I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere

Henry Ward Beecher and Dr. Watson

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<b>"but now your thoughts went back to Beecher..." [CARD] </b></h4>
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The opening of "The Cardboard Box" and later repeated in "The Resident Patient," are known to Sherlockians as "the mind-reading incident." Sherlock Holmes observes Dr. Watson for some minutes and in explaining his train of reasoning, describes how Watson stared at the photograph of clergyman and social reformer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ward_Beecher" target="_blank">Henry Ward Beecher</a>:<br />
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"But now your thoughts went back to Beecher, and you looked hard across as if you were studying the character in his features. Then your eyes ceased to pucker, but you continued to look across, and your face was thoughtful. You were recalling the incidents of Beecher's career. I was well aware that you could not do this without thinking of the mission which he undertook on behalf of the North at the time of the Civil War, for I remember your expressing your passionate indignation at the way in which he was received by the more turbulent of our people."</blockquote>
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A modern biography, titled <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2SzNkRg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Henry Ward Beecher: The Most Famous Man in America</a></i>, shows how Beecher was a superstar of his day. He managed to insert himself into many important issues of the day in America: anti-slavery and women's suffrage movements, the rise of the tabloid press and entertainment industry, and controversies from Darwinism to presidential politics.<br />
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So how was it that John H. Watson, M.D., late of the Army Medical Department, held Beecher in such high esteem? Watson was a stalwart defender of honor, and seeing a man ridiculed for his deeply-held beliefs must have irked him.<br />
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Was it the outrage over Beecher's adulterous affair with one of his most devout parishioners that set off the good doctor? Perhaps John "Three Continents" Watson felt a twinge of sympathy for this Lothario.<br />
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In a two-part episode of <a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/" target="_blank"><b>Trifles</b></a>, we had a discussion about Watson's early years, with—for the first time ever on that show—a special guest lecturer. Be sure to subscribe there for a weekly update of discussion topics.<br />
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What was the deeply-held connection between Dr. Watson and Henry Ward Beecher? Stay tuned.<br />
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<i>Image credit: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Ward_Beecher_(Boston_Public_Library).jpg" target="_blank">Henry Ward Beecher</a> (public domain - Boston Public Library, Wikimedia Commons)</i><br />
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Henry Ward Beecher and Dr. Watson

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Gillette Castle Needs Your Help

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<b>"Heaps of loose masonry" [SHOS]</b></h4>
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The gem of Gillette Castle State Park in East Haddam, Connecticut is the quirky and stately Gillette Castle.<br />
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The park and its manor house are both named for the original owner of the estate, actor and playwright <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2018/04/remembering-william-gillette.html#.XTnu6OhKjb0">William Gillette</a>. Gillette gained worldwide fame as a portrayer of Sherlock Holmes in his own play by the same name—a play for which he sought Arthur Conan Doyle's permission to take liberties with great detective, as quoted in Vincent Starrett's <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2SDb1Z7">The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes</a></i>:<br />
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"May I marry Holmes?" Gillette inquired. </blockquote>
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Doyle replied with resigned detachment, "You may marry him, or murder him, or do what you like with him."</blockquote>
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Gillette Castle is as unique as the man himself. Gillette put in secret doors, special hard-carved locking mechanisms, and surrounded the property with a special narrow-gauge railroad. In recent years, Baker Street Irregulars Tyke ("The Man on the Tor") and Teddie ("Carina") Niver have become William and Helen Gillette, and have welcomed visitors to the Castle. You can find their story on <b><a href="https://ihose.co/ihose126">Episode 126</a></b>.<br />
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<b>The current situation</b></h2>
A correspondent has informed us that things at the Castle are not quite so rosy any more. In fact, "things are fairly dire up at the Castle. The old stone heap needs repairs and a person to replace Phil Yuris who did his best to keep it from falling down these last years."<br />
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Our correspondent also reminds us:<br />
"It’s 100 years old now, and the Friends [of Gillette Castle] want to give a birthday party for it, Roaring Twenties style, but they need some sponsors."<br />
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"The State of Connecticut doesn’t seem to be exhibiting any great pride in one of its chief theatrical landmarks, as far as chipping in to keep it standing up..."<br />
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Gillette's last will and testament was clear about his fears of the estate being mismanaged:<br />
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"I would consider it more than unfortunate for me – should I find myself doomed, after death, to a continued consciousness of the behavior of mankind on this planet – to discover that the stone walls and towers and fireplaces of my home… my railway line with its bridges, trestles, and tunnels… my locomotives and cars…that these and many other things of a like nature should reveal themselves to me as in the possession of some <b><i>blithering saphead</i></b> who had no conception of where he is or with what surrounded."</blockquote>
It's hard to think of an industry other than government that is consistently filled with "blithering sapheads," but here we are.<br />
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<b>What you can do</b></h2>
We'd like to see this movement gain traction, because while the I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere audience is significant, we need more people to take action.<br />
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The first thing you can do is to become a member of <b><a href="https://www.gillettecastlefriends.org/membership" target="_blank">The Friends of Gillette Castle</a></b>. You can determine what level of giving works for you, but it's as low as $10. You'll get newletters, invitations to events, a discount at the gift shop, and more. Please consider <a href="https://www.gillettecastlefriends.org/membership" target="_blank">becoming a Friend</a>.<br />
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The second thing you can do is to <b>share this update</b>. Email, social network, carrier pigeon—however you choose. We need people to see this and to care about William Gillette's legacy.<br />
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Here's hoping we can overcome the disinterest and neglect.<br />
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Doyle and the Great Authors of English Literature

