In this, the final chapter, Holmes explains to Dr. Watson how he cracked the case of the Hound of the Baskervilles, and how all the proverbial loose ends may be tied up–once and forever.
Podcast: Embed
Category Archives: Sherlock Holmes
New Reading of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Chapter 14: “The Hound of the Baskervilles”
In this, the penultimate chapter of the novel, Holmes and Watson together solve the crime and save Sir Henry Baskerville.
Podcast: Embed
New Reading of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Chapter 13: “Fixing the Nets”
Holmes and Watson prepare a trap for the evil one who hails from Merripit House, in this pivotal chapter of the book, now nearing its fateful conclusion.
Podcast: Embed
New Reading of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Chapter 12: “Death on the Moor”
Sherlock Holmes makes his return in the novel, and not a moment too soon. After a frightful scare, the chapter moves closer to the story’s exciting denouement.
Podcast: Embed
New Reading of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Chapter 11: “The Man on the Tor”
Watson pursues both leads, the identity of “L.L.” and that of the man on the Tor, and he unravels both mysteries in this important chapter.
Podcast: Embed
New Reading of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Chapter 10: “Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson”
We are rapidly nearing the end of our mystery. But Watson continues to collect new questions along with new clues. One is the mysterious identity of “L.L.,” a woman who somehow lured Sir Charles to the moor gate where he died his horrible death. The other is the identity of the mysterious man on the Tor. It turns out that Selden and Barrymore know about him, too. But who is he? Watson ponders…and speculates…
Podcast: Embed
New Reading of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Chapter 9: “The Light Upon the Moor”
The gloom of the moor and the Great Grimpin Mire deepen as Watson explores the light upon the moor. Two terrible apparitions rise up before him. Listen–if you dare.
Podcast: Embed
New Reading of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Chapter 8: “The First Report of Dr. Watson”
Read for you by Rick Reiman. The plot thickens.
Podcast: Embed
New Reading of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Chapter Seven: “The Stapletons of Merripit Hall”
Read for you by your host, Rick Reiman.
Podcast: Embed
New Reading of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Chapter Six: “Baskerville Hall”
Read for you by Rick Reiman. Subscribe and automatically receive the next episode in the series, Chapter 7, coming soon.
Podcast: Embed
New Reading of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Chapter Five: “Three Broken Threads”
Read for you by your host, Rick Reiman.
Podcast: Embed
New Reading of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Chapter Four: “Sir Henry Baskerville”
Read for you by Rick Reiman.
Podcast: Embed
New Reading of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Chapter Three: “The Problem”
Read for you by Rick Reiman.
Podcast: Embed
“The Hound of the Baskervilles,” Continued, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Chapter Two, “The Curse of the Baskervilles”
The story continues, read for you by Rick Reiman.
Podcast: Embed
A New Reading of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Chapter One
Read for you by Rick Reiman.
Podcast: Embed
NEW! “The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor,” a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
Read for you by Rick Reiman. This is another classic from “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,” by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Podcast: Embed
“The Game is Afoot!” A NEW Narration of “The Adventure of the Abbey-Grange,” a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
Arthur Conan Doyle intended this story to be his final official entry in the Holmes canon. He later added “The Adventure of the Second Stain” (also in this narrated collection) to serve that distinctive role. Holmes and Watson spar over the latter’s dramatic depiction of Holmes’s detective methods and Holmes uncharacteristically gets on Watson’s nerves. Holmes’s brilliance is nevertheless on full display in this entry. Watson should have remembered that Sherlock Holmes is a package deal; if you want the genius, you must accept the eccentricity. As the final entry in my series of narrations of the Holmes stories (for awhile) this one naturally is the most skillfully done. Since one learns to improve with each effort, how could it not be? On a personal note, as I now know, the first half of the recording was made on the eve of my first positive test for Covid-19. The second half of the recording was made while emerging from the ordeal. I could not allow Covid to stop me; after all, “the game was afoot,” in the words of Sherlock Holmes!
From “The Adventure
of the Abbey-Grange”
Podcast: Embed
An Introduction to “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot,” notes written and read by the narrator, Rick Reiman
Every Doyle story contains slips and errors, whether of outrageous fortune or simply haste. In this four-minute introduction to the complete story, which I narrate next in this series on AudiblySpeaking, I bring the listener’s attention not only to some of these mistakes but also to some foregrounding of the backstory surrounding its writing and composition.
Podcast: Embed
NEW! “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot,” a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle
Read for you by Rick Reiman. This excellent addition to the Sherlock Holmes canon contains many of the aspects that delight his readers. It is set in a macabre and romantic setting, the moors of Cornwall; it has Holmes pitting himself against the common feeling that there must be something supernatural afoot. These traces of “The Hound of the Baskervilles” are not all that recommend it. People go from normal to mad in a matter of minutes. The villain of the story wastes Holmes’s time with an attempted diversion that the detective must dispose of through his amazing talent for ratiocination. The story is slyly autobiographical as well, because Doyle has Holmes attempt a possibly-fatal experiment that Doyle himself had practiced at the risk of his own life. In this story, Holmes and Watson come as close as they ever do to calling each other by their first names. This was a conceit that the Granada TV series (1984-1994) employed when it had Holmes cry out to Watson, “John!”
From “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot” (1910)
Podcast: Embed
NEW! “The Greek Interpreter,” a Sherlock Holmes Story by Arthur Conan Doyle
One of Doyle’s favorite Holmes stories is this one, about an interpreter who gets caught up in a strange “country house” mystery, replete with plaster of paris victims and giggling villains. We also are introduced to Sherlock’s brother, Mycroft, and the hilarious Diogenes Club, the favorite of unsociable, “unclubbable,” men– such as Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes. Mycroft later reappears in “The Bruce-Partington Plans,” also available right here on Audibly Speaking, with audio narration by (me) Rick Reiman. I hope you enjoy it.
The Greek Interpreter, image by Sidney Paget
Podcast: Embed