Sherlock Holmes: Trifles Podcast
1) Sherlock Holmes and Edwin Drood
"Oh! a mystery is it?" [STUD] When Charles Dickens died in 1870, The Mystery of Edwin Drood was only six chapters into its 12-chapter run. There were no sketches or outlines of what would come n...Show More
2) Calling Cards
"He sent in his card with a message" [CROO] In our own digital age, business cards are nearly artifacts of the past. And calling cards? They're so outdated we had to create this episode. Numer...Show More
3) Who Wrote the American Chapters of A Study in Scarlet?
"Nine to seven." "Seven to five." [STUD] For anyone who has first experienced Sherlock Holmes through A Study in Scarlet, Chapter VIII is a shock to the system, placing us squarely in the Great ...Show More
4) Angels of Darkness
"upon the track of the avenging angels" [STUD] The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes series continues with a three-act play that wasn't published until over a century after it was written by Arthur C...Show More
5) A Most Valuable Institution
"all the main ones in the press reports" [THOR] Sherlock Holmes new how to use newspapers to his advantage. Time and again, we see him scanning the agony column and making clippings. He told...Show More
6) Lucky Thirteen
"thirteen in number" [HOUN] Ask the average citizen about the number thirteen, and it is likely to inspire terror, or at least some slight trepidation. Right up there with black cats and overtu...Show More
7) The Sherlock Holmes We Never Knew
"and actor and a rare one" [SIGN] The monthly feature of Morley-Montgomery Award-winning articles continues apace, when we share these top-notch pieces of Sherlockian scholarship from the pages ...Show More
8) The Tall Man
"I have never seen so tall a man" [SIGN] Our series on the Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes continues on, with a slightly different entry this time. Previous examples have been fully developed stor...Show More
9) Paddington vs. Waterloo
“proceed to Waterloo” [HOUN] For those looking to travel from London west to Dartmoor (particularly those interested in stopping at Coombe Tracey), you might do well to do as Dr. Watson did and ...Show More
10) T.S. Eliot and the Great Grimpen Mire
“so subtly influenced by it” [STUD] It is well known that T.S. Eliot lifted lines from "The Musgrave Ritual" and appropriated them for Murder in the Cathedral, as well as found inspiration for ...Show More