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Was Sherlock Holmes Right About Oysters?

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"Shall the world then, be overrun by oysters?" [DYIN]</h4>
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In "The Adventure of the Dying Detective" Holmes, in a fevered state, wondered if the world would be overrun by oysters. 
 
The answer is: apparently not. 
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"I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem."</blockquote>
In recent years, the oyster population has been on a downturn due to overharvesting or disease. 
The good news is that may be on the rebound now, as <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.capebretonpost.com/lifestyles/local-lifestyles/annamarie-hatcher-oyster-population-rebounding-339017/" href="https://www.capebretonpost.com/lifestyles/local-lifestyles/annamarie-hatcher-oyster-population-rebounding-339017/">oyster populations make a comeback</a>. 
 
We know that Sherlock Holmes was ill—or at least feigning illness—when he deliriously opined about oysters. While we can't comment on the validity of the current study's findings, you can click through to the article to read more. 
 
In the meantime, perhaps you'll join us in in celebrating as Holmes did in The Sign of Four<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B001OLZSKG" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />: 
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"Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper."</blockquote>
If you'd like to prepare your own, a great resource is <a href="https://amzn.to/33cIheD" target="_blank">Dining With Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Cookbook</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0823212718" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> by Julia Rosenblatt, BSI ("Mrs. Turner") 
 
 
Image credit: <a href="https://flic.kr/p/5gXDbv" target="_blank">sr320 (Flickr)</a> 
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Was Sherlock Holmes Right About Oysters?

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"From the Dummy's Chair" [MAZA]

