Thank you for reminding me about Dorothy Sayers and Lord Peter Whimsey. I am at the point where I want to go back and reread the novels and authors I enjoyed in my twenties and compare outlooks.
Delightful narration,Tony.Sayers is one of my favorites.Such fun! Love your accents, voices and entertaining, informative comments. More Lord Peter, please. You're the best, Tony. thanks so very much!!!!!!
Tony, another fantastic story!! I always come for the story and stay for the after review. Love your various voices and your commentary!! Dont let the uneducated trolls get you down.
Excellent narration! You got his drawl and casual dropped Gs 👍🏽❣️📚 Sayers is a fascinating woman, especially for her time. She was a close friend of C.S. Lewis, and their rich correspondence is wonderful ❣️
Thank you for a believable Lord Peter. He used to get on my nerves until i listened to Ian Carmichael and he brought him to life. Yes, RP is different to the Queen's (King's?) English. Sayers is a real wordsmith. I love her whodunnits too. Especially The Daughter of Time. She thinks it through so well. Love your blackbird!
@@hannahreynolds7611 Hello Hannah, always appreciate recommendations from fellow readers. Will.check each out. Regards from Chicago where it has turned beautifully green.
Loved hearing this, even though I knew it too well for any suspense. A small thing- You might read Lord Peter a bit quicker. He's flippant, he prattles, making everyone (save Bunter) think he's a thoughtless twit, the way everyone views Miss Marple as an addled old busybody. Your upper class drawl, though, is impeccable! If you enjoyed being Wimsey, by all means, do more!
Such a treat! I have been reading the Lord Peter Wimsey books in order and am currently on my 11th. With book one, Whose Body?, I was sure I would not survive such an odd character, but once a book is begun, it can't be dropped. Thank goodness, because Lord Peter grew on me, and I'm hooked. You did great on the narration and won't get any complaints if you decide to share another of his stories.
I have been listening for a few yrs now.i love your stories, diolouge, and presentation . I resent the fact that people are now putting constraints on your work. Your personal observations about life and art have always brought me enjoyment . I love the dogs and I wish to ty so much .☀️🦋🌻🌹
First time listening to any audio presentation. Well done. The narrator was rendering away setting up the place and people, visual present tense. I was right at his elbow. A grand trip into the theater of the mind. You have won me as a fan.
Nicely done! Has been many years since I've read any DL Sayers, but I don't recall this one! A nice surprise, but would still have been a delight hearing your interpretation if I did recall it!
Loved it Tony, you never disappoint! Thank you. Love the chat, always, and have to say that I am quite the Simon Roper fan. (Just aside I have spent some of the morning listening to old Suffolk accents). You did Lord Peter justice, I could only substitute yours with Tim Curry's Nigel Thornberry, but only for sentimental reasons. I must though for once stand up for the common Police Officer though, I have known quite a few; they are in my family, and get a bally raw deal in Detective stories. Not fair! It's a thankless job sometimes. So I for one say hooray for the hard working PCs and Sargeants. 👮🏽♀️ 👮🏼 🕵🏻♀️🕵🏾
No, no it's all fine. With well known stories there are often favourite narrators and you hear them in their voices. I still am moved to do them. I'm not sure that I got Lord Peter actually. There are people with genuine toff accents that should probably do him and I'll stick to the gritty working-class detectives! Though I do like doing my Sherlock Holmes drawl.
Oh please don't think that I wasn't totally impressed by your Whimsy, I was just being nostalgic about poor old Tom. Never stop with your accents, it really does help to differentiate characters. 👍😊
@@classicdetective Wonderful! My Gram read me old classics like Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and made a British Mystery lover of me…Thanks for all your efforts!
Excellent narration! Thank you so much. And your thoughts afterward were worthy. I especially appreciate your reading after the flood of AI audiobooks. It makes your talents precious.
I enjoyed your reading of that, and your analysis....I have been reading her books, along with Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh's books for many years, and have read them all several times..( why do we cheerfully listen to a piece of favorite music repeatedly, and yet most people don't re- read books??). I love the quality of their writing, the pictures they paint with the words, and enjoy them without suffering nightmares as one does with the modern 'psychological thrillers' ( my God, why is being haunted by dreadful scenes entertaining? Some of them you would need counseling afterwards). Having recently discovered Richard Osmans 'Thursday Murder Club' , they have such delightful whinsy and intelligence, and am hopeful that I may get to read some different books finally. Do please do more of these. I can't remember if Ngaio Marsh did short stories, but she wrote a huge number of books, a lot of which have not appeared as yet as audio versions. Cheers. Denise in New Zealand.
