The Mystery at Number Seven by Mrs Henry Wood

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@deetorbett2363 2 ай бұрын

When you narrate, your voice holds me captive. Thank you so much. (Please don't stop your "after story" stories! I love it!)

@classicdetective 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! Will do! (or won't do)

@thurayya8905 2 ай бұрын

You are our great literary genius, Tony. I have never heard of Mrs. Henry Wood before and can see, despite the stereotypes and morals, she is a fine writer. Thank you for introducing us.

@classicdetective 2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@StoryVoracious 2 ай бұрын

Dear Tony, what a good heart you have! Despite your sometime crotchet and jaded feelings, wrought by bitter experience. It seems clear that your coin lands heads up every time. You are a marvel. What a mind. A magpie of talents and curiosity. Thanks for sharing your time and these stories. 🕵🤗

@classicdetective 2 ай бұрын

thank you very much. Some days I am more crotchety than others. Let’s hope today isn’t one of them. It’s supposed to be sunny and that helps a lot

@StoryVoracious 2 ай бұрын

@@classicdetectiveMay the gentle Sun shine down on you, Sheila and the pups! 🌤

@classicdetective Ай бұрын

it mainly rains

@shawneerenee4120 2 ай бұрын

So glad you're taking time to keep reading for us, love it! Greetings from West Virginia

@classicdetective 2 ай бұрын

Hello 👋

@marathorne6821 14 күн бұрын

What a treat! Thank you, Tony, I thoroughly enjoyed it 😀

@angelachouinard4581 Ай бұрын

A wonderful read and post read ramble. I admit I am fond of these longer, slower paced stories from a slower paced age. America has been to crazed and frenzied for me lately, this was so calming. I love how she gave clues but not so heavily you could guess, so Johnny voices your thoughts a bit.

@MartiWilliams-r2z 2 ай бұрын

Love this, Tony! Perfect solution of what to do at 3+ AM, unable to sleep. Gripping, informative, thought-provoking and at times funny, first sentence to last, Dog Nico snoring appreciatively from under the duvet. Thank you!

@angelachouinard4581 Ай бұрын

Amen! For some reason lately I've been waking around 3 AM and too wide awake to go back to sleep. Just today (last ight) i listened to this with the cat Mo under the duvet while I deleted emails.

@MartiWilliams-r2z Ай бұрын

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@MaggieatPlay 2 ай бұрын

Excellent tale, well narrated, Tony. Thank you!

@SMichaelDeHart 2 ай бұрын

Mr. Tony, excellent character separation and narration. Love your varied voices for the Welsh, kiddies and English adults. Well done!! Enjoyed the story and narration very much. Thanks for the hard work!! Don't worry, we that listen to all your own stories and the narration of other great writers, you're a literary genius and still alive!!

@classicdetective 2 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot. i enjoy the accents. Anyway. I’m no genius !

@SMichaelDeHart 2 ай бұрын

@@classicdetective imho, your humility & self deprecation gets you very close!!

@classicdetective Ай бұрын

oh no

@sinus2220 2 ай бұрын

Perfect! This will make my weekend!

@MadonnaGrogan 2 ай бұрын

Mine too

@chadpenner5059 2 ай бұрын

Mine 3😊

@tjblue22 2 ай бұрын

Enjoyed this story and your personal stories of your work.

@ropeburnsrussell 2 ай бұрын

2 hours plus! Thanks Tony!

@projectalice8119 2 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed this story!! Thank you! 🥰

@lesleykaygosson315 2 ай бұрын

Such a great mystery story. Very eloquently written. Story ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perfect Narration ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐❤️

@classicdetective 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@feralbluee Ай бұрын

Brilliant story - especially for the time she lived in. She understood that people could be mentally unfit, not just “mad”, that there were reasons behind such behavior. The sequence for poor Matilda was laid out sensibly and realistically. The characters all have full personalities. She is a very good writer, the story being woven back and forth in time. So why is she not well-known? Obviously, there were more women authors in the 19th century than we are told about. I’d love to hear/read more of her work. And you are a marvelous reader! Thanks so much :) ☀️💙🌷🌱

@faykaradoukas50 2 ай бұрын

Beautifully read❤ greetings from Athens ❤

@kristinmarra7005 2 ай бұрын

This was wonderful! Thanks so much.

@classicdetective Ай бұрын

Welcome 🙏

@naturelover4214 2 ай бұрын

The maids playing games, bullying, taking personal possessions, mocking, etc is something that goes on at work, in institutions, universities. Bullying by colleagues and managers is considered acceptable behaviour in universities.

