I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere

"give me a true account of all that happened" [ABBE]  We're fairly comfortable in taking Dr. Watson at his word. That is, we trust that what Watson tells us is the true eyewitness account of his time with Sherlock Holmes. But what if that wasn't the case? What if Watson's writings were actually a set of highly polished tales that masked the true drama behind the scenes at 221B Baker Street? That's...

"clad in a rude sailor dress with a pea-jacket," [SIGN]  The town of Chester, Illinois contains a few interesting items. One is the Chester Baskerville Society. Another is the Popeye and Friends Character Trail. And the common bond between both of them is Mike McClure, BSI ("Stimson & Co."), a member of the Baker Street Irregulars. Mike tells us about his involvement with Sherlock Holmes, about th...

"an event of extreme importance" [SIGN]  What do two energetic and passionate Sherlock Holmes fans do when they're sparked by a new Sherlock Holmes manifestation? Why, they establish a major event! That's exactly what Heather Holloway and Crystal Noll did, after discovering they each enjoyed Sherlock Holmes, albeit from two very different origins. Throw in the Canon, the BBC, Waffle House, and gro...

"tucked like an umbrella underneath his arm" [BLAC] The BSI Press is busy again this year, adding another volume to the Manuscript Series. In this instance, the book is  Deadly Harpoon , the manuscript of "The Adventure of Black Peter," with associated articles.   We spoke with the editor of this volume, Glen Miranker, BSI (" The Origin of Tree Worship "), who needs no introduction to regular list...

"good practical knowledge of British law" [STUD]    Following the Baker Street Irregulars Weekend, the BSI Press is cranking again. We picked up three new volumes, and we're pleased to have the editors of one of them with us in this episode.   Will Walsh, BSI ("Godfrey Norton") and Donny Zaldin, BSI ("The Last and Highest Court of Appeal") are the editors of  Canon Law: Lawyers, Law, and the Sherl...

"singularly adapted to our needs" [MISS]    With our first episode of 2019, we're pleased to welcome fellow podcasters Jeremy Latour and Arielle Lipshaw, hosts of  Adapt or Perish . They came to our attention because of a couple of episodes they did on Sherlock Holmes.   Jeremy and Arielle have a process they follow, complete with a quadrant, to help make sense of their assessments of how literary...

"Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science" [SIGN]    We promised you a science-filled December, and we're keeping that promise. Following our previous episode on the  International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes  at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, NJ, we're pleased to welcome the crime historian E.J. Wagner to the show.   E.J. wrote the 2007 Edgar Award winner  The Science of Sherl...

"They had among their exhibits" [VEIL]  We're accustomed to seeing Sherlock Holmes on the printed page, screen, stage and even the Internet as a course of regularity. But it isn't all that often we have an opportunity to see an entire exhibition dedicated to Sherlock Holmes.   Amy Noble Seitz and Geoffrey Curley join us to discuss how their respective teams at Exhibits Development Group and Geoffr...

"Volume 'H' in his encyclopaedia of reference" [PRIO]    If you were looking for the Sherlock Holmes media pundit, you've come to the right place. Howard Ostrom is a completist of Sherlock Holmes material in media, and he's been on the hunt for decades.   Howard has collected more than 4,300 names of individuals who have played Sherlock Holmes in various formats over the years, and has written the...

"colored plates illustrating the difference" [SIGN]  Sherlockians and Holmesians everywhere have been waiting decades for a book like this. All it took was the enterprising mind of Nick Utechin, BSI ("The Ancient British Barrow") and the professional eyes at Wessex Press to bring it to life.   For the first time anywhere, all of Paget's illustrations are reproduced in high quality images, scanned...

"Leslie...is certainly a man of energy and character" [MISS]    Without a doubt, one of the greatest Sherlock Holmes scholars of our time is Les Klinger, BSI ("The Abbey Grange"). Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, he updated and expanded the landmark  Annotated Sherlock Holmes  by William S. Baring-Gould, BSI ("The  Gloria Scott "). His work took on two forms: The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes...

"Your pictures are not unlike you" [3GAR] There's no question that being with other Sherlockians makes things eminently more enjoyable. And that was proven to be quite true during From Gillette to Brett V in Bloomington, Indiana earlier this month.   Nearly 150 Sherlockians gathered to celebrate Sherlock Holmes on the screen, and there were a wonderful grouping of talented people who put on the pr...

