Sherlock. Everywhere.

Sherlock Holmes is pervasive in popular culture. Like the Baker Street Irregulars, we invite you to "go everywhere, see everything and overhear everyone" in our discovery of Sherlock Holmes in our world. Find more at I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere.

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"I hear of Sherlock everywhere since you became his chronicler." From the Writers' Walk. (at Circular Quay)

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That time Sherlock Holmes met the Loch Ness monster.

From The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

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Unsavory Underground #tbt

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Some days, I feel like screaming at my screen, “You there! Don’t you know that there’s more to Sherlock Holmes than Benedict Cumberbatch?”

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Still true.

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A frock coat for the city

When in his home city of London, Holmes wears an item that was indispensable for any Victorian gentleman: a frock coat. Before it was eventually replaced by lounge suits at the turn of the century, the frock coat was established in the 19th century as the accepted formal day time dress; in other words, it was the standard business attire of the era. The cloth was usually a solid black (charcoal grey and midnight blue were also acceptable alternatives), worn with either matching or odd waistcoats and trousers, depending on the formality of the occasion. 

Many adaptations have dressed their Holmes in this ensemble, most recently with Mr Holmes starring Ian McKellen, but in The Abominable Bride he also wears his neckwear a little differently by tucking the ends of the bow tie under his shirt collar. It would appear that this was an accepted style at the time given that Sidney Paget also dressed the character in this way in his illustrations for The Strand Magazine. A handful of actors have followed suit over the years, including Douglas Wilmer (who had a brief cameo in The Reichenbach Fall) and Peter Cushing in the 60s, and the iconic Jeremy Brett for Granada television between 1984 and 1994. 

(L-R: Sidney Paget’s illustration for ‘The Red-Headed League’, 1891; Douglas Wilmer, 1964; Peter Cushing, 1968; and Jeremy Brett, 1984)

The single-breasted frock coat is in a black worsted wool, and cut to fall just above the knee. It is closely fitted with straight and lightly padded shoulders. The front has three patterned self-faced buttons (Holmes only buttons the top button when wearing an overcoat, otherwise wearing the coat open), a peak lapel in the provincial style, and three buttons on the cuffs of the sleeves. Unlike modern suits and coats there is a horizontal waist seam, two decorative buttons on the back with a long single vent, and no breast or hip pockets.

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The waistcoat is in a dark bronze silk with a black geometric pattern. It has six buttons, notch lapels and a cutaway hem, with four welt pockets. He wears the same gold watch chain as the one worn with his green check suit. The wool trousers are grey twill with black pinstripes, and have a plain front and bottoms. 

With this outfit Holmes wears a white shirt with a semi-spread turndown collar, a front placket, and French cuffs. His bow tie is narrow and in a textured black silk, with the ends tucked under the shirt collar. His shoes are black leather button boots, with dark grey suede uppers and a punched cap toe.

Over this ensemble, he wears a dark charcoal single-breasted overcoat in a heavy wool (reminiscent of the Belstaff) with four self-faced buttons on the front, flapped hip pockets, four buttons on the cuffs and a half-belted back. He wears a red paisley silk pocket square in the breast pocket. Like his Ulster coat the buttonhole on the notch lapel is red, while the collar is in a black velvet - Mycroft’s modern-day Crombie coats have a similar detail. Holmes also wears a black silk top hat with a grosgrain ribbon, black leather gloves and a black wool scarf. 

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A green check suit for the country

For his trips to and from the countryside, Holmes wears a green plaid wool suit under his Ulster coat and deerstalker. The plaid is dark green and black with a red overcheck. Given the colour scheme and the rougher texture of the wool (possibly a tweed), this suit is only suitable for a rural setting - hence Watson’s reluctance to visit the morgue early in the episode. Gentlemen were expected to dress differently when they were in the country as opposed to the city, and Holmes was no exception. 

The jacket is well-fitted, with straight shoulders and roped sleeveheads, and a gently suppressed waist. The front has four black buttons (Holmes only buttons the top button), a notch lapel and flapped hip pockets. The jacket has no vents, and there are three buttons on the cuffs of the sleeves. The trousers have a plain front and bottoms (i.e. no pleats or turn-ups), are held up by button braces, and are a classic width. 

