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<h4 style="text-align: center;"><b>"hands who played a nice sly safe game" [SIGN]</b><b><br /></b></h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EzO3pGa8rJ4/XzLcu4TqgLI/AAAAAAABOYM/ZKWz3MBVDa4f5VYMOet9xr26M6nScdeMACLcBGAsYHQ/s680/Great%2BGame%2B1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="421" data-original-width="680" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EzO3pGa8rJ4/XzLcu4TqgLI/AAAAAAABOYM/ZKWz3MBVDa4f5VYMOet9xr26M6nScdeMACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Great%2BGame%2B1.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">With the wild success of a recent Kickstarter to fund the game <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2020/07/new-game-sherlock-holmes-and-his-baker.html#.XzLdMyhKjb0" target="_blank">The Original Sherlock Holmes and His Baker Street Irregulars</a> (more than $42,000 was raised on a goal of $5,221 from nearly 1,000 backers) and the <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2020/07/new-jeremy-brett-book-on-kickstarter.html#.XzLeIihKjb0" target="_blank">new Jeremy Brett biography</a>, this seems to be a fine time to launch Sherlockian projects on the platform.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One such effort by Belanger Books, a team made up of brothers Brian and <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/search/label/Derrick%20Belanger#.XzLepyhKjb0" target="_blank">Derrick Belanger</a> (a name familiar to regular visitors to this site, as he's been a contributor) is <b><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/belangerbooks/the-great-game-of-sherlock-holmes?ref=6o7xbi&token=f55472de" target="_blank">The Great Game of Sherlock Holmes</a></b>, an easy to learn, fast-paced and fun card game.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Each card covers one story and features a vintage illustration originally published in the <i>Strand Magazine</i>. There's a brief synopsis of each crime-cracking chronicle which will jog the memories of lifelong Sherlockians, or provide an exciting first dip into Holmes's adventures for newcomers. Watch an overview here:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" src="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/belangerbooks/the-great-game-of-sherlock-holmes/widget/video.html" width="640"> </iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In addition to the game itself, backers will also receive a copy of <i>The Great Game of Sherlock Holmes Fun Facts and Puzzle Magazine</i>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Like <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/belangerbooks/the-great-game-of-sherlock-holmes?ref=6o7xbi&token=f55472de#" target="_blank">The Great Game of Sherlock Holmes</a>, the <i>Fun Facts and Puzzle Magazine</i> covers many of the classic cases in the Sherlockian canon. Word finds, mazes, crossword puzzles and other mental challenges abound to excite and entertain the most diligent detectives.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2Amy5BWap-Q/XzLiqflaEeI/AAAAAAABOYc/p2EnpSOiBNIsJKh7S4KrwbKY57EWY7E7QCLcBGAsYHQ/s680/Great%2BGame%2B2%2B-%2Bmagazine.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="680" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2Amy5BWap-Q/XzLiqflaEeI/AAAAAAABOYc/p2EnpSOiBNIsJKh7S4KrwbKY57EWY7E7QCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Great%2BGame%2B2%2B-%2Bmagazine.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qR_YryDkXGc/XzLiqWzpCTI/AAAAAAABOYg/SXuzViLHSB4LHKGNmC0CNCH8v_vEn2TUgCLcBGAsYHQ/s680/Great%2BGame%2B3%2B-%2Bmagazine.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="680" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qR_YryDkXGc/XzLiqWzpCTI/AAAAAAABOYg/SXuzViLHSB4LHKGNmC0CNCH8v_vEn2TUgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Great%2BGame%2B3%2B-%2Bmagazine.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's a great way to involve children and get their clue-seeking minds turned onto brain teasers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The funding goal for this project is $4,000 and it's currently 77 percent backed. What a great opportunity to see this project through to its conclusion <b><i>and</i></b> pick up what could be a fun and unique gift that will be delivered in time for the holidays.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Act quickly: there are just three weeks until this project closes. It will only be released to the world if it has enough backers to make it happen. And if the project reaches $5,000 in pledges, the stretch goal will be released: a game of Thrust, Trip, Distract: a Reichenbach Falls version of Rock, Paper, Scissors.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Will you join the fun and sign up for a copy of the <b><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/belangerbooks/the-great-game-of-sherlock-holmes?ref=6o7xbi&token=f55472de#" target="_blank">The Great Game of Sherlock Holmes</a></b>? Just click the link to learn more.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The game's afoot!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">--</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>

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"hands who played a nice sly safe game" [SIGN] With the wild success of a recent Kickstarter to fund the game The Original Sherloc...

