Meetings

Location: Public Meeting Room, Hedberg Public Library, 316 South Main Street, Janesville, Wisconsin [Location sometimes varies]

Contact info: reloha@gmail.com

Invited: Anyone interested in Sherlock Holmes. New members and visitors are always welcome. Discussion usually lasts an hour and a half to two hours.

Meetings temporarily suspended due to Shelter in Place order.

Previous Meetings 2020
0115 - Saturday, March 7
Linda Robinson: Presentation on film versions of beginnings of The Hound of the Baskervilles

0114
Saturday, February 8

Stories: "The Man with the Twisted Lip" / "The Crooked Man"

January - no meeting

2019
0113
Saturday, December 7
Annual Holiday Party
Linda Robinson's house

0112
Saturday, November 16
View: Vasily Livanov Series: The Treasure of Agra, Part 2
Linda reports on Left Coast Sherlockian Symposium

0111
Saturday, October 5
View: Vasily Livanov Series: The Treasure of Agra, Part 1

0110
Saturday, September 14
View: Vasily Livanov Series: The Hound of the Baskervilles

0109
Saturday, August 3
Stories: "A Scandal in Bohemia" / "The Three Gables"

Saturday, August 11098
Stories: "The Yellow Face" and "The Sussex Vampire"
View: Miss Sherlock: “The Wakasugi Family Curse”
View: Kenwood: The Story of Dido Elizabeth Belle

0108 - Saturday, July 6
Story: "The Greek Interpreter"
View: Granada episode: "The Greek Interpreter"

0107
Saturday, June 1
Stories: "The Second Stain"/ "Charles Augustus Milverton"

0106
Saturday, May 11
Special Conan Doyle Meeting
Book: The Coming of the Fairies by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Film: German version of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1929)

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Saturday, April 13
Program: Mystery games - Sherlock Holmes/mystery board (or other) games

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Saturday, March 2
Stories: "The Bruce-Partington Plans" / "The Naval Treaty"

February: No meeting

0103
Saturday, January 5
Story: “The Bruce-Partingtom Plans” 
View: Miss Sherlock: “Sachiko’s Mustache” 

2018
0102 - Saturday, December 1, 2:00 p.m.
Annual Holiday Party
Discussion (brief): "Death in the Christmas Hour" by James Powell

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Saturday, November 17
View: Murder By Decree (1979)

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Saturday, October 13
View: A Study in Terror (1966)

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Sunday, September 23
View: Russian 2013 TV Series: “Rock, Paper, Scissors” 

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Saturday, August 11
Stories: "The Yellow Face" and "The Sussex Vampire"
View: Miss Sherlock: “The Wakasugi Family Curse”
View: Kenwood: The Story of Dido Elizabeth Belle

0097
Saturday, February 3
Stories: "The Noble Bachelor" and "The Dancing Men"
View: Miss Sherlock: “The Missing Bride” 

0096
Saturday, June 2
View: Russian 2013 TV Series: "221B Baker Street"

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Saturday, May 19
Special Conan Doyle Meeting
Book: The White Company

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Saturday, April 7
Story: "The Musgrave Ritual"
View: Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

0093
Sunday, March 3
Stories: "The Speckled Band" / "The Solitary Cyclist"

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Saturday, February 3
Stories: "The Red-Headed League" / "The Copper Beeches"

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Saturday, January 6, 2:21 p.m
View: "The Blue Carbuncle" (Jeremy Brett version)

2017
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Saturday, December 2
Annual Holiday Party

0077
Saturday, November 5
Story: "The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place"

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Saturday, November 11
View: "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" (Peter Cushing version)
Discussion of article about Jack Tracy

0088
Saturday, October 7
Discussion: Three short pieces, "The Painful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes: A Fantasy in about One-Tenth of an Act" by William Gillette, "Plot for a Sherlock Holmes Story" (an outline presumably by Doyle), and "The Case of the Man Who Was Wanted" by Arthur Whitaker

0087
Saturday, September 9
Discussion: "The Crown Diamond" (play) and the short stories, "The Empty House" and "The Mazarin Stone" [Doyle seems to have based his play loosely on "The Empty House" and later adapted it as "The Mazarin Stone"]

Sylvia Plath's poem, "The Detective" and the Sherlockian article by Julia Gordon-Bramer, in which it is argued that the poem is a tribute to The Hound of the Baskervilles

0086
Saturday, August 12 
Part 2 of "The Speckled Band" radio play (based closely on Doyle's stage version)

0085
Saturday, July 8
"The Speckled Band" (play) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Part 1 of "The Speckled Band" radio play

0084
Saturday, June 3
Story: "Lot 249" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Linda Robinson presents her father's paper about Doyle and Universal monsters
Film: The Mummy (1932)

0083
Saturday, April 8
Discussion: "Sherlock Holmes" (play) by William Gillette
Film: Sherlock Holmes (1916) Part 2

0082
Saturday, April 8
Discussion: "Sherlock Holmes" (play) by William Gillette
Film: Sherlock Holmes (1916) Part 1

0081
Saturday, March 4
Stories: The Sherlockian Apocrypha: "The Field Bazaar," "How Watson Learned the Trick," and "The Adventure of the Three Collaborators"

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Saturday, February 4
Story: The Sherlockian Apocrypha: "The Man with the Watches"

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Saturday, January 14
Story: The Sherlockian Apocrypha: "The Lost Special"

2016
0078
Saturday, December 3
Annual Sherlockian Holiday Party

In a local Victorian home

0077
Saturday, November 5
Story: "The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place"

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Saturday, October 1 
Story: "The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger"

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Saturday, August 27
Story: "The Adventure of the Retired Colourman"

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Sunday, August 7
Story: "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane"

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Sunday, July 10
Story: "The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier"

