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| Entombment | 21 mai 2026 | 00:22:59 | |
"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 | 13 mai 2026 | 00:30:13 | |
"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). 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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| The Wicked Beginnings of a Baker Street Classic | 06 mai 2026 | 00:27:07 | |
"the hidden wickedness" [COPP] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5RWUclUgxZkPUVfgPCob1spAoRSJabCM_bjhrTJRoqGNlSSKDIATs9fR5wDcEPeGR0Qe-9NYkwgMWQk6lMthJCRKwghrTsHhoKAa_HCR8FMX6Q3qti1Y1ejozEw_9iq73bv7SrRHloeBfdbu9BZFuL3Y_ZT6HbUwN3-JT24QOur5YpWMCP1B1bupBKW4/s1993/488%20-%20Wicked%20Beginnings.jpg Vincent Starrett eventually became the dean of American Sherlockians, widely recognized as the foremost expert and significant collector, in part due to his publication of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes in 1933. This month's Morley-Montgomery Award episode comes to us from Starrett expert Ray Betzner, BSI ("The Agony Column") from Vol. 57, No. 3 of The Baker Street Journal. But before that book made its way to the public, a chapter appeared in a rather unusual place. For Starrett, who was accustomed to his Jimmy Lavender series appearing in, shall we say, less than family-friendly places, his Sherlock Holmes material appearing there must have been 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 "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). 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. 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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| The Dating of "The Five Orange Pips" | 30 avr. 2026 | 00:26:28 | |
"As to your dates, that is the biggest mystification of all." [CREE] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4dGt7cMq-I-NWLEXV_wCag4PSZ8M4ESkDpWZuzOB6oTPbAl1pwPEny1y0fAtLu-aP46X7DcafWw0rE2psngXG1fWnTSWsnv_Y3fZiIAShxnANAxujdxjjdTqfPcQV52jJ5e2G9y8fCxclvdD6M8NuggMz2fJSTp9n8jA0HqM65I9W4lQmM7jLNc44SRo/s1308/487%20-%20Dating%20of%20FIVE.jpg If you want to know five different options for dates of a Sherlock Holmes story, all you have to do it get four chronologists together. Such is the case with "The Five Orange Pips." In the mid-1990s, Les Klinger, BSI ("The Abbey Grange") looked at evidence within the story and external to it to determine if Watson's claim of 1887 would hold up. Along the way, he tested the assumptions of many other Sherlockians before him. 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 "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). 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. 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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| Spats | 22 avr. 2026 | 00:27:21 | |
"spat out some atrocious word" [CREE] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT49LivkowZGy5t1jaXI5pBx3bT4PaSkjwPDZ8C93q7umbN0bKGsVVQC4y6JDwCWrS7XDbypP6_UObpgJYcGqAnaQwPEzF5l7sRrRiX2c5tjKAr9Qz3sFTy5gI_Xs8ZsvDjgDazHEUpgWI756QPxOrlwPRQc4y0emfE1tPg7Rie40jZD2XfBuK-Ngc3Bg/s939/486%20-%20Spats.png One of the curiosities of Victorian and Edwardian life that doesn't get much attention, at least in Sherlockian conversation, is that of spats. This curious piece of attire related to footwear gets a scant two mentions in all of the Sherlock Holmes stories (do you remember who is mentioned as wearing them?), but its history and evolution are even more fascinating. 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 "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). 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. 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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| The Three Real Garridebs | 15 avr. 2026 | 00:21:45 | |
"This little group forms the real family" [WIST] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY7r4mXet1unJvSazwds4iZy2ZPzT1uFbznnrJAnAbkx8eUqZlpZnzeBJJJV15vhxFZOVbGaFnjeUmj8pxqrzzEZZCI5-KaDrmjSqhBh7A4-JpDOWovXqiKFfx0Jd3V6RbH52vCl-hTMEleoO0-m0dP1mjO26zrdDdXm1-wyMXsyhx7rpjPDY3EKvLnDU/s1238/485%20-%203GAB.jpg Baker Street Miscellanea is the source of this month's Mr. Sherlock Holmes the Theorist episode. Rev. Raymond Holly, in Number 50, Spring 1987, wondered who "The Real Three Garridebs" were. Or namely, one of them. He brings us into French Napeleonic territory on this journey of discovery. How does Brigadier Gerard connect with the problems of Nathan Garrideb? 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 "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). 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. 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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| Toast | 08 avr. 2026 | 00:29:44 | |
"he arranged a number of breadcrumbs" [PRIO] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirKx_tx-nLQtfCuVYWE2ncBuUxxjkOgQMk92ddOMmATJ64UD3GSuOlG_xbiSOgSkWA51hB4hvmfbSMyZ_KC4MHKPzFqZcAgW3xHuo2XBThdrDjsTMjZRQcEsnnynXn6QLCmWq2O6MLyoAbxDDTKVmgZO4iKpGR5nRCDe8oI5kLebIq9crk7818mbXKMwU/s1374/484%20-%20Toast.jpg Toast is a simple accompaniment of breakfast that we take for granted. We place bread in an appliance and minutes later, we have a perfect slice of toast. It wasn't quite so simple in Victorian times. How was toast cooked in Mrs. Hudson's kitchen? And in which stories do we even find toast mentioned? 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 "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). 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. 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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| The Materia Medica of Sherlock Holmes | 01 avr. 2026 | 00:26:24 | |
