2024 Hounds Dinner

Annual Dinner Meeting of The Hounds of the Baskerville (sic)

Chicago’s original, senior and most singular Sherlockian Society

Founded by Vincent Starrett on January 7, 1943 

Saturday November 9th 2024

 Carlucci Restaurant, 6111 N River Road, Rosemont, IL.

6:30 P.M. – Cocktails and Hors d’oeuvres, Canonical Toasts

7:30 P.M. – Dinner     

Program

AL SHAW, BSI

Master of The Hounds of the Baskerville (sic)

Speaker

Mr. Dan Andriacco, BSI

Dan Andriacco will speak on “Altamont, Conan Doyle, and the Irish,” taking a look at the Canonical author’s Irish connections in the wake of Nicholas Meyer’s Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from  Hell, which is much involved with Roger Casement and the Irish rebellion in the aftermath of “His Last Bow.”  Dan is a member of the Baker Street Irregulars (“St. Saviour’s, Near King’s Cross”), the editor of The Baker Street Journal, and the author of author of twenty published mystery novels. He lives in what ACD called “the great city of Cincinnati” with his wife, Ann Brauer Andriacco

PLEASE NOTE: Attendance at this event is by invitation to Hounds and invited guests only. Space is limited so reserve early.