38b Wisteria Lodge (Part Two) from His Last Bow: Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (1917) Audiobook

[@oakdew]

Whenever I actually sit down to read a Sherlock Holmes story, I hear your voice as I read. Thank you for all the work you have put into these, they are truly appreciated.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Cheers CT

[@Frenchblue8]

That's a lovely compliment

[@MehranRahmany]

Actually I am addicted to your voice 😌🤞 it's become my hobbies everyday coming to your channel for listening to the story with your calm and incredible voice ❤️❤️ Thank you Dear Mr Greg 😊

[@thelaughingtiger146]

You tube asked me about your channel Greg. I gave you five stars and described the channel as calming and entertaining. Only the truth! I hope you are getting lots more great feedback. Best of luck!

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Hey Crazy CAT Lady Interesting and of course many thanks for your support. How did they approach you and what did they say? Cheers

[@thelaughingtiger146]

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio I was asked to take a survey, How important was your channel to me? Choice was one to five stars. The second and final question was, how would I describe your channel? I don't remember all the choices, exciting, informative, etc. The best fit was, calming and entertaining. It was just a quick pop up questionnaire. "The game is on Watson!"

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Thank you very much CCL. It is much appreciated. Maybe it will all be fine! The game may indeed be on Catson! Cheers

[@JulieLevinge]

They’re checking up on you! Look out!

[@gregnicholls8347]

It's not just the wonderful voice of Mr Greg or the descriptive stories but also that relentless upbeat personality of Mr Holmes.

[@forest440]

What fascinates me the most, is that you are able to read a book for 40 minutes. It is truly amazing. Keep it up!

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Well, with the marvels of technology, it's not quite the marathon it appears. I stop frequently for tea, a rubber of bridge, a nibble of a Bath Oliver, and for misreads, but mostly for a Bath Oliver. Cheers Max L. GT (nice orange face)

[@Weirdkauz]

Nothing nicer than to open KZbin and find a new G.W.-recording. Alright, there's several thing that are, in fact, nicer, I do have a life - but I'm very, very happy to have sth unheard to listen to byy this wonderful voice!

[@lbwyland1712]

Yes!!! Part 2!! I heard it when I came home after a long day at work. This is great!!😁

[@jamesrogers8084]

Truly a joy to hear these- superb! Thank you, GREG…

[@ironically7561]

Was so happy to see part 2 pop up. Can’t wait to listen, thanks for all you do :)

[@Jinseioshiro]

Part two! This episode sure is superb!

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Thanks Jin-

[@garymaguire5718]

What a great way to relax by listening to these stories

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Glad you like them!

[@patrickd4468]

Excellent...can't wait to listen and find out how Sherlock cerebrally outmaneuvers the villain. Then character voices are so consistent in every uploaded story. Talented!

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Thanks very much Patrick, Imagine what the character voices are like in the un-uploaded ones!

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

My 'thumbs down fans' must have overslept!

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

The wonder is they return for every video for more punishment. Superficially, it's hard to understand :-)

[@johnmichaelfitzgerald3052]

Fk the thumbs down👎 Gewgarythems, keep on keeping on m8ty, cheers 🍻 🇦🇺

[@ironically7561]

They must be standing on their heads when they thumbs down. That’s the only explanation! ;)

[@quinbenson]

@@ironically7561 while I notice our Mr W seems to have adverts again (hope the KZbin revenue ban has been lifted) they're not SO frustrating, on this feed... Well they are, but that's the cost of doing business - and these stories are well-read, so the single advert slot at the start isn't a very high cost 😎

[@karenwaters1926]

Maybe they couldn't find part 1?

[@jakebilbao]

Thank you for these recordings sir. I have been listening to them while working.

[@beliasphyre3497]

I do love Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's approach to _diversity._

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

I'm not sure he'd be lecturing on it today.

[@cynthiaholland13]

Yes quite jarring to hear with today's understanding.

[@kimbykimbers3750]

As usual I was spellbound! Your narration Sir is superb! Hurrah for finding your works through this strange time. Many thanks 🌹

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

So nice of you to say so, Bears!!!

[@teampugayfarm4600]

I'm so delighted😊😊😊😊 thanks for uploading the Part Two.💖

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

No worries, Len. I mustn't make a habit of leaving people hanging.

