Lives Beyond Baker Street

By: Christopher Redmond

Narrated by: Adam Blanford

If you've ever heard “A Scandal in Bohemia” and wondered what Watson's allusion to “Mr. John Hare” means, aren't sure who was in charge in southeast Asia when Mycroft Holmes mentions “the present state of Siam", or you’re wondering about Watson’s portrait of General Gordon, Holmes’s Vernet relatives, or what Scottish expert on poisons Scotland Yard consulted when the Baker Street duo weren’t available–this is your book.

It provides one-paragraph biographies of 800 real-life Victorians and Edwardians who strolled down Oxford Street near Holmes and Watson or figured in the newspapers they read. That mention of Blondin on the roof at Pondicherry Lodge? Arthur Conan Doyle’s literary friends? The King of Scandinavia? The British commander at Maiwand? Enquire within.

©2016 Christoper Redmond (P)2023 MX Publishing

Very informative book

This is a compilation and short biographies of real life Victorians who were contemporaries of ACD and Sherlock Holmes. Some were mentioned in the original books or were used as the basis of fictional characters. The narration was great.

What, Who?

A wonderful list of list with more intersectional information in relation to the Sherlock Holmes' canon with information on what was happening at this time and all sorts of stuff. I Loved It.