I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere

Baker Street Elementary – Mind Over Matter

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"what does it matter to me" [STUD] </h4><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t7CyQKlUmqg/X4xbKSMaAhI/AAAAAAABPn8/ifv77zkcIhYXeTeB3iEWhe_MMFvDDXkgQCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B91.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t7CyQKlUmqg/X4xbKSMaAhI/AAAAAAABPn8/ifv77zkcIhYXeTeB3iEWhe_MMFvDDXkgQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B91.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">What is Matter?—Never mind.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">What is Mind?—No matter.</span></i></div></div><div><br /></div>Sherlock Holmes only pursued those passions and interests that fueled his profession. He didn't have time for superfluous facts and figures, as we see in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>, when he professed his ignorance of the Earth revolving around the Sun:<br /></div><div><blockquote><div>“Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it.”</div></blockquote></div><div>There's another figure in the Canon, who, in the pursuit of his hobby, is notable for the opposite reason. Namely, he doesn't care.</div><div><br /></div><div>We're of course referring to the crotchety Mr. Frankland from <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>—or "Frank the crank," as we like to call him. You'll recall that Frankland is known for his litigiousness: </div><div><blockquote><div>"His passion is for the British law, and he has spent a large fortune in litigation. He fights for the mere pleasure of fighting and is equally ready to take up either side of a question, so that it is no wonder that he has found it a costly amusement."</div></blockquote></div><div>He was so involved in this "costly amusement" that he allowed his daughter, the divorced Laura Lyons, a "pittance." Watson relayed the following conversation with him.</div><div><div></div><blockquote><div>“Look it up in the books, sir. It will repay reading—Frankland v. Morland, Court of Queen’s Bench. It cost me 200 pounds, but I got my verdict.” </div><div>“Did it do you any good?”  </div><div>“None, sir, none. I am proud to say that I had no interest in the matter.”</div></blockquote><div></div></div><div>From Sherlock Holmes leaving aside topics because they're not central to his focus to Mr. Frankland, who took them up simply to make a point. In each case, the ignoring or accepting of superfluous facts helped the individual reach his goal.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>At Baker Street Elementary today, Stamford has an idea of how to quickly find relief...<br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f2O5v65bY5k/X4xbGnFkbjI/AAAAAAABPn0/RoseQVNtT-kA4t4_xms2ZUpqlq9Z5RuHgCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B91.2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f2O5v65bY5k/X4xbGnFkbjI/AAAAAAABPn0/RoseQVNtT-kA4t4_xms2ZUpqlq9Z5RuHgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B91.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a3aDgp43AqI/X4xbGvbElZI/AAAAAAABPnw/Y1mq76w37Y0k9W2A_qFpVnXfU4DpiXBUACLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B91.3.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a3aDgp43AqI/X4xbGvbElZI/AAAAAAABPnw/Y1mq76w37Y0k9W2A_qFpVnXfU4DpiXBUACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B91.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j7Pgjt3WLEw/X4xbGu7UqBI/AAAAAAABPns/IwmQlJmjQ9UaltbqwQ5aL4j-O9wHAer3gCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B91.4.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j7Pgjt3WLEw/X4xbGu7UqBI/AAAAAAABPns/IwmQlJmjQ9UaltbqwQ5aL4j-O9wHAer3gCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B91.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UwNU-oqovAw/X4xbG0FdrPI/AAAAAAABPn4/okYdHJQPJnYcaqk7OXfusaN1HOwqEsomACLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B91.5.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UwNU-oqovAw/X4xbG0FdrPI/AAAAAAABPn4/okYdHJQPJnYcaqk7OXfusaN1HOwqEsomACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B91.5.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><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><br /><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>

Baker Street Elementary – Mind Over Matter

"what does it matter to me" [STUD] What is Matter?—Never mind. What is Mind?—No matter. Sherlock Holmes only pursued those passio...

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by Scott Monty

Remembering Susan Rice, ASH, BSI, 2s.

