IllMasterGrim

The Strand Recordings

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Step into the gaslit streets of Victorian London. The Strand Recordings features both complete and specially abridged readings of the Sherlock Holmes canon, recreating the experience of discovering these adventures as readers once did in the pages of The Strand Magazine . New cases, old mysteries, and the world’s most famous consulting detective.

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The Empty House 12.06.2026 54:51

This reading was originally recorded in 1971 for the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB). Few actors were as closely associated with Sherlock Holmes as Peter Cushing. He first donned the deerstalker in Hammer Films’ The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), later starred in the BBC’s Sherlock Holmes television series (1968), and returned to the role one final time in the television film Th...

The Speckled Band/The Final Problem 12.06.2026 53:18

Recorded in 1967 as the first volume in a series of 3, Caedmon Records featured legendary Holmes actor Basil Rathbone in a series of readings which were styled as “The Stories Of Sherlock Holmes”. Released in long form LP format, this recording features “The Speckled Band” from “The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes”, and “The Final Problem” from “The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes”.