"researches which have a medico-criminal aspect" [DYIN] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6PwVU8cEfJ8-3RKn5comueOzuzMfMh8-5b_6O7YUi4F3RhHkQOi5RZR3yDvCv0roRxL5pTARAdQx_uQ5X8ZWZS-2MoHgCRCfTnGd0j517GthhGKXHTAEm3oDteDqNCwf337ug05zu-un6lCm1oQKyGhGaLWv5K7YFyhxZcYl3FNEyCisuDG_ekHpmnXM/s759/483%20-%20Materia%20Medica.jpg This month, the Morley-Montgomery Award brings us up to the year 2006, when Harold Billings pulled out some serious research originating in Edinburgh. His article "The Materia Medica of Sherlock Holmes" in Vol. 56, No. 3 of The Baker Street Journal helps us understand the sources Holmes may have used for his non-traditional education in the medical field. It may be more than 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 "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). 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. 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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| Fingerprints | 25 mars 2026 | 00:24:22 | |
"through the courtesy of Mr. Moriarty" [FINA] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAJAD9h1m-swAWdamoNMuS2ilRqNvP14aQnsv0MBM-L-WkaLvAxMPMDabI-E-jOxhALB2JzB7748hFZSoVGR7PbLKYANYgVqJQwou4xeuLRo3OeGvQdDIsxkGSBYLfzWJTUQEoHjwTm6tbi0EYBU-66Nnysi-01-wElQQ1Y-Ul6lKghZ0fs1hlrPXT1z0/s1441/482%20-%20Fingerprints.png As a student and practitioner of the latest forensic sciences as they pertained to the world of crime, Sherlock Holmes was on the cutting edge. He even wrote a number of monographs on topics related to crime. One might think that among them we might find "on the use of fingerprints to identify criminals." This is not the case. Why, we even had trouble finding trifling details about fingerprints in the entire Canon. Yet 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. 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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| Mr. Moriarty | 18 mars 2026 | 00:31:51 | |
"through the courtesy of Mr. Moriarty" [FINA] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3B_FsU5Z3fT96KoewEj5Oj28BJPVY88Ci42zTJGTwbWEwmCPYYuV533fhoKMDLiizaZuFlh7gNEYUhnAGeobIAY27-OiF_SjqYM1ZO_iBai4h6cu5rGwzp4_QYgf-nAATPDwSkicjvT3McHeWDejyNsBFt488sJ0ubv3e0NVMgO-kBNUBuMe5-T9ivXU/s971/481%20-%20Moriarty.jpg Each month, we look at a bit of Sherlockian scholarship that deserves to be unearthed and explored. Together, we consider the trifling matter is concerns. This month, we look at A.G. Macdonell's chapter "Mr. Moriarty" in the 1934 landmark publication Baker Street Studies, edited by H.W. Bell. 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. 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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| A Study in Solecisms | 11 mars 2026 | 00:21:02 | |
"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. 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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| Thaddeus Sholto (Mis)Diagnosed | 04 mars 2026 | 00:26:42 | |
"It confirms my diagnosis, as you doctors express it." [SIGN] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN9Cx2URKhG5aePRZWaMWxNLycmeiURhtWvVLeoSEtelg_19t9YfITubvqR05urFHkXo5mMoFmGwwnoGs66jiQm0-4oORiCAoQ6tRQPpUHkJyhp0k4HCKy_JSwE2U_ukUCCHr5dylB7Wxk3v5kVFZEBd_AdQqu0CY518mQo_Ti6v-xS1cnyBh0pzfgHrw/s1441/479%20-%20Thaddeus.png Our latest Morley-Montgomery award episode features another dive into the medical world of Sherlock Holmes. But this time, it's about a diagnosis made by Dr. Watson. In 2004, Costa Rossakis, MD, BSI ("St. Bartholomew's Hospital"), a trained cardiologist, investigated exactly what was going on with the nervous Thaddeus Sholto. His article (but not his diagnosis) is 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. 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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| Shaving | 25 févr. 2026 | 00:25:14 | |
"we have had a close shave" [SIGN] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJiMzfQJ926LRwwLr0L0uHtlvyXUnE9NHF4AS7VHTYFnl4sBz6w7NlANZL_l7tr0vmUtgTzofV3E9bvdxvMdABU1DbY8tiJ2U8HWeLX4_Z1pGXUNdtOhpeOSUWm2573gWL17TNRJ3bOGC3mfCXePifCU3bPhEd1W-h5pQcfOH1-cc4GNeakIVlMy4V6G8/s956/478%20-%20Shaving.png Holmes was always clean-shaven, Watson always had a mustache. This is the way of the world of Sherlock Holmes as we know it. But they didn't arrive at that state naturally. Like any good Victorian gentleman who eschewed whiskers, they had to shave. As did others in the Canon. We explore a bit of the history of shaving and its applications. 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. 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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| Dr. Watson & Mr. Wilde | 18 févr. 2026 | 00:31:10 | |
