Runaway brides, rude lords, and the return of Doyle’s American West. In “The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor,” Holmes finds himself assisting a Lord with a personal problem: his new bride vanishing the day after their wedding. Sarah and Marisa talk about armchair detective fiction, Watson's traveling war wound, Lestrade's wet laundry, and which one of us gets to propose marriage to Hatty Doran first.

Content warning: This episode contains some very Victorian depictions of racism and sexism.

NOBL makes a brief mention of what Doyle calls “Apache Indians” - we want to clarify that the Apache are a group of culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwest, including Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Mimbreño, Ndendahe (Bedonkohe or Mogollon and Nednhi or Carrizaleño and Janero), Salinero, Plains (Kataka or Semat or "Kiowa-Apache") and Western Apache. Currently, the San Carlos Apache Tribe in southeastern Arizona is engaged in a legal battle to stop their sacred land of Oak Flat from being handed over to mining corporation Rio Tinto. Read more about this here: http://apache-stronghold.com/ 

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