by Matt Laffey. From The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 64, No. 1 (Spring 2014), pp. 51 – 59. Sherlockians gather in New York every year to celebrate the birth of the world's greatest detective. The BSJ reports on many of the events, including the BSI Dinner. Matt Laffey wrote about the 2014 Birthday Weekend in … Continue reading The 2014 Birthday Weekend Report
The Spring 2014 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Reassessing Holmes the Scientist by James O’Brien. Adventures in Copyright by Darlene Cypser. A “Pretty Little Intellectual [Property] Problem”: Understanding the “Free Sherlock” Ruling by Betsy Rosenblatt. Identifying Colonel Emsworth and His Importance to Conan Doyle by William A. Walsh. Emsworth, the Crimean … Continue reading Spring 2014 BSJ
The Winter 2013 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Herbert Kelcey: The Forgotten American Sherlock Holmes by John Addy. Basil Rathbone’s Solar Pons Films by David Marcum. In the Island of Uffa by Robert A. Moss . “And It Is Always . . .” Eighteen Eighty-nine by Michael H. Kean. A Study … Continue reading Winter 2013 BSJ
The winner of the 2013 Morley-Montgomery Award is Anastasia Klimchynskaya. Her paper, “A Study in Scarlet and the Study of Mankind: Sherlock Holmes and Pope's Essay on Man,” appeared in the Winter 2013 issue of the Baker Street Journal. The Morley-Montgomery Award is given each year for the best article to appear in The Baker … Continue reading 2013 Morley-Montgomery Award
Irregular Stain. A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of "The Second Stain" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with Annotations and Commentary on the Story. Edited & introduced by Andrew Solberg, BSI and Robert Katz, MD, BSI. "The Adventure of the Second Stain" is one of the three Sherlockian adventures dealing with international espionage, and since … Continue reading Irregular Stain (“The Second Stain”)
Disaster at the New Century. Sherlock Holmes: A New Play in Three Acts by Ouida Rathbone. Based on the Original Stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Edited and introduced by Nicholas Utechin. The 2013 Christmas Annual offers the first-ever publication of the 1953 play starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes. The play, written by his wife … Continue reading BSJ 2013 Christmas Annual
The Undershaw Set: Limited Edition Boxed Set. This slipcased set contains signed, numbered, limited edition, specially bound copies of On Conan Doyle by Pulitzer Prize winning critic Michael Dirda and The Remarkable Characters of Arthur Conan Doyle, edited by Joel B. Silver. As part of publishing this set, the BSI donated $1,000 to the Undershaw … Continue reading The Undershaw Set
The Remarkable Characters of Arthur Conan Doyle. Edited by Joel B. Silver. Though the foundation of his lasting literary legacy is built upon the Sherlock Holmes stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a number of other unique characters. In celebration of the sesquicentennial of Doyle's birth, a conference and exhibition dealing with these creations was … Continue reading The Remarkable Characters of Arthur Conan Doyle
The Texas Set: Limited Edition Boxed Set. The Texas Set consists of limited edition copies of Bohemian Souls and The Wrong Passage, plus a separate booklet containing indexes for both volumes. The two books are signed by the editors and contributors, and along with the index volume, are housed in a custom slip case. The … Continue reading The Texas Set
The Autumn 2013 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Short Sentences: Deductions from a Few Words in “The Bruce-Partington Plans” by Chris Redmond. The Portable Newgate Calendar: Sherlock Holmes, Morphine Addiction, and the Psychology of the Savant by Lyndsay Faye. “Make a Long Arm, Watson”: Sherlock Holmes as Indexer by Fred Leise. … Continue reading Autumn 2013 BSJ