Sherlock Holmes Pastiche Summaries

	A.B. "The Rajah's Ruby" (1925) Included in: The Southampton University College Magazine, Summer Term 1925 Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson Other Characters: Mrs Russ; Mr Krantz; (Maharajah of Surinam) Locations: Holmes's Rooms Story: Krantz, a banker, consults Holmes over the theft of a ruby, said to have belonged to the Buddha, belonging to the Maharajah of Surinam, and held by him as a sevurity against a loan.
A.E.P. "The End of Sherlock Holmes" (1927) Included in: The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Martha Date: 1903-1905 Story: Watson visits a married Holmes, who is having enormous difficulty coping with his three year old son, also named Sherlock, who has inherited his father's talent for detection.
	A.J.P. "The Mystery of the Stolen Bootlace" (1925) Included in: The Alcester Grammar School Record, No.22, December 1925 Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Sheerluck Bones & Dr Watsup Other Characters: (Viscount Coughcure of Fooloden) Unnamed Characters: Passers-by; Advertiser Date: Middle of January Locations: Bones's Rooms; Printer's Office Story: Sheerluck Bones decides to investigate the theft of Viscount Coughcures diamon-studded bootlace.
"The Body" (1926) Included in: The Alcester Grammar School Record, No.23, March 1926 Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Sheerluck Bones & Dr Watsup Other Characters: (Amalgamated Atmospherics and Syncopated Monstrosities Minstrel Band) Unnamed Characters: Pedestrians; Cross-Eyed Man; Woman; Cross-Eyed Man's Companion Locations: A Street; Limehouse; 1493rd Avenue; Wilniff Copse Story: After over-hearing a murder plot in the street, Bones and Watsup lie in wait for the culprits in a farm ditch.
	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anna Waterhouse Mycroft Holmes (2015) Story Type: Extra-Canonical Adventure of Mycroft Holmes Canonical Characters: Mycroft Holmes; Sherlock Holmes; (Mrs Hudson) Folkloric Characters: (Douen; Lougarou) Historical Figures: Edward Cardwell; Sir James Clark; Sir Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon, Baron Stanmore; Queen Victoria; John Brown; Princess Feodora of Leiningen; Green Riband; (Dr Joseph Bell; William Sheward; Martha Sheward; Charlotte Sheward) Other Characters: Emanuel; André; Stephen Tidwell; Randolph; Lowe; Phelps; Spencer; Strachan; Gordon; Faulkes; Cyrus Douglas; Gerard Pennywhistle; Ava Pennywhistle; Georgiana Sutton / Anabel Lynch; Charles Parfitt; Captain James Miles; Adam McGuire; Peter Rickets; Edward "Three-Fingered Eddie" Dedos; Huan; Beauchamp; Anabel Lynch Sutton; Little Huan; Charlie Woo; Jessup Jones; Tomas; Nestor Ellensberg; Dr George Curlew; Count Wolfgang Hohenlohe-Langenburg; Trinidad Villagers; Boat Race Spectators; Beadle; Student Guard; Peddlers; Boardmen; Bootblacks; Paperboys; Costers; Hat Owner; Sewer Worker; Bookmaker; Oxford Drunkards; St Giles Women; Messenger; Brougham Cabman; Beggar; Funeral Mutes; East End Boys; Pall Mall Crowds; Clark's Housemaid; Sultana Passengers; Dock Guards; Ship's Steward; Dock Visitors; Wheelchair Woman; Indian Maid; Schoolboy; Wiry Man; Large Man; Red-Haired Man; Stocky Man; Dowager; Dowager's Companions; Ship Attendants; Government Officials; Ship's Doctor's Secretary; Cook's Assistant; Little Boy; Children; Deckhands; Clergyman; Stokers; Purser; Ship's Constable; Trinidad Dock Crowds; Port of Spain Residents; Pie Boy; Bar Patrons; Vendors; Bailiff; Rag Pickers; Hawkers; Chinese Men; Harmonious Order of Closed Fists; San Fernando Residents; Russian Guards; Amerindian Workers; Merikens; Meriken Elder; Meriken Woman; First Island Mercenaries; Slaves; Douglas's Friends; Colonial Bank Clerk; Bank Manager; Bank President; Bank Guards; Bank Driver; Jamaican Lads; Royal Party; Ascot Spectators; Royal Guard; (Mycroft's Father; Mycroft's Mother; Douglas's Family; Flowerseller; Sally Sutton; Roland Traiters; Otis Oswald; Richard Nelson; Upton Bork; Robert Bouvier; Ben Quartermaine; Chief of Police; Mr Sutton; Annie Douglas; Cyrus Nickolus Douglas the Second; Douglas's Parents; Eddie's Mother; Eddie's Sister; Mariana; Noah Jones; Ellensberg's Employer) Date: 1870 / 6th April - ?, 1870 Locations: London; Putney Bridge; Chiswick Bridge; St Giles Rookery; Regent Street; Regent Tobaccos; Pall Mall; Cumberland House; Borough High Street; Clark's Examination Room; Westminster; Royal College of St Peter; Liverpool Docks; Aboard the Sultana; Gulf of Paria; Trinidad; Port of Spain; Dock; Pub; Plaza del Marina; Governor's Office; West India Regiment Barracks; Chinese Section; Eating Establishment; Lean-To; Sutton Plantation; Hospital; San Fernando; High Street; Douglas's Village; Cemetery; Emanuel's Hut; Company Village; Columbus Channel; First Island; Aboard the Constance; Jamaica; Kingston Harbour; Spanish Town; Colonial Bank; Berkshire; Ascot Story: A village in Trinidad is abandoned after its children fall victim to the douen and the lougarou. Mycroft bets on the university boat-race, and flees a drunken mob. His friend, Douglas, tells him of a series of disappearances near his family's village in Trinidad. When Mycroft's fiancée, Georgiana hears the news, she decides to return to her family's plantation near Port of Spain. Mycroft resolves to follow her, in company of Douglas, but when they board the Sultana, Georgiana is not aboard. As they sail to Trinidad, Holmes and Douglas come under attack. No sooner have they arrived in Trinidad, than they witness the deaths of four of their fellow passengers, and are given a list of names to take to the governor. They learn that more children have fallen victim to the lougarou. A visit to Georgiana's family plantation leads to the discovery of a body, and Douglas learns of the destruction of his family's home. After learning the true nature of the plot, Mycroft has a tragic reunion with Georgiana. He leads a raiding party of Chinese and Merikens to First Island, mid-way between Trinidad and Venezuela.
Mycroft & Sherlock (2018) Story Type: Extra-Canonical Adventure of Mycroft Holmes Canonical Characters: Mycroft Holmes; Sherlock Holmes; Mrs Hudson Historical Figures: Edward Cardwell; Queen Victoria; Robert Gardner; Dr Joseph Bell; (Annie Parker Cardwell; Prince George, 2nd Duke of Cambridge; Arthur Kinnaird; Henry Renny-Tailyour; John Brown) Other Characters: Huan; Cyrus Douglas; Gerard Pennywhistle; Ava Pennywhistle; Charles Parfitt; Eli Quince; Asa Quince; Professor John Aloysius Cainborn; Deshi Hai Lin; Harold Copps; Charles Fowler; George Fowler; Joe McPeel; Alvey Ducasse; Jackie Baldwin; Paleen; Cuckney; Le Bone; Ai Lin; Joseph Beeton; Adele de Matalin; Juju / Ju-long Cheng; Mrs Quince; Ahn Zhang; Gin; Ned Beeton; Reg Carter; Billy Bishop; Miles Duchamp; Martin McMullah; Kang Chen; Carl Dalrymple; Dai en-Lai Lin; William Angel / Wei Wing Zheping; Roly-Poly; Moon Face; Nora; Mycroft's Neighbour; Regent Street Crowds; Vendors; Regent's Customers; Nickolus House Boys; Queen's Attendant; Lord Steward's Man; Coast Guards; 77th Regiment Soldiers; Freebooters; Devil's Acre Costermongers; Rag-and-Bone Man; Kidnappers; Ai Lin's Bodyguards; Chinese Herbalist; Queen's Park Footballers; Bell's Assistant; Underground Passengers; Paddington Hawkers; Yellow Overcoat Man; Adele's Footman; Adele's Butler; Adele's Chambermaid; Limehouse Residents; Water Monkey Chinese Women; Juju's Henchmen; Narrow Street Crowd; Police Constables; Bunch of Grapes Barkeeper; Mycroft's Servants; Piccadilly Constable; Dockworkers; Customs Officers; Mycroft's Solicitor; Fleet Street Passersby; Old Cock Patrons; Regent Street Lad; Mycroft's Tailor; St Katharine's Dock Porters; Bowler-Hatted Men; Temptress Guard; Dalrymple's Clerks; Buckingham Palace Staff; Carriage Driver; Equerry; Omnibus Passengers; (Neighbour's Wife; Neighbour's Doctor; Georgiana Sutton; Savage Gardens Publican; Savage Gardens Victims; Queen's Emissary; Nickolus House Staff; Mr Smythe; Mr Undershaft; Captain William Hunter; Royal Adelaide Passengers; Royal Adelaide Crew; Royal Adelaide Rescuers; Mrs Holmes; Mr Holmes; Physicians; Mr Quince; Mews Lad; Ai Lin's Mother) Date: 26th November - December, 1872 Locations: St John's Wood; Greville Place; Swallow Street; Regent Street; Regent Tobaccos; Cumberland House; Shoreditch High Street; National Standard Theatre; The Devil's Acre; Nickolus House; Buckingham Palace; Herbalist's Shop; Edwardes Square; Baker Street Station; Edgware Road Station; Paddington Station; Bayswater Station; Homer Street; Piccadilly; Mansion House Station; Limehouse; The Docks; The Water Monkey Opium Den; Narrow Street; The Bunch of Grape Pub; Shadwell Dock; Fleet Street; Ye Old Cock Tavern; Mews; St Katharine Docks; Aboard the Temptress; The Golden Bottle; Pimlico; Kenilworth Street; Dorset; Chesil Beach; Scotland; Glasgow; Hamilton Crescent Story: After a series of murders of Chinese men in London, whose dismembered bodies are dumped in the Savage Gardens area, the killer claims a white victim. Mycroft receives a summons from the Queen, and is asked to fix a football match. Sherlock comes to stay with Mycroft, who takes him to Cyrus Douglas's school for apprentices in the Devil's Acre slum district. A ship carrying goods for Cyrus runs aground in Dorset, and he discovers two young sailors, dead on the beach bearing the marks of drug injections; the same marks seen by Sherlock on one of the boys, Charles, at the school. Mycroft asks Dr Bell to carry out an autopsy, and Sherlock begins his first ever investigation, into the death of Charles, going undercover at an opium den. Mycroft and Douglas puzzle over the connection between dolls and flowers.
	Mycroft & Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage (2019) Story Type: Extra-Canonical Adventure of Mycroft Holmes Canonical Characters: Mycroft Holmes; Sherlock Holmes Folkloric Characters: Historical Figures: Dr Joseph Bell; Queen Victoria; Edward Cardwell; (Charles W. Alcock; Heinrich Schliemann; Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue) Other Characters: Cyrus Douglas; Eli Quince; Asa Quince; Michael; Deshi Hai Lin; William; Smithy; Count Wolfgang Hohenlohe-Langenburg; Nestor Ellensberg; Noah Oldacre; Rosalie White; Mrs McAllister; Gladys; Carlton; Pete; Ai Lin; Mrs Arnold; Dora; Huan; Miss Partridge; Elise Wickham; Lady Anne Hohenlohe-Langenburg; James; Kang Chen; Daniel; Jack; Mr Sand; Charles Parfitt; Vizily Zaharoff; Gerard Pennywhistle; Rupert Jurgins; Martin Speckle; Mrs Jurgins; Mr Dalrymple; Dorothea Greer; Gwyneth Greer; (Abigail Sykes; Mrs Sykes; Mr Sykes; Dai en-Lai Lin; Bingwen Shi; Penny Montgomery; Mr Holmes; Mrs Holmes; Georgiana Sutton; Meredith Oldacre; Cantwell Squire; Bart Swinton; William Wickham; Will Jury; Mrs Jury; Philip Rider; George Greyson; Percy Butcher; Ju-Long Chen; Harold Navarro Rogers; Joe McPeel; Ava Pennywhistle; Rupert Jurgins, Sr; Jenna Squire; George Jury; Angela Rider; William Greyson; Samuel Butcher; Roland Sykes) Unnamed Characters: Fire Four Eleven Murderer; Mendicant; World Exhibition Visitors; Telegraph Office Customers; Telegraph Girls; Eagle Clientele; Smithy's Reader; Imperial Concierge; Imperial Valet; Imperial Guests; Queen's Equerry; Queen's Secretary; Jennings Rents Occupants; Brougham Driver; Street Urchins; Ai Lin's Patients; Huan's Friends; Queen's Messenger; Funeral Mourners; Rector of Bledlow; Elise's Aunts; Lady Anne's Servants; Lady Anne's Driver; Sailors; Dock Travellers; Chinese Temptress Guard; Cross Guns Clientele; Cross Guns Innkeeper; Cross Guns Barmaid; Avoncliff Passersby; Old Soldier; Chichester Residents; Fountainhead Barman; Fountainhead Customer; Pall Mall; Cumberland House Groom; Zaharoff's Driver; Berkeley Square Doorman; Zaharoff's Attendant; Zaharoff's Secretary; Zaharoff's Manservant; Zaharoff's Messenger; Kingston Police Officer; Funeral Mutes; Ai Lin's Bodyguards; Smallpox Victim; Stafford Terrace Chaperone; Old Salt; Cardwell's Butler; Mycroft's Page; Physicians; Board of Trade Secretary; Museum Assistant; Cart Driver; (Dog-walker; Squire's Housekeeper; Rider's Landlady; Nickolus House Boys; Zaharoff's Wives) Date: April 1 - May 25, 1873 Locations: Hospital; King's Cross; Wellham Button Emporium; St John's Wood; Greville Place; Windsor Castle; Kensington High Street; Jennings Rents; St Katharine Docks; Cumberland House; Berkeley Square; Regent Street; kingston upon Thames; Regent Tobaccos; Stafford Terrace; Victoria Dock; Cardwell's House; Board of Trade; British Museum; Dorothea's House; Wales; Three Crosses; Cambridge; Downing College; Trumpington Street; Telegraph Office; The Eagle; Austria; Vienna; The Prater; Hotel Imperial; Oxfordshire; Thame; Buckinghamshire; Bledlow; Holy Trinity Church; Lady Anne's House; Avoncliff; Cross Guns Inn; Butcher's Stables; Chichester; Stane Street; Montgomery's House; Fountainhead Pub; Essex; Leigh-on-Sea; Prittlewell; Gwyneth's Cottage Story: With Mycroft having undergone heart surgery at the hands of Dr Joseph Bell, and now absent in Vienna, Sherlock has detected a pattern in a series of eight murders committed across the British Isles connected only by a note bearing the words "The Fire Four Eleven!" left at the scene of each death. Deshi Hai Lin asks Mycroft to find his daughter's missing fiancé, and he is also brought into the Fire Four Eleven case by the Queen after the murder of Hohenlohe-Langenburg's step-daughter.
Dan Abnett "Winston's Diary: A Day in the Life of Winston Zeddmore" (1991) Included in: The Real Ghostbusters, No. 145, 23rd March 1991 Story Type: Homage Sherlockian Detectives: (Shylock Hermes) Characters Based on Canonical Characters: The Hound of the Basketchairs; (Lord Basketchair) Fictional Characters: Winston Zeddmore; Egon Spengler; ECTO-1 Other Characters: Casey Basketchair; (Lord Basketchair; Frobisher) Date: Friday 22nd March, 1991 Locations: USA; Maine; Basketchair Grange Story: Ghostbusters Winston and Egon travel to Basketchair Grange in Maine, summoned by Lord Basketchair who says that the family curse, originally investigated in the 1890s by Shylock Hermes, has returned. Egon dons a deerstalker in honour of his hero, Hermes. at the Grange, Casey Basketchair tells them that howling has been heard every night for the past week, and Frobisher the groundsman has seen the wolf-like Hound of the Basketchairs. Lying in wait that night, Egon and Winston have a double doggy encounter.