The waistcoat has five buttons and a cutaway hem, with two welt pockets. He wears a single gold watch chain, and has attached a George III ‘spade’ guinea to it. This is presumably a reference to the sovereign he received from Irene Adler during A Scandal in Bohemia: 

“… The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion.”

There are some interesting implications of Ms Adler paying a stable hand a guinea rather than a sovereign, but we suspect this was not a deliberate choice by the props department!

With the suit, Holmes wears a white shirt with a semi-spread turndown collar, a front placket, and French cuffs with round cufflinks. He wears two different silk bow ties with this outfit during the episode: a gold and black paisley with a red base, and the other a red paisley with a green base. Both are self-tied, and are tucked under the shirt collar (much like Jeremy Brett’s quintessential Holmes). He also wears a folded green and red silk pocket square in the breast pocket. 

His shoes are button boots, a style popular during the Victorian era. They are in brown calf leather with brown suede uppers, and have a punched cap toe. 

When outside he wears the deerstalker and Ulster coat over this suit, while in 221B he removes the suit jacket and wears his camel dressing gown - both will be covered in later posts!

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#ABOM suiting

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He’s not heavy - he’s my brother. Wait  — 

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A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Carol

“I thought it was his ghost at first” [NOBL]

Sherlock Holmes was dead. There was no doubt whatsoever about that. His body had disappeared after falling down the Reichenbach Falls, locked in the arms of Professor Moriarty, ending up deep down in a dreadful caldron of swirling water and seething foam. Any attempt at recovering his body had been absolutely hopeless. The real murderer was, of course, Dr A. Conan Doyle, who had got tired of his fictitious character, wiped him out with his pen and ink and made sure that the master detective was no more. Conan Doyle – oh! what a cold-hearted man he was, selfishly he had put an end to the joy of hundreds of thousands, and cowardly he had left his country only days before his decision was made public. And now, he walked the streets near the Kurhaus Hotel in Davos in Switzerland with something akin to a smirk on his face. A white frost had settled on his head, and on his eyebrows, and on his large waxed moustache. At close quarters, however, he wasn’t smiling at all. His smile had frozen. His wife had fallen ill, and the dry and crispy Alpine air was a better alternative than the damp winter climate of London. It was just a fortnight since the readers had opened the Strand Magazine, only to find that Sherlock Holmes was gone, never to return. The news spread like wildfire. Not even on the streets of Davos was Conan Doyle safe from comments upon his deed.  ‘If I didn’t kill him, he would have killed me,’ Conan Doyle defended himself to an English acquaintance he happened to meet on the snow-covered street.  ‘Bah!’ said the fellow Englishman. And, ‘Humbug!’ he added. Conan Doyle tried to reply, but the man was gone. Instead the author entered the post office. The Swiss woman who sold him stamps looked suspiciously at him...  

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Interview: Steven Moffat and Sue Vertue Reveal How Much Longer Sherlock Will Continue

In the latest interview show on I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, the first podcast for Sherlock Holmes devotees, we spoke with Steven Moffat and Sue Vertue, part of the team behind Sherlock.

We naturally chat about the upcoming special Sherlock: The Abominable Bride and what led them to place Sherlock Holmes back in his original setting, we discover something surprising about Sue, they tell us how long Sherlock will continue, and  Steven leaves Sherlockians with some send-off advice. The full show notes are available a ihose.co/ihose86.

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SHERLOCK HOLMES and JOHN WATSON

watercolor painting for my upcoming artbook

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Take a virtual reality tour of 221B Baker Street.

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Granada Holmes is amazing and so dramatic. The way he stands when there’s been a murder, the way he drinks his tea, the way he opens his letters. He is a bloody drama queen and I love him.

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And why shouldn’t he be? It’s taken directly from the Canon: “Watson here will tell you that I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.” [NOBL]

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The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes

edited by Otto Penzler

Available at Amazon.

