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Episodes stream live one Saturday per month beginning September 27, 2025, 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 new season of Sherlock Monthly continues our exploration of the Sherlockian canon. Every month, we’ll focus on one Sherlock Holmes adventure in the order they were first published. We begin this season with “The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez.” Joining host Edward G. Pettit are some new cohosts and some old friends. You can watch the livestream on Saturday afternoons or the replays 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 in this one-of-a-kind Biblioventures series, live every month (or watch the recordings) and running until we finish the canon. Live shows air on the third or fourth Saturday of each month.
We’ve already covered the first 36 stories from A Study in Scarlet through “The Three Students.” Previous season archives with links to the recordings available here:
Sherlock Mondays: The Hound of the Baskervilles Archive
This season’s schedule:
2025
September 27: The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez (July 1904) with cohosts Maria Fleishhack and Jessica Fliss
Golden Pince-Nez Strand Magazine Golden Pince-Nez Collier’s Monthly
October 25: The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter (August 1904) with cohosts Erica Fair and Max Magee
Missing Three-Quarter Strand Magazine Missing Three-Quarter Collier’s Monthly
November 22: The Adventure of the Abbey Grange (September 1904) with cohosts Lyndsay Faye and Ashley Polasek
December 20: The Adventure of the Second Stain (December 1904) with cohosts: Olivia Rutigliano and Mary Alcaro
Second Stain Strand Magazine Second Stain Collier’s Monthly
2026
January 24: The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (September 1908) with cohosts Robert Katz and Monica Schmidt
February 21: The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (December 1908) with cohosts Johanna Draper Carlson and Matt Hall
March 28: The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (December 1910) with cohosts Derrick Belanger and Daniel Stashower
April 18: The Adventure of the Red Circle (March 1911) with cohosts Mark Jones and Paul Chapman
May 16: The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (December 1911) with cohosts Tamar Zeffren and TBA
Sponsors
Sherlock Monthly Biblioventures is sponsored by Lisa Washington.
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.
Cohosts
September 27: The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez
Dr. Maria Fleischhack (BSI, JHWS, ASH, BSB) is a lecturer for English Literature at Leipzig University in Germany and currently works on a project focusing on concepts of authorship and readership in the age of the internet. Her general research and teaching focuses on Shakespeare’s tragedies and early comedies, Victorian and Edwardian fiction (especially detective fiction and fantasy) as well as postmodern fiction. She is a member of the all-female Sherlock Holmes centric podcast The Baker Street Babes and honorary president of the German Inklings Society. She has co-edited The One Fixed Point in a Changing Age: A New Generation on Sherlock Holmes and edited Femme Friday: Celebrating the Women in the Sherlock Holmes Canon and Transformative Works. Furthermore, she published a German introduction to Sherlock Holmes called Die Welt des Sherlock Holmes and spearheaded a translation project of Vincent Starrett’s sonnet “221B” also known as “Always 1895”. She has had contributions published in the Baker Street Journal, the BSI Manuscript series, the proceedings of the Sherlock Holmes and the British Empire BSI conference as well as The Essential Sherlock Holmes Volume 2.
October 25: The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter
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.
Maximilian Magee, PSI ("Agent Tobias Athelney") is the social chair of the Notorious Canary-Trainers of Madison, Wisconsin, and leads a group known as Comrades of The Order and its spin-off SPODE scion Captain Basil's Mignonettes. He's a [hyper] active member of the Hounds of the Internet, frequent visitor- and member of- the Norwegian Explorers of Minnesota, he's also the "Gopher" Yeoman Purser of the Torists International S.S. of Chicago. His background, education, and work experience in tech has led to all sorts of weird and interesting Sherlockian projects, like an e-re-serialization of The Hound of the Baskervilles, and using A.I. and computer science to analyze, dissect, and discuss the Canon. Max holds a B.S. in Engineering Mechanics and Astronautics from the University of Wisconsin, has worked as a Flight Design Engineer and Flight Controller at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, and worked as the CTO of a cloud A.I. startup, is currently a Manager of Software Development at a local Madison software company. Max was a cohost on the special subscription Sherlock Mondays: The Hound of the Baskervilles and also a cohost for the Biblioventures Monsters and Ghosts: A Christmas Carol.
November 22: The Adventure of the Abbey Grange
December 20: The Adventure of the Second Stain
Olivia Rutigliano is an Editor at Lit Hub and its vertical CrimeReads. She was a Contributing Editor at the film magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room, and has written essays for Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham’s Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Baffler, Politics/Letters, The Toast, Truly Adventurous, and elsewhere. She is a specialist in the history of mass entertainment from the late 19th through the 20th centuries and has a PhD from the departments of English/Comparative Literature and Theatre at Columbia University, where she was the Marion E. Ponsford fellow. Olivia has been a cohost for the Rosenbach’s Biblioventures, Monsters and Ghosts and Sherlock Mondays and recently led an online seminar on Victorian Female Detectives.
