I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere

Baker Street Elementary – The Retort Courteous

<p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="text-align: center;">"</b><span style="text-align: left;"><b>Chemistry.—Profound</b></span><b>” [STUD] </b></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Dqa4mSRV8E/X2dRyZZ-ftI/AAAAAAABPA0/xdZEohP6LQc1iETGIFXsx6kfKmJsWoc5ACLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B89.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Dqa4mSRV8E/X2dRyZZ-ftI/AAAAAAABPA0/xdZEohP6LQc1iETGIFXsx6kfKmJsWoc5ACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B89.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>When Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson first meet (by the way, what were the very first words Holmes said to Watson?<b>*</b>), Holmes is engaged in a chemical experiment in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>:</div><div><blockquote><div>"This was a lofty chamber, lined and littered with countless bottles. Broad, low tables were scattered about, which bristled with retorts, test-tubes, and little Bunsen lamps, with their blue flickering flames. There was only one student in the room, who was bending over a distant table absorbed in his work. At the sound of our steps he glanced round and sprang to his feet with a cry of pleasure. “I’ve found it! I’ve found it,” he shouted to my companion, running towards us with a test-tube in his hand."</div></blockquote>Before they agreed to living arrangements, Holmes warned Watson of his habits:</div><div><blockquote><div>“I generally have chemicals about, and occasionally do experiments. Would that annoy you?”</div></blockquote></div><div>And after moving into Baker Street, Watson observed that sometimes Holmes "spent his day at the chemical laboratory."</div><div><br /></div><div>So when did Sherlock Holmes begin doing chemistry experiments at home?</div><div><br /></div><div>By the time we reach The Sign of Four, Holmes is very much settled in with his equipment in Baker Street:</div><div><blockquote><div>"He would hardly reply to my questions, and busied himself all evening in an abstruse chemical analysis which involved much heating of retorts and distilling of vapors, ending at last in a smell which fairly drove me out of the apartment."</div></blockquote></div><div><i>The Adventures</i> saw only two instances of Holmes at work with his chemistry experiments, in "A Case of Identity," where "he had spent his day in the chemical work which was so dear to him," even though it had nothing to do with solving Mary Sutherland's conundrum.</div><div><br /></div><div>And in the final story in that series, "The Copper Beeches," Watson describes a scene that was not unusual:</div><div><blockquote><div>"The telegram which we eventually received came late one night just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came down to breakfast in the morning."</div></blockquote></div><div>The idea of his experiments completely capturing his attention came up again in "The Resident Patient," where Watson told us about "those abstruse chemical investigations which absorbed him utterly as long as he was engaged upon them."</div><div><br /></div><div>But it was not just Holmes's attention that was affected. In "The Musgrave Ritual," Watson describes how this hobby become part of the physical make-up of 221B Baker Street:</div><div><blockquote><div>"Our chambers were always full of chemicals and of criminal relics which had a way of wandering into unlikely positions, and of turning up in the butter dish or in even less desirable places."</div></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>And again in "The Mazarin Stone," as he referred to familiar artifacts such as "the scientific charts upon the wall, the acid-charred bench of chemicals." </div><div><br /></div><div>Indeed, when Holmes returned from his hiatus in "The Empty House" and he and Watson reunited in Baker Street, readers hearts must have fluttered upon seeing the old surroundings, including "the chemical corner and the acid-stained, deal-topped table."</div><div><div><br /></div><div>What's the deal with deal, you ask? It's a type of fir or pine, native to Scotland. One can imagine that over time, the wood must have physically degraded as well as had its color stained by acids.</div><div><br /></div><div>Oh, and speaking of quiz questions, the answer to the trivia question above (about Holmes's first words to Watson) is not "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive." He said, "How are you?"</div><div><br /></div><div>How are the boys at Baker Street Elementary? Someone's struggling with a chemistry test. We'll let you guess who...<br /><br />Oh, and if you're into Sherlock Holmes and chemistry, join us on <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles67" target="_blank">Episode 67 of Trifles</a>:</div><div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="200" scrolling="no" src="https://embed.radiopublic.com/e?if=sherlock-holmes-trifles-GqnV0O&ge=s1!6a9a647d076aff51f194a9d39654305a86a63e50" width="100%"></iframe></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dkbkR73x7XM/X2dSDyLsjNI/AAAAAAABPA8/moRGkqqxprwSf-Dx_sstTEBz9UbOtIMjQCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B89.2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dkbkR73x7XM/X2dSDyLsjNI/AAAAAAABPA8/moRGkqqxprwSf-Dx_sstTEBz9UbOtIMjQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B89.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QvE2lwyeXVg/X2dSD_CAwbI/AAAAAAABPBA/COFD03ClhIEfD3T1ppug00p5VZrnLe_SQCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B89.3.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QvE2lwyeXVg/X2dSD_CAwbI/AAAAAAABPBA/COFD03ClhIEfD3T1ppug00p5VZrnLe_SQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B89.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3d8w4JdYKXM/X2dSDyCHd1I/AAAAAAABPBE/kQGhVgHg2lwoutHoV95pJt5YL0oCAUYcgCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B89.4.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3d8w4JdYKXM/X2dSDyCHd1I/AAAAAAABPBE/kQGhVgHg2lwoutHoV95pJt5YL0oCAUYcgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B89.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eFW6Q8jNwGY/X2dSEYOCAiI/AAAAAAABPBI/Dc13OI_iK3IgQ-BrwXNPb86sA5P74sv8wCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B89.5.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eFW6Q8jNwGY/X2dSEYOCAiI/AAAAAAABPBI/Dc13OI_iK3IgQ-BrwXNPb86sA5P74sv8wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B89.5.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; 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><br /><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://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F-VumJdilF0/WJa_9TrpA3I/AAAAAAAAuO8/52U-hZ7WY4Qz2Oqo84lF8KQnF0zynZ5YQCPcB/s1600/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary.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://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F-VumJdilF0/WJa_9TrpA3I/AAAAAAAAuO8/52U-hZ7WY4Qz2Oqo84lF8KQnF0zynZ5YQCPcB/s640/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><br />--</div>