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<b>"He would talk of nothing but art, of which he had the crudest ideas" [HOUN] </b></h4>
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Nils Clausson, to paraphrase the autobiographical blurb on the back of his latest book, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Regina, Canada, specializing in Victorian and early 20th-century British literature, and has written extensively on detective fiction, fin-de-siècle aestheticism, genre theory and many of the authors of that era.<br />
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<i><a href="https://amzn.to/2ljJfnC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arthur Conan Doyle’s Art of Fiction: A Revaluation</a></i> is Clausson’s attempt to take Doyle out of the sub-literary category of genre fiction by not reading him through the lens of Foucault, Marx, Derrida, Freud or other literary theorists, which find nothing but faults which cannot explain Doyle’s and Sherlock Holmes’ enduring popularity, but through the lens “of literary criticism, unfashionable as that may be today.”<br />
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Clausson does not cover the whole of Doyle’s oeuvre or life but confines himself “to his best works, those that reveal his art of fiction,” including the Holmes stories. He dissuades the reader of the commonly posited notion that Holmes’ adventures are an optimistic Victorian view of the power of positive science.<br />
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"No, the stories do not reflect the power of positivist science. Holmes does. This is the view Holmes takes of himself, frequently endorsed by Watson, who in the first tale, A Study in Scarlet, proclaims that Holmes has ‘brought deduction as near an exact science as it ever will be brought in the world’ (SiS 36). A close reading of the stories reveals that all the science in them, as opposed to scientific posturing, can be written on both sides of one of Holmes’s index cards. Through a bifurcated narrative structure that combines a solvable puzzle with an insoluble mystery, the best Holmes stories critique Holmes’s science of deduction and analysis." (p. xiv)</blockquote>
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[Clausson uses his own abbreviating system for Doyle’s’ stories which takes some getting used to for the Sherlockian raised on Jay Findley Christ’s four letter abbreviations. SiS = STUD = <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>] </blockquote>
Clausson demonstrates the puzzle/mystery duality in the first chapter with "The Cardboard Box." The puzzle of who sent Susan Cushing a cardboard box with two human ears by post is quickly solved by Holmes. “The words clear/clearing up and simple occur ten times in the story, eight of them by Holmes,” Clausson points out. But "The Cardboard Box"<br />
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"conforms to a pattern that is repeated again and again not only in the Holmes stories but in Conan Doyle’s gothic tales as well: a manifest mystery, which is rally a puzzle, counterpointed with a latent mystery that Holmes’s much vaunted science of deduction and analysis in incapable of fathoming, and in some stories one that Holmes is not even aware of. The ending of ‘The Cardboard Box’ does not, as might be expected of a conventional detective story, restore equilibrium by securing justice (although the murderer is arrested and will certainly be punished), but rather plunges Holmes and the reader into a new, unexpected state of disequilibrium."  (pp. 35-6)</blockquote>
That mystery is Jim Browner’s confession, whose grizzly crime is committed by a rather sympathetic figure tormented by his crime; a reformed alcoholic, who, along with his wife Mary, is cruelly manipulated by his jealous sister-in-law Sarah. When Browner spurns Sarah’s advances, Sarah guides Mary into an affair with another sailor. Browner breaks his blue ribbon, that is falls off the wagon, and follows the lovers to New Brighton where they rent a boat to paddle out to sea. Browner follows suit. A fog forms and to Browner it seems that Providence has lent a hand in his quest for violent revenge.<br />
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"For the victims of this crime are not entirely innocent. In this story, as in the two stories mentioned in it by Holmes, Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, moral (as opposed to strictly legal) guilt is clouded in a ‘haze’ of ambiguity. The contrast between Holmes’s confident use of the world clear—‘nothing could be more clear’—and Browner’s later, twice repeated use of ‘haze’ in his narrative provides a clue for understanding the moral complexity and ambiguity of the story. Guilt is rarely simple in the Holmes stories." (p. 39)</blockquote>
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This, then, is the mystery that Holmes fails to solve and that Doyle wants the read to contemplate:<br />
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“What is the meaning of it, Watson?” said Holmes, solemnly, as he laid down the paper. “What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.”</blockquote>
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In chapter five, Clausson reads BLUE, SIXN, and REDH as “double-coded narratives—at once popular and literary—about the fate of art and the artist in a society of mass-marketed popular fiction of the sort that appeared in the Strand and its competitors.” Sherlockians know that Doyle held the popular Holmes stories in low regard and felt they kept the spotlight away from what he regarded as his serious work. Clausson marshals the evidence that when one looks beyond these adventures as formulaic detective stories and read them within the historical and cultural debates of the popular and literary in fin-de-siècle aestheticism, that Doyle devised an artistically complex and sophisticated form that works within the popular and transcends it.<br />
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Clausson also shatters those literary critics who only see Holmes as defender of Victorian middle-class values and protector of social order or Doyle as defender of the white privileged British Empire. Many is the time, more so than Clausson actually points out, that Holmes eschews helping the police or lets the criminal go free. <i>The Sign of the Four</i>, instead of holding up West over East values, shows white English Empire defender such as Major Sholto acting less honorably than criminal Small and the Muslim members of the Four; or as in the savagely anti-colonial satire that is <i>The Lost World</i>.<br />
