Apr 30, 2026
“As to your dates, that is the biggest mystification of all.” [CREE]
If you want to know five different options for dates of a
Sherlock Holmes story, all you have to do it get four chronologists
together. Such is the case with "The Five Orange Pips."
In the mid-1990s, Les Klinger, BSI ("The Abbey
Grange")...
Apr 22, 2026
“spat out some atrocious word” [CREE]
One of the curiosities of Victorian and Edwardian life that
doesn't get much attention, at least in Sherlockian conversation,
is that of spats.
This curious piece of attire related to footwear gets a scant
two mentions in all of the Sherlock Holmes stories (do you...
Apr 15, 2026
“This little group forms the real family” [WIST]
Baker Street Miscellanea is the source of this
month's Mr. Sherlock Holmes the Theorist episode. Rev. Raymond
Holly, in Number 50, Spring 1987, wondered who "The Real Three
Garridebs" were. Or namely, one of them.
He brings us into French Napeleonic territory...
Apr 8, 2026
“he arranged a number of breadcrumbs” [PRIO]
Toast is a simple accompaniment of breakfast that we take for
granted. We place bread in an appliance and minutes later, we have
a perfect slice of toast.
It wasn't quite so simple in Victorian times. How was toast
cooked in Mrs. Hudson's kitchen? And in which...
Apr 1, 2026
“researches which have a medico-criminal aspect” [DYIN]
This month, the Morley-Montgomery Award brings us up to the
year 2006, when Harold Billings pulled out some serious research
originating in Edinburgh.
His article "The Materia Medica of Sherlock Holmes" in Vol.
56, No. 3 of The Baker Street Journal...