In which Sherlock Holmes story do the 'Baker Street Irregulars' first appear?
"Street. ""We met next day as he had arranged, and inspected the rooms at No. 221B, Baker Street, of which he had spoken at our meeting. They consisted of a couple of comfortable bed-rooms and a single large airy sitting-room, cheerfully furnished, and illuminated by two broad windows.""<br>(Arthur Conan Doyle, ""A Study in Scarlet"", 1887) When the ""Sherlock Holmes"" stories were first published, street numbers in Baker Street did not go as high as 221. The section north of Marylebone Road near Regent's Park – now including 221 Baker Street – was known in Conan Doyle's lifetime as Upper Baker"
"Baker Street Irregulars The Baker Street Irregulars are fictional characters who appear in various Sherlock Holmes stories, as street boys who are employed by Holmes as intelligence agents. The name has subsequently been adopted by other organizations, most notably a prestigious and exclusive literary society founded in the United States by Christopher Morley in 1934. The original Baker Street Irregulars are fictional characters featured in the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. The group of street urchins is led by an older boy called Wiggins, whom Holmes paid a shilling per day, with a guinea prize (worth one pound"
"Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars is a 2007 BBC television drama about Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars, a gang of children who would occasionally help him. It stars Jonathan Pryce as Sherlock Holmes and Bill Paterson as Dr Watson with Anna Chancellor and Aaron Johnson. The Baker Street Irregulars investigate as several of their members go missing, while also trying to prevent Sherlock Holmes — who is undergoing a personal crisis — being convicted of murder. It is an original story by Kurti & Doyle, Produced by Andy Rowley"
"The Baker Street Irregulars The Baker Street Irregulars is an organization of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts founded in 1934 by Christopher Morley. The nonprofit organization numbers some 300 individuals worldwide. The group has published ""The Baker Street Journal"" — an ""irregular quarterly of Sherlockiana"" — since 1946. The BSI was an outgrowth of Christopher Morley's informal group, ""3 Hours for Lunch"" which discussed art and literature. The first inaugural meeting of the BSI was held in 1934 at Christ Cella's restaurant in New York City. Initial attendees included William Gillette, Vincent Starrett, Alexander Woollcott, and Gene Tunney. Morley kept meetings quite"
"The Baker Street Boys The Baker Street Boys is a British television series made by the BBC and first shown in 1983. The series recounts the adventures of a gang of street urchins living in Victorian London who assist the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes in solving crimes and find themselves tackling cases of their own. Anthony Read planned out the show's format. Read had previously been a script editor and writer on the 1965 ""Sherlock Holmes"" series starring Douglas Wilmer. He claimed to have long wondered what the Irregulars got up to when not in the service of Sherlock Holmes"
"Baker Street Irregulars"", Irene Adler (portrayed by Anna Chancellor) is the main villain of the piece and one of Sherlock Holmes' archenemies instead of a potential love interest. In ""A Scandal in Belgravia"", the first episode of the 2012 second series of the BBC ""Sherlock"", Irene was portrayed by Lara Pulver opposite Benedict Cumberbatch. She is initially sought to recover incriminating photos she possesses of a liaison between her and a female member of the Royal Family, along with various other incriminating documents kept in a password-protected phone. In many ways this version of Irene Adler is the polar opposite"
"date: The Baker Street Boys The Baker Street Boys is a British television series made by the BBC and first shown in 1983. The series recounts the adventures of a gang of street urchins living in Victorian London who assist the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes in solving crimes and find themselves tackling cases of their own. Anthony Read planned out the show's format. Read had previously been a script editor and writer on the 1965 ""Sherlock Holmes"" series starring Douglas Wilmer. He claimed to have long wondered what the Irregulars got up to when not in the service of Sherlock"
"and shot and post produced in Dublin, Ireland. Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars is a 2007 BBC television drama about Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars, a gang of children who would occasionally help him. It stars Jonathan Pryce as Sherlock Holmes and Bill Paterson as Dr Watson with Anna Chancellor and Aaron Johnson. The Baker Street Irregulars investigate as several of their members go missing, while also trying to prevent Sherlock Holmes — who is undergoing a personal crisis — being convicted of murder. It is an original story"
