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Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Audio book performed by Tom Whitworth - Unabridged Fiction - 7 COMPACT DISCS - 7.5 hours

Publisher, Tantor Media (June 2005)

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Sherlock Holmes emergences from a retirement of bee-keeping in His Last Bow to stop the spy Baron Von Bork from disclosing secret English documents at the approach of the First World War I. This production has eight hours of Holmes in some of his best cases!

About the Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. While Holmes was the embodiment of scientific thinking, Doyle himself did not exhibit the same rationality, believing in fairies and occultism. His Sherlock Holmes stories have been translated into more than fifty languages, and have been made into plays, films, radio and television series, cartoons and comic books. By 1920 Doyle was one of the most highly paid writers in the world.

Doyle was born at Picardy Place, near Edinburgh in 1859. He was educated in Jesuit schools and studied at Edinburgh University. In 1884 he married Louise Hawkins. Doyle qualified as a doctor in 1885 and practiced medicine as an eye specialist in Hampshire until 1891, when he became a full time writer. The first Sherlock Holmes story, A STUDY IN SCARLET, published in 1887, introduced the detective's faithful associate, Dr. Watson.

During the Boer war in South Africa (1899-1902) Doyle served several months as the senior physician at a field hospital, and wrote THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA, in which he expressed the imperial view. He twice ran unsuccessfully for Parliament, but nevertheless was knighted in 1902. In 1907, fourteen months after his wife died, Conan Doyle married Jean Leckie. After his son Kingsley died in the first World War, Doyle dedicated himself to spiritualistic studies at his home in Windlesham, Sussex, until his death in 1930.