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"You Like This Weather?" [CHAS]

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Quite a bit, as it turns out.<br /><br />We'd like to invite your ideas, memories and input to help us discern exactly how weather played a role in the Sherlock Holmes stories. You can do that by leaving a comment below. We'll get things started by enumerating a few items that might get you thinking.<br /><br /><a name="more"></a><b><u>Setting</u></b><br />Stormy weather is a wonderful literary device for setting the scene. Michael Dirda (who we interviewed on<a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2012/01/episode-38-on-conan-doyle.html"> I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere Episode 38: On Conan Doyle</a>), in his own recounting of his first experience with Sherlock Holmes, <a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/09/21/a-doyle-man/">recalls his preparation</a> one Saturday afternoon in his childhood:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">With a dollar clutched in my fist, I pedaled my red Roadmaster bike to Whalen’s drugstore, where I quickly picked out two or three candy bars, a box of Cracker Jack, and a cold bottle of Orange Crush. After my parents had driven off in our new 1958 Ford, I dragged a blanket from my bed, spread it on the reclining chair next to the living room’s brass floor lamp, carefully arranged my provisions near to hand, turned off all the other lights in the house, and crawled expectantly under the covers with my paperback of <i>The Hound</i>—just as the heavens began to boom with thunder and the rain to thump against the curtained windows.</blockquote>There are a few stories from the Canon that open with such a scene, giving an even more realistic and somber tone to the tale about to unfold. Here are some that we recall vividly.<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>"The Resident Patient"</b></li></ul><blockquote class="tr_bq">It was boisterous October weather, and we had both remained indoors all day, I because I feared with my shaken health to face the keen autumn wind, while he was deep in some of those abstruse chemical investigations which absorbed him utterly as long as he was engaged upon them.</blockquote><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Occasionally we learn a little bit about Baker Street geography or topography. In this instance in <b>"The Adventure of Thor Bridge,"</b> we take a glimpse out of Watson's window to witness the effects of the weather:</li></ul><blockquote class="tr_bq">It was a wild morning in October, and I observed as I was dressing how the last remaining leaves were being whirled from the solitary plane tree which graces the yard behind our house.</blockquote><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>"The Noble Bachelor"</b> takes a turn for the matrimonial, both in plot and in Watson's life, and also gives further evidence as to where his war injury was:</li></ul><blockquote class="tr_bq">It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and the jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as a relic of my Afghan campaign, throbbed with dull persistency. </blockquote><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Giving us a sense of the evil and foreboding nature of the Cornish coast in <b>"The Adventure of the Devil's Foot,"</b> we're given this description of the surrounding area:</li></ul><blockquote class="tr_bq">It was a singular spot, and one peculiarly well suited to the grim humour of my patient. From the windows of our little whitewashed house, which stood high upon a grassy headland, we looked down upon the whole sinister semicircle of Mounts Bay, that old death-trap of sailing vessels, with its fringe of black cliffs and surge-swept reefs on which innumerable seamen have met their end. With a northerly breeze it lies placid and sheltered, inviting the storm-tossed craft to tack into it for rest and protection. Then comes the sudden swirl round of the wind, the blustering gale from the south-west, the dragging anchor, the lee shore, and the last battle in the creaming breakers. The wise mariner stands far out from that evil place.</blockquote><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>And who can forget this passage from <b>"The Five-Orange Pips"</b>?</li></ul><blockquote class="tr_bq">It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life, and to recognize the presence of those great elemental forces which shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilization, like untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in the storm grew higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, whilst I at the other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories, until the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of the sea waves.</blockquote><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Probably one of the most descriptive, which also leads to the next section on plot development is that of <b>"The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez"</b></li></ul><blockquote class="tr_bq">It was a wild, tempestuous night towards the close of November. Holmes and I sat together in silence all the evening, he engaged with a powerful lens deciphering the remains of the original inscription upon a palimpsest, I deep in a recent treatise upon surgery. Outside the wind howled down Baker Street, while the rain beat fiercely against the windows. It was strange there in the very depths of the town, with ten miles of man's handiwork on every side of us, to feel the iron grip of Nature, and to be conscious that to the huge elemental forces all London was no more than the molehills that dot the fields. I walked to the window and looked out on the deserted street. The occasional lamps gleamed on the expanse of muddy road and shining pavement. A single cab was splashing its way from the Oxford Street end.</blockquote><br /><i>What elemental passages have we missed that you think are worth noting here?</i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><u>Plot Development</u></b></h4><i></i>Many times, Holmes makes use of the conditions of the ground in order to detect certain clues. A rain-soaked pathway, lawn or trail may make footprints or other activity more easy to discern. Here is a quick but incomplete list of some of these instances. Add yours below!<br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i><b>A Study in Scarlet</b></i> - the boot prints in the walkway leading to and from 3 Lauriston Gardens, as well as noting that "The whole place was very sloppy from the rain which had fallen through the night."</li><li><b>"Silver Blaze"</b> - mud concealed the wax vesta that helped Holmes solve the case.</li><li><b>"The Adventure of the Boscombe Valley Mystery"</b> - "It is of<small><span style="color: grey;"> </span></small>importance that it should not rain before we are able to go over the ground."</li><li><b>"The Beryl Coronet"</b> - snow allowed Holmes to follow footprints of the perpetrator and hero.</li><li><b>"The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez"</b> - it was by tracking the footprints along the garden path that Holmes was able to deduce something about the murderer.</li><li><b>"The Adventure of the Lion's Mane"</b> - the "severe gale blowing up the Channel" had a direct impact on the plot, to which we will not give spoilers here.</li></ul><br /><i>Again, this is just a cursory list. What others can you name?</i><br /><br />To us, one of the most fascinating bits of research that went into the development of <a href="http://www.221b-baker-street.com/IndexOfChronologies.php?ThisIndex=BG2">a number of chronologies of the Sherlock Holmes stories</a> in the last century by the likes of H.W. Bell, Jay Finlay Christ, Gavin Brend, Ernest Zeisler and William Baring-Gould is the use of weather reports and lunar phases to determine the exact dates of particular stories. The examples above show us how key certain weather patterns and descriptions were to certain tales.<br /><br />--</div>

