I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere

Specific and Universal

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Arthur Conan Doyle had the good fortune to be a working author in the one time and place where Sherlock Holmes and John Watson could achieve, not literary immortality but, historical reality and create the fandom movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Historical reality. People believed in the reality of Holmes and Watson.<br />
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Like all human beliefs, the reality of Holmes and Watson ran on a spectrum. Some believed that the pair were as real as the family members and neighbors they lived and interacted with every day. Some believed the pair were as real as Queen Victoria and the politicians whose names they read in the paper and who they might have seen in the distance but had never met in person. Some believed the pair were as real as Timbuktu and the mines of Ballarat, places they had never been to and never would go to, but knew existed because, well, that was common knowledge. Others believed that Holmes and Watson existed if not exactly as presented in the pages of <i>The Strand Magazine</i> then in some form close to it. Some believed that if they weren’t real, they should be. While the <i>The X-Files</i> may have popularized the “I Want To Believe” meme, that desire has always been a part of the human experience.<br />
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As the Industrial Age got underway, the need for an educated and literate workforce grew. Schools where reading, writing and mathematical skills were supplemented to religious indoctrination increased. Mass production costs decreased. Early in the eighteenth century all but the poorest could afford a newspaper and all but the poorest could read it and as the century went on the ratio of “poorest” decreased. The papers served the entertainment function of radio and television of later ages and carried a mix of fact and fiction; the line between the two could be broad and blurred. Serialized novels ran in the papers as a way to guarantee a constant circulation and the lengthy tomes that bore in today’s English class were the breathless “find out what happens next” to Edmond Dantès or Samuel Pickwick in the must-buy next issue.<br />
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Wilkie Collins, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Leo Tolstoy and many others had their novels first serialized in newspapers and magazines, but it was <i>The Strand Magazine </i>and Doyle who first serialized a character in a self-contained story in the 1890s that gave the public real-life fictional people.<br />
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The end of the nineteenth century was the apex of Newtonian certainty. Humanity was on the brink of looking behind the veil of stars to see the clockwork mechanics of the universe. Science and technology were filling in the untidy gap on the bookshelf of knowledge and it was men like Sherlock Holmes (and, generally unsung, women) who were penning those new tomes.<br />
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The self-contained unit of the short story combined with continuing adventures of two realistic men in a real city, in a current time period (“One night - it was on the 20th of March, 1888,” [SCAN] “I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year,” [REDH] “When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years ‘82 and ‘90 …. The year ‘87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater or less interest …. It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales had set in with exceptional violence.” [FIVE]), using cutting edge, but real, knowledge and technology that let the reader believe, if they were so inclined, that Holmes and Watson were real or very well could be.<br />
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It was Doyle’s talent, the short story format and the tools of the popular magazine memoirist that gave the fictional pair the verisimilitude of life. They existed outside of Doyle’s stories almost as soon as they appeared in the <i>Strand</i>. Ann K. McClellan in "<a href="http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/issue/view/27/showToc"><i>Tit-Bits</i>, New Journalism, and early Sherlock Holmes fandom</a>" wrote:<br />
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“For instance, just a year after Sherlock Holmes first appeared in the <i>Strand</i>’s ‘A Scandal in Bohemia,’ <i>Tit-Bits</i> published an inquiry regarding the character’s real-life existence: ‘Buttons wishes to know whether Sherlock Holmes, the detective genius…is or is not an actual person. We cannot positively say. As a matter of fact, we have not made the personal acquaintance of Mr. Sherlock Holmes…If…we should find that no such person is in existence we shall then be very much disappointed indeed’ (<i>Tit-Bits</i>, January 23, 1892).” </blockquote>
A modern media whose attributes have remained constant over the last 150 years added to that plausibility by reporting Holmes’s presence in advertisements, plays, musicals and song. The immediate popularity of the twenty-four short stories between 1891-1893 inspired other series characters, which flourished in the slicks and pulps until the Great Depression of 1929 winnowed the market.<br />
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<i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i> was serialized in <i>The Strand Magazine</i> in 1901-1902. During that run, an open letter to Dr. Watson—not Doyle mind you—appeared in the January 23, 1902 issue of the <i>Cambridge Review</i> and took the doctor to task for the inconsistencies present in the tale. Published in book form in 1902, it became one of the first best-sellers in the modern sense and the latter half of Holmes’s literary career gave rise to the Golden Age of mystery fiction staring in the 1920s when many of the rules of the genre were codified. While short stories still had a market from the 1930s to the 1960s, the money for publishers and authors shifted to the novel series character. <br />
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With this move from the transient immediacy of monthly publication to library-shelf permanence of the novel came the Peter Pan-ing of the series character.<br />
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<i>In A Visit to Three Fronts: Glimpses of the British, Italian and French Lines</i>, published in August 1916, Doyle wrote<br />
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“[French General Georges] Humbert is a Lord Robert’s figure, small, wiry, quick-stepping, all steel and elastic, with a short, sharp upturned moustache, which one could imagine as crackling with electricity in moments of excitement like a cat’s fur. What he does or says is quick, abrupt, and to the point. He fires his remarks like pistol shots at this man or that. Once to my horror he fixed me with his hard little eyes and demanded <i>‘Sherlock Holmes, est ce qu’il est un soldat dans l’armée Anglaise?’</i> [Is Sherlock Holmes a soldier in the British Army?] The whole table waited in an awful hush. <i>‘Mais, mon general,’</i> I stammered, <i>‘il est trop vieux pour service.’</i> [But, general, he is too old to serve.] There was general laughter, and I felt that I had scrambled out of an awkward place.” </blockquote>