"New York. Morley founded The Baker Street Irregulars—the first society devoted to the Holmes canon—in 1934. The Sherlockian game (also known as the Holmesian game, the Great Game, or simply the Game) attempts to resolve anomalies and clarify details about Holmes and Watson from the canon. The Game, which treats Holmes and Watson as real people (and Conan Doyle as Watson's literary agent), combines history with aspects of the stories to construct biographies and other scholarly analyses of these aspects. Ronald Knox is credited with inventing the Game. One detail analyzed in the Game is Holmes's birth date. The chronology"
"distant descendant of Sherlock Holmes himself and has inherited his intellect in solving crimes. In 2007, the BBC released ""Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars"", a children's series focusing on the Baker Street Irregulars and starring Jonathan Pryce as Holmes. In 2009, the BBC began making ""Sherlock"", created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. Three seasons of three 90-minute episodes each were broadcast in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock and Martin Freeman as John. Moriarty appears as a recurring villain. A special episode, ""The Abominable Bride"", was broadcast in January 2016, with a limited"
"agent. in 1934, Christopher Morley hosted a dinner in New York City in honor of Sherlock Holmes which led to the formation of The Baker Street Irregulars. Later that same year in London, England the Sherlock Holmes Society was formed. Since that time, organizations have formed all over the world devoted to Sherlock Holmes. Various cookbooks with a Victorian era Sherlockian theme have been published over the years. 1976 brought both ""Dining with Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Cookbook"" by Julia Rosenblatt and Frederic H. Sonnenschmidt as well as ""Sherlock Holmes Cookbook"" by Sean M. Wright and John Farrell. The"
"Holmes Society (forerunner of the modern Sherlock Holmes Society of London), sent it to the head of the Society, A.G. Macdonell. Macdonell printed 100 copies of the story. He distributed them to other members of the Society and, when he visited the United States, to their American counterparts, the Baker Street Irregulars. The Irregulars published their own edition in 1947. Since then, ""The Field Bazaar"" has been republished several times, including appearances in collections edited by leading scholars of Conan Doyle and of Holmes. All modern editions silently correct a typographical oddity in the original 1896 version — missing quotation"
"Baker Street Irregulars wrote a letter to the ""Saturday Review of Literature"", insisting that the story be published. In the United States, ""Cosmopolitan"" magazine obtained it and published it in their August 1948 issue under the uncharacteristic title ""The Case of the Man who was Wanted"". It was also published in London's ""Sunday Dispatch"" magazine the following January. Sherlock Holmes expert Vincent Starrett doubted that the story was written by the elder Doyle and suggested that Adrian was the author. In September 1945, a letter was received by Hesketh Pearson, a biographer of Sir Arthur. The letter stated, ""My pride"
"came to live and work from 82 Baker Street. Residents of the prestigious mansion block, Chiltern Court, on the Regent's Park end of Baker Street include the novelists Arnold Bennett and H.G Wells who are commemorated with a blue plaque. Thomas Charles Druce ran the Baker Street Bazaar until his death in 1864, and was later subject of the Druce Portland Case. In 1940 the headquarters of the Special Operations Executive moved to 64 Baker Street, they were often called the ""Baker Street Irregulars"" after Sherlock Holmes' gang of street urchins of the same name. The Beatles' Apple Boutique was"
"683 members. Notable members of the Baker Street Irregulars include the following: The original iteration of the BSJ was started in 1946 as an academic journal but it ceased in 1946. In 1951, Edgar Smith began publishing it again as a quarterly and it has continued publication since that time. The BSI has spawned numerous ""scion societies"", many of which are officially recognized by the BSI. The first was The Five Orange Pips of Westchester County, New York in 1935. Others include Canada's The Bootmakers of Toronto. The Baker Street Irregulars The Baker Street Irregulars is an organization of Sherlock"
"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892; the individual stories had been serialised in ""The Strand Magazine"" between July 1891 and June 1892. The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view. In general the stories in ""The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"" identify, and try to correct, social injustices."
