The Winter 2022 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Arthur Conan Doyle, Grandfather of Modern Cinema: What King Kong Owes to The Lost World by Heather Holloway. Sherlock Holmes Gets the Anime Treatment by Emily Frongillo. A Forgotten Milvertonian Publication. The Case for The Case-Book by David L. Leal. Rex Stout, Sherlockian … Continue reading Winter 2022 BSJ
“A Lady Ventures into the Sacred Precincts”: Women on the Periphery of the BSI, 1940–1960. By Julie McKuras and Sonia Fetherston. Women have contributed to Sherlockian studies and societies from the beginning. The Baker Street Journal included women authors in more than 90% of its issues from 1946–1960. Yet women often did not receive the … Continue reading BSJ 2022 Christmas Annual
The 2023 BSI Weekend took place from January 4-8 in New York City, with the BSI Dinner on Friday, January 6. After a record of 23 years as the editor of the Baker Street Journal, Steve Rothman is retiring and will become editor emeritus. Dan Andriacco is the new editor of the BSJ. Read or … Continue reading The 2023 BSI Weekend Report
The winner of the 2022 Morley-Montgomery Award is Nicholas Utechin. His paper, “For Christ’s Sake: An Evaluation of Jay Finley Christ,” appeared in the Summer 2022 issue of the Baker Street Journal. The Morley-Montgomery Award is given each year for the best article to appear in The Baker Street Journal, and comes with a generous … Continue reading 2022 Morley-Montgomery Award
The Haven Horror. A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of “The Adventure of the Retired Colourman” by Arthur Conan Doyle with Annotations and Commentary. Edited, with an Introduction, by Phillip G. Bergem, BSI. Deception and secret romance often lead to murder. In “The Retired Colourman,” Sherlock Holmes traps a vicious yet clever murderer, and entertains … Continue reading The Haven Horror (“The Retired Colourman”)
Stimulating Medicine: More Nerve and Knowledge. Edited by Robert S. Katz, MD, BSI and Andrew L. Solberg, MHS, BSI. Diagnosis, disease, and doctors are an essential part of the Sherlock Holmes stories. A series written by a physician (Conan Doyle), through the eyes of a physician (Watson), and with a detective based on a physician … Continue reading Stimulating Medicine
The Autumn 2022 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Sherlock Holmes in the Harper & Brothers Records by Ira Brad Matetsky. It Is Always Nineteen Fifty-Five by Sonia Fetherston. Sherlock Holmes and the (Neck)Ties that Bind by David L. Leal. Herschel and Babbage—Holmes and Watson by Richard J. Leskosky. William Gillette: A … Continue reading Autumn 2022 BSJ
Registration and reservations are now open for the BSI Weekend to be held from Wednesday January 4, 2023 through Sunday January 8, 2023 in New York City. Sherlock Holmes's birthday is celebrated every January in New York City. The Weekend is always fun, filled with formal and informal opportunities for Sherlockians new and old to … Continue reading Register for the 2023 BSI Weekend
The Baker Street Irregulars is planning to conduct its January 2023 events in person in New York City starting on Thursday, January 5, 2023. As usual, many events will be open to all Sherlockians, and we will also have special tax-free group rates for hotel lodgings. Official BSI events that will be open to the … Continue reading Plans for the 2023 BSI Weekend
The Summer 2022 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. For Christ’s Sake: An Evaluation of Jay Finley Christ by Nicholas Utechin. Vincent Starrett and the Mystery of the Missed BSI Dinners by Ray Betzner. “A Failure of Sherlock Holmes”: A Newly Discovered Parody by Leslie S. Klinger. The Commonplace Book. Baker Street … Continue reading Summer 2022 BSJ
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