2 The Red-Headed League from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) Audiobook
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One of the most humorous Sherlock Holmes stories, The Red-Headed League is the second of the tales from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It is read here by Greg Wagland for Magpie Audio.
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Due to losing my eyesight, I am grateful to you for uploading stories. Awesome 😊 listening to Sherlock's stories. Thank you
I do think I too will be blind in do years, I get headaches with just reading a menu.
Not to be rude (13 year old typing), if you are blind how can you tell where to type? Not trying to be offensive, just curious.
@@captain_lynn2179 If he's truly blind, he will not be able to read your comment.
@@captain_lynn2179 might be speech to text software
@@captain_lynn2179 On the iPhone there’s a feature called VoiceOver that speaks what’s on the screen, so you know what letter you are selecting. There’s also dictation, which does a fairly good job of transcribing your voice into text. If it’s a physical keyboard, then there bumps on the key of F and J that let you know the correct hand placement.
"A three pipe problem". Absolutely wonderful!
Good slogan for a plumber?
how
Now I can just rest my eyes and listen to these classics. Thanks a lot 😁
Enjoy!
Grazie mille!
I love these stories...I'm pretty sure I've listened to the majority of them by now and I don't want them to end.
Also, my employer can relate: "I know very well that he could better himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?"
Thank you for the masterful reading of this A.C. Doyle classic.
Thanks for your comment!
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio You're welcome
Extremely well read and a great listening pleasure. Thanks very much for sharing.
Cheers.
This was the first Sherlock Holmes story I ever read, and I just keep coming back to it! I have a vision disorder now, and these audiobooks are a way to relax and do what I used to enjoy so much but now am unable to do: read!! Thanks Mr. Wagland, you deserve a billion views!!
Thanks LDB. Very kind of you and glad you're enjoying them. All the best.
This is my first sherlock holmes story unless u count Sherlock gnomes
Jesus loves you John 3:16-17 Romans 8:35-39
You, sir, are to Holmesian audio as Jeremy Brett is to Holmesian film; the definitive voice of Sherlock himself.
I'm delighted to have this opportunity to listen to your narrations. Your skilled acting abilities bring to life these wonderful characters.
Honestly, I don't know how to thank you enough for these. They are truly sanity savers at this point. Thank you
Cheers Karen!!
Pure sound and pleasant to listen. Thanks for uploading.
Started listening to these audiobooks, and love the story's of Sherlock Holmes
Mariska Lotter , If you like these, try some PG Wodehouse. The Jeeves and Wooster stories are brilliant. Enjoy :)
I like the way that the days sound so long, they do so many things in an evening. The leisures of the pre-Modern life.
I swear I must be responsible for a chunk of these views. It's been my bed time story for months😊
Cheers Alisha.
Same here. I listen every night without fail. Love this
silvercue still listening lol
Count it. I nearly have all 76 memorized.ha
Me too it really is a perfect bedtime treat and guarantees a lovely sleep 💤
Thank you. Your talented reading is like we are right there with them.
My favourite Holmes story of all
It's up there with the best, and it's probably the funniest.
One of my very favorite S.H. short stories.
It has been years since I bought a copy of the complete works of Arthur Conan Doyal but I couldn't make much progress as the print is too small for my weak eyesight to tread on. Then comes this blessing in disguise and what a delight! Thank you so much.
Glad you enjoyed it. All the best!
I bought the entire collection of these stories in one big book for a bargain, but trying to read it on my own was overwhelming because I'm not used to British English. I follow along with these videos and it helps so much.
I actually bought the Audible collection for $70.00, but these are so much better that I don't even listen to the Audible stories. Honestly, the best narrator of British classics ever!!!!!!!
I am as delighted as ever to listen to your wonderful reading. Conan Doyle's style and your reading style are on the same level.
One of my five favorite stories. This one in particular, I have every spoken or acted version that I have ever been able to acquire or bookmark. Thank you for posting this.
