It's where Jonathan Small met Mahomet Singh, Dost Akbar
and Abdullah Khan and together they made a pact known as the Sign
of the Four. The Fort of Agra, in the city of the same name.
Small described it as a queer and enormous place, with
deserted halls and winding passages....
We're at the end of our four-part series on Women in the Canon
from The Best of the Sherlock Holmes Journal, Vol. 2. This time we
look at "The Victims."
That may seem a broad topic for a 20-something minute podcast.
And it is. But we hit some of the highlights on which
women...
"we did not meet to talk about the cut of
my socks" [3GAR]
When you think of attire in the Sherlock Holmes stories, the
mind usually turns to the deerstalker and Inverness, and perhaps
Sherlock Holmes's disguises.
But what about day to day attire, specifically of Holmes's
clientele? We picked up on an article...
The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of Sherlock Holmes's most
famous cases. But what can we say about the date of the case?
Watson never specifically mentions a date, but many chronologists
fix it in October 1889.
How did they come to that conclusion? And what else
do...
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.