Last revised, 7 Dec. 2023 (several small misprints and formatting errors corrected).
https://www.IHearOfSherlock.com/
“I Hear of Sherlock” is a bi-weekly podcast on Holmesian topics. We say, mistakenly, that radio or TV broadcasts go out over the air. The late Victorians, equally mistakenly, said a wireless transmission goes out via the ether. Podcasts are distributed on the Internet. You can receive them using a variety of wired or wireless digital devices, so long as they have loudspeakers or earphones.
Contact Us
Wire Addresses (Holmesians never use the neologism [faugh!]
“e-mail!” We wire one another.) ...
Our Chief Constable: Lorraine REIBERT,
Lady-L-Weaving (at) SBCGlobal.net
Our Chancellor of the
Exchequer: Kyndall POTTS,
KyndallPotts (at) GMail.com
Our Program Chairman: Dan ANDRIACCO, BSI (initiated, 2021),
TankervilleClub (at) GMail.com
Our Hapless Webmaster: Martin ARBAGI,
Martin.Arbagi (at) GMail.com
All easily visible wire addresses on this site have been disabled by substituting "(at)" for the @ symbol. To wire us, you must type our addresses by hand.
Links of Interest
https://www. Sherlockian.net/ This the central Web site for Holmesians or, as Americans and Canadians prefer to call themselves, “Sherlockians”. It contains a truly enormous number of resources, including links to the texts of the original cases. (Click or tap on the Investigating tab. These vary in typographical quality.) Other topics under the Investigating tab include “The World of Holmes and Watson”, “The Victorian Era in England”, and “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle”. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, M.D. was a late Victorian and Edwardian author who is now remembered mainly as Dr. John Watson’s Literary Agent. No doubt Watson went to Doyle because Doyle was a fellow doctor and already a moderately successful author when Watson began publishing. Though immensely popular in his own day (he died a multimillionaire in terms of twenty-first century money), Doyle is now largely forgotten except for his science-fiction novel, The Lost World, and his short story of supernatural horror, “Lot Nº. 249”, both of which have been made into moving pictures on a number of occasions. For teachers and students, Sherlockian.net also has sections on “Teaching Sherlock Holmes”, “Courses and Lesson Plans”, and “Writing a Term Paper”. (Click on the Teaching tab.) In the Celebrating tab, you’ll find lists of Sherlockian societies (outside the U.S. and Canada, they’re Holmesian societies) and a reasonably up-to-date “Sherlockian Calendar” of events. The Adapting tab has such topics as “Illustrating Sherlock Holmes” (a collection of classics by Sidney Paget, Frederick Dorr Steele, and more recent artists), and “Writings About the Writings”. (Please scroll down. ↓ )
https://www.IHearOfSherlock.com/2007/06/Episode-01-welcome-and-introduction.html#.XQ46R3dFzb1
This is the very first podcast back in June 2007, and the hosts explain everything lucidly in non-technical terms.
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Since the site: "Sherlock-Holmes.com" has now been sold, the link was removed at the end of 2020.
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www.BeaconSociety.com/The Beacon Society is a scion* society of The Baker Street Irregulars, (known as the BSI) an organization of American Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts founded in 1934. (Scroll further down this page to learn more about the BSI.) The Beacon Society serves as a link to other scion societies, providing teachers with local resources to bring the magic of Sherlock Holmes to life in the classroom. The Society has distributed thousands of dollars through its Jan Stauber Grants program. Donations are tax-deductible. The Beacon Society is a national group, but recently added a feature of local interest: the JOEL SENTER Essay Contest, in honor of the late Professor Senter (see the “Stand With Me” page). For more information, click here.
http://www.BatteredBox.com/ All Holmesians know of Dr. Watson’s “battered tin despatch [British spelling] box,” containing records of so many unpublished Holmes cases. This site, bringing Watson’s literal object into the twenty-first century by transforming it into a virtual Web site, is truly an “Amazon” bookstore for Holmesians. It contains literally hundreds of pastiches, trifling monographs, out-of-print rarities, etc., relating to Sherlock Holmes. It also has sections on such authors as August Derleth, Michael Harrison, and Vincent Starrett—renowned Holmesians all. (Derleth was also an expert on Howard Phillips Lovecraft.) My favorite section (other than that devoted to Holmes) is the one on Stephen Leacock, a famous Canadian humourist, now, like Arthur Conan Doyle, largely—but unfairly—forgotten.
http://www.Scintillation.org/ “A Scintillation of Scions” is a major Holmes conference held annually in Baltimore. The date for the 2024 event has not yet been set! Can someone from among the organizers wire us? Is the group still active?
† THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS, in suburban Westchester County (NY), is almost certainly a bit older. In the interest of full disclosure, it should be noted that the Author of this page, although a resident of Dayton, Ohio for over fifty years, is a native of White Plains, NY, the county seat of Westchester.