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In our 70th episode, we've joined forces with three of the formidably intelligent <a href="http://bakerstreetbabes.com/" target="_blank">Baker Street Babes</a> to create a Sherlockian version of the popular American game show Jeopardy. To say that it was one of our most technically challenging episode yet would be a massive understatement. But we hope you find that it was pulled off with aplomb.<br />
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<a href="http://bakerstreetbabes.com/babe/lyndsay/" target="_blank">Lyndsay</a>, <a href="http://bakerstreetbabes.com/babe/ashley/" target="_blank">Ashley</a> and <a href="http://bakerstreetbabes.com/babe/ardy/" target="_blank">Ardy </a>faced off against each other with Burt and Scott filling the role of Alex Trebek in what could be summed up as "the nervous tutor, the careless servant, and the three enterprising students."<br />
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In our version, the game revolves around the Canonical references in the BBC's <i>Sherlock</i>. Five categories span the first five episodes of the series and are titled: Pink Profile, Myopic Money, Profound Past-time, Steamy Scandal, and Horrible Hound and range from $100 to $500 in the first half and $200 to $1,000 in the second half. Each contestant rings in with a unique audio signature:<br />
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<li>Ashley "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0290712/quotes" target="_blank">I'm a big fan</a>." [Kitty Riley's greeting to Sherlock in the men's room.]</li>
<li>Ardy "<a href="http://goo.gl/Lpg9h" target="_blank">Not your housekeeper</a>." [Mrs. Hudson's retort to Watson]</li>
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With Burt's occasional difficulty with the question formulation and Lyndsay's inability to recall that Jeopardy contestants are required to respond in the form of a question, it was as much high comedy as it was a quiz show. Not to mention the Edwardian-era quiz show music we chose. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.<br />
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And in a surprise move, Burt and Scott received the ultimate honor: after being put to four questions, each was named an honorary Baker Street Babe!<br />
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We wrap up with listener comments and our contest winner from Episode 69.<br />
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Episode 70: Sherlockian Jeopardy

This. Is. IHOSE! In our 70th episode, we've joined forces with three of the formidably intelligent Baker Street Babes to cre...

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by Scott Monty

Sherlock #221back Special Teaser Features Cumberbatch & Freeman in Period Clothing

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We've all been waiting anxiously for news of Series Four of the BBC's <i>Sherlock</i>, which has been up in the air due to the massive scheduling pressures of stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, as well as that of writers and show runners Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat. Each of their stars have risen with the international success of this show, as well as numerous movies and television series.<br />
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So, imagine the collective excitement when Sherlock producer Sue Vertue tweeted:<br />
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This is what we've been doing today! Later on a pic of Sherlock and John as they'll appear in the Special <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/221back?src=hash">#221back</a> <a href="http://t.co/Aq4vncKpKy">pic.twitter.com/Aq4vncKpKy</a><br />
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And just like that, the Internet was all atwitter today. The entertainment sites - from The Hollywood Reporter to E! Online to Perez Hilton and more - all lit up with what Twitter was onto.<br />
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And sure enough, the @BBCOne Twitter account followed up with the promised image and #221back hashtag:<br />
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<b>"Oh, my God!" I gasped. "What is it? What does it mean?" [HOUN]</b></h3>
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At this point, like Sherlock Holmes, we cannot make bricks without clay. We need more data. All we have at our disposal is the cover of the read-through draft, issued on 22 November 2014 and the image portraying Cumberbatch in a top hat and Freeman in a bowler. </div>
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Are we to assume that the pair has been transported in time by some apparatus? While Steven Moffat has done his fair share of <i>Dr. Who</i> work, <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/08/about-sherlock-doctor-who-crossover.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">he has previously denied the likelihood of a crossover</a>. Or perhaps Mrs. Hudson was knocked unconscious and slipped into a dream-like state, with this manifestation of her famous dwellers. While <a href="http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-11-25/the-sherlock-special-reveal---what-does-it-mean" target="_blank">some have speculated</a> a dramatization of "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle," it's unlikely that it will happen in time for Christmas of 2014. Next year could be an alternative - although Holmes was wearing a bowler rather than a top hat in that story.</div>
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Perhaps the pair were invited to a costume party and they chose these outfits as a clever homage to their forbears. Or maybe they got caught up in the cosplay of the edgy Sherlock Holmes fans who were featured in "The Empty Hearse."</div>
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Anything we suggest at this point is pure speculation.</div>
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The Art of the (Sherlockian) Murder

