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Review: A Man Named Baskerville

<h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"...swear
that they have seen such a creature upon the moor" [HOUN]</span></h4><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoY_2zLl6uYPM1RDD2Cq7bNuzML_hBVh1O6_CdgOqufo20SFytiRzVpQKi519Ewg7d3BBFKFCpHxYxw6UJJhqj_BPt3AVscByeMaWO0qFQAuxTaeZtfGFveF6M_GHRbDPjVyIDJyzaTxE3KSbLV9sBY7dlWAHIIu5tak5DTDv6ExSDuRv5KTNZFd8QPg/s1072/A%20Man%20Named%20Baskerville%20header.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="1072" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoY_2zLl6uYPM1RDD2Cq7bNuzML_hBVh1O6_CdgOqufo20SFytiRzVpQKi519Ewg7d3BBFKFCpHxYxw6UJJhqj_BPt3AVscByeMaWO0qFQAuxTaeZtfGFveF6M_GHRbDPjVyIDJyzaTxE3KSbLV9sBY7dlWAHIIu5tak5DTDv6ExSDuRv5KTNZFd8QPg/w640-h454/A%20Man%20Named%20Baskerville%20header.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></h4><br />In full disclosure, <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i> remains one of my favorite stories. This is due to Watson's role, the story itself being counter to the literary agent's interest in the supernatural, and the timing of the release of the original story. After mourning Holmes's demise, this would have seemed a great gift. <br /><br />Jim Nelson's <a href="#"><i>A Man Named Baskerville</i></a> seeks to turn the narrative of the Hound on its ear by a clear assertion that Stapleton's father and by extension, he, are the real victims. For simplicity, the man named Baskerville, will be referred to as "Stapleton" in this review. <br /><br />Telling two detailed stories in parallel is a challenging undertaking, juggling the flow of multiple story lines. Long sections of expository narrative were used in Part II of <i>A Study in Scarlet</i> or the journey back in time and location to which we are invited in Part 2 of <i>The Valley of Fear</i>. Instead, this book flips back and forth between the events after the story that we know, and "Stapleton's" dark origin story. <br /><br />One of the threads is memoirs that evolve from short-hand journal entries to a more formal memoir as Stapleton and the current story pick up steam. In the other thread, we follow Stapleton through several aliases and situations as he travels from South America to Central America to the north of England where is the headmaster of a school in Yorkshire. <br /><br />We track the events in his progress during his quest to exact revenge and obtain his true inheritance. The body count and swindled victims grew, as the original targets of revenge are joined by those who had grown suspicious or inconvenient. <br /><br />Not surprisingly, Stapleton told a story that put Sir Charles in a bad light. Rather than the published version of the Baskerville's story, Sir Charles' treatment of his young brother in this version is unfathomable. Then Stapleton dragged Sir Henry, Holmes and Watson into that same unflattering light. <br /><br />We most often see Holmes through the eyes of Watson, rarely though his own eyes ("The Blanched Soldier" and "The Lion's Mane") or, most rare, through a third person ("His Last Bow"). <br /><br />Sometimes we hear reports of how Holmes is viewed through a villain's eye, usually underestimating him or spouting erroneous assumptions such as Dr. Roylott's calling Holmes "the Scotland Yard jack-in-office" ("The Speckled Band"). <br /><br />But it is difficult to imagine a Victorian man dancing around a corpse. While this is offered as an unfiltered view, perhaps this is a clue to some of the distorted alternate versions of events offered by Stapleton. <br /><br />Not unlike the original telling, both stories hinge on the fact that Stapleton could have progressed in his schemes by impressing the members of the British elite with his accent and social engineering skills. This telling also hangs on the belief that the people around the moor knew everything, and that Holmes had either been fooled by them or was too incompetent to uncover the truth. <br /><br />It was a tad disappointing that there was so little attention to Laura Lyons. Given that there was more to their story together, the book does not expand on what we knew from the original canon. <br /><br />Threads of Stapleton's misogyny are woven through the "love and punishment" training approach that he uses for both animals and people. Sir Henry bargained for Beryl's hand as one would purchase livestock. <br /><br />In the Afterward, the author makes clear that "abusive violence on dogs is unacceptable." Presumably it is left to the reader to determine if abusive violence, swindling, and murder of humans are also unacceptable. <br /><br />While this tale is intended to be Stapleton's counter to what Watson's published version of the events would be, it rather exposes a horror within that cannot be saved by the loyalty of a good friend, the love of a woman or the faithfulness of a dog.<br /><br /><br /><i>Note: a complimentary copy was provided for review. </i><br /><br /><br /><a href="#"><i>A Man Named Baskerville</i></a> by Jim Nelson (218 pages, independently published)<div><br /><script type="text/javascript">
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Review: A Man Named Baskerville

