Episode 461 – The Tall Man (The Apocrypha Part 7)

“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 stories; this is simply a story outline.

How it surfaced is just as interesting as the outline itself, perhaps more. The reader/listener will be left to decide if this could have made a full-blown story. Ultimately, it's just a Trifle. 

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Links

• The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes (The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library)
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Episode 460 – 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 meet Sir Henry Baskerville at Paddington Station.

One small thing, though: there's another station that will get you our west. And if you're another character, you might fancy that. Why? It's just a Trifle. 

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Links

• The original question (Facebook)
• The Strangers Room Facebook Group
• The Hound of the Baskervilles: Hunting the Dartmoor Legend by Philip Weller (Amazon)
• Previous episodes mentioned:
• Episode 441 - About the Moor
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Episode 459 – 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 Macavity in the Napoleon of crime.

In this "Mr. Sherlock Holmes the Theorist" episode, Don Hardenbrook, BSI ("Huret, the Boulevard Assassin") found a deeper meaning in Four Quartets, a collection of four interlinked poems by Eliot. One that echoes of The Hound of the Baskervilles. And it's just a Trifle. 

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Links

• Four Quartets (Wikipedia)
• The Baker Street Journal
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Episode 458 – The Moor as a Character

“a huge expanse” [HOUN] 

Credit: Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 

There are four main characters in The Hound of the Baskervilles: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, the hound, and the moor. [Record scratch SFX]

Yes, the moor. Inspired by a clip from an old IHOSE episode, we explore why this ever-present setting looms large in the story, both when it's explicitly mentioned and when it's not. It's just a Trifle. 

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Links

• I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere Episode 68: Sherlock Holmes on Radio, Part 1
• Edgon Heath (Holst) (Wikipedia)
• Previous episodes mentioned:
• Episode 393 - The Geography of The Hound of the Baskervilles
• Episode 441 - About the Moor
• Episode 444 - John H. Watson—Word Painter
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Episode 457 – On the Chaldean Influences in Cornish

“traced in the Cornish branch of the great Celtic speech” [DEVI] 

The Morley-Montgomery Award series rolls on, and this time we've jumped from 1979 (the last award granted, covered in Episode 453) to 1995. Dr. Margaret Nydell turns her philological attention to the Canon.

She specifically looks at Sherlock Holmes's intentions in researching the Cornish language, with its roots in Chaldean. Her article is both scholarly and delightfully funny. And it's just a Trifle. 

If you have a question for us, please email us at trifles@ihearofsherlock.com. If you use your inquiry on the show, we'll send you a thank you gift.

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Download | 27.7 MB 28:33

Links

• The Morley-Montgomery Award
• The Morley-Montgomery Award series of episodes (Patreon | Substack)
• Previous episode mentioned:
• Episode 439 - The Archeological Holmes
• All of our social links: https://linktr.ee/ihearofsherlock
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Performers: Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber Orchestra
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