The Scowrers and Molly Maguires of San Francisco is a Baker Street Irregulars scion society founded in 1941 by friends William Anthony Parker White — better known by his pen name, Anthony Boucher — and Joseph Henry Jackson, book editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Scowrers hold meetings by Zoom several times a year. To be added to the notification list, please email McMurdo
The buttons below take you to copies of the Vermissa Herald, which was our newsletter for many years. Disjecta Membra contains some Scowrers history. There is also a play, created by Karen Anderson, (Emilia Lucca, BSI).
Next Meeting
The Scowrers and Molly Maguires of San Francisco will hold a Virtual Meeting Sunday, October 26, 2025 at 1pm PDT / 4pm EDT / 8pm UTC.
The Scowrers are happy to have Evelyn Herzog, The Principal Unprincipled Adventuress of ASH (The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes), as our featured speaker. Evelyn has a long history with the Scowrers, having attended the 1981 Shaw Workshop at Stanford U., contributed to the The Vermissa Daily Herald and The Vermissa Herald, and been one of the authors of U is for Uffa, a 1982 volume of verse for the benefit of the S&MM.
Evelyn will be speaking on “Mere Amateurs” – an appraisal of people in the Canon who really should not have taken up detection as a side hustle.
There will also be a presentation by Ken Gallegos on: The 10 Best Sherlock Holmes Performances
Email: McMurdo to register