1 A Scandal in Bohemia from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) Audiobook

The first story from the collection The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Watson and the mysterious Irene Adler, the woman Holmes describes as 'the woman'.
It is read by Greg Wagland for Magpie Audio.
©Magpie Audio 2017

[@dukeofasg3280]

"We were both in the photograph." "Oh dear, that is very bad." My favourite part of the book. Greg Wagland did that part really well!

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Cheers Duke

I laughed just after that when he said we have three whole days to solve the problem as if its all the time in the world :) Brilliantly narrated.

[@FormerMPSGT]

@then tells him basically I have other things to look into!

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Who’s reading this? The voice is spectacular!

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It’s me.

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Greg Wagland - Great

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The best!

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I'm a junior high school in Japan. Now,I can't understand this English. But,some day I'm going to come back. It's never lie. Because I love Sherlock Holmes and detectives around the world!

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[@lidiaadobato6667]

Thanks for dramatising Holmes' stories so expressively. Your reading is superb.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Cheers Lidia. Appreciate that!

[@sivanlevi3867]

Ah, A Scandal in Bohemia. The first Holmes story I have actually read in book form. Simply marvelous! And I must say, Irene Adler is quite a character in her own right.

[@martavdz4972]

Just a bit of trivia, the town of Eger where the paper company was situated really exists. The aristocrat called Valdstejn was really killed there. Nowadays, it's called Cheb (pronounced as "Kheb") and lies on the border between Czech Republic and Germany. It's a beatiful town, I can recommend a visit :-) Bohemia is really the western part of the Czech Republic (where Prague is. There are Valdstejn Gardens in Prague, named after that very same aristocrat). It was a Czech-speaking kingdom in the Middle Ages, but when this story was written, it was part of Austria-Hungary and didn't have its own king. The clothes the king wears sound Hungarian.

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[@bonniemcgp]

Greg Wagland is a terrific voice actor who does a superb job with these stories.❤️😊

[@hungdo8641]

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[@jodyhunter9044]

It's me again Joe Dee Hunter from North Carolina USA. I have said this several times and many of the stories that I have listened to by Greg wagland but I have to tell you that anybody that can talk and portray for characters talking in a conversation at once and portray them so differently and so distinctly and so accurately I'm just amazed I've said this so many times already but I could listen to him I listen to him all the time he did American accent he did Cockney he did the Victorian English and various and sundry assorted other English dialects it's amazing to me that he can do that and change right in the middle of a sentence into another character and you don't even know you know it's the same man but you don't fathom how he can do that and do it so accurately and it sounds so good!! I just hope that he never stops narrating the stories because he has brought so much enjoyment to me and I'm sure to countless others. I said it before, and I'll say it again: the man is phenomenal.

[@jodyhunter9044]

I was referring to a Study in Scarlet . I am speaking into this phone and not all my capital letters are where they're supposed to be so please forgive me.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Cheers Jody. Appreciate all your kind words. Many thanks.

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[@nickvines9468]

You have written this very very very long comment multiple times?

[@corneliu8827]

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[@deosiewilson732]

Irene Addler... A most singular woman! Singular has to be the most used adjective in these stories.

[@catesdon4363]

This is the 8th Holmes story I've listened to by you, Greg! Thank you for your readings, you're extremely talented.

[@frigotter]

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0:26 1st Chapter 21:25 2nd Chapter 43:47 3rd Chapter

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[@spikemcnock8310]

Love all the Sherlock Holmes stories. Thanks for posting.

[@RoninTXBR549]

Ah, and thus closes a circle... In the Sherlock Holmes movie parody "Without a Clue" starring Michael Caine, there's a great scene about "you see, but do not observe." Now, I see how true that scene actually holds the to the nature of these stories.

[@djamilamessaoud5760]

I wasn't able to read or understand this English a year ago, and now i feel that triumphant feeling that i could finish reading and understanding this adventure 😭❤️.

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Yes, a very satisfying type of achievement. Congrats 🎉

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[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Good to hear!

[@ateneaowl438]

Thank you so much for such a superb dramatization. I am particularly impressed by the actor's imitation of the German king accent. 💚

[@martavdz4972]

Bohemia isn't a German-speaking country and it never was part of Germany. It was a Slavic-speaking kingdom in the Middle Ages and its kings spoke Czech, a Slavic language. When this story was written, it was part of Austria-Hungary. I suppose that's why the author gave it a German-speaking king with Hungarian clothes. But Bohemia didn't have a king in those times, it was basically a colony of Austria and its aristocracy was German-speaking. Nowadays, it's the western part of Czech Republic (where Prague is).