[@trukeesey8715]

37:29 Where is Tently? Is it a suburb of London?

[@JohnMeadowsSoulPatchPiper]

Greg, thank you again for a wonderful reading of a beloved Sherlock Holmes story! I enjoyed these two installments with a strong coffee and a proper English pipe tobacco blend!

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Cheers John Meadows - SPP. Name that blend?

[@JohnMeadowsSoulPatchPiper]

Peter Stokkebye Proper English no. 52

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Sounds great!

[@JohnMeadowsSoulPatchPiper]

Are you a pipe smoker Greg?

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Cigarettes, once upon a time. Not now. I very much like the idea of a pipe, very retro cool, and I'm sure hugely relaxing, maybe with a glass of whisky, but then, do most pipe smokers fully inhale?

[@trukeesey8715]

Thank you ever so heartily. Should you wish for listener suggestions, here are mine: Brigadier Gerard, White Company, Sir Nigel, Your timin in dialogues and the fast transition between characters is impeccable. Some of the words less used in latter days, you have pronounced unlike the pronunciations that I used to hear before your birth.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Say more about the pronunciations... Thanks for your kind comments Tru

[@trukeesey8715]

oK I'll mention them as they come up. I'll likely be goin through all of the tales again. First time through I skipped the ones heard by other readers earlier in the year. It may mean many small comments though. After readin a comment look back again to see whether it has been edited; I would rather stack little comments into one bit by bit than to make ten comments about a single word each.

[@moviemad56]

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio I thought your "thither" sounded odd. I'm in my sixties and have always heard the first /th/ pronounced as in "think". 😉

[@tomhughey]

Thanks!

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Thank you 🙏🏽!!

[@patriciallamas2050]

Thank you sooo much, Greg!!! ❤️🤗

[@sivanlevi3867]

Even Sherlock Holmes recognized that Wisteria Lodge was two big of a story to be condensed. Rather unique, so much that I thought it was gonna end up a ghost story.

[@Goodjobeveryone]

Great job!!!

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@cynthiaholland13]

Wow. As a black person certain aspects of the descriptions were painful to hear! You read the story beautifully as always and I did my best to remember the time in which it was written.

[@riggs20]

I know exactly what you mean! When they speak of other races it shocks me at how ingrained racism was at the time. I have to remind myself of the time and setting of the story, and it makes me grateful we’ve made *some* progress as society since then, though we still have a long way to go. Have you read or listened to “The Yellow Face” yet? It is so good. It still shows some bigotry of the time, but the ending was so surprising and beautiful that it made me tear up. I was pleasantly surprised by how progressive it was for its time.

[@martavdz4972]

​@@riggs20 Agreed. Just adding that in Europe, it was more like lack of information in those days. Or distorted information, because most info came from missionaries and colonialists who had their own agenda, and common people in Europe had no way of knowing the info was distorted. Most Europeans never met a person of a different race in their lives. It´s still like that in some parts of Central and Eastern Europe. People don´t realize the way they talk/write about Africans or Indians or the Japanese might hurt them because they´re as distant to them as Martians. And before globalization, there was no danger of this turning into violence or discrimination because those people simply never came into contact with anyone of a different race. They were two entirely separate worlds. (It was a different matter with colonial superpowers, of course, because they had colonies.) But in non-colonial countries, this sometimes led to funny and cute outcomes. An ethnographist brought a Native American to Bohemia in around 1900 and because Bohemians had never seen a person of a different race, everyone became obsessed with him and wanted to talk to him and to be friends with him. Those were very different times that are hard to understand now. I understand them because I was born in the 1980´s behind the Iron Curtain, so the first ten years of my life were basically like 1900 - but then the massive change, travelling, the internet, globalization, meeting people of all races. I remember how exciting but also hard it was to deal with the fact that the world of my adventure and travel books is suddenly real and totally different. When I was 16, my choir toured Great Britain and I got accommodation with a Nigerian family. I remember I was very confused and didn´t know how to read their faces, but was grateful for the great food (as opposed to English food LOL) and tried to show off my knowledge of African geography. I was very ashamed that I remember so little about Nigeria from my geography lessons, but they were happy I was interested in their country, so it was OK 🙂 I had to hurriedly forget all the old adventure and travel books I read about Africa and treat them as normal people. It was... surreal. Like travelling between centuries and two different worlds within an hour.

