Baring-Gould of Baker Street: The Life and Footprints of William S. Baring-Gould. By Julie McKuras, Timothy J. Johnson, Richard J. Sveum, and Gary Thaden. This year’s Annual presents the man behind The Annotated Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street. Baring-Gould, a promotions director for Time-Life publications, also wrote a biography of Nero Wolfe, … Continue reading BSJ 2019 Christmas Annual
The Worst Man in London. A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of “Charles Augustus Milverton” by Arthur Conan Doyle with Annotations and Commentary. Edited, with an Introduction, by Daniel Stashower, BSI and Constantine Rossakis, MD, BSI. Scandal, blackmail, robbery, and murder are the hallmarks of this thrilling Canonical tale. Surprises abound, both in the actual … Continue reading The Worst Man in London (“Charles Augustus Milverton”)
Education Never Ends: Educators, Education and the Sherlockian Canon. Edited by Marino C. Alvarez, Ed.D., BSI, and Timothy S. Greer, BSI. Teaching, learning, education, and educators are all integral parts of the Canon. Education Never Ends encompasses the entire field, providing an informative yet entertaining survey of the topic. An entire faculty of educators and … Continue reading Education Never Ends
Upon the Turf: Horse Racing and the Sherlockian Canon. Edited by Candace J. Lewis, Ira Brad Matetsky, and Roger Donway. Horse racing, gambling, debt, scandal, and murder are all major threads in the Canonical tapestry. Racing and issues related to it appear in many of the Holmes stories. Upon the Turf is the definitive study … Continue reading Upon the Turf
Registration and reservations are now open for the BSI Weekend to be held from Wednesday January 15, 2020 through Sunday January 19, 2020 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 Register for the 2020 BSI Weekend
“Aboriginals”: The Earliest Baker Street Irregulars, 1934-1940. By Harrison Hunt and Linda Hunt. When Christopher Morley founded the Baker Street Irregulars in 1934, he brought along many distinguished friends and colleagues into the fold. This book presents capsule biographies and photographs of the earliest, "aboriginal," Irregulars, -- many of them remarkably accomplished individuals -- including … Continue reading “Aboriginals”
The Autumn 2019 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. The Diogenes Club: The Case for the Junior Carlton Club by Seth Alexander Thévoz. Sherlock Holmes and the English Opium Eater by Nick Louras. Canary-Training in the Nineteenth Century by Marc Kaufman. The Dead Man’s Chest: Treasure Island and The Sign of the … Continue reading Autumn 2019 BSJ
The Summer 2019 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Another Sherlockian Myth Debunked: Time to Turn the Page(t)? by Ira B. Matetsky. Regularly Overlooked: An Appreciation of Holmes’s Irregulars by Emily Miranker. Underappreciated Yet Essential by Andrew G. Fusco. From Florida to Appomattox by Robert S. Katz. When Watson Learned the Trick: … Continue reading Summer 2019 BSJ
Registration and reservations are now open for the BSI's conference to be held Friday November 8, 2019 through Sunday November 10, 2019 at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. "Building an Archive: A Celebration of the Arrival of the BSI Archive at the Lilly Library" will feature more than 20 leading Sherlockian collectors, librarians, booksellers, authors … Continue reading Building an Archive: 2019 Conference
The BSI 2020 conference "Sherlock Holmes and the British Empire" will be open to all Sherlockians, and will be held on July 17-19, 2020. The conference will be at the Bear Mountain Inn, near West Point, NY. We plan to have special room rates for the event as part of conference registration. You don't need … Continue reading Save the Dates: Our 2020 Conference