In the late spring of 1916, when this incident took place, Doyle knew Holmes’s approximate age. In “His Last Bow,” the stated age of the Altamont-disguised Holmes was 60, which in fact fits very well with the then-published corpus. But the demands of publishers, with stays on best-seller lists for months, library lending for years and, in 1935, the rise of paperbacks, called for the existence of ageless characters inhabiting an ever-present now of novels, preventing literary characters from achieving a historical reality.<br />
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Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe ages only nine years in the fourteen years that transpire between <i>The Big Sleep</i> and <i>The Long Goodbye</i>. From <i>Raymond Chandler: A Literary Reference </i>edited by Robert F Moss:<br />
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“In answer to a letter, receive in 1951 from a D.J. Ibberson of London, Chandler wrote a long account of ‘the facts of Philip Marlowe’s life.’ The date of Marlowe’s birth, he said, was uncertain, but he was about thirty-eight, and remained the same age.”</blockquote>
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In <i>The Mysterious Affair at Styles</i> (published in 1920, written in 1916), Hercule Poirot was already an old man and retired from police work in Belgium. In the novels <i>Third Girl</i> (1966), <i>Hallowe’en Party</i> (1969), and <i>Elephants Can Remember</i> (1972) the setting is clearly the 1960s (or “the present”). Even if Poirot retired at a canonical 49, he’d be 99 in 1966. Agatha Christie was well aware of the ridiculousness of the situation and wrote Poirot’s last case, <i>Curtain</i>, about 1940, although it wasn’t published until 1975, shortly before Christie’s own death.<br />
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Earl Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason was in over eighty novels and short story collections from 1933’s <i>The Case of the Velvet Claws</i> to 1973’s T<i>he Case of the Postponed Murder</i>. Mason, Della Street and Paul Drake not only remain ageless in their ever-present now, but have very little backstory. They exist to serve the function of the mystery and are seemly stored in amber between cases.<br />
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It is impossible to play The Game in such an unhistorical vacuum, where the age of the characters cannot be matched to the date of their adventures; where indeed the adventures have no dates. As Watson wrote in "The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger,"<br />
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“When one considers that Mr Sherlock Holmes was in active practice for twenty-three years, and that during seventeen of these I was allowed to co-operate with him and to keep notes of his doings, it will be clear that I have a mass of material at my command.” </blockquote>
Holmes and Watson are dimensional; they lived in a space and time that could be plotted by the contemporary and future reader and had existence outside of the current memoir being read; Holmes’s college years and travels during the Great Hiatus, Watson’s marriage and military experience, the many other cases they worked on—hinted at but unchronicled. While the end of the nineteenth century was the apex of the Newtonian worldview, the twentieth century unveiled a quantum microcosm where Heisenberg is uncertain of both the exact speed and exact position of an object, where Schrödinger’s cat is alive or dead whether you observe it or not, where spooky action at a distance can entangle the untouched. Peter Pan becomes the norm, never aging because he refuses to. Time happens to Holmes and Watson as it does to other mortals; Marlowe, Mason and Poirot pass through time but don’t partake of it. They are Lost Boys will-o’-wisps in a Neverland, not solid points in a fixed age. They may have a shelf life, but they don’t have life.<br />
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Doyle wrote in that brief period when the contemporary and historical could coexist without being shunted into the Historical Mystery category and cast in bronze like Ellis Peters’ Brother Cadfael, Lindsey Davis’ Marcus Didius Falco or even Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins. Holmes and Watson went to see Sarasate and Norman-Neruda with the readers of the <i>Strand</i> (or the readers <b><i>might </i></b>have sat with the pair at any rate) and aged with the faithful audience. In the late 1880s, Holmes and Watson are “two middle-aged gentlemen … flying westward at fifty miles an hour” [BOSC]; in 1914, Watson is “a heavily-built, elderly man with a gray moustache” [LAST] and in "The Adventure of the Creeping Man," we the reader are greeted like old friends:<br />
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“Mr Sherlock Holmes was always of opinion that I should publish the singular facts connected with Professor Presbury, if only to dispel once for all the ugly rumours which some twenty years ago agitated the University and were echoed in the learned societies of London. There were, however, certain obstacles in the way, and the true history of this curious case remained entombed in the tin box which contains so many records of my friend’s adventures. Now we have at last obtained permission to ventilate the facts which formed one of the very last cases handled by Holmes before his retirement from practice. Even now a certain reticence and discretion have to be observed in laying the matter before the public. It was one Sunday evening early in September of the year 1903 ….” </blockquote>
One can almost feel the crackling hearth, smell the leather chairs and taste the proffered tea (or Petri wine) of our host.<br />
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Such realities have disappeared from our serial fiction. Publishing demands to keep contemporary series characters timeless and ever-green in novels pumped out yearly decade after decade have made them lifeless and never-being. The fandom that grew around Sherlock Holmes can only exist around science fiction and TV shows, of which the best of them have their own reality and chronology that can approximate the experience of its consumer.<br />
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Within that fandom of The Game we explore the history Holmes and Watson lived, a Victorian world that is very relevant to our own, peopled with being just like the ones with whom we interact daily. By the specificity of time and place we find universality. Through the contingencies of history, Doyle created the only serialized characters with the reality of living, with which The Game could be played as “solemnly as a county cricket match at Lord’s”; where we can open the pages of the Canon and believe.<br />
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by James C. O'Leary

