The Sherlock Holmes series read in unabridged form, by David Timson for Naxos Audiobooks is widely regarded as one of the finest. Here, Timson brings his remarkable performance skills to one of Doyle's full-length novels. Holmes and his faithful Dr Watson are summoned to a country house by a coded message. They arrive too late to save a life and then pursue the trail which leads to the unmasking of the murderer.
1 The Valley of Fear Part 1: The Tragedy of Birlstone Chapter 1: The Warning
2 May I Be There to See!
3 Sherlock Holmes Had Pushed Away
4 We Pay the Price, Watson
5 Chapter 2: Sherlock Holmes Discourses
6 The Inspectors Eyes Grew Abstracted
7 Queer, Certainly! But What Do You Gather from It?
8 Chapter 3: The Tragedy of Birlstone
9 It Was Remarked, Sometimes
10 The Country Policeman Was Unnerved and Troubled
11 When the Lamps Were Lit, Said the Butler
12 Chapter 4: Darkness
13 White Mason Gazed at My Friend
14 I Have Worked with Mr. Holmes Before
- Disc 2 -
1 He Impressed Me This Country Specialist
2 That's All Clear Enough
3 It Gives Me the Impression of a Secret Society
4 Chapter 5: The People of the Drama
5 Cecil Barker Succeeded Mrs. Allen As a Witness
6 I Should Like These Dates a Little Clearer, Said MacDonald
7 I Don't Know That I've Anything Else
8 The Valley of Fear, the Lady Answered
9 Chapter 6: A Dawning Light
10 I Beg - I Implore That You Will, Dr. Watson!
11 How Do I Know That They Are Lying?
12 There Is An Appalling Directness About Your Question
13 Well Now, to Continue Our Supposititious Case
14 MacDonald Referred to His Notebook
15 Chapter 7: The Solution
16 You Are Making Fools of Us, Mr. Holmes!
- Disc 3 -
1 Well, Were Bound to Take You on Your Own Terms
2 We All Had Good Reason to Join in the Aspiration
3 Sherlock Holmes Put the Sopping Bundle Upon the Table
4 The Man Stood Blinking at Us
5 I'm Not Going to Begin at the Beginning
6 It Was at That Instant That the Idea Came to Me
7 The Valley of Fear Part II: The Scowrers Chapter 1: The Man
8 The Iron and Coal Valleys of the Vermissa District
9 All Right, Mate, No Offence Meant
10 The Country Had Been a Place of Terror
11 It Was Opened at Once By Someone Very Different
12 Chapter 2: The Bodymaster
13 Scanlan Looked at Him Long and Fixedly
14 I Can But Tell You Vat the Whole Vorld Knows, Mister
15 Again There Was the Struggle Upon McMurdos Face
16 For a Few Moments, McMurdo and the Girl Stood in Silence
17 All Else in the Man - His Noble Proportions
- Disc 4 -
1 There Was a Small Room There
2 You Seem to Have a Good Nerve
3 Chapter 3: Lodge 341, Vermissa
4 McMurdo Shrank Away from Him
5 On a Saturday Night
6 It Was Pitch Dark and Very Oppressive Under His Hood
7 When the Drinks Which Followed the Ceremony of Initiation
8 There Was Great Applause at This
9 There Was a Hush at These Ominous Words
10 I Protest Against That, Said Brother Morris
11 The Company Broke Up with Shouts and Yells
12 Chapter 4: The Valley of Fear
13 McMurdo, Who Had Been Watching His Companion
14 It Was a Lonely House, Twenty Miles from Here
15 The Question Came So Suddenly That It Was As Well
16 So Determined Was the Appearance of the Captain
17 Chapter 5: The Darkest Hour
- Disc 5 -
1 It's to Another Woman
2 It Was the Most That Ettie Could Obtain
3 In Spite of the Reticence in the Lodge Room
4 There Was High Revel in the Lodge Room
5 It Had Been a Great Day for the Scowrers
6 Two Nights Later They Met Outside the Town
7 Chapter 6: Danger
8 But His Words Had Moved McMurdo Deeply
9 And Yet It Was Clear from His Actions
10 Indeed, It's Glad We Are to See You, Brother!
11 Now, McMurdo! Said McGinty When They Were Alone
12 Chapter 7: The Trapping of Birdy Edwards
13 McMurdo Shrugged His Shoulders
14 Their Host Had Placed Whisky Upon the Table
15 There Were Ten Seconds After That Brief Speech
16 You Blasted Traitor!
17 Epilogue
The Sherlock Holmes series read in unabridged form, by David Timson for Naxos Audiobooks is widely regarded as one of the finest. Here, Timson brings his remarkable performance skills to one of Doyle's full-length novels. Holmes and his faithful Dr Watson are summoned to a country house by a coded message. They arrive too late to save a life and then pursue the trail which leads to the unmasking of the murderer.