	Gilbert Adair And Then There Was No One (2009) Story Type: Homage (with embedded pastiche) Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; The Giant Rat of Sumatra Fictional Characters: Evadne Mount; (Eustace Trubshawe; The Lone Ranger; Silver; Tonto) Historical Figures: Gilbert Adair; Carole Blake; Jochen Schimmang; (Martin Hielscher; Umberto Eco; Carmen Callil; Marina Warner; Julian Barnes; Pat Kavanagh; Peter Eyre; Walter Donohue) Other Characters: Gustav Slavorigin; One-Eyed Man; American Family;Thomas Düttmann; Hugh Spaulding; Hotel Receptionist; Pierre Sanary; G. Autry; Meredith van Demarest; Festival Staff; Dr Eustace Gable; Edward Gable; James Gable; Jerrold; Gable's Servants; Mary Jane; Mrs Treadwell; Inspector Cushing; Two Constables; Adair's Audience; Hildegard; Slavorigin's Bodyguards; Adolescent Girl; Maitre d'; Young Man at Disco; Hotel Manager; Mayor of Meiringen; Inspector Schumacher; Chambermaid; News Vendor; Museum Ticket Issuer; Magrite; Reporters; Museum Sentries; Pianist; (Watson's Patient; Mr Hunter) Date: September, 2011 / Early Autumn, 1911 Locations: A Train; Oxford; Notting Hill; Portobello Road; The Salvador Deli; Heathrow Airport; Switzerland; Zurich Airport; Meiringen; The Sherlock Holmes Hilton; Sherlock Holmes Museum; Café; The Künsthalle; 221B, Baker Street; Aylesbury Station; The Gables; Restaurant in Meiringen; Meiringen Station; Ice-Cream Parlour; Gallery Story: Anti-American author Gustav Slavorigin is murdered in Meiringen's Museum of Sherlockiana during the town's first annual Sherlock Holmes Festival. Adair is sent to the festival by his agent, where on the opening night he reads the story "The Giant Rat of Sumatra" from his latest book, The Unpublished Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: Holmes and Watson are called on by the botanist Eustace Gable. He has recently returned from Sumatra, and his man Jerrold has been bitten by a giant rat concealed among the specimens he brought back. The rat has since taken to terrorising his sons and servants. They travel to Gable's home where they are met with the news that the rat has killed his son James in a locked room. Holmes solves the case but he and Watson agree that the details must not be made public. During the question and answer session after the reading, he discovers that the original of his own fictional detective character, the crime writer Evadne Mount, is in the audience. She appears to have taken on characteristics of her fictional counterpart, and is annoyed at Adair for stooping to writing Sherlockian pastiche rather than continuing his series about her. Slavorigin arrives as the Festival's mystery guest, and Adair learns that most of those present have some connection to him. After relating the plot of his latest novel, Slavorigin argues with the American academic Meredith van Demarest over his treatment of 9/11. In the morning, after a dream-disturbed sleep, Adair learns that Slavorigin has disappeared, and is there when his body is discovered in the museum. He and Mount discuss possible suspects, but he is unprepared for her ultimate revelation, which leads to a confrontation on the rim of the Reichenbach Falls.
	Charlie Adams, Gareth Hale & Norman Pace "Dr Watson" (1985) Included in: Falsies: Forged Diaries of the Famous (Charlie Adams, Gareth Hale & Norman Pace) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Other Characters: Churchwarden; Scrote; His Lordship Date: 8th July Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Hillman Hunter Estate Story: After some banter about the churchwarden's pipe and his violin, Holmes and Watson travel to the Hillman Hunter estate, where, after some banter with the butler and his lordship, Holmes shoots the murderer with a comedy gun. They return to Baker Street for some more banter.
Guy Adams "An Adventure in Three Courses" (2014) Included in: Further Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (George Mann) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Mary Morstan; Colonel Senbastian Moran) Other Characters: Headwaiter; Ronald Lacey; Imogen Lacey; Cyril Foster; Lucy Brentford; Lucy's Partner; Lady Siobhan Moran; (Roger Carruthers; Harry; Thomas Millan) Date: 1894 or 1895 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Dining Club Story: To commemorate the first anniversary of Mary's death, Holmes invites Watson to dinner at a newly-opened private dining club off the Strand. They make deductions about the other diners, and Holmes realises that the presence of their fellow guests is not by chance.
	Sherlock Holmes: The Army of Dr Moreau (2012) Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mycroft Holmes; Mrs Hudson; Shinwell Johnson; Inspector Lestrade; Wiggins; Billy; (Mary Morstan) Fictional Characters: Professor George Edward Challenger; Professor Cavor; Abner Perry; Professor Oliver Lindenbrook; Roger Carruthers; Norman Greenhough; Moreau's Journalist Assistant (Mitchell); Albert; Inspector George Mann; (Dr Moreau; Editor; Montgomery; Edward Prendick; The Beast Folk) Other Characters: Museum Caretaker; Indian Waiter; Indian Restaurant Customers; Club Doormen; Mayfair Passers-by; Adelphi Toughs; Steamboat Passengers; Dockside Crowds; Bouquet of Lilies Clientele; Barman; Old Man; Klaus; Martin; Kane's Men; Kane; Campbell; Greenhough's Secretary; Albert; Inspector George Mann; Constable Scott; Cab Drivers; Waiter; Diogenes Club Footman; Kirk; Fellowes; Lord Newman; Security Officers; Mitchell's Lookout; (Mr Haywood; Mrs Ashburton; Crowd Outside Moreau's Lab; Cab Driver; Postmaster; Rotherhithe Bodies; Rotherhithe Crowds; Rotherhithe Kids; Johnson's Policeman Friend; Police Surgeon; Mario; Thomas; Blind Man; Watson's School Nurse; Alice Bradley; Harold Court; Billericay Coroner; Charles; Chestnut Seller; Parliament Security Officers; Sir Bartleby; Peers; Lord Messingham; Lord Wharburton; Speaker of the House) Date: January 1900 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Great Russell Street; Montague Street; British Museum; Belgravia; Indian Restaurant; Mayfair; The Strand; Adelphi Theatre; The Thames; Rotherhithe; Bouquet of Lilies / Bucket of Lies Pub; E.C. Kenton & Waldemar Warehouse; Kane's Lair; Strand Offices; Mitchell's Home; Scotland Yard; Liverpool Street Station; Essex; Billericay; Police Station; Moon Cottage; The Dog & Sheep Pub; Carruthers' Hotel; Diogenes Club; Mitchell's House; King's Cross Station; Mitchell's Underground Lair; Baker Street; Euston Road Story: Mycroft comes to 221B, brings Holmes and Watson up to date regarding the history of Dr Charles Moreau, and tells them that the recent series of murders in Rotherhithe are likely the work of Moreau's beast folk. He sends them to the British Museum to meet the scientific members of the team he has assembled to discover if Moreau has returned to England. A meeting with Shinwell Johnson brings them more details of the killings, and some leads to follow up, which take them, in disguise, to Rotherhithe, and thence to Kane's underground lair. Watson does some investigating on his own, visiting Mitchell, the journalist whose work led to Moreau having to leave England. After meeting Mann at Scotland Yard, he travels with him to Essex to find out about the apparent suicide of Edward Prendick. He returns to Baker Street to find Holmes being attacked by Kane, whose true nature is revealed after he has been subdued. They join forces in pursuit of the scientist, but not before he abducts the Prime Minister. Later, Watson is also abducted and taken to the scientist's lair, where he is destined to become another victim of his experiments. Holmes leads a party, including Kane, Johnson, Wiggins and Challenger, to the rescue.
Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God (2011) Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Tobias Gregson; Mrs Hudson; Billy; Langdale; (Mary Morstan; Mycroft Holmes) Folkloric Characters: Demons; Spirits; Zombies Fictional Characters: Dr John Silence; Thomas Karnacki; Julian Karswell; Smoke; Flame; (Dr Martin Hesselius; Lawrence Van Helsing; Charles Kent; Dodgson; Mrs Karswell; John Harrington) Historical Figures: The Golden Dawn; Aleister Crowley; Samuel Mathers; (Arnold Bennett) Other Characters: Hilary De Montfort; Langford; Elderly Gentleman; Constable Wilson; Simcox; Elsa Simcox; Mrs Simcox; Possessed Passers-by; Cuthbert Wells; Club Waiter; Lord Bartholomew Ruthvney; Stevens; Inspector George Mann; Liverpool Street Crowds; News Vendor / Train Driver; Doxy; Young Couple; Minister; Elderly Lady on Underground Train; Young Lads; Elderly Lady at St Pancras; Guard; Dining Car Patrons; Young Woman; Clerk; Algernon Newman; Author; Inverness Porter; Unsworth Lodge Landlady; Charles; McGillicuddy; Crowley's Housekeeper; Crowley's Guests; Laura; Old Jamie; Charles's Brother; Bank Passengers; (Pritchard; Mrs Shuttle; Major Thorkipps; Mrs Thorkipps; Station Master; Wilkinson; Perkins) Date: 27th December, 1899 - 1st January, 1900 Locations: Knaves Club; Grosvenor Square; 221B, Baker Street; Fortune's House; Simcox's Rooms; Scotland Yard; Metropolitan Morgue; St James's Street; Pike's Club; Ruthvney Hall; Liverpool Street Station; Regent's Park; St Pancras Station; Cheyne Walk; Carnacki's Flat; Trains; British Museum Reading Room; Gilbert Place; Scotland; Inverness Station; Unsworth Lodge; Loch Ness; Foyers; Boleskine House; Oxford Street; Tottenham Court Road; Museum Station; Chancery Lane Station; Bank Station; Mayfair Bistro Story: After leaving his club, De Montfort is seen running screaming through the streets and later found battered to death in Grosvenor Square. Dr John Silence calls at Baker Street and tells Holmes and Watson of Elsa Simcox, the young daughter of a former patient, whose strange behaviour suggests some kind of possession. Holmes dismisses Silence's statement that the entity has asked for him by name, along with De Montfort and the Laird of Boleskine, but when he reads of De Montfort's death he decides to make contact with Gregson. After viewing the body and site of death he consults with Langdale Pike, from whom he learns that De Montfort was a member of the Golden Dawn, and that the Laird of Boleskine is Alisteir Crowley. When another member of the Golden Dawn dies a mysterious death, Holmes and Watson accompany Silence to Scotland to call on Crowley. Watson begins to experience strange symptoms. On the train to Inverness they encounter Carnacki in the midst of a bizarre incident in the dining car. Carnacki has been called into the investigation by an anonymous occult author who has told him about the threat posed by the Breath of God. Holmes leaves Watson with Carnacki and Silence while he carries out his own investigations. Crowley tells them of magickal attacks co-ordinated by Mathers, leader of the Golden Dawn, that have been made on him, and introduces them to Karswell. That evening the five are forced to face a series of demonic attacks. Holmes re-enters the fray, and the six travel back to London where Holmes reveals their real foes in the construction tunnels of the Central London Railway.
	"A Study in Scarborough" (2014) Included in: Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets (David Thomas Moore) Story Type: Homage Characters Derived From Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; (Sherlock Holmes; Inspector (Gordon) Lestrade; Martha / Mrs Hudson; Billy; Jabez Wilson; Mary Morstan; Lngdale Pike; Isadora Klein; Mycroft Holmes; Tobias Gregson; (Harry) Stamford; Miko Clash / Rene Adler) Fictional Characters: (Edward Malone) Historical Figures: (Shirley Eaton; Jean Seberg; Mickey Rooney; Brigitte Bardot; Susan George; Anouska Hempel; Oliver Reed; Jeremy Brett (Pete Huggins); Edward Hardwicke (Teddy Hardwicke); Ray Galton & Alan Simpson (Ray Simpson); Nicholas Lyndhurst; Christopher Lee) Characters Derived From Historical Figures: Arthur Doyle; Eddie Conan; (Pete Huggins (Jeremy Brett); Teddy Hardwicke (Edward Hardwicke); Ray Simpson (Ray Galton & Alan Simpson) Other Characters: Interviewer; (Willy Scott; Mayor of Blackpool; Watson's Agent; Doyle's Publisher; Holmes's Parents; Watson's Parents; Sanatorium Patients; Stamford's Brother; Radio Producer; Writers; Mary's Baby) Date: 2010s Locations: Narrator's Home; A Train; Scarborough; Railway Station; Coffee Shop; The Front; Watson's House Story: Arthur Doyle travels to Scarborough to interview John Watson, half of the comedy double act, Holmes and Watson. Watson tells him about his first meeting with Holmes in a sanatorium, the creation of their detective and doctor characters, and their career journey through theatre, radio, TV and film, Watson's marriage to Mary Morstan, and the end of the partnership.
Nathan M. Adams "The Adventure of the Society Dame" (1905) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches II: 1905-1909 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Other Characters: Lady in Black Locations: Holmes's Rooms Story: Holmes deduces the identity of the writer of an item in Smart Set Topics defaming his client, the Lady in Black.
	"God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" (1975) Included in: Sports Illustrated, December 22-29, 1975 Story Type: Homage Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes) Historical Figures: Nathan M. Adams Other Characters: Narrator; Dowle; Inn Guests; Jane; Scottish Desk Clerk; Mwangi; Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers; Bagpiper; Policemen; Mr Kovacs; Mrs Kovacs; Salvation Army Band; Inn Servants; Marcel; Trencher-Jones; Mr Galsworthy; Mrs Galsworthy; Embassy PR Man Date: 24th - 26th December, c.1970 / 1974 Locations: Kenya; Chapel; Brown Trout inn; Lake Sasumua; USA; Montana Story: Dowle and Adams travel to Lake Sasumua in Kenya for some Christmas trout fishing, and stay at the Brown Trout Inn. They encounter Trench-Jones, a deerstalker wearing fellow-fisherman, whom they refer to as Sherlock Holmes, who introduces them to the deadly toebiter nymph.