I have dyslexia and I have to read words aptly spoken for school and this was so helpful thank you 🙏
Glad it was useful, TwoCrazyCooks!
I am listening to your stories with deep interest. Congratulations on having this wonderful channel! 💚
funny to learn there were vegetarian restaurants in London at the time. had not imagined that.
Yes, I thought the same.
I myself was also (pleasantly) surprised to hear mention of vegetarian restaurants in London during the time of Sherlock Holmes . Hi
Same here!! I was surprised too!
Vegetarian restaurants in London are mentioned in Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography, 'My Experiments with Truth'. Something about him going hungry because he got late and all vegetarian restaurants were closed.
People had been traveling to the East and meeting Buddhists, I guess, and considering other ways of life. It was probably very fashionable. A lot of suffragettes were vegetarians.
I love listening to Sherlock Holmes stories ❤️
Icant sleep without the audio now. I have found a very handsome book at books a million. My son loves to read as well and said he thought about crack it open. Awesomeness
Honestly, you are the best narrator of British classics ever heard!!! Would you consider perhaps any of South Sea Stories by W. Somerset Maugham? Many of those are quite gripping and today's audience is probably unaware of them. I can see you doing a masterful job of Maugham and Kipling. Thank you so much for these. I have been reading them for more than 40 years, and now I can just listen to them back to back. It's like eating potato chips....quite addictive. Edit: you know, I think I've changed my mind. i just reread South Sea Stories....too depressing for these times; maybe just the Kipling :).
BEST CHANNEL EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What an intriguing story
This is great. Thanks for uploading!
One of my favourite episodes of the Jeremy Brett series of Sherlock Holmes.
You have been such a great help to me ! Thanks
No worries, Gary
Im in a short stories class, and we had to read this. much easier than reading the whole story in a book
This is helping me so so so much.
Am I the only one who got set this for homework
CC?
@@user-br2gi8kh5s Yes, I had to do this for CC
same here, had to do this for challenge b in CC!
Yeah but mine is for a class called "SPARK"
English 9
Used to listen to 'these kind of stories growing up! Love listening to the classics the best! Soon i should be nodding off in sweet bliss 😊
Please do!
I must have listened to this particular story several dozen times by now… and I *just* made the connection between one of Holmes’ opening observations (“you have done a good deal of writing recently”) and the main mystery 😅
Thanks for uploading!
This story appeared in a classics collection for children that we had when I was growing up. I was more into animal stories, but this one delighted me with its clever scheme and endearingly dense mark.
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Great story, thanks for uploading!
Hope you enjoy it!
This is boon for people like me. Who can't read for long due to weak eyesight.
Glad it's a boon! All the best, Yogesh.
Just found out today that a friend of mine also listens to your Audiobooks but on Spotify! We both thoroughly enjoy your calm, appropriate voice.
Very clever CD distraction with the list of the businesses then mentioning the unusual (just beginning to be enlightened times) restaurant 😃 Also beautiful writing "..as different from the front of a picture to the back"/ "Oppressively respectable frock-coat" 😄
Celebrating May 26 World Redhead Day (only 2% of population) here. Many thanks!
Splendid to hear. Redheads rule!
I'm dyslexic and have a short attention span and bc of that I'm grateful for this
The best narrator for Sherlock ❤
1:45 _"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself. Which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination."_ _"A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting"_ _"You did, Doctor, but nonetheless you must come round to my view for otherwise I shall keep piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right."_ Sherlock Holmes DESTROYS Dr. Watson using FACTS and LOGIC
Great Job love it 🙂👌👍👌Michael U.K.
I think I've probably listened to this at least 5 times, before I had listened to full story. Xx
Ha!
I love books but I cant read as much I don't know why so audio books are so helpful thank you for these!
Glad you like them!
