There was no other boarder[VALL] The third episode of every month in Season 8 finds us revisiting familiar ground: episodes under the "Mr. Sherlock Holmes the Theorist" category, as we revis

We traveled by the Underground [REDH] We're kicking off a new monthly series for Season 8: travel. Highly appropriate, as we travel to New York for the . In this case, our travel is loca

Ihave myself found it a very soothing atmosphere[GREE] It's easy to think of Sherlock Holmes as an automaton Watson himself called Holmes that exact word, remarking There is something p

Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have been![BERY] Well, this is it. The final entry of Season 7 and of 2023. And it marks our 365th episode. We reach the final episode in a quartet of

a charming coquettish intimacy[3GAB] The final installment in this season's Masters Class is another Christopher Morley essay, "Watson la Mode," from Vol. 1 No. 1 of The Baker Street Jour

the compliments of the season[BLUE] Here it is, 12 days before Christmas the perfect time to celebrate with you. So we're doing it in style. Listener Jim Zych was kind enough to share h

washed their hands of the matter[GREE] We like to think that the practice of hand washing is a universal occurrence. After a couple of years of a pandemic, it was certainly ingrained into th

bear in mind[MUSG] Image credit: Can you think of the instances when bears are mentioned in the Sherlock Holmes stories? We'll give you a minute. No? There are four specific mentio

By Jove, Watson; Ive got it![CHAS] Last month, we contemplated the significance of the exclamation "By George!" So this month, we give ourselves over the gods as we explore "By Jove!" Wha

This terrible secret[FIVE] Dr. Watson was a master of inconsistencies. Or perhaps sloppiness. Or, according to Christopher Morley, intentional obfuscation. With a little chronological detect