The Adventure of the Speckled Band

'In glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which presented more singular features than that which was associated with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran.' - So begins The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

You can listen to the first ten minutes of our adaptation of The Speckled Band in Real Audio. The file is in stereo and encoded for modem speeds of 28.8 and up.

We also have a sound file of the beginning of A Study in Scarlet where you can hear how Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson first met (six minutes).

If you don't already have Real Audio player, you can download a copy

In the sound extract, you can hear the voices of Edward Petherbridge as Holmes, David Peart as Doctor Watson, Tessa Wojtczak as Helen Stoner, Mike McCormack as the Village Blacksmith, Douglas Blackwell as Dr Roylott and Cate Hamer as Julia Stoner.

Music composed and performed by Baluji Shrivastav.

The production is © Independent Radio Drama Productions Ltd. Dramatisation and direction by Tim Crook and Richard Shannon.

You can buy our dramatisations of Sherlock Holmes stories on cassette. Please visit our Drama Collection page.

IRDP's productions of Sherlock Holmes have been heard throughout the United States on National Public Radio.

The photograph above shows Edward Petherbridge as Holmes.

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