"and the two are able to solve the many incidents which occur at the school, at the request of teachers and pupils. The name ""Beeton School"" is taken from ""Beeton's Christmas Annual"", the magazine in which the character Sherlock Holmes first appeared, and Eton College. In the show, Sherlock Holmes is a strange but clever pupil who lives in room 221B of Baker House, one of the houses of Beeton School. He sleeps during class and has poor grades, especially in literature, philosophy and astronomy. He is thought by teachers to be a troublemaker, but has brilliant reasoning powers and"
"Irregulars, the first organized group in the United States dedicated to the formation of local groups of Holmes aficionados around the country (called ""scion societies"") for the purpose of meeting regularly for the scholarly study of the Holmes adventures and to participate in such activities of other scion societies, in the United States and around the world. ""A Catalogue of Crime"" received a Special Edgar Award in 1972 from the Mystery Writers of America. The book won immediate praise for its sections on studies and histories of crime fiction, true crime, the Sherlock Holmes canon and stories of the supernatural,"
"Conan Doyle's handwriting, but typewritten. The ""Strand Magazine"" published extracts from it in August 1943, and it was finally published after demand from Sherlock Holmes societies in 1947, when it was embraced as a new (if slightly inferior) part of the canon by The Baker Street Irregulars amongst others. Initial suspicions of forgery were reported by Vincent Starret and it was eventually discovered by Hesketh Pearson that the story was originally written by Arthur Whitaker, who had sent it to Conan Doyle in hope of a collaboration. Doyle had bought the story, in the thought that he might use the"
"of the order in which the stories had appeared in the original Derleth volumes. In ""The Adventure of the Other Brother"", included in ""The Papers of Sherlock Holmes Volume II"" by David Marcum (2011, 2013) Holmes and Watson travel to Yorkshire in 1896 to defend Holmes's older brother, Sherrinford, from a charge of murder, as first briefly mentioned at the conclusion of William S. Baring-Gould's biography, ""Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street"" (1962). While there, they encounter Sherrinford's youngest son, 16-year-old Siger Holmes (named after his grandfather). Siger looks like a young Sherlock Holmes, and also shows a remarkable facility for"
"The Adventure of the Three Gables ""The Adventure of the Three Gables"" 1926 is one of 12 Sherlock Holmes short stories (56 total) by Arthur Conan Doyle in ""The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes"" first published ""Strand Magazine"" October 1921 – April 1927. The story begins with a visit to 221B Baker Street from Steve Dixie, a black man and a cowardly ruffian who warns Sherlock Holmes to keep away from Harrow. Although Dixie has come to intimidate Holmes, Holmes secures Dixie's future cooperation by threatening to tell what he knows about the suspicious Perkins death involving Dixie. Dixie's boss is"
"The Baker Street Journal The Baker Street Journal is a quarterly journal devoted to Sherlockiana published by The Baker Street Irregulars. Leslie S. Klinger has called it ""the leading publication"" in the study of Sherlock Holmes. After the formation of The Baker Street Irregulars in 1934, members would meet at annual dinner to read papers on the subject of Sherlockian scholarship. In 1944, Edgar W. Smith, the then-head of the BSI, edited and published an anthology of those writings as ""Profile by Gaslight"". Inspired by the publication, Smith began thinking of creating an ongoing academic journal to publish BSI papers."
"of the Irregulars, a boy named Ross, is stationed to wait outside until Holmes, Watson, and Mr. Carstairs arrive. When the group finally arrives, Ross appears inexplicably horror-stricken and is later found brutally murdered by the thugs of the House of Silk. When Holmes makes inroads with the House of Silk case, he is framed for murder and sent to prison. Meanwhile, Watson meets with a mystery criminal, later revealed as Professor Moriarty, who provides him with a key to free Holmes from prison, before the detective can be assassinated. Professor Moriarty's motives are uncertain, except that he wishes Holmes"
"Holmes called ""Baker Street"". Sallis was asked by Prince to take the role of Dr. Watson to Fritz Weaver's Sherlock Holmes. The show ran for six months on Broadway. Just before ""Baker Street"" ended he was offered the role of Wally in John Osborne's ""Inadmissible Evidence"", which had been played by Arthur Lowe in London with Nicol Williamson reprising the lead role. The production was troubled with Williamson hitting producer David Merrick with a bottle and walking out before being persuaded to continue. The show was a minor success and ran for six months in New York, opening at the"
