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Episode 174: Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Was Not

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Christopher Sequeira is a familiar name among those who enjoy speculative fiction. That's the intersection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and super hero. And that's where his connection with Sherlock Holmes resides as well. Where did Chris first get inspired in this direction?<br />
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In the latest book he has edited, <i>Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Was Not</i>, Chris assembled authors to write short stories that share this premise: what if Sherlock Holmes teamed up with doctors other than John H. Watson? If there are parallel universes out there, then there's an infinite number of possibilities. It's a unique angle, and Chris's own story sets it up with great gusto.<br />
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 Join us for this discussion of what's possible and hear about Chris's approach to his craft, as well as some fascinating stories about Harlan Ellison and Fu Manchu.<br />
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<li>This episode: <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose174" target="_blank">ihose.co/ihose174</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Sequeira" target="_blank">Christopher Sequeira</a> (Wikipedia)</li>
<li><i><a href="https://amzn.to/2Z3btBt" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Was Not</a></i> (Amazon)</li>
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<li><i><a href="https://amzn.to/2Tu5a8Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes</a></i> (Charles Prepolec, ed.)</li>
<li><i><a href="https://amzn.to/2yVh8it" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes: The Dark Detective</a></i></li>
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Episode 174: Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Was Not

“he was not the man that they had known” [CREE] Christopher Sequeira is a familiar name among those who enjoy speculative fictio...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – Cerebral Punishment

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“he kept on worrying her until she got brain fever” [COPP] </h4>
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We've always been fascinated with the use of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_fever" target="_blank">brain fever</a> as a malady in the Canon. Brain fever is a medical condition where a part of the brain becomes inflamed and causes symptoms that present as a fever.<br />
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As such, diagnoses might range from encephalitis to meningitis to scarlet fever. But if we look at the sufferers of brain fever in the Sherlock Holmes stories, this was something else entirely.<br />
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Think about the conditions under which each of these individuals came down with brain fever:<br />
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<li><b>Alice Rucastle</b> ("The Copper Beeches") was harassed and mentally abused by her father.</li>
<li><b>Nancy Barclay</b> ("The Crooked Man") was visited by a past love she thought long dead.</li>
<li><b>Rachel Howells</b> ("The Musgrave Ritual") knew that the butler did it, but had other plans.</li>
<li><b>Percy Phelps</b> ("The Naval Treaty") had the responsibility of the Empire on his shoulders when he lost his homework.</li>
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Each of them had a severe mental shock before contracting brain fever. These were all what we would today call a nervous breakdown or something more specific of a mental illness: anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, etc. </div>
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Interestingly, four of these occurred in <i>The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes</i> (CARD, CROO, NAVA, MUSG), with the other (COPP) being the final installment in <i>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</i>. What was happening in Arthur Conan Doyle's life at the time he wrote these (c. mid-1892–mid-1893)? </div>
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Was someone in his life under particular duress that caused them to exhibit such symptoms, and that in turn influenced his writing? We're not aware of anyone previously exploring this hypothesis (although we'd be glad to hear if we're wrong).</div>
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And of course there's mental stress happening at Baker Street Elementary...<br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; 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 style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span></div>
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Baker Street Elementary – Cerebral Punishment

“he kept on worrying her until she got brain fever” [COPP] We've always been fascinated with the use of brain fever as a malad...

