The Irregulars visits the more gruesome side of Sherlock Holmes’ Baker Street – The A.V. Club

The Baker Street Irregulars were a gang of street urchins who Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote into a few of his Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Holmes recognized that the savvy youthled by a boy named Wigginshad intimate knowledge of the streets and investigative abilities aided by their anonymity, and so hired them for some of his cases. The Baker Street Irregulars have made occasional appearances in the Holmes canon since then, in a series of childrens novels and performing songs in the Baker Street musical.
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