The Forgotten Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Based on the Original Radio Plays by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green

Jeffers, H. Paul

ISBN 10: 0786715871 / ISBN 13: 9780786715879

Published by Carroll & Graf (edition First Edition), 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Forgotten Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Based on the Original Radio Plays by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786715871
• ISBN 13: 9780786715879
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

Adapted from the original Sherlock Holmes radio broadcasts featuring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce and penned by the talented Anthony Boucher, these new pastiches by H. Paul Jeffers are sure to thrill all lovers of the Holmes canon.

When radio broadcasts of Boucher's stories aired in the 1940s, Doyle fans were ecstatic. 221 A Baker Street Associates, with their discovery of the archive of these long-lost broadcasts, herewith presents the second volume of forgotten adventures featuring the Great Detective and his loyal companion, in tales certain to keep readers guessing until the final solution.

Reviews

Those familiar with the classic 1940s Rathbone-Bruce radio series won't find a lot to like in this superfluous collection of adaptations by Jeffers (The Adventure of the Stalwart Companions, which teamed Sherlock Holmes with Teddy Roosevelt). Even without reading the scripts that Jeffers worked from, Sherlockians can readily see where he has padded the short radio plays, as in the first tale, "In Flanders Fields," which lifts passages from "His Last Bow" and other canonical adventures. He later repeatedly resorts to catalogues, such as a list of "memorable dogs encountered in Holmes's cases" (which, incidentally, doesn't rank the Hound of the Baskervilles in its top three). A better pasticheur, like a Denis Smith or a Barrie Roberts, would have taken the opportunity to flesh out the personalities of the beloved Baker Street duo, either via added scenes or insightful observations from Watson as narrator.
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