*Salem Saberhagen:* _(as Holmes)_ Hold on a moment. He pulled your hair? *Jabez Wilson:* Yes, Mr. Holmes. *Salem:* _(guffawing)_ Oh, that's a classic! Wish I'd been there! Heck, I could have Watson do it right now and then pay you for your pains! _(laughs even louder)_ "Pains!" *Watson:* _(narrating)_ Our client was so incensed that he drew himself from the chair and stared down at Holmes like a schoolmaster ready to administer the rod. *Wilson:* How about I pay Dr. Watson here to give a good tug at your tail, Mr. Holmes? Wouldn't _that_ be more amusing? *Salem:* Well, nuts to you, bub. He's my biographer. And I happen to be protected by the Humane Society. Now sit down and resume your story.
Good stuff Salem!
Just discovered this channel! Awesome for bed time!
The sentence L'homme c'est rien. L'oeuvre c'est tout' means [The individual] man is nothing. The overall work [or mankind] is everything. Hope this is useful. I had to find out and may as well share for others like me lacking the requisite French. Merci beaucoup copier et coller.
Thanks for that!
This is the comment I was scrolling for. Thanks. 😁
Perfect
Beautiful narration 👌😊
This is wonderful! I never could find the actual books, and I have a bad habbit, of starting books, and never finnishing them (and yet I love to write, wierd lol) but this gives me the chance, to finally learn the mysterious and amazing tales of Sherlock Holmes, and his dear friend, Watson! Thankyou, so much!♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
You cant find the book because its not a book. Its a short story
I you check kindle from time to time, you can find versions of the collected works of Sherlock Holmes available for free download or for one or two dollars. You can also get them as hardbound, but they tend to be expensive. Best of luck.
@@joshuaphillips8040 - you are incorrect. It is available as a paperback, generally in the five dollar range, and also in hard copy, generally in the ten to fifteen dollar range.
Astarwut - you are incorrect. It is available as a paperback, generally in the five dollar range, and also in hard copy, generally in the ten to fifteen dollar range.
@@nothankyou5524 I, too, have had problems finding the collected Sherlock Holmes stories. Even my local library only has a few. There is one collection of writings by ACD, but it includes only a few of the Holmes stories. ACD had an amazingly vivid, rich imagination. Thanks for the info, No Thankyou.
Love... Thank You!
love the ENTIRE channel
Thanks ashilia / sythi
excellent reader
Wonderful story, wonderfully read. I did, however, pick up a mistake Conan Doyle made with regard to the timeframe of the story. At the very beginning of the story, Watson mentions that he visited Holmes in autumn. However, the date of the newspaper advertisement for the Red Headed League is April 27, which Watson comments was two months earlier. So the conversation is happening in early summer, not autumn.
Perfect story।।।।।।
Thanks Javed. It's one of my favourites because it's very funny too.
33:27 So, basically Sherlock: So, friend, thanks for being such a help, can you meet me at 10 tonight to wrap this whole jiffy up? Watson: Of course, Homie. Anything for you, friendo. Sherlock: Thanks dude, you’re the best. Oh, also, don’t forget to bring your gun. Watson: Ye- Wait, wh- Sherlock: There’s a slight possibility we might die Watson: Wait hold on- Sherlock: * backflips away *
I realized I should have put “Holmie” instead of “Homie”
Also I love this audio recording it was really helpful I’m not trying to insult anyone lol
Yes - he might have broken the possible death scenario to Watson a little more gently. I guess the good doctor is used to that sort of treatment. Cheers Izzy.
Thanks for reading this out loud, I have to do an assignment on this short story
Yes YEs YESSSSS I want moreeeeeeeee
This story is so weird ! I wish the series “Sherlock” had used this virtual of the hundreds of red heads.
I was curious about the original story of The Red-Headed League. It's a rather nice read.
