Marcel D'Agneau
The Curse of the Nibelung (1981)
Story Type: Gentle Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Professor Moriarty
Historical Figures: Winston Churchill; Edith
Piaf; Lord Haw Haw
Other Characters: Calthorpe; Sir Charles
Hainsley; Dr. Otto Laubscher; Third Officer Thomas;
Captain Terence Howard; Sullivan; Commander Felix
Mannion; Cook; HMS Mazarin Crewmen; Lt.
Shand / Cornelia Hainsley; Coastguard; Sir Oswald
Partington; Mr. Bartley; Admiralty Messenger; Grant
Talford; French Peasants; M. Reynaud; Cab Driver;
Waiters; Heinric Döre; Karl Flohn; Train Passengers;
Lucy Trishant; Adle Trishant; Flohn's Servants; Frau
Flohn; Musicians; Onslow Wilson; Betty Wilson;
Selwyn Meyer; Judith Meyer; General Buchnort; SS
Officer; Otto Von Hipplestar; Girls; Ditta Smit; The
Brigade of Radio Bicycles; Sean McCully; Café
Proprietor; Flohn's Driver; Max Millhapt; Customs
Officer; Richard Moorehaus; Porter; Herr Schoeck;
Mechanic; Margot; Matilde; Carl; Hotel Maid; Guard;
SS Guards; Conductor; Boy; Kitchen Staff; Herman the
Butler; Ferret-faced Man; Herr Melnick; Piano
Craftsmen; Klaus Muller; Factory Workers; Factory
Guards; Berliners; Usher; Audience; Hotel Manager;
Frederick the Cat; German Doctor; Hilde; Eva;
Firemen; Farm Worker; Truck Driver; SS Driver;
Colonel Mundt; Captain Ansbach; The Madrid 16; Lt.
Hartheim; General Offenbröeder; Marshal Baumann;
Young Soldier; German Pilot; Michel; Gaston; 2 Nuns;
Businessman; Child; Patrick O'Reilly; Intelligence
Officer; Château Guards; Dog Handlers; Driver;
Doktor Hoffnung; 2 Spies; Messenger; Forbes
Date: December, 1939
Locations: Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street;
Aboard HMS Mazarin; The English Channel;
Hastings; Ambler & Brown's; The Three Bears Pub;
An Avro Plane over France; Paris; The Hotel Paix; La
Cuillre Engraissé Restaurant; Train; Strasbourg;
Château Vernet; Café Zola; A Horch 12 Automobile;
Another Train; Nürnberg; The Hauptbahnhof;
Oesterlein's Opel Garage; Der Deutsche Hof Hotel;
Kaffeehaus; The Kaiserhof; The Marktplatz; Blintz's
Piano Manufacturer's; Flohn's Mercedes Benz; Flohn's
Chocolate Factory; Concert Hall; River Pegnitz; An
Opel Car; Odenwald; A Farm; A Renault Car; A
Mercedes-Benz; Karlsruhe; Der Schloss Hotel; Château
Schwaften; German Plane; French Airfield; French
Farm; Citröen Car; A Train; Lyon Station; A DKW Car;
Cowshed; Churchill's Office; St James's Park;
Piccadilly
Story: Churchill calls on Holmes and Watson
to investigate the disappearances of British agents
in Nazi Germany, and to try to obtain a secret
scientific formula. Their ship is sunk in the
English Channel, and returning to England, they find
themselves assigned a female assistant, Lt. Cornelia
Shand. Flying to France, their plane is shot at. En
route to a Wagner Festival in Nürnberg, Holmes
solves a murder at a château in Strasbourg. His
investigations lead him to the home of a German
chocolate manufacturer, and the factory that
produces Hitler's personal chocolate. Is the secret
formula just a new recipe for chocolate, or does it
hide something more sinister? Fleeing Germany with
top secret information, Holmes is captured by the
SS, and it is left to Watson to return to London
with the information they have gathered. While
imprisoned, Holmes learns of an old rival's
involvement in the Nazi war effort, and sets off on
another quest.
NOTE: In the cover
illustration Holmes and Watson are portrayed as
Nicholas Lyndhurst and David Jason, stars of the TV
series Only Fools and Horses.
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S.E. Dahlinger
"The Adventure of the Aluminum
Crutch" (1969)
Included in: Baker Street Journal, March 1969
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Wiggins; Baker Street
Irregulars
Historical Figures: (Marie Antoinette)
Other Characters: Beggar; Cabby; Man in
Grey; Charing Cross Crowds; Old Woman
Date: February, 1881
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Charing Cross
Station; (Pall Mall)
Story: Wiggins tells Watson that he has seen
Holmes knocked unconscious and bundled into a hansom
outside the Diogenes Club. A note attached to a rock
is thrown through the Baker Street window telling
Watson to bring the aluminum crutch to Charing Cross
Station, where he is met by an old woman. A search
of the place where he was told he could find Holmes
reveals nothing, but his return to Baker Street
leads to a revelation.
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Andrew Darlington
"The Strange Death of Sherlock
Holmes" (2015)
Included in: The Mammoth Book
of Sherlock Holmes Abroad (Simon Clark)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson
Fictional Characters: Cavor / The
Time Traveller; The Time Traveller's Manservant; The
Time Machine
Historical Figures: (H.G.
Wells)
Other Characters: Lamplighter; Tom Norman;
Venice Hotel Desk Clerk; Monkey Boy; Neanderthal
Tribe; Cavor's Maidservant; (Mrs Hudson's
Sister)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Cavor's Home;
France; Paris; Left-Bank Rooming-House; Gare de
l'Est; Italy; Lake Garda; Venice; Piazza San Marco;
Hotel; Baker Street
Story: Holmes travel around Europe in
search of Cavor and the monkey boy, whom the freak
show owner, Tom Norman, claims he has contracted with
Cavor to make a part of his show. The case leads to
the death of Holmes and to Watson taing a journey on
Cavor's invention.
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Robert D'Artagnan
Sherlock Holmes' Last Case (2001)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Colonel Moriarty; Professor
Moriarty; (Colonel Moran; Mycroft Holmes)
Historical Figures: Martha (Bernays) Freud;
Sigmund Freud; Adolf Hitler; (Wilhelm Fliess;
Carl Jung; Arthur Schnitzler)
Other Characters: Vienna Taxi Driver; Car
Dealer; Wolfgang Kreyenhagen; Coffeehouse Waiter;
Opera Usher; Helen Vogel; Herr Rothberg; Newspaper
Seller; Cab Drivers; Uniformed Doorman; Servant;
Prostitute; Monk; The Wednesday Psychological
Society; Frau Wechsberg; Little Girl; Car Driver;
Policeman; Girl's Mother; Axel; Agreeable-looking
Man; Ditch-diggers; A.B. Turnbull; Farmer; Swiss
Magistrate; Jury; Telephone Operator; Waiter;
Orcheatra; Dancers; Priest; Postman
Date: October, 1908 - May, 1909
Locations: Holmes & Watson's West End
Townhouse; Austria; Vienna; Berggasse; Flat on
Kolingasse; Kreyenhagen Fencing Academy;
Coffeehouse; Royal Opera; Kroehler's Publishing
House; Rothberg's Tailors Shop; Beatrixgasse; 235
Prinz Eugen Strasse; The Stadtpark; St Stephen's
Cathedral; 221B, Baker Street; Stonehenge;
Salisbury; The Rose and Crown; Switzerland;
Reichenbach Falls; Mountain Village; Stumpergasse
29; The Westbahnhof; Paris; Hospital; Lichfield;
Market Place; Cathedral Close; Swan Inn; Turnbull's
Office; The Vienna Woods; Meiringen; The Englischer
Hof; Magistrate's Court; The Prater;
Constantinhugel; A Train; South of France
Story: Holmes and Watson have moved out of
221B, needing more space and security. Martha
Bernays, from Vienna, calls at their new West End
house. She believes that her husband, Freud, is
under the influence of an evil spirit - his
behaviour has changed and he does not remember his
actions. Holmes is challenged to a duel at
Stonehenge by Colonel Moriarty, and suffers
recurring nightmares about Professor Moriarty's
death.
In Vienna Holmes and Watson set watch on
Freud. Holmes takes fencing lessons from Kreyenhagen
to prepare for the duel. Freud appears to have
overcome whatever was plaguing him. Holmes appears
to Watson to know more about Vienna than he ought
to. Watson resolves to have Holmes consult with
Freud, and to find himself a publisher in Vienna. He
also decides to solve the mystery of what happened
to Holmes during the hiatus. Freud's absences from
home begin again. They follow him, but are unable to
gain admission to the buildings he enters. They
learn that one is a casino, and Holmes, believing
Freud to have been hypnotised, puts a plan in motion
to make him unwelcome there in the future. When
Holmes and Freud finally meet, Freud seems to
recognise him, but calls him Hosmel. Watson is
scared by an unseen pursuer at St Stephen's Church,
and attends a meeting of Freud's Wednesday
Psychological Society in disguise.