"a bit of professional business between two gentlemen" [3GAR] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQm0WZBR_U1e9hwztceMuRKt94sDFEmrtV7ToyrsTHvkA1ufx45gPAd-NjqIhpDhs8znVv6oQIcJLe_LG6OmtvC0DspRra-pa-qrioDoac61THDKiCDYsdyQKAz9dnVfgSnafcHUzSkhVyabDjiROHss-FUvKmStfp8FvrIUoXpKh3VBcary0Fb-ev8Yw/s759/477%20-%20Watson%20Wilde.png In this month's Mr. Sherlock Holmes the theorist, we turn again to a bit of British scholarship from the 1950s. James Edward Holroyd's chapter "Dr. Watson and Mr. Wilde" in Baker Street By-Ways does an exemplary job of comparing the timelines of the great detective and the great wit, who each had a connection to a certain dinner with J.M. Stoddart of Lippincott's. 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. 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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| Revenge | 11 févr. 2026 | 00:34:10 | |
"a methodical revenge" [STUD] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR8wUA1mNiaUdLMBnf7bQkvujq08EYdf8ad0wq-svcxEyLLFSco6Ik05rCU33w-Bf9zGbwFmNk1d8RngsC4ZC8a_gvqcIxvvy2q23NXs9JvmDzoCxR_b_YqzQUDQFTFU8uYGOP8CHRWr2fwnN6nKJqy3V2wquHGRjJ5esfm4tqbLMwXrYCrrcMJAIZVR8/s1603/476%20-%20Revenge.png They say revenge is a dish best served cold. But what about when it's just threatened? In this episode, we do a sweep of figures in the Sherlock Holmes stories who promised or exacted revenge. Did we catch them all? 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. 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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| The Case of 'J' | 04 févr. 2026 | 00:35:55 | |
"some strange and inexplicable horror in the background" [CARD] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJiirxNSUQqejJeWePSj4fmZl4qhL-zQFITupGhGFt6e8-vghTLnOh8nsLmb6I1na_4GmzKfe4t3qT-tLiRLTsSeqHYgdqXyB9BTXZY46rD11viv77VndfXmrswL-xCMaPbP9NzBsryu-vzZ1bzF0oN_GA65IUuJNlue97KgwTQmXYu67w4qK1A5nnvyM/s2150/475%20-%20Case%20of%20J.jpg This Morley-Montgomery award-winning article is the only one written under a pseudonym (thus far). In "The Case of 'J': A Psychoanalytic Case Study with Particular Attention to `Marriage Neurosis', one D.K. Andrews provides a 1920s medical journal-like case study. In it, Dr. Andrews presents the background of an individual every Sherlockian is familiar with, providing some Freudian analysis on decisions this individual has made. It's a fascinating approach 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. 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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| Earls | 29 janv. 2026 | 00:23:24 | |
"You evidently do not know the Earl" [CHAS] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3faN6NE72O_CUUAZEwBNsy8c_29kioyA1ki7wG-hLpDjULR_h711l198gYyMwBaX29J2iA0wd__Q8ZEwWmJMkmiKQjBYM1KPZtR4aHCM9IST43fTtv_8sjVtfJbtHFa0Gw2Ozc0sOM68WawJHHMV0ZwhQQlcOi2WgKhZmKTaIVFCPs-1LkOIqoylOzhA/s2448/474%20-%20Earls.jpg For modern audiences (particularly those not familiar with British aristocracy), the titles of the nobility could be a bit confusing. In the Sherlock Holmes stories, we find our fair share of dukes, barons, and lords. But what about earls? There are only a handful of earls in the Canon, so in this episode, we spend a little time investigating the duties of earls and what it is their female counterparts are called. So grab your coronet! 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 ponders a message we never quite see. 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. 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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| Oxford or Cambridge | 21 janv. 2026 | 00:29:58 | |
"one of the brightest intellects of the University" [3STU] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdfPt_oLL48Bs2Fq9LiZAp1vZfyl44b1n21jy84GP51O0rdZtkTz__6S3_0rsPu3yxBrQSETzY-YFY0C4BR7suKCTbn3MIb0G-4NRAPgODigkY6xDrWtuqBAVS4fQRdZJbmECVAyTlbEVLHR-BDtuyNUSESGsifflZ1jC5VJf4zwQMEKO4OSRo4yGU3m0/s1080/473%20-%20Oxford%20Cambridge.jpg Of the long-running debates about the Sherlock Holmes stories (the location of Watson's wound, the true dates of "The Red-Headed League," the location of 221B Baker Street), one of the most perennial is Sherlock Holmes's university. There are cases to be made for each of the great universities, but it was Gavin Brend who made a definitive case in a chapter of his 1951 book My Dear Holmes. This Mr. Sherlock Holmes the Theorist episode may be academic, but 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 ponders a message we never quite see. 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. 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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| Professor Moriarty | 14 janv. 2026 | 00:22:00 | |
"I must really know more before I leave him." [MISS] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgux4F01Kw05SW_0ea0Lm5swJ4OQbpcbMmD-bX7QIjFxuneOQHGhcl5m946WC9KiRniHKFqWDk3LcrrxwHMl-QkSrGCcK86yDDUmFiQcNDyHNWF6toAcH9mayKdqgfJ4mM9BuAx12n2EvAVu-kuSVLIjnrdTNNUR8q-36CBrdFspba0ByTgfHOSB_c4l-o/s1000/472%20-%20Moriarty.jpg Professor Moriarty. We know him as the arch-rival of Sherlock Holmes. In many ways, he was the original model for the supervillain. But what do we really know about him? The answer is surprisingly little. And what we do know about him comes primarily from Sherlock Holmes. Join us as we dig a little deeper (or as deep as we can) on this Napoleon of crime. 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 ponders a message we never quite see. 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. 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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| Upon the Dating of Blood Stains | 07 janv. 2026 | 00:37:35 | |
