27 The Dancing Men from The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905) Audiobook

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  • Опубликовано: 24 дек 2024

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  • @peachmelba1000
    @peachmelba1000 2 года назад +18

    Holmes is the greatest protagonist in all of English literature. Brilliantly read. These stories are my constant companion in my right ear while I work (safely).

  • @christroiano4691
    @christroiano4691 4 года назад +231

    I love it when the client is like, “I’m not a good story teller , but let me pontificate upon my recent woes “. 😂

  • @lindathomas2350
    @lindathomas2350 2 года назад +41

    I am amused to read that I am not the only insomniac who enjoys listening to these wonderful Sherlock Holmes adventures that are so well read!

  • @gregjones8412
    @gregjones8412 4 года назад +111

    Yet another of Greg's silver-toned narrations that turn sleepless night into sheer bliss.

    • @lunarwolfmoon5015
      @lunarwolfmoon5015 4 года назад +4

      For a sec I thought you where talking about listrade however you’re talking abour the reader!!!

    • @simonarrand6264
      @simonarrand6264 4 года назад +1

      Yes they do! Sherlock is one of my very favourite characters and stories!!

    • @naemasufi
      @naemasufi 3 года назад +1

      Yup. That's why I'm here

    • @claudiachurch4285
      @claudiachurch4285 3 года назад +1

      Yes he has a marvelous voice and cadence to it

  • @evakajanovaenna8775
    @evakajanovaenna8775 Год назад +7

    Thanks for this channel, makes my commuting to work more enjoyable and less stressful. ❤ it is very well read, clearly to understand for a non native English speaker.

  • @MichaelCecil
    @MichaelCecil 3 года назад +70

    I always love how civilized the scenes are when Sherlock speaks with his captured assailant. The person gets handcuffed, sits on a chair, and then they have a sophisticated conversation about the crime in its “naked truth.”

    • @vincentperratore4395
      @vincentperratore4395 3 года назад +6

      Picture that happening today!

    • @gatacelta
      @gatacelta Год назад +3

      And also "That's it, that's everything, the God's honest truth."

    • @SuperBartles
      @SuperBartles Месяц назад

      Colonel Sebastian Moran wasn't so gentlemanly about it all when he was finally caught (The Empty room)
      "at least there can be no reason why I should submit to the gibes of this person"

  • @natnickelton2663
    @natnickelton2663 2 года назад +35

    Some readers have claimed that Doyle "never" explained what Sherlock's hair color was but he DID right in the beginning, "Like a strange lank bird with dull gray plumage and a black top-knot." so the debate is settled. Holmes had black hair. There are also references to him having black eyebrows in other stories. So, Doyle did give us clues, he just didn't directly spell it out. Thank you for settling this years-old debate!

    • @codeeasly5102
      @codeeasly5102 Год назад

      Fully agree

    • @shlosher
      @shlosher Год назад +1

      Does this mean he had a top-knot? Like a man-bun?

    • @iamjohnlocked2532
      @iamjohnlocked2532 Год назад +1

      @@shlosheras funny as that would be I don’t think so

    • @quintenandjoannklonowski134
      @quintenandjoannklonowski134 Год назад

      🥳🙋🏼‍♀😘

    • @bhh8005
      @bhh8005 Год назад +2

      ​@@shlosher​
      no, it meant that he was midlle aged, and started to be bald on the vertex. The deerstalker was introduced to hide that the first actor who played Sherlock had to much hair.

  • @hyperphenomenal4360
    @hyperphenomenal4360 Год назад +8

    You know what sunday morning bliss is?
    Listening to Greg's narration of holmes adventure and a cuppa tea!
    Thanks very much greg

  • @sivanlevi3867
    @sivanlevi3867 Год назад +14

    The Dancing Men is what inspired my own interest in ancient coding techniques and cryptography in general.