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Baker Street Elementary – How Fun

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“some fun over this case” [STUD] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLvME56vadI-PNntGH1pQ94-wn2yVVXbMhUsw4_jNP96uHLZ-tbwhrO3tIHMAjB7SQoNZslK0LQVA3D-wfv7TSJ9mntaRkFrFYHhb0PWRgRwqAvaEX2cm4p9qvcLEu1HcSmRfLkUxIHqtMZAKLBPI021pQHlpVW2_EOaz5G09RliHhTnl1Rfh-i__FnA/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20134.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLvME56vadI-PNntGH1pQ94-wn2yVVXbMhUsw4_jNP96uHLZ-tbwhrO3tIHMAjB7SQoNZslK0LQVA3D-wfv7TSJ9mntaRkFrFYHhb0PWRgRwqAvaEX2cm4p9qvcLEu1HcSmRfLkUxIHqtMZAKLBPI021pQHlpVW2_EOaz5G09RliHhTnl1Rfh-i__FnA/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20134.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div></div><div>We know Sherlock Holmes enjoyed his profession. After all, he created it for himself.</div><div><br /></div><div>He told us so in The Sign of Four:</div><div><blockquote><div>“I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession,—or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.”</div></blockquote></div><div>But what did Holmes do when he wasn't exercising his brain, which he said rebelled at stagnation and needed to be “connected up with the work for which it was built”?</div><div><br /></div><div>That is, what did Sherlock Holmes do for <i>fun</i>?</div><div><br /></div><div>He enjoyed music, for one. At the conclusion of The Hound of the Baskervilles, he and Watson headed off to the opera: </div><div><blockquote><div>“And now, my dear Watson, we have had some weeks of severe work, and for one evening, I think, we may turn our thoughts into more pleasant channels. I have a box for ‘Les Huguenots.’ Have you heard the De Reszkes?”</div></blockquote></div><div>Of course, music helped Holmes process his thinking as well. We saw it in "The Red-Headed League," as he spent an afternoon “in the stalls, in the most perfect happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the music.”</div><div><br /></div><div>He had claimed: </div><div><blockquote><div>“I observe that there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is introspective, and I want to introspect.</div></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>But aside from music, we also know that he unwound and geeked out in other ways, such as trying to decipher the remains of a palimpsest [GOLD] and the study of the Chaldean roots of the Cornish branch of the Celtic language [DEVI].</div><div><br /></div><div>To each his own, we suppose.</div><div><br /></div><div>And that's just what's going on at recess at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7qS4mpXD7w0T3LapxgYoA1PelEIknUkSA4CJp6RLLR1EZEcFH_Qb2yLB5EU4KaLCCYJmt9JlL7eYzYxm827dCBmbXFLPF4u6e3s-5ougXMNzjHD1r-PlDbI1hRGyc5USw8Vc9ifMnj2uddVOu8MU-cJxMuvrAKWm811C9TqE2wX5AdBqBuvSi_WZa_g/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20134.2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7qS4mpXD7w0T3LapxgYoA1PelEIknUkSA4CJp6RLLR1EZEcFH_Qb2yLB5EU4KaLCCYJmt9JlL7eYzYxm827dCBmbXFLPF4u6e3s-5ougXMNzjHD1r-PlDbI1hRGyc5USw8Vc9ifMnj2uddVOu8MU-cJxMuvrAKWm811C9TqE2wX5AdBqBuvSi_WZa_g/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20134.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"> follows the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in Victorian London. An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at </span><a href="http://www.bakerstreetelementary.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #006f85; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;">.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F-VumJdilF0/WJa_9TrpA3I/AAAAAAAAuO8/52U-hZ7WY4Qz2Oqo84lF8KQnF0zynZ5YQCPcB/s1600/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary.jpg" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F-VumJdilF0/WJa_9TrpA3I/AAAAAAAAuO8/52U-hZ7WY4Qz2Oqo84lF8KQnF0zynZ5YQCPcB/s640/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><br />--</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