"whose interest is it that the letter should come out?" [SECO] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzEOx9EHbk0reJUN1RuT63AeSXQ2jCkhNEjNoo81b1zzTLGpDGBFqKXehJ53u2TIiIGkkEeX2dpKSsMNmk9A1J5py2zEOsgmEGjDInALGbXgP9fTaM-MRO-x1_cVr30gU5_nq8miYGfdpm8P-goxYt3lDn6FA_aIoPov_ttXUFBYfqtWtWv2e8o8i3Ybo/s1000/471%20-%20Dating%20of%20Blood%20Stains.jpg Season 10 kicks off with another Morley-Montgomery Award winning article from The Baker Street Journal — a series we're continuing in which we look at notable pieces of Sherlockian scholarship about certain trifling issues. In Vol. 52, No. 4, Robert Schultz, BSI ("The Gloria Scott") examined "The Second Stain" for historical clues and then applied them to British foreign relations to discover, despite earlier scholars' results, that there is only one possible author of the dangerous letter. It is most definitely a Trifle. Find all of the Morley-Montgomery series in one place (Patreon | Substack). 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, released at the beginning of every month. The latest episode wonders about J pens. 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. 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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| The Chronology of the Apocrypha | 31 déc. 2025 | 00:27:04 | |
"that is the biggest mystification of all" [CREE] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSerzKnUuSforhinZzWoCUarBlTqDgKaeTMMziTzuyJBg3Hd1mMQGYukRPet_rG3RWb6y86BYJzGO3y30FbA0T24T1f8jfcuM25gnHGaRjWG2wDyGm26piiz0zK9cRZzcY2oFhnmYsX25MN3lBUe_OTmAWTOrAw4ftrcY06YRUjhigC8AOp6UhP2kZ7NM/s759/470%20-%20Chronology%20Apocrypha.jpg You thought we were done with the Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes? Silly you. As Inspector Baynes said, "I thought I had squeezed all the juice out of it, but I see there was a little over." [WIST] Now we turn to a fascinating study: dating the Apocryphya. Or at least part of it. An entry by Brett Graham Fawcett in Timelines, the newsletter of the Chronologist Guild, looks at how we might assign dates to some of the stories. And it's just a Trifle. Find all of the Apocrypha series in one place (Patreon | Substack). 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, released at the beginning of every month. The latest episode wonders about J pens. 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. 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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| The Man Who Was Wanted | 24 déc. 2025 | 00:25:13 | |
"evidence was wanted" [GOLD] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoF2bo-meXOfq6E61ZxGwrG2Ha0VTmWKYcA2aRBtJZP6cHpWa2IKvvfTpaNKRs44rw0t0Gu5ZSgMpuvYB531HDcZGsu-IF201YEesdjrcrPQTZxG31CjbQ74vzZi7ag3RIfzlj-sl2tMPnC2X6GeXKKgtpSFsBbrxBycJotUMNzlK1O2opnwq3bRdVGPI/s1000/469%20-%20Man%20Who%20Was%20Wanted.jpg The final installment in our series on the Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes brings us to "The Case of the Man Who was Wanted." Its discovery and provenance seems to have been both wanted and not wanted by the Conan Doyle brothers, who discovered it thanks to a biographer of their father in the 1940s. How it came into their possession and the story behind what was once assumed to be the 61st Sherlock Holmes story — and its eventual debunking — is anything but a Trifle. Find all of the Apocrypha series in one place (Patreon | Substack). 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, released at the beginning of every month. The latest episode wonders about J pens. 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. 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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| Sherlock Holmes and Edwin Drood | 18 déc. 2025 | 00:18:42 | |
"Oh! a mystery is it?" [STUD] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Un3aRpwhyphenhyphenpwTktn02DFqSjfmJMH51Kck2iDyyDaIStEbXaLEgJypC_dg81jEq0wuNhG6drYbvJ6S5BuhIl2Blua5QmvCLzlXYS8PVpa4en4utBlC76KQEQdYA1Py1Os2Lyuj_HG7_xLYgn7Cd0CqLZlTZM1zDvUbq6Qv5ykVIAbiScuc4jO_T5CpBuU/s1775/468%20-%20Edwin%20Drood.jpg When Charles Dickens died in 1870, The Mystery of Edwin Drood was only six chapters into its 12-chapter run. There were no sketches or outlines of what would come next, so for a century and a half, scholars have puzzled over the solution. In 1968, Colin Prestige, BSI ("Captain Jack Croker") made a bold claim: that Sherlock Holmes could have handily solved the case, in "Sherlock Holmes and Edwin Drood," which appeared in Vol. 18, No. 3 of The Baker Street Journal. It's this month's "Mr. Sherlock Holmes the theorist" episode 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. Don't forget to listen to "Trifling Trifles" — short-form content that doesn't warrant a full episode, released at the beginning of every month. The latest episode wonders about J pens. 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. Leave Trifles a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts and Spotify; listen to this episode here or wherever you get podcastsLinks
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| Calling Cards | 10 déc. 2025 | 00:30:30 | |
