Reader Challenge: “It was the band!”

Holmes profile

A Reader Challenge & Prize. Peter Calamai, the 2012 Morley–Montgomery Memorial Award winner, issues a challenge in the Letters section of the Spring 2013 BSJ. His curiosity, honed from many years as a journalist, inspires us to issue this further encouragement: The first person offering proof (as judged by your Editor) of Londoners wearing mourning … Continue reading Reader Challenge: “It was the band!”

2012 Morley-Montgomery Award

Peter Calamai

The winner of the 2012 Morley-Montgomery Award is Peter Calamai. His paper, “Why He Isn’t ‘Sir Sherlock’ Today,” appeared in the Autumn 2012 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 prize. See … Continue reading 2012 Morley-Montgomery Award

BSJ 2012 Christmas Annual

The BSJ 2012 Christmas Annual cover

Barrymore in Baker Street: “The Great Profile” Meets “The Great Detective,” and They Both Get Their Names Up in Lights by Sonia Fetherston. How come a middling motion picture from 1922 is suddenly receiving praise from movie historians? Why exactly are the experts fired up over the film’s technical side? Today’s critics give a standing … Continue reading BSJ 2012 Christmas Annual

Spring 2012 BSJ

The Spring 2012 BSJ cover

The Spring 2012 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. “You Are the Mysterious Sherlock!”: A Century-old Advertising Stunt Invokes the Great Detective by Sonia Fetherston. “The Invisible Network Which Was Drawn All Round Them” by Chris Redmond and Kristina Manente. Holmes’s Return: An Interview with Anthony Horowitz by Tom Ue. The Origins … Continue reading Spring 2012 BSJ