  • @동한김-d4w
    @동한김-d4w Год назад +35

    Am reading "The Extroardinary Cases of Sherlock Holmes", and it's a bit difficult for me (I'm 13 years old, and 15 years old in my country (Korea). But I can understand better by listening to this audio and read it myself. It's a bit slow, so I hear this in 1.25x. Thank you for uploading such a good reading of the story!

    • @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio
      @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio  Год назад +6

      Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. 1.25x - great idea!

    • @anamakesthings
      @anamakesthings Год назад +4

      This is awesome!!! I learned French that way. I was expecting I'd more grammar lesson, but turns out, listening to someone actually speaking the language does wonders.
      There's a lot of instinctual learning, you'll soon find yourself more and more comfortable with realizing "this doesn't sound right but THAT does."
      Good luck and, most importantly, have fun 🎉📖

    • @cannastartover1720
      @cannastartover1720 Год назад +3

      Good stuff, love young people intrested in shelock.

    • @valentinmoscatello3282
      @valentinmoscatello3282 2 месяца назад +1

      나는 한국어를 공부하러 한국어로 쓴 셜록홈즈책 생일선물로 받았어. 좀 어려운데 재미있어. 화이팅!

  • @davidwillard8673
    @davidwillard8673 2 года назад +5

    Best narrator ever

  • @karenwaters1926
    @karenwaters1926 5 лет назад +31

    Love this story. One of the first Basil Rathbone films I was exposed to was based on this story. I was already in love with the canonical Holmes and Watson. Rathbone and Bruce are still my favorite duo. Thank you for this. Cheers

    • @granny13ad33
      @granny13ad33 5 лет назад +3

      I have not seen this on film. I hope to find it. I too love Rathbone and Bruce. I can tolerate Howard but he lends a sweetness that just does not fit Holmes. This reader does a fabulous job of it.

    • @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio
      @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio  5 лет назад +1

      Howard?

    • @granny13ad33
      @granny13ad33 5 лет назад +1

      @@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio The Actor who sometimes plays Holmes. I went back and checked. It's Greg Wagland. He's a favorite! Sometimes listen in the wee hrs of the morn when I cannot sleep, so my mind is,a but dulled. Otherwise I would have realized.

    • @larsen8059
      @larsen8059 4 года назад +8

      @@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio I think the reference is to Ronald Howard (son of Leslie Howard), who played Holmes in a 1950's television series. I agree his portrayal is endearing in a way, but not one that is compliant to it's literary canon...at least in my opinion. Your Holmes, Mr. Wagland is right up there with Jeremy Brett. I think this Granada series came closest to Conan Doyle's stories.

    • @larsen8059
      @larsen8059 4 года назад +1

      @@granny13ad33 I think the Rathbone/Bruce reference is to 'Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon' ...uses the premise of the 'dancing men' as code, but that's where the original parallel to this story ends.
      ruclips.net/video/kYoerEu-_yI/видео.html

  • @abiirw
    @abiirw 4 года назад +26

    this is making reading during quarantine so much easier, thanks Mr Greg Man

  • @granny13ad33
    @granny13ad33 5 лет назад +14

    Fascinating! Fun puzzle to unravel. Of course the reader again is exquisite! Thank you!

  • @samd35
    @samd35 3 года назад +1

    I love his disguises, and his ability to study people, he is constantly learning more and more by asking questions, if he doesn’t know how some normal thing was achieved! His analytical mind is constantly switched on! How these were written is sheer brilliance!! There is nothing the like of them, before, or since!!

  • @johnmoesche3959
    @johnmoesche3959 2 года назад +2

    Always enjoyable. I love listening to Sherlock Holmes exercising mindfulness.

  • @SeerOfTime577
    @SeerOfTime577 5 лет назад +51

    MAN, that was a good one! Although, I feel bad for those simply listening to the audiobook without the visual aid of the dancing men. XD

    • @daygoncornhole2395
      @daygoncornhole2395 4 года назад +11

      Dances YMCA 😃😃

    • @DocSanders
      @DocSanders 8 дней назад

      Yes! I keep meaning to mention this fact as it is a central point. Excellent job nevertheless.

