5 am here in Missouri, cannot sleep ... thanks again Mr. Wagland for lending your remarkable voice to my favorite stories.

@JacobafJelling

3 жыл бұрын

05:03 here also. Greetings from Denmark

@johnwade1095

3 жыл бұрын

No decent man quotes Balzac.

@thejojose1

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnwade1095 I will also need

@andrewja69ify

3 жыл бұрын

3:08 in Oklahoma

@chrisheynes4525

2 жыл бұрын

0:23 in England. Why do I imagine being in any of these other places would be better?!

okay that bit of the guy taking out his false teeth and chucking them at his wife the first thing that came to mind was George Washington chucking them at his wife saying that they don't need anymore kids and that it was bad enough that there were ghost kids in the house ^^;;;

I have been listening this audiobooks for a month now and I can say that, this is refreshingly a superb tool to learn how to express your thoughts in English! Thank you!

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

5 жыл бұрын

Learning should be enjoyable. Thanks Deni.

@Rahat_Alka

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@harrysecombegroupie

2 жыл бұрын

O Illollollol I’ll O Up U I’ll U Iii Hi Hi Ui Ui Ul Lll Ui Local HhhhhhhhhYeah

I am so pleased I fell across these stories. It is so British - the tone and beautifully spoken words. Just music to the ears. Thank you x

These are the best readings of Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes stories on you tube ... brilliant and immensely enjoyable....

@DJWNB

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I concur. I feel so lucky to have found these GEMS!! Faithful listener from California since December 2019.. and listened when visiting home in Italy as well !! I love your stories @Sherlock Holmes Stories Magpie Audio, your voice and your narrating style.. you bring the story to life. You do more than narrating these stories: you act superbly in them. My favorite still remains the first, A Study in Scarlet with the Mormon history.. I wonder why Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did not write long, involved stories like that after the that one - maybe it was just too much work and research or maybe he just focused the stories’ setting in London after that.

@lidiaadobato7822

3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree. Reg Wagland is by far the best performer of Holmes' stories.

I like to listen to these stories they help me use my imagination and helps me to read books more often..

Must have listened to these excellent narratives of Holmes,five or six months every night,can't (or won't) sleep well without listening in,thanks again for your time,

How wonderful that people from all over the world enjoy your excellent renditions, Mr. Wagland. You must be truly proud.

Finally, someone who understands you need a good VOICE to make a decent audiobook. Great Job in all elements. IMHO

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! Appreciated!

Honestly, this has got to be my favorite Sherlock Holmes story. I've listened to it when I was a kid, and I have it pretty much memorized by heart. I've even been working on making it a stage production for theater, but adapted for a modern audience. Been working on it since the end of last year for my local college's theater club, but haven't really touched it since last month. Now, here I am with more tips from a new theater director who took a look at it. Hopefully, I can get this made into a theater or "film" production. This audiobook sure is a fascinating take, I should also add. Well done with it!

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

2 жыл бұрын

Good luck with the play, Joshua. Sounds like a worthy project!

@misterholmes221

2 жыл бұрын

Good to see another Sherlock Holmes and Sonic fan here. I'm a huge fan of both.

When I first read this story, as a much younger man, I was taken aback over Holmes decision to withhold the truth from her. She came to him for truth that she did not get. I still feel that way. She would have Been shocked, but then able to take control of her life.

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

11 ай бұрын

Yes.

@shadetreader

22 күн бұрын

Holmes was Doyle's way of expressing his contempt for women.

"If we could fly over this city hand in hand"... Holmes, are you absolutely sure that romance is stupid and a waste of time? 😂

I find that after listening to your recitations of these brilliant works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that when I start any other version of these stories I am disappointed in the lack of depth and breadth of the portrayal by others. You really have captured my idea of how these characters likely would have sound in real life. Thank you for taking the time to read to us all these works including those of other great authors, eg, Chesterton, Carrol and others. I find I can listen to them repeatedly every now and again and they are still fresh and alive. Best wishes and a Happy New Year for 2024 just as you wished for us in one of the Sherlock Holmes pastiches last year before I’d heard of you. Sincerely, John T. Inscrutable

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

5 ай бұрын

Thank you JTI !!!