<p></p><h4 style="text-align: center;"> "she had indeed been a very remarkable woman." [VEIL] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VZS6tScEilo/X4jfLUfdNPI/AAAAAAABPfk/JVJ2X8H_55crJw2cBQ4bXxXktQOiC8bMQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_4540.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VZS6tScEilo/X4jfLUfdNPI/AAAAAAABPfk/JVJ2X8H_55crJw2cBQ4bXxXktQOiC8bMQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_4540.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>With every passing year, the world of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts loses some of our own. While it's to be expected as part of the circle of life, it's heart wrenching each time we have to stand "on the terrace" for our dearly departed friends.</p><p>And no more so than in the case of Susan Rice, ASH, BSI, 2s. ("Beeswing"). Susan received her investiture in the <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/">Baker Street Irregulars</a> in 1991 and the Two Shilling Award in 2002. Her investiture in the <a href="https://ash-nyc.com/" target="_blank">Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes</a> was "A Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, with Some Observations Upon the Segregation of the Queen," granted in 1981.</p><p>We've known Susan for almost as long as we've been involved in Sherlockian circles, first having met her at an Autumn in Baker Street in the mid-1990s. And despite being the resident wordsmith around these parts, we were struck dumb upon her death on September 28. </p><p>Even if we did find our voice to properly honor her memory at this time, it simply wouldn't be enough. You see, Susan's impact on the world of Sherlock Holmes deserved more than a single voice remembering her. She touched many lives and touched them deeply—so deeply that we thought it appropriate to have her honored by a number of voices, and particularly voices of those who were closest to her.</p><p>Susan ran ASH Wednesday gatherings until recently. She took over the annual William Gillette Luncheon from Lisa McGaw and ran it for decades before passing it along as well. Obviously, there are decades more that preceded these recent organizations, but Susan was an able administrator who ran things with a schoolteacher's stringency and a loving hand.</p><p>John Bennett Shaw, BSI ("The Hans Sloane of My Age") has been called the Johnny Appleseed of the Sherlockian movement, planting his influence all over the country as he met people, corresponded with them, and brought them together for his conferences.</p><p>Susan Rice might be best remembered as the Lady Liberty of the Sherlockian movement, welcoming everyone, regardless of how they came to Holmes, what their interests are, or any other aspect of their lives. Susan made her home in New York City, lifting her lamp beside a golden door to Sherlockian circles, offering a warm welcome to anyone who wished to enter:</p><blockquote><p>"A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame<br />Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name<br />Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand<br />Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command<br />The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame."</p></blockquote><p><br />Rather than nattering on in a way that doesn't do her memory justice, we'll turn this over to a small group of people whose lives Susan undeniably touched.</p><p><br /></p><hr /><div><i><br />The first goes back the farthest.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Curtis Armstrong, BSI ("A Fine Actor")</h3><p>Susan Rice, while a young teacher at the Kingswood School in the toney Bloomfield Hills suburb of Detroit, lived in an apartment many teachers would’ve given their eye-teeth for. When I close my eyes, I can still walk through it.  </p><p>Not that that was difficult, because it was a two-room, tiny place, with a kitchenette and bathroom, but to me it seemed like heaven. For one thing it was located in <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Cranbrook+Gardens&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS913US913&sxsrf=ALeKk01xZCMOU7iDpb_ROv-CPRlhW_SZvA:1602817533020&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiCxMfNkLjsAhVFOKwKHd_zDGIQ_AUoAXoECAUQAw&biw=1280&bih=616" target="_blank">Cranbrook Gardens</a>, the park surrounding the old Dodge Estate. Not near the gardens—smack in the middle of them, overlooking the walled gardens themselves, what may have been the original kitchen garden of the estate.  Her apartment was in one the towers in this eccentric layout, and it was beautiful, especially when the park itself was closed to the public, in the winter and after a snowfall. </p><p>Anyway, it was what happened once you got inside the apartment that the real magic happened.  I keep meaning to look through the boxes of old <i>Baker Street Journals</i> that I have stored away somewhere to find that issue of the <i>Journal</i> that changed everything for me. One reason I particularly would like to find it is because Susan and I, in after years, could never remember if it was 1969 or 1970. It doesn’t matter and I have always said it was 1969. It announced the formation of a new scion Society in Bloomfield Hills, calling itself The Trifling Monographs. The contact information was Susan’s address in Cranbrook Gardens. I wrote her, requesting information about the next meeting. I don’t recall a phone conversation, though there may have been one.</p><p>Sometime later, I received a packet in the mail.  Everything in that packet was donated years ago to the BSI Trust, including things like the By-Laws and Initiation.  I did keep a copy of Susan’s cover note to me, invited me and a friend of mine at the time, Cheryl, who was experiencing a fleeting interest in Sherlock Holmes, to the next meeting the following Saturday.</p><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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zq3duHypx04/X4kOWRLNMJI/AAAAAAABPgA/CNXGG7z_0Xk_B-Nbf7IRgIEKyayRVSkIwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1461/Curtis%2Bnote.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1461" data-original-width="1228" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zq3duHypx04/X4kOWRLNMJI/AAAAAAABPgA/CNXGG7z_0Xk_B-Nbf7IRgIEKyayRVSkIwCLcBGAsYHQ/w538-h640/Curtis%2Bnote.jpg" width="538" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Susan's note to Curtis (courtesy of Curtis Armstrong)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>I remember being particularly impressed by the fact that she had to change the time of the meeting because she had a luncheon in Detroit. Not lunch. <i>Luncheon</i>!  </p><p>Our meetings consisted of discussions about previously assigned stories, imaginatively designed quizzes, and just socializing. We were <a href="ihose.co/ihose125" target="_blank">nerds</a>, after all, and Susan’s apartment was a safe space for us.  One of the rare Monograph meetings not held at Susan’s was a dinner at my house, celebrating The Master’s birthday in January 1972. As Susan later reported it in the <i>Baker Street Journal</i>, the menu consisted of “grouse and a little something choice in wines.” (We had all turned 18 by then). I can guarantee that her description made it sound better than it was. As I recall, Cheryl and I had prepared Cornish Game Hen, and garlic bread. To choke down the feast, we had a bottle of Liebfraumilch or something equally lethal. My parents, good eggs that they were, had made themselves scarce that evening, giving the Sherlockians the run of the place.</p><p>And Susan, bless her, had made special arrangements for the evening. One of the guests that night was none other than Robert G. Harris, BSI ("The Creeping Man"), of the legendary <a href="http://www.amateurmendicantsociety.org/" target="_blank">Amateur Mendicant Society</a>. Probably the biggest “get” in the Detroit Sherlockian community at that time, Bob Harris, accompanied by his wife, arrived bearing a Tantalus, a gasogene and a lot of stories. This was a man who, when referring to Christopher Morley, called him “Kit.” Truly, Jupiter had descended that night.  Harris was Susan’s Sherlockian mentor in the same way that she was ours.  </p><p>There were never any restrictions placed on discussion within our little group, and I felt free to talk there in a way I just didn’t with my school friends. We all of us had an instinctive sense of where the limits were, and were we to go too far astray, Susan had the good educator’s ability to rein us in without seeming to.  <br /><br />She was never a collector, but she did have books that we didn’t have, the cherished Writings on the Writings, which we could borrow if we were interested. There was only one book on her shelves she refused to lend us and that one still makes me smile. </p><p>She had been to Greece, she told us, and while there had found next to her on a bus, a paperback book left behind by a previous rider.  The title was <i><a href="https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30179191646&searchurl=sortby%3D17%26tn%3DThe%2BSexual%2BAdventures%2Bof%2BSherlock%2BHolmes&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title2" target="_blank">The Sexual Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</a></i>, by J.Watson. There was much laughter and she let us leaf through it but the book remained on the restricted list.  Many years later, after moving to New York, I found a copy of the book in, of all places, Christopher Morley’s favorite bookshop, Medoza’s, on Ann Street.  