Trifling Issues in June

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Regular subscribers here are likely familiar with our audio program which shares the name of our site: <a href="http://ihose.co/ihoseshows" target="_blank">I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a>. On it, you'll hear interviews with guests who are authors, entertainers, or interesting Sherlockians. We like to think of it as <i>Fresh Air</i> for Sherlock Holmes fans.<br />
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You might know about our parallel show, <a href="http://sherlockholmespodcast.com/" target="_blank">Trifles</a>, in which we spend 15 minutes at a time talking about something in the Sherlock Holmes stories. We've got the latest shows to share with you below. But first, something else.<br />
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June Update</h4>
We wrapped up our June production with four episodes hitting the airwaves during the month.<br />
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<a href="http://ihose.co/trifles23" target="_blank">Married Life with Dr. Watson</a> gave us a glimpse into what Mrs. Watson had to deal with, specifically with the urgent telegram from Sherlock Holmes in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery." We also feature a musical tribute to the recently deceased Peter Sallis.<br />
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With Father's Day approaching, we published <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles24" target="_blank">Heads of Household</a> to explore some of the nontraditional authority figures in the Canon. While some of them weren't parents themselves, they served in some sort of parental or guardian role.<br />
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If your stepfather was dating you, you'd probably know it was him, right? Well, we considered Mary Sutherland's situation and determined it was <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles25" target="_blank">An Unbelievable Case of Identity</a>. Perhaps you'll agree.<br />
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And finally, we thought that <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles26" target="_blank">The Plot Device of the Three Garridebs</a> seemed familiar. Familiar as in a variation of it had been used not once but twice before in the Sherlock Holmes stories. So which one comes out on top?<br />
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Did you know that each introduction is just <i>slightly</i> different than the last? If you listen closely, you may be able to hear. Collect them all! And each show ends with a familiar phrase or two from a certain production of Sherlock Holmes on television.<br />
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Baker Street Elementary — Corridors of Uncertainty

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While the games and rules of play may vary from continent to continent, sport is prevalent throughout the world, and has been for millennia. In fact, your editor can recall a course in his days as a classics major: Sport in the Ancient World.<br />
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But cricket itself is one of the more complex and nuanced games. For those interested, there's an entire <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_cricket_terms" target="_blank">glossary of cricket terms</a> to help familiarize yourself with the sport.<br />
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Grave Matters

