Dec 25, 2024
“the compliments of the season” [BLUE]
There is only one Sherlock Holmes story that takes place at Christmas: "The Blue Carbuncle," which took place on "the second morning after Christmas."
In his Gas-Lamp for the 1959 Baker Street Journal Christmas Annual, editor Edgar W. Smith, BSI ("The Hound of...
Dec 19, 2024
“I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal” [CHAS]
In some cases, Sherlock Holmes was a bit of a vigilante in his pursuit of justice. He didn't mind breaking the law in a good cause. That led to him burgling various households.
Or did it? S. Tupper Bigelow, BSI ("The Five...
Dec 12, 2024
“You look like a general who is planning a battle” [HOUN]
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| The Battle of Marengo, by Louis-François Lejeune (public domain - Wikimedia Commons) |
One simple sentence in "The Abbey Grange" served as the spark to the fuse of this Trifles episode. In one sentence, Sherlock Holmes referenced two of...
Dec 5, 2024
“He disappeared upon the 3d of December” [SIGN]
"The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" is inextricably linked with the month of December. But what about the other cases Sherlock Holmes handled in the final month of the year?
Our research picked up only one other, and it isn't obvious by a careful reading of...
Nov 27, 2024
“You seem to be a walking calendar of crime” [STUD]
Sherlock Holmes used the calendar to help him determine the significance of certain cluse and actions, noting phases of the moon and recurring events.
But there was another calendar that was useful to Holmes, which he mentioned in passing: the Newgate...