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Keith Oatley

The Case Of Emily V. (2003)
Story Type:
Pastiche narrated by Emily Vincent, Freud and Watson
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Mycroft Holmes
Historical Figures: Sigmund Freud
Other Characters: Emily Vincent; Charles S.; Sara Rosenthal; Bertha; Dr Woolf; Mr. Jones; Diogenes Footman; Diogenes Members; Diogenes Butler; Mrs S's Maid; Catherine S.; Cabbie; Mrs Mountjoy; S's Mistress; Herr Kydorf; Frau König; Sara's Maid; The Psychological Wednesday Society; Constable; Lotte; Coachman; Railway Official; Ticket Inspector; Trient Porter; English Family; Cab Driver
(Sara's Cook; Sara's Father; Emily's Friend; Emily's Father; Emily's Mother; Caroline; Emily's Governess; Sara's Servant; Thornton; Watson's Colleague; Charles's Colleague; Colleague's Wife; Augustus Pemberton; Oberlander; Oberlander's Secretary; Von Oldenburg; Headmistress; Boy; Stadt London Hotel Chambermaid; Zwierschütz Waiter; Ida; Ida's Friend; Kitchenmaid; Hotel Manager; Telegraph Clerk; Grosvenor Porter; Stadt London Night Porter)
Date: 12th May, 1904 - 1916
Locations: Vienna; Sara's House; Berggasse; Freud's House; Emily's Apartment; G---------; A Mountain; 221B, Baker Street; Hospital Library; Baker Street; St Marylebone High Street; Restaurant; Diogenes Club; Pall Mall; B-------; S's House; Clifton Gardens; Edgware Road; Regent's Park; Hotel Imperial, Vienna; Berlin; Clusius Gasse, Vienna; A Train; Sudbahnhof; Train to Italy; Trient; Medical Bookshop; A Train; Paris; A Hotel; St-Germain Apartment; The Flche d'Or; Grosvenor Hotel
Story: Emily is sent to Freud by friends who are unaware that she has killed Charles S. He reports on her case to the Psychological Wednesday Society. Emily tells in her diary how S., her guardian, a British diplomat, tracked her from England to Vienna, and how he met his death in the mountains. She becomes increasingly scared that Freud will uncover her secret. When she tells Freud about her guardian's childhood abuse of her, he is sceptical. She also shares the details of her therapy and past with her friend Sara. Her fears become worse when the body is discovered. She finds herself becoming closer to Sara, whom she tells of the death of S. Emily and Sara plan to deliberately mislead Freud regarding the nature of Emily's problem.

Watson takes up a study of psychopathology in the belief that he can help Holmes during his bouts of melancholia. Holmes and Watson travel to Vienna at the request of the Foreign Office to investigate S's death. Mycroft believes he may have been assassinated by German intelligence agents. He also asks Holmes to contact Emily whom he regards as a possible recruit for his intelligence agency.

After interviewing Mrs S. and deducing that Emily is in Austria, and meeting S's mistress, Holmes sets out for Vienna with Watson. He stops off in Berlin to inquire into Oberlander's intelligence agency. In Vienna he sets about locating Emily, who becomes worried when she learns that he is looking for her. Holmes discovers evidence of S's intelligence activities which suggest he may have been working for the Germans. Sara resolves to deliberately mislead Holmes, and to set up a network of spies at his hotel. Watson attends a lecture by Freud and develops his own reasons for wishing to divert Holmes from solving the case. Sara arranges for the two women to disappear. Holmes meets with Freud and learns more about the case and about himself, and in return Freud learns more about Emily.

Holmes brings the case in Vienna to an unsatisfactory conclusion, and expresses his admiration for Sara as an adversary. He still retains doubts about the circumstances of S's death. He encourages Watson to send his account of the case to Sara and Emily, now living together after fleeing to Paris. Emily still worries about her part in the events and Holmes's intentions, and Sara forces a confrontation upon her friend in London, and herself strikes a deal with Holmes and Watson.

Agnes Mary O'Brien

"The Adventure of the Pair of Shoes" (1903)
Included in:
The Smith College Monthly, November 1903
Story Type:
Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade; (Countess of Morcar; Baker Street Irregulars)
Other Characters: (Bishop John Willis)
Unnamed Characters: Lestrade's Messenger; Bishop's Coachman
Date: Shortly after BLUE
Locations: Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street
Story: When calling at 221B one evening, Watson finds a pair of shoes outside the door, and Holmes deduces that their owner is a burglar. Holmes believes they are connected to the case Lestrade brings them, involving the theft of church plate in South Kensington.

