The Case of Lady Sannox by Arthur Conan Doyle

NOTE: This is a relatively gruesome, and somewhat graphic tale from the pen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is atypical and not his usually fairly safe family friendly stuff.
Another suspenseful and atmospheric tale from the pen of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. A great surgeon is looking forward to an assignation with the beautiful but wayward Lady Sannox. But there's always an inconvenient ring at the doorbell.
It is read by Greg Wagland for © Magpie Audio 2018

[@LL-vj5yp]

I love these, I can do house busy work and still be enjoying the literature greats. Thank you !

[@user-zn7of3bd6o]

Gruesome. Women didn't have control over their own bodies. Only a sympathetic judge would find the husband guilty. Thank you for the excellent reading once again!

[@Shineon83]

….Yes….but what strikes me most regarding the depiction of women in literature during this era is how little has changed regarding society’s estimation of a woman’s value….

[@NegSteLucie]

Not a single comment on the amazing acting skills of Lord Sannox?

[@shlosher]

I'm so proud that he got back into his passion.

[@BluesmanBri]

Love these, thanks. I am a lazy bastard who enjoys lying round wasting time

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

I think we all do.

[@SuperBartles]

How do you live with yourself! I work 25 hours a day. I just happened to be on this page for some reason

[@jabrayjay6679]

😂

[@MsRobbie53]

Magic! Xx

[@984francis]

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio That may be true but unfortunately I think most people have been gulled into fear of being lazy because it's "bad".

[@shojinryori]

Yay! I read this one years ago and could never remember enough to find it again. Thank you Greg, another brilliant reading.

[@conniecrawford5231]

Beautiful watercolor!

[@pesnevim1626]

Old Conan Doyle is a killer writer and these readings are superb. Thank you.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Cheers pes nevim Nice of you to write this - appreciated!

[@annabella3349]

True 🎉

[@2msvalkyrie529]

It's great that you can are introducing listeners to the shorter fiction of ACD . His output was wider and much more varied than just the tenant of 221b ! Yes, Ok , HE was a brilliant creation and Hound of the Bs ranks among the greatest short murder mysteries of all time but he also wrote great historical novels ( Micah Clark ) and laid the foundation for Jurassic Park ( The Lost World ) and these little gothic shorts that you read so well.

[@sucramsucram3558]

Like a big bar of 80% cocoa chocolate, this was deliciously dark but left me feeling a little ill after gorging on it. Thanks 😀

[@deerskin4225]

Brilliant writing and reading. Thank you for this...I listened to it 3 times in a row!

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Too many times Yano! :-)

[@harriettemacy7399]

Me too!! 💜OXO:)

[@ronostick9718]

Brilliant! Thank you "Sherlock Holmes Stories". A bit gruesome though. 😫

[@hotpepper5125]

Love other cases by Sir Arthur that don’t have Holmes in them. Great tale!

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Yes, they're all pretty good. Didn't know them before I recorded them. He was very prolific and did lots of genres.

[@Frenchblue8]

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio For someone who wrote so very many decades ago, I found some of the stories I've read so far, the non-Holmes ones, entirely excellent, completely fresh and new in many ways. Some of them really strike me at how absolutely relentlessly intense they are, the one I can't get over how far and how deep ACD took this level of intensity in, is The Parasite. The world seemed to contain its share of grifting narcissistic obsessives, even then. But then how naive to think even for a moment, that the 21st or even the 20th century, 'invented' such people. I admit it, that story stayed with me for several days...

[@patriciaramsey5294]

I won't listen because of your warning, BUT I AM SURE it's good. Thank you for telling how gruesome this is. I like scary, but not horrific.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

It’s not horrific really but suggestive of horror. Intimations. It’s not a modern zombie movie! How a surgeon might use his skills for revenge.

[@Frenchblue8]

Just tragic. The evil that men and women do to those they claim to love

[@myhounddog]

My gosh I did not see that coming. Absolutely thrilling I was enthralled to the very last sentence.

[@riggs20]

It surprised me too!

[@isabellasifuentes799]

Am I missing something ? Was the Dr. tricked?

[@oisinalanraymond5491]

Brilliant, brings back so many memories

[@Lander02]

I am glad you did another superb reading .. I was growing impatient. Thank you.

[@violetfemme411]

This is in my top 3 favorite of A.C.D's short stories....or even top 2? Maybe I shouldn't admit that, but it's just so delightfully gruesome 😬 Awesome rendition as usual 👍

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Yes, a bit dark... 🤗

[@issuma8223]

What's your favorite?

[@cookievampiress]

it's like old victorian Creepy Pasta

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Cheers Vamp!

[@marcosaraiva9205]

This could be a Sherlock Holmes case ! Thanks

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Yes!

