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What Is Trifles?

You know the plots, but what about the minutiae?

Mar 31, 2022 • Scott Monty

Discussions about the Sherlock Holmes stories. It's just a Trifle!

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21:59

Episode 472 - Professor Moriarty

You think you know him. You know less than you think.

Jan 14 • Scott Monty

Episode 471 - Upon the Dating of Blood Stains

Robert Schultz definitively identifies the writer and recipient of a scurrilous letter

Jan 7 • Scott Monty

37:34

Trifling Trifles #9 - The First Message

When Hilton Cubitt first visits Sherlock Holmes, he has a written message with him.

Jan 1 • Scott Monty

6:26

Episode 470 - The Chronology of the Apocrypha

Research by Brett Graham Fawcett on when some of the apocryphal stories might have occurred

Dec 31, 2025 • Scott Monty

27:03

Episode 469 - The Man Who Was Wanted

The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes Part 9

Dec 24, 2025 • Scott Monty

25:12

Apocrypha

27:03

Episode 470 - The Chronology of the Apocrypha

Research by Brett Graham Fawcett on when some of the apocryphal stories might have occurred

Dec 31, 2025 • Scott Monty

Episode 469 - The Man Who Was Wanted

The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes Part 9

Dec 24, 2025 • Scott Monty

25:12

Episode 465 - Angels of Darkness

The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes Part 8

Nov 27, 2025 • Scott Monty

33:25

Episode 461 - The Tall Man

The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes Part 7

Oct 29, 2025 • Scott Monty

22:26

Episode 456 - The Crown Diamond

The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes Part 6

Sep 25, 2025 • Scott Monty

22:58

Morley-Montgomery

37:34

Episode 471 - Upon the Dating of Blood Stains

Robert Schultz definitively identifies the writer and recipient of a scurrilous letter

Jan 7 • Scott Monty

Episode 466 - Who Wrote the American Chapters of A Study in Scarlet?

Ben Vizoskie finds irrefutable proof in a logical, if unexpected place

Dec 3, 2025 • Scott Monty

28:10

Episode 462 - The Sherlock Holmes We Never Knew

S.E. Dahlinger gives us more information about William Gillette than we ever had before

Nov 6, 2025 • Scott Monty

40:49

Episode 457 - On the Chaldean Influences in Cornish

Margaret Nydell attempts to unlock Sherlock Holmes's secret research in Cornwall

Oct 1, 2025 • Scott Monty

28:33

Episode 453 - The Location of Baskerville Hall

Howard Brody uses Holmesian methods to place Baskerville Hall on the map

Sep 4, 2025 • Scott Monty

30:23

Inside 221B

17:54

Episode 102 - Inside 221B: On the Floor

“he slipped down upon the floor” [PRIO]

Dec 12, 2018 • Scott Monty

Episode 98 - Inside 221B: The Gramophone

“modern gramophones are a remarkable invention” [MAZA]

Nov 14, 2018 • Scott Monty

14:08

Episode 93 - Inside 221B: Have a Seat

“Pray take a seat” [MAZA]

Oct 10, 2018 • Scott Monty

17:15

Episode 89 - Inside 221B: Stradivarius

Listen now (17 mins) | “off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony” [REDH]

Sep 13, 2018 • Scott Monty

16:50

Episode 84 - Inside 221B: The Morocco Case

“neat morocco case” [SIGN]

Aug 8, 2018 • Scott Monty

20:09

Theorist

18:41

Episode 468 - Sherlock Holmes and Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens died without leaving a solution to his famous mystery. Who better to solve it than Sherlock Holmes?

