Aug 29, 2024
“he had actually won as much as four hundred” [EMPT]
It's hard to believe, but we've managed to notch our 400th
episode of Trifles. And we can't think of a better way to
celebrate than by highlighting some of our favorite episodes from
throughout the show.
We put our usual amount of consideration and...
Aug 21, 2024
“private revenge” [CHAS]
In "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton," Watson tells
us that a woman with a "dark, handsome, clear-cut face" lifted her
veil and "emptied barrel after barrel into Milverton’s body,"
leaving him dead on the floor.
But in the Summer 2024 issue of The Baker...
Aug 14, 2024
“‘journeys end in lovers’ meetings,’ as the old play says” [EMPT]
When it came to London, Sherlock Holmes preferred to stay put.
That's what Paul Gore-Booth would have us believe. When he assessed
the many tales, he found that most happened in London and its
immediate suburbs.
But Gore-Booth went one...
Aug 7, 2024
“I did it clumsily” [DANC]
Sherlock Holmes was a man of great precision. We learn about
his attention to detail and his preferences for improving the art
of detection from the very first time we meet him.
But there were instances of clumsiness — his own and from
others — that crop up throughout the...
Aug 1, 2024
“I am much more anxious” [MISS]
Four episodes ago, we began a discussion about anxiety in the
Sherlock Holmes stories. We managed to make from A Study in Scarlet
up through The Hound of the Baskervilles. What about the rest of
the Canon?
Worry not! We continue the journey from The Return
through...