“as if by magic” [REDC] Sherlock Holmes appeared to have other-worldly powers to some people in his orbit. It's not that he was employi...
by Scott Monty
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“as if by magic” [REDC] Sherlock Holmes appeared to have other-worldly powers to some people in his orbit. It's not that he was employi...
by Scott Monty
Book Review: Nessie's Nemesis
"When we got back to Scotland it was easily hushed up" [BLAC] Addy and Zabel, the investigative couple from Sherlock's Secre...
Episode 291: Luke Barton as Sherlock Holmes
“quick insight into character” [BERY] As Americans, it is always a joy to meet an Englishman, and doubly so if he portrays Sherlock Holmes...
by Scott Monty
“You are certainly joking, Holmes” [BLUE] Sherlock Holmes was a practical joker. The great consulting detective — known for his deductive r...
by Scott Monty
Episode 290: Legends of the BSJ: James Montgomery
“remarkably rich tenor voice” [VALL] Following the feedback we got from our previous Legends of the BSJ episode on Edgar W. Smith , we tho...
by Scott Monty
“a smoke-laden atmosphere” [VEIL] To imagine Sherlock Holmes without tobacco is impossible. While he is most famously pictured with a pipe ...
by Scott Monty
Episode 289: A West Wind
“we turned our faces westward” [SIXN] While Sherlock Holmes is a perennial British subject, his influence in and by America cannot be deni...
by Scott Monty
Celebrating the Anniversary of the Oldest Sherlock Holmes Podcast
“seventeen years of age” [SIGN] Mycroft Holmes spoke for all of us in "The Greek Interpreter" when he greeted Dr. Watson with the...
by Scott Monty
“my own little methods” [GLOR] There was no prescribed course of education that Sherlock Holmes could take at university to prepare him for...
by Scott Monty
Episode 288: Clutches of a Fiend
“do but get into the clutches” [BOSC] We've held off a bit on the traditional interview with the editor of the BSI Manuscript Series t...
by Scott Monty
“the quiet thinker and logician of Baker Street” [BOSC] “You have a grand gift of silence, Watson,” Sherlock Holmes said in "The Man w...
by Scott Monty
Episode 287: Legends of the BSJ: Edgar W. Smith
“I wanted to speak with Mr. Smith” [SIGN] This is the third in our series on Legends of the Baker Street Journal; we've previously exp...
by Scott Monty