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Clausson reminds us that readers today come to <i>A Study in Scarlet</i> expecting a detective story come away distracted by its twin stories, while reviews at the time had no problem with its structure “Reviews were predominantly favourable.” (p. 53) The detective story was in its nascent form in 1887 and readers had few expectations. Clausson drops genre expectations and reads STUD as Doyle intended it to be read before the form of the Holmes short stories were formulated, as a unified whole. Clausson sees it as Doyle combining genres, the detective story, the crime story and the Gothic tale, with “The Country of the Saints” section a crime story (with a criminal/hero protagonist as Patricia Highsmith might write) and the Gothic tale (specifically Thomas De Quincey’s “The Avenger”). <br />
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"The generic hybridity of Conan Doyle’s novella suggests that its focus is as much on the moral ambiguity of guilt, vengeance and justice as it is on detection. When [STUD] is approached as a hybrid crime-detective story about guilt, justice and revenge, rather than a failed ratiocinative detective story, the double narrative structure ceases to be an artistic flaw and becomes a form integral to its artistic success." (p. 58)</blockquote>
The second half is a revenge tragedy with Jefferson Hope a hero who must exact justice for John Ferrier and his adopted daughter Lucy when the law cannot, as in corrupt (and wholly fictional) Utah past or an out-of-jurisdiction London present. The novella contrasts the obsessed Hope who believes in the justness of his cause (Providence guides the hand of the guilty in choosing the correct pill in his trial-by-poison) and Holmes’ obsession in the intellectual puzzle solving through science and analysis. Again, the duality of the mystery/puzzle presented in the two halves shows Holmes easily solving the puzzle of who killed the visiting Mormons but not the why of how the crimes came to be. <br />
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In fact, the events of  “The Country of the Saints” section is unknown to Holmes and Watson, and Holmes show a distinct  disinterest in finding it out, leaving the reader with more knowledge than Holmes and able to judge the scope of events in a way that calls into question Holmes’ reliance on science. Both SIGN and HOUN in their individual chapters benefit from Clausson’s close reading.<br />
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Many of Clausson’s chapters were published earlier in slight different form in various journals and tighter editing would have help in making the necessary repetitions between chapters less <i>repetitious</i>. It may also have caught the errors of calling Jim Browner <i>John</i> Browner, attributing a piece of writing to <i>Holmes</i> instead of Doyle, or in comparing "The Noble Bachelor" with "The Man with the Twisted Lip," referring to Lady St. Simon as Lady St. <i>Clair</i>.  Worse there are dozens of typographical errors, from having “Lustrade” and “Lestrade” uncaught mere words away from each other to missing open or close quotes or missing open or close parentheses or the occasional missing period. Even titles such as <i>A Life in Letters</i> and "Lot No. 249" are <i>A Life in Letter</i> and "Lost No. 249." I'm not sure what happened to the scholars at Cambridge Scholars, but for <a href="https://amzn.to/2ljJfnC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">$72.11 at Amazon</a>, I expect more academic rigor and do not want to be part of the crowdsourcing of a corrected second edition.<br />
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Clausson sums up Chapter One “The Conan Doyle Problem” this way:<br />
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"Most readers evince the same predictable response to the Holmes stories as to detective stories generally: they know what they are going to find in them and so they never fail to find it. If, however, we read ‘The Cardboard Box’—and the rest of Conan Doyle’s fiction—alert to signs of formal artistry, moral ambiguity, and intellectual depth, then we will have no more difficulty finding these qualities in it than we do in, say, James Joyce’s Dubliners (even if we still think Joyce is the better fiction writer). It can be debated just how good Conan Doyle is, but I see no way that any discriminating and discerning critic cannot but conclude he is more than a teller of tales, a master of genre fiction….The fact that the Holmes stories are still read by legions of appreciative readers and that even new historicists and cultural materialists write about them, rather than the deservedly forgotten stories featuring the rivals of Sherlock Holmes (as several out-of-print collections dub them), suggests that Conan Doyle’s stories may in fact possess some value beyond providing recreational diversion to casual readers or documentary evidence for cultural historians. Despite the ‘death of the author,’ Conan Doyle still, it would seem, has more cachet than Jacques Futrelle. The obvious reason is that whereas the author of ‘The Problem of Cell 13’ gives us nothing but the clever solution to a manufactured puzzle, Conan Doyle gives us works of art." (p. 49)</blockquote>
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This is how I’ve seen Doyle, first intuitively for many years (Doyle is good, but, really, more than good) but gradually coming to the conscious realization that Doyle is a great writer. I’m sure I’m not alone; that many Sherlockians have felt various versions of that thought. </div>
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It’s nice to have Clausson confirm my thoughts and lay out the evidence for Doyle’s rescue from “popular author” in the sub-literary basement to his place in in the canon of English Literature. More, Canonical Sherlockians and Doyleans will find much to mull over and digest in this very readable (aside from its many typos) work.<br />
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Doyle and the Great Authors of English Literature

