Episode 200 – The Setting of Agra

 “Yes, this is the great Agra” [SIGN] 

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It's where Jonathan Small met Mahomet Singh, Dost Akbar and Abdullah Khan and together they made a pact known as the Sign of the Four. The Fort of Agra, in the city of the same name.

Small described it as a queer and enormous place, with deserted halls and winding passages. In other words, the perfect setting for a treasure hunt and murder. We explore the ins and outs of the great fort. It's just a Trifle.

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Sherlock Holmes: Trifles · The Setting of Agra

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• This episode: ihose.co/trifles200
• Agra Fort (Cultural India)
• Agra Fort (Wikipedia)
• Agra Fort (Lonely Planet)
• Battle of Agra (Wikipedia)
• Agra Fort Directory according to the Census taken on the 27th July 1857 by Asst Surgeon JP Walker, MD (Families in British India Society)
• Previous episodes in this series: 
• Episode 195 - The Setting of Dartmoor 

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Episode 199 – The Victims

 “You have been cruelly used” [SPEC] 

We're at the end of our four-part series on Women in the Canon from The Best of the Sherlock Holmes Journal, Vol. 2. This time we look at "The Victims."

That may seem a broad topic for a 20-something minute podcast. And it is. But we hit some of the highlights on which women were the most cruelly used and Conan Doyle's take on women's rights.  It's just a Trifle.

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Sherlock Holmes: Trifles · The Victims

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• This episode: ihose.co/trifles199
• The Best of the Sherlock Holmes Journal, Vol. 2
• Previous episodes in this series: 
• Episode 185 - Women of Influence
• Episode 190 - The Working Girls
• Episode 194 - Ladies of Title
  
  

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Episode 198 – Clothing in the Canon

"we did not meet to talk about the cut of my socks" [3GAR] 

When you think of attire in the Sherlock Holmes stories, the mind usually turns to the deerstalker and Inverness, and perhaps Sherlock Holmes's disguises.

But what about day to day attire, specifically of Holmes's clientele? We picked up on an article from The Sherlock Holmes Journal and ran with it.  It's just a Trifle.

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• This episode: ihose.co/trifles198
• Gaiters (Wikipedia)
• Shepherd's check
• The Best of the Sherlock Holmes Journal, Vol. 2
• Three previous episodes mention disguise: 
• Episode 96 - Trick or Treat
• Episode 105 - Beards in the Canon
• Episode 148 - Aliases and Disguises

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Episode 197 – The Dates in The Hound of the Baskervilles

 "Have you the dates of those letters?" [HOUN] 

The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of Sherlock Holmes's most famous cases. But what can we say about the date of the case? Watson never specifically mentions a date, but many chronologists fix it in October 1889.

How did they come to that conclusion? And what else do we know about Holmes and Watson that make such a date worthy of questioning? It's just a Trifle.

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• "The Date Being—?" by Andrew J. Peck and Leslie S. Klinger
• I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere Episode 144: The Chronologies of Sherlock Holmes

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