Ian Shimwell has 24 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators. The most-rated is D'Artagnan's Legacy.
Toc Toc the Clockwork Engine
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Toc Toc is a clockwork engine who holds the secret to the tick and the tock. Little Titch, Gideon, and Minnie Millie come to the Clockwork Village with a cog, spindle, and wheel to fix the Great Clock. But what lies behind the towering clock face? And why, for a clockwork village, is there neither a tick nor a tock?
©2015 Ian Shimwell (P)2015 Ian Shimwell
Minnie Millie the Engine Lookerafterer
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Minnie Millie is the station cleaner who likes to look after her engine friends. But her friends, Little Titch and Gideon, want to know just who is it who controls all the Mainland engines. To find out, they must go all the way to the Big City, where the biggest surprise of all is waiting for them....
©2016 Ian Shimwell (P)2016 Ian Shimwell
Gideon the Kind Engine
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Gideon is a big, kind engine with a huge crane arm. But when he meets an even bigger engine, Massive Mandy, she is always very rude to him. With the help of his friends, can Gideon somehow find the softer side of the bad-tempered engine?
©2015 Ian Shimwell (P)2015 Ian Shimwell
Little Titch the Small Engine
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Say hello to Little Titch, the small engine with a big heart. Little Titch feels very small next to his good friend, the kind and very big engine, Gideon. But when Gideon forgets something important, it's up to the littlest of little engines to save the day....
©2015 Ian Shimwell (P)2015 Ian Shimwell
Sally Steamy: The Christmas Engine
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Sally Steamy is an engine who doesn't seem to like Christmas at all. Sally wants to keep herself busy and believe Christmas is just another day. Can Little Titch and a magical Christmas adventure somehow change her mind?
©2016 Ian Shimwell (P)2016 Ian Shimwell
Sherlock Holmes and the Egyptian Equation
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In fog-enshrouded Victorian London, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson soon become entangled in a deadly web of intrigue and cryptic clues. Who is the silver-caned shadowy stranger? Is Euclid's College lecturer John Kindred really in danger? And what is the connection to the fabled and priceless emerald, the Egyptian Sepulchre? Holmes slowly suspects that the answers may lie behind a quite extraordinary equation.
©2016 Ian Shimwell (P)2016 Ian Shimwell
The Sherlock Holmes Scripts: The Complete Holmes and Watson Series
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Solve the Egyptian equation, witness the Montague murders, fear the Legend of Loch Logarth, and close Holmes' final chapter.... All four original Sherlock Holmes scripts of The Holmes and Watson Series, written and performed in the style of the classic Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce films. Audiobook is further enhanced with atmospheric music and sound effects. The Sherlock Holmes Scripts also features a bonus additional scene, "Mrs. Hudson Speaks", and an introduction by Holmes' trusted scriber himself, Doctor Watson.
©2017 Ian Shimwell (P)2017 Ian Shimwell
The Prime
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What is so special about Space Pilot Harrys? True, he values his individuality above anything else. He is even weary of being one-bonded with his female. But, just before the dawn of the next millennium, Harrys' belief system is about to be blown wide apart. Because, across the immense vastness of Space, the Prime is waiting for him...
©2013, 2014 Ian Shimwell (P)2014 Ian Shimwell
The Gift of Christmas
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Before... A young woman cycles precariously through a snowy wonderland, carrying the most precious gift of all... After... A troubled family encounter a stranger on the bleakest of Christmas Eves - a man who knows far more about them than he possibly could. And what exactly is this "gift of Christmas" he so reverently speaks of...?
©2014 Ian Shimwell (P)2014 Ian Shimwell
Old Tom Meets Psychic Derek
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An Armchair Detective feature-length special “So cold. So very, very cold.” Over 90 years ago, an abandoned boy does not last the night on the bitterly cold, snowy streets.... Modern-day Stokeham is gripped by a relentless blizzard. Trench and Debsy struggle through the snow to interview a stranded medium - psychic Derek. Why has psychic Derek come to a wintry Stokeham? Can he really speak to his spirit guide, Sammy? And what is Sammy’s connection to the tragedy that happened nearly a century ago? Old Tom believes in Sammy, though, because he, too, can feel the cold....
©2020 Ian Shimwell (P)2021 Ian Shimwell
Legacy of the Musketeers
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At last, after 165 years, the sequel to The Man in the Iron Mask... 17th Century France, two years after D'Artagnan's death: Deep beneath the Palais de Versailles, Aramis is shocked and astonished by the directives of D'Artagnan's Legacy. To follow, he must betray his honour; his King and, perhaps most damning of all, his fellow Musketeers. The Sun King will be eclipsed by darkness once more... Or can the ageing Musketeers really reunite, for one last time - for the glory of France?
