Sherlock Holmes Never Dies - Super Collection B

De: Craig Stephen Copland

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

SHERLOCK HOLMES is the world’s most famous detective. For over 100 years, his adventures have been read by millions of people like you—people who care about seeing evildoers brought to justice, seeing a brilliant mind at work, and knowing that, in the end, good will triumph. Return to London in one of the most fascinating eras of history. The Victorian world abounds with murderers, cheat, swindlers, imposters, lost souls seeking revenge, villains wanting illegal profit from inheritance, and those who are falsely accused and in desperate need of help from Sherlock Holmes. These entirely new mysteries are “true to The Canon” and in them you will meet the same Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Inspector Lestrade and the villain Moriarty who you read about in the original stories. Each New Sherlock Holmes Mystery is a tribute to one of the sixty in the original Canon. . In this Collection there are 20 new mysteries. OVER HALF A MILLION WORDS of MORE SHERLOCK. . CLICK NOW, DOWNLOAD, BINGE, ENJOY. This collected edition and its companion volumes, Super Collection A,C and D are especially prepared for those of you who can subscribe to KU. You can “borrow for free.” Or buy for just 40 cents a novella. “The game is afoot.” Be a part of it.

Virtually, not so great

Please, please for the love of God, arrange the virtual narrator to pronounce French from a French national correctly. Same with German from a German speaker. I’m ok with Watson speaking French as if it were English, but the French doctor? I think I’ve lost brain cells just from pure annoyance.

Interesting stories with a good length

I really enjoyed these stories. Unlike some newer Holmes stories they weren’t outrageously long. They also didn’t stray too far outside of what is realistic for a Holmes story. I liked the historical comments at the end of each story.

ANTI-SEMITIC & QUITE FRANKLY, RACIST IN GENERAL

Truly, I found it difficult to listen to at times. Just completely infuriating and unnecessary is the level to which anti-Semitic stereotypes and attitudes perfuse this lengthy tome. Most Jewish characters aren’t even developed beyond being described as “a Jew”. Furthermore, there is a constant underlying thread of “white Christian people” exemplifying all that is wholesome, correct and beneficent in this world. Of course there is plenty of anti Asian sentiment broadcast too, as if satisfying bigotry requirements: Referring to Asian people as “Orientals” like inanimate objects or “Chinamen” as in “One hundred men died in that explosion… but they were mostly chinamen.” But without a doubt, Jews are the main target here.

I understand that to a certain degree, this phenomenon is simply period correctness, but there were certainly sympathetic, well respected and admired Jewish people in society even 100 years ago. Not every member of that religion peddled fish and pickles, or ran sleazy pawn shops and unscrupulous money lending rackets.

So… just something to consider before purchasing. I can’t say that I “enjoyed” these books but I did make a valiant, albeit not always successful effort to listen to them in entirety. Virtual narration was a truly horrible fit for this particular selection, as many different languages and accents were called for. Additionally, being a predominantly male cast of characters why have a female voice? Were it a real female it would be different as a good narrator is a gender neutral contributor, equally adept at a wide range of both male and female impersonations, but it wasn’t a real person. So the point is moot.

Shalom!

A dubious Sherlock

These are passable investigations but the detective in the stories is nothing like Doyle’s famed Sherlock Holmes. This Sherlock is not particularly impressive. He sometimes fails to do basic research that would reveal information that is public knowledge, turns into a tongue-tied adolescent by a young woman who is supposedly an assassin but who comes across as a giggling flirtatious schoolgirl who manoeuvres men including Sherlock into stroking her hair and, boringly and predictably, the women in the plots are all astoundingly beautiful.