  • @ashleewood3401
    @ashleewood3401 7 лет назад +28

    Thank you, you read these wonderfully!

  • @elizebethpenington3755
    @elizebethpenington3755 4 года назад +13

    So good! So appreciated.

  • @Lander02
    @Lander02 7 лет назад +33

    Intriguing narrative and masterful reading. Thank you sir.

  • @hv1946FLUSA
    @hv1946FLUSA 4 месяца назад

    Excellent story. Thank you for the presentation.

  • @KiKiabout
    @KiKiabout 3 года назад +5

    Excellent... Thank you!

  • @paulwilliamson6660
    @paulwilliamson6660 3 года назад +1

    It's a good one, and the way he breaks the cypher is bang on.

  • @Anita-ee4bs
    @Anita-ee4bs 7 лет назад +14

    Thanks for the upload

  • @SnowyMary
    @SnowyMary 6 лет назад +12

    Thank you!

  • @Mindlabytinth
    @Mindlabytinth 2 года назад +9

    "A strange, lank bird" is up there with "A cockatoo of a man", as far as Arthur Conan Doyle's ornithological comparisons go.

  • @Gillian-nz3bf
    @Gillian-nz3bf 16 дней назад

    They are very enjoyable stories and very well read 😊

  • @monhtoo71193
    @monhtoo71193 4 года назад +3

    Thanks for sharing Sherlock story😍😍😍

  • @itznero8673
    @itznero8673 5 лет назад +8

    Amazing Reader!!

  • @moviemad56
    @moviemad56 5 лет назад +5

    Many thanks, Magpie. :)

  • @MaiHaiangBI-
    @MaiHaiangBI- 5 лет назад +10

    The half English, half American accent is so funny XD

  • @Brawl12386
    @Brawl12386 5 лет назад +4

    Thank you

  • @krishthd
    @krishthd 2 года назад

    Love the narration. Thanks

  • @michaelwilkins5841
    @michaelwilkins5841 Год назад

    Thank you for these….please keep doing it!🙏🏻🇺🇸

  • @LearnEnglishEasy
    @LearnEnglishEasy 2 года назад +1

    I am a fan of Sherlock Holmes stories

  • @小夥伴開心的
    @小夥伴開心的 7 лет назад +8

    Awesome

  • @kenmhardy2029
    @kenmhardy2029 6 лет назад +9

    Great

  • @markvines7308
    @markvines7308 4 года назад +5

    I traveled England many years ago and spent 2 weeks in North Walsham....loved it!

  • @kosefix
    @kosefix 9 месяцев назад +1

    He's not rich but he has at least six farmlads at his disposal...

  • @NickDiFroscia
    @NickDiFroscia 6 месяцев назад

    He is the best 😊

  • @sunflowerz54
    @sunflowerz54 2 года назад

    Thank you!! Nuff said :)

  • @Brave_Rachel
    @Brave_Rachel 5 месяцев назад +1

    It was good 👍

  • @nc7547
    @nc7547 3 года назад +1

    What's the correct pronunciation, Lestraad or Lestraid? In the TV series they say Lestraid but here it's read as lestraad

    • @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio
      @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio  3 года назад +3

      I've never been sure, but decided to attempt to be consistent with Lestraad. I'm sure someone knows definitively.

    • @josh2Sides2
      @josh2Sides2 2 года назад +3

      Jeremy Brett used to pronounce it differently depending on how he felt about the inspector

  • @NicolasDifroscia-jc8sn
    @NicolasDifroscia-jc8sn 7 месяцев назад +1

    Nice ❤

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee 5 лет назад +17

    great american accent :} not easy to do.
    wonderful reading as usual 😏🌷
    not my favorite story. :/

    • @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio
      @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio  5 лет назад +4

