The Question of the Clever Cat Burglar, and 15 Other Sherlock Holmes Mysteries

By: Joe Bevilacqua, Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua

Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

Horse hooves on cobblestones through a pounding rain. A door opens and closes. Footsteps hurry up 17 steps to 221B Baker Street.

Listeners are fully immersed in the world of mid-Victorian England like never before in this thrilling, action-packed "theater of the mind" made for both serious Sherlockians and casual mystery lovers.

"The Question of the Clever Cat Burglar" is just one of 16 Sherlock Holmes mysteries in this new audio drama collection—written, produced, directed, voiced, and enhanced with stereo soundscape and music by veteran award-winning audio artist Joe Bev.

The set includes more than eight hours of new dramatizations of canonical*, extracanonical** and noncanonical*** Sherlock Holmes stories:

• "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons"*
• "How Watson Learned the Trick"**
• "The Question of the Clever Cat Burglar"***
• "The Story of the Man with the Watches"**
• "The Adventure of the Dying Detective"*
• "The Problem of Pantalone's Understudy"***
• "The Case of the Poisoned Scotch"***
• "The Adventure of the Creeping Man"*
• "The Puzzle of Empty Bank Vault"***
• "The Story of the Lost Special"**
• "The Yellow Fever Conundrum"***
• "The Singular Affair of the Cloven Mathematician"***
• "The Mystery of the Invisible Brother"***
• "The Field Bazaar"**
• "The Curse of Kem Alu Kaburu"***
• "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge, Chapter One: The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles; Chapter Two: The Tiger of San Pedro"*

Sherlock Holmes is a popular fictional character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes is an amateur detective with powerful observation and deduction abilities. The original canon was written between 1887 and 1927 in 62 cases (four novels and 58 short stories).

©2019 Joe Bevilacqua (P)2019 A Joe Bev Production, LLC

Sorry but this one is mediocre

The writing leaves something to be desired. The reader tried hard to make people sound different but could have done better.

One pet peeve I had was his pronunciation of “gaol” as gay-lol rather than jail (Americanized).

Amusing and pleasant.

Poor and competing audio

With additional sounds and voices very loud and very quiet in some of the stories was quite difficult to listen to in a car and a quiet place. A few on the non-canonical stories were a bit weak. Sometimes wondered which character I was listening to as voice differences of multiple characters by one person weren’t all distinguishable at times.

Narration so bad, had to stop

A waste of a credit. The reviews require 15 words, but really, just stay away.

Superb Dramatisation

I love every second of this fantastic Dramatisation of mostly classic stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, such as The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, and a few newly composed Holmes pastiches, including The Case of the Clever Cat Burglar. The best story is an original entitled The Problem of Panteloni's Understudy. Rich with environment via clever sound effects and superior acting, I highly recommend this title.