They return to London for the duel with
Moriarty at Stonehenge. In London they discover that
Mrs Hudson is planning to open 221B as a Sherlock
Holmes museum. After the duel they return to Vienna
and Watson manipulates Holmes into consulting with
Freud as a patient. They learn that Freud has now
apparently been hypnotised into making anti-semitic
statements in public. Holmes believes that Freud's
migraines might have a bearing on the case. Moriarty
challenges Holmes to a further duel, at Reichenbach
on the anniversary of his brother's death. Holmes's
sessions with Freud unlock his memories of the
events of the Great Hiatus and his former visit to
Vienna. Holmes's suspicions turn to Freud's young
artist patient, the anti-semitic Axel. Returning to
England, Holmes visits his parents' grave in
Lichfield and learns that he was adopted. He accepts
Moriarty's challenge and after the duel learns the
secret of Moriarty's identity and of his own past.
Back in Vienna they learn that Freud's problems have
been brought to an end by his wife. They also learn
Axel's true name.
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David Stewart Davies
"The Adventure of the Whitrow
Inheritance" (2008)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes: The Game's Afoot (David Stuart Davies)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Other Characters: Matthew Whitrow; Godfrey
Whitrow; Walker; Police; (Godfrey's Mother;
Godfrey's Father)
Date: February, 1889
Locations: 221B, Baker Street;
Simpson's-in-the-Strand; Pinner; Whitrow Brewery;
The Grange; Pinner Station; A Train
Story: Brewery heir, Matthew Whitrow, is two
months short of becoming a partner in the family
business with his uncle, and guardian, Godfrey, and
a number of attempts have been made on his life.
Although the circumstances clearly implicate his
uncle, he does not believe him to be guilty, and he
asks Holmes to find the true culprit. Holmes
uncovers the truth of the murder plot, and indulges
in gunplay with a spurious burglar, to bring the
culprit to justice.
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"A
Certain Notoriety" (2015)
Included in: The
Adventures of Moriarty (Maxim Jakubowski)
Story Type: Canonical Re-visioning
Canonical Characters: Colonel Moran; Sherlock
Holmes; Inspector Patterson; Professor Moriarty; Dr
Watson; (Moriarty Gang; English Woman)
Other Characters: Alfred Coombs; Actors;
Violet Carmichael; Rat & Raven Clientele; Percy
Snaggles; Wally; Scotland Yard Constable; (Barney
Southwell; Cartwright)
Date: 1891
Locations: Theatre; Scotland Yard; Violet's
House; 221B, Baker Street; The East End; The Rat and
Raven; Watson's House; Switzerland; Reichenbach Falls
Story: Moran and Violet Carmichael hire
the actor Alfred Coombs to play a professor of
mathematics. Holmes identifies an organising force at
work behind the criminals of London. A plan is put in
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"The
Darlington Substitution Scandal" (1997)
Included in: The Mammoth
Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike
Ashley); The Big Book of
Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Billy
Other Characters: Lord Hector Darlington;
Lady Sarah Darlington; Rupert; Hillary Stallybrass;
Lord Arthur Beacham; Butler; Alfredo Fellini; Joshua
Jones; cabbie; street urchins
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Mayfair; Lord
Darlington's home; the Pandora Club; Commercial
Street; Jones's home
Story: Returning from a Wagner night, Holmes
and Watson find Lord Darlington waiting for them. He
has returned unexpectedly from a trip to France to
find a painting, Louis de Granville's Adoration
of the Magi, has been stolen from his private
gallery, to which he had the only key. Visiting his
house the following morning, Holmes learns that the
painting has now been returned. A visit from art
expert, Hillary Stallybrass, reveals that the
painting is the genuine one, but others in the
collection are fakes. Holmes visits Darlington's
step-son Rupert's club, The Pandora, in disguise,
and, while there, sees the disreputable Lord Arthur
Beacham, and New York gangster, Alfredo Fellini.
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The
Devil's Promise (2014)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Billy; (Joe) Thurston; Colonel
(Sir James) Warburton; Mycroft Holmes; (Mrs
Watson)
Characters Based on Historical Figures: Bartholomew
Blackwood (Aleister Crowley)
Folkloric Figures: The Devil
Other Characters: Reverend Simon Dickens;
Jacob Henshaw; Enoch Blackwood; Arabella Blackwood;
Jacob Weatherall; Mrs Weatherall; Chivers
Howden Villagers; Baker Street Pedestrians; Cabbies;
Houndsditch Passers-by; Houndsditch Assailants; Old
Man; Scottish Doctor; Man in Grey Ulster; Train
Waiter; Train Passengers; Tea Shop Girl; Cult
Members; Simpson's Diners
(Mrs Watson's Sister; Edric Cawthorne;
Thurston's Secretary; Totnes Farrier; Mrs Laidlaw;
Professor Julius Krasinski; Professor Martin
Scowcroft)
Date: July, 1899 - February, 1900
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Devonshire;
Beach; Samphire Cottage; Howden; The Dark Man Inn;
Blackwood's House; Church; Baker Street;
Bishopsgate; Houndsditch; Thurston's Office; Pall
Mall; Army & Navy Club; Paddington; Balfour
Mews; Richmond; Nursing Home; Paddington Station; A
Train; A Woo; Weatherall's House; Tansy Halt
Station; Totnes Station; Totnes; Mrs Laidlaw's Tea
Room; Mycroft's Rooms; Simpson's-in-the-Strand
Story: On holiday in Devonshire, Holmes
takes Watson to view a corpse he has found on the
beach, only to discover that it has vanished along
with any evidence that it was ever there. After the
body has been found, and disappears for a second
time, they visit Howden village, where they
encounter Enoch Blackwood, son of the Satanist
Bartholomew Blackwood, and his sister Arabella.
Some months
later, back in Baker Street, Watson is recovering
from a period of illness that has left a gap in his
memory. Holmes is acting strangely, and
Watson enlists Thurston to help him investigate. He
returns, alone to Devon, where he must work to prevent
a Satanic ritual from taking place.
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The Instrument
of Death (2019)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Constable John Rance; Wiggins; Mrs
Hudson; Thurston
Fictional Characters: Dr (Gustav)
Caligari; (Cesare)
Other Characters: Emeric Caligari; Rosa
Placzek; Hans Bruner; Miss Stein; Godfrey Forbes;
Mrs Clements;
Robert; Lady Sarah
Damury; Sir Jeffrey Damury; Freda; Agatha;
Ruth Marshall; Alan Firbank; Gammy Alf; Blanche
Andrews; Dr Standish; Enid Beaumont; Professor
Christopher Clark;
Jenkins; Margaret; Carruthers; Sylvester
Spedding; Arthur Brough; Father Francis Smyth; Gustav's
Schoolmates; Gustav's Headmaster; Gustav's Tutors;
Bruner's Doctor; Miss Stein's Neighbour; Undertakers;
Prague Constable; Euston Crowds; Cabbies;
Scotland Yard Constable; Caligari's Patients;
Bermondsey Derelicts;
Society Party Guests; Uniformed Policemen; Theatre
Admirers; Actors; Strand Crowds; Firbank's Neighbours; Bedlam Orderly; Bedlam
Patients; Nursing Home Maid; Spedding's
Receptionist; (Gustav's Mother; Sir Basil
Damury; Caliph of Ranjapur; Thomas Cook's Clerk;
Damury's Doctor; Bowes; Damury's Fellow Club
Member's; Damury's Servants; Sarah's Tea Circle Friend;
Mr Sanders; Dr Andrew Dodd; Dr Alexander
Rubenstein)
Date: Spring, 1896
Locations: Prague; Caligari's Home; School;
Bruner's Cottage; Tavern; Singer's Apartment; London;
Euston Station; 221B, Baker Street; Fleet Street;
Thomas Cook's; Kensington; 34, Sedgwick Street; King Henry's
Walk; Scotland Yard; Bermondsey; Carisbroke House;
Savoy Theatre; The Strand; Chiswick; 14, St Alban's
Avenue; Chiswick High Road; St James's Park;
Camberwell; Nursing Home; St George's Fields; St Mary
Bethlehem Hospital / Bedlam; Knightsbridge;
Paddington; 47, Robin Terrace; Marylebone; Cedar
Court; Watson's Club; Chelsea; Pentonville Prison
Story: In Prague, the young Gustav Caligari
learns mesmerism with his tutor, Hans Bruner, before
turning to murder.
Watson returns from a holiday to find that Holmes
is investigating the theft of a ruby belonging to Sir
Jeffrey Damury. As they return the ruby to Lestrade,
word comes that Damury's wife has been murdered. In
London, Caligari searches for a lone down and out to
carry out his bidding. Alan Firbank consults Holmes
after his lover, actress Ruth Marshall, is attacked in
his home after he has been lured away. Caligari and
Holmes begin a game of cat and mouse against each
other.
