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....
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...
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.
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?
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.