Not just a story but an insight into a society that is a delight to discover but not to live in. Just love the woman's voice.

Your recordings are superb! I do not think anyone could do a better job at telling these stories than you do! Splendid. Thank you for this marvelous story.

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

6 жыл бұрын

+leonie Grosse Your comments much appreciated. Thank you.

I can't stop listening! This is my 3rd time on this list of videos! Thank you so much!

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

4 жыл бұрын

Steady Michele. Don't get addicted (like Sherlock)!

@michelegallagher9184

4 жыл бұрын

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Too late!

I discovered this channel yesterday and I am hooked. Well narrated. You manage to bring alive the narrative, the suspense and mystery behind it. Thank you so much.

I listen to these audio books to relax and calm myself.thanks very much.

Absolutely engrossing. These help me so much when having a rough day.

Mr Wagland, I owe you many hours of pleasure and learning. You're an amazing reader, actor, performer. Every nuance of the feelings is in the tone of your voice. Thanks!!

This case is briefly referenced in the BBC Sherlock series, thought that was interesting.

A question to all here: is anyone here aware of any later author who has successfully imitated ACD's mastery of English and thereby added to the Sherlock Holmes canon? It is wonderful how Greg brings these stories vividly to life. Yet I am also impressed as to how ACD creates such full of life characters while keeping his so spare, economical. All the right words in alk the right places and not one word too many. A master 🏆🏆🏆

Recently discovered your site and love the very nice way you read the stories and the different subtle changes in voice as you move from character to character in the stories. Just introduced my wife to your readings. Very pleased. Thank you .

I adore the Sherlock Holmes books🔍🔎

Thank you so much for this. You've got a wonderful voice and a great way of not only reading but actually telling the story. Brilliant and a great pleasure to listen to. Keep up the good work!

@suecollins3246

5 жыл бұрын

Yes - I live in South Africa and I so rarely hear beautiful English. This is _very_ pleasant.

In my book club were reading Sherlock Holmes and when we have extra time, we play these recordings and read along with it 😃

Wow! One I never heard before! What a treat! Thanks!

Wow spoiler alert but that step-father is really creepy for doing that. No wonder Holmes gets mad

@AbsolXGuardian

3 жыл бұрын

Also is probably the first catfish. Thank goodness premarital sex was so taboo in Victorian soicety in this situation

If that wasn't Sherlock and Watson, then the lady coming in and describing her mysteriously missing fiance and his strange behavior would be a perfect beginning for an H.P. Lovecraft story...

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

4 жыл бұрын

I've got a Lovecraft story on my list to read. I tried one once and wasn't all that taken, but I'll give it another go!

(Spoiler alert) I'm a little disappointed in Holmes at the end of this one. She paid him for an answer. Seems cowardly for him not to give her his findings, no matter how revolting they may be. He just let her go on cluelessly to waste her youth and child bearing years for the good of her unscrupulous stepfather and manipulative mother. Bad form Holmes old man. Bad form.

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

4 жыл бұрын

This may be a SPOILER. And this is a retrospective SPOILER alert. You have (not) been warned.

@LambentLark

4 жыл бұрын

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Oh, good point! Situation corrected.

@GH-bv4pg

4 жыл бұрын

I can understand your point, but Holmes solved this case in his mind and gave the girl his answer right away : "Try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." "Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it to affect your life." And I don't think he took any money from her since he hadn't found her man. I enjoyed it when Holmes berated the stepfather and threatened him, he would think twice before trying to deceive the girl again.

@LambentLark

4 жыл бұрын

She was an adult woman that held down a job and just wanted a life with a good man. Holmes treated her as if she was a child that must be protected from the truth. How can a person make good choices if the facts are withheld from them. It wasn't Holmes life or decision, it was her life and she was looking to him for facts to make her own decision's. If payment was the price of the truth, she should have coughed up the crowns.

@kerry-annjacobs6260

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, he should have told her of the duplicity of her mother and step-father. I do think though that she was rather naive in her outlook. I mean you were pledging yourself to a man that you seemingly know nothing about, was that usual in that era?

