The Case of the Man Who Was Wanted by Arthur Whitaker - Sherlock Holmes pastiche. 

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The man of a thousand voices ❤️

I Know he's absolutely amazing no one i mean no can even compare I can't listen to anyone else read SH his readings of the valley of fear , the sign of 4 and a study in scarlet really blew my mind I refer to him as the G.O.A.T

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And yet his voice (& reading style) are immediately recognisable!

Even it is rabbit hole mystery for me , how he does it , We need Sherlock home to solve , then again it will be read by Greg , 😛

Glad you enjoyed it. Yes I must make a pilgrimage to More / Totley. I expect the tunnel is still there? Thanks Jane.

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Leave 1 - 2 years and repeat!

Great advice!

Ah! Greg, he damns you with faint praise... I understand that you *are* a professional, and a superlative one at that.

Will do!

Ha! The importance of punctuation! Fork ‘andles, etc.

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Dumb down your statement for me please

@@paddypup1836 I think I sort of get it🤔 Hold on Actually I Don’t 😂

@@paddypup1836 You need to click on "Show more" to read the entire blurb above the comments, which starts "This (in my opinion) is a great Sherlock Holmes pastiche..."

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I think so too, Clara!

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How relevant is that to your listening pleasure.

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I don't think he wrote anything else. He was an architect (unemployed at the time he wrote this excellent story). He sent it to Conan Doyle, hoping they could collaborate, but was told he should invent his own character. CD purchased what he called this "fine story" to have the rights to use the plot, but never did.

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It wouldn´t be Homes. His trademarks are intelligence and sense of justice.

Only the ones on the channel, Zeth.

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That's a fascinating idea.Imagine at the height of Holmes mania when The Strand (I think) were publishing them and they were madly successful I wonder if Conan Doyle had writers block or if he found it difficult to write a story for the deadline and so a ghost 👻 writer did indeed write a story or 2 ,there are some rubbish ones like Silver Blaze or The Lions Mane.Hmmm food for thought Julie.

@@justincarr8178 Silver Blaze isn´t rubbish, it´s a classic and popular SH story. For my part, I don´t think any of the stories were written by anyone else. I studied literature and wrote a paper on SH so I might have developed some instinct for this kind of thing. And my instinct says they were all written by sir Conan Doyle. The plots are very different but there are some subtle similarities. There´s roughly the same amount of visual details in every story. There´s roughly the same ratio of precision : sensationalism in every story. I could go on and on.

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It's like the author was doing Sherlock Holmes instead of being Holmes. Does that make sense?

I did enjoy it though.

@@LambentLark Absolutely 🙂 I agree, only would like to add that he does Sherlock Holmes very well, compared to some other pastiches I´ve read. Btw I enjoyed it, too 🙂

He has done, A LOT. Just check out the channel 🙂

Good to hear

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Glad to hear it. Thanks Vicki.

Glad you enjoyed it, Marc. A pipe - what a splendid idea!

The author didn't publish it. He sent it to Doyle hoping for a collaboration You can read the history in the blurb above the comments section (click on "Show more")

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Ha!

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You are very welcome. Must visit Budapest soon. Is it less expensive than Vienna?

Hope you're doing ok now, Liz. Thanks for listening.

Really good pastiche! 😲👍 Interesting back story too.

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Hope you like it!

Welcome, Eric.

Like fan fiction?

Yes. I agree.

Interesting. I blame Bradshaw.

Odd seeing that the writer was a native of the Steel City, he also puts the words "Sheffield GC station" a few times into Holmes mouth but the Great Central didn't come into being until 1897 and the story is set in 1895. Also the station was always known has Sheffield Victoria anyway!

The last couple of stories are pastiches.

Indeed.

My first language is not English, but I am good with this speed. Sounds really like Holmes/Watson would talk naturally. Speedy but super clear.

Coffee?

Because you're critical of the grammatical error, I feel it's my job as part of the commentariat to point out that you wrote "tel minutes" instead of "ten minutes". Mistakes happen, and that's ok.

If you listen to a study in Scarlett, Watson first moves in with Holmes & Holmes does not know the earth rotates around the sun & now that he does know, he will actively try to forget because it is not necessary information. 😉 and that's canon.

I think if someone had corrected Holmes grammar he would make a quippy remark & continue speaking the way we wants because he got the point across and that's what matters.

When writers aren´t strictly grammatical, it´s sometimes done on purpose and has a deeper meaning. "The greatest evil" has a meaning of its own. It´s possible the writer wanted to convey two meanings: not only it´s the bigger evil of the two, but Holmes is inclined to think being too early is one of the greatest evils in general. That would be a joke about the fact that he´s hell-bent on accuracy and efficiency. A subtle joke on the weird inner values that make him a great detective.

@@nathanharper5670 a typo on a comment is a little different from an error in a supposedly professional public programme.

Me neither.

With total respect to you, 'name dropping' does occur in Holmes cases sometimes! Regarding the traveling times, there's an interesting article in the Telegraph about travel in the late 19th century. Journey times between countries couldn't be compared solely in terms of distance, as we do today; apparently a lot depended on if the country visited had been colonialised or not. I'm not going to go into it fully here, but it is rather interesting to read up about. Going by the fact that this story was written in 1911, we can safely assume the author knew his journey times (!!) and likely chose the Alps in deference to Conan Doyle's own wife: "In 1893, Conan Doyle and his wife moved to Davos Switzerland for his wife’s health. Earlier that year Louise was diagnosed with tuberculosis. The prognosis was grim. She only had a few months to live. However, Conan Doyle had heard that the climate of Switzerland was beneficial for tuberculosis patients. Louise defied her initial prognosis, and died in 1904." Don't forget too that the upper class victorian doctor attended the various coughs colds and maladies of a whole family. He was kind of like an unpaid servant who relied on tips. "One of my best patients" I'm assuming meant one of his more profitable ones! ❤

"Best Patients" are those rare delights that pay promptly on time and have the courtesy to respond to treatment. Ask any Doctor.

I hope so

Very kind- thank you!

Of course I can, only it´s the newspapers´ websites 😂 There´s one radio in my country that still does traditional, fairly unbiased and detailed reporting. They have a good website.

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Cheers Scotticus. Hope you're doing good. Happy Christmas etc.