STORY SUMMARIES
Plot outlines and character listings for each story. Stories are listed alphabetically by author.
WARNING: These are summaries, not reviews, and may contain story spoilers.
This site provides an extensive listing of historical, fictional, and canonical characters appearing in Sherlock Holmes pastiches, parodies, and other Sherlockian works. It also features summaries of these stories, offering a handy reference for Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts.
Plot outlines and character listings for each story. Stories are listed alphabetically by author.
WARNING: These are summaries, not reviews, and may contain story spoilers.
....and other folkloric & cultural icons. These have been lumped together because we couldn't decide where Shakespeare's kings should go. Arranged in alphabetical order - pick a letter...
Characters drawn from the original Sherlock Holmes stories.
Stories in
Non-Sherlockian Anthologies
Downloadable indexes to Sherlockian works by William S. Baring-Gould, Vincent Starrett, T.S. Blakeney, Christopher Morley, H.W. Bell, and others.
VINTAGE THEATRE REVIEWS - and other articles on Sherlockian theatrical performances from the late 19th and early 20th century news archives. Selected for their entertainment value, or for their commentary on the tastes and foibles of their times. May I recommend Herbert Kelcey as a good one to start with?
FORGOTTEN PARODIES - Reproduced in full here, for the first time (as far as I can tell) since they were first published - sometimes for quite obvious reasons.
CANONICAL CASES - Original stories retold, re-visioned or just mentioned.
BAKER STREET STUFF - Things normally found at 221B, on Holmes & Watson's persons or coming out of Holmes's mouth.
CANONICAL THINGS - Animals, ships, businesses, diseases, body parts, and other clutter, from the canonical world beyond Baker Street.
CANONICAL PLACES - Towns, villages, houses, clubs, neolithic huts, etc.
UNTOLD TALES - Stories for which the world was not yet prepared, but obviously is now.
NEW UNTOLD TALES - Stories Watson never told us he never told us about...
PRETENDERS - A Holmes by any other name....Characters with unfamiliar names, yet who are strangely recognisable, and puns & wordplay. Holmes & Watson and Other Characters & Cases
MEET THE FAMILY - Ancestors, offspring and unsuspected siblings of Holmes & Watson and of Other Canonical Characters (A-L / M-Z) [WARNING: This section contains story spoilers].
NEW NAMES - ....for old faces. ('Gibbon Lestrade'...who knew?)
ALIASES - Names used by canonical characters during the course of their investigations [WARNING: This section contains story spoilers].
DISGUISES - Things Holmes has dressed up as.
INHUMAN HOLMESES - Animals, aliens and machines, mostly.
CANONICAL PUBLICATIONS - The writings of Holmes, Moriarty & others.
BOOKS - Books & Historical Documents real & fictional.
PERIODICALS - Newspapers, magazines and journals.
PLAYS - ...and ballets, operas, circuses, puppet shows & other popular entertainments.
MOVIES - .....and TV & radio shows.
FOLKLORE - Monsters, Ghosties and Strange Beasties.
PLACES - Mythical, Legendary, Fictional and Historic Locations.
ART - Pictures, pots and sculptings....actually, there aren't any pots.
MUSIC - Songs, ditties, jigs, reels and things that go tira-lira-lay.
SHIPS - Real, canonical, fictional and imaginary.
The books waiting in the "to read" pile. If your book isn't here, I haven't got it...why don't you mail me a copy?
Novels and stories that are almost but not quite Sherlockian enough to appear in the main section (except that some of them do).
A catalogue of clangers in Sherlockian pastiches. Find them here.
Usage Guide : A listing of examples of American-English and other inappropriate usages commonly found in pastiches, with their British-English equivalents and examples of correct usage from the canon.
No, of course not. Currently, I've indexed 496 novels (and a bit of I, Sherlock Holmes - I just can't get up the will to do the rest of it), 2220 short stories, 214 children's and young adult stories, and 63 comic strips or graphic novels. Click on the links for details of the editions used. More will be added on an irregular basis. There is no perceivable rhyme or reason to the order of inclusion, nor is the presence or absence of a story any indication of its literary merit.
As the number of Sherlockian stories has increased into floods over the past few years, I can no longer hope or afford to keep up with them all - if you are published by MX, self-publishing or print-on-demanding and want to see your book here, you will need to send me a copy.