The Story of the Sealed Room by Arthur Conan Doyle - The Strand Magazine 1898.
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- The Story of the Sealed Room, not to be confused with The Adventure of the Sealed Room, first appeared in The Strand Magazine in September 1898.
A young solicitor goes to the aid of a cyclist, who is knocked off his bike after colliding with a horse's shoulder. He is then drawn in to a curious mystery... involving a banker, a photographic studio, a soda syphon and a lump of red wax. The usual ingredients, then.
The painting by John Atkinson Grimshaw depicts late 19th century Hampstead.
It's read by Greg Wagland.
© Magpie Audio 2020.
I thought I was obsessed with Sherlock Holmes audiobooks, but now I see I am just addicted to Greg Wagland reading Arthur Conan Doyle.
It can happen. Try to cut down!
'The red tentacles of Lodon' . What a phrase. ACD was a great writer. Thank you for bringing these wonderful stories to life.
I'm working on my 'depth, drama and emotion'. Thanks for listening.
A tenderhearted banker? Now there's a rare or possibly mythical breed.
Seems a bit unlikely, but it's a work of fiction after all.
Now that would be Sc-Fi.
Though it does explain how he lost his money.
I know. Unicorn.
It is possible you know.
Reminds me of something I read a long time ago. In the 1880s someone said "an Englishman is slow to speculate because if he loses his fortune he loses his social position and he fears living out his life in poverty and loneliness. A Frenchman in such circumstances will blow his brains out. But an American who has a million, will risk it to make ten, and if he loses, will go to work and start over again. Such stoicism in the face of adversity is admirable but it means America is peculiarly prone to speculative frenzies, booms and busts and there doesn't seem to be anything that can be done about it."
This story is a good example of the fate that awaited speculation gone wrong in England in the 19th century.
What about the Dutch and their Tulip bubble?
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio There's one in every crowd. I'll bite, what about them?
Your readings are a treat I’m not giving up for Lent..my favorite and most reliable antidote to chemotherapy side effects.
I always give up the airport size Toblerones over Lent, move onto the modestly sized foot-longs. Self-denial! Cheers Elizebeth.
I hope you came through your ordeal, Elizabeth, and are still enjoying listening to stories. Kindest regards. xx
Greg, I have read several of the stories you have put out recently on CZcams, and as always, you never cease to amaze me. I have told you before that you have a wonderful voice, and a gift for narration that no one can equal. If you only knew the pleasure you have given me with your readings of these stories. I certainly hope you are well over there in the UK, and will continue to delight so many people in the world as much as you have me. God bless you sir,and don't ever let anything happen to that beautiful voice of yours!!!
Thanks Jody. Very kind of you to say so! Keep well yourself. Cheers - Greg
Well said!!
G'day Jodi, lovely words for arguably one of the greatest narrator's to have ever spent his time, money & most of all, Passion for ACD's amazingly written novels that Mr Greg"Wagz" Wagland has & is still bringing ACD's words of fiction to life, each & every line of Dr John Watson's accounts of the great Sherlock Holmes' bazaar & unique way in which he solves the most difficult cases, straight from the mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.... Cheers🍻 from Melbourne Australia...🇦🇺
My granddaughter and I practice our British accents when we listen to these audio books. Of course I am always the Queen 👸
English accent not British
I think this is my first, Non.Sherlock Holmes 'reading' by AC Doyle.
Very good.
Reminded me of Poe.
*Kudos sir! Your remarkable vocal modulation evoked such consistent suspension of disbelief that it had me convinced an ensemble cast starred in this 'play'!* 👍🤓
Thanks Dorothy.
Thankyou so much for the entertainment but what a grim tale. I cant help wondering what the poor young man would do next.
Thanks Sarah. Yes, rather a sad tale.
Keep spoiling us, please!
Trying to, Karen, trying to!
One of my absolute favorite Doyle stories!
Thanks Angelique. It's straightforward but powerful in its way.
Many thanks Greg! Your voice is so soothing & ACD is perfect for it🎁
Perfect! Naptime is coming up. Thank you.
Ah, naptime. What joy!
I love these stories, narrated beautifully as well, may they never stop. Thanks for sharing them.
Cheers Beefy
Ohhh... what a sad story. 😥
Another incredible reading, as usual.
Top notch, Mr. Wagland! 👍
Just prepared Sunday lunch listening to this . Thoroughly enjoyed every moment . Thank you .
Beef?
How tragic an end could be!
Thanks so much, Mr Greg for unfolding the many emotions as they have to be!!
Cheers Manya. It's a bit dark, isn't it? Listen to The Blue Carbuncle or The Red-Headed League as an antidote.
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Yes indeed it's a bit dark ,Mr Greg!
Suicide is never an option for any situation!
Would surely try the ANTIDOTES that you've recommended!
