I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere

Episode 221: The Baker Street Journal

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“I have all the facts in my journal” [STUD] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoOFxj9zYMoRNFaS9dtAnF4xLv9OYtVATqCXJQWCnV8MwfvZeS8aA9jBwslU4VTjMr0BS9X1x60BJBWDNOpZhwVqURH0_i8RD7mnkFJsdPM_Nha6hhO3AXI_oref7ExB9fMqhGpdS3vHjA/s1911/The+Baker+Street+Journal+-+header.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="939" data-original-width="1911" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoOFxj9zYMoRNFaS9dtAnF4xLv9OYtVATqCXJQWCnV8MwfvZeS8aA9jBwslU4VTjMr0BS9X1x60BJBWDNOpZhwVqURH0_i8RD7mnkFJsdPM_Nha6hhO3AXI_oref7ExB9fMqhGpdS3vHjA/w640-h314/The+Baker+Street+Journal+-+header.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><p>For our 221st episode, we had to make it as deeply Sherlockian as we could. What better topic than T<i>he Baker Street Journal</i>, the first (ir)regular publication about Sherlock Holmes scholarship?</p><p>First published in 1946, the BSJ is a stalwart in the Sherlockian community, and it's much more than scholarship. Steven Rothman, BSI, 2s. ("<i>The Valley of Fear</i>") has edited the Journal since 2000, and he'll be the first to admit it's much more than scholarship.</p><p>On the occasion of the BSJ's 75th anniversary, we discuss the origins of this little yellow-backed publication, its evolution, and where it's headed. Steve's enthusiasm for the topic knows no bounds.</p><p>We were pleased to receive many congratulatory notes, so we open up the listener mailbag for a few of them.</p><p>And of course, we have another <b>Canonical Couplet</b> to challenge your acuity. If you are chosen as a winner, you'll get a year's subscription to the BSJ. Already a subscriber? We'll extend your subscription. 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Episode 221: The Baker Street Journal

“I have all the facts in my journal” [STUD] For our 221st episode, we had to make it as deeply Sherlockian as we could. What better topic t...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – Pun My Word!

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span>“a certain unexpected vein of pawky humour</span>” [VALL] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXIlCdfjk_wVeXttAPO7Y-XtfpTdvy3wOzf1kVKF3NEyPJxicTpGz6AxFhHa4inz36cP4SB2O25wpSjUa-g8CCcKuS4n6a9nPahwDJf-fPdJu7V0Xfdri6rllWxOrr19hpk8F3ag3_cQKP/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+111.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXIlCdfjk_wVeXttAPO7Y-XtfpTdvy3wOzf1kVKF3NEyPJxicTpGz6AxFhHa4inz36cP4SB2O25wpSjUa-g8CCcKuS4n6a9nPahwDJf-fPdJu7V0Xfdri6rllWxOrr19hpk8F3ag3_cQKP/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+111.1.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>Those who frequently use puns are frequently derided by many people. Some consider puns to be the lowest form of humor. We disagree; we can find many other forms of humor that are low. (Many happen daily in our household that includes two teenage boys.)</div><div><br /></div><div>When you consider it, a pun – also known as paronomasia, a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words – is a high form of humor, as it requires not only an understanding of the English language, but also a quick wit when sparring with other punsters in real-time.</div><div><br /></div><div>We've run across a number of Sherlockians who enjoy <strike>torturing</strike> entertaining others with their puns. The sport seems to have two elements: self-satisfaction in being so deft with words, and the pain inflicted on unsuspecting and unwilling participants.</div><div><br /></div><div>There is even a level of competition, as punsters try to one-up each others. We once entered ten puns in a contest, hoping one would win. But no pun in ten did.</div><div><br /></div><div>Take care, as you never know where a pun may hit you (hopefully your funny bone). As you seek them out and happen to get hit in the head with a book, you'll only have your shelf to blame.</div><div><br /></div><div>A late Baker Street Irregular, Norman Davis ("The Grosvenor Square Furniture Van") used to issue a newsletter called <i>Pun My Word</i> from The Pawky Humorists. You can probably find mention of it in past issues of Peter Blau's newsletter <i><a href="http://www.sherlocktron.com/scuttle.htm">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a></i> (which itself is a pun).</div><div><br /></div><div>And the astute searcher might even be able to find old copies of Davis' book <b><i><a href="https://affiliates.abebooks.com/c/2670720/77416/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fsts%3Dt%26cm_sp%3DSearchF-_-home-_-Results%26an%3DNorman%2BDavis%26tn%3DAmusing%252C%2BHolmes%26kn%3D%26isbn%3D">Amusing, Holmes!</a></i></b>, filled with all kinds of Sherlockian humor.</div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile, the boys are yukking it up at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxnCXwT2X5iveD6XV_UyDtbKOQ9jbIJ9J-Wy0eBOFJAxYhgmkcAMrscoFLHAJJyqrE03KllYf5CRsbaE1N4dyWfSv8IU5DDCtDVJV_hP0QRvKNcoHePxCzXncyKbiJCU_xyrseSrL_s-wz/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+111.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Baker Street Elementary – Pun My Word!