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Murder, like a forbidden back-alley bar, is a preoccupation. But it's a curiosity we can forgive. Because outside of the gory, sordid details, the promise of <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/06/basil-rathbone-reluctant-sherlock-holmes.html" target="_blank">a hero</a> -- a doctor, a soldier, <i>a detective</i> -- makes the whole unseemly business somehow more understandable. In her recent book <i><a href="http://amzn.to/1xrssMy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Art of the English Murder</a></i>, <a href="http://www.lucyworsley.com/" target="_blank">Dr. Lucy Worsley</a> explains the by-night fascination with unhinged minds and forensics in the context of some of Britain's most famous crimes, criminals, and fictional characters. <br />
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Including our namesake. The Sherlockian story begins in Victorian Wiltshire:<br />
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<i>1860. Road Hill House, a Georgian estate belonging to Samuel Kent and his second wife, Mary. Nighttime. As the Kents sleep on, their three-year-old son Saville disappears from his cot. His body is found early the next morning, crammed down the backyard privy. Nearly beheaded.</i></blockquote>
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This case played out with morbid fascination even in London newspapers. Among Scotland Yard’s best, Detective Inspector Jack Whicher was tasked not only to unravel little Saville's tragic demise but to deal with the many write-in deductions of England's new class of armchair sleuths: A mixed class of clerks, shopkeepers, and accountants with <a href="http://www.victorianperiodicals.com/Contents/Overview.asp" target="_blank">increased access to and interest in</a> shocking news from the too-tidy countryside. <br />
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"Despite its lack of artistic merit," writes Worsley, "the literature of murder tells us not what people thought they ought to read. It tells us what they really read." <br />
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Such a notion of quiet hypocrisy directly compels the popular image of Victorian domestic life -- of sexual, violent desires stifled by corsets and crinolines. Indeed, many supposed from the well-publicized testimonies that Mr. Kent had been having an adulterous relationship with one of his housemaids. <br />
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More bewitching still was the newly discovered science of forensics. Over the course of the 19th century, Worsley explains, professional detectives and their amateur (<i>ahem - unofficial consulting</i>) counterparts were interpreting medical evidence collected at crime scenes and from the dubiously maimed bodies themselves. Whicher concentrated the early part of his investigation, for instance, on a bloodstained nightgown that had been lodged in the chimney.<br />
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Such a discovery was scandalous. Exciting. What <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensation_novel" target="_blank">sensationalist</a> author Wilkie Collins later described as symptomatic of a sort of sickness:<br />
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Armed with a Stradivarius, a laboratory of gruesome poisons and chemicals, a magnifying glass, and a riding crop, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's indomitable Sherlock Holmes nourished the fever pitch. He pursued criminals over pages that read to this day like <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2011/05/great-teacher-cree_30.html" target="_blank">Dr. Joseph Bell's</a> autopsy reports. He applied reason to <a href="http://www.universityherald.com/articles/10694/20140731/nasa-unveils-rover-that-will-explore-mars-in-2020-is-its-name-an-ode-to-sir-arthur-conan-doyle.htm" target="_blank">the unknowable</a>. To the equally terrifying and titillating. <br />
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And there is comfort in that. When <a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/10/18/jack_the_rippers_long_shadow_from_sherlock_holmes_to_jekyll_hyde/" target="_blank">monstrous murderers prowl the night</a>, when the world seems to have completely lost its way, we take refuge in the constants -- damning facts and a damn good story. No one does <i>it</i>, the <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2852/2852-h/2852-h.htm" target="_blank">dogged</a> hunt for exact knowledge, better than our Holmes. <br />
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"Death," she says, "seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of innocent amusement than any other subject." <br />
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<i>Click to read more about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Kent" target="_blank">the murder at Road Hill House</a>. </i><br />
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The Art of the (Sherlockian) Murder

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Review: The City of the Saved: Tales of the Great Detectives

