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The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
- Narrated by: Walter Covell
- Length: 53 mins
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From the first line of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, audiobook master performer Walter Covell expertly differentiates his voice between everyone’s favorite spy, Sherlock Holmes, and everyone’s favorite spy’s assistant, Dr. Watson. In this briskly told and briskly plotted audiobook, Covell and Doyle bring the listener into the mysterious details surrounding the murder of Jonas Oldacre, the Norwood builder, and John Hector McFarlane, a lawyer with evidence stacking up against him. With plot twists and colourful characters, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder is a Sherlock Holmes classic.
Publisher's summary
"The Adventure of the Norwood Builder" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was the second tale published in The Return of Sherlock Holmes in 1903.
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- THoward
- 10-05-09
Enjoyed it but...
I enjoyed this story but it really jumped to the conclusion. I couldn't follow all of the assumptions of innocence. Great narration.
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- James
- 06-27-08
Wonderful
I've heard this narrator before and he does a wonderful job
with Sherlock Holmes stories. Five Stars.
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- 06-04-08
great
Excellent reading of Holmes story.
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