We all know that Sherlock Holmes used drugs. "A seven-per-cent solution" of cocaine is what he recommended to Watson in The Sign of Four.
But in the prelude to that, we’re told that Holmes took “his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case.” This case must have graced the interior of 221B Baker Street. But just what is it? And what do we really know of Holmes's drug mania? It’s just a Trifle.
Links / Notes
This episode: ihose.co/trifles84
Series: Inside 221B
Music credits
Performers: Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber Orchestra
Publisher Info.: Washington, DC: United States Marine Band
Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Episode 84 - Inside 221B: The Morocco Case