Sherlock

Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle Adventures is a nineteen-story collection selected by Sherlock BBC co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, representing their personal favorites from the original Conan Doyle canon. The selection ranges from the opening appearance in A Study in Scarlet through late classics, offering an editorial argument about which Doyle stories most prefigure the television adaptation's concerns. Mark Gatiss's introduction provides context for each creator's choices.

Simon Vance and Mark Gatiss share narration, with Gatiss's own voice lending the collection an air of personal endorsement. Vance is one of the great British voices in audiobooks, and his command of the Holmes stories' register — the precision, the wit, the cold intelligence — gives the collection a consistent tonal authority. At just over twenty-five hours the collection is a substantial and editorially coherent introduction to the source material.