The Autumn 2024 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. A Connecticut Yankee and Conan Doyle’s Canon by S. E. Dahlinger. Something Smells: The Dressing Gown Business Again by Bruce Harris. Shaving Sherlock: Charles A. Doyle’s Illustrations for A Study in Scarlet by Laurence Pernet. Secrets of “The Naval Treaty” by Thomas Cynkin. … Continue reading Autumn 2024 BSJ
The Baker Street Irregulars will hold its January 2025 events in person in New York City starting on Thursday, January 16, 2025. As usual, many events will be open to all Sherlockians, and we will also have special tax-free group rates for hotel lodgings. Official BSI events that will be open to the public include … Continue reading Plans for the 2025 BSI Weekend
The Summer 2024 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Who Killed Charles Augustus Milverton? by Carla Kaessinger Coupe. The Ark of Archenemies in the Canon—a Zoological Approach by Marcus Geisser. The Non-Homicidal Holmes by Howard Brody. “Brain-Fever” in the Canon by Ross Philpot and Michael Duke. KL7FBI: Sherlock, Shemya, and a Case … Continue reading Summer 2024 BSJ
The Spring 2024 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. About the ’Fifties: A BSI Memoir by Peter Blau. The Godfathers of Sherlockian Publishing by Steven Rothman. Clinical Notes by a Resident Doctor by Robert S. Katz. Sherlock Holmes and the Quran by Nawazali A. Jiwa. What Did Dr. Watson Know? by Tess … Continue reading Spring 2024 BSJ
The Winter 2023 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Will the real Grand’mère Vernet Please Stand Up? by Katherine Karlson. Watson’s Black Dog by Michele Jankowski. Arthur Conan Doyle, Science, Spiritualism by David Leal. A Tale of Two Agathas by Thomas Joyce. He Must Have Been a Sherlockian by Michael Barton. Corpulence … Continue reading Winter 2023 BSJ
John Bennett Shaw Remembered. Edited by Jim Hawkins. Almost 30 years after his death, John Bennett Shaw continues to be a monumental presence in the Sherlockian world. He was one of the most vocal and exuberant enthusiasts for building lasting scion societies and creating friendships within the Sherlockian family. His zeal for Holmes was contagious, … Continue reading BSJ 2023 Christmas Annual
The BSI celebrated its 90th anniversary as part of the 2024 BSI Weekend. Held in New York City from January 10-14, the Weekend included the BSI Dinner on Friday, January 12. In recognition of the anniversary, the Yale Club Library hosted a special display of BSI historical material. It featured the BSI’s official gavel, made … Continue reading The 2024 BSI Weekend Report
The winner of the 2023 Morley-Montgomery Award is Eric Scace. His paper, “Five Quarter Centuries of Confusion Over The Missing Three-Quarter,” appeared in the Spring 2023 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 … Continue reading 2023 Morley-Montgomery Award
Clutches of a Fiend. A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of “The Adventure of the Illustrious Client” by Arthur Conan Doyle with Annotations and Commentary. Edited, with an Introduction, by Steven T. Doyle, BSI. In “The Illustrious Client,” we go into the sometimes violent and vulgar aspects of the post-Victorian/Edwardian era. With the introduction of … Continue reading Clutches of a Fiend (“The Illustrious Client”)
Sherlock Holmes and the British Empire. Edited, with an Introduction, by Ross E. Davies, BSI. Whether or not you attended the BSI’s “Empire” conference in July 2022, you will be captivated by this profusely illustrated report of the event. An international cast of Sherlockian and Doylean scholars covered nearly two dozen educational and entertaining topics … Continue reading Sherlock Holmes and the British Empire
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