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Episode 43: Fathers in the Canon

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Sometimes, when there's a topic that bears a discussion-based episode between the two of us, we like to do a little research to see what's been written previously, so we can have some reference material upon which to base some of our zany theories.<br />
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Sunday, June 17 was Father's Day in the United States, which made it a perfect opportunity to tackle the topic of fathers in the Canon. Imagine our chagrin and surprise then, when we discovered that there was no appreciable material (at least to our "small but select" libraries of Sherlockiana) that adequately chronicled fathers and father figures in the Sherlock Holmes stories.<br />
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Not to be deterred, we decided to thumb through the stories and pick out not only fathers, but step-fathers, would-be fathers, father figures and others who espoused the characteristics that fathers do or should have. More than a laundry list of individuals, this episode turned into a fun reminiscence and analysis that we hope you enjoy listening to almost as much as we enjoyed creating it.<br />
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While we couldn't find an Editor's Gas-Lamp that was directly about fatherhood, we did find one that had paternal overtone in the Vol. 8 No. 4 issue from October 1958 titled "Truth is Better than Fiction."<br />
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<li><a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/morleymontgomeryaward/archivedwinners.html">The Morley-Montgomery Award Winners</a>, including "Who Wrote the American Chapters of <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>?" by Ben Vizoskie.</li>
<li>William Baring-Gould's biography <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/051703817X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=051703817X">Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street</a></i></li>
<li>Elementary!</li>
<li>The <a href="http://221bcon.com/">221B Con</a> in Atlanta in 2013</li>
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