Sherlock Holmes: Trifles

Sherlock Holmes: Trifles


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Fateful Voyages
September 11, 2024

his attitude and manner told their own story [SCAN] The tragedies on September 11 ensured that it is a date that will forever be stamped in the history books. What to do when it coincides with

The Perfect Act of Telling a Story
September 04, 2024

his attitude and manner told their own story [SCAN] Last month, we lost prolific Sherlockian David Stuart Davies. But prolific doesn't quite cover it. He was insightful and delightful, he amused

The Great 400
August 28, 2024

he had actually won as much as four hundred [EMPT] It's hard to believe, but we've managed to notch our 400th episode of Trifles. And we can't think of a better way to celebrate than by highlig

Who Killed Charles Augustus Milverton?
August 21, 2024

private revenge [CHAS] In "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton," Watson tells us that a woman with a "dark, handsome, clear-cut face" lifted her veil and "emptied barrel after barrel in

The Journeys of Sherlock Holmes
August 14, 2024

journeys end in lovers meetings, as the old play says [EMPT] When it came to London, Sherlock Holmes preferred to stay put. That's what Paul Gore-Booth would have us believe. When he assesse

Clumsiness
August 07, 2024

I did it clumsily [DANC] Sherlock Holmes was a man of great precision. We learn about his attention to detail and his preferences for improving the art of detection from the very first time we

Anxiety Part 2
July 31, 2024

I am much more anxious [MISS] Four episodes ago, we began a discussion about anxiety in the Sherlock Holmes stories. We managed to make from A Study in Scarlet up through The Hound of the Baske

Victorian Aventuresses
July 24, 2024

she seems indeed to be on a very different level [SCAN] There is one woman in the entire Canon of Sherlock Holmes stories that we can instantly recall as an adventuress. You know who we're talk

Silver Blaze: An Identification
July 17, 2024

concealed it at Mapleton [SILV] This month's Mr. Sherlock Holmes the Theorist episode goes back to 1949 to Volume 4, Number 1 of The Baker Street Journal and Jay Finley Christ's article "Silver

The Geography of the Hound of the Baskervilles
July 10, 2024

Iflatter myselfthat I could find my way about. [HOUN] Dartmoor and its surroundings provided the perfect setting for The Hound of the Baskervilles. Not only did the area have a sense of history (