A Farewell to Baker Street

De: Mark Mower

Narrado por: Alan Weyman

There is always room in the world for more gripping tales about the exploits of the inimitable Sherlock Holmes and the redoubtable Dr. Watson. Here is a collection of five previously unknown cases from the astonishing career of the consulting detective and his ever-loyal partner. "An Affair of the Heart" demonstrates the critical interplay between the two men which made their partnership so memorable and endearing. "The Curious Matter of the Missing Pearmain" is a classic locked-room mystery, while "The Case of the Cuneiform Suicide Note" sees Dr. Watson using his expert knowledge in helping to solve the mystery surrounding the death of an academic. In "A Study in Verse", the pair assists the Birmingham City Police in a complicated case of robbery, which leads them toward a new and dangerous adversary. And to complete the collection, we have "The Trimingham Escapade", the very last case the pair enjoyed together, which neatly showcases the inestimable talents of Sherlock Holmes. All of these tales are designed to contribute in some small part to the lasting memory of two extraordinary men who once occupied that setting we have come to know and love as 221B Baker Street.

©2015 Mark Mower (P)2016 Mark Mower

An interesting collection

These are five interesting short stories in the style of the originals, nicely done and enticing. The narrator, IMHO, is not the best, but I still enjoyed this book a lot.

Good collection of stories

Mark Mower presents 5 “previously unknown” Sherlock Holmes stories set in Holmes & Watson’s later years. Good stories set in the ACD style. The narration by Alan Weyman is very good,

HORRIBLE NARRATOR

The narration was horrible, narrator even had a speech inpetament, don,t waste your money on this one.

latter times

an enjoyable collection of stories...loved them
stories of their latter years...hope for more of these tales

Great stories

While I very much enjoyed the stories themselves, the slight speech impediment of the narrator (in which R sounds more like W) was sometimes pronouced and quite distracting.

Hopeless

Is there anything you would change about this book?

The narrator

What do you think your next listen will be?

Probably another Sherlock Holmes

What didn’t you like about Alan Weyman’s performance?

I simply could not stand the voices of Holmes and Watson. Therefore, I could not listen to the entire book. After listening to Simon Vance and others as Sherlock Holmes this narration was almost comic book material.

Do you think A Farewell to Baker Street needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

No

Any additional comments?

It was a shame that this book was done this way. It could have been enjoyable if one could listen to the stories and not the voice.

A decent facsimile

This was a fun return visit to 221 Baker Street. The author had a good understanding of Sherlock Holmes, and made us feel it. He even managed to pull off a Doyle-esque flashback.

The reader also did a pretty good job, but didn’t give individual characters as much differentiation as some others have. He also had a small difficulty with the letter w, sometimes pronouncing it more like an r.

All in all, it was an enjoyable pastiche, and worth the listen.

A great set!

This was a splendid collection of some short stories with longer ones. Mower is an excellent representative of the skilled Sherlockian writers publishing today.

Sherlock and Watson - the elder years

Decent stories in the last years of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The performance was adequate.

Narrator is a no

With all due respect I don't know how you can work in a profession such as narration when you have a speech impediment... especially for a book like Sherlock Holmes. In no cannon of Sherlock should the voice of either Holmes or Watson have a speech impediment. Extremely distracting to the story.
Additionally, there is no auditory distinction between Holmes' and Watson's voices by this narrator which is just lazy and making enjoying the story that much harder.