“a certain unexpected vein of pawky humour ” [VALL] Those who frequently use puns are frequently derided by many people. Some consider puns...

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by Scott Monty

Episode 220: Interesting Though Elementary

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“Interesting, though elementary” [HOUN] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEpdGy7zqRFjk95aKOaj_PW6dVLH3N48QMLWVtJdF42qCyRh9LSZg3JE8S_HrZlW9iY-TJp4L9PbtZjT09EYPUz5X2k91Lskayne_imrguAqMS0fhNDUHnaaeEx5k2G7Tx5RZpoDliT6Z9/s1920/Interesting+Though+Elementary.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEpdGy7zqRFjk95aKOaj_PW6dVLH3N48QMLWVtJdF42qCyRh9LSZg3JE8S_HrZlW9iY-TJp4L9PbtZjT09EYPUz5X2k91Lskayne_imrguAqMS0fhNDUHnaaeEx5k2G7Tx5RZpoDliT6Z9/w640-h360/Interesting+Though+Elementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><p>Rob Nunn found the Sherlockian world not long ago, and since then, our impression of him is one not too far from the name of our show: "We hear of Rob Nunn everywhere."</p><p>From winning the coveted <a href="https://www.beaconsociety.com/the-beacon-award.html" target="_blank">Beacon Award</a> from the Beacon Society in recognition of his work in the classroom involving Sherlock Holmes, to his involvement in a number of Sherlockian Societies in the Midwest and the creation of <a href="https://parallelcasestl.wixsite.com/home/holmes-in-the-heartland">Holmes in the Heartland</a>, Rob has made his presence known. </p><p>Nor does it end in the classroom or society meeting; Rob has <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/search/label/Rob%20Nunn#.YO-_jehKjb1" target="_blank">contributed to I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a> as a columnist, wrote <i><a href="https://mxpublishing.com/products/the-criminal-mastermind-of-baker-street?_pos=1&_sid=2c9b7707c&_ss=r" target="_blank">The Criminal Mastermind of Baker Street</a></i> (MX Publishing), and has another major writing project in the works.</p><p>But his most prolific work comes in the form of <a href="http://interestingthoughelementary.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Interesting Though Elementary</a>, a blog that grew out of his first book and evolved into regular interviews of — wait for it — interesting Sherlockians (although, as you'll find, that's redundant).</p><p>We have another <b>Canonical Couplet</b> after the interview. If you are chosen as a winner, you'll get a copy of Rob's book <i>The Criminal Mastermind of Baker Street</i>. Answers are due by July 29, 2021 at 11:59 a.m. EDT.</p><br /><p>Information on sponsors, links, and notes available below.</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-patreon-widget-type="become-patron-button" href="https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=2318606">Become a Patron!</a></div><script async="" src="https://c6.patreon.com/becomePatronButton.bundle.js"></script><p></p><div><div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Please do consider becoming a <a href="https://ihose.co/ihosepatron" target="_blank">Patron of the Arts</a>. 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Episode 220: Interesting Though Elementary

“Interesting, though elementary” [HOUN] Rob Nunn found the Sherlockian world not long ago, and since then, our impression of him is one not...

