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Baker Street Elementary – As the Wheel Turns

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“Knowledge of Philosophy.—Nil.” [STUD] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnhihYSHmjkQ7sSatoHe_NM3h8SJO8DM6nwvelyUeYjwM90mywwWGrvBfht5HTf2Ci3XKLPJm0O5NEaWiJcx08rg2NOcq1CpZ7JPP-U2IzLbPq2RCVK7GXtboFjaWIFuGB-VusXCe6UjNpR4vSOXEMNUCNmA-vHwheQRGpTd3CYbqH5pkLbBZ_-3Y_Rg/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20150.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnhihYSHmjkQ7sSatoHe_NM3h8SJO8DM6nwvelyUeYjwM90mywwWGrvBfht5HTf2Ci3XKLPJm0O5NEaWiJcx08rg2NOcq1CpZ7JPP-U2IzLbPq2RCVK7GXtboFjaWIFuGB-VusXCe6UjNpR4vSOXEMNUCNmA-vHwheQRGpTd3CYbqH5pkLbBZ_-3Y_Rg/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20150.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In his initial assessment of Sherlock Holmes's limits, Watson would have us believe that Holmes was completely uninformed as to philosophy. But Holmes's actions—and later his words—tell us differently.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">One of the universal similarities in many religions and in philosophy is the cyclical structure of things:  nature and human nature are repetitive and predictable.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Ice ages follow eons of warmth, only to be followed by warming once again. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Volcanoes rise from the ocean depths, creating islands that later teem with life. But reactivated lava can snuff out that life and build more land mass.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">On Ash Wednesday, the Christian religion reminds us that "you are from dust and unto dust you shall return." The Hindu religion has a belief in the cyclical and self-renewing nature of all things. It’s called <i>saṃsāra</i>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In the Victorian era in which Holmes and Watson lived, a sense of order and predictability was prized above all else. This is why clients sought the help of Sherlock Holmes: he used his logic and knowledge of past crimes to help make sense of the uneasy present.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In fact, he recommended to Inspector MacDonald to study the history of crime, indicating that he would find trends to help guide him in future crimes: </div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Mr. Mac, the most practical thing that you ever did in your life would be to shut yourself up for three months and read twelve hours a day at the annals of crime. Everything comes in circles—even Professor Moriarty. Jonathan Wild was the hidden force of the London criminals, to whom he sold his brains and his organization on a fifteen per cent commission. <b>The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again</b>. I’ll tell you one or two things about Moriarty which may interest you.” (<i>The Valley of Fear</i>)</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Was Holmes ignorant of philosophy? Perhaps in the traditional sense of studying particular philosophers. But in practical terms, Sherlock Holmes understood and embraced some of the lessons that philosophy teaches. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">By having an institutional memory and a broader understanding of human nature from plenty of reading, he prepared — just as we can — for what might come next.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Such wisdom is less like a map and more like a compass: it provides a sense of direction to avoid getting lost.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The decisions we make will be based on the terrain in front of us.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And like Holmes, when we recognize patterns, it means sure footing.</div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Of course, it's never sure footing at Baker Street Elementary...</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9BUu8XO4-1AJs99tkWV6_vS_YL1J9xsK0MqTYIWfsb4bPZ7BF4BpaFhFOsXj2kPA1-Gj2BTlM9BdGm7YPdEUPfzqgCJA2aIYdM-tZqgaTa7E23IX_6mrRoi-65vaVN2n46ExuCTHY8So2sXsjHYga0cezQhA78btN0sVCO9Q2NUkBfDF9nPDVyRSZ4A/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20150.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9BUu8XO4-1AJs99tkWV6_vS_YL1J9xsK0MqTYIWfsb4bPZ7BF4BpaFhFOsXj2kPA1-Gj2BTlM9BdGm7YPdEUPfzqgCJA2aIYdM-tZqgaTa7E23IX_6mrRoi-65vaVN2n46ExuCTHY8So2sXsjHYga0cezQhA78btN0sVCO9Q2NUkBfDF9nPDVyRSZ4A/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20150.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi1bYZbVtNH9c5qkkEwGJyFYw5cGmw_EV4HN57v7SyX0FdqiJniLkEOxRgODgbQP7sk84uyzsNXUv7mhSBRgMl3rpiL5gE5cldvbbTOVdS3pbxdxzQ1bQhNUIGPBX5vEiSmsdif7Nw5nNFmrVqjTvfASIw-SpYIRgO7lqjR9c1vMWYezfNJuDArkkGLQ/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20150.3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi1bYZbVtNH9c5qkkEwGJyFYw5cGmw_EV4HN57v7SyX0FdqiJniLkEOxRgODgbQP7sk84uyzsNXUv7mhSBRgMl3rpiL5gE5cldvbbTOVdS3pbxdxzQ1bQhNUIGPBX5vEiSmsdif7Nw5nNFmrVqjTvfASIw-SpYIRgO7lqjR9c1vMWYezfNJuDArkkGLQ/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20150.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdw62T_xbdx-2ed56scQvzcdVffP0tSxO_3KGTL0JXfd8BQ3SYk6ZmOJpx0hYwTx7PFqeOLGeX4VYU-0zxsyjWTAh3J3kbwMCPyXzcuL7cqJh1PCUFGqVrhINNPoZrZmoFNyVBGaNOWKvPm1JYsf4OwYIYvMyg501YUBMHX9-WaIBnf4yH6xGKGj_UxQ/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20150.4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdw62T_xbdx-2ed56scQvzcdVffP0tSxO_3KGTL0JXfd8BQ3SYk6ZmOJpx0hYwTx7PFqeOLGeX4VYU-0zxsyjWTAh3J3kbwMCPyXzcuL7cqJh1PCUFGqVrhINNPoZrZmoFNyVBGaNOWKvPm1JYsf4OwYIYvMyg501YUBMHX9-WaIBnf4yH6xGKGj_UxQ/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20150.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> follows the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in Victorian London. 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Baker Street Elementary – As the Wheel Turns

“Knowledge of Philosophy.—Nil.” [STUD] In his initial assessment of Sherlock Holmes's limits, Watson would have us believe that Holmes ...

