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Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Murder at Lodore Falls
Author: Charlotte Smith
Narrator: Ric Jerrom
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-19-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
From the well-worn tin dispatch box belonging to Dr J. H. Watson, three untold stories are brought to light.
In Sherlock Holmes and The Murder At Lodore Falls, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are drawn into a case that involves murder, blackmail and robbery. It is a case that leads to danger to both Homes and Watson and brings a confrontation with their old adversary. With Dr Watson facing his own personal nightmares, will Holmes be able to solve the mystery and help his troubled friend? The two other tales are Christmas stories.
In The Adventure Of The Wooden Boat, Dr Watson is haunted by an old tragedy and copes by building a model boat, which is an old family tradition. In The Call of Angels, Dr Watson has an accident while travelling back to Baker Street and is aided by a mysterious stranger. Who is this mysterious stranger?
Members Reviews:
Novelette and two short essays
Sherlock Holmes and the Murder at Lodore Falls by Charlotte Smith
This is the first Holmes book published by Ms Smith, a member of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London and founding member and Liverpool and Wirral Sherlock Holmes Society
The book consists of three stories, the titular novelette and two short stories. If I were to choose one word for the theme that runs through all three it would be âcamaraderie.â The three stories give the reader a sense of just what these two friends mean to each other as they face various dangers.
Sherlock Holmes and the Murder at Lodore Falls
First of all, the book makes no effort to name Watson as the writer. Thus one does not expect it to flow in the same vein as an original story from the canon. This book is written by a third party.
At the start of the story, two cousins and a friend from the Army have gone into business together. Matthew Crowther, Brett Sullivan, and Danny Petersonâs Civil Engineering company has a formula for gelata lignis, given to Matthew by a friend to experiment and ascertain its value as an explosive.
Like many struggling companies, the firm has need of investors, and one company, Sykeâs Holdings, Ltd, has invested an unnamed amount into the research.
Now the three partners are in danger from a criminal organization known as The James Gang. Determined to get the formula at any cost, the gang murders Matthew at Lodore Falls. He had slipped the formula into his watch and had it posted to his cousin.
The cousin, Brett Sullivan and his friend Danny Peterson now come under attack so Sullivan visits Holmes.
The trail leads through deserted docks, another murder, back alleys and odd corners of London before the gang confronts Holmes and Watson. Both wounded and marked for death by an old foe, how will they survive?
Itâs a good story if a bit slow paced and I give it four out of five stars.
âThe Call of Angelsâ is set at Christmastime. Watson has had a long day at his surgery, and missed the last cab home to 221B. Holmes is in a dither as the weather is bad, and Watsonâs leg unable to bear a lot of stress.
Shortcutting through Hyde Park, Watson falls and is knocked unconscious. He awakes helped by a man who says he is the caretaker of the park. Holmes has gone in search of Watson, reasoned that he may be in the park, and is told by the same man where Watson is.
The story dips into the supernatural, which some Holmes readers may chaff at, but the mystical quality isnât all that bad.