      Cheers Alexa

    • @feralbluee
      @feralbluee 5 лет назад +4

      Sherlock Holmes Stories Magpie Audio
      i can’t believe i’m actually talking to someone in England. i know that sounds absurd now, but i grew up with dial phones, black and white tv (or telly as you guys call it) and like, you know - books! :)
      i woke up early. it’s 6:15 here in New York.
      have a great day, really. :} 🌷

    • @markvines7308
      @markvines7308 4 года назад +4

      Hi Alexa 👋
      I read your message and thought you might enjoy a "G'day" from Australia. Things have certainly taken a turn for the worst since you wrote this. I hope you have,and continue to have, good health. Best wishes

    • @feralbluee
      @feralbluee 4 года назад +5

      @@markvines7308 Hi Mark - i love Australia! you guys are so real - easy to relate to. I've seen cooking shows and lately been watching Bondi Vet for a a number of months, learned a lot, fell in love with Tazzies (they are so cute. i didn't know they were small.), found out about all the terrible snakes, insects, sea animals - scary. but everyone seems to be alive and kicking LOL. i was worried about all the animals when there were all those brush fires. - i've been trying to 'get' the Australian accent and i think i have ee and i sound. thanks for writing and you and yours keep safe, too. your gov't is obviously doing a good job (as opposed to our orange idiot. i can't wait til November!!) :}

    • @imasinnerimasaint
      @imasinnerimasaint 4 года назад

      @@feralbluee Greetings from New Zealand.

  • @samd35
    @samd35 3 года назад +1

    Forgot to say, shame we don’t ever get to know what he dreamed of!!

  • @sumazdar
    @sumazdar 16 дней назад

    Dziękuję

  • @veritas6335
    @veritas6335 Месяц назад +1

    Doyle’s favorite fallback catchall word seems to be “singular,” which he uses to mean unique or only or sometimes rare or sometimes unusual or sometimes special or anything else he wants it to mean. It’s lazy writing and drives me crazy.

  • @NickDiFroscia
    @NickDiFroscia 6 месяцев назад

    He reminds me of Jenn ❤😊

  • @NickDiFroscia
    @NickDiFroscia 6 месяцев назад

    Back to reality ❣️.

  • @aayushisanghvi2572
    @aayushisanghvi2572 Год назад +3

    Can you recored Agatha Christie poirot books. Please its my humble request.

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee 4 года назад +3

    i don't understand why Doyle ended this story like he did. :!

    • @DocSanders
      @DocSanders 8 дней назад

      Hard to say. We do know that as a Doctor his knowledge of "the law" was limited to the "common knowledge" of the average Educated Medical Practitioner, and he was getting "fed up" with Homes anyway...according to his own statements.
      Too, it may just be that he had a publication Dead-Line to meet...

  • @TheRabbitInTheTwoTonneHat
    @TheRabbitInTheTwoTonneHat 4 года назад +6

    I feel like sherlock predicted the coffin dance

  • @tomdekler9280
    @tomdekler9280 4 года назад +2

    Ok but how'd the lady get shot?

    • @fahadotaibi68
      @fahadotaibi68 4 года назад +1

      Tom de Kler
      I wonder too.

    • @HillbillyArchmage
      @HillbillyArchmage 4 года назад +7

      Suicide attempt, though it's scattered throughout the story rather than clearly spelled out all at once. Hilton and Slaney fire on each other; Hilton misses, Slaney doesn't. Elsie closes the window shutters on instinct as Slaney flees, then shoots herself with her husband's gun once she sees that he's dead. Remember that there were two shots fired from Hilton's gun, which is what originally led the police inspector to believe that the incident was a murder-suicide between husband and wife alone.

    • @josh2Sides2
      @josh2Sides2 2 года назад +1

      Self inflicted

    • @neilgilroy8428
      @neilgilroy8428 2 года назад

      Self pepsi

    • @DocSanders
      @DocSanders 8 дней назад

      Hate to bring this up, but. THREE guns TREE rounds accounted for... What don't you get about the obvious?
      PS - NOBODY, makes a "complete recovery," from a gunshot wound in the head. Except maybe in the US where it may not even be noticed...