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by Scott Monty

Chapter and Verse Holmes

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"My biblical
knowledge is a trifle rusty, I fear" [CROO]</h4><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhun9uxFucr5jCVyxcH_7qgypvfkgufCa8VWc7ZlCVf2wjWtpn0SRVS2RMB3-cnmEAkpxrDCtjQpmxznqWDsgVkG-Xn5yrRQtDQT9pVD_a3qA8kKM0j2uMoPgQ8ygvIV3NzhoztuHfpPTXX/s640/Williamson+-+SOLI.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhun9uxFucr5jCVyxcH_7qgypvfkgufCa8VWc7ZlCVf2wjWtpn0SRVS2RMB3-cnmEAkpxrDCtjQpmxznqWDsgVkG-Xn5yrRQtDQT9pVD_a3qA8kKM0j2uMoPgQ8ygvIV3NzhoztuHfpPTXX/w640-h480/Williamson+-+SOLI.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3EAjzRnbL0&ab_channel=YourDailyBrew" target="_blank">YouTube</a> screen capture</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Most Sherlockians are familiar with the more <b><a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2011/03/favourite-ditty-last_3.html#.YOxl7-hKjb0">popular quotes from the Sherlock Holmes stories</a></b>. You know the ones:</p><blockquote><p>"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>"To Sherlock Holmes, she is always <i>the</i> woman."</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>"...the curious incident of the dog in the night-time"</p></blockquote><p>For those who cannot get enough of these quotes (and many others), there's always <b><a href="https://ihose.co/ihose181" target="_blank">The Daily Sherlock Holmes</a></b>.</p><p>The challenge for finding some of these quotes is the method for locating them is not consistent. Whether using the Doubleday <i>Complete Sherlock Holmes</i> (single or double volume edition), <i>The Annotated Sherlock Holmes</i> (Baring-Gould or Klinger), the <i>Crowborough Edition</i>, the <i>Author's Edition</i>, or some other source, we're left with a jumble of page numbers when it comes to finding a quote.</p><p>The answer to that conundrum has arrived.</p><p>Paul Thomas Miller (who joined us for <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose172" target="_blank">Episode 172</a> of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere) has developed <b><a href="https://chapterandverseholmes.co.uk/" target="_blank">Chapter and Verse Holmes</a></b>. His concept is simple:</p><blockquote><p>"...to provide a system whereby specific sentences in The Canon could referenced easily, modelled on the chapter and verse system of the Christian Bible."</p></blockquote><p>So, Paul developed a system in which he broke the Canon down, chapter by chapter, sentence by sentence, and incorporated <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/p/title-abbreviations.html#.YOxqNuhKjb0" target="_blank">the Jay Finley Christ abbreviations</a>. The format is straightforward:</p><p>[STORY CODE] [CHAPTER NUMBER]:[VERSE NUMBER]</p><p>So, the above quotes would be sourced as follows:</p><blockquote><p>"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." — SIGN 6:59</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>"To Sherlock Holmes, she is always <i>the</i> woman." — SCAN 1</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>"...the curious incident of the dog in the night-time" — SILV 455</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>There are two versions of <b><a href="https://chapterandverseholmes.co.uk/" target="_blank">Chapter and Verse Holmes</a></b> for use: one that respects U.S. copyright (and therefore excludes the six stories from <i>The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes</i> that are still under copyright) and one for the rest of the world.</p><p>This may help narrow things down for scholars, researchers, and even new acolytes of the Sherlock Holmes canon.</p><p><br /></p><p>--</p><p><br /></p>

Chapter and Verse Holmes

"My biblical knowledge is a trifle rusty, I fear" [CROO] Source: YouTube screen capture Most Sherlockians are familiar with the ...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – Your Goose Is Cooked

