Sherlock Holmes: Trifles

    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.

  • A Touch of the Dramatic

  • The Continental

  • John Watson, Unreliable Narrator

  • Something's Missing

  • The Strongest Man in England

  • That Old Black Boot

  • Matilda Briggs

  • Something to Show for It

  • Bohemian Alternatives

  • Baker Street Fables

  • Fateful Voyages

  • The Perfect Act of Telling a Story

  • The Great 400

  • Who Killed Charles Augustus Milverton?

  • The Journeys of Sherlock Holmes

  • Clumsiness

  • Anxiety Part 2

  • Victorian Aventuresses

  • Silver Blaze: An Identification

  • The Geography of the Hound of the Baskervilles

  • Anxiety

  • Maps & Floorplans

  • Sherlock Holmes, Linguist

  • Years of Mystery

  • Elderly in the Canon

  • Linoleum

  • Forests

  • The Long Road from Maiwand

  • Sherlock Holmes, Cabby

  • Wordplay

  • Will the Real Devil's Foot Stand Up?

  • The Second Collaboration

  • To Go to Norwood

  • The Manor House Case

  • B Is for Biscuit

  • The Effect of Trades on the Body

  • Canonical Luggage and Railway Journeys

  • Half Measures

  • Secret Societies

  • Corpulence in the Canon

  • An Essex Adventure

  • Watson's Billiard Playing

  • Hunting Crops

  • Hosmeric Hypocrisy

  • The Other Boarder

  • The Underground Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

  • Soothing Elements

  • Oh My!

  • Watson à la Mode

  • The 12 Trifles of Christmas

  • Hand Washing

  • Bears

  • By Jove!

  • Dr. Watson's Secret

  • Pencils

  • Thanks!

  • Tigers

  • Was Sherlock Holmes an American?

  • By George!

  • The Dental Holmes

  • Lions

  • The Ripper and the Crown

  • Terrible Human Tragedies

  • Suicides in the Sherlock Holmes Stories

  • Dueling Topics: The Real Birlstone Manor

  • The Poetic Hound

  • Why Didn't I Check Montague Street?

  • Animal Abuse

  • Conan Doyle and Cars

  • Canonical Sevens

  • 221B, Baker Street

  • A Few Quick Ones

  • Dining with Sherlock Holmes

  • Boscombe Valley Oddities

  • Up From the Needle

  • Business at the Cedars

  • Dairy Go Round

  • Alcoholism

  • The Great Hiatus

  • The Magic Number

  • Police Precautions

  • Eggs

  • Breakfast at Baker Street

  • The Adventure of the Veiled Author

  • Weapons

  • Gardens

  • Dueling Topics: Watson's Gender

  • The Love Life of Sherlock Holmes

  • Premonitions

  • Hobbies in the Canon

  • Sleepless in Baker Street

  • Real Life Inspirations: A Scandal in Bohemia

  • The Erudition of Sherlock Holmes

  • Compound Surnames

  • Dr. Watson's Marriages

  • A Detective By Any Other Name

  • The Early Years of Sherlock Holmes

  • Pianos

  • Mentors in the Canon

  • The Home Life of Henry Baker

  • Mrs. Hudson: A Legend in Her Own Lodging-House

  • Lysanders

  • The Route of the Blue Carbuncle

  • Rambling About

  • Revealing Costume

  • The Boscombe Valley Mystery

  • Doyle and Water

  • Our Client's Foot Upon the Stair

  • Candles

  • The Colonel of the Matter

  • It Happened at Midnight

  • Clients in Jeopardy

  • Langurtin

  • Masters Class: Lowenstein of Prague

  • The British Monarchy

  • The Arcadia Mixture

  • The Metaphysical Holmes

  • The Best Sherlock Holmes Stories

  • James Watson, M.D.

  • Carina

  • His Last Bow — Wow!

  • The Four Violets

  • The Dynamics of an Asteroid

  • A Study in Speech

  • A Note on The Priory School

  • Sherlock Holmes and Advertising

  • Strange Business

  • Watson's Hidden Addiction

  • Witchcraft in Baker Street

  • Hocus Pocus

  • Sherlock Holmes's Tours-de-Force

  • The Hoof-Marks in "The Priory School"

  • Sherlock Holmes and Shakespeare

  • The Dates in the Red-Headed League

  • The Rushed Wedding

  • The Tree That Wasn't

  • Trees, Part 2: Branching Out

  • The Problem of the Case-Book

  • Trees, Part 1: Over the Oak / Under the Elm

  • Grief

  • In Memoriam: Muzzafar ad-Din

  • On the Scent with Sherlock Holmes, Part 3

  • Missing Three-Quarter One-Third Discovered

  • A Seven-Per-Cent Solution

  • The Politician, the Lighthouse, and the Trained Cormorant

  • On the Scent with Sherlock Holmes, Part 2

  • A Final Illumination on the Lucca Code

  • Roll Out the Beryl

  • The Archetypical Sherlock Holmes

  • On the Scent with Sherlock Holmes, Part 1

  • Great Beginnings

  • The Friendship Club

  • Reptiles & Amphibians

  • Did Sherlock Holmes Have a Sense of Humor?