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by Scott Monty

Episode 260: A Dose of Curare

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally” [STUD] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh76OSGKgxfPxoWUffzWRoa6h1vQ1xTVniDtvcscfyPhbfh5bKJRJ8ZB3v1KuSFQSNnO2vaXlnkxfbu1Ui5jukhryon6sgvWUl8ast8oOPRGK2xO3di8s7-egNeMZ-lrtEuu2JYs4YoH2feUZnoLBbg1Q9EJvBX16NH1h2uYAWs8a2YGDVRJMQJW0t56A/s1593/ihose260%20widescreen.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="1593" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh76OSGKgxfPxoWUffzWRoa6h1vQ1xTVniDtvcscfyPhbfh5bKJRJ8ZB3v1KuSFQSNnO2vaXlnkxfbu1Ui5jukhryon6sgvWUl8ast8oOPRGK2xO3di8s7-egNeMZ-lrtEuu2JYs4YoH2feUZnoLBbg1Q9EJvBX16NH1h2uYAWs8a2YGDVRJMQJW0t56A/w640-h476/ihose260%20widescreen.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div><p>There's a large number of Sherlock Holmes stories that involve poisons or toxins. Once you begin to tally them up, you may be surprised, as was our guest in this episode.</p><p>Marina Stajic, BSI ("Curare"), ASH ("Lady Frances Carfax") has written and presented extensively on Sherlock Holmes and poisons. Her chosen profession makes her the ideal individual to do this: she was a forensic toxicologist. Her Sherlockian scholarship has appeared in The Baker Street Journal, The Sherlock Holmes Journal, The Serpentine Muse, and numerous BSI Press books.</p><p>Marina joined us to talk about the confluence of her career and her Sherlockian interests, her assessment of Sherlock Holmes's abilities regarding poisons and toxins, and shares the story behind her infamous display of Edwardian undergarments.</p><p>It looks like last episode's big surprise caught our listeners' attention: we have a winner of the the <b>Canonical Couplet</b> quiz — plus a new puzzle for you to solve. 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Episode 260: A Dose of Curare

“Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally” [STUD] There's a large number of Sherlock Holmes stories that involve poisons or ...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – Hobby Horse

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“this is my special hobby” [HOUN] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHBxwDBGgpjtHacnFEbbMTCeVPER7bjwFbxokml3UNYoybqyo_YoSvrHasw4rXE__ho366pYyWn2uh_I7tYqP4cqiO5P33hyd0AgbFXZKfUJw1M26qIeptteRqNM51ysr9DjDFSSSZSsqX8UG1HH0EpCekoOwp4k4_D2_dJ034Wzum4KinH_i4xjHrtA/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20149.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHBxwDBGgpjtHacnFEbbMTCeVPER7bjwFbxokml3UNYoybqyo_YoSvrHasw4rXE__ho366pYyWn2uh_I7tYqP4cqiO5P33hyd0AgbFXZKfUJw1M26qIeptteRqNM51ysr9DjDFSSSZSsqX8UG1HH0EpCekoOwp4k4_D2_dJ034Wzum4KinH_i4xjHrtA/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20149.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">There is a line in "The Copper Beeches" that doesn't get enough attention.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">When Violet Hunter investigated the uninhabited wing of the house, she was confronted by Jephro Rucastle. She questioned him about the locked room and he responded:</div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“ ‘Photography is one of my hobbies,’ said he. ‘I have made my dark room up there.’ ”</div></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This seems to be a strange claim to make, and it makes us wonder whether Mr. Rucastle had thought this through. Perhaps he was just as startled to find Miss Hunter snooping around as she was when he confronted her, and in such a circumstance he simply blurted out what seemed to be a logical explanation for an isolated and locked room.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">However, there was a flaw in his hastily-told lie: hobbyists — particularly those who dabble in a pastime that produces some kind of art — typically like to share the fruits of their labor.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Looking around the walls of the Copper Beeches, Miss Hunter would have been able to immediately discern that Rucastle's supposed hobby was a ruse. For if he were indeed an amateur photographer, wouldn't he have proudly displayed his work around the home?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Baron Gruner saw through Dr. Watson's ruse in "The Illustrious Client," as Watson claimed work kept him from researching a piece of Chinese pottery supposedly in his collection:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“If a man has a hobby he follows it up, whatever his other pursuits may be.”</div></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The natural follow-up to having a dark room for photography would have been to print and display photographs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">While Rucastle warned Violet Hunter away from the room by threat of dog, had he been a little more clever, he would have known that his ruse was about to be exposed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Let's see what the boys at Baker Street Elementary were able to expose in the way of hobbies...</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzdnU-w0PNs7ZMPvDyfFqHhJ8i3HLd717vXAEz97cgf5oSB5hOhx-TG-G-wGfc9bFxlT-rC0i01PgZr7Twf0ma5KTw5umcNKTKvunrt1JKfZSMMXQtYM9JB_Q21ahigOre8dek_VrE7ltybj_Uz38OaWUd6ASPFFzeDcwVSEclGNan2CxWqkA77wnojw/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20149.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzdnU-w0PNs7ZMPvDyfFqHhJ8i3HLd717vXAEz97cgf5oSB5hOhx-TG-G-wGfc9bFxlT-rC0i01PgZr7Twf0ma5KTw5umcNKTKvunrt1JKfZSMMXQtYM9JB_Q21ahigOre8dek_VrE7ltybj_Uz38OaWUd6ASPFFzeDcwVSEclGNan2CxWqkA77wnojw/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20149.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDZHUx40O2a2x8qW0GMdrOgzgUbXLWpfjjcn1HrLDNR9zcIjrYMrBGosnPXGc5o8nvQhEiQl_U37dd3z7Vtu1Y9AycYYfpulr_7BVhUwOiRsrisEFs93zykrVC2u4_6Bz2o25S6Zl3qsWHiGpc3kAFF-ut_cFEXlGuNg_FE5EHfym29NWRU4S6vE_2MA/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20149.3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDZHUx40O2a2x8qW0GMdrOgzgUbXLWpfjjcn1HrLDNR9zcIjrYMrBGosnPXGc5o8nvQhEiQl_U37dd3z7Vtu1Y9AycYYfpulr_7BVhUwOiRsrisEFs93zykrVC2u4_6Bz2o25S6Zl3qsWHiGpc3kAFF-ut_cFEXlGuNg_FE5EHfym29NWRU4S6vE_2MA/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20149.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBsRGXwoO-qIXmoROJLpEbFVmyXjVfgzCe4Xo61lB8S8Twd7b-bRuFAmnOLr02-E1OrJlK9SX8OoHL69zJvPcLTSIEMeLEHWU6sg3dfGg8pWzj3jPKf53UaHKjtL5XXJDWVnUj15VQjkEYEOiYol6xl11QaBEMeA8LhG-M0dXq3dW2ouPJCI1QyZNv1A/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20149.4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBsRGXwoO-qIXmoROJLpEbFVmyXjVfgzCe4Xo61lB8S8Twd7b-bRuFAmnOLr02-E1OrJlK9SX8OoHL69zJvPcLTSIEMeLEHWU6sg3dfGg8pWzj3jPKf53UaHKjtL5XXJDWVnUj15VQjkEYEOiYol6xl11QaBEMeA8LhG-M0dXq3dW2ouPJCI1QyZNv1A/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20149.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> follows the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in Victorian London. 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Baker Street Elementary – Hobby Horse