Baker Street Elementary – The Retort Courteous

" Chemistry.—Profound ” [STUD] When Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson first meet (by the way, what were the very first words Holmes sai...

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IHOSE Media Shows Are Now on Amazon Music

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "on the banks of the Amazon" [THOR] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gyfjozd0Aw0/X2VwP56nuRI/AAAAAAABO-w/wItU7Sm9nmUM6WVYetOq9SjcG0kl14NNgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1597/IHOSE%2Bon%2BAmazon%2B-%2Bheader.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="876" data-original-width="1597" height="352" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gyfjozd0Aw0/X2VwP56nuRI/AAAAAAABO-w/wItU7Sm9nmUM6WVYetOq9SjcG0kl14NNgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h352/IHOSE%2Bon%2BAmazon%2B-%2Bheader.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>It's another milestone in the history of our shows!</p><p>I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, the first and longest-running podcast for Sherlock Holmes fans, and Trifles, the weekly discussion show, are now on <a href="https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/217d8b8b-ea71-4f01-a231-34ef33f7d6de/I-Hear-of-Sherlock-Everywhere" target="_blank">Amazon Music</a>.</p><p>In addition to being available on all major podcasting platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud, iHeartRadio and more, we're now part of the same company that owns Audible, where you might have listened to <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2017/03/stephen-fry-reads-complete-sherlock.html#.X2Vw42hKjb0" target="_blank">Stephen Fry read the Canon</a>.</p><div style="background-color: white; 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The Mask is Afoot!

