9 The Engineer's Thumb from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) Audiobook

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  • The ninth tale from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. Rather a chilling story, claustrophobic and grisly. Enjoy!
    Read by Greg Wagland. ©Magpie Audio 2017

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  • @tucaycryslyng.7413
    @tucaycryslyng.7413 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    the variation of how speaker change his voice for each character is absolutely stunning huhu.

  • @diw2756
    @diw2756 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I am addicted to the reader’s vivid rendition of each character!👍❤️

  • @toonbat
    @toonbat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    People who think The Hound of the Baskervilles is the closest Sherlock Holmes stories ventured into horror territory have clearly not read this one.

    • @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio
      @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio  4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      It's creepy, certainly, toon.

    • @Gill12283
      @Gill12283 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      The Sussex Vampire and The Devil's Foot are creepy ones as well.

    • @saleemkirmani5583
      @saleemkirmani5583 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Gill12283 The Five Orange Pips was very creepy too.

    • @annabuena
      @annabuena ปีที่แล้ว +6

      So is the Creeping Man and The Musgrave Ritual

  • @Purple_Crusader
    @Purple_Crusader ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I listen to these while going to bed. Love hearing the stories by this great narrator!

    • @stewartlancaster6155
      @stewartlancaster6155 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I listen to these while actually in bed....

  • @WOK-YT-handle
    @WOK-YT-handle หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Even after all these years I still love listening to these narrations! You read all these characters so well!

  • @dale9724
    @dale9724 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Greg Waglund is brilliant. Thank you sir.

  • @girishshirodkar6443
    @girishshirodkar6443 6 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    More than who solved the mystery, it is the superlative narration of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which captivates the reader's attention. Masterpiece!

  • @petert7938
    @petert7938 4 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    aah those days where a sip of Brandy was the cure for every illness ...

    • @paulwilliamson6660
      @paulwilliamson6660 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It still is, if you've got the attitude for it!

    • @dougchance8891
      @dougchance8891 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@paulwilliamson6660
      And the taste for it- which fortunately I have.😊

  • @sivanlevi3867
    @sivanlevi3867 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I must say, The Engineer's Thumb really, ahem, "sticks out like a sore thumb" when it comes to chilling tales and almost gorey details. Though it is certainly a thriller.

  • @maryoleary5044
    @maryoleary5044 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    One of the Classics!...the Railway man going to Watson and Homes looking after the chap...sofa, brandy & water, make yourself at home.
    "I shall not feel easy til i tell my story" - how TRUE!
    Lots more also 🧐

  • @kerry-annjacobs6260
    @kerry-annjacobs6260 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    This story has always stumped me, if you were warned and even realized the precarious nature of your position why would you have alerted them to your knowledge that they are lying. He practically caused his own injury.

    • @karenwaters1926
      @karenwaters1926 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I always thought he was a doofus.

    • @riggs20
      @riggs20 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It’s like the horror movie where the main character hears a strange noise at night and goes “to investigate.” We all yell at him, “Nooo! Just run!” LOL!

    • @stewartlancaster6155
      @stewartlancaster6155 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      for the money ? 50 quid then is around, 7000 now !

  • @mint4876
    @mint4876 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    You could be paying me thousands of dollars but if a woman who lived with you begged me to leave like that I would haul ass out of there, it was already such a sketchy situation

  • @katherinelydon7306
    @katherinelydon7306 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    You have inspired me to look into becoming an audiobook narrator.

    • @karenwaters1926
      @karenwaters1926 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Try one and put it on your channel. Forget about it. Go back, and listen as if it is completely foreign to you. I would volunteer to listen but, it has to be uniquely your decision. If you do decide to go for it: just remember, you will never please everyone.

    • @rubyfaux9386
      @rubyfaux9386 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Check out Global Voice Acting Academy on Facebook. And ACX.com

  • @SeerOfTime577
    @SeerOfTime577 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Mr. Hatherly experienced the epitome of a bad day.

  • @sunflowerz54
    @sunflowerz54 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Great reading as always. Thank you :)

  • @Peter-gq4ww
    @Peter-gq4ww 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I've never heard a more suitable voice for sherlock it's picture perfect for what I'd imagine he'd sound like, its right up there with Jeremy Brett in terms of believability

  • @annaelisavettavonnedozza9607
    @annaelisavettavonnedozza9607 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Honestly, If Hatherly had not passed out in the hedge near the station, Ferguson & Stark may very well have spotted, & thus, killed him.

  • @RichardPhillips1066
    @RichardPhillips1066 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Scot seems a bit dumb , if I walked to a strange house owed by dubious men, with shuttered windows , and a panicked woman warned me to get away , I would be gone

  • @priya03_94
    @priya03_94 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Sir ur voice is very clear nd audible...u deserve million subscribers.ol d luck

  • @stevedupont395
    @stevedupont395 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Bràndy is actually doubly distilled wine. It is not a alcohol that many people in America anymore. It's capabilities does what it is meant to do. It has a quick effect, sometimes jolting, yet it can have a calming effect afterwards. Bràndy and Cognac can be like a smelling salt to many, and acts quickly.
    nd

    • @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio
      @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Brandy sales go up greatly at Christmas because of dousing the Christmas pudding in it and setting it alight. Apart from that it’s probably in the doldrums sales wise. Shame as I rather like it. I’m sure it’s as good a medicine as many others.