[@patriciajrs46]

What a cherrie of a story! Love it! He is summoned to the house and finds his wife.? Interesting what can come of insatiable desires. Mr Waglund, you sir inyour pronunciations, are a master. Mr. Doyle is the epitome of excellence in simple stated phrases and wording, and simple sentences without complex words. I wish I could figure out how he did that so well. My writing, while in active voice, still seems to lack such pinache. I will continue to dream. Such subtle charm and devilish intirigue. Bravo Sir Arthur!

[@digitalganguli]

Beautiful indeed .. thanks for creating this .. looking for more thrilling audio stories .

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Cheers.

[@baruchben-david4196]

His brain was about as valuable as a capful of porridge...

[@als_pals]

Ooohhh! We heard it as cat-full 🤣

[@nateyoder9372]

The perfect voice for these stories

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Cheers nateyoder

[@a.lewisraymer7772]

nice visual artwork!

[@goddessanonymous5853]

Brilliant and what an ending

[@jaystermac9870]

I did see this coming, ACD had a bit of a nasty streak.

[@Imortaltwin]

Thanks so much. I very much enjoyed this

[@susanhepburn6040]

Thank you very much.

[@angelachouinard4581]

ACD was really dark with this one. But if you have an active imagination as I do, The Funnel is very dark. Perhaps some day you will do ACD;s Lot 249, one of my favorites. I think a ready by you would be superb.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

I read it with a view to recording it a couple of years ago. Now I can't remember a thing about it. I'll give it a go soon. Thanks.

[@angelachouinard4581]

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio The contrast in characters and the "hero's" close call should make it a fun piece to do.

[@anthonydemitre9392]

I saw a TV adaption of this story in the 60's on BBC or ITV at 7 years old it really made an impression on me but I forgot the title and author, Ha who knew!

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Very frightening if you're 7! It's gruesome stuff. Cheers

[@anthonydemitre9392]

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio The actress had beautiful lips too I remember lol it was good to be brought up by British TV they just had better content and quality than here in N. America

[@anthonydemitre9392]

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio I one I watched was a BBC play, when I lived in Clapham Common on Macaulay Road, my dad was a wrestler in the UK at the time when I was born in 59, google Mike Demitre images

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Very interesting! I remember watching Mike Marino in the 70s on TV. Looks like your Dad had a fantastic career! All the best.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

But your Dad was a referee by that time?

[@sidcorner502]

Another brilliant reading from Greg Wagland

[@SuperBartles]

Doyle did like his superlatives - most brilliant man in England, cleverest man in London, most beautitful woman in etc The Holmes stories are full of this sort of thing too

[@grahamwilloughby7091]

Brilliant story which was read impeccably

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Thank you Graham.

[@TheBobbymcd]

Sometimes I read the comments to see if people like the stories and it's worth listening to...but you always get some idiot telling you it was the butler that did it in the comments. You wouldn't want to sit near these people in the cinema (movies)

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

I do try to remove slamdunk spoilers but some are a little more difficult. Thanks for letting me know.

[@IanP1963]

That butler gets everywhere 🤣

[@jeffreese1828]

Don't read the comments beforehand to avoid disappointment . People are commenting on what they have listened to and unavoidable that something may be given away .

[@HeliNoir]

DUDE. Lord Sannox deserves a Grammy.

[@azulcucaracha9987]

I bought a book with classic horror stories. This was one of them and I had to listen to this after I read it cuz I got a bit lost 😅

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

I think I had to read it twice before the penny fully dropped, probably as I was recording it 😀

[@davineshamonique4645]

It was very nice 👍

[@kevinurban3129]

Fabulous

[@jeffreese1828]

Hardcore ! Sometimes it doesn't pay to play . 💀🎱💀

[@julieagarcia6259]

Love the painting. Artist? Fantastic reading!

[@joek81981]

I don't get it. The doctor just laughs and then he goes home? What tf did she do to deserve that anyway?

[@sockmonkey22]

It was explained at the beginning she slept around publicly and her husband was either blind or stupid. The doctor was just her latest conquest. Nobody deserves it though. Just get a divorce. But this clever revenge was definitely dark and seems to show the husband was crazy.

[@chernobylFarms]

(sigh) they don't make billionaires like they used to.

[@Concetta20]

That was so screwy! Brrr!

[@mauricestanley6859]

Good!

[@SylvianLight]

ok, this one might have went too far.

[@helenamcginty4920]

Not at all. I grew up in thec1950s when wicked witches were pushed into ovens. Wolves chopped into pieces. Even our school readers were violent. The billy goat gruff head butted the.troll into the river. Jack climbed his bean stalk and killed the giant with his own sword. Titty mouse fell into a pan of boiling water and died. We children took all that in our stride. Justice was done even though itvwas rough.

[@Ill-think-of-something-later]

Lavendertown anyone?

[@calamity2383]

Yep.

