SHERLOCKIAN MEETINGS

Saturday, February 27, 2021 TOPIC: Charles Augustus Milverton FREE ONLINE ZOOM CONFERENCE. Members will receive meeting notices via email. If you are not a member you can join our email list by request at meyerstoronto@yahoo.ca or join our Meetup group at www.meetup.com/Sherlock-Holmes-Society. More information: The Bootmakers of Toronto: Calendar Hey, everyone. We had a record attendance of 93 persons at our last meeting, so we're off to a good start. We have another great meeting coming up. Note: Please make sure you MUTE yourself while our guests are speaking so we don't get any unnecessarily sounds. Our special guest speaker is Diane Gilbert Madsen, author of Cracking The Code of the Canon and The Conan Doyle Notes: The Secret of Jack The Ripper, as well as her DD McGil Literati Mystery series, among others. She will be giving a presentation titled The Criminality of Holmes and Watson in the Stories. Also, Rich Krisciunas will present a paper titled Who Really Killed Charles Augustus Milverton. Karen Campbell will present a Milverton Quiz, with a quiz prize provide by George Vanderburgh. Karen Gold will serenade us with a fun Milverton Song. And Donny Zaldin will give us a short Milverton Wrap-up presentation. For more info and the Zoom link go to www.torontobootmakers.com/calendar and click on Charles Augustus Milverton in the calendar. With best regards, Mike Ranieri

Monday, March 1, 2021 10:00 am - 11:00 am FREE ONLINE ZOOM CONFERENCE. Join this discussion focused on stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the World’s greatest sleuth: Sherlock Holmes. For this meeting the focus is on the novella A Study in Scarlet. Registration: Frank Conversations

The Red Circle of Washington will have our next meeting as a virtual luncheon on March 13, with Catherine Cooke * as our guest speaker, and everyone is welcome. Saturday, March 13, 2021 On your computer, tablet or smartphone 1:00pm Eastern Time (US and Canada) Meeting Room opens at 12:30pm for socializing there is more information at our web-site www.redcircledc.org With best regards, Peter E. Blau 7103 Endicott Court Bethesda, MD 20817-4401 (301-229-5669) * Catherine Cooke has worked for Westminster Libraries since 1978. Since August 1986 Catherine has maintained and developed the Libraries' computer systems, now a shared service with Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham. She was awarded Fellowship in the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in 2006 and won the BIC/cilip RFID Innovation in Libraries Award for 2009. She was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to libraries in the January 2020 New Year’s Honours List. She has managed Westminster’s Sherlock Holmes Collection since April 1982. She joined The Sherlock Holmes Society of London in 1980 and has served on Council for many years, currently as Joint Honorary Secretary (Meetings). She was invested in the Baker Street Irregulars of New York in January 1994 as The Book of Life, and in ASH in 2003 as An Idler of the Empire. She won the Baker Street Irregulars’ Morley-Montgomery Award for the best article in the 2005 Baker Street Journal and received the Sherlock Holmes Society of London's Tony and Freda Howlett Literary Award for 2017. She received the Bootmakers of Toronto Derrick Murdock Award for the best paper published in Canadian Holmes for 2018.