He makes lists of what Holmes seems to know a lot about and what he doesn’t seem to know about at all – including the Copernican theory. At the beginning, Doctor Watson tries to puzzle out the profession of his strange roommate at 221b Baker Street. If you’ve never read any Sherlock Holmes books you really need to start with that one because it introduces this rather mysterious and romantic character. Your first choice is A Study in Scarlet, which describes how the famous detective pair, Holmes and Watson, met. Let’s have a look at some of the books you are all such fans of. Being an invested member of the group is a lot of fun, especially since my fellow Irregulars range from the retired chief technical officer for Apple to judges and lawyers and notable writers such as Neil Gaiman. The Baker Street Irregulars continues to flourish, hosting an annual birthday banquet with lots of toasts and talks. She always insisted “the Game” should be played without cracking a smile. There are discrepancies in “the canon”, there are gaps, there are problems with chronology but Irregular scholarship will find a way to reconcile or make sense of them all.ĭorothy Sayers was a member of an equivalent group in England – The Sherlock Holmes Society of London. In it people play what is called “the Game”, which is founded on the premise that Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson are actual historical figures and the stories historical records of their exploits. They decided to run a contest in the Saturday Review of Literature for people who had the same kind of passionate interest in 221b Baker Street, and from this contest there emerged a kind of literary society and dining club, which has being going strong for more than 75 years now. The Morley kids had grown up reading the Sherlock Holmes books and used to tease each other with questions about the most minor details in them. The Baker Street Irregulars was founded in the 1930s by three brothers – Christopher Morley, who was a well-known literary journalist of the time, his brother Felix Morley, who was for a while the editor of my newspaper, The Washington Post, and their brother Frank Morley, who worked in publishing and once shared an office at Faber & Faber with that other great Sherlock Holmes fan, TS Eliot. Foreign Policy & International Relationsīefore we start talking about Sherlock Holmes books, I am intrigued about what goes on in the Baker Street Irregulars group, which you were inducted into in 2002.Other contributors include Steve Hockensmith, Peter Tremayne, and Rhys Bowen. Watson appears once, in a postscript to Gary Lovisi’s improbable “The American Adventure,” in which the normally emotionless Holmes falls hard for a beautiful stage actress. Barnum, in Michael Mallory’s droll “The Sacred White Elephant of Mandalay.” Dr. In Darryl Brock’s witty “My Silk Umbrella,” Holmes encounters Mark Twain at a Hartford “base ball match.” The detective meets another Connecticut luminary, P.T. Lupoff gets the volume off to a strong start with “Inga Sigerson Weds,” in which the adolescent Sherlock’s cash-strapped parents send him and his jealous sister across the Atlantic to a distant cousin’s New York City wedding. The 10 all-original tales in Edgar-finalist Kurland’s lively third Sherlock Holmes anthology (after 2004’s Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years)Ĭhronicle the exploits of the fledgling sleuth in America, before he settled in Baker Street.
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