This is a free program. This program is sponsored by Lisa Washington.
Episodes stream live one Saturday per month beginning November 16, 2024, 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. ET with the recordings available to watch afterward on the Rosenbach’s YouTube channel: Sherlock Monthly Playlist
Description
Our Sherlock Mondays Biblioventure was such a success, we’ve decided to continue exploring the Sherlockian canon with Sherlock Monthly. Every month, we’ll focus on one Sherlock Holmes adventure in the order they were first published. We’ll pick up where we left off, beginning with “The Norwood Builder,” hosted by Edward G. Pettit and, each month, co-hosted by a different Sherlockian expert. You can watch the livestreamed episodes on Saturday afternoons or the recordings on our YouTube channel.
The Rosenbach holds in its collection first editions of some of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes books, as well as the handwritten manuscript of “The Adventure of the Empty House.” Our founder, Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach, was deeply committed to mystery and crime literature, corresponded with the famous Sherlockian and founder of the Baker Street Irregulars, Christopher Morley, and once purchased Doyle’s personal crime library.
Whether you are a seasoned Sherlockian who has read the entire canon, or an aficionado of the various screen portrayals of Sherlock, all are welcome to join in this one-of-a-kind Biblioventures series, live every month beginning November 16, 2024 and running until we finish the canon. Most months, the show will air on the third Saturday (some months may need to be adjusted).
We’ve already covered the first 28 stories from A Study in Scarlet through “The Empty House,” and you can watch all of those episodes on our YouTube channel here: Sherlock Mondays Playlist
You can find more information, including the PDFs of the 28 stories we’ve already discussed here [COMING SOON]. And you can listen to these originals on Spotify here.
April 19: The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton (April 1904)
with cohosts Monica Schmidt and Rich Krisciunas
Charles Augustus Milverton Strand Magazine
Charles Augustus Milverton Collier’s Weekly
Series Host
Edward G. Pettit is the Sunstein Senior Manager of Public Programs at the Rosenbach and has been presenter for the weekly Biblioventures series – Sundays with Dracula, Sundays with Frankenstein, Sundays with Jane Eyre, Austen Mondays: Pride and Prejudice, Monsters and Ghosts: Jekyll & Hyde and A Christmas Carol – and also Pickwick Monthly. Pettit has taught many reading courses at the Rosenbach on many authors and books, including the Sherlock Holmes stories, Dracula, Frankenstein, the novels of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, and Philadelphia Gothic. He is a member of the Philadelphia Baker Street Irregulars scion society, The Sons of the Copper Beeches, serving as the Recorder of Pedigrees, as has probably never read a Sherlock Holmes story without smoking a pipe.
April Cohosts
Monica Schmidt, ASH, BSI, is the president of The Younger Stamfords of Iowa City, a BSI Scion Society. She is a member of multiple Sherlockian societies including The Norwegian Explorers of Minnesota, The Sons of the Copper Beeches, The Speckled Band of Boston, and The Hounds of the Baskerville (sic) of Chicago. Since 2013, Monica has been a staple in the Sherlockian conference/lecture circuit, typically speaking on the subject of Sherlock Holmes and mental health, having written the definitive essay on Holmes’s cocaine use in the Canon. She received the investiture of “Julia Stoner” from The Baker Street Irregulars in 2019 and “The Church of St. Monica” from The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes in 2015. When not engaging in Sherlockian events or playing cricket, Monica is a licensed mental health counselor in private practice, a member of the film critic staff for Cedar Rapids radio station KCCK, and engages in never-ending landscaping projects in her backyard with her supportive spouse, Bill.
Rich Krisciunas is an attorney who has practiced criminal law for 50 years. He retired as Chief of the Trial Division for the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office and was an adjunct Trial Practice professor for 40 years at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. Rich attended his first Sherlockian meeting in 1978 with the Amateur Mendicant Society of Detroit and is a member of the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes and a dozen other scions including the Ribston-Pippins and Greek Interpreters of East Lansing. Rich is a regular presenter of “Sherlockian Law 101” at the Crew of the Barque Lone Star on legal issues in the stories. He was awarded the Derrick Murdoch Award for Best Article in Canadian Holmes 2021 for “The Real Killer of Charles Augustus Milverton.” He has made Sherlockian presentations at conferences in Toronto, Dayton and Minneapolis and on Zoom to dozens of different scions and has been published in the Baker Street Journal, Sherlock Holmes Review, Watsonian, Sherlock’s Spotlight Gazette (Beacon Society), Serpentine Muse and Beaton’s Christmas Annual (Sound of the Baskervilles). He is an officer of the Legion of Zoom, copy editor for the Baker Street Journal and the Treasure Hunt Master for the John H. Watson Society's Annual Treasure Hunt.
November 16: The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (November 1903)
with cohosts Ross E. Davies and Mark Jones
December 14: The Adventure of the Dancing Men (December 1903)
with cohost Scott Monty
2025
January 11: The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist (January 1904)
with cohosts Anastasia Klimchynskaya and Madeline QuiñonesFebruary 15: The Adventure of the Priory School (February 1904)
with cohost Nick MartorelliMarch 15: The Adventure of Black Peter (March 1904)
with cohosts Max Magee and Glen Miranker