Peter Christian Steinbrunner (1934 – 7 July 1993) was an American author, broadcaster and historian specializing in detective film and fiction.
[1] While at Fordham, and for some years afterward, he was the host of a weekly radio program broadcast from the university station WFUV-FM, on which he presented interviews as well as occasional dramatizations of Sherlock Holmes stories.
[3][4] Following his college years, he was employed at the local New York City television station WOR-TV (later WWOR), becoming its film programming director.
He was a founding member of The Baker Street Irregulars’ scion society "The Priory Scholars of Fordham".
[1][2] Amongst Steinbrunner's written works were the program notes to the American Film Institute's festival "Sherlock Holmes on the Screen", presented in Washington, D.C., in 1972.