    • @jessicaellina3878
      @jessicaellina3878 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hot sweet tea is the great British remedy for shock😂

  • @kerry-annjacobs6260
    @kerry-annjacobs6260 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The engineer is a complete idiot if you already have so many reservations and they were confirmed upon your investigation why would you alert them that you know that they are lying, it is as if you are daring them to do their worst. He should have told them the problem, collected his money and report it to the police upon returning to London.

  • @taylorroarkpayton
    @taylorroarkpayton 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    That night, the intelligent and young engineer learned to not ignore red flags, even for the sake of coins.

  • @jackbergman9675
    @jackbergman9675 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Thanks for uploading this it helped with school.

  • @teachercharlesamericanengl2098
    @teachercharlesamericanengl2098 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good stories. Love their way of speaking

  • @viridian90
    @viridian90 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Masterful audible performance ✨✨✨ thank you Sir so much 🫡🫡🌺🌺

  • @stdeniro
    @stdeniro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent Greg. Thank you.

  • @annaelisavettavonnedozza9607
    @annaelisavettavonnedozza9607 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    The accents are so on point it’s amazing. And you go back & forth between them so easily. Greg you HAVE to be from the UK
    (If you ever need female voices I do accents & am an actress myself :)

  • @agenttheater5
    @agenttheater5 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Does anyone know if Doyle got the engineering aspects - where he's looking over the machine and finds out what's wrong with it - right?

    • @Kington99
      @Kington99 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I am a professional engineer and yes it all hangs together well enough, a weeping seal is a common enough problem in a hydraulic system and it would cause the issues described. My only question over it is that to my mind it's a very obvious thing to diagnose and it seems unlikely they would have the skill to be able to fix it themselves, but not be able to discover the issue in the first place

  • @marinadubois7347
    @marinadubois7347 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you.

  • @mijiyoon5575
    @mijiyoon5575 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Never heard of this story...I liked it much!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍thumbs seem to be appropriate on this one! HA!!!

  • @nc7547
    @nc7547 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brilliant as always

  • @EnderMight
    @EnderMight 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    thank you so much for this
    I have an exam in January and this has saved me so much time thank you : )

  • @swayamjain333
    @swayamjain333 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you for making this easy

  • @traceywright9484
    @traceywright9484 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fabulous!!!!

  • @ReasonAboveEverything
    @ReasonAboveEverything 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I would have told Holmes off if he had said that to me after loosing my thumb and nearly my life.

    • @abraxasnl
      @abraxasnl 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      But, “experience!”
      Yeah, that was a dick move from Holmes.

    • @georgebisacre9413
      @georgebisacre9413 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@abraxasnl Best reply he could think of!

    • @Noaartetc
      @Noaartetc ปีที่แล้ว

      That's why the story ended there)

  • @jojoe4093
    @jojoe4093 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Yeah, lose a thumb vs my life: no question. But I am careful to heed red flags. 🤔...The Brazilian Cat

  • @jaystermac9870
    @jaystermac9870 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What I would give to hear mr wagland read a Dr Seuss story!!

  • @tahiraarifarif1201
    @tahiraarifarif1201 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thnx for uploading

  • @kevinmallon9649
    @kevinmallon9649 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Can You Upload "The Speckled Band", "The Sussex Vampire" And Of Course "The Hound Of The Baskervilles" Please! Thanks Mate. I Am A Very Big Fan Of Sherlock Holmes!

    • @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio
      @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio  6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      +Kevin Mallon Speckled Band and The Hound of the Baskervilles are on my channel already. The Sussex Vampire is not as it is not in the public domain.

    • @rajasarkar2145
      @rajasarkar2145 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me too..

    • @nannygorgeous8234
      @nannygorgeous8234 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sherlock
      Holmes Stories Magpie Audio

  • @erenihendy7218
    @erenihendy7218 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Keep up the good Work! Your doing an awesome job!

  • @susanhepburn6040
    @susanhepburn6040 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you very much!

  • @yniz3
    @yniz3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks

  • @guinevere1165
    @guinevere1165 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Is this channel run by Greg Wagland himself? A lot of comments suggest that but the channel is under a publishing companies name, which suggests otherwise. When I look up Magpie Audio, there are many audiobooks read by other actors but every audiobook on this channel is read by Greg Wagland. Then, I went to his website and it links to this TH-cam channel, which suggests that this channel isn't made by a fan of Wagland. Maybe its Wagland's manager or agent or something that runs this account and the website but the tone of the website feels too personal and lighthearted. I'm stumped! If this is Wagland, let me know!

    • @guinevere1165
      @guinevere1165 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sorry for my ignorance, I'm just so curious!

    • @guru6831
      @guru6831 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Of course, Wagland runs this channel.

