26 The Norwood Builder from The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905) Audiobook
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- The Adventure of the Norwood Builder from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. It is read by Greg Wagland.
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My cat Thea Dora was under the bed for three hours and wouldn't come out for anything. I was worried she was ill because I gave all signals it was bedtime, and she always sleeps with me. I got in bed and put on one of your Sherlock Holmes recordings, which helps me relax before falling asleep. As soon as your reading started, she jumped on the bed and stretched out between my legs. She loves falling asleep to your voice too.
cats often have the best taste in voices ❤️❤️❤️
Was just gonna say you have a cat with excellent taste😊 🐈⬛
My father's and grandfather's names were Theodore. My late sister's name was Theodora, we called her Doria. She was also a great cat lover. I miss her very much.
@@shadowbear66 Wow, you don't get many Theodoras these days...it's all Megans, Meghans, and Kylies...stuff like that.
Its been my sleep aid since the military coup in my country.
This has always been one of my favorites because of the surprise ending, and because Holmes actually solves the case, unlike and so many other stories where he explains the details after he fails to stop the crime.
he fails to stop the crime in this story too, do not understand your point laddie,, scabies.
Mr Wagland ......i have been a fan of the Sherlock Holmes stories almost from the time i was able to read , and i have never heard them brought to life with such authority before now . Thank you so much . It sounds as though you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoy listening to them !
Thank you David. Much appreciated
You said it all! I fully agree. He has total command of the characters.
I concur, and further Mr. Wagland, I am certain sure that for the rest of my days it will be your voice that will sound in my mind's ear as I reread these beloved tales. Thank you.
Quit wagging the Wagland
Out of all of the audio books I have heard, you sir are the best so far.
Cheers Stryder!
he sure is.
narrators surely ?
What a wonderful story and also what a wonderful reader with a control of voice
such a superb reading, a legendary voice actor
I cannot tell you how I wish there were many, many more Sherlock Holmes stories. I have been a fan of this genre since I was a child and I am in my 8th decade now. If someone were to undertake to do this, following the previous style and format of course, I predict it would get a very good response. Audio recordings would be just fine but if some of them should be filmed that would be even better. The Jeremy Brett series was cut short before it was completed and evidently no one has picked up on the remaining several stories that were not filmed before his death. I strongly suspect there is a market for more stories.
Try reading "House of Silk" by Anthony Horowitz. It's precisely what you wished for. Nevertheless, I prefer the originals.
Oh hope so, I love Sherlock Holmes stories.
You should look at Peter Cushing’s work
Some of the many SH “pastiches” (like fan fiction) are very good and audio versions of them would be enjoyable. But probably their authors would want royalties that would put them behind a paywall.
Listen to the Sherlock Holmes radio plays... they are hundreds, and over a dozen films! Rathbone as Holmes is far better than Brett in my view... he plays Holmes as a perfect balance of heroic and brilliant victorian gentleman, whereas Brett was all preening camp and antisocial eccentricity.
this is the best Sherlock Holmes audiobook ever! ; ~ )#
Marvellous to just listen to while decorating or doing housework.
When I was a young teenager I was given strict orders to to bed and sleep. I used used to read those huge compendiums of Sherlack Holmes under the covers with just enough light to make out the words. I remember them being huge with over 1000 thin pages. How many pages did they have.
I've been reading Holmes for 53 years. This story has always been one of my favorites.
Yes, it's a good'un!
You read your first Holmes at age 19. Elementary!
Your videos always bring me so much joy. I used to listen to them when I would make long drives. However, your voice and accents became so soothing that I couldn’t listen to them without being put to sleep. Now, you’re typically the last voice I hear at night and I am out in minutes. Whenever someone in my life tells me they have trouble falling asleep, I always tell them to listen to you. You have the ability to make a space feel cozy and safe. Thank you for all that you do.
P.S. I always watch your ads all the way through. I figure it is a small thing to show my support.
Thank you for your kind comment, Q.
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Ditto!
SPLENDID narration!!!❣️
I very much adore the content of your channel,Mr Greg!🙌
Just can't thank you enough for what you are doing!!!✨
Glad you enjoyed it, Manya! Kind of you to comment again.
These audio books are the only thing that wake me up in the morning
شكرًا💚
Good to hear
“London has become a singularly uninteresting city since the death of the late lamented Professor Moriarty.”
It’s interesting that Moriarty is the only criminal in the Canon that Holmes is nostalgic for,
(apart from Irene Adler) He also mentioned Moriarty in The Last Bow some years after Holmes had retired.