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Interview with Nicholas Meyer, author of The Seven Percent Solution

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Those Sherlockians who came to the hobby from the 1970s onward will be familiar with the name Nicholas Meyer, BSI ("A Fine Moroccan Case"). His book The Seven Per-Cent Solution became a runaway hit in 1974 and 1975, eventually becoming a movie for which Meyer himself wrote the screenplay. The 2015 Baker Street Journal Christmas Annual Together Again for the First Time, which celebrates the four decades since the book and film appeared.

A master of storytelling, Nick Meyer brings us behind the scenes of becoming a Sherlockian at the tender age of 11, followed closely with his first film, the influence of music, musicals and film in his budding career and how he lost Sherlock Holmes and found him again. We hear all about what it was like to take a manuscript from concept to publication and the challenges of agents, publishers, the Conan Doyle Estate and others along the way. And then the thrill of casting selections and adapting the book for the screen, even though writing for the screen is vastly different than for the printed page.

It's rare that a pastiche has as much impact as Meyer's book — or was as popular as the original stories. We explore how his early and rabid consumption of the writings about the Writings (as well as a degree of hubris) allowed him to approximate Doyle's style and be a stickler for details. His craft even granted him an invitation to the BSI dinner in 1975 — but he turned it down (!); and how his opportunity to direct Young Sherlock Holmes dissipated —  you'll find out why when you tune in.

Nick was also a great sport and managed to make it through our "Mental Exaltations" quiz relatively unscathed.

The Easter egg this time brings you Nick Meyer's secret on how wearing a tie led to an acting role for him. But which film?

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The Seven Per-Cent Solution (book) - Amazon

The Seven Per-Cent Solution (film) - Amazon

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Time After Time

Houdini (TV Miniseries)

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With the continued interest shown in "Mental Exaltation," the quiz segment on I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, along with the masterful writing abilities of our quizmaster Nick Martorelli, we're continuing the tradition. You can hear the latest version on IHOSE #82.

If you've listened to NPR shows like Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! and Weekend Edition Sunday, you'll know that there are opportunities for listeners to participate in quizzes. In the former, a guest typically plays on behalf of a listener; on the latter, the listener plays live on the air.

Here's how "Mental Exaltation" works:

Each month, we'll post a qualifying question to determine a listener who'll play / be played for on the program. Winner will be chosen at random from all correct entries.

If you'd like to enter, you must subscribe to I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere by email.

We'll either have a guest play on your behalf or we'll patch you into the show to have you play over the phone or Skype.

If your player or you succeeds in passing the test, you'll win a random item from our I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere Grab-Bag of Goodies (that's the IHOSE GBG).

In our very next episode (Episode 85), our guest will be Nicholas Meyer, the author and screenwriter of The Seven Per-Cent Solution, and he'll be playing on behalf of one very lucky listener.

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A Long Evening With Holmes

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“A Long Evening with Holmes” by Bill Schweikert

When the world rushes in with worries and cares, 

And my problems and headaches are coming in pairs, 

I just climb in my mind up those seventeen stairs, 

And spend a long evening with Holmes.

The good doctor greets me and motions me in, 

Holmes grasps my hand and lays down his violin, 

Then we sit by the fire and sip a tall gin 

When I spend a long evening with Holmes.

And while we're discussing his cases galore, 

If I'm lucky there comes a loud knock at the door, 

In stumbles a client, head spattered with gore 

When I spend a long evening with Holmes.

Watson binds up the client's poor face 

While Holmes soon extracts all the facts of the case, 

Then off in a hansom to Brixton we race 

When I spend a long evening with Holmes.

The adventure is solved, Holmes makes it all right. 

Then, back to the lodgings by dawn's early light, 

And a breakfast by Hudson to wind up the night 

When I spend a long evening with Holmes.

So this modern rat-race can't keep me in a cage. 

I have a passport to a far better age, 

As close as the bookshelf, as near as a page, 

I can spend a long evening with Holmes.

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'Sherlock' will end when Benedict Cumberbatch leaves, co-creator reveals

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The BBC detective drama 'Sherlock' will cease production when Benedict Cumberbatch leaves the lead role.

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