Download and read a free PDF of this full issue of the BSJ! The Winter 2011 Baker Street Journal (PDF). If you like what you see – don't wait! Subscribe to the BSJ today. This file is also part of the eBSJ PDF Archive 1946-2011. The Winter 2011 BSJ includes the following articles: The Editor’s … Continue reading Winter 2011 BSJ – Free PDF
First Lady by Mary Ann Bradley. Lenore Glen Offord was the first woman to be invested in the Baker Street Irregulars. She wrote mystery novels and for more than thirty years was the mystery book critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. A true Sherlockian, she contributed to the Baker Street Journal from its first year … Continue reading BSJ 2011 Christmas Annual
The Grand Game: A Celebration of Sherlockian Scholarship Volume One: 1902–1959. Edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger. The Grand Game is based on the lovely fantasy played by scholars and Sherlockians that Sherlock Holmes was a real person, and that the sixty Canonical tales were actually written by Dr. Watson and reflect … Continue reading The Grand Game Vol. One: 1902–1959
Bohemian Souls. A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of "A Scandal in Bohemia" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle along with Commentary on the Story. Edited & introduced by Otto Penzler, BSI. One of the best Sherlock Holmes stories, and the tale featuring the woman Irene Adler, now appears with new insights and new perspectives as … Continue reading Bohemian Souls (“A Scandal in Bohemia”)
Italy and Sherlock Holmes. Edited by Enrico Solito and Gianlucca Salvatore. Italy and Sherlock Holmes provides the best non-fiction Holmesian writing from Italy to a larger English-reading audience. Italian Sherlockians and BSIs Enrico Solito and Gianlucca Salvatore edited this anthology, the fourth title in the Baker Street Irregulars International Series. This volume contains scholarly essays … Continue reading Italy and Sherlock Holmes
From Piff-Pouff to Backnecke: Ronald Knox and 100 Years of “Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes” by Nicholas Utechin, BSI. Ronald Knox presented a paper at Oxford in 1911 that many regard as forming the basis of the Sherlockian Grand Game. His brilliant paper combined a lively humor with nit-picking observations and insights into … Continue reading BSJ 2010 Christmas Annual
Edgar W. Smith Switch Plate from his Morristown, NJ residence "221B Baker Street." This custom switch plate is an unfinished aluminum replica of the original now in the BSI Archive held by the Lilly Library at Indiana University. Dave Galerstein, BSI, rescued both the switch plate and the 221B door plate from the cottage on … Continue reading Edgar W. Smith Switch Plate
Fifty Years in Baker Street. By Jens Byskov Jensen. This book is a rare collaboration between the BSI and one of its scion societies, The Cimbrian Friends of Baker Street. The Baker Street Irregulars has hundreds of scion societies in the U. S. and, perhaps surprisingly to most Sherlockians, an additional three scions overseas: Sherlock … Continue reading Fifty Years in Baker Street
Doyle At 150: A Sesquicentennial Assessment Music CD. As part of the "Arthur Conan Doyle: A Sesquicentennial Assessment" symposium held in Cambridge, Massachusetts in conjunction with Harvard's Houghton Library, a musical interlude was presented on May 9, 2009. Entitled "Conan's Concerto: A Selection of Period Doylean and Sherlockian Music," the program included performances by a … Continue reading Doyle At 150
Harvard Trilogy Limited Edition Boxed Set. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: A Sesquicentennial Assessment. Not since the fabled Baker Street Irregulars "Trilogy Dinner" of 1944 has a single event produced three such important Sherlockian publications. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: A Sesquicentennial Assessment," a symposium held May 7-9, 2009 at Harvard University to celebrate the 150th anniversary … Continue reading The Harvard Set