  • Street Lamps

  • Damsels in Distress

  • Romance in the Canon

  • British Birds

  • Was Sherlock Holmes Crazy?

  • Meretricious Effects

  • Some Freaks of Atavism

  • Butterflies

  • Financially Speaking

  • Something Amiss in The Three Gables

  • Plotting Lovers

  • Sherlock Holmes, Book Collector

  • Beetles

  • How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?

  • Watson's Medical Career

  • The Evolution of Sherlock Holmes, Part 3

  • Worms

  • A Window into Windows

  • I Know That Country, Holmes

  • The Evolution of Sherlock Holmes, Part 2

  • Jellyfish

  • The Evolution of Sherlock Holmes

  • Holmes & Lestrade Through the Years

  • Two Maids A-Missing

  • Secret Societies

  • Lab Rats

  • The Best Sherlock Holmes Stories

  • Your Questions, Answered

  • Luck in the Canon

  • Cormorants

  • Eyeglasses in the Canon

  • More Messages

  • Money Woes

  • Viper / Wiper

  • The Crimes of Sherlock Holmes

  • Brain Fever

  • No. 221B Baker Street (Part 2)

  • No. 221B Baker Street (Part 1)

  • Mongoose

  • Moriarty's Mathematics

  • Buffets

  • Colours in the Canon

  • Cheetah and Baboon

  • Walking Sticks & Canes

  • Footwear in the Canon

  • The Three Moriartys

  • Langur

  • The Three Professors

  • Sherlock Holmes's Birthday

  • Typography

  • Handwriting

  • The Care and Feeding of Sherlock Holmes

  • Smile When You Say That

  • The Setting of Cornwall

  • The Location of 221B, Part 2

  • The Location of 221B, Part 1

  • Child Pscyhology

  • Spare No Expense

  • The Setting of Agra

  • The Victims

  • Clothing in the Canon

  • The Dates in The Hound of the Baskervilles

  • The Brook Street Business

  • The Setting of Dartmoor

  • Ladies of Title

  • Palmer and Pritchard

  • Sherlock Holmes and Philosophers

  • Clergymen

  • The Working Girls

  • My Old Friend Charlie Peace

  • Tattoos

  • Justice, Part 3: Comeuppance

  • Watson's Patience

  • The Women of Influence

  • Justice, Part 2: Disproportionate

  • Justice, Part 1: Unresolved

  • Ships Ahoy

  • The Historicity of Sherlock Holmes

  • The Eternal Triangle

  • I Must Confess

  • Insomnia

  • Billy the Page

  • Friend or Foe?

  • We Have Much to Hope From the Flowers

  • A Colonel of Truth

  • Squiring Around

  • The Mystery of Watson's Second Wound

  • Jumping to Conclusions

  • Upbeat Moments in the Canon

  • Loneliness and Isolation in the Canon

  • Watson Was a Woman

  • Post-Reichenbach Arrangements

  • Infectious Diseases in the Canon

  • Shaky Foundations in The Norwood Builder

  • Was Sherlock Holmes an American?

  • Victorian Vegetarians

  • Black History in the Canon

  • The Final Mycroft Problem

  • Army Coaches

  • The Date of the Sign of Four

  • British Food

  • Fog

  • Sherlock Holmes, Sportsman

  • Bohemians and Sherlock Holmes

  • Minus Watson, Part 2

  • Minus Watson, Part 1

  • Hats

  • Asians and Sherlock Holmes

  • Swimming

  • Weather or Not

  • Aliases and Disguises

  • Canadians and Sherlock Holmes

  • Classism in the Sherlock Holmes Stories

  • Shooting and Hunting

  • Third Time's a Charm

  • Beards in the Sherlock Holmes Stories

  • Indians and Sherlock Holmes

  • En Garde! Singlestick

  • Music in the Canon, Part 2: Musicians, Instruments, and Venues

  • Music in the Canon, Part 1: Composers and Their Works

  • Russians and Sherlock Holmes

  • Ahoy! Rowing, Boating and Yachting

  • John Watson's Youth - Part 2

  • John Watson's Youth - Part 1

  • South Americans and Sherlock Holmes

  • Boarding Houses

  • Billiards

  • Why Thank You

  • Watson's Club

  • Americans and Sherlock Holmes

  • Fore!

  • School's Out

  • Where Was the Shadow?

  • French and Sherlock Holmes

  • Odd Jobs

  • You've Got a Deal

  • Poisons

  • Old Money

  • Sherlock Holmes and Australians

  • Tennis, Anyone?

  • Fool Me Once

  • Who Then, Is Porlock?

