Podcasts Other Murder Most Foul Elementary, my dear Watson!

Elementary, my dear Watson!

Published: Aug. 19, 2023, 7:42 p.m.

\u201cElementary, my dear Watson.\u201d I hazard a guess that you are all familiar with that phrase\nuttered in almost every film portrayal of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle\u2019s literary\ncreation, Sherlock Holmes. More about that utterance later. What some folks\ndon\u2019t know about Sir Arthur, is that he was in every sense the alter ego of his\ncreation, Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle was not only a brilliant spinner of\nmystery tales, but he was also an accomplished medical doctor and scientist. He\nwas an expert in deductive and inductive reasoning, and in a time without\nhigh-tech scientific tools, not even fingerprint analysis, he often helped\nScotland Yard solve baffling crimes. But in the case of Oscar Slater, he was on\nthe other side of the authorities, advocating for the release of an innocent\nman. Why? Elementary! It was the right thing to do!

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\xa0My guest today is Margarlit Fox, author of, \u201cConan Doyle for the Defense.\u201d Prior\nto writing this book, and others, she worked writing Obits for the New York\nTimes of the famous and infamous alike.

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\xa0A perfect guest for Murder Most Foul. Wouldn\u2019t you say?

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