“You never heard me talk of Victor Trevor?” he asked. “He was the only friend I made during the two years I was at college.”
“The Adventure of the Gloria Scott” takes us back in time to the story of Sherlock Holmes’s very first case. Marisa & Sarah discuss men on boats, queer allegory and how to approach it, the lasting impact the very first great friend you make can have on your life, and Stephen Sondheim.
Episode transcript. Find a list of the books we discuss & used as background research for this episode here!
This episode was narrated by Ryan James Horner, a writer, podcaster, and voice actor from SoCal with a lifelong passion for storytelling. Find him buried under his many cats, scattered fragments of notepaper, or a pile of blankets with a scary movie. You can follow him on Twitter (@wilsonlives) or find out more at https://ryanjameshorner.carrd.co/.
Music credit: The songs “Denmark (Live)” by the Portland Cello Project and “Over the Water, Humans Gather” by Doctor Turtle are featured with an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
“Encoding and Decoding in Television Discourse,” Stuart Hall (1973)
Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History by Angus McLaren
Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb
The Adventures of Gloria Scott by Mima Simić
We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen
The Murder of Mary Russell by Laurie R. King
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler
Other cases mentioned in our discussion: STUD, MUSG, SPEC
