The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, Volume Two

Bert Coules' Sherlock Holmes (BBC Radio, 1989-1998) #15

by Bert Coules (Adapter), Arthur Conan Doyle, Clive Merrison (Narrator)

A collection of the illustrated Sherlock Holmes stories reprinted from i The Strand Magazine/i. Includes i Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow: The War Service of Sherlock Holmes/i, the last 12 stories from i The Case-Book/i.

Genres: Mystery, Classics, Audiobook, Mystery Thriller, Fiction

3 pages, MP3 Book

First published March 4, 1996

About the author

Bert Coules is an English writer, and dramatist, who has produced a number of adaptations and original works. He works mainly in radio drama but also writes for TV and the stage.

Coules specializes in mystery and science fiction audio and radio drama, and has written a number of adaptations, most notably as the head writer of the Sherlock Holmes radio series (1989–1998) starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson (the first time the entire canon had been adapted with the same two lead actors throughout). He also wrote original Sherlock Holmes scripts for the following BBC radio series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, each based on a reference from the original stories. These were first broadcast between 2002 and 2010, and starred Merrison and Andrew Sachs as Watson, following Michael Williams' death in 2001.

He has also written adaptations of several of Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael novels, and of works by Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Isaac Asimov and other best-selling genre authors.

[with thanks to Wikipedia]

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Review for The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes in its entirety.
Don't know if it's me or Arthur Conan Doyle himself being tired of writing them, but I didn't find these stories quite as engaging as some of the previous ones. Also, at least one was horrifyingly racist. His care for his female characters continues to astound me, though.
Otherwise, I'm finished ☺️!!

[Gary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun as always.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

In the format of ‘The Complete Sherlock Holmes Series’, this set of books comes in as the last installation. By now, the Holmes/ Watson relationship is firmly established. You get glimpses of Holmes handing over the reigns and becoming more trusting of Watson’s capabilities.

The stories are set over a number of years, in some cases there is alluded to a separation period of them both not seeing each other for a very long time.

Even by this stage, it was very nice to see Arthur Conan Doyle coming up with new and different storylines including revenge, addiction and suicide.

[Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good stuff! The stories are clever, entertaining and short.

[Anandu KP · Rating 5 out of 5]

.and this is the second part....

[RLCullum · Rating 2 out of 5]

hard to follow. Too predictable.

[Heba El Saeid Mohammed · Rating 2 out of 5]

Never have i thought Sherlock would be so unbelievably boring on paper

[Melissa · Rating 2 out of 5]

This version isn't the best to listen to. The physical book was better
I give a 4 star to the book

[Jasmine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Splendid

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

I listened to the audiobook of The Casebook...read by David Timson. Timson is a good narrator- animated and easy to distinguish voices. The adventure of the wonderful toy that he wrote himself at the end of the collection is a very fun story and one of the only extra canonical stories I thought was almost believable as original.

[Chloe · Rating 3 out of 5]

I preferred volume 2 to volume 1. My particular favourites were the Sussex vampire, the three Garridebs and problem of Thor bridge. All were fantastically written and masterfully detailed. Inspired me to rewatch the BBC Sherlock series- which I enjoyed so much when I was a teenager.

[Theresa · Rating 3 out of 5]

the great detective

[DavidO · Rating 3 out of 5]

Doyle regurgitates old plots with minor variations. My thought is he should have stopped written these at around the point Sherlock Holmes dies. After that the stories are uninspired.

[MepoInc · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good typical holmes as usual.

[ccoelophysis]

Read in audiobook format. Including "The Wonderful Toy" by David Timson. Good narrator.