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Baker Street Elementary – Picked Clean

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><b> <span style="text-align: center;">“</span></b>that cat-like love of personal cleanliness<b>” [HOUN] </b></h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-axkplKl5Lbg/Xy9xc_TicyI/AAAAAAABOU8/6K6k0b1lwh8FowAYKPGGTBGBcNAvkz2egCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B86.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-axkplKl5Lbg/Xy9xc_TicyI/AAAAAAABOU8/6K6k0b1lwh8FowAYKPGGTBGBcNAvkz2egCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B86.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div>One of the scenes in the Canon that has always confounded us in when Watson found the hut in which the "man on the tor" was hiding (spoiler alert: he discovered that the man was Sherlock Holmes).</div><div><br /></div><div>Watson thought the place was abandoned, but soon found evidence to the contrary:</div><div><blockquote><div>"But there were ample signs that I had not come upon a false scent. This was certainly where the man lived. Some blankets rolled in a waterproof lay upon that very stone slab upon which Neolithic man had once slumbered. The ashes of a fire were heaped in a rude grate. Beside it lay some cooking utensils and a bucket half-full of water. A litter of empty tins showed that the place had been occupied for some time, and I saw, as my eyes became accustomed to the checkered light, a pannikin and a half-full bottle of spirits standing in the corner. In the middle of the hut a flat stone served the purpose of a table, and upon this stood a small cloth bundle—the same, no doubt, which I had seen through the telescope upon the shoulder of the boy. It contained a loaf of bread, a tinned tongue, and two tins of preserved peaches."</div></blockquote></div><div><div>When Holmes arrived (much to Watson's surprise), the doctor observed:</div><blockquote><div>"He was thin and worn, but clear and alert, his keen face bronzed by the sun and roughened by the wind. In his tweed suit and cloth cap he looked like any other tourist upon the moor, and he had contrived, with that cat-like love of personal cleanliness which was one of his characteristics, that his chin should be as smooth and his linen as perfect as if he were in Baker Street."</div></blockquote></div><div>And herein lies our question about how Holmes was able to affect such a pristine appearance in the wilderness of Dartmoor, set up as he was in a stone hut. Being clean-shaven in such a situation is not difficult to achieve, but but the linen always puzzled us. He mentioned Cartwright as supplying him with "a loaf of bread and a clean collar," but wouldn't there be more to his appearance than a clean collar? Perhaps having a clean-shaven face framed by a clean collar was enough to throw Watson off the scent.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then again, Holmes called the hut his "occasional retreat." Was there another place on the moor where he had a hideout? Perhaps he surreptitiously rented a room in Coombe Tracey. Or ingratiated himself with Laura Lyons. </div><div><br /></div><div>Down at Baker Street Elementary, there's one student whom we know was not interested in such trifles...</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-apwSMDyYiXg/Xy9xXspOlpI/AAAAAAABOUw/rqGTWlpaCaQ8UaoRIH04qmiOadq3xJlkwCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B86.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-apwSMDyYiXg/Xy9xXspOlpI/AAAAAAABOUw/rqGTWlpaCaQ8UaoRIH04qmiOadq3xJlkwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B86.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q5SCEkpVs2E/Xy9xXq1Mg2I/AAAAAAABOUs/EVG7M6P0jmsbdaMY_x0Bbi7pPPc0pd-yACLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B86.3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q5SCEkpVs2E/Xy9xXq1Mg2I/AAAAAAABOUs/EVG7M6P0jmsbdaMY_x0Bbi7pPPc0pd-yACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B86.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MD7GCpWvxM4/Xy9xXpmboiI/AAAAAAABOUo/Zp0eZfq3TkMk-5sZChdKRYmCduSATUrvgCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B86.4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MD7GCpWvxM4/Xy9xXpmboiI/AAAAAAABOUo/Zp0eZfq3TkMk-5sZChdKRYmCduSATUrvgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B86.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lbiGOXVgMgM/Xy9xX08_UYI/AAAAAAABOU0/GRIs5U5FVKwPG8jFCbbJvsSHt3mCbaw8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B86.5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lbiGOXVgMgM/Xy9xX08_UYI/AAAAAAABOU0/GRIs5U5FVKwPG8jFCbbJvsSHt3mCbaw8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B86.5.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Mq7qzIpVMGY/Xy9xYGY50cI/AAAAAAABOU4/KTbGdVUULSgEtYOphYlSvXSlipkW_gI_wCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B86.6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Mq7qzIpVMGY/Xy9xYGY50cI/AAAAAAABOU4/KTbGdVUULSgEtYOphYlSvXSlipkW_gI_wCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B86.6.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-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 face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span><br /><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F-VumJdilF0/WJa_9TrpA3I/AAAAAAAAuO8/52U-hZ7WY4Qz2Oqo84lF8KQnF0zynZ5YQCPcB/s1600/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary.jpg" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F-VumJdilF0/WJa_9TrpA3I/AAAAAAAAuO8/52U-hZ7WY4Qz2Oqo84lF8KQnF0zynZ5YQCPcB/s640/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><br />--</div>

Baker Street Elementary – Picked Clean

“ that cat-like love of personal cleanliness ” [HOUN] One of the scenes in the Canon that has always confounded us in when Watson found t...