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by Scott Monty

Celebrating Watson's Birthday

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<b>“It is useless for us to pretend that we do not know you, Dr. Watson” [HOUN] </b></h4>
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We've been seeing lots of posts around the internet about Watson's birthday today, and we thought we'd add some perspective here to bring it all together.<br />
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We were tipped off by a post from David Marcum's <a href="https://17stepprogram.blogspot.com/2016/08/happy-164th-birthday-dr-john-h-watson.html?fbclid=IwAR2G88xxR3aS66sQG6y-yncBD3e6Wr0gz9MMDFaNOsNKh6oEH8riMnYBS5s" target="_blank">A Seventeen Step Program</a> blog, from August of 2016. There he did a good job of noting that August 7 was a widely-accepted date, first claimed by William S. Baring-Gould in his groundbreaking biography <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2GSVoIk" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street</a></i>. (However, as Marcum notes, there are no reasons given for that date.)<br />
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Watson's presence was a necessity to Sherlock Holmes. The detective encouraged his participation in their adventures, once remarking, "I am lost without my Boswell."<br />
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And so too would we be.<br />
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For without Watson's stalwart nature and descriptive prose, we'd miss so much about Sherlock Holmes. From his very cases to his moods and activities throughout, Watson's observations of Holmes gave us just about everything we know about the world's first consulting detective.<br />
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Holmes once chided Watson's abilities, saying, "You see but you do not observe," but that's really not the case, is it? After all, Watson's keen observations gave us all of the tone and color of the Canon. He is the heart and soul of <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>, while Holmes is offstage for the majority of the book.<br />
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When a journalist once called Watson "underdeveloped" and "boring and slow and lifeless," we jumped at the opportunity <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2012/04/friend-and-colleague-dr-watson-nobl_4.html?fbclid=IwAR0PaH79G_HPAXVYUSs4idwWLmiIyGOR8TKJ5ShU1UvIFIcY8k9eVQarRik#.XUskrOhKjb1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">to defend the good doctor</a>. Because he is worthy of our respect and love.<br />
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Edward Hardwicke famously portrayed Watson in the Granada series, and <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2011/05/and-went-out-houn_17.html?fbclid=IwAR3wjTpoRxOxe1I2Btr8g2JkB9eSAv_0zkOChXNnFpcCzrcXovjokX2w8Mg#.XUskv-hKjb0" target="_blank">our remembrance of him</a> spanned visual and audio media.<br />
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Over the course of some 136 episodes of <a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/" target="_blank">Trifles</a> (so far), we talked about Watson and various aspects of his life. From <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles02" target="_blank">his time in the city</a> after returning from war to <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles23" target="_blank">his marriage</a>, his <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles87" target="_blank">medical capabilities</a>, and a wonderful <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles135" target="_blank">two-part</a> <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles136" target="_blank">series</a> on his youth with Bob Katz, we've given Watson his due.<br />
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Here's a playlist of <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles/sets/dr-watson" target="_blank">Dr. Watson-related episodes</a>:<br />
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And here's the link to <a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/search/label/Watson" target="_blank">all of the show notes for those episodes</a> (or simply click on the "Watson" label on the site).<br />
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If you'd like to celebrate Watson by getting a gift for a fellow Sherlockian (or yourself!), we're offering mugs and t-shirts in the style of the Fab 4, with <a href="https://ihearofsherlock.myshopify.com/search?q=Watson" target="_blank">various things related to Watson</a> (click on the link, or simply search for Watson at <a href="http://ihearofsherlock.shopify.com/">ihearofsherlock.shopify.com</a>). Our store is only for U.S. customers for now; we're hoping to expand soon. (Now offering <b><span style="color: red;">25% off</span></b> for the month of Watson's birthday)<br />
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Four things associated with Watson:<br />
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Watson's stand-ins when he skipped off with Holmes:<br />
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Watson's medical kit:<br />
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John Watson, crime fighter:<br />
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There's so much that can be said about Dr. Watson.<br />
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What's your favorite way to remember him?<br />
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Celebrating Watson's Birthday

“It is useless for us to pretend that we do not know you, Dr. Watson” [HOUN] Sketch of Dr. Watson by Peter Cushing We've been se...

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Save the Date – Sherlock Holmes and the British Empire

