The Silver Hatchet by Arthur Conan Doyle (1883)
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- The Silver Hatchet is an interesting tale of murder and the supernatural set in Budapest in 1861. It is an early Conan Doyle first published in London Society magazine in December 1883.
Two inseparable student chums, Schlegel and Strauss have their friendship put to the ultimate test. Do these characters and this plot perhaps foreshadow the unbreakable bond between Holmes and Watson? Er... maybe!
It is read by me, Greg Wagland for Magpie Audio.
© Magpie Audio 2020
It really does make my day when I see that there is a new story to listen too. I am far from the only one I'm sure.
Thanks Lee. Glad you like 'em.
same here,
THE stories here are my companions at work
Love them too!!❤️
Thanks to the pronunciation of the reader, inspiring many Indians who is passionate and craves to pursue Hons. in English. They can have an idea of how English should be pronounced. I am too grateful to you.
That is kind of you, Aviraj. I wish you every success with your studies!
Superb reading! It’s a joy to listen to these before bed.
Thanks Greg. Every now and then there’s a ray of sunshine for everyone.
Cheers, Craig. Yes we all deserve a few rays every now and then.
Second listening, and enjoying it even more. The true sign of a well-produced and read story is that it can be listened to over and over, and that's certainly true with your stories.
Thanks Scout Rifle as always!
Almost, I say almost, as good as winning the lottery...to discover a new Holmes & Watson audiobook that I haven't listened to!!!
Thank you for posting this story!!!
Hope you enjoy it!
Very very good story. A most satisfying ending. Thank you Greg. The art work is very moody and suitable. So good to hear you again. Thank you.
Thanks for listening and your support, aunty!
Thank you for continuing to entertain us. Love these pieces. 🇺🇸👍
My pleasure, Diane!!
The Silver Hatchet deserves a Golden makeover after yet another ACD story read as is, arguably the best narrator of ACD novels, period..... Cheers from Melbourne M8ty.....
So thrilled to see this today! This week is in the top worst 5 of my life but listening to this allowed me some joy! Thank you so much Greg. Stay well. You’re a blessing.
Aww, sorry to hear that Jeaninne, thoughts from Yorkshire. 🇬🇧
Jeaninne. Sorry to hear you're having a hard time. Hope things pick up soon. All the best! G.
Sherlock Holmes has always had a thirst for the supernatural, and this case would be as close as it gets from the genuine thing.
Love it.
THANKS, SLASH!
My heart leapt upon seeing a new story!!
Hope you liked it, Lynn.
Hooray! Thank you, Mr. Wagland.
Cheers K!!!!
Love it how you vocalize the German names ;-)!! Well done!
Best regards from Germany!
Thank you! 😃 I could have worked harder on them, but hey, maybe life's too short. Cheers back to you, Natalie, in Germany! all the best.
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Thank you very much for another brilliantly narrated gem of a story!
Glad you enjoyed it, Rick! Thank you!
Thank you dear sir. Wonderful, as always, and a most welcome light of distraction in dark times.
Thank you kindly, Barbara!
Not heard of this tale before, thoroughly enjoyed your narration Thank You, for this new story
My pleasure, Irena!
Hope your well Greg! You've made my week by releasing something new from you. You are the best there is and I think possibly the best there will ever be
Kind of you to say so , Colm. All the best.
Thank you Greg, certainly a treat to find a new Sir ACD story performed by our favorite audio artist, Cheers!
Thanks for listening and your continued support Scotticus. Much appreciated!!
Your voice is the best for reading such eloquent old language. Please continue to read! ☺️
Fantastic. I had never heard this story.
Thank you for this new "old" story
Thanks for listening, Sallie.
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio i love stories , and i love your READING, due to long hours work, i hardly can read a whole story in months...
it is funny,
coz i did read during my school days 2 stories of Sherlock, for book report, then another for just reading mainly, when i first saw this CHANNEL, i listened to all 3 stories in one day while working !
during the pandemic, i think I've listen to all Sherlock, twice, then Uncle Jeremy, then now this...
i am hook...😀😀😀😀😀
Oh, you've made my day Greg!! Thankyou !Love your channel🥰
You are very welcome, Linda. Cheers!
May we all be forgiven for turning on our friends! 🤗
Thanks for another great read!
Absolutely, Geri!! I hope I will be.
Thanks Greg, excellent job as usual!
Want you to know that you make my workplace a much better place, just listening to you!
Great to hear that, Jay! Workplaces - ugh!!!
So good to see you here. I have been checking in regularly. Hope you are well. 😊
I am! Hope you are too!
First class.....thank you very very much..
You are most welcome, Dennis! cheers!!
Simply the best...narrated by the best! :)
Thanks so much Mr. Greg!!🤍🤍
Glad you enjoyed it, Manya! Cheers!
Hi Greg! Once again the treat of a story read by you, I thank you. I sincerly hope that all is well with you, and yours. Sending a (Hug) and 4 paws up!!!!🐾🐾🐯❤
Same to you, LT!
Many thanks for your effort.
You are welcome, Abdulsalam! Cheers!
