Jan 25, 2024
“You’ll be interested to hear that I am engaged.” [CHAS]
The name of this show was inspired in part by William Hyder,
BSI ("A Most Valuable Institution"), who includes a half sheet of a
trifling matter in the dinner packet of the Baker Street Irregulars
each year. And as has become our tradition, each...
Jan 18, 2024
“There was no other boarder” [VALL]
The third episode of every month in Season 8 finds us
revisiting familiar ground: episodes under the "Mr. Sherlock Holmes
the Theorist" category, as we revisit old Sherlockian
scholarship.
This episode brings us to an overlooked chapter of a familiar
book. It's James...
Jan 10, 2024
“We traveled by the Underground” [REDH]
We're kicking off a new monthly series for Season 8: travel.
Highly appropriate, as we travel to New York for the Baker Street Irregulars Weekend.
In this case, our travel is local within London. That is, the
Underground. For as much as we associate Sherlock...
Jan 4, 2024
“I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere” [GREE]
It's easy to think of Sherlock Holmes as an automaton — Watson
himself called Holmes that exact word, remarking “There is
something positively inhuman in you at times.”
And yet, if we consider the detective's demeanor with clients
and the...