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Call for the Dead (1961) from 2023-11-27T07:30
1961's "Call for the Dead" was a striking premiere in spy fiction. Not only was it the careful, opening gambit in John le Carré's long and dominating career, it also marked the first appearance ...
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LTP Noir: Detour (1945) from 2023-11-18T13:00
In this installment, Josh gets behind the wheel of "Detour" and takes listeners through the hairpin turns of Edgar G. Ulmer's "poverty row" production. When it was released in November 1945, "De...
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Five Decembers (2021) from 2023-09-16T15:00
It's late in 1941. Honolulu basks in Hawaiian warmth and Battleship Row sparkles with military confidence, just weeks before the day that would live in infamy. Downtown, Police Detective Joe McG...
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Vertigo (1954) from 2023-08-10T10:00
Boileau-Narcejac's novel D'entre les morts (The Living and the Dead) was published in 1954 and served as the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's classic psychological thriller. ...
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Beast in View (1956) from 2023-07-15T07:30
A brief crank call transforms into a lengthy nightmare for spinster Helen Clarvoe and her anxious orbit around family and friends in Los Angeles. By turns evasive and compelling, Margaret Millar...
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LTP Noir: Criss Cross (1949) from 2023-07-04T07:00
Robert Siodmak's gem from 1949 goes under the microscope in this episode. Motivations for this classic plot involve an armoured car heist, an old flame and axes to grind. Good natured sap, Burt ...
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The Riddle of the Sands (1903) from 2023-05-31T07:15
In this episode we hoist, brail and kedge our way through Erskine Childer's 1903 prophetic spy thriller, The Riddle of the Sands. Published in 1903 and foreshadowing the great conflict ...
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) from 2023-04-16T15:30
A staple of the first-person confessional, James M Cain's debut novel has really lasted the test of time. Now knocking on 90 years of age, "The Postman Always Rings Twice" delivers a ruthless pl...
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LTP Noir: Pickup on South Street (1953) from 2023-04-04T07:30
LTP Noir returns, this time to the mean streets of Samuel Fuller’s New York City at the height of the McCarthy era. Richard Widmark, Jean Peters and Thelma Ritter star in "Pickup on South Street...
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The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (1974) from 2023-04-01T07:00
"The Triumph of the Spider Monkey" is the chaotic narrative of Bobby Gotteson, whose repressive lust and murderous rage reach their fever-pitch following a hubris-led journey to California. All ...
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LTP Noir: Shadow of a Doubt (1943) from 2023-02-24T09:00
In 1943, Alfred Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" delivered a sinister sucker-punch of a conundrum to naïve North American audiences: What happens when the sleepy, mundane routine of a secure soci...
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LTP Noir: Shadow of a Doubt (1943) from 2023-02-24T09:00
In 1943, Alfred Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" delivered a sinister sucker-punch of a conundrum to naïve North American audiences: What happens when the sleepy, mundane routine of a secure soci...
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LTP Noir: Dark Passage (1947) from 2022-11-08T15:00:47
“Dark Passage” is one of Film Noir's most unique thrillers. The 1947 film boasts an all-star cast, innovative use of first-person subjective camerawork and some remarkable on-location shooting. Wha...
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The Body in the Library (1942) from 2022-10-05T07:00:37
Our first Agatha Christie read takes us to Gossington Hall where the body of a young woman is found, dead and spread, upon the floor of Colonel Bantry's library. Invited to snoop and sleuth by the ...
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LTP Noir: The Blue Dahlia (1946) from 2022-09-20T14:10:09
In this episode Josh discusses the troubled and time-pressed production of George Marshall's "The Blue Dahlia". Penned by hard-boiled novelist, Raymond Chandler, and starring Alan Ladd, Veronica La...
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Noir (1998) from 2022-08-16T13:14:40
Better know, perhaps, for his writing in the expanded universes of Star Wars, Star Trek and Blade Runner, K W Jeter is nevertheless one of the pioneers of cyberpunk fiction. The sub-genre's gritty,...
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LTP Noir: Laura (1944) from 2022-08-07T16:14:35
Otto Preminger's "Laura" from 1944 is considered a classic of the noir genre. Expertly cast and masterfully directed, "Laura" has remained among cinema's most stylistic of psychological thrillers f...
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LTP Selects: The Empty House (1903) from 2022-08-01T19:25:07
Ten years after propelling his protagonist off the page via Reichenbach in "The Final Problem", Arthur Conan Doyle returns Holmes to his adoring public. Published in Autumn of 1903, "The Empty Hous...