I agree. I don't like grisly murder stories. Usually murder's the least of it these days. It seems they have to dredge the most revolting and upsetting things out of human society. I used to work in Safeguarding and I saw enough of the degradation that people inflict on others in real life for me ever to want to read about it.
@@classic-literaturesstories Shucks. I thought he died more recently. His books would be wonderful to listen to. The Dalziel and Pascoe tv series wasn't so good.
I really enjoyed your portrayal of Wimsey. Wodehouse is my all time favourite author and any aristocratic character set in that time is my bread and butter 😅 so yeah, well done on his speech.
Such a short end but I think it’s in the character of this channel of yours; luckily for us, it is not the deep dives on the ghost channel- those are just lovely. This one short & sweet but still maintaining the interesting facts & pinions of the writer’s engine. Beep beep!
Great reading. good Whimsey and you could tell you were enjoying it! 😋 this was one time it was easy to figure out. no spoilers :) you have a great speaking voice. and love the birds 🙂🌷🌱
That WAS fun, Thank-You! I’m glad You discussed the dialect with which LW’s speech is sprinkled, I was thinking it was a lower-class slang popular at the time (as Eliza’s speech was thought to be in My Fair Lady - the scene at Ascot); interesting to learn about the actual source, I too find the ongoing flow and evolution of Language fascinating! *If You haven’t read it, for Your Own interest I recommend reading the actual diary/book upon which the ‘Call the Midwife’ tv-series is based. The Author/Midwife who wrote it of her experiences was also fascinated by language/usage/pronunciation, in particular by the Cockney rhyming-slang which she discusses in great detail - in the latter part of her book. Great stuff, it really opened My ‘eyes’ (Lol, ears?) to the different patterns of pronunciation found in languages/dialects everywhere… and how One really can’t perceive them clearly until We actually pronounce/speak the words in the appropriate way, instead of merely (visually) reading them. The way We hold/use Our tongue/lips/mouth/teeth(…) is really unique, between languages and dialects! Lol; anyway - Thanks again!
I haven't read the Call The Midwife. It was my mum's favourite, she having been a midwife in the 1960s. I have a record of her cases. Quite eye opening stuff. But it is interesting how we will listen to music and even read a poem multiple times. Children of course have their favourite stories they never tire of. I wonder why adults grow out of it.
@@classicdetective My Mum and I enjoy the series, too. Do We? Lol; maybe it depends on how many books are available to Us. Now that so many options are available via internet, I tend to repeat less it’s true - but do have favourites that I revisit periodically. (When I was limited to what was physically in My bookshelf, I reread them all every year. Maybe that makes a difference?). 😉
I had a terrible time with "The Nine Tailors" the first time. After a year or two I revisited it, and enjoyed it very much. It was her precision in the description of the striking of the bells themselves that was trying the first time around. It was the first novel of hers I'd read. On the second reading it made me sad to have learned about the craft since ours are all just recordings now. I've since read everything I can find of Sayers. I love this author.
Hmm, Wimsey got to the answer on a different path than I expected--I thought for sure he'd remember that he never heard a third set of footsteps. Thanks for letting us know about Simon Roper's channel--I love linguistics, so I'll have to check him out!
Tony, I really enjoyed the story and commentary. I do love language and appreciate your info on accents and such! Earlier today I watched the trailer for "Firebrand," the latest Tudor drama. [Tangent Alert]. In the trailer, Katharine Parr says to Henry VIII, "I'm sure you would come up with something far more creative." This was circa 1545. Hmmm, seemed a little fishy. I checked the online OED. The adjective 'creative' didn't come into use until the 1670s, and referred to the power of creation. Only in 1848 is it starting to be used in relation to the arts, approximating our current usage. Then I checked on the phrase 'to come up with.' This was first used in print (with it's current meaning) by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934. This is as annoying as the beehive hairdos in Bonanza! I mean, couldn't they just use AI and check the script for bald-faced anachronisms? Anyhoo. A bit of trivia.
