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Title: The Best Victorian Christmas Mystery!
Review: "The Blue Carbuncle" is one of my favorites in this excellent series. Holmes and Watson must spend the holidays engaged in a baffling jewel theft, while encountering lost hats and geese, down-on-their-luck intellectuals, and a hostile livestock merchant along the way. This episode is both hilarous and touching, as Holmes shows a side of himself very rarely seen. Though Holmes and Watson are brilliantly played, the superb acting of the supporting characters makes this one stand out: the character of Mr. Henry Baker as a down-on-his-luck, aging intellectual is given with inspiring dignity, and the poultry merchant at Covent Garden steals his hilarious scene with his inexplicable hostility toward inquiries about his precious geese. This episode is the perfect blend of Christmas story, detective fiction, and morality tale, and no modern-day Holmes collection should be without it!
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