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LTP Selects: The Final Problem (1893) from 2022-07-17T14:18:58
Good news, Sherlock fans! Summer has arrived (in the northern hemisphere at least) and that means the return of our world-famous "Sherlock Selects" Summer Series! Last year, we featured four classi...
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Anatomy of a Murder (1958) from 2022-07-11T16:55:45
Inspired by real events, Robert Traver's 1958 novel was the first of its kind - a true "courtroom thriller". Showcasing the genial narrative perspective of every-man defense attorney, Paul Biegler,...
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LTP Selects: Quantum of Solace (1959) from 2022-06-20T20:55:15
In this pint-sized episode, we reach into the archives and present a conversation from July 2016 on Ian Fleming's "Quantum of Solace". A divisive short story that had James Bond fans scratching the...
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LTP Noir: Intro&The Maltese Falcon from 2022-06-10T20:49:27
In this engaging side-series, Josh flies solo in exploring the production, features and influences of Film Noir. Taking the shape of compact film reviews, the first of these complementary capsule e...
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The Maltese Falcon (1930) from 2022-05-11T07:17:55
Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon" wastes no time cutting shapes and setting angles in its pursuit of modelling the hard-boiled genre. The opening sentence alone produces enough sharp edge to ...
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The Moonstone (1868) from 2022-04-24T07:06:42
"The Moonstone" is regarded by many as the progenitor of the detective novel in English. Published in 1868, it marks, perhaps, the peak of Wilkie Collins's career as a novelist and emerged onto the...
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) from 2022-03-04T20:28:15
In 1955 Patricia Highsmith introduced the world to Tom Ripley, a young and ambitious con-man who gets the break of a lifetime when serendipity (in the form of an acquaintance's rich father) sends ...
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The Stories of C. Auguste Dupin from 2022-01-04T13:50
Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to literary form can hardly be overstated. Among many accomplishments, he is widely regarded as the progenitor of the detective story. His character, C. Auguste Dupi...
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The Black Echo (1992) from 2021-11-29T20:30:28
In Michael Connelly's debut novel, readers meet Detective Harry Bosch of the LAPD. Bosch is haunted by several demons from his past, each of which comes out to play in "The Black Echo". First, ther...
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The 39 Steps (1915) from 2021-10-28T07:00
What do you get when an adventurous British writer combines suspension of disbelief, war-time propaganda and a patriotic dose of daring-do? John Buchan's "The 39 Steps", of course, a "shocker" tha...
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The Quiet American (1955) from 2021-10-21T11:44:25
In 1955, Graham Greene published "The Quiet American", part character confession and part political allegory, set amidst the changing of the colonial guard in Southeast Asia. As the French powers p...
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LTP Selects: The Copper Beeches (1892) from 2021-09-01T20:35:02
Our "Sherlock Selects" summer series concludes here with a real show-stopper! "The Copper Beeches" is one of Conan Doyle's most atmospheric and engaging mysteries, featuring a female client with mo...
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LTP Selects: The Creeping Man (1923) from 2021-08-15T07:43:29
When old age hands you lemons... it's time to take monkey gland injections from a quack Czech doctor! Or, at least, that's what Professor Presbury might have once suggested. This curious tale is as...
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Knots&Crosses (1987) from 2021-08-08T13:10:36
In this gritty crime thriller, Detective Sergeant John Rebus makes his literary debut. Ian Rankin draws on rich material from the city of Edinburgh and his native Scotland in sculpting his protagon...
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LTP Selects: Black Peter (1904) from 2021-07-26T20:25:52
A grizzly harpoon murder and a protégé inspector lure Sherlock and Watson out of London and into the remote Weald of East Sussex in this atmospheric adventure. Originally published in 1904, this ya...
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LTP Selects: The Bruce-Partington Plans (1908) from 2021-07-18T06:55:54
Our "Sherlock Selects" mini-series continues to buffer the Summer's bigger reads, this time with a conversation on "The Bruce Partington Plans" from May 2018. Originally published in 1908 (and feat...
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A Morbid Taste For Bones (1977) from 2021-07-13T09:37:22
Published in 1977, "A Morbid Taste For Bones" introduced Brother Cadfael to the world, a Welsh Benedictine monk of the 12th Century with a penchant for solving crimes. Although Ellis Peters establi...
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LTP Selects: The Cardboard Box (1893) from 2021-07-07T12:54:06
Second in our series of "Sherlock Selects" for the Summer is "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box". Originally published in January of 1893 (and first covered on LTP in June of 2017), Conan Doyle hi...