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6m3ywIMcLxxIWZt3mmNnsVJ3fwjlTLp73-pf4QaaN51BT1HhmtFiagLpCcUuQz8ZeHCYRLErCJJB6KxeIjx7fs-RrvAAR1YPr52Dn_IPFs5CehpHoQ9XH7vztdMmUCqlYhD4fOcRaOL2N/s1600/maza-03.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6m3ywIMcLxxIWZt3mmNnsVJ3fwjlTLp73-pf4QaaN51BT1HhmtFiagLpCcUuQz8ZeHCYRLErCJJB6KxeIjx7fs-RrvAAR1YPr52Dn_IPFs5CehpHoQ9XH7vztdMmUCqlYhD4fOcRaOL2N/s1600/maza-03.jpg" style="cursor: move;" /></a></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Editor's note: This is the first post of a new feature on the Baker Street Blog we're calling "From the Dummy's Chair." Joining us to guest post for this column is Steven Doyle, BSI ("The 'Western Morning News'") is the author of the Edgar-nominated <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmes-Dummies-Steven-Doyle/dp/0470484446?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes for Dummies</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0470484446" style="border-style: none ! important; cursor: move; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />. Because of the limitations in the print world, he wasn't able to completely fit everything he wanted into the book. This series will become a real-time continuation of that labor of love. Steve is also half the team behind the <a href="http://www.wessexpress.com/">Wessex Press</a>.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.27727233222685754" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Deuterocanonical Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Sherlockians have worked their way through the entire Sherlock Holmes Canon, the inevitable emotion is a sort of sadness that the original tales are now finished. It’s out of this desire for more original Holmes stories that readers turn to what is commonly referred to as “The Apocrypha” — the deposit of Sherlockian writings not formally included in “The Canon” of sixty accepted Sherlockian tales. And no, I’m not talking about pastiche. The Apocrypha is comprised of actual Sherlockian writings by none other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle — writings that relate events and information about Sherlock Holmes that aren’t in the Canon.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The fact that these writings are called “The Apocrypha” is interesting. It isn’t a term that was casually or accidentally applied. The term it reflects the very origins of the Great Game of Sherlockian scholarship which began as a spoof of Biblical deconstructionist scholarship. Father Ronald Knox’s essay “<a href="http://wessexpress.com/html/knox.html">Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes</a>,” originally published in his 1911 and later collected in his book Essays in Satire, began a longstanding tradition of using Biblical terminology in reference to Sherlockian scholarship. Thus we have “Sacred Writings,” “The Master,” “The Canon,” and…“The Apocrypha.”</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In considering the Sherlockian Apocrypha, the religious parallels continue to hold. Just as in Christianity, the nature of the apocryphal works is disputed, or at least there is disagreement. In Christendom, there are the “Protocanonical” works, those sacred writings that have always been received without dispute. In Sherlockiana, this would be the standard sixty tales. </div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But then there are the writings that are contested. In Christendom, Protestant denominations consider these works apocryphal. Catholics accept them and thus call them Deuterocanonical. So, if you are a Sherlockian that believes these extra writings should be brought into the Canon, then you should call them Deuterocanonical…if you think they don’t belong, then “Apocrypha” is the right term. </div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The word Apocrypha is derived from the Greek apokryphos, meaning “hidden.” In this recent era of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vinci-Code-Two-Disc-Extended-Blu-ray/dp/B000I2J2XG?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Da Vinci Code</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000I2J2XG" style="border-style: none ! important; cursor: move; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> mania and interest in hidden gospels, the term is certainly appropriate.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, just what are the Apocryphal Writings of Sherlock Holmes? Well, not only is there dispute about whether or not they should be in the Canon, there is disagreement about what should be considered the apocrypha. There are different schools of thought, with different philosophies. </div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Basically, it comes down to three camps:</div><ol><li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conservative views would include only actual stories featuring Sherlock Holmes (named or unnamed). </li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </ol><ol start="2"><li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moderate views would add every word Arthur Conan Doyle ever wrote on Sherlock Holmes, including essays, plays, interviews, and articles.</li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </ol><ol start="3"><li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Liberal views would not only include all of the above, but would even add short stories by Doyle that have similarities to Sherlock Holmes stories.</li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </ol><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">You can find information on the internet about this material, but there are four published works that are authoritative. The first was <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmes-Arthur-Conan-Doyle/dp/0395294541?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes: The Published Apocrypha</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0395294541" style="border-style: none ! important; cursor: move; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> by Jack Tracy; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Uncollected-Sherlock-Holmes-Spanish-Arthur/dp/014006432X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=014006432X" style="border-style: none ! important; cursor: move; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />, edited by Richard Lancelyn Green, published Penguin; Warner Books’ <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Final-Adventures-Sherlock-Holmes/dp/097640253X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=097640253X" style="border-style: none ! important; cursor: move; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />, edited by Peter Haining; and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmes-Reference-Library-Apocrypha/dp/0938501496?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0938501496" style="border-style: none ! important; cursor: move; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />, edited and annotated by Leslie S. Klinger, published by Gasogene Books.</div></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Editor's note: Next week, Steve's column will feature the candidates for the Aporcrypha, in chronological order, with information about each.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Related items</div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 6px; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4YI-E7vo9GMveQzg0DBjaScg50uHuLsKWKHez_m21GtuQOeD8mZN_PL-6y0FXFhj9cnyxuiiZ2BhE9ihI-gto6zo0QTL-g_s5ZKpP4zbQ1fqywvP7WPybOhWkWLbkxXQM1ozJLGMbAFAs/s1600/knox350.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4YI-E7vo9GMveQzg0DBjaScg50uHuLsKWKHez_m21GtuQOeD8mZN_PL-6y0FXFhj9cnyxuiiZ2BhE9ihI-gto6zo0QTL-g_s5ZKpP4zbQ1fqywvP7WPybOhWkWLbkxXQM1ozJLGMbAFAs/s200/knox350.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="130" /></a></div></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;">Order at the <a href="http://wessexpress.com/html/knox.html">Wessex Press</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> <iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=thebakerstree-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0470484446&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe> <iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=thebakerstree-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0395294541&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe> <iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=thebakerstree-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0938501496&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe> </div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </div>

"From the Dummy's Chair" [MAZA]

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"The Snow of the Day Before" [BERY]

