The Summer 2022 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. For Christ’s Sake: An Evaluation of Jay Finley Christ by Nicholas Utechin. Vincent Starrett and the Mystery of the Missed BSI Dinners by Ray Betzner. “A Failure of Sherlock Holmes”: A Newly Discovered Parody by Leslie S. Klinger. The Commonplace Book. Baker Street … Continue reading Summer 2022 BSJ
About 125 Sherlockians gathered at the Bear Mountain Inn — located in the Hudson Valley near West Point, a one-hour drive north of New York City — for the BSI’s “Sherlock Holmes and the British Empire” conference. The official proceedings took place on Saturday and Sunday, July 30-31, 2022, but most of us checked-in on … Continue reading The 2022 BSI Empire Conference Report
My Scientific Methods: Science in the Sherlockian Canon. Edited by Dana Richards, BSI. Sherlock Holmes might not have invented the field of forensic science, but he certainly popularized it and demonstrated the value of science in solving crimes. My Scientific Methods provides the first comprehensive analysis of the overall role of science in the Sherlockian … Continue reading My Scientific Methods
The Spring 2022 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. “My dear Watson, . . . the law is as dangerous to us as the criminals are”: Sherlock Holmes and the Official Police by Mary M. Bendel-Simso. Sherlock Holmes in the Roaring Twenties by Russell Merritt. The Problem of the Mutable Detective by … Continue reading Spring 2022 BSJ
Registration is now open to all Sherlockians and the general public for our “Sherlock Holmes and the British Empire” conference to be held from July 29-31, 2022 at the Bear Mountain Inn near West Point, New York. This event is open to everyone, but you must register in advance. Conference topics will range as widely … Continue reading Register for our July 2022 Empire Conference
Our 2022 conference “Sherlock Holmes and the British Empire” will be open to all Sherlockians, and will be held in-person on July 29-31, 2022. We will have special group rates for lodgings. Public reservations for lodgings and the Conference Program will open via our website beginning on Tuesday, May 17. Payment will be via postal … Continue reading Plans for our July 2022 Empire Conference
The Winter 2021 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: In Memoriam Michael Francis Whelan. A First Look at “The Blue Carbuncle” by Leslie S. Klinger. “The Blue Carbuncle”: The First Public Case of Sherlock Holmes, and the One that Created His Career by David L. Leal. Justice, Mercy, and “The Blue Carbuncle” by Aaron J. … Continue reading Winter 2021 BSJ
“The Dean of British Sherlockians”: A Celebration of the Life and Works of S. C. Roberts. Edited by Nicholas Utechin with Roger Johnson and Guy Marriott. Sir Sydney Castle Roberts wrote A Note on the Watson Problem at the end of the 1920s, brought out Doctor Watson in the 1930s, penned two famous pastiches, and became the … Continue reading BSJ 2021 Christmas Annual
Sherlockians returned to New York City for an in-person 2022 BSI Weekend, with activities from January 12-16 including the BSI Dinner on Friday, January 14. Events were well-attended despite the Omicron surge. A new honour was unveiled to recognize the mentoring of aspiring Sherlockians and encouraging them to find ways to keep green the memory … Continue reading The 2022 BSI Weekend Report
The winner of the 2021 Morley-Montgomery Award is Russell Merritt. His paper, “The Doubleday Omnibus Edition: 'The Madman’s Sherlock Holmes',” appeared in the Spring 2021 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 cash … Continue reading 2021 Morley-Montgomery Award
The Baker Street Irregulars 