The Baker Street News (American)

Duration: March 1995, one issue, one year.
Frequency: Biannual?
Editors: Michael and Susan McClure
Club Affiliation: The Chester Baskervilles

Whenever I see a Sherlockian publication with really good production values in the first issue -- a glossy cover, a square-bound spine, nice paper -- I immediately start worrying about its future. The Baker Street News had all three of those qualities, sixty-four pages, a list of writers who had been doing good work elsewhere, including the then-editor of The Baker Street Journal. It might have even had a much longer run, had its publishers not run into the sort of non-Sherlockian life distractions that tend to do in a lot of journals.

As it is, the one issue is still worth having, with Father Raymond Holly's classic argument for a non-Morley Holmes birthday and an interview with Henry Mancini (he scored "Without a Clue" and "The Great Mouse Detective" if you miss the Sherlockian connection).

-- BAK