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's interest in the afterlife has finally found a suitable partner/ ghost writer in the team assembled by British sci-fi giant Phillip Purser-Hallard. <br />
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The eclectic creator has edited a third book in his series <i>The City of the Saved</i>, stories set in a megalopolis of the afterlife (Heaven?) in which exist every human and fictional construct ever created. This third entry in the <i>CotS</i> series muses upon the possibilities of all incarnations of the Great Detective and his humble sidekick as well as his eternal nemesis, his bumbling police contacts, his landlady.<br />
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In other words, it's heaven (or Victorian England) and everybody is there, and the city goes on forever, and it's London but it's not London, and there is an entire detective agency populated by different versions of the one and only. Purser-Hallard and his team of writers all leap off the ideas fermented in his previous <i>CotS</i> works. Once the reader grasps the basic idea (and it is a stretch) the volume <i><a href="http://obversebooks.co.uk/product/detective_tales/" target="_blank">Tales of the Great Detectives</a> </i>makes for great fun seasoned with a refreshing sprinkle of eschatological philosophy.</div>
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Not unlike collections such as <i>A Study in Sherlock</i> in which multiple versions of Holmes and Watson stalk and detect across multiple venues and eras, <i>Tales of the Great Detectives </i>benefits from the multiple authors creating their own deerstalker-clad hero, giving us their own spin on a character who after a century and more is still as elusive as the vapors of The Thames but as immediate as Benedict Cumberbatch's voice.<br />
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The collection consists of seven tales, pro-and epilogued by brief sketches setting the scenes.  The opening tale gives us the landscape and breadth of the seemingly infinite City of the Saved and connects in a deft descriptive analogy to Holmes' aviary passion also linked to in the brief ending tale (a stream of conscious look at the death of an aged Holmes among his bees in the gardens of Sussex).<br />
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From the brief opening the book becomes immediately engaging, and the reader is not far into the first tale when she realizes that the scenario being played outs connects seamlessly with the last scenes of the 1986 film Chris Columbus film <i>Young Sherlock Holmes</i>. One tale gives us Conan Doyle himself as the murder suspect, out to silence his consulting detective forever as he failed to do at the end of "The Final Problem."<br />
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Perhaps most engaging is the various handling of Watson, who in this volume ranges from a philandering roue to a video game character.  Briefly told, the stories engage incredible Holmes/Watson scenarios set on the other side of existence in a city that never ends.  Fans of science fiction will be engrossed, followers of religious debate on the End Time will be engaged, and the average fan of Sherlock Holmes will feel an odd familiarity in all the unique renderings of Holmes and his detection of crime in an afterlife that knows no death, no murder, no crime.<br />
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<a href="http://obversebooks.co.uk/product/detective_tales/" target="_blank"><i>The City of the Saved: Tales of the Great Detectives</i></a> is available from <a href="http://obversebooks.co.uk/" target="_blank">Obverse Books</a>.<br />
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Review: The City of the Saved: Tales of the Great Detectives

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Ebook Review - 221b: The Curious Case of the Drugged Dog and the Jammed Window

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A young woman working as a temp at a housing agency may not sound like a candidate for a Sherlock Holmes stand-in, but in Brendon Connelly's novella <i><a href="http://amzn.to/1sBYoZ3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">221b: The Curious Case of the Drugged Dog and the Jammed Window</a></i>, that’s exactly the case.<br />
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Emily and her fellow temp Jenny work at Homes Brothers Estate Agents, a real estate company located at 219-223 Baker Street. The company, of course, receives mail addressed to Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and they use it for a bit of good-natured publicity. Emily and Jenny are tasked with answering Mr. Holmes's mail and stumble upon a genuine mystery when Emily takes it upon herself to look into the details of a particularly odd letter. <br />
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This novella is the first of a series; according to the author, each novella is a self-contained case, with an overarching plot connecting all six. The author describes the first as the "pilot episode" of his series and, much like pilot episodes of television shows, the series’ potential still has a few wrinkles that need to be ironed out.<br />
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The transitions between scenes are often clumsily sudden, like a quick cut in a film but without the visual cues to ground the viewer. Emily, the story's Holmes equivalent, is so puzzled by people's skepticism of her deductive prowess that it comes across as naive. Believing a Holmes enthusiast could work out a case on her own is one thing - asking the reader to believe such a person would honestly expect the police to listen to her pushes her credibility.<br />
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The case itself is a unique twist on "The Empty House," but the end is too easy. Connelly presents a classic 'drawing room explanation,' where all the details are spelled out, the deductive leaps are illuminated and loose ends are tied up, but without the case having any of the suspense or tension that makes such a scene enjoyable. Too much of the case has been kept in the dark, not only from other characters, but from the reader as well. The clues are mentioned, but Emily lacks Holmes's flair for the dramatic to keep the reader's attention. The reader isn't even sure what crime it is exactly that the ladies have been investigating until the last few pages. What was likely intended as a major reveal at the end instead falls flat and feels a little like cheating.<br />
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While the end is dissatisfying, getting there is enjoyable. The story is light, fun, and loaded with references to Sherlockiana. The character Jenny, the Watson to Emily’s Holmes, is very believable as the excitable friend who gets pulled along and discovers she’s actually enjoying herself. She’s got a head on her shoulders, and the two of them hit it off well. Emily is well meaning if a bit awkward, and very singlemindedly driven to find the solution to the puzzle out of the sheer fun of it. Connelly is very good at describing locations, and his enthusiasm for his characters and the story is engaging and keeps the momentum moving. <br />
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It needs work, but it’s a fun read with enough potential to warrant taking a look at the rest of the series once it’s released. <i>221b: The Curious Case of the Drugged Dog and the Jammed Window</i> is available on Amazon as an e-book.<br />
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Ebook Review - 221b: The Curious Case of the Drugged Dog and the Jammed Window