Super useful
Back again cheers Creg
Good evening everyone, some months ago, I wrote a comment asking help to find a story, I got some answers but no one can identify it, so I decided to listen to all the stories in order to find it. Here I am, 6 months later and I did not find it!!! I am truly starting to think that I dream this and it doesnt actually exist!!! It starts describing a very cold and foggy day, sherlock its at the basement making a lot of noise and watson is reading something, then at dinner sherlock tells watson something about a very important experiment (something about bullets being fired, i think) and tells him that if he wants to know about this he must promise to stay at home and not talk to anyone, watson accepts this and sherlock goes back to the basement; then in the middle of the nigth a friend of watson arrives at the house and ask him to receive him. Thats the part where I always felt asleep. If anyone can help me with this I will be forever grateful!!! I am sure that im not creative enough to dream the story by myself but I listened to all the stories here, even the pastiches and I CAN NOT FOUND IT, maybe I dont remember correctly or I dont know... help please!!
Your British accent is amazing I have met very few people who can do the British accent as well as you! P.S also just call me Toga
Hi Toga. Thanks. I'm afraid my British accent is not a sign of my talent. It was handed down over many generations I imagine.
Thanks!!!
The reader should read every book in the world haha
What a fantastic story and narration! Though I was a small bit annoyed by the way the narrator's pronunciation of, "advertisement"
Would love if you did some jules verne, amazing voice & quality. I can't get enough
Maybe one day!
Just FYI - one pound in those days was worth roughly 100 pounds today, so a couple hundred pounds talked about in the story would be tens of thousands today.
Interesting.
Great read!
Cheers richardslater
This is my homework
Bad luck!
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio I know right I have to watch it all and take notes down every ten minuites but I cant be bothered to do that so I might just do a 30 minuite detention instead no offense to you anyways
It's mine to but I've just to listen to it r read the book
CC?
super easy to learn from! if your struggling on reading during the summer I recommend this. that being said I think you could read slower just my opinion. the humor and accent is entertaining.
Cheers, Sarah-Beth. Yes, speed / pace are surprisingly one of the trickiest parts of narrating. Cheers!
How can something or in this case a place be shabby and genteel at the same time?
does sherlock holmes have the zaza🧐
I expect so
Is the "Underground" the subway?
Challenge B anyone???
Dziękuję
Irish setter! LMAO
A very specific hue for a human head. The list of possible reds is very funny... It's perhaps in my top 3 stories.
7:44 😂😂😂
I had to go back and make sure I heard that part correctly, like “I’m sorry you WHAT??“ 😂😂😂
what is the meaning of the last France phrase
Anyone?
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio When Watson remarks that Holmes is the benefactor of the human race, Holmes replies with a quote. He shrugged his shoulders. “Well, perhaps, after all, it is of some little use,” he remarked. “ ‘L'homme c'est rien-l'oeuvre c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand.” (p. 18) This is a paraphrase of a famous quote in French which basically translates to: The man is nothing, the work is everything. This quote is intended to demonstrate Holmes’s lack of desire for the spotlight. The puzzle is what matters to him. My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so. (p. 18) Thus Holmes solves cases not to be famous or help others, but to avoid being bored.
I read that it means a man is nothing, the work is everything
And the Latin: Omne ignotum pro magnifico. No French without Latin. Love your readings, Mr. Wagland.
"L'homme n'est rien, l'oeuvre - tout " "The man is nothing, the work - all." Gustave Flaubert (December 1875)
Anyone here from kingdown
cliegg is so funny tho XD
Have to read this for my degree. Don't know how this boring book will help me with engineering, but this audiobook makes it easier.
It’s elementary my dear
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Duh?
I am watching these sherlock holmes books or whatever just cuz I don't want to read them myself and I need to read at least 3 books on the summer break xD
Hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor
I'm listening to this in 2x speed lol. Not advisable, but I have a document of the words on me and not enough time to spend an hour on it, so I'm studying along.
19:14
20:23
6 th time
Steady, Jim.
Roses are red violets are blue I'm smart like Sherlock Holmes,are you?
Camden Jackson no one is smart as him lol if he was real that is
:) :D
Watson never really did anything.
Rood
He stimulates Sherlock’s genius apparently.. at least according to Sherlock. Not a clue what he means by that! I think it would be sweet if it’s an excuse to keep his companion with him but it probably does have some practical reason for it as well knowing him