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LTP Selects: The Abbey Grange (1904) from 2021-06-02T06:34:45
This season, we'll be buffering new episodes with re-introduced and smaller story reviews. For these selections, we reach back into our first season vaults and renew our love for some favourite She...
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Later (2021) by Stephen King from 2021-05-28T12:20:55
"Later" marks the third and most recent crime story written by Stephen King for the Hard Case Crime label. Offering readers a predictable mix of the supernatural and police procedural, the horror m...
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The Silver Pigs (1989) by Lindsey Davis from 2021-05-18T14:41:51
Josh and Scott kick off a new series of crime story explorations with a trip to Lindsey Davis's Ancient Rome, guided by Imperial Informant, Marcus Didius Falco. "The Silver Pigs" is set in AD 70, d...
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Ranking Raymond Chandler from 2021-04-13T21:18:39
For their series finale on the Philip Marlowe novels, Scott and Josh reflect on their reading of the canonical sweep and rank the stories and features of Raymond Chandler's enduring collection.
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Playback (1958) from 2021-04-07T12:53:41
Chandler's final complete Marlowe novel was written at a time of deteriorating health and tumultuous circumstances for the author. Not surprisingly, some of these conflicts from 1958 find their way...
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The Long Goodbye (1953) from 2021-03-03T09:52:29
1953 saw the publication of Raymond Chandler's sixth Philip Marlowe novel, "The Long Goodbye". Chandler himself regarded it as his best work and many fans agree. Nevertheless, behind the scenes it ...
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The Confidential Agent (1939) from 2021-01-13T06:54:40
Driven by amphetamine, Graham Greene knocked out this thriller in only 6 weeks of 1939 in a rented room of a Bloomsbury flat. He wrote fervently as premonitions of a second world war grew more tang...
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The Little Sister (1949) from 2020-12-29T12:15
After a five-year hiatus, Raymond Chandler returns to the world of Philip Marlowe with "The Little Sister". His small-town client brings big-city trouble as the investigation into her missing broth...
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The Lady In The Lake (1943) from 2020-11-15T20:12:10
For his fourth novel, Raymond Chandler sends detective Philip Marlowe away from the steamy tumult of Los Angeles and up into the fresh mountain air in search of a client's missing wife. The investi...
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The Great Mouse Detective (1986) from 2020-11-13T12:36:37
Commenting on the gigantic success of his company, Walt Disney once famously said "...it was all started by a mouse". Years later, it would again be a mouse that helped to safeguard Disney's future...
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Enola Holmes (2020) from 2020-10-16T12:20:05
While it may snuff the hopes of Sherlockians in search of a faithful adaptation of Conan Doyle's detective, there's still a lot to enjoy about Netflix's "Enola Holmes". Scott and Josh are joined in...
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The High Window (1942) from 2020-10-12T12:45:34
Raymond Chandler's third novel offers readers a different look at detective Philip Marlowe than afforded in his first two outings while expanding on themes of spiritual decay and corruption. A miss...
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Farewell, My Lovely (1940) from 2020-07-11T08:28:06
Raymond Chandler fought hard, insisting that the title for his second Philip Marlowe novel was right in playing off more erudite connotations of romance and drama. Like "The Big Sleep" before it, "...
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The Big Sleep (1939) from 2020-04-30T10:00
Bowman and the BFG kick off their Raymond Chandler review series with "The Big Sleep". After introducing the writer's early life and formative years for the journey ahead, the foundations for the p...
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Series 2 Preview: Return of the Pipes! from 2020-03-22T20:45
Lighting the Pipes is returning! Join Scott and Josh (Bowman & the BFG) for a new season of reading, research and reviewing as they scour the streets with Raymond Chandler's detective, Philip Marlo...
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The End of It: Finalising the Pipes! from 2018-10-06T22:05
The Finale! After nearly two years of happy hiking and in-depth analysis through the pages of Arthur Conan Doyle's canon, Scott and Josh descend from their adventures in this final episode with ...
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927) - Part 3 from 2018-09-30T08:06
Ta-Da! Episode 21 sees Josh and Scott bring their 20-month canonical tour to an end with a final hurdle over the remaining stories of "The Case-Book" and reach the summit of Mt. Sherlockia. This...
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927) - Part 2 from 2018-08-11T21:01
Episode 20 sees Josh and Scott tackle four further stories from The Case-Book and creep closer to the conclusion of their exhaustive labour of love. First up is "The Mazarin Stone", whose dramat...