I wouldn’t trust AI to tell the truth about anything! It’s hard writing a historical pastiche. There’s so much to get wrong . many historical series on TV these days even if it’s just setting me 1940s or 50s use wrong sounding language and my biased view is that the young people who are writing these lines don’t know that people didn’t always speak like they do with all their circle back and reach out.
Y’all are my kind of people! 😂 bugs me when they pay such attention to costume and scenery but use very anachronistic language. I love the sites where you can look up and find out when specific words first appeared in print. Of course for some time periods writers have to use modern language since if they did it the way it was spoken in Tudor days we might have to turn on the subtitles….
.. I still use meat dripping when roasting meat. Do enjoy a bit of DLS, and that was an excellent diversion from the ghost stories. I have subbed to both now.
So glad I found this channel too. I feel a bit of an idiot for not knowing you narrate detective stories over here too lol 🙈😹😻 now got to make sure I find all your little nooks 😻
The big clue at the beginning was when the husband was first putting on a show about the crime to his neighbors, he said her lover did it, then he didn't repeat that in subsequent ramblings. That gave away his jealous motive. I enjoyed the discussion of pronunciation at the end.
Don’t think I’ve heard this one before. I’m old enough to have watched Whimsey in 70’s with Ian Carmichael, so I always associate him with the character. Some people can find his voice annoying after a while. It’s quite interesting how the UK produced so many great detective writers. An expat listening in Florida.
Thank you for doing the impossible, making Wimsey less fatuous and foppish. My day's ration of endurance ran out, however, before the video did. DLS is not my cup of tea at all.
Can I suggest if you haven't" already done so is to look at the Montague Egg short stories by D L Sayers. As Mr Egg is a travelling salesman he makes a different sort of amateur detective.
You did Whimsey really well but I really just can’t stand that particular accent - Priti Patel drops her Gs, so there are people who still speak like that - or at least aspire to! I’d heard of Whimsey but haven’t actually read any Sayers. I think I might keep her for listening to on the cusp of sleep. The characters were so cliched - I realise that was most likely her intention but when Bunter refused to eat with them and insisted on serving, my socialist feathers were well and truly ruffled! 😂
Question: if Lord Whimsy is an aristocrat, why is his speech so uneven; such as words like "standing" sounding like "standin"? This is in no way a criticism of your narration, Tony. I think you really animated these characters with your voice. I'm just wonderin why the author chose to write that way. 🤔
In the era that Dorothy L Sayers was writing many in the aristocracy commonly used this style affectation. It was simply the fashion at the time. If you look at the P.G. Wodehouse books, you will find the same thing.
@@snowysnowyriver Thank you! I was wondering if the author was trying to imitate an Irish accent. I've heard of the writers, but not their work. Bless Tony for being so erudite with that!
@@lunablue745 Tony is a such a talented narrator. We are so lucky that he keeps these wonderful books alive for us. 😊 With that particular accent though, if you want to hear that affectation at its best, have a listen to Ian Carmichael doing the Wimsey books. He starred in the TV adaptation of some of the books in the early 1970s, and did most of the early audiobooks. Some of his audio books are available here on YT. Ian Carmichael's accent is superb.....helped no doubt by his natural accent which was perfect RP.
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Thank you for reminding me about Dorothy Sayers and Lord Peter Whimsey. I am at the point where I want to go back and reread the novels and authors I enjoyed in my twenties and compare outlooks.
I've loved these for many decades, both the books and audiobooks and radio and TV versions👍🏽❣️📚
I felt the same and went through all of PD James & Inspector Wexford, Maigret, Whimsey and even Paul Temple. Such comfort in those stories. 🙏
Delightful narration,Tony.Sayers is one of my favorites.Such fun! Love your accents, voices and entertaining, informative comments. More Lord Peter, please. You're the best, Tony. thanks so very much!!!!!!
So glad you took on D. L. Sayers and Lord Peter. Please more, much more.
I enjoyed this story. Haven't read any
Dorothy Sayers in forever. Thank You.
Story ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Narration ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐❤️
Thank you
Great story, and you did a fantastic job narrating it😊❤
Thank you so much!
