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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

2:21 PM 0

“here’s a hunting crop handy” [IDEN]  


In the last episode, we reflected on Sherlock Holmes chasing James Windibank out of Baker Street. While he did so, he referenced his handy hunting crop. 

Hunting crops, do (ahem) crop up in the Canon from time to time. Who used them and why? What are they used for when not being brandished as weapons? It's just a Trifle.

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Wednesday, January 24, 2024

2:21 PM 0

“You’ll be interested to hear that I am engaged.” [CHAS]  


The name of this show was inspired in part by William Hyder, BSI ("A Most Valuable Institution"), who includes a half sheet of a trifling matter in the dinner packet of the Baker Street Irregulars each year. And as has become our tradition, each January, we use his Trifle. 

Our attention turns to Hosmer Angel / James Windibank from "A Case of Identity," who led on Miss Mary Sutherland with whiskers, tinted glasses, a whispery voice, and a typewriter, before abandoning her. Holmes had no patience for a man who'd treat a woman this way. Until...  And that's just a Trifle. 

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

2:21 PM 0

“There was no other boarder” [VALL]  


The third episode of every month in Season 8 finds us revisiting familiar ground: episodes under the "Mr. Sherlock Holmes the Theorist" category, as we revisit old Sherlockian scholarship.

This episode brings us to an overlooked chapter of a familiar book. It's James Keddie's "The Other Boarder" from Vincent Starrett's 221B: Studies in Sherlock Holmes, in which he brings in a surprising discovery from "Behind the Times." And it's just a Trifle. 

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Wednesday, January 10, 2024

2:21 AM 0

“We traveled by the Underground” [REDH]  



We're kicking off a new monthly series for Season 8: travel. Highly appropriate, as we travel to New York for the Baker Street Irregulars Weekend.

In this case, our travel is local within London. That is, the Underground. For as much as we associate Sherlock Holmes and London, his travel on the Underground was a bit limited. The late John Baesch, BSI helps us explore it. And it's just a Trifle. 

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Wednesday, January 3, 2024

2:21 PM 0

“I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere” [GREE]  


It's easy to think of Sherlock Holmes as an automaton — Watson himself called Holmes that exact word, remarking “There is something positively inhuman in you at times.”

And yet, if we consider the detective's demeanor with clients and the types of activities he found solace in, we find a softer side of Holmes. It's just a Trifle. 

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Wednesday, December 27, 2023

2:21 AM 0

“Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have been!” [BERY]  



Well, this is it. The final entry of Season 7 and of 2023. And it marks our 365th episode. 

We reach the final episode in a quartet of episodes that took us as many months to complete, honoring Alfred Hitchcock as an inspiration. And we look back at the origins of the show, what some of the running themes have been, and where we'll take it in Season 8. It's just a Trifle.

Thank you to our loyal listeners, who are enthusiastic and encouraging. There's lots ahead, particularly for our Patreon community. Stay tuned!

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

2:21 PM 0

“a charming coquettish intimacy” [3GAB]  


The final installment in this season's Masters Class is another Christopher Morley essay, "Watson à la Mode," from Vol. 1 No. 1 of The Baker Street Journal (1946).

We discuss Morley's keen analysis of Watson's eye for fashion and an extraordinary conclusion about his marriages. It's just a Trifle.

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Wednesday, December 13, 2023

9:58 PM 0

“the compliments of the season” [BLUE]  



Here it is, 12 days before Christmas — the perfect time to celebrate with you. So we're doing it in style.

Listener Jim Zych was kind enough to share his trifling monograph "The 12 Sherlockian Days of Christmas," so we thought we might adapt it for you. So take a numerical journey through the Canon with us. It's just a Trifle.

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Wednesday, December 6, 2023

2:21 PM 0

“washed their hands of the matter” [GREE] 



We like to think that the practice of hand washing is a universal occurrence. After a couple of years of a pandemic, it was certainly ingrained into the public's awareness (we hope).

But when it comes to life in the Sherlock Holmes stories, where do we find instances of manual hygiene? And when were some individuals positively slovenly? It's just a Trifle.

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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

2:21 PM 0

“bear in mind” [MUSG] 

Image credit: Russell Stutler

Can you think of the instances when bears are mentioned in the Sherlock Holmes stories? We'll give you a minute.

No? There are four specific mentions, but blink and you'll miss them. We cover them in this episode, along with exploring just why there are no bears in the United Kingdom. It's just a Trifle.

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Wednesday, November 22, 2023

2:21 PM 0

“By Jove, Watson; I’ve got it!” [CHAS] 


Last month, we contemplated the significance of the exclamation "By George!" So this month, we give ourselves over the gods as we explore "By Jove!"

What's the significance of a Jovian exclamation, what's the connection to being jovial, and who is described as such in the Sherlock Holmes stories? It's just a Trifle.

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Wednesday, November 15, 2023

2:21 PM 0

“This terrible secret” [FIVE] 


Dr. Watson was a master of inconsistencies. Or perhaps sloppiness. Or, according to Christopher Morley, intentional obfuscation. With a little chronological detective work, he may have figured it out.

Just what was Watson's secret, and why was he keeping it? He did it so well that not only did he keep it from his readers, but from Sherlock Holmes himself. It's the lastest Masters Class and it's just a Trifle.

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023

2:21 PM 0

“Now, then, give him the pencil.” [GREE] 



Writing implements are a part of daily life. They are today and they were when Watson was writing the stories.

And from the very first story, Watson picks up a pencil to jot some notes. Where else do we find pencils, and how do they play into the importance of some of the Sherlock Holmes stories? It's just a Trifle.

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Wednesday, November 1, 2023

2:21 PM 0

“I could only stammer out my thanks” [NORW] 


The first episode of the month this season is dedicated to monthly observations, and in this case we're observing National Gratitude Month. We have much to be thankful for in the world of Sherlock Holmes.

So too did many of the characters in the Canon. Where and how was gratitude expressed? Clients, entire governments, even Sherlock Holmes himself — all expressed thanks. Thankfully, it's just a Trifle.

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Wednesday, October 25, 2023

2:21 PM 0

“bag of tigers” [EMPT] 


We continue to clean up and cover a few more animals that we missed in previous seasons. The tiger was another foreign curiosity for Victorians, being native to Asia – from the Russian Far East through parts of North Korea, China, India, and Southeast Asia to Sumatra (yes, that Sumatra).

While tigers in the Sherlock Holmes stories are few and far between, they're certainly mentioned. As nicknames, behaviors, pastimes, and decorations, to be specific. But where exactly? It's just a Trifle.

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023

2:21 PM 0

“I’m a free-born American” [STUD] 



It's the final quarter of our Masters Class series, and this is the first of three essays we're going to bring you from the pen of Christopher Morley. Morely is important not only because he founded the Baker Street Irregulars, but because of his stature as a writer and person of his time.

His essay "Was Sherlock Holmes an American?" first appeared in 1934 but it has enjoyed a life far beyond its original appearance. And it sets the tone for how interested and invested Sherlockians can make something of a Trifle.

 
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