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Trifles · Jul 1, 2026

Episode 496 - Holmes Alone

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Scott Monty · Trifles

“the gap of loneliness and isolation” [MAZA]

Holmes and Watson go together like every great paring. To think of one of them, one must, by simple association, think of the other. It seems almost anathema to consider them alone.

In his 2009 Morley-Montgomery Award-winning article for The Baker Street Journal, “Holmes Alone: Glimpses of Post-Watson Baker Street in ‘The Mazarin Stone,’” Marshall Berdan, BSI (“Henri Murger”) paints a very different picture than the lost-without-his-Boswell detective. His analysis is just a Trifle.

The Morley-Montgomery Collection

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