I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere

Episode 311: The Digital Archive at the Toronto Public Library

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“You can file it in our archives, Watson” [RETI] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB68g8FQRRi8054InJVIbZf_MidoSWPowUGPdBIviAqNGpMT881IYBgxkJavBPBC8DlCAgAq6iP6AOLnPvC2oA4Zw-t36yAVeVuk21DPx9MEYvMcxPEWBJc1SF13FvM2gEdNW-_0tEKjueRD2ZcfzTY0BAJrUX3p6ynXnwwd8AnAi1z_VjwwQhWuclX9OK/s800/ihearofsherlock311-header.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB68g8FQRRi8054InJVIbZf_MidoSWPowUGPdBIviAqNGpMT881IYBgxkJavBPBC8DlCAgAq6iP6AOLnPvC2oA4Zw-t36yAVeVuk21DPx9MEYvMcxPEWBJc1SF13FvM2gEdNW-_0tEKjueRD2ZcfzTY0BAJrUX3p6ynXnwwd8AnAi1z_VjwwQhWuclX9OK/w640-h360/ihearofsherlock311-header.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><p>North America is home to a number of public collections, libraries, museums, and archives that hold treasures related to Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Not least among them is the Toronto Public Library.</p><p>Home to the famed Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, the TPL is a great friend to Sherlockians and Doyleans everywhere and regularly welcomes visitors to view and research its more than 25,000 items related to Conan Doyle. And curator Jessie Amalo joined us to talk about the digital offerings of the collection.</p><p>What can an online researcher find in the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection? What's been digitized already and what's coming up? Jessie talks about all of this, plus some of unique and wonderful surroundings of the Toronto Public Library.</p><p>Speaking of Sherlockian gatherings, we share June events in "<b>The Learned Societies</b>" segment, Madeline Quinones is back with <b>A Chance of Listening</b>, and the <b>Canonical Couplet</b> quiz tests your Sherlock Holmes knowledge, with something from the vaults for the winner.  Send your answer to comment @ ihearofsherlock .com by June 14, 2025 at 11:59 a.m. EST. All listeners are eligible to play.</p><p>Don't forget to become a <a href="https://ihose.co/ihosepatron" target="_blank"><b>supporter</b></a> of the show on the platform of your choice (<a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/122378915" target="_blank">Patreon</a> | <a href="https://ihearofsherlock.substack.com/p/episode-305-bonus-content" target="_blank">Substack</a>). 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Episode 311: The Digital Archive at the Toronto Public Library

“You can file it in our archives, Watson” [RETI] North America is home to a number of public collections, libraries, museums, and archives ...

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USA Today's 10 Best: The Mysterious Bookshop

