Sherlock Holmes: Trifles
You know the plots, but what about the minutiae? We delve into the Sherlock Holmes stories and provide answers to questions that arise, clarify muddy details, and look into some of the period terminology in this weekly podcast.
Episodes
May 7, 2025 • 19 mins
“so ardent a bicyclist must be full of energy” [SOLI]
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April 30, 2025 • 20 mins
“a strange, loud whiz” [EMPT]
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April 23, 2025 • 25 mins
“general resemblance to an itinerant” [VALL]
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April 16, 2025 • 28 mins
“before my biographer had come to glorify me” [GREE]
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April 9, 2025 • 23 mins
“I would read as easily as I do the apocrypha” [VALL] 
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April 2, 2025 • 25 mins
“you are mistaken about my alleged agents” [MAZA]
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March 26, 2025 • 19 mins
“the great North American Continent” [STUD]
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March 19, 2025 • 24 mins
“As to your dates, that is the biggest mystification of all.” [CREE]
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March 12, 2025 • 28 mins
“preoccupied with business matters” [COPP]
If you came across the name of a business in the Sherlock Holmes stories, do you think you could identify which story it came from? What about the type of business it was?
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March 5, 2025 • 29 mins
“There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion” [NAVA]
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February 26, 2025 • 26 mins
“I would read as easily as I do the apocrypha” [VALL]
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February 19, 2025 • 21 mins
“see through a disguise” [HOUN]
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February 12, 2025 • 23 mins
“drawn on six different banks” [VALL]
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February 5, 2025 • 26 mins
“You know my methods. Apply them!” [HOUN]
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January 29, 2025 • 21 mins
“the Japanese system of wrestling” [EMPT]
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January 22, 2025 • 23 mins
“the sweat was pouring down my face” [BLUE]
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January 15, 2025 • 21 mins
“when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth” [SIGN]
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January 8, 2025 • 34 mins
“We shall then take you into partnership” [SIGN]
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