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Sherlock Holmes: Trifles

Scott Monty & Burt Wolder

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Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 490

You know the plots, but what about the minutiae? We delve into the Sherlock Holmes stories and answers questions that arise, clarify muddy details, and look into some of the period terminology in this weekly podcast.

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Entombment

Season 10 · Episode 490

Thursday, May 21, 2026 • Duration 22:59

"the business in the crypt" [SHOS] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfPNElHsbaBU0vzdoeHojfLo9cAgW1Pxk5V1XbJX5KCucarBBw-sHXOyadxN7FLXZ0bsbp553JQhesVNL73tfbOi729GTAgkbP7ANR3a17Px5uhpXohLSXCZC2lZC2lQOSATCTVqauTKz6ShyphenhyphentnU879sL_uh96uz9-jzhyFoZYiwyH5WwR5Mjd2Nx-kWg/s1700/490%20-%20Entombment.jpg If you experience claustrophobia, this may not be the episode for you. Because it's all about being shut up in close spaces. And it's the monthly "Mr. Sherlock Holmes the Theorist" episode. Denise M. Rogers walks us through the gothic theme shared between Edgar Allan Poe and some of the Sherlock Holmes stories in her Baker Street Miscellanea article "Crypts, Secret Rooms and Subterranean Passageways: Entombment as a Motif in the Canon" from Spring 1990. 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. Our Merch Store is open: Trifles mugs, notepads, and oval stickers can be yours (or someone else's, if you'd like to make it a gift). Start shopping today. Don't sleep on "Trifling Trifles" — short-form content that doesn't warrant a full episode. We release these at the beginning of every month. The latest episode is "for those with ears attuned to catch the distant view-halloo!" 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

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Watson's Embellishments

Season 10 · Episode 489

Wednesday, May 13, 2026 • Duration 30:13

"an exaggerated view of my scientific methods" [SUSS] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjzwMNShvGojduWXuuFfV5UKjov74K3shvVb8k7YOCwfDreRUFvgMhAMDt8_pJ1hne1HvLZzg2taE6D3LRWvpZg4n7JoQlDmfM_yl9wNWtaNbpAY0VB-LlSkuO9rKnYKnPpc53eEN0Ymq9jcBqj3LAJrcWHAjQ7ikyYLex6UicFZKEn0_P2oChpMFfRqA/s1600/489%20-%20Embellishments.jpg We consider Watson a reliable narrator. At least we hope he is. And yet there are a number of times when Sherlock Holmes accuses his Boswell of romanticizing the factual. Is Holmes simply taking issue with how Watson writes with a more emotional and imaginative framework? Or is it possible that Watson was also exaggerating to make the stories more exciting? 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. Our Merch Store is open: Trifles mugs, notepads, and oval stickers can be yours (or someone else's, if you'd like to make it a gift). Start shopping today. Don't sleep on "Trifling Trifles" — short-form content that doesn't warrant a full episode. We release these at the beginning of every month. The latest episode is "for those with ears attuned to catch the distant view-halloo!" This is a benefit exclusively for our paying subscribers. Check it out (Patreon | Substack). Links Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber Orchestra Washington, DC: .

A Study in Solecisms

Season 10 · Episode 480

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 • Duration 21:02

"I can't stand his lordship" [MAZA] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisadpwr3eTQt2D9dAIS1tEmguXj19-Ck3EkSuW6dhh2PIBlp247eWGYlWKq0yF-OLYfkh_nGN1UuQWU8TaR6GxN22FyQsD0BgFFgvwVl6KSi7E5ANXaNyiR-BagS4SmaPRlKx1FGnNftgpvLnFTVphDZHF3F1-5_-l25YkTK1iaNdbR5tg9YXvN6F-Epw/s838/480%20-%20Solecisms.jpg For hapless Americans, the titles used by peers in the Sherlock Holmes stories can be vexing indeed. One would think that Sherlock Holmes would be able to keep things straight. Between his devil-may-care attitude toward the upper class and Conan Doyle's own lack of breeding, Damian Thompson found a decided gap in the way certain members of the peerage are titled. And 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. There's a new "Trifling Trifles" episode out — short-form content that doesn't warrant a full episode. We release these at the beginning of every month. The latest episode is about the questionable judgment of the head of the Baker Street irregulars. This is a benefit exclusively for our paying subscribers. Check it out (Patreon | Substack). Our Merch Store is now open: Trifles mugs, notepads, and oval stickers can be yours (or someone else's, if you'd like to make it a gift). Start shopping today. Links Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber Orchestra Washington, DC: .