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by Katie Magnusson

Remembering Donald A. Redmond, BSI, 2s.

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[<b><i>Editor's note</i></b>: The following is a guest post by Chris Redmond, BSI ("Billy")]<br />
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My father, Don Redmond, BSI, 2s. ("Good Old Index"), first read the Sherlock Holmes stories in his boyhood, and his father’s copy of the grey-green three-volume Conan Doyle’s Best Books sits on my bookshelf today. Indeed, he was interested enough in Sherlockian matters to buy a copy of T. S. Blakeney’s 1932 book <i><a href="http://amzn.to/1B2fx7r" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes: Fact or Fiction?</a></i> somewhere along the way. But the enthusiasm that would land him knee-deep in Sherlockian scholarship and bring him to membership in the Baker Street Irregulars lay largely dormant until the 1960s. That was when I as a young teenager read the stories and became fascinated by all things Sherlockian, quickly getting involved to the point that my father had to come along just to keep an eye on me.<br />
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His death on October 22 in Kingston, Ontario, at the age of 92, thus ends some fifty years of Sherlockian activity that earned him both that Irregular investiture (as “Good Old Index” in 1969) and a Two Shilling Award, not to mention memberships and friendships in Sherlockian societies far and wide.<br />
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His writing includes dozens of articles — I hope to prepare an anthology some day — and two substantial books, <i><a href="http://amzn.to/1zhqH3A" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Sources</a></i> and then <i><a href="http://amzn.to/1xferTf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes Among the Pirates: Copyright and Conan Doyle in America 1890-1930</a></i>. The latter book completes the circle by including a bibliographic discussion of the Best Books volume with which my father had begun his reading decades before.<br />
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In the 1960s, I of course began writing Sherlockian juvenilia, and DAR, who was already an established scholar in the field of library administration, soon was not only advising me on my work but producing his own. Sometimes he gave his articles titles that he could straight-facedly include in his academic curriculum vitae, such as “Some Notes on the Ceylon Problem”, an early article in the <i><a href="http://sherlock-holmes.org.uk/journal.php" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes Journal</a></i>. His study “Some Chemical Problems in the Canon” (<i><a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/" target="_blank">Baker Street Journal</a></i>, 1964) remains a definitive explanation of Holmes’s chemical work.<br />
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With me he joined the nearest Sherlockian society, the newly organized Great Alkali Plainsmen of Greater Kansas City, perhaps largely because I was too young to travel into the big city without an adult. Famously he organized a meeting of the Plainsmen on the campus of the University of Kansas, where he was then working, and John Bennett Shaw was appalled, after travelling all the way from Oklahoma to attend, to discover that alcoholic beverages were not allowed to be served on state property.<br />
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Later, living in Ontario, he played a key role in the creation of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection at the (then) Metropolitan Toronto Library. I recently had the opportunity to tell that story as part of a small volume, <i>The Four Pillars</i>, published in honor of the collection. The 1971 symposium held by the Library to launch that collection led to the creation of the <a href="http://www.torontobootmakers.com/" target="_blank">Bootmakers of Toronto</a>, and DAR was (as was I, though still young and busy with other parts of my life) an early member. When the Master Bootmaker award was created some years later, he was among the four initial recipients.<br />
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He kept up a lively correspondence, and visited Sherlockians whenever professional travel allowed, and among his effects I have found a Speckled Band of Boston necktie, not to mention sheaves of newsletters from groups I have never so much as heard of. Sherlockian printed matter that he from all quarters received is marked “indexed” in his neat handwriting, to indicate that it had found a place in the Toronto library’s “Bigelow” card index, which he maintained on a volunteer basis for decades.<br />
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As for his reputation as “Good Old Index”, his first major Sherlockian index, covering the <i>BSJ</i> from 1946 to 1969, appeared in 1970, and he continued to index the <i>BSJ</i>, with cumulations, until 2012. Other indexes followed, knocked out on a series of manual and then electric typewriters — he never had the slightest desire to touch a computer. Bibliographies of the <a href="http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/books-video-music/specialized-collections/literature-genre-doyle.jsp" target="_blank">Arthur Conan Doyle Collection</a> at the Toronto library were joined by Bigelow on Holmes, a cumulation of that massive card index created by S. Tupper Bigelow.<br />
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A chemistry graduate of Mount Allison University, Don Redmond went on to study library science at McGill University and the University of Illinois, and worked in library administration in Nova Scotia, Ceylon, Turkey and Kansas (where we both caught the Sherlockian bug) before becoming chief librarian of Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, 1966-77. Railways, Meccano, and church administration and history were among his enthusiasms in addition to Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle.<br />
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His Sherlockian involvement continued after retirement, with a particular highlight being the summer “workshops” he led at Queen’s University in 1980 and 1981, which brought costumed Sherlockians to Kingston to mingle with fascinated Queen’s alumni. It would be safe to say that (although he took bibliographical and historical studies very seriously) it provided a field in which he could relax his customary dignity a little, enjoying himself and bringing enjoyment to others.<br />
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His long Sherlockian life produced a house full of books, papers, and memorabilia, some of which have come to me, while others have been deposited in the Toronto and University of Minnesota libraries or been distributed to a new generation across the Sherlockian world. A few key items, including his Irregular Shilling, will go to the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/archive" target="_blank">Baker Street Irregulars Archives</a> at Harvard University.</div>
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<i>Chris Redmond, BSI ("Billy") has been a Sherlockian nearly his whole life. He is the administrator of the comprehensive and informative <a href="http://sherlockian.net/">Sherlockian.net</a> and he lives in Canada.</i></div>
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Remembering Donald A. Redmond, BSI, 2s.

