The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1905), narrated by David Clarke. An immersive reading edition of the complete, unabridged collection — with word-by-word synchronized text on screen.

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📖 About the book

Follow Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson from Baker Street through the empty house on Park Lane, past the Priory School and Charles Augustus Milverton's Hampstead villa, into the Abbey Grange and the affair of the Second Stain — thirteen cases from Holmes's return after Reichenbach — with every word highlighted in sync with the narration.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905) collects the thirteen stories that resurrected the great detective a decade after Conan Doyle had sent him over the Reichenbach Falls. Watson finds his old friend alive and returns to Baker Street for a run of cases — the murder of Ronald Adair, the Norwood builder, the dancing men, the Abbey Grange, the theft of a naval treaty — that stand among the sharpest in the canon. Public outcry brought Holmes back; these are the adventures readers had been waiting for.

⏱ Chapters
0:00 Title
0:06 The Adventure Of The Empty House
55:49 The Adventure Of The Norwood Builder
1:53:34 The Adventure Of The Dancing Men
2:53:50 The Adventure Of The Solitary Cyclist
3:43:03 The Adventure Of The Priory School
4:22:03 Part 2
4:58:37 The Adventure Of Black Peter
5:50:20 The Adventure Of Charles Augustus Milverton
6:33:52 The Adventure Of The Six Napoleons
7:26:00 The Adventure Of The Three Students
8:08:10 The Adventure Of The Golden Pince-Nez
9:02:41 The Adventure Of The Missing Three-Quarter
9:52:01 The Adventure Of The Abbey Grange
10:46:07 The Adventure Of The Second Stain
11:46:40 End

🎙 Credits

Text: Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/108) — public domain
Narration: David Clarke via LibriVox (https://librivox.org/the-return-of-sh...) — public domain
This LitReads edition — typography, word-level synchronization, composition, and original visual design — © 2026 LitReads. All rights reserved.

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