Lighting the Pipes
Episodes
LTP Selects: The Cardboard Box (1893)
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Second in our series of "Sherlock Selects" for the Summer is "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box". Originally published in January of 1893 (and first ...
LTP Selects: The Abbey Grange (1904)
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This season, we'll be buffering new episodes with re-introduced and smaller story reviews. For these selections, we reach back into our first season v...
Later (2021) by Stephen King
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Later" marks the third and most recent crime story written by Stephen King for the Hard Case Crime label. Offering readers a predictable mix of the s...
The Silver Pigs (1989) by Lindsey Davis
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Josh and Scott kick off a new series of crime story explorations with a trip to Lindsey Davis's Ancient Rome, guided by Imperial Informant, Marcus Did...
Ranking Raymond Chandler
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For their series finale on the Philip Marlowe novels, Scott and Josh reflect on their reading of the canonical sweep and rank the stories and features...
Playback (1958)
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chandler's final complete Marlowe novel was written at a time of deteriorating health and tumultuous circumstances for the author. Not surprisingly, s...
The Long Goodbye (1953)
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
1953 saw the publication of Raymond Chandler's sixth Philip Marlowe novel, "The Long Goodbye". Chandler himself regarded it as his best work and many ...
The Confidential Agent (1939)
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Driven by amphetamine, Graham Greene knocked out this thriller in only 6 weeks of 1939 in a rented room of a Bloomsbury flat. He wrote fervently as pr...
The Little Sister (1949)
29 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After a five-year hiatus, Raymond Chandler returns to the world of Philip Marlowe with "The Little Sister". His small-town client brings big-city trou...
The Lady In The Lake (1943)
15 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For his fourth novel, Raymond Chandler sends detective Philip Marlowe away from the steamy tumult of Los Angeles and up into the fresh mountain air in...
LTP Special: The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Commenting on the gigantic success of his company, Walt Disney once famously said "...it was all started by a mouse". Years later, it would again be a...
LTP Special: Enola Holmes (2020)
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While it may snuff the hopes of Sherlockians in search of a faithful adaptation of Conan Doyle's detective, there's still a lot to enjoy about Netflix...
The High Window (1942)
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Raymond Chandler's third novel offers readers a different look at detective Philip Marlowe than afforded in his first two outings while expanding on t...
Farewell, My Lovely (1940)
11 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Raymond Chandler fought hard, insisting that the title for his second Philip Marlowe novel was right in playing off more erudite connotations of roman...
The Big Sleep (1939)
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bowman and the BFG kick off their Raymond Chandler review series with "The Big Sleep". After introducing the writer's early life and formative years f...
Series 2 Preview: Return of the Pipes!
22 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lighting the Pipes is returning! Join Scott and Josh (Bowman & the BFG) for a new season of reading, research and reviewing as they scour the streets ...
The End of It: Finalising the Pipes!
06 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Finale! After nearly two years of happy hiking and in-depth analysis through the pages of Arthur Conan Doyle's canon, Scott and Josh desc...
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927) - Part 3
30 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ta-Da! Episode 21 sees Josh and Scott bring their 20-month canonical tour to an end with a final hurdle over the remaining stories of "The Ca...
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927) - Part 2
11 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 20 sees Josh and Scott tackle four further stories from The Case-Book and creep closer to the conclusion of their exhaustive labour o...
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927) - Part I
12 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded on holiday in Canada, Episode 19 sees Bowman and the BFG reunited in person after 3 years and lighting their pipes over the first tw...
His Last Bow (1917) - Part 2
23 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 18, Scott and Josh punch their first-class tickets and complete "His Last Bow", the penultimate Holmes collection, with an analysi...
His Last Bow (1917) - Part 1
20 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Published as a collection in 1917, "His Last Bow" is the penultimate set of Sherlock Holmes stories by Conan Doyle. Comprised of sporadically...
The Valley of Fear (1914)
28 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Shovel the coal and stoke the fires! In Episode 16, Bowman & the BFG take a trip to Vermissa Valley in and explore "The Valley of Fear", ...
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1904) - Part 4
10 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Bowman and the BFG wrap up discussions on the final 4 stories of "The Return" and wax rhetoric on issues of class, cigarette...
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1903) - Part 3
27 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this instalment, Bowman and the BFG celebrate their nearly-1-year anniversary of Lighting the Pipes by tackling four further adventures fr...
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1903) - Part 2
27 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Technical difficulties resolved (we told you they were amateurs!), Bowman and the BFG get back to lighting their pipes with three more storie...
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1903) - Part 1
18 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
With "The Hound of the Baskervilles" behind them, Bowman and the BFG sit down to discuss the great detective's resurrection; enter "The Retur...
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
28 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
After Sherlock Holmes took the literary plunge over the falls in "The Final Problem", public outcry for his return was strong enough (helped ...
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893) - Part 4
09 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Only two stories remain to discuss from Conan Doyle's "Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" and here Bowman and the BFG give full treatment to both. F...
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893) - Part 3
12 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Here, four stories go under the microscope as Scott and Josh light their pipes and discuss the further Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Your hosts...
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893) - Part 2
14 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 8, Bowman and the BFG follow Sherlock and Watson to Birmingham in "The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk", meet his university ...
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893) - Part 1
24 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Given the explosive popularity of his "Adventures", it was a no-brainer for Conan Doyle to revive his titular hero in a second collection of ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) - Part 4
27 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 6 sees Bowman and the BFG share their thoughts on the final three stories of Doyle's "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". Lively disc...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) - Part 3
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this instalment, Josh and Scott sit down to examine tales 7, 8 and 9 from Conan Doyle's "Adventures". Starting with the yuletide setting o...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) - Part 2
15 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Discussions on "The Boscombe Valley Mystery", "The Five Orange Pips" and "The Man With the Twisted Lip" mark Bowman and the BFG's second fora...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) - Part 1
18 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" appeared two years after "The Sign of Four" and in serialised form within the pages of "The Strand Magazi...
The Sign of Four (1889)
25 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Two years after Sherlock Holmes first appeared in "A Study in Scarlet", ACD dropped "The Sign of Four" onto the literary landscape. Larger an...
A Study in Scarlet (1887)
04 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 1, Scott and Josh (Bowman & the BFG) wield their amateur podcasting touch in discussing Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes st...