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 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