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Billie Eilish — Inspired by Sherlock

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This maybe old news to some but I caught the video to Billie Eilish's song "You  Should See Me In A Crown" on Friday, June 7, and the lyrics and video imagery seemed partially  inspired by BBC <i>Sherlock's</i> "Reichenbach Fall" episode. Sure enough, in the time it takes to type "billie eilish you should see me in a crown bbc sherlock" into Google and read <a href="https://genius.com/a/billie-eilish-s-new-single-you-should-see-me-in-a-crown-is-inspired-by-an-episode-of-bbc-s-sherlock">the first item listed</a>, my hunch was confirmed.<br />
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Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell was born on December 18, 2001. Home schooled by parents who work in the entertainment industry. She told <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/billie-eilish-pops-next-it-girl">Vogue</a>:<br />
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"I’ve been in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since I was 8. And my  brother [Finneas O'Connell, born July 30, 1997] has as well. That’s where I’ve gotten all my singing technique,  even though it’s mostly choral stuff. It’s helped me learn the proper  way to sing and not ruin my voice completely. But I’ve just always sung,  all the time. I sang so much that my family had to shush me. Then I  started writing when I was about 11." </blockquote>
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Finneas writes songs, has his own band and acts. He's been on <i>Modern Family</i> and <i>Glee</i>, to name two. Billie and Finneas also work together on Billie's career (an older generation might think of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTaWayUE5XA">Karen and Richard Carpenter</a>) when Billie's home-studio recording of Finneas' "Ocean Eyes" became a SoundCloud hit in 2016 and reached 84 on Billboard's Hot 100 in May, 2019.<br />
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Billie and Finneas were watching BBC <i>Sherlock's</i> "Reichenbach Fall" when, <a href="https://genius.com/a/billie-eilish-s-new-single-you-should-see-me-in-a-crown-is-inspired-by-an-episode-of-bbc-s-sherlock">says Billie</a>,<br />
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Billie harnesses her inner Jim Moriarty in the chorus of the song:<br />
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You should see me in a crown<br />
I'm gonna run this nothing town<br />
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She also wrote the story for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coLerbRvgsQ">the video</a> by famed artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Murakami">Takashi Murakami</a>:</div>
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The spider motif is also from "Reichenbach Fall" when at Jim's trial  Sherlock says,<br />
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The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah0Ys50CqO8">official video</a> for this song features Billie picking up a crown and with spiders crawling all over it (and later on her). Arachnophobes be warned; you should not watch. [<i><b>Editor's note</b>: Seriously. If you're freaked out by spiders, do NOT watch this</i>.]<br />
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Billie's lyrics and videos can be a disturbing chronicle of the tribulations of adolescence (or as some might call it "Tuesday;" I know I did) but she has an incredible amount of talent that she has channeled to art.<br />
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To paraphrase Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes, Billie may be on the side of angels, but don't believe for a minute; despite her <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pakpy9/watch-billie-eilish-set-fire-to-a-bad-relationship-in-new-video-for-watch">ethereal soprano</a>, she is one.<br />
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Billie Eilish — Inspired by Sherlock