It has remained in my collection, unread, ever since.  </p><p>On moving to Los Angeles, I reconnected with one of my erstwhile Monographs, Lucy Chase Williams, who I hadn’t seen since Detroit days. We agreed to meet in a bar in Hollywood and I jokingly said she should wear something distinctive, so I would recognize her. As I walked in that evening, there she was, at the bar, prominently displaying her copy of <i>The Sexual Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</i> for me to see. It appears that during the Monograph’s diaspora, acquiring a copy of Susan’s forbidden book had become a kind of badge of honor! </p><p>Years later, Susan invited me to my first BSI weekend, and the year after, I was invited to my first dinner. As the evening ended, with famous Irregulars as far as the eye could reach, Susan dropped into the seat next to me.</p><p>“Okay,” she said, smiling. “Who do you want to meet?” </p><p>Thanks to Susan Rice, I never looked back.</p><div><br /></div><p></p><hr /><div><br /></div><div><i>A newer attendee of the "weekend" shows how Susan still had that same touch.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Nancy Holder, BSI ("Beryl Garcia")</h3><div>During my first BSI weekend, I was new to the process of securing reservations for all the different events and I neglected to make a reservation for the Gillette luncheon. I emailed Susan from my room at the Yale Club the morning of. She immediately wrote me back and said, "Come on down anyway! We'll find you a place!" </div><div><br /></div><div>And she did. She greeted me warmly, sat me down with all my new friends, and I immediately felt at home. I think that was the same year she won the Babes Ball costume contest for dressing either as a bee or a beehive. By then I already knew that she  was the bee's knees.</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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YpcCa1YM-KM/X4kjMfTMCFI/AAAAAAABPhU/QJz5ilBtQaMWCzb2LAja-1qMlJ9lHtWHwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0199.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YpcCa1YM-KM/X4kjMfTMCFI/AAAAAAABPhU/QJz5ilBtQaMWCzb2LAja-1qMlJ9lHtWHwCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_0199.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Susan, sporting her classic beehive at at the Gillette Luncheon</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><hr /><div><br /></div></div><p><i>Over on the Studies in Starrett blog there's a slight detour titled "<a href="http://www.vincentstarrett.com/blog/2020/10/6/off-topic-susan-rice?fbclid=IwAR1jRlimh-gKNNPwFPPR0ntY7VGiZ0P8bObPnmRi6myeuCmqCtShwMN99ZA" target="_blank">This is a Fan Letter</a>." These are some excerpts.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Ray Betzner, BSI ("The Agony Column")</h3><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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H5XoxBGD9nU/X4kWa0hvn8I/AAAAAAABPgM/5wGIUO-q9z0FTrWhuR_rM38yvF7CY9ZbwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1500/Ray%2BBetzner%2Band%2BSusan%2BRice.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1500" height="384" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H5XoxBGD9nU/X4kWa0hvn8I/AAAAAAABPgM/5wGIUO-q9z0FTrWhuR_rM38yvF7CY9ZbwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h384/Ray%2BBetzner%2Band%2BSusan%2BRice.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Courtesy of Ray Betzner</span><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br />Susan was one of those rare folks that everyone admired. That was born out with the ear-splitting cry that went up when Tom Stix called her name as one of the first round of women invested into the BSI. (You can hear it yourself via <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose89" target="_blank">Episode 89 of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a>. If you were there, it is a grand memory to relive. And if you weren’t there, this was a historic moment you may enjoy.)</p><p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/244625436&color=ff5500" 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-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="ihearofsherlock">ihearofsherlock</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock/episode-89-the-adventuresses" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Episode 89: The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes">Episode 89: The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes</a></div><br /><p></p><p>It wasn’t until the 1992 BSI dinner that she and I chatted for a while and we learned of our mutual admiration for Vincent Starrett. Susan had long been a fan of his work and I was just beginning my fascination with the fellow. Susan, who owned many of his books while always claiming not to be a collector, encouraged me to get a hold of Starrett’s books about books. I made a note to do so. </p><p>It was a pleasant talk, the first of many along those lines.</p><p>Then a wonderful thing happened. I got a letter from Susan Rice in the mail. It was my first (and only) fan letter. I know this was a fan letter because Susan states clearly at the top: “This is a fan letter.” I don’t know many shades of crimson that went across my face as I read it, but looking at it now, 28 years later, I am still floored that she would recall those little bits where our paths crossed and thought them worth writing about. </p><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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K4CPVF5iFpQ/X4kWwjHK8jI/AAAAAAABPgU/oWo0-yH3Fe4l2Z5xPCgUA0oXh3VOvV7uQCLcBGAsYHQ/s971/Fan%2Bletter.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="971" data-original-width="750" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K4CPVF5iFpQ/X4kWwjHK8jI/AAAAAAABPgU/oWo0-yH3Fe4l2Z5xPCgUA0oXh3VOvV7uQCLcBGAsYHQ/w494-h640/Fan%2Bletter.jpeg" width="494" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Susan's fan letter to Ray</i></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>For the next few decades after that letter, I became her devoted follower and we delighted in every opportunity to sit and chat. Susan was one of the wittiest folks I’ve ever known, and being with her encouraged me to try my hand at matching her bon mot for bon mot. I rarely rose to her level, but the competition was always delicious.</p><p><i>Read <a href="http://www.vincentstarrett.com/blog/2020/10/6/off-topic-susan-rice" target="_blank">the rest of Ray's tribute in full here</a> and listen to Susan and Ray talk about Vincent Starrett on <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose61" target="_blank">Episode 61</a>, about which Ray writes, "<b>I didn’t want the afternoon to end. I still don’t</b>."</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/134357765&color=ff5500" 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-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="ihearofsherlock">ihearofsherlock</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock/i-hear-of-sherlock-43" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Episode 61: The Private Life of Vincent Starrett">Episode 61: The Private Life of Vincent Starrett</a></div><p><br /></p><hr /><div><br /></div><div><i>A little something from a longtime friend of Susan's over on Facebook that again mentions her collecting/non-collecting.</i></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Susan Dahlinger, BSI ("The Bruce-Partington Plans")</h3><div><div>My friend Rice always said that she didn’t have the book collecting gene; she was more of an amasser. I remember when Mickey and Susan needed more room for books and memorabilia and decided windows were optional. </div><div><br /></div><div>But Susan was a collector, and what she collected was friends—hundreds of them—many of them young people whom she mentored, starting with a bright little group of students in Detroit and moving right along to embrace the fandom of today.</div><div><br /></div><div>When John Bennett Shaw died, I wondered who could possibly replace that expansive, beguiling personality  at whom we aimed enquiring young people who loved Sherlock Holmes. </div><div><br /></div><div>The answer was Rice. She’s always been there, making friends, offering help, planning lunches, being a lively influence on everything and everybody  in our small community of devotees. There was barely a day when we weren’t on the phone, talking about some crazy happening in our little world.</div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><hr /><div><br /></div></div><div><i>Al and Julie Rosenblatt were there for many aspects of Susan's life, including her marriage to Mickey.</i></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Al Rosenblatt, BSI ("Inspector Bradstreet") and Julie Rosenblatt, BSI ("Mrs. Turner")</h3><div><div>We gain our sense of completeness from everything around us, most importantly the people that have enriched our lives. Losing Susan diminishes us personally and in our circle, but we will always have, and keep, the memories she forged: her talent, her character, her fortitude, her boundless fidelity to her friends and causes (not least, the Sherlockian side of her life), her engaging sense of humor, and above all, her love.