Sherlock Holmes: Trifles: September 2021

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Episode 248 – Plotting Lovers

“it was her plot as much as mine” [ABBE]

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From the realm of conjecture: what if the star-crossed lovers in "The Adventure of Abbey Grange" and "The Problem of Thor Bridge" weren't simply victims of circumstance? What if the damsels in distress weren't being unfairly persecuted?

That is, what if they plotted the demise of the hated member of their love triangle and were able to fool Sherlock Holmes? It's just a Trifle.

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Sherlock Holmes: Trifles · Plotting Lovers

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Inspired by Bob Byrnes' work in Baker Street Essays, Vol 1 No. 1 and Vol II No. 1.
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Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Episode 247 — Sherlock Holmes, Book Collector

Scott Monty 2:21 PM 0

“Maybe you collect yourself, sir” [EMPT]

Sherlock Holmes shared his reading interests on occasion, and they tended to be wide and varied. Some of them were for professional development purposes, yet others seem to exist to expand his thinking.

Was Sherlock Holmes a book collector? And if he was, what kind of care did he take for his volumes? It's just a Trifle.

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Sherlock Holmes: Trifles · Sherlock Holmes, Book Collector

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Sherlock Holmes: Rare Book Collector by Madeline Stern
“Ex Libris Sherlock Holmes” by Howard Collins in Profile by Gaslight
“The Empty Bookshelf: or, the Missing Three Quartos: Reasonable Editions at a Comfortable Price” by Robert D. Madison, The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 71, No. 2 (2021)
Previous episode mentioned: Episode 62: Reference Sources
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Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Episode 246 — Beetles

Scott Monty 2:21 PM 0

“pinned like a beetle on a card” [BLAC]

It's the third week of the month, and that means it's the exotic animal episode. Last month we covered worms, and we mentioned the slow-worm, which Mr. Sherman said kept the beetles down.

A listener called in with a comment on that episode, and it led to this one, where we look at this detestable insect, its place in Victorian England, and how it spread. It's just a Trifle.

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Sherlock Holmes: Trifles · Beetles

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Inspired by Donald Jewell's Butterflies and Blind Beetles: Vol. 4 of the Sherlock Holmes Natural History Series
German cockroach (Wikipedia)
Croton bug (Epehemeral New York)
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Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Episode 245 – How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?

Scott Monty 2:21 PM 0

“passionate, whole-hearted, tropical, ill-balanced” [THOR]

Maria Gibson (nee Pinto) was a troubled woman. What could have driven her to her final acts? Is she a victim? A villain? A sympathetic character?

If anything she was less two-dimensional than she is typically assumed to be. Could her demise have indeed been a murder rather than a suicide? It's just a Trifle.

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Sherlock Holmes: Trifles · How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?

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Inspired by Bob Byrnes' Baker Street Essays, Vol. II, Issue 1
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Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Episode 244 – Watson's Medical Career

Scott Monty 8:50 AM 0

“a general practitioner with very limited experience and mediocre qualifications” [DYIN]

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We know Watson had a serious medical career before he met Holmes. But what do his qualifications mean? And aside from the brandy, how did his training come in handy?

Helen Simpson's "The Medical Career of John H. Watson" in H.W. Bell's Baker Street Studies provides some insight into what Watson was telling us and what he wasn't. It's just a Trifle.

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