[@arahlimbo27]

Oh wow! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is Sherlock Holmes himself. This short reminds me of a true to life story of King Edward VIII and his 1st lover, a French woman, Marguerite 'Maggie' Meller. The King himself was anxious in recovering his letters from his lover in fear of becoming involved, somehow, after Maggie's murder of her Egyptian Prince husband and it all began, 6yrs before the murder, in a Parisian love affair bet Maggie and the king-to-be sometime in 1918, years after this fiction was written. And the word scandal... (creepy 😟) Hmm Adler and Meller sound the same. What a futuristic vision!

[@JH-ug8jp]

There really is nothing new under the sun. Everything happens in cycles...I've noticed.

[@misanthropistbookworm]

I despise this short story, but I love your reading even of this one, Mr. Wagland, haha! Keeping me company every night! Thank you! And a hug from Chile. :)

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Glad you enjoyed it, Misa! I suppose it's warm in Chile at the moment?

[@misanthropistbookworm]

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Indeed, we're about to start summer soon (Dec. 21st), so we're averaging temperatures of around 20-22°C, with some days nearing 25+°C and all. I live in a coastal city, so we don't get very extreme hot (or cold) weather, but the capital city (about 2 hrs. away from me by car) has been suffering a hot wave and temperatures have risen above 30°C. Is it very cold and snowy where you are, dear sir? I would love to spend at least ONE Christmas in my life in a snowy and cold place!

[@AL-xq6jt]

@@misanthropistbookworm may I ask why you despise this absolute classic? Personally I find it one of the best cases for Holmes, for he is brought a peg down in a way.

[@jenniferkussner1043]

You see- but you don't observe..... Everything said😅😘lovely.....

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[@verity...]

Thank you, I really enjoyed listening to this story 🙂

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Amazing storyteller !! Thank you Becx

[@marionetteking4036]

This is really good, but for nostalgic reasons, I'm looking for something I once owned on cd but can no longer find. The reader truly brought each character to life for me

[@thecrystalflower3729]

As a dyslexic I really appreciate that this exists.

[@maryrichards8086]

Thank you. Well done as usual🙂

[@spikemcnock8310]

I must of listened to this story many many times over the last few years and still enjoy them. Thank you.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Thanks for listening, Spike.

[@FormerMPSGT]

I love your Readings! I listen to this one a bit at a time to unwind every night almost!

[@briancomiskey9824]

I have finally listened to all of the SH audios in this series and it seems to me that Greg Wagland is a master storyteller. He did such a great job with Holmes, Watson, and all the other characters. Even nailing an American accent 😄 Thank you for sharing your talents. (Brian, Michigan USA)

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Thanks for listening, Brian. Appreciate your comment! Cheers

[@jasontuck-smith3896]

"We were both in the photograph" "Photo-shopped" ;)

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Excellent thank you.

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Thanks, Greg!

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Thanks for listening, Maurice.

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[@adityaphatak1022]

Such a beautiful voice, i hear these while i go to sleep.

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Thank you. You are a great narrator.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

And you sir or madam are a fine manufacturer of electronic goods.

[@stevelenores5637]

Opening is a perfect description of Mr. Spock of Star Trek.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

That's true. Even the ears!

[@NonDairy]

And the cocaine.

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Best reading ever

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I have a book report due tomorrow and I cbb to read the book so this really helps thanks xx

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[@gregvinson1]

I could listen to Mr. Wagland read the mad ramblings of Charlie Manson

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Brilliant writing. Fabulous narration. A fun story from start to end.

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Thank you for all these shirt stories, brought me a lot if happiness. I have tried some audio stories on other sites and blaring ads keep popping up... six in one short story.. and as I use headphones, hurt my ears etc. So a double thankyou. JS Ontario Canada

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short or shirt ?

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@@Ajit0208 clearly a typo. Short.

[@NonDairy]

Hey, don't knock stories about shirts.

[@andreearosie1049]

Dear Mr Wagland, you have ruined me for most narrators, although it is fine, I love reading, though now you have replaced my inner voice, an improvement, I must say. Everything else has been said. I do love your sarcasm, only used in your self depreciation. You are truly a gentleman.

