“the folly of a monarch” [NOBL]. Aside from "a certain gracious lady" who gifted Sherlock Holmes an emerald tie-pin at Windsor one afternoon, we don't think of British royalty very often in the Sherlock Holmes stories. And yet, there are at least a ...
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Baker Street Elementary – King Me

“the folly of a monarch” [NOBL]



Aside from "a certain gracious lady" who gifted Sherlock Holmes an emerald tie-pin at Windsor one afternoon, we don't think of British royalty very often in the Sherlock Holmes stories.

And yet, there are at least a dozen references to British monarchs hidden throughout the 60 stories. Some are quite obvious, but others are oblique and even obscure.

How many can you name?

For a rundown of exactly how many there are and in which stories they...

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Episode 294: Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell

“there appeared a long telegram” [SECO]

Nicholas Meyer's first Sherlock Holmes book, The Seven Per-Cent Solution, became and remains the high-water mark for Sherlock Holmes pastiches. So when he edits another one of Dr. Watson's recovered manuscripts, it's always worthwhile.

The latest is Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell, published by Mysterious Press, and it takes Holmes and Watson across the Atlantic, dodging German U-boats in pursuit of a coded telegram from Berlin to an unknown...

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Baker Street Elementary – Steele True

“striking illustration” [ILLU]


Arthur Conan Doyle made Sherlock Holmes famous in various periodicals and eventually books. But it was Holmes's illustrators who put flesh on the bones and gave us the distinctive image that we know today.

One of these artists was Frederic Dorr Steele, whose illustrations graced the covers and interior of Collier's in the early 1900s. Steele's Holmes was reminiscent of William Gillette, who first portrayed Holmes on stage in 1899 and went on to make more...

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Episode 293: Tales of Light, Shadow, and Darkness

“culminated in that moment of revelation” [3GAR]


As an educator, Tracy Revels makes sure her students have fun learning. Which would explain why at her college, students can take one of her classes about Sherlock Holmes.

But Tracy's own love of learning and reading gave rise to another outlet for her fascination with Sherlock Holmes: writing. Her Shadow trilogy (Shadowfall, Shadowblood, and Shadowwraith) find Sherlock Holmes in the world of the occult, and her series of 41 short stories,...

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Baker Street Elementary – How Low Can You Go?

“And so under” [MUSG]


One of the side-benefits of reading the Sherlock Holmes stories is we have the opportunity to educate ourselves on terminology that is almost comprehensible. That is, words or phrases that might seem odd yet vaguely familiar.

For instance, when Watson needs to educate himself on the finer points of Chinese pottery in "The Illustrious Client," he tells us
“I drove to the London Library in St. James’s Square, put the matter to my friend Lomax, the sub-librarian,...

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