Baker Street Journal

A reminder: At midnight on 31 December, as we usher in 2023, Sherlock Holmes enters the public domain in the USA. The last stories were published in 1927, and so the 95 year copyright will expire. In ACD's words 'You may marry him, murder him, or do anything you like to him.'

@sweetylem Absolutely

@BakerStJournal Do you guys accept articles?

The AMS Press reprint of the Baker Street Journal was advertised in the December 1860 issue.

@sherlockeditor @DarleneCypser @221BCooee I'll try to find you an ad for it

@BakerStJournal @DarleneCypser @221BCooee To what end? For what market? Were they sold in shops?

@sherlockeditor @DarleneCypser @221BCooee No. For sale to libraries. In those years, ther was a real market for all sorts of out of print stuff. Long gone.

@hannahofhameln No. Not have any rabbis been invested to date.

@WitWarrior Yeh, but we always think of it under its first published title.

Sothebys sold the manuscript of The Sign of the Four for $800,000 this morning. 'Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell' and now I know.

@drmjones If you are a very good boy and eat all your vegetables....

@drmjones Now you've spoiled the surprise, Mark.

'at last our intimacy turned to love—deep, deep, passionate love, such love as I had dreamed of, but never hoped to feel.' ('The Lion's Mane') #ValentinesDay

'But there is no doubt that it was a serious love affair.' ('The Lion's Mane') #ValentinesDay

'She is not in her senses. She is madly in love. She has been told all about him. She cares nothing.' ('The Illustrious Client') #ValentinesDay

'he has completely and absolutely won her heart. To say that she loves him hardly expresses it. She dotes upon him, she is obsessed by him. Outside of him there is nothing on earth.' ('The Illustrious Client') #ValentinesDay

'The strongest of all holds where a woman is concerned-the hold of love.' ('The Illustrious Client') #ValentinesDay

'He loves me. Yes. But do I not love him? Do I not love him even to sacrifice myself rather than break his dear heart. That is how I love him.' ('The Sussex Vampire') #ValentinesDay

'If ever a woman loved a man with all her heart and soul, she loves me.' ('The Sussex Vampire') #ValentinesDay

'I do not think that in our adventures we have ever come across a stranger example of what perverted love can bring about.' ('Thor Bridge') #ValentinesDay

'She had loved him as such women can love' ('Thor Bridge') #ValentinesDay

'Ettie threw her arms round her lover's neck. 'Give it up, Jack! For my sake—for God's sake, give it up! ' (The Valley of Fear) #ValentinesDay ...