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"The Monkton House
Mystery" (2019)
Included in: The
Sign of Seven (Martin Rosenstock)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Stanley Hopkins; Mrs Hudson; (Langdale
Pike)
Other Characters: Alfred
Langton; Sir Ronald
Martin; Alan; Celia Martin;
Alan Sanderson; Cora
Langton; Dr Samuel Peters; Captain Henry Carmichael;
Simon Martin; (Hugo
Carrington; Sergeant
Amos Wilkins)
Unnamed Characters: Caped Constable;
Cavalier Club Commissionaire; Cavalier Club Waiter;
Club Members; Simon's Landlady; (Hopkins's
Sergeant; Doctor; Cora's Sister; Carrington's
Solicitors; Sam Rawlins)
Date: 15-16 December, 1899
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Brougham;
Chelsea; Monkton House; Soho; The Artichoke
Restaurant; Old Mitre Court; The Cavalier Club;
Wandsworth; 13, Southwick Street;
Simpson's-in-the-Strand; Morgue; Carmichael's House
Story: Hopkins asks Holmes for help in
solving the murder of Alfred Langton, the butler of
Sir Ronald Martin, an Egyptologist. Sir Ronald has
disappeared. A search of Martin's House reveals that
they are investigating a double murder. An estranged
son and a disgruntled former expeditionary partner
both have motive for the murder. Enquiries at a
gambling club, a third murder and information from
Langdale Pike lead the investigation along a
different path.
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"Murder at Tregere House"
(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; (Thurston)
Other Characters: Andrew Sinclair; Rogers; Dr
Eustace Pavlow; Victoria Pavlow; Morag
Cameron; (Alan Cameron; Anne
Cameron; Smithson a & Wylie; Sinclair's
Father; Inspector Crabtree)
Date: Autumn, 1895
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Scotland;
Ayrshire; Tregere House; A Train
Story: Holmes an Watson
accompany Andrew Sinclair to Tregere House in Ayrshire
where his prospective father-in-law, Alan Cameron, the
Laird of Tregere, has been stabbed to death during a
dinner party, and his wife, found standing over the
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"The
Reichenbach Secret" (2008)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes:
The Game's Afoot (David Stuart Davies)
Story Type: Canonical Re-visioning
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Holmes's Sussex Housekeeper;(Mrs Towers);
Professor Moriarty / False Moriartys; Colonel
Sebastian Moran; (Von Bork; Martha / Mrs Hudson;
Moriarty Gang; Swiss Lad; Englishwoman)
Other Characters: Artists; Hilda Courtney;
Thugs; Santo Spirito Waiters; (Holmes's Sussex
Neighbour; Count Mario Bava)
Date: Summer, 1916 / May - June, 1891
Locations: Watson's House; Holmes's Sussex
Cottage; Switzerland; Reichenbach Falls; Italy;
Florence; Ponte S. Trinità; Via Michelangelo; Santo
Spirito Restaurant; Via Matteo di Giovanni; Holmes's
Lodgings
Story: Watson travels down to Sussex
after hearing of Holmes's failing health. Holmes reveals
to him that the man he thought was Moriarty who visited
him in Baker Street was an impostor, and that it was he
himself who had arranged for the Swiss boy to lure
Watson back to Meiringen. After battling another
impostor at Reichenbach, Holmes makes his way to
Florence, where he lives as an artist. He rescues Hilda
Courtney, a courier, delivering a diamond, the Belvedere
Stone, from a pair of bagsnatchers. After dining with
her, Holmes is attacked by three thugs, but he has
already realised that all is not as it seems and he uses
Hilda to save himself. The following day he has his
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The
Ripper Legacy (2016)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; Baker Street
Irregulars; Inspector [Giles] Lestrade; Professor
Moriarty; Colonel Sebastian Moran; (Mary Morstan;
Thurston; John)
Historical Figures: The Prime
Minister (Earl of Rosebery); The Home Secretary (H.H.
Asquith); (Jack the Ripper; Mary Kelly; Duke of
Clarence; Sir Charles Warren; Inspector Abberline)
Other Characters: Ronald Temple; Hilda
Bennett; Annie Grimes; Percy Grimes; William Temple; Charlotte
Temple; Susan Gordon; Dark Gentleman; Gertrude
Chandler; Inspector Dominic Gaunt; Alice
Sunderland; Henshaw; Taylor; Barrow; Sir Jasper Coates;
Samuel McCafferty; Beaumont; Dr Graham Murray; Crowther;
Dr Maxwell; Sergeant Arthur Moxon; Cab Drivers;
Chandler's Housemaid; Camberwell Guard; Whitechapel
Pedestrians; Blind Beggar; Street Singer; Street Girls;
Saracen's Head Customers; Barman; Piano Player; Old
Woman; Lord Nelson Customers; Gaunt's Carriage Driver;
Liveried Servant; Tall Man; Nurse; Diogenes Members;
Diogenes Servant; Firemen; Fire Onlookers; Mortimer's
Assistant; Murray's Receptionist; Nurses; Orderlies;
Doctors; Police Officers (Kidnapper; Kensington Gardens Crowds;
Scotland Yard Surveillance Officer; Smithers; Duke
of Dartington; Mr Mortimer; Ralph Harbottle; Lady
Emilia Forsythe)
Date: March, 1895
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Watson's Club;
Kensington Gardens; Cricklewood; Cedar Lodge; Grimes's
House; Camberwell; John Ruskin Street; Whitechapel;
Bat Street; The Saracen's Head; Whitehall; Mycroft's
Office; Christopher Docks; Lord Nelson Tavern;
Bayswater; Greenway, Prince's Square; Scotland Yard;
Streatham; Diogenes Club; Surrey; Richmond; Galworth
Hall; Coates's Townhouse; Chelsea; Mortimer's Invalid
Conveyances; Baker Street; 5, Angel Court; 10, Downing
Street; Reading Gaol; Moriarty's Underground
Headquarters; Murray's Surgery; Iron Gate; Tower
Bridge; The Embankment; St Katharine's Way; Leonine
Chambers; Bart's Hospital
Story:Stockbroker Ronald temple consults
Holmes when his eight-year-old son William is abducted
by two men in Kensington Gardens. The trail leads Holmes
to a baby farm in Camberwell and reveals a connection to
the Ripper murders and a familiar conspiracy. Watson is
held captive, and Holmes uncovers links to the
government and faces old enemies again. The situation
becomes more complicated for the abductors when the
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The
Scroll of the Dead (1998)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Baker Street Irregulars; (Mycroft
Holmes; Thurston)
Other Characters: Cabby; Manservant; Uriah
Hawkshaw; Sir Robert Hythe; Mrs. Hawkshaw; Sebastian
Melmoth; Black Cloud; Nigel Hawkshaw; Inspector Amos
Hardcastle; Sir Chales Pargetter; Museum Security
Man; Queen Henntawy; Jenkins; Tobias Felshaw;
Catriona Andrews; Late-night Revellers; Brandon;
Julia; Blacksmith's Arms Landlord; Blacksmith's Arms
Clientele; Nathan; Gamekeeper; Gamekeeper's Partner;
Skoyles; Watson's Cab Driver; Prince Regent
Clientele; Prince Regent Barman; Conway Hotel
Clientele Conway Desk Clerk; Sir Alistair Andrews;
Prison Nurse; Prison Officer; Dawson; Stationmaster;
Penrith Market Crowds; Joseph A. Cooper; Flinty
O'Toole; Sergeant Porter; Priest; John Phillips; Sir
George Faversham; Aunt Emilia; Archie Woodcock; Club
Porter; Cabbie; Constables
(Sammy Daventry; King Pinneedjem; Setaph; Alfred
Briggs)
Date: May, 1895 & May, 1896
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Kensington;
Frontier Lodge; British Museum; Melmoth's House in
Curzon Street; Baker Street; A Train to Norwich;
Norfolk; Holden Parva; The Blacksmith's Arms; Holden
Hall; Alfred's Cottage; A Train to London; A Cab
(Oxford Street); The Prince Regent on Salisbury
Street; The Conway Hotel; Scotland Yard; Kent; Lee;
The Elms; A Sleeper Train to Penrith; A Railway
Station; Penrith; A Suburban Churchyard; Ullswater;
Grebe Island; Grebe House; Aunt Emilia's House;
Woodcock's Shop; Watson's Club; (Egypt)
Story: When Mycroft sends Holmes and Watson
to a séance to expose a false medium, they encounter
the Wildean Melmoth, who believes he can conquer
death. The following year Holmes is called on to
investigate the theft of an Egyptian scroll from the
British Museum. The scroll is believed to contain
directions to the tomb of the priest Setaph, who was
buried with a scroll containing instructions for
overcoming death. Holmes believes that Melmoth is
behind the theft, but soon learns that he has died
in a shooting accident. Returning to Baker Street
Holmes and Watson find Catriona Andrews waiting for
them; her father, one of the archaeologists who
discovered the stolen scroll, has disappeared, and
his partner, Faversham, has been murdered and his
house ransacked. They break into Melmoth's house to
view the body, then journey to Norfolk to view the
scene of his death. Further investigations lead to
unexpected revelations about some of the principals
in the case. A visit to Faversham's homes in Kent
and in the Lake District brings matters to a head.
NOTE: "Sebastian
Melmoth" was the alias adopted by Oscar Wilde during
the latter years of his life. It is made clear in
the novel, however, that this Melmoth is not Wilde.
