The Grand Game: A Celebration of Sherlockian Scholarship Volume One: 1902–1959. Edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger. The Grand Game is based on the lovely fantasy played by scholars and Sherlockians that Sherlock Holmes was a real person, and that the sixty Canonical tales were actually written by Dr. Watson and reflect … Continue reading The Grand Game Vol. One: 1902–1959

Edgar W. Smith Switch Plate from his Morristown, NJ residence "221B Baker Street." This custom switch plate is an unfinished aluminum replica of the original now in the BSI Archive held by the Lilly Library at Indiana University. Dave Galerstein, BSI, rescued both the switch plate and the 221B door plate from the cottage on … Continue reading Edgar W. Smith Switch Plate

Fifty Years in Baker Street. By Jens Byskov Jensen. This book is a rare collaboration between the BSI and one of its scion societies, The Cimbrian Friends of Baker Street. The Baker Street Irregulars has hundreds of scion societies in the U. S. and, perhaps surprisingly to most Sherlockians, an additional three scions overseas: Sherlock … Continue reading Fifty Years in Baker Street