Tony, another fantastic story!! I always come for the story and stay for the after review. Love your various voices and your commentary!! Dont let the uneducated trolls get you down.
Excellent narration! You got his drawl and casual dropped Gs 👍🏽❣️📚
Sayers is a fascinating woman, especially for her time. She was a close friend of C.S. Lewis, and their rich correspondence is wonderful ❣️
just wanted to say that i really appreciate your commentary. it’s quite enjoyable and i look forward to it in every video
I remember the old BBC dramas of Lord peter.I read theses stories in 1960 s.Great stories.Thank you tony.
I could listen to you doing different accents and dialects all day- absolutely fascinating! Great tale and fantastic performance as always!
Thank you. As you know I love to do tj
Very enjoyable, Tony. More Lord Peter, please. Love your accents! Thank you.
Tony and John. Misery
Yay! A Lord Whimsey story. Well narrated, Tony. I enjoyed all the different voices.
Superb piece of work. Thank you so very much. ❤
Excellent narration, thank you. More Sayers please and Ialways look forward to your commentaries ❤
Thanks Tony! Great narration and commentary as always 😊
She has always been one of my favorite authors. Thank you for reading this one! 😊
Love Dorothy Sayers ., a brilliant writer with many literary allusions , especially later .
Thank you for a believable Lord Peter. He used to get on my nerves until i listened to Ian Carmichael and he brought him to life.
Yes, RP is different to the Queen's (King's?) English.
Sayers is a real wordsmith. I love her whodunnits too. Especially The Daughter of Time. She thinks it through so well.
Love your blackbird!
I love the Blackbird too.
😊❤️
@@hannahreynolds7611 Sorry, brain fart. They're next to each other on my bookcase 😁😁
@@hannahreynolds7611 Hello Hannah, always appreciate recommendations from fellow readers. Will.check each out. Regards from Chicago where it has turned beautifully green.
@@daftirishmarej1827You can always recognise a fellow reader (as opposed to people who just display books ) when they organise by genre. Kudos!
Daughter of Time is Josephine Tey - also good, but not DLS.
I absolutely love Lord Peter. Thank you for the reading!
I’m glad you liked it
Thank you! I thought I had read alll the Lord Peter Whimsy stories over and over, but this one was entirely new to me, I think.
I’m from the USA so love the English idioms I hear in this story. Need to look them up, but find them fascinating. Thank you!
Love a bit of Wimsey, and I can't recall hearing this one before. Thank you!
Thanks for listening
Loved hearing this, even though I knew it too well for any suspense. A small thing- You might read Lord Peter a bit quicker. He's flippant, he prattles, making everyone (save Bunter) think he's a thoughtless twit, the way everyone views Miss Marple as an addled old busybody. Your upper class drawl, though, is impeccable! If you enjoyed being Wimsey, by all means, do more!
Such a treat! I have been reading the Lord Peter Wimsey books in order and am currently on my 11th. With book one, Whose Body?, I was sure I would not survive such an odd character, but once a book is begun, it can't be dropped. Thank goodness, because Lord Peter grew on me, and I'm hooked. You did great on the narration and won't get any complaints if you decide to share another of his stories.
…….the commentary after the story is so extraordinary and adds so much to the stories themselves
And both are always so well done
great reading. i love your commentaries. the story is over and i feel a bit sad, and then there is more. such a gift. thank you
I have been listening for a few yrs now.i love your stories, diolouge, and presentation . I resent the fact that people are now putting constraints on your work. Your personal observations about life and art have always brought me enjoyment . I love the dogs and I wish to ty so much .☀️🦋🌻🌹
You do great with all the stories. Love the voices. Thank you.
First time listening to any audio presentation. Well done. The narrator was rendering away setting up the place and people, visual present tense. I was right at his elbow. A grand trip into the theater of the mind. You have won me as a fan.
Best Wimsey yet! More! Thank you.
Great story. Thank you.
thanks for commenting
Nicely done! Has been many years since I've read any DL Sayers, but I don't recall this one! A nice surprise, but would still have been a delight hearing your interpretation if I did recall it!
Many thanks!
These are the BEST!!!
Nicely done! This is the first Lord Peter Wimsy mystery I've ever heard. I rather enjoyed it.