"He sent in his card with a message" [CROO] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl-yvRocHJDmmggOvYIMtMAzgYCiDl6ij_025UgD09j8at8WY2l_YN-G2Gh8_gaDalrOBvCZ-S_1CtSC5mnw8WPruo-rcMLHRV3UoVu9E4755Q9Uvmb5jusEfRjZdSmX1gO2Jr_kJZubwJR1EXYSAkLIwDGwPNB0atOw90GbnlDy5v8sOFTclkY3Vr3I0/s1200/467%20-%20Calling%20Cards.jpg In our own digital age, business cards are nearly artifacts of the past. And calling cards? They're so outdated we had to create this episode. Numerous individuals in the Sherlock Holmes stories present their cards to Sherlock Holmes and Holmes presents his card to a few people as well. What's the history behind calling cards and visiting cards and how did they play into the stories? It's just a Trifle. We have bonus content for our supporters: images of Victorian calling cards that might surprise you. 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, released at the beginning of every month. The latest episode wonders about J pens. 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. 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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| Who Wrote the American Chapters of A Study in Scarlet? | 03 déc. 2025 | 00:28:11 | |
"Nine to seven." "Seven to five." [STUD] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhY91MV5FzVE4dugwOIFf6BTOH_JD62vBZwlUl16Fc-ht1a7mnrW-t3_-m6SmpdJWtzguUO1attlqGdXgyohWGQBAcVS9qXrY07RiFir5raaYy12RjAe50V2X0VPxSaPG46dwLsA5V_JF6aaHC3wXxcyAQ9qS8v5YbSdpYBXlxP2BFbsv-Fizf7NVxmZk/s759/466%20-%20American%20Chapters%20STUD.jpg 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. 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, released at the beginning of every month. The latest episode wonders about J pens. 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. Leave Trifles a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts and Spotify; listen to this episode here or wherever you get podcastsLinks
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| Angels of Darkness | 27 nov. 2025 | 00:33:26 | |
"upon the track of the avenging angels" [STUD] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMnmiOGdfdbJoW77QZvsAlvAvvS8qy2QU2dlwXVt2iiJmnFcPEYdMKmkFcSwbdYgK3yZUL-7lVldzcpTXOUVNJfqRL3eMFp0uiBrIDr0tUpWRcF5JPUMVuuK2tO3ScTxv_MF9h0zwk4T5mQEDiWXwZEh_P8dU4sbornAQnn1PXGasuAkT4AXHkwGwIhiI/s1000/465%20-%20Angels.jpg 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. 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
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| A Most Valuable Institution | 19 nov. 2025 | 00:19:13 | |
"all the main ones in the press reports" [THOR] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj26mxUUNNoccLft8D5dUu0u_RFnSfu1Q2I7eiKxtEfKn9OBthwnda12PYj35b14EJoMk8CxpgLX15KqOnQ-dfsocw2E-xsnrUg4OWKl9i1V51Yr9-nKuVAIJh2uhn2mvcVmln0hOofUJWAHO7JIOjk56Z70upLXo5eLNSfLalYmnCJNCjWcLbhF_gyC4U Sherlock Holmes knew 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. 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, released at the beginning of every month. 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 podcastsLinks
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| Lucky Thirteen | 12 nov. 2025 | 00:21:42 | |
"thirteen in number" [HOUN] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7B9QUaDhSqBo4VUmwbpCjKMjmJqOH1X8IhyXRWdb3k7fiNXebGHQpS-ndnwzN9mLs8s4CXYoCICSQgIu_ziyMW1jfmB_l1GhD_H4YRSfYdEvxsSExRJsS29_lODpfylTgTLN9LWaMqFEq7RQs63yTgH8DbsMvUMEKCdF8Mf1gLA6Yy-wT8AtZ4JUQRfU 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. 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, released at the beginning of every month. 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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| The Sherlock Holmes We Never Knew | 05 nov. 2025 | 00:40:50 | |
"and actor and a rare one" [SIGN] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuwmA1EYp-FhwZXT3RHezt4o6grvJQCyyfO2p-ZZxZ1D7yxhCkiNxTUmgiAMFfJwfBM-9NNzIdmJXydlTdZzP1z-onq7nP9J7Y06J7s7JBtLyHXsOJf4Uq19Q57ffJgw17xE-LOHthj5FnsT7gK4N6tOaj5ouiBbde-nRsIkt-638-KG_5F11gDx7-ByM 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. 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, released at the beginning of every month. This is a benefit exclusively for our paying subscribers. Check it out (Patreon | Substack).Links
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| The Tall Man | 29 oct. 2025 | 00:22:27 | |
"I have never seen so tall a man" [SIGN] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8l9PIZ4WljORtCV5Hf0sdQy5YGkRHbSQCc51R2-ObHAW5bGRNiG6fYm8CBCfJTkniI6kauPbsptfeWcvvwieftOyd_Phl9Ft7nxDDmWt8ZzTDbBEM7OMaGhapLnpVT2-nJOQrk_zK7I5D8QKJN23rYJZ6nhqEhP0mVZVQIHdoBsKvgGrrJDEsSFarm-0 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 podcastsLinks
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| Paddington vs. Waterloo | 22 oct. 2025 | 00:18:56 | |
"proceed to Waterloo" [HOUN] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSSKAFgLeqbzGChnLAN0OOQP8iHO6sGEcrAmyU7HZ3VbupRkJ-vlSa8713Dv8OFyxEmimgg5um_XncjIJ0hUrWlr5tYOeF4gMvQ5gD7nH9VuoLOQsRnHeb0tFvXb4La2Su-yAcV1vG2bC2yYjN6mvowOhjvW3aFwFtABS5yzHr1HM9Z8SAGFfxJg_FJ14 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
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| T.S. Eliot and the Great Grimpen Mire | 15 oct. 2025 | 00:23:36 | |
"so subtly influenced by it" [STUD] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXiiZ5WqXRzyKeNHqVgPaa2WGMjNEtqlmEDCGwQ1qK6H11E052rN3popNFdN21Ll6E0rdFdoDbmuZxEBoGfP0B-XO-mmvpd5cA36Q7s_QeSJEYdywVXDttnYFxgo7e_9eA3l1E_Y1VcttR7WwZ6oyhtxRIIjeg-ieXtkEEJMQQuAyhIMIGqQYhsu9OeUg 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. 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 podcastsLinks
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| The Moor as a Character | 09 oct. 2025 | 00:25:28 | |
