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I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere

Oct 30, 2024

“no ghosts need apply” [SUSS] 

'Tis the season! The season for monsters and ghosts, that is.

And who better to treat us with a discussion of monsters, ghosts, and various biblioventures designed to make our skin crawl than Ed Pettit from The Rosenbach?

It's not just the ghosts of Charles Dickens and the monsters...


Oct 15, 2024

“the summit of St. Paul’s” [SIGN] 

 

After one episode, we find ourselves back in Minnesota — this time, talking with longtime author Larry Millett about his latest Shadwell Rafferty book, Mysterious Tales of Old St. Paul.

Those who have followed the nine previous books will have a good sense of this...


Oct 1, 2024

“You are here as a spy” [ILLU] 

In Spy Hunter, it’s 1914 and Sherlock Holmes has been murdered. Nobody knows who did it, but Wiggins, former Baker Street Irregular and Holmes' protégée, suspects a German spy.

This is where H.B. Lyle's fourth installment in his Irregular series picks up. Ben joined us to...


Sep 15, 2024

“two tickets for the theatre” [BRUC] 

 

Jeffrey Hatcher, BSI ("The Five Orange Pips") and Steve Hendrickson have teamed up for a new Sherlock Holmes play in which we find one mystery, separated by 25 years. Holmes has the first crack at it, followed by Hercule Poirot decades later. 

Appropriately enough, it is...


Aug 31, 2024

“there appeared a long telegram” [SECO] 

Nicholas Meyer's first Sherlock Holmes book, The Seven Per-Cent Solution, became and remains the high-water mark for Sherlock Holmes pastiches. So when he edits another one of Dr. Watson's recovered manuscripts, it's always worthwhile.

The latest is Sherlock Holmes and...