I must say, that's the first time I've heard someone coming to Sherlock Holmes to willingly be arrested rather than helped.
Thank you sir for the wonderful reading.
Thanks for listening and commenting! Appreciated!
"It's just a prank bro" -Jonas Oldacre
David Munday in his comment said it better than I. You are wonderful. I have no idea your age. You weave the story with great magnificence! Thank you!
Masterful plotting matched by a masterful reading!....REALLY LIKE YOUR NARRATIONS!...
Keith Brown I'm not sure the person narrating is the channel owner, it's a magpie audio production. But it's great none the less and I'm so grateful this person uploads them!! I go to sleep to them every night.
Channel owner and narrator for my sins! ;-)
@@instinctivelychelsea2905 I, too, sleep to them. I've read the entire Holmes canon numerous times & being so familiar with them I can fall asleep as they play on & never miss a thing! LOL
StarryEyes Smith exactly!
StarryEyes Smith me to
Even after listening every single story you’ve created on this channel ... I can’t get enough of it! You definitely deserve way more subscribers.. Back when I didn’t listen to these (Three years ago), I rarely got sleep, even when I did I was still tired the next morning. You’ve saved me and probably a bunch of other people too! Many, Many thanks!!
relatable...
sleep apoena
What an absolutely delicious tale of wickedness...Read so so well by Mr Wagland 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🏆
Thanks Risa. I like your Muttley picture - who was/is more naughty than wicked!
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Lol, indeed I am quite naughty *Muttley's Raspy Giggles' 🙃💯🙃
If Watson sold his practice and moved back in with Holmes, what happened to Mary?
I discovered these stories a couple months back, the first one suggested to me was like 36 or something, then once I realized they were chronological I started at the beginning, then took a pause when "A Study in Scarlet" and "The Sign of Four" were referenced and did those, the latter of which is the only time I've heard Mary's name mentioned or anything about her. All these numbered stories, thus far, just refer to her in passing as the wife, and Watson sometimes seems to just peace out for days at a time seemingly without letting her know.
Anyone more familiar with the series able to shed some light? As a note, I fell asleep (my intention every time) part way through this last night, so going to listen again tonight.
She passed away, and it's mentioned in "the adventure of the empty house". 🖤
Apparently when ACD returned to writing Holmes stories for the $$$ and popular demand, he swiftly killed off Watson's wife and had him move back in with Holmes so that the public could have the familiar formula of the stories again?? But I agree it's crazy plot wise, and very odd behavior for two grown men far past the years of their penniless youth as college students needing to share rooms! By this time Holmes is very successful, and Watson has his own medical practice. But we are to believe that him dropping his medical practice, him giving up being a doctor, and moving back in with Holmes just because Holmes asked... to do nothing but follow Holmes around and to have no income of his own, is.... uhh...perfectly normal? And then to be told that the whole time Holmes was tricking Watson by buying the practice himself through a third party, just so Watson would be sure to move back in and live with him as quickly as possible.... I donno.... does that sound normal between two grown men who are just "good pals"?
The character of Watson is like a long-suffering secret girlfriend to Holmes, the man with all the high status, money, fame and reputation. Re-listening to the stories at an older age than when I first heard them, I can understand now why so many people have wondered if these characters were gay, since they lived together very intimately, Watson married briefly with no children and Holmes never married at all, and frequently spoke of how much he disliked women. In the stories Watson is frequently very willing to risk dying for Holmes, and Holmes is willing to kill for Watson. Throughout the stories their interactions seem far more intimate than just good friends, for example when Watson gets shot, and Holmes is unnerved, then Watson says that "it was worth (a bullet) wound, it was worth many (bullet) wounds, to know the depth of love and loyalty (Holmes) felt for me...." Hmmm.... who says that about "just-a-friend"?
Apparently Watson does.
Thank you. Wonderful speaking voice.
Cheers Cecelia.
Great readings, Thanks for the hard work. You do Sir ACD proud.
Nice story ,well narrated,♥️👍♥️
Excellent I just love how Holms politley gets one over on l'Strade.A superb reading.
Many thanks, Peter for this and your other complimentary comments!
Just discovered this Channel and I am in love with it and Sherlock Holmes!
Thang ewe 😁
I have listened to all of them and most more than once. Be careful they are quite addictive. 😊
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Thank you so much, Greg!!! Great work!!! 🤗
Interesting factoid. In the Brett version of this tale the part of the old sailor, the tramp who falls foul of the builder Oldacre is played by Ted Caroll, Biro from Flash Gordon.
Must google that name. Cheers.
Thanks so much for posting these!