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"The Secret of the Dead"
(2014)
Included in: The Mammoth Book of Best
British
Crime
11 (Maxim Jakubowski)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; (Mycroft
Holmes)
Fictional
Characters: Sergeant (Richard) Cuff; (The Moonstone)
Other Characters: Reuben Flowers;
Annie Lincoln;
Dr Joshua Randle; Buckley; Albert Dawson;
Emilia Barrett; (Mrs Dryfield; Holmes's Parents; Mrs
Matthews; Parson Phillips; Andrew Barrett)
Unnamed
Characters: Gammidge & Brown Clerk
Locations: Yorkshire; Village Pond; Cuff's Cottage;
Village Green; Randle's Surgery; Botham Lodge; The
Leg of Mutton; York; Gammidge & Brown's
Offices
Story: After Annie Lincoln's body has been
discovered floating in the village pond, Sergeant
Cuff, now retired, is offered assistance
in his garden by the young Sherlock Holmes, who
is visiting
his aunt, Mrs Dryfield. Cuff tells
Holmes that he believes Annie, a local gossip,
was murdered, and that her death was the second
in the village within a month. |
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The
Shadow of the Rat (1999)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Stamford; Inspector Lestrade; The Giant Rat
of Sumatra; Mrs Hudson; The Matilda Briggs;
Mycroft Holmes; (Mary Morstan)
Other Characters: Simpson's Waiter; Diners;
Mrs Sanderson; Scotland Yard Constable; Dead Man;
Miss Sanderson; Cab Driver; Alice (Mellor)
Callaghan; Dr Simeon Karswell; Baldwin; George;
Bridge of Dreams Members; Eric; The Captain; Tom
Herrick; Josiah Barton; Abe Chapman; Rat Handlers;
Three Assailants; Cabman; Bart's Nurses &
Doctors; Old Man in Morgue; Bill; Dock Watchman;
Sailors; Gunson; Fraser; Baroness Emmuska Dubeyk;
Baroness's Men; Parker; Stableman; Empire Stage
Doorman; The Great Salvini; Diogenes Club Doorman;
Diogenes Clerk; Diogenes Members; Adelphi Clerk;
Tramp; Marcini's Waiter; Companies House Clerk; Cab
Drivers; Rat Guard; George; Inspector Lanyon;
Lestrade's Men; Solomon Street Man; Welsh Sergeant;
Sailors; Cabbie; Actress; (Professor Lindstrom;
Birdie Evans; Mr Duddridge; Coules; Dr Alec
Callaghan; Bella Callaghan; Sir Randolph Dowson;
Katarina; Captain Rogan; Robin; Dead Sailor)
Date: Early Autumn, 1895
Locations: Simpson's; Chiswick, 32,
Tunnacliffe Road; 221B, Baker Street; Scotland Yard;
Victoria Embankment; Bart's; Mayfair; The Bridge of
Dreams; Cooper Street; Muswell Road; Blackwall;
Christopher Dock; The Matilda Briggs; A
Coach; Crescent Lodge; Buddington; The Cross Keys;
Courtfield Gardens; Wood Green Empire; Diogenes
Club; Enfield; Adelphi Hotel; Park; Marcini's;
Companies House; Baker Street; Rotherhithe; Solomon
Road; Eagle Printing Co; Oxford Street
Story: Holmes and Watson encounter a drunken
Stamford at Simpson's, and, after taking him home,
they notice needle marks on his arms. The following
day Lestrade summons them to Scotland Yard to view a
body pulled from the Thames. Watson identifies it as
showing symptoms of bubonic plague. A clue leads
them back to Stamford, but they find his room
deserted, and his landlady's daughter denies that he
ever lived there. At Bart's, Watson meets an old
acquaintance, and they learn of Stamford's recent
erratic behaviour. Investigations lead them to the
Bridge of Dreams Club where the preferred sport is
rat-baiting, but on the way home they are attacked
and Holmes disappears. The following day Watson
receives a visit from Matron Callaghan, who has
found Stamford in the old morgue at Bart's, but once
again he has disappeared by the time Watson arrives.
His quest for Holmes takes him aboard the Matilda
Briggs where he discovers the Giant Rat. When
he and Holmes are finally reunited, Watson finds
himself being held prisoner by his friend. Before
the affair is over he faces a Hungarian Baroness and
a black panther, employs the services of a
hypnotist, and overcomes a plot to blackmail the
British Government.
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"Sherlock
Holmes and the Ghost of Christmas Past" (2008)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes:
The Game's Afoot (David Stuart Davies)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson
Other Characters: Caroline Harrison; (Septimus
Harrison; Caroline's Friends; Oscar Leyland;
Harrison's Servants; Sheridan; Police; Doctor)
Date: 22nd-24th December, 1899
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Kensington;
Harrison's House
Story: Caroline Harrison has returned from a
visit to friends to find that a coarse Australian,
Leyland, has moved into the home she shares with her
father. He is a friend from her father's youth. Just
before Christmas she is woken by gunshots, and finds
her father wounded and Leyland dead, victims of a
burglary. The following Christmas she consults Holmes
when her father claims he is being haunted by
Leyland's ghost which appears in the mirror of his
room. Holmes arranges to spend the evening, disguised
as Leyland, in Harrison's room to reveal the truth of
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Sherlock
Holmes and the Hentzau Affair (1991)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Tobias Gregson; King of Bohemia;
(Sir Jasper Meek)
Fictional Characters: Colonel Sapt; Rupert of
Hentzau; Fritz von Tarlenheim; Princess Flavia; (Rudolf
V; Rudolf Rassendyll; Josef; Black Michael; Lord
Burlesdon)
Other Characters: Cobb; Cab Driver; 'Checked
Cap'; Cab Driver; Baker Street Pedestrians; Second Cab
Driver; Oxford Street Crowds; Sapt's Driver; Charing
Cross Lobby Crowds; Gregson's Men; Woman at Burdett
Road; Nicholas Bulesdon; Man at Burdett Road; Pall
Mall Passers-by; Diogenes Members; Diogenes Porter;
Two Diogenes Servants; Waiter on Train; Dining Car
Occupants; Cologne Crowds; Thief; Four Louts; Border
Guards; Stephan; Alexander Beauchamp; Gustav;
Beauchamp's Driver; Baron Heinrich Holstein; The Blue
Bugles; Embassy Lackey; Sir Roger Johnson; Captain
Salberg; Rassendyll's Cook; Horseman; Palace Kitchen
Maid; King's Doctor; Archbishop of Strelsau;Dead
Palace Servant; Blue Bugles Officer; Strelsau Crowds;
King's Soldiers; Commander of the Ruritanian Border
Forces; Station Guard; Two Bohemian Halbardiers; Boris
Gasanov; Bohemian Servant; Captain of the Bohemian
Guard; (Roberts)
Date: September, 1895
Locations: Hyde Park; Baker Street; 221B, Baker
Street; Oxford Street; Oxford Circus; Regent Street;
Charing Cross Hotel; 104, Burdett Road; Pall Mall; The
Diogenes Club; The South Eastern Continental Express;
A Ferry; Belgium; Ostende; A Train; Germany; Cologne
Station; The Golden Lion Train; Ruritania; A Coach;
The Boar's Head; Strelsau; Liver Stable; British
Embassy; The King's Hunting Lodge; The Royal Palace;
The Forest of Zenda; The King's Fishing Lodge; Customs
House; Steinbach Station; The Royal Train; A Train
Story: Holmes and Watson return from a walk to
find Sapt awaiting them. He tells them the recent
history of Ruritania, of the King's madness in the
wake of a recent illness, of Rupert of Hentzau's plans
to take over the throne, of the upcoming visit of the
King of Bohemia, and the need to find Rudolf
Rassendyll, who has disappeared, to take the King's
place again. While Holmes is following a man who has
been following Sapt, Sapt is murdered in his hotel
room. A raid on the man's house leaves Gregson
wounded, but results in the rescue of a young boy.
With Mycroft's assistance, Holmes and Watson travel to
Ruritania to rescue Rassendyll from Hentzau. In
Cologne they are attacked by a group of roughs, and a
further attempt is made on their arrival in Ruritania.
