The Summer 2017 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. The Making of Mycroft by Marshall S. Berdan. What Was the Diogenes Club? by David L. Leal. Pall Mall: Locating the Diogenes Club by David Marcum. Occasionally He Is the Government by M. Haddon-MacRoberts. On the Obliquity of the Ecliptic and Other Incidental … Continue reading Summer 2017 BSJ
The Spring 2017 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. The Case of the Rude Author by Martin Hill Ortiz. Gothic Holmes: Dark Shadows in the Canon by Dan Andriacco. Sherlock Holmes and the Woman Question by Sara Paretsky. Whitehall Place Irregulars: Female Searchers and Suspects in Nineteenth-century London by Susan E. Bailey. … Continue reading Spring 2017 BSJ
The Winter 2016 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor's Gas-Lamp. On Annotating Sherlock Holmes by Leslie S. Klinger. A Most Valuable Institution: Searching Online Newspaper Archives for Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle by Mattias Boström and Matt Laffey. Dancing Men: An Inspired Choice by Randall Stock. Sherlock Holmes: Conan Doyle's Not-So-Secret Weapon by … Continue reading Winter 2016 BSJ
The winner of the 2016 Morley-Montgomery Award is Bill Mason. His paper, “Looking to Latin America: Canonical Notions from South of the Border,” appeared in the Spring 2016 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 … Continue reading 2016 Morley-Montgomery Award
Dancing to Death. A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of "The Dancing Men" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with Annotations and Commentary on the Story. Edited & introduced by Ray Betzner, BSI and David F. Morrill, BSI. Despite the fact that Hilton Cubitt is murdered while he is Sherlock Holmes' client, "The Adventure of the … Continue reading Dancing to Death (“The Dancing Men”)
Canada and Sherlock Holmes. Edited by Peter Calamai, BSI and Mark Alberstat, BSI. Canada and Sherlock Holmes contains a selection of the best Holmesian writing from Canada, many produced by members of The Bootmakers of Toronto, Canada's national Sherlockian society. Although two other book-length compilations of the Bootmakers' writings have appeared in the past, the … Continue reading Canada and Sherlock Holmes
The Day after Christmas: First Encounters with Gillette's Silent Sherlock Holmes. Edited by Russell Merritt, BSI. The 2016 Christmas Annual celebrates the centennial of William Gillette's film Sherlock Holmes. Long thought to be lost, the film was found in 2014 and restored to near-original condition. Russell Merritt, the editor of this volume, was instrumental in … Continue reading BSJ 2016 Christmas Annual
By Peggy Perdue. From The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Autumn 2016), pp. 20 - 23. There seems to be a sort of trickle-down effect at work in which some of the surfeit of attention paid to Holmes has been passed on to his creator. Working in the Toronto Public Library’s Arthur Conan … Continue reading Conan Doyle and Houdini: The Afterlife of a Friendship
The Autumn 2016 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. The Folks from Moriarty by Sonia Fetherston. The Single Stick by Charles Blanksteen. Conan Doyle and Houdini: The Afterlife of a Friendship by Peggy Perdue. “Isn’t It Romantic?”: A Further Exploration of “That Little Thing of Chopin’s” by Alexander Katz and Katherine Karlson. … Continue reading Autumn 2016 BSJ
The Mind and Art of Sherlock Holmes.Chautauqua, New YorkSeptember 9-12, 2016. Conference Programme. A limited quantity of the printed program of the Baker Street Irregulars' recent Conference is available for purchase. In addition to half a dozen brief articles on the Chautauqua Institution, William Gillette, and the 19th century spiritualism movement, the program contains the … Continue reading The Mind and Art of Sherlock Holmes
