“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 Autumn 2022 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Sherlock Holmes in the Harper & Brothers Records by Ira Brad Matetsky. It Is Always Nineteen Fifty-Five by Sonia Fetherston. Sherlock Holmes and the (Neck)Ties that Bind by David L. Leal. Herschel and Babbage—Holmes and Watson by Richard J. Leskosky. William Gillette: A … Continue reading Autumn 2022 BSJ
The Summer 2022 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. For Christ’s Sake: An Evaluation of Jay Finley Christ by Nicholas Utechin. Vincent Starrett and the Mystery of the Missed BSI Dinners by Ray Betzner. “A Failure of Sherlock Holmes”: A Newly Discovered Parody by Leslie S. Klinger. The Commonplace Book. Baker Street … Continue reading Summer 2022 BSJ
About 125 Sherlockians gathered at the Bear Mountain Inn — located in the Hudson Valley near West Point, a one-hour drive north of New York City — for the BSI’s “Sherlock Holmes and the British Empire” conference. The official proceedings took place on Saturday and Sunday, July 30-31, 2022, but most of us checked-in on … Continue reading The 2022 BSI Empire Conference Report
The Spring 2022 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. “My dear Watson, . . . the law is as dangerous to us as the criminals are”: Sherlock Holmes and the Official Police by Mary M. Bendel-Simso. Sherlock Holmes in the Roaring Twenties by Russell Merritt. The Problem of the Mutable Detective by … Continue reading Spring 2022 BSJ
The Winter 2021 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: In Memoriam Michael Francis Whelan. A First Look at “The Blue Carbuncle” by Leslie S. Klinger. “The Blue Carbuncle”: The First Public Case of Sherlock Holmes, and the One that Created His Career by David L. Leal. Justice, Mercy, and “The Blue Carbuncle” by Aaron J. … Continue reading Winter 2021 BSJ
“The Dean of British Sherlockians”: A Celebration of the Life and Works of S. C. Roberts. Edited by Nicholas Utechin with Roger Johnson and Guy Marriott. Sir Sydney Castle Roberts wrote A Note on the Watson Problem at the end of the 1920s, brought out Doctor Watson in the 1930s, penned two famous pastiches, and became the … Continue reading BSJ 2021 Christmas Annual
Sherlockians returned to New York City for an in-person 2022 BSI Weekend, with activities from January 12-16 including the BSI Dinner on Friday, January 14. Events were well-attended despite the Omicron surge. A new honour was unveiled to recognize the mentoring of aspiring Sherlockians and encouraging them to find ways to keep green the memory … Continue reading The 2022 BSI Weekend Report
The Baker Street Irregulars 