Having survived both, they soon find themselves
prisoners of Hentzau. After being rescued, they learn
that the situation has become more desperate, with the
death of the King making Hentzau's path to the throne
easier, and putting Rassendyll's life in more
jeopardy. Holmes makes contact with Rassendyll and a
plan is put into operation to save the monarchy, in
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"The Spirit of Death" (2018)
Included in: Gaslight
Gothic (J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Tobias Gregson; (Inspector Lestrade;
Stanley Hopkins)
Historical Figures: (Sigmund
Freud)
Other Characters: Joseph Bradshaw; Bradshaw's
Friends; Bradshaw's Doctor; Sir Eustace Carabine;
Lecture Audience; Morgue Constable; Alexander Karswell
Locations: Bradshaw's House; Bart's; 221B, Baker
Street; Scotland Yard Morgue; Islington; Karswell's
House
Story: Gregson consults Holmes after two men die
after suffering an unexplained palsy-like fit. Both men
have lectured or written on the theories of Freud, and
challenged the views of Alexander Karswell on the
untapped potential of the mind. Holmes devises a plan to
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The
Tangled Skein (1998)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Sir Henry Baskerville; Dr Mortimer; Mrs
Hudson; Jack Stapleton; Inspector Lestrade; Baker
Street Irregulars; (The Hound of the
Baskervilles; Barrymore; Mrs Barrymore; Sir
Charles Baskerville; Beryl Stapleton)
Fictional Characters: Abraham Van Helsing;
Dracula; (The Bloofer Lady; Hampstead Child;
Dracula's Brides; The Demeter)
Historical Figures: Vlad Tepes; (De
Reszke Brothers)
Other Characters: Celia Lydgate; Matthew
Boulton; Watkins; Violet Markham; Silas Gardner; Dr
Collins; Meinster
Down-and-Out; Hansom Drivers; London Gardens C; Mary
Gardner; Catherine Hunterrowd; Cab Driver; Mission
Paupers; Celia's Landlady; Mortuary Desk Sergeants;
Dracula's Bride; Northumberland Hotel Diners;
Northumberland Hotel Waiters; Grey Goose Landlord;
Gardner's Maid; Carol Singers; (John Grenfell;
Aubrey Lydgate; Mrs Lydgate; Hampstead Constable;
Police Surgeon; Katherine Elliot; Varna Port
Officials; Sir Ralph Markham; Donald Fraser; Lady
Markham; Medical Specialist; Coombe Tracey
Tradesmen; Academy Teachers; Academy Students;
Academy Parents; Mrs Gardner; Catherine's Parents;
Milly White; Gabriel White; Lady Rowena Durband;
Lady Durband's Footman's Twin Brother; Coombe
Tracey Blacksmith)
Date: November - 25th December, 1888
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Charing Cross
Road; Kentish Town; London Gardens; 1, London
Gardens; Marylebone Road; Shooter's Hill Mission;
McCauley Street; Scotland Yard Mortuary; Hampstead
Heath; Northumberland Hotel; Bellmount Private
Cemetery; Baker Street; Paddington Station; The
Devon Express; Devonshire; Coombe Tracey; The Grey
Goose Inn; The Gardner Academy for Young Ladies;
Post Office; Dartmoor; Black Tor; Neolithic Hut;
Vixen Heights; White's Farm; Grimpen; Mortimer's
Surgery; Baskerville Hall; Grimpen Mire
Story: After concluding the Baskerville case,
Holmes and Watson see Sir Henry and Dr Mortimer off
on a world cruise. Holmes pooh-poohs a talk given by
Van Helsing on vampires, and receives a deadly
package from a mysterious caller. A coded telegram
lures Holmes into a trap in Kentish Town, and Celia
Lydgate arrives at Baker Street with a warning. With
the assailant identified, Watson sets out on a
single-handed mission to rescue Celia from his
clutches. Lestrade arrives at Baker Street with news
of a body, drained of blood, found on Hampstead
Heath, where appearances of a "Phantom Lady" are
also being reported.
During
their vigil on the Heath, Holmes and Watson
encounter the Phantom Lady and Van Helsing, who
reveals to them the history of Dracula. After
dealing with their first vampires, Holmes and Watson
follow Dracula's trail to Dartmoor, where they attempt
to save his latest victim, a student at a finishing
school for young ladies. Ultimately, their quest takes
them back to Baskerville Hall.
NOTE: Meinster, Dracula's dwarfish,
one-eyed assistant, is named after Dracula's disciple
Baron Meinster, from the Hammer film, The Brides
of Dracula.
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The
Veiled Detective (2004)
Story Type: Canonical Revisioning
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson (John Walker);
Sherlock Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; Professor
Moriarty; Colonel Moran; Mrs (Kitty) Hudson; (Henry)
Stamford; Jefferson Hope; Enoch Drebber; Joseph
Stangerson; Arthur Charpentier; Tobias Gregson; Cab
Driver; Lauriston Gardens Constable; Loafers;
Stretcher Bearers; Mrs Rance; John Rance; Mary
Morstan; Mrs Cecil Forrester; Mycroft Holmes; The
Moriarty Gang; St Monica's Clergyman; Peter Steiler;
Swiss Lad; (Young Girl; White-Haired Gentleman;
Lucy Ferrier; John Ferrier; Mr Melas; Inspector
Patterson; English Lady)
Other Characters: Wounded Soldiers; Captain
Alastair Thornton; Soldiers; Arthur Sims; Badger
Johnson; Harry Jordan; Night-Watchman; Jonas
Abercrombie / Ernest Brand; Disreputable-looking
Fellow; Bank Teller; Old Sunburned Gentleman; Harry;
Moriarty's Men; Fat Northern Businessman; Alexander
Reed; Businessman's Wife; Orontes Barman;
Purser; Lincoln Scoular; Club Lackey; Ambrose Jones;
Torquay Terrace Cab Driver; Alehouse Landlord;
Diogenes Members; Loafer; Patrick Graves; Carriage
Driver; Maxwell; Jenson; Victoria Porters; (Hawkins;
Amelia Abercrombie; Abercrombie's Maid; Harry
Drysdale; Raja of Kalipaur; Mellors; Bentham)
Date: 27 June, 1880 - May, 1891
Locations: Afghanistan; Candahar; London;
Meredith & Co. Offices; Scotland Yard; Moriarty's
Residence; 14, Montague Street; City Bank; Portland
Street; Water Street; The Orontes; London
Dock; Reed's Club; Holborn; 221B Baker Street; Bart's;
Watson's Hotel in the Strand; Criterion Bar; Wigmore
Street; Hope's Lodgings; Regent's Park; Torquay
Terrace; Euston Station; Brixton; 3, Lauriston
Gardens; Halliday's Private Hotel; Audley Court; The
Turk's Head; Mrs Forrester's House; The Butcher's
Arms, Marylebone High Street; Diogenes Club; Church of
St Monica, Edgware Road; Watson's Paddington Home;
Graves's Chiswick Home; West India Docks; Hyde Park
Corner; Paddington Station; Victoria Station;
Canterbury; Strasburg; Meiringen; The Englischer Hof;
Reichenbach
Story: Surgeon John Walker is court-martialled
for getting drunk the night after the battle of
Maiwand. Holmes's activities come to the attention of
Moriarty. Holmes investigates the kidnapping of a
banker's daughter, but is attacked while carrying out
a bank robbery and learns his client is not who he
claims to be. On board the Orontes Walker
meets Reed, who introduces him to the Moriarty Gang.
Holmes's Montague Street landlord finds himself
abducted and threatened. Moriarty gives Walker the new
identity of Watson, sets up an establishment in Baker
Street, with an ex-actress as landlady, and contrives
to have Watson introduced to Holmes, take up residence
at 221B and report on his activities. Hope carries out
his revenge on Drebber & Stangerson, but Holmes
plays a very different role in the final events to
that previously reported by Watson, and Walker decides
to keep some of the details concealed from Moriarty.
He falls easily into his new identity assisting Holmes
and recording his adventures in various versions for
the public, and less easily for Moriarty, and
eventually meets and falls in love with Mary Morstan.
Mycroft provides counsel to Moriarty on how to deal
with the situation. Moriarty sets Watson up in
practice in Paddington, but instructs him to stay
involved in Holmes's work, but Holmes's response to
his marriage leads to estrangement. When Holmes starts
to investigate the Moriarty Gang, Watson is ordered to
stop him. Holmes attempts to prevent the theft of the
Elephant's Egg ruby, Watson's allegiances are put to
the test and he discovers that Holmes knows his past.
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Martin Davies
Mrs. Hudson and the Spirits' Curse
(2004)
Story Type: Extra-Canonical Adventure of Mrs
Hudson narrated by Flosam, the maid
Canonical Characters: Baker Street Maid
(Flottie/Flotsam); Mrs. Hudson; Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Morrison, Morrison & Dodd; Inspector
Gregory; (The Giant Rat of Sumatra; The Matilda
Briggs; Wiggins; Billy)
Fictional Characters: A.J. Raffles
Other Characters: Scraggs; Mrs Siskin;
Swordsmith; Mr Rumbelow; Penge; Nathaniel Moran;
Maurice Orlando Fogarty; Smale; Boy at Fogarty's;
Cold-Faced Woman; The Honourable Rupert Spencer;
Betty Trent; Gregory's Messenger Boy; St James's
Policemen; French Hotel Official; Carruthers;
Cabbie; Brown's Doorman; Brown's Manager; Brown's
Staff; Desk Clerk; Fish Seller; St Pancras
Policemen; Elderly Gentleman; St Pancras Woman;
Gentlemen in Tails; Neale; Woman at Neale's
Lodgings; Reynolds; Hetty Peters; Rumbelow's Maid;
Gladys; Neale's Footman; Neale's Cook; Melmoth's
Messenger Boy; Jenkins; O'Donnell; Spencer's
Housemaid; James; Mrs Gresham's House; Carrington;
Fogarty's Girl; Flynn; Mrs Flegg; The Earl of
Brabham; Smale's Driver; Hansom Drivers; Piccadilly
Policeman; Small Boy
(Lurantong; Whitfield; Postgate; Pagi Hunters;
White Settler; Old Pagi; Pagi Elders; Chinaman;
James Winterton; Mr Norman; Matilda Briggs
Captain; Matilda Briggs Crew; Lord Ponsonby;
Monsieur Bertillon; Lord Plinlimmon; Jeb Trent;
Jeb's Captain; Moran's Father; Belgian Hotel
Guest; St James's Hotel Night Porter; Hotel
Manager; Flower Seller; Lad with Parcel; Police
Officers; Shipping Company Caretaker; Mr Whitley;
Michaels; Mathers; Portman Street Policeman;
Holmes's Boy; Boy Lurker; Philpotts; Fotheringays'
Footmen; Melmoth; Lewis Monk; Red Lion Landlord;
Gay Girls; Fotheringay's Maid; Mr Fotheringay;
Holmes's Driver; Sir George Farnborough)
Locations: Scraggs's Barrow; Mrs Hudson's
Previous Home; Holmes & Watson's Residence; The
Fotheringay Household; Limehouse; Mrs Trent's Home;
St James's Hotel, Knightsbridge; Brown's Hotel,
Mayfair; Exeter Market; St Pancras; Neale's
Lodgings; Bloomsbury Square; Spencer's Residence;
Kensington; Rumbelow's Residence; 84, Cavendish
Street; Portman Street; Moran's Rooms; Oxford
Street; Piccadilly; Cable Wharf
(Sumatra; Port Mary; Singapore; Paris; Rangoon
& Occident Shipping Line Offices; The Red
Lion)
Story: Caught stealing a cabbage, young
orphan girl Flottie is taken to Mrs Hudson who gives
her a job as an apprentice cook. When their employer
dies they are taken on as housekeeper and maid by
Sherlock Holmes. A one-eyed caller leaves a silver
dagger and a note bearing a seal depicting a giant
rat announcing that Nathaniel Moran will call on
Holmes the following day. Mrs Hudson does not agree
with Holmes's deductions regarding Moran, who tells
them of the company he established in Sumatra, the
shooting of a sacred giant rat and the subsequent
blinding and death of his colleague and other local
residents, and the curse put on himself and his
colleagues by a local priest. Mrs Hudson does not
believe that all is as straightforward as it
appears.