I'm glad you did.
Loved it Tony, you never disappoint!
Thank you.
Love the chat, always, and have to say that I am quite the Simon Roper fan. (Just aside I have spent some of the morning listening to old Suffolk accents).
You did Lord Peter justice, I could only substitute yours with Tim Curry's Nigel Thornberry, but only for sentimental reasons.
I must though for once stand up for the common Police Officer though, I have known quite a few; they are in my family, and get a bally raw deal in Detective stories. Not fair!
It's a thankless job sometimes.
So I for one say hooray for the hard working PCs and Sargeants.
👮🏽♀️ 👮🏼 🕵🏻♀️🕵🏾
No, no it's all fine. With well known stories there are often favourite narrators and you hear them in their voices. I still am moved to do them. I'm not sure that I got Lord Peter actually. There are people with genuine toff accents that should probably do him and I'll stick to the gritty working-class detectives! Though I do like doing my Sherlock Holmes drawl.
Oh please don't think that I wasn't totally impressed by your Whimsy, I was just being nostalgic about poor old Tom.
Never stop with your accents, it really does help to differentiate characters.
👍😊
Thanks for the commentary as well.
Thank you!!
You're welcome!
Hey...That sounds like Tony Walker! Great Narration!
It is!
@@classicdetective Wonderful!
My Gram read me old classics like Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and made a British Mystery lover of me…Thanks for all your efforts!
Excellent narration! Thank you so much. And your thoughts afterward were worthy.
I especially appreciate your reading after the flood of AI audiobooks. It makes your talents precious.
Excellent. Thank you.
I’m so happy to see you reading Dorothy Sayers!
I read “The Nine Tailors” with my kids. Amazing!!
We will do more, but I might get someone else as I'm not sure m y voice is right for him. But the person we get will be very good!
The result of the guy tied up in the bell tower gave me the shivers!
Great story, must show my age. I delight in the characters and language. Love hearing your commentaries after the story. thank you!
I enjoyed your reading of that, and your analysis....I have been reading her books, along with Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh's books for many years, and have read them all several times..( why do we cheerfully listen to a piece of favorite music repeatedly, and yet most people don't re- read books??). I love the quality of their writing, the pictures they paint with the words, and enjoy them without suffering nightmares as one does with the modern 'psychological thrillers' ( my God, why is being haunted by dreadful scenes entertaining? Some of them you would need counseling afterwards). Having recently discovered Richard Osmans 'Thursday Murder Club' , they have such delightful whinsy and intelligence, and am hopeful that I may get to read some different books finally. Do please do more of these. I can't remember if Ngaio Marsh did short stories, but she wrote a huge number of books, a lot of which have not appeared as yet as audio versions. Cheers. Denise in New Zealand.
I agree. I don't like grisly murder stories. Usually murder's the least of it these days. It seems they have to dredge the most revolting and upsetting things out of human society. I used to work in Safeguarding and I saw enough of the degradation that people inflict on others in real life for me ever to want to read about it.
Have you read Reginald Hill? Absolutely amazing. Found him at a library and for a couple years he was all I would read. And I still re-read.
@@classicdetective Could you read Reginald Hill?
@@cassandraseven3478Insee he died in 2012 so his work is still well within copyright . He died in Ravenglass. Interesting
@@classic-literaturesstories Shucks. I thought he died more recently. His books would be wonderful to listen to. The Dalziel and Pascoe tv series wasn't so good.
Fabulous!! I enjoy your commentary very much. The narration is such fun.
Good one!
I so enjoyed!!!!! THIS🥰
I just found this and wow!!! 😊 I recognized your voice🥳.
I listen to your Ghost Stories!
This is great💐 thank you!!
Wonderful
Stupendous 😁
Thank you!
I really enjoyed your portrayal of Wimsey. Wodehouse is my all time favourite author and any aristocratic character set in that time is my bread and butter 😅 so yeah, well done on his speech.
Thanks a lot
Please do more! I enjoyed your accent very much.
I've listened to other channels without any commentary and always felt a little lost. I keep coming back 😊
That was how i wanted it to work
Ihe u do more Dorothy L Sayers. You're just brilliant
You are too kind
Enjoyed very much 👍👏
YIPPEE! ❤ Thank you.
