Peter E. Blau: A Festschrift. In Honor of the 60th Anniversary of His Investiture in The Baker Street Irregulars. Edited & introduced by Leslie S. Klinger, BSI. Sixty is a number of great significance in the Sherlockian world. It’s the number of stories in the Canon. It’s also the number of years that Peter Blau … Continue reading Peter E. Blau: A Festschrift
The Autumn 2018 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. More Textual Variations in “The Resident Patient” by Ira Brad Matetsky. A Crime Scene in “The Resident Patient” and The Three Imposters by Nick Louras. “Have you seen the evening paper?”: An Examination of Holmes’s Advertisement in A Study in Scarlet by Jessica … Continue reading Autumn 2018 BSJ
Registration and reservations are now open for the BSI Weekend to be held from Wednesday January 9, 2019 through Sunday January 13, 2019 in New York City. Sherlock Holmes's birthday is celebrated every January in New York City. The Weekend is always fun, filled with formal and informal opportunities for Sherlockians new and old to … Continue reading The 2019 BSI Weekend
The Summer 2018 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Cricketing and Conan Doyle: The Perfect Pitch by Mark Alberstat. Take a Walk on the Wilde Side by Michael J. Quigley. The Conan Doyle Lie by Paul Thomas Miller. How Leprosy Entered the Canon by Richard M. Caplan. “It Is Infallibly Deadly” by … Continue reading Summer 2018 BSJ
The Spring 2018 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor's Gas-Lamp. The Cardboard Boxes by Ross E. Davies. Villainesses: Female Antagonists in the Canon by Liese Sherwood-Fabre. The Curious Case of the Bipolar Detective by Monica Schmidt. Sherlock Holmes and the Detection Club by Martin Edwards. "Whose was it?" "His who is gone.": Some … Continue reading Spring 2018 BSJ
The 2018 Silver Blaze Saratoga Springs, New York August 11-12, 2018. Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes story "Silver Blaze" and its namesake racehorse, the Baker Street Irregulars present their triennial horserace and gathering. Pre-purchased tickets through the BSI are required. This event is open to all Sherlockians and their friends. The event commences on Saturday, … Continue reading The 2018 Silver Blaze
By Candace J. Lewis. From The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 67, No. 4 (Winter 2017), pp. 23 - 28. Two artists illustrated the original publications of “Shoscombe Old Place”: Frederic Dorr Steele for Liberty Magazine in the United States in March 1927 (Figs. 1 and 3), and Frank Wiles in the Strand Magazine one month … Continue reading Illustrating the Gothic: Shoscombe Old Place
The Winter 2017 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Weaving In and Out of the Game by Andrew L. Solberg. A “Most Desirable Residence” by Leslie S. Klinger. The Death of Baron Dowson by Christopher Redmond. Illustrating the Gothic: “Shoscombe Old Place” by Candace J. Lewis. Sherlockian Gothic in Conan Doyle’s Last … Continue reading Winter 2017 BSJ
The winner of the 2017 Morley-Montgomery Award is Susan E. Bailey. Her paper, “Whitehall Place Irregulars: Female Searchers and Suspects in Nineteenth-century London,” appeared in the Spring 2017 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 … Continue reading 2017 Morley-Montgomery Award
"A Woman of Mystery": Helene Yuhasova, Poetess Laureate of the Baker Street Irregulars. By Sonia Fetherston, BSI and Julie McKuras, BSI. Who was Helene Yuhasova? She was honored as The Woman at the 1946 BSI Dinner, and her BSJ contribution “The Solitary Cyclist Rides Again” was acclaimed at the 1949 BSI Dinner. Yet some reports … Continue reading BSJ 2017 Christmas Annual
