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Baker Street Elementary – Time and Tidiness Wait for No Man

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“tidy up a bit” [SECO] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPpnOP7MHv7RmEjF6zWOdx-EG8tIA-zw3WAZv6s5Sfhs4sGwLZOjOXGIH_UjgrGrgHD_hwpbGWIhgTfu9I4c8F5HLwFiiEMxyEkTzZqzNxl2pgRnkCvlmwq6UlKdlBbuHQuubIQYZNJEjsa8qaMOWwwdoSk1vBnwb8GqNU7_fUnlAzaN8XWCxNPUJTJA/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20137.1.PNG" 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/AVvXsEjPpnOP7MHv7RmEjF6zWOdx-EG8tIA-zw3WAZv6s5Sfhs4sGwLZOjOXGIH_UjgrGrgHD_hwpbGWIhgTfu9I4c8F5HLwFiiEMxyEkTzZqzNxl2pgRnkCvlmwq6UlKdlBbuHQuubIQYZNJEjsa8qaMOWwwdoSk1vBnwb8GqNU7_fUnlAzaN8XWCxNPUJTJA/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20137.1.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We might think that Dr. Watson, as a doctor, appreciated cleanliness and tidiness. But we have him at his own word in the opening of "The Musgrave Ritual" that his field experience in Afghanistan superseded his medical sensibilities:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affected a certain quiet primness of dress, he was none the less in his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction. Not that I am in the least conventional in that respect myself. The rough-and-tumble work in Afghanistan, coming on the top of a natural Bohemianism of disposition, has made me rather more lax than befits a medical man. But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs."</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Sherlock Holmes had his methods, even in his questionable personal habits. And nowhere was this more evident than in <a href="https://youtu.be/6qxnXJuslXM" target="_blank">this scene from <i>The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes</i></a>, when Holmes takes Mrs. Hudson to task for tidying up:</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6qxnXJuslXM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Who would have thought that it was at Baker Street Elementary that she got her start?</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwMamk_k6r-giaj173K8XCFWYTBhCZDrU4GFM7pkq7EbPAB-m536oDqBoumuEEdiSZ0RXeyJtc9iFTtdyqqaqVn5djPIvDxyDzcQgeIIpXVA5P0RF-eoWYUXxhYqckLJIxVuBfXjuEGXBQDFdAG42MhacmeZULbWUJyVyvI_Z_TM4o6V8pQgtLE_GJYA/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20137.2.PNG" 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/AVvXsEjwMamk_k6r-giaj173K8XCFWYTBhCZDrU4GFM7pkq7EbPAB-m536oDqBoumuEEdiSZ0RXeyJtc9iFTtdyqqaqVn5djPIvDxyDzcQgeIIpXVA5P0RF-eoWYUXxhYqckLJIxVuBfXjuEGXBQDFdAG42MhacmeZULbWUJyVyvI_Z_TM4o6V8pQgtLE_GJYA/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20137.2.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZgiLP8oK_-r3xLijnKN53G_0WaKX92P000ALXfQ2RofKqvr9L5fAUrwjf0wKKeb4KWHWJOTa7PYr8nfCEXEVGVYAU7gkoyM-MQZUCuXnzqx_fBwNXmz-yx3diKa3Lje2P4uKb2wPUAk4TKHnkbLaXrBNBdSaTD-WOItwQ4-VIrGNbRypXFHlhYRyIwg/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20137.3.PNG" 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/AVvXsEjZgiLP8oK_-r3xLijnKN53G_0WaKX92P000ALXfQ2RofKqvr9L5fAUrwjf0wKKeb4KWHWJOTa7PYr8nfCEXEVGVYAU7gkoyM-MQZUCuXnzqx_fBwNXmz-yx3diKa3Lje2P4uKb2wPUAk4TKHnkbLaXrBNBdSaTD-WOItwQ4-VIrGNbRypXFHlhYRyIwg/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20137.3.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoiPvs6I0keAlDcX9wfLGphFrqZKXAjxU464FO02X-vu2vJVt0_HJ4u87NQceeNjCr8-wUv2LyzYZlIeG_rULipo1XYS0N8oxc4JDxlC340lyeitjYsYpZVW25WDT-3jMnWOZGDZ2VcLWf_9O7zIvLGKkNTNUz4d_s3bdSMsWTDBeNLmoIiaNyOwRR2Q/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20137.4.PNG" 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/AVvXsEgoiPvs6I0keAlDcX9wfLGphFrqZKXAjxU464FO02X-vu2vJVt0_HJ4u87NQceeNjCr8-wUv2LyzYZlIeG_rULipo1XYS0N8oxc4JDxlC340lyeitjYsYpZVW25WDT-3jMnWOZGDZ2VcLWf_9O7zIvLGKkNTNUz4d_s3bdSMsWTDBeNLmoIiaNyOwRR2Q/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20137.4.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Ve4xbsmgHo9_UXD1CuOxKHkWTtzM9Gne5KL-otpbZubfwPYBF3mU7PB4A7C8dIuq46zo5xfrfKQoxm38NudIMPYTUAdUosFM_nLb2UAsHPiZNdVR4_dL_gWISLMwUuU4kuWrOQc6fY9UINVBYCp2d0u7On_lIrrvK3WNKm0eHhFJrHm5HPYX6qv5QA/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20137.5.PNG" 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/AVvXsEh3Ve4xbsmgHo9_UXD1CuOxKHkWTtzM9Gne5KL-otpbZubfwPYBF3mU7PB4A7C8dIuq46zo5xfrfKQoxm38NudIMPYTUAdUosFM_nLb2UAsHPiZNdVR4_dL_gWISLMwUuU4kuWrOQc6fY9UINVBYCp2d0u7On_lIrrvK3WNKm0eHhFJrHm5HPYX6qv5QA/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20137.5.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> 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. 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Baker Street Elementary – Time and Tidiness Wait for No Man

