I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere

Episode 286: The Autistic Sleuth

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“That was the curious incident” [SILV]  </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEwoqCnAsdDm3qQxf5Wo79Rvh4__vLy1PiS85edKpttTej81599B5gNVN0Oh2MnnH6bt8CmT93uiO9oYhQzDU9VvVADP1HgTiRvRmNdRu6ztHOigxf_hp3rzBce2GHqQf7GKmqxSYbMNP-JtY38ifItXLRWwAO8w-6H1K3RoROrK7WxgXKQljkdyxpZX4Z/s680/Autistic%20Sleuth%20cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="680" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEwoqCnAsdDm3qQxf5Wo79Rvh4__vLy1PiS85edKpttTej81599B5gNVN0Oh2MnnH6bt8CmT93uiO9oYhQzDU9VvVADP1HgTiRvRmNdRu6ztHOigxf_hp3rzBce2GHqQf7GKmqxSYbMNP-JtY38ifItXLRWwAO8w-6H1K3RoROrK7WxgXKQljkdyxpZX4Z/w400-h400/Autistic%20Sleuth%20cover.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div><p>From time to time, we see analysis and debate about whether Sherlock Holmes was autistic, had <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2012/01/technical-character-spec_13.html" target="_blank">Asperger Syndrome</a>, or is in some other way on the spectrum.</p><p>As neurodiversity becomes more understood and accepted in the 21st century, it seems natural to explore this not only with Holmes, but with other characters in the genre as well. </p><p>In <i>The Autistic Sleuth</i>, Christopher Chan and Patricia Meyer Chan, Ph.D., test the question: Is the entertainment industry celebrating neurodiversity or is it reinforcing stereotypes? They analyze how two dozen characters appearing in filmed productions from around the globe who are presented as atypical minds.</p><p>We have Sherlockian news, as well as another round of the <b>Canonical Couplet</b> quiz. It's a super-easy one this time. The winner, chosen at random from all correct answers, will receive a copy of <i>The Autistic Sleuth</i>. Send your answer to comment @ ihearofsherlock .com by May 14, 2024 at 11:59 a.m. EDT. 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Episode 286: The Autistic Sleuth

“That was the curious incident” [SILV] From time to time, we see analysis and debate about whether Sherlock Holmes was autistic, had Asper...

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Baker Street Elementary – What Is It Good For?

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“There’s an east wind coming, Watson” [LAST]  </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUE5CWLFvGeOwPUhM_UIWVsNKYOO1SsB1sw4MIpzg8kZq_uRmnpiUNB81zXKfUiAQHTN7vURpzgsgnNnRqFRMrZybiUtkKpXrAj_K5M7GuGMmrOm1dm2UCKmgcNhMlgQZmg9-pNRvFLU0ifvjU1JwBZWoDCsMwPBoXFAaLIzcFkxzlgls1JYBofVl5isRQ/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20176.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUE5CWLFvGeOwPUhM_UIWVsNKYOO1SsB1sw4MIpzg8kZq_uRmnpiUNB81zXKfUiAQHTN7vURpzgsgnNnRqFRMrZybiUtkKpXrAj_K5M7GuGMmrOm1dm2UCKmgcNhMlgQZmg9-pNRvFLU0ifvjU1JwBZWoDCsMwPBoXFAaLIzcFkxzlgls1JYBofVl5isRQ/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20176.1.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In "A Case of Identity," Sherlock Holmes demonstrated to Dr. Watson that “life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Throughout human history, our species seems to have been at war with itself constantly. Indeed, there is no recorded year in which a war has not taken place.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As we look across the Sherlock Holmes stories chronologically, beginning with "The <i>Gloria Scott</i>," dated by various chronologists between 1872 and 1876, and ending with "His Last Bow" in 1914, we find that wars provide bookends for the Canon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">From 1873–1875, the British were involved in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Ashanti_wars#Third_Anglo-Ashanti_War" target="_blank">Third Anglo-Ashanti War</a> in West Africa. And in 1914, as Holmes and Watson stood outside on the terrace, they contemplated what was the beginning of the Great War (later known as World War I).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And let's not forget that Watson himself was wounded during the Second Anglo-Afghan War at the Battle of Maiwand. Without war, we might never have learned of Sherlock Holmes.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Will human warfare ever cease? Sadly, that seems unlikely. And students at schools everywhere, even at Baker Street Elementary, contemplate its futility...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5SLcldbOV4518DR8DgeY0qt7ujyVT40Az_YZLq_RT_mEorO3zGet37FAat6WOVVBjgpsindutXGUcx82uAtk-sVHW0eA4ISE7uBIIoeJvnZMQb5EF04dK_pOAcDOkH2igXT5kRayQpymQH4cBVJJbnWogmB12RY7w6cBj9togFmO8Cma9U6vXk_DM50nA/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20176.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5SLcldbOV4518DR8DgeY0qt7ujyVT40Az_YZLq_RT_mEorO3zGet37FAat6WOVVBjgpsindutXGUcx82uAtk-sVHW0eA4ISE7uBIIoeJvnZMQb5EF04dK_pOAcDOkH2igXT5kRayQpymQH4cBVJJbnWogmB12RY7w6cBj9togFmO8Cma9U6vXk_DM50nA/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20176.2.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Baker Street Elementary – What Is It Good For?

