Four Noncanonical Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

About this film

LibriVox recording of Four Noncanonical Sherlock Holmes Short Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read in English by Peter Yearsley; Michele Eaton; David Purdy; Algy Pug; Alan Mapstone; Rob Marland; Larry Wilson; Zames Curran; Twinkle; Tomas Peter; Lauren-Emma Blake; chuckconvr; Adrian Stephens; Marvin; Lewis West; NoelVox; Brant Burgiss Although the Sherlock Holmes canon traditionally consists of four novels and 56 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, there are many Sherlock Holmes stories outside the canon. Most of these noncanonical stories were written by authors other than Doyle, but there are four short stories about Holmes written by Doyle that are nonetheless excluded from the canon, for various reasons. This LibriVox album consists of these four noncanonical stories. The first story, "The Field Bazaar", was first published in 1896 in a special issue of a University of Edinburgh student newspaper called The Student. Doyle wrote this very brief story to support a fundraising event at the university, his alma mater, but most scholars consider the story to be a parody and therefore not part of the canon. The second and third stories, "The Lost Special" and "The Man with…

Directors & creators

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;private investigators; gentleman detectives; deductive reasoning

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