"Upon the day that I crown my career" [FINA] This maybe old news to some but I caught the video to Billie Eilish's song ...

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Episode 172: Watson Does Not Lie / Doyle's Rotary Coffin

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As a rule, Sherlockians and Holmesians are a welcoming bunch. But occasionally you'll see arguments spring up about why a certain book, film, television show, play, or other related project is rubbish. Well, that's completely subjective, isn't it?<br />
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The guiding light of the Sherlockian movement since its earliest days is rooted in having fun. And who is one person to tell another person how they can have fun? Such is the motivating factor behind <b>Doyle's Rotary Coffin</b>, a concept of Paul Thomas Miller.<br />
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Paul joined us to discuss his quest to acknowledge that anyone's Holmes has something to offer. And to preview his upcoming project: a chronology of the Sherlock Holmes stories titled <i><b>Watson Does Not Lie</b></i> (available soon from Wildside Press). Paul set out to create a chronology that didn't rely on excuses like Watson's poor handwriting, a slip of the memory, or outright fabrications. And he's created quite a convincing argument.<br />
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Episode 172: Watson Does Not Lie / Doyle's Rotary Coffin

“What do you want with the coffin?” [LADY] As a rule, Sherlockians and Holmesians are a welcoming bunch. But occasionally you...

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Baker Street Elementary – Sink or Swim

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♪ "Got a whale of a tale to tell ya lad..."♫<br />
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If you mention whaling to any student of the Sherlock Holmes stories, they'll easily point out the story "The Adventure of Black Peter," which concerned a former whaling captain who was found dead in his shack with a steel harpoon driven right through his chest to the wall, where he was "pinned like a beetle on a card." This of course follows Holmes's return to Baker Street with "a huge barbed-headed spear tucked like an umbrella under his arm."<br />
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Whaling is an odd choice of profession for a victim in a Sherlock Holmes story. Where did the inspiration come from? In fact, Conan Doyle had some first-hand experience with whaling.<br />
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Sherlock Holmes Is Everywhere

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<b>"I hear of Sherlock everywhere since you became his chronicler" [GREE] </b></h4>
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One of the reasons we started this site (way back in 2005!) is because we were constantly impressed with Sherlock Holmes popping up at every turn. More than books and movies, we saw the influence of Sherlock Holmes across popular culture.<br />
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Belanger Books has initiated a Kickstarter for a book that chronicles just that. <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1306925656/sherlock-holmes-is-everywhere-book?fbclid=IwAR14nwq3AgwVmxAveI9kJqoXIEC20nNJDsuJHIIvD0DFC7dYPtFHWni4oRs" style="font-style: italic;">Sherlock Holmes Is Everywhere</a> is a collection of scholarly essays on the different ways people connect to the great detective.<br />
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Derrick Belanger, Sonia Fetherston, BSI (""), and David Marcum are editing this volume that includes contributions from a variety of Sherlockians new and old from across the globe. Forty essays—including three from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself—capture the essence of why we love Sherlock Holmes.<br />
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Remembering Freddie Jones

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Freddie Jones, veteran actor of the stage, screen, and television, has died at the age of 91.<br />
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His career began late—he worked at a chemical lab factory for ten years before deciding to pursue his hobby—but flourished over the years, resulting in 213 credits <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0428086/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk1">on IMDb alone</a>. The general public probably knows him from such roles as Bytes, the sadistic alcoholic showman in <i>The Elephant Man</i>, Thufir Hawat in David Lynch's version of <i>Dune</i>, and most recently as Sandy Thomas in the British soap opera <i>Emmerdale</i>.<br />
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But as with all things, we're interested in the connections to Sherlock Holmes here. Jones had a just a few of his own, but because he was so prolific, some of his non-Sherlockian roles intersected with other actors who themselves were in Holmesian films and shows.<br />
