In the Canon, Doyle mentions several times that Holmes has a high voice. I never understood what exactly that meant until I found this free audio version of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The reader is (sadly) anonymous, but his renditions of the stories are fantastic. His voice for Holmes is cold and biting and aristocratic, and it gets quite high. Suddenly I understood exactly what Doyle was driving at in his description of his protagonist's voice. The Sadly Anonymous Reader also brings a great deal of nuance to all the characters, including Watson. This is a first-rate adaptation and well-worth downloading. Take a listen!
My more observant readers might be wondering why, in my last entry, I did not address several other important Canonical factors when arriving at Holmes's birth-year - such as the fact that Holmes met Musgrave four years before MUSG, or that Watson once claimed that Holmes had been in practice for twenty-three years. I have been considering the question as well and intend to address it sometime in the future - but suffice it to say till then, I still think there is still enough evidence to place Holmes's birth-date in 1860 or 1861.
M.
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