I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere

Elementary and the Hound

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<span style="font-family: "arno pro" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">From the beginning, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elementary</i> was not about retelling the
Arthur Conan Doyle Canon in the 21<sup>st</sup> century. At </span><a href="http://collider.com/robert-doherty-carl-beverly-elementary-interview/" style="font-family: 'arno pro', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.12px;">San Diego’s Comic Con</a><span style="font-family: 'arno pro', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.12px;"> in 2012, </span><span style="font-family: 'arno pro', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.12px;">Executive Producer Rob Doherty said,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arno pro" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"We’re not looking to
contemporize the old stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really,
when I look at the source material, what I love and have always loved is the
relationship and the mythology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love
those aspects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The cases are brilliant,
don’t get me wrong, but it’s not our first order of business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If somebody had a take on one of the stories
and it seemed right for our show in New York, with our Sherlock and our Watson,
I’m open to it but it’s not our plan for the show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>We want to tell our own new Sherlockian
mysteries week in and week out."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arno pro" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The show runners have taken familiar Canonical tropes and
tropes created by Sherlockians within the Grand Game since the 1930s, such as
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Caldecott-Greenaway-Historical-Baring-Gould/dp/B0014YL4WY/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458166622&sr=1-1&keywords=sherlock+holmes+of+baker+street+by+william+s.+baring-gould">Irene Adler being Holmes’ great love</a>, and turned them on their heads: Watson
weaning “him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his
remarkable career” [MISS] <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">then</i>
becoming his friend; the great platonic relationship <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">across</i> genders; Holmes’ greatest love <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is also </i>his greatest enemy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These changes work for me, exploring the
characters of Holmes and Watson in new, interesting, and for some, jarring
ways. Other changes, such as Sherlock’s sex-as-exercise, I feel are misfires,
but all-in-all <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elementary</i> is a
thoughtful, well-written and acted examination of what it means to be Sherlock
Holmes and John (in this case Joan) Watson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arno pro" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elementary</i>
does partake of Canonical material, it can do so in ways that frustrate the
expectations of some, but, when successful are fascinating. Season 1, Episode
9 (S1 E9) “You Do It to Yourself” used the plot of “The Problem of Thor
Bridge” without name-checking any characters or locations from the story. That
left some to miss the connection between the story and episode entirely, and
others to assume that the showrunners are so ignorant of the Canon that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">they didn’t know</i> the source of the plot;
an assumption belied by Sherlock name-check THOR as a case of his in England
(S1 E21 “A Landmark Story”) and the use of Maria Gibson’s suicide method (S2 E9
“On the Line”) by a young woman attempting to frame her sister’s killer. In
fact the dumbbell used as a weight to pull her gun off the bridge into the
Hudson River is momentarily framed as Thor’s Hammer.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arno pro" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Elementary
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taken parts of the Canon and its characters, such as S3 E2 “The Five Orange
Pipz”, S1 E12 “M.”, S2 E7 “The Marchioness”, S1 E20 “Dead Man’s Switch”, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the two-parter S3 E11 “The Illustrious Client”
and E12 “The One That Got Away” and worked them into the show’s mythos, but<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>its best Canonical retelling is S2
E17’s “Ears to You” which not only repurposed "The Cardboard Box" into the 21<sup>st</sup>
century but worked it perfectly into the show’s procedural and addiction
recovery formats while staying true to Doyle, and the story itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The series has finally gotten around to <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i> and within the confines of one hour managed to coherently condense the novel’s
plot while substituting the desolation of Dartmoor to the morally bleak
landscape of American commerce, one of the series’ touchstones and replacements
of the Canon’s Victorian England class system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arno pro" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Broadcast on March 10, 2016, S4 E16’s “Hounded” is the last
episode on Thursday nights this season; the show move<span style="font-family: "arno pro" , serif;">d</span> to Sundays on March 20. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Hound of the Baskervilles</i> is the
most well-known and most filmed stories of the Canon. Part of the novel’s
success is the Gothic, supernatural setting in which the rational, scientific
Holmes must restore order. Not every film version has done visually what
Doyle did with words, and even with a two-part episode, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elementary</i> would probably fail in capturing the chills and thrills
of the novel. Instead, Robert Hewitt Wolfe’s script hues close to novel, paring
it down to essentials. All this takes place in the ethical morass of business,
commerce and technology, an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elementary</i>
staple backdrop, befitting a detective working in the world’s financial Grimpen
Mire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arno pro" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Venture capitalist Charles Baskerville is hit by a truck
after falling off a jogging path. His brother Henry, the last known surviving