Glad you like them! Cheers!
Sherlock is my hero I have 2 Sherlock pipes great audio
Do you smoke them ever?
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio yes I do those and my Cobbit ( Hobbit) Pipes
Thank you for making these available. Love the old classics, much appreciated!!!
Thank you. Very enjoyable.
Wonderful as always.
Resorting to your audiobooks after having much trouble sleeping. will be deeply asleep by the time you read this :D
Nighty, night
Conan Doyle used the powers of Holmes minute observation to prove the bloodstain had been made during his clients incarceration. He could also have used the fact that the stain was too fresh to have been made after his arrest thus provilng it was not made in person, still it does add to Sherlock's reutation for his minute powers of observation.
Thanks again Magpie audio 👏🏻🎉
Thanks Felene for your support!
You are the best narrator I have ever heard reading Sherlock or anything else for that matter. Thank you ❤
I too love this channel !
Kind of you to say so, Indranie.
Quite a good reading here. TY.
In love with this channel
Thank you
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once again...LOVE these!!
As soon as the lawyer learned that he was the sole legatee he should have recused himself and directed the old man to another lawyer.
A lawyer compromising ethical obligation for money? I wish that only happens in novels.
I thought the same thing! Lol.
waiting for more sherlock holmes eagerly
Poor inspector lestrat when will he ever learn. 😊
Wonderful thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
I love this video
Brilliantly read!
Here here the best heroes ever❤
Have come to the realisation Sir Arthur is the composer and Greg the conductor, orchestra with his voice making a great sound, producing pure music. Thanks to all.
This is great! Thank you I love it❤️
Thanks Y Szk
Certainly carries me soporifically to that pleasant dream place
Me too, while I'm recording them ;-)
Came here after watching the Jeremy Brett TV version. Followed the story very closely except they added the murder of a tramp rather than a rabbit. Anyway, nice reading of a fine story
its very nice story 💚💛💜
How odd that the detectives did not look for a human skull in those remains ! Wouldnt they have then found dog or rabbit skulls and known no man had been burned ?
I thought about that, too. This is probably the reason why the TV series had a tramp killed and burned. But hypothetically, the policemen might have thought that logs fell on the skull and shattered it to bits. It was a timber yard, so it was probably full of heavy logs.
I was surprised that you didn't end your presentation with the usual 'this has a been a reading of... for Magpie audio, read by Greg. .. I missed that.
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Thanks, Ngawang!
My landlord already knows this.
A great narrator indeed! Could anyone share his name here?
Stephen Fry.
No, it's Greg Wagland.
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Can you try Agatha Christie - Poirot audiobooks. It would be great. Thanks.
yes that would be amazing!
Sherlock Holmes gives touch credit to criminals. If he only watched true crime documentaries now he would be astounded at the stupidity they show. The main realism is that criminals still confess, so Sherlock Holmes and Columbo have some truth in them 😀
Hello, Does anyone know where I can find the transcripts for these stories?
Try www.gutenberg.org All the Sherlock stories are there in different text formats to download.
Thank you!
The opening to this story is crazy!!! I know it's a controversial topic among Holmes fans, but isn't it rather odd behavior for two grown men far past the years of their penniless youth as college students needing to share rooms to volunteer for that arrangement, with the same special "friend" for decades of their life? I mean, by this time in the stories, Holmes is very successful, and Watson has his own medical practice. But we are to believe that Watson dropping his medical practice, and giving up being a doctor after all the work it took to become one, and moving back in with Holmes just because Holmes asked... to do nothing but follow Holmes around and to have no income of his own, is.... uhh...perfectly normal? And then to be told that the whole time Holmes was tricking Watson by buying the practice himself through a third party, just so Watson would be sure to move back in and live with him as quickly as possible.... I donno.... does that sound normal between two grown men who are just "good pals"?
I am open to hearing other explanations, because I used to rationalize this sort of thing by thinking it must have been more common during the Victorian era or something... or maybe when ACD returned to writing Holmes stories for the $$$ and popular demand, he swiftly killed off Watson's wife and had him move back in with Holmes so that the public could have the familiar formula of the stories again?? But an intimate relationship seems the more clear and obvious explanation to all the strange behaviors over the entire canon.