[@arnepianocanada]

Ms H: difficult yes. Holmes story 'The Yellow Face' does honour race - from my white🇨🇦 view - on balance. No spoiler alert; all revealed at the end.

[@dementedopossum8148]

They talk about Germans or Russians etc the same way in the unabridged version. It's not just a "black" thing. 🙄

[@shomap8747]

I felt the same, for the black community❤ that’s how far we’ve come, and that gives me hope

[@micah140]

Brilliant as always

[@UmYummers2024]

Wonderful as always 💜💜💜

[@joca4344]

Great reading. You do excellent work.

[@karenwaters1926]

Yay! Found part 2. Couldn't find it before. I knew it was recorded. I'd already heard it once. Good magic trick.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Weird. Where was it?

[@karenwaters1926]

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio dunno. Personally, I blame Moriarty.

[@markswanson1564]

Always delightfully difficult to remember there’s only one person in the midst of all these characters!

[@kellys1675]

Thanks ever so much for all these uploads 😀😀

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Glad you've liked 'em!

[@punkfledermaus]

Thanks for reading and uploading this story! Keep up the good work! Will you upload the second part of "The Valley of Fear" any time soon? I'm looking forward to every new video on this channel!

[@jodyhunter9044]

As ever a superb narration by you it's a little different this time but it was wonderful and it was done this year. I can't tell you how much I enjoy you I'll continue to torment you and pastor you and tell you that countless times I'm sure but I just can't help it. I listen to a few narrations by Sir edrick Hardwick of course because he was in the series with Jeremy Brett, whom I adored. But still nobody can touch you! Nobody!!

[@lornajoy1455]

Thank you!🌹🇺🇸

[@armandvantonder7069]

Yes. Yes. YES! Part 2; stronger than glue.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Poetry is not dead - but it's certainly on its last legs ;-) cheers Armand

[@redsky1433]

Well, that was a really good one!

[@izzyhaynes6422]

On to Part two - thanks!

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Cheers Izzy Hope you enjoyed Part Two.

[@izzyhaynes6422]

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Great to listen to as always :)

[@RasheedKhan-he6xx]

Has anyone else struggled to follow between the end of part 1 and the beginning of part 2?

[@julielevinge266]

I just found it 3 years later!!🤭Am a little on the slow side!😂😂😂😂

[@mehrshid.motevalli6830]

Very nice reading

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Thank you!

[@feralbluee]

l was listening to the other Conan Doyle stories you were reading and then switched back to this Holmes story. i was surprised to realize that your voice changed to Dr. Watson mode :) your voice was slightly deeper and had a different style. Wow - really great, sir. in one of your audios you did an amurican accent, which was very well done, which i forgot to mention. (n.b. i’m in NYC.) there are readers i listen to just for calmness and company - like listening to my crickets vid at night. i now have three of you (in no order at all - impossible to do :) thank you sooo much. 🌻🌿

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Hi Alexa To err is human... Imperfect algorithm, the technicians are working on it😉

[@feralbluee]

Sherlock Holmes Stories Magpie Audio - hi Greg, what is “erred” (my own word). did you construe something i said as wrong? didn’t mean to. :) 🐈🐾

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

To err. To go astray. Only joking!

[@feralbluee]

Sherlock Holmes Stories Magpie Audio oops!!!!! 🙀 :}

[@veritas6335]

Doyle's use os the word ambuscade is silly, given that the word ambush is older by a century. The English have a fondness for Frenchifying their words and spellings, which is an attempt to sound cultured and grand and is unfortunate for the English language, certainly the richest of all. It connotes an innate sense of their own embarrassment about their speech. English is certainly not as romantic and musical to the ear as the Southern European languages - Italian, French and Spanish - but is certainly more diverse, colorful and descriptive. Shakespeare proved it.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Wot?

[@stewartlancaster6155]

why does the Scotland yard man ask about the death of Garcia last year, when it should have been last night ?

[@TexanAmiga]

Wooo hoooo thank you💜

[@trukeesey8715]

The longer ago that you recorded these, the more manly sounded Holmes.

[@danreynolds4208]

I have available a footlocker full of Conan Doyle's books, videos, tapes, and other paraphernalia all having to do with Sherlock Holmes. Negotiable and reasonable.

