Spring 2026 BSJ

The Spring 2026 Baker Street Journal includes these articles:

A Word from Wiggins
Steve Doyle.

The Editor’s Gas-Lamp.

The Game is Afoot!
Edgar W. Smith.

The Man Who Came to The Dinner
Ray Betzner, Steven Doyle, and Steven Rothman.

A Study in Stoic:
My Highly Irregular Journey to a Baker Street Address
Rupert Holmes.

Verse: Ogden Nash on Sherlock Holmes
Karen Murdock.

Clinical Notes by a Resident Doctor
Bob Katz.

Rathbone, Bruce, and the BSI Redux
Harrison Hunt.

Holmesless in Aldershot
John Rabe.

Connoisseurs and Collectors:
Sherlock Holmes and John Watson as Ideal Archivists
Elizabeth Andrews.

The Forger’s Dilemmas
Nicholas Meyer.

The Commonplace Book

Baker Street Inventory

Letters to Baker Street

The 2026 BSI Weekend

“Stand with me here upon the terrace…”

Whodunit?

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“I have all the facts in my journal…”

“I have all the facts in my journal…”
The Baker Street Journal first appeared 80 years ago, in January 1946.
It was a lavish production – so lavish that it famously bank-
rupted its publisher, Ben Abramson. The last issue of what has
become known as the BSJ Old Series was Volume 4. Number I in
January 1949. The three unpublished issues of that year have gone
down n history as the Missing Three-Quarters. Publication of a
much more modest BSJ resumed in January 1951 and has continued
uninterrupted since.
Uninterrupted, but not unchanged. This irregular journal of
Sherlockiana today has more engaging covers that in earlier years,
publishes Doylean essays as well as Sherlockian ones, and no longer
prints poetry except in very special circumstances – such as the
Sherlockian-themed work by Ogden Nash that appears in this issue.
And yet, mush is the same in this venerable JOURNAL. “The
Editor’s Gas-Lamp,” “From the Editor’s Commonplace Book,”
“Letter to Baker Street,” and “Baker Street Inventory” all appeared
in Vol. I, No. I. “Clinical Notes by a Resident Doctor” is an homage
to “Clinical Notes by a Resident Patient,” which appeared in these
pages for many years, written by Baker Street Irregulars founder
Christopher Morley.
Most importantly, the BSJ is still published by the Baker Street
Irregulars, but not just for the Baker Street Irregulars. And its mission
remains the same as stated in the closing paragraph of Edgar W.
Smith’s classic introduction to the first issue, which is reprinted in
this anniversary number. we remain “dedicated to the proposition
that there is still infinitely much to be said about the scene in Baker
Street…”
To that end, you will find in this issue some familiar names, some
unfamiliar names, and some callbacks to BSJ and BSI history.