Mary Alcaro recently received her PhD from the Department of English at Rutgers University and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Literatures in English at Bryn Mawr College. An avid Sherlockian, Mary has been invested in the Baker Street Irregulars (BSI) and Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes (ASH), and is the Head Mastiff of The Sons of the Copper Beeches, Philadelphia’s Sherlockian scion society. She has contributed essays to several books on various Sherlockian topics. Mary is also a bartender and created the Sher-locktails on Sherlock Mondays.
January 24: The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
Bob Katz next to a piper.
Bob Katz is a retired physician/pathologist, residing in NJ. A lifelong Sherlockian, he's been a member of the Baker Street Irregulars ("Dr. Ainstree") for five decades. His writings (and editorial work) have appeared in a variety of publications including The Baker Street Journal, BSI Press (where he also served as Co-Publisher) and other journals and tomes. He is currently the Cartwright of The Baker Street Irregulars, Headmastiff Emeritus of The Sons of the Copper Beeches, a member of the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes ("Dr. Jackson"), and a member of various other scions and organizations. He also spends what remains of his spare time pursuing arcane and outre old movies, as well as remaining an avid student of the American Civil War.
Monica Schmidt, MA, LMHC, IADC, is a licensed mental health counselor specializing in substance abuse treatment at Meadowlark Psychiatric Services. When not seeing clients, playing cricket, or engaging in endless landscaping projects with her husband, Monica spends her time traveling across the United States attending Sherlock Holmes literary society events. Monica has been a speaker at many conferences and events, typically speaking on the subject of Sherlock Holmes and mental health. Monica was invested in The Baker Street Irregulars in 2019 ("Julia Stoner"), in The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes in 2015 ("The Church of St. Monica"), and has been the president of the Younger Stamfords of Iowa City since 2013. She holds a Bachelor’s in Psychology and Criminal Justice from Mount Mercy University, a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from St. Mary’s University, and another Bachelor’s degree in Cinema Studies and Media Culture from the University of Minnesota.
February 21: The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
Johanna Draper Carlson is President of the scion society Notorious Canary-Trainers of Madison, WI, co-Executive Director of 221B Con, and runs SherlockComics.com. She writes regularly for Sherlock Holmes magazine and The Baker Street Almanac and has contributed to The Watsonian, The Baker Street Journal, Watsonian Weekly, and I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere.
Matt Hall is a scientist by day at the National Institutes of Health, and a life-long fan of all things Sherlock and Doyle. He was raised in Sydney, Australia, and has lived in the States for the past 20 years. Matt regularly attends Sherlockian meetings. His 'home base' is the Red Circle of Washington DC, and he is currently 'Gasogene' of Watson's Tin Box of Ellicott City, MD. He also recently founded the 'Bowery Ruffians', a group that can only meet in the Bowery, NY City - mentioned in the story The Red Circle. Matt has published and spoken on a range of Sherlock topics, most recently finding the first known reference by Doyle to writing the first Sherlock story - A Study in Scarlet. Matt regularly posts at his blog 221bCooee.blogspot.com on his Sherlockian and Doylean research, and the various trifles he comes across along the way.
March 28: The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
Derrick Belanger, BSI ("The Board Schools"), PSI ("Albert, the Dove") is an award-winning author, publisher, and educator most noted for his books and lectures on Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Derrick is co-owner of the publishing company Belanger Books, which published the first eBook editions of the original Solar Pons books by August Derleth. Derrick's work has been published in The Baker Street Journal, The Sherlock Holmes Journal, The Strand Magazine, and in The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year (2023). Derrick is the Chief Surgeon of Dr. Watson’s Neglected Patients, the Denver-based Scion Society. In January 2020, Mr. Belanger was awarded the Susan Z. Diamond Award in recognition of outstanding efforts to introduce young people to Sherlock Holmes, and in 2024, he won the Arthur Conan Doyle Society Doylean award in fiction for his short story, "The Joyce-Armstrong Confession". Derrick currently resides in Broomfield, Colorado. Find him at www.belangerbooks.com.
Daniel Stashower (BSI “Thurston”) is the author of Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle and a co-editor of many books of Sherlockian and Doylean interest, including Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure, and The Narrative of John Smith. Dan is a New York Times bestselling author and a three-time winner of the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
April 18: The Adventure of the Red Circle
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, The Serpentine Muse and Canadian Holmes and is the new Commissioning Editor of 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.
May 16: The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
Tamar Zeffren, BSI ("The London Library"), ASH ("Your Extensive Archives, Watson"), is an archivist, as well as being a Baker Street Babe, sitting on the faculty of the Priory Scholars, and serving on the BSI Trust Board. She received a BA in English literature and medieval history and a MA in archival management, and is certified as a Digital Archives Specialist by the Society of American Archivists. She is forever awed by the effervescent creativity, generosity, and kindness of fellow Sherlockians.