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We've just received notice that the <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/" target="_blank">Baker Street Irregulars</a> (BSI) will be hosting a conference in the summer of 2020.<br />
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The conference is titled <b>Sherlock Holmes and the British Empire</b> and will be held from July 17–19, 2020 at <a href="https://visitbearmountain.com/" target="_blank">Bear Mountain Inn</a> in West Point, New York. More details will be forthcoming, and registration will open in January.<br />
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The BSI is a literary society dedicated to keeping green the memory of Sherlock Holmes. It publishes <i><a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2001/05/01/subscribe-bsj/" target="_blank">The Baker Street Journal</a></i> (four quarterly issues, plus a Christmas Annual), numerous books from the <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/the-bsi-press/" target="_blank">BSI Press</a>, and hosts the annual <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/bsi-weekend/" target="_blank">BSI Weekend</a> in New York City each January.<br />
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In addition, the BSI occasionally hosts conferences and expeditions. In the past, these have included sojourns to investigate <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2004/10/22/murderland/" target="_blank">the areas mentioned in <i>The Valley of Fear</i></a> (Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, 2004),  the <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2008/09/01/tangled-skein/" target="_blank">American parts of <i>A Study in Scarlet</i></a> (Salt Lake City, Utah, 2008), as well as events dedicated to <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2010/01/25/harvard-set/" target="_blank">Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</a> (Harvard University, 2009), <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2015/12/31/behind-the-canonical-screen/" target="_blank">film</a> (UCLA, 2012), and <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2016/09/09/mind-art-sherlock-holmes/" target="_blank">The Mind and Art of Sherlock Holmes</a> (Chautauqua Institute, 2016).<br />
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The very next BSI event is called <a href="http://bsiarchivelilly.org/" target="_blank">Building an Archive</a> and it is slated for November 8-10, 2019 to celebrate the move of the BSI Archive to the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana. More information at that link.<br />
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If you're interested in receiving more information about these events, as well as regular notifciations from the BSI on the publication schedule of the BSJ, events and other related topics, you can <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/bsi-news-via-email/" target="_blank">sign up for their email updates</a>.<br />
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Save the Date – Sherlock Holmes and the British Empire

"your Majesty's plan" [SCAN] We've just received notice that the Baker Street Irregulars (BSI) will be hosting a co...

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Where Did I See That Sherlock Holmes Quote?

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Did you ever have a moment when you were trying to remember the origin of a Sherlock Holmes quote, but you just couldn't quite place it?<br />
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Maybe you remember the quote exactly. Or perhaps just the gist of the quote, but not the exact words. And you go to your favorite source for searching the stories, putting in a variety of search terms, but nothing comes up.<br />
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Then you spend some time trying to recall if you got the quote just right, and where you may have come across it. Was it something Holmes said? Was it an exchange with Watson? Or with a client? Was it uttered in Baker Street, or out at the scene of an investigation?<br />
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Where did I see it? Where did I see it?<br />
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I had one of those moments recently. I wanted to source this (ostensibly) Canonical quote and insert it into some conversation thread on Facebook or Twitter, and in those instances I like to have the story from which the quote is taken.<br />
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The quote in question was was:<br />
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But I just couldn't find it.<br />
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I remembered the quote vividly. I searched every iteration of how I seemed to remember it. And still, nothing.<br />
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And then it hit me.<br />
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The quote wasn't from the Canon at all. It was from one of the Granada episodes with Jeremy Brett. It was from the opening scene with Dr. Huxtable coming to after having passed out on the hearth rug. Here's the context:<br />
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A small occurrence perhaps but own small think in a way that a vibrating needle may signal an earthquake."</blockquote>
It's a testament to the team at Granada that they were able to adapt a scene from the original story, but add their own details and dialog in such away that it fit perfectly with what we would expect to read on the page.<br />
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That was certainly the case with the writing team for BBC Radio when <a href="http://bertcoules.co.uk/">Bert Coules</a> was the head writer for the project that resulted in the entire Sherlock Holmes canon being dramatized for radio. There were instances when the team had to create situations for listeners that were not expressly written out by Watson. The writers had to infer and invent. Bert explains the entire process in <i><a href="http://wessexpress.com/html/221bbc.html">221 BBC: Writing for the World's Only Completely Dramatised Canon and Beyond</a></i>.<br />
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When a writing team is fully invested in the project and has an intimate knowledge of the characters and style of the original material, it's more likely that a new scene or dialog will be just as believable (if not more so!) than the source material.<br />
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It certainly has fooled me more than once. How about you?<br />
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We had occasion to speak with Bert Coules about radio adaptations over the course of two episodes of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere: <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose68">Episode 68</a> and <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose69">Episode 69</a>.<br />
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Where Did I See That Sherlock Holmes Quote?

