One of the Classics!...the Railway man going to Watson and Homes looking after the chap...sofa, brandy & water, make yourself at home. "I shall not feel easy til i tell my story" - how TRUE! Lots more also 🧐
I've never heard a more suitable voice for sherlock it's picture perfect for what I'd imagine he'd sound like, its right up there with Jeremy Brett in terms of believability
Try one and put it on your channel. Forget about it. Go back, and listen as if it is completely foreign to you. I would volunteer to listen but, it has to be uniquely your decision. If you do decide to go for it: just remember, you will never please everyone.
You could be paying me thousands of dollars but if a woman who lived with you begged me to leave like that I would haul ass out of there, it was already such a sketchy situation
This story has always stumped me, if you were warned and even realized the precarious nature of your position why would you have alerted them to your knowledge that they are lying. He practically caused his own injury.
It’s like the horror movie where the main character hears a strange noise at night and goes “to investigate.” We all yell at him, “Nooo! Just run!” LOL!
@@stewartlancaster6155 Yeah but if he'd kept his mouth shut he probably would've got paid (in... forged fake money, mind you) and left the place with his own two feet. But the engineer had to act bossy and smart by telling them "I know this is not fuller's earth, you're obviously lying to me" while standing INSIDE the hydraulic press, almost getting himself killed, and obviously with no payment. He just brought this unto himself by being careless even though the situation was already VERY sketchy and creepy. Besides, the other guy basically warned him when he said "This tiny room is actually a gigantic hydraulic press, it would be unfortunate if someone were to activate it with people inside" like c'mon, that's obviously a threat... especially with the sworn secrecy and all 😂😂
I must say, The Engineer's Thumb really, ahem, "sticks out like a sore thumb" when it comes to chilling tales and almost gorey details. Though it is certainly a thriller.
The accents are so on point it’s amazing. And you go back & forth between them so easily. Greg you HAVE to be from the UK (If you ever need female voices I do accents & am an actress myself :)
There needs to be a follow up story entitled "All of Sherlock's teeth." What an insufferable know it all! Anyways, very beautifully read, yet again :-)
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio : True! He's always right for one, though I have a shrewd suspicion he has 'inside information.' I know for a fact Sherlock is in constant and close communication with the author :-O
The engineer is a complete idiot if you already have so many reservations and they were confirmed upon your investigation why would you alert them that you know that they are lying, it is as if you are daring them to do their worst. He should have told them the problem, collected his money and report it to the police upon returning to London.
Bràndy is actually doubly distilled wine. It is not a alcohol that many people in America anymore. It's capabilities does what it is meant to do. It has a quick effect, sometimes jolting, yet it can have a calming effect afterwards. Bràndy and Cognac can be like a smelling salt to many, and acts quickly. nd
Brandy sales go up greatly at Christmas because of dousing the Christmas pudding in it and setting it alight. Apart from that it’s probably in the doldrums sales wise. Shame as I rather like it. I’m sure it’s as good a medicine as many others.
The Scot seems a bit dumb , if I walked to a strange house owed by dubious men, with shuttered windows , and a panicked woman warned me to get away , I would be gone
I am a professional engineer and yes it all hangs together well enough, a weeping seal is a common enough problem in a hydraulic system and it would cause the issues described. My only question over it is that to my mind it's a very obvious thing to diagnose and it seems unlikely they would have the skill to be able to fix it themselves, but not be able to discover the issue in the first place
@@Kington99 Thanks for that; it all makes sense. It makes it all the sadder that Doyle, a doctor, did not take the same care with the human body. A man hanging from a window-sill does so by his fingers; the thumb is not exposed (and neither would an amputated one be left behind on the sill!) The only way around all this that I can see is if he were hanging from the actual window-frame, with his hands and forearms across the sill.
Can You Upload "The Speckled Band", "The Sussex Vampire" And Of Course "The Hound Of The Baskervilles" Please! Thanks Mate. I Am A Very Big Fan Of Sherlock Holmes!
Is this channel run by Greg Wagland himself? A lot of comments suggest that but the channel is under a publishing companies name, which suggests otherwise. When I look up Magpie Audio, there are many audiobooks read by other actors but every audiobook on this channel is read by Greg Wagland. Then, I went to his website and it links to this RUclips channel, which suggests that this channel isn't made by a fan of Wagland. Maybe its Wagland's manager or agent or something that runs this account and the website but the tone of the website feels too personal and lighthearted. I'm stumped! If this is Wagland, let me know!
