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. 

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.   

Our schedule, to date, is listed below. (We’ll update this as we proceed.) 

We’ll also add PDFs of the stories as they were originally published. 

Schedule

2024 

• November 16: The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (November 1903)
  with cohosts Ross E. Davies and Mark Jones

  • Norwood Builder Strand Magazine

  • Norwood Builder Collier’s Weekly
    
    

• December 14: The Adventure of the Dancing Men (December 1903) 
  with cohost Scott Monty

  • Dancing Men Strand Magazine

  • Dancing Men Collier’s Weekly

2025 

• January 11: The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist (January 1904) 
  with cohosts Anastasia Klimchynskaya and Madeline Quiñones

  • Solitary Cyclist Strand Magazine

  • Solitary Cyclist Collier’s Weekly
    
    

• February 15: The Adventure of the Priory School (February 1904) 
  with cohost Nick Martorelli

  • Priory School Strand Magazine

  • Priory School Collier’s Weekly
    
    

• March 15: The Adventure of Black Peter (March 1904) 
  with cohosts Max Magee and Glen Miranker

  • Black Peter Strand Magazine

  • Black Peter Collier’s Weekly
    
    

• April 19: The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton (April 1904) 
  with cohosts Monica Schmidt and Rich Krisciunas
  
  

• May 17: The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (May 1904) 
  with cohosts Paul M. Chapman and Mark Jones
  
  

• June 21: The Adventure of the Three Students (June 1904) 
  with cohosts Curtis Armstrong and Rebecca Romney

Monthly Cohosts

Feb 15, Priory School

Nick Martorelli is an active Sherlockian in the New York City area, where he is the Headmaster of the scion society The Priory Scholars of NYC and leads their story discussion. He has spoken at Scintillation of Scions, Jubilee@221B with The Bookmakers of Toronto, and at the annual BSI dinner. His discussion of why “Irene Adler is the Boba Fett of Sherlock Holmes” can be heard in Episode 146 of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, and his Sherlockian writing appears Reading Holmes, The Monstrum Opus of Sherlock Holmes, and The Essential Sherlock Holmes Volume Three, as well as the Serpentine Muse and Baker Street Journal. His non-Sherlockian theatrical writing has been performed at the Red Bull Theatre, the Chain Theatre, the Delaware Fringe Festival, and the Spokane Falls Community Center. He is a member of the Baker Street Irregulars.

Mary Alcaro recently received her PhD from the Department of English at Rutgers University and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Literatures in English at Bryn Mawr College. An avid Sherlockian, Mary has been invested in the Baker Street Irregulars (BSI) and Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes (ASH), and is the Head Mastiff of The Sons of the Copper Beeches, Philadelphia’s Sherlockian scion society. She has contributed essays to several books on various Sherlockian topics. Mary is also a bartender and created the Sher-locktails on Sherlock Mondays. 

Jan 11, Solitary Cyclist

Dr. Anastasia Klimchynskaya is a scholar of nineteenth-century literature with a deep interest

in the intersections between science, technology, literature, and the cultural imagination. Having called Philadelphia home while receiving her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, she has previously appeared on the Rosenbach’s Sundays with Frankenstein and Sherlock Mondays. She has written widely on Sherlock Holmes, science fiction, the history of science, and the Gothic in numerous scholarly and Sherlockian publications. She is a member of the Baker Street Irregulars, the world’s oldest and most renowned Sherlock Holmes society, and helps organize Philcon, Philadelphia’s science fiction convention. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University, where she teaches primarily Victorian literature, Gothic, and science fiction. 

Madeline Quiñones is an artist and a writer who does graphic design for a living. She is the current head of the John H Watson Society and the junior editor of canonical annotations for the Baker Street Almanac. She also has a lapsed webcomic, The Adventures of Professor Moriarty, and you can find her art sprinkled around various Sherlockian publications. But her biggest contribution to the fandom might be podcasting: she has her own Moriarty-focused show, Dynamics of a Podcast; she has been a correspondent of The Watsonian Weekly for the past four years; and she is currently a correspondent for I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere. Madeline lives in southwest Michigan with more Sherlock Holmes books, journals, and plushies than she has room for, and occasionally she blogs about Sherlockian trips and other trifles at astudyinimagination.wordpress.com/blog.

Dec 14, Dancing Men

Scott Monty, BSI (“Corporal Henry Wood”),  Editor-in-Chief, Founder and Co-Host of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, began his interest in Sherlock Holmes in his teenage years, during which he discovered his first Sherlockian society, The Men on the Tor in Connecticut – his first social network. The Sherlockian societies around the northeast were never the same after Scott descended on Boston, and The Baker Street Irregulars invested him in 2001. He established a web presence and online ordering system for The Baker Street Journal later that year. His profession led him into digital communications, and as a side project-cum-laboratory, Scott founded The Baker Street Blog in 2005. The blog existed as a standalone site until mid-2013. In 2007, with Burt Wolder, he added a podcast, and I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere was born. The two sites were combined in mid-2013 to serve as the definitive site for news and information about Sherlock Holmes on the web. Scott was a special guest on Sherlock Mondays and a cohost for Sherlock Mondays: The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Nov 16, Norwood Builder 

Ross E. Davies is Professor of Law at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School where he teaches administrative law, civil procedure, contracts, employment discrimination, legal history, legal profession, scholarly writing, and torts. He joined the faculty in 2002 after clerking for Judge Diane P. Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit and practicing at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Shea & Gardner (now Goodwin Procter). He is editor of The Journal of Supreme Court History, and is a member of the American Law Institute and the bars of the District of Columbia and Ohio. He also edits a variety of other law-related publications. In other walks of life, he edits The Gazette: The Journal of the Wolfe Pack, and is an invested member of the Baker Street Irregulars, a two-time winner of the Doug Pappas Award from the Society for American Baseball Research, founder of the ACD (Arthur Conan Doyle) Society, and a charter member of the Bill the Cat Buyers Club. Davies edited A Masterpiece of Villainy: a Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder.”

Mark Jones (BSI, MBt, ASH) has been fascinated by the works of Arthur Conan Doyle since he read the canon one wet summer holiday as a twelve-year-old. He has written widely on Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes, including for The Baker Street Journal, Canadian Holmes and The Sherlock Holmes Journal. His most recent book is Conan Doyle: Mystery and Adventure (2023) which tells the story of a long-lost BBC TV series of Conan Doyle adaptations from the late sixties. He is co-host, with Paul M. Chapman, of Doings of Doyle – The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast  (www.doingsofdoyle.com). A lapsed-historian, he lives in York, UK, and helps universities to improve teaching and learning on campus and online.