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Sherlock Holmes in America

By: Daniel Stashower - editor, Jon L. Lellenberg - editor, Martin H. Greenberg - editor
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
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Summary

Audie Award Winner, Short Stories/Collections, 2014

The world's greatest detective leaves his native shores and travels to the most dangerous land of all...America!

Just in time for Sherlock Holmes, the major motion picture starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law: the world’s greatest fictional detective and his famous sidekick Dr. Watson are on their first trip across the Atlantic as they solve crimes all over 19th-century America - from the bustling neighborhoods of New York, Boston, and D.C. to fog-shrouded San Francisco. The world’s best-loved British sleuth faces some of the most cunning criminals America has to offer and meets some of America’s most famous figures along the way.

This exciting new anthology features over a dozen original short stories by award-winning and prominent writers, each in the extraordinary tradition of Conan Doyle, and each with a unique American twist. Featuring new stories by:

  • Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower
  • Edgar Award-winner Jon L. Breen
  • Shamus Award-winner Loren Estleman
  • Derringer Award-winner Steve Hockensmith
  • Anthony Award-winner Bill Crider
  • And many more!
©2009 Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg, and Daniel Stashower (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
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The nostalgic anthology Sherlock Holmes in America gives some of America’s best mystery writers a chance to imagine the famous sleuth at work across the pond. The 14 stories here are in chronological order, and are set in various regional pockets. The stylish and diffident Holmes crosses the Atlantic. His celebrity precedes him. As happens back home, his clients range from the obscure to the famous. Holmes retains his uncanny powers of deduction, and manages to solve tricky and dangerous interpersonal puzzles. The writers included here conjure Holmes and Watson without distortion, and thrust the ultra-civilized duo in conflict with purely American villains. The stories have local flavor and American upstart ruggedness. Graeme Malcolm narrates in a tone filled with irony and energetic wit.

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Audie Award Winner, Short Stories/Collections, 2014

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Didn’t enjoy as much as other SH stories also not by ACD

By virtue of too small stories there were no depts. also not from the narration of JW, didn’t hit the spot for me.

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Brilliant good insight to Holmes and Watson how the stories was written and more history of the writer

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Mixed bag.

Some stories were real slogs and or not really in Sherlock Holmes character. But overall enjoyable.

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Most of these stories were good while a few were a bit strange. overall enjoyable.

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Disappointed

Not sure what I was expecting, I found myself less engaged in the actual cases in comparison to his uk cases

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