😮 i listened to this at 1.25 speed and it feels more right!
Whatever works for you
😂😂😂
Such a short end but I think it’s in the character of this channel of yours; luckily for us, it is not the deep dives on the ghost channel- those are just lovely. This one short & sweet but still maintaining the interesting facts & pinions of the writer’s engine. Beep beep!
I'm deliberately keeping the commentaries short on this one.
Great reading. good Whimsey and you could tell you were enjoying it! 😋 this was one time it was easy to figure out. no spoilers :)
you have a great speaking voice. and love the birds 🙂🌷🌱
Yes, I really enjoyed doing it!
Great narration and great commentary, as always
I appreciate that
That WAS fun, Thank-You!
I’m glad You discussed the dialect with which LW’s speech is sprinkled, I was thinking it was a lower-class slang popular at the time (as Eliza’s speech was thought to be in My Fair Lady - the scene at Ascot); interesting to learn about the actual source, I too find the ongoing flow and evolution of Language fascinating!
*If You haven’t read it, for Your Own interest I recommend reading the actual diary/book upon which the ‘Call the Midwife’ tv-series is based. The Author/Midwife who wrote it of her experiences was also fascinated by language/usage/pronunciation, in particular by the Cockney rhyming-slang which she discusses in great detail - in the latter part of her book. Great stuff, it really opened My ‘eyes’ (Lol, ears?) to the different patterns of pronunciation found in languages/dialects everywhere… and how One really can’t perceive them clearly until We actually pronounce/speak the words in the appropriate way, instead of merely (visually) reading them. The way We hold/use Our tongue/lips/mouth/teeth(…) is really unique, between languages and dialects!
Lol; anyway - Thanks again!
I haven't read the Call The Midwife. It was my mum's favourite, she having been a midwife in the 1960s. I have a record of her cases. Quite eye opening stuff. But it is interesting how we will listen to music and even read a poem multiple times. Children of course have their favourite stories they never tire of. I wonder why adults grow out of it.
@@classicdetective My Mum and I enjoy the series, too.
Do We? Lol; maybe it depends on how many books are available to Us. Now that so many options are available via internet, I tend to repeat less it’s true - but do have favourites that I revisit periodically.
(When I was limited to what was physically in My bookshelf, I reread them all every year. Maybe that makes a difference?).
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I had a terrible time with "The Nine Tailors" the first time. After a year or two I revisited it, and enjoyed it very much. It was her precision in the description of the striking of the bells themselves that was trying the first time around. It was the first novel of hers I'd read. On the second reading it made me sad to have learned about the craft since ours are all just recordings now. I've since read everything I can find of Sayers. I love this author.
Hmm, Wimsey got to the answer on a different path than I expected--I thought for sure he'd remember that he never heard a third set of footsteps.
Thanks for letting us know about Simon Roper's channel--I love linguistics, so I'll have to check him out!
Tony, I really enjoyed the story and commentary. I do love language and appreciate your info on accents and such!
Earlier today I watched the trailer for "Firebrand," the latest Tudor drama. [Tangent Alert]. In the trailer, Katharine Parr says to Henry VIII, "I'm sure you would come up with something far more creative." This was circa 1545. Hmmm, seemed a little fishy.
I checked the online OED. The adjective 'creative' didn't come into use until the 1670s, and referred to the power of creation. Only in 1848 is it starting to be used in relation to the arts, approximating our current usage. Then I checked on the phrase 'to come up with.' This was first used in print (with it's current meaning) by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934.
This is as annoying as the beehive hairdos in Bonanza! I mean, couldn't they just use AI and check the script for bald-faced anachronisms? Anyhoo. A bit of trivia.
I wouldn’t trust AI to tell the truth about anything! It’s hard writing a historical pastiche. There’s so much to get wrong . many historical series on TV these days even if it’s just setting me 1940s or 50s use wrong sounding language and my biased view is that the young people who are writing these lines don’t know that people didn’t always speak like they do with all their circle back and reach out.
Y’all are my kind of people! 😂 bugs me when they pay such attention to costume and scenery but use very anachronistic language. I love the sites where you can look up and find out when specific words first appeared in print. Of course for some time periods writers have to use modern language since if they did it the way it was spoken in Tudor days we might have to turn on the subtitles….