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In our circles, Jones is primarily known from two roles from the 1980s. His first Sherlock Holmes-related appearance was in 1985 as Chester Cragwitch in Barry Levinson's <i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090357/">Young Sherlock Holmes</a></i>. Cragwitch was the fourth intended victim of the Rame Tep, who was shot with a poisoned dart and subsequently attempted to kill Sherlock Holmes. It was only the appearance of Lestrade, who had pricked his finger on of the darts earlier, that saved the day.<br />
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Jones's other major role in a Sherlock Holmes production was as Inspector Baynes, the wily and good humored detective on the case in "<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0685630/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_66">Wisteria Lodge</a>," from <i>The Return of Sherlock Holmes</i> by Granada. There was a good deal of energy masked beneath his relatively quiet demeanor in that role. And we seem to remember a video clip of Jeremy Brett speaking to an American audience (perhaps at a Sherlockian event in St. Louis?) about Freddie's appearance on set with a paper bag of jelly babies, which he jealously guarded against Brett's attempts to sample. [<i>Editor's note: if any of our readers have a source on that, we'd be grateful</i>.]<br />
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There was one other small appearance in the Granada series: a cameo as a pedlar in "The Last Vampyre" in <i>The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes</i> in 1993.<br />
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Given that his credits are so voluminous, it's no surprise that Jones had connections to other significant Sherlock Holmes actors.<br />
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One of his earliest television appearances was as Claudius in the BBC's six-episode production of <i>The Caesars</i> in 1968. In that series, Sejanus was played by <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0408813/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t4">Barrie Ingham</a>, who played Basil in <i>The Great Mouse Detective</i>. <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0248324/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t11">Donald Eccles</a> played Nerva before going on to play the Reverend Duncan Nesbitt, who hallucinated about the stained glass knight in <i>Young Sherlock Holmes</i>.<br />
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<i>The Caesars</i> is the gift that keeps on giving, with <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0358772/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t32">Roger Hammond</a> as Pomponius. Astute viewers may remember him as Jabez Wilson in Granada's "The Red-Headed League." The other name that pops out is <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0603682/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t2">André Morrell</a>, who played Tiberius. Earlier, he played Dr. Watson to Peter Cushing's Sherlock Holmes in the 1959 Hammer production of <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>.<br />
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Which brings us to Peter Cushing himself. His Holmesian qualifications need no recap. Cushing reprised his role as Baron Frankenstein in the 1969 <i>Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed</i>, with Jones as Professor Richter, the asylum director whose body becomes the recipient of a transplanted brain, and ultimately "the creature."<br />
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Given Freddie Jones's long tenure in entertainment—particularly British entertainment—he likely has numerous connections to other Sherlock Holmes productions. Six decades of experience likely give him more links than we'd get from a game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Perhaps you can add more in the comments below.<br />
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But we did want to close on one final connection: Jones's own son Toby is a fine actor in his own right. And <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0429363/?ref_=nmbio_trv_1">Toby Jones</a> played Culverton Smith in the BBC <i>Sherlock</i> episode "The Dying Detective."<br />
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If you've listened to more than one episode of Trifles, just a word of caution: <b>don't skip the intro or the final few seconds of each show</b>. We vary the introductions and we have a different closing quote from the Granada production on every episode. Collect them all!<br />
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We began the month by celebrating what every young student (and their teachers) hail in June: <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles127">School's Out!</a> In this case, we looked at the boarding-schools and the Elementary Education Act that addressed the situation in England in the mid- to late-1800s.<br />
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In our other regular monthly feature, <b>International Sherlock Holmes</b>, is a monthly look at various nationalities and countries in the Canon and how they impact the stories. This month, it's <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles129">Americans and Sherlock Holmes</a>, as we follow the trail across the United States.<br />
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Episode 171: John Bennett Shaw