“this is my special hobby” [HOUN] There is a line in "The Copper Beeches" that doesn't get enough attention. When Violet Hunt...

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Episode 259: Sketches of Scions

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“fitting subjects for this series of sketches” [REIG]  </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjfdoTrorTnIAHLxLOXvLl5GbeNKO-bYtXnhipLz9iCp8l6te8Gc3Q3MmYT4MW1yAq3sDLax3wHkfeGvNTD0X8GvM2TshXpxO1cormr1EPIKrX3lwSThjTJcyFRXfBtBbeBVGG39BDB3We7uuwSuh6VvFiTVv4PJgreEeYFfS0cEBIljYDMKWwwBLeKQ/s960/ihearofsherlcok259%20header.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjfdoTrorTnIAHLxLOXvLl5GbeNKO-bYtXnhipLz9iCp8l6te8Gc3Q3MmYT4MW1yAq3sDLax3wHkfeGvNTD0X8GvM2TshXpxO1cormr1EPIKrX3lwSThjTJcyFRXfBtBbeBVGG39BDB3We7uuwSuh6VvFiTVv4PJgreEeYFfS0cEBIljYDMKWwwBLeKQ/w640-h480/ihearofsherlcok259%20header.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div><p>One of Burt's and Scott's great interests is music. When it converges with the world of Sherlock Holmes, it becomes all the more interesting.</p><p>Joshua Harvey lives at that convergence and has some wonderful stories to tell about his history with music, with Sherlock Holmes, and with Patrick Gowers, the composer of the score of the Granada/ITV Sherlock Holmes series.</p><p>In addition to his work with Gowers' material, Josh threw himself into a Canonical composing fit during the pandemic, writing theme songs for a variety of Sherlockian societies (aka "scions") that met both online and in person. We have samples of his work that may give other societies ideas about future commissions.</p><p>There's a BIG surprise with regard to the <b>Canonical Couplet</b> quiz — one that you won't want to miss. And a prize awaits for the person who identifies the Sherlock Holmes story based on two lines of poetry and whose answer is randomly selected.</p><p>Send your answer to comment @ ihearofsherlock .com by March 14, 2023 at 11:59 a.m. EST. 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Episode 259: Sketches of Scions

“fitting subjects for this series of sketches” [REIG] One of Burt's and Scott's great interests is music. When it converges with t...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – A Generous Spirit