[ Editor's note : The following is a guest post by Chris Redmond, BSI ("Billy")] My father, Don Redmond, BSI, 2s. ("...

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by Scott Monty

And Now a Word About Our Show

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We were recently at a Sherlockian society meeting and we met a number of our listeners, which we always love doing. While one might think that we make the show just for our own amusement — <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/search/label/episodes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a> has been called a cross between <i>Fresh Air</i> and <i>Car Talk</i> for Sherlockians — we do this because of our love of all things Holmesian and to help entertain and educate anyone interested in the world's first unofficial consulting detective.<br />
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In our conversations, it became clear that not everyone is aware of or understands all of the listening options available to them. So, in an effort to give our fans more ways to listen that might fit with your lifestyle, we thought we'd give you all of the ways that you can enjoy <a href="http://ihose.co/ihoseshows" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the audio episodes of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a>.<br />
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Right here, where we started it all. The post containing each episode gives you <b><i>three</i></b> ways of getting audio content: the player just below the image at the top of the post; the Download link just below the Links section; and the embedded SoundCloud player just beneath that.<br />
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Over on the right side of the every page on the site you'll see a section called "Our Latest Show." It contains a player that automatically updates every time we add a new program.<br />
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Of course, in the toolbar on the Home page, you'll find a section called "Listen." This gives you the option to click on "<a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/search/label/episodes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Latest Episodes,</a>" for a deep dive of posts that only contain audio content; or "<a href="http://ihose.co/ihoseshows" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archives</a>," which have a full listing of every single episode on one page. We have an entire section at the bottom of the home page dedicated to our episodes, where you can find them listed as a whole or just with our interview subjects:<br />
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We have a <a href="http://ihearofsherlock.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Tumblr</a>, where our content is automatically posted from our podcast provider. The show is also automatically pulled through to <a href="http://facebook.com/ihearofsherlock" target="_blank">our Facebook page</a>, where you can find a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/IHearofSherlock/app_282096688512542?ref=page_internal" target="_blank">Listen Now tab</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">There are a number of sites or apps that are dedicated to serving audio content. And while they're available as mobile apps (more on that in a moment), they're also available to you on the web. These include:</span><br />
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<li><b>iTunes</b> - the original music and podcast store from Apple, where you can find our show at <a href="http://bit.ly/ihearofsherlock">bit.ly/ihearofsherlock</a></li>
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<li><b>Spreaker </b>- a community of talented broadcasters, producers and musicians. Our show is <a href="http://spreaker.com/ihearofsherlock">spreaker.com/ihearofsherlock</a></li>
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<li><b>Stitcher</b> - gives you radio on demand and is even available in your car. We can be heard at <a href="http://stitcher.com/podcast/i-hear-of-sherlock-everywhere">stitcher.com/podcast/i-hear-of-sherlock-everywhere</a></li>
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<li><b>SoundCloud</b> - the site that makes it easy to share what you're listening to on your social networks. We're <a href="http://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock">soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock</a></li>
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One of the things we particularly like about SoundCloud is the ability to add comments in to parts of the show - by any listener. If you mouse over the little squares below, you can see our comments and jump to that section of the show by clicking on it.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">One of our listeners told us that he wished he had more time to sit in front of his computer to listen to us. We told him that he didn't have to do that; he could download our episodes to his smartphone and take it on the go with him - on walks, at the gym, on his commute, etc.</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Smartphone use has grown exponentially since we first began broadcasting in 2007. In fact, that was the year that the iPhone launched, and with it, the app marketplace that has given rise to everything from Angry Birds to apps that can control your hotel TV with your phone. So it should be no surprise that I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere is mobile app-enabled as well.</span><br />
