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Episode 121: Canada and Sherlock Holmes

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The <b><a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/itemsforsale/bsiinternationalseries.html" target="_blank">Baker Street Irregulars International Series</a></b> continues to forge ahead, as it published its sixth volume at the end of 2016. Joining the ranks of other countries and regions that whose scholarly works have been compiled and published by the BSI is none other than Canada.<br />
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1:35 Coo loo coo coo, coo coo coo coo!<br />
3:04 Sponsor: Wessex Press<br />
4:45 Sherlock Holmes in the Great White North<br />
6:53 Welcome, Peter Calamai<br />
10:40 Peter gives us the background on his association with Sherlock Holmes<br />
19:53 The beginnings of Sherlock Holmes in Canada<br />
33:01 The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection at the Toronto Reference Library<br />
34:50 Teaser for a future episode<br />
36:54 The Four Pillars<br />
42:58 Sponsor: The Baker Street Journal<br />
44:30 Professor Moriarty was an army coach - but what is that?<br />
48:48 A flashback: how the book came to be<br />
56:30 Ms. Holmes of Baker Street<br />
1:06:51 Feedback<br />
1:10:15 Gas-Lamp<br />
1:13:46 Wrap-up and Easter egg</div>
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<li><i><a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/canada.html" target="_blank">Canada and Sherlock Holmes</a></i></li>
<li><a href="http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/books-video-music/specialized-collections/literature-genre-doyle.jsp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection</a> at the Toronto Reference Library</li>
<li><a href="http://ihose.co/ihose99" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christopher Redmond on Episode 99</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/ms-holmes-baker-street/author/alan-bradley/" target="_blank">Ms. Holmes of Baker Street</a></li>
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Episode 121: Canada and Sherlock Holmes

"in the northern provinces" [SIGN] The Baker Street Irregulars International Series continues to forge ahead, ...

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Remembering Roger Moore

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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Moore" target="_blank">Sir Roger Moore</a> has passed away after a short bout with cancer, according to his family. He was 89 years old.<br />
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The actor was most famous for his turn as James Bond in the 1970s and 1980s, filling the rather large shoes in which Sean Connery trod in six films before him. He of course also famously played Simon Templar in the television series <i>The Saint</i> in the 1960s. Two great figures in the mystery genre.<br />
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But audiences in these parts also know him for another mystery role, one which may be a bit more obscure to the non-Sherlock Holmes fan: specifically his role as Sherlock Holmes in the 1976 made-for-television movie <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075208/?ref_=nv_sr_2" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes in New York</a></i>, with <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2015/06/remembering-patrick-macnee.html" target="_blank">Patrick MacNee</a> as Dr. Watson, Charlotte Rampling as Irene Adler, and John Huston as an unpologetically American-Irish accented Professor Moriarty.<br />
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Moore had a predilection for crime-solving — one might even call it "art in the blood." [GREE] In <i><a href="https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&an=haining&tn=The+television+sherlock+holmes&kn=&isbn=" target="_blank">The Television Sherlock Holmes</a></i>, Peter Haining relays the following:<br />
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"As the son of a London policeman, Roger Moore has always been interested in law and order, and indeed has only ever played 'good guys' in films. And despite the fact that he is one of the few actors not to have read all of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes before he played the part, his admiration for the character is considerable."</blockquote>
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But convincing Moore to take on the role was not an easy one. According to Chris Steinbrunner and Norman Michaels in <i><a href="https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&an=Steinbrunner&tn=The+Films+of+Sherlock+Holmes&kn=&isbn=" target="_blank">The Films of Sherlock Holmes</a></i>, he was eventually convinced by the script:<br />
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"Holmes comes to life in this story. I wear a number of different disguises and this appeals to me. I have a love affair with a beautiful actress who has a nine-year-old son named Scott and we learn that Holmes's middle name is Scott. And, of course, there is Moriarty threatening to steal all the gold in the world. But what I like most about playing Holmes is that there is more dialogue in this script that I have ever had in 120 'Saint' episodes and two 'Bond' films."</blockquote>
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Steinbrunner and Michaels continue, citing a <i>TV Guide</i> review by Judith Crist on October 18, 1976:<br />
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"Moore and Patrick MacNee provide attractive variations on the familiar characters. Moore's Holmes, in fact, has a dash of the debonair and the worldly...that sites well on the great detective. After Moriarty, in his rococo lair, threatens Holmes with a trap door, flying daggers, and a crashing chandelier, the great detective calmly remarks, 'A pity about the chandelier; it was the only item in the room that showed the merest modicum of style.' And when Sherlock and the lady in distress have their moments, there's an undertone of emotion new to Holmes sagas...Under Boris Sagal's direction, this is first-class entertainment."</blockquote>
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You can watch Roger Moore in <i>Sherlock Holmes in New York</i> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K3Nwdg9x3w" target="_blank">on YouTube</a>:<br />
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While we weren't able to book Sir Roger for an interview on I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere (we tried!), we will still hold dear the memory of him as Sherlock Holmes in New York.<br />
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Baker Street Elementary — Merely Players

