Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Audio book performed by David Timson - Unabridged Fiction - 5 COMPACT DISCS - 6 hours, 25 minutes

Publisher, Naxos Audiobooks (April 2007)

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The Sherlock Holmes series performed in unabridged form, by David Timson for Naxos AudioBooks is widely regarded as one of the finest. Here, Timson brings his remarkable performance skills to one of Doyle’s full-length novels. Holmes and his faithful Dr Watson are summoned to a country house by a coded message. They arrive too late to save a life and then pursue the trail which leads to the unmasking of the murderer.

About the Author: (1859–1930) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (knighted 1902), nephew to Richard Doyle, was born in Edinburgh and educated at Stonyhurst and in Germany. He studied Medicine at Edinburgh and practised at Southsea (1882–90). His debut was a story in Chambers' Journal in 1879; A Study in Scarlet (1888), Micah Clarke and The White Company (1891) were early stories. But it was by the preternatural acumen of the detective hero of his Adventures (1891) and Memoirs (1893) of Sherlock Holmes (originally in the Strand Magazine) that he became wildly known. Later novels include Brigadier Gerard (1896), Rodney Stone, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Lost World, The Poison Belt (1913); in 1894 he wrote a one-act play, A Story of Waterloo. He served in 1900 as Doctor in the South African War and wrote on it, on the First World War, and also, as a believer, on spiritualism.

About the Performer: David Timson has performed in modern and classic plays across the country and abroad, including Wild Honey for Alan Ayckbourn, Hamlet, The Man of Mode, and The Seagull. He has been seen on TV in Nelson’s Column and Swallows and Amazons, and in the film The Russia House.