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Sherlock Holmes owed much to Edgar Allan Poe's detective, the <b>Chevalier Auguste Dupin</b>, though he didn't like to admit it. "You remind me of Dupin," Watson tells him in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>, only to receive the arrogant reply that "In my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow." <br />
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Arthur Conan Doyle, creating the bumptious young Holmes as he wrote <i>A Study in Scarlet</i> in 1886, obviously had read Poe's detective tales (the first of them being "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," 1841) and been influenced by them. His most famous acknowledgement of that debt came in 1912 in the snappish verse "To an Undiscerning Critic," where he admitted Holmes's disdain for Dupin but maintained his own admiration for Poe:<br />
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Conan Doyle had more to say about his debt to Poe in other contexts, particularly his 1907 book <i>Through the Magic Door</i>, where he labels Poe "the supreme original short story writer of all time" and his tales of Dupin the source of all the detective stories that have followed. <i>Through the Magic Door</i> was based on a series of articles about writers that Doyle produced in 1894, under the title "Before My Bookcase," but it is interesting to note that his comments on Poe are entirely new. The 1894 series made no mention of his supposed master at all.<br />
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Those articles were published in May and June of 1894, and a few weeks later Doyle was on his way to America, where he carried out an intensive lecture tour. My book about that tour, and the places and people Doyle encountered, appeared in 1987 under the title <i><a href="https://www.dundurn.com/books/welcome-america-mr-sherlock-holmes" target="_blank">Welcome to America, Mr. Sherlock Holmes</a></i>, and contains a mass of information — much of it, I believe, reasonably accurate.<br />
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I had no reason to think the chapter about the events of November 6, 1894, was any less accurate than the rest of the book, until I received an email message from a Baltimore historian, <b>Fred Shoken</b>, who delicately asked what evidence I had for that part of my narrative, since he hadn't been able to find any in the newspapers where it might have been expected.<br />
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According to my chapter, November 6 — which was also Election Day — was the day Arthur Conan Doyle visited Baltimore, presumably to deliver the same lecture ("Readings and Reminiscences") that he had been giving in cities up and down the eastern United States, including Washington the night before. In addition, I wrote at some length, Doyle paid a visit to the grave of Edgar Allan Poe at the Westminster Burying Ground on West Fayette Street. <br />
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Such events would surely have been mentioned in the papers, as Doyle's doings were publicized wherever he went during that tour. But the <i>Sun</i> (still Baltimore's chief newspaper) and the <i>American </i>(whose successor ceased publication in 1986) made no reference to the distinguished British visitor, as Shoken pointed out to me. Naturally I hoped I had based my chapter on a report in some other newspaper that Shoken had simply overlooked.<br />
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No such luck. I consulted my files from the 1980s, made up mostly of correspondence with newspapers and local historians, and slick, faded prints from microfilm. (You're not familiar with microfilm? Oh, you're from a younger generation of researchers than I am.) For the past decade or more, it would have been hard for me to consult these records, because many of my files have been in a storage unit, but in preparation for the 300-mile move to my new home, I got everything out and organized, so the relevant file was easy to find. And what do you know: no newspaper references at all to a Baltimore visit by Conan Doyle.<br />
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I reread the chapter I had written, and began to realize that it was phrased very vaguely. Clearly I assumed that there had been a Baltimore visit and a Baltimore lecture, but I avoided saying so explicitly because I had no confirmation and certainly no details. As for the pilgrimage to Poe's grave — well, where did I get that idea exactly? <br />
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I still don't know, and there seems to be no evidence of it. It just feels like one of those things I've always known. In fact I turned confidently to Conan Doyle's autobiography, <i>Memories and Adventures</i>, sure that I would find a description of such a visit. Nothing. <i>Our American Adventure</i>, reporting on a later (1922) lecture tour, talks about the Poe cottage in Fordham, New York, but says nothing about Baltimore and the grave. I am beginning to think that Conan Doyle never did visit that crowded, run-down little cemetery where the inventor of the detective story found his last resting place.<br />
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Scones and Bones on Baker Street

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If you know a young person that you’d like to introduce to Sherlock Holmes, but they aren’t quite ready for murderous hounds stalking the moor, then there's a different dog that they should meet.  Digby, a lovable street dog in Victorian London, is the main character of Brenda Seabrooke’s new novel, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Scones-Bones-Street-Sherlocks-Dilemma/dp/1537352814" target="_blank">Scones and Bones on Baker Street, Sherlock’s Dog (Maybe!) and the Dirt Dilemma</a></i>.<br />
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Digby is a dog living on the streets in London and looking for something to eat when he crosses paths with Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.  After helping the famous duo with an exciting adventure at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum, Digby decides that he wants to become a watchdog and helper for the great detective.  Although Holmes is not interested in having a street dog, or any dog for that matter, living at Baker Street, Doctor Watson and Mrs. Hudson prove to be more welcoming.  Digby soon finds himself following Holmes and Watson through the events of “The Adventure of the Red-Headed League” while striving to change Holmes’ mind about having a dog around.  As Digby would say, the game is apaw.  <br />
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This book follows the familiar tale from the dog’s point of view, an interesting take on a case well known to most of us.  But the target audience for this book is young readers.  By making the main character a lovable dog, young readers are sure to enjoy Digby’s adventures in London.  Digby’s blunders with Holmes and Watson while in a restaurant and a violin concert are sure to please.<br />
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The text is written at an accessible level for second to fourth graders, and most words or phrases that could be confusing to the reader are explained in footnotes on the page.  <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Scones-Bones-Street-Sherlocks-Dilemma/dp/1537352814" target="_blank">Scones and Bones on Baker Street</a></i> is less than 150 pages with over 20 full page illustrations meant to please the young reader.  This would be a welcome addition to the book collection of any budding Sherlockian, dog lover, history fan, or lover of a good story.<br />
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Baker Street Elementary — Hidden Meaning