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span>“a collector of fairy tales</span>” [HOUN] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEincsYAb7mnI3zDkpmOj9sIQCuVXxNyz7jBRZUwK7YVuGrSzQFI1N3iOY-R9rCNtTcwVAaoRDx7dV131YlUTETymiaj4Jk8uxl_J-9H1mQ2Y-qE2XrdjKFr0gM6dfiOXSXIMU12oq1s6Cx8/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+110.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEincsYAb7mnI3zDkpmOj9sIQCuVXxNyz7jBRZUwK7YVuGrSzQFI1N3iOY-R9rCNtTcwVAaoRDx7dV131YlUTETymiaj4Jk8uxl_J-9H1mQ2Y-qE2XrdjKFr0gM6dfiOXSXIMU12oq1s6Cx8/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+110.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div>If you ask the average person (and let's face it: readers of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere are above average people) about Humpty Dumpty, they'll inevitably conjure up an image of a giant humanoid egg, sitting on a wall.</div><div><br /></div><div>The nursery rhyme had its origin in 1797, but doesn't make mention of an egg:</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,</div><div>Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.</div><div>All the king's horses and all the king's men</div><div>Cannot put Humpty together again.</div><div></div></blockquote><div>However, it was the fanciful illustrations for Lewis Carroll's <i>Through the Looking-Glass</i> by John Tenniel in 1872 that popularized the ovoid version of Humpty Dumpty.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpftuttsevU0SeIaaobEBQWe6Rsjquuu5OS8zzU54bZcEU2R9vdL87QOHNN_XwvIiRW748nI5t07fl85AXuMLe_JVQbU6xLwJqQLBY-3XyBGAl_-geQHOMtAx2uAB7biWWpvkLSMEOz7MW/s640/humpty_dumpty_tenniel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="420" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpftuttsevU0SeIaaobEBQWe6Rsjquuu5OS8zzU54bZcEU2R9vdL87QOHNN_XwvIiRW748nI5t07fl85AXuMLe_JVQbU6xLwJqQLBY-3XyBGAl_-geQHOMtAx2uAB7biWWpvkLSMEOz7MW/w420-h640/humpty_dumpty_tenniel.jpg" width="420" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>There are <a href="https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/02/28/humpty-dumpty/" target="_blank">many suppositions attached to the origin of the rhyme</a>, including a more modern myth that it referred to a cannon.</div><div><br /></div><div>To bring it back to Sherlock Holmes, the legendary William S. Baring-Gould, BSI ("The <i>Gloria Scott</i>"), author of <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3xCuqgy" target="_blank">The Annotated Sherlock Holmes</a></i>, also wrote a similar tome: <i><a href="https://affiliates.abebooks.com/c/2670720/77416/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fsts%3Dt%26cm_sp%3DSearchF-_-home-_-Results%26an%3D%26tn%3Dannotated%2Bmother%2Bgoose%26kn%3D%26isbn%3D" target="_blank">The Annotated Mother Goose</a></i>.</div><div><br /></div><div>It is listed as "Fascinating footnotes to the common and less common rhymes, telling of each rhyme's origin in the days when "children's" literature did not exist."</div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile, at Baker Street Elementary, the study of literature goes on...</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDZJgMPFqMSs0QKNkxQ-ULDdGWvMBws-Yh23DdL14kZFp3_vJgv50WNUEpDZggrcSqaobSb-ZTj2DeN7itPnlBmLvFN2uxC-i5xj2zlW_5eKREHNafRjftKZ3iJ5inxqtxdS5d1oj8QCvr/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+110.2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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color: #0e0e0e; 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-size: 14px;">.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary.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://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><br />--</div><div><br /></div></div></div>

