Sherlock Holmes: Trifles
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Fateful Voyages
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 (