The Man with the Watches (1898) by Arthur Conan Doyle 

I just want to assure the narrator and producers of these volumes that although I too use them to relax and fall asleep. I always back up later and finish the story. I play them while I work in the kitchen etc. But the best part of my day is when I can lie in bed, close my eyes and visualize everything in my mind. Thank you so much!

I unplugged tv in my bedroom 6 weeks ago as I felt it contributed to my chronic insomnia. Please don’t be offended but I’ve been listening to your channel since and I fall asleep fastest I’ve ever been able to in many many years. Thank you for this. I’m a big mystery buff. One of these nights I might be able to stay awake to the ending of these terrific tales. Gives new dimension to mystery....I really enjoy your bedtime story reading. Thanks again. 💚

Six times I had to wake up and go back to restart this! Cured my insomnia though and finally when I got to the end, a great story by my fellow countryman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!

Marvellous reading & story. The characters come to life. Greg gives us a wonderful narration.

I really cannot get enough of Mr. Wagland reading Conan Doyle. Good night.

I’ve never read Conan Doyle’s stories in my life. I’m discovering them through your audio collection. What an excellent way to enjoy these brilliant stories. Thank you, kind stranger !

The great and powerful Greg Wagland. Always making my day fly in.

Ingenious! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle thought up the most original situations and then presented them to us, inside out. Fun and refreshing to listen to. You never over dramatize or chew the scenery.

I love being read to, especially at night. Listening to the narrators read these stories reminds me of my late father. My late father read stories to my siblings and me until I was 13. (He stopped due to a shift change.) We progressed from reading his automotive repair manuals and Dr. Seuss when I was very young to the Walk West series by Peter Jenkins as I entered my teenage years. Being read to made me feel loved and valued.

Sir Greg, I feel your contributions to the ACD audiobook collections deserves a knighthood. It really can’t get any better.

It's been 20 below zero here for the past week. Even with a snug house and a sturdy furnace, it seems that the chill just seeps into my bones. I must be getting old; in my younger days, when I wore a uniform that declared that Uncle Sam Ain't Released Me Yet, I used to think nothing of trekking through the field training areas of Fort Richardson on snowshoes, sleeping in a tent or even a snow cave if the drifts were deep enough, for two weeks at a time at these same temperatures. Now I'm as domesticated as my lazy cats, and we all pile onto the bed and pull up the extra quilts, and listen to your excellent stories at bedtime. I used to always read in bed, but as time goes by I find I have to have my reading specs on, and falling asleep with glasses on results in them winding up mashed and mangled, or poking me in my ear, or confiscated by the cats and stashed under the couch with the rest of their prized possessions. Thank you so much for the stories.

I've given this a thumbs up even before listening to it. I have absolute confidence that the combination of Greg's narration and Arthur Conan Doyle's storytelling will be sublime. These recordings have made sleepless nights a sheer delight.

Been looking forward to listening to this at bedtime all day...goodnight

Another inspired reading bringing all the characters of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's to life. Thank you so much.

The fact of the parallel train was a key one that Doyle should not have left to the author of the 'Letter to the Editor.' In particular, the railroad detective should have known it.

Wonderful. Thank you. ACD’s non-Holmes stories are a rarity and are very much appreciated.

I've listened to so many of these I've started to talk like this narrator. Friends are concerned,.

Greg, thanks for this most unusual and fascinating story ❤️😊❤️

Good grief. These fellows very much need Mr Sherlock Holmes

Another goodie! YAY! Read this one many, many years ago. Had forgotten it, and here it is to remind me of the long ago days of my youth spent with my nose in a book. You, Sir, are very much appreciated. Cheers from the arse end of Oz! =o)

Excellent little story, beautifully read!

Funny thing: I had just read this story two weeks ago for the first time. Now you read it to me! Yay!

Greg thank you for your Contribution to the literature of Sir Athur C. Doyle. I have never heard these short stories . You are a Benefactor of the Human Race. I wonder how Sir A .C. Doyle would think about being remembered for Sherlock Holmes . Considering he wanted him gone in the end . I know he was into spiritualism and many other endeavors but in the end his legacy was Holmes. What do you think he would think ?or say ? Greg thank you with all my heart ❤ Sir Scott Dickens

Lovely reading of the book, " The man with the watches ". I really enjoyed it.

I wonder if the writers of Better Call Saul knew this story? It's got massive Chuck & Jimmy vibes!

Day made! This was fantastic. Thank you so much😍

Nice story, read with feeling. Thanks!

So good ...and so well read ... thankful for you and these stories

You have the perfect voice for narrating this story.

Good job dude! Thanks

A new one on myself. Thank you again, for such a wonderful rendition and most remarkable of audio library. W&toobs

Thank you so much. This story has special significance for me that I will not go into today. 🔎🎩🎻

At first it could have been a Railway Detective story by Victor L. Whitchurch. Then there was a big spiel about the role of the detective that made me think this could be a manifesto for Doyle on what makes a detective. Then the second part of the story reminded me of the silly, pointless unrelated of adventures in the new world in A Study In Scarlet. In short, all this made me feel this must have been on Doyle's very first stories.

Always such a joy to find a new adventure narrated by our favorite audiobook maestro. Thank you Mr. Wagland, much appreciated!

I was already on 2nd run with all your uploads. Ty for adding new.