So happy I can listen this audiobook! Hope your content will be monetized again. Love your Channel and your voice, it is so relaxing :)

I’ve heard each and everyone of these 20 times at least. I do believe I’ll try for 30. Lol. #Outstanding

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

5 жыл бұрын

Too many times... 😀

@Buzzchuck204

5 жыл бұрын

Sherlock Holmes Stories Magpie Audio Haa. You’re not part of the advertising department are you? LOL 🤔

@2guys1lake28

4 жыл бұрын

I listen to them constantly

New reading !!! Thanks for this treat.

Splendid!!! Thank you so much, Greg! 🤗

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Patricia

I don't like mich this case, but i listen to It all the same thanks to your exquisit reading

I agree with all the comments...superb readings!!... thankyou

Your readings are a great pleasure & help me, insomniac, eventually find sleep... they are so interesting! May I make a request? Could you please include The Illustrious Client? Many thanks in advance.

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, The Illustrious Client is on my list as is The Three Garridebs, whatever they are!

@mckavitt13

4 жыл бұрын

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Thanks so much!

Are you a classically trained actor? This is so well read and entertaining

@tomcurran1538

2 жыл бұрын

I think he is.

Excellent... Thank you!

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

"She pulled a Hankerchief out of her Muff" I'd like to see that video! 😂🤣😂

@LambentLark

4 жыл бұрын

Right?! There are some even better ones, in some of the other stories. I can't remember which one but he speaks of an erection that made me spew a bit of coffee laughing. I just wasn't expecting anything like that. Then there is the Engineer's thumb where Dr.Watson got "knocked up" early one morning. To which i would pay much more to see than this hanky trick.🤭 Interesting how the english language has changed in the last 100+ years.

you do read them well. many thanks again.

Great reading, Thank you

I've been running this same scam with my stepdaughter ever since the gasfitters' ball last spring. Fortunately, she's not the brightest girl in the world. Seriously, when I told her I can only whisper (you know, because of the quinsy) and that my name was "Hosmer", I thought I was going to lose it. But somehow I managed to keep a straight face and hold it together, and she bought it. I think my favourite part is entering a taxi by the right hand door, then exiting it by the left hand door and listening to her scream "Oy! Me poor 'osmer's done disappeared again!"

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. Some extraordinary character 'acting' going on there! So surprising more people aren't called Hosmer today!!!!!

What's a wonderful, soothing reading, and voicing so appropriate for SH, the Doctor, and the various characters.

Thank you!

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

4 жыл бұрын

Welcome!

Thanks so much for uploading this story!

The most perfect voice and deliverance again Thx Mr Wagland ? :)

Thank you very much for your remarkable Work.!🕵

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, Jennifer. Glad you liked it!

Why dislikes this is an amazing video it should get none dislikes 👎🏻😡😻💖

@LambentLark

4 жыл бұрын

I think it might be the outcome of the story. Holmes did leave the girl in a bad situation.

Outstanding reading and easy to follow. Thank you very much for the excellent story telling.

Best readings of SH on You Tube.

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

4 жыл бұрын

Thank YOU. Kind!

Thank you ❤

Super love the stories,keep it up well done!

Top notch!

thank a lot

5 am can't sleep, too hot in Montreal, so I'm here as usual, Lol

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

4 жыл бұрын

Anthony. I think those succulent beaver shanks got lost in the post. Send more.

@anthonydemitre9392

4 жыл бұрын

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio We only have Weed in stock but we could sell you some fries with cheese smothered in gravy, it's a Quebec delicacy called Poutine

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

4 жыл бұрын

Hmm That Poutine sounds great!

@GianniMarricco

3 жыл бұрын

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio French fries, brown gravy and cheese curds. You can make it yourself and you will never be the same.

Faster... But as it always is... ....Perfectly

Great Job love it 👌👍👌🙂 Michael U.K.

I've found "A Case Of identity" in its original STRAND MAGAZINE edition from September 1891. You can find it here: www.pulpmagazines.org/the-strand-september-1891/

thanks again for another treat!

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

6 жыл бұрын

+Georgina Bakboord Glad you enjoyed it.

@einatmengbkade

6 жыл бұрын

yeah.. evert so cold&windy over here @sea in The Hague (Netherlands) ...so I'm good with all these stories!

Not long started listening too, have on when im home doing stuff, very relaxing, helps alot with jobs around the house, listening to these stories, great fan of sherlock and watson.

