The Spring 2019 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Freddy the Porcine Holmes by Dan Andriacco. “All those branches of science”: Holmes and Archaeology at the British Museum by Dana Cameron. The Convict Selden Seen: How Did the Notting Hill Murderer Escape Dartmoor Prison and Flee to Safety? by Carla Coupe. You … Continue reading Spring 2019 BSJ
Celebrating the 165th birthday of Sherlock Holmes, the 2019 BSI Weekend took place in New York City with events from January 9-13, including the BSI Dinner on Friday January 11. Of special note was Mike Whelan's announcement that Michael Kean would be the next leader of the Baker Street Irregulars. He will officially become the … Continue reading The 2019 BSI Weekend Report
The Winter 2018 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. The Origins of Sherlock Holmes: Crime Fiction before Conan Doyle by Leslie S. Klinger. Follow the Money: How Mycroft Became the British Government by Ann Margaret Lewis. The Forgotten Man: Henry Littlejohn and Sherlock Holmes by Daniel Smith. Nearly an Intimate Encounter: Conan … Continue reading Winter 2018 BSJ
The Exhibitionists: Sherlock Holmes in London 1951 and New York 1952. By Mattias Boström and Nicholas Utechin. In a time of austerity and rationing after WWII, the 1951 Festival of Britain celebrated the best of Britain. And what better figurehead, then, than Sherlock Holmes. The extraordinarily successful exhibition ran from May until September 1951 and attracted … Continue reading BSJ 2018 Christmas Annual
The winner of the 2018 Morley-Montgomery Award is Leslie S. Klinger. His paper, “The Origins of Sherlock Holmes: Crime Fiction before Conan Doyle,” appeared in the Winter 2018 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 2018 Morley-Montgomery Award
The Autumn 2018 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. More Textual Variations in “The Resident Patient” by Ira Brad Matetsky. A Crime Scene in “The Resident Patient” and The Three Imposters by Nick Louras. “Have you seen the evening paper?”: An Examination of Holmes’s Advertisement in A Study in Scarlet by Jessica … Continue reading Autumn 2018 BSJ
The Summer 2018 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Cricketing and Conan Doyle: The Perfect Pitch by Mark Alberstat. Take a Walk on the Wilde Side by Michael J. Quigley. The Conan Doyle Lie by Paul Thomas Miller. How Leprosy Entered the Canon by Richard M. Caplan. “It Is Infallibly Deadly” by … Continue reading Summer 2018 BSJ
The Spring 2018 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor's Gas-Lamp. The Cardboard Boxes by Ross E. Davies. Villainesses: Female Antagonists in the Canon by Liese Sherwood-Fabre. The Curious Case of the Bipolar Detective by Monica Schmidt. Sherlock Holmes and the Detection Club by Martin Edwards. "Whose was it?" "His who is gone.": Some … Continue reading Spring 2018 BSJ
By Candace J. Lewis. From The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 67, No. 4 (Winter 2017), pp. 23 - 28. Two artists illustrated the original publications of “Shoscombe Old Place”: Frederic Dorr Steele for Liberty Magazine in the United States in March 1927 (Figs. 1 and 3), and Frank Wiles in the Strand Magazine one month … Continue reading Illustrating the Gothic: Shoscombe Old Place
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