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"he turned his masked face in that direction" [CHAS]  </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XRxrZWR8pTw/X1FH_9ZKq7I/AAAAAAABOqw/EsooWkbR9fEKXzZG0V8J4wmZ50rNmEwXwCLcBGAsYHQ/s958/SCAN%2B-%2Bmask.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="665" data-original-width="958" height="445" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XRxrZWR8pTw/X1FH_9ZKq7I/AAAAAAABOqw/EsooWkbR9fEKXzZG0V8J4wmZ50rNmEwXwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h445/SCAN%2B-%2Bmask.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>You've probably seen your fair share of masks when you're out and about. But how many of them are Sherlockian?</div><div><br /></div><div>We pulled down our Doubleday edition of the Sherlock Holmes Canon and decided to do a little research on masks. Aside from the King of Bohemia showing up in a mask and Holmes and Watson masking up before burgling the home of Charles Augustus Milverton, we couldn't recall any other significant instances of physical masks.</div><div><br /></div><div>There were a modest number:</div><div><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"><i><b>A Study in Scarlet</b></i>:</p><div><div>“Belated wanderers upon the mountains spoke of gangs of armed men, masked, stealthy, and noiseless, who flitted by them in the darkness.”</div></div><div><br /></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><b>"A Scandal in Bohemia"</b>:</p><div>“Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask.”</div><div>“He carried a broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, for his hand was still raised to it as he entered.”</div></div><div><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"><b>"The Yellow Face"</b>:</p><div><div>“An instant later the mystery was explained. Holmes, with a laugh, passed his hand behind the child’s ear, a mask peeled off from her countenance, an there was a little coal black negress, with all her white teeth flashing in amusement at our amazed faces.”</div></div><div><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"><b>"Charles Augustus Milverton"</b>:</p><div><div>“I have rubber-soled tennis shoes.”</div><div>“Excellent. And a mask?”</div><div>“I can make a couple out of black silk.”</div><div>“I can see that you have a strong natural turn for this sort of thing. Very good; do you make the masks.”<br /><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div>When it came to emotional masks, there were quite a few more: individuals such as Isadora Klein, Jonathan Small, the Rt. Honourable Trelawney Hope, Barrymore, Lady Brackenstall, and of course, Sherlock Holmes.</div><div><br /></div><div>But if you require a physical mask and you'd like to connect it to your hobby, there are Sherlockian options.</div><div><br /></div><div>For example, Tom Francis, BSI ("The Imperial Opera at Warsaw") sports the colors of the Baker Street Irregulars in this silk mask that was a gift from fellow Irregular Richard Olken ("Bob Carruthers"):</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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Jg9jNmiEd5Q/X2Vr3EUykgI/AAAAAAABO-Y/pXdPrLSSicMLg-cAy8sbqioq5ePCiMArgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Tom%2BFrancis%2B-%2BMask.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2043" data-original-width="2048" height="399" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Jg9jNmiEd5Q/X2Vr3EUykgI/AAAAAAABO-Y/pXdPrLSSicMLg-cAy8sbqioq5ePCiMArgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h399/Tom%2BFrancis%2B-%2BMask.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Credit: Tom Francis (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4657558547595213&set=pb.100000233420617.-2207520000..&type=3" target="_blank">Facebook</a>)</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>

We've noticed that the folks at Beau Ties Ltd. of Vermont have begun offering masks and matching bow ties (although they're available separately as well). Here are a few Sherlock Holmes-inspired patterns.</div><div>   
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  One that caught our attention is the <a href="https://www.beautiesltd.com/collections/face-masks/products/afoot-face-mask?variant=32394550149216" target="_blank">Afoot</a>: </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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7Rf9XVnv2PU/X2VtIlAeIUI/AAAAAAABO-k/V8U44uHttp4IjPN_Vwqc8p2oUosKJeJJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/AFOT217MSK_1024x1024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="697" data-original-width="1024" height="435" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7Rf9XVnv2PU/X2VtIlAeIUI/AAAAAAABO-k/V8U44uHttp4IjPN_Vwqc8p2oUosKJeJJQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h435/AFOT217MSK_1024x1024.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image courtesy of <a href="https://www.beautiesltd.com/products/afoot-face-mask?variant=32394550149216" target="_blank">Beau Ties Ltd.</a></span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>

We have a warm place in our hearts for the Beau Ties team: we interviewed their president, Cy Tall, on <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose184" target="_blank">Episode 184</a> of our show. You can listen here:<div>

If you end up with a Sherlockian-themed mask, take a photo of yourself in it and send it in. We'd love to see that your mask is afoot!</div><div><br /></div><div>--</div>

The Mask is Afoot!

