Very good performance from the Narrator.

A good story, but I found it hard to follow especially at the end so many characters and names. Quite a twist at the end and interesting that the author took us back to some earlier events of Sherlock Holmes life. The aspect I really enjoyed was the performance by the narrator switching easily between English, Scottish and French accents with ease. Some of the Scots accents were quite strong. Very well done.

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great listening kept guessing to the last word.

good naration eaay to listen to and see the different figures in your head. would choose this narator again

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As good as The House of Silk

Unquiet Spirits captures the feel of the original Holmes stories. Simon Darwen does a good job on the narration too. I tend to think that any non Conan-Doyle Holmes books are going to have a hard time in pleasing the purists but this is a good effort as was The House of Silk.

Hope they'll be more of these.

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On the edge of my seat

This story kept me captivated throughout. A great narrator knows how to grasp the essence of the story as well as what the author wants to say and how it should be said.

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another great book by MacBird ..But

as a Scottish person who lives in Aberdeen I find the voice performance lacking and at points offensive. Mr Darwen also has a Holmes voice that is underwhelming at times and somewhat indistinguishable from Watson. The story is great I do question the speed in which they travel around Victorian Scotland by steam train in the winter but that is nit picking.

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Thoroughly Enjoyable

I am an avid fan of Sherlock Holmes stories and this was a good second book by the author

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Fair Story

The storyline is fair although the solution was obvious from some way out. The too-frequent use of American idiom was jarring and the chronic lack of variation evident in the the reader made this an occasionally painful experience; the lurch from Scottish-to some brand of Northern Irish accent...and back in a single sentence was a little disconcerting on a few occasions. The previous Bonnie MacBird offering, 'Art in the Blood' had similar problems with the book's use of language (and other issues- er...Sherlock Holmes being the originator of 'mindfulness'?) but was salvaged for me, at least in part, by the reader. This was not the case this time. Any aficionado of the original Conan Doyle oeuvre could assist MacBird to authenticate the idiom to remove any obvious lapses... and the reader problem could be addressed by choosing one better suited to the material and cast of characters.

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Harness light entertainment

Good story, easy listening and quite entertaining. Not a bad likeness to the original stories.

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The story carried you to the end.

An interesting story from start to finish. The Scottish accents border on parodies in points.

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A good plot

After listening to this book, I must say I found the story as a whole very good. However I struggled with the narration. Although the narrator delivered the story clearly and with passion when needed. His voice sounded too modern.

It didn’t match with the era. An older more well spoken gentleman would have allowed me to picture Holmes in the way that I’m use to.

This is however my own opinion and I am, by now means suggesting that the narration wasn’t any good. It just made it very difficult for me to connect with the characters. Leading me not to enjoy the book as much.

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