What a very strange case that A Case of Identity has presented.

Good!

life. SAVERS

thank you

Thank you.

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Susan!

Can somebody please tell me what is a "Gasfitters' Ball"?

@maryeckel9682

5 ай бұрын

A trades dance for men who set up gas service (for lighting). They would have a guild hall and have events for fundraising, often for men who had been injured or aged out, or their widows and children, or for other charities, as well as to maintain the hall. A union hall would be the modern equivalent.

I loved the story

excellent reader

Watson who is” the woman’s man” has a terrible attitude towards this poor woman not his social equal & not attractive to him. Thankfully Holmes is the one who shows empathy here( didn’t think he could) but he puts Watson to shame in this story.

Thank you 😀

you are an amazing reader! please dont limit yourself to sherlock holmes books only...

Really good reading. Thank you! Dreadful plot though! Not one of Conan Doyle's finest.

The netflix series Sherlock contains a few references to this case

I was hoping he had concealed her in the room to hear it as a confession.

I don't think this is the voice of Dr. John Watson but an impostor. Although Edison did invent the phonograph 15 year's before this story is reported to have been written so I guess it's possible. 😊

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

2 ай бұрын

Ha!

Can someone explain to me the last sentence mentioning Horus and the client’s fee?

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

3 жыл бұрын

Anyone? I just read the stuff! ;-)

@melnikhoogland7545

3 жыл бұрын

Hafiz, not her fees. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafez#Influence . It just means Persians are as smart as Romans.

@Peachfuzz-xi9dx

Ай бұрын

Horace, the Roman poet, not Horus

How did sherlock homles came to know that Mary Surherland was a typist?

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

4 жыл бұрын

Good question. Anybody?

@TedaR

4 жыл бұрын

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio You tell us...no I mean YOU actually tell us starting around 21:45 ish. LOL Too fun! Ty as always Greg darlin! Hope all is well in your neck of the woods!

@LambentLark

4 жыл бұрын

Her sleeves of course!

At 5:15 did Doyle actually write "un affaire du coeur"? It should be "une affaire du coeur".

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

Жыл бұрын

Ha!

@sylvainnouet6447

9 ай бұрын

he wrote an " affaire de coeur "

@sylvainnouet6447

9 ай бұрын

he wrote an " affaire de coeur "

Love how the guy runs like a baby when Holmes basically gets ready to beat his ass.

Why can I never solve these... 😢😩

26:35 don't mind my bookmark

Woo 600th person to like video!

Personal bookmark: 11:42

sounds almost like bad online dating... It could end up being your step - father lol

@susandombrowski6407

6 жыл бұрын

It is true; somethings never change!

Try getting away with the line "pulled a handkerchief from her muff" these days....

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

2 жыл бұрын

Try recording it.

@pirateboyfearless

2 жыл бұрын

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio haha!

"Stepfather posing as online boyfriend"-Sherlock series on netflix

This isn’t exactly relevant but I was wondering why I Digress was taken off Podbean?

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

4 жыл бұрын

I took it off. Enjoyed doing it. But then it was time to do something else!

@VincentMCL_

4 жыл бұрын

Sherlock Holmes Stories Magpie Audio Ah, Okay. I hadn’t quite managed to finish it, I’d just gotten up to chapter 11. Is it still uploaded on KZread?

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

4 жыл бұрын

All gone I'm afraid. One of those 'snooze you lose' things I fear.

Visto 1\10/20

Day 1. 17:54

🥰🥰

Is it just me or is this one read faster?

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe I had an espresso that week.

@LambentLark

4 жыл бұрын

A little irish cream in it might help even the pace. Not too much though🤫

Entirely too many commercials. Ruins the flow of the story.

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Susan. Hadn't realised. Have now disabled them.

Never trust to general impressions my boy but concentrate yourself upon details.

;)

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5am here in Florida with a bag of "H" and noddin' out to ole Sherlock and...zzzz,,,,

@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio

3 жыл бұрын

Remind me... a bag of H. Er, Haribo?

@bighurka

3 жыл бұрын

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio It might just as well stand for "hashish" for all I know... haha

Not impressed with this one. Amzed to learn that Conan-Doyle was married - given his general contempt for women.