The Baker Street Irregulars announce a literary contest to celebrate the 2011 centenary of Monsignor Ronald Knox's seminal essay "Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes." Knox's exceedingly clever parody of biblical higher criticism, more than any other single work, gave rise to Sherlockian scholarship and the "Playing the Game" that so characterizes our interest. … Continue reading The 2010 BSI Essay Contest
So Painful a Scandal. A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of "The Three Students" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle along with Commentary on the Story. Edited and Introduced by John Bergquist, BSI. So Painful a Scandal is the sixth title of the multi-volume Baker Street Irregulars Manuscript Series. Although "The Adventure of the Three Students" … Continue reading So Painful a Scandal (“The Three Students”)
Australia and Sherlock Holmes. Edited by Doug Elliott and Bill Barnes. Australia and Sherlock Holmes is the third title in The Baker Street Irregulars' International Series, which brings the best non-fiction Holmesian writing from around the world to a larger audience. The history of Australian Sherlockians can be traced back over 100 years to a … Continue reading Australia and Sherlock Holmes
Reading the Signs: Some Observations and Aperçus on Film and Television Adaptations of The Sign of the Four. By David F. Morrill, BSI. Bringing to motion picture and television screens a simple story of past misdeeds, greed, and revenge like The Sign of the Four should be easy. But it isn't. Because audiences have traditionally … Continue reading BSJ 2008 Christmas Annual
A Tangled Skein: A Companion Volume to The Baker Street Irregulars’ Expedition to The Country of the Saints. Edited by Leslie S. Klinger. In 2008, The Baker Street Irregulars mounted a once-in-a-lifetime expedition to Salt Lake City to consider the history of the Old West, the Mormons, the mid-nineteenth century, and the American half of … Continue reading A Tangled Skein
"A Remarkable Mixture" Award-Winning Articles from The Baker Street Journal. Edited and Introduced by Steven Rothman, BSI. Since 1958 the Baker Street Irregulars have presented the Morley-Montgomery Memorial Award to the author of the best article published in The Baker Street Journal each year. The Award, begun by legendary bookseller Lew D. Feldman, honors the … Continue reading A Remarkable Mixture
Rathbone Returns! A Misadventure Called Sherlock Holmes by S.E. Dahlinger, BSI & Glen Miranker, BSI. The year was 1946. After 14 movies and 200 radio dramas as the Great Detective, Basil Rathbone was as eager to push Sherlock Holmes over the precipice at Reichenbach Falls as Arthur Conan Doyle had been. As he wrote in … Continue reading BSJ 2007 Christmas Annual
To Keep the Memory Green: Reflections on the Life of Richard Lancelyn Green (1953–2004). Edited by Steven Rothman & Nicholas Utechin. The Baker Street Irregulars and The Sherlock Holmes Society of London, under the imprint of The Quartering Press, are pleased to announce their first joint publication: To Keep the Memory Green, a collection of … Continue reading To Keep the Memory Green
By Ray Betzner. From The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Autumn 2007), pp. 6 - 12. In the early 1930s, when pulps were the guilty pleasures of the American magazine business, Real Detective was just another bedsheet promising sex, sin, and sensationalism for a mere two bits. With a color cover that featured … Continue reading The Wicked Beginnings of a Baker Street Classic!
Mandate for Murder. A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of "The Red Circle" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle along with Commentary on the Story. Edited & introduced by Roy Pilot, BSI, Gianluca Salvatori, BSI, and Enrico Solito, BSI. "The Adventure of the Red Circle" is the second story in the Baker Street Irregulars Manuscript Series … Continue reading Mandate for Murder (“The Red Circle”)
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