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.’

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.

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 […]

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.

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?

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.

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.

Mike recently an overwhelmingly Sherlockian October. Find out why.

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.

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.