Can Sherlock Holmes discover a way to save the honor of the masked stranger in his chambers?

Arthur Conan Doyle today on the Classic Tales Podcast. Welcome to this vintage episode of the Classic Tales podcast. Thank you for listening.

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Sherlock Holmes is a confirmed bachelor with some touches of misogyny that creep up every now and then.

But when he locks horns with Irene Adler, his opinion of women goes through the roof with respect.

There's actually a fun book series for kids called Sherlock, Lu Pan, and Me, written by an author who goes by the pseudonym of Irene Adler.

It traces the adventures of three young detectives who haven't hit the big time yet. It's a lot of three young detectives who haven't hit the big time yet.

It's a lot of fun.

Goldie liked it when she was younger.

And now, a scandal in Bohemia by Arthur Conan Doyle.

One.

To Sherlock Holmes, she is always the woman.

I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.

In his eyes, she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler, all emotions and that one particularly were abhorrent to his cold,

precise, but admirably balanced mind.

He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a

lover he would have placed himself in a false position.

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