Irene Adler Sherlock, Lupin & Me: The Dark Lady (2011) (Italian text by Alessandro Gatti, translated by Chris Turner) Story Type: Children's Pastiche narrated by Irene Adler Canonical Characters: Irene Adler; Sherlock Holmes; Mycroft Holmes Fictional Characters: Arsène Lupin; Théophraste Lupin; (Henriette d'Andresy; The Dreux-Soubises) Other Characters: Horatio Nelson; Fishermen; Hooded Man; Irene's Mother; François Poussin / Jacques Lambert / Julien Lascot; Townspeople; Journalist; Van Hesselink; Leopold Adler; Dr Morgoeuil; Hotel des Artistes Desk Clerk; Octave; Gang of Boys; Spirou; Coachman; Lady in Black; Jerome; Gambling House Guard; Gamblers; Salvatore Macri; Gambling House Servants; Lascot's Mother; Lady Martigny's Servant; Lady Martigny; Lady Fouchet; Baroness Annette Gibard; Sherlock's Mother; (Coachman; Sherlock's Father; Violet Holmes; Chief Inspector Flebourg; Parisian Jeweler; Corrupt Police Officers; Mr Martigny) Date: 6th July - ?, 1870 Locations: France; Sant-Malo; City Walls; The Harbour; Ashcroft Manor; Irene's Summer House; 48, Rue Saint Sauveur; Food Shop; Beach; Post Office; Hotel de la Paix; Hotel des Artistes; The Old Barracks; Lupin's House; Gambling House; Railway Station; Paris; Saint-Germain-des-Prés; Irene's House; Rue Saint-Sulpice; 6, Rue de Mézières; Martigny's House Story: When twelve-year-old Irene's Adler's parents take her on holiday to Saint-Malo, the first person she meets is Sherlock Holmes, who introduces her to Arsène Lupin. They take her to their hideout at the abandoned Ashcroft Manor, near which they find a dead man on the beach, and Irene spots a hooded figure watching them. Deciding to investigate they learn that two hotels in the town had guests answering the description of the dead man. Meanwhile, the town is plagued by the exploits of the Rooftop Thief. After a rooftop escape from a gambling den, and a visit to the Post Office, Irene accompanies her father to Paris to discover the dead man's identity.
	Sherlock, Lupin & Me: The Soprano's Last Song (2011) (Italian text by Pierdomenico Baccalario & Alessandro Gatti, translated by Chiara Pernigotti) Story Type: Children's Pastiche narrated by Irene Adler Canonical Characters: Irene Adler; Sherlock Holmes; (Mycroft Holmes) Fictional Characters: Arsène Lupin; (Théophraste Lupin; Henriette d'Andresy) Historical Figures: Wilkie Collins Other Characters: Horatio Nelson; Leopold Adler; Mrs Adler; Philippe; Philippe's Wife; Sergej Trudoljubov; Mr Jabkins; Giuseppe Barzini; Alfred Santi; Henri Duvel; Ophelia Merridew; Enoch; Hortence Cheepnis; Jack; Aunt Betty; Parisian Society Ladies; Ladies' Daughters; Parisian Barricade Builders; Train Passengers; Boulogne Station Crowd; Ferry Businessmen; Ferry Passengers; Ferryport Crowds; Sailors; Vacationers; Guard; Homeless Person; Opera Audience; Opera Orchestra; Young Lady; Telegrapher; Coachmen; Coffee House Patrons; Wallet Thieves; Woman with Wallet; Onlookers; Irish Fishmonger; Claridge's Waiters; Claridge's Concierge; Old Bell Concierges;Old Bell Staff; Laundress; Reporters; Spanish Man; Café Customers; Beggars; Gambling House Guards; Paperboy; Globe Reporter; Deputy Editor; Hortence's Daughter; Tavern Patrons; Tavern Owner; Royal Opera House Guard; Opera House Employees; Scotland Yard Officers; Scotland Yard Inspector; Whitechapel Crowd; Ophelia's Nurse; Postman; (Mrs Gambetta; Sherlock's Mother; Sherlock's Cousin; Mr Aronofsky; Archibald J. Nisbett; Policemen; Prussian Noblewoman; Man on Ship; Ship's Captain; Violet Holmes; St Mary's Parish Priest) Date: September, 1870 Locations: France; Paris; Irene's House; Gare du Nord; Amiens; Boulogne; Boulogne Station; Grand Cochon Restaurant; Ferry; Dover; Train; London; Claridge's Hotel; Covent Garden; Royal Opera House; Carnaby Street; Shackleton Coffee House; Old Bell Hotel; Hotel Albion; St Giles; Fleet Street; Globe Offices; Pub; Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street; Savile Row; Bethnal Green; Tavern; Holmes's House; Whitechapel; Hyde Park; Adler's London House Story:During the Franco-Prussian War, Irene is in Paris, where her foster-mother's attempts to introduce her to the ladies of Parisian society are disrupted by her father's plans to take Irene to London to see Ophelia Merridew perform at Covent Garden in Barzini's Plot of Destiny. In London, Irene is reunited with Holmes, and after she has repeated dreams about Ophelia Merridew, he brings her news that Barzini's assistant, Santi, has been murdered, and Lupin's father arrested for the crime. During their search of a hotel room, the relationships of the young trio begin to change. News soon follows that Ophelia has disappeared. There investigations take them to Baker Street, where Sherlock shows interest in 221B. He and Irene face danger in Bethnal Green, where another murder is attempted, and the three venture into the basements of the Royal Opera House and face danger onstage.
Sherlock, Lupin & Me: The Mystery of the Scarlet Rose (2012) (Italian text by Pierdomenico Baccalario & Alessandro Gatti, translated by Nanette McGuinnis) Story Type: Children's Pastiche narrated by Irene Adler Canonical Characters: Irene Adler; Sherlock Holmes; (Mycroft Holmes; Professor Moriarty) Fictional Characters: Arsène Lupin; (Théophraste Lupin) Historical Figures: Charles Frederick Field Other Characters: Horatio Nelson; Mrs Adler; Jenkins; Officer Babcock; Carruthers; Inspector Jarvis; Inspector Babbington; Scott "Sparky" Mullarkey; William Hallett; Leopold Adler; Dr Harrison; Adam Smeaton; Mary Musgrave / Mary Harding / Mary Smeaton; (Alfred Santi; Giuseppe Barzini; Ophelia Merridew; Miss Langtry; Hilda; Samuel Peccary; Mrs Symonds; Gerald Smeaton; Sergeant Wells; Joseph Barrow; Violet Holmes; Irene's Cousin Josephine; Great-Great-Grandfather Wolfgang; Great-Grandfather Leopold; Great-Aunt Marguerite; Pepper; Adrian Musgrave; Phineas Sholme; Lazarus Ulpin; Mrs Smeaton; Harding Family) Unnamed Characters: Piccadilly Ladies; Valets; Shackleton Waiter; Coachmen; Scotland Yard Officers; Waterloo Gentleman; Brigantine Innkeeper; Wimpole Street Doorman; Drunk Fellow; Pipe Smoker; Party Guests; Wimpole Street Pedestrians; Paperboy; Hallett's Guards; Liverpool Vital Statistics Officials; Liverpool Vital Statistics Maid; London Vital Statistics File Clerk; Hat Shop Sales Clerk; Irene's Mother; (Rotterdam Merchant; Holmes's Father; Holmes's Mother; Peccary's Stable Hand; Moldavian Countess; Errand Boy) Date: December, 1870 Locations: London; Aldford Street; Adler's Apartment; Piccadilly; Carnaby Street; Shackleton Coffee House; Scotland Yard; Waterloo Station; Twickenham; Church Lane; Old Brigantine Tavern; Wimpole Street; Oxford Street; Field's Office; Bond Street; Notting Hill; Ladbroke Square; Holmes's House; Caxton Street Office of Vital Statistics; Shad Thames; Blackfriars Lane; Liverpool; Office of Vital Statistics Story: A code in the Times agony columns disguised as a chess puzzle leads Holmes to the site of the horrible murder of Samuel Peccary, a fur merchant. After being ridiculed at Scotland Yard, he, Irene and Lupin decide to investigate for themselves. Lupin learns that a scarlet rose was found on Peccary's desk, next to his body. Also on the case is Charles Frederick Field, who had worked on the case of the Scarlet Rose Gang twenty years earlier. Irene is attacked in the street and meets her real mother. NOTE: Presumably, Lupin's reference to his father's old friend "named Pepper" who was a soldier from Liverpool is a reference to the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper.
	Jack Adrian "The Phantom Pistol" (1983) Also Published as "Golconda's Magic Death by Christopher Bendel Included in: The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives (Mike Ashley); Amazing Stories from the World of Crime (Hamlyn Publishing Group) Story Type: Third-Person Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes (Mr H.); Stanley Hopkins; (Colonel Moran; Von Herder) Other Characters: The Great Golconda / Rupert Forbes-Sempill; Mephisto / Ernest Forbes-Sempill; Audience; Robert Adey; Stagehand; (Golconda's Girl Assistant) Date: November, 1912 Locations: High Holborn; Empire Palace of Varieties Story: The Great Golconda is giving his farewell performance, when he is killed during a bullet catching trick. Hopkins was one of the audience members who checked the gun before the trick. With his friend, Mr H., who had accompanied him to the theatre, he questions the manager, and learns that Golconda and his assistant, Mephisto, are actually twin brothers, and the sons of a recently deceased baronet. The mystery of how the magician's prop could have fired the deadly bullet seems to be connected with Mephisto wearing black gloves for the trick for the first time. Mr H. sends a stagehand above the stage to solve the mystery of the murder weapon NOTE: Robert Adey is named after Jack Adrian's co-editor on Murder Impossible, while Pronzini, the Italian vendettist is named after his collaborator on Hardboiled, Bill Pronzini.
Azhar Ahsan "The Case of the Confounding Culprit" (1973) Included in: The Illustrated weekly of India, 11 November 1973 Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Hemlock Sholmes & Dr Rotson Other Characters: Inspector Pottsbottom; Sir Thaddeus Gumbold-Bumper; Lady Helena Constipatia; (Antonio Macaroni; Monsieur le Comte de Frigidair; Duke of Chopshire; Pottsbottom) Unnamed Characters: Bumper Grange Attendant; Servants; Policeman; (French Prime Minister; Sir Thaddeus's Butler; Sir Thaddeus's Cook; Jailor) Date: 1896 Locations: 420B, Barber Street; Muddleford; Bumbledon; Bumper Grange; The Broken Nose Inn Story: Inspector Pottsbottom asks Sholmes to investigate a diamond robbery at the mansion of Sir Thaddeus Gumbold Bumper. Sholmes and Rotson travel to Bumper Grange. After examining the theft of the site, spotting a rat, crawling in the mud and throughout the house, and measuring everyone's feet, Sholmes reaches his conclusion.
Mark Alberstat "The Adventure of the Sunken Parsley" (2015) Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part III: 1896-1929 (David Marcum); An Investees' Anthology (David Marcum) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson Other Characters: Inspector Neal; Michaels; Sir Evan Thornton; Lady Elizabetta Thornton; Mario Conti; Police Constable; (Doctor) Date: Early September, 1898 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Liverpool (Street) Station; Hertfordshire; Hertford; Hertford Station; Hartham House Story: Holmes and Watson travel to Hertford to investigate the murder of Sir Evan Thornton, who has been found dead in his bed, but whose death was clearly not a peaceful one. A walk in Thornton's garden solves the case.
	Sue Alexander "The Ghost of Plymouth Castle" (1980) Included in: Whatever Happened to Uncle Albert? and Other Puzzling Plays (Sue Alexander) Story Type: Children's Parody Script Sherlockian Detectives: Blaylock Jones & Datson Other Characters: Narrator; Lady Plymouth; Kevin; Prunella Unnamed Characters: Police Officer; (Lady Plymouth's Uncle) Locations: Plymouth Castle Story: Lady Plymouth has to spend four more nights in Plymouth Castle in order to gain her inheritance, but she has seen a ghost and received strange messages on squares of cloth, so she summons the great detective Blaylock Jones to investigate.
Steven-Elliot Altman "A Case of Royal Blood" (2003) Included in: Shadows Over Baker Street (Michael Reaves & John Pelan) Story Type: Fantasy Pastiche narrated by H.G. Wells Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Fictional Characters: The Shoggoth Historical Figures: H.G. Wells; Queen Emma of Waldeck Pyrmont; Princess Wilhelmina; King Willem III; Elisabeth Cookson; (Prince Nicolaas; Prince Alexander) Other Characters: Turkish Baths Valet; Wells's Coachman; Captain of the Dordrecht; Elderly Couple; Dutch Soldiers; Jan Gent; Passersby; Girl; Palace Guards; Lady-in-Waiting; Palace Servants; Sanatorium Attendant; Sarah Cookson; Guardsmen Date: February, 1888 Locations: 33, Northumberland; 221B, Baker Street; The Dordrecht; Holland; Rotterdam; Noordeinde Palace; A Coach; Leiden; Public Sanatorium; The Veluwe Story: Holmes recruits Wells to assist in investigating a purported poltergeist attack on a member of the Dutch Royal Family. The young princess, Wilhelmina, has been seeing a young girl around the palace. After the first appearance, she was found with blood on her neck, but no wounds. Holmes finds a copy of the Necronomicon hidden in the library, and Wells dreams of the Dark Ones. Visiting the courtesan, Cookson, in Leiden sanatorium, they find a picture of the girl in her locket. They identify her as Sarah, her daughter, and Gent arrests her. Later that day Wells is visited by the girl, and realises that she is some kind of creature. Returning to Leiden, they learn of the creature's origins and set out to track and destroy it.
	Victor G. Ambrus "Humpty Dumpty: Did He Fall or Was He Pushed?" (1981) Included in: Dracula's Bedtime Storybook (Victor G. Ambrus) Story Type: Children's Comic Picture Story Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson Fictional Characters: Humpty Dumpty; All the King's Horses; Old Mother Hubbard & Her Dog; Little Miss Muffet & Her Spider; The Grand Old Duke of York & His Men; Simple Simon; The Owl and the Pussycat; Jack; Cock Robin; The Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe & Her Children; Little Jack Horner; Hansel & Gretel, and the Witch; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; Jack The Giant Killer; The Cow Who Jumped Over The Moon; The Queen of Hearts; Dracula Story: Holmes interviews a number of fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters to discover the truth about Humpty's fall. Eventually, jammy fingerprints lead him to the killer.
Kingsley Amis "The Darkwater Hall Mystery" (1978) Included in: Collected Short Stories (Kingsley Amis); The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Mrs. Hudson Other Characters: Lady Emily Fairfax; Sir Harry Fairfax; Black Ralph; Carlos; Miles Fairfax; Captain Jack Bradshaw; Dolores Date: Closing days of July, 1885 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Darkwater Hall, Wiltshire; (Hurlstone) Story: With Holmes, a victim of depression, sent off to stay with Reginald Musgrave, Watson is alone at Baker Street when Lady Fairfax arrives. She tells Watson that her husband, Sir Harry's life is in danger from a poacher named Black Ralph. Watson suggests she consult Lestrade or one of Holmes' rival investigators, but she persuades him to investigate for her. He travels to Darkwater Hall where he meets Sir Harry's twenty-minute-younger twin brother, Miles, and Captain Bradshaw who is clearly in love with Lady Emily. Black Jack is seen at the window, and a rifle discovered missing from the armoury. The following day, Sir Harry is shot at during a shooting party. Watson brings the investigation to its conclusion.
	Lou Anders "The Sleep of Reason" (2014) Included in: Further Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (George Mann) Story Type: Science Fiction Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Mrs Hudson) Sherlockian Detectives: S. Quentin Carmichael & Dr Avery F. Wilson Characters Based on Fictional Characters: Joanna Carson (John Carter) Other Characters: Wiliam Alderbert; Salbatanu; Kralomoc; Cetus; Inanna; Shabbathai; Tzedek; Martian Guards; (Major Van Wyck; Yavapai Chief; Chol Joon-Ho; Martian Ambassador) Date: 23rd January, 1900 Locations: USA; New York; 177B Bleecker Street; Mars / Moosrab; receiving Chamber; Palace; 221B, Baker Street Story: Dr Wilson returns home to 177B Bleecker Street to find New York consulting detective S. Quentin Carmichael apparently dead on the floor. Carmichael manages to communicate to him the story of a visit from novelist Alderbert, who has received a message from Joanna Carson, the Queen of Mars. Carmichael transfers his consciousness to Mars, using meditation, to investigate the apparent murder of the Martian ambassador by his counterpart from Jupiter. Holmes has his own connection to the case. Note: "Moosrab" is Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Barsoom" backwards.
	Isaac Anderson "The Great Security Bank Mystery" (1902) Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey); Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I: 1900-1904 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Detective: Showman Hoyle Other Characters: Watchman; Bank President; Cashier; Police Sergeant; Patrolmen Locations: The Security National Bank Story: The Watchman awakes to find the bank has been robbed. He calls the bank president, and the great detective Showman Hoyle is called in, deduces that there has been a robbery, and sets the police on the trail of the suspect.
	K.J. Anderson The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) (from a screenplay by James Dale Robinson, based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill) Story Type: Fantasy Adventure Canonical Characters: Professor Moriarty; (Sherlock Holmes) Fictional Characters: The Phantom of the Opera {The Fantom}; Allan Quatermain; Captain Nemo; Ishmael; Dorian Gray; Edward Hyde; Henry Jekyll; ('M') Other Characters: Bartholomew Dunning; Bartholomew's Sisters; Constable Dunning; Policemen; Bank Soldiers; Fantom's Henchmen; Lieutenant Dante; German Guard; Karl Draper; Factory Prisoners; German Soldiers; Kenyan Hawkers; Sanderson Reed; Wagon Driver; Britannia Club Members; Valet; Bruce; Nigel; Assassins; Elderly Hunter; Hansom Driver; Rodney Skinner; Nemo's Crew; Herr Muller; Eva Draper; Gondolier; Carnival Crowds; Guards; British Representative; German Ambassador; French Leader; Russian Diplomat; Italian Diplomat; Spanish Ambassador; Portuguese Ambassador; Patel; Lady Recordist; Mongolian Guards; Kidnapped Scientists; Mongolian Workers; Foreman; Scientists' Families; M's Valet; British & American Soldiers; Campion Bond; Aide Date: 1899 Locations: London; Moorgate Passage; Tabard Row; Threadneedle Street; Bank of England; Germany; Hamburg; Valkyrie Zeppelin Works; Kenya; Nairobi; The Britannia Club; Tottenham Court Road; The Albion Museum; Tiger Bay; France; Paris; Rue Morgue; The Nautilus; The Mediterranean Sea; Italy; Venice; Mongolia; The Amur River Story: The Bank of England is robbed by the Fantom and Da Vinci's plans of Venice stolen. A German Zeppelin factory is destroyed and an engineer kidnapped. The two countries blame each other and war seems imminent. M sends Reed to recruit Quatermain to lead a team to stop the Fantom's planned attack on a peace conference in Venice. He is joined by Nemo, the invisible Skinner (who stole Griffin's formula), and Mina. They are attacked by the Fantom's men when they go to recruit Gray, and are aided in the fight by American agent Sawyer. In Paris they capture Hyde, who is also essential to the mission. As they attempt to prevent the destruction of Venice, it becomes clear that there is a traitor in their midst, and the Nautilus is almost destroyed. They realise that the Fantom has taken a sample of that which gives each of them their special qualities, and is planning to create super warriors, alongside his advanced battle machinery. They follow him to his lair in Mongolia - where it is revealed that he is really Moriarty - and endeavour to foil his plans.
Poul Anderson "Eve Times Four" (1960) Included in: Time and Stars (Poul Anderson) Story Type: Homage / Science-Fiction Characters: Arsang XXXIII; Teresina Fabricant; John Jacob Newhouse; Hedwig Trumbull; First Mate Lefkowitz; Captain Ironsmiter; Marie Quesnay; Mr. Fred; Kamala Chatterji; Sir John Baskerville; (Mr. Manfred) Locations: A spaceship; a lifeboat; an unknown planet; the planet Holmes; the town Irene Story: En route from Earth to Xenophon, a spaceship meets trouble while in the vicinity of the double planet Holmes-Watson. A lifeboat from the ship, its navigation charts missing, is forced to land on an unknown planet. Faced with no hope of rescue, third mate Newhouse suggests that they must start a colony and begin to populate this new world, citing a law that planetary castaways must have children, and that former marriages are annulled. The women of the party are not so enthusiastic about this. Rescue eventually comes in the shape of Sir John Baskerville, legal officer of Irene, the only town on the planet Holmes.
	"The Martian Crown Jewels" (1958) Included in: The Science-Fictional Sherlock Holmes (Robert C. Peterson); The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sebastian Wolfe); The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler) Story Type: Homage / Science Fiction Detective: Syaloch Other Characters: Yamagata; Steinmann; Ramanowitz; Chuck Hollyday; Inspector Gregg; Constables; Ground Crew; Ybarra; Cabinet Minister; (John Carter) Locations: Phobos; Mars; Sabaeus; The Street of Those Who Prepare Nourishment in Ovens; The Jane Brackney Story: An unmanned spaceship containing the Martian Crown Jewels is brought in to land on Phobos. When it is opened, the jewels are missing. Inspector Gregg consults Syaloch, the Martian detective, "a seven-foot biped of vaguely storklike appearance". Syaloch travels to Phobos and examines the ship. He learns that the technician, Carter, who loaded the ship on Earth Station was searched when he left it, and that the entire spaceport was searched after the discovery of the theft, also that two of the control crew on Phobos had been working on Earth when the ship was loaded. Carter has since returned to Earth. Syaloch takes particular interest in the radioactive gunk used to seal the ships, then announces that the case is solved.
"The Queen of Air and Darkness" (1971) Included in: The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories (Poul Anderson) Story Type: Homage / Science Fiction Detective: Eric Sherrinford Other Characters: Mistherd; Shadow-of-a-Dream; Ayoch; The Queen of Air & Darkness; Barbro Engdahl Cullen; Jimmy Cullen; Chief Constable Dawson; Nagrim the Nicor; Morgarel the Wraith; William Irons; Irons' Wife & Children; Sambo; Tim Cullen Locations: The Northlands; Wolund's Barrow; Cloudmoor; The Planet Beowulf; Christmas Landing; Sherrinford's office; The Planet Roland; Portolondon; Irons' Home Story: Ayoch has stolen a human child, which he brings to the Queen. Barbro Cullen hires Eric Sherrinford, who claims collateral descent from one of the first private enquiry agents on Earth, to find Jimmy, her missing son, who has been taken from an archaeological dig on the planet Roland. Sherrinford journeys to Roland with her to search for the child, which he believes has been stolen by the Outlings. At dinner at the home of William Irons, Irons's son sings a song telling of the Queen of Air & Darkness. Barbro & Sherrinford venture out into the forbidden country, where the changeling boy, Mistherd, leads Sherrinford to the Queen, and Barbro is led by Jimmy to visions of her horse, Sambo, and husband, Tim.
	"Time Patrol " (1955) Included in: Guardians of Time (Poul Anderson) Story Type: Homage / Science Fiction Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson Historical Figures: (Hengist) Other Characters: Mr. Gordon; Manse Everard; Gordon's Assistant; Patrol Recruits; Charles Whitcomb; Dard Kelm; Spaceship Pilot Trainer; London Watchman; J. Mainwethering; Clerk; London Crowds; Constable; Scotland Yard Inspector; Saxon Villagers; Wulfnoth; Wulfnoth's Family; Saxon Boy; Guards; Canterbury Crowds; Inn Customers; Stane's Guards; Stane / Rozher Schtein; Eadgar; Concubine; Mainwethering's Guards; Mrs. Enderby; Mary Nelson; Two Time Patrol Men; Danellian; (Lord Wyndham; James Rotherhithe; Ing Empire Merchant) Date: 1954 / The Ogligocene Period / June, 1894 / 1947 / AD 464 / AD 461 / November 17th, 1944 Locations: New York; Time Patrol Academy; New York Public Library; London; Warehouse; Dalhousie & Roberts Import House; A Hansom Cab; Addleton; The Wyndham Estate; Jutish Thorp; Canterbury; An Inn; Stane's House; Streatham; Everard's House; Mary's House; Piccadilly Circus Story: Everard's job application results in his having to take a barrage of psychological tests, which lead to him becoming a member of the Time Patrol. At the Patrol's Academy he meets other recruits from many different time periods, and learns that the Patrol has been set up to police the lanes of time travel. Back in his own time Everard reads a reference to the Addleton tragedy and the ancient British barrow (see GOLD). Further research revealed that the archaeologist, Lord Wyndham, died after opening a case of ingots of unknown metal in the barrow, and his assistant, Rotherhithe was arrested for his murder. His family hired a "well-known private detective", who proved Rotherhithe's innocence. Suspecting the presence of radioactive material, which suggests misuse of the time lanes, Everard travels back to 1894 to investigate with his companion, Whitcomb. A visit to Addleton, where he encounters the detective, his assistant and a Scotland Yard man at the barrow, confirms his suspicions. They travel back to Jutish Kent when the casket was placed inside the barrow. There they learn of the wizard Stane who was buried in the barrow. They journey back again to confront Stane in Canterbury. After they have control of Stane's time machine, Whitcomb attempts to save his fiancée, killed during the Blitz. Everard has to make a choice between his friend and the laws of time.
	Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson "The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound" (1953) Included in: Earthman's Burden (Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson); The Science-Fictional Sherlock Holmes (Robert C. Peterson); Sherlock Holmes Through Time & Space (Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh) Story Type: Parody / Science Fiction Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes; Lestrade; Mrs. Hudson; Sir Henry Baskerville; The Hound of the Baskervilles) Other Characters: Whitcomb Geoffrey; Alexander Jones; Rajat Singh; A Hoka Bobby; Landlord; Farmer Toowey; A Ppussjan Locations: The planet Toka: Jones's office; Devonshire, England; London; 211-B, Baker Street; Dartmoor; St. Vitus-Where-He-Danced; The George & Dragon Inn; Baskerville Hall; Grimpen Mire Story: Whitcomb Geoffrey is investigating an interstellar dope smuggling ring operated by the ppussjans. His investigation brings him to the planet Toka, inhabited by small teddy-bear-like Hokas, creatures who have adopted their characters & civilisation from Victorian literature. Geoffrey & Jones journey to the Hoka version of London, where they meet a Hoka version of Lestrade, who takes them to see a Hoka Holmes, who insists on referring to Geoffrey as Gregson, and Jones as Watson. The group journey to Dartmoor in search of the renegade ppussjan, where they are told of the fate of Sir Henry Baskerville, swallowed whole by an enormous hound. They suspect there may be a connection between the hound affair and the ppussjan, and their investigations lead them to a confrontation at Grimpen Mire.
Peter K. Andersson "The Adventure of the Dark Tower" (2015) Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part III: 1896-1929 (David Marcum) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; (Sherlock Holmes; Mrs Watson; Billy) Other Characters: Dr Elmsley Purkiss; Hotel Receptionist; Police Superintendent; Policemen; Julius Bedrock; Millicent Ellis; (Squire Marchmont: Roderick Marchmont; Roderick's Brother; Roderick's Father; Maiden; Witch; Shepherd; Shepherd's Wife; Newlywed Couple; Ornithologist; Young Girl; Jenny Mayle; Farmer; Farmer's Family; Farmhand; Elizabeth Bedrock; Prison Director) Locations: Herefordshire; Inchwood Cottage; Marchmont Manor; Hotel; 221B, Baker Street; Police Station; Inchwood Copse Story: On holiday in rural Herefordshire, Watson comes across the isolated cottage of the historian Elmsley Purkiss. Purkiss tells him of the legendary curse upon the family of his landlord, Squire Marchmont, and the local tales of disappearances and hauntings in the nearby woods. Purkiss came to Herefordshire to spend a few days investigating the stories and has found himself unable to leave, having witnessed the horrors of the wood for himself. Letters from Holmes lead Watson to a solution.
	"The Adventure of the Improbable Intruder" (2016) Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part V: Christmas Adventures (David Marcum) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Mrs Watson) Other Characters: Christopher Petty; (Dr Whittington; Dorothy; Professor Seemly; Earl of Pembroke) Unnamed Characters: (Whittington's Colleagues; Whittington's Neighbours; Whittington's Servants; Mrs Watson's Parents) Date: December Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Buckinghamshire; Cumbersome House Story: Christopher Petty, secretary to retired anthropologist Dr Whittington, consults Holmes after encountering a tiny man, less than a foot tall, in his employer's library.
Charlton Andrews "The Bound of the Astorbilts" (1902) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches: 1900-1904 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Hound of the Baskervilles Historical Figures: William Waldorf Astor; (Bertram Fletcher Robinson) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Moor Story: Watson and Holmes both make deductions about a recent visitor from a crushed bone collar-button. Their visitor returns, with items removed from their rooms.
	"The Resources of Mycroft Holmes" (1903) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I: 1900-1904 (Bill Peschel); A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches (Charles Press) Story Type: Extra-Canonical Exploit of Mycroft Holmes Canonical Characters: Mycroft Holmes; (Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson) Folkloric Characters: (The Wandering Jew) Historical Figures: (Charles II; Charles IX of France; Marie Touchet; William Shakespeare; Francis Gastrel; The Man in the Iron Mask; Louis XIVl; Benigne d'Auvergne de Saint-Mars; Joseph Balsamo, Count Cagliostro) Other Characters: Professor Mustie; Rushem; (London Correspondent; Foxy Quiller; Earl of Willingham; Giles Harcourt; Blind Crusader; Alertius; The Pompeian Lector; Israel Mustie; Mycroft's Father; Israel's Mother; Israel's Grandfather; Israel's Uncle; Gaston de Vrayeulx) Locations: USA; Daily Saffron Office; Diogenes Club Story: He Repudiates Sherlock Professor Mustie is sent by the editor of the Daily Saffron to interview Mycroft Holmes. Mycroft tells him his opinion of Sherlock, and why he will not set up in competition with him, but instead has become a Solver of Historical Mysteries. He reveals Mustie's family history, and consents to Mustie becoming his biographer. He Solves the Mystery of the Shakespearean Authorship The following day, Mycroft sets about discovering who wrote Shakespeare. He uses the Diogenes Club's first folio to search for a suspected cipher, taking eight-and-three-quarter minutes to discover the true authorship. He Solves the Mystery of the Man in the Iron Mask On the third day, Mycroft is set the task of uncovering the identity of the Man in the Iron Mask. After Mustie outlines the various theories about his identity, Mycroft relates the modern trends of advertising and competition to the problem and deduces that the Mask was a friend rather than an enemy of Louis XIV. NOTE: A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches (Charles Press) only includes the first section of "He Repudiates Sherlock".
Val Andrews Sherlock Holmes and the Egyptian Hall Adventure (1993) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Billy; Inspector Lestrade; Mrs Hudson; (Irene Adler) Historical Figures: John Nevil Maskelyne; David Devant; Nevil Maskelyne; Buatier de Kolta; (Queen Victoria; Edward VII; Kaiser Wilhelm II) Other Characters: Cyril Randolph / Cyrano; Jugglers; Egyptian Hall Audience; Cleric; Clown; Shifty Jack; Mabel Cosgrove / Madame Patricia; Pianist; Theatre Attendants; Police Constable; Police Sergeant; Dr Simpsom; Performers; Theatre Staff; Miss Glenrose; Stage Door Keeper; East End Troublemakers; Mr Webber; Stringer; Matthew Craig; Railway Guard; Lunatic on Train; Ticket Inspector; Station-Boy; Three Bridges Station Master; Haywards Heath Cab Driver; Windrush's Elderly Retainer; Lady Windrush; Cabby; Sir Bertram Staines; Projector Operator; Kurt Schmidtt; Lestrade's Constables; (Panjandrum; Guardsman Gray; Charles McDougal; Courier Reporter; Charlie; Midgets; Sir Percival Windrush; Lady Windrush's Lover; Jeweller; Hansom Driver; Theatrical Agent; Schmidtt's Agent; Schmidtt's Doctor) Date: Late Spring, 1898 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Picadilly; Egyptian Hall; New Bond Street; Oxford Street; Baker Street; Coffee Stall near Middlesex Street; The East End; Webber's Shop; Stringer's Shop; Commercial Road; Victoria Station; Three Bridges Station; Sussex; Haywards Heath; Windrush Towers; Mortuary Story: Cyril Randolph, a magician performing at Maskelyne's Egyptian Hall, consults Holmes when Lady Windrush's ring disappears in the middle of one of his tricks. Holmes and Watson attend that evening's performance, which is disrupted by Buatier de Kolta who accuses Randolph of stealing his trick. The evening ends when Holmes and Watson are called backstage to find that Randolph has been murdered.
	Sherlock Holmes and the Eminent Thespian (1988) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector [George] Lestrade; Billy; (Baker Street Irregulars) Historical Figures: William Gillette; Charlie Chaplin; Edward VII; (Queen Victoria) Other Characters: Samuel Guldenboom; Mrs Barrington; Miss Faversham; Charles Witherspoon; Samuel Wise; Mr Goldblatt; Mary de Lisle; Louis Reynaud; Irving Matthews; Jonas Winters; Joe Williams; (Mrs Lestrade; Tarkerton J. Barrington; George Hardwicke; James Wilkins; General Parkinson-Smythe) Unnamed Characters: Tower Sergeant; Yeomen Warders; Café Owner; Captain of Marines; Widow; American Heiress; Greyhound Breeder; Elderly Lady; Desk Sergeant; Urchin; Shadow Thugs; Trap Driver; Ferret-Faced Fairground Man; Fun Fair Showmen; Fairground Boy; Fences: Holborn Sergeant; Holborn Constables; Actors; Lyceum Audience; Stage Door Keeper; Callboys; Cabbie; Lyceum Constables; Backstage Staff; Crime Correspondents; (Mrs Lestrade's Sister; Watson's Aunt; Woman from 227B, Baker Street; Sailor) Date: July 1928 / Spring 1901 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Tower of London; Working-Men's Café; Sugar Warehouse; Pawnbroker's Shop; Theatrical Costumier's Shop; Police Station; Victoria Station; Sussex; Hassocks; Henfield Common; Hatton Garden; Saffron Hill; Holborn Police Station; Lyceum Theatre Story: Lestrade arrives at Baker Street with the news that the coronation of Edward VII will be unable to take place because the Crown Jewels have been stolen and replaced with fakes.At the Tower of London, Holmes notices that a panorama depicting the Battle of Waterloo has been rearranged. When Holmes faces a larger than usual number of new clients, Watson attempts to take over some of his cases. The Crown Jewels thief sends Holmes off on a number of false trails, and their own leads result in them being arrested and imprisoned. Holmes and Watson attend a performance of William Gillette's Sherlock Holmes at the Lyceum Theatre, and notice similarities between its plot and the theft at the Tower. Holmes enlists Gillette's aid, but keeps Watson in the dark, to recover the Crown Jewels.
Sherlock Holmes and the Holborn Emporium (2001) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Sir Henry Baskerville) Historical Figures: Stanley Collins; Will Goldston; Nelson Hardy; (Leah Laurie) Other Characters: Reggie; Signor Pescalini; A.W. Forrage; Joe; Nelly; Maritza Kover; Mr Kover; Mr Bimbo; Greenford; Gregory Kline; Warburton; Horace; Lionel Fairburn; Higgs; George Thompson; Sir Hubert Carding; Lady Grundy-Smythe; Lord Preston; Mr Grundy-Smythe; Herbert Dawlish; Golfer; Forrage's Customers; Reggie's Father; Pescalini's Musicians; Lift Operators; Forrage's Staff; Elderly Actor; Store Santa; Children; Parents; Gardeners; Nelly's Sister; Dictagram Salesman; Circus Musicians; Acrobats; Clowns; Elephant Trainer; Circus Artistes; Circus Grooms; Circus Audience; Circus Gun Man; Forrage's Messenger Boy; Taxi Driver; Ostlers; Grooms; Forrage's Guests; Footman; Stockholders; Fox & Hound Barmaid; Villagers; Indian Musicians; (Delivery Boy; Smith; Flower Customers; Shady Men; Smartly-Dressed Woman; Penny Donor; Police Constable; Desk Sergeant; Bus Conductor; Theatrical Man; Magic Suppliers; Nelly's Cousin; Tom; Nelly's Mother; Post Master; Lord Porting; Mr Chapman; Carding's Sister) Date: Late November, 1903 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; High Holborn; A.W. Forrage, Ltd; Central West End Police Station; Hatton Garden; Clerkenwell Road; Leather Lane; Henley Grange; The Fox and Hounds Story: Watson meets Holmes at Forrage's Emporium in High Holborn, where the owner, A.W. Forrage, tells them that he is being blackmailed, and that his produe has been tampered with when he refused to pay. The latest demand contains a threat to the children visiting Santa's grotto. Watson's plan to wait in disguise for the blackmailer fails, and the magic department becomes the next target, bringing new manager, Will Goldston, into the investigation. Attacks on the circus in the store's basement, and other departments are averted, but further threats are made against a houseparty fox hunt at Forrage's home, Henley Grange.
	Sherlock Holmes and the Houdini Birthright (1995) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Holmes's Sussex Housekeeper; Baker Street Irregulars; (Inspector Lestrade; Watson's Brother) Fictional Characters: (Dr Locke) Historical Figures: Harry Houdini; Arthur Conan Doyle; Jean Leckie; Bess Houdini; Daisy White; Theodore "Dash" Weiss / Hardeen; Bernard Ernst; Bess's Guets; Joseph Dunninger; John Mulholland; Milbourne Christopher; Burton L. King; Jim Collins; Jim Vickery; (Greenhough Smith; Cecelia Weiss; Kingsley Doyle; General Gordon; Will Goldston; William Ellsworth Robinson / Chung Ling Soo; Whitehead; Dr Kennedy; Detroit Surgeons; Arnold De Biere; Horace Goldin; The Great Cirnoc; Kleppini; Dr A.M. Wilson; Clinton Burgess; Al Jennings; Jesse James; Bob Ford; Walter B. Gibson; Kaiserin Josephine; Ehrich Weiss; Gladys Weiss; Prince Erich; David Hammel; Al Capone; Dr Leo Dretzka; Dr George L. LeFevre; Welsh Brothers Clowns; Welsh) Other Characters: Houdini's Chauffeur; Blandford Hall Ticket Woman; Professor Bernard; Bernard's Audience; Mary Fraser; Godfrey Sheridon; Miss Smith; Kate Courtney-Smythe; Embankment Constable; Woman; Richard Hawke; Dr Robert Blackthorne; Marina Blackthorne; Mrs Morgan; Ritz Waiter; Movie Director; Actors; Technicians; Scene Shifters; Brownstone Bellboy; Capone's Collector; Appleton Registrar's Assistant; Burlesque Dancers; Grand Central Crowds; Grand Central Waitress; Hungarian Agents; Budapest Jewish Quarter Residents; Registry Assistant; Georges Zoltan; Zoltan's Accomplice; Captain Maroc; Countrysiders; Maroc's Companions; Contessa Irena; Taxi Driver; Hotel Clerk; Budapest Police Sergeant; Constables; Paris Street Artists; Artist's Audience; Boston Matron; Photographer; The Manhattan Deerstalkers; Brownstone Desk Clerk; Zookeeper; Joe Casey; Reverend Joshua Bridger; (Chinese Mandarin; Grimes; Major George Armitage; Armitage's Lover; Wallace; Chimney Sweep's Boy; Charlie; Artisan; Doc Brady; Montreal Princess Theatre Manager; Detroit Garrick Theatre Manager; Detroit Nurse; Medical Team; Elmer; Cockney; Cop; Guy in Golfing Knickers; Chief Eagle Hawk; Atlantic City Jeweller) Date: Summer, 1922 / November, 1926 / Midsummer, 1927 Locations: Watson's Finchley Practice; Sussex; Fowlhaven; Charing Cross Hotel; Blandford Hall; The Polytechnic; British Museum; Fleet Street; The Embankment; Piccadilly; The Ritz; New York; Brownstone Hotel; 67 Payson Avenue; Movie Studio; Houdini's Storehouse; Little Italy; Italian Restaurant; Train; Chicago; Appleton, Wisconsin; Registrar's Office; Burlesque Theatre; Grand Central Station; Refreshment Room; Hungarian Embassy; Hungary; Budapest; 12, Sip Street; Hotel; Castle; City Centre Hotel; Police Headquarters; France; Paris; Cafe; Aboard the Burgundy; New York Steamship Office; Central Park Zoo; Joe's Diner; Algonquin Hotel Story: Houdini calls on Watson and asks to be taken to Holmes's Sussex cottage to ask him to help judge the veracity of a spirit-written message from his mother channelled through Lady Jean. He also tells Holmes of Marina Blackthorne, a medium he is trying to prove to Doyle is a fake. Holmes attends a seance in disguise, while Watson, banished from the hotel, saves a young woman from suicide. Holmes arranges for an announcement of his own death to be printed in order to prove his case. In 1926, Watson reads of Houdini's death. The following year, Holmes arrives at Watson's door, and invites him to a meeting with Bess Houdini at the Ritz. She believes Houdini was murdered, and asks Holmes to travel to New York to investigate. From Houdini's brother, Holmes hears of a Hungarian assistant, Zoltan, who worked for Houdini for a short time just before his death. From his lawyer and friends he hears a list of people who had grudges against Houdini. A sealed box, left by Houdini, leads them to Walter B. Gibson, and suggests links with a Magyar Nationalist society. Watson travels to Wisconsin, to look into Houdini's birth, while Holmes travels to Montreal to learn more about the punch that killed him. The trail takes them to Hungary, where, after being imprisoned in a Siberian lorry, and later a castle dungeon, they learn the truth about Houdini's parentage and his last great escape. Before reporting to Bess in New York, they stop off in Paris, attend a Sherlockian gathering, and accompany the Doyles to another seance.
Sherlock Holmes and the Long Acre Vampire (2001) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Inspector [George] Lestrade; Mrs Hudson; Billy Historical Figures: Sir Henry Irving; Florence [Irene] Irving Other Characters: Ashley Barrington; Glenda Joseph; Dr Jarvis; Ernie; George Jennings; Joe Barton; Howlett; Griselda Hargreaves; Inspector Grant / Cyril Chambers; George Blair; Charles Mornington; Peggy Mountjoy; Mr Dobson; Robert Jennings; Sir Oswald Carrington; Hudson; (Barry White) Unnamed Characters: Lyceum Nurses; Lyceum Orchestra; Actors; Dracula Audience; Newsvendor; Call Boy; Police Constables; Mortuary Assistant; Pub Patrons; Brighton Audience; Brighton Stage Manager; News-seller; Police Driver; Gaolers; Car Driver; Prompter; Brighton Hansom Driver; Brighton Constable; Sussex Police Officer; Judge; Jury; Simpson's Head Waiter; (Irving's Housekeeper; Lestrade's Sergeant; Tunbridge Wells Man; Prison Guard) Date: Winter toward the end of the nineteenth century / 1903 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Lyceum Theatre; Long Acre; Neal Street; George Street Mortuary; Pub; Central Police Station; Brighton; Theatre Royal; Hotel; Irving Towers; Desmond Hotel; The Old Bailey; Prison; Simpson's in the Strand Story: Holmes and Watson attend a performance of Henry Irving's Dracula at the Lyceum theatre. Meanwhile, in Long Acre, a series of murders have been taking place - the victims drained of blood, and seemingly bearing the bite-marks of a vampire. Suspecting a plot against Irving, when Sir Henry announces that he will be closing his production, Holmes persuades him instead to transfer it to Brighton, and sends Watson with him. Irving is arrested when another murder occurs on a day when he has travelled back to London. Holmes takes it upon himself to fill Irving's role in the play.