</div><div><br /></div><div>Nowhere were these qualities on better display than at her wedding with Mickey. Officiating at the ceremony was among the truest privileges of my life. I cannot remember an event that produced more festive tears of joy  from all those assembled and  part of it. We have been to many weddings but this was by far the happiest. </div><div><br /></div><div>We have all shared years of great remembrances like these, with Susan, and we will cherish them forever.</div></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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vZVZqI7qiQA/X4kcvQshINI/AAAAAAABPgg/qNk4fzKf6poKjbrXHWP80tNp8tb_8d_TACLcBGAsYHQ/s960/Mickey%2B%2526%2BSusan%2Bwedding.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="620" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vZVZqI7qiQA/X4kcvQshINI/AAAAAAABPgg/qNk4fzKf6poKjbrXHWP80tNp8tb_8d_TACLcBGAsYHQ/w414-h640/Mickey%2B%2526%2BSusan%2Bwedding.jpg" width="414" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Courtesy of Mickey Fromkin</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><hr /><div><br /></div></div><div><i>The Rosenblatt connection to Susan spans two generations.</i></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Betsy Rosenblatt, BSI ("Lucy Ferrier")</h3><div><div>Susan Rice was one of the first adults who felt like a friend to me.  I never really “became” a Sherlockian—in a way, I just always was one, the product of growing up in a Sherlockian household.  But Susan’s inviting kindness and open enthusiasm made me a Sherlockian, rather than just the child of Sherlockians. </div><div><br /></div><div>At my first ASH dinner, I was 12 years old, and I imagine it would have been easy to treat me as an inconvenience. But Susan and the “rowdy table” embraced me. They taught me the songs. We sang them with gusto. </div><div><br /></div><div>Susan always—<i>always</i>, no matter what else was going on—was surrounded by a bubble of warmth and invited others to join her and be joyful in it. She loved you, exactly you, exactly as you are, with all of your offbeat passions. She wanted you to be yourself, as she was herself. Herself was elegant and radiant and compassionate and opinionated and loving and oh, so knowledgeable. </div><div><br /></div><div>Susan and Mickey have been a model of love and mutual support for as long as my memory goes.  They were, I think, the first adults I came out to.  For years, I have delayed making an “oral history” of my time in Sherlockiana because I wanted to find a time when I could do it with them, because my Sherlockian story is so intertwined with them. I love them. I miss Susan.</div></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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R4cJxwGtQ5M/X4kdiW35WDI/AAAAAAABPgo/wdVW9S-pxdw3kFQDz5iXsPM0ljWDV14-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/Mickey%2B%2526%2BSusan%2BBSIWeekend%2B2015.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="643" data-original-width="960" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R4cJxwGtQ5M/X4kdiW35WDI/AAAAAAABPgo/wdVW9S-pxdw3kFQDz5iXsPM0ljWDV14-gCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/Mickey%2B%2526%2BSusan%2BBSIWeekend%2B2015.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mickey and Susan</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><hr /><div><br /><i>Susan's decision to turn over the reins of the William Gillette Luncheon was a big one.</i> </div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Jenn Eaker, BSI ("Mary Sutherland") </h3></div><div><div>“I know I made the right choice.”</div><div><br /></div><div>Susan used to always say those words to me when we were discussing the future of the William Gillette Luncheon and when she would finally step down. She’d say them again when she told me she had decided to pass the hosting torch to me at this year’s event. And she would repeat those words over and over when others came up to her to congratulate her on her tenure of hosting the luncheon coming to an end.</div><div><br /></div><div>Those words are like a balm to me right now. Her belief in me as a successor, her encouragement as a Sherlockian, her support as a friend, made me feel like I could do anything. She was so sure of her decision. Of me. Of my abilities. As someone who suffers severely from imposter syndrome, her words helped me peel away the layers of self-doubt and embrace my talents. </div><div><br /></div><div>And it wasn’t just me she did that for. Susan did that for everyone who came into her orbit. It’s just who she was. A nervous first-time ASH Wednesday attendee would arrive unsure, and leave with new friends, the dates of the next scion meetings in your area, and a seat at the table anytime you were able to return. Susan facilitated that.</div><div><br /></div><div>A new Sherlockian who was interested in writing a trifling monograph on a topic from the Canon would mention it to her in conversation. She would applaud the idea, ask questions to help you shape your thoughts, and then put you in touch with the right people to get it published in one of the many journals. Susan was your personal cheerleader. </div><div><br /></div><div>As a woman, I wouldn’t be a member of the BSI if it wasn’t for Susan and all of the hard work she and the other early Adventuresses did. Susan helped break down the door, and then after it was opened, made sure it never closed on the women and next generations of Sherlockians who followed her. I owe her so much. <b><i>We</i></b> owe her so much.</div><div><br /></div><div>I have our final photo together framed and displayed on a mantel in my home. It’s a lovely picture Charles Prepolec took of Susan, Mickey and me in January 2020. It’s the end of the luncheon, and we three are smiling at the conclusion of another successful event. I look at it every time I pass it, remembering how happy she was that day. And relaxed. Because it was her final time hosting the luncheon. And she knew who was taking over those duties and she didn’t have to worry. I hear her laughter as she catches up with friends. I see her greet old friends she hasn’t seen in years. And for a moment, I can feel the warmth of her presence next to me.</div><div><br /></div><div>There is a Susan-shaped hole in my heart. But her memory lives on. And her legacy will continue to impact all of us, and those yet to find our 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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Vk34gFT8Yj0/X4nYfGoCKXI/AAAAAAABPhs/sPUAmH_tu0A18uZOp_6lQ-0s3RXcOz0CgCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/Eaker%2BFromkin%2BRice%2B-%2Bvia%2BPrepolec.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Vk34gFT8Yj0/X4nYfGoCKXI/AAAAAAABPhs/sPUAmH_tu0A18uZOp_6lQ-0s3RXcOz0CgCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/Eaker%2BFromkin%2BRice%2B-%2Bvia%2BPrepolec.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Courtesy of Charles Prepolec</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><hr /><div><br /></div></div><div><i>Susan had friends from all over, including a relatively quick train ride just south, in Philadelphia.</i></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Janice Fisher, ASH ("A Violet-Tinted Pencil")</h3><div><div>At the 2003 Birthday Weekend, I became <i>The </i>Woman of the Baker Street Irregulars. I had arranged to be toasted by my old friend Sherry Rose-Bond; I thought myself rather cunning in being the first Woman to be toasted by a BSI woman. Susan told Steven and me how much she enjoyed these performances and confided, </div><blockquote><div>"Long before I knew I could be a BSI, I had a fantasy of being named The Woman and seizing the microphone after the toast to give the BSI what-for. In my fantasy, I was so witty and charming in my invective that the fellas melted before me and changed their ways. Luckily, I was present to see Janice fulfill that fantasy, except of course that there were women in her audience because the BSI had actually managed to change their ways earlier."</div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>I remember the famous 1991 Weekend cocktail party where Tom Stix had opened those BSI gates to the investiture of women. In my recollection, Evy Herzog levitated toward Tom as he announced her name, and Susan’s jaw actually fell open when she heard her own. (Sherry and I, in our exuberant post-game recap, were almost ejected from the train back to Philadelphia, but that’s another story.)</div><div><br /></div><div>As a result of my exalted Womanly status, Susan almost immediately began to address me as <i>The</i> in her emails. “Greetings to The,” began one. “I could have typed Greetings to Thee, which would be pronounced the same and would have made me feel all Quakerly!” (She was of course giving my Philadelphia home a shout-out—but Susan never needed to shout.) Another email promoted me: “Greetings O Sovereign The.” An email to Steven and me addressed us as “Dear <i>The </i>and <i>He</i>.”</div><div><br /></div><div>Steven (and I’m sure he’s not alone) has written of Susan’s delight in her friends and in knowing more about them. In an email, she told me, </div><blockquote><div>"I was surprised to hear of [Steven’s] comic collection, though something tells me I learned of this once before and then filed it in that bulging folder of miscellaneous interesting things that soon become obscured by the very thickness of the file. How many-parted we all are, and that's a sort of consolation when the world goes all awry. I can still look into friends and find something new."