Thanks so much for delivering such an awesome art in an equally awe-inspiring way!! :)
What a pleasure. What a joy. Thank you Greg. You make me ☺
I look forward to listening to this one! Many thanks. 👌🏻
Thanks Sunstone!
Another great story! The perfect way to end my day! Thank you so much Mr Wagland!
Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers Virginia.
Thank you 😊 from southeast Ontario Canada on a cold, wet windy November night
Sounds like you need a sealed room, away from the weather, but maybe not the one discussed here.
Fantastic! You are wonderful! Thank you for all that you do in sharing these stories with us😍
Cheers Jeaninne.
Just about to get into bed, sorted now 😊
Up early in the morning for a spin on my bike 🚲
Enjoy! Raleigh Chopper?
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio nope, a racing bike. Just home, 84km in the bag. 👍
Another first-rate performance, many thanks!! Please keep these coming!!!
Another excellent narration, thanks for posting!
Cheers Metc. Glad you enjoyed it.
I’m falling asleeeeep Open the damn room!!
Patience is a virtue
and an operetta.
Its not your fault. His voice is like a warm, soft blanket. You can't help but relax when it wraps around you. I don't even fight it anymore. I just listen to the last point i remember the next night. It took me weeks to hear all of A Study in Scarlet.
G'day, your spoiling us Greg....More plz? Lol cheers m8ty as per..
I almost start liking the non-Sherlock stories of ACD more than the ones featuring the famous detective. Was it not for Mr. Greg I would never have known this one. The downside is that from now on I'll never going to enjoy an ACD story not read by this great narrator ...
Peter Tschabitscher I’ve finished listening to all the Sherlock stories. Can you recommend and more good ACD stories to listen to now? Thanks
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Lot No. 249. Hair-raising! 😵
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Wow so engaging and tragic! Beautifully read!
Locked myself out of my bedroom while listening to this...what an inconvenient coincidence! 😓
Very much so. Did you get back in?
MOST EXCELLENT!!! I truly enjoyed this. I had to listen to it more than once. Thank you
Thanks fixitman!
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio You are very welcome
Fabulous narration! Fabulous voice!! I've only just today discovered you Greg and I shall be back 😀👏
Thanks Linda.
Thank you so very much for these stories
Excellent! Thank you for sharing, Greg. 😊
My pleasure! Thank you, Leona.
just discovered these stories 💕#sherlock #holmes great find #thankyou I know I'll enjoy them 💯😃
Thanks Yvonne. Hope you did!
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I can't believe I haven't heard this one before! Loooooved it!!
Good!
The nap I was about to take....🤨😐will happen after listening ( 33:21😏) thank you for sharing. These are truly my favorites stories. Cheers.❤
Thanks Nancy. Hope you enjoyed it!
Excellent as always. Thank you
Oh and I'm now going to research the artist .. thanks to you. 💛
Yes. I'd not seen that before. Rather good I thought!
As they were opening the door, I was like, "oh shoot! What if the dad is in there!!!?? "
I was pleasantly surprised and delighted to find my guess correct. Listened to you read Doyle so much it's like I know the man. Thank you for furthering my love for this great writer. My favorite followed by Louisa May Alcott. Thank you again for the soothing voice to accompany Doyle's thrilling mysteries!!!
Thanks GP!
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Great painting 👍
Greg Waglen? My fav. Thx again :)
Thank you x infinity!
I have chills now. This was perfect length for the evening clean up. Thank you!
Your evening clean up sounds a tad sinister ;-)
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You don't want to know what is sealed up under the kids' beds. Suffice it to say that what they hide should remain walled up for another decade, for everyone's safety.
I know this story...... because it 3rd time I listened to it ...btw I love the painting
Great story, the naration was superb. Thank you. PS I've just discovered your chanel and I look forward to exploring it. xx
Thanks N W.
Excellent superbly read 10/10
TS 6:39 *'rosettes of lichen which had formed upon the walls'* & TS 22:12 *'small, dried bright~eyed fellow'*
Oh man, I love John Moffat narrations!
Well, I don't know how I ended up here. You read that beautifully. I have never heard this story. I think I'll subscribe and stay awhile. Hopefully the other stories have a happier ending!
Thanks Nicole. Yes, some are happier. Not many, but some.
@Sherlock Holmes stories, that's a relief! A few good murders also I hope.
I'd love to be able to buy a print of the painting of Hampstead.
I'm sure you could find it somewhere. I found it on wikiart.org - a brilliant site.
As usual I was delighted to get a notification about this post (you are the ONLY channel I subscribe to that I actually have notification activated lol). Great reading, again, as usual. And I LOVE the artwork - thanks for posting info about it. Many, many thanks - just know i ALWAYS enjoy your posts & I & my wife fall asleep to your voice at least 3 or 4 times a week .. little did you know! LOL 🖖💜
StarryEyes Smith Ironic Greg is a retired Anesthesiaologist
Ditto! Mr. G. Wagland is in a lot of bedrooms at night... the voice, of course !