“There’s an east wind coming, Watson” [LAST] In "A Case of Identity," Sherlock Holmes demonstrated to Dr. Watson that “life is i...

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by Scott Monty

Episode 285: Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“I am one of the hounds” [STUD]  </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIorT77PGPL4jzmXaECdaNOEaufGDjlfoUwPArIzfflO2YEP2-k1yfz-EUM_q2tNnZL7BK7sTEIDUquqX-9QGGU-jFKXgfFNkWGBoH9rMELUH2-xS8BeVs_4HuzCYZILMOcfTauk54NJnS1fj9mHq4pJA3V_UV_GmJNDj4NQ35xnj8fCxQKJqx0PYbSRUi/s2019/ihearofsherlock285%20widescreen.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1136" data-original-width="2019" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIorT77PGPL4jzmXaECdaNOEaufGDjlfoUwPArIzfflO2YEP2-k1yfz-EUM_q2tNnZL7BK7sTEIDUquqX-9QGGU-jFKXgfFNkWGBoH9rMELUH2-xS8BeVs_4HuzCYZILMOcfTauk54NJnS1fj9mHq4pJA3V_UV_GmJNDj4NQ35xnj8fCxQKJqx0PYbSRUi/w640-h360/ihearofsherlock285%20widescreen.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div><p>The golden age of Hollywood brought us stars like William Powell and Myrna Loy, and of course Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.</p><p>In Elizabeth Crowens' new novel <i>Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles</i>, we find them (and Dashiell Hammett) intervowen in a story that begins with the disappearance of Asta from The Thin Man movies, and Rathbone's own lost pup. Young private detectives Babs Norman and Guy Brandt team up with him to dig up the reasons behind these canine crimes.</p><p>Elizabeth joined us to talk about her Sherlockian and historical fiction writing amid her busy book launch schedule. It's a fascinating and fun conversation.</p><p>We have Sherlockian news, as well as another round of the <b>Canonical Couplet</b> quiz. It's a super-easy one this time. The winner, chosen at random from all correct answers, will receive a copy of <i>Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles</i>. Send your answer to comment @ ihearofsherlock .com by April 29, 2024 at 11:59 a.m. EDT. 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Episode 285: Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles

“I am one of the hounds” [STUD] The golden age of Hollywood brought us stars like William Powell and Myrna Loy, and of course Basil Rathbo...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – Misleading Man

