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Episode 311: The Digital Archive at the Toronto...

I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere ·

2025/05/30

“You can file it in our archives, Watson” [RETI]North America is home to a number of public collections, libraries, museums, and archives that hold treasures related to Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Not least among them is the Toronto Public Library.Home to the famed Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, the TPL is a great friend to Sherlockians and Doyleans everywhere and regularly welcomes visitors to view and research its more than 25,000 items related to Conan Doyle. And curator Jessie

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USA Today's 10 Best: The Mysterious Bookshop

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2025/05/19

“Who do you give your casting vote to?” [ENGR]The Mysterious Bookshop is an independent bookstore in New York City and is one of the oldest mystery bookstores in the United States. Founded by Otto Penzler, BSI ("The King of Bohemia"), it has been in business for over 45 years.And it needs your vote.Established at 129 West 56th Street, its charm included a cast iron spiral staircase, a whole wall of Sherlock Holmes-related material, and a sign that read: "Nobody shoplifts from a store that knows

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Baker Street Elementary – Rebellion!

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2025/05/18

“the revolting business” [CARD]It's always pleasant to get along with others. It is, of course, how all great things are accomplished: through collaboration, pooling of resources, and scale.Not everyone is able to get along, though. When ancient man turned to an agricultural society rather than a hunt-and-gather society, it required working with others. This not only led to conflicts with other growing societies, but to squabbles from within.Rebellion typically arises when one group feels oppressed

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Baker Street Elementary – I'll Drink to That

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2025/05/04

“Is alcohol permitted?” [MAZA]In the Sherlockian world, the saying made famous by John Bennett Shaw, BSI ("The Hans Sloane of My Age") is "All you need for a Sherlockian meeting is two Sherlockians and a bottle. In a pinch, dispense with the other Sherlockian."But alcohol can be bit of a touchy subject. It's not everyone's thing, and for some, there may be negative connotations. Arthur Conan Doyle's father Charles Doyle was an alcoholic, and there's no doubt that the effects (some of which resulted

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Episode 310: White Smoke

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2025/04/30

“we can bring it to a successful conclusion” [EMPT]When we discussed the Midwest Canonical Conclave in Episode 308, we weren't exactly sure what to expect. Organizer Steve Doyle, BSI ("The Western Morning News") gave us a general idea of what the aim was and what we might see there, but our expectations were blown away.Unlike any other Sherlockian event we've attended, the inaugural BSI Canonical Conclave (this of the Midwest variety) was a true delight. Burt and Scott reflect on the event and their

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Granada Sherlock Holmes Starring Jeremy Brett...

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2025/04/24

“even more highly” [SCAN]The early days of watching the Granada/ITV production of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Jeremy Brett and David Burke, happened in the mid-1980s, when television sets were cathode-ray tube affairs and the primary recording devices were VHS machines.As a result, viewing and re-viewing of these classic episodes meant a low-resolution experience that lacked the color and crispness that we have come to enjoy in modern television viewing.The advent of DVDs and Blu-ray

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Baker Street Elementary – Flowery Language

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2025/04/20

“What a lovely thing a rose is” [NAVA]Sherlock Holmes was not a fan of emotions, particularly when it came to his work. In The Sign of Four, he reacted to Watson's write-up of A Study in Scarlet:“Honestly, I cannot congratulate you upon it. Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth

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Baker Street Elementary - A Quarter for Your Thoughts

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2025/04/06

“It is late in March, so quarter-day is at hand” [WIST]In "Wisteria Lodge," John Scott Eccles tells Sherlock Holmes about his strange experience of waking up in a host's house completely alone. In his desire to discover more, he visits the office of a real estate agent.“I called at Allan Brothers’, the chief land agents in the village, and found that it was from this firm that the villa had been rented. It struck me that the whole proceeding could hardly be for the purpose of making a fool of me,

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Baker Street Elementary – I Swear to God...

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2025/03/23

“dared only whisper their religious opinions with bated breath” [STUD]Was Sherlock Holmes religious? That was something we contemplated together with Henry T. Folsom, BSI ("The Golden Pince-Nez") inTrifles Episode 427 on his Morley-Montgomery Award-winning article "My Biblical Knowledge is a Trifle Rusty." [Listen below]In considering whether Holmes subscribed to any Eastern or Western religion, Folsom made it clear that Holmes was familiar with a number of religions, but was more of an agnostic

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Episode 307: The Evolution of 221B Con

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2025/03/15

“able to evolve from their own inner consciousness” [STUD]Now in its 12th year, 221B Con has become a mainstay of annual Sherlockian events, drawing people from all over the world to Atlanta every April. It was founded as a response to Sherlock on BBC, but has expanded beyond that to include the original stories as well as all forms of media.Last year, the founders announced that this year would be the final 221B Con. As we narrow in on that date, regular attendee and volunteer Johanna Draper

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Baker Street Elementary – What's in a Name?