The pain comes after I took out my flesh around my wrist with a 3,000 lb. Per sg inch pressure washer initially felt like a extremely hard blow now I have a beautiful v shape scare
i was listening to this and got quite confused. there couldn’t be two stories based on the same premise by one author - could there? and yet, the story i remembered was exactly the same, except it was almost a crushed body - which ended up only being a crushed shoe. i couldn’t figure out what was going on. two stories almost exactly the same? then the puzzle pieces clicked into place. the other had been a television episode and they thought a thumb being cut off with blood everywhere was a bit too much and changed it to the crushed shoe. i was quite befuddled for a while though :) 😋🌷🌱
Sherlock,partly. But this is one of those strange cases which got solved on their own. As it is stated in the beginning, holmes expertise came to very little use in this one
@@arbaaz9992 No that's certainly not the case. Holmes was the one who deduced that the house was in the middle of that village and that they were coiners. Honestly without knowing that they were coiners, catching them would have been impossible.
The Ronald Howard series has an episode called The Shirked Engineer that is based on this story, although some of the details have been changed. You can find all 29 episodes of the series can be found right here on RUclips. Hope you enjoy them.
Conan Doyle gives us one small clue ... After Hatherley has been taken to the ill-fated house, Stark introduces him to "a short thick man with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double chin ..." A few paragraphs later, Hatherley says "I could see from the little that he said that he was at least a fellow-countryman." A tiny clue but Greg Wagland's eagle-eyed attention to detail has not missed it!
the variation of how speaker change his voice for each character is absolutely stunning huhu.
I listen to these while going to bed. Love hearing the stories by this great narrator!
I listen to these while actually in bed....
ahahhahawhha dead.
Even after all these years I still love listening to these narrations! You read all these characters so well!
Thank you
I am addicted to the reader’s vivid rendition of each character!👍❤️
Greg Waglund is brilliant. Thank you sir.
One of the Classics!...the Railway man going to Watson and Homes looking after the chap...sofa, brandy & water, make yourself at home.
"I shall not feel easy til i tell my story" - how TRUE!
Lots more also 🧐
That night, the intelligent and young engineer learned to not ignore red flags, even for the sake of coins.
More than who solved the mystery, it is the superlative narration of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which captivates the reader's attention. Masterpiece!
I've never heard a more suitable voice for sherlock it's picture perfect for what I'd imagine he'd sound like, its right up there with Jeremy Brett in terms of believability
Kind of you. Ta!
Great reading as always. Thank you :)
aah those days where a sip of Brandy was the cure for every illness ...
It still is, if you've got the attitude for it!
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And the taste for it- which fortunately I have.😊
You have inspired me to look into becoming an audiobook narrator.
Try one and put it on your channel. Forget about it. Go back, and listen as if it is completely foreign to you. I would volunteer to listen but, it has to be uniquely your decision. If you do decide to go for it: just remember, you will never please everyone.
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Sir ur voice is very clear nd audible...u deserve million subscribers.ol d luck
People who think The Hound of the Baskervilles is the closest Sherlock Holmes stories ventured into horror territory have clearly not read this one.
It's creepy, certainly, toon.
The Sussex Vampire and The Devil's Foot are creepy ones as well.
@@Gill12283 The Five Orange Pips was very creepy too.
So is the Creeping Man and The Musgrave Ritual
It's not so much horror though?
You could be paying me thousands of dollars but if a woman who lived with you begged me to leave like that I would haul ass out of there, it was already such a sketchy situation
This story has always stumped me, if you were warned and even realized the precarious nature of your position why would you have alerted them to your knowledge that they are lying. He practically caused his own injury.
I always thought he was a doofus.
It’s like the horror movie where the main character hears a strange noise at night and goes “to investigate.” We all yell at him, “Nooo! Just run!” LOL!
for the money ? 50 quid then is around, 7000 now !
@@stewartlancaster6155 Yeah but if he'd kept his mouth shut he probably would've got paid (in... forged fake money, mind you) and left the place with his own two feet.
