Dec 25, 2019
In a lifetime crammed with high adventure, his brilliant achievements in crime detection obscured his remarkable skills as an athlete. He was an expert with singlestick and foil, a fine boxer, equally accomplished with rifle and small arms and had a knowing eye for horseflesh.
In...
Dec 18, 2019
The last in our series of episodes on international interactions
with Sherlock Holmes brings us to the now-defunct kingdom of
Bohemia. It was so important that it got its own scandal.
What do we know about this land from which the masked king came?
And of the adjective "Bohemian"?...
Dec 11, 2019
Sherlock Holmes was occasionally without his Boswell. Watson was married at least twice – some scholars even claim there was a third Mrs. Watson.
Was Holmes truly affected by Watson's absence? There is a subtle time lapse that may give away how Holmes dealt with a matrimonial Watson. And a...
Dec 4, 2019
Sherlock Holmes was a loner. An independent consultant. An automaton. But he also shared rooms with Dr. Watson off and on for over 20 years.
When Watson went off and got married, how did this affect Holmes, really? And Watson had how...