</div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>I feel cheated of the opportunity to continue to learn new things about Susan. I'm so <i>peeved</i>—a truly childish word, but that's how I feel—that I won't be able to try match sass with her anymore. I've never met such a witty person who was also so unfailingly nice. It says more about me that I've always taken those to be incompatible traits. But not in the remarkable Susan. It was a privilege and a joy to be her friend.</div></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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WuWY99P9rGM/X4kfoEqdlwI/AAAAAAABPg0/MZt9CpMyrY8v1ECKn5EGKiGb0IeswLDCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Susan%2BRice%2Band%2BSherry%2BRose-Bond.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WuWY99P9rGM/X4kfoEqdlwI/AAAAAAABPg0/MZt9CpMyrY8v1ECKn5EGKiGb0IeswLDCgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Susan%2BRice%2Band%2BSherry%2BRose-Bond.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Susan with Sherry Rose-Bond</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><hr /><div><br /></div></div><div><i>And while we're in Philadelphia, we should hear from Janice Fisher's husband.</i></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Steven Rothman, BSI ("<i>The Valley of Fear</i>")</h3><div><div>I am not sure when Susan and I first had a real conversation. I certainly knew her by sight and reputation by the very early 1980s. I <i>think</i> it was at the bar at 24 Fifth before a BSI Dinner. (Had we both been drafted by Stix to help with set-up? I know I always felt his hand on my shoulder.) But when we spoke, it was immediately clear that here was a people person of the first order—a woman who loved to meet people and find out about them. Since my own philosophy is “everyone has a story,” we were able to chat happily. </div><div><br /></div><div>Janice and I would see Susan and Mickey in New York and when they would come to Philadelphia either to see Helen Gioulis, Mickey’s college roommate, or for a Sherlockian event. Once Susan came to my home just to spend some hours reading Christopher Morley’s letters to Vincent Starrett. We all had fun marveling at what it meant to be a Sherlockian and a literary man in the 1930s and ’40s. Susan enjoyed her time in my library but made it quite clear that she was not a collector. (She always insisted, even while sitting by her own bookcase filled with bee books, that she was <i>not</i> a collector.)</div><div><br /></div><div>Talking with Susan was a delicious experience. She would give you all her attention, her bright eyes glistening with delight. And she would laugh, frequently. She was as happy to see you as you were to see her. I am sure there are people she disliked or who irked her. Susan was not a saint. But even those folks had something in them that she would find intriguing, if not beguiling. The disputatious nature of some Sherlockians frequently troubled her, but, when asked, Susan would offer up a compliment, since they, too, were her friends.</div><div><br /></div><div>And yet Susan had a tongue that could be sharp. She traded gossip with a touch of acid, a gleam in her eye, and that smile on her face. Susan’s smile was at the heart of her very being. The way she would light up at the sight of her friends was a gift to them she could not stop giving.</div><div><br /></div><div>Susan was a great Sherlockian. She was at least a triple threat: she knew her Canon, she loved her Sherlockian family, and she could write like nobody’s business. Susan was brimming with ideas about Sherlockiana, and she told them to the world in her distinctive voice. Susan was a great friend of <i><a href="https://ihose.co/BSJ" target="_blank">The Baker Street Journal</a></i>, and it was a joy to get an article from her. Not only did she write for the <i>Journal</i>, she made sure to let me know she read it, often copying me on notes to authors about articles that she particularly enjoyed. Humor, particularly subtle humor, gave her a special pleasure.</div><div><br /></div><div>When I wanted a <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2004/12/27/bsj-2004-christmas-annual/" target="_blank"><i>Baker Street Journal Christmas Annual</i> devoted to The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes in 2004</a>, Susan reluctantly but graciously took on the project, though she had not been there at ASH’s birth. It is not only a scionic history; it is also a cultural history. She was always happy to be asked to serve as one of my (heretofore) anonymous judges of the <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2001/05/01/morley-montgomery-award/" target="_blank">Morley–Montgomery Memorial Award</a> for the best piece in that year’s <i>BSJ</i>. Indeed, for several years she broke precedent and asked me if she could be a judge, claiming it gave her the greatest of pleasures. And she was an excellent judge. Susan always gave long, reasoned responses for her choices, and there was no real arguing with her rankings. She also helped make the small cocktail party where the Award is announced a special occasion, mingling, laughing, and drinking with a wide smile throughout. </div><div><br /></div><div>One of my favorite memories was the day that Susan and Susan Dahlinger took the bus to Philadelphia to see an exhibition of comic books (with virtually no Sherlockian content) that I had curated. We spent the afternoon looking and chatting. Neither of them had ever really been readers of comics or comic strips, so I was very touched that they would schlep on the bus just to see my tatty comics (albeit in an academic setting). It was a lovely day, and I loved both Susans for arranging it.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then there was the wonderful day when we went to Manhattan for Susan and Mickey’s wedding. Everyone in that crowded room at the Players’ Club was smiling broadly. The officiant, Judge Al Rosenblatt, smiled very broadly indeed. But the biggest smiles of all were on the two brides in their matching dresses and lovely floral wreaths. Everyone in the room felt thrilled to be able to witness the marriage of two people whose long engagement had finally been ended by a slow-witted New York State.</div><div><br /></div><div>The best times with Susan were away from the Birthday Weekend crowd, where we could talk, eat, and laugh together. We would exchange our delight with the TV shows <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</i> and <i>Xena: Warrior Princess</i>, the most out television show ever in its day. Janice and I would join Mickey, Susan, and our near-neighbor Helen for long, lovely, brunches. Even when she had to use a wheelchair, Susan would trek with Mickey’s tireless assistance to Philadelphia for the <a href="ihose.co/ihose18" target="_blank">Copper Beeches</a>. We discovered together that the Racquet Club’s idea of “wheelchair accessible” involved a very steep ramp from a darkened alley. Somehow, we were able to maneuver Susan and her chair safely, but no one was happy until we had made it to Locust Street.</div><div><br /></div><div>I always said that Susan, with her delight with people and with life, was the youngest person in the room. I think I will forever hear Susan’s voice and see her smile. And I am the better for it.</div></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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9bmdLUCXPOI/X4kiN0unWVI/AAAAAAABPhI/itR30nVuA1M650RzgKdASfr2qY4CHFaRwCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/Blau-Rice.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="960" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9bmdLUCXPOI/X4kiN0unWVI/AAAAAAABPhI/itR30nVuA1M650RzgKdASfr2qY4CHFaRwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/Blau-Rice.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Peter Blau bringing out Susan's smile at the Gillette Luncheon</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><div></div><div><div><br /></div></div></div><div><div><hr /><div><br /></div></div></div></div><p>There's so much to process with these wonderful perspectives. While we could write a thoughtful reply or essay to each one, here's a through-line that's worth considering: Susan made everyone feel at home. Like they could be themselves.</p><p>We're not just talking about in Sherlockian ways; look again at the above. She made misfits feel as if we had a rightful place at the table. Nerds, LGBTQ+, noobs, comic book collectors, awkward types. Not only did she collect people, but she put them together and gave them a sense of <i>belonging</i>.</p><p>To make someone feel as if they belong is the ultimate act of love.</p><p>And Susan dispensed it liberally.</p><p>Farewell, Susan. The air of the Sherlockian world is forever sweeter for your presence.</p><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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9pV-rk-iapE/X4kh1QuwXWI/AAAAAAABPhA/o3yq3dk0EZcRkNRmokfU4oI_JTatX_nlACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Susan%2B-%2Bfrom%2BMickey.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="456" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9pV-rk-iapE/X4kh1QuwXWI/AAAAAAABPhA/o3yq3dk0EZcRkNRmokfU4oI_JTatX_nlACLcBGAsYHQ/w456-h640/Susan%2B-%2Bfrom%2BMickey.jpg" width="456" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Courtesy of Mickey Fromkin</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><i>Do you have a particular fond memory of Susan? Feel free to leave it in the comment section below.<br /></i><p>--</p><p><br /></p>