“tidy up a bit” [SECO] We might think that Dr. Watson, as a doctor, appreciated cleanliness and tidiness. But we have him at his own word i...

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Episode 245: Moriarty: The Devil’s Game

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“Now, then, listen to this” [SIGN]  </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/AVvXsEgj9XaHh30_xd0VO5zDXIgzviw1qg8sBqqK2ouA1vCIV_WZ4VOPpUP-QWKLCJlLvx7A3hBGwaeF2QfAcJg8_nGnMyC244ZqfRxtaR-saJWfIAKCH2YELGiXUmUwTb8muYyktR8f08cNkp_f0k8au_fohlPgmPd6jTNChvEK2M9F-8Sred4M11k-arKZSw/s800/ihearofsherlock245%20-%20image.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj9XaHh30_xd0VO5zDXIgzviw1qg8sBqqK2ouA1vCIV_WZ4VOPpUP-QWKLCJlLvx7A3hBGwaeF2QfAcJg8_nGnMyC244ZqfRxtaR-saJWfIAKCH2YELGiXUmUwTb8muYyktR8f08cNkp_f0k8au_fohlPgmPd6jTNChvEK2M9F-8Sred4M11k-arKZSw/w640-h640/ihearofsherlock245%20-%20image.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div><p>Earlier this month, Audible and Treefort Media released a ten-part podcast, <i>Moriarty: The Devil’s Game</i>, written by Charles Kindinger and starring Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Phil Lamarr, Adam Godley, and Lindsay Whisler, with a special appearance by Curtis Armstrong.</p><p>The story takes what we know from the traditional Holmes-Moriarty archrivalry and turns it on its head, getting us to familiar territory by taking a <i>very </i>different route indeed.</p><p>Charles Kindinger joined us for an interview to talk about the inner workings of this Audible Original production, what inspired him to write it, and how he managed to tread the fine line of not alienating traditional Holmes fans while presenting a new theory.</p><p>The <b>Canonical Couplet</b> quiz is available to test your wits just after the interview; if you correctly guess the story we're referring to, you'll be eligible for a drawing for some choice items from the IHOSE vaults.</p><p>Send your answer to comment @ ihearofsherlock .com by August 14, 2022 at 11:59 a.m. EST. 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Episode 245: Moriarty: The Devil’s Game