"a huge expanse" [HOUN] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjq-VedH3fys4SMsKimzJk6g-4CUQ5DZ60jKsX8ym_-huFlSAJLYj0LkMBKIcE5myygzn_6VkxiPyehBUdSvUKg1e4qz-sNoqtnSsRgSmZHpRpsG5icQaYIi0hzwKWJPqi59bTxfH1UvnTeeLbRf6PyzKzsmUuwauhI14aVBu7m7NVNjHSdD9X5UYX88U4 Credit: Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 There are four main characters in The Hound of the Baskervilles: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, the hound, and the moor. [Record scratch SFX] Yes, the moor. Inspired by a clip from an old IHOSE episode, we explore why this ever-present setting looms large in the story, both when it's explicitly mentioned and when it's not. 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 podcastsLinks
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| On the Chaldean Influences in Cornish | 01 oct. 2025 | 00:28:34 | |
"traced in the Cornish branch of the great Celtic speech" [DEVI] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiK3iiETSUt7LwSz6BmtbRbTwAWXfeXTmJgpm-qBzlp6fVC0InKH9iQ1Qeev71fcjc9Emnbrj-QTy-ZlGPBnuxv_e5hfpq00kQIVVbcuuVx_pTOPBlCjO4MFGyMmcDOW_0Wd9cmo4yGvT7XRozsNMPMXhwZ6OGkp5yre07WhXRkS-nVPUImsNU23q8aWDk The Morley-Montgomery Award series rolls on, and this time we've jumped from 1979 (the last award granted, covered in Episode 453) to 1995. Dr. Margaret Nydell turns her philological attention to the Canon. She specifically looks at Sherlock Holmes's intentions in researching the Cornish language, with its roots in Chaldean. Her article is both scholarly and delightfully funny. 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. 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
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| The Crown Diamond | 25 sept. 2025 | 00:22:59 | |
"What good are you going to get out of your diamond?" [MAZA] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjhPoBk8h5e6C19DdSe2AVMYNQYWyllPtd7FSjn7OLHnSzItKYztxPEeYT34VubLYt-LTR5zKmdXUNico4yAT2koDkfec0IOhKf6dyoCUQwvutYiGOP2Bh1eJ7cD1x6ukxC4N3rqFkwwJZlnvB1OPGmFvS3DGtPlpXlEK7VVbnlEG9bnj0pGYj_QmCxhBk We're back in the theater for another Sherlock Holmes story in our series on the Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes. It seems that Conan Doyle saw great potential in other mediums (not just the seance type, either). The Crown Diamond: An Evening With Sherlock Holmes is clearly a rehash of the short story "The Mazarin Stone." Or was thought to be, anyway. That is, until James Montgomery, BSI ("The Red Circle") discovered it in an exercise book and determined the publication order. 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. 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 podcastsLinks
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| Lhassa & Mecca | 17 sept. 2025 | 00:21:43 | |
"amused myself by visiting Lhassa...looked in at Mecca" [FINA] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9UJVgTkrrn6Z1VYhgJPryh-xyzYPfjTanu-S3g5YT2UQTVkInwd18dLcjP0DpDtg-V4nWW9YvM_sEpw-BARuR6HB7Jo9OVgzINPb4GkB-9w4HiyR2hhC8nI6GZ6zB9d5CnAc43nWkoSRpE_dX2XCDxY_YpCpco6cos8GwiHeM1v8aCYCWLpjx49g3qLI The Great Hiatus, as the interval between "The Final Problem" and "The Empty House" is known, has inspired a great deal of speculation and interpretation, thanks to Sherlock Holmes's brief and tantalizing account of his time away. Edgar Smith took it on in his famous essay (as referenced in Episode 334), but Don Pollock took aim at the fawning acceptance in his own analysis in a 1975 issue of The Baker Street Journal. 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
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| The Lumber Room | 10 sept. 2025 | 00:21:20 | |
"lumbering upon its way" [DEVI] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEig4DtVLfHu-LoqJyueUcf9-B7924_BqCHFNl0XFnXyVhrOTqrJsPAJYXzkVySaxjJ_FZV1N8XWwKyFMCAGh0cwUbxYN9j1XYYvj2QnalLrPkM0M2m7dTlKfuiKPlymqVcq4LkkBbHdEVmeEP7V2lCx3_rquUkhmF0FSjCZjHn4f88tqKzYC1G-jER5ngw Across the Sherlock Holmes stories, we find a few mentions of what seems to be a strange and magical place in English residences: the lumber room. In old country houses and in the city at 221B Baker Street, as well as in descriptions of the mind, the lumber room is a place that deserves a little exploration. And it's just a Trifle. Thanks to Kaj for the suggestion for this episode. 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
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| The Location of Baskerville Hall | 04 sept. 2025 | 00:30:24 | |
"I was able to reach Baskerville Hall" [HOUN] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijuRcqaN93jzvsAJXyJifvXvm6_JkpQge_R7ZdljdAKI433XJoHiC42qdlGMLtf1ZGq-bXOL7n-nwHjhxBfctIjuV8Wp0QPNCUiKs_pRqmjSFt--H0u9r_8CtfZGsJBcbsQPovDZPTwLjF1TZRGSbuiUqDFINAXCaQaLwdGonLmLBFL44PMiUEkOKT6Zs There are a handful of locations in the Sherlock Holmes stories that are regularly sought out by fans. Of course 221B Baker Street is at the top of the list, along with the Reichenbach Falls. For those who venture to the west, Baskerville Hall is always a source of inspiration. But where exactly was it? Scholars have been debating that subject for decades, and in 1979 Howard Brody, BSI ("Anstruther") won the Morley-Montgomery Award for his paper that attempted to settle the matter. 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
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| The Stonor Case | 27 août 2025 | 00:29:08 | |