heir to Gilded Age railroad tycoon Hugo Baskerville’s fortune, doesn’t believe
that it was an accident and asks Holmes and Watson to investigate. At the scene
in Central Park, Sherlock deduces from the broken b<span style="font-family: "arno pro" , serif;">r</span>anches and twigs that
Charles was chased to his death by someone who was wider with a lower stance and <span style="font-family: "arno pro" , serif;">there was a </span>third person who witnessed it and ran away. Sherlock sends Joan to find the witness
while he tends to the shows' B-story<span style="font-family: "arno pro" , serif;">; </span></span><span style="font-family: "arno pro" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "arno pro" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "arno pro" , serif;">t</span>he scene plays like a version of Holmes volunteering
Watson to guard Sir Henry</span>. The witness, a homeless vet who, while in
an alter state or two, saw Charles chased by small bear or large wolf that
glowed like a lantern. <span style="font-family: "arno pro" , serif;">Here the show</span> respects the source material by not trying to
shoehorn “Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a <span style="font-family: "arno pro" , serif;">gigantic</span> hound!” into 2016 New
York City. In fact, the word “hound” is never mentioned in the show. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arno pro" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At Charles’ company, Baskerville Genetics, we meet a red
herring in the form of Cornwall, a large genetically-modified bioluminescent
dog. Dr. Jane Mortimer (so named in the script, but I don’t believe her name
was mentioned during the episode) direct Sherlock and Joan’s attention to a
convict named Selden, who was sending death-threat emails to Charles and others
at the company. Selden, played to crank perfection by obese actor Ric
Stoneback (could the show's Selden's first name be "Franklin"?), while happy at the karmic justice at Charles death has an alibi, “I
was at a comedy club with my sister. Big mistake. I was the target of every
bozo on stage. Fat-shaming is the last acceptable prejudice in America!” And
perhaps a meta-comment on Victorian Mycroft in “The Abominable Bride”. Selden leads them to a competitive genetics
firm, one which activities are a bit shadier that making drought-resistant rice—that
of breeding “war dogs” for the Army Research Laboratory. Fortunately for
society, the project produced stillborn or nonviable dogs and was abandoned. However,
the competitor tells the detectives of Charles’ “patent-jacking”—giving start-up
companies capital in exchange for stock and seats on the board and once he had
a controlling interest, liquidating the company and selling off its assets,
including any patents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arno pro" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Here’s where the casting of the likable and sympathetic Tom
Everett Scott in the thankless role of Henry Baskerville (can anyone remember
and name another of the many actors, aside from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hound-Baskervilles-Peter-Cushing/dp/B000062XEY/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1458167707&sr=1-1&keywords=hound+of+the+baskervilles+1959">Christopher Lee</a>, who played the
role?) pays off; he knows about Charles patent-jacking, but thinks the 30 or so
inventors were “well compensated” and have nothing to be vengeful about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arno pro" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Imagine,” Sherlock has to tell him, “you’re one of the
inventors your brother fleeced. Imagine watching your brother make millions off
your brainchild while you were forced to walk away with $100,000 and a hearty
handshake.” The viewer still roots for Henry to survive the inevitable. While
still on the phone with Sherlock, the beast breaks into Baskerville Hall, by
hearing the beast’s growl Sherlock is able to deduce what the beast is and save
Henry’s life. It turns out to be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3fmFTtP9g">a four-legged robot</a> (“Only slightly less
outrageous than the glowing mastiff, wouldn't you think?” says Sherlock in another bit of meta-commentary) cobbled together
from stolen patents and sold to the Baskervilles’ cousin Rodger Stapleton. One of
the ten robots built for the military by Stapleton Innovations, it had
disappeared and someone had reprogrammed it to be a target-and-forget weapon to
eliminate the Baskervilles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arno pro" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Hounded” works on many levels. As well as by a robot,
Stapleton and the Baskervilles are hounded by their sins, corporate and
otherwise, as well the genetic struggle of infertility in the male bloodline.
In the B-story, semi-regular character M.E. Eugene Hawes (Jordan Gerber) is
hounded by the post-traumatic stress of losing someone he cared about in an
explosion that also almost killed Hawes, as is Sherlock by the “loss” of The
Woman. “Hounded” works as a retelling of the Baskerville tale by stripping the
plot to its basics, losing the Gothic overtones, but keeping the “curse”—visiting
the sins of the father onto the children—and setting it in a modern-day ethical
wasteland. As always, Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu are a joy to watch as
Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arno pro" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As for the move to Sunday, <a href="http://deadline.com/2016/01/rush-hour-premiere-date-criminal-minds-beyond-borders-elementary-cbs-1201678446/">Deadline</a> notes that the
action/comedy <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rush Hour</i> is more
fitting of CBS’ Thursday night comedy line-up while </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arno pro" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“<i>Elementary</i> attracts
the kind of upscale CBS audiences that watch its Sunday lineup. Plus,<i>
Elementary</i> is one of CBS’ most DVR-ed series, so a time slot is not that
crucial to the show’s performance. Still, if history is any indication,
any established CBS drama series sent to the Sunday 10 PM time period ends
its run there, most recently <i>CSI: Miami</i> and <i>The Mentalist.
Elementary</i> is owned by CBS, it is still relatively young and makes money
for the company, so it is likely not destined for a quick death.” </span></blockquote>
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Elementary and the Hound

"Not content with a mere fiend- dog" [HOUN] From the beginning, Elementary was not about retelling the Arthur Conan Doyle C...