"what a blind beetle I have been" [PRIO] Did you ever have a moment when you were trying to remember the origin of a Sher...

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by Scott Monty

Episode 173: Another Case of Identity

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It isn't every day you run into someone who crashed an invitation-only event 45 years ago. When you add to the mix that the event was all-male and the interloper was a female—well, now we have the beginning of a good story.<br />
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For years it remained a mystery, which is just fine with <b>Rosemary Herbert</b>, our guest for this episode and the very same person who pulled off the caper. It's the perfect genre, as Rosemary has been involved in the world of mystery fiction for nearly her entire life.<br />
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Her literary connections are broad and deep (as links below to books she's edited and written will attest), and she has cultivated connections in the world of Sherlock Holmes that span from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Symons">Julian Symons</a> to Dan Posnansky, BSI and more. Join us as we delve into this fascinating world with Rosemary.<br />
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We're pleased to have Mattias Boström with us again for another "As We Go to Press." But we need to take a one-episode hiatus from the <b>Canonical Couplet</b> quiz—which means you have an extra two weeks to listen to <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose172">Episode 172</a> and give that a shot for a prize.<br />
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Episode 173: Another Case of Identity

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Murder in Minnesota! Book Review

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Several years ago, I saw author <a href="http://www.petehautman.com/" target="_blank">Pete Hautman</a> speak at a Young Adult Writer's conference in Denver. Hautman explained to the crowd that when he submitted his book <i>How to Steal a Car</i> to his agent, his agent was surprised that Pete had written a young adult novel. The agent explained to the author that it was young adult because it had a fifteen year-old protagonist. Hautman replied that he just wrote a book. He didn't intend for it to be considered "young adult" in nature.<br />
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The same could be said for Jeff Falkingham's excellent <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2le3kvN">Murder in Minnesota!</a></i> a book combining two of his Sherlock Holmes adventures and both with the same narrator, Petey Smith who is 12 years old in the first story and then 22 in the second.  The stories are well researched, capture the local flavor of life in both small towns and cities in late 19th century Minnesota, and are excellent Sherlock Holmes mysteries. For those who don't mind seeing the great detective outside of England, this is a must have collection.<br />
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The first adventure, <i>Sherlock Holmes and the County Courthouse Caper</i>, takes place in 1886 when Holmes helps solve a series of grisly murders in The Minnesota River Valley.  The narrator of this adventure is 12 year old Petey Smith who, along with his family, befriends Holmes.<br />
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Petey makes for a fun narrator, giving us a child's eye view of a complex mystery. Imagine if Wiggins had narrated part of <i>The Sign of the Fou</i>r, and you get an idea of the tone for this book. Falkingham does a particularly good job of blending in historical facts about Minnesota and includes an authentic historic railroad map of Western Minnesota which is important to the story.  Falkingham also has good knowledge of Sherlock Holmes lore. Fans of Baring-Gould's take on Holmes will know why Holmes was in America in 1886.<br />
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I only caution that the murder victims in the book are described in savage detail and may be disturbing for sensitive young readers. I'd give the book a PG-13 rating, definitely okay for teenagers, but may be too intense for tweens.<br />
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The second adventure, <i>Sherlock Holmes: In Search of the Source</i> takes place ten years after the Courthouse Caper. Petey is still the narrator, but he is older, on the verge of getting married. The mystery of this adventure involves a murder committed at the Schutte building, a boarding house in St. Paul. This story feels much more like a traditional Holmes adventure.<br />
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Petey, at age 22, sounds much more like a young Watson, and the adventure plays out more like a typical Doyle story with grumbling police, a mysterious man following Holmes, and Petey telling the reader of Holmes's incredible skills of deduction. Falkingham also keeps up with blending in his historical facts about Minnesota into the narrative.<br />
