Dan Andriacco's Baker Street Beat

                        Before there was the Internet, there was Classic Specialties. For almost 30 years, the Cincinnati-based mail order...

Publication of a new book is always a joy—even when it’s number 22.   The Magician’s Trunk , just out with a spectacular cover, is counted...

  Frederic Door Steele illustration of Barker in "Retired Colourman" “You see, Watson, it was perfectly obvious from the first,” H...

  I just finished reading or re-reading all 15 of Will Thomas’s Barker & Llewelyn detective novels straight through in order. Man, what ...

This year marks the 30 th anniversary of the publication of a book that probably isn’t on your bookshelves but should be. Matthew E. Buns...

  Just because a movie flopped, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t good. Case in point: A Study in Terror, the original Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack t...

Recently I had the honor of being asked to give a Zoom talk on mystery plotting to Capital Crime Writers, based in Toronto. Art Pittman invi...

Sherlockians "on track" after the 65th running of the Silver Blaze racea Saturday saw the 65 th running of the Chicago “Silver Bl...

However, you define great literature, one its hallmarks is re-readability. I recently re-read the first (1927) and the last (1958) of the ...

Fun and Affordable -- that the annual Holmes, Doyle, & Friends Conference in Dayton, which was held last Saturday, March 23. I'm sti...