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by James C. O'Leary

On Friendship and Possibilities

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One of the downsides of living in the Midwest is the dearth of regular (irregular?) Sherlockian get-togethers. For those of us living in smaller cities and towns, it seems as if our counterparts in large urban areas—and particularly on the East Coast—spend their days running from event to event, while we're staring out at the cornfields hoping that this is the month we'll be able to make an hours-long trek to see people we can't see often enough.<br />
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So it is that most of my Sherlockian interactions happen via the Internet. I've been thinking some about an online conversation I had with a few Sherlockian friends a few nights back and, musing it over, it's dawned on me why I love being part of this community.<br />
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For most of my life—maybe even all of it—I've been very concerned with "doing the right thing"...but not so concerned with following rules. Yeah, yeah, I know we have to have them, and I know they apply to me, but basically, I'm not a fan. To me, life, and goodness and right are greater than this.<br />
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However, most of life doesn't work that way. As a Christian, I do have to be concerned about doctrine; it's God, it matters, and it matters even when I wish parts of it were different. I obey the speed limit (at least, after that meeting with Trooper Curtis on US 40). I pay taxes (and we actually pay—no refunds). I get my oil changed, queue where the arrow is, and if I don't turn off my cell phone in the movies, I don't talk on it, either. Our kids have structure, our utilities are on, and with the exception of the occasional small rebellion, you'd probably never know that, while I look like a devout church-going middle-aged wife and mom, I'm—internally—more of a pragmatic bohemian who just wants people to be happy as long as they're not hurting anyone else.<br />
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When I first entered the Sherlockian world, I was, like many new converts, really, really concerned with the Canon. It wasn't long, however, before I saw that the world of 221B was so, so much more.<br />
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Here, if you want to memorize all 56 stories and 4 novels, you can do that, and we will all be very, <b>very</b> impressed. But if you want to devote the majority of your efforts to rehabilitating the image of Matt Frewer's Sherlock Holmes, you can do that, too. Quite a few of us adore <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose33" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Edward Hardwicke's Watson</a>...but if you're planning to cosplay <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_(1954_TV_series)" target="_blank">H. Marion Crawford's</a>, you just go on with your bad self.<br />
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I love <i>Sherlock</i> Series 3 with every fiber of my being. It could be that Steven Doyle doesn't feel the same way....not sure about that... but we like and respect each other and he throws great parties. Vincent Wright and I don't agree with each other on God—but we're friends, and he has been a wonderful mentor and research buddy. I know all of you can think of your own examples.<br />
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Really (unless you're hurting others) as a Sherlockian, you can be who you are, and find that you're welcomed, appreciated, and accepted for just that. And when that happens, something else tends to happen, too: people blossom—often in ways that their regular lives don't  encourage. They try new things. They give toasts. They paint. They write. They wear outrageous clothes. They leave their houses and fly on planes. They become leaders. They host events. They write books with their best friends. Some of them even marry each other. Just as an invalided army doctor and his weird, anti-social (but brilliant) best friend could become a famous writer and the world's foremost detective, Sherlockian men and women find, in 1895, ways to be themselves in ways they may never have imagined possible.<br />
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Today, as part of my podcast exercise program (6 lbs down so far, thank you), I happened to listen to <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose89" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">IHOSE Episode 89: The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes</a>, and, as Mr. Stix read out the names of people who should have been part of the BSI ages ago — "<a href="http://pca.st/Sb9u#t=3565" target="_blank">righting old wrongs</a>" — it struck me that, any time we dismiss others for not being quite what we think they should be, we not only deny them a chance to become far more, we miss out on all the good they have to offer. How many of us would have moved out of Baker Street within the first several weeks? But had John H. Watson, MD, done that—weirded out by all those strange people in the sitting room—he would have missed out on the best part of his life.<br />
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Let's follow his lead and remain, always, brave and loyal friends.<br />
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On Friendship and Possibilities