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“He has considerable gifts himself” [SIGN] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXKP8GtbHk5QCVPEdac91qeg0EEw0QJTj1HzJi-gEXG_LcYXwsmqhiC7ARkymx-3Thq9cYIuCnolr5Ejum7s18z95AdCVsnPlY3p-gkGl_rbb_MTn8VHtWb3I-4WLYsnmxKYWmMf-U-6iEM8sf0UxPsA6WKW2gSZhp5okwQ2Gw3VrWltOR-DCIgwc5Aw/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20148.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXKP8GtbHk5QCVPEdac91qeg0EEw0QJTj1HzJi-gEXG_LcYXwsmqhiC7ARkymx-3Thq9cYIuCnolr5Ejum7s18z95AdCVsnPlY3p-gkGl_rbb_MTn8VHtWb3I-4WLYsnmxKYWmMf-U-6iEM8sf0UxPsA6WKW2gSZhp5okwQ2Gw3VrWltOR-DCIgwc5Aw/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20148.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sherlock Holmes had a singular set of skills and knowledge. He was, as he said, "the only one in the world," [STUD] and because of those special powers, he had every reason to believe he would remain unique.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And yet, we find him again and again, demonstrating his willingness to share his secrets in an effort to advance the profession. He was more than willing to make it clear how he knew the things he knew.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Consider the times he recommended to Watson his monographs. In <i>The Sign of Four,</i> he mentioned his monograph <i>Upon the Distinction between the Ashes of the Various Tobaccoes</i>, following it up with others: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"Here is my monograph upon the tracing of footsteps, with some remarks upon the uses of plaster of Paris as a preserver of impresses. Here, too, is a curious little work upon the influence of a trade upon the form of the hand, with lithotypes of the hands of slaters, sailors, corkcutters, compositors, weavers, and diamond-polishers. That is a matter of great practical interest to the scientific detective,—especially in cases of unclaimed bodies, or in discovering the antecedents of criminals."</div></blockquote></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">There is an entire Trifles episode dedicated to <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles43" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes's Monographs</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-frameid="181" data-dashlane-rid="71479057a9330623" data-form-type="other" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5874895/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/d0161c/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Aside from the monographs, Sherlock Holmes made it clear his intention was more comprehensive. In "The Abbey Grange," Watson was hurt by Sherlock Holmes's criticism over his dramatization of certain cases. He asked Holmes with some bitterness, "Why do you not write them yourself?" The reply made it clear:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“I will, my dear Watson, I will. At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my declining years to the composition of a text-book which shall focus the whole art of detection into one volume. Our present research appears to be a case of murder.”</div></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">True experts are not afraid to be generous with their time and knowledge, for they appreciate seeing their industries advance. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">At the same time, they know how much diligence and hard work go into being at the top of their field. 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An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at </span><a href="http://www.bakerstreetelementary.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #006f85; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">.</span></div><div><div><br /></div><div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F-VumJdilF0/WJa_9TrpA3I/AAAAAAAAuO8/52U-hZ7WY4Qz2Oqo84lF8KQnF0zynZ5YQCPcB/s1600/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary.jpg" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F-VumJdilF0/WJa_9TrpA3I/AAAAAAAAuO8/52U-hZ7WY4Qz2Oqo84lF8KQnF0zynZ5YQCPcB/s640/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><br /><br /></div></div><div><i>For those who <a href="https://youtu.be/CHOpoOnkRJE?t=64" target="_blank">may have recognized the headline</a>.</i></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

Baker Street Elementary – A Generous Spirit

“He has considerable gifts himself” [SIGN] Sherlock Holmes had a singular set of skills and knowledge. He was, as he said, "the only o...

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Episode 258: The Monstrum Opus of Sherlock Holmes

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“the fruit of my leisured ease, the magnum opus” [LAST]  </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-8sDGevNH9tw2t4Juqk2BweExSjz8vqO57npWfX1jbPL3oaqOharein3WvBZUCddboM60QUe7q8GYFAgvt5jJqqYNkapUvQDHkQsMfUlC6OxEhPGgTPKsxKWzEx6V3uL8PKqUWuFklaHKGzmr1QNAdALVbaA1AQEhF0P-LLWIXprOLqILytfF3wdA1A/s1500/ihose258-wide.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="971" data-original-width="1500" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-8sDGevNH9tw2t4Juqk2BweExSjz8vqO57npWfX1jbPL3oaqOharein3WvBZUCddboM60QUe7q8GYFAgvt5jJqqYNkapUvQDHkQsMfUlC6OxEhPGgTPKsxKWzEx6V3uL8PKqUWuFklaHKGzmr1QNAdALVbaA1AQEhF0P-LLWIXprOLqILytfF3wdA1A/w640-h414/ihose258-wide.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div><p>What happens when Sherlock Holmes faces off against forces of the supernatural? Well...nothing. At least nothing in the Canon.</p><p>But unleash the creative minds of Brad Keefauver, BSI ("Winwood Reade") and Rob Nunn, BSI ("Elementary") and 17 creative Sherlockian authors and you've got <i>The Monstrum Opus of Sherlock Holmes: A Compendium of Horrors Dr. Watson Dared Not Tell</i>. We've been horror-ing for the last two episodes. Hmm.</p><p>The duo join IHOSE to talk about their influences and what they hoped for in initiating this compendium. We even hear from Burt, who contributed one of the chapters himself.</p><p>A copy of this book awaits for the winner of the next <b>Canonical Couplet</b> quiz. Simply identify the Sherlock Holmes story based on two lines of poetry; if your answer is chosen from among the correct entries, you'll win.</p><p>Send your answer to comment @ ihearofsherlock .com by February 27, 2023 at 11:59 a.m. EST. The winner will be chosen at random from among all the correct answers. 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Episode 258: The Monstrum Opus of Sherlock Holmes

“the fruit of my leisured ease, the magnum opus” [LAST] What happens when Sherlock Holmes faces off against forces of the supernatural? We...

