This is a free program.
Episodes stream live one Saturday per month beginning September 12, 2026 from 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
The new season of Sherlock Monthly continues our exploration of the Sherlockian canon. Every month, we focus on one Sherlock Holmes adventure in the order they were first published. We begin this season with “The Adventure of the Dying Detective.” Joining host Edward G. Pettit are some new cohosts and some old friends. You can watch the livestream on Saturday afternoons or the recordings on our YouTube channel.
The Rosenbach holds in its collections 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 us for this one-of-a-kind Biblioventure, live every month (or watch the recordings) and running until we finish the canon.
Watch past episodes here:
Sherlock Mondays Playlist (episodes 1-32)
The Hound of the Baskervilles Playlist (8 episodes)
Sherlock Monthly Playlist (episodes 33-current)
This Season’s Schedule
2026
Sept. 12 | Ep. 50, “The Adventure of the Dying Detective” (December 1913) with cohosts Erica Fair and Lee Shackleford
Dying Detective Strand Magazine
Oct. 10 | Ep. 51, “The Valley of Fear” Part 1 (Part 1, Chs. 1-5, September-November 1914) with cohosts Crystal Noll and Monica Schmidt
Nov. 14 | Ep. 52, “The Valley of Fear” Part 2 (Part 1, Chs. 6-7; Part 2, Chs 1-2, December 1914-February 1915) with cohosts Mark Jones and Paul M. Chapman
Dec. 12 | Ep. 53, “The Valley of Fear” Part 3 (Part 2, Chs. 3-Epilogue, March 1915-May 1915) with cohosts Peter Eckrich and Chris Zordan
2027
Jan. 9 | Ep. 54, “His Last Bow” (September 1917) with cohosts Tiffany Knight and Art Taylor
Feb. 13 | Ep. 55, “The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone” (October 1921) with cohosts Steve Mason and Max Magee
Mar. 13 | Ep. 56, “The Problem of Thor Bridge” (February 1922) with cohosts Shana Carter and Mary Alcaro
Apr. 10 | Ep. 57, “The Adventure of the Creeping Man” (March 1923) with cohosts Olivia Rutigliano and Robert Katz
May 8 | Ep. 58, “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire” (January 1924) with cohosts P.J. Sullivan and Michael McSwiggin
Sponsors
This season of the Rosenbach’s Biblioventures: Sherlock Monthly program is generously sponsored by Lisa Washington.
Series Host
Edward G. Pettit is the Sunstein Senior Manager of Digital Initiatives 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, The Hobbit – 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.
Series Cohosts
Sept. 12 | Ep. 50, “The Adventure of the Dying Detective”
Erica Fair is a trial attorney and amateur historian in Minneapolis, with a special interest in Victorian medicine. She received both her bachelor's and J.D. from the University of Minnesota, where she walked past the Andersen Library collection every day for six years. Erica first read and loved the Canon at age 12, but waited twenty years to join the Sherlockian community, and is looking to make up for lost time! She is an active member of the Norwegian Explorers of Minnesota, where she is a frequent columnist for the Explorations newsletter, and writes a medical history article each year for the scion's Christmas Annual. Online, Erica can be found with the Afghanistan Perceivers of Tulsa and many other Zoom scions, where her two dogs often make guest appearances.
Lee Eric Shackleford, BSI ("Woodman's Lee"), is an award-winning writer and performer for stage, screen, and audio drama. He is the author of the play Holmes & Watson, the creator of the webseries pilot Herlock, and the mischievous mind behind many playful Sherlockian cartoons, articles, and pastiches. Once upon a time, he helped Moriarty get out of the holodeck on Star Trek: the Next Generation. A proud member of the Doyle/Wodehouse scion The Clients of Adrian Mulliner, Lee currently resides in North Carolina, where he is continually tweaking the website www.shacklefordfreelance.com.