Yes, the circle was red, the study was scarlet and the pips
were orange. But there are so many other colors (or colours) to
explore in the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Conan Doyle did a masterful job of using color to give us a
vivid sense of the settings. But more than...
“It is a nice household,” he
murmured. “That is the baboon.” [SPEC]
It seems that Dr. Grimesby Roylott had a bit of a wild side.
Killed a man in India. Threw a blacksmith off a small bridge. Had a
cheetah and baboon wandering his grounds. You know, as one
does.
Over the course of our first four seasons, we covered a wide
variety of haberdashery: dressing gowns, clothes, disguises, and hats, to name a few. But we haven't covered anything
related to footwear (unless you count that fleeting reference to
tennis shoes in Episode 119).
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.