Baker Street Elementary – How Fun

“some fun over this case” [STUD] We know Sherlock Holmes enjoyed his profession. After all, he created it for himself. He told us so in The...

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Episode 242: Foundational Fandoms

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“the very foundations of revealed religion” [GOLD]  </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8j4mzViMAWnI4FoxNcq758LTeVLJSD1uLCKZvSpuh5Uk8qLIJg7l_zjDeT9cxA1Yvq_LfPdkze2R1N03zdHgcHJvUD0X7BfEEiRSTOESOI8JQf3fdTauABJeIGH0V0XOydT6HNcyeOjPXvhdbBW_fF6DnRgFto0C0rg6oyQw7mtdB-QUgfQ34Za_BWg/s1280/ihose242%20header.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8j4mzViMAWnI4FoxNcq758LTeVLJSD1uLCKZvSpuh5Uk8qLIJg7l_zjDeT9cxA1Yvq_LfPdkze2R1N03zdHgcHJvUD0X7BfEEiRSTOESOI8JQf3fdTauABJeIGH0V0XOydT6HNcyeOjPXvhdbBW_fF6DnRgFto0C0rg6oyQw7mtdB-QUgfQ34Za_BWg/w640-h480/ihose242%20header.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image credit: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baker_Street_%2825388850151%29.jpg" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a> - <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en" target="_blank">CC BY-SA 2.0</a></span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div><p>Thanks to two decades of digital expansion, you can now find fandoms pretty much everywhere across the internet. 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Episode 242: Foundational Fandoms

“the very foundations of revealed religion” [GOLD] Image credit: Wikimedia Commons - CC BY-SA 2.0 Thanks to two decades of digital expa...