“Now, then, listen to this” [SIGN] Earlier this month, Audible and Treefort Media released a ten-part podcast, Moriarty: The Devil’s Game ...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – Not So Elementary, My Dear Watson

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“Interesting, though elementary” [HOUN] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkeaylIunaLMOjeyxqz5N8taTzBrtK9h2XHWxMV3v1xW_X_jNFUOJErCqDZHuqHUXm95zSLOJ92NhHXpUmkKSxSfh9YcuZ2JMox4_GA6bFtIfvJFKM7RVWOhthf2l9mVALl_4HZyve7N3NQI24MxlpY6x3vfW9j5GgfuPsNjJGyn2NghrjXYCQjJvx7g/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20136.1.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/AVvXsEjkeaylIunaLMOjeyxqz5N8taTzBrtK9h2XHWxMV3v1xW_X_jNFUOJErCqDZHuqHUXm95zSLOJ92NhHXpUmkKSxSfh9YcuZ2JMox4_GA6bFtIfvJFKM7RVWOhthf2l9mVALl_4HZyve7N3NQI24MxlpY6x3vfW9j5GgfuPsNjJGyn2NghrjXYCQjJvx7g/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20136.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Sherlock Holmes is iconic, well-known to nearly the entire world thanks to his easily recognizable Inverness cape, deerstalker hat, meerschaum pipe, and his pithy "Elementary, my dear Watson."</div><div><br /></div><div>Of course, you know that none of those are associated with him in the original 56 short stories and four novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.</div><div><br /></div><div>"Elementary, my dear Watson" never appears in print in Doyle's original works. We have this exchange from "The Crooked Man":</div><div></div><blockquote><div>“Excellent!” I cried.</div><div><div>“Elementary,” said he.</div></div></blockquote><div><div></div></div><div>And six other uses of "elementary." Along with scores of "my dear Watson." But nothing that links them together—at least not in the original tales.</div><div><br /></div><div></div><blockquote><div>But when we find ourselves immersed in the wonderful world of P.G. Wodehouse — specifically the Psmith stories. In the 1915 novel Psmith, Journalist, we find this passage:</div><div><div>“I fancy,” said Psmith, “that this is one of those moments when it is necessary for me to unlimber my Sherlock Holmes system.  As thus.  If the rent collector had been there, it is certain, I think, that Comrade Spaghetti, or whatever you said his name was, wouldn’t have been.  That is to say, if the rent collector had called and found no money waiting for him, surely Comrade Spaghetti would have been out in the cold night instead of under his own roof-tree.  Do you follow me, Comrade Maloney?”</div><div><br /></div><div>“That’s right,” said Billy Windsor. “Of course.”</div><div><br /></div><div>“Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary,” murmured Psmith.</div></div></blockquote><div><div></div></div><div>Amazing to think that P.G. Wodehouse coined the most enduring phrase for a character he didn't invent.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you'd like to hear more about Wodehouse and Sherlock Holmes, <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose143" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 143 of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a> features an interview with Curtis Armstrong, Elliott Milstein, and Ashley Polasek:</div><div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-frameid="5855" data-dashlane-rid="357ae363cc44bacb" data-form-type="" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="//play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/6536829/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/593aa9/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 /></div><div>Over at Baker Street Elementary, it's a race to see who gets to choose a turn of phrase for the ages...</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/AVvXsEjM7wNGUdzS9c_Db3WSsv8geVgzHpm-VU67E7mkaKt3gi9Z7VZfGG0XUqRGVJboc-f79ClZqovuCadUjgjqk012bV-ZSYYZrBlBvsu3ghLphse_wAxL7y0x0GwuJBY57OyssNkV1_hQwv9pLOoKJtIwqt4Op7azjiqv0DfqFQ1OZvids1qWqqMqrNqWdQ/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20136.2.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/AVvXsEjM7wNGUdzS9c_Db3WSsv8geVgzHpm-VU67E7mkaKt3gi9Z7VZfGG0XUqRGVJboc-f79ClZqovuCadUjgjqk012bV-ZSYYZrBlBvsu3ghLphse_wAxL7y0x0GwuJBY57OyssNkV1_hQwv9pLOoKJtIwqt4Op7azjiqv0DfqFQ1OZvids1qWqqMqrNqWdQ/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20136.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBpE3HUFPelPI5IWT-2yarAN97TooiqrGxCZsQEMRTbTeQHanOwjp0b62G7V9mARkbsm3KZxdozGiLlDvNOg6jtMpvIBsYfQbmBfRigGpivGY_gJmEm_QYJGpwPQqW8QEw7_g0ScrdIhMF1PJXDD4JVP5wQWedXTrlORJLTQm2FnSM0jbhAurXO6prMA/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20136.3.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/AVvXsEiBpE3HUFPelPI5IWT-2yarAN97TooiqrGxCZsQEMRTbTeQHanOwjp0b62G7V9mARkbsm3KZxdozGiLlDvNOg6jtMpvIBsYfQbmBfRigGpivGY_gJmEm_QYJGpwPQqW8QEw7_g0ScrdIhMF1PJXDD4JVP5wQWedXTrlORJLTQm2FnSM0jbhAurXO6prMA/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20136.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><b style="background-color: white; 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 – Not So Elementary, My Dear Watson