"took to the stage" [TWIS] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjF-9KROzZMLSPWgZJNPh2YO5qofzVPLiGvka2FCzIQe134uYSJpfr3wwfeniMvfqPUL7NWd99xZlqmiCT-O8orS_Q-1nBbG0-XdLTtmwBq18slWbO2lbmf3kNO1zGHQfb9h7iD8w3z46OX2i9UrjzG3l3dJpcoSVQQqIc5YRz7J6hyNWfMvyIJIrq8A2k When faced with four months of an empty theater in a six-month lease in 1910, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did the only thing he could on a moment's notice: he turned to Sherlock Holmes. The Stonor Case (later renamed The Speckled Band) went into production and is considered part of the group of stories categorized as apocryphal. While the name was the same as the short story, there were departures from the original. This and many tales about this play are all 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 podcastsLinks
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| John H. Watson Never Went to China | 20 août 2025 | 00:21:42 | |
"Well, but China?" [REDH] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHokh5baBATjJ7X1TbW4WMxXp4TJC9KMu-CIVp-7dAqW-nDs6j0cvXcphiSE6d8t2JG4aPll5EcKprJfnBdQr95Cs3F9sDYSnQLNBX6-o2KdLzWAOKJbC1r0rpyvsb7wHKdCKfN5ue8khUf33D6qdFT-5_Fr0deaWMkwWskZGJ5JoAMno5nshGpGRxYH8/s1350/451%20-%20Watson%20in%20China.jpg Our recent episode about real people who inspired characters in the Sherlock Holmes stories spills over into this episode for our monthly Mr. Sherlock Holmes the Theorist-themed episode. Jay Finley Christ wrote a piece in 1949 that wasn't widely published until 1975 (if one can call the audience of Baker Street Miscellanea wide). Prof. Christ takes on John Dickson Carr's biography and other Sherlockians, debunking a myth about the inspiration for Dr. Watson. 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. 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 podcastsLinks
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| The Fabulous Originals | 13 août 2025 | 00:27:46 | |
"There are the originals" [LAST] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMvmyq51SORk5zwFCo_duBlll2IgebEbq8ARatMZq9gwuGHl2hMeVEOsBtqexBtbYBhF1Dkjto9SJzYLbkVJncDTANEPGqnkLahpiGWve7vvxNpdZ8urqDXzvRp9Q77-pyOILVmUD8YRY9lMOS6SIMeWO67yfKcd49C4KaQHrwa_Z8RMsR31BLJOsIRL4/s1200/450%20-%20Originals.jpg Sherlockians go to great pains to "play the game," meaning that Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were real. If we can drop the mask for a moment, we all know they were creations of one Arthur Conan Doyle. We also know that every author is inspired by people, names, and places around them. So too was Conan Doyle when he created certain characters. Who were some of the characters in the Canon who were inspired by real people? 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 podcastsLinks
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| St. Saviour's, Near King's Cross | 06 août 2025 | 00:26:09 | |
"entirely mistaken" [CHAS] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyiWYERMmDe_5sNWS_KT9D_EhAHTLKBSGRmAP1dUZi9uPcQw4ETAnBq05WsXUPnWd2coMOcKAEuQ1iaM5HshFIOB5HgrZkGZVXoEhtfOsJZ_ZxKKMbFI-z1tBeXp-nW2NvEJmndkAg1FED-EwHHSyevWsu7d8zJkY3ucswIl35uGCI7DiXRVGPNk-FroU/s1046/449%20-%20St%20Saviours.jpg The Morley-Montgomery Award-winning article we're discussing this month is by the legendary Jack Tracy, author of The Encyclopedia Sherlockiana and founder of Gaslight Publications. "St. Saviour's, Near King's Cross" appeared in Vol. 27, No. 4 of the Baker Street Journal in 1977 and looked specifically at the church where Mary Sutherland was supposed to marry Hosmer Angel. Previous Sherlockian scholars were unaware of some hidden London history that Tracy was able to uncover. 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. 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 podcastsLinks
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| The Story of the Lost Special | 30 juil. 2025 | 00:29:28 | |
"engage a special" [FINA] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Ddd5xD_n6cX_uqt03_xdBW7NwlMLvsMiEHYo-8tNlKjfO0I-uVtixyEvejbNaVB8EyOLkZznCuPyH1PIv_61F6Lh_LPtyeizxopXzZ7T7nuY3H46urzNFu0xG6AQ-DzZHCJQoFDbDxLRc0nkXqwiq_vZHwEmzMSrcenXQjJOGggsVDT87UyFPhl_JsE/s946/448%20-%20Lost%20Special.jpg This marks the fourth episode in our series of The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes — stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that are technically not part of the original Canon. "The Story of the Lost Special" was written by Conan Doyle in 1898 about a train that has vanished from the face of the earth, but doesn't explicitly include Sherlock Holmes. How does this then tie into the great detective? Stay tuned, because 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 podcastsLinks
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| Playing Tricks with the Law of England | 23 juil. 2025 | 00:33:03 | |
"play tricks with me and I'll crush you" [ABBE] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6C-F5uTEqmzvC-zrW8id9JEFOOPjDO5dJsOJtl_HwH4Vfohm1wTtjbnd3naCIPrYZMEUv8R5SXNu-1MpQenJlP1aaFKl_9x03NHLiC6fvThA_YAMeZw0fxK1OdN8jpmQ04zdoB_YY_FjJ5XijkbdyiCXvQ4nSe-sec0MVCM_rolCk9ll_qH7P0X9_Z08/s1000/447%20-%20Playing%20Tricks.jpg Was Sherlock Holmes too lenient with how he handled some of the criminals he defeated? There are a number whom he caught and set free, flouting the law in the process. Inspired by a recent article in The Baker Street Journal, we look at examples in a handful of stories and compare the fates of the accused in each. Did they get what they deserved? It's much more than 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 podcastsLinks