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Any of the above web-based apps are also available as mobile apps. Simply click on the links above from your mobile device and you should be taken to the appropriate app store. You can then download the app and set it up to subscribe to our shows via your phone, allowing you to listen when you're not at your computer. Some cars will allow you to pair your phone via Bluetooth; others have USB ports that you can use to connect as well. Both options give you the potential to listen to our show via your car's audio system.<br />
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In addition to the four major apps listed above, you might have your own "podcatcher" app. Depending on your device preference (iPhone, Android, Windows), you might have different options available to you. For iOS, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pocket-casts/id414834813?mt=8" target="_blank">Pocket Casts</a> is a favorite of ours, while others like <a href="https://overcast.fm/" target="_blank">Overcast</a>. You can also take a look at <a href="http://thenextweb.com/apps/2014/02/19/9-best-ios-apps-listening-podcasts/" target="_blank">a longer list</a>.<br />
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If you're more of an Android fan, <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bambuna.podcastaddict&hl=en" target="_blank">Podcast Addict</a> is popular, as is <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.itunestoppodcastplayer.app&hl=en" target="_blank">Podcast Republic</a> and <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.beyondpod&hl=en" target="_blank">Beyondpod</a>. The folks at Android Central have a list of <a href="http://www.androidcentral.com/top-5-best-podcast-apps-android" target="_blank">the five best podcast listening apps</a>.<br />
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Windows phones can access podcasts through <a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/podcasts/11f1cd1e-c7e1-40e1-bda0-ecf16b39c7db" target="_blank">PODCASTS!</a>, the oldest and most popular app. Another favorite is <a href="http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/i-podcast/c0e9110d-5d75-4970-9937-1854393b3f0e" target="_blank">iPodcast</a>. For a review of <a href="http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/features/item/18410_Podcatchers_podcast_managers-c.php" target="_blank">16 different apps for the Windows phone, check out this article</a>.<br />
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<b>The IHOSE App</b></h4>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Because we're looking out for you, we made sure that we have our very own app available so you'll never miss a show. Available on <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/podcast-box/id419361759?mt=8" target="_blank">iOS</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DZUTGYS/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00DZUTGYS&linkCode=as2&tag=thebakerstree-20" target="_blank">Android</a> and <a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/d1029dc0-f4b0-470e-bff5-3d6e787aaf9e" target="_blank">Windows</a> devices (just click the links) and you'll be directed to the Podcast Box app, which will allow you to search for I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere once you download it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Our app costs only $1.99 - half of which goes to the developer and half of which goes to support the show. To make it worth your two bucks, we occasionally put exclusive content into the app. We'd certainly appreciate it if you considered purchasing our app.</span><br />
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That's it! If you don't yet subscribe to our site, we'd kindly ask that you do. <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/f?sub=45933" target="_blank">Email is one option</a>; for audio, <a href="http://bit.ly/ihearofsherlock" target="_blank">iTunes</a> is the most popular.<br />
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<b>The One Thing You Can Do</b></h4>
We don't ask much of our listeners. We've delivered nearly 70 shows now - all for free. We simply ask that you tell everyone you know about our show using whatever method you prefer - email, Facebook, Twitter, word of mouth, or whatever. But please pass along your praise for our work and help us to continue to build the definitive site and podcast for news and information about Sherlock Holmes and popular culture.<br />
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Many thanks,<br />
Scott & Burt<br />
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Two Quick Sherlockian Book Reviews

