Episode 468 – Sherlock Holmes and Edwin Drood

“Oh! a mystery is it?” [STUD] 

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.

In 1968, Colin Prestige, BSI ("Captain Jack Croker") made a bold claim: that Sherlock Holmes could have handily solved the case, in "Sherlock Holmes and Edwin Drood," which appeared in Vol. 18, No. 3 of The Baker Street Journal. It's this month's "Mr. Sherlock Holmes the theorist" episode and it's just a Trifle. 

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• The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Charles Dickens Page)
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Wikipedia)
• The Baker Street Journal (BSI)
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Episode 467 – Calling Cards

“He sent in his card with a message” [CROO] 

In our own digital age, business cards are nearly artifacts of the past. And calling cards? They're so outdated we had to create this episode.

Numerous individuals in the Sherlock Holmes stories present their cards to Sherlock Holmes and Holmes presents his card to a few people as well. What's the history behind calling cards and visiting cards and how did they play into the stories? It's just a Trifle. 

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• Calling Cards and Visiting Cards: A Brief History (Hoban Cards)
• Calling Cards & Paying Calls: Social Etiquette in Georgian England (Paullett Golden)
• The Gentleman's Guide to the Calling Card (Art of Manliness)
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Episode 466 - Who Wrote the American Chapters of A Study in Scarlet?

“Nine to seven.” “Seven to five.” [STUD] 

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?

Ben Vizoskie had that same question in the 2000 BSJ article "Who Wrote the American Chapters of A Study in Scarlet?" which was awarded the Morley-Montgomery Award that year. Many scholars have pondered this over the years, but Ben seems to have cracked the code. And it's no Trifle. 

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Episode 465 – Angels of Darkness

“upon the track of the avenging angels” [STUD] 

The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes series continues with a three-act play that wasn't published until over a century after it was written by Arthur Conan Doyle.

The story of its discovery and dating is even more interesting than the play itself, which is reminiscent of the American chapters of A Study in Scarlet and is... Well, you'll hear. It's just a Trifle. 

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• The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes (The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library)
• The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes episode collection (Patreon | Substack)
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• Trifles Episode 318 - Dr. Watson's Marriages 
• I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere Episode 13: A Life in Letters
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Episode 464 – A Most Valuable Institution

“all the main ones in the press reports” [THOR] 

Sherlock Holmes knew how to use newspapers to his advantage. Time and again, we see him scanning the agony column and making clippings.

He told Watson "The press is a most valuable institution if only one knows how to use it." Just how did he use it and in which cases? It's just a Trifle. 

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Episode 463 – Lucky Thirteen

“thirteen in number” [HOUN] 

Ask the average citizen about the number thirteen, and it is likely to inspire terror, or at least some slight trepidation. Right up there with black cats and overturned saltshakers, the number thirteen has a long history associated with bad luck.

But what about in the Sherlock Holmes stories? Where does the number thirteen pop up and what can we infer from it? It's just a Trifle. 

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Episode 462 – The Sherlock Holmes We Never Knew

“and actor and a rare one” [SIGN] 

The monthly feature of Morley-Montgomery Award-winning articles continues apace, when we share these top-notch pieces of Sherlockian scholarship from the pages of The Baker Street Journal. 

This episode is from S.E. Dahlinger's truly remarkable 1999 article "The Sherlock Holmes We Never Knew," which gives us a better understanding of William Gillette and the play that made him a household name (and a fortune). It's a large article and a very significant Trifle. 

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• The Morley-Montgomery Award
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• Long Lost William Gillette Sherlock Holmes Film from 2016 Found
• Remembering William Gillette
• Other episodes mentioned:
• Episode 126: Becoming the Gillettes (I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere)
• Episode 147: Sherlock Holmes and Silent Films (I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere)
• Episode 34: William Gillette, America's Sherlock Holmes (I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere)
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Episode 461 – The Tall Man (The Apocrypha Part 7)

“I have never seen so tall a man” [SIGN] 

Our series on the Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes continues on, with a slightly different entry this time. Previous examples have been fully developed stories; this is simply a story outline.

How it surfaced is just as interesting as the outline itself, perhaps more. The reader/listener will be left to decide if this could have made a full-blown story. Ultimately, it's just a Trifle. 

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Episode 460 – Paddington vs. Waterloo

“proceed to Waterloo” [HOUN] 

For those looking to travel from London west to Dartmoor (particularly those interested in stopping at Coombe Tracey), you might do well to do as Dr. Watson did and meet Sir Henry Baskerville at Paddington Station.

One small thing, though: there's another station that will get you our west. And if you're another character, you might fancy that. Why? It's just a Trifle. 

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• The original question (Facebook)
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• The Hound of the Baskervilles: Hunting the Dartmoor Legend by Philip Weller (Amazon)
• Previous episodes mentioned:
• Episode 441 - About the Moor
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Episode 459 – T.S. Eliot and the Great Grimpen Mire

“so subtly influenced by it” [STUD] 

It is well known that T.S. Eliot lifted lines from "The Musgrave Ritual" and appropriated them for Murder in the Cathedral, as well as found inspiration for Macavity in the Napoleon of crime.