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| Untangling the Skein | 16 juil. 2025 | 00:29:10 | |
"another thread which I have extricated out of the tangled skein" [HOUN] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheXivU0VRTKGHVuGulWF7vq7CsTaoObhTCSHYF8yDs7V83tQU8hw2add7w62PIVxrM-A6-IXx1tSmEVEKTg9D2TePMp5WtKAaLvDqPS97uj_JOYKV4pDK0wft5BFnF36xQnCbxBmeUt_E-eDj_yU2l4agpZNPLCz0E_aa1xqE9NIYd26gOf4v2Okn1b_Y/s1126/446%20-%20Skein.jpg It has long been accepted that the original title of A Study in Scarlet was meant to be A Tangled Skein. While there is no surviving manuscript of the first Sherlock Holmes story, a single page of notes has long served as Sherlock Holmes's "birth certificate." However, Matt Hall discovered a letter in Sydney, Australia that proves otherwise. His research is presented in Vol. 37 No. 2 of The Sherlock Holmes Journal. And it's much more than 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 podcastsLinks
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| £100 | 09 juil. 2025 | 00:21:28 | |
"put £100 down in front of him" [BLUE] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2myIkNKgRtzd80gVHI1y7qneHOGKNnkBGrrTjzwx66GaY-PX1kAhpdsAS8Y-3pAQyBrhpvS88m_uopA6zF0wFw1OHKUsgr5Szv4dgErEnXdVUesT_g6pYTWNbhV144QeaIlTlYNVosgLkxsVp7ItPij28NTFh7bafK7CBJpER6eMcxAJ0099mLFougvQ/s1536/445%20-%20100%20lbs.jpg Humans are suckers for round numbers. And 100 seems like a perfectly reasonable one to settle on. It's the first three-digit number (in Arabic numbers, that is; Romans were happy to hit a C note). When it comes to £100 in the Sherlock Holmes stories, it's a figure often associated with some sort of scam — enough to get attention and secure the trust of the mark. Which stories feature £100 and what were the circumstances? 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 podcastsLinks
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| John H. Watson―Word-Painter | 02 juil. 2025 | 00:27:38 | |
"I had painted" [TWIS] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_vRhz7GW72XYMsHa4HNPrZtfqemth8ax_tQCcDWRLaZl9rnIxvdaMzir2O3CVYvXwvrm3VueH1Gc0BoJMNjbhoxQO-ccgBDoJxos-BcNHHEefTvSIjgctX_uCmDKCoAJV0qJntX1CD5PMOOY5mLTAU6yhyphenhyphenQnQyNbvIVlVp_V34ZOB3jJ0JAlGckAAayE/s600/444%20-%20Watson%20Word-Painter.jpg The Morley-Montgomery Award-winning article we're discussing this month is by H.C. Potter from Vol. 26, No. 2 of The Baker Street Journal. In it, Potter looks at Watson's prosaic way of setting the scene for us. He selects excerpts from a number of stories to prove his case. Was he successful in backing up his claims? 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 podcastsLinks
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| How Watson Learned the Trick | 26 juin 2025 | 00:17:50 | |
"why should anyone play me such a trick?" [CARD] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAmXJntfSdld0gCjRcMIUJKvGs-x8knhyphenhyphenSwVSJv8nQNnm8qgsdo4Uq9YBtiJ02TzcfuOmulwP-G-qj6GZojkw4TvVRk-uH4GP887QH7nXgAqo3xJHIimOTSKgL8DpGCsulZe5pSsjByIgUvXpBdsLAyX-yNrVOj5Loa5s9RE1fL7YVTir1qTI6fToqJ8g/s614/443%20-%20Watson%20Learned%20the%20Trick.jpg After a brief hiatus, we're back to the third in our series of The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes — stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that are technically not part of the original Canon. This is the shortest of all of the Apocrypha and it was created for the British Royal Family in a special edition. "How Watson Learned the Trick" is a lovely addition to the non-Canonical apocrypha. It's literally 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 podcastsLinks
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| A Second Case of Identity: The Second Mrs. Watson | 19 juin 2025 | 00:23:02 | |
"Is Mrs. Watson in?" [FINA] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPoS6iYH-Fqu73x06BZpcMiDSGrDTiCEncoTkklfzpBSA-VLBYH1BR_fobuZTHlKDYckFmJ7aokcFC3MKE_yv60C-nP_JSRjIryEI-gUHPlutxiytzO_bFgBNzMbx5Ui6lQnbbVkbluiEMdDhdaJjOBzmcFgxVylD_bdkhRMtitjCnkUWdvJqbRTFhD-I/s868/442%20-%20Second%20Mrs%20Watson.jpg We all know Watson had more than one wife; the number has been debated over the years. But it's his second wife that seems to be the most intriguing. In this "Mr. Sherlock Holmes the Theorist" episode, we look at David Hammer's article from Baker Street Miscellanea, No. 43. Who was the second Mrs. Watson? 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
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| About the Moor | 11 juin 2025 | 00:29:08 | |
"traces of the ancient people" [HOUN] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6hYynpJQ3rHv12pGG2b38LMGO4HAO3Vb4OPSzNSXmoleEoEbI6D4MjMTvZRyxqOOcnJW52ReV0LREHqF-1_0RpAvcToP7tRQWrJTaeEXcaJ0OsWuUcXH91iLvNrAeFq0EyqiB0K0YRTkjwVWsBCqAfQEfa_9IENo7gt7FU9FQnPwDKibY0RaitmP0kJM/s628/441%20-%20Moor.jpg When Watson noted a "difficult and dangerous quest" on "the forbidden moor" in The Hound of the Baskervilles. The moor played an outsized role in that story, providing the perfect setting for this gothic tale of terror, greed, and mystery. What is the moor really like? How does the Canonical version differ from reality? Listener Nelson Pigeon wrote in to ask, and we answer. 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
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