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDxiy9oLzATkibcIImM3PQ3-28kguIZEAS0Vn_PTLklZjlh0KJLPEfzej9YMvxBDBkeJqzQ6yzN392FCuKqCjwiZfYHnchv6wQ9YoH0Kdn17QmbCUQ0ubrcFSTfpwaft457C_tVq1g8hbu/s1600/BERY.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDxiy9oLzATkibcIImM3PQ3-28kguIZEAS0Vn_PTLklZjlh0KJLPEfzej9YMvxBDBkeJqzQ6yzN392FCuKqCjwiZfYHnchv6wQ9YoH0Kdn17QmbCUQ0ubrcFSTfpwaft457C_tVq1g8hbu/s320/BERY.jpg" width="250" /></a></div>How's the weather where you are? Odds are that at some point this season, the fluctuating weather patterns have resulted in some extreme weather. And here in the United States at the moment, a good portion of the country is experiencing a <a href="http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/45219/chicago-to-detroit-groundhog-b.asp">fairly severe snowstorm</a> working its way from the midwest to the northeast. But how much of the Baker Street scene take place in the wintry months - or more pointedly, involve snow? Our searches show that "snow" or a variation on that word appear only 28 times in the entire canon of some 650,000 words. And the only story in which snow itself is featured is "<a href="http://www.ignisart.com/camdenhouse/canon/bery.htm">The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</a>," with its very memorable opening: <blockquote>It was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as when it fell. The gray pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention.</blockquote>In the Autumn 2010 issue (Vol. 60, No. 3) of <a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/">The Baker Street Journal</a> (you <a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/itemsforsale/subscriptions.html">do subscribe</a>, don't you?), the Editor's Gas-Lamp - the editorial that precedes each issue - Steve Rothman, BSI ("The Valley of Fear") mentioned Canonical weather conditions as part of some of his earliest memories of experiencing the Sherlock Holmes stories: <blockquote>"As we dream by the fire"</blockquote><blockquote>Now that the autumnal equinox has passed and days are getting shorter, our thoughts turn - more than ever - to Baker Street. Something about the Canon gives off a greyish tone: a hint of clouds and cold, mixed with a desire to be indoors. Yet a quick leaf through Andrew Peck's and Leslie Klinger's invaluable compendium of chronological data <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Date-Being-Compendium-Chronological-Sherlock/dp/B001B3QLD0?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">"The Date Being --?"</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B001B3QLD0" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> shows that only about half of the stories in the Canon occur during the six darker months. We might just as well imagine Holmes shining forth in the most glorious summer, striding through sunny days, shedding light on the darkest of human events. Why don't we?</blockquote><blockquote>The most evocative scenes in the Canon are those that are set in the Baker Street sitting room. Watson draws us in by recounting his banter with Holmes and we, having entered 221B, are loathe to go out again. Also, we get to know Holmes best (not always first) in books and reading; and even sitting on a tree branch in midsummer is very much an interior activity.</blockquote><blockquote>Our fondest personal memory of reading the Canon for the first time is of a Saturday afternoon in early January. We had just checked out <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Valley-Fear-Sherlock-Mystery-Collection/dp/1451565976?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Valley of Fear</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1451565976" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> from the library. As we opened the book, the skies went from brilliant, if weak, winter sunlight to dark grey clouds. Prone on the floor by the radiator, we learned of Porlock and the doings at Birlstone Manor. Slowly large snowflakes came down and continued to do so for the rest of the day and well into the night. But we cared not at all; we were upstate in the Vermissa Valley and needed to know just what evil the Scowerers were doing. The snow was shoveled late that Sunday; Bakerstreeting came first.</blockquote><blockquote>So for us, Baker Street is Holmes and Watson by their fireside discussing some hideous crime in the newspapers just before learning that a new unfortunate seeks their aid. Scholars have allowed mere facts to get in the way of truer perceptions. And that, of course, is the very core of Sherlockian scholarship: "Only those things the heart believes are true."</blockquote>Whether the snow covers your landscape or the sun is shining today, we hope that Holmes is where the heart is. And please consider <a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/itemsforsale/subscriptions.html">subscribing to the Baker Street Journal</a> - it's the premier publication for Sherlockian scholarship, going strong since 1946. If not for yourself, consider it as a gift for the Sherlock Holmes enthusiast in your life. Related items:  <a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/itemsforsale/subscriptions.html"><img alt="BSJ Winter 2010 cover" src="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/images2/bsj-2010-winter-cover.jpg" /></a><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=thebakerstree-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B004L55LHW&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=thebakerstree-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=1451565976&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=thebakerstree-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0393059162&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;">&lt;p&gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;a imageanchor="1" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheHebM6m7fnU89SlZhK09-z6LEaTZXGPO8pS515bDtpNqPChjodjx0_SyLF5L7vVPMbhAMNB2LaAg9lLuuR4l92U6r0amIeTrj9_OJxiJ-8TsWlechqV1EgFxCNWMtBCsIKm2PFO6plEJ_/s1600/bsj-2010-winter-cover.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; float: right; margin-left: 1em; "&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;img style="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheHebM6m7fnU89SlZhK09-z6LEaTZXGPO8pS515bDtpNqPChjodjx0_SyLF5L7vVPMbhAMNB2LaAg9lLuuR4l92U6r0amIeTrj9_OJxiJ-8TsWlechqV1EgFxCNWMtBCsIKm2PFO6plEJ_/s1600/bsj-2010-winter-cover.jpg" border="0"&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;</iframe> --