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2025/03/02

“should you rather that I sent James off to bed?” [TWIS]One of the most vexing and early discrepancies in the Sherlock Holmes canon occurs in "The Man With the Twisted Lip," when Mrs. Watson refers to her husband as "James."“It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or should you rather that I sent James off to bed?”“Oh, no, no! I want the doctor’s advice and help, too. It’s about Isa. He has not been home for two

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Episode 306: The Golden Era of Sherlock Holmes and...

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2025/02/28

“the high opinion formed of him by his contemporaries.” [VALL]When the first Sherlock Holmes short stories came on the scene, they were something of a novelty: non-serialized, self-contained tales that put the Strand Magazine on the map.As with any success story, this one inspired imitators. These contemporaries of Sherlock Holmes inhabited the pages of the Strand and many other magazines of the day. Author Michael Cohen has stepped forward to catalog and categorize them from the years 1891 to 1914

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Baker Street Elementary – Coloring Our Perceptions

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2025/02/16

“an old dressing-gown of Holmes’s” [EMPT]If you see a silhouette with a pipe, magnifying glass, and deerstalker cap, you know it's Sherlock Holmes. That famous headgear can't be worn without an association with the detective.The same could be said for the Inverness cape, although that attire is slightly more common than the fore-and-aft cap. But there is one other garment that we associate with Sherlock Holmes that bear some consideration: the dressing gown.In three different stories, we're told

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Celebrate World Radio Day with IHOSE

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2025/02/14

“that strange wireless” [LAST]Radio came into the world concurrently with Sherlock Holmes, so it's natural to connect the two topics, particularly on World Radio Day.According to Wikipedia,"The existence of radio waves was first proven by German physicist Heinrich Hertz on 11 November 1886. In the mid-1890s, building on techniques physicists were using to study electromagnetic waves, Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi developed the first apparatus for long-distance radio communication, sending a

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Unique Letters to Douglas Wilmer Offered for Sale

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2025/02/03

“there are points which make it quite unique” [MUSG]Longtime readers of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere and true fans of Sherlock Holmes on the screen will recall that in the 1960s, Douglas Wilmer was Sherlock Holmes on the BBC television series.A decade ago, we celebrated his golden anniversary of taking that role, including stories about him riding in your editor's car, The Baker Street Journal Christmas Annual dedicated to him, the grand exhibition in London, and Wilmer's investiture into the Baker

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Baker Street Elementary – Knighty Knight

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2025/02/02

“Holmes refused a knighthood” [3GAR]One would think that ending up on the monarch's Honours List for the New Year would an honor, indeed. After all, becoming a member of the orders of chivalry is not something that just any individual can expect to happen.So it seems surprising that Sherlock Holmes would have "refused a knighthood for services which may perhaps some day be described," as Watson related in "The Three Garridebs."However, there may be a very simple explanation for this, aside from

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Episode 304: Sherlock Holmes and the Empire Builders

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2025/01/30

“One of the most precious public possessions of the empire” [BERY]Joel Meadows began what eventually became Sherlock Holmes and the Empire Builders: The Gene Genie in 2002 while working on Tripwire as a quarterly print magazine.He tells us the story of how it took two decades to bring this vision to life with illustrator Andy Bennett, and what the plans are for part two of the story. The initial Kickstarter for part one was wildly successful, and the Kickstarter for the sequel is under way.The

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The 2025 BSI Weekend – Awards and Honors

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2025/01/27

“a brief review of what had passed” [THOR]Photo credit: Will WalshIn thenext episode of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, we'll be covering our own personal experiences at the 2025 BSI Weekend that ran from January 15 – January 19, 2025, during which some 300+ Sherlockians descended on Midtown Manhattan to celebrate the 171st birthday of Sherlock Holmes.For the purposes of this update, we're focused on the accolades from the weekend, which happened over a series of events.On Thursday, January 16,

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Episode 303: The Serpent Under

I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere ·

2025/01/15

“the rapidity and noiselessness of a serpent” [STUD]Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and Bonnie MacBird are back! In the sixth book in her series, Bonnie once again finds firm footing in London as Sherlock Holmes investigates a strange mystery involving a disfigured body, Windsor Castle, and some rather unpleasant reptilian encounters.We talk with Bonnie about the creative process, including the expert advice she received from two knights, her extensive research, and — wait for it — smoke enemas. No,

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Sherlock Holmes's Birthday is NOT January 6th After All

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2025/01/07

“We have judged it best that you should come late” [ENGR]Editor's note: This may seem like heresy to traditional Sherlockians, who've been celebrating Sherlock Holmes's birthday on January 6th for nearly a century.Erik Deckers, longtime contributor to the Canonical Couplet on the IHOSE podcast and chief instigator behind the satirical H & W Con, has written to tell us our math hasn't been mathing. Whether or not you choose to believe him, he provides an informative history and some convincing

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