I can understand now why so many people have wondered if these characters were gay, since they lived together very intimately, Watson married briefly (a few times) with no children and Holmes never married at all, and frequently spoke of how much he disliked women. In the stories Watson is frequently very willing to risk dying for Holmes, and Holmes is willing to kill for Watson. They go to the baths together for fun (a safe space for gay men), and there seem to be no personal/physical boundaries between them. Throughout the stories their interactions seem far more intimate than just good friends, for example when Watson gets shot, and Holmes is unnerved, then Watson says in relating the story that "it was worth (a bullet) wound, it was worth many (bullet) wounds, to know the depth of love and loyalty (Holmes) felt for me" ...call me crazy, but who says that about "just-a-friend"? That's some next-level romantic obsession... Meanwhile, Sherlock refers to Watson getting married as "his only selfish act in our long association"... seriously Sherlock? Talk about posessive! Maybe the whole thing is not a romance, but Stockholm syndrome. Ha. But of course, like all of Watsons marriages it didn't work out and the wife soon disappeared... Hmmmm! Almost like no wife could ever measure up to how Watson feels about Sherlock and that's the most important relationship in his life or something....
Re-listenilng to the stories at an older age than when I first heard them, the character of Watson seems more like a long-suffering secret girlfriend to Holmes, the one who has all the high status, money, fame and reputation. From the perspective of 2023, I'm more shocked at how toxic and unballanced the relationship is, as Watson suffers being the puppet of, or the adoring-fan-boy of a narcissistic Holmes. Holmes seems more interested in singing his own praises than all the harm, PTSD, and needless danger he causes his "friend". If you look for relationship red flags, I swear Holmes has them all... controlling, belittling, demeaning... poor Watson, he was a brave soldier and a good doctor, he deserved better than being reduced to Holmes lap dog... whether or not there was ever any actual sex involved, or just a lot of pining, and longing, and Victorian-era-self-repression.
Back to reality ❣️.
Back to reality ❤
Dude
I love you Holmes, but stop slagging snakes, spiders, etc.
The only foul thing is the destructive, sadistic human.
20:01
SPOILER: Unpleasant Holmes’ disinclination or hesitation to go on w the case for the simple reason of its being almost sure not to go his way. No consideration for the poor young man’s possible innocence... how he must be suffering at present. But that is Holmes, what Watson refers to as his “ability” (disability?) to completely separate his mind from his heart, is it not?
That's true but oversimplified, Holmes DOES show some emotional engagement in his cases sometimes. In The Five Orange Pips, he is very sorry that he let his client down. That's one of the early stories, Holmes becomes more detached with time. Might be because he's seen too much; might be because sir A.C. Doyle was less fond of him. And to be honest: law and criminology require an unemotional character. I'm a police interpreter and the policemen are nice but simply can't be emotionally involved in their cases, or they'd go crazy. I myself am required by law not to get emotionally involved in the investigations. Do you want a PI who will be sorry for you, or do you want a PI who will discover the facts and prove your innocence?
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Wait - where is Mrs Watson? Why can Watson move back to Baker Street?
In the previous story we learn that Mrs Watson died in the years after Holmes went missing
Wait, what????? I missed that line in the Empty House. That's so sad...
@@rab7889 It's easy to miss, it just says "... he had learned about my own sad bereavement and his sympathy was shown in his behaviour, rather than words."
Really?
Its that easy to arrest someone, evidence free? 🙄🙄🙄
Who arrested whom, evidence-free? With both McFarlane and Oldacre, there was evidence.
5:46 phrasing is unhelpful.
Try “...what the errand is, on which I have come...”
I’m very much enjoying these readings. Thank you.
Cheers Russell.
Emphasis is different than "Phrasing" my dear tea bag.
I very much hope I'm misreading the meaning of your comment to one of the Sherlock Holmes narration videos. It appears to me that you are under the impression that the narrator is the author and are doling out advice a better way to word a sentence. Please let me be mistaken! If not, then you either expect a narrator to change the wording of a story published a century ago so YOU alone may understand better, or you actually think Sir Conan Doyle is still alive and uploading to CZcams...then there could be that you have no idea that Holmes existed before the movie and TV series and believe this video to be a fanfiction reading.
Please don't let any of those things be true!
So Many Humans, So Little Common Sense my advice to the outstanding narrator is simply a matter of the placement of a pause. His rendering “...what the errand is on, which I have come...” attracts my suggestion that the pause is better one word earlier: “...what the errand is, on which I have come”
I offered it honestly, and Mr Wagland’s response “cheers” seems to suggest he accepted it, at least as well-intentioned. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Uncle Boom I said “phrasing” because my suggestion is simply a matter of a pause to separate the phrases. I’m happy to be corrected if “emphasis” is the better word.
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
The tramp theory was foolish.
The worst thing I’ve tried to listen to hands down
So sorry to hear that
Thank you
13:06
26:00
Thank you
You're welcome