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“Who do you give your casting vote to?” [ENGR] </h4><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFqKUS1bGQov2b4Z7eFde4Y8YPIoFcI7HkYwPzaFSTZomchv-As94atiHMepZvjUymtanVIoK8tjG7grnGzmjUHnr5jKUkkoNSOX059J-pWvRys7MHgFs2oc1xLVDy8Yn3SQrPO3PrZHW3VRD3RH7CvrF7JBMhIE1fhifFmwLR9y67G6WVxwXhBmDOl3I" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1464" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFqKUS1bGQov2b4Z7eFde4Y8YPIoFcI7HkYwPzaFSTZomchv-As94atiHMepZvjUymtanVIoK8tjG7grnGzmjUHnr5jKUkkoNSOX059J-pWvRys7MHgFs2oc1xLVDy8Yn3SQrPO3PrZHW3VRD3RH7CvrF7JBMhIE1fhifFmwLR9y67G6WVxwXhBmDOl3I=w640-h448" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>The Mysterious Bookshop is an independent bookstore in New York City and is one of the oldest mystery bookstores in the United States. Founded by Otto Penzler, BSI ("The King of Bohemia"), it has been in business for over 45 years.</p><p><b>And it needs your vote.</b></p><p>Established at 129 West 56th Street, its charm included a cast iron spiral staircase, a whole wall of Sherlock Holmes-related material, and a sign that read: "Nobody shoplifts from a store that knows 3,214 ways to murder someone." After 25 years at that location, Otto moved the store to 58 Warren Street in the TriBeCa neighborhood. And the sign went with him.</p><p>After 20 years in the new location, business is as strong as ever and is a nominee in <a href="https://10best.usatoday.com/" target="_blank">USA Today's 10 Best Awards</a>:</p><p></p><blockquote>It's no mystery why book lovers have flocked to The Mysterious Bookshop since 1979. Located in the heart of Tribeca, The Mysterious Bookshop is the nation's oldest mystery specialist bookstore, and that includes all its sub-genres, such as detective, crime, thrillers, and suspense. Mystery lovers can browse the store's comprehensive collection of rare collectibles, Sherlockiana, and modern first editions. The Mysterious Bookshop also produces its own Bibliomystery series of novellas by some of the biggest authors in the genre.</blockquote><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Here's all you have to do: </h3><p><a href="https://10best.usatoday.com/awards/mysterious-bookshop-new-york-city-new-york/?mc_cid=bcafac9970&mc_eid=19440ba0c6" target="_blank">Go to this link every day</a> and vote for <a href="https://10best.usatoday.com/awards/mysterious-bookshop-new-york-city-new-york/?mc_cid=bcafac9970&mc_eid=19440ba0c6" target="_blank">The Mysterious Bookshop</a> as your favorite independent bookstore. Vote early, vote often (voting refreshes at midnight every day). </p><p>Let's give Otto's creation the attention and accolades it deserves.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and if you haven't listened to <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose87" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 87</a> of <i>I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</i> yet, now's the perfect time:</p><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="1767" data-dashlane-rid="6d1069ed74d8c2bb" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/4045502/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/414851/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe></p><p><br /></p>

USA Today's 10 Best: The Mysterious Bookshop

“Who do you give your casting vote to?” [ENGR] The Mysterious Bookshop is an independent bookstore in New York City and is one of the oldes...

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by I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere

Baker Street Elementary – Rebellion!

