The Baker Street Irregulars

This article is about the literary society. For the fictional characters, see Baker Street Irregulars.
The Baker Street Irregulars meeting on January 30, 1940. Those pictured include Christopher Morley, Frederic Dorr Steele, Robert Keith Leavitt, and David A. Randall, among others.[1]

The Baker Street Irregulars is an organization of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts founded in 1934 by Christopher Morley.[2] As of 2015, the nonprofit organization had about 300 members worldwide.[3]

The group has published The Baker Street Journal, an "irregular quarterly of Sherlockiana", since 1946.[2] Members of the society participate in "the game"[4] which postulates that Holmes and Doctor Watson were real and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was merely Watson's "literary agent".[5]

  1. ^ "Entertainment and Fantasy": The 1940 Dinner". BSI Archival History. Retrieved 19 November 2020. See the section "A Picture of the Crowd".
  2. ^ a b "Baker Street Irregulars 1923-2007: Guide". Houghton Library, Harvard Library. Harvard University. Retrieved 2015-03-25.
  3. ^ "The Baker Street Irregulars Trust". ZoomInfo. March 2015.
  4. ^ Dirda, Michael (February 2, 2012). "Sherlock Lives!". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference grann was invoked but never defined (see the help page).