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Language is one of the things that binds us together as a society. Words mean something. Although we're constantly observing language changing right before our eyes, from new words being introduced (as always) and even more visual elements being introduced (such as emjoi).<br />
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But one of the most vexing things about the English language, aside from the spelling and pronunciation of certain parts of speech, must be the existence of homophones and homonyms. If you thought these words were interchangeable, the short answer is that they're not.<br />
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<b>Homonyms</b> are words which have the same spelling and pronunciation, but have different meanings. <b>Homophones</b> are words which have the same pronunciation, but different spellings and meanings. Homographs are words that are spelled the same, but have different pronunciations and meanings.<br />
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The boys at Baker Street Elementary are still learning a thing or two about the language, and this lesson comes not from their English or Language Arts teacher, but from Sherlock Holmes himself...<br />
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Baker Street Elementary — Hidden Meaning

"What's the meaning of this?" [DYIN] Language is one of the things that binds us together as a society. Words mean som...

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by Scott Monty

Interview: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Mycroft Holmes and the Apocalypse Handbook

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's novel <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Mycroft-Holmes-Kareem-Abdul-Jabbar/dp/1783291540/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497390883&sr=8-1&keywords=KAREEM+ABDUL+JABBAR+MYCROFT"><i>Mycroft Holmes</i></a> was a huge hit when it was released in 2015.  He spoke with Scott and Burt on <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose81" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 81</a> of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, where he shared his early exposure to the stories and his favorites therein. [<i><b>Editor's note:</b> if you haven't listened to his interview yet, we highly recommend it.</i>]<br />
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Abdul-Jabbar's Mycroft Holmes returned in comic book form last year with a five-issue limited run titled "Mycroft Holmes and the Apocalypse Handbook." The five issues have been collected into <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Mycroft-Holmes-Apocalypse-Handbook-Abdul-Jabbar/dp/1785853007/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1497390883&sr=8-2&keywords=KAREEM+ABDUL+JABBAR+MYCROFT" target="_blank">a graphic novel set to come out in September</a>. I had a chance to interview Kareem about his interest in Mycroft and what made him take Sherlock's smarter brother to the world of comic books.<br />
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 I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere: What drew you to the character of Mycroft Holmes?</h3>
<b>Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: </b>People have been writing Sherlock Holmes stories for over a hundred years. I wanted to approach it from another angle, one that was still fairly unknown. Mycroft is a mystery, so writing a mystery about Mycroft is a mystery within a mystery. I got to imagine his origin story and personality with only the slightest clues from Conan Doyle. I especially liked the idea that he was smarter than Holmes and applied his gifts in the service of his government.</div>
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<b>KAJ:</b> Anna Waterhouse, who co-wrote the novels, and Raymond Obstfeld, who co-wrote the comic book series, are actually friends. They are both college professors with long careers in writing movies and books. Anna’s penchant for evoking the historic era made her a natural choice for the novel. And Raymond’s encyclopedic knowledge of and passion for graphic novels made him an easy choice.<br />
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 IHOSE: In this series, Mycroft Holmes is much more the man of adventure than he is in the Conan Doyle stories. This story line is more of an adventure than your Mycroft novel, also.  What drew you to the action genre for this character?</h3>
<b>KAJ:</b> In a novel, you have more time to build the subtleties of character and plot that you don’t have in a graphic novel. The graphic novel lends itself more to the visual adventure. Plus, having already imagined Mycroft as one kind of character, I was intrigued by the possibility of presenting him as an entirely different kind of character—a rogue and adventurer. The more I thought about that, the more fun I had with his character.<br />
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IHOSE: You are an author who is constantly trying out <a href="https://kareemabduljabbar.com/books/">new genres in hiswriting</a>. Was that the impetus behind telling this story in a comic book format? How did you decide to make Mycroft a comic book hero?</h3>
<b>KAJ:</b> Writing a comic book is much more like writing a sonnet than writing a novel. You are limited by how many panels you can get on a page and you are limited to 22 pages in an issue. So everything you do, from the image you select to the dialogue must be precise and serve a purpose. There’s no room for indulgence that you sometimes get in a novel. I also think that the comic book, like most popular culture, is on the forefront of revealing what our values are as a society. Mycroft is pretty much the same as a Millennial right now, trying to figure out what he stands for and what he wants to do about it.<br />
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IHOSE: With this being your second outing with Mycroft Holmes, what were the big changes to the storytelling process you had to address with changing from the medium of a novel to a comic book?</h3>
<b>KAJ:</b> As I said, precision is the greatest challenge. But that’s also what made the process so exciting. I wanted to tell a large sweeping story that spanned continents, included steampunk elements, had real historic figures, and was a combination of an Indiana Jones and James Bond adventure.<br />
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IHOSE: Being the history buff that you are, how much of an influence did historical research play in this story?</h3>
<b>KAJ:</b> A lot of research went into every page, from the opening scene at the British Museum to details about Queen Victoria and Jesse James, to the chemicals science in some of the weapons.<br />
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<b>KAJ:</b> We see Sherlock in person and in flashbacks when they were children. Sherlock is still just a college student when he appears, but there is fierce competitiveness between them. Where Sherlock has isolated himself from the world by abstaining from its pleasures, Mycroft has isolated himself by overindulging in its pleasures. Where Sherlock feels less, Mycroft feels too much and has to steel himself. Neither fits in because their brains won’t let them. But Mycroft feels it’s his responsibility to imbue some sense of humanity in his brother and that makes for some touching moments between them.<br />
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IHOSE: In both of your stories so far, Mycroft finds himself travelling the world.  First to Trinidad, and now in America. When you envisioned these stories, did you plan on him being a globetrotter or did that come about later after you developed him? And what made you think to put him in the American west this time?</h3>
<b>KAJ:</b> I always wanted him to travel the world in order to have him react to the different locales. Getting his take on these exotic locations is fun and informational and adds a level of entertainment to the mysteries. I loved the idea of Mycroft in the American West just to see how he would handle himself. He sees himself as a bit of a rogue, but when he comes face to face will real rogues, he sees himself in a whole new light.<br />
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IHOSE: In your novel, Cyrus Douglas acts as Mycroft’s moral compass. With this story taking place before the novel, Cyrus is absent in the comics. We learn early on that Mycroft is not the most moral of characters. Did you ever find yourself letting Mycroft becoming too much of a cad while you were writing this story?</h3>
<b>KAJ:</b> Not at all. We add struggle between the base impulses of our ids and the divine leanings of the superego. Stories of redemption are much more interesting because there’s always suspense about whether the character will make choices based on his roguish nature or desire to be better.<br />
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<b>KAJ:</b> I wanted them to embody pure reason, and religion is not a choice of reason but of faith, which by definition excludes reason. Faith means to believe in something for which there is no evidence. Many people, including myself, find a way to balance faith and reason, but the Holmes brothers cannot make that leap of faith.<br />
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<b>KAJ:</b> Reason and curiosity requires that one explore all religions before either selecting one or dismissing them altogether. The Holmes brothers are influenced by strong sense of human decency, which can be found in all the world’s major religions.<br />
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<b>KAJ:</b> Fun. I want the reader to have a lot of fun with the story and imagining these devices added a level of surprise. Each issue the reader wonders what amazing device will appear next—at least I hope so.<br />
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<b>KAJ:</b> There’s definitely more to the story. That relationship with [that character (name redacted)] will be revealed in future issues.<br />
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<b>KAJ:</b> Not really. Each has its own challenges and rewards. When I’m writing the novel, I’m very excited and passionate about that format. When I’m writing the comic book, I’m just as excited and passionate about that format.<br />
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Episode 122: Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce

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Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Their names are forever linked, just as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are. And it is their remarkable seven-year collaboration that we discuss in this episode.<br />
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You've seen their likenesses in still photos. You've probably heard their voices in audio recordings. And you've had a chance to see their films from the late 1930s and early 1940s, whether in the theater, as a Saturday afternoon matinee on television, public TV pledge drive, or perhaps on a DVD or on YouTube.<br />
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The point is this: regardless of your level of fondness or distaste for this pairing, they remain iconic and inextricably linked to their portrayals of the world's greatest detective and his medical companion. Yes, it was Nigel Bruce's version of Dr. Watson that was called <i>boobus Britannicus</i>, but it seemed to fit with the times and with the air of the series.<br />
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We take you on a journey from their initial outing in <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i> and <i>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</i> in 1939 at 20th Century Fox, to their radio drama collaboration under Edith Meiser and later Anthony Boucher, and through the 12-film series under the Universal banner. Audio clips from the films and the radio show are included as we All of these portrayals left a permanent mark on their careers as well as on the world of Sherlock Holmes.<br />
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7:15 Sponsor: Wessex Press<br />
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10:56 The Collaboration begins<br />
17:56 The Adventures<br />
26:30 Off to radio-land<br />
31:35 Universal steps in after negotiating with the Conan Doyle Estate<br />
35:44 The Voice of Terror<br />
42:44 The Secret Weapon<br />
50:12 Sherlock Holmes in Washington<br />
55:17 Sherlock Holmes Faces Death<br />
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1:03:13 The Spider Woman<br />
1:06:03 The Scarlet Claw and the BSI Trilogy Dinner<br />
1:08:35 The Pearl of Death<br />
1:11:52 The House of Fear<br />
1:13:37 The Woman in Green<br />
1:18:24 Pursuit to Algiers<br />
1:20:50 Terror by Night<br />
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<li><a href="https://amzn.to/40ZKQPW">The Complete Collection of Sherlock Holmes on Blu-Ray</a> (Amazon)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.oldradioworld.com/shows/Sherlock_Holmes.php">The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</a> on radio</li>
<li>Our <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose36" target="_blank">interview with Michael Hoey</a>, son of Dennis Hoey.</li>
<li>Rathbone's autobiography <i><a href="https://amzn.to/40ZKQPW">In and Out of Character</a></i></li>
<li><a href="http://basilrathbone.net/">BasilRathbone.net</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.basilrathbone.net/biography/wsvisit.htm">Rathbone's visit to the Wayne Campus</a></li>
<li><a href="https://get.google.com/albumarchive/118245811686959745462/album/AF1QipNzwkad4u21tYW4pvgYgde4bHvch7OC5gVv3E30/AF1QipNrsYeokTobXvnkTrHhwNeLXpYWTn_p1V6WLMnM">An interview with Pauline Page</a>, daughter of Nigel Bruce, by Nicholas Utechin for the <i><a href="http://www.sherlock-holmes.org.uk/category/journal/">Sherlock Holmes Journal</a></i>, concerning Bruce's unpublished autobiography <i>Games, Gossip and Greasepaint</i>.<br />
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Episode 122: Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce

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Happy 125th Birthday, Basil Rathbone

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On June 13, 1892, Philip St. John Basil Rathbone was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He entered the world at a time when Sherlock Holmes was making a name for himself in the <i>Strand Magazine</i>, specifically in "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches." Little did he or his parents realize that he would go on to become one of the most famous portrayers of Sherlock Holmes on the screen.<br />
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He attended <a href="http://www.repton.org.uk/" target="_blank">Repton</a> from 1906 to 1910, and by the time he left school, he was convinced he wanted to make a life for himself in the theatre. After spending some time in local theatrical productions, he entered war service in 1916, where he continued to hone his acting skills, albeit as more of a stationary object. According to <a href="http://www.basilrathbone.net/biography/" target="_blank">BasilRathbone.net</a>, Rathbone told Edward R. Murrow in a 1957 interview:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"> "I went to my commanding officer and I said that I thought we'd get a great deal more information from the enemy if we didn't fool around in the dark so much . . . and I asked him whether I could go out in daylight. I think he thought we were a little crazy. . . .  I said we'd go out camouflaged -- made up as trees -- with branches sticking out of our heads and arms . . . . We brought back an awful lot of information, and a few prisoners, too."</span></blockquote>
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Rathbone eventually moved from England to the United States, settling in New York in 1923 and then moving on to Hollywood in 1935. His <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001651/?ref_=tt_cl_t4" target="_blank">Hollywood years</a> brought him fame in <i>Captain Blood</i> and <i>The Adventures of Robin Hood</i>, where he became known as an able swordsman and a fine villain. And it was in 1938 when he joined forces with Nigel Bruce for a collaboration that lasted from 1939 to 1946 as the most <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/search/label/Basil%20Rathbone#.WT8SS2grLb0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">enduring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson</a> to grace the screen.<br />
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Rathbone left the role of Sherlock Holmes in 1946, fearful of typecasting (he was correct, of course, but too late). His wife Ouida wrote a stage play, "Sherlock Holmes," in 1953, but it closed after poor reviews and only three performances. He made a handful of middle-rate movies in the 1960s, toured in the one-man play "An Evening with Basil Rathbone," and wrote his biography <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Out-Character-Basil-Rathbone/dp/0879101199" target="_blank">In and Out of Character</a></i>, which was published in 1962.<br />
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While Holmes purists may find something to quibble about in the later 12 films of the 14-film series that Rathbone and Bruce made, it's clear that they continue to be accessible and popular. Every generation has its own Sherlock Holmes. But since the 1940s, it seems that every generation has been exposed to Rathbone's Holmes.<br />
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Happy 125th Birthday, Basil Rathbone