[@TapeManX2]

It’s a good thing all those bad things happened so watson could learn the true meaning of the word “grotesque” 😂

[@ringpop6177]

This is soooo wonderful!

[@SuperBartles]

This one is really good :)

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Thank Biff Clarns

[@SuperBartles]

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio That loser? Ha! He's played by Ken Kercheval. Can't even spoonerise him. What a loser...

[@deboraalbertini2933]

cheers!!!

[@heenanyou]

"An excited rustic rushed into our room."

[@martinrutley-wk5ds]

One of the better adventures.

[@jyvonne7730]

5:50 Very sus mr Sherlock Holmes 👀👀

[@laurasofialoperabenavides9454]

PLS

[@sumazdar]

Dziękuję

[@armincartoonist]

Please keep in mind this is no fault of yours - your reading is PERFECT. But this was the worst Sherlock Holmes story ... I love this entire series but this one in particular - there's just so much that is ??????? Why is the mystery almost entirely solved without Holmes and Watson doing anything? Why is there a fictional country of San Pedro ? What did the voodoo and racist stuff have to do with anything? Why did we not have a final third act where Holmes goes after The Tiger, and maybe we could have some sort of cat and mouse chase, or battle of wits, etc. Instead, it's discovered, conveniently., that they just got killed randomly. And why didn't the woman living in the Tiger's house just kill him herself? Why did she have to signal this random other guy to put his life in danger?

[@annakilifa331]

Is San Pedro specifically refered to as a country? It might be, I'm not saying it isn't, but I'm not sure (even though I just listened to it...). There are several places in the world that are called San Pedro. None of them is a modern day country, but maybe one of them used to be a country? Or, if not, maybe some relatively well known province of a country, so that the average reader from back then didn't need other information to know what they were refering to. Again, I don't remember whether it was specifically refered to as a country or not. There are several Sherlock Holmes storys where some bad guy just kinda dies off screen in a way that doesn't involve Holmes, after the mystery was solved. I think the author was more focusing specifically on mysteries and letting Holmes reconstruct events after they had happened with the limited infomation of the outcome only. A chase after a known criminal doesn't really fit into that formula. I'm not saying it couldn't be a fun story, but I don't think it would be a typical Holmes story.

[@veritas6335]

Oh for gods sake. This is a work of FICTION. It's not a documentary. Authors are entitled to invent places as well as characters. Are you outraged that Dorothy traveled to the land of Oz? You'd have preferred what? Philadelphia?

[@sockmonkey22]

@@veritas6335I’m offended by the midgets.😳🤣🤣🤣

[@johnmichaelfitzgerald3052]

Onya m8, keep the reuploads uploaded, n may be try some new stuff cheers 🇦🇺

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

JMF Cheers m8. I've got a few ideas, but I'll probably do these remaining stories in His Last Bow. Maybe Robinson Crusoe...

[@sheba19]

Damn the racism is strong in this one. It even permeates audiobooks

[@jamessharpe6699]

You out there training with the IFD today 🚁🐀🙀

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

IFD ?

[@guillemettelanoe9236]

found it! yay!

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Good!

[@veritas6335]

Those who carry on about racism in the story fail to acknowledge that the other fifty nine stories have white villains, not black ones, and the entire Caucasian world isn't puffing and strutting and remonstrating with outraged offense over the grisly descriptions of these characters. Black folks these days seem to demand that there be no black bad guys ever in works of fiction. A bit unrealistic.

[@NickDiFroscia]

Back to reality ❣️.

[@anthonydemitre9392]

I demand you make more videos or else I'll send you a dead Beaver in the mail!! Lol

[@anthonydemitre9392]

I'd have to go to Ottawa to get the Beaver as we don't have em in Montreal so I'll just have to wait for you to do it on your own time, Lol

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Okay. What about an otter from Ottawa? Save a bit on the postage too.

[@anthonydemitre9392]

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Live or dead, your choice! I hear Otter is very tasty Lol

[@lordbyron9950]

Maybe a pip is less cumbersome

[@NicolasDifroscia-jc8sn]

Back to reality 😁

[@shadetreader]

As with Lovecraft fanboys, these narrators just like reading racist, classist tripe.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

These narrators?

[@NickDiFroscia-s4y]

Back to reality ❣️.