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• Episodes stream live one Saturday per month beginning November 16, 2024, 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. ET with the recordings available to watch afterward on the Rosenbach’s YouTube channel: Sherlock Monthly Playlist

Description 

Our Sherlock Mondays Biblioventure was such a success, we’ve decided to continue exploring the Sherlockian canon with Sherlock Monthly. Every month, we’ll focus on one Sherlock Holmes adventure in the order they were first published. We’ll pick up where we left off, beginning with “The Norwood Builder,” hosted by Edward G. Pettit and, each month, co-hosted by a different Sherlockian expert. You can watch the livestreamed episodes on Saturday afternoons or the recordings on our YouTube channel.   

The Rosenbach holds in its collection first editions of some of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes books, as well as the handwritten manuscript of “The Adventure of the Empty House.”  Our founder, Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach, was deeply committed to mystery and crime literature, corresponded with the famous Sherlockian and founder of the Baker Street Irregulars, Christopher Morley, and once purchased Doyle’s personal crime library.    

Whether you are a seasoned Sherlockian who has read the entire canon, or an aficionado of the various screen portrayals of Sherlock, all are welcome to join in this one-of-a-kind Biblioventures series, live every month beginning November 16, 2024 and running until we finish the canon. Most months, the show will air on the third Saturday (some months may need to be adjusted).    

We’ve already covered the first 28 stories from A Study in Scarlet through “The Empty House,” and you can watch all of those episodes on our YouTube channel here: Sherlock Mondays Playlist 

You can find more information, including the PDFs of the 28 stories we’ve already discussed here [COMING SOON]. And you can listen to these originals on Spotify here.   

June 21: The Adventure of the Three Students (June 1904) 
with cohosts Curtis Armstrong and Rebecca Romney

The Three Students Strand Magazine

The Three Students Collier’s Weekly

Series Host

Edward G. Pettit is the Sunstein Senior Manager of Public Programs at the Rosenbach and has been presenter for the weekly Biblioventures series – Sundays with Dracula, Sundays with Frankenstein, Sundays with Jane Eyre, Austen Mondays: Pride and Prejudice, Monsters and Ghosts: Jekyll & Hyde and A Christmas Carol – and also Pickwick Monthly. Pettit has taught many reading courses at the Rosenbach on many authors and books, including the Sherlock Holmes stories, Dracula, Frankenstein, the novels of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, and Philadelphia Gothic. He is a member of the Philadelphia Baker Street Irregulars scion society, The Sons of the Copper Beeches, serving as the Recorder of Pedigrees, as has probably never read a Sherlock Holmes story without smoking a pipe.   

June Cohosts

Rebecca Romney is a rare book dealer who came to Sherlockian circles by way of handling first editions of Arthur Conan Doyle's works. She is a member of the Baker Street Irregulars, The Sons of the Copper Beeches, and the Five Orange Pips. She has presented Sherlockian papers at the BSI's Annual Dinner, the University of Minnesota, and at numerous scion societies; most recently, she was the editor of the Baker Street Journal's 2024 Christmas Annual, Gather ’Round The Sundial: A Night with the Five Orange Pips.

(Photo credit: Donnamaria R. Jones)

Curtis Armstrong is an actor who began his life in the organized Sherlockian world when he joined The Trifling Monographs, a Scion society for students founded by the late Susan Rice in the late sixties.  His first paper was published in the Baker Street Journal shortly before his induction in the Baker Street Irregulars in 2006.  He has delivered numerous papers since at the BSI annual January Birthday Weekends in New York City, for the 221B Con in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as literary symposiums in Chicago and the Hudson Valley, NY. Recently, he was featured in both seasons of the Audible dramatic series, Moriarty, written by Charles Kindinger. 

Previous Episodes

2024 

• November 16: The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (November 1903)
  with cohosts Ross E. Davies and Mark Jones

  • Norwood Builder Strand Magazine

  • Norwood Builder Collier’s Weekly

• December 14: The Adventure of the Dancing Men (December 1903) 
  with cohost Scott Monty

  • Dancing Men Strand Magazine

  • Dancing Men Collier’s Weekly

2025 

• January 11: The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist (January 1904) 
  with cohosts Anastasia Klimchynskaya and Madeline Quiñones

  • Solitary Cyclist Strand Magazine

  • Solitary Cyclist Collier’s Weekly
    

• February 15: The Adventure of the Priory School (February 1904) 
  with cohost Nick Martorelli

  • Priory School Strand Magazine

  • Priory School Collier’s Weekly
    

• March 15: The Adventure of Black Peter (March 1904) 
  with cohosts Max Magee and Glen Miranker

  • Black Peter Strand Magazine

  • Black Peter Collier’s Weekly

• April 19: The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton (April 1904) 
  with cohosts Monica Schmidt and Rich Krisciunas

  • Charles Augustus Milverton Strand Magazine

  • Charles Augustus Milverton Collier’s Weekly
    

• May 17: The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (May 1904) 
  with cohosts Paul M. Chapman and Mark Jones

  • The Six Napoleons Strand Magazine

  • The Six Napoleons Collier’s Weekly

Upcoming Episodes: Sherlock Monthly will return Fall 2025!