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by Scott Monty

Miss Sherlock and Those Before Her

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“the most winning woman I ever knew” [SIGN] </h4><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNcq_PBf_B1lRWpNDiwtT6RZetq4WScm1U6lKSc6GX6kNmH3NDKfrvAv_RyxSb6DZBIE08T1bezStySDur-h61iZ2b9zY5dOQ-lvx7__KhaHQuM1VJ4iM8UxMsNrpSTFebU3hRhrtwvYShdgLoCTFvtNY5fvIGuz1486jHsuQ7eFvu3AzkoK2wBpgpQ/s1590/Miss%20Sherlock%202018.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="930" data-original-width="1590" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNcq_PBf_B1lRWpNDiwtT6RZetq4WScm1U6lKSc6GX6kNmH3NDKfrvAv_RyxSb6DZBIE08T1bezStySDur-h61iZ2b9zY5dOQ-lvx7__KhaHQuM1VJ4iM8UxMsNrpSTFebU3hRhrtwvYShdgLoCTFvtNY5fvIGuz1486jHsuQ7eFvu3AzkoK2wBpgpQ/w640-h374/Miss%20Sherlock%202018.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Shortly after the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes in print, there were pastiches, parodies, and impersonations. Since that time, the detective has been portrayed hundreds of times on the screen.</div><div><br /></div><div>And in recent years, there have been several female incarnations of Sherlock Holmes and/or Dr. Watson. Let's track how we got here and take a deeper look at one particular series.</div> <div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">They Might Be Giants</h3>It began as far back as 1971 in <i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067848/" target="_blank">They Might Be Giants</a></i>, when George C. Scott played Justin Playfair, a judge who retreats into fantasy and thinks he is Sherlock Holmes after his wife's death. When attempts are made to institutionalize him, he catches the attention of Dr. Mildred Watson, a psychiatrist. <div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rSD5yKu27es" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><div><br /> <br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Elementary</h3></div><div>In September of 2012, CBS aired <i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2191671/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" target="_blank">Elementary</a></i>, a modern interpretation with a female Dr. Joan Watson played by Lucy Liu. It is set in New York City. Dr. Watson had been a surgeon but was never in the military. In this, Holmes is portrayed by Jonny Lee Miller as a petulant and obnoxious post-rehab drug addict. Aiden Quinn is dependable as Captain Thomas Gregson.  <br /> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ff-XiZzJLxw" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><br />James O'Leary, BSI ("James, Son of the Grimpen Postmaster") spoke was interviewed about <i>Elementary</i> on <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose150" target="_blank">Episode 150 of IHOSE</a>.<br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">221B</h3><div> In July 2013, the <a href="https://youtu.be/tcby_Fc1yko" target="_blank"><i>221B</i></a> web series premiered. It is a period setting with a female Sherlock Holmes. This was an interesting take with a female Holmes and a male Watson sharing digs at 221B. While not a big-budget production,  the series was interesting, intelligent and done with care.<div>   <br /><center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tcby_Fc1yko" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></center> <br /><br /> <br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Herlock</h3> Around 2015, the <i><a href="http://herlock.us/" target="_blank">Herlock</a> </i>web series went  for broke with a modern interpretation using females for both lead characters. In this incarnation, Watson is a veterinary student.</div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KKm2maRCpLc" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><br /> <br /><i> Herlock </i>was written by Lee Eric Shackleford, BSI ("Woodman's Lee"), a guest on <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose152" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 152 of IHOSE</a>.<br /> <br /> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;">Miss Sherlock</h3> Then, in 2019, I came across another incarnation of the Master and the Boswell that was part of an HBO subscription.  This program, <i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7755494/" target="_blank">Miss Sherlock</a></i>, was created in 2018 and with it came with a female Sherlock and a female Dr. Wato-san, set in modern-day Tokyo. <br /><br /><center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/V0FIUz5OpT4" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></center> <br /> <br /> <br /> Unless you speak Japanese, you might need a bigger screen to read the subtitles. The subtitles will not concern you because your eyes will already be riveted to the screen. Smart scripts and clean direction keep the action moving.  <br /> <br /> <br /> You will recognize the stories, but just as you recognize one and think about the original tale, it will unfold in unexpected ways. The writing is very good, the visual impact of every scene is so well done.  <br /> <br /> <br /> Sherlock and Wato-san rent an apartment from Kimi Hatano, in a house that looks like a Victorian throwback in the midst of a Tokyo neighborhood. Their digs are cluttered with what you would expect from Sherlock. All of the places and homes they visit are the expected minimalist, which provides a stark contrast. There are chemical experiments there too, but one of the results is a cucumber-based beauty cream.  <br /> <br /> <br /> Sara "Sherlock" Shelly Futaba is every bit the genius detective, playing the most intense version of the Master. She is a fashionista, solving each crime in catwalk-ready but practical outfits and chasing down leads in stiletto heels. She is ruthless and unfeeling in her pursuit of the truth. Her instrument is the cello, which she plays flawlessly. The dressing gown has been replaced by delightful pajamas. She is superbly played by Yūko Takeuchi. <br /><br /> Dr. Wato ("Wato-san") has been a surgeon in Syria with PTSD who is now trying to find herself and romance. Sherlock is completely offended by her sense of fashion. She is definitely the long-suffering type, well portrayed by Shihori Kanjiya. <br /><br /> This version of the landlady is Kimi Hatano who is played by Ran Ito. Wato-san cooks traditional meals in her kitchen. She adds a lot to the ladies' lives, and is involved more than Mrs. Hudson was in the Canon. <br /><br /> Season 1 of <i>Miss Sherlock</i> contains 8 episodes. During the season we see their relationship evolve as their partnership grows. However, both are still insisting they are not friends.</div><div>  <br />The style of these episodes, and the stories, compare favorably to BBC's <i>Sherlock</i>. Although it is hard to do a side-by-side comparison,  I found <i>Miss Sherlock</i> to be more riveting, with better stories, and less impressed with itself.  <br /> <br /> <br /> Familiar characters abound, with their own modern and Japanese take. Among them, you will meet irresistible versions of Mycroft and Lestrade. It's like the familiar faces Dorothy saw when she woke up after the tornado in the scene from "The Wizard of Oz". They all seem so well cast, and make you happy to recognize them. As with the plots, there will be twists in the lineup.</div><div>  <br />When you can, give this smart, great, modern interpretation of Sherlock Holmes and his <br /> world a try. Unless you speak Japanese, be sure to watch when you can focus on the screen. <br /><br /> The English subtitles of this Japanese program remind of a story from the attempts at language translation during the Cold War, which may be apocryphal. Scientists had a computer translate "the spirit was willing, but the flesh was weak” to Russian, then translated the result from Russian back to English to the phrase “the vodka was good, but the meat was rotten.” </div><div><br /></div><div>In the case of <i>Miss Sherlock</i>, the results are astonishingly good. "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" translates to Japanese and back as "Eliminate the impossible…and you are left with the unlikely truth".  <br /><br /></div><div> As of this writing, HBO has not responded to my question about Season 2 of <i>Miss Sherlock</i>. Even if there were one planned, it would have to be recast, due to the untimely death of Yûko Takeuchi, who played Sherlock, in September 2020.<br /><br /></div><div><i>Miss Sherlock</i> is available on HBO Max, HBO Asia, and Hulu Japan. Individual episodes and the full season can also be <a href="https://amzn.to/3RS5xbz" target="_blank">purchased on Amazon</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>Full information, including cast and crew, is available on <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7755494/" target="_blank">IMDb</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div></div>

