Registration and reservations are now open for the BSI Weekend to be held from Wednesday January 10, 2024 through Sunday January 14, 2024 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 2024 BSI Weekend
The Baker Street Irregulars will hold its January 2024 events in person in New York City starting on Thursday, January 11, 2024. 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 2024 BSI Weekend
The Summer 2023 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Hardboiled Holmes? by Ron Levitsky. A Pun for All Seasons by Bill Mason. A Case of Identifying a Conspiracy: How a Holmes Story Made Legal History by Daniel L. and Eugene B. Friedman. A Page is Missing! Round up the Usual Suspects by … Continue reading Summer 2023 BSJ
The Spring 2023 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. The Brain or the Appendix: Doctors, Detectives, and Diagnosis by Lakshmi Krishnan. Swindle! Financial Crimes in the Canon by Jonathan Tiemann. The Mythical Mixture of Watson’s Bachelor Days by Dino Argyropoulos. Five Quarter Centuries of Confusion Over the Missing Three-Quarter by Eric Scace. … Continue reading Spring 2023 BSJ
The Winter 2022 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Arthur Conan Doyle, Grandfather of Modern Cinema: What King Kong Owes to The Lost World by Heather Holloway. Sherlock Holmes Gets the Anime Treatment by Emily Frongillo. A Forgotten Milvertonian Publication. The Case for The Case-Book by David L. Leal. Rex Stout, Sherlockian … Continue reading Winter 2022 BSJ
“A Lady Ventures into the Sacred Precincts”: Women on the Periphery of the BSI, 1940–1960. By Julie McKuras and Sonia Fetherston. Women have contributed to Sherlockian studies and societies from the beginning. The Baker Street Journal included women authors in more than 90% of its issues from 1946–1960. Yet women often did not receive the … Continue reading BSJ 2022 Christmas Annual
The 2023 BSI Weekend took place from January 4-8 in New York City, with the BSI Dinner on Friday, January 6. After a record 23 years as the editor of the Baker Street Journal, Steve Rothman is retiring and will become editor emeritus. Dan Andriacco is the new editor of the BSJ. (Steve and Dan … Continue reading The 2023 BSI Weekend Report
The winner of the 2022 Morley-Montgomery Award is Nicholas Utechin. His paper, “For Christ’s Sake: An Evaluation of Jay Finley Christ,” appeared in the Summer 2022 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 … Continue reading 2022 Morley-Montgomery Award
The Haven Horror. A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of “The Adventure of the Retired Colourman” by Arthur Conan Doyle with Annotations and Commentary. Edited, with an Introduction, by Phillip G. Bergem, BSI. Deception and secret romance often lead to murder. In “The Retired Colourman,” Sherlock Holmes traps a vicious yet clever murderer, and entertains … Continue reading The Haven Horror (“The Retired Colourman”)
Stimulating Medicine: More Nerve and Knowledge. Edited by Robert S. Katz, MD, BSI and Andrew L. Solberg, MHS, BSI. Diagnosis, disease, and doctors are an essential part of the Sherlock Holmes stories. A series written by a physician (Conan Doyle), through the eyes of a physician (Watson), and with a detective based on a physician … Continue reading Stimulating Medicine