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ANNOUNCEMENT: The 2021 BSI Weekend Will Be Virtual

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"it is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you." [FINA] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3r3-VDNaMoc/XybHhcFBwxI/AAAAAAABOJY/RKt54v-HhAgIA8Mo6R36p8KE9e5UGyp1QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1997/BSI%2BDinner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1309" data-original-width="1997" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3r3-VDNaMoc/XybHhcFBwxI/AAAAAAABOJY/RKt54v-HhAgIA8Mo6R36p8KE9e5UGyp1QCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/BSI%2BDinner.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>For the first time in its history, the <a href="http://www.bsiweekend.com" target="_blank">Baker Street Irregulars Weekend</a> will not take place in person in New York City in January.</div><div><br /></div><div>The literary society dedicated to Sherlock Holmes was established on January 6, 1934 during a cocktail reception and held an informal first dinner in June 5, 1934. It was on December 7, 1934 that the formal dinner first got its start, but only one more was held (in 1936) before Edgar W. Smith came along and reinvigorated the tradition in January of 1940.</div><div><br /></div><div>Since that time, the Baker Street Irregulars has held its dinner every January, without interruption. World War II didn't stop it. Nor did years that included protests, terrorist events, financial upheaval, or anything else. There it was always 1895, and the group survived.</div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b>The 2021 BSI Dinner</b></h2><div><div><i></i></div></div><blockquote><div><div><i>“ ‘Danger is part of my trade,’ I remarked.</i></div><div><i>“ ‘That is not danger,’ said he. ‘It is inevitable destruction.</i><i>’ ”</i></div></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">—</span> </i><i style="text-align: left;">“</i><i>The Adventure of the Final Problem</i><i>”</i></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"><i></i></div><div><br /></div><div>With the recent rapid rise in coronavirus infections across the United States, two dozen states are two  now delaying or modifying their plans to reopen. The uncertainty around the future of the virus in the country stems from a lack of a national plan and that dictum of individuality that flows through Americans, whose national phrase seems to have gone from "<i>E Pluribus Unum</i>" to "You're Not the Boss of Me."</div><div><br /></div><div>So here we are.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Baker Street Irregulars plans to hold the Distinguished Speaker Lecture on Thursday, January 7 and its traditional dinner on January 8 (the latter is for members only). There may be additional events added, as the "weekend" has stretched informally from Wednesday through Sunday, with other associated groups holding events throughout.</div><div><br /></div><div>More information is available on the <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/bsi-event-dates/" target="_blank">BSI Events page here</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>January will be strange (indeed, as strange as these past few months have been). But Sherlockians are a determined and social group and will find a way to power through it. Creative and determined members thus far have hosted pop-up conferences, movie events, and social hours via Zoom since April, making up for the lack of in-person gatherings that define our clubable nature with our kinspirits.</div><div><br /></div><div>Interestingly, I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere as a podcast has very rarely held in-person events. Our co-hosts have recorded all but two episodes from separate locations. And we've held a couple of live-streamed video recordings over the summer. Expect more like that.</div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile, we hope to be back together at some point in 2021 (perhaps for the BSI's <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2020/03/20/bsi-2021-conference-dates/" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes and the British Empire</a> conference?). Until then, we'll continue to churn out online content that we can all enjoy from the safety and confines of our homes.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>

ANNOUNCEMENT: The 2021 BSI Weekend Will Be Virtual

"it is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you." [FINA] For the first time in its h...

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Episode 197: The Art of Deception

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“one would like to know the reason for such elaborate deception.” [MISS] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GuA1kutGGww/XyO51gCrsKI/AAAAAAABOIU/tlWAic3hDmQyNa8lXYMPOFUFh1yiZS24QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Art%2Bof%2BDeception%2Bheader.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1284" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GuA1kutGGww/XyO51gCrsKI/AAAAAAABOIU/tlWAic3hDmQyNa8lXYMPOFUFh1yiZS24QCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Art%2Bof%2BDeception%2Bheader.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>In the west end of London, an apparently crazed individual is on the loose, breaking into art galleries and private homes to slash valuable paintings of women. Enter Joanna Blalock and the Watsons, protagonists in the latest in the Daughter of Sherlock Holmes mystery series.</div><div><br /></div><div>Leonard Goldberg, a <i>USA Today</i> bestselling author, has done a clever job with <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/315emod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Art of Deception</a></i></b>, his fourth in the series, from Minotaur Books (St. Martin's Press). He joins us to talk about his inspiration, his experience in the medical profession (and kinship with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), the writing process, and why Sherlock Holmes continues to fascinate him.</div><div><br /></div><div>Listeners may want to try to solve the mystery of the disappearing co-host, and hear about our next show.</div><div><br /></div><div>And don't forget to try your hand at our latest <b>Canonical Couplet</b> quiz for a chance to win a copy of The Art of Deception. 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Episode 197: The Art of Deception