“Interesting, though elementary” [HOUN] Sherlock Holmes is iconic, well-known to nearly the entire world thanks to his easily recognizable ...

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Episode 244: The Finest Assorted Collection

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“Maybe you collect yourself” [EMPT]  </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/AVvXsEjGzwZ87cLH4dYPlzi2AG-KWRqcgMaXxKbJz_YIISqLLsdsyIekV54yMBCoUMd4KylT5nt1CJPjAQU2hfVBaHt1L8hINFy3B3SiotmqBzszUgRAy1dHG-0E3ZXDLi7R3kt3iYT6_ZKf_yY4Lu3y1P2zL3P2_20F5s0pmo30nqNGODdn2U0RovCKvTxoXQ/s1128/The%20Finest%20Assorted%20Collection.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="1128" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGzwZ87cLH4dYPlzi2AG-KWRqcgMaXxKbJz_YIISqLLsdsyIekV54yMBCoUMd4KylT5nt1CJPjAQU2hfVBaHt1L8hINFy3B3SiotmqBzszUgRAy1dHG-0E3ZXDLi7R3kt3iYT6_ZKf_yY4Lu3y1P2zL3P2_20F5s0pmo30nqNGODdn2U0RovCKvTxoXQ/w640-h400/The%20Finest%20Assorted%20Collection.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><p>Many Sherlockians are collectors. Most of those collect books or related written material. But collectors are an interesting breed, as widely varied as the general population.</p><p>Peter Eckrich and Rob Nunn discovered this fact as they set out to put together <i>The Finest Assorted Collection: Essays on Collecting Sherlock Holmes</i>. In essays written by 27 Sherlockians, they take us on a journey of collecting that highlights the eccentricities of the collections and collectors alike. It's a book that's all about passion, as our interview makes abundantly clear.</p><p>The <b>Canonical Couplet</b> follows the interview; try matching wits with our poetical representation of a Sherlock Holmes story. If you correctly guess the story we're referring to, you'll be eligible for a drawing for a copy of <i>The Finest Assorted Collection</i>.</p><p>Send your answer to comment @ ihearofsherlock .com by July 29, 2022 at 11:59 a.m. EST. The winner will be chosen at random from among all the correct answers. 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Episode 244: The Finest Assorted Collection

“Maybe you collect yourself” [EMPT] Many Sherlockians are collectors. Most of those collect books or related written material. But collect...

