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If you are a fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes you have no doubt read most or all of his stories. Even reading his complete set of stories you may be left with questions about Holme’s life and times between stories. How he met Moriarty, why he bought a bee farm. This book gives us those stories. Originally done as radio plays and now converted to short stories.
This book contains thirteen stories converted from radio play to short story in the normal Holmes style. The stories are written as if the book was done by Holmes’ faithful companion Dr. Watson. As these stories originate from the 1940s they are able to fit the style of the original Doyle stories with ease.
Ken Greenwald has pulled off quite a feat with this book. Not only did he contribute to saving stories that could have been lost to time, he successfully converted an audio medium to written. The stories originally come from a weekly radio program around 1945 starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson. Greenwald heard these radio plays growing up, and by luck was able to aid in their preservation later in life.
If you are a fan of Sherlock Holmes and looking for more stories then this book is a great place to start. These stories seamlessly blend with the originals and add to the richness of the world.