Absolutely the only reader who can do female voices without making them preposterous. It’s his most amazing skill (of his many).

Having a rough evening. I have listened to several of these stories in the midst of a challenging situation and you have helped me immensely

The combination of Conan-Doyle's lucid prose and Greg's superb reading make this a rare treat. Thank you.

Of course Holmes gets out of his chores by distracting Watson with his kryptonite, a good story.

"Having foolishly taken a cup of Cafe noir, after my dinner. " I can say I share your misery, sir.

This playlist gets me through many of a sleepless night. Amazing readings. Thank you.

The only reason I sleep at night sometimes....your voice is so soothing😊

The poor beast in 'The Hound Of The Baskervilles' and this story, are my favourites - the old country manor world of Holmes! An ivy, litchen covered building, book lined study, crackling fire, two rescue greyhounds asleep in front of it, a cat on my lap, a glass of something good for me and a good book/audio book. .. Also, some little ratties enjoys a bit of cheese in the skirting board! They are little lives too❤

More than ever, I am completely devoted to this voice

Proper story teller.

I’ve listened to the entire Sherlock Holmes collection read by Stephen Frye a few times and thought it could never be topped. But after listening to a few of your readings I’m hooked on listening to them all also. Thanks for these

Have I made this comment before? Probably, because I have listened to all of Mr. Wagland’s narrations multiple times. I can’t help but wonder if Conan Doyle twitches in his grave remembering his elm tree blunder. As if it would have been the same height in the 17th century as it was when young Musgrave was doing his math lessons. 🙄😆 Still a FANTASTIC story with equally fantastic narration. 👍🏻

Greg you rock bro. I honestly have listened to you just about every day for 2 or more years. Listening here in CT USA. Thank you muchly sir.

Also, I love how gangster this dude is. The corridor leads to the library and gun room. He suspects a burglar and instead of grabbing a gat from the gun room he tools up with a medieval battle axe. DAMN!

This has to be some kind of K2 for voice work. Almost the entire story is Watson quoting Holmes, including his conversations with Musgrave, where Musgrave recounts _his_ comversations with Brunton. So you (Greg) are voicing Watson, voicing Holmes, voicing Musgrave, voicing Brunton - in the book that's three layers of quotation marks. Bonkers.

The opening paragraph of this story is delivered as elegantly as it is written. I have just listened to it five times (it will be six, actually, by the time I finish writing this). Thank you Greg, you inspire me to do Good Things (and likewise make them freely available).

Fantastic use of your voice. Thank you. I love this tale.

Great story, the British accent and pronunciation a must. Well done that man.

You never disappoint, Mr. Wagland. Exceptional voice & story telling as always 👏🏻🎉Thank you

Excellent! Please keep up the brilliant work; You bring joy to my heart - and I love your accent!

My dad was listening to this & he goes “can u imagine if Musgrave got to the end of his story & Holmes went “im sorry I wasn’t listening could u repeat that?” Lol

Thankyou for these ! We listen to them every night 🙌👏

Amazing read am so hock, I can't sleep without these wonderful stories. Before I discover your channel I had too many sleepless nights. Thank u

How rare it is for one to discover one's true calling. It's rarer still to become the zenith of that calling. Indeed, it is divine when the employment of ones calling benefits countless others. Consider the flowing definition of holiness: "for another " ; you are serving others and ought to know you're appreciated

I love these, it's so cool it's actually you narrating to, you do so well with making the characters so distinct. :)

Just ♥️everything Conan Doyle did, whether Sherlock Holmes( brilliant 🤩) or all the other fantastic stories he wrote. Congratulations you’ve covered the very best✊🌹

Beautifully read. Very nice. Thanks.

another beauty!! good work

A wonderful presentation. My family was host to Charles #2 while he was in exile on the Isle of Jersey. Carteret family. Here is a verse for you Nehemiah 13:3.

You were made to narrate Sherlock Holmes 🕵️‍♂️! 🦇

Marvelous as usual.. I forgive Don Juan...at 11:12 being pronounced Don "jewen" although a suave character in my mind was momentarily lost...

The Most beautiful writing.

I love ur the way accent changes in some certain characters

You do great work.

Stories are getting better and better.

Thank you for reading these. It makes the stress and problems of lu3fe go away for awhile.

Excellent. Thank you.

Amazing love it.❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Thank you💖💖

Another great presentation!! Thank you, I enjoy these recordings.

"something of his birthplace seemed to cling to the man, and I never looked at his pale, keen face or the poise of his head without associating him with grey archways and mullioned windows." I would LOVE to have someone say this about me.... Another fabulous narration thank you 😊

Finally, after 40 years, a third form trigonometry and ratio problem I can get my teeth into (and it comes with the answers already done)!

Why would ANYONE vote to dislike this? Never mind 29 people 👀😮

I've always wondered why the elm tree was the same height in the 17th century as it was in the 19th century.

thank you for posting

I was thinking about the absence of sense of smell in Doyle's descriptions when it comes to discovery of a dead body. The visual descriptions are often so vivid that you can imagine the scene in front of you, but there is no smell. I wonder if it has something to do with the smelly streets and the unhygienic ways of life at the time that Doyle didn't want to replicate in fiction.

I love the riddles of The Musgrave Ritual. It's certainly fun when Holmes has to solve a puzzle and a crime all in one.