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by Scott Monty

Moriarty: The Devil's Game Now Available on Audible

<p></p><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">“the devil's pet baits”</span><span style="text-align: left;"> [BLUE] </span></h4><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpo1SUkCN3aqVaFVGadAsHsAt8itDCP2uR3sadQtOEkRZ6r6R_sahr57VXaWEFx_WRiCgYUt5OhVlSh-j1iknt9ODE3ys7qVaVhdKGOo293PvDNpiaCWSaE23h38gK5yHGUGmWym5he0Pt2TZFeqNqbKvQte3FV62Y5OhrD_ooPiik6iM6bEu2hQbCMg/s800/Moriarty%20-%20The%20Devils%20Game.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpo1SUkCN3aqVaFVGadAsHsAt8itDCP2uR3sadQtOEkRZ6r6R_sahr57VXaWEFx_WRiCgYUt5OhVlSh-j1iknt9ODE3ys7qVaVhdKGOo293PvDNpiaCWSaE23h38gK5yHGUGmWym5he0Pt2TZFeqNqbKvQte3FV62Y5OhrD_ooPiik6iM6bEu2hQbCMg/w640-h640/Moriarty%20-%20The%20Devils%20Game.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Exciting news for fans of Sherlock Holmes audio content: today, <a href="https://amzn.to/3ahb2iM" target="_blank">Audible</a> launches a limited ten-part podcast series, <i><b>Moriarty: The Devil's Game</b></i>, created and produced by Treefort Media.</div><p>In a refrain familiar to fans of Nicholas Meyer's groundbreaking <i>The Seven-Per-Cent Solution</i>, the production has us imagine Professor Moriarty as a wrongly accused innocent man.</p><p>Featuring Dominic Monaghan (<i>Lord of the Rings</i>, <i>Lost</i>) in a riveting lead performance, Moriarty turns one of literature’s most famous rivalries on its head, recasting Professor James Moriarty as a desperate fugitive framed for murder–and hunted by dark forces who will stop at nothing to exploit his brilliance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Moriarty finds the professor on the heels of an earth-shattering mathematical breakthrough–a formula so powerful, it can predict the future–and at the scene of a gruesome murder he must solve to prove his innocence. </p><p>With London’s sprawling underworld as their battleground, Moriarty and Holmes match their peerless intellects to gain the ever-shifting upper hand. But as their duel escalates, so does the deadly cost of pursuing the truth.  </p><p>Dr. Watson asks an utterly ensnared Moriarty, “What will it take to get your justice? And if do you get it… what will you become?”</p><p><br /></p><p>Vividly brought to life by a sensational cast and meticulously crafted sound design, Moriarty is a heart-pounding series filled with biting wit and shocking twists at every turn.</p><p><br /></p><p>Listen to the trailer here:</p><p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1283589478&color=%2302ae05&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe></p><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/audible" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Audible">Audible</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/audible/audible-original-mortiarty-trailer" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Audible Original Moriarty Trailer">Audible Original Moriarty Trailer</a></div><br /><p>And <a href="https://amzn.to/3uraTjh" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">get the series on Audible</a> on July 7, when all episodes will be available. It's free with <a href="https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/mlp/membership/plus?tag=scottmonty-20&linkCode=ur1" target="_blank">an Audible trial</a>.</p>
<iframe border="0" frameborder="0" height="250" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation" scrolling="no" src="//rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/cm?o=1&p=12&l=ur1&category=audibleplus&banner=0MG2XKQ7PYPP84NBNFR2&f=ifr&lc=pf4&linkID=4db0e713a0b319886b13b11bc5c37fb1&t=scottmonty-20&tracking_id=scottmonty-20" style="border: none;" width="300"></iframe><p></p><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><i><b>Moriarty: The Devil's Game</b></i></h4><div>An Audible original, created and produced by <a href="https://www.treefort.fm/" target="_blank">Treefort Media</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Creator, writer, and executive producer: <b><a href="https://www.hirecharliekindinger.com/about" target="_blank">Charles Kindinger</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Cast:</b></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Moriarty: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0597480?ref_=tt_cl_t_1" target="_blank">Dominic Monaghan</a></li><li>Moran: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0101710?ref_=tt_cl_t_2" target="_blank">Billy Boyd</a></li><li>Sherlock: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0482851/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" target="_blank">Phil LaMarr</a></li><li>Watson: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0324134?ref_=tt_cl_t_5" target="_blank">Adam Godley</a></li><li>Rose: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10889040?ref_=tt_cl_t_4" target="_blank">Lindsay Whisler</a> </li><li>Gregson: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0035664/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0" target="_blank">Curtis Armstrong</a></li><li>Lestrade: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2590280?ref_=tt_cl_t_7" target="_blank">Josh Robert Thompson</a></li><li>Mary Watson: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1242950/?ref_=tt_cl_t_11" target="_blank">Rebecca Mader</a></li></ul></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div>See also: "<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/arts/sherlock-holmes-podcast-moriarty.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqYhkT1UbBSbcR8Q86QaGiOLLx7c_w3_5KC2YUnNayOgeCpOcvkLKf6tqfccimTSHQdsLeJkeeMtP9M4NdUp8V1vv5ZKehJUOJyhy9NrqAm040pyIBOox-nq3NTO3be5yyOX6shzabzbvDaTYgSEqNx8l9cU-DSyi33ALxq3BFONniJIpjbp6WMcMFXpXbzKKvvLoFxx7JNyDCxnc4QE2UOhaMirByZ_es_lTNVUPVi-VCS938m0-69hDOd0IP66ZLxUoeMH2gL55GXVbgaB9JzgRGGgS2GsJLq2Q&smid=nytcore-ios-share" target="_blank">The Shape-Shifting Sherlock Holmes, Now Playing the Villain</a>" (<i>New York Times</i>, gift article)</div><div><br /></div><div>--</div><div><br /></div>

