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The Story of the Lost Special
Season 9 Episode 448
“engage a special” [FINA]
This marks the fourth episode in our series of The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes — stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that are technically not part of the original Canon…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Playing Tricks with the Law of England
Season 9 Episode 447
“play tricks with me and I’ll crush you” [ABBE]
Was Sherlock Holmes too lenient with how he handled some of the criminals he defeated? There are a number whom he caught and set free, flouting t…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Untangling the Skein
Season 9 Episode 446
“another thread which I have extricated out of the tangled skein” [HOUN]
It has long been accepted that the original title of A Study in Scarlet was meant to be A Tangled Skein. While there is …
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
£100
Season 9 Episode 445
“put £100 down in front of him” [BLUE]
Humans are suckers for round numbers. And 100 seems like a perfectly reasonable one to settle on. It's the first three-digit number (in Arabic numbers, th…
Published on 3 months ago
John H. Watson―Word-Painter
Season 9 Episode 444
“I had painted” [TWIS]
The Morley-Montgomery Award-winning article we're discussing this month is by H.C. Potter from Vol. 26, No. 2 of The Baker Street Journal.
In it, Potter looks at Watson's p…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
How Watson Learned the Trick
Season 9 Episode 443
“why should anyone play me such a trick?” [CARD]
After a brief hiatus, we're back to the third in our series of The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes — stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that are tec…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
A Second Case of Identity: The Second Mrs. Watson
Season 9 Episode 442
“Is Mrs. Watson in?” [FINA]
We all know Watson had more than one wife; the number has been debated over the years. But it's his second wife that seems to be the most intriguing. In this "Mr. …Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
About the Moor
Season 9 Episode 441
“traces of the ancient people” [HOUN]
When Watson noted a "difficult and dangerous quest" on "the forbidden moor" in The Hound of the Baskervilles. The moor played an outsized role in that stor…
Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago
On the Hound
Season 9 Episode 440
“What, in heaven’s name, was it?” [HOUN]
One of the most famous Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles, tells a terrifying story of a dog that most certainly did something in th…
Published on 4 months ago
The Archaelogical Holmes
Season 9 Episode 439
“I am a bit of an archaeologist myself” [3GAR]
We find ourselves digging into a reference in "The Devil's Foot" in this episode, with the help of a pair of Sherlockian scholars.
Poul and Karen And…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago