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"A Matter of Murder in Hampstead" (1995)
Included in: My Dear Watson (David L. Hammer)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Tobias Gregson; (Mrs Hudson)
Fictional Characters:
Historical Figures: (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Ludwig Ritter von Köchel)
Other Characters: Police Constable; Effie Hardin; Mr Budge; (Angus Ballard; Housekeeper; Footman; Mrs Haffner; Young Girl; Girl's Guardian; Jules Haffner)
Date: April, 1891
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Hampstead; Well Walk Road; Bow Street Police Station; British Museum
Story: Music critic Ballard is murdered in his home in Hampstead. Gregson consults Holmes, who visits Ballard's home, and examines the room and the murder weapon, a Malayan kris. Under the desk, he finds a cryptic message written in blood. Ballard's jilted fiancée is the prime suspect.

"A Matter of the Royal Honour" (1995)
Included in: My Dear Watson (David L. Hammer)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Baron Adelbert Gruner; (Gruner's Wife)
Historical Figures: (William III of Holland; Prince Alexander)
Other Characters: Bentinck; Club Members; Mme Linden
Date: Late November, 1904
Locations: Regent's Park; Club on St James's Street; The Splugen Pass; France; Paris; Upper Baker Street
Story: While walking in Regent's Park, Holmes tells Watson of his first important case, a mission for the reigning family of Holland some years earlier. Crown Prince Frederick had been challenged to a duel by an Austrian baron, and Bentinck, an equerry, was sent by King William III, to ask Holmes to prevent the duel in a way that would not dishonour the prince. Holmes consulted with the woman involved in the affair to help avert a scandal.

"The Matter of the Assassination League" (1995)
Included in: My Dear Watson (David L. Hammer)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade; (Baker Street Irregulars; Wiggins)
Historical Figures: (Mikhail Bakunin; Gaetano Bresci; Santo Geronimo Caserio; Luigi Lucheni; Marie-François Sadi Carnot; Kaiserin Elisabeth; King Umberto I)
Other Characters: Mr Baggs; Lestrade's Constable; Sûreté Officials; (Three Italians)
Date: January, 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Commercial Road; Bentinck Street
Story: Lestrade tells Holmes of a robbery at a goldsmith's in Commercial Road. Holmes and Watson visit the shop and learn from Baggs the owner that only a small, plain gold cross was stolen. Further questioning reveals that also taken was a bag of forged sovereigns made for a group of foreigners. The robbery sets Holmes on the trail, in league with the Sûreté, of a gang of Anarchists.
"The Matter of the Cashiered Colonel" (1995)
Included in: My Dear Watson (David L. Hammer)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Characters Based On Historical Figures: (Colonel Constantine Butler (Colonel Valentine Baker); Kate Robinson (Rebecca Dickinson))
Other Characters: (Train Passengers; Railway Guard; Serjeant Ballantine)
Date: August, 1888
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Watson reads of the trial of Colonel Butler who has been convicted of indecent assault upon Kate Robinson while they shared a first class compartment aboard the train from London to Midhurst. Holmes suggests that the case against Butler has been fabricated by Miss Robinson.
"The Matter of the Dangerously Generous Benefactor" (1995)
Included in: My Dear Watson (David L. Hammer)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Other Characters: Viola Smith; Llewellyn Smith; Smith's Maid; (Messenger; Josiah Alexander; Alexander's Housekeeper)
Date: April, 1899
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Buckinghamshire; High Wycombe; The Larches
Story: Holmes is called on by Mrs Llewellyn Smith, whose husband, a solicitor in the City is more than twenty years older than her. Her husband holds her in suspicion of having had a relationship with his late business partner, Josiah Anderson, since Anderson left his entire estate to her in his will. Holmes takes Alexander's housekeeper to the Music Hall to learn more about the man, and examines the will to reach a solution.
"The Matter of the Furnival Curse" (1995)
Included in: My Dear Watson (David L. Hammer)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Mycroft Holmes)
Folkloric Characters: (Ghostly Horseman)
Other Characters: Dog Cart Driver; Lord Frederick Furnival; Nicholas Furnival; Maud Furnival; Horseman; Edwina Furnival; Bosinney; Billingsley; Paula Pendragon; Mrs Bosinney; Servant; Groom; (Myles Furnival; Myles's Wife; Marr; Myles's Son; Laurence Furnival; Simon Furnival; Simon's Son; Whiteworks Labourer; Doctor; John Furnival; Edwin Furnival; Edwina's Husband; Edwina's Daughter; Edwina's Crippled Son; Lady Furnival; Eunice Furnival; Hired Messenger)
Date: Early Spring, 1903
Locations: Watson's Queen Anne Street Practice; A Train; Cornwall; Penzance; Pengelly; Pengelly House; St Just; Miss Pendragon's Cottage
Story: Watson is summoned from his Queen Anne Street surgery to travel to Cornwall with Holmes to investigate the curse of the Furnival family. The curse causes the death of the family's first-born sons before they reach their majority, and Lord Frederick has asked Holmes to prevent the death of his son, Nicholas. Recently a ghostly horseman has appeared in the grounds of Pengelly House, and Nicholas has been nearly killed by a falling boulder. Holmes reasons that the curse has historic rather than supernatural causes. After investigating local legends, Holmes sets himself up as bait for the villain of the piece.

"The Matter of the Pigeons-Blood Ruby" (1995)
Included in: My Dear Watson (David L. Hammer)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Mrs Hudson)
Historical Figures: (Edward VII; Albert I of Monaco; Nicholas I of Montenegro; Alice Heine, Princess of Monaco; Verneuil)
Other Characters: Hamish Carrisbrook; Otero; (Carrisbrook's Wife; Carrisbrook's Mother; Carrisbrook's Father)
Date: January, 1898
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Claridge's
Story: Hamish Carrisbrook, of the banking family, bursts into the Baker Street rooms. He has given a pigeons-blood ruby brooch to Otero, the dancer he has been having an affair with, and needs to recover it before the estate of his late mother, whose brooch it was, is inventoried.

"The Matter of the Poisoned Bridegroom" (1995)
Included in: My Dear Watson (David L. Hammer)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Historical Figures: Sir William Gull
Other Characters: Mildred Montcrieff Shatto / Mildred Bernardi; Mrs Warburton; (John Delauncy Tucker Shatto; Richard Montcrieff; Mrs Montcrieff; Major Bernardi; John's Stepfather; Servant; William the Coachman; Maid; Dr Swales; Mrs Shatto; Dr Adams)
Date: 1880s
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Streatham; The Abbey; 74, Brook Street
Story: After deducing Watson's financial status, Holmes reveals his involvement in the case of the poisoning of the young barrister, John Shatto. Shatto's new wife's parents believe that their daughter will be indicted for his murder. Visiting the dead man's house, they hear about the meal at which the poison is believed to have been administered, his wife's health and financial affairs, her previous marriage, and her friendship with a homeopathic doctor, from her companion, Mrs Warburton. Holmes sends Watson to meet with Gull, who tended to Shatto in his last hours. A cure for dipsomania from Torbay is the final link in the puzzle.
"The Matter of the Royal Varietal" (1995)
Included in: My Dear Watson (David L. Hammer)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson / Martha; Mrs Turner
Historical Figures: (Stanley Gibbons)
Other Characters: Mathilda Montgomerie; Tench's Clerk; Josiah Tench; (Henry Montgomerie; Travers Jerome; Jerome's Clerk; Forgers)
Date: February, 1882
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Cornhill; Tench's Office
Story: Mrs Hudson's widowed cousin Mathilda consults Holmes when she receives a solicitor's letter demanding payment of five thousand pounds borrowed by her late husband, repayable upon his death. She is sure that he would not have carried out such a transaction. Holmes visits the solicitor's office and examines the loan document, but it is a postage stamp rather than the document that provides the solution.

"The Matter of the Solitary Cellist" (1995)
Included in: My Dear Watson (David L. Hammer)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Violet Smith (Lady Violet Tremain); (Cyril Morton)
Other Characters: Medical Attendant; Dr Joseph Bellarmine; Lord Victor Tremain
Date: Early Spring, 1902
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Haslemere; Brasenose Cottage
Story: Lady Violet Tremain calls at Baker Street bacause her husband, Lord Victor, has disappeared. He has recently taken to drinking brandy and ceased playing his cello. She has received a letter from her husband, stating that he has not gone of his own volition, and despite his wish to do so, may never be able to return. It is only at the end of the case that Watson discovers that he has met Lady Violet before.
"The Matter of the Sudden Death of Cardinal Tosca" (1995)
Included in: My Dear Watson (David L. Hammer)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Fictional Characters:
Historical Figures: (Pope Leo XIII)
Other Characters: Father Rudiger Heuss; Inspector Jenkins; (Papal Nuncio; Bridget Connell; Reporters; Father O'Brien; Lliam Connell; Mrs Connell; Watchman; Hotel Landlord; Kinsale Parish Priest; Lliam's Mother)
Date: 1895
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Ireland; Kinsale; Hotel
Story: Holmes is called on by the papal nuncio to investigate the death of Cardinal Tosca, shot in the head in Ireland. The death appears to be a suicide after the murder of a young woman, whose body was found with Tosca's in a locked room. Holmes and Watson travel to Kinsale, where they examine the murder room, and the rooms of O'Brien, Tosca's missing secretary, and Bridget, the dead girl. Bridget's fiancé has also disappeared, and while they are in the hotel, Tosca's room is broken into.

"The Matter of the Superfluous Stamp" (1995)
Included in: My Dear Watson (David L. Hammer)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Alexander Holder)
Other Characters: Sir John Mainwaring; Mainwaring's Butler; Edward; Ethel; (Mainwaring's Servants)
Date: Late October, 1896
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Eaton Square; Mainwaring's House
Story: Stamp-collector, Sir John Mainwaring, consults Holmes on the recommendation of Alexander Holder. He has had a rare stamp, the Heligoland magenta, purchased the previous day at Sotheby's, stolen from the strongroom where he keeps his collection.
"The Matter of the Vatican Cameos" (1995)
Included in: My Dear Watson (David L. Hammer)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Sherlock Holmes
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Historical Figures: (Pope Leo XIII; Pope Alexander VI / Pope Innocent VIII; Cesare Borgia)
Other Characters: Father Gropan; Treasury Archivist; Crespi's Nephew; (Papal Nuncio; Cardinal Crespi; Count Medina y Ordaz)
Date: Before STUD
Locations: Rome; Vatican City; Crespi's Office; Treasury; Vatican Gardens;
Story: Holmes is called on by the papal nuncio to recover the Vatican Cameos, discovered to be missing after the death of Cardinal Crespi. Travelling to the Vatican, he interviews Crespi's secretary and nephew.