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by Leah Guinn

Sherlock Holmes, The Missing Years: Timbuktu — A Review

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The three years Sherlock Holmes spent “dead” have been a favorite topic of speculation among Sherlockians for ages. His Great Hiatus has been the subject of a variety of pastiches over the years, imagining the Great Detective in locations such as Tibet, India, the United States, suffering amnesia, or even travelling through time.<br />
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<i>Sherlock Holmes, the Missing Years: Timbuktu</i> is the second Great Hiatus book written by Vasudev Murthy, the first being <i>Sherlock Holmes, the Missing Years: Japan</i>. Despite the similarity in title, this is neither a sequel, nor a prequel. As the foreword explains, this is intended as an alternative version of events, and stands completely on its own.<br />
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The plot of the novel revolves around the recovery of an ancient map, which may lead to a fountain of youth. Whether or not it actually does is not really the point, as the sociopolitical and theological ramifications for such a discovery could be immense. More importantly, the people who know of the map’s existence are willing to kill for it, and one of those people searching is Professor Moriarty.<br />
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The search takes Holmes and Dr. Watson through Morocco, across the Sahara, and down the Nile. The author often switches perspectives between Watson, Holmes, their associates, and the people pursuing them, permitting the reader to see all sides of the argument, as it were. There are also footnotes, though many add nothing by way of plot or flavor. The historical clarifications were welcome and helpful. The jokes tended to fall flat as mere distraction.<br />
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Mr. Murthy makes good use of the time period, vibrantly painting the setting with details of the state of Morocco at the end of the nineteenth century, and giving historical context for every region the characters travel through. By far the most interesting descriptions are of the Tuareg tribe Holmes and Watson travel with through the Sahara. Songs and stories are woven into the narrative, along with simple scenes of domestic life for a nomadic people that add color and atmosphere to the story.<br />
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The author does border on being too ‘meta’ with some of Watson’s commentary. He repeatedly references a public interested only in sensationalism and violence, excessively justifying the lack of such in this work. While timely the first few occasions, it quickly became overdone. Apart from that, Watson fulfills his stereotypical role here; he’s the narrator for most of the book, as per usual, and documents his experience faithfully and with literary flair. <br />
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While Watson remains as steadfastly British as he can without offending anyone, Holmes goes native. Holmes is delightful, throwing himself into a variety of roles through the story, from Polish priest to nomadic Tuareg, with energetic fervor. He doesn’t have many occasions to show off his deductive prowess, but when he does, he doesn’t disappoint.<br />
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Even though Holmes and Watson individually are fine, my greatest criticism of the book lies in their interactions with each other. I felt there was such a missed opportunity here, in that I never had a sense of exactly why Holmes summoned Watson in the first place. Holmes has a line about Watson’s ability to put him back on track with casual observations, a take on the ‘great conductor of light’ business from the Canon, but I still found myself wondering on multiple occasions why Watson was there. I don’t mean from a practical standpoint; Watson’s medical skills are put to good use, and indeed he does serve his function as unwitting muse to Holmes, but a sense of camaraderie and even friendship is either missing, or it feels like a one way street. They come across as coworkers, rather than one of literature’s most enduring friendships.<br />
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Even if something is lost in translation regarding Holmes and Watson, the adventure itself makes for a fun story. Since the premise of the book supposes that Reichenbach, and the events leading up to it, were entirely fabricated, it means that Holmes and Moriarty have never met. Moriarty is still a presence, but entirely behind the scenes up until the climax. Without giving anything away, I can say I thoroughly enjoyed the dialogue between Holmes and Moriarty, especially with Watson watching two great intelligences at opposite ends of the moral spectrum have a perfectly pleasant conversation. There is no waterfall at the end of this meeting, but the end holds just as much significance for all parties involved. It’s a well-crafted ending, with a charming denouement.<br />
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“a pathway traced out across the desert” [STUD] The three years Sherlock Holmes spent “dead” have been a favorite topic of speculati...