[@boilingsoda]

Kate D 👍

[@kimberlykasimoff1447]

Wow. Be careful what you do in life. Not everyone is predictable in how they will react to your indiscretions. Good story, and always, a good reading.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

There's certainly a lesson there, Kimberly.

[@thepiboroom1]

Hello ,, please provide English subtitles in video please 🙏 I request please please

[@alexapenn6399]

Not a story i like at all. . . and he had so many good ones. did he have it in for someone?

[@carrielange2692]

i'm confused though... why were the two of them dead at the beginning of the story? at the end they were both alive... are we supposed to infer that her husband later killed them both? am i just stupid and missed something...?

[@jeffreese1828]

@ Y T You nailed it , precisely and succinctly . 💀🎱💀

[@patriciajrs46]

@@YT-td9xx Thank you for that. I thought maybe she had taken to the nunnery. Hmm. I was wrong again. Lord Saxxon had an interesting way of stopping his wife's affairs. Pleaee, anyone, correct me if I am stiil wrong.

[@NegSteLucie]

Dead? Please explain. Douglas stone appears to have lost his mind and Lady Saxxon retired to a nunnery. Stone's pride was his intellect and he is rendered an imbecile and Lady Saxxon's sexuality is contained in a nunnery and ironically Lord Saxxon who seems so effette and oblivious is shown to be very much aware and as great an actor as ever in effecting his revenge and meting punishment on the profligates.

[@harmony3395]

Well done for spoiling the story for everyone

[@saudwolf9226]

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[@medicalmisinformation]

Just desserts.

[@elliethousand]

Wow. What a nasty, misogynistic story. Really well read as always though.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

It's a bit of a surprise after all his other rather benign stuff, isn't it? Thanks elliethousand

[@kirpalani-griffin3706]

Yes, gruesome. Skip this one if squeamish.

[@patavinity1262]

For future reference, 'valet' is pronounced as spelt - with a 't'. A 'valay' is an American parking attendant.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Not quite that clear cut, in my opinion.

[@patavinity1262]

​@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Why not? Put it another way then: an Englishman in Conan Doyle's time would certainly have pronounced it in the manner I indicated.

[@harmony3395]

Lol. That depends on where in the world you live.

[@harmony3395]

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio totally

[@ronostick9718]

You are absolutely wrong. As the story is set in England and the English word "valet" is spoken as "valay". For future reference keep it as it is meant to be said and not change it to Americanism speech just to satisfy the Americans. Other countries listen to it too. Greetings from England in the UK.

[@sandraelder1101]

Did he sew her up?! 😳

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Can't remember! Sorry Sandra.

[@sandraelder1101]

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio He doesn’t say so in the story. Makes you wonder…

[@helenamcginty4920]

"His great brain about as valuable as a capful of porridge" priceless.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Ha!

[@katharinedavis4947]

This is horrible , i dont recommend it . Quite unlike Conan Doyles usual story . Its really gruesome , nasty . Just a warning . If you like that kind of thing , OK .

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Yes, you make a sound point, Katharine. I was quite surprised by its radical change of tone/subject matter. Any diversion from the usual fare is worthy of note. Yes: not for the faint hearted, although by 2019 standards many will find it rather mild. You pays your money...

[@katharinedavis4947]

Yes I'm sure you are right that its mild compared to other things . I was shocked though , and i think that many other Conan Doyle readers would be too. I love mysteries , whodunnits etc . I like the new Llewelyn and Barker stories , they are quite tough. And Bernard Cornwell etc . But this one turned me over . Just a warning to like minded people ! K

[@katharinedavis4947]

Hi Greg , brilliant reading though, i shall look out for others , thankyou. K

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

I'll put a little warning in the blurb bit, Katharine. Such a descriptive phrase - it turned me over. Ugghhh! Cheers.

[@sarahstrong7174]

What a nasty violent story. Though told with skill no doubt. Quite nightmarish. Now I will be awake all night & quite likely ill for several weeks. I think it would be good if you could place a warning at the beginning of the tale. Those already ill with CPTSD due to the trauma & violence they have been through in real life really need to be able to avoid the like of this tale. Please be kind & give us a chance.

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Were you unable to read the notes relating to the story that I have already provided?

[@sarahstrong7174]

@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio I do not always read the information if it is a channel I am familiar with. I did not expect there to be anything that horrific as I have read & heard stories by the same author & on this channel before. Had no idea it would be so necessary. I think as it is exceptionally horrific it would be appropriate to have a visable or audible warning at the beginning. It is the most upsetting thing I have come across in some years.

[@joesigl3022]

Hey

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

Hey

[@ericwinnert]

I hate the titles of these old stories. The clue to the ending is in them.

[@johneyon5257]

the plot so thin and drawn out - that it was entirely predictable

[@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio]

You may have something there, John!!!