This is a free program. This program is sponsored by Lisa Washington.
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.
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
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.
May Cohosts
Paul M. Chapman has written widely on Victorian and Edwardian genre literature, with a particular focus on the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, J. S. Le Fanu and M. R. James. He was a staff writer on Sherlock magazine for ten years, and edited The Ritual for the Northern Musgraves Sherlock Holmes Society. He is also the author of Birth of a Legend: Count Dracula, Bram Stoker and Whitby, and has contributed articles and reviews to ACD: The Journal of the Arthur Conan Doyle Society, The Musgrave Papers, All Hallows, Ghosts & Scholars and Wormwood. For the Rosenbach, Paul has been a cohost on Sherlock Mondays: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Monsters and Ghosts: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Mark Jones (BSI, MBt, ASH) has been fascinated by the works of Arthur Conan Doyle since he read the canon one wet summer holiday as a twelve-year-old. He has written widely on Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes, including for The Baker Street Journal, Canadian Holmes and The Sherlock Holmes Journal. His most recent book is Conan Doyle: Mystery and Adventure (2023) which tells the story of a long-lost BBC TV series of Conan Doyle adaptations from the late sixties. He is co-host, with Paul M. Chapman, of Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast (www.doingsofdoyle.com). A lapsed-historian, he lives in York, UK, and helps universities to improve teaching and learning on campus and online. For the Rosenbach, Mark has been a cohost on Sherlock Mondays: The Hound of the Baskervilles, and Sherlock Monthly: The Adventure of the Norwood Builder.
Both Paul and Mark are members of The Sherlock Holmes Society of London and The Scandalous Bohemians – a Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle society based in the north of England, which holds regular meetings in Leeds and York. In 2018, together with Paul’s partner, Teresa Dudley (Secretary of The Scandalous Bohemians), they organised the ‘Through a Glass Darkly’ M. R. James conference in York.
Upcoming Schedule
June 21: The Adventure of the Three Students (June 1904)
with cohosts Curtis Armstrong and Rebecca Romney
Previous Episodes
2024
November 16: The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (November 1903)
with cohosts Ross E. Davies and Mark Jones
December 14: The Adventure of the Dancing Men (December 1903)
with cohost Scott Monty
2025
January 11: The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist (January 1904)
with cohosts Anastasia Klimchynskaya and Madeline QuiñonesFebruary 15: The Adventure of the Priory School (February 1904)
with cohost Nick MartorelliMarch 15: The Adventure of Black Peter (March 1904)
with cohosts Max Magee and Glen MirankerApril 19: The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton (April 1904)
with cohosts Monica Schmidt and Rich Krisciunas