But the engineer had to act bossy and smart by telling them "I know this is not fuller's earth, you're obviously lying to me" while standing INSIDE the hydraulic press, almost getting himself killed, and obviously with no payment. He just brought this unto himself by being careless even though the situation was already VERY sketchy and creepy.
Besides, the other guy basically warned him when he said "This tiny room is actually a gigantic hydraulic press, it would be unfortunate if someone were to activate it with people inside" like c'mon, that's obviously a threat... especially with the sworn secrecy and all 😂😂
I must say, The Engineer's Thumb really, ahem, "sticks out like a sore thumb" when it comes to chilling tales and almost gorey details. Though it is certainly a thriller.
Ha!
Excellent Greg. Thank you.
Very welcome, Stephen! Cheers!
Thanks for uploading this it helped with school.
Same here
Brilliant as always
Masterful audible performance ✨✨✨ thank you Sir so much 🫡🫡🌺🌺
Mr. Hatherly experienced the epitome of a bad day.
Good stories. Love their way of speaking
Honestly, If Hatherly had not passed out in the hedge near the station, Ferguson & Stark may very well have spotted, & thus, killed him.
Omg thank you I needed this
Glad to hear it 👍🏼
The accents are so on point it’s amazing. And you go back & forth between them so easily. Greg you HAVE to be from the UK
(If you ever need female voices I do accents & am an actress myself :)
thank you so much for this
I have an exam in January and this has saved me so much time thank you : )
Fabulous!!!!
Thank you.
Never heard of this story...I liked it much!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍thumbs seem to be appropriate on this one! HA!!!
thank you for making this easy
Thnx for uploading
Thank you very much!
Keep up the good Work! Your doing an awesome job!
Thanks Ereni.
There needs to be a follow up story entitled "All of Sherlock's teeth." What an insufferable know it all! Anyways, very beautifully read, yet again :-)
He can be, can't he? Redeeming qualities though!
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio : True! He's always right for one, though I have a shrewd suspicion he has 'inside information.' I know for a fact Sherlock is in constant and close communication with the author :-O
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Actually he's not always right, and berates himself harshly when he makes a mistake, for example in The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Thanks
The engineer is a complete idiot if you already have so many reservations and they were confirmed upon your investigation why would you alert them that you know that they are lying, it is as if you are daring them to do their worst. He should have told them the problem, collected his money and report it to the police upon returning to London.
Bràndy is actually doubly distilled wine. It is not a alcohol that many people in America anymore. It's capabilities does what it is meant to do. It has a quick effect, sometimes jolting, yet it can have a calming effect afterwards. Bràndy and Cognac can be like a smelling salt to many, and acts quickly.
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Brandy sales go up greatly at Christmas because of dousing the Christmas pudding in it and setting it alight. Apart from that it’s probably in the doldrums sales wise. Shame as I rather like it. I’m sure it’s as good a medicine as many others.
Hot sweet tea is the great British remedy for shock😂
I’ve heard that Wisconsin consumes more brandy that the remaining 49 states combined
The Scot seems a bit dumb , if I walked to a strange house owed by dubious men, with shuttered windows , and a panicked woman warned me to get away , I would be gone
What I would give to hear mr wagland read a Dr Seuss story!!
Does anyone know if Doyle got the engineering aspects - where he's looking over the machine and finds out what's wrong with it - right?
I am a professional engineer and yes it all hangs together well enough, a weeping seal is a common enough problem in a hydraulic system and it would cause the issues described. My only question over it is that to my mind it's a very obvious thing to diagnose and it seems unlikely they would have the skill to be able to fix it themselves, but not be able to discover the issue in the first place
@@Kington99 Thanks for that; it all makes sense. It makes it all the sadder that Doyle, a doctor, did not take the same care with the human body. A man hanging from a window-sill does so by his fingers; the thumb is not exposed (and neither would an amputated one be left behind on the sill!) The only way around all this that I can see is if he were hanging from the actual window-frame, with his hands and forearms across the sill.
The more stories I hear the more I am convinced that if the money is wildly good and just when you are in dire straights it’s better to just run 😭
Yeah, lose a thumb vs my life: no question. But I am careful to heed red flags. 🤔...The Brazilian Cat
Great 👍
Thank you! Cheers Rachel!
I would have told Holmes off if he had said that to me after loosing my thumb and nearly my life.
But, “experience!”
