Sherlock Holmes: Trifles

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

July 2, 2025 27 mins

“why should anyone play me such a trick?” [CARD] 

“Is Mrs. Watson in?” [FINA] 

June 11, 2025 29 mins

“traces of the ancient people” [HOUN] 

June 4, 2025 24 mins

“What, in heaven’s name, was it?” [HOUN] 

May 28, 2025 31 mins

“I am a bit of an archaeologist myself” [3GAR] Read more

May 21, 2025 28 mins

“I went into the back yard” [BLUE] 

May 14, 2025 28 mins

“You have done your best to get an innocent man hanged.” [NORW] 

May 7, 2025 19 mins

“so ardent a bicyclist must be full of energy” [SOLI] 

April 30, 2025 20 mins

“a strange, loud whiz” [EMPT] 

April 23, 2025 25 mins

“general resemblance to an itinerant” [VALL] 

April 16, 2025 28 mins

“before my biographer had come to glorify me” [GREE]

“I would read as easily as I do the apocrypha” [VALL]

“you are mistaken about my alleged agents” [MAZA] 

March 26, 2025 19 mins

“the great North American Continent” [STUD] 

March 19, 2025 24 mins

“As to your dates, that is the biggest mystification of all.” [CREE] 

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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Mark as Played

“There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion” [NAVA] 

February 26, 2025 26 mins

“I would read as easily as I do the apocrypha” [VALL] 

February 19, 2025 21 mins

“see through a disguise” [HOUN] 


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