Sherlock Holmes Plays the Game

By: Leslie F Coombs

Narrated by: Steve White

Sherlock Holmes Plays the Game is an interesting new collection of the further adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. It is unique in combining the style and intrigue of Holmes and Watson stories with the developing technology of turn-of-the-century Victorian England. Written in the original Strand Magazine style and told by Holmes' companion, Dr John Watson, these previously untold tales unfold with wit and humour. Although conveyed in the classic Holmes style, these adventures see the pair involved in tracking down a lost Shakespeare manuscript, illusions, railways, airships, kidnapped animals, and people, plus testing alibis, coded messages, advanced communications, and electric weapons. Holmes applies his highly developed powers of deduction to whole new fields of understanding, and the stories deftly mingle fiction with facts and events of the day.

©2014 Leslie F Coombs (P)2018 MX Publishing

Sherlock Holmes loves marmalade

In just about every story, marmalade is mentioned, and sometimes plays a non-trivial role in the case.

All in all, the writer did an acceptable job with his cases. In several, he telegraphed the solution, and there were the occasional non-Holmesian and non-British vocabulary choices, but it was not too severe.

However, the narrator misread and mispronounced so many words that it frequently yanked me out of the flow. Please, dear narrator, pay much closer attention to the text, or give up your pretense of being an audiobook narrator.