As always, a wonderful reading of a classic story. Thank you for this!
Fantastic as usual 😊 thanks 😁 😁
Thank you! Cheers, Michael!
Ohhh my goodness! I can’t wait to listen to this one! It’s like early Christmas 🎄:), thank you kindly for another one
Hope you liked it, Heather. Cheers!
Sir Arthur is becoming one of my favorites. I could see this actually happening as far fetched as it may seem.
Perhaps, BC!
Thank you for new tale!
Hope you enjoyed it, Multi!
Hello from Budapest, Hungary! What a crazy little story. I loved your reading as always, and your excellent pronunciation of the name of my hometown :)
Thank you. You recognised the picture too, then?
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Oh, I didn't even look at the pic, but it's definitely recognizable :) A nice touch.
Bless you, Greg, I needed this!
Cheers, Ann. All the best!
So excited for a new story! You are simply the best :)
Thanks True Blue!
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio You’re the only reader that I currently listen to where I don’t have to slow down the pace of the video, your reading pace is so wonderful and not rushed!! Ps. I listen to you the most of course ;)
I clicked on someone's else Sherlock story video by mistake. 10 seconds in I was like.... What is wrong with Greg😲?
Then I noticed it was a different channel. I gave it 1 minute listen and just couldn't do it any longer 🤦♀️🤦♀️.
I can only listen to them in this channel 👍👍
Thank you Greg. You're the best voice on youtube.
Glad you think so! And I like your name too, Tuck. Liberty!!!
Wonderful story. I think my wife's got one somewhere.
Very wise of her, Nick!
Are you planning to record the remainder of the Sherlock Holmes canon? I think the Lion's Mane, the Veiled Lodger, the Blanched Soldier, the Retired Colourman and perhaps one or two others are left. Anyways, I always enjoy your recordings!!!
Copyright still remains on the last few, can you believe it?
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Do you know if the copyright will expire?
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio you're joking! Whom holds it?
Thank you ❤️
This is a new one for me.
Immensely enjoyed!
Glad you enjoyed it, Rachel!
Oh wow! Perfect timing for me to sit and work with a new Magpie Audio Conan Doyle story...sweet! Thank you, as always!!!
Thanks LL!
Excellently read as ever, Sir Greg of Wagland.
Ta sim3otto. Kind of you!
An excellant reading thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Greg, nobody reads as well as you. Thanks!
Brilliant.
Thanks, Akash.
Greg!!! Where have you been?!? My wife and I love you’re readings! Please do some “Golden Compass” stories!!
Good question, Andrew. Where have I been? Glad you like 'em. Golden Compass is well within copyright and will be for decades, I fear.
Thank you so much; wonderfully read and especially so with all those Germanic names. And a very happy New Year to you.
Well, I wouldn’t have mind if at least one Hungarian name have occured in the story....
Hallo Greg, what a treat this story is, thank you so much. I adore ACD and your work just as much. It helps me trough many sleepless nights. Particularly love this story for its Austro Hungarian references. Greetings from Vienna
PS you are doing really well on the German. If you wish, I could gladly give you coaching on the pronunciation for German for future works, so that it will reach perfection just as your reading does 😘
You are so welcome, Petra. Thanks for you kind offer re: the German. I'll bear it in mind. I'm still haunted by my mispronunciation of the word Rache in one of the stories. However, perfection is a bit overrated. Cheers!
Excellent
Thank you 👍
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ good one ... *Thanks Greg*
Very welcome as per, mijiy
Thanks Mr.
Thanks Anthony. How are you keeping?
Greg! Thank you so much! You made my day! Simply the best.
Thanks just made my day
Glad to hear it JL!
Absolutely wonderful, as always, Greg. You never fail us!!
Any chance of reading the Club Footed Grocer? x
Almost certainly. When is a different matter, but not long, Roxanne. Cheers!
Excellent reading.
Many thanks.
Thank you!
Thank you. This was a new one on me.
Yes, me too, Philip.
Love your audiobooks
Thank you so much !
You're welcome, Lynn! Hope you enjoy it!
This story, as some of the others, suffers a bit from people expecting one genre and getting another. Taken as a horror story, and not as a detective story, there's startlingly visceral horror in it. This has to be one of the darkest stories he wrote in that regard. The concept of what the Silver Hatchet actually does to people is horrifying.
True
All I can say is welcome to the Octoberfest.
Those big old steins of bier. Fantastic! Hope you doing ok, Ringp?
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Excuuuuuuse me! When are we doing your Biography oh famous one? Helooooo!?
Thank you very much for an excellently read story.
Glad you enjoyed it, GR! Appreciate you commenting.
Greg Wagland is the best audiobook narrator out there.. he's a master. I can't decide him or Scott Brick... Both are great..
Me obviously! Thanks Greg.
Excellent, thank you.
You are welcome, Mary Mary!
Chilled to the depth of my soul. ☠️
Read us a story Mr. Greg, Boom! Boom!
Mr Roy. That dates us, I think, Michael. I did enjoy Basil. & Lambchop of course.
