The Winter 2017 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Weaving In and Out of the Game by Andrew L. Solberg. A “Most Desirable Residence” by Leslie S. Klinger. The Death of Baron Dowson by Christopher Redmond. Illustrating the Gothic: “Shoscombe Old Place” by Candace J. Lewis. Sherlockian Gothic in Conan Doyle’s Last … Continue reading Winter 2017 BSJ
The winner of the 2017 Morley-Montgomery Award is Susan E. Bailey. Her paper, “Whitehall Place Irregulars: Female Searchers and Suspects in Nineteenth-century London,” appeared in the Spring 2017 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 … Continue reading 2017 Morley-Montgomery Award
"A Woman of Mystery": Helene Yuhasova, Poetess Laureate of the Baker Street Irregulars. By Sonia Fetherston, BSI and Julie McKuras, BSI. Who was Helene Yuhasova? She was honored as The Woman at the 1946 BSI Dinner, and her BSJ contribution “The Solitary Cyclist Rides Again” was acclaimed at the 1949 BSI Dinner. Yet some reports … Continue reading BSJ 2017 Christmas Annual
The Autumn 2017 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Conan Doyle, a Cricket Bat, and Lord’s by Nicholas Utechin. Dating “The Creeping Man” by Neil McCaw. Sherlock Holmes in Shorthand by Don Hobbs. Grabbers: First Sentences in the Canon by Michael H. Kean. On The Origin of Tree Worship by Daniel F. … Continue reading Autumn 2017 BSJ
The Summer 2017 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. The Making of Mycroft by Marshall S. Berdan. What Was the Diogenes Club? by David L. Leal. Pall Mall: Locating the Diogenes Club by David Marcum. Occasionally He Is the Government by M. Haddon-MacRoberts. On the Obliquity of the Ecliptic and Other Incidental … Continue reading Summer 2017 BSJ
The Spring 2017 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. The Case of the Rude Author by Martin Hill Ortiz. Gothic Holmes: Dark Shadows in the Canon by Dan Andriacco. Sherlock Holmes and the Woman Question by Sara Paretsky. Whitehall Place Irregulars: Female Searchers and Suspects in Nineteenth-century London by Susan E. Bailey. … Continue reading Spring 2017 BSJ
The Winter 2016 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor's Gas-Lamp. On Annotating Sherlock Holmes by Leslie S. Klinger. A Most Valuable Institution: Searching Online Newspaper Archives for Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle by Mattias Boström and Matt Laffey. Dancing Men: An Inspired Choice by Randall Stock. Sherlock Holmes: Conan Doyle's Not-So-Secret Weapon by … Continue reading Winter 2016 BSJ
The winner of the 2016 Morley-Montgomery Award is Bill Mason. His paper, “Looking to Latin America: Canonical Notions from South of the Border,” appeared in the Spring 2016 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 … Continue reading 2016 Morley-Montgomery Award
The Day after Christmas: First Encounters with Gillette's Silent Sherlock Holmes. Edited by Russell Merritt, BSI. The 2016 Christmas Annual celebrates the centennial of William Gillette's film Sherlock Holmes. Long thought to be lost, the film was found in 2014 and restored to near-original condition. Russell Merritt, the editor of this volume, was instrumental in … Continue reading BSJ 2016 Christmas Annual
By Peggy Perdue. From The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Autumn 2016), pp. 20 - 23. There seems to be a sort of trickle-down effect at work in which some of the surfeit of attention paid to Holmes has been passed on to his creator. Working in the Toronto Public Library’s Arthur Conan … Continue reading Conan Doyle and Houdini: The Afterlife of a Friendship
