All Aboard the H&WR!

After spending so much time talking about the Grand Game of Sherlockian scholarship last issue and hitting no Sherlockian events, in this issue we make up for it.

First, we’re covering Douglas Wilmer’s visit to America with not one, but three articles. Don’t know who Wilmer is? You will. We have coverage of the overall tour by John Baesch, an up close and personal view of the Boston leg of the trip by Scott Monty, and an appreciation of the trip’s Washington finale by David “Sir Hugo” Morrill (and yes, his column logo will return next time).

And if that isn’t enough, we’ve got the scoop on the Sherlockian cruise to Bermuda, the Minneapolis symposium, and a touch of Krypton. Even our publication’s mascot, the bearskin rug from 221B Baker Street went to Osseo, Minnesota, to see his cousin at Allen Mackler’s recreation of 221B (the rug’s article, sadly, was rejected as bearskin rugs do not, in actuality, have very interesting conversations with one another).

In other news, The Holmes & Watson Report’s Shilling Squad is done accepting new applicants for the moment — we ran out of the dozen shillings we started out with. Congrats to all who submitted an article to The Baker Street Journal, whether the result was acceptance or rejection (The motto of the firm — “We can but try.”) The final list of shilling winners is: Laura Kuhn, Carl Heifetz, Elliott Black, James Ludwig, Robert Ennis, Edward S. Smith, Jr., Rosemary Michaud, Thomas Cynkin, Jeffry Alan Bradway, Don Hobbs, Stu Shiffman, and Dana Richards. And who knows? If the bearskin rug turns up any more 221B shillings, we may open the squad up all over again.

If you happen to be near Peoria, Illinois on September 26, you may want to stop in for the open house at the offices of The Holmes & Watson Report. From noon until four that day we’ll be offering tours, giving demos, introducing the staff, and generally pretending that the publication isn’t really run out of the basement of my house. The annual banquet of The Hansoms of John Clayton will follow, so you might even want to stay for dinner.

But for now, we have another issue ready and waiting for the reading. Holmes and Watson are in Baker Street, and all’s right with the world.

— The Editor-In-Chief