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – Innocent Until Proven Stupid

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“I was feeling drowsy and stupid” [NAVA] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7dX-8c3u-nQ/Xx2jbpnsDII/AAAAAAABOGY/Bi-5UuqYcV4_IPIAGi8ZLW0i2pM5tupVgCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B85.1.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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7dX-8c3u-nQ/Xx2jbpnsDII/AAAAAAABOGY/Bi-5UuqYcV4_IPIAGi8ZLW0i2pM5tupVgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B85.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div>Sherlock Holmes faced a number of clever adversaries, but were any of them so sloppy in their methods that they could be considered stupid?</div><div><br /></div><div>On the contrary, most of them were extraordinary clever, such that either the traditional police were stumped and had to call for Holmes's assistance, or Watson himself could discern neither the motive nor the mode of the crime.</div><div><br /></div><div>Consider in "The Speckled Band," after a visit to Miss Stoner's room at Stoke Moran: </div><div><div></div><blockquote><div>“Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the bed dies. Does not that strike you?”</div><div><br /></div><div>“I cannot as yet see any connection.”</div><div><br />“Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?”</div><div><br />“No.”</div><div><br /></div><div>“It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened like that before?”</div><div><br /></div><div>“I cannot say that I have.”</div><div><br />“The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same relative position to the ventilator and to the rope—or so we may call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull.”</div></blockquote><div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Recall that in "The Blue Carbuncle," Holmes asked Watson for his impression of Henry Baker's hat, and Watson could make nothing of it:</div><div><div></div><blockquote><div>“I can see nothing,” said I, handing it back to my friend.<br /><br /></div><div>“On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences.”</div></blockquote><div></div><div>The challenge is when one is in proximity to a shining beacon of light, one is likely to seem dim in comparison. Watson makes it clear that he himself is not stupid, but when compared to his companion, his intelligence pales:</div></div><div><div><blockquote>"I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings with Sherlock Holmes." ["The Red-Headed League"]</blockquote></div></div><div>Of course, there are still some out there who'll seem dim, regardless of their proximity to intelligence. Such as some of those at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SxTOMjAY-wg/Xx2jkdQKrzI/AAAAAAABOGk/Zx8N6vZqkL4MI_RoglGs7DhiKhuZfxuTQCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B85.2.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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SxTOMjAY-wg/Xx2jkdQKrzI/AAAAAAABOGk/Zx8N6vZqkL4MI_RoglGs7DhiKhuZfxuTQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B85.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HqPh-maAnz0/Xx2jkLoPIgI/AAAAAAABOGc/-vsRA912L288eutuKROze3kONLZ6gDEqQCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B85.3.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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HqPh-maAnz0/Xx2jkLoPIgI/AAAAAAABOGc/-vsRA912L288eutuKROze3kONLZ6gDEqQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B85.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oITjBLJIV04/Xx2jkNdygTI/AAAAAAABOGg/BfiqCahMJ4UB3RUumQfMkoLVOYF9yQJCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B85.4.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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oITjBLJIV04/Xx2jkNdygTI/AAAAAAABOGg/BfiqCahMJ4UB3RUumQfMkoLVOYF9yQJCgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B85.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mW6o3qrDdjo/Xx2jkiPtgYI/AAAAAAABOGo/D1mhqe45zjMd3YY1DwapkvibB7FV-V2vACLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B85.5.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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mW6o3qrDdjo/Xx2jkiPtgYI/AAAAAAABOGo/D1mhqe45zjMd3YY1DwapkvibB7FV-V2vACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B85.5.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0MsByRAnsSc/Xx2jkx07XYI/AAAAAAABOGs/XdtibRazyAYRCIu2H8DbxYKii4hdki7yACLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B85.6.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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0MsByRAnsSc/Xx2jkx07XYI/AAAAAAABOGs/XdtibRazyAYRCIu2H8DbxYKii4hdki7yACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B85.6.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span 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><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F-VumJdilF0/WJa_9TrpA3I/AAAAAAAAuO8/52U-hZ7WY4Qz2Oqo84lF8KQnF0zynZ5YQCPcB/s1600/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary.jpg" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F-VumJdilF0/WJa_9TrpA3I/AAAAAAAAuO8/52U-hZ7WY4Qz2Oqo84lF8KQnF0zynZ5YQCPcB/s640/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><br />--</div>

Baker Street Elementary – Innocent Until Proven Stupid

“I was feeling drowsy and stupid” [NAVA] Sherlock Holmes faced a number of clever adversaries, but were any of them so sloppy in their meth...

