger, als ein Kommilitone ermordet wird. Die Mutter wird entführt. Wenn ihr Sohn die geheimen Pläne nicht preisgibt, wird sie gefoltert und ermordet. Die Schurken haben nicht damit gerechnet, von einer unerwarteten Quelle überlistet zu werden: der Mutter selbst.

Emmy award-winning actor Sir Derek Jacobi reads all 12 stories from this last collection to feature Holmes and Watson.

The second volume of classic Sherlock Holmes stories on audio, brilliantly performed by John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson.

This collection of stories continues the adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle’s much-loved fictional detective. In these intriguing tales, Holmes and Watson solve cases that range from the suspicious to the downright strange, and encounter mysteries as diverse as vanishing staff, secret plans and eccentric lodgers.

The Classic Crime Collection is a collection of 18 classic detective novels, read by esteemed cast of award-winning narrators. Included here are stories by some of the most iconic crime writers in history, including Dorothy L. Sayers; Arthur Conan Doyle; Agatha Christie; Dashiell Hammett; Wilkie...

Here in one recording is every Sherlock Holmes story ever written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Originally appearing in serial form, these famous stories are here presented in the order in which they were first published beginning in 1887. Included in this definitive, award-winning collection are four novels and 56 short stories, a total of 60 titles. The 56 short stories are aggregated into five named collections, just as they were originally published in book form.

The third volume of classic Sherlock Holmes stories on audio, brilliantly performed by John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson.

The fourth volume of classic Sherlock Holmes stories on audio, brilliantly performed by John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson.

Who would suspect that the same mind that created the most famous literary detective of all time also took on the eternally popular genre of vampires? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a contemporary of Bram Stoker, gave us some fascinating works of vampire fiction. From the bloodsucking plant in "The American's Tale" to the bloodsucking wife in "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire," he reveled in the horror created by creatures who survived on the blood of men and women.

Ein merkwürdiger Fall. Ein Mann stellt sich der Oxforder Polizei und behauptet, einen unbekannten Angreifer in Notwehr getötet zu haben. Als die Leiche schließlich aufgefunden wird, ist die Beweislage zu dünn, um dem Mann zu entlasten. Es bedarf des wachen Spürsinns von Inspektor Pittlewith und seinem jungen Assistenten Sherlock Holmes, um die Unschuld des Mannes zu beweisen, sofern dieser überhaupt unschuldig ist.