Sherlock Holmes and the Man Who Lost Himself (1997) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Irene Adler; Mycroft Holmes; Billy; (Professor Moriarty) Historical Figures: George V; (Sidney Paget; Walter Paget; John Logie Baird) Other Characters: Professor Mainwaring; J. Arthur Saunders; Sergeant Bulstrode; Mary Mainwaring; Dr Royston; Hauptman; Herr Freid; Captain "Fairy" Page; Sergeant Chevalier; Isadore Levi; Colonel Faversham; Septimus Young; Professor Cathcart; Monty the Ape; Tommy Masters; Algernon Bastow Bank Manager; Saunders' Young Lady; Photographers; Irene's Dresser; Florence Hotel Clerk; Aida Company; Ferry Passengers; Dover Officials; Splendide Minion; Estaminet Patrons; French Lad; Estaminet Owner; Air Fair Visitors; Air Fair Gate Man; Pilots; French Police Officers; Police Chief; Asylum Aide; Asylum Patient; Ville-Aesop Gendarmes; Village Lads; Villager; Sailors; Dieppe Passengers; French Port Officials; Onion-Sellers; Shoreham Policeman; Café Proprietor; Junk Dealer; Eight Bells Innkeeper; Diogenes Club Members; Messenger; Ville-Aesop Police Chief; Jeweller; Robbery Suspects; Ambassador's Messenger; Scotland Yard Plainclothes Men; Mycroft's Messenger; Police Guards; German Agents; Elephant Keeper (Hudson; Royston's Nurse; Policeman; Mainwaring's Old Friend; Hotel Manager; Martin Witherspoon; Professor Simpson; Flannigan; Signor Castelli; The Great Lomesh; German Mechanics; Joseph Hogg; War Minister; Lestrade's Wife) Date: Autumn, 1903 / During The Great Hiatus / 1909 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Small Baker Street Hotel; Victoria Station; Surrey; Reigate; J. Arthur Saunders, Sons and Co; Lorrimer's Bank; Poolford; The Willows; Royston's Surgery; Poolford Police Station; Kent; Dover; A Ferry; Italy; Florence; Opera House; Irene's Hotel; Tavern; France; Paris; Station; Hotel; Bistro; Calais; Estaminet; Hotel Splendide; Air Fair; Gendarmerie; Asylum; Village Café; Woodland; Ville-Aesop; Inn; Dieppe; Waterfront; Cargo Ship; Sussex; Shoreham; High Street; Shoreham Station; The Eight Bells and Bowling Green Inn; Diogenes Club; Ville-Aesop Gendarmerie; Jewellery Shop; Government Laboratory; Simpson's-in-the-Strand; The Thames; London Bridge; Nancy's Steps; Regent's Park Zoological Gardens; Fowlhaven; Buckingham Palace Story: Watson is visiting Holmes in Baker Street, when they are called upon by Professor Mainwaring, who tells them that his wife Mary has disappeared, along with any record of her having been registered as a patient, while on a visit to their local doctor's surgery. Returning to his home, he discovered that his key no longer fit the door, and that there were strangers in residence there. Holmes and Watson travel to Poolford in Surrey, where Mainwaring has been working on an improved aircraft engine, to investigate, but find themselves arrested and locked in the local police cell. While testing the effects of a drug given to the professor on himself, Holmes tells Watson of events in Florence and Paris involving Irene Adler during his Great Hiatus. The trail of Mainwaring's engine leads them to France and an air show. They find themselves incarcerated in an asylum and on the run from the police. They are separated and make their escapes back to England, Holmes solving a jewel robbery en route, and a murder involving an intelligent ape after his return.
	Sherlock Holmes and the Sandringham House Mystery (1998) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Billy; Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes Historical Figures: Horace Goldin; Edward VII; Queen Alexandra; Kaiser Wilhelm II; Kaiserin Augusta Victoria; George V; Queen Mary; (Rembrandt) Other Characters: Hudson; Madame Francis; Dolly; Milly; Arthur Hale; Dobson; Walshingham; Sergeant Reynolds; Sergeant George Murdoch; Georgina Murdoch; Murphy; Lord Derby; Lady Snowdonia; Sir George Faversham; Smithers; Music Hall Performers; Goldin's Assistants; Orchestra; Stage Doorkeeper; Scottish Singer; Footmen; Sandringham Staff; Kitchen Maid; German Servants; Major-Domo; Sandringham Guests; Kaiser's Aides; Sandringham Butler; Soldiers; White Hart Landlord; Barmaid; Sandringham Gatekeeper; Gardeners; Workmen; Baker Street Bystanders; (Art Expert; Crown Surveyors; Gustave Battenburger; Mrs Hudson's Sister; Goldin's Manager; Belgravia Lady) Date: November, 1902 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Palace Theatre; Norfolk; Sandringham House; Crypt; Southampton; Kaiser's Yacht; Hertfordshire; White Hart Inn; Victora Station; King's Lynn; Tearoom; Murdoch's Cottage Story: Holmes is consulted by the illusionist Horace Goldin, who is suspected of having stolen a Rembrandt painting from Sandringham House, where he recently performed at the invitation of Edward VII. When another performance is requested, Holmes and Watson accompany Goldin to Sandringham in the guise of his assistants. Meanwhile, Mrs Hudson has received word that 221B is to be demolished to make way for a new municipal building. When they arrive at Sandringham they learn that the Kaiser is also a guest, and they make contact with Lestrade, who is investigating the robbery. Holmes arranges the return of the painting, but that same evening, he disappears, and Watson and Lestrade set off on a quest to find him.
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Seven (2001) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Billy; Inspector Lestrade Other Characters: Septimus Culthorpe (Brother Prior); Brother Pisces (Godfrey Carrington); Shopkeeper; Campion (Brother Shepherd); Brother Reaper (Brother Orchard); Brother Carp; Brother Abacus; Brother Chef; Brother Orchard; Ghostly Army; Village Boy; Izaak Tapforth; Village Constable; Carrington's relatives; Judge Burroughs; Peddlers; Crowd at the Prison; (Gerald Carter; J.D. Norton; Sir Arthur Carrington; Sir Richard Forrest) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Sussex; Grimstone Station; A Dogcart; Grimstone Priory; Grimstone Village; The Old Bailey; Regents Park; Outside a Prison Story: The Secret Seven are not Enid Blyton's child detectives but a group of non-religious monks, seven in number, living in a priory in Sussex. The group's founder and leader, Septimus Culthorpe, tells Holmes & Watson that two of the monks have died in recent weeks, seemingly of natural causes, after receiving identical letters in the post. A third monk has just received a similar letter. Holmes & Watson join the order in the guise of Brother Hive & Brother Healer, and having found one of the letters hidden away, Holmes is quick to deduce the manner in which the monks were killed, but not the culprit. His researches at the local library reveal that some years before, jewels were stolen from the priory. On the evening of his discovery a ghostly civil war army appears in the fields outside. Holmes leaves the priory to continue his investigations outside, but in his absence the monks' lambs, chickens and fish are slaughtered. Holmes returns to reveal the guilty party.
	Sherlock Holmes and the Tomb of Terror (2000) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; Billy Historical Figures: (Val Andrews; Queen Victoria; The Prime Minister (Lord Salisbury)) Other Characters: Colonel George Court; Abdul Faziel / Septimus Jones; Major Kenyon; Claude Duvalier; Inspector Phillipe; Sergeant Pierre Le Roy; Sheikhama of Marrafaze; Grand Wazir Hassani; Mustapha; Socrates Holbrook; Professor Julian Westlake; (Countess Valeska; De Vere; Yogi Carib Dumbah) Unnamed Characters: Islington Bookseller; Diogenes Club Major Domo; Diogenes Club Waiter; Arab Agent; German Secret Service Agent; Police Officers; Minister; Travel Salesman; Itinerant Traders; Fortune Teller; Gypsy; Gibraltar Colonel; Algiers Major Domo; Traders; Money Changers; Water Sellers; Arabian Porters; Gendarmes; Rubbish Collector; Camel Drivers; Bechar Arab; Bedouins; Sheik's Servants; Guards; Marrafaze Youths; Nautch Dancers; Prisoners; Dead Man; Dead Man's Wives; Mourners; Executioners; Palace Attendants; Marrafaze Citizens; Balloon Crew; Mineral Expert; (Assassins; Exeter Guest House Landlord; Watson's Locum; Valeska's Servant; German Soldiers; Crusaders) Date: July, 1946 / December 31st, 1899 - 1900 Locations: Islington; Lyons Teashop; Camberley; 221B, Baker Street; Exeter Guest House; Diogenes Club; The Foreign Office; The Strand; Travel Store; France; Tarbes; Spain; Madrid; Gibraltar; Algeria; Algiers; Hotel Splendide; Gendarmerie; Bechar; Wadi el Hazier; Sahara Desert; Marrafaze; Sheik's Palace; Crusader Graveyard; Tomb; Sussex Story: Colonel Court discovers a Watsonian manuscript in a second-hand copy of Stanley's African Diaries. On the New Year's Eve of the new century, Holmes is visited by Abdul Faziel, heir to the sheikdom of Marrafaze in the Sahara Desert, whose brother Mustapha, and the Grand Wazir, are trying to turn his father, the Sheikhama, against him, and are now threatening his life. After consulting Mycroft, Holmes and Watson find themselves in the role of diplomats, tasked with establishing a treaty with Marrafaze. Travelling under the aliases of Socrates Holbrook and Julian Westlake, they have their fortunes told in Madrid, and investigate the theft of a pearl necklace at their hotel in Algiers, before heading into the desert on camels, where they encounter bandits. In Marrafaze, Holmes has to outwit the Wazir with skills learned from a Yogi. Having been made his chief advisors, when the Sheik dies, Holmes and Watson are interred alongside him in the royal tomb.
Sherlock Holmes at the Varieties (2000) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Billy; Inspector Lestrade; Mrs. Hudson Historical Figures: T.E. Dunville; G.H. Chirgwin; Marie Lloyd; George Robey; (Mrs Robey; Robey's Agent; Wilkie Bard; Phil May; Fred Karno) Other Characters: Murphy's Audience; Orchestra; Can-Can Dancers; Humpsti, Bumpsti & Rabbit; Conductor; Mr Murphy; Mr Duncan; Mons Cinquivelli; Performers; Paddy Cox; Hansom Driver; Errand Boy; Robey's Driver; Theatre Minion; Albert Harrison; Shelby; Mr Charters; Professor Septimus Crockett; Barmaid; George Phelps; Irish Tenor; Sealion Trainer; Colonel Pickering; Met Call-Boy; Murphy's Stage Manager; Reigate Cab Driver; Joshua Flood; Old Woman; Cabby; Castelli; Undertaker; Martha Grantham; Joe; Mavis Love; Charles Robey; Constable; Mrs Robey; Mrs Beadle; Old Murphy / Castelli; Messenger; (Tom Elcott; Mary Malone; Jimmy Grant; Robey's Solicitor; Old Grimes; Billy's Uncle; Museum Director) Date: April or May, 1895 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Murphy's Theatre of Varieties; Finchley; Robey's Villa; Croydon; Museum of Stringed Masterpieces; Metropolitan Music Hall; Reigate; Miller's Farm; Train; Jarvis & Sons Funeral Parlour Story: Holmes takes Watson to the Varieties, where Murphy tells them that there are rumours being spread that the theatre is haunted. During Robey's act, a sandbag crashes to the stage, the rope cut, narrowly missing him. Visiting Robey's house they discover that an imitation Gelado violin made by Robey has been replaced with a genuine one. Back at the theatre a trio of performing dogs have been mysteriously relocated during the night, and Holmes hears more tales of the ghost. There are further ghostly apparitions, and further attempts made on Robey's life. Holmes sends Watson to Reigate to collect something alive in a basket, and comes back to the news that Robey is dead and the ghost's identity has been revealed. A resurrection in a funeral parlour brings the would-be murderer to justice, but Watson finds himself saddled with a pug-dog pup before the case is finally over.
	Sherlock Holmes on the Western Front (2000) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Mycroft Holmes; Holmes's Sussex Housekeeper (Mrs MacDonald); Sherlock Holmes; Watson's Maid Fictional Characters: (Mr Capper; Mr Prout; Mr Quelch) Other Characters: Mrs Parkin; Mr Rowland; Mr Brand; Mrs Brand / Ilona Valesca / Mary Harkness; Colonel Malt; Sergeant Johnson; Mr Castle; Daft Jimmy; Mr Higgins; Inspector Garstang; Sergeant Wilson; Pierre Boyer; Yvonne Boyer; Voltaire; Flying Officer Havers; Sussex Postman; Simpson's Orchestra; Simpson's Head Waiter; Simpson's Diners; Simpson's Waiter; Music Shop Customers; Soldiers; Army Sergeant; White Hart Landlord; Tramp; Camp Sentry; Camp Sergeant; Café Waitresses; Watson's Cook; Haywards Heath Cabby; Asylum Doorman; Omnibus Driver; Middle-Aged Lady; Burgess Hill Railway Official; Burgess Hill Station Master; Burgess Hill Police Sergeant; Burgess Hill Cab Drivers; Bramber Police Officers; King's Head Landlord; Pierre's Assistant; Woman with Poodle; Dockside Lounger; Dieppe Residents; Plumber; Sporty-Looking Man; Peasnt Women; French Soldiers; Train Passengers; Ambassador's Aide; Embassy Typist; British Pilot; British Sergeant; British Soldiers; (George; Lord Gorse; Hippo Craig; Landlord's Brother; Captain James; Lieutenant Hopkins; Mr Wigg; Albert; German Soldiers; French Sappers) Date: Spring, 1916 Locations: St James's Park; Pall Mall; Diogenes Club; Charing Cross Hotel; Simpson's-in-the-Strand; Watson's House; Used-Clothing Shop; Pub; Rowland's Musical Emporium; Caf é; Victoria Station; Haywards Heath Station; Burgess Hill Road; Asylum; Haywards Heath; Bootmaker's Shop; Sussex; Holmes's Farmhouse; Burgess Hill Station; Burgess Hill Police Station; Bramber; The King's Head; Bramber Police Station; River Adur; Wiltshire; Salisbury; Salisbury Station; Amesbury; The White Hart; Salisbury Plain; Stonehenge; Army Camp; English Channel; France; Dieppe; Pierre's House; Antique Shop; Estaminet; Paris; British Embassy; Ardennes Forest Story: Mycroft sends Watson to Sussex to persuade Holmes to come to London. After hearing of the situation in France, Holmes resolves to go to the Western Front to investigate the source of leaks of troop movement information to the Germans. Mycroft decides they should go undercover as entertainers for the troops: Holmes as a violinist named Sigmund Hailsham, and Watson as a pianist and magician named Jason Wentworth. They play a trial concert at a military camp on Salisbury Plain, taking the chance to visit Stonehenge, where a glowing stone catches their attention, and leads to their pursuit of the female spy Ilona Valesca. Once affairs in Britain are wrapped up, Holmes and Watson travel to France as Theo Chambers and George Mitchell to infiltrate a cell of spies in Dieppe. A plane carrying Watson crashes in the Ardennes Forest, where German plans are scuppered. NOTE: Among his teachers at Greyfriars School, Watson lists a Mr "Wigg". Frank Richards' series of stories included a Mr Wiggins, and a Mr Twigg, but no Wigg.