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by Scott Monty

Sherlock Holmes, Socks, and Simpson

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "I must kick off my boots and stockings" [SIGN]</h4><div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OOCml3jk8Yo/XxKqvLcXJbI/AAAAAAABOAo/knn0i83KfeUH0wpGR6o3wKJFXfyEincjgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Socks.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Socks with the profile of Sherlock Holmes" border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OOCml3jk8Yo/XxKqvLcXJbI/AAAAAAABOAo/knn0i83KfeUH0wpGR6o3wKJFXfyEincjgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h360/Socks.png" title="Sherlock Holmes socks" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Fancy socks — <b><a href="https://amzn.to/2CpA4uP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">some of them with Sherlockian patterns</a></b> — are in style just now. These otherwise humble garments also make one fleeting and memorable appearance in the Sherlock Holmes tales, along with a handful of insignificant ones such as the discovery of Neville St. Clair's socks in the room that he used for his transformation into Hugh Boone. </div><div><br /></div><div>The story where socks take center stage for a moment is "The Three Garridebs," in a passage that David L. Leal pointed out in an article in <i>The Baker Street Journal</i> last year. The moment "is hilarious, and I never tire of it," he wrote. The locale is the Baker Street sitting-room; the speaker is John Garrideb, later to be dramatically revealed as "Killer" Evans, counterfeiter and gunman. He claims to be an American, a lawyer from Kansas, but Sherlock Holmes observes that his clothes are British: "The shoulder cut of your coat, the toes of your boots — could anyone doubt it?"</div><div><br /></div><div>Garrideb replies: </div><blockquote><div>"Well, well, I had no idea I was so obvious a Britisher. But business brought me over here some time ago, and so, as you say, my outfit is nearly all London. However, I guess your time is of value, and we did not meet to talk about the cut of my socks. What about getting down to that paper you hold in your hand?"</div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>From that moment, Holmes is suspicious of the American, whose business card gives his address as Moorville, Kansas, and uses the grandiose American title of "counsellor at law." When he speaks of having been "in the law at Topeka," the capital of Kansas since statehood was granted in 1861, Holmes makes mention of an entirely bogus "Dr. Lysander Starr," supposedly a former mayor of the city. Garrideb falls into the trap by agreeing that "his name is still honoured."</div><div><br /></div><div>The story Is familiar enough. But we might pause to think about that mention of (perhaps fashionable) socks In the context of prominent figures in the frontier state of Kansas. "The Three Garridebs," published in 1924, is almost certainly set in the summer of 1902, a period when populism (largely born of rural desperation, so that socks were a luxury) was still struggling with conservatism for dominance.</div><div><br /></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K9jgbCoMs2o/XxKpCxDjQDI/AAAAAAABOAU/lTvxOjn5cwwi4al0pyEqqt2Yx-qhLqhKACLcBGAsYHQ/s417/Jerry_Simpson.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K9jgbCoMs2o/XxKpCxDjQDI/AAAAAAABOAU/lTvxOjn5cwwi4al0pyEqqt2Yx-qhLqhKACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Jerry_Simpson.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><font size="2">Jerry Simpson (credit: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Simpson" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</font></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>In that era, if you mentioned socks in the same breath as Kansas, you could only be referring to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Simpson" target="_blank">Jeremiah Simpson</a> (1842-1905), who served as a United States Congressman from Kansas for six years (1891-1895 and 1897-1899). One of the most memorable representatives of the rural populism of his era, he had been born in Prince Edward Island (part of Canada from 1867 onward) but raised in New York. </div><div><br /></div><div>He served with an Illinois regiment during the Civil War, worked on ships steaming the Great Lakes from Indiana, and finally settled on a Kansas farm. During hard times in 1883-1884 he joined a locally organized political movement. Things got worse in 1889, to the point that farmers were burning their main crop, corn, for fuel. (They would soon be switching from corn to wheat, easier to grow in conditions of frequent drought.)</div><div><br /></div><div>When the 1890 election came along, Simpson was nominated for Congress by the People's Party, the Democrats not yet being a force in the region. He faced a Republican candidate, a wealthy railroad attorney who, he charged, even wore "fine silk hosiery." Silk socks were better than none at all, the Republican unwisely shot back, and "Sockless Jerry" was elected in a landslide. His name is still honoured (to borrow Holmes's phrase) as an icon of Kansas populism.</div><div><br /></div><div>Could Holmes have been aware of the story of Sockless Jerry Simpson in 1902? Could Watson, or that fellow Arthur Conan Doyle, have known about him in 1924 and dropped Topeka (and socks) half-consciously into the story of a con man who claimed to be from the Sunflower State? Research has not been done, but it seems likely that The Times and other newspapers known at Baker Street might have mentioned the sockless politician once or twice, and his story, once heard, is hard to forget.</div><div><br /></div><div> --</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><script type="text/javascript">
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Sherlock Holmes, Socks, and Simpson

