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Title: Tales of Terror and Mystery

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: BIll Paterson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-18-15

Publisher: silksoundbooks Limited

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Trapped by the strength of the public adoration of his character, Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle was desperate to write other works not involving the sleuth.

The Tales of Terror and Mystery have all the recognisable qualities that made Conan Doyle's work so popular - the attention to gruesome detail, the meticulous logic and the intricate and wittily bemusing plotting - yet they are free of the constraints put on Conan Doyle by Mr. Holmes.

These stories let loose the adventurous side of the rational and logical mind that many associate with Conan Doyle - the side that pulled him away from his medical studies as a young man to the Arctic Circle on a whaling ship - and, more importantly, the side that led him to a firm belief that grew throughout his life in the occult and the spiritual.

His commitment to things psychic was so great that it is claimed he spent an estimated 258 pounds in the later years of his life on various occult causes. The pioneer fascinated by advances in the technology of flight is released in "The Horror of the Heights", with Conan Doyles hero subjected to the hitherto unknown terrors of the upper layers of the atmosphere.

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Title: Kidnapped

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrator: Nicholas Rowe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-15

Publisher: silksoundbooks Limited

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The wild adventure that David Balfour takes in Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped starts with the newly orphaned boy travelling to his uncle's terrifying House of Shaws. Having failed in an attempt to murder young David, the miserly Ebeneezer Balfour, who would rather keep the fortune to which the child is now entitled, arranges for a kidnapping aboard a ship bound for the new world.

A fortunate collision with a small craft from France carrying young Balfour's saviour in the shape of Alan Breck Stewart saves the boy from the intended slavery and sets him on the extraordinary journey across the Highlands and island of Scotland that has become one of the most famous adventure stories of our time.

Set against the backdrop of the Jacobite uprisings and the attempts by the Scottish clans to rid their country of the English, Stevenson used many of the real characters of the uprisings in his novel. Most importantly is Alan Breck Stewart, the chief suspect in the notorious murder of the English government man Colin Campbell placed on the Stewart estates following their forfeiture after the Stewarts' near conquering of the English at Culloden.

Initially dismissed as a boys' yarn, Kidnapped has become one of the most influential of Stevenson's widely admired works. So much so that in 2007, when Edinburgh celebrated its year as the first UNESCO City of Literature, three versions of the book were made freely available to the public, with copies being left on buses and in other public places.

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Title: Markheim

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrator: Alan Howard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-15

Publisher: silksoundbooks Limited

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The stabbing of an antique dealer on Christmas Day leads the murderer, Markheim, to try to justify his life to the devil in an in-depth discussion about the nature of good and evil. His evening ends quite differently from how he'd planned it and results in him making an admission of guilt for the killing....

Author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh into a prestigious family of lighthouse designers and engineers on his father's side and moral philosophers on his mother's. His mother's legacy to the young Stevenson was rather more damaging, however, in that he inherited her weak lungs, which dominated his short life until his death 44 years later.

Stevenson did not begin writing seriously until he was 25, after he had acquired a legal qualification at his family's insistence. Maybe through the stress of completing a legal degree under duress, his health was seriously failing, and Stevenson was sent abroad to seek warmer climates.

He travelled to France, where he felt an immediate affinity with the more easygoing Southern culture, changing his name from Lewis to Louis, following the French spelling. He fell in love in 1880 with Fanny Vandergrift Osbourne, an American fleeing an unhappy marriage, and, having followed her to America, nearly killed himself traversing the continent to find her in San Francisco.

The rest of his life was spent chasing a climate that would help him in his fight against tuberculosis.

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Title: Heart of Darkness

Author: Joseph Conrad

Narrator: Toby Stephens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-16-15

Publisher: silksoundbooks Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is an exploration of the nature of evil and how far a man can go towards it when released from the constraints of what can be called civilisation.

Before beginning his life as a writer at the age of 36, Conrad spent 16 years as a merchant seaman. In 1889 he became captain of a steamboat in the Congo Free State, and the atrocities he witnessed there, perpetrated by the representatives of the Belgian colonial powers, led him to write what he called his Congo Diary.

The repulsion Conrad felt for his time in the Congo was compounded by his infection whilst there with malaria, which left him with a malarial gout in the wrist of his writing hand, the pain of which would stay with him for the rest of his life.

When Heart of Darkness was published in 1899, it echoed much of Conrad's horrific experience. The journey up the infested Congo River taken by his character Marlow is much like Conrad's own, but the ultimate antihero, Kurtz, with his compulsively magnetic madness, tinkering with the edges of pure evil, is a phenomenal literary creation, one which has excited imitations ever since, most famously in Francis Ford Coppolas 1979 film Apocalypse Now.

