Episode 470 – The Chronology of the Apocrypha

“that is the biggest mystification of all” [CREE] 

You thought we were done with the Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes? Silly you. As Inspector Baynes said, “I thought I had squeezed all the juice out of it, but I see there was a little over.” [WIST]

Now we turn to a fascinating study: dating the Apocrypha. Or at least part of it. An entry by Brett Graham Fawcett in Timelines, the newsletter of the Chronologist Guild, looks at how we might assign dates to some of the stories. And it's just a Trifle. 

 

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• Episodes of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere mentioned in this episode:
• Episode 144: The Chronologies of Sherlock Holmes
• Episode 309: Holmes in an Hour or Two
• Episode 320: It is NOT Always 1895
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Episode 469 – The Man Who Was Wanted

“evidence was wanted” [GOLD] 

The final installment in our series on the Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes brings us to "The Case of the Man Who was Wanted." Its discovery and provenance seems to have been both wanted and not wanted by the Conan Doyle brothers, who discovered it thanks to a biographer of their father in the 1940s.

How it came into their possession and the story behind what was once assumed to be the 61st Sherlock Holmes story — and its eventual debunking — is anything but a Trifle. 

 

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• The Case of the Man Who Was Wanted
• Classics of Sherlockiana: The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes (I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere)
• The Public Life of Sherlock Holmes: The "Lost" Sherlock Holmes Story (Black Gate)
• Nova 57 Minor: The Waxing and Waning of the 61st Adventure of Sherlock Holmes (Abebooks)
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Episode 468 – Sherlock Holmes and Edwin Drood

“Oh! a mystery is it?” [STUD] 

When Charles Dickens died in 1870, The Mystery of Edwin Drood was only six chapters into its 12-chapter run. There were no sketches or outlines of what would come next, so for a century and a half, scholars have puzzled over the solution.

In 1968, Colin Prestige, BSI ("Captain Jack Croker") made a bold claim: that Sherlock Holmes could have handily solved the case, in "Sherlock Holmes and Edwin Drood," which appeared in Vol. 18, No. 3 of The Baker Street Journal. It's this month's "Mr. Sherlock Holmes the theorist" episode and it's just a Trifle. 

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Episode 467 – Calling Cards

“He sent in his card with a message” [CROO] 

In our own digital age, business cards are nearly artifacts of the past. And calling cards? They're so outdated we had to create this episode.

Numerous individuals in the Sherlock Holmes stories present their cards to Sherlock Holmes and Holmes presents his card to a few people as well. What's the history behind calling cards and visiting cards and how did they play into the stories? It's just a Trifle. 

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• Calling Cards and Visiting Cards: A Brief History (Hoban Cards)
• Calling Cards & Paying Calls: Social Etiquette in Georgian England (Paullett Golden)
• The Gentleman's Guide to the Calling Card (Art of Manliness)
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Episode 466 - Who Wrote the American Chapters of A Study in Scarlet?

“Nine to seven.” “Seven to five.” [STUD] 

For anyone who has first experienced Sherlock Holmes through A Study in Scarlet, Chapter VIII is a shock to the system, placing us squarely in the Great Akalai Plain with John and Lucy Ferrier, and narrated by... who?

Ben Vizoskie had that same question in the 2000 BSJ article "Who Wrote the American Chapters of A Study in Scarlet?" which was awarded the Morley-Montgomery Award that year. Many scholars have pondered this over the years, but Ben seems to have cracked the code. And it's no Trifle. 

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