Commissionaire: Julian Wolff and His Baker Street Irregulars. By Sonia Fetherston, BSI. Without Julian Wolff's involvement, The Baker Street Irregulars might no longer exist. Due to his leadership as the BSI's Commissionaire from the 1960s to the 1980s, the organization grew and prospered. Dr. Wolff was an enigmatic man—reticent and affable, kind and determined, quiet … Continue reading Commissionaire
The Spring 2020 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. A Word from Wiggins by Michael H. Kean. Just His Type: An Analysis of the Découpé Warning in The Hound of the Baskervilles by Jessica Schilling. The Faith Life of Sherlock Holmes by Wilson D. Rogers, Jr. A Short Surplice by M. A. … Continue reading Spring 2020 BSJ
The winner of the 2019 Morley-Montgomery Award is Ira B. Matetsky. His paper, “Another Sherlockian Myth Debunked: Time to Turn the Page(t)?,” appeared in the Summer 2019 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 2019 Morley-Montgomery Award
The BSI conference “Sherlock Holmes and the British Empire” that was planned for June 2021 has been rescheduled due to the COVID-19 virus, and will now take place in 2022. Updated: See our 2022 BSI Empire Conference Report page for event details. Learn More More BSI Event News & Publications Upcoming BSI Events (overview) FAQ … Continue reading Save the Dates: Our 2021 Conference
The Winter 2019 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Vincent Starrett by Leslie S. Klinger. Reconsidering Canonical Characters by David L. Leal. Sherlock Holmes vs. Hitler: A True Story by Chris Chan. Art in the Blood by Scott Bond. The Commonplace Book. Baker Street Inventory. The Sherlockian Societies. … Continue reading Winter 2019 BSJ
Celebrating the 166th birthday of Sherlock Holmes, the 2020 BSI Weekend took place in New York City with events from January 15-19, including the BSI Dinner on Friday January 17. After 23 years leading the Baker Street Irregulars, Mike Whelan handed over a ceremonial gavel to Michael Kean who is now the new "Wiggins" of … Continue reading The 2020 BSI Weekend Report
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
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