"a single large airy sitting-room" [STUD]    It's always fun to take a Sherlockian field trip. The British are fortunate in that they can hop on a train or in a car and find themselves at some of the original locations that inspired places in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Or certainly to Ground Zero: the rooms at 221B Baker Street in London.   In the U.S., it's not always quite so easy (even though...

"the well-wrought crisis of a play" [SIXN]  Lee Eric Shackleford is a man of many talents. So many, in fact, that we don't have time to get into all of them in a single episode.    Suffice it to say that between his play Holmes & Watson, his secret desire (and success!) in writing for  Star Trek , and the web series  Herlock , we find much to cover with Lee. A Sherlockian from his earliest years,...

"I will cable to Mrs. Hudson" [LADY]  Mrs. Hudson. We know her as one of the stalwarts of the Baker Street Scene. Together with Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Mycroft, Inspector Lestrade, and Professor Moriarty, she's one of the most popular recurring characters in the Canon.  But what do we really know about her? She only made an appearance in nine of the Sherlock Holmes stories. And other than her...

""Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he." [CROO]    We'll be honest. The CBS drama series  Elementary , starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu doesn't get enough attention here on I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere.   It's largely because Scott and Burt haven't carved out the time to watch it. As a weekly series, there's much more to absorb than the three-episode series that the BBC produced every...

"requisitioned for the defense" [VALL]    Conan Doyle's real-life turn as Sherlock Holmes has typically been shared through the George Edalji case. But there was another case involving one Oscar Slater that has been more of a footnote than a feature. Author Margalit Fox set out to change that.   In  Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, a...

"a most united couple" [DANC]     Another episode in our Florin Society series, this time with Roger Johnson, BSI (" The Pall Mall Gazette ") and Jean Upton ("Elsie Cubitt"). The Florin Society of course refers to spouses who each have received an investiture from the Baker Street Irregulars.   Roger's and Jean's story was a fun one to explore, not the least of which was because they're deeply inv...

"no ordinary merit" [REDH]  In 2014, the Sherlockian world was taken by complete and utter surprise when William Gillette's 1916 film  Sherlock Holmes  was discovered. It was the closest thing we'd ever have to seeing Gillette on stage, and Russell Merritt, BSI ("The Trepoff Murder") was part of the team that restored it.   We carried the news on our site, but now we're pleased to share the backst...

"a slight nick" [SILV]    If you're a regular Sherlockian, you've likely discovered that many other people in this hobby also enjoy Star Trek (which makes the Spock / Leonard Nimoy connections all the more...fascinating, as Spock would say). But how often do you hear from a guest that Irene Adler was the Boba Fett of the Sherlock Holmes stories?   That's exactly one of the unusual and unique takes...

"at this conference" [MAZA]     Steven Doyle, BSI (" Western Morning News ") is many things, among them half of the publishing team at Wessex Press and the  Baker Street Journal . But more importantly for our topic on this episode, he's one of the sparking plugs behind  From Gillette to Brett V .    We haven't been able to make it to the previous four installments, so we asked Steve all about this...

 "The date being—?" [CREE]    We all owe a debt of gratitude to the more clever, adventurous, and tireless among us – because this is the profile of the Canonical chronologist. The most famous among them is certain William S. Baring-Gould ("The  Gloria Scott "), but he was flanked by other greats such as Bell, Christ, Blakeney, Zeisler, Dakin and more.     Add to that list one of our contemporarie...

"fixed like a plum" [SIXN]     The casual reader wouldn't necessarily associate Sherlock Holmes with P.G. Wodehouse. Or P.G. Woodhouse with Sherlock Holmes. Fortunately, we're more of the formal types.    And so are our guests!     Three – count 'em, three – guests join us this time around. They are Curtis Armstrong, Elliot Milstein, and Ashley Polasek, and they are the two authors and editor of ...

"he was a young schoolmaster" [MUSG]    We're constantly impressed at the onion-like tendencies of Sherlockians. That's not to say that they're pungent or make you cry, but rather that like the genus  Allium , when peeled, has a surprising number of layers.   So it is with Rob Nunn, a relatively recent Sherlockian who has come blazing into our sites. Rob has been a contributor here on the I Hear o...

"He's a man who is not to be beat." [SIGN]    Baker Street Beat is many things: it's a book. It's a website. But more importantly, it's Dan's personal passion that combines many of his life interests.   In this episode, Dan Andriacco — author, Sherlockian, journalist and more — joins us to talk about his fascinating history with Sherlock Holmes, how he came to write a number of successful books, f...