Sherlock Holmes: Trifles: October 2022

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Episode 304 – Candles

“numerous candles did something” [HOUN]

We equate gas lamps with Sherlock Holmes — even electric lights. But we don't often think about the number of candles in the stories.

More than the number: the role played by many candles. While they may seem like simple wax objects that provide illumination, in Sherlock Holmes's case, they often provided a very different kind of illumination. It's just a Trifle.

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Candles of the Canon (and off to bed) (Sherlock Peoria)
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Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Episode 303 – The Colonel of the Matter

Scott Monty 2:21 PM 0

“the line of his pedigree” [EMPT]

Colonel Sebastian Moran was called "the second most dangerous man in London" and was a formidable adversary of Sherlock Holmes. And yet, we know remarkably little about him, aside from a brief biographical entry in Holmes's index.

Nicholas Utechin takes us on a journey from India to Eton and from Crimea to Oxford that gets at "The Colonel of the Matter" in this Master Class episode. It's just a Trifle.

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Beyond Baker Street (Abebooks)
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Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Episode 302 – It Happened at Midnight

Scott Monty 2:21 PM 0

“to reconstruct this midnight drama” [MUSG]

A quick look through the Sherlock Holmes stories finds a good number of incidents taking place around midnight.

Why is this the case? Who could we expect to find out and about at such an hour? It's unlikely that they would have been respectable people. But it is just a Trifle.

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The Anti-Society: An Account of the Victorian Underworld by Kellow Chesney
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Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Episode 301 – Clients in Jeopardy

Scott Monty 2:21 AM 0

“the victim of an unfortunate accident” [FIVE]

For our "Mr. Sherlock Holmes the theorist" episode, we take a step back into 1947 to "Clients in Jeopardy" by Henry C. Clark, appearing in The Second Cab.

There were at least four instances in which Sherlock Holmes knew his clients were in danger, yet he sent them on their way. In which stories do we find these people, and are there others? It's just a Trifle.

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