Best Arthur Conan Doyle Audiobooks
Where to Start with Arthur Conan Doyle
- Best entry point → The complete Sherlock Holmes
- Best standalone → Sherlock
- Start the Sherlock Holmes #1-9 series → Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Audio Collection
- What fans keep coming back to → A Study in Scarlet
- Best narrator for Arthur Conan Doyle → Sherlock Holmes Investigates: The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Highest rated by listeners → The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes #4)
Best Arthur Conan Doyle Audiobooks
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Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Audio Collection
Sherlock Holmes #1-9 • Book 1
by Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen Fry
Narrated by Stephen Fry
★ 4.97 ABR Score (239.5K ratings)★ 4.51 Goodreads (217.9K) ★ 4.84 Audible (21.6K)71h 57m listening time • Released 2017 - 2
The complete Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes #1-9
Narrated by Simon Vance
★ 4.82 ABR Score (226.9K ratings)★ 4.51 Goodreads (217.8K) ★ 4.74 Audible (9.0K)58h 4m listening time • Released 2013Simon Vance's narration transforms these detective stories into pure listening pleasure, giving each character distinct voice and energy across 58 hours that feel effortless to devour.
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes • Book 4
Narrated by Simon Prebble
★ 4.34 ABR Score (106.7K ratings)★ 4.29 Goodreads (106.3K) ★ 4.59 Audible (388)8h 27m listening time • Released 2010Simon Prebble nails the deductive precision and dry wit that make Holmes tick, transforming these Victorian mysteries into pure listening pleasure. The annotations add scholarly depth without ever feeling like homework.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sherlock Holmes • Book 5
by Arthur Conan Doyle, Akash Chauhan
Narrated by Simon Prebble
★ 4.17 ABR Score (393.1K ratings)★ 4.14 Goodreads (392.2K) ★ 4.36 Audible (873)6h 41m listening time • Released 2009Simon Prebble transforms this Gothic mystery into something genuinely unsettling—his performance makes the supernatural dread feel real, and the moorland becomes a character as menacing as any villain Holmes has faced.
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A Study in Scarlet
Sherlock Holmes • Book 1
Narrated by Simon Vance
★ 4.17 ABR Score (499.1K ratings)★ 4.13 Goodreads (499.1K) ★ 4.63 Audible (73)4h 5m listening time • Released 2018Simon Vance nails the Victorian eccentricity and deductive swagger that makes Holmes irresistible—he transforms the origin story into pure narrative propulsion, making it feel less like a historical artifact and more like the invention of modern detective fiction itself.
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The Valley of Fear
Sherlock Holmes • Book 7
Narrated by Simon Prebble
★ 4.02 ABR Score (56.4K ratings)★ 3.96 Goodreads (56.2K) ★ 4.46 Audible (158)6h 26m listening time • Released 2009Simon Prebble's narration transforms this sprawling transatlantic mystery into something genuinely gripping—his voice work separates Holmes's intellect from Watson's humanity in ways that make their partnership crackle.
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Sherlock
by Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat
Narrated by Simon Vance, Mark Gatiss
★ 3.90 ABR Score (491 ratings)★ 4.33 Goodreads (457) ★ 4.85 Audible (34)25h 17m listening time • Released 2017 - 8
Sherlock Holmes in A Scandal in Bohemia (The Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Book 4)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • Book 1
Narrated by Mark Young
★ 3.82 ABR Score (12.7K ratings)★ 3.83 Goodreads (12.7K) - 9
Sherlock Holmes Investigates: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sherlock Holmes • Book 5
Narrated by Simon Vance
★ 3.80 ABR Score (206 ratings)★ 3.95 Goodreads (63) ★ 4.52 Audible (143)5h 17m listening time • Released 2017Simon Vance transforms this Gothic mystery into a masterclass of suspense, his voice shifting between Holmes's razor-sharp intellect and the creeping dread of the moor itself. At just over five hours, it's the perfect length to devour in a weekend.
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The Man with the Twisted Lip - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • Book 6
by Arthur Conan Doyle, Edward Raleigh
Narrated by Saethon Williams
★ 3.76 ABR Score (7.3K ratings)★ 3.81 Goodreads (7.3K) - 11
The Phantom Coach: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Ghost Stories (The Connoisseur's Collections)
by Michael Sims, Elizabeth Gaskell, Amelia B. Edwards, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Robert W. Chambers, Mrs. Oliphant, W.W. Jacobs, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Rudyard Kipling, Ambrose Bierce, W.F. Harvey
Narrated by Matthew Waterson
★ 3.67 ABR Score (408 ratings)★ 3.73 Goodreads (295) ★ 4.13 Audible (113)10h 48m listening time • Released 2014Matthew Waterson's narration transforms these Victorian ghost stories into something genuinely atmospheric—each tale lands with psychological weight rather than cheap scares, making legends like Dickens and James feel freshly unsettling.
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Fangs
Vampire Archives • Book 2
by Otto Penzler, Kim Newman, Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Arthur Conan Doyle, Erik Davies
Narrated by Peter Altschuler, Scott Brick, Susan Denaker, Susan Duerden, Stephen Hoye, Carrington MacDuffie, Robin Sachs, Simon Vance, Bob Walter, Steve West
★ 3.64 ABR Score (228 ratings)★ 3.78 Goodreads (160) ★ 4.09 Audible (68)18h 26m listening time • Released 2010A stellar ensemble cast transforms these vampire tales—each narrator finds the perfect voice for stories ranging from Gothic dread to sensual horror, making this anthology feel like a curated night of dark fiction rather than a slog through a collection.
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H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural
by Stephen Jones, Henry James, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Davina Porter, Steven Crossley, Bronson Pinchot
Narrated by Davina Porter, Steven Crossley, Bronson Pinchot
★ 3.62 ABR Score (477 ratings)★ 3.68 Goodreads (339) ★ 3.99 Audible (138)16h 45m listening time • Released 2012Three stellar narrators bring genuine personality to a curated horror collection that traces the genre's DNA through its finest practitioners, making this far more than just an anthology.
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Vampire Stories
by Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Eighteen-Bisang, Martin H. Greenberg
Narrated by Steven Menasche
★ 3.50 ABR Score (603 ratings)★ 3.55 Goodreads (492) ★ 3.65 Audible (111)9h 9m listening time • Released 2013Steven Menasche brings genuine menace to Doyle's overlooked vampire tales, transforming a century-old curiosity into something that actually unsettles you.