Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes
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• Fifty-six short stories and four novels.
• Fifty-four radio plays.
• Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
• Biographies of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.
Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes is a CD-ROM multimedia adventure through the career of fiction's greatest detective.
The CD-ROM contains Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's
• A Study in Scarlet
• The Sign of Four
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
• The Hound of the Baskervilles
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes
• The Valley of Fear
• His Last Bow
• The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
The stories are presented in plain text versions and illustrated PDF versions formatted for easier reading and featuring the original illustrations by Sidney Paget and Frank Wiles that accompanied the stories when first published in The Strand Magazine.
The PDF files can be easily viewed with the freely available Adobe Acrobat Reader.
The CD-Rom also features 54 Radio plays originally broadcast in the period 1939-47 by NBC in the series The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes which starred Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in the roles of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson respectively. Included amongst the plays are some of the best known of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes adventures.
• The Speckled Band
• The Bruce Partington Plans
• The Man With The Twisted Lip
• A Scandal In Bohemia
• The Red Headed League
The radio plays are presented in the MP3 format to enable over 25 hours of audio to be compressed to fit onto a single CD.
Copyright Notice
The contents of this CD-ROM, the collected works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the NBC radio broadcasts of The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, are all in the public domain in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and most other countries of the world.
However the collected volume of The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes is still under copyright in the US as are the NBC radio plays. For this reason the CD-ROM is not available for sale in the US.
