What is this?
I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere is the first and largest podcast for Sherlock Holems fans, beginning its 18th season in January 2024.
It’s an hour-long interview show, with news, discussion, and a listener-participation quiz — something like a cross between Fresh Air and Car Talk, but we speak with interesting people doing things in the world of Sherlock Holmes. Authors, editors, producers, playwrights, movie stars, and generally clubbable people.
We’re also a destination for news and information about Sherlock Holmes, published as a text-based newsletter. We’ve been publishing (ir)regularly since 2005.
New episodes air on the 15th and 30th of every month. And occasionally, we have bonus content for our paying subscribers.
Who are we?
Scott Monty, Editor-in-Chief, Founder and Co-Host
His profession led him into digital communications, and as a side project-cum-laboratory, Scott founded what was then known as The Baker Street Blog in 2005. The blog existed as a standalone site until mid-2013. In 2007, he added a podcast, and I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere was born. The two sites merged in mid-2013 to serve as the definitive site for news and information about Sherlock Holmes on the web.
When called upon to give toasts at Sherlockian scion meetings, Scott has often been known to recite them in song. Scott lives with his wife and three children in Michigan, where he is an executive leadership coach. He creates content for life-long learners who care about timeless values in his weekly newsletter.
Burt Wolder, Editor and Co-Host
“Look, Mrs. Ricci: heavy reading,” the boy said, lifting the book with both hands. To Burt Wolder's fifth-grade mind, this was a terrific joke. A hefty volume from the school library was great fun, especially when the book was two inches thick, full of illustrations, and all about an English detective from the 1890s.
Burt's main library had The Count of Monte Cristo, The Man in the Iron Mask and The Three Musketeers, and by the time he was 13 or so, he had read through Dumas and Dickens and more. But the early joy of meeting Sherlock Holmes outlived all of his other literary enthusiasms. When William S. Baring-Gould’s The Annotated Sherlock Holmes appeared, he discovered he was not alone in his love of Baker Street (“A Singular Set of People, Watson...”). A letter to Julian Wolff referred Burt to Steve Clarkson, a mentor to young Sherlockians. Steve introduced Burt to Andy Page, Andy Peck, and others and brought him to his first BSI dinner. Those early dinners introduced Burt to scion societies like The Cornish Horrors (RI), The Men on the Tor (CT), The Speckled Band of Boston (MA), The Sons of the Copper Beeches (PA), and more. Through the New England scion societies, Burt met his good friend and podcast partner Scott Monty.
Over the years Burt wrote more than 20 short plays for The Cornish Horrors, all Holmesian comedies. As a result, he received his BSI investiture from Tom Stix as the vaguely theatrical “Third Pillar from the Left” in 1988. In 2004 Burt's admiration of Christopher Morley’s life and writings led him to reestablish the Three Hours for Lunch Club, which now meets annually at in New York City in memory of Frederick Dorr Steele.
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