©2012 Ian Shimwell (P)2014 Ian Shimwell
Sherlock Holmes and the Claw of the Raven
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The raven swoops and strikes. Its claws tearing at the flesh. Its victim paralyzed, with death quickly following. A long and complex plot is finally coming together for the Corvus Brotherhood, and unless Holmes, Watson, and a determined Inspector Gregson can somehow stop them, will achieve its chilling and audacious purpose by the claw of the raven.
©2019 Ian Shimwell (P)2019 Ian Shimwell
The Armchair Detective at Christmas
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This Christmas time, things are not all fine. For there's trouble at Devlin's Department Store, and it all seems to centre on the first floor. Where strangely, one can hear a cuckoo chime... T'is the season to be jolly. And Old Tom must crack the case, before he can hang up his holly.
©2013 Ian Shimwell (P)2020 Ian Shimwell
Sherlock Holmes' Final Chapter: Classic Scripts
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An unprecedented crime wave is remorselessly sweeping across the city of London.... How have the criminals achieved so much recent remarkable success? Inspector Lestrade does not know which way to turn. Holmes and Watson follow a series of tantalizing clues leading them closer to the darkness.... Holmes begins to sense a creeping pattern behind their investigation.... Could this really be the great detective's final chapter..? Audiobook is further enhanced with atmospheric music and sound effects.
©2017 Ian Shimwell (P)2017 Ian Shimwell
Fuhrerbunker
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A new recruit is assigned to be Hitler's personal bodyguard. The ruthless Red Army are slowly closing in... The last few days of the Fuhrerbunker. But instead of taking positive action, the Nazis seem more intent on playing out petty rivalries. Or is there another reason, some sort of plot behind the facade of trivial tensions? Could the most audacious plan in history really save the Third Reich?
©2012, 2015 Ian Shimwell (P)2015 Ian Shimwell
Sherlock Holmes and the Society Spiritualist: The Corvus Conspiracy 3 of 4
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The society spiritualist, Mrs. Hayden is seemingly able to converse freely with the recently departed at her popular gatherings. Holmes and Watson remain skeptical, until they attend one of her remarkable seances....
©2019 Ian Shimwell (P)2019 Ian Shimwell
Sherlock Holmes and the Legend of Loch Logarth
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With Holmes incapacitated, Watson reluctantly agrees to let the argumentative Inspector Lestrade accompany him on a Scottish fishing holiday. But soon after arriving at Ye Clootie's Claw Inn, Watson and Lestrade discover the fearsome Legend of Loch Logarth seems to be very much on the prowl. Is the Clootie creature terrorizing the village of Logarth? And will Watson and Lestrade ever agree on anything? As the creature claims its first victim, Watson realizes he may have seen terrible wounds like this before.... Audiobook is enhanced with atmospheric music and sound effects.
©2017 Ian Shimwell (P)2017 Ian Shimwell
Sherlock Holmes and the Montague Murders
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Requested by a frightened Lady Elisabeth Montague, Holmes and Watson travel all the way to the Montague home, situated on a remote desolate island, to investigate her somewhat fanciful fears. Are the family in mortal danger? And why have the Montagues, once the darlings of London society, now shut themselves away from civilization in this bleak, god-forsaken retreat? As the Montague murders begin, Holmes finds himself drawn, ever closer, to the dreaded Montague madness....
©2017 Ian Shimwell (P)2017 Ian Shimwell
Murder by Suspects
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One murder. Three suspects. Each has their own very different story to tell of an ill-fated stay at the Saunderson family remote country residence, Three Sisters. But, will it be left to the final report of Inspector Mackenzie to shed any light on this most baffling of crimes?
©2013, 2014 Ian Shimwell (P)2015 Ian Shimwell
Sherlock Holmes and Lestrade's Irregular Investigation (The Corvus Conspiracy 2 of 4)
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Surely, Charles Clemency must be the murderer? After all, he is the only actual suspect found in the locked bedchamber next to the still, graceful body of his lady wife. Inspector Lestrade is justifiably proud of himself for solving a case without the assistance from you-know-who. The compelling evidence confirms that there is nothing irregular about this investigation, and that Charles is clearly as guilty as sin. So, why is Holmes suddenly taking a keen interest in the case?
©2019 Ian Shimwell (P)2019 Ian Shimwell