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“I would have made a highly efficient criminal” [CHAS]  </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPtvyJf-vj60TMakz1pLwHssUo-wnmq7yKzAoK_deRiELaWVxA7EYzr70BiPGpDsCJMUr5lffLziTN-w-MQOXMJ3o2jaK1q51hJkq08eixOWuY9ga5VRTwEYWorg9hfKwbxFfL4jNHzJYZKQ-Yja8_63A6CgCFtSBZdMotQ5nP2xMcMpO5HqKDt7g1n7MC/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20175.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPtvyJf-vj60TMakz1pLwHssUo-wnmq7yKzAoK_deRiELaWVxA7EYzr70BiPGpDsCJMUr5lffLziTN-w-MQOXMJ3o2jaK1q51hJkq08eixOWuY9ga5VRTwEYWorg9hfKwbxFfL4jNHzJYZKQ-Yja8_63A6CgCFtSBZdMotQ5nP2xMcMpO5HqKDt7g1n7MC/s16000/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20175.1.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sherlock Holmes always sought the truth. As he reminded Watson, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” [SIGN]</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">He let data lead him where he needed to go, even if the conclusion was less than ideal. But he was careful about collecting that data:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing,” answered Holmes thoughtfully. “It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.” [BOSC]</div></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Yet he would allow Scotland Yard and the official police force to follow their own misguided attempts at capturing criminals from time to time, almost intentionally misleading them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In "Wisteria Lodge," he encouraged Inspector Baynes to “follow your path and I will follow mine,” and he allowed Lestrade to continue to pursue his theory of monomania in "The Six Napoleons." </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Why would he do this? For one, it allowed him an unfettered path to pursue his own inquiries. And for another, it kept them in his good graces, so they would continue to come to him for assistance.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In fact, our introduction to the official police in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i> gives it away:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“My dear fellow, what does it matter to me. Supposing I unravel the whole matter, you may be sure that Gregson, Lestrade, and Co. will pocket all the credit. That comes of being an unofficial personage.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />“But he begs you to help him.”<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Yes. He knows that I am his superior, and acknowledges it to me; but he would cut his tongue out before he would own it to any third person.”</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Of course, at Baker Street Elementary, it began a little more nefariously...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOHyb6KrSImEUx2DCCfDlGkc9g8Gs5iZSbFmmb3-dcjksQIGEa25pQrLjyUkl_wfQgC4WGXUTvjamaCgqRXrpT4xtBNmgMt2NiUH_YrYcNpM0UsCvbrU0dNneVdCziNLcxNdDGlSuYH6Uyn4-525VD3S-8ykQCA91hE94FdAN6IB3XSbI4mmfJmDQ6sNkE/s480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20175.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Baker Street Elementary – Misleading Man

“I would have made a highly efficient criminal” [CHAS] Sherlock Holmes always sought the truth. As he reminded Watson, “How often have I ...