"he turned his masked face in that direction" [CHAS] You've probably seen your fair share of masks when you're out and a...

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by Scott Monty

Episode 200: Enola Holmes

<h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"I should like to see a sister of mine" [COPP] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rf4V2hICE9Y/X2EW-ILF50I/AAAAAAABO48/dchNAqgNsmsu8Y9XC1pu_5pVJQsNMkOsACLcBGAsYHQ/s1417/Enola%2BMarquess%2Bheader.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1012" data-original-width="1417" height="458" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rf4V2hICE9Y/X2EW-ILF50I/AAAAAAABO48/dchNAqgNsmsu8Y9XC1pu_5pVJQsNMkOsACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h458/Enola%2BMarquess%2Bheader.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>The name Enola Holmes ought to be familiar to most Sherlockians by now. Aside from her appearance in six books, on September 23, 2020, the youngest Holmes sibling makes her debut on Netflix.</p><p>Nancy Springer author of the Enola Holmes series, joined us to talk about how her creation sprang to life and where she finds her strength. We go so far as to uncover the true identity of her inspiration and hear about how Millie Bobby Brown herself was the sparking plug behind bringing this young heroine to the screen.</p><p>Along the way, we discover a fascinating personal and professional journey of Ms. Springer, about whom we can unequivocally say is one of the most reflective, thoughtful, and self-aware authors we've had a chance to interview. You won't want to miss her backstory and discussions of her other works such as <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3mpBQyw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I Am Mordred</a></i>, <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2FJJse3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rowan Hood: Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest</a></i>, and of course the <i><a href="https://amzn.to/33tFZZC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Enola Holmes Mysteries</a></i>.</p><p>Happy 200th to us. We'll be planning something just for our Patreon/PayPal supporters in the near future - be sure to tune in. And we have the latest round of <b>Canonical Couplets</b>. The prize this time around is an original copy of <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3mxmhF5" target="_blank">The Case of the Missing Marquess (an Enola Holmes Mystery)</a></i>. Entries are due by 11:59 pm EDT on September 29, 2020.</p><p><br /><script type="text/javascript">
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Episode 200: Enola Holmes

"I should like to see a sister of mine" [COPP] The name Enola Holmes ought to be familiar to most Sherlockians by now. Aside from...