"You Like This Weather?" [CHAS]

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"Senior Captain of His Regiment" [SIGN]

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Richard H. Miller, BSI ("The Grice Patersons in the Island of Uffa") died in Santa Fe
on October 21, 2012 at the age of 78. He was born in Illinois and graduated
from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in 1957. He resigned
his commission of Army Officer after 4 years, attended The University of South
Carolina School of Law, and graduated in 1966. He married Dr. Faye Bruce in
1967 and moved to New Mexico, where he joined the US Naval Reserve, retiring
in 1994 with the rank of Captain. He was retired from the Naval Intelligence, the
Bar of the US Supreme Court, and The University of California in Los Alamos, NM.
In addition to being a prolific reader, he published a number of articles for the
Officer Review of The Military Order of the World Wars (Santa Fe Chapter), of
which he was a member.<br />
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Dick was one of the founding members of The Brothers Three of Moriarty. The scion had an annual trek to the village of Moriarty in New Mexico which they appropriately named "Happy-Birthday-You-Bastard-Moriarty." He was also a member and staunch supporter of the Gila Lizards of the Arid & Repulsive Desert in Santa Fe. Dick Miller was invested into The Baker Street Irregulars in 1982 as "The Grice Patersons in the Island of Uffa."<br />
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We were fortunate enough to find some other memories of Dick around the web. For example, Jon Lellenberg, in his Oct. 22, 2012  "<a href="http://www.bsiarchivalhistory.org/BSI_Archival_History/Gas-Bag.html">Editor's Gas-Bag</a>," remembers Dick:<br />
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The moment I first met Dick, May ’73, he was handing me a loaded gun, and it sort of set the tone of our long friendship.  It was the annual Colonel Sebastian Moran Memorial Trap-Shoot of John Bennett Shaw’s Brothers Three of Moriarty, where Dick was one of the earliest members, and to Shaw’s disgust and Dick’s delight I beat Shaw out to win it.  Dick was a graduate of The Citadel, a veteran of both the Army (nuclear artillery) and Navy (intelligence), and a lawyer at Los Alamos Laboratory for decades.  In the 1980s he did his reserve-duty activations at the Pentagon and was of inestimable help to me there.  A superb companion, a loyal friend, and a good soul.</blockquote>
Continuing in the same vein, according to Brad Keefauver of <a href="http://www.sherlockpeoria.net/Dissecting_Room/1993Columns/September1993DR.html">Sherlock Peoria</a> (hat-tip to <a href="http://always1895.net/">Always1895.net</a> for finding this), Dick once "tried to blow up the college during his talk on Watson's firearms habits."<br />
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"Senior Captain of His Regiment" [SIGN]

