A Quiet Air of Mastery
"put forward with such a quiet air of mastery" [STOC] As regular readers and listeners know, Michael F. Whelan, BSI ("Wiggins") passed away in October of 2021. His contribution to the Sherlockian ga...
30 Des 20211h 5min
Sherlock Holmes' Little Book of Wisdom
"it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all" [TWIS] The game—of life—is afoot! In our endless pursuit of happiness, is it possible that we have overlooked some crucial clue? Sherl...
15 Des 20211h 6min
Observations by Gaslight
"draw inferences from our observations" [CARD] Lyndsay Faye, BSI ("Kitty Winter") has a knack for capturing the voice of John H. Watson in the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But in her latest Sher...
30 Nov 202154min
The Return of the Pharaoh
"those sacred writings, drawn in Egyptian letters" [STUD] If there is one author to whom we owe the rise in popularity of Sherlock Holmes in the mid-1970s, it is Nicholas Meyer, BSI ("A Fine Morocco...
15 Nov 20211h 7min
Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects
"there were several objects in the room which called for special attention" [BLAC] Collecting must be in the air: following our last episode with Rebecca Romney talking about Sherlockian collecting,...
30 Okt 20211h 8min
Sherlockian Collecting
"a small but select library" [GLOR] After covering the Shaw 100 in a previous episode and wondering what the future of Sherlockian libraries and collections might look like, we could think of no bet...
15 Okt 20211h 12min
Evidence Boxes
"I'll show you a grim little bit of evidence" [RETI] Paul Churchill, BSI ("Corot") delighted in recreating evidence boxes for each Sherlock Holmes story. After his death in 2008, Deborah Clark becam...
30 Sep 202159min
The Shaw 100
"a ramble through the Ragged Shaw" [PRIO] As the curator of the Sherlock Holmes Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries, Tim Johnson has seen just about everything. Almost as much as Jo...
15 Sep 20211h
