It would seem that we have some Partners in Crime, to be found at the Baker Street Blog maintained by Scott Monty (a BSI member) which is filled with suggestions for good reads, links, articles, and Sherlockiana. You may wish to visit and read some of their most excellent postings about the game afoot in other quarters. There is apparently never a shortage of crime. http://www.bakerstreetblog.com/
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Posted in Baker Street Irregulars, Crime Fiction, Good Books on September 26, 2007 by administratorIt’s good to be, uh… irregular!
Posted in Baker Street Irregulars on September 13, 2007 by administrator
About the only time it is good to be “irregular”is when it has to do with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his super sleuth, Sherlock Holmes. Holmes, from time to time, would employ the services of the street urchins, from London’s lower rungs of society to perform small but important tasks in his quest to unravel the deepest mysteries . This little impromptu brigade became known as the “Baker Street Irregulars”, and were praised by the Master Holmes himself, - for every person, even a child, can be sharp, observant and useful – and indispensible in helping to solve a crime.
Watson first encountered the Irregulars in A Study in Scarlet, describing them as “six dirty little scoundrels [who] stood in line like so many disreptuable statuettes.” Their chief was the energetic and inventive Wiggins. Holmes said to Watson about them: “There’s more work to be gotten out of one of those little beggars than out of a dozen of the force…The mere sight of an official looking person seals men’s lips. These youngsters, however, go everywhere and hear everything. They are as sharp as needles, too; all they want is organization.”
The original Second Street Irregulars also began with six “urchins” in 1993, borrowing their title from Conan Doyle’s little sleuths. And so, the new band of Second Street Irregulars can take a page, literally from their book!