Miss Sherlock and Those Before Her

“the most winning woman I ever knew” [SIGN] Shortly after the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes in print, there were pastiches, parodies,...

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by M. M. M.

Early Review — Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> “our review of the situation” [SHOS] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAoVlch8mPs-kKedc8WrpyQkds53qimavjDLWCi2URP7sDxOyl0SM8dVQBvQQEYpyoVyuSmjwFcmXEwpvcUGnbyDvaWOFtOkzsq0hE9XH-4XDK_W5nB_7dijwo8HdgalsZzPwHg8yztSJlJtxItk06y-g1gO1PmEVyDrlcO-1Rj4wrDOUJfrjKuBWwNQ/s616/SH%20The%20Awakened.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="616" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAoVlch8mPs-kKedc8WrpyQkds53qimavjDLWCi2URP7sDxOyl0SM8dVQBvQQEYpyoVyuSmjwFcmXEwpvcUGnbyDvaWOFtOkzsq0hE9XH-4XDK_W5nB_7dijwo8HdgalsZzPwHg8yztSJlJtxItk06y-g1gO1PmEVyDrlcO-1Rj4wrDOUJfrjKuBWwNQ/w640-h366/SH%20The%20Awakened.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>In a private Facebook group we run called <a href="https://ihose.co/strangersroom" target="_blank">The Strangers Room</a>, one of our members posted a review of the new video game <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/1949030/" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened</a>.</p><p>The game is described by its creator as "a Lovecraft meets Sherlock Holmes crossover, <i>The Awakened</i> puts you up against the legendary Cthulhu Mythos."</p><p>Here's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZOtzu5E8-k&ab_channel=IGN" target="_blank">the official trailer</a> for the game:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uZOtzu5E8-k" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It's a fascinating concept. Here's what member Ro had to say after playing the demo version: </p><p></p><blockquote><p>Frogwares, the studio behind all the best Sherlock Holmes video games, gave access to their demo of <i>Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened</i> game remake to certain tier <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/frogwares/sherlock-holmes-the-awakened" target="_blank">Kickstarter</a> backers last week. I spent some time playing through it on regular and master difficulties and I can say I’m pretty impressed. </p><p>It’s a huge step up from the original and builds on what the devs have been improving over the years on all their Sherlock Holmes games! The story seems like it will be fun to go through as well with the premise of Holmes and Watson now being early days in their partnership.</p><p><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/1949030/" target="_blank">This demo is now available on Steam</a> for the next week for anyone to enjoy (PC only), so for anyone with access, I would highly recommend checking it out.</p><p>For those who are not able to or might not have an interest in playing the game, but still want to see what this is all about, linked here is my playthrough of the hardest difficulty without any commentary, and edited to be as cohesive as I could make it (without any fumbling around).</p></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6mpPwXTtbiA" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ro also posted <a href="https://youtu.be/qaHs4KeYLBk" target="_blank">a version with commentary</a>:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qaHs4KeYLBk" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The full version of <i><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/1949030/Sherlock_Holmes_The_Awakened/" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened</a></i> will be released some time before April 2023.</p><p>If you've had a chance to play the demo, leave us a comment below and let us know what you thought of it so far.</p><p><br /></p>

Early Review — Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened

“our review of the situation” [SHOS] In a private Facebook group we run called The Strangers Room , one of our members posted a review of ...