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by Scott Monty

Happy 130th Birthday, Basil Rathbone

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"Basil ... was working somewhere under one of the numerous disguises" [BLAC] </h4><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-siBvWTPfuqQ/WT8NRMf1n8I/AAAAAAAAxGI/PjBsI86kY1EFso3N5XDWcZLF7pKXEkY6ACLcBGAs/s1600/Basil%2BRathbone%2B-%2Bdesk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="714" data-original-width="952" height="480" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-siBvWTPfuqQ/WT8NRMf1n8I/AAAAAAAAxGI/PjBsI86kY1EFso3N5XDWcZLF7pKXEkY6ACLcBGAs/s640/Basil%2BRathbone%2B-%2Bdesk.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>On June 13, 1892, Philip St. John Basil Rathbone was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He entered the world at a time when Sherlock Holmes was making a name for himself in the <i>Strand Magazine</i>, specifically in "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches." Little did he or his parents realize that he would go on to become one of the most famous portrayers of Sherlock Holmes on the screen.<br /><br />He attended <a href="http://www.repton.org.uk/" target="_blank">Repton</a> from 1906 to 1910, and by the time he left school, he was convinced he wanted to make a life for himself in the theatre. After spending some time in local theatrical productions, he entered war service in 1916, where he continued to hone his acting skills, albeit as more of a stationary object. According to <a href="http://www.basilrathbone.net/biography/" target="_blank">BasilRathbone.net</a>, Rathbone told Edward R. Murrow in a 1957 interview:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: white;"> "I went to my commanding officer and I said that I thought we'd get a great deal more information from the enemy if we didn't fool around in the dark so much . . . and I asked him whether I could go out in daylight. I think he thought we were a little crazy. . . .  I said we'd go out camouflaged -- made up as trees -- with branches sticking out of our heads and arms . . . . We brought back an awful lot of information, and a few prisoners, too."</span></blockquote><br />Rathbone eventually moved from England to the United States, settling in New York in 1923 and then moving on to Hollywood in 1935. His <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001651/?ref_=tt_cl_t4" target="_blank">Hollywood years</a> brought him fame in <i>Captain Blood</i> and <i>The Adventures of Robin Hood</i>, where he became known as an able swordsman and a fine villain. And it was in 1938 when he joined forces with Nigel Bruce for a collaboration that lasted from 1939 to 1946 as the most <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/search/label/Basil%20Rathbone#.WT8SS2grLb0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">enduring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson</a> to grace the screen.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iGS6zxd_CJ8/WT8SBb88nMI/AAAAAAAAxGQ/817ACWuVGugkidfCKAWyO8ENdNImxwnvQCLcBGAs/s1600/gamesafoot%2BRathbone.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="409" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iGS6zxd_CJ8/WT8SBb88nMI/AAAAAAAAxGQ/817ACWuVGugkidfCKAWyO8ENdNImxwnvQCLcBGAs/s1600/gamesafoot%2BRathbone.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">Basil Rathbone by <a href="http://tomrichmond.com/" target="_blank">Tom Richmond</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />It is that collaboration that we covered in <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose122" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 122 of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a>. </div><div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-frameid="4076" data-dashlane-rid="82e4d620bc15189f" data-form-type="" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="//play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5450502/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/000000/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br />Rathbone left the role of Sherlock Holmes in 1946, fearful of typecasting (he was correct, of course, but too late). His wife Ouida wrote a stage play, "Sherlock Holmes," in 1953, but it closed after poor reviews and only three performances. He made a handful of middle-rate movies in the 1960s, toured in the one-man play "An Evening with Basil Rathbone," and wrote his biography <i><a href="https://amzn.to/39iClsh" target="_blank">In and Out of Character</a></i>, which was published in 1962.<br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Rathbone" target="_blank">Basil Rathbone</a> died on July 21, 1967 at the age of 75. He is interred in <a href="http://www.basilrathbone.net/potpourri/ferncliff.htm" target="_blank">Ferncliff Cemetary</a> in Hartsdale, NY.<br /><br />While Holmes purists may find something to quibble about in the later 12 films of the 14-film series that Rathbone and Bruce made, it's clear that they continue to be accessible and popular. Every generation has its own Sherlock Holmes. But since the 1940s, it seems that every generation has been exposed to Rathbone's Holmes.<br /><br />We're pleased to reflect on that fact today, 130 years after Rathbone was born.<br /><br />--</div>

Happy 130th Birthday, Basil Rathbone

"Basil ... was working somewhere under one of the numerous disguises" [BLAC] On June 13, 1892, Philip St. John Basil Rathbone was...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary Celebrates 400th Strip

