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After Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger, Conan Doyle’s other best-known recurring character is Brigadier Gerard, a French hussar during the Napoleonic Wars. In this wonderful footnote, Bootmaker Cliff Goldfarb presents his paper, The Brigadier in Switzerland: Travels with Arthur and Napoleon. Happy listening and thanks to Mike (from me, Geordie) for recording and producing these […] The post Footnote 15 – Brigadier Gerard Paper by Cliff Goldfarb appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

On October 13 , 2018 an intrepid contingent of Bootmakers journeyed to Niagara on the Lake to see the Shaw Festival’s production of The Hound of the Baskervilles. This footnote records a preshow chat with Shaw’s planning director, Jeff Cummings, as well as Damian Atkins, who plays Holmes himself. Big thanks to Mike for recording […] The post Footnote 14 – Hound at Shaw appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

Hogtown Empire is Geordie’s new true crime podcast. Canadian theatre tycoon Ambrose Small disappeared on December 2, 1919. This new true crime podcast from Geordie Telfer sets the stage for Hogtown Empire, the book, coming in 2019. Premiering on the 99th anniversary of Ambrose Small’s disappearance, Season 1 looks forward to the 100th anniversary next […] The post Cross Over Special – Hogtown Empire Episode 1 appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

The Adventure of the Gloria Scott takes us back to the case that started it all, a flashback within a flashback (very Inception, Doyle). Holmes recounts the story to Watson; it’s an early case that takes place during Holmes’ varsity days. When he’s not recovering from keggers and swallowing live goldfish (kidding, kidding) Holmes takes […] The post Ep. 19 – The Gloria Scott appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

One of the most satisfying and heartwarming, yet least eventful stories in the Canon, The Yellow Face holds a sinister sort of macabre promise at the outset, but rewards first-time readers with an unexpectedly touching dénouement. Of course, if Effie Munro had just come clean with her husband from the beginning, a horse-and-cartload of misunderstanding […] The post Ep. 17 – The Yellow Face appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

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The Cardboard Box is absolutely one of the grimmest stories in the Canon, lacking many of the cozy familiars we have come to suspect. Nonetheless Holmes is in fine form, even though Watson has a bad case of the Summer Time Blues. Conan Doyle was so uncomfortable with The Cardboard Box that he opted not […] The post Ep. 16 – The Cardboard Box appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

  And we’re back! Season 2 starts as it ought to with Silver Blaze. A fan favourite despite problems of logic and accuracy, Silver Blaze was one of Conan Doyle’s faves though not in his top 10 or even his top 12. Holmes is in fine form even though the villain considerately if unnecessarily takes […] The post Ep. 15 – Silver Blaze appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

Tracy L. Ward writes the best-selling Marshall Hall mystery series about Victorian morgue surgeon, Peter Ainsley. This is her talk from the April 7, 2018 meeting of The Bootmakers of Toronto. Tracy talks about the joys of remote and on-site research as well as the adventure of her first trip to England after she’d already […] The post Footnote 12 – Tracy L. Ward at the Bootmakers of Toronto appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

Here’s a talk that best-selling Canadian mystery writer Ian Hamilton gave at The Bootmakers of Toronto April 7, 2018 meeting. Ian is the author of the Ava Lee mysteries, going into production soon as international co-productions for TV! Here, he gives an entertaining and informative talk about becoming a writer and his experiences over 11 […] The post Footnote 11 – Author Ian Hamilton at The Bootmakers of Toronto appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

A Pastiche. In which Geordie presents his Holmes / Bertie & Jeeves mash-up with apologies to (and admiration for) PG Wodehouse. Before we embark on Season 2: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, we’re giving you a month or two of bonus content while we regroup. As Mike says, ‘The Game’s a Footnote.’   The post Footnote 9 – The Adventure of the Bigamist Biographer appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

Our first live show from The Bootmakers of Toronto story meeting for The Stockbroker’s Clerk which took place on Saturday, February 24, 2018 at the Toronto Central Reference Library’s Beeton Auditorium. Sorry but no custom cover this month, for those of you who follow that kind of thing. The post Ep. 18 – The Stockbroker’s Clerk appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

Has Holmes’ practice really degenerated into a agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding schools? Holmes seems to think so, but Mike and Geordie disagree. The Copper Beeches marks the end of Season 1 of iGrokSherlock. We’ll still bring  you new content each month, but it’ll be a […] The post Ep. 14 – The Copper Beeches appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

Our first live show! It’s the Bootmakers of Toronto story meeting for The Stockbroker’s Clerk. Saturday February 24th 2018 at the Toronto Reference Library (Beeton Auditorium), 1pm. And a fascinating footnote from listener Wally Conger.   The post Footnote 9 – Live Show Feb 24 2018 and Listener E-mail appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

Geordie contends that, except for Holmes, all the key players in The Beryl Coronet are complete morons. Mike is inclined to cut them a bit more slack, but more-or-less concurs with this thesis. Do you agree or disagree? The post Ep. 13 – The Beryl Coronet appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

In many ways, The Noble Bachelor asks, ‘For whom should we feel pity?’ The wronged? The rich? The beautiful? Or the sexy danseuse who gets a little overly attached? Mike and Geordie have no good answers, but they certainly look in some fun places. The post Ep. 12 – The Noble Bachelor appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

A recently mono-thumbed hydraulic engineer named Victor Hatherly shows up early one morning at Watson’s practice. Watson and (later) Holmes believe Hatherly’s strange story, but do we? For CBC listeners of ‘As It Happens’ please note that iGrokSherlock is recorded 5,658 km from Reading. The post Ep. 11 – The Engineer’s Thumb appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

Mike recently an overwhelmingly Sherlockian October. Find out why.   The post Footnote 8 – Mike’s Intensely Sherlockian Month appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

In which your hosts courageously dive into the many, many … MANY adaptions of the The Speckled Band, Mike with more courage than Geordie who didn’t actually watch them all. The post Ep. 10A – The Speckled Band Part 2 appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

Our first interview! Larry Millett’s books feature Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota. His latest, The Eisendorf Enigma, finds an elderly Holmes trying to capture a killer who eluded him years earlier. Press play to find out more. The post Footnote 7 – Interview with Larry Millett author of The Eisendorf Enigma appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.