“To my astonishment it was Sherlock
Holmes” [CROO]
What if we told you that Watson wasn't exactly honest with
readers in "The Crooked Man"? That his telling of the tale masked
that it was actually he, and not Sherlock Holmes, who solved the
case.
John Rabe, son of old Irregular W.T. Rabe ("Colonel
Warburton's...
If you experience claustrophobia, this may not be the episode
for you. Because it's all about being shut up in close spaces. And
it's the monthly "Mr. Sherlock Holmes the Theorist" episode.
Denise M. Rogers walks us through the gothic theme shared
between Edgar Allan Poe...
“an exaggerated view of my
scientific methods” [SUSS]
We consider Watson a reliable narrator. At least we hope he
is. And yet there are a number of times when Sherlock Holmes
accuses his Boswell of romanticizing the factual.
Is Holmes simply taking issue with how Watson writes with a
more emotional and...
Vincent Starrett eventually became the dean of American
Sherlockians, widely recognized as the foremost expert and
significant collector, in part due to his publication of The
Private Life of Sherlock Holmes in 1933. This month's
Morley-Montgomery Award episode comes to us from...
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.