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“the revolting business” [CARD] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3OMd3hGP5oZKWEHei_vFiT5ECQUVxvma9xiG0gq5iMgXYOHXBH_hj_1Rsc9ToH267h1V-7ei1AJ499_X9P1KrfdEiqPZrDK4MR_W0HC8sFqxP3xEx735Rn408rUaJ_cxvkPYvuQgOI40XdHm58FxDkGWgz8VueQ09TvDZSkDtFt3cDDQ2C7YtbIan9Mk/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20202.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3OMd3hGP5oZKWEHei_vFiT5ECQUVxvma9xiG0gq5iMgXYOHXBH_hj_1Rsc9ToH267h1V-7ei1AJ499_X9P1KrfdEiqPZrDK4MR_W0HC8sFqxP3xEx735Rn408rUaJ_cxvkPYvuQgOI40XdHm58FxDkGWgz8VueQ09TvDZSkDtFt3cDDQ2C7YtbIan9Mk/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20202.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>It's always pleasant to get along with others. It is, of course, how all great things are accomplished: through collaboration, pooling of resources, and scale.</div><div></div><div><br /></div><div>Not everyone is able to get along, though. When ancient man turned to an agricultural society rather than a hunt-and-gather society, it required working with others. This not only led to conflicts with other growing societies, but to squabbles from within.</div><div><br /></div><div>Rebellion typically arises when one group feels oppressed under a harsh leadership, with certain rights having been stripped from them. They organize, rise up, and see the results of their work (either negative or positive).</div><div><br /></div><div>A couple of rebellions in the Sherlock Holmes stories come to mind:</div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>"The<i> Gloria Scott</i>": a mutiny aboard a ship of prisoners that led to the ship's demise and the delivery of incognito survivors to their destination.</li><li><i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>: Sir Hugo held the Baskerville seat during "the Great Rebellion," meaning the English Civil War (1642 –1651)</li><li><i>A Study in Scarlet</i>: John Ferrier and Jefferson Hope were considered rebels against the church's authority</li><li><i>The Sign of Four</i>: Jonathan Small tells of the 3d Bengal Fusiliers at the Fort of Agra and how, when the Great Mutiny broke out, he joined them "to meet the rebels at Shahgunge," and upon returning to the fort, the Four used the existence of rebels to mask their heist.</li><li>"The Crooked Man": Corporal Henry Wood was sent into battle amid "ten thousand rebels round us, and they were as keen as a set of terriers round a rat-cage," before being captured by a group of them.</li></ol></div><div><div>But perhaps it is the would-be mutineer John H. Watson we should have kept our eyes on the whole time — an Army man with experience in India and Afghanistan. He told us early on that he was considering rising up against Sherlock Holmes:</div><blockquote><div>"I might have rebelled against these exasperating solos..." (STUD)</div></blockquote></div><div>For more on the mutiny in "The<i> Gloria Scott</i>" listen to <a href="https:/ihose.co/trifles27" target="_blank">Episode 27</a> of <i>Trifles</i>:</div><div><br /></div><iframe title="Embed Player" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5507799/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/d0161c/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" height="192" width="100%" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" style="border: none;" data-dashlane-rid="dafc758a03056d6e" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="440"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Meanwhile, let's see if we can keep in check the instinct of the boys at Baker Street Elementary...</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9hpeZnIQWnxQUcP0vBhiDQrp0xZ6H14QOMEEOVFQHsC-R88CsrCXXiwWk1XzgCS40UlS4tnMHlRcFjrFTVVeGxtB-83PFDv2MS88dixIOe6SySJEk81Kyn-W0EczKpm2A0PlyHp7_dnVF6cV_9fbG6pMuMmrMiJFL0yekM_Hjm7AakCtAOqvKui7Yhxs/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20202.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9hpeZnIQWnxQUcP0vBhiDQrp0xZ6H14QOMEEOVFQHsC-R88CsrCXXiwWk1XzgCS40UlS4tnMHlRcFjrFTVVeGxtB-83PFDv2MS88dixIOe6SySJEk81Kyn-W0EczKpm2A0PlyHp7_dnVF6cV_9fbG6pMuMmrMiJFL0yekM_Hjm7AakCtAOqvKui7Yhxs/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20202.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp_5LBTyiyKFNEZV2huSZmRQTsjEGeu6o1ypQOWckgTArxO83c4yrUXP-dczt76UGHGExEaaIdLF5P72MY80qCF2e6edZpPQrxjGRZO3e_c3vGx7VyErM5VOEizhMlEHV2uPnW17cxVPsGJZWTbHLbKEkUFmkEbSfEti3WPOtDxuDEt196rgKq_uUYcVo/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20202.3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp_5LBTyiyKFNEZV2huSZmRQTsjEGeu6o1ypQOWckgTArxO83c4yrUXP-dczt76UGHGExEaaIdLF5P72MY80qCF2e6edZpPQrxjGRZO3e_c3vGx7VyErM5VOEizhMlEHV2uPnW17cxVPsGJZWTbHLbKEkUFmkEbSfEti3WPOtDxuDEt196rgKq_uUYcVo/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20202.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></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;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> 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 the <a href="https://www.dfw-sherlock.org/baker-street-elementary.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Baker Street Elementary website</a></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">.</span></div><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></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><br />

Baker Street Elementary – Rebellion!

“the revolting business” [CARD] It's always pleasant to get along with others. It is, of course, how all great things are accomplished:...

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by I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere

