The Spring 2025 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Will the Real Fred Porlock Please Stand Up? by Bob Sharfman. The Economist and the Detective by Graham Moore. Re Vampires and Vertebrae by Marina Stajić and Robert S. Katz. Conan Doyle’s Dog in the Night-Time by Donald Pollock. “Playing Tricks with the … Continue reading Spring 2025 BSJ
The Winter 2024 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. The Methods of Sherlock Holmes: The “Examination Paper” of 1893’s Author Revealed by Michael A. Meer. “Well up in . . . poisons generally.” by Anne-Marie Nelson. We Love Sherlock, but Would Sherlock Love Us? by Kira Settingsgaard. “Black Peter”: A Tale of … Continue reading Winter 2024 BSJ
Sherlockians gathered in New York City for the 2025 BSI Weekend, with events from January 15-19, including the BSI Dinner on Friday, January 17. The Weekend included a special presentation of the first copy of Wiggins, a biography of the BSI's fourth leader Tom Stix, to his son. John Bergquist, Carl Stix, and Andy Solberg … Continue reading The 2025 BSI Weekend Report
The winner of the 2024 Morley-Montgomery Award is Michael A. Meer. His paper, “The Methods of Sherlock Holmes: The 'Examination Paper' of 1893's Author Revealed,” appeared in the Winter 2024 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 … Continue reading 2024 Morley-Montgomery Award
Gather ’Round The Sundial: A Night with the Five Orange Pips. Edited by Rebecca Romney. The Five Orange Pips is a scion society founded in 1934, the same year as the Baker Street Irregulars, and now limited to 12 members. At the annual meeting each fall, every attendee is required to make a short presentation. … Continue reading BSJ 2024 Christmas Annual
That Ghastly Face. A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of “The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier” by Arthur Conan Doyle with Annotations and Commentary. Edited, with an Introduction, by Ira Brad Matetsky, BSI. The first Sherlock Holmes adventure authored by Holmes, “The Blanched Soldier” tells the tale of a family’s attempt to protect their son, … Continue reading That Ghastly Face (“The Blanched Soldier”)
“Wiggins”: Tom Stix & His Baker Street Irregulars. By Sonia Fetherston, BSI. Fifty-seven years after its founding, Tom Stix, the fourth leader of the Baker Street Irregulars, changed the BSI forever. The atmosphere in the room was palpable, as those in attendance tried to figure out what Tom was going to announce. It was followed … Continue reading “Wiggins”
Registration and reservations are now open for the BSI Weekend to be held from Wednesday January 15, 2025 through Sunday January 19, 2025 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 2025 BSI Weekend
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