The Torment of Sherlock Holmes (2000) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Moore Agar; Mrs Hudson; Billy; Inspector [George] Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes; Murray; Irene Adler; (Murray's Packhorse [Captain]; Professor Moriarty; The Moriarty Gang) Other Characters: Mr Scrooby; Sergeant Cooper; Inspector Cummings; Molly; Winifred; Geoffrey Malpasse; Hawkins; Sir Wilfred Greenwood; Clifford Harty; Margery Williams; (Horatio Reynolds; Dr Mortimer Snipe; Dale Reiner; Iris Anderson; W. Arkwright) Unnamed Characters: Regent's Park Crowds; Cab Drivers; Victoria Ruffian; Left Luggage Clerk; Elderly Lady Passenger; Bowler-Hatted Young Man; Vicar; Lady with Cat Basket; Jolly Smugglers Landlord; Café Waitress; Police Constables; Margery's Baby; Plainclothes Detective; Tobacconist; Winifred's Brother; Winifred's Mother; Hansom Drivers; Lord Nelson Customers; Bearded Man; Artists; Eight Bells Customers; Eight Bells Proprietor; Simpson's Stockbroker; Simpson's Head waiter; Stout Man; Typist; (Jolly Smugglers Landlord's Wife; Scrooby's Secretary; Single Gentleman; Gentleman's Visitor; Music Hall Artiste; Police Doctor) Date: Spring 1897 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Regent's Park; Victoria Station; Sussex; Brighton Station; A Train; Rustington; Jolly Smugglers Inn; Dolphin's Spine; Mon Repos; Trenchard Street; Scrooby & Co; Café; Police Station; Tobacconist's Shop; Chelsea; Kings Road; The Lord Nelson; The Eight Bells and Bowling Green; Bond Street; Greenwood's Gallery; Simpson's-in-the-Strand Story: Holmes is undergoing a breakdown, and Watson finds a luggage receipt dropped by a veiled woman in Regent's Park. After coming under attack on his way to claim the luggage, he takes it back to Baker Street in the hopes that the mystery will pull Holmes out of his depression. The hatbox that he retrieves contains a bloodstained dress and a butcher's knife. A clue takes them to Dolphin's Spine, an island in Sussex, where Watson is reunited with Murray and his packhorse. The case brings Holmes back in contact with Irene Adler, who has inadvertently become involved in a mysterious, bloody death.
Anyhow "Ideal Interview: Sherlock Holmes" (1893) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; (Dr Watson) Characters Derived from Historical Figures: (Dr Donan Coyle) Fictional Characters: (Mrs Grundy) Other Characters: Anyhow; Station Officials; Guards; Policemen; Attendants; Passengers; Engine Driver; Socialist Orator; Water Rates Collector; (Holmes's Parents) Date: 1893 Locations: Crystal Palace; Crystal Palace Station; A Train; Battersea Station; Victoria Station; 999, Faker Street Story: Anyhow finds himself sharing a carriage with Holmes on the train home from the Crystal Palace. The following day, at Holmes's insistence, he interviews Holmes at 999, Faker Street. After avoiding Holmes's trap, he hears of Holmes's early days and career before becoming a detective, the training he received from Watson, and some of his failures, before he is able to make his escape.
	A.R.B. "Lord Sheffield's Mascot" (1906) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches II: 1905-1909 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Other Characters: Hanbury Ashcroft / Slim Jim; Hotel Maids; Cabman; Tin and Bagville Residents; Hotel Servant; Cadger; (Mr Warner; Lord Sheffield; Cricketers) Locations: Australia; Sydney; Hotel Metropole; Sydney Cricket Ground Story: Watson persuades Holmes to take a therapeutic holiday in Australia. There, they are called on in their room by English cricketer Hanbury Ashcroft. A diamond and ruby ornament, whose magic powers seem to guarantee success to the England team, belonging to Lord Sheffield has disappeared from a locked room, and a stilleto, monocle, and a letter threatening Warner, the team's captain, left in its place. A feather leads Holmes to the solution.
Alexander Armstrong & Ben Miller "The Adventure of the Uneasy Encounter" (2010) Included in: The Armstrong & Miller Book (Alexander Armstrong & Ben Miller) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Mrs Hudson) Other Characters: (Emmett Torrance) Date: April 13, Seven years after Holmes and Watson first met Locations: Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street Story: Having moved out of 221B and into partnership with a rival detective, Emmett Torrance, in Belgravia, Watson lingers in Baker Street, hoping for a chance encounter with Holmes.
	Anthony Armstrong "The Reigate Road Murder" (1926) Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey); The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler) Story Type: Parody Detectives: Holmlock Shears & Watnot Other Characters: Lady; Husband Locations: Shears's Baker Street Rooms; Lady's House; (Shears's Baker Street Urchins) Story: Shears is visited by a lady whose husband has been murdered. Scotland Yard are baffled: not only can they not find the murderer, they can't even find the corpse. Shears visits the house and deduces that the three murderers rode away on bicycles in the direction of Reigate.
	"The Scarlet Pimple" (1926) Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey) Story Type: Parody Detective: Holmlock Shears Other Characters: Citizen Tinquier-Fouville; Citizen Shovealong; Citizen Wathot; Prisoners; The Scarlet Pimple; (Old Man; Carrier) Date: The third day of Nivôse in the year I of the Republic Locations: Paris; Rue de Cordeliers Story: Tinquier-Fouville & Shovealong await the capture of the Scarlet Pimple. Watchman Wathot brings four prisoners he believes to be the Pimple. One of the prisoners is Shears who crossed over from the following edition's story when the author left the two manuscripts lying next to each other. He reveals the Pimple's identity before returning to his own story.
Jake Arnott "Ten Lords A-Leaping" (2004) Included in: Best British Mystery Stories 2006 (Maxim Jakubowski); 12 Days (Shelley Silas) Story Type: Homage Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; (Reginald Musgrave) Fictional Characters: Inspector Bucket Historical Figures: Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels Other Characters: Lord Beckworth; Parsons; Working Men's Association Delegate; Constable; Elizabeth Cardew; Chinaman; Malays; Opium Smokers; Policemen; (Ralph Beckworth; Ralph's Footman; Beckworth's Parlour Maid) Locations: Marx's Rooms; Bloomsbury; Soho; Greek Street; Mayfair; The Beckworth House; A Pub; Limehouse; Opium Den; British Museum Story: Although the description of the cigars in the coal scuttle, the Persian slipper and the jack-knife would have us believe otherwise, we are, in fact, in the rooms inhabited by Karl Marx. Engels introduces Lord Beckworth to Marx. Beckworth tells them of the family curse which has led to death through various types of fall for the previous nine lords. Visiting his Mayfair house the following day, they learn that Beckworth has died after falling downstairs, and find Inspector Bucket in attendance. Parsons the butler is missing, and there is a small green flower clenched in the hand of the corpse. Marx takes on the task of solving the crime and notices that they are being followed. A visit to Little Italy, an interview with the dead man's fiancée and a visit to a Limehouse opium den draw the case to its unhappy close. A week later Marx introduces Engels to a young man he has met at the British Museum, just embarking on a career as a private detective.
	Mark Aronson "The Adventure of the Second Scarf" (1995) Included in: Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg) Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes Other Characters: Elias Hatch; Drimba; Altor Benn; Aliens; Imperial Prime Ministers; Guards; Four-Armed Waiter; The Filgi Date: Autumn, 1897 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Baker Street; Liverpool Street Station; Drimba's Building; Drimba's Spacecraft; Benn's Ship; The Moon Story: Returning to Baker Street after a walk during which Holmes has astounded Watson with his deductions, they encounter Drimba, whom Holmes deduces to be an alien. He takes them aboard his spacecraft to investigate the murder of Altor Benn, a mediator, aboard his own ship, with no way for the murderer to escape. Benn has been stabbed through the neck, an orange scarf wrapped tightly around his neck, and his ship drained of oxygen. At a base station on the moon where interplanetary peace talks are underway, Holmes is introduced to the Filgi guards, a computer, which he rapidly names "Mycroft" and the Prime Ministers of two worlds, one of whom he must save from assassination.
Marvin Aronson "There's a Time and a Place for Everything" (1976) Included in: More Leaves from the Copper Beeches (The Sons of the Copper Beeches) Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche Canonical Characters: James Phillimore; Mrs Hudson; Sherlock Holmes; (Dr Watson) Historical Figures: Marvin Aronson Other Characters: Cox & Co Attendant; Auctioneer; Millenium Debater; Sightseeing Couple; Newsboy; Student Nurse Date: 11th April, 1975 / July 7th, 1999 / July 7th, 1899 - April, 1900 Locations: London; Cox & Company; Holmes Hotel; Lewes, Delaware; Greenwich; Naval Museum; Seaman's Hospital; Bond Street; 221B, Baker Street Story: On holiday in London, Aronson attends an auction at Cox & Co., where he finds himself sitting next to Phillimore. Phillimore buys a gasogene, and after himself buying a dispatch box, Aronson notices that Phillimore has left his umbrella behind. The dispatch box contains a manuscript that tells a story written in 1900, but beginning in 1999 when the narrator finds himself transported from Delaware to Greenwich in 1899. After an attempt to reverse the process he finds himself in hospital being addressed as "Mr Phillimore". He decides to visit Holmes for help, and after he has tested him on his knowledge of the canon, Holmes makes calculations that will return him to his own time. A second document in the dispatch case reveals Phillimore's true identity.
	E.G. Ashton "International Investigators, Inc." (1952) Included in: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (February 1952) Story Type: Homage Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes; Irene Adler; Professor Moriarty; Dr. Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Inspector Alec MacDonald; English Woman; Swiss Boy; Colonel Moran) Fictional Characters: Lord Peter Wimsey; Uncle Abner; Miss Marple; Arsène Lupin; Sam Spade; Ellery Queen; Dr Gideon Fell; Father Brown; (Bunter; Dr Thorndyke; Inspector Appleby; Gervase Fen; C. Auguste Dupin; John J. Malone; Fu Manchu; Simon Templar; A.J. Raffles; The Lone Wolf) Other Characters: (Ann Chadwick; Ann Chadwick's Cook) Locations: Wimsey's Home Story: After a dinner party for members of the Examining Body of International Investigators, Inc., the gathered members discuss the reasons why Holmes has never achieved the standard of excellence necessary to become a member of their society, and read a thesis submitted by their latest applicant for membership, T.A. LaMont, on the true identity of the late Professor Moriarty.
Hugh Ashton "The Adventure of John Vincent Harden" (2015) Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part IV: 2016 Annual (David Marcum) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; John Vincent Harden; Billy; Mrs Hudson; Wiggins; (Baker Street Irregulars; Stanley Hopkins; Baker Street Cook) Other Characters: Street Urchins; Police Constable; Kitchen-Maid; Mrs Bulstrode; Albert Finchley; Harden's Footman; Lucy Jones; Lady Julia Harden; Cab Driver; Joshua Leman; (Duke of Northampton; Annabel; Senator; Harden's Servants; Wager Witnessses; Jonathan Eddoes) Locations: Regent Street; 221B, Baker Street; Harden's House; Tottenham Court Road; Finchley's Ironmongers; Battersea; Leman's House Story: Holmes and Watson witness Harden being mobbed by street urchins in Regent Street. After he collapses in the street, Watson tends to him and takes him back to Baker Street, where he tells Holmes that the gang of urchins has been following him and taunting him over a past indiscretion with a senator's daughter, and that he has received obscene letters at his home. Holmes believes that the American blackmailer, Joshua Leman, is behind Harden's problems, but is puzzled that no demands for money have been made.
	"The Adventure of the Deceased Doctor" (2016) Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part V: Christmas Adventures (David Marcum) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Von Bork; Mycroft Holmes; Mrs Hudson / Martha; Inspector Lestrade; Tobias Gregson) Other Characters: Mrs Dalwymple; Sister Lightfoot; Dr Lionel Godney; Olivia de Lacey; Perkins; Inspector Braithwaite; Geraldine Cardew; (Mrs Godney; Captain Giles Cardew) Unnamed Characters: Elderly Constable; Porters; (Patient; Nurses; Hospital Superintendent) Date: 24-25 December 1916 Locations: Hampshire; Mrs Dalwymple's House; Hospital; Police Station Story: During the Great War, Watson is serving at a hospital in Hampshire, and lodging with a distant cousin of Mrs Hudson. Holmes visits him for Christmas. Watson arrives at the Hospital on Christmas morning to find Dr Godney dead and an unconscious nurse lying beside him.