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by Scott Monty

Season 7 of Trifles Podcast Kicks Off

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> “it is of course a trifle, but there is nothing so important as Trifles” [TWIS]</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv8iNb0SJZHqT4kaAmJCxCWnsVQOyFnuld1wVHgU3i7c0NJvsRYQ367a3VXGlWL3z6qGLGTFnHoHfRn-jss7xVeZoaPhwXq7qq_GqxpBjVkEqyx7ZVyJB_lTKzdezX7qkHh8KBff5kT2GE-MiLdoC3NsNOdDp3WWVUUyentuFKmz2NMK2qmb3Ut1CTxg/s1280/Season%207%20promo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="1280" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv8iNb0SJZHqT4kaAmJCxCWnsVQOyFnuld1wVHgU3i7c0NJvsRYQ367a3VXGlWL3z6qGLGTFnHoHfRn-jss7xVeZoaPhwXq7qq_GqxpBjVkEqyx7ZVyJB_lTKzdezX7qkHh8KBff5kT2GE-MiLdoC3NsNOdDp3WWVUUyentuFKmz2NMK2qmb3Ut1CTxg/w640-h434/Season%207%20promo.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>The IHOSE Media-produced podcast <b><i>Trifles </i></b>has entered its seventh season and shows no signs of slowing down.</p><p>Hosts Scott Monty and Burt Wolder, who started the twice-monthly <a href="https://pod.link/ihearofsherlock" target="_blank"><i>I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</i></a> interview podcast in 2007, gather 'round the microphone weekly on <i><b><a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/" target="_blank">Trifles</a></b></i> to discuss various aspects of the Sherlock Holmes stories.</p><p>Past seasons have been wide-ranging, encompassing everything from various elements <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles/sets/inside-221b" target="_blank">inside 221B Baker Street</a>, the <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles/sets/unpublished-cases" target="_blank">unpublished cases</a>, and <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles/sets/games-sports" target="_blank">games and sports</a>, as well as a look back at some Sherlockian scholarship of the past in our "Mr. Sherlock Holmes the Theorist" and "Masters Class" series.</p><p>We've collected the various categories <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles/sets" target="_blank">in one place on Soundcloud</a>, and you can certainly look through the archives of individuals on the <a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/" target="_blank">Trifles website</a> or on the podcast player of your choice.</p><p>Meanwhile, here's what the first month of Season 7 looked like:</p><p><br /></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://ihose.co/trifles314" target="_blank">Episode 314 – Mentors in the Canon</a></h4><p>A new regular feature uses a monthly observance (National ____ Month) to guide our discussions. Since January was National Mentor Month, we looked at how certain figures in the Sherlock Holmes stories acted as mentors for their juniors, including Sherlock Holmes himself.</p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1416374923&color=%23ff0000&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes: Trifles">Sherlock Holmes: Trifles</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles/mentors-in-the-canon" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Mentors in the Canon">Mentors in the Canon</a></div><p><br /></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://ihose.co/trifles315" target="_blank">Episode 315 – Pianos</a></h4><p>How many times and in which stories do we find pianos mentioned? The answer may surprise you.</p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1421777386&color=%23ff0000&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes: Trifles">Sherlock Holmes: Trifles</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles/pianos" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Pianos">Pianos</a></div><p><br /></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://ihose.co/trifles316" target="_blank">Episode 316 – The Early Years of Sherlock Holmes</a></h4><p>The Masters Class series continues, as we take some classic Sherlockian scholarship that is particularly admirable, discussing it and the craft and skill in writing it. This season, we'll be looking at four specific scholars. This first entry is from <i><b>Sherlock Holmes: Ten Literary Studies</b></i> by <b>Trevor Hall</b> and involves a young Sherlock Holmes.</p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1427267164&color=%23ff0000&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes: Trifles">Sherlock Holmes: Trifles</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles/the-early-years-of-sherlock" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="The Early Years of Sherlock Holmes">The Early Years of Sherlock Holmes</a></div><p><br /></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://ihose.co/trifles317" target="_blank">Episode 317 – A Detective by Any Other Name</a></h4><p>Early on, Sherlock Holmes tells us there are all kinds of detectives, public and private, but he does not consider himself one. Well, neither did the official police. Just how was he categorized and how did that change over the years?</p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1432397110&color=%23ff0000&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes: Trifles">Sherlock Holmes: Trifles</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles/a-detective-by-any-other-name" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="A Detective By Any Other Name">A Detective By Any Other Name</a></div><p><br /></p><p>Next up, don't miss a rousing discussion of <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles318" target="_blank">how many times Watson was married</a>. (Hint: more than you think!)</p><p>It's all part of the regular fun and discussion of some of the most trivial yet fascinating details from the Sherlock Holmes canon. It's just a Trifle.</p><p><br /></p>

Season 7 of Trifles Podcast Kicks Off

“it is of course a trifle, but there is nothing so important as Trifles” [TWIS] The IHOSE Media-produced podcast Trifles has entered its se...

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by Scott Monty

Episode 257: The Haven Horror

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“our visit to The Haven” [LION]  </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9sCINUQn8XZWuv-t-G-DII8RGAgDCeEE07O8ldqS2kXn2chc50I3Cc7odQ19tZkqD8k4pWW_pgJg_ocwNRvu9N3yNcbHGhBfbIpDX7A8FlLh-FIDG1O9q7Eoa9UG0wR2x9JjN_63l2cJKrWtBvRk8kvkiXOOW4dFKAeDtMC8AjWfroE3RIwcBlgbIRA/s2059/ihose257%20wide.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1648" data-original-width="2059" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9sCINUQn8XZWuv-t-G-DII8RGAgDCeEE07O8ldqS2kXn2chc50I3Cc7odQ19tZkqD8k4pWW_pgJg_ocwNRvu9N3yNcbHGhBfbIpDX7A8FlLh-FIDG1O9q7Eoa9UG0wR2x9JjN_63l2cJKrWtBvRk8kvkiXOOW4dFKAeDtMC8AjWfroE3RIwcBlgbIRA/w640-h512/ihose257%20wide.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div><p>The latest in the BSI Manuscript Series from the BSI Press is The Haven Horror. If that reference isn't immediately recognizable, it's not surprising; it's a phrase taken from “The Adventure of the Retired Colourman,” which comes at the tail end of the Canon.</p><p>Phil Bergem, BSI ("Birdy Edwards") joins us to talk about this volume in his new role as editor. Phil has long been the annotator/transcriber of manuscripts for the series, but he took on new responsibilities this time around. And it shows, with a wide-ranging variety of essays to inform, entertain, and delight us regarding this little-talked-about story. </p><p>A copy of this book awaits for the winner of the next <b>Canonical Couplet</b> quiz. Simply identify the Sherlock Holmes story based on two lines of poetry; if your answer is chosen from among the correct entries, you'll win.</p><p>Send your answer to comment @ ihearofsherlock .com by February 14, 2023 at 11:59 a.m. EST. The winner will be chosen at random from among all the correct answers. 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Episode 257: The Haven Horror