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The New Sherlock Holmes Pub

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After weeks of being closed for renovations, the relaunch of our beloved <a href="http://www.sherlockholmes-stjames.co.uk/">Sherlock Holmes Pub</a> on Northumberland Avenue in London was quite a fun way to spend an evening.  The downstairs isn’t as dark as it used to be and still remains a friendly atmosphere to get a drink with a healthy mix of tourists and mates taking the time for a pint after work. The restaurant upstairs was always a comfortable area, but after a much needed facelift, feels even more welcoming.<br />
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When first climbing the very familiar stairs you’re immediately transported into the home of our favourite detective. The once ‘L’ shaped room has been transformed into two separate dinning areas that are split with a set of shelves that contain many new treasures including different types of books, glass bottles and a beautiful violin. One of my favourite paintings of a smirking Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has now moved out of a small alcove and given its rightful place above the mantle. And to much amusement many people throughout the night, attendees could be seen posing with the deerstalker wearing stag head that now adorns one wall and looks down on you while you eat your dinner. Don't worry though there is no venison on the menu.<br />
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They have also added in a very ornate bar to the upstairs space. No longer do calls have to be made downstairs for ciders and spirits. There are special craft cocktails, one of which that has to be stirred constantly for over five minutes, that have joined the drinks menu. We’ve already decided a few trips back during the daily happy hour will be needed to try them all. <br />
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The museum is a lot more accessible. You still are on the outside looking in, however the walls that at one time surrounded the place have become windows. This allows you to see many more treasures than you did before, my personal favourite being John’s footlocker. We were informed that some items that have been broken over the years have been replaced, and more period specific pieces added. We were allowed a peek inside for a few minutes, but this was something that isn’t offered to the general public (also a fangirl’s dream come true to pose with John’s revolver).<br />
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The event itself consisted of teams solving a murder mystery, a sampling of some of the new (and old) menu items, an option to try some of their new drinks and of course time for general mingling with many other local Sherlockians. Members of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, the London Sherlockians, the Baker Street Babes, Sherlock Unravelled, MX Publishing, and even Bert Coules  himself were in attendance, just to name a few.<br />
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This classic London spot still retains its Victorian charms, yet the refurbishment has given it just the bit of polish it needed for the next generation of Sherlockian tourists. I would encourage fans old and new to go see the changes, and see what new items you can spot in Sherlock’s sitting room. I’m sure Sir ACD would approve.<br />
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All in all, a good time was had by all. And it was nice to be reminded that I should never be a detective, my partner and I only scoring one point on the mystery. A special thank you to the pub for the invitation. <br />
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To find out more, including the new menu, you can visit <a href="http://www.sherlockholmes-stjames.co.uk/">The Sherlock Holmes Pub online</a>, on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/sherlockspub">Facebook</a>, and Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/thesherlockpub">@TheSherlockPub</a>.<br />
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The New Sherlock Holmes Pub

"comparing notes with publicans" [MISS] After weeks of being closed for renovations, the relaunch of our beloved Sherlock Hol...

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Episode 92: An Irish Stew

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Mid March means it's time for the wearing of the green, as St. Patrick's Day approaches. Accordingly, we grab our shillelaghs and affect a brogue as we discuss some of the Irish connections in the Sherlock Holmes stories.<br />
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While there are many Irish references, both subtle and overt, we concentrate primarily on two of the stories where the Irish connection is a central plot point. And interestingly enough, both involved some sort of Irish secret society and the need to go undercover.<br />
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We also include a bit of history of some musical instruments, discuss a handful of news items that have come to our attention, and welcome Al Gregory, BSI ("The Grimpen Postmaster") to the show as a contestant on Mental Exaltations. We of course wrap things up with another Editor's Gas-Lamp, this time "The Fortunate Ones" from Vol. 2, No. 3 of <i>The Baker Street Journal</i> (OS).<br />
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Episode 92: An Irish Stew

"dreaming of the bright green fields" [CROO] Mid March means it's time for the wearing of the green, as St. Patrick...

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Sherlock Holmes, Julius Caesar, and the Ides of March