It is a terrifying and exhilarating journey, with Conrad taking you to the very depths of human nature and, in Marlows case, leaving him there.

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Title: A Study in Scarlet

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Richard E. Grant

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-02-15

Publisher: silksoundbooks Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

In 1886 Arthur Conan Doyle, whilst struggling to make a success of a failing medical practice in Portsmouth, set about writing a novel in order to boost his income. He began a story about a fiercely intelligent sleuth called Sheridan Hope. A year later A Study in Scarlet was published, and one of the most successful of literary characters began to take hold of the public's affections.

Sherlock Holmes, as he was now called, and his inimitable methods of deduction are introduced in this, the first of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

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Title: The Rockery

Author: E. G. Swain

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Edmund Gill Swain (1861-1938) was an English cleric and author of ghost stories. He was a longtime friend of M. R. James, and his ghost stories show James' influence.

In this story the vicar of Stoneground, Mr. Batchel, is having the rockery at his vicarage dug up. He and the gardener discover an old yew stake buried in the rockery on which is nailed a copper plaque bearing the inscription: 'Move Not This Stake, Nov. 1. 1702'.

As Mr. Batchel is keen to use the stake to support the wobbly garden pump, they go ahead and dig up the stake, at the base of which they discover an old iron chain. In doing so, Mr. Batchel has unwittingly unleashed something very evil into the neighbourhood....

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Title: The Return of Clubfoot

Author: Valentine Williams

Narrator: Tom S Weiss

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-18-15

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

While spending a holiday in a small Central American republic, Desmond Okewood of the Secret Service learns from a dying beachcomber of a hidden treasure. With the assistance of a millionaire, he sets out for Cock Island in the Pacific. To his astonishment he discovers that the Man with the Clubfoot, whom he had regarded as dead, has anticipated him. It is obvious to Okewood that his old enemy is also in search of the hidden gold, and there ensues a thrilling sequence of adventures, in which the millionaire's pretty daughter takes a prominent part.

Okewood has the cipher, and the Man with the Clubfoot determines to secure it, for without that cipher it is impossible to discover the hiding place of the treasure; but there is something that the Man with the Clubfoot does not know that Okewood does.

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Title: Sherlock Holmes: Murders on the Voyage to India

Author: Pennie Mae Cartawick

Narrator: Ian Whitcomb, J.W. Terry, Barbara Goodson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-15

Publisher: catherine kimball

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

This is an enhanced audiobook with a complete music score and extensive sound effects to add to your listening experience...

Murder, Murder.

The scream echoed down the hallway, shaking me from my slumber and into the dim vision of the electric lights. Someone was banging on the door, and Watson scrambled to open it. I was bleary-eyed, still feeling a bit desensitized when Evelyn Reed burst in to the door. Her hands were covered with odious red, and tears streaked across her reddened face. There's been a murder! She repeated.

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Title: The Woman in White

Author: Wilkie Collins

Narrator: Andrea Giordani

Format: Unabridged

Length: 25 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-14-15

Publisher: A.R.N. Publications

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 33 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Celebrated as one of the first popular mystery novels, The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, skillfully incorporates the twisting and turning of more than a few plot lines that all manage to converge beautifully at the end of the work.

Walter Hartright, an art teacher, crosses paths one day with a woman who appears to be distressed, and he notices immediately that she is clad in an all-white outfit. It is later made known to him that she is from an asylum, and that her name is Anne. The people of the community know her very well. After Walter takes a job at what is known as Limmeridge House, he notices that one of his students - Laura - looks strikingly like the distressed woman he met, Anne. But it is not until later on in the novel that he discovers the reason why.

Through a series of calculated moves that involve death and a large inheritance, the small community is rocked and shrouded in mystery at the hands of the conniving Sir Percival Glyde, who is interested only in making himself wealthy at the hands of others. As in all great novels, the antagonists get what they deserve, and the characters who maintain their dignity are rewarded handsomely in the end.

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Title: Thirty Great Detective Stories

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Ernest Bramah, R. Austin Freeman, G. K. Chesterton, Edgar Wallace, Hugh Walpole, W. F. Harvey

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-07-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A wonderful collection of 30 of the greatest detective and mystery stories ever written. Featuring all the great classic sleuths, including Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, Max Carrados, Dr. Thorndyke and Madame Rosika Storey.

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