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
Trenches: The War Service of Sherlock Holmes. A Facsimile of the Partial Original Manuscript of "His Last Bow" by Arthur Conan Doyle with Annotations and Commentary on the Story. Edited & introduced by Robert Katz, MD, BSI and Andrew Solberg, BSI. While the manuscript of "His Last Bow" is incomplete, a substantial portion still exists … Continue reading Trenches (“His Last Bow”)
Mobile Holmes: Transportation in the Canon. Edited & introduced by Walter Jaffee, BSI. Sherlock Holmes is indelibly associated with Baker Street. But as we know, he traveled throughout London, throughout England, and to other parts of the world. Clients came to consult him as well. Those travels requited the use of various forms of transportation. … Continue reading Mobile Holmes
The Autumn 2017 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Conan Doyle, a Cricket Bat, and Lord’s by Nicholas Utechin. Dating “The Creeping Man” by Neil McCaw. Sherlock Holmes in Shorthand by Don Hobbs. Grabbers: First Sentences in the Canon by Michael H. Kean. On The Origin of Tree Worship by Daniel F. … Continue reading Autumn 2017 BSJ
Registration and reservations are now open for the BSI Weekend to be held from Wednesday January 10, 2018 through Sunday January 14, 2018 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 2018 BSI Weekend
The Summer 2017 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. The Making of Mycroft by Marshall S. Berdan. What Was the Diogenes Club? by David L. Leal. Pall Mall: Locating the Diogenes Club by David Marcum. Occasionally He Is the Government by M. Haddon-MacRoberts. On the Obliquity of the Ecliptic and Other Incidental … Continue reading Summer 2017 BSJ
