'Sherlock Holmes' returns in Storytel audiobooks
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'Sherlock Holmes' returns in Storytel audiobooks
"Sherlock Holmes" is coming dorsum to life as Storytel has signed a deal with Conan Doyle Estate for new stories in audiobooks to be penned by novelist Anthony Horowitz, the Swedish audiobooks platform said on Monday.
FILE Photo: A worker looks at a "Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Never Lived and Will Never Die" exhibition affiche at the Museum of London in London October 16, 2014. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth/File Photo
STOCKHOLM: "Sherlock Holmes" is coming dorsum to life as Storytel has signed a deal with Conan Doyle Estate for new stories in audiobooks to exist penned past novelist Anthony Horowitz, the Swedish audiobooks platform said on Monday.
"Holmes", the hero of the fictional detective stories created past Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, has mass post-obit across the world and spawned several movies based on the graphic symbol.
Horowitz is known for writing the "Alex Rider" series, was chosen to write "James Bond" novels by the Ian Fleming estate and also wrote television set series such as "Midsomer Murders" and "Foyle's War".
Nether his artistic lead, three new stories will be written by a team of writers and the audio-offset versions will be released on all Storytel markets in spring 2022, the statement said. Storytel will brand a more formal announcement subsequently on Mon.
"This is going to be Sherlock Holmes from a very different perspective, staying true to the spirit of the books - which I have ever loved - merely expanding the narrative and the vision of Conan Doyle in all sorts of unexpected ways," Horowitz said.
Storytel offers listening and reading of over 500,000 audiobooks across 25 markets and competes with the likes of Amazon's Audible. Last month, it signed a deal with Spotify to allow its subscribers to listen to its library of audiobooks on Spotify from later this year.
Storytel is in talks with print publishers and for adaptations for idiot box and movies of the new "Holmes" adventures. Several Hollywood actors such equally Robert Downey Jr and Bridegroom Cumberbatch have played the character of "Holmes" for television series and movies.
(Reporting by Supantha Mukherjee in Stockholm; Editing past Emelia Sithole-Matarise)
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