"I must kick off my boots and stockings" [SIGN] Fancy socks — some of them with Sherlockian patterns — are in style just now. ...

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by Chris Redmond

New Jeremy Brett Book on Kickstarter

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"He has played a not unimportant part in this drama," [RESI]</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d5Xp-pqjfXw/XxC3TDL6Y0I/AAAAAAABN_Q/f1JmEN6cNmwPaHC5tA_yKwpyJuYpIm_NgCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/Brett%2BPlaying%2Ba%2BPart.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="500" height="454" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d5Xp-pqjfXw/XxC3TDL6Y0I/AAAAAAABN_Q/f1JmEN6cNmwPaHC5tA_yKwpyJuYpIm_NgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h454/Brett%2BPlaying%2Ba%2BPart.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Fans of Jeremy Brett will want to act on this information straight away. There's a new biography of the actor available on <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxpublishing/playing-a-part-jeremy-brett" target="_blank">Kickstarter</a> from MX Publishing. Hurry: <b><i>the campaign ends on July 18, 2020</i></b>.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><i><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxpublishing/playing-a-part-jeremy-brett" target="_blank">Jeremy Brett: Playing a Part</a></i></b> by Maureen Whittaker is a biography of the actor of unparalleled scope, covering the entirety of Brett's performance career. At more than 450 pages with hundreds of color and black and white photos, the book is available in hardcover and paperback editions, based on the level of support you choose.</div><div><br /></div><div>The foreword is written by David Burke, who played Jeremy Brett's first Dr. Watson in the Granada series. </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" scrolling="no" src="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxpublishing/playing-a-part-jeremy-brett/widget/video.html" width="560"> </iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>We had an opportunity to sit down with Maureen Whittaker, author of <b><i><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxpublishing/playing-a-part-jeremy-brett" target="_blank">Jeremy Brett: Playing A Part</a></i></b>, and ask her a few questions about the project.</div><div><div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NEmA-jUw03M/XxC7_x33p3I/AAAAAAABN_c/leNCUdwQDvA9e9GM7kmRauG24TgG8TtQACLcBGAsYHQ/s1020/Brett%2BPlaying%2Ba%2BPart%2Bcover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1020" data-original-width="680" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NEmA-jUw03M/XxC7_x33p3I/AAAAAAABN_c/leNCUdwQDvA9e9GM7kmRauG24TgG8TtQACLcBGAsYHQ/w266-h400/Brett%2BPlaying%2Ba%2BPart%2Bcover.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><i>IHOSE: How did the idea for this book come about?  When did you first become a fan of Jeremy Brett?</i></h4><div>MW: I have followed Jeremy’s career for a very long time, having seen him on the television, mostly in the classical plays for the BBC. Maybe it was his appearance as D’Artagnan in <i>The Three Musketeers</i> that first grabbed my attention. He was a most attractive and romantic leading man in <i>The Rivals</i> or as Lord Byron and he became the actor that I looked forward to seeing on the cast list. Later, his appearance as Berowne in <i>Love’s Labour’s Lost</i> and Max de Winter in <i>Rebecca</i> would be greatly anticipated. </div><div><br />When I looked for information about his early career there was no reliable biography or full career book.  The best accounts were provided by Jeremy’s interviews with journalists who wanted to celebrate his success as Sherlock Holmes.  And Jeremy was always ready to share his experience and the thrills of being an actor.  As a teacher of English in Secondary School I used the film version of <i>The Merchant of Venice</i> with the students and we all agreed his interpretation of Bassanio was outstanding. The Granada Studios <i>Sherlock Holmes</i> was also used alongside the Conan Doyle stories to teach the skills of detective writing.  </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><i>The book includes hundreds of photos in colour and black and white. Tell us from where these were assembled.</i></h4><div>The photographs were provided by Linda Pritchard, Jeremy’s partner who cared for him in the last few years of his life.  A large section of these had been part of Jeremy’s personal collection and the Granada Studios collection has been agreed by the Archivist at Granada and Charles Allen the Chairman.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><i>What’s different about this book than other Jeremy Brett books that have preceded it?</i></h4><div>This is the first complete career book for Jeremy and I have used Jeremy’s own words, or those of the people he had worked with to provide the information wherever they were available. Friends have also given their opinions and the critics of the performances provide another indication of the success of the productions. The only other biography/career book that has been published, now out of print, contained too much speculation creating confusion between fact and fiction. Everything within my book has been verified and supported from original sources. It also includes radio, television, special appearances and audio recordings.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><i>When you think about Jeremy Brett’s career spanning the stage and large and small screens as it did, what stands out, other than Sherlock Holmes?</i></h4><div>Jeremy will always be remembered for playing Freddie Eynsford Hill in the acclaimed musical <i>My Fair Lady</i> and the accounts of his time in Hollywood are full of personal reminiscences of tea with Mary Pickford and lunch with Dorothy Parker and the run-ins with Rex Harrison about where he should sing his one song “On the Street Where you Live”.  </div><div><br /></div><div>His appearance as Lord Arthur Goring in the Oscar Wilde play <i>An Ideal Husband</i> is a delight as he is totally convincing as the sophisticated romantic hero who could deliver his <i>bon mots</i> with elegance and style but still defeat the schemes of an unscrupulous woman here played by Margaret Leighton. His Dracula on the Broadway stage would be something which Jeremy could throw himself into with his usual verve and enthusiasm and which he enjoyed enormously. His performance was greeted by an audience who were “wildly enthusiastic” and the universal acclaim from the critics also lifted his heart. </div><div><br /></div><div>The television production of <i>The Picture of Katherine Mansfield</i> was a revelation as John Middleton Murry was an intellectual, one of the founding critics of literary criticism, who was married to the famous novelist but after her early death from tuberculosis was remembered as one of the most hated men of literature.  