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My high school Latin teacher was a great admirer of Julius Caesar, and I suspect secretly felt that she, who ruled the classroom with an iron hand, might have managed the Roman republic and empire better than Caesar himself had done. Certainly she might have avoided the assassination at the hands of a political cabal that famously took place on the steps of Rome's senate-house on March 15 in the year 44 BC — the Ides of March.<br />
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Tomorrow is the Ides, and a few admirers of Julius Caesar may be wearing black in his memory, though not the "complete mourning" that was customary for the bereaved in the 1890s (as mentioned in "The Greek Interpreter"). The Ides are a crucial part of the Roman calendar, which numbered days not from the beginning of the month but in a countdown like the reckoning of shopping days left before Christmas. The crucial days were the mid-month Ides, the Nones about a week before, and the Kalends at the beginning of the next month. <br />
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Today would be recorded as "<i>ante diem i Idibus Martius</i>", the day before the Ides. Sherlock Holmes probably knew that; he could read Latin — he quotes it once or twice, and bought a book in Latin, as noted in A Study in Scarlet. He describes it: "<i>De Jure inter Gentes</i> — published in Latin at Liege in the Lowlands, in 1642. Charles's head was still firm on his shoulders when this little brown-backed volume was struck off." Struck off, like the head of King Charles I, executed for treason in 1649, the victim, like Caesar, of a conspiracy or a popular uprising, whichever you choose to consider it.<br />
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It is easy to forget nowadays that Caesar was a dictator, a tyrant, possibly a proto-fascist; that's why Brutus and the other assassins decided he had to go. One of my classics professors in university remarked tellingly that "No one really understood Caesar until Hitler came along." He has, though, been compared to Napoleon — whom Sherlock Holmes also knew well. Interestingly, too, my textbook edition of Caesar's autobiography, the Gallic Wars, had footnotes comparing his military strategy in northwest Europe with the lines of the trenches in Belgium during World War I, 1,900 years later, terrain familiar to Arthur Conan Doyle.<br />
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Julius Caesar is not mentioned in the Sherlock Holmes stories. There are a couple of characters named for his adopted son, Augustus, but that's the closest it comes. (No Brutuses (Bruti?), either.) Holmes and other figures often refer to "assassins," but generally use the word as a synonym for murderers. Possible political assassinations that do get a mention are "the Trepoff murder"[SCAN] and the work of "Huret, the boulevard assassin" [GOLD]. Sherlock Holmes says in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>: "Political assassins are only too glad to do their work and to fly. This murder had, on the contrary, been done most deliberately." <br />
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Best of all is this passage in "The Bruce-Partington Plans": "It is well they don't have days of fog in the Latin countries — the countries of assassination. By Jove! here comes something at last to break our dead monotony." There could hardly be a more Latin country than Rome, and Holmes drives the point home <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2015/04/by-jove-thor-and-jupiter-in-sherlock.html#.VuZaOfkrLb0" rel="nofollow">when he swears by Jove, or Jupiter</a>, the Roman king of the gods.<div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Related <a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/2023/11/episode-360-by-jove.html" target="_blank"><i>Trifles </i>episode</a>:</h3><div><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1677808707&color=%239d982e&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/by-jove" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="By Jove!">By Jove!</a></div><br />
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One other note about the Ides of March: one of the ugliest murders in the Canon takes place on that date, March 15, in (probably) 1897. It is the precipitating event of "The Devil's Foot." And it is set, oddly but indisputably, on the day when Arthur Conan Doyle met, and apparently instantly fell in love with, his second wife, Jean Leckie.<br />
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The Man Who Loved Women — and Equality

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There's been much talk in recent weeks of <a href="http://pca.st/Sb9u#t=3465">the dramatic scene in 1991</a> when women were first admitted to the ranks of the Baker Street Irregulars. The story of the picket outside the 1968 BSI dinner, conducted by six venturesome Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes, has also been told and retold. I wasn't present for either historic event, and so I have little to add to the telling.<br />
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Ah, but I was on hand January 5, 1979, when a smaller, but still significant, step was taken towards the integration of women and men in the Sherlockian world. Fill up my glass, if you would, and I'll tell you the tale.<br />
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Starting in 1975, the <a href="http://ash-nyc.com/">Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes</a> — now more generally known as ASH — held a small (but gradually less small) dinner in New York on the same evening as the BSI were performing their traditional rites somewhere across town. By the late 1970s the venue for the BSI was the Regency Hotel on Park Avenue, and the ASH dined at the Biltmore Hotel, which was also the place where some men and some women mingled afterwards to enjoy a further libation, catch up on the news, and pursue personal relationships ad lib.<br />
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It began to be evident that in addition to women who were <i>ipso facto</i> excluded from the BSI dinner, there were men who had not been invited to the Regency — men who might, in fact, enjoy dining in the company of women. I understand that there was some controversy among the ASH (a smaller and more cohesive group then than now, of course) as the organization's policies were discussed during 1978. <br />
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It is even possible that my existence was noticed in those discussions, as I had formed a rather close relationship with one Adventuress in particular and was hinting that I might come to New York in January — something I had not hitherto done — if I might be able to eat dinner in good company. As an investitured Irregular I would have been welcome at the Regency, but on principle I wasn't about to attend a dinner where women could not take part. A desire to keep a close eye on my Adventuress might possibly also have been a factor in my determination. <br />
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The decision, probably not unanimous among the ASH, was that yes, I could come, and so could other men, if invited by individual ladies. The 1979 ASH dinner was arranged at Rosoff's 1899 Restaurant, an establishment on West 43 Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. The BSI gathered at the Regency again.<br />
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"Many of the members brought along legally invited male guests," said the ensuing report in the ASH journal <i>The Serpentine Muse</i>. "The meal itself was excellent," although oddly, "an awful lot of ice cream was left to melt in dejection." The <i>Muse</i> regrettably does not indicate how many people of either sex were present; my fuzzy memories suggest maybe forty or fifty. It does, however, summarize the events of the evening, from toasts to presentations and finally the singing of "Aunt Clara". <br />
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No one who knows me will be totally surprised to hear that I found an excuse to make a speech. Officially I was giving a toast to Dr. Watson, but the Muse kindly describes my remarks as "an excellent speech praising the ASH's move to have men to The Dinner. He went on to outline the many benefits that would come of joining the male and female factions of the New York Sherlockian scene. Let's face it, the entire Sherlockian world would gain by it. Besides, remember Morley and those few lines in the BSI Buy-Laws?"<br />
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The full text of what I said that evening (1,100 words, very long indeed for a toast) can be found in my book <i><a href="http://wessexpress.com/html/quicksuccession.html">A Quick Succession of Subjects</a></i>, just published by <a href="http://wessexpress.com/">Wessex Press</a>. Forgive me if I think of it as my contribution to Sherlockian history — and equality.<br />
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Celebrating the Silver Anniversary of the Baker Street Breakfast Club