Dec 18, 2025 • Scott Monty

T.S. Eliot and the Great Grimpen Mire

Subtle influences of The Hound of the Baskervilles appear in a work by T.S. Eliot

Oct 16, 2025 • Scott Monty

23:35

Episode 451 - John H. Watson Never Went to China

Jay Finley Christ debunks a previously-held claim about Watson's true identity

Aug 20, 2025 • Scott Monty

21:41

Episode 446 - Untangling the Skein

Matt Hall's discovery smashes long-held beliefs about the original title of A Study in Scarlet

Jul 17, 2025 • Scott Monty

29:09

Episode 442 - A Case of Identity: The Second Mrs. Watson

Who was the second Mrs. Watson? David Hammer has a theory.

Jun 19, 2025 • Scott Monty

23:01

Trifling Trifles

6:26

Trifling Trifles #9 - The First Message

When Hilton Cubitt first visits Sherlock Holmes, he has a written message with him.

Jan 1 • Scott Monty

Trifling Trifles #8 - J Pens

When Mycroft Holmes remarked on a note that was addressed to him in “The Greek Interpreter,” he seemed to pull a rabbit out of his hat this observation:

Dec 1, 2025 • Scott Monty

6:15

Trifling Trifles #7 - Wagonettes

We’re treated to a wide variety of conveyances in the Sherlock Holmes stories, from water vessels to the railway to horse-drawn vehicles and even…

Nov 1, 2025 • Scott Monty

8:26

Trifling Trifles #6 - Worst. Banker. Ever.

There are very few bankers in the Sherlock Holmes stories, but the few we do meet tend to be very concerned with their holdings.

Oct 1, 2025 • Scott Monty

6:27

Trifling Trifles #5 - Typewriters

There were a handful of cases in the Sherlock Holmes stories that involved typewriters.

Sep 1, 2025 • Scott Monty

16:14

Travel

8:26

Trifling Trifles #7 - Wagonettes

We’re treated to a wide variety of conveyances in the Sherlock Holmes stories, from water vessels to the railway to horse-drawn vehicles and even…

Nov 1, 2025 • Scott Monty

Episode 460 - Paddington vs. Waterloo

One small thing about the train stations in The Hound of the Baskervilles...

Oct 22, 2025 • Scott Monty

18:55

Episode 458 - The Moor as a Character

The moor is there, lurking in every scene of The Hound of the Baskervilles

Oct 8, 2025 • Scott Monty

25:27

Episode 455 - Lhassa & Mecca

What do we *really* know about Sherlock Holmes's time in Tibet and Saudi Arabia?

Sep 17, 2025 • Scott Monty

21:42

Episode 411 - The Continental

Holmes and Watson take off from London to evade Professor Moriarty. Where does their trip take them?

Nov 13, 2024 • Scott Monty

28:59

Games & Sports

21:01

Episode 422 - Baritsu

Sherlock Holmes was before his time with his mastery of this martial art

Jan 30, 2025 • Scott Monty

Watson's Billiard Playing

“chalk his billiard-cue” [MISS]

Feb 8, 2024 • Scott Monty

23:23

Missing Three-Quarter One-Third Discovered

“this extraordinary league” [REDH]

Mar 2, 2022 • Scott Monty

19:19

Sherlock Holmes, Sportsman

Listen now (31 mins) | “I am a born sportsman” [LAST]

Dec 25, 2019 • Scott Monty

30:59

“Going for a swim, I see.” [LION]

Nov 13, 2019 • Scott Monty

22:53

Women

19:24

Episode 395 - Victorian Adventuresses

“she seems indeed to be on a very different level” [SCAN]

Jul 25, 2024 • Scott Monty

Episode 369 - Hosmeric Hypocrisy

“You’ll be interested to hear that I am engaged.” [CHAS]

Jan 25, 2024 • Scott Monty and Trifles

18:13

The Four Violets

"stained with violet" [IDEN]

Jul 27, 2022 • Scott Monty

25:47

Damsels in Distress

“she confessed with distress” [LADY]

Dec 1, 2021 • Scott Monty

26:59

Two Maids A-Missing

“Altogether there are eight maids” [MUSG]

Jun 30, 2021 • Scott Monty

23:09

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