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Sunday, June 5
Story: "The Adventure of the Three Gables"

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Sunday, May 1
Story: "How the Brigadier Slew the Fox"

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Sunday, April 3, 1:30 p.m.
Story: "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs"

0069
Sunday, March 6
Story: "The Adventure of the Creeping Man"

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Sunday, February 14
Story: "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone"

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Sunday, January 10
Story: "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax"

2015
0066
Sunday, December 6
1:30 p.m.
Sherlockian Holiday Party


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Sunday, November 8
Story: "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot"

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Sunday, October 12 
Pastiche: The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon

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Sunday, September 13
Story: "The Adventure of the Red Circle"

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Sunday, August 2
Story: "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client"

0061
Sunday, July 12
Story: "The Adventure of the Dying Detective"

0060
Sunday, June7
Story: "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans"

0059
Sunday, May 3 
Annual Conan Doyle's Meeting
Novel: The Lost World
Film: The Lost World (1925)

0058
Sunday, March 29
Story: "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge"

0057
Sunday, March 8
Story: "The Adventure of the Second Stain"

0056
Sunday, February 8
Story: "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange" 

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Sunday, January 18
Story: "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter"

2014 
0054
Sunday, December 7 
Annual Sherlockian party. Sherlockian Charades: Attendees are invited to mime the actions of a character from the Canon for others to guess. Props allowed.

0053
Sunday, November 2
Story: "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez" 

0052
Sunday, October 12
Pastiche: Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson by Lyndsay Faye 

0051
Sunday, September 7
Story: The Valley of Fear

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Sunday, August 3
Story: "His Last Bow" (in honour of the anniversary of the date the story occurs, August 1914, one hundred years ago

0049
Sunday, June 29
Story: "The Adventure of the Three Students" 

0048
Sunday, June 1
Story: "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons"

0047
Sunday, May 11
Special celebration of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's birthday
Assignment: Read something by Doyle that is not about Sherlock Holmes (there is a lot to pick from) and report on it.

Member reports:

• Letters relating to Doyle's mother
• "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement"
• A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus
• The Lost World
• The Tragedy of Korosko

0046
Sunday,April 6
Story: "The Problem of Thor Bridge" 

0045
Sunday, March 9
Story: "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton"


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Sunday, February 9
Story: "The Adventure of Black Peter"

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Sunday, January 5
Story: "The Adventure of the Priory School"

2013

0042
Sunday, December 8
Holiday Party

Program: 

• Excerpts from the stories shared by members
• Short skit written by Gayle Lange Puhl and performed by Gayle and Bryan Pike
• "Dancing Men" code for deciphering supplied by Dawn Kabor
• Shared food and drink, with "the compliments of the season."

0041
Sunday, November 3
Story: “The Adventure of the Dancing Men”

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Sunday, October 6
Story: “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist” 

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Sunday, September 15
Story: “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder”

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Sunday, June 30 and August 4
Story: The Hound of the Baskervilles 

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Sunday, June 2
Pastiches: The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer / "A Study in Emerald" by Neil Gaiman

0035
Sunday, May 5
Special celebration of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's birthday
Assignment: Read something by Doyle that is not about Sherlock Holmes (there is a lot to pick from) and report on it.

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Sunday, April 14

Story: "The Adventure of the Empty House"

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Sunday, March 10
Story: "The Adventure of the Final Problem" 

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Sunday, February 24
Story: "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty" 

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Sunday, January 27
Story: "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter"

2012 
0030
Sunday, December 16 

Holiday Party--short analysis of Sherlockian characters by some members 

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Sunday, November 18

Story: “The Adventure of the Resident Patient”

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Sunday, October 21

Story: "The Adventure of the Crooked Man"

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Sunday, September 23

Story: "The Adventure of the Reigate Puzzle," a.p.a. "The Adventure of the Reigate Squire(s)"

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Sunday, August 26 

Pastiche: A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin

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Sunday, July 29

Story: "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual"

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Sunday, June 17

1:30 p.m.

Story: "The Adventure of the 'Gloria Scott' "

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Sunday, May 20

Story: "The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk"

Cake for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's birthday

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Sunday, April 22

Story: "The Adventure of the Yellow Face"

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Sunday, March 11

Story: "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box"

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Sunday, February 12

Story: "The Adventure of the Silver Blaze"

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Sunday, January 29

Discussion: "Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes" by Msgr. Ronald A. Knox (PDF available free online or e-mail reloha@gmail.com for a PDF)

Follow-up discussion to "In Defense of Violet Hunter" by Resa Haile

2011 

0018
Sunday, December 4 

No story 
Potluck/Victorian tea 
Sharing of Sherlockiana, at least one game, food and fellowship

0017
Sunday, November 20
Storyn: "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"

0016
Saturday, October 23
Story: "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet"

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Saturday, September 24
Story: "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor"

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Saturday, August 13
Story: "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb"

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Saturday, July 30
Story: "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"

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Saturday, June 18
Story: "The Man with the Twisted Lip"

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Saturday, May 21
Story: "The Five Orange Pips"

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Saturday, April 30
Story: "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"

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Saturday, March 26
Story: "The Red-Headed League"

February: No meeting

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Saturday, January 22
Sherlock Holmes celebration, sharing, open discussion. Members may also share items of Sherlockian interest.

2010 
December: No meeting

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Sunday, November 20
Story: "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"

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Saturday, October 30
Story: "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire"

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Saturday, September 25
Story: "A Case of Identity"

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Saturday, August 28
Story: "A Scandal in Bohemia"

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Saturday, July 24
Story: The Sign of Four

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Saturday, June 26
Story: A Study in Scarlet

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Saturday, May 22
Inaugural Meeting/Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's birthday