Sherlock Holmes, Linguist

Season 8 · Episode 390

Wednesday, June 19, 2024 • Duration 34:02

"he is a remarkable linguist" [GREE] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ6_iHTj68e9VcKAgHARCzINz4sWw9ymdoC4rv29Zt1UDchxi3wWaw-RtGIKQVBVLWMFJGNdA89SDyFoplR077hkvjeR3-hg7d_qmML3ibe3T6QvB8I1uM6vZN-HS-Oix60BD62PPEYGFgQYhnJPfdRspIsAFScHKp1Stzx7R0_drw_yC-RN0v5w3u3-g/s1117/390%20-%20Linguist.jpg Sherlock Holmes has been translated into scores of languages all around the world (just ask Don Hobbs). But what languages was he fluent in or have passing familiarity with?

This is the question Dean W. Dickensheet tackles in Vol. 10 No. 3 of The Baker Street Journal in his article "Sherlock Holmes - Linguist." It's the latest in our series looking at old Sherlockian scholarship and it's just a Trifle.

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The eBSJ
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Years of Mystery

Season 8 · Episode 389

Thursday, June 13, 2024 • Duration 21:37

"We have three years of the past to discuss" [EMPT] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjou-3kOltrZtfWKDoCtY4joAYrROCu9MLoT2ehNYKbiQZj_Ql9UspLG4Rtx4tik1J5PrwXK5cEKNqGhW5gtv-10xlG7IWoCEHv6yUouWvJOU38vdrLq7x6Jcz4qUuqzM0XdSbHaxGsd2G9fslxoab5abmzxNNmL6NfM_rS0dKz3jx1uAnbFeiFqpHgjrE/s866/389%20-%20Years%20of%20mystery.jpg

Once again, we pack our Gladstone bags and prepare for an episode where we travel. This time, we head to Sussex Downs and then across the Atlantic to New York in some of the early years of Sherlock Holmes's retirement.

What brings us there is from the fertile imagination of Les Klinger, who posits a connection between Sherlock Holmes, Wilson Hargreave, and Andrew Carnegie. It's just a Trifle.

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Elderly in the Canon

Season 8 · Episode 388

Thursday, June 6, 2024 • Duration 23:31

"his age, and an affliction" [STOC] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8sUsKVuvwJENPPa1yuSVbtgcCqlSjNylk4eQYnW53-d6GfcT9bVchqzNyt66gJPpPM9D_x24ws27I6zcf5KG0XTg2fqcbETC-gQgWjsW9EQPWbDrLglRRhaUbxgPKKX927HEONVl4b8SrhgXxMFRojPfAo4qxTVIfcZxdJeplmtASVxaG1CXFTTB7ZqY/s814/388%20-%20Elderly.jpg

The panoply of elderly individuals in the Sherlock Holmes stories is impressive: Mr. Frankland, the old crank in The Hound of the Baskervilles, the miserly Josiah Amberley in "The Retired Colourman," Old Mr. Farquhar, the previous owner of Watson's practice.

But there were many others, some of whom go almost unnoticed. What similarities do we see among them? How did Conan Doyle's writing about them change over time? It's just a Trifle.

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Linoleum

Season 8 · Episode 387

Thursday, May 30, 2024 • Duration 26:35

"the flooring was also thoroughly examined" [SPEC] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQUku_XYEO9Cpn6dH0zxkcFZJAadN5qFQKH91WC9F5TnYZEFBoiCkwdwaYQOur3-yKq6NbEKVlX45nT-QQHNmevroiallMbg0ENnaAWxEJTyWlhPB0djTU3Y-s8UnDh0T8IObYZqILYUFORbo0oxlcic_quE0WlqPC_ntJRexFTS6PvKpbrnDznWEE8Bs/s1422/387%20-%20Linoleum.jpg

Cocoanut matting, bearskin rug, carpets — there are a number of notable floor coverings mentioned in the Sherlock Holmes stories. But flooring itself is less notable.