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by Scott Monty

On the 25th Anniversary of Jeremy Brett's Passing

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"the stage lost a fine actor" [SCAN] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VKo-o5X15IY/VfOX8XWCuSI/AAAAAAAAiUI/xg7NTWPfxy0/s1600/Jeremy%2BBrett.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="308" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VKo-o5X15IY/VfOX8XWCuSI/AAAAAAAAiUI/xg7NTWPfxy0/s640/Jeremy%2BBrett.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br />On September 12, 1995, Jeremy Brett passed away at the age of 61 (although <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/14/obituaries/jeremy-brett-an-unnerving-holmes-is-dead-at-59.html" target="_blank">contemporary accounts gave his age as 59</a>). It's hard to believe that one of the most influential impersonators of Sherlock Holmes has been gone 25 years.<br /><br />Many have hailed Brett as the definitive Sherlock Holmes, although it can be argued that each generation has its own definitive Holmes. In our estimation, the value of Brett's performance in <a href="https://amzn.to/2F1YAmY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the Granada series</a> are due in part to two things: 1) the careful crafting of the Victorian setting and (in the earlier episodes mostly) the faithful adaptation of the Canon; and 2) Brett's own interest and expertise in the Canon and Sherlock Holmes.<br /><br />In <a href="http://wessexpress.com/html/studyincelluloid.html" target="_blank"><i>A Study in Celluloid</i></a> (Wessex Press), Michael Cox, the producer of the Granada series, noted that often times in script readings, Jeremy would make suggestions to steer the writing toward the Canon, with entire paragraphs of dialog being lifted directly from the original writings. Indeed, the team even had their own reference guide that kept the production crew and cast well informed as to Holmes's appearance and habits called <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2Z5MTmf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Baker Street File</a></i>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>We personally remember the outpouring of grief and memories that Sherlock Holmes fans shared online in 1995 — the early days of the Internet — through discussion forums and listservs, and wonder just how the web would have exploded had his death occurred in the present day. TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter would have exploded with emotion.<br /><br /><br />Here are some happier memories of Brett, in his incarnation of Sherlock Holmes.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FcPb4FKUWWM?rel=0" width="640"></iframe></div><br /><br />Anna Massey, Brett's ex-wife, wrote of his passing in her autobiography, <a amzn-ps-bm-asin="0099486946" class="amzn_ps_bm_tl" data-amzn-link-id="f322cbdcb87dbac416e871b740e54a43" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword="Telling Some Tales" href="https://amzn.to/3jJj3vU" id="amznPsBmLink_3025115" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Telling Some Tales</i></a>, "A light went out in many people's lives when he died, for he was one of life's true originals."<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uVvywZsz4jI/VfObJV3tzaI/AAAAAAAAiUY/_BDkDzmkin4/s1600/Jeremy%2BBrett%2BSIGN.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uVvywZsz4jI/VfObJV3tzaI/AAAAAAAAiUY/_BDkDzmkin4/s640/Jeremy%2BBrett%2BSIGN.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">Courtesy of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FalkArchive?fref=ts" target="_blank">The Falk Archive - "KFA"</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div>Farewell again, Jeremy Brett. We appreciate you making the world of Sherlock Holmes the sweeter for your presence.</div><div><br /><br /><br /><i>Image credit: <a href="http://double-zero-agent-alison.tumblr.com/post/110362909075/original-still-of-jeremy-from-sign" target="_blank">Tumblr</a></i><br /><br /></div><div>--<br /><br /></div><div><script type="text/javascript">
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On the 25th Anniversary of Jeremy Brett's Passing

"the stage lost a fine actor" [SCAN] On September 12, 1995, Jeremy Brett passed away at the age of 61 (although contemporary acc...