Baker Street Elementary – Your Goose Is Cooked

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by Scott Monty

No Ticket! Dear Me, Watson

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"Square-toes had hopped over" [STUD] </h4><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihCMxQifRtNpKU7egYZjk9WckYOjO0cQT_2n2Q_Q67lCLWVrWR4BXbTlNOBR6jLNqhwKIEIIZXdbzeXax2LgSMp4s4oHvs0zZark96_xXGiIkxbpSblYxT87ba_d1xiURWVo8_cE28SxH3/s1274/No+Ticket+-+Indiana+Jones+and+the+Last+Crusade.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="1274" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihCMxQifRtNpKU7egYZjk9WckYOjO0cQT_2n2Q_Q67lCLWVrWR4BXbTlNOBR6jLNqhwKIEIIZXdbzeXax2LgSMp4s4oHvs0zZark96_xXGiIkxbpSblYxT87ba_d1xiURWVo8_cE28SxH3/w640-h270/No+Ticket+-+Indiana+Jones+and+the+Last+Crusade.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Source: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0vNsH81YeA&ab_channel=Movieclips" target="_blank">YouTube</a> screengrab </i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br />When Sherlock Holmes hears about the discovery of Arthur Cadogan West's body, early in the events of "The Bruce-Partington Plans," he is told that no ticket for an Underground train was found in West's pockets. </div><div><br /></div><div>His immediate response: </div><blockquote><div>"According to my experience it is not possible to reach the platform of a Metropolitan train without exhibiting one's ticket. Presumably, then, the young man had one."</div></blockquote><div><br /> It should be obvious to a Watson — even to a Lestrade — that this deduction is simply wrong. Indeed, it turns out that West never had a ticket, for the simple reason that he never was a passenger. Holmes can be forgiven for not immediately realizing that the young man's body had been placed on the roof of a train, not a proceeding that happens every day, but it seems extraordinary that he does not consider a much more commonplace explanation.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLtMMIiHpsd0k6bztwWPFG2KKIJD7LAw-HPZ2nOZFeoVTmw023jjNlm2XjnpVMr9O2Bg2IT0dOf6NhgxE9Qj8f_6kCcqyg1mkY1cdggthadvDzOudpS6d8Rp03wmdaVml7Nl6JAIB-HBNA/s622/Ticket.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLtMMIiHpsd0k6bztwWPFG2KKIJD7LAw-HPZ2nOZFeoVTmw023jjNlm2XjnpVMr9O2Bg2IT0dOf6NhgxE9Qj8f_6kCcqyg1mkY1cdggthadvDzOudpS6d8Rp03wmdaVml7Nl6JAIB-HBNA/s320/Ticket.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Metropolitan Railway ticket from 1901, now in the <a href="https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/tickets/item/2011-1553" target="_blank">London Transport Museum</a></i></span></span><br style="text-align: start;" /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>   </div><div><br /> How might a passenger get to the train without buying a ticket? Through the trick known nowadays in New York as <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/#">turnstile-hopping</a>, or through corruption by a friendly and negligent employee. </div><div><br /></div><div>Regardless of the Metropolitan Railway's security measures and the vigilance of its guards, there must have been many attempts every day, some of them successful, to sneak onto a platform, and thence onto a train, without buying a ticket.</div><div><br /> Is it possible that Holmes, whose usual fare included jewel thefts, murdered baronets, and vanishing steamships, remained blissfully unaware of petty crime and twopenny fraud? The man who claimed to have "an exact knowledge of London" must surely have had some knowledge of pickpocketing, prostitution, drunkenness, random violence, and the thousand little cheats by which the poorer classes got by. </div><div><br /></div><div>No doubt Watson's delicacy excised these phenomena from the records of Holmes's cases. The acute observer will notice "a little knot of roughs" and a broken window at the corner of Goodge Street in "The Blue Carbuncle," and of course the fraudulent beggar Hugh Boone in "The Man with the Twisted Lip," but it is difficult to think of many other examples. </div><div><br /></div><div>The official police had to pay attention to such matters, but Holmes was in a position to overlook them, or at least to delegate them to his ragamuffin Irregulars, and Watson clearly did not wish to bring them to his readers' attention. <br /><br /> The remarkable discrepancy between London crime (and London life) as a whole, and the more affluent and sanitized portion of it that was of interest to Sherlock Holmes, has of course often been noticed. Mostly we attribute it to class bias. </div><div><br /></div><div>The Holmes who airily commented in "The Noble Bachelor" about the quality of his incoming correspondence — "the humbler are usually the more interesting" — did not generally walk the talk: his known cases involve, if not royalty and aristocracy, at least the respectable members of the middle class. If they are financially embarrassed it is frequently because they have spent their fortunes, like Sir Robert Norberton of "Shoscombe Old Place."<br /><br /> Admittedly, Hall Pycroft of "The Stock-Broker's Clerk" has never been wealthy, but he is a self-respecting member of the clerical class, who probably read Watson's narratives in the <i>Strand </i>magazine once he had caught up on the day's stock market news. </div><div><br /></div><div>Even while employed, he might have found it expedient to join a goose club like Henry Baker, paying so many pence a week toward the year-end luxury of a Christmas dinner, and once out of a situation he quickly found it difficult to make ends meet, but he would never have fit with that knot of street-corner roughs. <br /><br /> Cadogan West, the young man who died on the Underground without even the solace of a ticket on his person, was of a similar occupational class, though more financially secure. In the <i>Baker Street Journal</i> for Autumn 2013 ("Short Sentences: Deductions from a Few Words in 'The Bruce-Partington Plans'"), I noted that his fiancée, Violet Westbury, was telling Holmes no more than the truth when she described his salary as "ample." </div><div><br /></div><div>Judging from available information about the pay scales for government clerks, West probably earned about £300 a year, or 50 percent more than Hall Pycroft's £200. In current US dollar buying power, the equivalent would be about $40,000.  <br /><br /> In other words, at the age of 27, he was earning close to the median annual income currently enjoyed in the United States, and he had it tax-free since British income tax in the 1890s did not touch middle-class earners. </div><div><br /></div><div>If West's needs were indeed "simple," as Violet Westbury also tells Holmes, he must have been well able to support himself and comfortably anticipate taking a wife. Sherlock Holmes did not have most of this information at the time of his exchange with Watson about the missing ticket, but perhaps he jumped to a conclusion from the simple knowledge that Cadogan West was a government employee.  <br /><br /> Apparent respectability, however, is no guarantee, as Britain's Financial Conduct Authority discovered in December 2014 when it was found necessary to ban a London hedge fund manager from the finance industry <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/#">after he was found to have evaded £42,000 in commuter fares</a>. <br /><br />--</div><div><br /></div>