Jun 24, 2012
Sometimes, when there's a topic that bears a discussion-based
episode between the two of us, we like to do a little research to
see what's been written previously, so we can have some reference
material upon which to base some of our zany theories.
Sunday, June 17 was Father's Day in the United States, which made
it a perfect opportunity to tackle the topic of fathers in the
Canon. Imagine our chagrin and surprise then, when we discovered
that there was no appreciable material (at least to our "small but
select" libraries of Sherlockiana) that adequately chronicled
fathers and father figures in the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Not to be deterred, we decided to thumb through the stories and
pick out not only fathers, but step-fathers, would-be fathers,
father figures and others who espoused the characteristics that
fathers do or should have. More than a laundry list of individuals,
this episode turned into a fun reminiscence and analysis that we
hope you enjoy listening to almost as much as we enjoyed creating
it.
While we couldn't find an Editor's Gas-Lamp that was directly about
fatherhood, we did find one that had paternal overtone in the Vol.
8 No. 4 issue from October 1958 titled "Truth is Better than
Fiction."