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by Scott Monty

Remembering Diana Rigg

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "rigging on the Surrey side" [SIGN]</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AVoLYDKOTeo/X1vf8O1V5bI/AAAAAAABO2Y/fPQCA3sdUEYBOf4ojDxIIxHlxjhu73V5gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1579/Rigg%2BBrett%2B3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1141" data-original-width="1579" height="462" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AVoLYDKOTeo/X1vf8O1V5bI/AAAAAAABO2Y/fPQCA3sdUEYBOf4ojDxIIxHlxjhu73V5gCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h462/Rigg%2BBrett%2B3.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Earlier this week, <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001671/" target="_blank">Dame Diana Rigg</a> passed away at the age of 82. She was a mainstay on the screen for five decades.</p><p>She was most famous for her early role as Emma Peel in the television series <i>The Avengers</i> with Patrick McNee, and would be most recognized by younger audiences in <i>The Game of Thrones</i>, in which she played Olenna Tyrell, matriarch of the House of Tyrell.</p><p>Rigg played Tracy Draco, the only woman to have captured James Bond's heart, in <i>On Her Majesty's Secret Service</i>, where the two were wed.</p><p>Her main connection to Sherlock Holmes was straightforward: she took over the hosting duties for Masterpiece MYSTERY after Vincent Price's health issues caused him to step down. You'll recall his introductions as <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/05/one-of-best-features-of-jeremy-brett.html" target="_blank">One of the Best Features of the Jeremy Brett Series</a>.</p><p>Diana Rigg provided introductions and conclusions for the six episodes in <i>The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes</i> (LADY, THOR, SHOS, BOSC, ILLU, CREE) and another six for <i>The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes</i> (3GAB, DYIN, GOLD, REDC, MAZA, CARD), with feature-length episodes "The Master Blackmailer," "The Eligible Bachelor," and "The Last Vampyre" in between.</p><p>We have <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6m8pknf2xi-u4vZ_ykaK-mVC8eaY_Ys_" target="_blank">a YouTube playlist</a> of a number of those remarks here:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PL6m8pknf2xi-u4vZ_ykaK-mVC8eaY_Ys_" width="560"></iframe><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As a bonus, we also have her introduction and conclusion to <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6m8pknf2xi9BapBAIFnRbAT2ktirTWNF" target="_blank">Dr. Bell and Mr. Doyle</a></i>:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KKI4KiKhTpU" width="560"></iframe><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A surprise connection to the world of Sherlock Holmes is in an episode <i><a href="https://youtu.be/KKI4KiKhTpU" target="_blank">Affairs of the Heart</a></i>, a series from 1974 that starred Diana Rigg and...Jeremy Brett:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KKI4KiKhTpU" width="560"></iframe><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NdQPJY-jIQM/X1vhDynTnuI/AAAAAAABO2g/OeD8KtX9DX4YaE9HxgB2M1xszmccvrdIACLcBGAsYHQ/s1602/Rigg%2BBrett%2B2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1147" data-original-width="1602" height="458" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NdQPJY-jIQM/X1vhDynTnuI/AAAAAAABO2g/OeD8KtX9DX4YaE9HxgB2M1xszmccvrdIACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h458/Rigg%2BBrett%2B2.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>We're glad to have had Dame Diana Rigg in our world. And on one occasion, to have met her.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>

Remembering Diana Rigg

"rigging on the Surrey side" [SIGN] Earlier this week, Dame Diana Rigg passed away at the age of 82. She was a mainstay on the s...

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by Scott Monty

Sherlock Holmes and Labor Day

