Through The Pages of Sherlock Holmes

Join Angela, John, and Scott as they discuss “The Norwood Builder.” In this story, a guy tries to fake his own death in a complicated revenge scheme, and Conan Doyle thinks that human and rabbit bones look alike. Thank you for bearing with us for our over-a-year hiatus. We should be getting out episodes more regularly.

    Join Angela, John, and Scott as they discuss “The Empty House.” In this story, Sherlock Holmes is back! Yay! Doyle writes the first retcon?

Listen as Angela, John, Scott and Tabz as they discuss some HOUNDING movies.

Join Scott, Angela, Tabz and John as they discuss a family “hounded” by their past.

Join Tabz, Angela, Scott & John as they discuss Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock “A Study in Pink.” Consulting Sherlock Podcast.

Listen as John, Angela, Scott and Tabz discuss The Resident Patient, The Greek Interpreter,  and The Naval Treaty with the amazingness that is Jeremy Brett.

Listen as John, Angela, Scott and Tabz discuss The Resident Patient, The Greek Interpreter,  and The Naval Treaty with the amazingness that is Jeremy Brett.

Listen as Tabz, Angela, John, Scott and Ross as they discuss “The Final Problem.” In this short story we meet Holmes’ greatest opponent, the criminal mastermind, Professor James Moriarty.   Ross’ webcomic: anchored.thewebcomic.com Theme song by Austin Wintory.

Join Tabz, John, Scott and Angela as they discuss “The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter” aka Holmes has a brother? In this story, Watson, much to his surprise, meets Holmes’ older brother, Mycroft. Mycroft is smarter than Sherlock, but lacks the energy to go into detective work. In spite of his inertia, the elder Holmes has often delivered the correct answer to a problem that Sherlock has brought to him. On this occasion, however, it is Mycroft who has need to consult Sherlock. Mr. Melas, a Greek interpreter and neighbour of Mycroft, tells of a rather unnerving experience he has recently gone through (Wikipedia).

Join Angela, Tabz, John and Scott as they discuss the story, “The Adventure of the Resident Patient.” In this story, Doctor Percy Trevelyan brings Holmes an unusual problem. Having been a brilliant student but a poor man, Dr. Trevelyan has found himself a participant in an unusual business arrangement. A man named Blessington, claiming to have some money to invest, has set Dr. Trevelyan up in premises with a prestigious address and paid all his expenses. Everything has gone fairly well for the doctor since the arrangement began. Now, however, something has happened to Mr. Blessington. He has become excitable and agitated, this after he said that he had read about a burglary somewhere in the city (Wikipedia). Theme song by Austin Wintory.

ROBOT WATSON! That is all. Join Tabz, Angela, John and Scott as they discuss Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century and Jeremy Brett’s The Crooked Man.

Join Angela, Tabz, Scott and John as they discussed The Adventure of the Crooked Man In this story, Holmes calls on Watson late one evening to tell him about a case that he has been working on, and also to invite him to be a witness to the final stage of the investigation. Colonel James Barclay, of The Royal Mallows based at Aldershot Camp, is dead, apparently by violence, and his wife Nancy is the prime suspect (Wikipedia). Theme song by Austin Wintory.

Join Tabz, Angela, John and Scott as they discuss Ronald Howard’s TV Sherlock Holmes in The Case of the Cunningham Heritage, the 1985 radio drama The Reigate Mystery, and the very earliest still in existence film, Sherlock Baffled.

Join Angela, Tabz, Scott and John as they discuss the Reigate Squire (I know, Angela kept saying PUZZLE, but that is not correct…. crazy Americans). In this story, Watson takes Holmes to a friend’s estate near Reigate in Surrey to rest after a rather strenuous case in France. But, as it is with any detective who goes on holiday, soon someone gets terribly murdered and Holmes finds that his services are needed here. He also finds that his recent illness serves him well.

