Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon
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Narrated by:
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Dennis Kleinman
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By:
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James Lovegrove
About this listen
The new Sherlock Holmes novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Age of Odin and Firefly: Big Damn Hero.
It is 1890, and in the days before Christmas, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are visited at Baker Street by a new client. Eve Allerthorpe - eldest daughter of a grand but somewhat eccentric Yorkshire-based dynasty - is greatly distressed, as she believes she is being haunted by a demonic Christmas spirit.
Her late mother told her terrifying tales of the sinister Black Thurrick, and Eve is sure that she has seen the creature from her bedroom window. What is more, she has begun to receive mysterious parcels of birch twigs, the Black Thurrick’s calling card....
Eve stands to inherit a fortune if she is sound of mind, but it seems that something - or someone - is threatening her sanity. Holmes and Watson travel to the Allerthorpe family seat at Fellscar Keep to investigate, but soon discover that there is more to the case than at first appeared. There is another spirit haunting the family, and when a member of the household is found dead, the companions realize that no one is beyond suspicion.
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- Garance Watford
- 12-03-22
A hoot take on Sir Conan Doyle
If you just want some entertainment with a good “who sun it?!”, then this is it.
Don’t look too deep into the assumptions leading Sherlock into his investigative deductions. Otherwise, you may be turned off. Just go with the flow and enjoy.
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- M. D. Partridge
- 25-11-22
Great story, odd narration
Fun Christmas listening. The narrator moves between welsh and Caribbean accents before occasionally alighting upon the Yorkshire accent he’s after. But it doesn’t spoil the story.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-11-22
Good story-Great narrator!
Very enjoyable listen, almost as good as reading a book by Sir Arthur Conon Doyle
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- Anonymous User
- 07-11-22
Really enjoyable!
Loved this audiobook! Found the author’s voice true to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s and was utterly convinced of the characters. Beautiful narration too :-)
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- Book Monitor
- 17-12-22
A Good listen.
This is what you expect it to be. A Victorian melodrama much in the style of Conan Doyle, but perhaps with quite his flair. That doesn't mean it wasn't enjoyable and worth listening to. The story has all the elements you want, an inheritance but only if she's not mad, a local folk demon, a country house, etc. and I have to say I rather enjoyed it all.
The Narrator did a passable job, his accents are dodgy but his style suited the book.
If you are looking for something new and original this isn't it but it is not half bad for all that.
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- DEE21
- 07-11-22
Yorkshire goths
a compelling well written story bar the unresearched use of dialect and excruciating faux Yorkshire accents! - making difficult obstacles for a knowing North Country listener !
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- rammie
- 28-11-22
Great story, terrible accents
There’s lots to admire about the story, it’s a true-to-form Holmes plot with a good setting, twists, red herrings and lots of great style and language we associate with the great detective.
As others have said, the only let down is the narrator’s woeful attempts at a Yorkshire accent, which are so far off the mark you not only wonder how the audiobook passed any quality edit checks, but it at times stops your enjoyment of what you’re listening to. The narrator does, while trying to do Yorkshire, almost every accent on the planet, often in the same sentence, except the one he is meant to be doing!
That said, his Watson and Holmes are excellent and the long passages where it is just they are great to listen to. His Holmes particularly catches the rather terse, sarcastic tone of the original.
I’d absolutely recommend this, just be prepared to not be derailed by the Yorkshire ‘accent’.
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- Happy Dad
- 23-11-22
Fun Christmas story
Worth a listen, sinister, dark and real. Lovejoy convincingly brings Holmes to life. Arthur Conan Doyle would approve!
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- Max White
- 28-11-22
Strongly recommend
Great story and great narration! I especially enjoyed the fitting voices created for each character.
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- Mysteria
- 02-12-22
Good Christmas tale
Fabulous Christmas tale - well narrated - will look for more by this author. Conan Doyle would approve
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