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "laborers and dockmen were already astir" [SIGN]</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7_hEyTFX0hY/X1ZAcUigL8I/AAAAAAABOwc/-2iGy78mN-sqJGpi79AFfhIuyKR2MteNwCLcBGAsYHQ/s711/BLUE.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="711" height="504" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7_hEyTFX0hY/X1ZAcUigL8I/AAAAAAABOwc/-2iGy78mN-sqJGpi79AFfhIuyKR2MteNwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h504/BLUE.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Here in the United States, the first Monday in September traditionally marks Labor Day. It's a national holiday that signals the unofficial end of summer, as people take final trips to the beach or mountains, enjoy a cookout, and the kids prepare to head back to school.</p><div style="text-align: left;">The holiday was officially recognized at the federal level in the 1930s, but its origins date to the late 19th century, as the trade union and labor movements grew. In 1887, Oregon became the first state to recognize Labor Day as a public holiday; by 1894, some 30 states were celebrating it as President Grover Cleveland signed it into law. But the law only gave the holiday to federal workers. It would take nearly 40 years to make it a holiday for everyone.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Sherlock Holmes stories, set solidly in late Victorian / early Edwardian time, was filled with workers: sometimes nameless, faceless characters who were an essential part of the background of the action: cab drivers, gardeners, dockmen, weavers, housemaids, footmen and more. But there were others who sprang to relevance as they provided ample information to Holmes in his investigations.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">For you see, Sherlock Holmes believed in data over class. He knew that household staff and regular working-class people, like his Baker Street Irregulars, could see everything and overhear everyone without notice. And they deserved his attention.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Sherlock Holmes thrived on work—sometimes to a fault. While he told Watson "I never remember being tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely," in <i>The Sign of Four</i>, his career would later see his constitution begin to suffer.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In 'The Reigate Squires,' he was recovering from the "strain caused by his immense exertions," and in 'The Missing Three-Quarter' he returned to his rooms "exhausted with hunger and fatigue." But it isn't until 'The Devil's Foot' that it gets truly serious, as he and Watson take a holiday in Cornwall after "Holmes’s iron constitution showed some symptoms of giving way in the face of constant hard work."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Still, Holmes tried to lift Watson out of his "own sad bereavement" in 'The Empty House' by telling him, "Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">We've done <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles/sets/jobs-professions" target="_blank">a series of audio discussions</a> on various workers and jobs in the Canon over on <a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/" target="_blank">Trifles</a>. Feel free to click that link or to use the playlist below from SoundCloud.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/playlists/827409950&color=%23ef1625&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: interstate, "lucida grande", "lucida sans unicode", "lucida sans", garuda, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes: Trifles">Sherlock Holmes: Trifles</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles/sets/jobs-professions" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Jobs & Professions">Jobs & Professions</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In case you'd like to visit the show notes for each of these episodes, they are as follows:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://ihose.co/trifles33" target="_blank">Thumb Up for Engineers</a></li><li><a href="https://ihose.co/trifles36" target="_blank">Tradesmen in the Canon</a></li><li><a href="https://ihose.co/trifles69" target="_blank">Occupations in the Canon</a></li><li><a href="https://ihose.co/trifles88" target="_blank">Doctors in the Canon</a></li><li><a href="https://ihose.co/trifles110" target="_blank">Governesses</a></li><li><a href="https://ihose.co/trifles124" target="_blank">Odd Jobs</a></li><li><a href="https://ihose.co/trifles160" target="_blank">Army Coaches</a></li><li><a href="https://ihose.co/trifles191" target="_blank">Clergymen</a></li></ol></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">What would you add to this series?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And if you're in the United States today, happy Labor Day. If not, happy Monday.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">--</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p><br /></p>

