'Sherlock Holmes' returns in Storytel audiobooks
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'Sherlock Holmes' returns in Storytel audiobooks
"Sherlock Holmes" is coming back 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 Mon.
FILE Photo: A worker looks at a "Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Never Lived and Volition Never Dice" exhibition poster at the Museum of London in London October xvi, 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 by novelist Anthony Horowitz, the Swedish audiobooks platform said on Monday.
"Holmes", the hero of the fictional detective stories created by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, has mass following across the earth and spawned several movies based on the character.
Horowitz is known for writing the "Alex Passenger" series, was chosen to write "James Bond" novels by the Ian Fleming estate and also wrote television series such as "Midsomer Murders" and "Foyle's War".
Under his creative lead, three new stories volition be written past a team of writers and the audio-first versions volition be released on all Storytel markets in spring 2022, the statement said. Storytel will make a more formal annunciation afterwards on Mon.
"This is going to be Sherlock Holmes from a very different perspective, staying truthful to the spirit of the books - which I have always loved - simply expanding the narrative and the vision of Conan Doyle in all sorts of unexpected means," 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, information technology signed a deal with Spotify to permit its subscribers to listen to its library of audiobooks on Spotify from later this yr.
Storytel is in talks with impress publishers and for adaptations for television and movies of the new "Holmes" adventures. Several Hollywood actors such as Robert Downey Jr and Benedict Cumberbatch have played the character of "Holmes" for telly series and movies.
(Reporting past Supantha Mukherjee in Stockholm; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise)
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