Holmes receives a letter from Morrison,
Morrison & Dodd concerning rumours that the Matilda
Briggs is possessed by evil spirits. From a
figure from her past Flottie learns that her
long-lost brother has been found. His sorry
condition is used in an attempt to blackmail her
into giving up Holmes's conclusions over the Moran
case, but she comes to a realisation which defeats
the plan. Mrs Hudson learns of other disturbing
events aboard the Matilda Briggs and one of
Moran's associates in London is killed by a snake.
Mrs Hudson, Flottie & Scraggs set up a watch on
the surviving members of the company and are forced
to deal with a poisonous spider.
Raffles brings Mrs Hudson some purloined
documents and a tale of a scorpion in a jewel box
and Spencer reveals the provenance of the other
creatures used in the attacks. From Neale she learns
the true events in Sumatra and later in London, but
he is killed before he can reveal the true identity
of the criminal mastermind known as Melmoth. Watson
is sent to guard Moran, but when Moran is shot it
appears that Watson is the killer. A raid is made to
rescue the boy who was presented as Flottie's
brother, but Holmes fails to return from it and
Flottie is abducted. Mrs Hudson leads the rescue
party, reveals the truth and helps shape Watson's
writings.
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Mrs.
Hudson and the Malabar Rose (2005)
Story Type: Extra-Canonical Adventure of Mrs
Hudson narrated by Flotsam, the maid
Canonical Characters: Baker Street Maid
(Flottie / Flotsam / Flot); Mrs. Hudson; Sherlock
Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade; James
Phillimore
Other Characters: Newsboy; Blue; Scraggs;
Home Office Messenger; Mr Hicks; Mrs Smithers;
Godwin Branchester; Baker Street Constable; Docks
Overseer; Randolph Place Man; Sir John's Butler; Sir
John's Maid; Major General Sir John Plaskett;
Policeman; Reynolds; Hetty Peters; The Right
Honourable Rupert Spencer; Earl of Brabham; Lavinia
"Vinnie" Phillimore; Boy with Wreath; Salmanazar's
Servant; The Great Salmanazar; Blenheim Policemen;
Bert; Blenheim Doorman; Old Perch; Perch's Customer;
Mr Herbert; Mrs Williamson; Mr Rumbelow; Lola del
Fuego; Mr Prescott; Carrington; Vicar of St
Margaret's; Mr Bushy; Mr Choudrey; Royal Jeweller;
Regal Audience; Salmanazar's Assistants; Carpenters;
Plainclothesmen; Strongmen; Archdeacon; Dowager
Duchess of Marne; Blenheim Guests; Blenheim Staff;
Dentist; Cab Driver; Mermaid Doorman; Ticket Seller;
Mermaid Audience; Performers; Dancer; Fidelma
Fontaine / Maud Phillimore; Cyclist; Mrs Griffiths;
Woman Dressed as Britannia; Monkey Crowd; Pantomime
Actors; Scotland Yard Sergeant; Mills; Chief
Inspector; Savoy Guests; Butler; Sir Marcus Stewart;
Constable Andrews; Clerical Gentleman; Tavern Crowd;
Fred; Charing Cross Boy; Trafalgar Square Crowds;
Trafalgar Square Boy; Pantomime Horse
(John; John's Mother; Maharajah of Majoudh;
Princess Alicia Karageorgevich; Simkins; Lord
Shastonbury; Jennings; Mr Rumbelow; Lord Clyde;
Monk; Simpson; Lola's Fiancé; Sir Phillip
Westacott; Lord Boothroyd; Urchin; Irish Navvies;
McAdam)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Baker
Street; The Docks; Randolph Place; Bloomsbury
Square; The Spencer Residence; Ealing; Sefton
Avenue; The Smithers House; Piccadilly; Brown's
Hotel; Blenheim Hotel; Islington; Kimber Street;
Toyshop; Holborn; Rumbelow's Office; Regal Theatre;
Stepney; Mermaid Theatre; Tearoom off Paul Street;
The Tudor Rose off the Haymarket; Trafalgar Square;
Scotland Yard; The Savoy; Public House; Covent
Garden; The Strand; Charing Cross; An Alley
Date: Late December
Story: After an encounter with a pickpocket
reminds her of her days in the orphanage, Flottie
reads of the arrival of the Malabar Rose, a ruby
sent as a gift to the Crown by the Maharajah of
Majoudh. Holmes receives a visitor from the Home
Office in connection with the ruby, and a Mrs
Smithers asks him to find her son-in-law,
Phillimore, who disappeared after going back indoors
for his umbrella. Holmes learns that a magician, the
Great Salmanazar, is suspected of planning to steal
the jewel, that 11 decoy jewels have been made to
protect it, and attempts have already been made on
three of them. He dismisses Mrs Smithers lightly,
but Mrs Hudson believes there may be more to her
case and decides to follow it up, learning of
Phillimore's recurring illness, and his wife's
recent surprise gift.
Flottie
accompanies Watson to confront Salmanazar. Holmes
and Lestrade oversee the preparations for display of
the ruby. Meanwhile, the Earl of Brabham begins to
act strangely and Flottie sees more of the
pickpocket. On Boxing Day, Salmanazar's final trick
goes wrong, and the ruby disappears from a sealed
room, seemingly transformed into a butterfly. Mrs
Hudson has the Blenheim Hotel set on fire, Dr Watson
witnesses a striptease, a threatening note arrives
at Baker Street, and a toymaker disappears. Another
fire threatens Mrs Hudson and Flottie's lives, and
Holmes helps a criminal escape, while the ruby is
stolen a second time and a trap is laid for the
thief.
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C. Edward Davis
"The Adventure of The White
Bird" (2015)
Included in: The MX Book of
New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part III: 1896-1929
(David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters:Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Historical Figures: Charles
Lindbergh; Consuelo Hatmaker Nungesser; Robert
Nungesser; (Jimmy Walker; Joseph A. Warren;
Charles Nungesser; François Coli; James R.
Hatmaker)
Characters Derived from Historical
Figures: Gordon Page
Other Characters: Battery Park Crowds;
Roosevelt Field Spectators; Hotel Guests; Young
Girl; Miss Cannella; Cab Driver; Monson's Security
Guard; Ralph; Mr Sutton; Detective Raymond Detmer;
Carter;
Commander Belanger; Canadian Witnesses; Andrew
Berryman; Mrs Woodhouse; Mr Feliciano;
William R. Monson; (Watson's
Publisher; H.G. Woodhouse)
Date: 4th May - 14th June, 1927
Locations: USA; New York;
Park Avenue; Hotel; Battery Park; Long Island;
Roosevelt Field; New York Public Library; Orteig's
Offices; Kingston; Monson's Factory; Kingston Station;
Mineola; Police Station; Canada; Newfoundland; Harbor
Grace; Saint Pierre Island; Nova Scotia; Halifax;
Maine; Lubec; South Jamesport
Story: Holmes and Watson are in New
York when the French aviators Nungesser and Coli
disappear during their attempt to be the first to
cross the Atlantic by plane. After watching Lindbergh
begin his Trans-Atlantic flight, they are approached
by Nungesser's ex-wife and his half-brother. She
suspects that her father, James R. Hatmaker may be
behind Nungesser's disappearance. Holmes's attention,
however turns towards aviation entrepreneur, William
R. Monson, who had designs on winning the Orteig Prize
for crossing the Atlantic himself.
NOTE: The aeronautical expert
Gordon Page is named after Gordon Page, one of the
founders of the Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame.