Sherlock Holmes and Labor Day

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – A Case Right Out of History

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><b>"hinted at prehistoric strife” [DEVI] </b></h4><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3D8qMvmHh7U/X1UI5OrEHQI/AAAAAAABOuc/0ZxVKUG35_cIAFNKttkRTMBK_ZRmHASmgCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B88.1.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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3D8qMvmHh7U/X1UI5OrEHQI/AAAAAAABOuc/0ZxVKUG35_cIAFNKttkRTMBK_ZRmHASmgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B88.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>When Sherlock Holmes said "this agency stands flat-footed upon the ground" in "The Sussex Vampire," he was referring to ghosts and the other-worldly. There's no evidence he was talking about dinosaurs.</div><div><br /></div><div>You might think the Canon is devoid of mentions of human history that pre-date the spans of crime that Sherlock Holmes studied. And yet, there are a handful of mentions of prehistoric man.</div><div><br /></div><div>Interestingly, they all occur in stories related to the moors. Southwest England contains beautiful, rugged, and primordial landscapes that are very much the same today as they must have been thousands of years ago. Landscapes that saw our human ancestors struggling for survival.</div><div><br /></div><div>Two such stories take us to the moor: <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i> and "The Devil's Foot." Both use the moor as a gothic setting to give us a sense of the supernatural: in one case a spectral hound from hell; in the other, mysterious deaths in a "devil-ridden" parish.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the first, Watson observes stone circles and wonders what they were. Stapleton informs him they were "the homes of our worthy ancestors. Prehistoric man lived thickly on the moor."</div><div><br /></div><div>Watson paints a wonderful image for us, based on his observations and reflections of the remnants of previous inhabitants of the moor:<br /><blockquote><div>"When you are once out upon its bosom you have left all traces of modern England behind you, but on the other hand you are conscious everywhere of the homes and the work of the prehistoric people. On all sides of you as you walk are the houses of these forgotten folk, with their graves and the huge monoliths which are supposed to have marked their temples. As you look at their gray stone huts against the scarred hill-sides you leave your own age behind you, and if you were to see a skin-clad, hairy man crawl out from the low door fitting a flint-tipped arrow on to the string of his bow, you would feel that his presence there was more natural than your own. The strange thing is that they should have lived so thickly on what must always have been most unfruitful soil. I am no antiquarian, but I could imagine that they were some unwarlike and harried race who were forced to accept that which none other would occupy."</div></blockquote></div><div><br />In "The Devil's Foot," we see the duo as far west as Cornwall, on the coast of Southwest England. The landscape is much the same as they explore it, yet Watson's assumptions about the people turn more violent than his initial take in <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>.</div><div><blockquote><div>"In every direction upon these moors there were traces of some vanished race which had passed utterly away, and left as it sole record strange monuments of stone, irregular mounds which contained the burned ashes of the dead, and curious earthworks which hinted at prehistoric strife. The glamour and mystery of the place, with its sinister atmosphere of forgotten nations, appealed to the imagination of my friend, and he spent much of his time in long walks and solitary meditations upon the moor."</div></blockquote></div><div><br />While man has always had a predilection for violence among his own species, he never had a chance to do battle with prehistoric ancestors that went even farther back in the epochal timeline. Namely, dinosaurs.</div><div><br /></div><div>That is, until Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3lY7inh" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Lost World</a></i> came along. And later, Michael Crichton's <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3lTpL4d" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jurassic Park</a></i>, which was dedicated to Conan Doyle. Or that time that Sherlock Holmes battled a T-Rex.</div><div><br /></div><div>What?</div><div><br /></div><div>Yes, that's right. One of the all-time campy favorites of devotees of the <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2009/12/to-drive-patient-into-asylum-dyin_24.html#.X1UFSnlKjb2" target="_blank">entertainment mockbuster powerhouse Asylum Studios</a> (click for our previous commentary on them) is <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3h4iwCZ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes</a></i>, where Victorian London was the setting for a dinosaur.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2009/12/to-drive-patient-into-asylum-dyin_24.html#.X1UFSnlKjb2" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="791" data-original-width="795" height="398" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1iuq61uvkvc/X1UJOL0amnI/AAAAAAABOvA/kY2hOPaoz4gcT5gnS_P4WvUGiz4DThQjwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h398/Asylum%2527s%2BSherlock%2BHolmes.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>We'll leave the rest to your imagination (or your Amazon purchase) and head over to a gay old time at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n5OTgeXVtUs/X1UI5PGqvYI/AAAAAAABOug/BQTB4YEtu_QNi0l7S0ItZwn2k_PCR24QQCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B88.2.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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n5OTgeXVtUs/X1UI5PGqvYI/AAAAAAABOug/BQTB4YEtu_QNi0l7S0ItZwn2k_PCR24QQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B88.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iqCejc6sKu8/X1UI5OwCVvI/AAAAAAABOuk/pkxZPWcJrFEXuAAjXDpopyZCJ7AiJyGlQCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B88.3.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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iqCejc6sKu8/X1UI5OwCVvI/AAAAAAABOuk/pkxZPWcJrFEXuAAjXDpopyZCJ7AiJyGlQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B88.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I9Ueieks91g/X1UI5SXnhhI/AAAAAAABOuo/2RaNdDvlj5Y2Z6Mq57utlcAi8mPwDVxpwCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B88.4.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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I9Ueieks91g/X1UI5SXnhhI/AAAAAAABOuo/2RaNdDvlj5Y2Z6Mq57utlcAi8mPwDVxpwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B88.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XfCKigXbGT0/X1UI5lxWyhI/AAAAAAABOus/EC9URUa6hJ4MZABfGB3R3TrSupqKb2PxACLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B88.5.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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XfCKigXbGT0/X1UI5lxWyhI/AAAAAAABOus/EC9URUa6hJ4MZABfGB3R3TrSupqKb2PxACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B88.5.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; 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><br /><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://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F-VumJdilF0/WJa_9TrpA3I/AAAAAAAAuO8/52U-hZ7WY4Qz2Oqo84lF8KQnF0zynZ5YQCPcB/s1600/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary.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://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F-VumJdilF0/WJa_9TrpA3I/AAAAAAAAuO8/52U-hZ7WY4Qz2Oqo84lF8KQnF0zynZ5YQCPcB/s640/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><br />--</div>