Yeah, that was a dick move from Holmes.
@@abraxasnl Best reply he could think of!
That's why the story ended there)
Can You Upload "The Speckled Band", "The Sussex Vampire" And Of Course "The Hound Of The Baskervilles" Please! Thanks Mate. I Am A Very Big Fan Of Sherlock Holmes!
+Kevin Mallon Speckled Band and The Hound of the Baskervilles are on my channel already. The Sussex Vampire is not as it is not in the public domain.
Me too..
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Holmes Stories Magpie Audio
TS 8:08 this explains the shoe (house type) of shoe in the movies on the mantle fireplace corner; I wondered why Holmes kept his tobacco in a shoe🤔
I believe it's actually a Turkish slipper
wonderful voice work. this has always been a bit of a weak story but the reader is excellent.
The reader is excellent, and the story is amazing!
Is this channel run by Greg Wagland himself? A lot of comments suggest that but the channel is under a publishing companies name, which suggests otherwise. When I look up Magpie Audio, there are many audiobooks read by other actors but every audiobook on this channel is read by Greg Wagland. Then, I went to his website and it links to this RUclips channel, which suggests that this channel isn't made by a fan of Wagland. Maybe its Wagland's manager or agent or something that runs this account and the website but the tone of the website feels too personal and lighthearted. I'm stumped! If this is Wagland, let me know!
Sorry for my ignorance, I'm just so curious!
Of course, Wagland runs this channel.
Sherlock rock's 😊
The pain comes after I took out my flesh around my wrist with a 3,000 lb. Per sg inch pressure washer initially felt like a extremely hard blow now I have a beautiful v shape scare
Ouch! 👍👍 Great story though! 🀄️🀄️🀄️🀄️
Ann. Greetings! Yes. Take care of your thumbs and your thumbs will take care of you. Cheers.
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Well...!!!😯😯😯
"Hate to knock you up so early" !😃
I’m gonna buy a Library chair now! I don’t care what anybody says
LMAO good one!
i was listening to this and got quite confused. there couldn’t be two stories based on the same premise by one author - could there? and yet, the story i remembered was exactly the same, except it was almost a crushed body - which ended up only being a crushed shoe. i couldn’t figure out what was going on. two stories almost exactly the same? then the puzzle pieces clicked into place. the other had been a television episode and they thought a thumb being cut off with blood everywhere was a bit too much and changed it to the crushed shoe. i was quite befuddled for a while though :) 😋🌷🌱
Back to reality ❣️.
So who exactly solved the case
Sherlock,partly. But this is one of those strange cases which got solved on their own. As it is stated in the beginning, holmes expertise came to very little use in this one
@@arbaaz9992 No that's certainly not the case. Holmes was the one who deduced that the house was in the middle of that village and that they were coiners. Honestly without knowing that they were coiners, catching them would have been impossible.
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By coiners I suppose you mean counterfeiters?
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I would like to see a movie of this. Or is there one?
The Ronald Howard series has an episode called The Shirked Engineer that is based on this story, although some of the details have been changed. You can find all 29 episodes of the series can be found right here on RUclips. Hope you enjoy them.
@@jujuseducer6055 where at on here?
Can. You do an audiobook read for the prisoner of zenda
It's a great suggestion, Abuzar. Will think about it!
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio thankyou
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The Engineers Bum. ...we used to snigger at that 50 years ago
in primary school, sorry !
I find that funny today - 50 years after I should!
What is the accent the engineer has? Is it Scottish? May I ask why he is read with that accent? Is it based on his name?
I can’t remember. Probably Scot-ish 😀 probably for some spurious reason!
Conan Doyle gives us one small clue ... After Hatherley has been taken to the ill-fated house, Stark introduces him to "a short thick man with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double chin ..." A few paragraphs later, Hatherley says "I could see from the little that he said that he was at least a fellow-countryman." A tiny clue but Greg Wagland's eagle-eyed attention to detail has not missed it!
What shire?
Berkshire
Holmes would be a raging crack head in modern times
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Supercool. lol😁
These are smooth cool stories. S H
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This ain't no Hollywood kid...
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i hate english class cuh
Yes, not all English teachers are great by any means!
Back to reality ❣️.
Back to reality ❣️.
Back to reality ❣️.
Back to reality ❣️.