News

2025 was a huge year for audiobooks, with sales outstripping print and ebook combined for Sherlock Holmes stories. It was a year of short stories and Denis Smith's The Six Thirteen from Fairfield Junction and Other Cases of Sherlock Holmes was the most popular collection. The whole top ten was filled with traditional tales and Tracy Revels Tales of Light, Shadow and Darkness all made the chart. Newcomer Caiden Cooper Myles released his second Further Memoirs book and both made the top five - great news with the new set coming this year. 1.   The Six-Thirteen from Fairfield Junction and Other Cases...

The results are in for December and for the first time in several years a novel tops the charts. Congratulations to Ken Courtenay and Kevin Green - The Case of The Man Who Died Twice has been a real hit with fans. Ken's second novel is on Kickstarter at the moment - A Quarter Turn Of The Knife and we're hopeful that Kevin will once again narrate the 2nd book. We're working on a chart for the whole of 2025 which we hope to have ready next week.  1.   The Case of the Man Who Died Twice – Ken Courtenay and Kevin...

Reviewed by Paul Metcalfe A nicely constructed mystery, true to the Doylean tradition and style. It's background is the late Victorian mania for all things Egyptian. The children of the Fifth Earl of Convarran ask Holmes and Watson to find their father, missing since returning to England from an archaeological dig in Egypt. Other members of the expedition are either missing or are murdered. Holmes is attacked, and Watson is kidnapped before the truth is revealed. The narrative holds the attention and the mystery satisfies the purists. Ancient artifacts, conspiracies, clandestine organizations, a mummy unwrapping and family secrets all play...

As we head towards the holidays, here are the top ten Sherlock Holmes audiobooks so far in December.  1- The Gravesend Gryphon and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories - Robert V Stapleton and Michael Langan 2- Sherlock Holmes The Hunter and Other Mysteries - Susan Knight and Michael Langan 3 - The Case of the Australian Atlases and Other Sherlock Holmes Adventures - Paul Metcalfe and Michael Langan 4- The Infinitely Stranger Cases of Sherlock Holmes - Paula Hammond and Michael Langan 5 - The Uncollected Cases of Sherlock Holmes - Geoff Finch and Michael Langan 6 - Sherlock Holmes Takes the Case - David MacGregor and Michael...

Sherlock Holmes Society of London "The Hound of the Baskervilles, adapted and illustrated by Petr Kopl is clever, funny, beautiful and brilliant. It’s the first in Mr Kopl’s Victoria Regina series (A Scandal in Bohemia is the fourth). Don’t be surprised to find the narrative intersecting with the events of Dracula, The Lost World, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and even Rossum’s Universal Robots, as well as other exploits of Holmes and Watson. Look closely at the illustrations and you’ll see all sorts of unexpected details — though you may be too engrossed in the story on first reading.”     The Hound of...