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Bill Shepard

Smithsonian Article: Sherlock Holmes' London

Our hardy group shares the love of the "grand game" and the camaraderie that comes from braving the foggy streets of London to climb the 17 stairs at 221B Baker Street and sit by the fire with Holmes and Watson. The pleasures are many and we welcome anyone with the passion for these armchair adventures.
The Denizens have been meeting regularly for 24 years on a biannual (Fall and Spring) basis.

CLICK HERE to listen to our signature story of The Man With the Twisted Lip
with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce

Come join us and toast the Master and his supporting cast

Denizens' History Notes

1993
Easton Life Magazine Article

Star Democrat-Addicted to Sherlock

Sherlock Holmes, literature's most popular character, is alive and well on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Sherlockians Joe and Chris Wilke and Mary Ann Bradley and Mike Whelan are organizing a program and dinner for a new Baker Street Irregulars' scion called
"The Denizens of the Bar of Gold"

at the Tidewater Inn on Saturday evening December 11^th, 1993. This scion (son of) will be one of over 940 literary societies loosely associated with the Baker Street Irregulars, the parent organization founded by Christopher Morley in New York City in 1934.
The Bar of Gold gets its name from the notorious opium den in the Holmes short story, "The Man with the Twisted Lip." In Holmes' own words, he described it

"We (Holmes and Watson) should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds for every poor devil who has been put to death in that den. It is the vilest murder trap in the whole riverside...."
The Poem The Beggar

.....And so it begins!
The Poem A Long Evening With Holmes by William P. Schweickert, B.S.I.

encompasses the grand Game

I Hear Of Sherlock Everywhere....The Scott Monty Podcast

Sherlock Holmes Links of Interest

The Canon Basil Rathbone.net The tangled Web

Baker Street Blog The Bar of Gold Spermaceti Press

Disjecta Membra 221Blog:Questioning the Canon Old Radio World-Sherlock Holmes

The Sherlock Holmes Society of London The Ribston-Pippins

The Baker Street Dozen Pillows Baker Street Dozen CSI-Crime, Sherlock and Investigation

Radio Detective Story Hour The Beacon Society

Crime Writers: The List Sherlock Holmes Top Internet Sites Sherlock Holmes Pastiches

The World of Mr. Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle Collection Languishing August Derleth Society

The Baker Street Irregulars Trust A List Of Doyle's Favorite Holmes Stories Solar Pons.com

Bibi's Box Sherlock Holmes Public Library No Place Like Holmes

The Wessex Press The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes: Pastiches and Parodies Umberto Eco Interview

The Red Circle Scion Sherlockian Calendar of Events Interesting Though Elementary

Wikipedia - Sherlock Holmes Laurie King

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