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Episode 202: Clive Merrison

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><b> <span style="text-align: center;">"an incomparable actor" [STUD] </span></b></h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bEVxPa3sEf8/X4f76aPu-ZI/AAAAAAABPdo/5LEM8b0Sf5ElQRvkMEUb47BPamKoSgMawCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/Clive%2BMerrison%2Bas%2BSherlock%2BHolmes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bEVxPa3sEf8/X4f76aPu-ZI/AAAAAAABPdo/5LEM8b0Sf5ElQRvkMEUb47BPamKoSgMawCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h360/Clive%2BMerrison%2Bas%2BSherlock%2BHolmes.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>Anyone who is interested in the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and audio (that's why you're here, isn't it?) is familiar with the name Clive Merrison.</p><p>The definitive Sherlock Holmes of the audio realm, Clive Merrison holds the distinction of being the first actor to play Sherlock Holmes in dramatized form in every one of the 60 stories from the Canon, as well as in 15 additional pastiches.</p><p>Together with Michael Williams (and later Andrew Sachs), Merrison brought Holmes to life and gave him real humanity—particularly in the sometimes prickly, sometimes tender friendship with his Watson.</p><p>We talked with Clive Merrison about his real-life friendship with Michael Williams, his time on the stage, what his Uncle Norman did to influence him, his adventures with "Hobbo," the actor he would sneak into the sound booth to watch perform and the actor from whom he wished he could flee from the recording studio, what made Sir Laurence Olivier hug him, the <i>Sherlock </i>role he turned down, the next Sherlock Holmes story he'd like to perform in, and much more.</p><p>You won't want to miss this episode — and the eventual outtakes from it that will be available only to our Patreon supporters.</p><p>See if you can test your knowledge with the <b>Canonical Couplet</b>: we give you two lines of poetry that describe one of stories, and you name it. The winner gets a copy of Bert Coules' <i><a href="https://wessexpress.com/html/221bbc.html" target="_blank">221 BBC: Writing for the World's Only Complete Dramatised Canon and Beyond</a></i>. Entries are due by 11:59 pm EDT on October 29, 2020.</p><p><br /><script type="text/javascript">
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Baker Street Elementary – Fit to Be Tied

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"any singular gift" [GREE] </h4><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TxSxMgSCYk8/X3nuKrrvFnI/AAAAAAABPSw/JuwTFTtXOXY1lxkDjRWjvTXAztmOHOXNwCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B90.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TxSxMgSCYk8/X3nuKrrvFnI/AAAAAAABPSw/JuwTFTtXOXY1lxkDjRWjvTXAztmOHOXNwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B90.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div>The great debate about Sherlock Holmes's birthday comes up every year.</div><div><br /></div><div>When we celebrated <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2020/01/happy-166th-birthday-sherlock-holmes.html#.X3n072hKjb0" target="_blank">Holmes's 166th birthday</a> in January 2020, we reviewed the debate, as we do every year: the reason January 6th is the generally accepted date is because of some internal evidence in the Canon—and a personal reason by the founder of the Baker Street Irregulars.<br /><br />Incidentally, the Baker Street Irregulars weekend will be virtual this year, rather than in person in New York City. This means that at least one event—the Distinguished Speaker's Lecture—will be entirely open to the public. Stay tuned for more on that.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Meanwhile, you might consider what you'll wear for a Sherlockian video call. We can highly recommend a bow tie or two — listen to <a href="ihose.co/ihose184" target="_blank">our interview with the president of Beau Ties Ltd., Cy Tall</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile it's time to think about gifts over at Baker Street Elementary...<br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wPBGkX4Slp8/X3nuT67IiPI/AAAAAAABPS4/HeoaZqsqEMork1Qn1nJAN3Rt2KF2qwGSACLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B90.2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wPBGkX4Slp8/X3nuT67IiPI/AAAAAAABPS4/HeoaZqsqEMork1Qn1nJAN3Rt2KF2qwGSACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B90.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IJKALKPpEDg/X3nuT6aDReI/AAAAAAABPS8/E3B1hGPrjRICdMY3dIb232jj502oTDtyACLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B90.3.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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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><br /><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>

