Apr 30, 2025
“a strange, loud whiz” [EMPT]
We came across a quite unusual observation — a Trifle, if you will — in an old issue of The Baker Street Journal. An article by Antony Boucher called "An Aborted Avatar."
Boucher discovered a turn of the century play called The King of Gee-Whiz that involved Sherlock Holmes in...
Apr 23, 2025
“general resemblance to an itinerant” [VALL]
A term we don't hear as frequently these days is "gypsy." Unless you're headed to see a Sondheim musical, which is about an entirely different Gypsy (and one with Sherlockian connections too).
Anyway, our focus here is on stories in which gypsies are mentioned (there...
Apr 16, 2025
“before my biographer had come to glorify me” [GREE]
Once again, we find ourselves in a "Mr. Sherlock Holmes the
theorist"-themed episode, where we look at a piece of old
scholarship. This time, we share a chapter from William S.
Baring-Gould's groundbreaking biography of Sherlock Holmes.
Chapter V "On Stage and...
Apr 9, 2025
“I would read as easily as I do the
apocrypha” [VALL]
The second in our series on the Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes — stories that are not in the original Canonical 60 but that have some relevant interest. In this case, we have a story written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1898 and set in 1892 involving the mysterious...
Apr 3, 2025
“you are mistaken about my alleged agents” [MAZA]