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<i><a href="http://amzn.to/1tKaL9S" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Private Diaries of Dr. Watson</a></i> is authored by Magda Jozsa and contains 13 new cases for Holmes and Watson. The stories are billed as ones Holmes deemed too personal or were too risqué to be published at the time. <br />
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The stories are nicely crafted, although slightly predictable. The author is clearly knowledgeable and attains some success in emulating the style of the Canon. Several Holmes family members are introduced and have major roles in the stories “The Illegitimate Daughter” and “Death Amidst the Orchids”. Holmes is challenged when catching a serial killer in the story “Full Moon Killer”, where he uses Dr. Watson as bait. In “The Trial of Dr. Watson” every clue Holmes uncovers tightens the hangman’s noose.  <br />
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There is a lightness in the conversations between the Master and his chronicler, especially as they elude designing spinsters. <br />
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Where this book falls short is in its editing. Self-publishing is a hard task, but the number of errors and broken lines reaches a distracting level.<br />
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<i><a href="http://amzn.to/1uyuH0F" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Biography and Autobiography of Sherlock Holmes: Being a one volume, two book edition of My Brother, Sherlock and Montague Notations</a></i> by Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, Don Libey (Editor). <br />
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The first book is written by Sherlock Holmes's older brother, Mycroft. In it, he lays bare the underlying encoding that populates the Canon, complete with the interpretation of the signals being sent to the world-wide Irregular operatives around the world. He acknowledges that he, his brother and Dr. Watson were a successful triumvirate. Among the many revelations, we find that the red herrings that Dr. Watson uses to obscure facts included their location of their joint residence. They lived in Holmes’ Montague Street digs rather than the Baker Street address used in their stories. <br />
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Holmes's own Montague Notations tell the story of his life, from childhood to advanced age. He reveals that he does not prefer Americans, and that he had had close associates other than Watson. <br />
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The book enlightens us on some of the unpublished cases, and shows how far Watson obscured the details. These books were a good read.<br />
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Tom Magliozzi, an Inspiration for IHOSE

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Tom Magliozzi, cohost of the long-running NPR show <i>Car Talk</i>, <a href="http://www.cartalk.com/blogs/staff-blog/tom-magliozzi-1937-2014">passed away yesterday</a> at 77, from complications from Alzheimer's disease.<br />
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You may be wondering why we're bothering to mention on this site, and in Tom's own words, you'd be right! (And this is the juncture where you'd hear Tom's infectious laughter). But the fact is both Tom and Ray were both Sherlock Holmes fans. If you're a regular listener, you'll recall episodes on which there were occasional mentions of Sherlock Holmes and some of the stories. <br />
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For example, here's <a href="http://www.cartalk.com/content/paging-sherlock-holmes" target="_blank">an old puzzler that they wrote</a> in the style of Sherlock Holmes:<br />
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RAY: I'd like to give you this Puzzler in the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.<br />
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There had been a terrible accident in a suburb north of London, and Inspector Lestrade had been sent to investigate. Sir Richard Ashcroft was dead, and everyone agreed that it was an accident--although some suspected it was a suicide.<br />
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Sir Richard had been found on a rocky slope, his head dashed against one of the boulders and his mangled bicycle at his side. The facts seemed to speak for themselves.<br />
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He had lost control of his bike and had crashed. There had been no eyewitnesses, but finally an eyewitness emerged: Nigel--Sir Richard's trusted gardener of many years.<br />
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Haltingly, he told his story: "I was walking back from town up that long hill leading to Sir Richard's estate when I saw him riding toward me, sitting straight up in his seat the way he always rode. He was traveling at a high rate of speed. Suddenly, he jerked the handlebars to the left, and off the road he flew to his death."<br />
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Later that day, Lestrade is discussing the points of the case with his buddy, Sherlock Holmes, over cognac and a few Arturo Fuentes cigars. Holmes says, "Bring the gardener in for questioning. He's the perpetrator."<br />
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How DID Holmes know?</blockquote>
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Here's another clue to their knowledge of the Canon: if you listen to <a href="http://www.wbur.org/npr/357428287/tom-magliozzi-popular-co-host-of-nprs-car-talk-dies-at-77" target="_blank">the following story</a>, around the 3-minute mark, you'll note that Tom declared, much like Sherlock Holmes, that he didn't know whether the earth went around the sun or vice versa:
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And let's not forget that Tom and Ray - separated by 12 years - were a comic relief version of Sherlock and Mycroft, who themselves were separated by seven years. That means as the older brother, Tom must have been Mycroft!<br />
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Much like Holmes and Watson, Tom and Ray brought us technical information that was delivered in a friendly and approachable way. More importantly, they exhibited the traits of friendship as well as family, showing that they cared about each other and had fun doing what they did. <br />
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But more importantly than their friendly banter or knowledge of the Canon, Tom and Ray were the inspiration for the I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere podcast. We've often been called a cross between NPR's <i>Fresh Air</i> and <i>Car Talk</i> for Sherlockians. We couldn't be any more devastated about the death of our patron saint, Tom Magliozzi. We wish his family and friends our condolences. The world will be sadder – and quieter – for his loss.<br />
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And remember, don't read Sherlock Holmes like my brother.<br />
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Tom Magliozzi, an Inspiration for IHOSE

