In the first part of this two-episode series, we looked at the
Baker Street area of Victorian London and the changes that it has
seen in the century and a half since that time.
This time, we sharpen our powers of observation and search for
the specific...
The address is legendary. Synonymous with its famous
inhabitant, just as the deerstalker and meerschaum pipe. But it may
be just as fanciful as those two accoutrements.
This is the first in a two-part discussion of Baker Street of
the Victorian era, and where...
“Holmes, a child has done this horrid
thing”[SIGN]
Many of us find our way to the Sherlock Holmes stories as
children, yet there is a decided absence of children in the Canon.
When we do find them, they tend to be in service of furthering a
plot point rather than as fully developed characters.
“I desire you to spare no expense and no
pains” [WIST]
Sherlock Holmes had to go places, see people, investigate
things. And doing so meant that he incurred expenses. If we
itemized what some of these were—absent the specific amount—what
would that tell us about Sherlock Holmes?
You know the plots, but what about the minutiae? We delve into the Sherlock Holmes stories and provide answers to questions that arise, clarify muddy details, and look into some of the period terminology in this weekly podcast.