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
The Autumn 2016 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. The Folks from Moriarty by Sonia Fetherston. The Single Stick by Charles Blanksteen. Conan Doyle and Houdini: The Afterlife of a Friendship by Peggy Perdue. “Isn’t It Romantic?”: A Further Exploration of “That Little Thing of Chopin’s” by Alexander Katz and Katherine Karlson. … Continue reading Autumn 2016 BSJ
The Summer 2016 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. “How have the years used you?”: Estrangement in the Canon by Jaime N. Mahoney. The Abbey Grange Game by Nick Dunn-Meynell. The Modern Detective by Kate Brombley. The Mysterious Inspector Sherlock by Leah C. Guinn. Arthur Conan Doyle and Baseball by Mark Alberstat. … Continue reading Summer 2016 BSJ
The Spring 2016 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Looking to Latin America: Canonical Notions from South of the Border by Bill Mason. Sigmund Freud’s The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nick Dunn-Meynell. Casting Holmes by Jeffrey Hatcher. D. Martin Dakin: An Underrated Scholar by Nicholas Utechin. Vigilante with a Pipe by Nick Martorelli. … Continue reading Spring 2016 BSJ
The Winter 2015 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. The Skeptic’s Guide to Sherlock Holmes: Twenty-five Facts about the Detective by Rebecca Romney. Sherlock Holmes among the Doctors by Leslie S. Klinger. Journalism Wellsprings for Neville St. Clair by Peter Calamai. A Decadent Detective?: A Look at the Fin de Siècle Origins … Continue reading Winter 2015 BSJ
The winner of the 2015 Morley-Montgomery Award is Chris Redmond. His paper, “Dr. Hill Barton Pays a Call,” appeared in the Summer 2015 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 2015 Morley-Montgomery Award
Together Again for the First Time: Forty Years of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. By Steven T. Doyle, BSI. The publication of Nicholas Meyer's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution helped to launch the Sherlock Holmes boom of the 1970s, which in many ways has never ended. This tribute to Meyer covers both his bestselling book and the film based … Continue reading BSJ 2015 Christmas Annual
The Autumn 2015 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Chasing “His Last Bow” from Crowborough to The Strand by Russell Merritt with Leslie S. Klinger. Saving Lady Eva by William Hyder. Eliminating the Impossible from “The Five Orange Pips” by Stefano Guerra. In Defense of Violet Hunter by Resa Haile. In Holmes’s … Continue reading Autumn 2015 BSJ
The Summer 2015 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Irregular Children: On Coming of Age in a Sherlockian Home by Sonia Fetherston. Dr. Hill Barton Pays a Call by Chris Redmond. The Game Is Footer by Mark Alberstadt. The “Masculine Novel”: Discussing the Female Position in the Canon. by Victoria Rood Was … Continue reading Summer 2015 BSJ
The Spring 2015 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. A Case of Identity: Sigerson’s Choice by Ray Betzner. “Ha! The Stars Are Out and the Wind Has Fallen” by Alan Bradley. Sherlock Holmes and Flavia de Luce: Comparing the Science by Tamera Jahnke and James O’Brien. The Villains of Sherlock by Benjamin … Continue reading Spring 2015 BSJ
