“Who do you give your casting vote to? ” [ENGR]. It's the midterm election season in the United States, which is like playoffs in sports, with constant advertisements and team rivalries, but with less fun and more existential dread. As part of our ...
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Baker Street Elementary – Vote of Confidence

“Who do you give your casting vote to?” [ENGR]


It's the midterm election season in the United States, which is like playoffs in sports, with constant advertisements and team rivalries, but with less fun and more existential dread.

As part of our escape to “That age before the world went all awry,” let's turn our attention to elections in the Sherlock Holmes stories. What's that, you say? You can't think of any elections in the Canon? It's elementary, if we put our minds to...

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Episode 344: The Lasting Impact of Sherlock

“thinking the business over, and trying to analyze my impressions” [YELL]


One of the wonders of our Sherlockian hobby is that we welcome people of all experiences and all ages. It's never too late to get involved, nor is there a single path to finding an interest in Sherlock Holmes.
This is exactly what Kyndall Potts discovered when she stumbled upon Sherlock Holmes in mid-life.

Kyndall is an accountant-turned-artist whose path to Sherlock Holmes is unique in our annals. Tune in to...

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Baker Street Elementary – Not Your Housekeeper

“This fellow could speak English and did his housekeeping for him.” [WIST]


One of the well-known phrases that came out of the 2010s series Sherlock was Mrs. Hudson's "Not your housekeeper, dear." She was intent on making it clear that her role was one of landlady, not helpmate.

In the Canon, we of course get both. Mrs. Hudson as landlady, no doubt reassured by the rent ("his payments were princely" — 'The Dying Detective') and housekeeper, who, as part of her duties, provided...

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Episode 343: Is This a Joke, Mr. Holmes?

“There was certainly an element of comedy” [3GAR]


We find ourselves in conversation with veteran cartoonist and graphic artist Jeff Decker, BSI (“Dr. Grimesby Roylott”) as we discuss the hilarious Sherlock Holmes cartoons he’s drawn for decades, now brought together in a new collection from Wessex Press entitled “Is This a Joke, Mr. Holmes?”

You’ll hear about the unique way he happened to chose the first Sherlock Holmes story he ever read, and how he fell under the spell...

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Baker Street Elementary – Infinite Strangeness

“Not for worlds” [BLAC]

Consider this: the Sherlock Holmes stories, even with their spectral hounds, severed ears, and dead bodies on railway tracks, are less an escape from life as we know it, than a reflection of it.

“There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before, as Sherlock Holmes told Inspector Gregson in A Study in Scarlet. While he was referring to the a specific case in the annals of crime history, the inference was clear: human nature is constant.

The crimes...

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