Located in
Columbia, South Carolina, The
Hansom Wheels is
an official scion society of the Baker Street Irregulars of New York.
It is devoted to the preservation of the memory of the world's first
consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, and to the study of The Canon or
Sacred Writings: the four long and fifty-six short acccounts of
Holmes's cases written mostly by his friend Dr. John H. Watson (two are
by Holmes himself and two by unknown authors) and published by the
literary agent Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The society meets five times a
year (in February, April, August, October, and December) for dinner,
discussion, and a presentation that may be a talk by a member or guest
speaker, a reading of a pastiche of a Holmes story, or a play. The first official meeting was
held on
April 14, 1977. Here is a more complete
Click
on THE
PINK 'UN
icon,
below right, for the current issue of the
society's newsletter. Its title is taken from the nickname of the
weekly racing paper The Sporting
Times (1865-1932), which is mentioned in "The Adventure of the
Blue Carbuncle."
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Stories, Videos, Etc.
Here
are links to stories, plays, essays, and other entertainments, many of
which were written by our members.
Our
Parent Society
Sherlocktron: Links to many
Sherlockian
websites
All the storiesexcept
the
lasttwelve,
which are still
under copyright in the U.S., with the original
illustrations
A Sherlockiansite
in ournation’s capitalwith extensive Sherlockian
news worldwide, plus
numerous links
Supporting and
recognizing exemplary
educational experiences
that
introduce young people to the Sherlock Holmes
stories