Spring 2014 BSJ

The Spring 2014 BSJ cover

The Spring 2014 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Reassessing Holmes the Scientist by James O’Brien. Adventures in Copyright by Darlene Cypser. A “Pretty Little Intellectual [Property] Problem”: Understanding the “Free Sherlock” Ruling by Betsy Rosenblatt. Identifying Colonel Emsworth and His Importance to Conan Doyle by William A. Walsh. Emsworth, the Crimean … Continue reading Spring 2014 BSJ

2013 Morley-Montgomery Award

Anastasia Klimchynskaya

The winner of the 2013 Morley-Montgomery Award is Anastasia Klimchynskaya. Her paper, “A Study in Scarlet and the Study of Mankind: Sherlock Holmes and Pope's Essay on Man,” appeared in the Winter 2013 issue of the Baker Street Journal. The Morley-Montgomery Award is given each year for the best article to appear in The Baker … Continue reading 2013 Morley-Montgomery Award

Autumn 2013 BSJ

The Autumn 2013 BSJ cover

The Autumn 2013 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Short Sentences: Deductions from a Few Words in “The Bruce-Partington Plans” by Chris Redmond. The Portable Newgate Calendar: Sherlock Holmes, Morphine Addiction, and the Psychology of the Savant by Lyndsay Faye. “Make a Long Arm, Watson”: Sherlock Holmes as Indexer by Fred Leise. … Continue reading Autumn 2013 BSJ

Reader Challenge: “It was the band!”

Holmes profile

A Reader Challenge & Prize. Peter Calamai, the 2012 Morley–Montgomery Memorial Award winner, issues a challenge in the Letters section of the Spring 2013 BSJ. His curiosity, honed from many years as a journalist, inspires us to issue this further encouragement: The first person offering proof (as judged by your Editor) of Londoners wearing mourning … Continue reading Reader Challenge: “It was the band!”