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Supreme Court Won't Hear #FreeSherlock Dispute

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<b>"the final discussion of those questions which lie between us" [FINA]</b></h4>
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Put a fork in it; it's done.<br />
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The U.S. Supreme Court today <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/03/us-usa-court-copyright-idUSKBN0IN1D420141103" target="_blank">has ended the longstanding copyright dispute</a> between Leslie S. Klinger and the Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd. by refusing to hear arguments, according to Reuters.<br />
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You'll recall that the CDE wanted to extract a licensing fee of $5,000 from Mr. Klinger for use of the characters in the upcoming book <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2QFw0JZ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">In the Company of Sherlock Holmes</a></i>. Klinger objected, arguing that he was not using any copyrighted material and that the characters themselves could not be copyrighted. The business entity that is the CDE argued that the characters were not complete until Conan Doyle completed the Canon (which would have made things like the 1916 William Gillette film a bit difficult to make).<br />
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The argument was heard by the U.S. District Court and the decision was reached for the plaintiff; the Conan Doyle Estate appealed and the case went to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, which also agreed with the plantiff.<br />
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Well, that wasn't going to stand with the business entity that is the spawn of Sir Arthur's two greedy sons Denis and <strike>Adrenaline</strike> Adrian; the CDE immediately filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court on July 11 following that ruling. <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/07/the-us-supreme-court-denies-conan-doyle.html#.VFen5_nF-AU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The petition was denied</a> on July 18.<br />
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And then, to show how vehemently they did agree with the plaintiff, the <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/08/7th-circuit-orders-conan-doyle-estate.html#.VFela_nF-AU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">7th Circuit Ordered the Conan Doyle Estate To Pay Legal Fees, Give Up "Extortion"</a>.<br />
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Not knowing when they've been defeated (lawyers are trained to argue and more importantly, are trained to win), the legal team gave what we could only determine was extremely poor advice by taking their now 0-3 record to the Supreme Court (SCOTUS). Time and again, the CDE was shown the folly of its arguments, and like a willfully blind toddler caught up in a tantrum, it chose to push ahead and waste the resources of all parties involved.<br />
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And now, we can rest easy as the SCOTUS decision clearly puts the first 50 stories in the public domain.<br />
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We've covered the <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/search/label/%23FreeSherlock#.VFel0vnF-AV" target="_blank">#FreeSherlock movement extensively</a> here (click the link for all articles). From <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/12/special-episode-free-sherlock.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">our interview with Les Klinger, BSI</a> ("The Abbey Grange") to the most s<a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/08/7th-circuit-orders-conan-doyle-estate.html#.VFepevnF-AU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">cathing and delicious court order to pay up</a>, we've been interested bystanders and reporters.<br />
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We're proud of our fellow Irregular Les Klinger and extremely grateful for all that he has done for the Sherlockian community. For Sherlock Holmes belongs to us all.<br />
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Supreme Court Won't Hear #FreeSherlock Dispute

"the final discussion of those questions which lie between us" [FINA] Put a fork in it; it's done. The U.S. Supreme ...

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Happy Birthday, Jeremy Brett

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Believe it or not, today marks what would have been Jeremy Brett's 81st birthday. It seems unthinkable to imagine the definitive Sherlock Holmes from the 1980s and 1990s as an octogenarian, and even more unthinkable that it has been nearly 20 years since he left us.<br />
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As a tribute to his memory, we give you <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J_VJHMCTmY" target="_blank">this interview</a> from a British morning television show:<br />
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And this video compilation of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UOTIW83oXs" target="_blank">the best Sherlock Holmes quotes</a> from the Granada series (Season 1) is as nice as any:<br />
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If you'd like to read more about Jeremy Brett (November 3, 1933 - September 12, 1995), please check out <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/search/label/Jeremy%20Brett" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">all of our posts tagged "Jeremy Brett."</a> Also, we have links to some books about him below.<br />
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