J.C. Ochiltree

"Sherlock Holmes Baffled" (1895)
Included in:
The Sunday Journal (Indianapolis), 14th April 1895 and on this site
Story Type:
Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Mrs Watson)
Other Characters: Butcher; (Sailor; Butcher's Wife; Butcher's Lad; Janes; Janitor)
Date: June
Locations: Watson's House; 221B, Baker Street; Butcher's Shop
Story:
Holmes visits Watson and tells him of his investigations into licorice root, and of an series of thefts from a butcher's shop which he has been unable to solve. Holmes's janitor reveals the truth to Watson.

Weston Ochse

"The Girl in the Key of C" (2018)
Included in:
For the Sake of the Game (Laurie R. King & Leslie S. Klinger)
Story Type:
Homage

Other Characters: Danny
; Hooker; Driver; Frank; Edna Carruthers; Longshoremen; Pickup Driver; Bangers; Port Police Officers; Crew Foreman; Gang Leader; (Mr Southard)
Date: December 24th-25th
Locations:
USA; California; Los Angeles; L.A. Harbor
Story: Danny, a hotdog vendor on the L.A. docks gets talking to a psychic hooker on Christmas Day, and his life changes forever.

John O'Connell

Baskerville (2011)
Also published as: The Baskerville Legacy
Story Type:
Homage

Historical Figures: Arthur Conan Doyle; Bertram Fletcher Robinson; Duke of Norfolk; Lady Sarah Wilson; Ivor Guest; Harry Baskerville; Joseph Fletcher Robinson; Rosalinda Fletcher Robinson; Sir John Robinson; Arthur Pearson; Gladys Hill Morris; Major Kitson; Madame d'Esperance
(Louisa Doyle; Jean Leckie; Philip Richard Morris; Charles Altamont Doyle)
Characters Based on Historical Figures: (Barnes (Frederick Bowden); Alice Barnes (Alice Bowden))
Other Characters: Soldiers; Johnny Porter; Hospital Orderlies; Patients; Hospital Sergeant; Lord Edward Talbot; Sergeant-Major; Girl on Paddington Station; Swindon Clerk; Taunton Woman; Newton Abbot Station Porter; Mrs Saxham; Nancy; Pearson's Secretary; Cabbie; Warren Street People; Betty; Franny; Bouncers; Golf Caddy; Royal Links Waiter; Old Woman with Keys; Ned; Phyllis; Ipplepen Parishioners; Prison Governor; Prisoners; Guards; Grimspound Tourist; Duchy Hotel Manager; Duchy Hikers; Molly; (W.E. Crimp; Major Matson; Undertaker; Mrs Higgins; Henry King; Gladys's Actress Friend; Anna)
Date: December, 1906 / July 11th - April, 1901
Locations: France; Paris; Rue-Saint-Lazare; Hotel Concorde Saint-Lazare; South Africa; Cape Town; Aboard SS Briton; Paddington Station; Swindon; Taunton; Westbury; Newton Abbot; Ipplepen; Park Hill; St Andrew's Church; Addison Crescent; Fleet Street; Daily Express Offices; Purley; Riddlesdown; St John's Wood; Southampton Row; Warren Street; Norfolk; Cromer; Golf Course; Royal Links Hotel; Devonshire; Dartmoor; Bovey Tracey; Haytor; Hemsworthy Gate; Widecombe; Bowerman's Nose; Hound Tor; Jay's Grave; Heatree House; Princetown; Two Bridges; Wisht Wood; Duchy Hotel
; Dartmoor Prison; Fox Tor; Childe's Tomb; Grimspound; Yelverton Road
Story:
1906: Fletcher Robinson sends a manuscript detailing the "Baskervilles business" to his solicitor with instructions that it not be read until his and Doyle's immediate descendents are dead.

1900: Robinson meets Doyle aboard the SS Briton sailing out of Cape Town. Doyle buys a story idea from him. He witnesses Doyle's strange attempt to save the life of a sergeant-major. Back in England, Robinson contemplates Doyle's offer to collaborate on a story. After visiting his parents, he goes to stay with his uncle, Sir John, in London, and begins work at the Daily Express. His fiancée Gladys persuades him to contact Doyle, and he accompanies him to Cromer, where they hear of local ghosts, and Black Shuck, and conceive the idea for The Hound of the Baskervilles.

The two writers travel to Dartmoor, where Doyle announces his decision to include Holmes in the story. Robinson decides to write his own Dartmoor story to rival the Hound. Doyle arranges a séance with Mme d'Esperance, and an old friend of Robinson's makes contact from the spirit world. Robinson has an argument with Doyle and sees a vision on the moor.

