Sherlock Holmes in Service of the Crown

New Cases of Sherlock Holmes, Book 14

By: Arthur Conan Doyle, G. G. Grandt

Narrated by: Hutchinson Hatch

Easter 1903. In the slums of London, French prostitutes are found crucified. Mysterious messages are discovered in the clothing of the victims. These crucifixion murders cause an international sensation and jeopardize an upcoming state visit by the English king to the French president, during which the two superpowers hope to forge closer ties.

Inspector Bradstreet of Scotland Yard and the London police are baffled. To solve the series of murders, Sherlock Holmes is directly commissioned by the king. After deciphering the coded messages, a breathtaking cat-and-mouse game with the perpetrators begins, one that even temporarily drives a wedge between Dr. Watson and his friend.

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I absolutely ABHOR this narrator.

That about says it all. Just listen to him. He thinks that softening an “a” every now and then makes for a British accent. He has but two different tones of voice. One is his normal voice and the other is this extremely effeminate whisper which he uses for men and he doesn’t even stick to each accent with a specific character. He will start a sentence with his annoying whisper then after three words relapse back into his normal voice. How can a bad narrator not run an audiobook? Virtual voice is a MILLION times better than this human.