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Title: Sherlock Holmes
Subtitle: A Case of Identity
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator: Edward Raleigh
Format: Unabridged
Length: 42 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-05-09
Publisher: Audio Holdings, LLC
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
Set in 1888, the story revolves around this case of Miss Mary Sutherland, a woman with a substantial income from the interest on a fund set up for her. She is engaged to a quiet Londoner who has recently disappeared. Listen as the great detective unravels a web of assumed identities and intrigue.
(P)2009 Audio Holdings, LLC
Editorial Reviews:
"A Case of Identity" was first published in 1892 as part of Arthur Conan Doyle's first short story collection, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The case is rather "elementary" even by the standards of the esteemed Baker Street detective: a wealthy woman's quiet fiancé goes missing and the bride-to-be hires Holmes to help track him down. Track him down Holmes does, but in a way that mystifies his colleague Watson until the keenly observant detective consents to share his solution.
As for the delivery of this mystery, performers don't get better than the late Edward Raleigh, whom AudioFile magazine named a Golden Voice for being "one of the industry's most sought-after narrators".
Members Reviews:
Fair
A simple mystery which I figured out early on. The story is about a young woman who comes to Sherlock Holmes asking for him to find her fiancée.
Sherlock Doesn't Even Break A Sweat
I listened to the audiobook version via Librivox
The entire situation of a missing suitor was solved without Sherlock ever having to leave his sitting room. Just by listening to testimony, reading a few letters, and summoning the culprit to his residence, he was able to reach his conclusions, which was somewhat anticlimactic, though resourceful on his part.
I enjoyed the narrator David Clarke. He had a great British accent and his use of different voices for the various characters was charming without being corny.
Elementar...
This is not among my favorites in the short stories from Sherlock Holmes series, but it is not completely bad. The story revolves around the case of Miss Mary Sutherland, a woman with a substantial income from the interest on a fund set up for her, which she will get full control upon her marriage. She is engaged to a quiet Londoner who has recently disappeared. Sherlock Holmes's detective powers are barely challenged as this turns out to be quite an elementary case for him, much as it puzzles Watson.
The fiancé, Mr. Hosmer Angel, is a curious character, rather quiet, and rather secretive about his life. Miss Sutherland only knows that he works in an office in Leadenhall Street, but nothing more specific than that. All his letters to her are typewritten, even the signature, and he insists that she write back to him through the local Post Office.
The climax of the sad liaison comes when Mr. Angel abandons Miss Sutherland at the altar on their wedding day.
Holmes, noting all these things, Hosmer Angel's description, and the fact that he only seems to meet with Miss Sutherland while her disapproving youngish stepfather, James Windibank, is out of the country on business, reaches a conclusion quite quickly. A typewritten letter confirms his belief beyond doubt. Only one person could have gained by this: Mr. James Windibank. Holmes deduces "Angel" had "disappeared" by simply going out the other side of a four-wheeler cab.
After solving the mystery, Holmes chooses not to tell his client the solution, since "If I tell her she will not believe me.