Moriarty: The Devil's Game Now Available on Audible

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Baker Street Elementary – Something a Little Recherché

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“Ah, naughty, naughty,” [SIGN] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-DfnAxQ8vPCxQ38dtW6oZb4d07tlPsOwwdtpmT0LGkipxGqoWkIdK5PVHfbDQrlBddgbPeKpePZv6AdxffJjGSU6X-ZibsmX46l5exgwEwBPm6oH3x3x6D0jF0BXpykNUrfbOx9i_5pfXxqLfXDj6sQFgW7Vz8T83M-wvGgC1xzRHrNjv0h70Z7m9lQ/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20135.1.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/AVvXsEh-DfnAxQ8vPCxQ38dtW6oZb4d07tlPsOwwdtpmT0LGkipxGqoWkIdK5PVHfbDQrlBddgbPeKpePZv6AdxffJjGSU6X-ZibsmX46l5exgwEwBPm6oH3x3x6D0jF0BXpykNUrfbOx9i_5pfXxqLfXDj6sQFgW7Vz8T83M-wvGgC1xzRHrNjv0h70Z7m9lQ/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20135.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>When we get children together of a certain age, there's a certain kind of humor that inevitably makes its way to the fore.</div><div><br /></div><div>At the utterance of a double entendre or a scatological reference, furtive glances lead to smirks that lead to outbursts of laughter.</div><div><br /></div><div>Did Holmes and Watson experience such instances as schoolboys? Almost certainly. And what about in the Canon itself?</div><div><br /></div><div>Well, the great Sherlockian John Bennett Shaw <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2016/08/john-bennett-shaw-and-terrible.html#.YsHR8HZKjb0" target="_blank">delivered a paper</a> at a dinner in 1971 along those lines. It was so racy that the editor of <i>The Baker Street Journal</i> (who was also the head of the BSI, and was still incensed from the talk at the dinner) refused to publish it.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>It was called “a most amusing talk…showing evidence of much research and truly specialized knowledge, but, unfortunately, unpublishable.” At least by the BSJ. But it did appear later that year <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2016/08/john-bennett-shaw-and-terrible.html#.YsHR8HZKjb0" target="_blank">in Bruce Kennedy's <i>Shades of Sherlock</i></a>.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile, we'll see what the boys are snickering about at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><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/AVvXsEjL4awPkFs9clhhebS050mXYlr90RRjQWEGu_06FD1P_xmJB23IhKYxnwGZWUl1D0Xv5__y9ju2_ceR2Qos4__WoZ80q57s2A8eVwnkLvzRXvl5GMNhC_xh7JQaDTUEgRej_3_kOw0OnsWb6Aiw_i5hQXLfypko5Arlw9C2eekSWTWOAFcRc8N4_VBE1g/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20135.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL4awPkFs9clhhebS050mXYlr90RRjQWEGu_06FD1P_xmJB23IhKYxnwGZWUl1D0Xv5__y9ju2_ceR2Qos4__WoZ80q57s2A8eVwnkLvzRXvl5GMNhC_xh7JQaDTUEgRej_3_kOw0OnsWb6Aiw_i5hQXLfypko5Arlw9C2eekSWTWOAFcRc8N4_VBE1g/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20135.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">*Holmes and Watson were in fact familiar with the term, meaning personal ablutions: in 3STU, Holmes "came into my room just as I finished my toilet"; in WIST, Holmes observed John Scott Eccles' "toilet and attire"; and in DYIN, Holmes "refreshed himself with a glass of claret and a biscuit between intervals of his toilet."</span></i></td><td class="tr-caption"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption"></td><td class="tr-caption"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkhseC9grAAxXqsda49JmD17EMFgFWqNeAmG5XFywXrSyPJ0xVndNqm96d-kVE7eCm5H28WvLVdc2s7ggGdgHeGOUCBinwBywknjcbkuonMDvEmYan3rE32I0msaZ_n6HSJej-lLtNGNj4XhDeQxBnnhblXvunPHsVG00T-gkpiDbhwWW-ibAQHUDBlA/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20135.3.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/AVvXsEjkhseC9grAAxXqsda49JmD17EMFgFWqNeAmG5XFywXrSyPJ0xVndNqm96d-kVE7eCm5H28WvLVdc2s7ggGdgHeGOUCBinwBywknjcbkuonMDvEmYan3rE32I0msaZ_n6HSJej-lLtNGNj4XhDeQxBnnhblXvunPHsVG00T-gkpiDbhwWW-ibAQHUDBlA/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20135.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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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 – Something a Little Recherché