Baker Street Elementary – Fit to Be Tied

"any singular gift" [GREE] The great debate about Sherlock Holmes's birthday comes up every year. When we celebrated Holmes&#...

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Episode 201: Remembering Jeremy Brett

<h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"The stage lost a fine actor" [SCAN] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AzA0XrNIn48/X3Sic6W2jLI/AAAAAAABPPk/aqX4hFViaewmnQ2kPIA6Si8-2whSfbXLgCLcBGAsYHQ/s954/NAVA%2B-%2BRose.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="682" data-original-width="954" height="458" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AzA0XrNIn48/X3Sic6W2jLI/AAAAAAABPPk/aqX4hFViaewmnQ2kPIA6Si8-2whSfbXLgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h458/NAVA%2B-%2BRose.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>David Stuart Davies, BSI ("Ralph Musgrave") is the world's leading authority on Jeremy Brett. David has written extensively about Brett, including in his landmark 1996 biography Bending the Willow: Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, published the year after Brett's death, and having spent many hours interviewing him.</p><p>We just marked the 25th anniversary of Jeremy Brett's death on September 12. We took the opportunity to talk with David about Brett, as well as his memories of interacting with the late Peter Cushing.</p><p>David is a prolific writer, with novels and non-fiction to plays and short stories, and decades of editing. A fascinating and funny raconteur, we could spend hours listening to him. </p><p>You'll want to try your hand at the latest <b>Canonical Couplet</b>. The prize we're offering is a book by David Stuart Davies. Entries are due by 11:59 pm EDT on October 14, 2020.</p><p><br /><script type="text/javascript">
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Baker Street Elementary – The Retort Courteous

<p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="text-align: center;">"</b><span style="text-align: left;"><b>Chemistry.—Profound</b></span><b>” [STUD] </b></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Dqa4mSRV8E/X2dRyZZ-ftI/AAAAAAABPA0/xdZEohP6LQc1iETGIFXsx6kfKmJsWoc5ACLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B89.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Dqa4mSRV8E/X2dRyZZ-ftI/AAAAAAABPA0/xdZEohP6LQc1iETGIFXsx6kfKmJsWoc5ACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B89.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>When Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson first meet (by the way, what were the very first words Holmes said to Watson?<b>*</b>), Holmes is engaged in a chemical experiment in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>:</div><div><blockquote><div>"This was a lofty chamber, lined and littered with countless bottles. Broad, low tables were scattered about, which bristled with retorts, test-tubes, and little Bunsen lamps, with their blue flickering flames. There was only one student in the room, who was bending over a distant table absorbed in his work. At the sound of our steps he glanced round and sprang to his feet with a cry of pleasure. “I’ve found it! I’ve found it,” he shouted to my companion, running towards us with a test-tube in his hand."</div></blockquote>Before they agreed to living arrangements, Holmes warned Watson of his habits:</div><div><blockquote><div>“I generally have chemicals about, and occasionally do experiments. Would that annoy you?”</div></blockquote></div><div>And after moving into Baker Street, Watson observed that sometimes Holmes "spent his day at the chemical laboratory."</div><div><br /></div><div>So when did Sherlock Holmes begin doing chemistry experiments at home?</div><div><br /></div><div>By the time we reach The Sign of Four, Holmes is very much settled in with his equipment in Baker Street:</div><div><blockquote><div>"He would hardly reply to my questions, and busied himself all evening in an abstruse chemical analysis which involved much heating of retorts and distilling of vapors, ending at last in a smell which fairly drove me out of the apartment."</div></blockquote></div><div><i>The Adventures</i> saw only two instances of Holmes at work with his chemistry experiments, in "A Case of Identity," where "he had spent his day in the chemical work which was so dear to him," even though it had nothing to do with solving Mary Sutherland's conundrum.</div><div><br /></div><div>And in the final story in that series, "The Copper Beeches," Watson describes a scene that was not unusual:</div><div><blockquote><div>"The telegram which we eventually received came late one night just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came down to breakfast in the morning."</div></blockquote></div><div>The idea of his experiments completely capturing his attention came up again in "The Resident Patient," where Watson told us about "those abstruse chemical investigations which absorbed him utterly as long as he was engaged upon them."</div><div><br /></div><div>But it was not just Holmes's attention that was affected. In "The Musgrave Ritual," Watson describes how this hobby become part of the physical make-up of 221B Baker Street:</div><div><blockquote><div>"Our chambers were always full of chemicals and of criminal relics which had a way of wandering into unlikely positions, and of turning up in the butter dish or in even less desirable places."</div></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>And again in "The Mazarin Stone," as he referred to familiar artifacts such as "the scientific charts upon the wall, the acid-charred bench of chemicals." </div><div><br /></div><div>Indeed, when Holmes returned from his hiatus in "The Empty House" and he and Watson reunited in Baker Street, readers hearts must have fluttered upon seeing the old surroundings, including "the chemical corner and the acid-stained, deal-topped table."</div><div><div><br /></div><div>What's the deal with deal, you ask? It's a type of fir or pine, native to Scotland. One can imagine that over time, the wood must have physically degraded as well as had its color stained by acids.</div><div><br /></div><div>Oh, and speaking of quiz questions, the answer to the trivia question above (about Holmes's first words to Watson) is not "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive." He said, "How are you?"</div><div><br /></div><div>How are the boys at Baker Street Elementary? Someone's struggling with a chemistry test. We'll let you guess who...<br /><br />Oh, and if you're into Sherlock Holmes and chemistry, join us on <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles67" target="_blank">Episode 67 of Trifles</a>:</div><div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="200" scrolling="no" src="https://embed.radiopublic.com/e?if=sherlock-holmes-trifles-GqnV0O&ge=s1!6a9a647d076aff51f194a9d39654305a86a63e50" width="100%"></iframe></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dkbkR73x7XM/X2dSDyLsjNI/AAAAAAABPA8/moRGkqqxprwSf-Dx_sstTEBz9UbOtIMjQCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B89.2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dkbkR73x7XM/X2dSDyLsjNI/AAAAAAABPA8/moRGkqqxprwSf-Dx_sstTEBz9UbOtIMjQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B89.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QvE2lwyeXVg/X2dSD_CAwbI/AAAAAAABPBA/COFD03ClhIEfD3T1ppug00p5VZrnLe_SQCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B89.3.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QvE2lwyeXVg/X2dSD_CAwbI/AAAAAAABPBA/COFD03ClhIEfD3T1ppug00p5VZrnLe_SQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B89.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3d8w4JdYKXM/X2dSDyCHd1I/AAAAAAABPBE/kQGhVgHg2lwoutHoV95pJt5YL0oCAUYcgCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B89.4.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3d8w4JdYKXM/X2dSDyCHd1I/AAAAAAABPBE/kQGhVgHg2lwoutHoV95pJt5YL0oCAUYcgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B89.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eFW6Q8jNwGY/X2dSEYOCAiI/AAAAAAABPBI/Dc13OI_iK3IgQ-BrwXNPb86sA5P74sv8wCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B89.5.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eFW6Q8jNwGY/X2dSEYOCAiI/AAAAAAABPBI/Dc13OI_iK3IgQ-BrwXNPb86sA5P74sv8wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B89.5.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><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><br /><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>