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927) - Part I from 2018-07-12T21:00
Recorded on holiday in Canada, Episode 19 sees Bowman and the BFG reunited in person after 3 years and lighting their pipes over the first two installments of ACD's final Holmes story collection...
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His Last Bow (1917) - Part 2 from 2018-06-23T18:53
In Episode 18, Scott and Josh punch their first-class tickets and complete "His Last Bow", the penultimate Holmes collection, with an analysis of three remaining stories. After chasing Lady Fran...
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His Last Bow (1917) - Part 1 from 2018-05-20T20:32
Published as a collection in 1917, "His Last Bow" is the penultimate set of Sherlock Holmes stories by Conan Doyle. Comprised of sporadically appearing tales carried in the Strand Magazine and C...
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The Valley of Fear (1914) from 2018-04-28T21:00
Shovel the coal and stoke the fires! In Episode 16, Bowman & the BFG take a trip to Vermissa Valley in and explore "The Valley of Fear", its colourful denizens and the complex virtues of Art...
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1904) - Part 4 from 2018-03-10T19:40
In this episode, Bowman and the BFG wrap up discussions on the final 4 stories of "The Return" and wax rhetoric on issues of class, cigarette history, insane wives and favourite cudgels. First u...
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1903) - Part 3 from 2018-01-27T20:00
In this instalment, Bowman and the BFG celebrate their nearly-1-year anniversary of Lighting the Pipes by tackling four further adventures from "The Return of Sherlock Holmes". Whaling, sailing ...
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1903) - Part 2 from 2017-12-27T20:00
Technical difficulties resolved (we told you they were amateurs!), Bowman and the BFG get back to lighting their pipes with three more stories from "The Return of Sherlock Holmes". First up, the...
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1903) - Part 1 from 2017-11-18T20:00
With "The Hound of the Baskervilles" behind them, Bowman and the BFG sit down to discuss the great detective's resurrection; enter "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", starting with "The Adevnture o...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) from 2017-10-28T21:00
After Sherlock Holmes took the literary plunge over the falls in "The Final Problem", public outcry for his return was strong enough (helped by equally generous offers from publishers) for Conan...
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893) - Part 4 from 2017-09-09T21:00
Only two stories remain to discuss from Conan Doyle's "Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" and here Bowman and the BFG give full treatment to both. First up is "The Naval Treaty", one of Doyle's suppose...
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893) - Part 3 from 2017-08-12T21:00
Here, four stories go under the microscope as Scott and Josh light their pipes and discuss the further Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Your hosts bow to "The Reigate Squires", straighten out the mys...
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893) - Part 2 from 2017-07-14T21:00
In Episode 8, Bowman and the BFG follow Sherlock and Watson to Birmingham in "The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk", meet his university pal and a tale of mutiny in "The Gloria Scott" and ge...
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893) - Part 1 from 2017-06-24T21:00
Given the explosive popularity of his "Adventures", it was a no-brainer for Conan Doyle to revive his titular hero in a second collection of serialised stories for "The Strand". First out of the...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) - Part 4 from 2017-05-27T21:50
Episode 6 sees Bowman and the BFG share their thoughts on the final three stories of Doyle's "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". Lively discussion on the growing influence of America colours "T...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) - Part 3 from 2017-05-06T21:00
In this instalment, Josh and Scott sit down to examine tales 7, 8 and 9 from Conan Doyle's "Adventures". Starting with the yuletide setting of "The Blue Carbuncle", the duo trade views on jewel ...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) - Part 2 from 2017-04-15T21:00
Discussions on "The Boscombe Valley Mystery", "The Five Orange Pips" and "The Man With the Twisted Lip" mark Bowman and the BFG's second foray into the stories of "The Adventures of Sherlock Hol...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) - Part 1 from 2017-03-18T20:00
"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" appeared two years after "The Sign of Four" and in serialised form within the pages of "The Strand Magazine". Here, in their first look at the collection, Sco...
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The Sign of Four (1889) from 2017-02-25T20:00
Two years after Sherlock Holmes first appeared in "A Study in Scarlet", ACD dropped "The Sign of Four" onto the literary landscape. Larger and more imperial in scope, many regard this novel as C...
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A Study in Scarlet (1887) from 2017-02-04T20:00
In Episode 1, Scott and Josh (Bowman & the BFG) wield their amateur podcasting touch in discussing Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. The series starts here, with our inaugural episo...
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