“our visit to The Haven” [LION] The latest in the BSI Manuscript Series from the BSI Press is The Haven Horror. If that reference isn'...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – Nocturnal Surprises

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“lying on my bed trembling all over” [COPP] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiykSCfGtpf0H0zmijIhgDugl2mgCKJVKxTdd-qFdLXm-98_MxEQqGoaJOCkOR9XpQBUYDtMUHR3lZQSrYJnreW-SnRRRFMMLbwEVtYePt9yuR4aOJQJldbkY3P4zAEdETUv_mKHJATi6XfzCSq7PuuncnL9BmPBtNWol4Pz-YiTsaapw2P-JCNNXL_vw/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20147.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiykSCfGtpf0H0zmijIhgDugl2mgCKJVKxTdd-qFdLXm-98_MxEQqGoaJOCkOR9XpQBUYDtMUHR3lZQSrYJnreW-SnRRRFMMLbwEVtYePt9yuR4aOJQJldbkY3P4zAEdETUv_mKHJATi6XfzCSq7PuuncnL9BmPBtNWol4Pz-YiTsaapw2P-JCNNXL_vw/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20147.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">There are moments within the Canon in which beds cease to be places of comfort and rather become frightful places to be.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Morpheus is the ancient Greek god associated with dreams and sleep, and his presences is usually a soothing one. The most obvious evidence of this is the opiate drug named for him: morphine, administered to relieve pain and induce calmness.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">When slumber—that most peaceful of activities—is interrupted and we're forced to leave the warm embrace of such a warm and comfortable cotton cocoon, the effect is jarring. Disruptive. Perhaps even violent. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Consider a handful of sleep-interrupting moments in the Sherlock Holmes stories.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In "<b>The Speckled Band</b>," the story opens with Watson being roused from sleep:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I woke one morning to find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Very sorry to knock you up, Watson,” said he, “but it’s the common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson as been knocked up, she retorted upon me, and I on you.”</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In that very same story, we hear of Julia Stoner being woken up in the dead of night:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Because during the last few nights I have always, about three in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, and it has awakened me.”</div></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Of course, Watson is the victim once again in "<b>The Abbey Grange</b>," but all is forgiven, because Holmes utters one of his most iconic phrases:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It was on a bitterly cold and frosty morning during the winter of ’97 that I was awakened  by a tugging at my shoulder. It was Holmes. The candle in his hand shone upon his eager, stooping face and told me at a glance that something was amiss.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Come, Watson, come!” he cried. “The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!”</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Recall that Heidegger, the German master in "<b>The Priory School</b>" was roused from bed: “His bed had also been slept in; but he had apparently gone away partly dressed...”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In "The Beryl Coronet," Alexander Holder was on edge from bringing the precious item home with him. In this state of anxiety, he left the confines of his bed:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in the house...I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door.”</div></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Other instances involving beds and bedding include Professor Coram, from "<b>The Golden Pince-Nez</b>," described as “an invalid, keeping his bed half the time,” whom Holmes and Watson found him in it, “propped up with pillows.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Beryl Stapleton was found at Merripit House in <b><i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i></b>, “tied to a post swathed and muffled in the sheets which had been used to secure it.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And who can forget Sherlock Holmes himself, bedridden and seemingly mortally ill in "<b>The Dying Detective</b>"? The bed gave Watson refuge when Culverton Smith paid Holmes a visit. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">There are many other instances of things that go bump in the night in the Canon, but it's almost time for lights out at Baker Street Elementary, and the boys seem hesitant to enjoy the comfort their sheets should bring...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXrDGFSalnufinY4djbe6pNXn254oKGL3HjJZMrHvhqtJzWY5nTdmsP7UYO3b5SmNwdgrbgYvqAIpFNYZYHdQ7k0SO66YrKeh0AumpbArsxiX3THTc_OhxIdYgVszhQMhmvLNyy2zEd9HaiNQMCI-zkE9t_FjleGGYrKoapgx9DALuV2_YdjYBrhZ0EQ/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20147.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXrDGFSalnufinY4djbe6pNXn254oKGL3HjJZMrHvhqtJzWY5nTdmsP7UYO3b5SmNwdgrbgYvqAIpFNYZYHdQ7k0SO66YrKeh0AumpbArsxiX3THTc_OhxIdYgVszhQMhmvLNyy2zEd9HaiNQMCI-zkE9t_FjleGGYrKoapgx9DALuV2_YdjYBrhZ0EQ/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20147.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at </span><a href="http://www.bakerstreetelementary.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #006f85; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">.</span></div><div><div><br /></div><div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F-VumJdilF0/WJa_9TrpA3I/AAAAAAAAuO8/52U-hZ7WY4Qz2Oqo84lF8KQnF0zynZ5YQCPcB/s1600/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary.jpg" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F-VumJdilF0/WJa_9TrpA3I/AAAAAAAAuO8/52U-hZ7WY4Qz2Oqo84lF8KQnF0zynZ5YQCPcB/s640/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><br /><br /></div></div><div><i>For those who <a href="https://youtu.be/CHOpoOnkRJE?t=64" target="_blank">may have recognized the headline</a>.</i></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>