The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Twelve cases from the Strand Magazine, each self-contained and roughly half an hour long: a scandal in Bohemia, a red-headed conspiracy, a speckled band.
Things worth knowing
- Conan Doyle built the series out of self-contained cases sharing one character, so that a reader who missed an issue would not be lost; the Strand then contracted him for six.
- While writing them he regarded his historical novels as his important work, and none of those novels caused the stir the first Strand series did.
Listen, or read along
Every chapter has the recording and the same chapter as text. Open both if you like: the text is the words you are hearing.
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1 A Scandal in Bohemia, Part One 23 min
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2 A Scandal in Bohemia, Part Two 25 min
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3 A Scandal in Bohemia, Part Three 7 min
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4 The Redheaded League, Part One 29 min
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5 The Redheaded League, Part Two 29 min
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6 A Case of Identity, Part One 22 min
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7 A Case of Identity, Part Two 22 min
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8 The Boscombe Valley Mystery, Part One 30 min
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9 The Boscombe Valley Mystery, Part Two 29 min
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10 The Five Orange Pips, Part One 23 min
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11 The Five Orange Pips, Part Two 24 min
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12 The Man with the Twisted Lip, Part One 29 min
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13 The Man with the Twisted Lip, Part Two 29 min
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14 The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, Part One 25 min
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15 The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, Part Two 24 min
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16 The Adventure of the Speckled Band, Part One 32 min
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17 The Adventure of the Speckled Band, Part Two 31 min
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18 The Adventure of the Engineer S Thumb, Part One 27 min
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19 The Adventure of the Engineer S Thumb, Part Two 25 min
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20 The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, Part One 27 min
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21 The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, Part Two 25 min
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22 The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, Part One 31 min
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23 The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, Part Two 28 min
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24 The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, Part One 32 min
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25 The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, Part Two 30 min
Where this comes from
US public domain: first published 1892, before the 1930 cutoff. Author d.1930, so also clear in life+70 jurisdictions.
Cover image: generated for this edition.
Narration: text-to-speech.
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