The Patients Eyes, David Pirie
The Patients Eyes, David Pirie
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The Patient's Eyes

Author: David Pirie

Narrator: Richard Matthews

Unabridged: 7 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/22/2002


Synopsis

As a young medical student in Edinburgh, Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, studied under the pioneering, forensic scientist Dr. Joseph Bell. Taking this fact as a starting point, David Pirie weaves a compelling thriller which partners Bell and Doyle as they investigate crime in the strange underworld of violence and sexual hypocrisy running beneath the civilized surface of the Victorian era.

The Patient’s Eyes moves from Edinburgh to Southsea where Doyle begins his first medical practice. He’s puzzled by his patient Heather Grace’s strange eye condition. Heather’s parents died tragically several years earlier, and she’s upset by visions of a phantom cyclist who vanishes as soon as he is followed. When Doyle gets embroiled in more dangerous events, he asks for Bell’s intervention. But Bell is more interested in the patient’s eyes, and the solitary cyclist, than the murder of a rich Spanish businessman.

About The Author

David Pirie was a journalist and film critic before he became a screenwriter. Just a few of his numerous credits are the BAFTA-nominated adaptation for the BBC's The Woman in White and his collaboration with Lars von Trier on the script for the Oscar-nominated film Breaking the Waves. Pirie lives in Somerset.Richard Matthews is a performer who has narrated many audiobooks, including A Short History of Nearly Everything1984, and The Count of Monte Cristo.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Viola on February 08, 2020

Man vienmēr ir patikuši A.K.Doila stāsti par Š.Holmsu. Šī vēsturiskā detektīva galvenie tēli ir A.K.Doils, tajā brīdī vēl jauns medicīnas students un viņa pasniedzējs Edinburgas universitātē - Dr. Dž. Bels, kurš,kā uzskata daudzi literatūras pētnieki, ir bijis Holmsa prototips. Kopumā prasmīgi samud......more

Goodreads review by Aleshanee on May 09, 2016

4.5 Sterne Meine Meinung Nachdem ich letztens bei "Der Fall Moriarty" schon ein Sherlock Holmes Buch ohne Sherlock Holmes gelesen habe, folgt hier direkt das nächste - übrigens mit einem wunderschönen Cover wie ich finde! In den "dunklen Anfängen von Sherlock Holmes" geht es um niemand geringeren als......more

Goodreads review by Riju on June 06, 2011

This epitome of apocryphal Sherlockiana (Doyle-iana?) has been reviewed at length by people more accomplished, and by professionals who know how to award marks as well as how to deduce them while reviewing a work. Alas, an ignoramus like me can only go ga-ga (not the Lady, of course) over something......more


Quotes

“Writer David Pirie has crafted a clever blend of historical evidence and fiction in the grand manner of a traditional Holmes mystery.” –Variety