Case in point: linoleum, which appears as a passing mention in just three stories, was a popular alternative at the time. What do we know about the history of linoleum, how was it manufactured, and what role did it play in the Canon? It's just a Trifle.

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Episode 102: Inside 221B: On the Floor

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Forests

Season 8 · Episode 386

Thursday, May 23, 2024 • Duration 23:51

"Vast sections of it have been cleared" [BLAC] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUMncYpi3xjjkFeyGuIJy05ac-YUNbANGmjdF4KJkkG-XWMY5ZoSRpJirHOPIFB-Z84cKmz6ygB-OwA-BWhOmK7J5zoebWgVrCqD9ZOd5ElW8-Zo9ZnpjudOy3tJi3EfY8OSBf24xhcWwuE4tXd2oVVwJ2amViEvmPESW8l_sapkojRCU4avE2RDB7sp4/s1432/386%20-%20Forests.png

When you're really down in the details about something — something trifling, perhaps — it's difficult to see the forest for the trees, as the saying goes.

Well, we've discussed trees in two previous episodes, so we thought it was time to look at the forests. There were scant mentions of forests in the Sherlock Holmes stories, but they're worth a Trifle.

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Forest Row
New Forest
Weald
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Episode 274: Trees, Part 1

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The Long Road from Maiwand

Season 8 · Episode 385

Wednesday, May 15, 2024 • Duration 21:08

"at Maiwand without losing my nerve" [STUD] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJOeDiEA630of7XE-ITigALWgSl1FjgEz0jzCBngN6u-1jKtqVzH_z5nAqXTzxvgVctjmCMJO-Tlpa08tzcVMMgm0dWVz4kPUrFKc1r6EWGRGWY6gyDz65Xkb4sONbYKADKV8YAG6keJKQn4DLwnjG81OWqkiOt4T9oRc8s3HfM0vV5g0EhLuynDySLqg/s1088/385%20-%20Maiwand.jpg Maiwand: Saving the Guns by Richard Caton Woodville, 1883 (Wikimedia Commons)

It is generally accepted that A Study in Scarlet, when Dr. Watson first met Sherlock Holmes, took place in 1881. Watson was just back from the war in Afghanistan, where he had been wounded at the Battle of Maiwand.

But in 1940, Edgar W. Smith took a closer look at the timing between the battle, Watson's recovery time, travel to London and hotel stay, and came to a much different conclusion. He wrote it up in a pamphlet and it's just a Trifle.

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Sherlock Holmes, Cabby

Season 8 · Episode 384

Thursday, May 9, 2024 • Duration 19:04

"Stop at a telegraph-office, cabby!" [SIGN] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7pBki-nzAjV_0CsHS-u9KB2OpE7YeJwbFBvqvi0CjZn2lGb9xqUMC4_L8wSOq3GefSmrSPgkAZ8AyQglAlV9vsS9chsi58wddxvrWKIoHg8ZkjH0x8SlRcRiZYFqkz3GovXxkocJHnctaJFecd5mbDs70yvHrhFiKM8DBPV7IGhqOcJE48XfK5nqTpyc/s1431/384%20-%20Cabby.png

Cabbies are everywhere in London – indeed, so common in some cases that they're simply overlooked (we see you, Jefferson Hope!). Could Sherlock Holmes have passed himself off as a cabby?

There are certainly points in his career when it would have made sense. And a paper given at a Sherlock Holmes society in Denmark points in that direction. Hop on board with us in this monthly travel series episode! It's just a Trifle.

"The Thomas Hogram Letters" by Sven Ranild is an expanded and translated version of a paper delivered in Copenhagen on September 19, 1987, at the Centenary Dinner of the Sherlock Holmes Klubben i Danmark and it appeared in the Summer 1991 issue of The Sherlock Holmes Journal.

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