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“my own small achievements” [HOUN] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpbRsJcVdzAEOT9ETxF9Cs9kpSrwoTSb6aipQRSbWa6b3v9daoqXxVQa0Z_chPsiz4RzUh6HOeZFFS-x7YRPwcz5SQUBum4iNLooUFXDmfPsLsvJ0Z17WlGB87wJAP2nh2dXDrjTLAvdJtH4neyC9No_--PAPz5HTqrWigb7wqa2MsocDa_O7lg-aptw/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20133.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpbRsJcVdzAEOT9ETxF9Cs9kpSrwoTSb6aipQRSbWa6b3v9daoqXxVQa0Z_chPsiz4RzUh6HOeZFFS-x7YRPwcz5SQUBum4iNLooUFXDmfPsLsvJ0Z17WlGB87wJAP2nh2dXDrjTLAvdJtH4neyC9No_--PAPz5HTqrWigb7wqa2MsocDa_O7lg-aptw/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20133.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Five years ago, we welcomed the contributions of Joe Fay, Rusty Mason, and Steve Mason, BSI ("The Fortescue Scholarship") under the banner of "Baker Street Elementary," a Sherlockian comic strip in the style of Charles Schultz's "Peanuts." We've been featuring one of their strips every other Sunday since then.</div><div><br /></div><div>Over the years, we've become familiar with the younger versions of Holmes, Watson, and Stamford, as well as occasional appearances by Ignatius (Conan Doyle), Irene (Adler), William (Gillette), and others, including a couple of podcast hosts, and their antics at the school known as Baker Street Elementary</div><div><br /></div><div>They now mark their 400th strip from this delightful series that is housed in full on the website of <a href="http://www.dfw-sherlock.org/baker-street-elementary.html" target="_blank">The Crew of the Barque Lone Star</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Many comic strip writers churn out daily strips — undoubtedly a slog and a full-time job. But even to do this on a weekly basis shows dedication and creativity, and we're glad that these Sherlockians have both in addition to their knowledge of the Sherlock Holmes stories.</div><div><br /></div><div>We thank them for their wonderful contributions to not only our site, but to the world of Sherlock Holmes. 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Baker Street Elementary Celebrates 400th Strip

“my own small achievements” [HOUN] Five years ago, we welcomed the contributions of Joe Fay, Rusty Mason, and Steve Mason, BSI ("The F...

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Episode 241: Baker Street Inquiries

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“How did you word your inquiries?” [STUD]  </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Osp2R7RdS0FDa7QFqALd1p9N6nK05odPN3mL-b4nkDpM18BxiyVwdG-fSlsIRVkktjyVssm0RLKvtyigSj_BzDM5irbOyNoOb1oy5B4Q7AK55LGnePw7kI4z7Uji0LGOeSqOikKGPhycGb2cHibkNbV7-ZzSloU0AY7w04aDku5tznrPc9UaITbjIQ/s1600/Baker%20Street%20Inquiry%20header.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Osp2R7RdS0FDa7QFqALd1p9N6nK05odPN3mL-b4nkDpM18BxiyVwdG-fSlsIRVkktjyVssm0RLKvtyigSj_BzDM5irbOyNoOb1oy5B4Q7AK55LGnePw7kI4z7Uji0LGOeSqOikKGPhycGb2cHibkNbV7-ZzSloU0AY7w04aDku5tznrPc9UaITbjIQ/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Inquiry%20header.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div><p>Sherlock Holmes has lived a rich life beyond the 60 stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A much fuller life, in fact.</p><p>When Michelle Birkby chose to write about the world of Sherlock Holmes, she took a different approach: what if, she wondered, we were to experience Victorian London through the eyes of two very capable women — two women deeply connected with Holmes and Watson.</p><p>And that is how the Baker Street Inquiry series began: through the eyes of Mrs. Hudson and Mrs. Watson. Enter a cavalcade of favorite (and in many cases, lesser-known) characters in <i>All Roads Lead to Whitechapel</i>, followed by <i>No One Notices the Boys </i>(Felony & Mayhem Press). Together, we have a new and different look at Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and Victorian women.</p><p>Where will it head next in the series? Well, </p><p>The <b>Canonical Couplet</b> gives you a chance to test your creativity and knowledge with ours. 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Episode 241: Baker Street Inquiries

“How did you word your inquiries?” [STUD] Sherlock Holmes has lived a rich life beyond the 60 stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A...