@classicdetective 2 ай бұрын

Seems very wrong

@Yossiloveu Ай бұрын

Revenge is an oft justifiable dish, best served cold, of course😉

@mariameere5807 Ай бұрын

@@YossiloveuEven better I found from experience is to not let them get your goat, let your goat be ungetatable! If you let them bother you by blaming them then you give all your power away! Take back your power even if it means forgiving them bc to not forgive is like drinking poison and expecting them to get punished, not you! It’s not satisfying, however to be able to one day and look back and know that it didn’t bother you at all…. ❤❤❤

@Yossiloveu Ай бұрын

@@mariameere5807 actually thats pretty much how i operate, thats why i was winkin, idk, people take brief random comments way too seriously, but i appreciate all the advice, hopefully you follow it too😘👍as a jew i have to let a LOT of sh*t go, trust me, if i was to get upset about all the hatred, both overt & covert, and all the nastyass comments flicked my way, our way, my sons and husband mistreated in public and so on, if i did that, shooot, i wouldve already stroked out yrs ago, babe😏im a believer, which helps too, cos we pray and ask G_d to help with things like anger, self control, being responsible parents and modeling good behavior...so honestly, cant Actually think of the last time i acted vengefully BUT that doesnt change having angry, vengeful type thoughts and feelings, which i battle, but, far as Im concerned cos im not Gen Z, feelings are illogical and a personal problem, and thoughts are to be dealt with, consciously....But, sadly, im also not immune from writing the occas immature thing that is far from the desired mark, thats for sure, so, again Thx and i Am sorry if i offended anyone Or if anyone thought i was being suggestive. It Is best to turn the other cheek (and just pray G_d gives that person everything they deserve, good, bad, neutral)🙏amen lol😁 🎗🔆💋

@strangetrip837 Ай бұрын

Male academics are sadly infamous for their arrogance, misogyny and bullying, especially in the Sciences!

@suelondon7604 2 ай бұрын

Ty for taking your time to upload these stories, but further thanks for your long and detailed unpacking of the tale with all the side notes and local knowledge. I have always been curious as to why Norwood was originally called this as it resides in south London. Born in camberwell, now in Bexleyheath. Thank you Sir.

@LouPowell-w1z Ай бұрын

Great job Tony. I'm a just the stories listener atm. Yours is the only podcast I listen to, I know you prefer your listeners to listen to all but I would say please don't be offended. I just prefer the way you read, the world would be a boring place if we were all the same and since I very first heard you read Honeysuckle Cottage? or words to that effect, I've been hooked and hang on your every word and absorb them with delight... Thanks for being brave enough to start the podcast... DON'T DIE ON US JUST YET Tony😊

@daftirishmarej1827 2 ай бұрын

Thanks as always Tony. As you say, a bit different this time, but as they say, change is as good as a rest. Tead excellently as per!

@daftirishmarej1827 2 ай бұрын

*read 🙄

@georginatuohy5747 7 күн бұрын

Thank you ☘️

@classicdetective 7 күн бұрын

Welcome!

@MsMounen 2 ай бұрын

That strong desire to die can sometimes be part of an epileptic aura.

@classicdetective 2 ай бұрын

I didn’t know that either

@joycebowen8958 26 күн бұрын

When I hear you playing both sides of the conversation I cannot help but picture 2 well dressed gentlemen in a proper victorian gentleman's club glass of whiskey in hand, in worn leather chairs in front of a fireplace.😂 It honestly doesn't make a difference if it's a ghost story or crazy maid story the picture is always the same.❤

@classicdetective 25 күн бұрын

That is of course how I live

@joycebowen8958 25 күн бұрын

@classicdetective I knew it!😁

@stellacollins3114 Ай бұрын

Beautifully read and love the explanation and insight, I love to hear all the things that are behind the writing

@hannahoron9740 Ай бұрын

Good stor! Well read! Thank you!

@kimmccabe1422 2 ай бұрын

Great voice❤

@classicdetective 2 ай бұрын

Thanks

@nusratzahra5828 2 ай бұрын

Very enjoyable!

@pascaledowling6309 Ай бұрын

Delightful ❤

@Allsgood4321 2 ай бұрын

Thank you. Just subscribed.

@classicdetective 2 ай бұрын

welcome 🙏

@sheilacasper2030 Ай бұрын

Great story. But i wondered why matilda wasnt suspected right away.