  • Irish and Sherlock Holmes

  • Whist

  • Poetry

  • Villains: Grimesby Roylott

  • Italians and Sherlock Holmes

  • Boxing

  • Governesses

  • Brands in the Canon

  • Germans and Sherlock Holmes

  • An Inspector Calls

  • Board Games

  • Beards in the Canon

  • Sherlock Holmes's Dining Habits

  • Unpublished Cases: A Very Commonplace Little Murder

  • Inside 221B: On the Floor

  • You're So Hansom

  • Telephonically, My Dear Holmes

  • Unpublished Cases: The Ferrers Documents

  • Inside 221B: The Gramophone

  • Sherlock Holmes and Children

  • Trick or Treat

  • Woof

  • Unpublished Cases: John Vincent Harden

  • Inside 221B: Have a Seat

  • Telegrams

  • How Insulting

  • Unpublished Cases: On the Continent

  • Inside 221B: Stradivarius

  • Doctors in the Canon

  • The Good Doctor

  • Wine & Spirits

  • Unpublished Cases: The Sign of Four

  • Inside 221B: The Morocco Case

  • Episode 83 - Smoke If You Got 'Em

  • Episode 82 - Sherlock Holmes's Underground Network

  • Episode 81 - Unpublished Cases: Holmes's Early Clients

  • Episode 80 - Inside 221B: The Wax Bust

  • Episode 79 - Umbrellas in the Canon

  • Episode 78 - Where Are They Now? Inspector Gregson

  • Episode 77 - Unpublished Cases: Holmes's Tin Box

  • Episode 76 - Inside 221B: Destructive Habits

  • Episode 75 - Nummi in Arca, or The Fiscal Holmes

  • Episode 74: The Administrative Side of Baker Street

  • Episode 73 - Myths in the Canon

  • Episode 72 - Unpublished Cases: The Abernetty Family

  • Episode 71 - Inside 221B: Where There's Smoke

  • Episode 70 - The Worst Parents in the Canon

  • Episode 69 - Occupations in the Canon, Part 1

  • Episode 68 - Unpublished Cases: See What V Has to Say

  • Episode 67 - Inside 221B: Chemistry

  • Episode 66 - Sherlock Holmes's Honorifics

  • Episode 65 - Time Marches On

  • Episode 64 - Unpublished Cases: The Amateur Mendicant Society

  • Episode 63 - Inside 221B: Drink Up!

  • Episode 62 - Reference Sources

  • Episode 61 - John Watson, Ladies Man

  • Episode 60 - Unpublished Cases: James Phillimore

  • Episode 59 - Inside 221B: On the Wall

  • Episode 58 - Sherlock Holmes's Index

  • Episode 57 - Coffee, Tea, or 221B?

  • Episode 56 - The Hudsons

  • Episode 55 - Unpublished Cases: Weird Animals

  • Episode 54 - Inside 221B: On the Sideboard

  • Compounding a Felony

  • Episode 52 - The Second Morning After Christmas

  • Episode 51 - Peace in the Canon

  • Episode 50 - The Agony Column

  • Episode 49 - Sherlock Holmes and Rugby

  • Episode 48 - Gotcha!

  • Episode 47 - Happy Families

  • Episode 46 - A History of Pince-Nez

  • 45 - Military Morality

  • 44 - The Supernatural

  • 43 - Sherlock Holmes's Monographs

  • 42 - A Noble Supper

  • 41 - Great Voyages

  • 40 - Who Was Sarasate?

  • 39 - The KKK of The Five Orange Pips

  • 38 - Photography

  • 37 - The Student Days of Sherlock Holmes

  • 36 - Tradesmen in the Canon

  • 35 - The Real Greek Hero

  • 34 - A Mysterious Box

  • 33 - Thumb Up for Engineers

  • 32 - A Return to Normalcy via Norwood

  • 31 - Frederic Dorr Steele's Gift

  • 30 - A Lengthy Treaty

  • 29 - Who Wrote The Mazarin Stone

  • 28 - Harpoons: A Pointed Subject

  • 27 - Rebellion!

  • 26 - The Plot Device of The Three Garridebs

  • 25 - An Unbelievable Case of Identity

  • 24 - Heads of Household

  • 23 - Married Life with Dr. Watson

  • 22 - Pubs and Taverns, Part 2

  • 21 - Pubs and Taverns, Part 1

  • 20 - The Duke and the Doctor

  • Mothers in the Canon

  • 18 - Horse Sense in Silver Blaze

  • 17 - Glimpses of Holmes in The Copper Beeches

  • 16 - The Surprise of a First Reading of the Final Problem

  • 15 - Sherlock Holmes and Easter

  • 14 - The Speckled Band and its Snakish Temper

  • 13 - Quarter Day Is at Hand

  • 12 - Irene Adler: A Legend Is Born

  • 11 - Celebrations

  • 10 - The Dressing Gown of Many Colors

  • 9 - A Matter of Faith

  • 8 - The Wrinkle in The Beryl Coronet

  • John, James and Mary

  • 6 - Dating the Missing Three Quarter

  • 5 - Moral Relativism in Charles Augustus Milverton

  • 4 - Guilt in The Abbey Grange

  • 3 - Simpson's

  • 2 - Watson in the City

  • 1 - Optimism

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