Historical Context: "Be Gay Solve Crime"
Chance or Chess? a BBC Sherlock Podcast
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The Trial of Oscar Wilde
The Markus of Queensbury set a booby trap, Wilde's expression by leaving a card at a club for Oscar Wilde. Wilde decided to sue for criminal libel because he said the note said, for Oscar Wilde posing sodomite or is a misspelling of it. The trial from like April 5th until May something may may 25th and 1895, which is an important time period. Oh, and I do remember another detail that they put in Sherlock is there is a mention somewhere of how Oscar Wilde behaved right before he was arrested. And then he very gently like put his coat and his gloves and his scarf on or something. He does the exact same thing when he's about to be
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