A Bell Toils in the Vieux Carré

By: Michael Gandy

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Synopsis: My one-time take on a Sherlock Holmes-type mystery, this one takes the real-life model for Holmes, the Edinburg physician Dr. Joseph Bell, and transports him with a clerk who may or may not be Arthur Conan Doyle to New Orleans in the late nineteenth century ostensibly for a vacation but which turns into a search for a serial killer. I had a great deal of fun recording the talking book, which required I employ all sorts of British accents, bringing forth the skill in mimicry that used to annoy our British mother no end. And too, inspired by Shakespeare in Love, there are all sorts of references to characters and places in the Holmes canon.