Thanks StarryEyes. Better that than starey eyes, of course - me after a double espresso!
Kind of you to comment. And always nice to learn about subscribers nocturnal arrangements - LOL.
Great delivery of a not do well known Doyle piece. ACD could certainly write.
Hey Greg Wagland is asleep so we can say whatever we want! 😜
Fill your boots while I slumber.
Don't let it go to your head Greg
Trying not to Derek ??
Decomp...Something Conan Doyle ought to have known about.
I'd still like to have known what happened next to poor Mr Stanniford Jr. Did everyone live happily ever after?
Excellent
Thank you! Cheers!
Man I just fell in love with you, and this is going to be a long affair.
Thank you, Greg, this will be tonight’s treat!
I so love the paintings of Atkinson Grimshaw.
Hope it’s OK if I put a bit of Sherlockinana in here, for any fans who haven’t spotted it.
William Gillette’s Sherlock Holmes play is on CZcams starring Frank Langella. Filmed in the theatre, it’s been divided into 9 parts, here is the first:
czcams.com/video/-w-r-pWGCeo/video.html
then you can pick up the rest and make a playlist.
Gillette of course played the part first.
Langella was a great Dracula too!
Please do!
We'll have to differ on this one, Ann I didn't like Langella's Dracula. He was a pretty good Richard Nixon wasn't he? or am I thinking of someone else?
Look forward to watching the Gillette play though.
Thank you.
Thanks Greg, and here is the video with Gillette himself, such a handsome Sherlock!
czcams.com/video/eFYd-Ip5kUI/video.html
One can visit his wonderful home (and model railway)!
Yes, Langella played Nixon.
OK about Dracula, I’ll just keep him for myself 😊
Keep safe, Greg and all subscribers
Loving this one , and just saying ... Audible just recommended to me Right Ho , Jeeves narrated by you
Excellent reading, as always.
The story is not high on my list of ACD.
Sssshhhh!!! Don't tell everyone... ;)
Sherlock Holmes Stories Magpie Audio Completists among us will, of course, listen to it! True ACD geeks will listen 20 times, in order to offer informed opinions about it. Greg Wagland fans would not miss it for the world!
Just shows how little doctors know about someone's expected lifespan😐
Facing the problem would have spared his wife and his son agony of so many years especially his son.
His clients would have either understood or they would have gotten their money back if he had faced this problem and started again - He gave up too soon
I ❤️ you! And don’t forget it.
Trying not to!
Sherlock Holmes Stories Magpie Audio Your so funny 🤣
What an unpleasant story.
Indeed and hopefully what ACD was going for.
Aww, Felix! That father was very selfish! Coward not courageous!
Hey Greg, how old does a copywriter need to be for it to be in public domain?
In Europe, 70 years after author death.
In US generally, but with huge variations, 95 years after publication. See gutenberg.org So (don't quote me) 1925 publications and prior are in the public domain.
Thanks. Good info. I ask because I like to draw. I thought it would be fun to video me drawing and read stories over top of the video. I have a talent for reciting poetry, most from memory but, I wasn't sure if it would get my videos taken down. I wish I could read outloud as well as you do. As with all things, I think i just need to put forth the effort and with time, I'll be much better. . . . Or in the case of playing guitar, suck much less. 🤭
Sherlockiana. . .
I think that room is full of hand sanitizer and toilet paper!
Isn't everybody's?
What's up with the toilet paper? Everyone stocking up on it. As if COV-19 makes you go to the bathroom more or something.
Hoarders are cowards
Jared Frost. Hey Jared if you had been stuffing your face with all the crap that I have, while I've been stuck in doors. You would be in dire need of toilet paper as much as me. Now please pass me the Andrex
Sealed rooms? How appropriate
Hopefully Poptarts
I'm sure had Poptarts been invented when ACD first charged his fountain pen to write this, he would have placed that 'delicious yet dangerous sweetmeat' into the chamber. What a story that would have been - especially if the toaster was timed to pop as they entered.
Nothing like a Holmes read by a Brit. 😉
Accompanied by fish and chips! And a pint of bitter.
Don Greg, just out of interest, like, do you make a living from youtube alone on this? i suppose as this is the internet i dont have observe usual British etiquette - i hope you do anyway. brett, rathbone, wagland, . . . . . .downey jnr, cumberbatch
One man's living is another man's penury. Let me send you my bank statements and you decide. ;)
Too funny Sherlock!
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There wasn't much of a mystery here.
;)
connent
weird
Good name!
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Thanks. I think most people don't understand it.
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Crude selfish man.
The reader did a fine job. But the story is abysmal. Waste of time.
What a horrible story!
Yes, it lacks that Waltons' warmth certainly.
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Though I was somehow never drawn to the Waltons the way I am to Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes.
I love this channel and the quality of the recordings. I have become a convert.