"followed by indolent self-absorption. John Radford (1999) speculated on Holmes's intelligence. Using Conan Doyle's stories as data, he applied three methods to estimate the detective's intelligence quotient and concluded that his IQ was about 190. Snyder (2004) examined Holmes's methods in the context of mid- to late-19th-century criminology. In 1934, the Sherlock Holmes Society (in London) and the Baker Street Irregulars (in New York) were founded. Both are still active, although the Sherlock Holmes Society was dissolved in 1937 and revived in 1951. The London society is one of many worldwide who arrange visits to the scenes of Holmes adventures,"
"of the Blue Polar Bear"" from the NHK puppet series ""Sherlock Holmes"", is based on ""The Adventure of the Three Gables"" and ""The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"". It features Isadora Klein as a female juvenile gang leader. The Adventure of the Three Gables ""The Adventure of the Three Gables"" 1926 is one of 12 Sherlock Holmes short stories (56 total) by Arthur Conan Doyle in ""The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes"" first published ""Strand Magazine"" October 1921 – April 1927. The story begins with a visit to 221B Baker Street from Steve Dixie, a black man and a cowardly ruffian"
"in the early twentieth century. There are early examples of Sherlockian essays by Arthur Bartlett Maurice and Frank Sidgwick, both published in 1902, but neither of these essays received much notice at first. Notable early scholars of the canon included Ronald Knox in Britain and Christopher Morley (founder of The Baker Street Irregulars) in New York. Dorothy L. Sayers, creator of the detective Lord Peter Wimsey, also wrote several essays on Holmesian speculation, later published in ""Unpopular Opinions"". In the foreword to this book, Sayers notes that The game of applying the methods of the ""Higher Criticism"" to the Sherlock"
"The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire ""The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire"", written by British author Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 Sherlock Holmes stories collected between 1921 and 1927 as ""The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes"". It was first published in the January 1924 issues of ""The Strand Magazine"" in London and ""Hearst's International Magazine"" in New York. Holmes receives an odd letter that makes reference to vampires. Mr. Robert Ferguson, who comes to 221B Baker Street the next morning, has become convinced that his Peruvian second wife has been sucking their baby son's blood. By his first wife,"
"The Hound of the Baskervilles The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in ""The Strand Magazine"" from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in ""The Final Problem"", and the success"
"upstairs floor. In the United States, there is a pub/restaurant chain named ""Baker Street Pub,"" that plays off of the Sherlock Holmes theme. Some locations even have the iconic British red phone booth outside. The fictional address has been portrayed in the following pastiches of Sherlock Holmes: 221B Baker Street 221B Baker Street is the London address of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, created by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the United Kingdom, postal addresses with a number followed by a letter may indicate a separate address within a larger, often residential building. Baker Street in the late 19th"
"a reference from Conan Doyle's short story ""The Noble Bachelor"" and also on his non-Holmes story ""The Man With the Watches"". A series of inexplicable and bizarre incidents on a non-stop express train brings a railway baron to Baker Street and takes Holmes and Watson to Rugby. Additional cast First transmitted on 16 January 2009, this story is based on a reference from Conan Doyle's short story ""The Priory School"": ""'I am retained in this case of the Ferrers Documents.'"" What could possibly link a slum landlord, a vanishing prostitute, and a break-in at 221B Baker Street? In a case"
"wrong. Holmes and Watson also appear in Alan Coren's children's books, ""Arthur and the Great Detective"" and ""Arthur and the Bellybutton Diamond"". The titular Arthur is an erstwhile Baker Street Irregular. In 1993 the psychologist Keith Oatley wrote ""The Case of Emily V."", a novel in which Sigmund Freud, Watson and Sherlock Holmes turn out to be investigating the same person. This book won the 1994 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel. In Oatley's book the reader finds out the ""real truth"" behind Freud's case notes on Emily V. In the ""Doctor Who"" Virgin New Adventures novel ""All-Consuming Fire"""
"occasionally employing agents from the city's underclass; these agents included a variety of informants, such as Langdale Pike, a “human book of reference upon all matters of social scandal”, and Shinwell Johnson, who acted as Holmes’ “agent in the huge criminal underworld of London...”. The most well known of Holmes' agents are a group of street children he called ""the Baker Street Irregulars"". Holmes and Watson carry often pistols with them—in Watson's case, his old service weapon (probably a Mark III Adams revolver, issued to British troops during the 1870s). Holmes and Watson shoot the eponymous hound in ""The Hound"