Nope, not Sherlock Holmes, the detective. What a story, though! Wow! You will get tired of me saying this but another great job, Greg! 👍

Excellent... Thank You!

Thanks for the ACD that ISN'T Sherlock Holmes. I'll check your channel after this one to find more, but right now it's bedtime cuz I just found my story for tonight. Thanx, G'nite.

Excellent reading.

This was such a good story and your reading of it brought tears to my eyes. I loved it.

Excellent rendition, as always. Great overlooked story too... I agree the voice of the detective doesn't quite sound like Holmes - but I can hear you've chosen not read him with your usual distinctive Holmes intonation, perhaps that's what makes the difference! Do you know The Lost Special? ACD does something similar in that story which perhaps sounds a bit more like SH (I think, anyway)

Good stuff, Greg!

Thanks again 😊

Your narration is just perfect. Thank you.

A superb reading many thanks...

Good, as always. Thanks, Greg!

Dear Greg I have just revisited your channel after quite a while. I am so pleased I did. Lots of treats to enjoy. Many thanks. Much appreciated. Now subscribed so I never miss anything. Ade

What an enjoyable listening experience. Thank you !

Thanks a lot for the upload! Greg, you have a wonderful voice.

Excellent story!!!!

This must have been a very risque story in its day for there is a very gay theme flowing through it with a touch of cross dressing too. It is though a great story with Mr Wagland's usual excellent narration. Thank you.

As soon as I heard that the woman wore a veil that covered most of her face...

Thank you

Greg, you read so well! I am addicted to your reading voice.

Very enjoyable story!

Finally heard the whole story. 😊

And with that, I'm in my happy place again.

a good one - interesting how the police had a theory and then everything was explained so easily and made perfect sense.

Worth waiting for after the false upload . obviously a ruse to see if you could find the real thing.cheers Greg

So enjoyable…thank you

The detectives explanation.. i was hoping for the appearance of Holmes voice tbh.

Thank Greg, it is always so engrossing the way your voice and its inflections form the characters. Better than watching a Grenada Production. Just wondering though, and maybe I missed the point of the story, but isn't the character who gives the true account of the events an American? Why did you give him one of the English accents? A suggestion: do you have a Patreon or SubscribeStar (better) page? I would like to see a way to support you in your work.

The cops in this are more of the Lestrade mould, SH would probably have as much fun with them !!!!

Thank you! I read this one recently, but I’d rather have you read it to me.

What a great story ❤️

Truth is stranger than fiction. :)

32:17 ‘asked one of the dudes’ :-))

Fantastic

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POSSIBLE SPOILER: I don't consider the detective of the story to be of Holmes' caliber. Holmes would would have made note of the missing bag and certainly wouldn't have excluded the clues of the mirror or the book. The vestitures of the passengers also would have piqued his curiosity.

Watches and trains......there's a great movie starring Claude Rains called 'The man who watched trains'!

Grand thank you

did u do an edit with in holmes woice

I know the Bucks line very well !!!!

I just thru my watch away 😝

"This young man with the abnormal number of watches, was alone in the carriage of the slow train.....He was probably an American, and also probably of weak intellect. ( I hope he's not trying to make a connection there) The excessive wearing of jewelry is an early symptom in some forms of mania." Where did the Victorians get their psychological knowledge from? Everyone in these old radio shows who are different in some way from the average person, seem to be diagnosed with a "mania."

An enjoyable yarn, but it stretches my belief somewhat. Worth listening to.

This reminds me of Sherlock Holmes in the same way that the Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock Holmes reminds me of Doctor Who. By which i mean, it's great and i love it, but yeah, i think you're right. Sherlock Holmes is something ever so slightly different.

Doesn't sound like Sherlock to me, either. Nice reading!

I keep repeating myself but you’re indeed the best reader in youtube! Thank you so much Sir 🙏cheers

I liked this, but to repeat what another commenter said, this feels like it could have been one of ACD very first works. Maybe he edited this and re-released it as 'the 13 watches, a definite SH tale.

Wait I’m still contemplating the Orchid! What’s goin on here?

i think it is holmes

It would be nice if commenters made recommendations! There’s so much fluff & nonsense. I added my faves.

1) Describe a mysterious crime in England. 2) Switch the setting to the US and describe how violent criminals there were the cause. How many times did Arthur Conan Doyle use this structure?

An overused description 'artist'. But it might be applied to Greg's story telling if artist means a master of their medium.

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Can anyone please tell me the name of the person who is actually reading out these stories? 🙂

This story stands out among the Sherlock Holmes cannon in the manner in which it is told. I don’t mean to offend anyone but there seems to be a homosexual subtext with a very modern spin on reconciliation.

Not Sherlock! He has to have facts before making a move; he would not theorize like this.

*SPOILER ALERTINGS!!!* Ohhh.... I'd read this once before, when younger, and I missed what I think is the suggestion here that Sparrow McCoy and the younger brother were lovers.

I always avoid men named Sparrow McCoy.

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There's no connection between "weak intellect" and mania; what an odd observation from such a meticulous writer!

VISTO 2/25/20

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Wow. A convoluted and clunky mess.

el firsto.

A relief to find an audiobook story actually read by a human being and not a robot. Far too many these days are AI generated voices and really irritating.

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