The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don’t know.”
Holmes and Watson celebrate the winter season with a literal wild goose chase in “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle,” from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
This story is filled with holiday cheer, home museums and the benefits of private detection. As we approach the end of our year, we look back on Holmes and Watson’s busy year, and contemplate Holmes’s hypocrisy, the archetype of the private detective, and what’s looming in the year ahead.
Listen to our narration:
This story is narrated by Georie Taylor (ey/em/eir). A baker and voice actor in the Pacific Northwest, ey have been in podcasts for almost five years and baking for two decades. Off mic you can find em caring for eir child (a beautiful baby sourdough starter), knitting, and playing tabletop RPGs. Eir twitter is @Delta.Georie.
Music credit: The songs “Denmark (Live)” by the Portland Cello Project and “Violin Solo Partita no. 1 in B Minor - VII. Tempo di Borea” by Johann Sebastian Bach are featured with an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Further reading:
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Natasha Pulley
Valancourt series of Christmas ghost stories
Elementary season 1, episode 19: “Snow Angels”
The Pink Panther, dir. Blake Edwards
Other cases we mention in this discussion: SCAN, TWIS, IDEN, SPEC, REDH, FINA