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Episode 47: Re: Vampires

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It's our Halloween show!<br />
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With Victorian and Gothic influence in a number of the Sherlock Holmes stories, the Canon can be great fodder for the mysterious, occult and spooky elements of Halloween. Certainly <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>, "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot," "The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier," or "The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place" have elements that can make a reader's hair stand on end.<br />
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But the most direct link with Halloween as we know it today (other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "<b><a href="https://amzn.to/2KIV01e" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lot No. 249</a>"</b> - the original mummy story) has to be "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire." Sherlock Holmes himself was a bit dismissive of the supernatural in this case, saying "Rubbish, Watson, rubbish! What have we to do with walking corpses who can only be held in their grave by stakes driven through their hearts? It's pure lunacy."<br />
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But our guest on this episode, Les Klinger (a guest on Episodes <b><a href="http://ihose.co/ihose31" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">31</a></b> and <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose32" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">32</a>, when he spoke about the Guy Ritchie / Robert Downey, Jr. movies and his role as Warner Brothers' consultant on the set) is no stranger to Dracula. He has written <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/2ZgiZNC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The New Annotated Dracula</a></i></b> and has been an influential in the Dracularian movement. As we discuss the intersection of Holmes and Dracula, Les helps us understand the evolution of vampire literature and Dracula-influenced media.<br />
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In the discussion, Les alludes to other influential fictional works in the movement such as <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/2zcGY1m" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I Am Legend</a></i></b>, <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/2Hbrb7x" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">In the Shadow of Dracula</a></i></b>, and <a href="https://amzn.to/2NlVjRC" rel="nofollow" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Anno Dracula</a> by Kim Newman, who is the Distinguished Speaker at the <a href="http://www.bsiweekend.com/search?updated-min=2013-01-01T00:00:00-05:00&updated-max=2014-01-01T00:00:00-05:00&max-results=3" target="_blank">2013 Baker Street Irregulars Weekend</a>. In addition to the popular work, Les noted that there is a scholarly vein of work (pardon the pun) in the field that brings more seriousness to the practice, albeit less fluid and constant than Sherlockian scholarship. But we kept coming back to the intersections of Holmes and Dracula, in all forms: written, film and stage, and how each have their cycles of popularity that are typically driven by a single piece of work each time.<br />
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We had a number of listener comments from you regarding <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose46" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 46</a> ("Elementary, My Dear CBS) that included very visceral opinions about the Jonny Lee Miller / Lucy Liu show, as well as some traditional and fanciful ideas for Canonically-inspired Halloween costumes.<br />
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For our Gas-Lamp this episode, we welcome a very special guest for a chilling reading of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." We won't spoil it by telling you who it is; you'll have to tune in yourself to hear it.<br />
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<li>Les Klinger's <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/2ZgiZNC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The New Annotated Dracula</a></i></b></li>
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Episode 47: Re: Vampires

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by Scott Monty

"A Dangerous Move At Chess" [BLAN]

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Many authors have written pastiches fitting Sherlock Holmes into a greater historical context; although most of them center around Victorian England, Charlie Roxburgh attempts to mix some Russian history with Holmesian deduction in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1780922167/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1780922167&linkCode=as2&tag=thebakerstree-20" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">The Case of the Russian Chessboard</a>. And although it's a promising premise, the execution is somewhat flat.<br />
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Mr. Roxburgh's tale has a great start - in fact, it's almost a pitch perfect recreation of the many tales of the Canon. In fact, the idea of Russian conspirators and tsarist enforcers operating near and around Baker Street not only reflects what Conan Doyle might have written, it provides an ample amount of promise for any Sherlockian reader.<br />
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However, although this is a very brief tale, its brevity is one of its major faults. Just as many items are set into motion, the story seems to have a rushed ending. It is not a bad tale - just one that might have been better told as a novel-length adventure rather than as a short novelette. With the "Russian Chessboard" analogy coming into play (with Holmes himself explaining it), there is a great potential that is sadly never met....and that would be a great vantage point for writing a sequel and/or continuation of this story (especially with several themes that might resonate in our present time)<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a>Perhaps this leaves Mr. Roxburgh in a position to expand the story under a sequel or second edition, or perhaps even to execute a series of historical pieces that bring together a number of the geopolitical forces in play in the late Victorian era. There is certainly a plethora of material there.<br />
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If you are looking for a pastiche with a fascinating premise, and some sharp writing early on, you might want to consider reading <b><i>The Case of the Russian Chessboard</i> - </b>it is a very short piece, and available as both <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1780922167/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1780922167&linkCode=as2&tag=thebakerstree-20" target="_blank">a paperback</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00506CZ6Q/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00506CZ6Q&linkCode=as2&tag=thebakerstree-20" target="_blank">for the Kindle</a> via Amazon, as well directly from the Sherlock Holmes publishing powerhouse <a href="http://mxpublishing.com/product/9781780922164">MX Publishing</a>.<br />
<i><br /></i><i>Editor's note: Gordon regularly covers the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the entertainment industry. You can also find him at <a href="http://www.blogthispal.com/">Blog THIS, Pal</a>! and <a href="http://www.comicrelated.com/">Comic Related</a>. </i><br />
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