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by Scott Monty

The Story Behind the Greatest Sherlockian Hoax of All Time

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> “wondering whether the whole thing was an elaborate hoax” [STOC] </h4><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4BBWBaOADsYBqcAn-OWLOQrCiRiX1LLhV-QSIMPgg_mvr59HDmBn8q-HNsds5OeR_zsGD1YE0cocC2X-BcrqkKcqEqG63DU-87S135kf8e4ZgLpqs-jSzM-mI55PrUWRn92fbJ7H1Ax9-LVYf6ibUzdLye_osuKffO2_pwMu_68q8QNWifKgHfDoXAPJZ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="866" data-original-width="1179" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4BBWBaOADsYBqcAn-OWLOQrCiRiX1LLhV-QSIMPgg_mvr59HDmBn8q-HNsds5OeR_zsGD1YE0cocC2X-BcrqkKcqEqG63DU-87S135kf8e4ZgLpqs-jSzM-mI55PrUWRn92fbJ7H1Ax9-LVYf6ibUzdLye_osuKffO2_pwMu_68q8QNWifKgHfDoXAPJZ=w640-h470" width="640" /></a></div></div><p></p><div>Today marks 17 years since one of the greatest Sherlockian hoaxes since... well, we were going to say since the Cottingley Fairies, but that wasn't strictly Sherlockian, was it?</div><div><br /></div><div>Back in 2007, the entertainment world was in a bit of a Sherlock Holmes drought. We were 13 years past "The Cardboard Box," the final episode in the Granada Sherlock Holmes series, made popular in part by Jeremy Brett in the starring role. And it was three years before <i>Sherlock</i> with Benedict Cumberbatch would debut, and five years before <i>Elementary</i> with Jonny Lee Miller would make its first appearance. </div><div><br /></div><div>The talk of the town in 2007 was a potential movie project dreamt up by former Warner Bros. producer Lionel Wigram, who had been working on a concept for about 10 years. In March, Warner Bros. finally committed to the idea and the project was announced.</div><div><br /></div><div>But who would they seek to don the deerstalker in this iconic role? What Hollywood star would have the screen presence combined with an ability to draw box office audiences?</div><div><br /></div><div>Speculation had already surfaced on some entertainment news sites and discussion forums that Russell Crowe was a candidate. Many in the Sherlockian community wrinkled their noses at such a ridiculous miscasting. Crowe was hardly the right type for Holmes.</div><div><br /></div><div>Who might be a better candidate?</div><div><br /></div><div>We immediately thought back to 1985 and Nicholas Rowe in his appearance in <i>Young Sherlock Holmes</i>. His similarity in looks to Dr. Joseph Bell, the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes, was uncanny, and he would have been the proper age in 2007 to play a true Sherlock Holmes.</div><div><br /></div><div>So we whipped up some background and convincing narrative and, on April 1, posted this item: "<a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2007/04/is-long-row-veil_1.html" target="_blank">Nicholas Rowe to Reprise His Role in Updated Sherlock Holmes Movie</a>." </div><div><br /></div><div>Of course, this was years before he'd have a cameo in the Ian McKellen-starring film <i>Mr. Holmes</i> in 2015:</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgr_VN9HNy21aeBfNsH3AIevQXuWJbWKB4TtD7hOHCy0jstu5R7RxLEzLb_cOtllOFhpEDb7yQhFfC0K__pM9eXXVwAnIiXkHoIV6F2EWURFH4QJQBGOet_J80qdKPRZy_fbg9wjBmbEYTpWK9xIIj46NHvwFva3WEJIIqdiow2lpOeFtytTWWMm4qKBDe4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="599" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgr_VN9HNy21aeBfNsH3AIevQXuWJbWKB4TtD7hOHCy0jstu5R7RxLEzLb_cOtllOFhpEDb7yQhFfC0K__pM9eXXVwAnIiXkHoIV6F2EWURFH4QJQBGOet_J80qdKPRZy_fbg9wjBmbEYTpWK9xIIj46NHvwFva3WEJIIqdiow2lpOeFtytTWWMm4qKBDe4=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Since those innocent early(ish) days of the Internet, it has become customary to view news stories with incredulity or even cynicism. But we were operating on the bleeding edge of things, and aside from a link at the bottom of the story alerting readers <a href="https://hoaxes.org/aprilfool/" target="_blank">to background info</a> and the date of the byline, there was nothing to indicate foul play was afoot.</div><div><br /></div><div>Well, the public ate it up and for a brief moment, <i>I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</i> became a source for Hollywood news. </div><div><br /></div><div>We <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2007/04/had-fooled-us-3gar_2.html" target="_blank">came clean</a> the following day, revealing the hoax.</div><div><br /></div><div>And Robert Downey, Jr. went on to be selected to play the role in the Guy Richie-directed <i>Sherlock Holmes</i> (2009) and sequel <i>Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows</i> (2011), both of which were global box office smash hits, raking in over $500 million each.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Be careful what you read out there on April Fool's Day. The game is afoot.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>