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"Where All Gossip is Welcome" [VALL]

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpMeFYaBiY1B-pW6S11qDWZTvXxsbMkogVb78yuOt7nnQBcsfk3lmq8oAXKkPhukKqWMkffMjPiB8-M8b8FTbbKBqseOv5H13_ynDYtK9ZY18Mdsk9n_bsjIrXa9MoEvZQdUe1qL89XsRV/s1600/blackpeter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpMeFYaBiY1B-pW6S11qDWZTvXxsbMkogVb78yuOt7nnQBcsfk3lmq8oAXKkPhukKqWMkffMjPiB8-M8b8FTbbKBqseOv5H13_ynDYtK9ZY18Mdsk9n_bsjIrXa9MoEvZQdUe1qL89XsRV/s1600/blackpeter.jpg" /></a></div>We're beginning a new feature here: scans of the latest issue of Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press, Peter Blau's ("Black Peter") monthly newsletter of Sherlockian or Doylean gossip, published in print form since 1971 and as a <a href="http://members.cox.net/sherlock1/scuttle.htm">text-only digital archive on Sherlocktron</a> since 1985. In agreement with Peter Blau, we've arranged to publish facsimiles of the print newsletter here, so online readers can see what the newsletter looks like. Below the scan you can find links to the sites mentioned in the text - in most cases, directly to the article, video or publication, to save you from having to search for the terms. The following is the January 2011 issue; please feel free to share it via email, social network, or embed it on your own site. <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/47789755/Scuttlebutt-from-the-Spermaceti-Press-January-2011" style="-x-system-font: none; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px auto; text-decoration: underline;" title="View Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press, January 2011 on Scribd">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press, January 2011</a> <object data="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" height="600" id="doc_34385673618425" name="doc_34385673618425" style="outline: none;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf"> <param name="wmode" value="opaque"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> <param name="FlashVars" value="document_id=47789755&access_key=key-6zkvbrnh9zchy6db1d7&page=1&viewMode=list"> <embed id="doc_34385673618425" name="doc_34385673618425" src="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=47789755&access_key=key-6zkvbrnh9zchy6db1d7&page=1&viewMode=list" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="600" width="100%" wmode="opaque" bgcolor="#ffffff"></embed> </object> Links (in order of mention) <ul><li>The Beacon Society <a href="http://www.beaconsociety.com/" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.beaconsociety.com</a></li><li>The Baker Street Journal <a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.bakerstreetjournal.com</a></li><li>The Baker Street Blog <a href="http://www.bakerstreetblog.com/" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.bakerstreetblog.com</a></li><li>Interview with Laurie R. King and Leslie Klinger <a href="http://www.culture.wnyc.org/articles/features/2011/jan/13/study-sherlock" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.culture.wnyc.org/articles/features/2011/jan/13/study-sherlock</a></li><li>WNYC's coverage of the 2009 BSI Weekend <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/120760" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.wnyc.org/news/articles/120760</a></li><li>A one-hour Studio 360 <a href="http://www.studio360.org/episodes/2009/12/25" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.studio360.org/episodes/2009/12/25</a></li><li>A show about the Gillette Luncheon <a href="http://www.culture.wnyc.org/articles/features/2010/jan/26/sherlock-love">www.culture.wnyc.org/articles/features/2010/jan/26/sherlock-love</a></li><li>Ronald Knox and Sherlock Holmes - available at Wessex Press <a href="http://www.wessexpress.com/" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.wessexpress.com</a></li><li>Johnnie Taylor's "We're Getting Carless with Our Love" <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt78O_5wmRQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt78O_5wmRQ</a></li><li>Gillette Castle <a href="http://www.sachem.patch.com/articles/gillette-castle-state-park" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.sachem.patch.com/articles/gillette-castle-state-park</a></li><li>Sherlock Holmes News <a href="http://www.sherlocknews.com/" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.sherlocknews.com</a></li><li>Edward R. Hamilton, Bookseller <a href="http://www.edwardrhamilton.com/" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.edwardrhamilton.com</a></li><li>Sherlock Holmes on U Media <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/2cbujx5" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.tinyurl.com/2cbujx5</a></li><li>Arthur Conan Doyle Collection in Toronto <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/45mmm32" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.tinyurl.com/45mmm32</a></li><li>Sherlock Holmes and the Edwin Drood Mystery <a href="http://www.sherlockproject.