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Barry Day
"The Adventure of the Curious Canary"
(2002)
Included in: Murder, My Dear
Watson (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg
& Daniel Stashower); The Big Book of
Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; (Wilson, the Notorious
Canary Trainer)
Other Characters: Mary Lucas; Sir Giles
Halliford; Emily Sommersby; Robert Halliford
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Lewes;
Halliford; A Pub in Halliford; Halliford Hall; A
Train
Story: Holmes and Watson are visited by Mary
Lucas, housekeeper, and now fiancée, to Sir Giles
Halliford. Sir Giles lived alone with his ward,
Emily Sommersby, until recently a man claiming to be
his nephew Robert joined the household. The previous
night Emily heard the sound of heavy breathing, and
a bird chirping from Sir Giles's library, and there
was a strange scent in the air when she entered the
room. She fears his life may be in danger. Holmes
and Watson travel out to Halliford Hall, but are not
able to prevent Sir Giles's murder.
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Sherlock
Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (1998)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock
Holmes; Professor Moriarty; Mrs Hudson; Mycroft
Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; Wiggins; (Wilson
Hargreave; Von Bork)
Fictional Characters: (Alice; Humpty
Dumpty; White Rabbit; Cheshire Cat; Queen of
Hearts; March Hare; Duchess; Pig Baby; Mad Hatter;
King of Hearts; Red King; Frog Footmen; Walrus;
Carpenter; Oysters; Knave of Hearts; Bill the
Lizard; Dormouse; Mock Turtle; Caterpillar)
Folkloric Characters: (Loch Ness Monster)
Historical Figures: Winston Churchill; (Lewis
Carroll)
Other Characters: Loch Ness Guests;
Flunkeys; John Moxton; Professor James / Kurt
Krober; James's Assistants; Royston Steel; Alicia
Creighton; Tussaud's Police; Tussaud's Crowds;
Attendants; Museum Officials; Lady Bullard;
Constables; Foreign Secretary; Frog Footmen; Fancy
Dress Party Guests; Sir Giles Broadbent QC; House of
Commons Policemen; Attendants; MPs; New Home
Secretary; The Speaker; Gatekeeper; Lestrade's
Constables; Constable Hawkins; Four-Wheeler Driver;
Passing Dignitary & Companions; Kroger's
Companion
(Old Tug; Alicia's Mother; Julius Minton;
Duchamps; Zuckerman; Foreign Secretary's
Assistants; Mme Solange; Ilya Zokov; Moriarty's
Mercenaries; Alicia's Aunt)
Date: Mid-October-November, 1898
Locations: Scotland; Loch Ness; Hotel; 221B,
Baker Street; Madame Tussaud's; Chester Square;
Moxton's House; Watson's Club; St James's Park;
Covent Garden; Houses of Parliament; The East End;
Royston Court; The Embankment
Story: Holmes summons Watson to Scotland for
a fishing trip, taking him to a lochside gathering
at which the American newsman, Moxton, has announced
the Loch Ness Monster will make an appearance.
Holmes reveals the true nature of the beast to
Watson, and also tells him that he believes that
Moxton is Moriarty, somehow having survived
Reichenbach.
Returning
to London, Holmes believes that an agony column
reference to the White Rabbit and Cheshire Cat, and
an invasion of Parliament by white rabbits are both
connected to Moriarty. Mycroft comes to Baker Street
and expresses his belief that Moriarty is plotting
to manipulate public opinion through the press and
through control of certain Members of Parliament,
including his protégé, Steel. At Madame Tussaud's an
attack is made on both the Foreign Secretary and his
wax effigy. Each incident is accompanied by a
Carrollian quote.
Moxton
invites Holmes to an Alice-themed fancy dress party,
and his ward, Alicia, calls on Holmes for help. The
Home Secretary is murdered at the Alice party.
Holmes impersonates Steel in Parliament and has the
Irregulars watch Moxton, who flees the city. Holmes
discovers evidence that Moriarty has recruited small
band of mercenaries. Locating his new lair, Holmes
has to rescue Alicia from a booby-trapped room, and
race to stop a latter-day Guy Fawkes plot, with a
little help from Winston Churchill.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Apocalypse
Murders (2001)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Mrs. Hudson; Irene
Adler; Mycroft Holmes; Mrs. Turner; Thurston;
Langdale Pike; Fred Porlock; Wiggins; Baker Street
Irregulars
Historical Figures: Jack The Ripper; Oscar
Wilde; Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas; Marquess of
Queensberry
Other Characters: Constable McLinsky;
Simpson's Mâitre d'; Lady Adeline Hatton; Opera
House Page; Lord Daintry; Café Royal Waiter; Café
Royal Mâitre d'; Hansom Driver; Janus Cain; Henry
Harcourt; Constables; Opera Goers; Cain's
Congregation; Cain's Attendants; Nonconformist
Clergyman; Archie Sennott; Raoul Sugarman; Oxford
cab Driver; Magdalen College Porter; Magdalen
College Bursar; Students; Cyril Overton; College
Servant; Head Chef; Cooks; Theatre Audience; Cab
Driver; Theatre Manager; Barman; Policemen
Date: January, 1895
Locations: Croxley Mews; 221B, Baker Street;
Simpson's; A Hansom Cab; Royal Opera House, Covent
Garden; Café Royal; Another Hansom Cab; Mrs.
Turner's House; Maiden Lane; Rules Restaurant;
Hammersmith; Croxley Hall; A Train; Oxford; Magdalen
College; A Club in St. James's; Porlock's Church;
Mitre Square; The Church of the New Apocalypse; A
Cab; Aldgate; Whitechapel; Regent's Park; St James's
Theatre; Trafalgar Square; London Sewers
Story: Holmes and Watson are called from
dinner at Simpson's by Lestrade, to view the body of
what appears to be a new victim of Jack the Ripper.
Holmes tells Watson that he had worked on the Ripper
case and uncovered the identity of the Ripper, who
was of such high social standing that his identity
could not be revealed, and who was banished from the
country, instead of being brought to trial. It is
possible that he has returned to London. Holmes and
Watson receive tickets for a performance of La
Traviata at Covent Garden. On arriving there,
they discover that the lead is being played by Irene
Adler. Mycroft is also in attendance and summons
them to dinner the following day. Watson becomes
aware that they are the focus of a purple-eyed,
bearded stranger, who disappears before Watson can
point him out to Holmes.
The next day, Irene visits Baker Street
and tells Holmes of a man who stalked her in 1888,
and seems to have returned, and Holmes identifies
him as the Ripper. They dine at the Café Royal with
Mycroft , who reveals that the victim, Lady Adeline
Hatton, was a member of the "jury" that tried the
Ripper. As they are leaving, they meet Oscar Wilde,
who accompanies them to Covent Garden. A second
member of the "jury", Henry Hatton, has been killed
at a performance of the Flying Dutchman, and
bloodstained roses are found in Irene's dressing
room. Holmes identifies Janus Cain, head of the
Church of the New Apocalypse, as the Ripper. Mycroft
takes Holmes and Watson to a banquet at Magdalen
College, Oxford to protect the third "jury" member,
Cyril Overton. Wilde and Cain are also guests of
honour at the banquet. Irene is sent to stay with
Mrs. Hudson's friend, Mrs. Turner. Watson attends a
meeting of Cain's church.
At the banquet in Oxford, Holmes manages
to pre-empt Cain's plot, but Wilde learns that Cain
has plans afoot for Valentine's Day. Back in London,
Holmes receives further information about Cain from
Langdale Pike and Fred Porlock: Cain has bought up a
whole section of Whitechapel in the name of his
Church. Irene infiltrates the church, and Holmes and
Watson break in with the aid of the Baker Street
Irregulars. With the help of Wilde, their
investigations lead to a final showdown in the
London sewers.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat
Murders (2001)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft
Holmes; Von Bork; Colonel James Moriarty; (Baker
Street Irregulars)
Ficxtional Characters: Hercule Poirot
(Aristide Nemo)
Historical Figures: Sigmund Freud; Dan Leno;
Marie Lloyd; John Buchan; Edward VII
Other Characters: Mr Montague; Bayswater
Policeman; Mrs Cawston; Lady Guest; Impostor; Simon
Pettigrew; Marge Pettigrew; Police Officers;
Pettigrew's Maid; Diogenes Servant; Brown's Maitre
d'; Waiters; Sir Angus McDoum; Anglo-German
Solidarity Audience; Middlesex Audience; Cockney
Fellow; Dowager Lady; Russian Magician; German
Military Men; German M.C.; The Great Mysterioso;
Mycroft's Assistant; Sergeant Micklem; Humble
Wayfarer Landlord & Wife; Mrs Platt; Newsboy;
Café Royal Attendant; Journalists; Harold Soper;
Zuberbier; Quentin E. Dowd; Doum Servants; German
Lecturers; Royal Party; Sons of Albion; Scottish
Soldiers; Policemen; German Sailors; British Sailors
(Klaus Geier; William Phipps; German Tenor)
Date: Early September, 1900
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Bayswater;
Watson's Club; Pettigrew's Flat; Diogenes Club;
Brown's Hotel; Westminster Hall; Middlesex Music
Hall; Drury Lane; The Yorkshire Express; Yorkshire;
Humblethwaite; The Humble Wayfarer Inn; Brotherton's
Residence; The Moor; A Train; King's Cross Station;
Café Royal; Scotland; Invercrory; Hotel; Fishing
Smack; Isle of Doum; Castle Doum
Story: Lestrade tells Holmes of a murder in
Bayswater. A note left with the victim refers to
Jabez Wilson. Visiting the murder site they discover
that the body has been adorned with a red wig. The
landlady claims that Holmes had been to visit the
man several times over the past few days. A tobacco
dottle found in the room proves to be of Holmes's
own mix. Watson unknowingly encounters the impostor,
and a second murder is accompanied by a note
referring to Grimesby Roylott. Again, the victim's
wife claims that he had had contact with Holmes.