This was another performance in which Jeremy became another human being totally different to himself and alongside Vanessa Redgrave they were described as “magical to watch.”  </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>First and foremost, Jeremy was a classically trained actor who received acclaim for his classical roles.  His Hamlet at the age of 26 years was a personal success as it earned him significant praise from a sophisticated West End audience. But it is perhaps his time at the National Theatre which gave him the greatest joy as he relished the opportunity to speak the words that Shakespeare provided. Jeremy said he loved the rhyme and rhythm of the poetry and although his dyslexia made it difficult, he approached it with dogged determination until he was word perfect and could “bounce on it.”  </div><div><br /></div><div>His time at the National Theatre under Laurence Olivier provided the best possible training and would hone his estimable talents. <i>As You Like It</i> was celebrated as the first all-male production and was greeted with much excitement from the media. In one article the critic had chosen Jeremy for his choice of clothes. Even the <i>Vogue</i> and <i>Queen</i> magazines labelled him as "Man of Fashion" and featured his trend setting style.  </div><div><br /></div><div>But it was perhaps his performance of Che Guevara in Macrune’s <i>Guevara</i> which most impressed the critics. He looked nothing like the pictures of the South American revolutionary, the man with high ideals for mankind, but by his technique of “becoming” he was able to convince the audience and the critics who praised him for a performance of enormous “power and sensitivity”. He said: </div><blockquote><div>“I was intrigued by Guevara’s exploits over there, so I decided to go and follow his route. Actually, this was a rather sad thing to do because, of course, everything ended for him in Bolivia.” </div></blockquote><div>Jeremy spent six months backpacking around S. America.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>His appearance in <i>Rebecca </i>is perhaps the favourite of so many of us as he has caught the tragedy of the haunted man Maxim de Winter in a four-part production which the author thought was the closest interpretation of her famous novel. Jeremy’s performance was inevitably compared with that of his mentor, Laurence Olivier in the film of 1940 and it does not suffer from the comparison, indeed many find his interpretation preferable as an authentic Maxim who was capable of murder. </div><div><br /></div><div>Edward Ashburnham in <i>The Gentle Soldier</i> is remarkable and it is this that persuaded Michael Cox to choose Jeremy to be the next Sherlock Holmes.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><i>For which portrayals do you think Brett doesn’t get the credit which he deserves?</i></h4><div>His time in Canada at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival was a strange experience for both Maggie Smith and Jeremy. They had been used to receiving universal acclaim for their work and for some reason the critics were far too critical. They didn’t appreciate the incomers bringing their new approach to the Shakespearean canon. The adverse comments attracted the attention of <i>The Stage </i>magazine who tried to find the reasons why the reviews were so different to the critics of <i>The Financial Times</i>, <i>The New York Times</i> or <i>The London Evening Standard</i> who had welcomed the same productions with a very different tone. <i>The Stage</i> called it “The Clash of the Critics” and the excuse seemed to be the Atlantic Ocean which separated the two nations. </div><div><br /></div><div>Jeremy’s production of <i>The Tempest</i> was greeted with much the same response as the critics were unable to accept the revengeful image of an angry Prospero. But they seemed to miss the message of the play as a journey to forgiveness which Shakespeare had presented successfully for the first time in the three hour performance on stage.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><i>We see David Burke wrote the Foreword. How did you manage to make that happen?</i></h4><div>When we were gathering together Jeremy’s friends and colleagues for the twentieth anniversary of his death for the installation of his memorial bench on Clapham Common in 2015 I wrote to David and to Michael Cox to ask if they might join us for the occasion. Michael was too unwell to be with us but David was most gracious and telephoned to say he would join us. We have spoken on several occasions and he has willingly offered his assistance.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><i>Tell us about any one surprise or obscure fact in the book that you’re particularly fond of.</i></h4><div>The production of the play <i>Traveller Without Luggage</i> on stage in 1972 and it is perhaps the most difficult one to read about as the story is so terrible. Jeremy was a very sensitive man and he must have been moved by the experience. The script recounts the story of the soldier, an amnesiac found wandering on the deserted railway station in Lyon who has returned from the Great War in 1918. Without relatives, he was locked up in an asylum. However, dozens of families came forward to claim him as their lost son or brother and Gaston tells of being hugged by hundreds of strange men and women who tearfully claimed him as their son. The real story was much more tragic as the soldier was identified by his grieving family but was never released from the asylum as litigation amongst the other families kept him there. He died during the Second World War probably from hunger and became known as “the living unknown soldier”.</div><div><br /></div><div>One personal detail I had known little about was the stunning soprano voice of his youth which was trained at Eton where he was given the major solos to sing in the College Chapel. He even performed in many of the nation’s cathedrals. Jeremy also made a record but I can find no evidence and would love to hear a recording of his voice which is said to sound like that of the soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>--</div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks to Maureen Whittaker for joining us for this interview.</div><div><br /></div><div>Be sure to get to <b><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxpublishing/playing-a-part-jeremy-brett">the Kickstarter page</a></b> and make your selection before it's too late. As a bonus, if the project reaches 100 backers, MX Publishing will plant 100 trees as part of its <a href="https://mxpublishing.com/blogs/news/books-to-trees-interview-with-happy-life-childrens-home">#bookstotrees</a> project for Happy Life Children's Home in Kenya.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>