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if the first to attempt to decrypt this recently rediscovered secret diary
was by Mycroft's younger brother, Sherlock Holmes. One wonders if Sherlock
may have succeeded, but finding so much of it was devoted to his impecunious existence, discontinued his efforts. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you have ever
wondered what a day in Mycroft Holmes' life was like, this well written and
pleasant read is for you. At work, Mycroft suffers from the attentions of an
overly interested cleaning lady and interacts with his eccentric coworkers. In
those times, as in these, he worries about the new administration and
the security of his employment. He even faces a cut in his pay.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">Mycroft is a benefactor
to his financially insolvent younger brother, and worries about Sherlock's future in
his chosen profession. As to his unique profession, Sherlock refers to his
calling as a "trade" in an attempt to irritate his older brother. They interacted often
before Sherlock established himself, with Sherlock irritating members of
Mycroft's Diogenes Club in various ways. Their short stints of rooming together
do not go well. Their shared deductive powers are in the background as they
discuss Sherlock's prospects, their different approaches to money, and become
embroiled in the antics of their extended family. Given the colorful Holmes family
members, it is understandable that Sherlock would not desire to see them included in Dr.
Watson's tales. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The diary
progresses irregularly through events from 1880 to 1888, skipping weeks, then
months, then years. Thankful Mycroft chose to record the events that occurred during
the period of Sherlock Holmes' life prior to meeting Dr. John H. Watson. We
find out about where Sherlock was living, his financial situation and the
events leading to his finding digs in Baker Street. Mycroft offers some
details of Sherlock's cases, but never enough to offer solutions to their disputed dates. Later, Mycroft puts pen to journal to record the
first publication of <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>, and documents his
meeting Dr. Watson, both informally and formally.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">S.F. Bennett
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Mycroft's insights about his life and his younger brother are enlightening and
entertaining. Mycroft's observations and his proof that Sherlock has found
a friend in Dr. Watson will be enjoyable to all devoted fans. </span><br />
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Remembering Peter Sallis

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The actor Peter Sallis <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40165443" target="_blank">has passed away</a> at the age of 96.<br />
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Sallis was best known in the UK for his role as Norman "Cleggy" Clegg in <i>Last of the Summer Wine</i> from its first episode in 1973 until the series concluded in 2010. He was the only actor who appeared on every one of the 295 episodes.<br />
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Internationally — and cross-generationally — he was better known as the voice of Wallace, the cheese lover and inventor, in the Wallace and Gromit animated films by Nick Park.<br />
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But in the world of Sherlock Holmes, Peter Sallis will forever hold our imagination and admiration for his turn as Dr. Watson in the stage production of <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Musical-Adventure-Sherlock-Original-Broadway/dp/B000CQQGVE?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Baker Street</a></i> in 1965. The Jerome Coopersmith / Ray Jessel musical starred Fritz Weaver as Sherlock Holmes, Martin Gable as Professor Moriarty, and Inga Swenson as Irene Adler.<br />
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We interviewed <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2016/11/remembering-fritz-weaver.html#.WTW29GgrLb0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fritz Weaver</a> and spoke with him about his experience in the <i>Baker Street</i> in <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose26" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 26</a> of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere:<br />
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Of all of the audio clips we played from the soundtrack, we did not have an opportunity to play Sallis's signature number as Watson, "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwVwhqUjZOQ" target="_blank">A Married Man</a>." In this emotional number, Watson recalls his life before meeting his beloved Mary, their life together, and then his eventual status as a widower:<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sallis" target="_blank">Peter Sallis</a> had a long and varied career on the stage, television and film. And astute listeners and followers of the BBC Radio adaptation of Sherlock Holmes (ref. <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose68" target="_blank">Episode 68</a> and <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose69" target="_blank">Episode 69</a> with Bert Coules) may recall Sallis as Jonas Oldacre in "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder" with Clive Merrison as Sherlock Holmes and Michael Williams as Dr. Watson.<br />
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Sallis stopped performing in 2010 after he gradually lost his sight due to macular degeneration. We had asked his manager for assistance in having Sallis on as a guest on IHOSE, but he graciously declined. Even so, we're fortunate to have a record of Sallis's performances in the instances mentioned above.<br />
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Baker Street Elementary — Pigeon-Holed

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If you're not into cryptography, codes can be vexing. In all fairness, that's what they're designed to do. And we know of a number of times that codes or ciphers are used in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Indeed, in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men," Holmes himself tells us<br />
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But when the uninitiated are on the other end of a code, cracking that code can seem a nearly impossible task. Of course, the creator of the code likely thinks its foolproof, as Abe Slaney did in DANC. But Holmes reminded him that there's always a way: "What one man can invent, another can discover."<br />
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Young Wiggins, Watson and Holmes find out quite the same thing...<br />
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Baker Street Elementary — Pigeon-Holed

"In that great brain of his everything is pigeonholed" [BRUC] If you're not into cryptography, codes can be vexing. In...

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Trifling Issues in June

Baker Street Elementary — Corridors of Uncertainty

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Grave Matters

Scones and Bones on Baker Street

Baker Street Elementary — Hidden Meaning

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Happy 125th Birthday, Basil Rathbone

The Secret Diary of Mycroft Holmes – A Review

Remembering Peter Sallis

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