*Watson:* _(narrating)_ An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affected a certain quiet primness of dress, he was nonetheless in his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction. But, of course, I could not blame him for it, for his current form had made him heavily reliant on people for his daily needs. I would've pitied poor Mrs. Hudson if she had been doting on him long before my arrival. *Reginald Musgrave:* _(recounting)_ “So!" said I. “This is how you repay the trust which we have reposed in you. You will leave my service tomorrow.” *Salem Saberhagen:* _(as Holmes)_ Good on you, Reggie! Turn your back for a few minutes, and the hired help will start sneaking coal into the fire. All 'cuz their "assets are frozen." Pah! Next thing they'll be pickin' your- *Musgrave:* Ahem. I am not yet finished, Holmes. *Salem:* Okay... So how did the creep take it? *Musgrave:* He bowed with the look of a man who is utterly crushed, and slunk past me without a word. *Salem:* He-he-he... _(Musgrave stares at Salem, who quickly subsides.)_ At the end: *Salem:* Watson, you've seen photos showing me back to when I was human. You think that, if it wasn't a rusty pile of scrap, that crown would've looked good on me? *Watson:* I've yet to measure the circumference of your head in human form. For now, I'm free to imagine you trying to exit through the cat door while wearing it. That is, if you can _find_ the door with it on. *Salem:* Mean! By the way, you've mispronounced "Juan." Plus, that's not the British way of saying "Ralph." ;p

very standard and excellant ..

Thanks

thank you :)

Thank you very much.

This is brilliant... Fucking brilliant!

“He was a well-grown, handsome man with a splendid forehead.” Huh. I wonder if my forehead is any good.

Social climbers, such as this faithless butler-- with his ridiculous demand for severance pay, simply because he has loyally served for twenty years-- must be crushed. As must seducers. The deeply conservative ethos drives this story, just as it drives Sherlock himself. Excellently read, as always.

I was listening to this in Czech ...to learn it (Czech) so I thought it wise to know the story in my own language. Story learning is becoming very popular now as grammar and vocabulary are acquired not studied. Children don't study grammar and vocabulary before they learn their mother tongue. It's kind of an experiment. I'm also watching videos in Czech. Medivek and Pelíšky are great movies if anyone is interested. Watching with Czech subtitles is better. Studies have been done that say you learn almost nothing with subtitles in your mother tongue.

Nice job 🥇🥇🏆🏆🏆🎖🎖🎆 greg

I have found the last two questions meaning. First it took me time to find out sherlock didn't mention them. So first i needed to find out the questions 😂 then the answer was already obvious. Anyway I felt happy when I solved the case and find out the ritual's last two questions' meaning. It was sad for that butler that he didn't get the all questions' meanings.

Thank you sir.

In my book, there is no "what was the month " question among the questions. It is very weird... Why would someone remove it from the story....

Thank you

Superb.

All these hours of free content make living in this tiny secluded town less excruciatingly boring.

That Butler was very quaint

I'm six or seven stories into this series and I find it odd that there are scarcely any comments about the books/mysteries. Nearly everyone seems to comment on the performance of the reading voice and related matters.

amazing

Your too good.

The elm wouldn’t have grown since the 17th century when the ritual was written??

I love ur worksss pls keep doing

I listen to your renditions at least once a day. Its the pronunciation of Don Juan that worries me.. roughly pronounced 'wann' ..

Way to much fun. Thank you sir

Back to reality ❣️.

I read the Adventure of 'The Musgrave Ritual' has been dated to Thusday June 23rd 1881. The month before 'A Study in Scarlet' (July 16th 1881). Does any SH officinardo know if those are the dates of publication in 'The Strand Magazine'? As there is a later publication date of 1893 which may be in the 2nd collection book entitled 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'. Wikipedia lists it as originally published in the strand Magazine 1893.This is where I got my 1881 reference from: bakerstreet.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_Sherlock_HolmesOf about 25 other references about the publication date, it was the only one listing the date as 1881. Any help? TY.

Love it! All except the pronunciation of “Don Juan” as “don jew-in”

I just realized he meant Don Juan. 😳

One thing I did not understand of the story. If the cellar was known to the Musgrave family, why such round about directions to it's location?

Vivat!!!

Don Jewin???!!! XD Sir!

What's a billet? I've looked it up...I already had the definition to do with soldier's lodgings.

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Firstly... really big fan loving these sherlocks and some of the Arthur conan doyle stories id never read before... Just to point out " hes a bit of a don juan" don juan is a spanish name(he is the spanish casanova) and pronounced "whan" not "ju an".... first mistake ive heard you make and im at least 20 stories in to your series.

Why do you only have 9000 subs

Don Juan lol

Why did he pronounce Don Juan that way ? 😳

I wonder who Don Jew-an might be??

A classically-trained, former teacher can mark the trigonometry of the shadow of an absent tree, but doesnt understand the use of a lever in a room full of sticks??? Pshaw, Mr Doyle, pshaw.

VISTO 1/9/20

seas

An excellent narrator although it's really irritating the way that Brits massacre Spanish words - like pronouncing Don Juan "Don Jew-un". Ugh.

Time to learn English

Knj

Far too many archaic British terms in this story, which are obscure in their meaning and irritating to have to deal with. Not one of Doyle's best.

Eat the rich.

"Don Jew-an"

Pob clôd i'r eneth ifanc am llofriddio Brumpton ac ddianc y gyfraith heb her A chware teg iddi am twli'r goron hanesyddol yn y llyn hefyd 😂

It is really just appalling that the British insist on pronouncing Don Juan "Don Jew-un." Disgusting.

Still enjoyin your entertainin portrayals right much. 11:12 Don Hwahn (one syllable). God you are so parochial! No knowledge of Spanish. I guess that comes from not havin Mexico as a neighbor. Nobody in USA would get that one wrongly, I suppose. You couldn't possibly be a dweller in an international city. That is to your credit, but, still...

One of my favorites. The Case of How to Get Out of Cleaning Up by Distracting Roomie with. A Good Yarn.

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