Baker Street Elementary – The Retort Courteous

" Chemistry.—Profound ” [STUD] When Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson first meet (by the way, what were the very first words Holmes sai...

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IHOSE Media Shows Are Now on Amazon Music

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by Scott Monty

The Mask is Afoot!

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"he turned his masked face in that direction" [CHAS]  </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XRxrZWR8pTw/X1FH_9ZKq7I/AAAAAAABOqw/EsooWkbR9fEKXzZG0V8J4wmZ50rNmEwXwCLcBGAsYHQ/s958/SCAN%2B-%2Bmask.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="665" data-original-width="958" height="445" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XRxrZWR8pTw/X1FH_9ZKq7I/AAAAAAABOqw/EsooWkbR9fEKXzZG0V8J4wmZ50rNmEwXwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h445/SCAN%2B-%2Bmask.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>You've probably seen your fair share of masks when you're out and about. But how many of them are Sherlockian?</div><div><br /></div><div>We pulled down our Doubleday edition of the Sherlock Holmes Canon and decided to do a little research on masks. Aside from the King of Bohemia showing up in a mask and Holmes and Watson masking up before burgling the home of Charles Augustus Milverton, we couldn't recall any other significant instances of physical masks.</div><div><br /></div><div>There were a modest number:</div><div><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"><i><b>A Study in Scarlet</b></i>:</p><div><div>“Belated wanderers upon the mountains spoke of gangs of armed men, masked, stealthy, and noiseless, who flitted by them in the darkness.”</div></div><div><br /></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><b>"A Scandal in Bohemia"</b>:</p><div>“Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask.”</div><div>“He carried a broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, for his hand was still raised to it as he entered.”</div></div><div><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"><b>"The Yellow Face"</b>:</p><div><div>“An instant later the mystery was explained. Holmes, with a laugh, passed his hand behind the child’s ear, a mask peeled off from her countenance, an there was a little coal black negress, with all her white teeth flashing in amusement at our amazed faces.”</div></div><div><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"><b>"Charles Augustus Milverton"</b>:</p><div><div>“I have rubber-soled tennis shoes.”</div><div>“Excellent. And a mask?”</div><div>“I can make a couple out of black silk.”</div><div>“I can see that you have a strong natural turn for this sort of thing. Very good; do you make the masks.”<br /><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div>When it came to emotional masks, there were quite a few more: individuals such as Isadora Klein, Jonathan Small, the Rt. Honourable Trelawney Hope, Barrymore, Lady Brackenstall, and of course, Sherlock Holmes.</div><div><br /></div><div>But if you require a physical mask and you'd like to connect it to your hobby, there are Sherlockian options.</div><div><br /></div><div>For example, Tom Francis, BSI ("The Imperial Opera at Warsaw") sports the colors of the Baker Street Irregulars in this silk mask that was a gift from fellow Irregular Richard Olken ("Bob Carruthers"):</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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Jg9jNmiEd5Q/X2Vr3EUykgI/AAAAAAABO-Y/pXdPrLSSicMLg-cAy8sbqioq5ePCiMArgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Tom%2BFrancis%2B-%2BMask.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2043" data-original-width="2048" height="399" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Jg9jNmiEd5Q/X2Vr3EUykgI/AAAAAAABO-Y/pXdPrLSSicMLg-cAy8sbqioq5ePCiMArgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h399/Tom%2BFrancis%2B-%2BMask.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Credit: Tom Francis (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4657558547595213&set=pb.100000233420617.-2207520000..&type=3" target="_blank">Facebook</a>)</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>

We've noticed that the folks at Beau Ties Ltd. of Vermont have begun offering masks and matching bow ties (although they're available separately as well). Here are a few Sherlock Holmes-inspired patterns.</div><div>   
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  One that caught our attention is the <a href="https://www.beautiesltd.com/collections/face-masks/products/afoot-face-mask?variant=32394550149216" target="_blank">Afoot</a>: </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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7Rf9XVnv2PU/X2VtIlAeIUI/AAAAAAABO-k/V8U44uHttp4IjPN_Vwqc8p2oUosKJeJJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/AFOT217MSK_1024x1024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="697" data-original-width="1024" height="435" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7Rf9XVnv2PU/X2VtIlAeIUI/AAAAAAABO-k/V8U44uHttp4IjPN_Vwqc8p2oUosKJeJJQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h435/AFOT217MSK_1024x1024.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image courtesy of <a href="https://www.beautiesltd.com/products/afoot-face-mask?variant=32394550149216" target="_blank">Beau Ties Ltd.</a></span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>

We have a warm place in our hearts for the Beau Ties team: we interviewed their president, Cy Tall, on <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose184" target="_blank">Episode 184</a> of our show. You can listen here:<div>

If you end up with a Sherlockian-themed mask, take a photo of yourself in it and send it in. We'd love to see that your mask is afoot!</div><div><br /></div><div>--</div>