  • @abdullah-ayy
    @abdullah-ayy 4 года назад +7

    I just don't get how he forgets all about his client who died and heads to Baker Street to have his dinner 😂

    • @adarshshrivastava5471
      @adarshshrivastava5471 4 года назад

      Well he has seen murders oftentimes so not so disturbing for him

    • @maldetete431
      @maldetete431 3 года назад

      He puts no personal connection to the victim and only shows this emotions which are necessary. And yes, he has seen enough murders and other frightening things that have hardened his nerve. This is why he's a great investigator (besides his skills in deduction, obviously).

    • @luke1023
      @luke1023 2 года назад

      lol your obviously wrong were you not listening when homes received the news of his clients death? It’s ok to feel mate 😂

    • @quintenandjoannklonowski134
      @quintenandjoannklonowski134 Год назад

      😘🥳🙋🏼‍♀

    • @DocSanders
      @DocSanders 8 дней назад

      As Doyle would say,”on the contrary.”, in that:
      1. Holmes and Watson rushed to the scene in hopes of PREVENTING the tragedy.
      2. Holmes wrote the encrypted message that put the suspect into the hands of the Law.
      3. Holmes then spells-out, for the suspect (and the readers who were paying attention) the chain of events that led up to the tragedy. And
      4 Returned to Baker Street to allow the “Wheels of Justice” to grind away. The rsults of which were also narrated.

  • @MehranRahmany
    @MehranRahmany 15 дней назад

    ❤❤

  • @daygoncornhole2395
    @daygoncornhole2395 4 года назад +3

    Would you like to do a little venture out of the ACD and into the Stephen King novel It's called the doctor's case and it's a good little story about the Sherlock Holmes and Watson

    • @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio
      @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio  4 года назад +3

      Copyright issues, with Stephen, I imagine. Unless he reads this and waives them. ;-)

    • @daygoncornhole2395
      @daygoncornhole2395 4 года назад

      @@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Stephen King isn't a problem cause it's posted on another channel SK audio 😂😂

    • @daygoncornhole2395
      @daygoncornhole2395 4 года назад

      And I would love to hear you preform it 😂 I think that it would be an extasy 😉😉

  • @elizebethpenington3755
    @elizebethpenington3755 4 года назад +7

    For the judgemental: my favorite quote from Simone de Beauvoir. “All women think that they are different and that there are things that they would never do and all women are wrong.” Best to exercise caution.

    • @annakilifa331
      @annakilifa331 2 года назад +1

      ...What is that supposed to mean in this context? Or what is the original context? I'm confused.

    • @SuperBartles
      @SuperBartles Месяц назад

      I expect we're all a bit like that - men and women - but also all a bit unique (though some rather more than others).
      Nice quote, though

  • @Noaartetc
    @Noaartetc Год назад +5

    Ok, but WHY Watson's checkbook is locked in Holmes's drawer. I will certainly not be surprised if Watson casually refers to "our bedroom" in the next story.

    • @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio
      @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio  Год назад +4

      There are surprises around every corner!

    • @folkloreofbeing
      @folkloreofbeing 8 месяцев назад +2

      Watson's got his vices. he's admitted to them before. "And other vices when I am well", we know he plays pool so wouldn't be surprised if he plays cards, too. he also likes to indulge in Turkish baths etc and he seems to have been married more than once. It's safe to say that Watson is a social butterfly who probably spends a little too much on frivolities. If I had a friend who was less prodigal and more austere than me, I'd probably get them to lock away my debit card too..
      I'm a gremlin for books and strange objects, I need someone like that. 😂

    • @DocSanders
      @DocSanders 8 дней назад

      NOT True. Unless you mean "our bedroom(s)." As he says repeatedly in a great many stories.

  • @johnstainton9815
    @johnstainton9815 4 года назад +3

    Now utterly spoilt by far too many adverts.

