Join us for a special ‘Hybrid’ (Live and via Zoom) monthly meeting to discuss “The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone” in which Sherlock Holmes is hired by the British government to locate the whereabouts of a stolen diamond! This case takes place entirely in the sitting room of Holmes’ 221B Baker Street lodgings and is likely based on Conan Doyle’s own stage play, The Crown Diamond.

This tale from The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes was first published in the Strand Magazine in October, 1921 and in the United States in Hearst’s International Magazine in November, 1921.

To start off the meeting, Petrel member Peter German will be presenting his award-winning talk on “Holmes and the Yard”.

Join us for our regular monthly meeting to discuss “The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier” whereby a client shows up at 221 B. Baker Street to consult with Holmes regarding the fate of his good friend and fellow Boer War veteran Godfrey Emsworth in the first of only two cases written up by Sherlock Holmes, rather than Dr. Watson.

This tale from The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes was first published in the Strand Magazine in November 1926 and in the United States in Liberty magazine on October 16, 1926.

“I lit my pipe and leaned back in my chair.”

Join us for our regular monthly meeting to discuss “The Illustrious Client”, one of the later Sherlock Holmes stories gathered in his Casebook. In the words of Penguin’s Sherlock Holmes Book, this story is “a thrilling yarn that blends high-society glamour with the grit of the London underworld.”

First published in two parts in the Strand Magazine in February & March of 1925, and its first American appearance was in Collier’s Weekly magazine on November 8, 1924.

“The attack was made by two men armed with sticks.”