Dating the Missing Three Quarter

"a puzzled quarter of an hour" [MISS]

The Sherlock Holmes stories are filled with hints of dates, places and people that cause them to be intertwined with reality. It is therefore natural to think that we can arrive at some certainty as to the date of an adventure when Watson gives us a specific month in which a case begins. It is also wrong to think so.

"The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter" is one such example. We're given a February date (hence the release date of this episode) and yet, as we can plainly see, that date is impossible, given other facts. So we follow the path of many Canonical chronologists who attempted to determine the actual date of this adventure, using logic and history as our guide. Were they right? Tune in to find out.

 

Links

• "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter"
• An online version of some of the chronologies of the stories
• "The Date Being—?"
• The Annotated Sherlock Holmes by William S. Baring-Gould
• The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Leslie S. Klinger
• The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library: The Return of Sherlock Holmes

 

Music credits

Performers: Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber Orchestra
Publisher Info.: Washington, DC: United States Marine Band.
Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0