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Baker Street Elementary – They Say It's Your Birthday

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“a man of good birth and excellent education” [FINA] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9o7bFa12AF9mAt22A34LICpenV7x8Xyop3bwejMmWiz1Jys1nRIYA8vSsFAXl4BoauDVzlXeTO9cNhzjtlFtjixfltjEBiG7Jq95kCCCcqjy4UiNVyvfb2td8qSGyxOrbrIchBYJApHDQbFnMj_0Ex07hvfaKIiI8zz2EsWZErr1w80xO9QFR04aukQ/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20132.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9o7bFa12AF9mAt22A34LICpenV7x8Xyop3bwejMmWiz1Jys1nRIYA8vSsFAXl4BoauDVzlXeTO9cNhzjtlFtjixfltjEBiG7Jq95kCCCcqjy4UiNVyvfb2td8qSGyxOrbrIchBYJApHDQbFnMj_0Ex07hvfaKIiI8zz2EsWZErr1w80xO9QFR04aukQ/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20132.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Today marks what would have been the 163rd birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.</div><div><br /></div><div>And it's a wonderful time to enjoy the creations of Conan Doyle — not just Sherlock Holmes, but beyond. A number of energetic and enterprising individuals have developed outlets for Conan Doyle enthusiasts to express and share their interests.</div><div><br /></div><div>A smattering of current offerings includes:</div><div><br /></div><div>The <a href="http://acdfriends.org/" target="_blank">Friends of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection</a> at the Toronto Public Library, preparing to celebrate its 50th anniversary <a href="http://acdsociety.com/" target="_blank">at a big event in September.</a></div><div><a href="http://acdsociety.com/" target="_blank"><br /></a></div><div>Then there's the newly-formed <a href="http://acdsociety.com/" target="_blank">ACD Society</a>, with its newsletter, awards and projects, including "The Terror of Blue John Gap" annotated edition, among other things. The site, created and updated by Ross Davies, is a great jumping-off point for all things about Conan Doyle and contains a definitive list of ACD-centric links and sites.</div><div><br /></div><div>One of the great rabbit holes to explore is the <a href="https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Main_Page" target="_blank">Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia</a>, with over 7,000 pages of wonderful history, descriptions, illustrations, and even full texts of some short stories.</div><div><br /></div><div>There's even a podcast dedicated to Conan Doyle: <i><a href="https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/" target="_blank">Doings of Doyle</a></i>, hosted by Mark Jones and Paul M. Chapman.</div><div><br /></div><div>Speaking of podcasts, we've assembled a number of IHOSE episodes in which we've had <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock/sets/arthur-conan-doyle-1?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing" target="_blank">Conan Doyle-centric conversations</a>:</div><div><br /><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/playlists/1442068894&color=%2302ae05&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere">I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock/sets/arthur-conan-doyle-1" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Arthur Conan Doyle">Arthur Conan Doyle</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile, it's time to celebrate at Baker Street Elementary.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCzuvmzHQH3E21tacp0F079Yj9EQt37qQuIpE-2PXODfMCipg1xOXk-FQ_3y5MLLUk01VDstdmE1cdOHwkGk9IcVQBs8MDZcz6kWv5SYQXmwEhO7v4J-r6evhr2boOeQyReis1U-Vtz5e5uIPHnNqxpCVr1eUBcqzlkJf6WgjDCpiVfGHMQvcuaTRseg/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20132.2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCzuvmzHQH3E21tacp0F079Yj9EQt37qQuIpE-2PXODfMCipg1xOXk-FQ_3y5MLLUk01VDstdmE1cdOHwkGk9IcVQBs8MDZcz6kWv5SYQXmwEhO7v4J-r6evhr2boOeQyReis1U-Vtz5e5uIPHnNqxpCVr1eUBcqzlkJf6WgjDCpiVfGHMQvcuaTRseg/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20132.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Month After Month His Papers Accumulated: A Don Redmond Centenary