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[@didierleprince6106]

Merci a lot

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Mon plaisir and all that.

[@CzechMirco]

Ah, the british knowledge of geography. In 1887, when this Sherlock story was supposed to take place, Bohemia (present day Czechia or Czech Republic) was part of Austria-Hungary and in fact it was Austrian emperor Francis Joseph I., aged almost 60 and married for 30 years, who at that time bore the king of Bohemia title. I think that making up some fictive country for the purpose of the story would have been less embarrasing. Although to be fair, he actually did get a mistress at around that time, actress Katharina Schratt.

[@cha5]

CzechMirco Well most Sherlockians think that “The King of Bohemia” was supposed to be a disguised name on Watson’s part for a royal figure with possible suspects ranging from Prince Edward Albert, Prince of Wales to Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand to Grand Duke Pauvel Alexandrovich Romanov of Russia among other possible suspects for “The King of Bohemia”, Watson himself freely admitted to often changing the names of people involved in these cases especially ones with cases that were sensitive and involved figures of importance. And that’s not getting into who “Irene Adler” might have been, with speculation ranging from Sarah Bernhardt to Lillie Langtry. (Who actually had liaisons with Prince Edward Albert of Wales.)

[@CzechMirco]

@@cha5 If it was indeed meant to be the Prince of Wales, it would have been an interesting story arc for him, because he is widely agreed to be the epoymous Illustrious Client from the later story. But if Watson's description of the King's attire is not part of the ruse, then Pavel Alexandrovich Romanov would have indeed be a better candidate, as the "barbaric opulence" of his dress would have certainly been at home somewhere east of Ukraine and not in Bohemia, where the nobility and middle class dressed according to latest Paris and Vienna fashion and such "barbaric opulence" would have been frown upon and probably even ridiculed.

[@susandombrowski7711]

Your narration to Holmes is like h. Fraser to Poirot. Anything else pales!

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Thanks Susan. Hope you’re doing well?!

[@cakegalaxy8978]

Don't mind me just a bookmark: 7:41

[@sukidovi]

I might not stop smiling for several hours.

[@lebaothien1104]

Thanks

[@jlex1049]

Damn the passive aggressiveness when Watson comes in. " hi newly married buddy, you fat fuck." 😅

[@badibabize]

Thanks 💯🔥

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Any time

[@Call-me-Ishmael]

Irene Adler… “The daintiest thing, under a bonnet…on this planet!” Simply Delightful!

[@johnuttley5299]

Dear mr wagland first of all I would like to say thank you for being so damn good at reading stories and putting voices to characters I am dyslectic and struggle so much in reading so I never enjoy reading books I get a little jealous of those who get so much enjoyment out of reading so I rely on you to take me there in bookland is there any more Sherlock Holme books you haven’t read yet if there is get off your a##e and start reading (humour) I’ve listened to 90 odd books you have read I need you to send me back to bookland ASAP Once again sir thank you so much for all your efforts John uttley.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Hi John. You know I do need to get off my a**e (thanks for not saying 'fat a') and read a bit more - thanks for giving me that gentle kick. All the best!

[@shubhamgupta7115]

23:46 Briony Lodge 27:26 The Coachman 37:30 Irene Adler 48:37 The King of Bohemia

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Love it 2020?

[@ryskichelovek]

cheers

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Một số người trong số họ có tiếng Anh.

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I also listen Sherlock Holmes audio everyday to pratice my English skill

[@user-yk8qh9pr2b]

The king:we were both in the photograph. Holmes:Ps. END

[@taasinbinhossainalvi9173]

Ps?

[@fizasiddiqui5801]

@@taasinbinhossainalvi9173 photoshopped

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[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

cheers Marcus.

[@Spiderkote]

Good old Holmes, showing old ladies left and right before barging in thier homes and rudely snatching and scattering things there 🙄

[@ssvemuri]

Heady stuff like a strong cup of coffee.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Yes. Talking of which…

[@gustavoantunes8002]

15:00

[@kiddyjaydey653]

Hahaha Holmes didn't see that coming

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Yuk ❤

[@Davete]

In what order should i listen to these i just finished a study in scarlet and now this one jumps to when Watson is married.

