I Grok Sherlock

Possibly our most diffuse and free-ranging (like chickens) episode yet. Geordie continues down his pet rabbit-hole of origins of everyday objects and industrial materials. Mike champions expanded limits to Victorian scripture knowledge. Nothing says Sherlock like linoleum and the Kings of Judea (We’re not even kidding).

Mike’s excellent adaptation of Sherlock Holmes as written by Neil Simon (in The Odd Couple vein rather than Same Time Next Year). Voiced by your two co-hosts. Back in August with The Crooked Man. Until then … the game’s a footnote. Wish we were as dapper as Martin and Benedict.

Michael Robertson, author of the Baker Street Letters series, addressed the Bootmakers of Toronto on March 13, 2019. As always many thanks to Mike for producing this segment.

Watson vainly plays nursemaid to Holmes when the Great Detective falls prey to exhaustion following his stunning defeat of Baron Maupertuis. The preceding sentence outlines the more interesting story hidden in the real one. The Reigate Squires is not a favourite of Geordie’s though he does concede that it has some admirable points. As usual, […]

Mattias Boström, author of the excellent From Holmes to Sherlock, talks to the Bootmakers of Toronto. From Holmes to Sherlock is a wonderful achievement in scholarship – it starts with Conan Doyle’s creation of Holmes, the advent of his immense popularity, and takes us through the cultural impact of Holmes. If you’re listening to this […]

Hogtown Empire is Geordie’s true crime podcast. In Episode 3 we look past the chummy portrait of Ambrose Small painted in Episode 2. It will emerge that he was NOT a nice man and there were plenty of people who would have nursed grudges against him – with good reason. Hogtown Empire is a true […]

Whose is it? It is Mike and Geordie’s discussion of the cinema, radio, and TV adaptations of the Musgrave Ritual with a surprisingly in-depth digression on children’s television that reached Toronto from Buffalo in the 1970s. You have been warned.

We strongly recommend you visit iGrokSherlcok.com to watch the video while you listen. It’ll be fun! Find the blog entry for ‘Musgrave Ritual – 1912 Silent Film Commentary.’ Just wait til you hear us do the countdown – ‘3-2-1- Go!’

Hogtown Empire is Geordie’s (non-Holmes) true crime podcast (though ACD does tangentially appear a bit later.) In Episode 2 we jump right into Ambrose Small’s last movements on December 1st and 2nd, 1919. Are there any clues to what happened to Ambrose buried in his last movements? He was with someone nearly every minute of […]

The Musgrave Ritual has it all – a creaky ancient estate, a mysterious old document, a dual disappearance, and …  a treasure hunt! Mike and Geordie are so excited to be back that his must surely count as our most prolix episode ever, so we’ve split it into two parts. Happy listening!