Gerry O'Hara

Sherlock Holmes and the Affair in Transylvania (2011)
Story Type:
Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Fictional Characters: Lucy Westenra; Dracula; Landlord of the Golden Krone Hotel; Landlady of the Golden Krone Hotel; Country Folk; Bistritz Coachman; Coach Passengers; Dracula's Brides; Gypsies; Peasant Mother; Renfield; Berserker
Characters Based on Fictional Characters: Mina Svbado (Mina Harker); Janos Svbado (Jonathan Harker); Brother Arminius (Arminius of Buda-Pesth University); Dr Josef Westenra (John Seward); Sandor Reviczky (Arthur Holmwood); (Herr Hofner (Peter Hawkins); Barge Captain (Captain of the Demeter); Barge Crew (Crew of the Demeter))
Historical Figures: King Carol
Other Characters: Ambassador; Entourage; Military Band; Bucharest Women; Courier; Westenra's Servants; Asylum Inmates; Westenra's Cook; Postman; Hotel Royal Waiter; Peasant with Lieter-Waggon; Monks; Asylum Attendants; Eva; Graveyard Man; Cab Drivers; River Patrol NCO; Urchins; Policemen; Dog Handler; Westenra's Cook; Budapest Carters; Asylum Gatekeeper; Anton; Petrof; Dr Lukacs; Undertakers; Zoo Superintendent; Zoo Keeper; Brother Tamas; Funeral Guests; Dr Vajda; Hospital Houseman; Gypsy Orchestra; Tavern Customers; Policeman; Abbot; Coachman; Nuns; Lawyer; Bruno; Sandor's Batman; Farmer & Wife; (Romanian Royal Family Member; Pallbearers; Hofner's Manservant; Westenra's Deputy; Labourer; Sandor's Men; Sailors; Mina's Children)
Locations: Romania; Bucharest; Train Station; A Train; Vidin; Budapest; Train Station; Westenra's House; Graveyard; Klausenberg; Hotel Royal; Transylvania; Bistritz; Golden Krone Hotel; The Mittel Land; The Carpathians; The Borgo Pass; Castle Dracula; Monastery; Seward's Asylum; Chapel; Cafe; Obuda Quays; Aboard a Barge; Constanza House; Kriszna; Tavern; Westenra Tomb; Monastery; Leopold District; Summer House; Town House; Farm
Story:
Leaving Bucharest after a case involving a member of the Romanian royal family, Watson receives a letter from his niece Mina, in Budapest, whose husband Janos, a solicitor, has disappeared on a trip to Transylvania. His partner has also been found dead.

After reading letters from Janos to Mina, Holmes decides he and Watson must travel to Janos's destination - Castle Dracula. Before they leave, they witness Mina's cousin Lucy sleepwalking out to a graveyard. They travel by coach to the Castle, meet the Count, and Watson is visited by three vampire women. Exploring the castle, they find the Count in a coffin, and Janos a prisoner.

They return with him to Budapest, where Westenra shows them Renfield, an inmate of his asylum. A barge, its crew all dead, loaded with boxes of earth, drifts into Budapest during a storm. Lucy continues to be visited by Dracula in various forms. More deaths occur and Holmes and his companions track the Count back to Castle Dracula for a final brief showdown.

NOTE: Much of the text of this novel is transcribed directly from Bram Stoker's Dracula with the British settings switched to Romanian ones and some changes of character names.

Neal R. O'Hara

"Are You There?" (1922)
Included in:
Duluth Herald, 25 April 1922
Story Type:
Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; (Dr Watson)
Historical Figures: (Mary Landon Baker; Allister McCormick; Henry Cabot Lodge; Sir Oliver Lodge; Burton Holmes)
Characters Based On Historical Figures: A. Con 'Em Doyle [Arthur Conan Doyle]
Unnamed Characters: Central Operator
Locations: USA
Story: A. Con 'Em Doyle puts a call through to Sherlock Holmes in the Spirit World.

Charles O'Hegarty, Michel Choquette & Frank Springer

"The Strange Case of the Queen's Pupils" (1971)
Included in:
National Lampoon, July 1971
Story Type:
Parody Comic
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Professor Moriarty
Other Characters: Sir John Thomas; La-Oud-Phat
Historical Figures: Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence
Unnamed Characters: Schoolboys; Organ Grinder
Date:
Spring, 1881
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Teddington; Sir Wankalot's School
Story: Holmes receives a letter from Sir John Thomas, headmaster of Sir Wankalot's School, who is concerned about the listless behaviour of his pupils. Holmes and Watson travel to the school, where a pornographic barrel organ puts them on the trail of the culprit.


Oiv

"Hairlock Shomes" (1951)
Included in:
The Carleton, 25 October 1951
Story Type:
Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Hairlock Shomes &  Wotsot
Unnamed Characters: Three Screaming Women; Victim; Crowd
Locations: Canada; Ottawa; Carleton College; The Bytowne Cinema
Story: A storm brews, and three thousand miles away, Hairlock Shomes and his pet dachshund Wotsot solve a murder by the dispersal of a crowd.
"The Further Adventures of Hairlock Shomes" (1951)
Included in:
The Carleton, 6 December 1951
Story Type:
Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Hairlock Shomes &  Wotsot
Other Characters: Sluggem Shearing; Dr I.M. Champagne; "Hy" Kurtman
Unnamed Characters: Body; Conductor
Locations: Canada; Ottawa; A Train
Story: Shomes solves his final case, a murder on a train.