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Episode 196: Commissionaire: Julian Wolff and his Baker Street Irregulars

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“the little man was much more favourable to me” [REDH] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q9Oaw1sgmjo/Xw8ttvA7n5I/AAAAAAABN-s/5QC7uG27-Yco90_MX7a4ZJdwFxHgMyipgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1365/Julian%2BWolff.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Head of the Baker Street Irregulars, Julian Wolff, at the podium" border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q9Oaw1sgmjo/Xw8ttvA7n5I/AAAAAAABN-s/5QC7uG27-Yco90_MX7a4ZJdwFxHgMyipgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h360/Julian%2BWolff.jpg" title="Julian Wolff, BSI at the 1968 Baker Street Irregulars dinner" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>In their 86-year history the Baker Street Irregulars have had six leaders. Of them, Julian Wolff, BSI ("The Red-Headed League) seems to have been the least likely.</div><div><br /></div><div>As Malvolio says in <i>Twelfth Night</i>, "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." Julian was in the third category, as there was a leadership vacuum following the unexpected death of Edgar W. Smith in 1960, after 20 years of leadership, and Julian's name was put forth to fill Edgar's considerable shoes.</div><div><br /></div><div>The latest entry in the BSI Press Biography Series is <i><a href="https://ihose.co/commissionaire" target="_blank">Commissionaire: Julian Wolff and his Baker Street Irregulars</a> </i>by Sonia Fetherston, BSI ("The Solitary Cyclist"). Sonia returns to I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere to explore Julian's life inside and outside of the BSI, the secrets behind some of the back room jockeying, and the dry humor and self-control that powered this well-respected leader who saved the BSI from near extinction.</div><div><br /></div><div>Inside this episode you'll find a very special flashback segment from <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose89" target="_blank">our interview</a> with Evelyn Herzog, BSI ("The Daintiest Thing Under a Bonnet") and Susan Rice, BSI ("Beeswing") where the two stories intersect.</div><div><br /></div><div>The <b>Canonical Couplet</b> is back, with fresh new entries (as we blew through the first 60!). Enter to win our prize: a copy of Commissionaire from the BSI Press. 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