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For as much as John Bennett Shaw influenced modern-day Sherlockians, we haven't spent much time discussing him or his impact. Fortunately, Jim Hawkins does just that. And he does it in a most wonderful way, both in this interview and more comprehensively on the website <a href="https://johnbennettshaw.com/">JohnBennettShaw.com</a> that he created.</div>
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Explore with us how Jim first became aware of Shaw and how he managed to find his way into that legendary library in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It's a journey that includes a group as eclectic and wonderful as the Norman Nerudas, the oil fields of Oklahoma, a funeral home, and much more.</div>
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Episode 171: John Bennett Shaw

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Baker Street Elementary — Numerically Speaking

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Sherlock Holmes once said, “Do you know, Watson, that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject.” ("The Copper Beeches")<br />
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Episode 170: Three Authors in Search of a Character

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Episode 170: Three Authors in Search of a Character

“these characters convey a message” [DANC] It isn't every day that one has an opportunity to chat with someone who owns a...

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May Flowered Brightly in These Parts

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Over on <a href="http://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/" target="_blank">Trifles</a> (available on any podcasting service and at <a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/">sherlockholmespodcast.com</a>) we're doing something a trifle different: every Wednesday, we take about 15 minutes to talk about one or two issues that we've noticed within the Sherlock Holmes stories. It's an approach that we hope brings more people into our fold who are new to Sherlock Holmes and are fascinated with the details within the story, or who may have some questions about what they read.<br />
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May Flowered Brightly in These Parts

"This is the Devon County Chronicle of May" [HOUN] Over the weekend we (quietly) celebrated the 12th anniversary of our p...

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Baker Street Elementary – Not Quite the Solution He Expected

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Baker Street Elementary – Not Quite the Solution He Expected

“I could tell by numerous subtle signs” [WIST] Young children are not purveyors of or dabblers in subtlety. When it comes to sarcas...

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