Join Tabz, John, Scott and Angela as they discuss two adaptions of “The Musgrave Ritual,” one with Jeremy Brett and the 1943 Sherlock Holmes Faces Death with Basil Rathbone. Both adaptations take liberties with the original source material and we discuss the differences and our enjoyment of them. This is John’s first view of a Basil Rathbone film! Tabz mentions a NY Times Review. You can read it here.

Join Angela, Tabz, Scott and John as they discuss The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual. In this story Holmes recounts to Watson the events arising after a visit from a university acquaintance, Reginald Musgrave. Musgrave visits Holmes after the disappearance of two of his domestic staff, Rachel Howells, a maid, and Richard Brunton, the longtime butler. The pair vanished after Musgrave had dismissed Brunton for secretly reading a family document, the Musgrave Ritual. The Ritual, which dates from the 17th century (Wikipedia). Theme song by Austin Wintory.

Join Angela, John, Scott and Tabz as they discuss The Adventure of the Gloria Scott. In this episode we find out that in his university days, Holmes spent a month with his friend, Victor Trevor, at his father’s estate in Norfolk. While there, Holmes amazed his host, Victor’s father, who was a Justice of the Peace and a landowner besides. He had made his fortune in the goldfields in Australia. One of Holmes’s deductions was that the elder Mr. Trevor was once connected with someone with the initials J. A. whom he wanted to forget. His host then passed out on the table. Holmes had touched a sore spot, and possibly did not believe the old man’s explanation once he had come back to himself that J. A. had been an old lover (Wikipedia). Theme song by Austin Wintory.

Join Angela, John, Scott and Tabz as they discuss The Adventure of the Stockbroker’s Clerk. In this episode a young clerk, Hall Pycroft, consults Holmes with his suspicions concerning a company that has offered him a very well-paid job. Holmes, Watson and Pycroft travel by train to Birmingham, where the job is initially to be based, and Pycroft explains that he was recently made redundant from (i. e., was discharged by) a stockbroking house. He eventually secured a new post with another stockbrokers, Mawson and Williams, in Lombard Street in the City. Before taking up the job, he was approached by Arthur Pinner, who offered him a managership with a newly established hardware distribution company, to be based in France (Story Synopsis from Wikipedia).   Theme song by Austin Wintory.

Join John, Angela, Scott and Tabz as they discuss “The Adventure of the Yellow Face.” In this story, Sherlock Holmes, suffering from boredom due to a want of cases, returns home from a walk with Dr. Watson in the early spring of 1888 to find he has missed a visitor, but that the caller has left his pipe behind. From it, Holmes deduces that he was disturbed of mind (because he forgot the pipe); that he valued it highly (because he had repaired, rather than replaced, it when it was broken); that he was muscular, left-handed, had excellent teeth, was careless in his habits and was well-off. None of these deductions is particularly germane to the story: they are merely Holmesian logical exercises. When the visitor, Mr. Grant Munro (whose name Holmes observed from his hatband) returns, Holmes and Watson hear the story of Munro’s deception by his wife Effie. She had been previously married in America, but her husband and child had died of yellow fever, whereupon she returned to England and met and married Munro. Their marriage had been blissful — “We have not had a difference, not one, in thought, or word, or deed,” says Grant Munro — until she asked for a hundred pounds and begged him not to ask why. Two months later, Effie Munro was caught conducting secret liaisons with the occupants of a cottage near the Munro house in Norbury (Story synopsis from Wikipedia). Theme song by Austin Wintory.

Join Angela, John and Tabz as they discuss “Silver Blaze.” One of the most popular Sherlock Holmes short stories, “Silver Blaze” focuses on the disappearance of the titular race horse (a famous winner) on the eve of an important race and on the apparent murder of its trainer. The tale is distinguished by its atmospheric Dartmoor setting and late-Victorian sporting milieu. It also features some of Conan Doyle’s most effective plotting, hinging on the “curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”   Theme song by Austin Wintory.