Baker Street Elementary – I'll Drink to That

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“Is alcohol permitted?” [MAZA] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUQQ93JuHay6whUELJrWd1dwJygw-_aKyx-6vikTro0kI-vi8X2ENq18onHP-BQKJPu5VEtPXhynbwFNYulwHq4D2GqfY12Ykydc7z__EvmPyzOgr-xJh2Wku3Uvkj3z0of4ZWwV7ZcL4sM9HuKO3kJUPW_De73WidcqVhcs3IQPAiPV8tCV2cr_NBoeYK/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20201.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUQQ93JuHay6whUELJrWd1dwJygw-_aKyx-6vikTro0kI-vi8X2ENq18onHP-BQKJPu5VEtPXhynbwFNYulwHq4D2GqfY12Ykydc7z__EvmPyzOgr-xJh2Wku3Uvkj3z0of4ZWwV7ZcL4sM9HuKO3kJUPW_De73WidcqVhcs3IQPAiPV8tCV2cr_NBoeYK/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20201.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div> In the Sherlockian world, the saying made famous by John Bennett Shaw, BSI ("The Hans Sloane of My Age") is "All you need for a Sherlockian meeting is two Sherlockians and a bottle. In a pinch, dispense with the other Sherlockian."</div><div><br /></div><div>But alcohol can be bit of a touchy subject. It's not everyone's thing, and for some, there may be negative connotations. Arthur Conan Doyle's father Charles Doyle was an alcoholic, and there's no doubt that the effects (some of which resulted in the elder Doyle being institutionalized) had a lasting effect.</div><div><br /></div><div>We see it crop up in certain stories, such as in "The Cardboard Box," in which Jim Browner, an reformed alcoholic, went on a bender and killed his wife and her lover:</div><div><blockquote><div>“I broke my blue ribbon and began to drink again”</div></blockquote></div><div>We also saw tinges of the evil spirits in Henry Baker's hat, as evidenced by Holmes's characterization:</div><div><blockquote><div>“He had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that his wife has ceased to love him.”</div></blockquote></div><div>Watson's brother was an alcoholic, as we learned in <i>The Sign of Four</i>, which led to Watson's erroneous diagnosis of the Dundas separation case in "A Case of Identity":</div><div><blockquote><div>“There is, of course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady.”</div></blockquote></div><div>Holmes was quick to disprove Watson's theory: </div><div><div>“The husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife,”</div></div><div><br /></div><div>So much for the evil influence of drink.</div><div><br /></div><div>For a deeper dive on this, see <i>Trifles</i> <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles335" target="_blank">Episode 335 -Alcoholism</a>) and <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles21" target="_blank">Episode 21</a> and <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles22" target="_blank">Episode 22</a> - Pubs  & Taverns.  </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Meanwhile, let's see what the boys at Baker Street Elementary are learning about it...</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoxUFX7xvWfjk6NWZaPc8tIkBDGo6-J4M_TOOHo33HDbOr9jBFB5IXWS-HJpQ2RaBJVGLDnCrG7txP-QKWvOWOoFceUypeujnPMGSLJFSla4nLrttwXuPL8A1yoF9vn588OyCxWcepV7qwieEtJeyVmsq6cc__JMYOwLiAU_sFla4II9ujvUs0ceCMqwY/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20201.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoxUFX7xvWfjk6NWZaPc8tIkBDGo6-J4M_TOOHo33HDbOr9jBFB5IXWS-HJpQ2RaBJVGLDnCrG7txP-QKWvOWOoFceUypeujnPMGSLJFSla4nLrttwXuPL8A1yoF9vn588OyCxWcepV7qwieEtJeyVmsq6cc__JMYOwLiAU_sFla4II9ujvUs0ceCMqwY/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20201.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCkUN9bqPSgQIQhCvC_yjFsUQNcvTgZvczEjjb_SJe0DKQQ9LNbIeUWAy1ZqbDk4IX_Hd4rmXuiDXtg6k8w9etT4zv_-oIzWwTqaoJEU-OllPUyCuqF3O-vIPaO4SzqaTnE0eyw_FTDRIIZdUodjcJ1ruli4_5BEzxGyDAULFEgs_6MZXJu89Y64EqqKk/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20201.3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCkUN9bqPSgQIQhCvC_yjFsUQNcvTgZvczEjjb_SJe0DKQQ9LNbIeUWAy1ZqbDk4IX_Hd4rmXuiDXtg6k8w9etT4zv_-oIzWwTqaoJEU-OllPUyCuqF3O-vIPaO4SzqaTnE0eyw_FTDRIIZdUodjcJ1ruli4_5BEzxGyDAULFEgs_6MZXJu89Y64EqqKk/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20201.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></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;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> 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. 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