Reviews

This month’s special price offering from Big Finish, under their monthly The Listeners revisit, sees the return of Sgt Benton in the Doctor Who range The Companion Chronicles entitled Council of War by Simon Barnard and Paul Morris from 2013. Sgt Benton is almost the forgotten member of U.N.I.T. after the Brigadier, […]

Council of War

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The Prophet in the Rain continues with Holmes and Watson leaving the funeral and heading towards Holmes’ secret HQ when they notice a car following them.  They meet, in the interminable rain, an enemy they’ve run into before – a Mrs Edgar Curbishley (Tracey Childs).  I’m not familiar with this […]

5.01 The Prophet in the Rain, cont’d

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The Prophet in the Rain by Jonathan Barnes is a Sherlock Holmes story set post-war, in 1921, starring Nicholas Briggs and Richard Earl from the Big Finish audio adventures range.  It’s offered as a free download to get a taster for the Big Finish box-set of The Sacrifice of Sherlock […]

5.01 The Prophet in the Rain

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The Adventure of the Perfidious Mariner ends well, with Holmes “solving” the mystery of the haunting woman.  It’s an adventure whereby the journey is arguably better than the destination, because there isn’t really much of a mystery to solve. The story ends with a link to Holmes’ final Conan Doyle […]

The Adventure of the Perfidious Mariner, cont’d

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From 2012, The Adventure of the Perfidious Mariner by Jonathan Barnes sees Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Briggs) and Dr Watson (Richard Earl) in the aftermath of the Titantic disaster. It’s 1912, and Sherlock Holmes has been retired for many years.  He’s busy keeping bees and has no interest in revisiting his […]

The Adventure of the Perfidious Mariner

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Due to early nights caused by the run-up and aftermath of the London Marathon, it’s taken me several evenings to finish this 2-hour adventure from Big Finish. The first half of The Tangled Skein plays like a traditional Sherlock Holmes adventure stepping into a mystery with a bizarre explanation – […]

2.04 The Tangled Skein, cont’d

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From 2012, Big Finish‘s audio adventure The Tangled Skein by David Stuart Davies (adapted by Richard Dinnick) sees Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Briggs) and Dr Watson (Richard Earl) face off against Count Dracula (Giles Watling). Taking the verisimilitude of Sherlock Holmes to its limits and encroaching on the world of fantasy […]

2.04 The Tangled Skein

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Big Finish‘s The Reification of Hans Gerber proved to be a good listen over several nights.  It’s written in a Conan Doyle style, although the outcome probably won’t surprise anyone.  You’ll probably be weighing up two possible outcomes throughout the majority of the story, but that’s no downside really as […]

The Reification of Hans Gerber, cont’d

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I must be enjoying the Big Finish range of Sherlock Holmes adventures, because I’ve moved straight on to The Reification of Hans Gerber. This is a non-canonical Sherlock Holmes adventure, written by George Mann and starring, as usual, Nicholas Briggs and Richard Earl. I’ve only listened to the opening segment […]

2.02 The Reification of Hans Gerber

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For those who aren’t already aware, The Final Problem and The Empty House are two Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes short stories that feature the death of Holmes, followed by his subsequent resurrection some three years later. The Final Problem was Conan Doyle’s way off killing of his most famous character […]

2.01 The Final Problem / The Empty House

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Holmes and the Ripper continues much the same as it began.  There’s enough intrigue to keep the interest up, but it does seem to go out of its way to make things more convoluted than they need to be.  Conan Doyle’s original stories were more about Holmes deducing startling facts […]

Holmes and the Ripper, cont’d

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