@BermanTaylor 2 ай бұрын

Interesting discussion afterwards. Couldn't Matilda simply have flown into a rage, committing the murder and subsequent attack upon the cook? How does that rage constitute madness? I'm interested in your professional assessment here.

@stephenbarker5162 2 ай бұрын

Two remarks. The first is that going up to town dates back to the days of coaching. Even today on the railways there is an up and down lines. The weakness of the story was that the maidservant was the obvious suspect.The doctor's statement that the death had ocurred earlier does not come up at the inquest and then dropped from the narrative. Did Mrs Wood realise she had raised an awkward plot point and had to drop it to continue the story. Mrs Wood does not rival Agatha Christie when it comes to plotting.

@classicdetective 2 ай бұрын

I am very glad you’ve explained to me the origin of that phrase going up to town even when people were geographically going down!

@ropeburnsrussell 2 ай бұрын

A working class woman with a sexual dimension would be much safer if locked away. I mean safer for society, not for Matilda. There may have been too much character in these two maids. Just a thought.

@mosart7025 2 ай бұрын

So from reading other crime stories set in the UK fiction and true, it seems like back then hanging for murder was almost a given. Did the UK have an insanity plea like the US? And if it was intermittent like Matilda's was would it have held up if she had gone to trial?

@JudeNance 2 ай бұрын

Howdy from GLACIER PARK MONTANA USA 🎉

@classicdetective Ай бұрын

hello!

@AmberFelber-ix4zd 2 ай бұрын

🌹

@evelanpatton 2 ай бұрын

Personally, I enjoyed the quality of in-depth writing. I wouldn’t mind hearing more of her work. Speaking from an archetypal standpoint, I would go so far as to say this writing style is more of a feminist way of storytelling: the meandering, the inclusion of more than just “central idea driven” facts. It isn’t for everyone, but you learn so much more than just a literary detective “bedding”- fact attract, uncover, in for the kill shot, & to tell the story after- which is certainly more masculine. In the Matilda “side-stepping”, never really mentioning for the point of view or “freedoms” of the well being who wasn’t sick & didn’t ask to be murdered; If we agree to have government then Libertinism doesn’t work for the well being of all. Just saying, EVEN THOUGH, i speak having been designated “without capacity” several times in my life. I don’t believe being in a civilized society means we don’t give up SOME freedoms for what should be the betterment of the community- for instance not poisoning masses of persons, animals, flora & fauna as a just means to make THINGS or that shooting up children is justified because you have “complex ptsd”, just to example what I mean. Most of my harm was self directed, however, I believe, having successfully making it through those traumatic experiences, I can say I am GRATEFUL to have been “sectioned off” from society to not be a harm to myself or others, get assistance in pushing/pulling through, to land on my feet and I BELIEVE THAT IS WHAT A MULTI-LAYERED COMMUNITY HEALTH CARING SYSTEM is there for: to help the “weakest” most “fragile”, most “volatile”, most “erratically dangerous” from harming themselves or others. I think the servant that was murdered would probably agree, one death is one too many. 💔❤️‍🔥❤️‍🩹❣️ I like the “idea” of Libertarianism but I prefer a safe communal environment for the well being of all to be above an individual’s right to justly do whatever they want for whatever reason all the time. I think protecting the innocent, naive, & weaker beings in an environment is WHY we have elected to have GOVERNING BODIES. We can EXPECT them to be account-able & democratic with regards their citizenship- or what is the point? I guess I feel there is a lot of unnecessary suffering justified behind the lack of connection to/for humanities common good. Apologies if I wandered too far off topic, but it IS a story about a community affected by a MURDERer.😢

@SBCBears 2 ай бұрын

I think you mean "feminine" way of storytelling. Feminine and feminist are not the same thing. Some would say they're virtually and practically opposite.

@Shineon83 2 ай бұрын

***THIS IS A MODERN WRITER-ATTEMPTING TO IMITATE A VICTORIAN***

@classicdetective 2 ай бұрын

No though. She's a dead Victorian lady.

@maryeckel9682 Ай бұрын

Why assert that when she's so easily looked up?

@maryeckel9682 Ай бұрын

The biggest reason people with acute mental illness live in the mainstream in the US is that long term residential mental health care got Largely shut down, partly from altruistic reasons and partly for financial reasons. Long term care is rarely covered by insurance. So the streets it is.

@classicdetective Ай бұрын

That sort of happened here a bit with ‘community care’