"The Case of the Lichfield Murder" (2015) Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part I: 1881-1889 (David Marcum) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Henry Staunton; Billy Other Characters: Henry Taylor; Police Constables; Inspector Upton; Martha Lightfoot Taylor; Stephen Taylor; George Hotel Waiters; (The 1st Mrs Taylor; Katie Taylor; Taylor's Sister; Anne Hilton; Police Constable; Katie's Schoolfellow; Sutton Coldfield Police; Mrs Staunton) Date: 188- Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Staffordshire; Lichfield; Trent Valley Station; Market Square; 23, Dam Street; Conduit Street; Earl of Lichfield Arms; Police Station; The George Story: Middle-aged merchant Henry Taylor calls on Holmes after the murder of his young second wife, Martha, after month of bad blood between her and his son, who was found holding the murder weapon. Holmes and Watson travel to Taylor's home in Lichfield to examine the murder scene, the body and the weapon, which convinces Holmes of the boy's innocence.
	"The Adventure of Vanaprastha" (2017) Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part VII: Eliminate the Impossible 1880-1891 (David Marcum) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Alec MacDonald Other Characters: Inspector Jowett; Jayant Singh; Constable Hawker; Anil Bannerji; Mrs Bryant; Colonel Richard Cardew; (Sir William Keighley; Signora Galliani; Norman Bryant) Unnamed Characters: (Watson's Mother) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Eastbourne; Vanaprastha Story: MacDonald consults Holmes over the death of Colonel Cardew, found slashed to death in his bed in Eastbourne. The Colonel's Indian cook, Bannerji, believes that his death is linked to the theft of a cursed idol from an Indian temple.
Ralph A. Ashton "The Adventure of the Pius Missal" (1957) Included in: Baker Street Journal, July 1957 Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; The Cormorant; (Von Herder; The Politician; Professor Moriarty) Historical Figures: Ralph A. Ashton; (Pope Pius V; The Pope) Other Characters: Antique Shop Proprietor; K. Ryoichi Locations: Antique Shop; 221B, Baker Street Story: Ashton stops in at an antique shop on a wet afternoon. Hebuys an old German rifle, which he discovers to be a Von Herder, bearing an engraved plate which states that it was used to kill a cormorant. In the barrel, he discovers an old manuscript, written by Rodolph von Esche and Dr Watson. Holmes is visited by Ryoichi who has brought his fishing cormorant with him. Holmes plans to use the bird to retrieve a missal by Pope Pius V, stolen by an M.P.
	Isaac Asimov "The Ultimate Crime" (1976) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Through Time & Space (Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh) Story Type: Homage Canonical Characters: (Professor Moriarty) Other Characters: Roger Halsted; Thomas Trumbull; Emmanuel Rubin; Geoffrey Avalon; Mario Gonzalo; Henry; Ronald Mason; James Drake Story: After general discussion of Sherlockian activities at a Black Widowers' monthly banquet, discussion turns to finding a suitable topic for a Sherlockian paper for Mason, a member of the Baker Street Irregulars. They choose to attempt to deduce the topic of Moriarty's Dynamics of An Asteroid. After much discussion it is Henry, their waiter, who comes up with the most acceptable solution.
Forrest Athey "The Adventure of the Soporific Cipher" (1969) Included in: Baker Street Journal, June 1969 Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Jonathan Small) Historical Figures: Other Characters: Lord Alwin; Messenger Boy; Harold Date: During the First World War / Friday 6th November, 1896 Locations: 221B, Baker Street Story: Holmes looks back on his most satisfying case. Lord Alwin arrives at Baker Street in distress having received a telegram from Oxford saying "Send more money". Having learned that Lord Alwin's son Harold is studying mathematics at Oxford, Holmes deduces that the message is a cipher that is somehow connected back to one of his old cases.
	Bertram Atkey "The Case of the Drugged Golfers" (1909) Included in: The Armchair Detective, Volume 15 Number 2; Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches II: 1905-1909 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson Other Characters: Colonel Cleak; Police Inspector; Golf Club Members; Waiter; Coachman; (Russian Grand Duke; Indian Cook; Golf Club Servants) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Blameshot Golf Club; A Train Story: Colonel Cleak asks Holmes to investigate the disappearance of a prize cup at Blameshot Golf Club on the night of an Indian dinner. Holmes examines the club's kitchen, interviews a waiter and recovers the cup.
John Atkinson, Jr "Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes" (1895) Included in: The Fordham Monthly (St John's College, Fordham, NY), Volume XIII, Number 9-10, June 1895 Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Enoch Drebber; Joseph Stangerson; Inspector Lestrade; Tobias Gregson; John Rance; Jefferson Hope) Locations: 221B, Baker Street Story: One evening, Watson asks Holmes to explain the principles behind his work and the knowledge that he has amassed. He explains the processes behind the solving of the Brixton Road murder.
	A.A. Attanasio "Sherlock Holmes and Basho" (1984) Included in: Beastmarks (A.A. Attanasio) Story Type: Pastiche (Narrated partly by Basho) Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson Historical Figures: Basho Other Characters: Locations: The Castle Town of Broken Skulls; The Ancient Caves of Potters; 221B, Baker Street Story: The poet, Basho, meets an ugly stranger on a journey, who makes a number of deductions about him. In Baker Street, Holmes tells Watson of a dream in which he met the poet.
Edmund Aubrey Sherlock Holmes in Dallas (1980) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Mrs Hudson; Mrs Watson) Historical Figures: (John F. Kennedy; Jacqueline Kennedy; Lee Harvey Oswald; Jack Ruby; Warren Commission Members; Lord Patrick Devlin; J.D. Tippit; Patrolman M.N. McDonald; Howard L. Brennan; Major General Edwin A. Walker; Professor A.L. Goodhart; Mark Lane; Edward Jay Epstein; Marina Oswald; Ruth Paine; Albert Bogard; Captain Will Fritz; Governor John Connally; Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig; Arnold Rowland; Barbara Rowland; Roy Truly; Patrolman Marrion Baker; Jack E. Dougherty; Lee Bowers; S.M. Holland; Senator Ralph W. Yarborough; Chief Jesse Curry; Robert H. Jackson; Abraham Zapruder; Elizabeth Cabell; Mayor Earle Cabell; George De Mohrenschildt; Dorothy De Mohrenschildt; Guy Banister; Carlos Bringuier; Ed Butler; FBI Informants; David Ferrie; J. Edgar Hoover; FBI Agents; Vincent Drain; Bardwell Odum; Milton Kaack; Warren De Brueys; Orest Pena; Ruperto Pena; Dean Andrews; Autopsy Physicians; Dr James Humes; Dr Pierre Finck; Admiral Calvin B. Galloway; Dr Robert McClelland; Dr Malcolm Perry; Dr Marion Thomas Jenkins; Commander J. Thornton Boswell; Roy Kellerman; Seymour Weitzman; Nellie Connally; Lt Jack Revill; Ray Rushing; Dial D. Ryder; Woodrow Greener; Earlene Roberts; Johnny Brewer; Wes Frazier; Journalists; Judge David L. Johnston; Tom Howard; John Servance) Other Characters: Sue Gretchen; The Bourbon Street Ramblers Secret Service Agent; Air Hostess; Washington Chauffeur; Georgetown Footman; Holmes's Clients; Distinguished Lady; Congress Members; Silver-Haired Senator; Washington Butler; Washington Cook; Texas Chauffeur; Dallas Hotel Page; Dallas Hotel Waiter; Dealey Plaza Drivers; Cab Driver; New Orleans Chauffeur; Maître d'hôtel; Hotel Porter; Hotel Waiters; New Orleans Office Workers; New York Chauffeur; Watson's Physician Friend; Friend's Servant; Plaza Page Boy; Eminent Justice; Senators; (Watson's Medical Partner; Oxford Scholars; Elevator Inspector; Book Depository Superintendent; Book Depository Staff; New Orleans Postmaster; New Orleans Librarian; New Orleans Legal Contact; Man in Dark Glasses; New York Letter Owners) Date: October Locations: Jermyn Street; Turkish Baths; 221B, Baker Street; Heathrow Airport; A Plane; USA; Washington DC; Dulles Airport; Client's House; Holmes's Washington Lodgings; National Gallery of Art; Texas; Fort Worth Airport; Dallas; Hotel; Houston Street; Elm Street; The Grassy Knoll; Dealey Plaza; Texas School Book Depository; Irving; West 5th Street; Louisiana; New Orleans; Airport; Vieux Carré; Hotel; Magazine Street; Post Office; Lafayette Square; 544 Camp Street; 531 Lafayette Street; City Library; Chartres Street; Jackson Square; New York; Fifth Avenue; Hotel; Plaza Hotel; Central Park; Upper East Side; Hungarian Restaurant; Pennsylvania Station; Union Station (Washington DC); Pennsylvania Avenue; Virginia; Air Force Base Story: Holmes invites Watson to accompany him to America, where he has been asked, many years after the event, to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy. After studying the Warren Report, and meeting his clients in Washington, Holmes presents Watson with his views on previous attempts to explain the events of the assassination. In Dallas, they visit Dealey Plaza, and Holmes explores the Book Depository in the role of an elevator inspector. They fly to New Orleans, to investigate Oswald's political beliefs. Holmes becomes concerned about being shadowed. They travel on to New York, where Holmes's life is under threat as the result of an earlier mafiosi case, so that he can examine some documents, while Watson brushes up on his forensics. Back in Washington, they analyse the forensic evidence from the Warren Report, and Jack Ruby's statement, before reporting back o their clients. NOTE: The address on the message Holmes is given when he arrives in Washington DC is "O Street, Georgetown", this was home to Jackie Kennedy's mother and stepfather, Janet & Hugh Auchinloss, and also to Bobby and Edith Kennedy, suggesting two possible identities for Holmes's client, "a lady of uncertain age".
	Bliss Austin "The Final Problem" (1946) Included in: The Queen's Awards, 1946 (Ellery Queen); The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler) Story Type: Homage Canonical Characters: (Professor Moriarty; Colonel Moran) Fictional Characters: Ellery Queen; Inspector Queen; Sergeant Velie Historical Figures: Christopher Morley; Howard Haycraft Other Characters: Hugh Ashton; Dr. Dundy; Professor Gill; Hale Club doorman; night watchman Date: 1946 Locations: Ellery Queen's Study; Christopher Morley's Study; A Train; Old Haven; Hale University; A Hotel; Ashton's Rooms; (The Hale Club) Story: Ellery tells Morley & Haycraft that he has received a plain envelope containing a playing card in the morning post. He then mentions a story by Hugh Ashton, a graduate student, entered in the EQMM short story competition. Ashton has asked for its return, because a friend, Professor Moriarty, has offered to publish it for him. Shortly thereafter Ellery dies, having clearly been poisoned. The following day Ashton's body is found at the foot of a cliff. Morley & Haycraft travel with Inspector Queen to Old Haven to investigate; they are met at the station by Colonel Moran, a local police officer. In Ashton's rooms they find evidence of a new story outline on a piece of carbon paper, but during the night it is stolen from Inspector Queen's room. When the Inspector himself is shot, it is left to Morley, Haycraft & Velie to wrap up the loose ends.
Graham Avery Sherlock Holmes and the Strange Events at the Bank of England (1997) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; (Mycroft Holmes) Historical Figures: Samuel Stewart Gladstone; Augustus Prevost; Arthur Conran Blomfield; Earl of Rosebery Other Characters: Gladstone's Coachman; Bank Gatekeeper; Bank Messengers; Bank Porters; Junior Clerk; Charles Pedric; Cabbies; Mrs. Carter; James Carter; Lad in Collinson Street; Golden Fleece Landlord; Sir Peter Langaton; Cowley Place Servants; Langaton's Guests; Valentina D'Arth; Ralph Dickinson; Lady Sinclair; Amelia Dingleton; Henson; German Commercial Attaché; Diplomat; Diplomat's Wife; Prison Warder; Bank Duty Officer; (Bank Guards; Head Storeman; Geldstein; Hajardo; Landrous; Fielstein; Li Wang; Count Rossildi; Night Porter; Charlie Slade 'The Count' / 'Counterfeit Charlie'; D'Arth's Women) Date: August, 1899 or 1900, (or 1894-1895) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Bank of England; Hansom Cabs; Southwark; 14, Collinson Street; The Golden Fleece; Surrey; Cowley Place; Wormwood Scrubs Story: Mycroft sends Gladstone, the governor of the Bank of England, to Holmes after several cases of special bonds printed for the bank's centenary are found to be missing from its vaults. Holmes travels to the bank, where he meets Lestrade, and examines the vaults. His underworld contacts can tell him nothing about the theft, and Mycroft is little more help. Returning to the bank he learns of a night porter who reported hearing ghostly women's voices three nights before the robbery. Although the theft seems pointless, the bonds being worth nothing until the issue day, and, besides, having traceable serial numbers, the Prime Minister arrives at Baker Street and tells Holmes that the theft represents a threat to the stability of the British Empire. Invited to Cowley Place, Sir Peter Langaton's country house, they encounter Valentina D'Arth, heiress to a large building company. The following day Langaton is stricken with a mystery illness. Holmes believes he has solved the case, but has no evidence of how it was done. Back in London, Lestrade announces an arrest. Another visit to the Bank, and a visit from a lady draw Holmes closer to a solution. A second visit reveals the truth.

Sherlockian Story Summaries

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anna Waterhouse

Dan Abnett

Gilbert Adair

Charlie Adams, Gareth Hale & Norman Pace

Guy Adams

Nathan M. Adams

Irene Adler

Jack Adrian

Azhar Ahsan

Mark Alberstat

Sue Alexander

Steven-Elliot Altman

Victor G. Ambrus

Kingsley Amis

Lou Anders

Isaac Anderson

K.J. Anderson

Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson

Peter K. Andersson

Charlton Andrews

Val Andrews

Anyhow

A.R.B.

Alexander Armstrong & Ben Miller

Anthony Armstrong

Jake Arnott

Mark Aronson

Marvin Aronson

E.G. Ashton

Hugh Ashton

Ralph A. Ashton

Isaac Asimov

Forrest Athey

Bertram Atkey

John Atkinson, Jr

A.A. Attanasio

Edmund Aubrey

Bliss Austin

Graham Avery