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Ha ha! I think I must be a bit older than you then. It was 'Mr Derek' (a very young Derek Foulds) when I watched it. 'Basil de Farmer, the knight in shining armour'.
I used to call my son 'Lambchop' when he was a toddler although his swedish mother said it sounds a bit off in swedish (shades of Julian and Sandy), forget Magpie how about 'Bona Audio'?
Yes🥳🥳🥳🥳 a new one
Yes. Blooming like a rare cactus!
I love the uppity intonation of this reader!! So English!!! He might as well take a sip of tea with every sentence.
"Oh Dear Heavens!"
"By Jove!"
"Bully!"
This could very well be Sherlock's actual voice and delivery. It makes English prose doubly pleasurable to listen to.
Thanks Greg🌺🐈
The End 😂👍👍loved it.
Enjoyed your narration!
It was very interesting to hear an early piece by Sir Doyle. While melodramatic by today's standards, it was good enough for the London Society magazine, and therefore, good enough for me. Thank you for chronicling it.
I used to suffer a similar strength though different type of feverish drive as a kid whenever I came home from school and grasped the controller of a playstation in my hands. 😉
Great story! Your pronunciation is on fleek 👌! Thank you so much for the upload!
Glad you liked it, Trueships! Appreciated!
Have not listened to you in a while. Do not axe me why...Your reading is superb as always.
Welcome back! Cheers Keith!
Thanks for this. Love these atmospheric stories. Do you happen to know who painted that great image you posted?
Marianne Stokes (Great artist) 1909 THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT AND MARGIT BRIDGE, BUDAPEST
The game is afoot ! thanks for posting.
YAAASSSSSSS
Hallelujah!
Hope you like, Sunstone.
Happy New Year to you, Greg! 🥳Thank you for all you have done to entertain & comfort us in this last year.
And to you, Felene.
Great narration. Thank you for 0osting.
Thanks for listening!
Now I have to wonder how the Baker Street Boys would've handled this case. Would Sherlock have touched the handle, and thus made a run at Watson, or would he have considered the last opinion given, perhaps done his own research, then supervised the destruction of the hatchet and the remnants of its handle via smelter's flame?
Very good thank you.
Thank you
Exactly how fuckn prolific was this guy!!!!
Exactly my thought
Have you already read Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel
The White Company Greg?
Isn't The White Company wars of the Roses or some such? Might do it... you recommend?
Sherlock Holmes Stories Magpie Audio Yes actually I do, The setting is of course Medieval times and it’s a full length novel, but Conan Doyle always considered it to be the best thing he had ever written in his lifetime. I’d recommend you check it out at least.
Hi Greg!
Lovely frontispiece. What is its name and/or the artist?
I enjoy this narrator, thanks for posting this!
The Houses of Parliament and Margit Bridge, Budapest by Marianne Stokes, 1909
@@pattywolford thank you! 😊
The art for this recording. Can you tell me the title and artist? Excellent narration!
Read the description
THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT AND MARGIT BRIDGE, BUDAPEST
Marianne Stokes. Painted in 1909. Great isn't it?
Hola, necesito ayuda. Este cuento está traducido al español? Porque no logro encontrarlo. Gracias.
It will be somewhere on the Internet in Spanish as a pdf. Read along!
Great reading as always, Greg! Could you possibly let me know what picture you have used for the "screenshot"? Many thanks and God bless.
THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT AND MARGIT BRIDGE, BUDAPEST
Marianne Stokes
Date: 1909
All the best, Jeremy!
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Many thanks, Greg. I'm just in the process of preparing a presentation for a literature course on Gothic literature of the 19th century at Bonn University on the 1st December, so this recording is extremely timely. Incidentally, as a Brit with German citizenship, i.e. a foot in both language camps, you made a really, really good stab at the German on the piece of paper towards the end. Hats off to you for that, or as they say over here "Hut ab!" Keep up the good work and Gb!
Wonderful Wonderful
conan doyle is so funny....satirizing the french and satirizing the hungarians and cocking a snook in every direction.....all the while appearing in the guise of a historian of the arcane
Thank you...!
You're welcome kIkI!
How many years to go to Voice Acting school? I might try it.
Is this a Christmas story, or a Halloween one??? Great listening, thank you.
I lost control when we came to the clever poodle.😄👍
How many takes did it, ah, take to get this one read coherently and without laughter?
Two little details, not adding to or devaluing the story in any way (probably just my daily shot of snobism): The story could in no way have been set in Budapest in 1861, as the Hungarian capital has only been existing under that name since 1873, when Budapest was formed from the unification of the cities of Buda, Óbuda and Pest. A contemporary cover picture would neither have contained the silhouette of Margaret Bridge (opened in 1876) nor the Parliament Building (opened in 1904).
I think you mean that Budapest existed under that name from 1873 (not 1973), on 17th November which was the date of unification.
Bloody hell..mate
Excellent observations!
Brilliant deduction ..uhm Kovari.
elementary my dear Szilard
*SPOILER ALERT* I like the ending as it implied a cursed object that was not cursed ...that's all I'll say so as not to *spoil* it for anyone new to this story🔪