[@bonnielee5480]

Listen to The Sign of Four :)

[@cha5]

A Study in Scarlet, then The Sign of Four, And then The Adventures of onwards, It makes the best sense just to follow the stories in their published order IMHO.

[@mobius273]

Is there another story between this and study in Scarlett canonicaly?

[@MrLine]

Yes, The Sign of the Four

[@WJA2002]

21:16 A time stamp for myself so I can return to where I left off later.

[@Imran-md2ck]

Please come back o' William

[@ballball8234]

So many Vocabularies I don't know. How I will learn these words by heart:(

[@orangeiceice12]

Alternating between cocaine and ambition.

[@mckavitt13]

First time I’ve ever heard “Irene” pronounced à l’américaine. It jabs at my ear each time I hear it in this otherwise marvellous reading.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

I think Irene's the same pronunciation à l'anglaise. Oi-reen or eye-reen. Was she German or French: Irène would it be?

[@mckavitt13]

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Oh no. And the British pronunciation is not the same as the American one, except perhaps today? It was always pronounced Eye-reen-ee, phonetically. In Holmes'time & later on, it was never Eye-reen as we pronounce it in the US.

[@mckavitt13]

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Just found this. Hope it helps: Irene pronounced Eye-Reen-EE, Rene, pronounced Reen-EE, is a common diminuative. English pronunciation. www.mumset.com 23 Apr 2014

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Useful mckavitt13 You're correct, of course. I don't know when one supplanted the other. Of course we have Irene Handl who went by Eye-Reen-Ee and she was born at the turn of the last century.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Both the Stephen Fry version and Simon Vance versions pronounce Irene as I do. Mea culpa!

[@asphyxia3240]

Im still learning...

[@blex5579]

so germans are "uncourteous to words"...pretty steep Mr Doyle, pretty steep indeed.

[@MrVolvobloke]

I think he said 'pretty uncourteous to VERBS' meaning that the German language does not transfer well to English if translated directly; having a different structure that may sound rather gruff.

[@friedrichnietzsche1701]

Uncurteous because Germans always place their verbs at the end of the sentences.

[@beardedbjorn5520]

MrVolvobloke this. I’m Australian and my Dad’s family are Dutch. It took a while for me to get used to the sentence structures after translating letters to English. “To the seaside we are going” “much sailing we will be doing” etc

[@bobskeet595]

What happened to mrs Hudson ?

[@sakshamsinghyt]

Mrs. Turner is actually Mrs. Hudson, Doyle committed a mistake.

[@derkombinationsboss5388]

so ein geiles produkt

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Danke!

[@danielcuevas8105]

Can somwone plz tell me what was the most important clue that he found its for a report

[@mwatts-riley2688]

Huh. Listen to this. Its one hour. You have not see therefor you habe not observed. M. IL.

[@mwatts-riley2688]

Huh. Listen to this. Its one hour. You have not see therefor you habe not observed. M. IL.

[@Tushinho]

Why is it so confusing in the beginning, at least for me?

[@stevequizodlibumpbumpbump3575]

To me it is confusin how much of it confused you. Could you tell please 'the first minute" or " the first three minutes up to 3:43" for instances?

[@gemmacastrillon2301]

Visto 1/18/20

[@thecosmicoutlaw3512]

Does Sherlock run into misses Adler again?

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Not sure, Cosmic. Anyone?

[@cha5]

Only in some Sherlock Holmes pastiches and Sherlockian speculation, One popular theory among some Sherlockians is that Rex Stout’s detective Nero Wolfe was Holmes’s and Irene’s son. In the actual Canon though there’s no hint that they ever met again, Although Holmes does mention Irene Adler in a couple of his later cases in a purely nostalgic sense. ‘A Case of Identity’ in which Holmes shows Watson a Golden snuffbox which is in his words “a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers.” and in ‘The Adventure of The Blue Carbuncle’ in which Holmes casually mentions “My attempt to recover the Irene Adler papers,” and many years later in Holmes and Watson’s final case together ‘His Last Bow’ in which Holmes boasts of being the man who “brought about the separation between Irene Adler and the late King of Bohemia.”

[@micahfoley9572]

@@cha5 Man, i'd love to see this channel do the big Montenegran....

[@Perktube1]

Mrs. Turner? What happened to Mrs. Hudson?

[@dreamandmakeit6221]

Where did this start? Is this the first episode

[@sakshamsinghyt]

You should start by reading A study in scarlet.