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"The index books, and others perhaps less excusable" [CREE] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimZH4doDP8mq5nUaKy5xShwcaVAqYK-_ezCOYeng3MSQPsWY0O1BGYfMweoewRz1YqmBsg5uaaDtw7aHtRPF8ehHzvp4Hz2YxZ3c4si6PucOVUUZIh94AeExqWewio7HnGyJteSX_WicgU0gw9q1WvAwrEtXK6tynnrf0VMLPQZWiBHU2XEFrMAxJCzg/s1678/Redmond%20-%20composite.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1118" data-original-width="1678" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimZH4doDP8mq5nUaKy5xShwcaVAqYK-_ezCOYeng3MSQPsWY0O1BGYfMweoewRz1YqmBsg5uaaDtw7aHtRPF8ehHzvp4Hz2YxZ3c4si6PucOVUUZIh94AeExqWewio7HnGyJteSX_WicgU0gw9q1WvAwrEtXK6tynnrf0VMLPQZWiBHU2XEFrMAxJCzg/w640-h426/Redmond%20-%20composite.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Today, May 19, would have been the 100th birthday of my father, Donald A. Redmond, one of the more prolific Sherlockians of his generation. He is best known in many quarters for his two scholarly books — <i><a href="https://affiliates.abebooks.com/c/2670720/77416/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fkn%3DSherlock%2520Holmes%252C%2520a%2520Study%2520in%2520Sources%26sts%3Dt%26cm_sp%3DSearchF-_-topnav-_-Results%26ds%3D20" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes, a Study in Sources</a></i> and <i><a href="https://affiliates.abebooks.com/c/2670720/77416/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fkn%3DSherlock%2520Holmes%2520Among%2520the%2520Pirates%26sts%3Dt%26cm_sp%3DSearchF-_-topnav-_-Results" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes Among the Pirates</a></i> — but he wrote much more as well, including articles in Canadian, British and American journals and newsletters over four decades.<div>   <br />I have been working lately to compile a bibliography of his writings, and then assemble an anthology to make some of the gems available to today's Sherlockians. I know I haven't found everything he wrote (and I never will), but there are at least 250 discrete items, from technical research to Sherlockian "grand game" speculation and some fragments of flippant verse: <br /><br /></div><div><blockquote>I suspect of Sherlockians very few<br /> Excepting John Clay (perhaps Merridew)<br />   Can tell at a glance<br />   At the knees of their pants<br /> A tired old limerick from a clerihew. </blockquote><br /><br /></div><div>That one was typewritten on a recycled catalogue card, and never published — just as his essay "The Case of the Builders Bodies", identifying some sources for the plot of "The Norwood Builder", apparently never saw print. Some day maybe it will, along with a sheaf of others. <br /><br /></div><div>Shortly after my father's death in 2014, I wrote <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/11/remembering-donald-redmond-bsi-2s.html#.YnfWFS0ZOxA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a summary of his life and Sherlockian career</a> for I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere<br /><br />A chemistry graduate of Mount Allison University, he went on to study library science at McGill University and the University of Illinois, and worked in library administration in Nova Scotia, Ceylon, Turkey and Kansas (where we both caught the Sherlockian bug) before becoming chief librarian of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 1966-77. Railways, Meccano, and church administration and history were among his enthusiasms in addition to Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle.</div><div>  <br />He was admitted to the Baker Street Irregulars in 1969, with the title "Good Old Index" in recognition of his work as an indexer. A Two-Shilling Award from the BSI followed. </div><div><br /></div><div>His first major Sherlockian index, covering <i>The Baker Street Journal</i> from 1946 to 1969, appeared in 1970, and he continued to index the <i>BSJ</i>, with cumulations, until 2012. Other indexes followed, knocked out on a series of manual and then electric typewriters — he never had the slightest desire to touch a computer. </div><div><br /></div><div>And then there was <a href="https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/books-video-music/specialized-collections/literature-genre-doyle.jsp" target="_blank">the Bigelow Index at the Toronto Reference Library</a>, an attempt to index the universe of Sherlockian literature, launched in the 1960s by S. Tupper Bigelow and carried on by my father as a volunteer.