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When one thinks of the whereabouts of Sherlock Holmes, one often thinks of his humble digs at 221B Baker Street, not the rolling hills of the rural New England State of Vermont. But according to some members of the <a href="http://www.bakerstreetbreakfastclub.org/">Baker Street Breakfast Club</a>, Mr. Holmes spent some of his time during the Great Hiatus in the Green Mountain State. This was just one of the interesting facts we learned when we interviewed Sally Sugarman, BSI ("The Three Gables"), the current president of The Baker Street Breakfast Club, a highly active scion society which just celebrated its 25th anniversary. We asked Ms. Sugarman about the group, how it came to be, how its changed over the years, and where they are headed in the future.<br />
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<b>Sally Sugarman:</b> A colleague of mine at Bennington College, Tony Carruthers and I found out that we were both Holmes aficionados. We called a meeting on a cold January 6 in a local historic house, <a href="http://parkmccullough.org/prod/">The Park McCullough House</a> in North Bennington. We had a good crowd of people who showed up. Tony, who had red hair at the time, read the "The Red Headed League" in his British accent. We had several toasts before hand, with Irving Adler, a mathematician toasting Professor Moriarty. After that my husband and I invited friends over for dinner for several years on January 6. After about two or three years of this, our friends said we should start a group. We had a meeting of a group of friends and discussed a slew of different names. I still have the list. We decided on The Baker Street Breakfast Club because breakfast is the most frequently mentioned meal in the Canon. Since we planned on meeting at night, this was properly irregular.<br />
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I then contacted the Goose Club of the Alpha Inn, the only other Holmes society in Vermont, and Bill Wicker, who headed it, was most helpful. I also had read an article in National Geographic about John Bennett Shaw and I contacted him. I still treasure the hand written letter I got from him. I applied for membership as a scion society in <a href="http://www.bakerstreetirregulars.com/">The Baker Street Irregulars</a> and our acceptance is framed on my wall. This was in 1990.<br />
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<b>SS: </b>I have so many great memories. The meetings we had planning the conference is one of them. That was also true for the second conference. Our trips to the Gillette State Park, our trip to England, all the Holmes plays we have seen together. The Holmes plays my husband writes for our December meeting each year. We used to meet annually in June with members of The Goose Club of the Alpha Inn in June. I remember those meetings fondly.<br />
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<b>SS: </b>At one of our meetings at Moriarty's in Saratoga, a restaurant which sadly is no longer there, we decided that the 100th anniversaries of events in the Canon were quickly going by. We decided that we would celebrate one with a conference that celebrated Holmes return from the Great Hiatus. We would reveal that he really spent those three years in Vermont. We involved the Chamber of Commerce in sponsoring a contest about how those years were spent in Vermont. I still have copies of those stories. We also had a contest for students among other community activities.<br />
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The way we got our speakers was fun. I would read a Sherlock Holmes book and note that the author didn't live that far away and we would contact him. Our son, Paul, noted that Nicholas Meyer had just published a new Holmes book and suggested we contact him. We had the conference at Bennington College. It was very inexpensive. We had 170 attendees and gained new members for our group.<br />
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We had a second conference to celebrate our 20th anniversary. Now, whenever I say to the group, I have an idea, they all yell, "No more conferences!" because it was a lot of work, particularly since I like involving the entire Bennington Community in activities. With our second conference, we had an official Season of Mystery with many activities beyond the conference happening in the community.<br />
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<b>SS:</b> We meet at a member's home for a pot luck supper. Before we eat we have various toasts, culminating in a toast to the Master. Then we eat, but we don't have dessert until we have discussed the story of the evening. Members bring questions. Recently, we have instituted a Tantalus who sends some questions ahead of time. We have gone through the Canon several times and are amazed at how many new insights we get each time we read a story again.<br />
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We do have a few breakfast or brunch meetings throughout the year. The Master's Birthday is usually a Sunday Brunch. The July Pool Party is a brunch. As I noted earlier we used to meet in June for brunch with The Goose Club of the Alpha Inn. In later years the brunch included The Upper Valley Club from New Hampshire, but it has become more difficult to get the three groups together in the past few years.<br />
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<b>IHOSE: </b> You have a quarterly newsletter with the title, Groans, Cries, and Bleatings. How did the newsletter come about and why did you use that title?</h4>
<b>SS: </b>One of our members, Stephen Seitz started it with help from another member Rich Nethercott. The title comes from "The Red Circle" when Holmes is commenting on the newspapers he has been reading. Steve came up with the title. He did a fine job and there are many articles I would like people to see.We hope to get the old issues up on the web site. When Steve and Rich moved, they could no longer continue it, so I took it over. With the Internet, it is easier to get contributions from people and they don't have to be members of our group.<br />
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<b>SS:</b> We celebrated with a range of activities. We gave two knapsacks of Sherlockian materials to the local children's library. We had four programs at the  Bennington  Free Library.  One was a presentation by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (aka Jeffry Bradway one of our members) a presentation of two play readings by our local Bennington Community Theatre, a film showing of 100 years of different actors playing Holmes on film and a Powerpoint presentation, "The Children in the Canon," which I gave. At the Arlington Library I also gave a Powerpoint presentation of "The Women in the Canon" and at the Manchester Library, I gave a Powerpoint presentation on "Sherlock Holmes the Great Detective." We were fortunate that two regional theatres put on Holmes plays this season that we attended. We had an anniversary banquet at the local country club. We have an exhibit of Sherlock Holmes Posters and Pictures at the Left Bank in North Bennington, a local gallery.<br />
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<b>IHOSE: </b> And what do you have planned for the future?</h4>
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<b>SS:</b> We want to work more on our web site and extend our range of scholarship. We are particularly interested in encouraging children to enjoy the Canon. As we get new members we get new ideas. We have been extremely fortunate in having a combination of new and old members. We still have members who were with us on that first cold night at the Park McCullough house.<br />
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<b>SS:</b> The world of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating one. It is also a welcoming one and we have met wonderful people through it. We appreciate all the contributions to our group that our members have made over the years. They each bring their special perspectives and we keep learning from each other.<br />
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For more on the Baker Street Breakfast Club, please visit their <a href="http://www.bakerstreetbreakfastclub.org/">website</a>.<br />
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Celebrating the Silver Anniversary of the Baker Street Breakfast Club

