OLD SAYBROOK - Audio book publisher Tantor Audio will publish Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's four Sherlock Holmes novels. The newly recorded audiobooks will be available in time for the highly anticipated Sherlock Holmes movie, opening in theaters worldwide on Christmas Day. The novels - A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear - will be narrated by Simon Prebble, one of AudioFile's Golden Voices, and will also include two bonus features: one of Doyle's popular short stories and a companion e-book. The audiobooks will be available November 23 and can be pre-ordered at tantor.com or through major retailers and distributors, in CD, MP3-CD and download format.
Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr., as the title character and Jude Law as his trusted colleague, Watson, is directed by Guy Ritchie for Warner Brothers Pictures.