In this "Mr. Sherlock Holmes the Theorist" episode, Don Hardenbrook, BSI ("Huret, the Boulevard Assassin") found a deeper meaning in Four Quartets, a collection of four interlinked poems by Eliot. One that echoes of The Hound of the Baskervilles. And it's just a Trifle. 

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Episode 458 – The Moor as a Character

“a huge expanse” [HOUN] 

Credit: Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 

There are four main characters in The Hound of the Baskervilles: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, the hound, and the moor. [Record scratch SFX]

Yes, the moor. Inspired by a clip from an old IHOSE episode, we explore why this ever-present setting looms large in the story, both when it's explicitly mentioned and when it's not. It's just a Trifle. 

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• I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere Episode 68: Sherlock Holmes on Radio, Part 1
• Edgon Heath (Holst) (Wikipedia)
• Previous episodes mentioned:
• Episode 393 - The Geography of The Hound of the Baskervilles
• Episode 441 - About the Moor
• Episode 444 - John H. Watson—Word Painter
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Episode 457 – On the Chaldean Influences in Cornish

“traced in the Cornish branch of the great Celtic speech” [DEVI] 

The Morley-Montgomery Award series rolls on, and this time we've jumped from 1979 (the last award granted, covered in Episode 453) to 1995. Dr. Margaret Nydell turns her philological attention to the Canon.

She specifically looks at Sherlock Holmes's intentions in researching the Cornish language, with its roots in Chaldean. Her article is both scholarly and delightfully funny. And it's just a Trifle. 

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• Episode 439 - The Archeological Holmes
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Episode 456 – The Crown Diamond (The Apocrypha Part 6)

“What good are you going to get out of your diamond?” [MAZA] 

We're back in the theater for another Sherlock Holmes story in our series on the Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes. It seems that Conan Doyle saw great potential in other mediums (not just the seance type, either).

The Crown Diamond: An Evening With Sherlock Holmes is clearly a rehash of the short story "The Mazarin Stone." Or was thought to be, anyway. That is, until James Montgomery, BSI ("The Red Circle") discovered it in an exercise book and determined the publication order. And it's just a Trifle. 

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Episode 455 - Lhassa & Mecca

“amused myself by visiting Lhassa...looked in at Mecca” [FINA] 

The Great Hiatus, as the interval between "The Final Problem" and "The Empty House" is known, has inspired a great deal of speculation and interpretation, thanks to Sherlock Holmes's brief and tantalizing account of his time away.

Edgar Smith took it on in his famous essay (as referenced in Episode 334), but Don Pollock took aim at the fawning acceptance in his own analysis in a 1975 issue of The Baker Street Journal. It's just a Trifle.

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Episode 454 – The Lumber Room

“lumbering upon its way” [DEVI] 

Across the Sherlock Holmes stories, we find a few mentions of what seems to be a strange and magical place in English residences: the lumber room.

In old country houses and in the city at 221B Baker Street, as well as in descriptions of the mind, the lumber room is a place that deserves a little exploration. And it's just a Trifle.

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Episode 453 – The Location of Baskerville Hall

“I was able to reach Baskerville Hall” [HOUN] 

There are a handful of locations in the Sherlock Holmes stories that are regularly sought out by fans. Of course 221B Baker Street is at the top of the list, along with the Reichenbach Falls. For those who venture to the west, Baskerville Hall is always a source of inspiration.

But where exactly was it? Scholars have been debating that subject for decades, and in 1979 Howard Brody, BSI ("Anstruther") won the Morley-Montgomery Award for his paper that attempted to settle the matter. It's just a Trifle.

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• Baskerville Hall Hotel
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Episode 452 – The Stonor Case (The Apocrypha Part 5)

“took to the stage” [TWIS] 

When faced with four months of an empty theater in a six-month lease in 1910, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did the only thing he could on a moment's notice: he turned to Sherlock Holmes.

The Stonor Case (later renamed The Speckled Band) went into production and is considered part of the group of stories categorized as apocryphal. While the name was the same as the short story, there were departures from the original. This and many tales about this play are all a Trifle. 

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• H.A. Saintsbury (Wikipedia)
• Lyn Harding (Wikipedia)
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Episode 451 - John H. Watson Never Went to China

“Well, but China?” [REDH]  

Our recent episode about real people who inspired characters in the Sherlock Holmes stories spills over into this episode for our monthly Mr. Sherlock Holmes the Theorist-themed episode.

Jay Finley Christ wrote a piece in 1949 that wasn't widely published until 1975 (if one can call the audience of Baker Street Miscellanea wide). Prof. Christ takes on John Dickson Carr's biography and other Sherlockians, debunking a myth about the inspiration for Dr. Watson. And it's just a Trifle. 

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Episode 450 – The Fabulous Originals

“There are the originals” [LAST]  

Sherlockians go to great pains to "play the game," meaning that Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were real. If we can drop the mask for a moment, we all know they were creations of one Arthur Conan Doyle.

We also know that every author is inspired by people, names, and places around them. So too was Conan Doyle when he created certain characters. Who were some of the characters in the Canon who were inspired by real people? It's just a Trifle. 

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• The Fabulous Originals: Lives of Extraordinary People who Inspired Memorable Characters in Fiction by Irving Wallace
• Literary Characters Drawn from Life by Earle Walbridge 
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Music credits

Performers: Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber Orchestra
Publisher Info.: Washington, DC: United States Marine Band.
Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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