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We learn that St. Paul could have been named Pig's Eye if fate had taken a different turn, and much about the beer barons in the St. Paul area. My only complaint with this story is that at times I felt that the historic information got in the way of the narrative and the story was a little padded. That is a minor quibble, and I would still give this adventure five stars.<br />
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For those of you who don't mind reading Sherlock Holmes adventures away from the foggy streets of London and sans Watson as narrator, <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2le3kvN">Murder in Minnesota!</a></i> is a book for you. Falkingham is a talented writer, and I hope he writes more Holmes adventures with Petey Smith. After all, there is plenty of time in the twentieth century when Holmes could have returned to Minnesota.<br />
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<i><b>Jeff Falkingham </b>has been a fan of Sherlock Holmes since he first saw Peter Cushing in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959). Besides writing two pastiches about Holmes, Jeff has created a program that has drawn rave reviews at more than 90 libraries, schools, historical societies and social clubs and book clubs across Minnesota and its neighboring states. <b>He will be appearing  at the the triennial Holmes conference in Minneapolis August 8-11. Visit him at his Dealer's Table.</b></i><br />
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<a href="https://ihose.co/ihose166">Episode 166: Dark Places, Wicked Companions, and Strange Experiences</a> is a look at the upcoming Minnesota conference.<br />
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<i>Derrick Belanger is the author of the #1 bestselling book in its category <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmes-Adventure-Peculiar-Provenance/dp/1519511957/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=thebakerstree-20&linkId=9e2003200f68f2fe44eb4bcdd1a73f6d&linkCode=ktl">Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Peculiar Provenance</a><img border="0" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=thebakerstree-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=9e2003200f68f2fe44eb4bcdd1a73f6d&_cb=1451973203084" />, which was in the top 200 bestselling books on Amazon. He also is the author of the MacDougall Twins with Sherlock Holmes books, the latest of which is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Dinosaur-MacDougall-Sherlock-Holmes-ebook/dp/B017862MVS/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=thebakerstree-20&linkId=5293cce6e7483fecbc2d08a80a6fd7fa&linkCode=ktl">Curse of the Deadly Dinosaur</a><img border="0" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=thebakerstree-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=5293cce6e7483fecbc2d08a80a6fd7fa&_cb=1451973247482" />, and he edited the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle horror anthology <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Study-Terror-Revolutionary-Stories-Supernatural-ebook/dp/B00P4E8AVI/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=thebakerstree-20&linkId=a71c0c4edf6b4a9c56848bf35d8b468a&linkCode=ktl">A Study in Terror: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Revolutionary Stories of Fear and the Supernatural</a><img border="0" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=thebakerstree-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=a71c0c4edf6b4a9c56848bf35d8b468a&_cb=1451973259426" />. Mr. Belanger is co-owner the publishing company <a href="http://www.belangerbooks.com/">Belanger Books</a> which focuses on new Sherlock Holmes anthologies such as <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Watson-Sherlock-Anthology-Stories/dp/1533202273/">Beyond Watson</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmes-Before-Baker-Street-ebook/dp/B071G6D1BD">Sherlock Holmes: Before Baker Street</a>, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QZ3W4CR">Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of Steampunk</a>. Also, In 2018, Belanger Books released the first ever ebook editions of the original <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07L32N24C">Solar Pons</a> books. Derrick resides in Colorado and continues compiling unpublished works by Dr. John H. Watson.</i>

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The same might be said of the background and style of Henry Ward Beecher. According to Wikipedia,<br />
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"Henry Ward Beecher was the son of Lyman Beecher, a Calvinist minister who became one of the best-known evangelists of his era. Several of his brothers and sisters became well-known educators and activists, most notably Harriet Beecher Stowe, who achieved worldwide fame with her abolitionist novel <i>Uncle Tom's Cabin</i>. Henry Ward Beecher graduated from Amherst College in 1834 and Lane Theological Seminary in 1837... He soon acquired fame on the lecture circuit for his novel oratorical style in which he employed humor, dialect, and slang. Over the course of his ministry, he developed a theology emphasizing God's love above all else."</blockquote>
Given that many evangelical leaders of the time preached fire and brimstone, the Beecher approach must have seemed quite unorthodox. Unorthodox in the way that a certain consulting detective's work was considered.<br />
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