And don't forget The Tiffany Problem!
Ngaio Marsh is my favorite of the 4 queens of mystery. I don’t know if she has short stories, but if sh does, i request it!🎉
Yes, Simon Roper on accents and "RobWords"
.. I still use meat dripping when roasting meat. Do enjoy a bit of DLS, and that was an excellent diversion from the ghost stories. I have subbed to both now.
Thank you very much
So glad I found this channel too. I feel a bit of an idiot for not knowing you narrate detective stories over here too lol 🙈😹😻 now got to make sure I find all your little nooks 😻
I have many
Love DLS, Tony! Tho I was thinking her writing might be hard to declaim due to the dialogue, you did well!!
Thanks!
The big clue at the beginning was when the husband was first putting on a show about the crime to his neighbors, he said her lover did it, then he didn't repeat that in subsequent ramblings. That gave away his jealous motive. I enjoyed the discussion of pronunciation at the end.
To realize this story is really 100yrs old! That's hard to think of, really. 📚. M. IL
nearly as old as me
You are entitled to your opinion just like any other person!! Give the haters hell
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i solved this one right away!
I’ll read a harder one next time
Don’t think I’ve heard this one before. I’m old enough to have watched Whimsey in 70’s with Ian Carmichael, so I always associate him with the character. Some people can find his voice annoying after a while. It’s quite interesting how the UK produced so many great detective writers. An expat listening in Florida.
Carmichael will always be Whimsey to me. he was perfect. :) 😋🌷🌱
@@feralblueeI'm new to the Peter Wimsey stories I saw a few episodes with Ian and then Petherbridge. I prefer Ian.
Have been rewatching the episodes on you tube. They are both good portrayals of wimsey.
A little editing, adding some pauses. Really hard to work out who is speaking when🤦🏼♀️
Noted. I shall try.
Naigo Marsh's story Chapter and Verse is hilarious . You should read it.
It is possible I shall.
Poor Rattie 🥺😞
I know
I enjoyed the accents! Imagine the horror of having to answer your own door 🤭! Old timey posh people are ridiculous smh!
unthinkable! answering one’s own door! that’s what the footman is for
Thank you for doing the impossible, making Wimsey less fatuous and foppish. My day's ration of endurance ran out, however, before the video did. DLS is not my cup of tea at all.
Can I suggest if you haven't" already done so is to look at the Montague Egg short stories by D L Sayers. As Mr Egg is a travelling salesman he makes a different sort of amateur detective.
I will definitely put them on my list
You did Whimsey really well but I really just can’t stand that particular accent - Priti Patel drops her Gs, so there are people who still speak like that - or at least aspire to! I’d heard of Whimsey but haven’t actually read any Sayers. I think I might keep her for listening to on the cusp of sleep. The characters were so cliched - I realise that was most likely her intention but when Bunter refused to eat with them and insisted on serving, my socialist feathers were well and truly ruffled! 😂
Jesus!
Question: if Lord Whimsy is an aristocrat, why is his speech so uneven; such as words like "standing" sounding like "standin"? This is in no way a criticism of your narration, Tony. I think you really animated these characters with your voice. I'm just wonderin why the author chose to write that way. 🤔
In the era that Dorothy L Sayers was writing many in the aristocracy commonly used this style affectation. It was simply the fashion at the time. If you look at the P.G. Wodehouse books, you will find the same thing.
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@@snowysnowyriver Thank you! I was wondering if the author was trying to imitate an Irish accent. I've heard of the writers, but not their work. Bless Tony for being so erudite with that!
I believe Tony explains some of this at the very end of the story 🙂
@@lunablue745 Tony is a such a talented narrator. We are so lucky that he keeps these wonderful books alive for us. 😊 With that particular accent though, if you want to hear that affectation at its best, have a listen to Ian Carmichael doing the Wimsey books. He starred in the TV adaptation of some of the books in the early 1970s, and did most of the early audiobooks. Some of his audio books are available here on YT. Ian Carmichael's accent is superb.....helped no doubt by his natural accent which was perfect RP.
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The attempted " posh " accent is cringe ...!
I assure you that I am very push and go huntin shootin and fishin all the time
Thank you !