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Episode 91: The Confidence Game

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February is a shorter month, so the latest episode of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere comes to you a day earlier.<br />
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We're joined by Maria Konnikova, whom you may remember as the author of <i><a amzn-ps-bm-asin="014312434X" class="amzn_ps_bm_tl" data-amzn-link-id="da4f8313ed25b621dff90db67fe6e91d" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword="Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes" href="https://amzn.to/3wkprk3" id="amznPsBmLink_1166168" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes</a><img alt="" border="0" height="0" id="amznPsBmPixel_1166168" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=thebakerstree-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=da4f8313ed25b621dff90db67fe6e91d&_cb=1456726259607" style="border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;" width="0" /></i>. She first appeared on I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose54" rel="nofollow">Episode 54</a> to discuss that very book. Maria is a contributing writer for <i>The New Yorker</i>, where she writes a regular column with a focus on psychology and culture, and her work has appeared in <i>The Atlantic</i>, <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>Scientific American MIND</i>, and <i>Smithsonian</i>, among numerous other publications.<br />
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Maria's latest book is <i><a amzn-ps-bm-asin="0525427414" class="amzn_ps_bm_tl" data-amzn-link-id="74d050e9b047b76b0a781743198683c4" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword="The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It... Every Time" href="https://amzn.to/31AqDBQ" id="amznPsBmLink_7203976" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It... Every Time</a><img alt="" border="0" height="0" id="amznPsBmPixel_7203976" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=thebakerstree-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=74d050e9b047b76b0a781743198683c4&_cb=1456726388048" style="border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;" width="0" />. </i>While cheats and swindlers may be a dime a dozen, true con men are elegant, outsized personalities, artists of persuasion and exploiters of trust. How do they do it? Why are they successful? And what keeps us falling for it? <i>The Confidence Game</i> not only asks why we believe con artists; it also examines the very act of believing and how our sense of truth can be manipulated by those around us, leaving us to fall for it - over and over again.<br />
We explore the dark triad — psychopathy, narcissism and Machiavellianism — and probe Maria's research process as she shares with us how a con works and how con artists manage to get away with what they do. From religions and cults to marketers and storytellers, it comes down to intent, and they all prey on the very trusting nature of people.<br />
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Our conversation with Maria delved into these issues, as well as cons in the Sherlock Holmes stories, and the ultimate question: was Sherlock Holmes a con man?<br />
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Episode 91: The Confidence Game

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