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Dec 31, 2025

“that is the biggest mystification of all” [CREE] 

You thought we were done with the Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes? Silly you. As Inspector Baynes said, “I thought I had squeezed all the juice out of it, but I see there was a little over.” [WIST]
 
Now we turn to a fascinating study: dating the Apocryphya....


Dec 24, 2025

“evidence was wanted” [GOLD] 

The final installment in our series on the Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes brings us to "The Case of the Man Who was Wanted." Its discovery and provenance seems to have been both wanted and not wanted by the Conan Doyle brothers, who discovered it thanks to a biographer of their father...


Dec 18, 2025

“Oh! a mystery is it?” [STUD] 

 
When Charles Dickens died in 1870, The Mystery of Edwin Drood was only six chapters into its 12-chapter run. There were no sketches or outlines of what would come next, so for a century and a half, scholars have puzzled over the solution.
 
In 1968, Colin Prestige, BSI ("Captain...


Dec 10, 2025

“He sent in his card with a message” [CROO] 

 
In our own digital age, business cards are nearly artifacts of the past. And calling cards? They're so outdated we had to create this episode.
 
Numerous individuals in the Sherlock Holmes stories present their cards to Sherlock Holmes and Holmes presents his card to...


Dec 3, 2025

“Nine to seven.” “Seven to five.” [STUD] 

 
For anyone who has first experienced Sherlock Holmes through A Study in Scarlet, Chapter VIII is a shock to the system, placing us squarely in the Great Akalai Plain with John and Lucy Ferrier, and narrated by... who?
 
Ben Vizoskie had that same question in the...