The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons


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(4.4 étoiles; 7 critiques)

The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons: Being one of the Exciting Episodes in the Career of the Famous Detective Hemlock Holmes as Recorded by his Friend Dr. Watson is a parody of the Sherlock Holmes stories. "...there in the same old den, at 221-B Baker Street, in the city of London, we were domiciled on that eventful April morning in 1912 that saw us introduced to what turned out to be positively the dog-gonedest, most mixed-up, perplexing, and mysterious case we ever bumped up against in all our long and varied career in Arthur Conan Doyle's dream-pipe. It completely laid over "The Sign of the Four" and "The Study in Scarlet," and had "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" all beaten to a frazzle." That case is hereby related. - Summary by TriciaG & the author (3 hr 52 min)

Chapitres

Chapter I 13:46 Lu par SirQueezle
Chapter II 11:40 Lu par SirQueezle
Chapter III 10:28 Lu par TomDavisBeal
Chapter IV 10:54 Lu par Amelia Chesley
Chapter V 12:07 Lu par Andy Harrington
Chapter VI 14:33 Lu par Andy Harrington
Chapter VII 10:33 Lu par Andy Harrington
Chapter VIII 14:44 Lu par Andy Harrington
Chapter IX 12:38 Lu par Kathleen Moore
Chapter X 13:56 Lu par Kathleen Moore
Chapter XI 11:43 Lu par Kathleen Moore
Chapter XII 14:00 Lu par Kathleen Moore
Chapter XIII 10:20 Lu par Amelia Chesley
Chapter XIV 17:28 Lu par Amelia Chesley
Chapter XV 14:05 Lu par ToddHW
Chapter XVI 10:27 Lu par ToddHW
Chapter XVII 11:36 Lu par Devorah Allen
Chapter XVIII 17:51 Lu par Devorah Allen

Critiques


(3 étoiles)

I found the first reader's accents highly irksome because they were unnecessary, poorly done, and difficult to understand. With the accent for the Earl particularly, the reader sounds too nasally and as a result his words run together. After the first reader finished, the recordings by the successive readers were much more tolerable and intelligible, though the reader for chapter 9-11 was extremely insipid and monotonous. Apropos the story itself, the parody is enjoyable for any fan of the Sherlock Holmes stories. I did, however, find Hemlock Holmes's apathetic and irresponsible attitude to be upsetting, for even Sherlock Holmes was not indifferent to his work nor this cold in empathy to others. Likewise, Hemlock Holmes's methods are rather amateur, or "common" as the French chef aptly puts it, demonstrating a certain incompetence not at all what one would expect for a top-notch detective. Oddly, the supposed Norwegian coachman has a German accent.