The Winter 2023 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Will the real Grand’mère Vernet Please Stand Up? by Katherine Karlson. Watson’s Black Dog by Michele Jankowski. Arthur Conan Doyle, Science, Spiritualism by David Leal. A Tale of Two Agathas by Thomas Joyce. He Must Have Been a Sherlockian by Michael Barton. Corpulence … Continue reading Winter 2023 BSJ
John Bennett Shaw Remembered. Edited by Jim Hawkins. Almost 30 years after his death, John Bennett Shaw continues to be a monumental presence in the Sherlockian world. He was one of the most vocal and exuberant enthusiasts for building lasting scion societies and creating friendships within the Sherlockian family. His zeal for Holmes was contagious, … Continue reading BSJ 2023 Christmas Annual
The BSI celebrated its 90th anniversary as part of the 2024 BSI Weekend. Held in New York City from January 10-14, the Weekend included the BSI Dinner on Friday, January 12. In recognition of the anniversary, the Yale Club Library hosted a special display of BSI historical material. It featured the BSI’s official gavel, made … Continue reading The 2024 BSI Weekend Report
The winner of the 2023 Morley-Montgomery Award is Eric Scace. His paper, “Five Quarter Centuries of Confusion Over The Missing Three-Quarter,” appeared in the Spring 2023 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 2023 Morley-Montgomery Award
The Autumn 2023 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. “Free of Any Legal Crime”? Did Holmes Know the Law in The Adventures? by Ira Brad Matetsky. Sherlock Brown: Bert Lytell’s Forgotten Success by Sonia Fetherston and Howard Ostrom. The Understudies in “Black Peter” by Howard Brody. The Great Moriarty Deception by Bob … Continue reading Autumn 2023 BSJ
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 Baker Street Irregulars 