    • @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio
      @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio  4 года назад +5

      True. Kind of a blanket opt out innovation from RUclips and I've now opted out. Thanks for alerting me to it.

  • @ThatRecapchannel
    @ThatRecapchannel Год назад +1

    When a woman strongly suggests you should not marry her, maybe you should take her advice?

    • @DocSanders
      @DocSanders 8 дней назад

      There is no accounting for what some would do for Love.

  • @Finch_Kraft
    @Finch_Kraft 4 года назад +1

    12:50

  • @johnkeating4221
    @johnkeating4221 3 года назад +2

    Not an honourable lady at all and it cost her husband his life.

    • @DocSanders
      @DocSanders 8 дней назад

      Kudos to the Husband who'd do anything to protect his "little woman." An endearing phrase back then... Too bad he missed with the first shot. But, even cops miss 50% of the time... Little known fact.

  • @MikePulcinellaVideo
    @MikePulcinellaVideo 2 года назад +2

    That one was especially sad.

    • @DocSanders
      @DocSanders 8 дней назад

      Yes! Especially because back then (and even by today's BEST medicine) NO ONE ever makes a "complete recovery." Not even to the Frontal Lobe, from a gunshot wound such as the one Doyle described. i.e., slow moving, small caliber lead projectile with extremely dirty propellant like black powder.

  • @NickDiFroscia
    @NickDiFroscia 6 месяцев назад

    To funny 😂

  • @willmaftds5646
    @willmaftds5646 5 лет назад +3

    28:11

  • @gemmacastrillon2301
    @gemmacastrillon2301 5 лет назад +2

    Visto 1 /21/20

  • @TicTocRobotSnot
    @TicTocRobotSnot 3 года назад +1

    Fine American accent.

  • @SL33VE
    @SL33VE 6 лет назад +2

    14:09

  • @laisbarbini
    @laisbarbini 3 года назад

    46:17

  • @suecollins3246
    @suecollins3246 4 года назад +5

    'The husband she loved and respected'. Hah - like _hell_ she did!

    • @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio
      @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio  4 года назад +1

      Ha!

    • @feralbluee
      @feralbluee 4 года назад +4

      ????? what in your life made you feel like this? i don't at all. . .

    • @larsen8059
      @larsen8059 4 года назад +3

      Mmm...I agree she should have been completely honest with the ugly truth, but that may not have saved him from a deadly confrontation. Certainly not guilty enough to be hung.

    • @DocSanders
      @DocSanders 8 дней назад

      I find that a tiny bit harsh. Read the story again with a view to paying attention to her behavior, a.) once she'd been tracked by Ab Slany, b.) What she tried to do to get rid of her pursuer, and c.) what she did after her husband had been shot. And think again.

  • @jow6845
    @jow6845 2 года назад +1

    Conan-Doyle could have made her ‘with child’….

    • @DocSanders
      @DocSanders 8 дней назад

      I'm guessing Doyle "just didn't want to bother," with all the added complications, before, during and AFTER the death and attempted suicide. About which he may have had more knowledge than he did of British Law. In any event, I’m sure his hands were full just coming up with cryptology of “The Dancing Men,” which was pretty good for it’s time.

  • @jamessharpe6699
    @jamessharpe6699 4 месяца назад

    That damn Rick and their soy lattes are going to get left behind in history not looking very smart 🤓

  • @babybooandherhumandeb3188
    @babybooandherhumandeb3188 4 года назад +1

    Thank you

  • @NickDiFroscia-s4y
    @NickDiFroscia-s4y 4 месяца назад

    Back to reality ❣️.

  • @cone_head007
    @cone_head007 3 года назад +1

    19:09

  • @NickDiFroscia-s4y
    @NickDiFroscia-s4y Месяц назад

    Back to reality ❣️.

  • @NickDiFroscia-s4y
    @NickDiFroscia-s4y Месяц назад

    Back to reality ❣️.

  • @NickDiFroscia-s4y
    @NickDiFroscia-s4y Месяц назад

    Back to reality ❣️.