  • @franzelias5368
    @franzelias5368 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    There needs to be a follow up story entitled "All of Sherlock's teeth." What an insufferable know it all! Anyways, very beautifully read, yet again :-)

    • @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio
      @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio  3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He can be, can't he? Redeeming qualities though!

    • @franzelias5368
      @franzelias5368 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio : True! He's always right for one, though I have a shrewd suspicion he has 'inside information.' I know for a fact Sherlock is in constant and close communication with the author :-O

    • @moviemad56
      @moviemad56 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@franzelias5368
      Actually he's not always right, and berates himself harshly when he makes a mistake, for example in The Hound of the Baskervilles.

  • @ringpop6177
    @ringpop6177 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I’m gonna buy a Library chair now! I don’t care what anybody says

  • @bobhostetler8548
    @bobhostetler8548 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The pain comes after I took out my flesh around my wrist with a 3,000 lb. Per sg inch pressure washer initially felt like a extremely hard blow now I have a beautiful v shape scare

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee หลายเดือนก่อน

    i was listening to this and got quite confused. there couldn’t be two stories based on the same premise by one author - could there? and yet, the story i remembered was exactly the same, except it was almost a crushed body - which ended up only being a crushed shoe. i couldn’t figure out what was going on. two stories almost exactly the same? then the puzzle pieces clicked into place. the other had been a television episode and they thought a thumb being cut off with blood everywhere was a bit too much and changed it to the crushed shoe. i was quite befuddled for a while though :) 😋🌷🌱

  • @mijiyoon5575
    @mijiyoon5575 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    TS 8:08 this explains the shoe (house type) of shoe in the movies on the mantle fireplace corner; I wondered why Holmes kept his tobacco in a shoe🤔

    • @josh2Sides2
      @josh2Sides2 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I believe it's actually a Turkish slipper

  • @sebastianmelmoth1645
    @sebastianmelmoth1645 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    wonderful voice work. this has always been a bit of a weak story but the reader is excellent.

    • @moviemad56
      @moviemad56 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The reader is excellent, and the story is amazing!

  • @Brave_Rachel
    @Brave_Rachel หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great 👍

  • @NickDiFroscia
    @NickDiFroscia หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sherlock rock's 😊

  • @shaundevoy9307
    @shaundevoy9307 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    bookmark-27:49

  • @sophiejane2418
    @sophiejane2418 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So who exactly solved the case

    • @arbaaz9992
      @arbaaz9992 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Sherlock,partly. But this is one of those strange cases which got solved on their own. As it is stated in the beginning, holmes expertise came to very little use in this one

    • @achyuththouta6957
      @achyuththouta6957 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@arbaaz9992 No that's certainly not the case. Holmes was the one who deduced that the house was in the middle of that village and that they were coiners. Honestly without knowing that they were coiners, catching them would have been impossible.

    • @moviemad56
      @moviemad56 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@achyuththouta6957
      By coiners I suppose you mean counterfeiters?

  • @NickDiFroscia
    @NickDiFroscia หลายเดือนก่อน

    Back to reality ❣️.

  • @Opaleye96
    @Opaleye96 ปีที่แล้ว

    What is the accent the engineer has? Is it Scottish? May I ask why he is read with that accent? Is it based on his name?

  • @stewartlancaster6155
    @stewartlancaster6155 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Engineers Bum. ...we used to snigger at that 50 years ago
    in primary school, sorry !

  • @LawndaleLancaster
    @LawndaleLancaster 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Well...!!!😯😯😯

  • @ringpop6177
    @ringpop6177 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What shire?

  • @jamesmhango2619
    @jamesmhango2619 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I would like to see a movie of this. Or is there one?

    • @jujuseducer6055
      @jujuseducer6055 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Ronald Howard series has an episode called The Shirked Engineer that is based on this story, although some of the details have been changed. You can find all 29 episodes of the series can be found right here on TH-cam. Hope you enjoy them.

    • @michelegallagher9184
      @michelegallagher9184 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jujuseducer6055 where at on here?

  • @annskinner8467
    @annskinner8467 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ouch! 👍👍 Great story though! 🀄️🀄️🀄️🀄️

    • @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio
      @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ann. Greetings! Yes. Take care of your thumbs and your thumbs will take care of you. Cheers.

  • @abuzarahmed9503
    @abuzarahmed9503 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can. You do an audiobook read for the prisoner of zenda

  • @jrock8089
    @jrock8089 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Holmes would be a raging crack head in modern times

  • @danbrown7042
    @danbrown7042 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This ain't no Hollywood kid...

  • @kim-jz9nb
    @kim-jz9nb 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    31:40

  • @gemmacastrillon2301
    @gemmacastrillon2301 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Visto 1/9/20

  • @forealpat397
    @forealpat397 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    👌

    • @forealpat397
      @forealpat397 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Supercool. lol😁

    • @forealpat397
      @forealpat397 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      These are smooth cool stories. S H
      🆒️lol
      Like me.
      I'm the HOTTEST man, with COLD blooded game.
      DOPE DIARY II (soon)
      FREE artist: aka. Supercool

  • @notrex8977
    @notrex8977 ปีที่แล้ว

    i hate english class cuh