Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Get this deal Try for £0.00
Offer ends May 1st, 2024 11:59PM GMT. Terms and conditions apply.
£7.99/month after 3 months. Renews automatically.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
The Unopened Casebook of Sherlock Holmes cover art

The Unopened Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

By: John Taylor
Narrated by: Simon Callow, Nicky Henson
Get this deal Try for £0.00

Pay £99p/month. After 3 months pay £7.99/month. Renews automatically. See terms for eligibility.

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £7.99

Buy Now for £7.99

Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Sherlock Holmes' Rediscovered Railway Mysteries cover art
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes cover art
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete BBC Collection cover art
Sherlock Holmes: The Four Novels Collection cover art
Sergeant Cribb cover art
The Manifestations of Sherlock Holmes cover art
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes cover art
Sherlock Holmes: The Carleton Hobbs Collection cover art
The Return of Sherlock Holmes cover art
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes cover art
Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Two Watsons and Other Mysteries cover art
The Rivals: Tales of Sherlock Holmes’ Rival Detectives cover art
The Book of Extraordinary New Sherlock Holmes Stories cover art
Patrick Hamilton: Rope, Gaslight, Hangover Square and More cover art
Art in the Blood: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure cover art
Tales From the Mausoleum Club cover art

Summary

Here are six extraordinary adventures, never revealed before, starring Simon Callow as Sherlock Holmes and Nicky Henson as Dr Watson, written by John Taylor.

  • "The Wandering Corpse": The professor claimed he knew how to resurrect the dead. Now he's dead and his body's missing from the coffin.
  • "The Horror in Hanging Wood": The victim's arm has been wrenched half off, face battered out of all recognition. Who, or what, could have made such a ferocious attack?
  • "The Paddington Witch": Saul Ransome's body was cooked like meat and black as coal. But "Garth Ransome is saying his brother was witched - that it was Bess that witched him."
  • "The Phantom Organ": The night that Hugh Hembury was killed, a note was nailed on the church notice board: "Now is the hunter hunted. H H shall be first."
  • "The Devil's Tunnel": A young woman disappears from a train as it speeds through a tunnel, and only her hat and one shoe are found. Surely too few clues, even for Sherlock Holmes.
  • "The Battersea Worm": The Tower was Angel Holland's fortress. The only way to Holland's room at the top was by the passenger elevator, and Dr Watson was the only person who had used the lift the day she was murdered.
    •
    ©2009 John Taylor (P)2008 BBC Audiobooks Ltd
    Traditional Detectives
    Show More Show Less

    Critic reviews

    "Do you remember the time Sherlock Holmes led Dr. Watson into mortal peril with an animal-loving librarian in a dark and mysterious wood? Or solved a baffling murder that involved a newfangled Otis lift? Of course you don't, as they are a mong the stories created by John Tatylor for this collection of six half-hour plays first broradcast on Radio Five. The scenarios he has invented for the great fictional detective and his sidekick involve a higher proportion of deadly females than usually invaded the pair's clubby Victorian world, but they are still reassuringly reliant on a working knowledge of Britain's railway timetables. This affectionate and respectful not-quite pastiche should delight rather than outrage fans. Although the casting of beefy Simon Callow as Holmes could work only on radio, Nicky Henson makes a fine Watson, his trusting nature a bluff counterpoint to his cerebral companion." ( Sunday Times, Audio Book of the Week)

    What listeners say about The Unopened Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

    Average customer ratings
    Overall
    • 4 out of 5 stars
    • 5 Stars
      50
    • 4 Stars
      25
    • 3 Stars
      4
    • 2 Stars
      5
    • 1 Stars
      6
    Performance
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • 5 Stars
      45
    • 4 Stars
      14
    • 3 Stars
      8
    • 2 Stars
      1
    • 1 Stars
      1
    Story
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • 5 Stars
      42
    • 4 Stars
      18
    • 3 Stars
      4
    • 2 Stars
      2
    • 1 Stars
      5

    Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

    Audible.co.uk reviews

    Amazon reviews
    Sort by:
    Filter by:
    • Overall
      4 out of 5 stars
    • Performance
      4 out of 5 stars
    • Story
      4 out of 5 stars
    Profile Image for Mary Carnegie

    Very decent Holmes pastiche

    Many writers have attempted to produce new tales of one of the world's most famous and instantly recognisable fictional characters, though, in fairness, his "hagiographer" Watson, is equally well-known, and probably more loved.
    John Taylor has managed to capture Doyle's tone and style (even better with this series than with the Railway mysteries, IMO).
    He seems to have researched the period adequately, considered the geography, and avoided stretching credibility any further than did ACD himself (which does leave fair leeway, but not as much as "Sherlock Holmes vs the Martians/Dracula/Burke & Hare/Sawnie Bean" or, this is in a book not of my invention, involved in orgies in the Vatican. (The Vatican cameos" rapidly returned to Audible) There have been times long ago, that this last would have been possible, but in Holmes' time the Popes weren't orgy-minded; as ridiculous to bad-mouth them on those grounds, as to construct a book on the basis that Trump suddenly found the Damascus road, resigned from White House, donated his filthy lucre to environmental charities and went off to do social work in poor communities in Mexico.
    Simon Callow & Nicky Henson do a convincing job of Holmes and Watson, though I'm not sure SC could carry it off visually, since we're conditioned to recognise Holmes from illustrations, countless film/TV productions, and Simon Callow is also so utterly wellknown, not a lanky, aquiline nosed, impassive ascetic loner...

    Report this

    Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

    You voted on this review!

    You reported this review!

    2 people found this helpful

    • Overall
      4 out of 5 stars
    • Performance
      4 out of 5 stars
    • Story
      4 out of 5 stars
    Profile Image for Soraki

    Unopened Casebook disclosed

    Solid stories, excellent performance and radio play scenes. Especially recommendable for a long cold or rainy evening.

    Report this

    Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

    You voted on this review!

    You reported this review!

    • Overall
      5 out of 5 stars
    • Performance
      5 out of 5 stars
    • Story
      4 out of 5 stars
    Profile Image for Andy Potter

    A fine Holmes adventure.

    On first coming across this title I had my doubts as to the attention to detail that would be paid to the original Holmes stories. However I found myself pleasently surprised as the stories, although short, are punchy ,well paced and full of the Holmes intrigue. Great performances from Henson and Callow and well written by John Taylor. more please!!

    Report this

    Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

    You voted on this review!

    You reported this review!

    4 people found this helpful

    • Overall
      1 out of 5 stars
    Profile Image for Mae

    Not downloading

    Not downloading despite all help from audible menus. I want my money back.
    Awful service.

    Report this

    Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

    You voted on this review!

    You reported this review!