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.sherlockproject.blogspot.com</a></li><li>Sherlock Project on Zazzle <a href="http://www.zazzle.com/Sherlockworld">http://www.zazzle.com/Sherlockworld</a></li><li>"Baker Street" by Gerry Raferty <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkS169P_Eeo" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkS169P_Eeo</a> (also referenced <a href="http://www.bakerstreetblog.com/2011/01/my-way-led-me-through-baker-street-scan.html">here on January 4</a>)</li><li>The Sherlockian E-Times <a href="http://www.sherlock-holmes.com/e_times11-1.htm" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.sherlock-holmes.com/e_times11-1.htm</a></li><li>Calabash Press Sale <a href="http://www.ash-tree.bc.ca/Calabash%20Sale.pdf">http://www.ash-tree.bc.ca/Calabash%20Sale.pdf</a></li><li>Anthony Horowitz <a href="http://www.anthonyhorowitz.com/" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.anthonyhorowitz.com</a></li><li>Anthony Horowitz is a Self-Professed Serial Killer <a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.thetimes.co.uk</a> (by subscription only)</li><li>"Sherlock Holmes: the Final Adventure" <a href="http://www.circleplayers.com/" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.circleplayers.com</a></li><li>Give Jeremy Brett a Posthumous BAFTA Award <a href="http://www.bafta4jb.com/" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.bafta4jb.com</a></li><li>Wheels of Anarchy <a href="http://www.mxpublishing.com/" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.mxpublishing.com</a></li><li>Conan Doyle Estate <a href="http://www.conandoyleestate.co.uk/" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.conandoyleestate.co.uk</a></li><li>Tim Johnson in the Chronicle of Higher Education <a href="http://www.chronicle.com/article/article-content/125958" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.chronicle.com/article/article-content/125958</a></li><li>Oregon Cabaret - Holmes & Watson Save the Empire <a href="http://www.oregoncabaret.com/" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.oregoncabaret.com</a></li><li>Memorial to Jason Rouby <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGC7DPUvb5Y" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGC7DPUvb5Y</a></li><li>Cold Hearted Murder <a href="http://www.stephengaspar.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.stephengaspar.blogspot.com</a></li><li>The BSJ on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/BakerStJournal">http://twitter.com/BakerStJournal</a></li><li>The World Museum of Mining <a href="http://www.miningmuseum.org/samiekeith.html" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.miningmuseum.org/samiekeith.html</a></li><li>Te Ge'Tal-Headed League <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/2dl2saj" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.tinyurl.com/2dl2saj</a></li><li>Big Nate <a href="http://www.comics.com/big_nate" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.comics.com/big_nate</a></li><li>The official opening of the Conan Doyle Archive in Portsmouth <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=179482045406255&index=1" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=179482045406255&index=1</a></li><li>The Conan Doyle Collection <a href="http://www.conandoylecollection.co.uk/" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.conandoylecollection.co.uk</a></li><li>Entertainment Tonight on the set of Sherlock 2 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ2BILWg5a8&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ2BILWg5a8&feature=related</a> & <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efw8XvJ4KIw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efw8XvJ4KIw</a></li><li>The Red Circle of Washington, DC <a href="http://www.redcircledc.org/" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.redcircledc.org</a></li><li>All "Scuttlebutt" archives on the Baker Street Blog <a href="http://www.bakerstreetblog.com/search/label/scuttlebutt" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.bakerstreetblog.com/search/label/scuttlebutt</a></li><li>"Scuttlebutt" at Sherlocktron <a href="http://www.members.cox.net/sherlock1/scuttle.htm" style="color: #1c51a8;" target="_blank">www.members.cox.net/sherlock1/scuttle.htm</a></li></ul> Please consider visiting our sponsors (in the right column and footer of the site) from time to time. 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