Episode 417 – Christmas with Sherlock Holmes

“the compliments of the season” [BLUE] 

There is only one Sherlock Holmes story that takes place at Christmas: "The Blue Carbuncle," which took place on "the second morning after Christmas." 

In his Gas-Lamp for the 1959 Baker Street Journal Christmas Annual, editor Edgar W. Smith, BSI ("The Hound of the Baskervilles") entertained the idea of what was happening at Baker Street on Christmas Day. And that seemed like a Trifle.

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Performers: Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber Orchestra 

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Episode 416 – Sherlock Holmes Was No Burglar

“I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal” [CHAS] 

In some cases, Sherlock Holmes was a bit of a vigilante in his pursuit of justice. He didn't mind breaking the law in a good cause. That led to him burgling various households. 

Or did it? S. Tupper Bigelow, BSI ("The Five Orange Pips") was a lawyer by trade and disabuses us of the notion that Sherlock Holmes was a burglar. Some of it is a mere technicality, but it's all a Trifle.

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Performers: Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber Orchestra 

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Episode 415 – Battlestations!

“You look like a general who is planning a battle” [HOUN] 

The Battle of Marengo, by Louis-François Lejeune (public domain - Wikimedia Commons)

One simple sentence in "The Abbey Grange" served as the spark to the fuse of this Trifles episode. In one sentence, Sherlock Holmes referenced two of Napoleon's battles — each with a different outcome.

But it made us curious: what other famous battles were mentioned, either outright or by implication, throughout the Canon? We chose to discuss six of them. It's just a Trifle.

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Links / Notes

• Battle of Maiwand
• Battle of Malplaquet
• Battle of Agincourt
• Siege of Khartoum
• Battle of Marengo
• Battle of Waterloo
• Chicken Marengo recipe
• Other episodes mentioned:
• Episode 385 - The Long Road From Maiwand
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Episode 414 – The December Cases

“He disappeared upon the 3d of December” [SIGN] 

"The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" is inextricably linked with the month of December. But what about the other cases Sherlock Holmes handled in the final month of the year?

Our research picked up only one other, and it isn't obvious by a careful reading of the Canon. Jay Finley Christ helps us out with a clever bit of detection and chronology to identify that second story. We compare and contrast these two December babies and it's just a Trifle.

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Links / Notes

• Other episodes mentioned:
• Episode 6 - Dating the Missing Three Quarter
• Episode 49 - Sherlock Holmes & Rugby
• Episode 52 - The Second Morning After Christmas
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