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You know the plots, but what about the minutiae?
Mar 31, 2022
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Scott Monty
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Discussions about the Sherlock Holmes stories. It's just a Trifle!
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31:09
Episode 477 - Dr. Watson & Mr. Wilde
The intersection of Oscar Wilde with the world of Sherlock Holmes crosses fact and fiction
Feb 19
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Episode 476 - Revenge
Who sought it? Who exacted it?
Feb 12
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34:09
Episode 475 - The Case of 'J'
D.K. Andrews uses Freudian analysis on a familiar Canonical figure
Feb 4
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35:54
Trifling Trifles #10 - Wiggins
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Feb 1
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5:03
Episode 474 - Earls
A peer at the peerage in the Sherlock Holmes stories
Jan 29
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23:23
Theorist
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31:09
Episode 477 - Dr. Watson & Mr. Wilde
The intersection of Oscar Wilde with the world of Sherlock Holmes crosses fact and fiction
Feb 19
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Scott Monty
Episode 473 - Oxford or Cambridge
One of the most divisive debates in Sherlockian scholarship
Jan 21
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29:57
Episode 468 - Sherlock Holmes and Edwin Drood
Charles Dickens died without leaving a solution to his famous mystery. Who better to solve it than Sherlock Holmes?
Dec 18, 2025
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18:41
T.S. Eliot and the Great Grimpen Mire
Subtle influences of The Hound of the Baskervilles appear in a work by T.S. Eliot
Oct 16, 2025
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23:35
Episode 451 - John H. Watson Never Went to China
Jay Finley Christ debunks a previously-held claim about Watson's true identity
Aug 20, 2025
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21:41
Morley-Montgomery
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35:54
Episode 475 - The Case of 'J'
D.K. Andrews uses Freudian analysis on a familiar Canonical figure
Feb 4
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Episode 471 - Upon the Dating of Blood Stains
Robert Schultz definitively identifies the writer and recipient of a scurrilous letter
Jan 7
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Scott Monty
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37:34
Episode 466 - Who Wrote the American Chapters of A Study in Scarlet?
Ben Vizoskie finds irrefutable proof in a logical, if unexpected place
Dec 3, 2025
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28:10
Episode 462 - The Sherlock Holmes We Never Knew
S.E. Dahlinger gives us more information about William Gillette than we ever had before
Nov 6, 2025
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40:49
Episode 457 - On the Chaldean Influences in Cornish
Margaret Nydell attempts to unlock Sherlock Holmes's secret research in Cornwall
Oct 1, 2025
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Scott Monty
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28:33
Trifling Trifles
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Trifling Trifles #10 - Wiggins
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Feb 1
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Trifling Trifles #9 - The First Message
When Hilton Cubitt first visits Sherlock Holmes, he has a written message with him.
Jan 1
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6:26
Trifling Trifles #8 - J Pens
When Mycroft Holmes remarked on a note that was addressed to him in “The Greek Interpreter,” he seemed to pull a rabbit out of his hat this observation:
Dec 1, 2025
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6:15
Trifling Trifles #7 - Wagonettes
We’re treated to a wide variety of conveyances in the Sherlock Holmes stories, from water vessels to the railway to horse-drawn vehicles and even…
Nov 1, 2025
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Scott Monty
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8:26
Trifling Trifles #6 - Worst. Banker. Ever.
There are very few bankers in the Sherlock Holmes stories, but the few we do meet tend to be very concerned with their holdings.
Oct 1, 2025
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6:27
Inside 221B
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17:54
Episode 102 - Inside 221B: On the Floor
“he slipped down upon the floor” [PRIO]
Dec 12, 2018
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Episode 98 - Inside 221B: The Gramophone
“modern gramophones are a remarkable invention” [MAZA]
Nov 14, 2018
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14:08
Episode 93 - Inside 221B: Have a Seat
“Pray take a seat” [MAZA]
Oct 10, 2018
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17:15
Episode 89 - Inside 221B: Stradivarius
Listen now (17 mins) | “off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony” [REDH]
Sep 13, 2018
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16:50
Episode 84 - Inside 221B: The Morocco Case
“neat morocco case” [SIGN]
Aug 8, 2018
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20:09
Travel
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8:26
Trifling Trifles #7 - Wagonettes
We’re treated to a wide variety of conveyances in the Sherlock Holmes stories, from water vessels to the railway to horse-drawn vehicles and even…
Nov 1, 2025
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Scott Monty
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Episode 460 - Paddington vs. Waterloo
One small thing about the train stations in The Hound of the Baskervilles...
Oct 22, 2025
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Scott Monty
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18:55
Episode 458 - The Moor as a Character
The moor is there, lurking in every scene of The Hound of the Baskervilles
Oct 8, 2025
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Scott Monty
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25:27
Episode 455 - Lhassa & Mecca
What do we *really* know about Sherlock Holmes's time in Tibet and Saudi Arabia?
Sep 17, 2025
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Scott Monty
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21:42
Episode 411 - The Continental
Holmes and Watson take off from London to evade Professor Moriarty. Where does their trip take them?
Nov 13, 2024
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Scott Monty
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28:59
Games & Sports
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21:01
Episode 422 - Baritsu
Sherlock Holmes was before his time with his mastery of this martial art
Jan 30, 2025
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Scott Monty
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Watson's Billiard Playing
“chalk his billiard-cue” [MISS]
Feb 8, 2024
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Scott Monty
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23:23
Missing Three-Quarter One-Third Discovered
“this extraordinary league” [REDH]
Mar 2, 2022
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19:19
Sherlock Holmes, Sportsman
Listen now (31 mins) | “I am a born sportsman” [LAST]
Dec 25, 2019
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30:59
Swimming
“Going for a swim, I see.” [LION]
Nov 13, 2019
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22:53
Women
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19:24
Episode 395 - Victorian Adventuresses
“she seems indeed to be on a very different level” [SCAN]
Jul 25, 2024
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Episode 369 - Hosmeric Hypocrisy
“You’ll be interested to hear that I am engaged.” [CHAS]
Jan 25, 2024
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The Four Violets
"stained with violet" [IDEN]
Jul 27, 2022
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25:47
Damsels in Distress
“she confessed with distress” [LADY]
Dec 1, 2021
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26:59
Two Maids A-Missing
“Altogether there are eight maids” [MUSG]
Jun 30, 2021
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Scott Monty
23:09
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