Catalogue of the Exhibition. Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Never Lived and Will Never Die The Museum of London Exhibition. Compiled by Nicholas Utechin and Catherine Cooke. Now, for the first time, a catalogue is available for the Museum of London's 2014-15 groundbreaking exhibition. Not since the famous 1951 Festival of Britain has an event … Continue reading Catalogue of the Exhibition 2014-2015
The Winter 2014 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Intimate Converse in Baker Street by Chris Redmond. There Is Only One Man: The War Service of Professor Moriarty by Nick Dunn-Meynell. The Adventure of Sherlock’s Last Case by Peter Calamai. “The Knowledge of the Unscrupulous”: The Conan Doyle Brothers and Copyright by … Continue reading Winter 2014 BSJ
The winner of the 2014 Morley-Montgomery Award is Timothy S. Greer. His paper, “Murger in Baker Street,” appeared in the Autumn 2014 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 cash prize. See a … Continue reading 2014 Morley-Montgomery Award
Out of the Abyss. A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of "The Empty House" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with Annotations and Commentary on the Story. Edited & introduced by Andrew Solberg, BSI, Steven Rothman, BSI, and Robert Katz, MD, BSI. "The Adventure of the Empty House" holds a special place in the hearts of … Continue reading Out of the Abyss (“The Empty House”)
Prince of the Realm: The Most Irregular James Bliss Austin. by Sonia Fetherston, BSI. Bliss Austin, “The Engineer’s Thumb,” was a member of the very first class of “Investitured” Irregulars in 1944. He assembled what was then the finest collection of rare Sherlockiana, then gave it all away. And he is acknowledged as an early … Continue reading Prince of the Realm
The Only Actor Who Ever Got It Right: Douglas Wilmer as Sherlock Holmes. Edited by Elaine & Jonathan McCafferty. This tribute to Douglas Wilmer celebrates his classic 1964-65 BBC TV series Sherlock Holmes, and includes Wilmer's 1994 speech to the Sherlock Holmes Society of London. The 74-page book has more than a dozen excellent photos, … Continue reading BSJ 2014 Christmas Annual
On November 3, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the petition filed by Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd., a UK company, that had requested that the Court hear its appeal from the order of the U.S. Court of Appeals (7th Circuit) in the case of Klinger v. Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd. As a result, the opinion … Continue reading Holmes and Copyright: A Just Decision
The Autumn 2014 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. The Well-Appointed Scoundrel: How Colonel Moran Transformed Everyday Offenders into Gibus-Wearing Sophisticates by Sonia Fetherston. Murger in Baker Street by Timothy S. Greer. Disguise Is Key: Germans in the Canon by Maria Fleischhack . In the Matter of Oscar Slater by Robert A. … Continue reading Autumn 2014 BSJ
Sherlockian Saturdays at the Pratt. Edited & introduced by William Hyder. Inspired by a passage in Christopher Morley's preface to Doubleday's The Complete Sherlock Holmes, in which Morley recalled walking to "the old Enoch Pratt free library" to borrow "a Conan Doyle he had not read," Baltimore area Sherlockians established a Weekend with Sherlock Holmes … Continue reading Sherlockian Saturdays at the Pratt
The Summer 2014 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Bad Girls of the Canon by William Hyder. A Shanda in Bohemia by Fruma Klass. The Beautiful Irene Adler of Changing Memory by Tom Speelman. A Scandal in Identity: Reconsidered by Michael J. Quigley. The (Next) Woman: Miss Mary Sutherland by Lisa Sanders. … Continue reading Summer 2014 BSJ