</div><div>  <br />The volume of words he knocked out on those typewriters was immense: those indexes and books, cards for the Bigelow Index, articles, verses, quizzes, and even one or two parodies, not to mention correspondence. </div><div><br /></div><div>To take just one example, in the late 1990s he was conducting what amounted to a monthly column for the <i>Baker Street Dispatch</i>, a newsletter out of Ohio. One of those columns took its title from a phrase in "The Musgrave Ritual": "Month After Month His Papers Accumulated." In it, my father described a little of his methods of indexing:</div><div>  <br /></div><blockquote><div>"The Sherlockian periodicals flow steadily into the mailbox, and when the in-tray is full, seldom before, I set to with index cards, thesaurus of Sherlockian subjects, and typewriter, to bring some semblance of order out of the Sherlockian Chaos. When the tray has been reduced so that the inward flow will not submerge my desk, I transfer the cards to the Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library (some 160 miles away) and the Sherlockiana itself (themselves?) to the file tray. There it further mellows until it too threatens to overflow, and I reluctantly set about to dispose of it somehow.</div><div>   <br />"Nominally the disposal is to a filing cabinet, alphabetized almost as arcanely as Jabez Wilson's volume of the <i>Britannica</i>, from Abbots to Architecture and on to the Van Herder Airguns (compare with the V entries in Holmes's own index) and the <i>Whitechapel Gazette</i> and the Wigmore Street Post Office.  <br /><br />"But the filing cabinet is full. It is always full. It always has been full."</div></blockquote><div></div><div>   <br />So are the bookshelves, he added, especially when he had handfuls of newsletters converted into bound volumes. </div><div></div><blockquote><div>"I am not a successor to John Bennett Shaw; I know that what gathers is not a complete collection of Sherlockiana, and I have no interest in its being such. I could not afford to make it complete; the prices attached by dealers to items lacking in this collection could readily be attached to choice items for sale out of Windsor Castle.</div><div><br /></div><div>"But I think there is an eventual value to this collecting. How few are now and will in future be the collections which reflect, not the outstanding gems of the annals of Sherlock Holmes, but the ceaseless activity, energy and enthusiasm of the almost countless Sherlockian devotees, and societies of devotees, who are actively keeping green the Master's memory. <br /><br /></div><div>"There is too a real danger that the wheel will be endlessly re-invented, unless the endless bits of scholarship, the grains of knowledge carried by countless Sherlockian ants, are in some way collected and stored. There will always be a need for collections of papers, and for indexes to them."</div></blockquote><div></div><div>  <br />I have the filing cabinet now, though the Toronto library has its contents and will someday have all these manuscripts I have been wrangling. The bound volumes, most with "Redmond" at the base of the spine, are on my shelves and elsewhere around the Sherlockian world. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd4AzcqolzUVNiho089qnxtTMVsMjf49YD5TGawAsfTFGosr35Aty-SiLrk1BNlhhJRycQXPRo8A97nZV5zYKfd1GxGsZuaRpGoE_5jajdQe_0ctRkPPaf3vwt87JeBHHzlZ5BDnK31obxIWb6_abOp0qgAzY1_PSzjjyJSn0E6BizSLsNEZe9LU86cw/s1598/redmond-2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1598" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd4AzcqolzUVNiho089qnxtTMVsMjf49YD5TGawAsfTFGosr35Aty-SiLrk1BNlhhJRycQXPRo8A97nZV5zYKfd1GxGsZuaRpGoE_5jajdQe_0ctRkPPaf3vwt87JeBHHzlZ5BDnK31obxIWb6_abOp0qgAzY1_PSzjjyJSn0E6BizSLsNEZe9LU86cw/w400-h640/redmond-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Don Redmond, October 1982</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>And on this centenary of his birth, I know that many Sherlockians join me in remembering Don Redmond.</div><div><br /></div><div>--</div><div><br /></div><br />