“Ah, naughty, naughty,” [SIGN] When we get children together of a certain age, there's a certain kind of humor that inevitably makes it...

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by Scott Monty

Episode 243: On the Trail of Sherlock Holmes

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“I may be on the trail in this matter” [BERY]  </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/AVvXsEjahi5LP32vXQkGvBdcKNq7V8AaXRDFWyaudMPp6cfLpXAbcAOV6yZUgNFVAl0jbpejnCRxHUFvkSrk97m03O7_1ChTMM079B4ZuosT6Ec3-h0oJC6KqfcGob3N1enh1AdyrJH3oVwK7CrISvGneoZxjAcJiYp3orNkLpDDrwspVebdvAWmVTIu3R8fyw/s1713/On%20the%20Trail%20-%20header.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1713" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjahi5LP32vXQkGvBdcKNq7V8AaXRDFWyaudMPp6cfLpXAbcAOV6yZUgNFVAl0jbpejnCRxHUFvkSrk97m03O7_1ChTMM079B4ZuosT6Ec3-h0oJC6KqfcGob3N1enh1AdyrJH3oVwK7CrISvGneoZxjAcJiYp3orNkLpDDrwspVebdvAWmVTIu3R8fyw/w640-h388/On%20the%20Trail%20-%20header.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div><p>There are a number of <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2006/05/is-hobby-of-mine-to-have-exact_24.html#.Yr41uXZKjb0" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes tours</a> one can take in and around London. But for the true fan, tracking Holmes's steps by foot is incomparable.</p><p>Stephen Browning has written On the Trail of Sherlock Holmes to take us on seven separate walks around London and an eighth outside the city. But the book goes far beyond simply being a set of maps and tours.</p><p>Listen to hear about Steve's approach to organizing the book, telling stories about Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes, and squeezing every last drop out of the storytelling potential that such a volume affords him.</p><p>After the interview, try your hand at the <b>Canonical Couplet</b>: see if you can guess the story we're referring to, and you'll have a chance to win a copy of Steve's book!</p><p>Send your answer to comment @ ihearofsherlock .com by July 14, 2022 at 11:59 a.m. EST. The winner will be chosen at random from among all the correct answers. 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Episode 243: On the Trail of Sherlock Holmes

“I may be on the trail in this matter” [BERY] There are a number of Sherlock Holmes tours one can take in and around London. But for the ...

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by Scott Monty

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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