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Bringing stories to life in the minds of readers or theater-goers can be a challenge. We know that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a talented storyteller who managed to do just that, particularly in the former medium (and did attempt the latter <a href="http://www.wessexpress.com/html/speckledband.html" target="_blank">at least twice</a>).<br />
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When William Gillette sought Doyle's approval to make some nominal changes to Holmes's personal situation in 1899, Doyle replied, "You may marry him, murder him, or do whatever you like to him." It's not clear what Holmes and Watson had to say about this development, but in the minds of the team at Baker Street Elementary, we have the opportunity to see how it might have played out during an earlier stage of their lives...<br />
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by Scott Monty

What to Do with Too Many Books (Is There Such a Thing?)

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<b>"There is a great garret in my little house which is stuffed with books" [LION] </b></h4>
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My father, <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/11/remembering-donald-redmond-bsi-2s.html" target="_blank">Don Redmond, BSI</a>, was an enthusiast of everything from steam trains to Sherlock Holmes. A professional librarian and a child of the Great Depression, which taught him to hold onto things because they might be needed, and hard to get, one of these days. The result, of course, was that my parents had a house full of stuff, including many, many books. Both his house and the libraries he served were embodiments of what he came to call Redmond's Law: "Bookcases are full."<br />
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Redmond's Law has applied to my own surroundings for many years, and as I settle into a new house in Carleton Place, Ontario, it clearly has jurisdiction here too. Despite an unbroken 27-foot sweep of floor-to-ceiling bookcases around much of the perimeter of my study, and three overflow cases in a nearby storeroom, there are — what a surprise! — books that have not yet found a shelf, and remain in shipping cartons. I am not sure the situation will change any time soon.<br />
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I've found room in the study for general books on many subjects (my collection emphasizes literature, religion and languages) and for many shades of Sherlockiana: editions of the Canon, books about Arthur Conan Doyle, non-Sherlockian books by Arthur Conan Doyle, literary analysis, histories and commentaries about drama and film, Game-playing monographs, bound volumes of the <i><a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/" target="_blank">Baker Street Journal</a></i> and other periodicals, even a few pastiches, although most of those have been relegated to the storeroom.<br />
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The trouble really starts with my accumulation of books in peripheral fields, such as 19th-century history, Victorian scandals, London lore, and the history of detective fiction. In general this isn't material I look at very often, and I haven't collected it systematically, but it takes up space for all that. Let me just list a few titles:<br />
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<li>James O'Neill's <i>The Molly Maguires</i>, a novelization of the 1970 film, starring Sean Connery, that tells a rather different story of conflict in the Pennsylvania coal fields than does <i>The Valley of Fear</i>.</li>
<li>Geoffrey Moorhouse's <i>India Britannica</i>, a narrative of the colonial experience that provides the background for <i>The Sign of Four</i> and "The Crooked Man."</li>
<li>Richard Gordon's <i>The Private Life of  Doctor Crippen</i>, a novel about one of the most notorious Edwardian murderers.</li>
<li>Conte Costello's 1956 biography <i>Lola Montez</i>, telling the story of one of Irene Adler's possible originals — a volume that I have only now noticed happens to be written in German.</li>
<li>Kevin O'Brien's <i>Oscar Wilde in Canada</i>, the story of a tour by one of Arthur Conan Doyle's friends that bears some resemblance to ACD's own North American lecture tour in 1894.</li>
<li>Ian Ousby's <i>Bloodhounds of Heaven</i>, subtitled "The Detective in English Fiction from Godwin to Doyle".</li>
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I am vanishingly unlikely ever to consult any of these books — and yet I can't possibly expel them from my library, can I?<br />
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Back into a cardboard carton for all of you, I think.<br />
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<i><b>What kinds of books do you have that are on the periphery of Sherlockiana? Leave us a comment below.</b></i></div>
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