Episodios

  • Who Wrote the American Chapters of A Study in Scarlet?

    Who Wrote the American Chapters of A Study in Scarlet?
    Dec 3 2025

    "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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    Links
    • The Morley-Montgomery Award
    • The Morley-Montgomery Award series of episodes (Patreon | Substack)
    • All of our social links: https://linktr.ee/ihearofsherlock
    • Email us at trifles @ ihearofsherlock.com
    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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    28 m
  • Angels of Darkness

    Angels of Darkness
    Nov 27 2025

    "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)
    • Other episodes mentioned:
      • Trifles Episode 318 - Dr. Watson's Marriages
      • I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere Episode 13: A Life in Letters
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    • Our merch site
    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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    33 m
  • A Most Valuable Institution

    A Most Valuable Institution
    Nov 19 2025

    "all the main ones in the press reports" [THOR]

    Sherlock Holmes new 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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    • Other episodes mentioned:
      • Episode 50 - The Agony Column
    • New Sherlockian merch!
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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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    19 m
  • Lucky Thirteen

    Lucky Thirteen
    Nov 12 2025

    "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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    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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    22 m
  • The Sherlock Holmes We Never Knew

    The Sherlock Holmes We Never Knew
    Nov 5 2025

    "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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    Links
    • The Morley-Montgomery Award
    • The Morley-Montgomery Award series of episodes (Patreon | Substack)
    • 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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    • Email us at trifles @ ihearofsherlock.com
    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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    41 m
  • The Tall Man

    The Tall Man
    Oct 29 2025

    "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.

    If you have a question for us, please email us at trifles@ihearofsherlock.com. If you use your inquiry on the show, we'll send you a thank you gift.

    Don't forget to listen to "Trifling Trifles" — short-form content that doesn't warrant a full episode. This is a benefit exclusively for our paying subscribers. Check it out (Patreon | Substack). Leave Trifles a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts and Spotify; listen to this episode here or wherever you get podcasts
    Links
    • The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes (The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library)
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    • Email us at trifles @ ihearofsherlock.com
    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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    22 m
  • Paddington vs. Waterloo

    Paddington vs. Waterloo
    Oct 22 2025

    "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.

    If you have a question for us, please email us at trifles@ihearofsherlock.com. If you use your inquiry on the show, we'll send you a thank you gift.

    Don't forget to listen to "Trifling Trifles" — short-form content that doesn't warrant a full episode. This is a benefit exclusively for our paying subscribers. Check it out (Patreon | Substack). Leave Trifles a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts and Spotify; listen to this episode here or wherever you get podcasts Links
    • The original question (Facebook)
    • The Strangers Room Facebook Group
    • 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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    • Email us at trifles @ ihearofsherlock.com
    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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    19 m
  • T.S. Eliot and the Great Grimpen Mire

    T.S. Eliot and the Great Grimpen Mire
    Oct 15 2025

    "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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    Links
    • Four Quartets (Wikipedia)
    • The Baker Street Journal
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    • Email us at trifles @ ihearofsherlock.com
    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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    24 m