Mycroft brings news of a third murder,
this time accompanied by five orange pips. He tells
Watson that the three murdered men were involved in
the design of a new submarine. Worried about
Holmes's behaviour, and with Holmes having
disappeared, Watson consults Freud, who is staying
in London. Mycroft takes Watson to a meeting on
Anglo-German Solidarity, with speeches by Von Bork
and Scottish Nationalist McDoum. Holmes is at the
meeting in disguise, makes reference to "the 64
steps" and arranges a rendezvous at a Music Hall
performance where they see the Great Mysterioso -
man of a thousand faces. Lestrade gets a warrant for
Holmes's arrest.
In Yorkshire the last of the scientists
is attacked by a giant hound, then by Holmes
himself, but rescue comes from an unexpected source.
Watson attends a Summit meeting, disguised as a
journalist, at Castle Doum, at which the Prince of
Wales is to be present. There, he teams up with John
Buchan, and encounters the Poirot-like Aristide
Nemo, but fails to penetrate Holmes's disguise. One
of the other journalists meets with a tragic
accident. The Prince arrives, and he and the
submarine must both be saved, but all is not as it
seems.
NOTE: Holmes says of Aristide Nemo
(P.157): "He will end up as the hero of some cosy
detective stories written by some middle-aged lady
with literary pretensions in which he uses his
limited English and his little grey cells...".
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Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Deadly
Sins Murders (2002)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft
Holmes
Fictional Characters: Professor Challenger;
Professor Summerlee
Other Characters: Uma; Sunil; Mr. Smith;
Harry, the Innkeeper; Sergeant Drummond; Sir Simon
Briggs; Blackmore, the Butler; Diogenes Club Porter;
Diogenes Club Steward; Victor Pelham, MP; Pierre
Pascal; Bob McKay; Evan Staunton; Pelham's
Secretary; Mr. Hinckley; Woman In Museum; Tourists;
Hansom Driver; Judson, Concirge; Strollers in Park;
Ayub; Khali; Crowd at Pascal's; Musicians;
Assistants; Passers-By; Waiters; Mâitre d';
Handmaidens; Policemen; Thorogood; Archie Sennott;
Isaac Goetz; Waterloo Porters; Journalists;
Messengers; Auction Crowd; Savoy Page; Lestrade's
Men (Kor, Ayala)
Date: August, 1895
Locations: Scotland; An Inn; The Hall; A
Train from Scotland to London; 221B, Baker Street;
The Diogenes Club; The British Museum; A Hansom Cab
(Shaftesbury Avenue; Piccadilly Circus; Hyde Park
Corner); Eaton Square; Hyde Park; Lestrade's
Carriage; Outside the Zakhistan Embassy; Chez Pascal
Restaurant; Mycroft's Rooms; Watson's Club; Waterloo
Station; Challenger's Home, Enmore Gardens,
Kensington; The Savoy Hotel
Story: Holidaying in Scotland, Holmes &
Watson are asked by the local constable to view the
body of an unpopular local landowner, Sir Simon
Briggs, who has been murdered, suffocated in the
vacuum of his personal vault, after reporting that
his house was being watched. At the scene of the
murder is a photo of a group of seven young men; the
face of one of them has been scratched out. They
take the photo to Mycroft, who shows them an
identical one and tells them of the poisoning of an
MP in the House of Commons that very day. He also
reveals that the two men were members of a group of
Oxford students, The Seven Sinners, who took as
their names the names of the Seven Deadly Sins.
Other members of the group include himself and
Professors Challenger and Summerlee. He also tells
them of an eighth man, Staunton, who was refused
membership. Back at Baker Street Holmes receives a
letter which he deduces to have come from the
mysterious Indian woman whom they had seen at their
inn in Scotland. Lestrade has the photo enlarged,
which reveals that Briggs was holding a book written
in Sanskrit. Holmes deduces that it is this that the
murderer is searching for.
Enquiring about the book at the British
Museum, they are met by a man who, Holmes tells
Watson, is an impostor. Watson follows his carriage,
but at the end of the journey a different man
emerges. Watson learns from the Indian woman, Uma,
that the book is the holy book of the country of
Zakhistan, of which she is the high priestess, and
that she has been sent to retrieve it. She was being
aided by a white man who calls himself Mr. Smith,
who carried out the murders. Holmes suspects that
Smith is Saunders. They travel to the building which
Watson saw the man from the museum enter, only to
find a third victim. A fourth murder, of chef
Pascal, is prevented, and they manage to lure
Saunders to Mycroft's rooms, but he escapes before
they can capture him. When Challenger returns from
his expedition, Holmes seeks his aid to lay a trap
for the murderer.
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Sherlock
Holmes and the Shakespeare Globe Murders (1997)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; Inspector
Lestrade; (Mrs Watson; Watson's Maid; Billy;
Mary Morstan; Grimesby Roylott; Jabez Wilson;
Oscar Meunier
Historical Figures: Sigmund Freud;
Queen Victoria; Marquess of Salisbury; Edward
Alleyn; (George Robey; William Shakespeare;
Philip Henslowe)
Other Characters: Flora Adler; Cabbies;
Paperboy; Builders; Carlotta Adler / Carlotta
Montevecchio / Charlotte Mencken; Florenz Adler;
Edward Hamilton Fiske; Dame Ivy Fosdyke; Pauline
French; Harrison Trent; Ted Allan / Henry Lowe;
Simon Phipps; Marsham Square Constables; Constable
Baker; Henry Tallis; Actors; Hospital Orderlies;
Stage Hands; Professor Campbell Bryson; College
Servant; Oxford Don; Train Passengers; Cabbies;
Carruthers; Waiter; Bloomsbury Constables;
Bloomsbury Crowd; Mrs Harris; Savoy Page Boy;
Waiter; Lestrade's Men; Constable Ingleby; Constable
Croker; Police Doctor; Club Members; St James's Park
Strollers; Playgoers; Trumpeter; Brigade of Guards;
Sedan Bearers; Equerries; Lady-in-waiting
(Mrs Watson's Aunt; Duchess of Albemarle;
Duchess's Butler; Florenz Adler; Mycroft's
Messenger; Barley Mow Landlord; Fiske's Landlady;
Lawyer; Police Surgeon; Fiske's Doctor; John
Summers; Carlotta's Aunt; Carlotta's Child; Iris
Tallis; Joan Lithgow; Christopher Lowe; Mrs Lowe;
Clay Lithgow; Lithgow's Children; Lowe's
Solicitors; Savoy Chef; Watson's Army Colleagues;
Chemist)
Date: September, 1899
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Pall Mall;
Diogenes Club; Mycroft's Rooms; Bankside; Globe
Theatre; A Hansom Cab; Marsham Square; Regent's
Park; Islington; The Barley Mow; The Frog and
Parrot; Fiske's Lodging House; Oxford; Balliol
College; The Master's Garden; A Train; Paddington
Station; Bloomsbury; Fosdyke's Hotel; Mayfair;
Brown's Hotel; The Embankment; Savoy Hotel; Watson's
Club; St James's Park; Southwark Bridge Road
Story: While his new wife is visiting her
aunt in Harrogate, Watson calls on Holmes at Baker
Street. They are visited by the Flora Adler,
daughter of impresario Florenz Adler, who is
building a reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe
Theatre, due to open with a performance attended by
the Queen. Her father has received mysterious typed
quotations from Shakespeare and a drawing of a rose.
They are then summoned by Mycroft who tells them
that the Queen has received similar messages.
Visiting the Globe, they learn that Adler has no
daughter.
A snake is
delivered in a bunch of roses to one of the
actresses. Lestrade arrives with news that another
of the actors, who had suggested he had information
for Holmes, is dead, his body mounted on the horse
of a statue in Marsham Square. Adler is visited by
Tallis, his estranged son who is representing a
consortium who wish to buy out the theatre. A
stabbing occurs during a rehearsal of Julius
Caesar.
After
learning more about the Adlers' pasts, from them and
from Pinkertons, Holmes takes Watson to Oxford to
brush up their Shakespeare, and Holmes notices that
they are being followed by a man in disguise.
Watson is pulled away from a regimental reunion when
another murder occurs, this time in a bath. Holmes
consults with Freud, and arranges a gathering at the
Savoy of all those involved.
Holmes fails to arrive, as does one of the actresses,
and dinner is interrupted by the arrival of another
quotation. Rushing back to the Globe, Watson discovers
the missing actress being pulled from the Thames, and
Holmes's body on stage. A last note from Holmes
instructs that the opening performance must go on. The
performance of Hamlet becomes a real-life
drama, and is interrupted by the appearance of an
actor from the past, and a disguised Holmes.
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