James O'Keefe

"The Adventure of the Deadly Interlude" (2014)
Included in:
The Adventure of the Plated Spoon and Other Tales of Sherlock Holmes (Loren D. Estleman)
Story Type:
Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; Mary Morstan; Sherlock Holmes; Colonel Moran; John Douglas / Jack McMurdo / Birdy Edwards; (Porlock; Inspector Alec MacDonald; Professor Moriarty; The Scowrers; McGinty; Ted Baldwin; Mrs Douglas)
Other Characters: Jean-Baptiste Thibadeau; Laughing Friar Proprietor's Wife; Dandridge's Butler; Dandridge's Guests; Pianist; Sir Cecil Dandridge; Trevor Atkins; Marie L'Espanaye / Yvette Rousseau; Inspector Thompson; Constable McGregor; (Dandridge's Man; Antwerp Man; Leonard Trelawney; Trelawney's Wife and Children, Peer; Royal Lion Bank Officer; Jebediah Watts; Mary Watts; Watts's Child; French Police)
Date: During the Hiatus / 1894
Locations: Watson's Office; Paddington Station; Sussex; Dickencroft; The Laughing Friar; Maple Meadows; Cherry Lane; Constabulary; 221B, Baker Street; A Train; Belgium; Antwerp; Sidewalk Café; Norwood Station
Story: After Holmes's death at Reichenbach, Mary advises Watson to take a break from his practice, so he travels to the Sussex village of Dickencroft, where he has a number of encounters with men who seem familiar to him. He is invited to dinner by Sir Cecil Dandridge, but the evening ends in veiled threats, and the murder of the host. Watson becomes a suspect when links to Moriarty are discovered.

After his return and the arrest of Moran, Holmes tells Watson of a case of mistaken identity in Antwerp during the Great Hiatus, which takes them Back to Dickencroft. Holmes explains how events there are linked to the Valley of Fear case.

NOTE: Marie L'Espanaye's name is derived from the female murder victims in Poe's stories "The Mystery of Marie Roget" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue".

Nick Oldham

"The Spy and the Towers" (2017)
Included in:
Sherlock Holmes's School for Detection (Simon Clark)
Story Type:
Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Mrs Hudson; Baker Street Irregulars
Historical Figures: E.W. Crutwell; Edward VII; Sidney Reilly; (Princess Alexandra)
Other Characters: Jimmy; Potter; Thomas O'Hara; William Melville; Lestrade's Hansom Driver; Tower Bridge Construction Team; Construction Workers; Workers' Families; Police Officers; Edward's Bodyguards; Blackpool Crowd; Street Performers; Fortune-tellers; Magicians; Beggars; Blackpool Constables; Tower Dancers; Lift Operator; Tower Audience; (Fishmonger; Noreen; Constable Johnson; Dog-walker; Irish Rebels)
Date: Mid-May, 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Duncannon Street; Teashop; 1, Russell Square; Baker Street; Tower Bridge; Manchester; Lancashire; Preston; Blackpool; North Station; Blackpool Tower; Hospital
Story:
Ace, a student at the Imperial Academy of Detective Inquiry and Forensic Science who was expected to go on to work within the intelligence community, disappears while on a mission of national importance, following O'Hara, an Irish Home Rule rebel. He has left behind a note, warning Lestrade of a threat to "the tower". The trail leas from an encounter with the Prince of Wales at Tower Bridge to one with the Prime Minister at Blackpool Tower.


John P. Oliver

"An Eyewitness Account of Holmes" (1977)
Included in:
Murder Ink (Dilys Winn)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: Inspector Lestrade; Sherlock Holmes; (Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Mrs Watson; Professor Moriarty)
Historical Figures: John P. Oliver; (Arthur Conan Doyle; Jack the Ripper)
Other Characters: Mary Watson
Unnamed Characters
: Retired Detective Inspector; Scotland Yard Officers
Date: 1970s
Locations: Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street
Story:
On an exchange visit, working at Scotland Yard, Oliver bumps into a retired police detective in the Black Museum, who recommends that he visits Holmes. Arriving in Baker Street, he finds Camden House and knocks on the door of the house opposite. The door is answered by Mary Watson, granddaughter of Dr Watson and Mrs Hudson, who sends him up to see Holmes. Holmes tells him about the time he spent in New York, and bemoans the state of crime in present times and the influence of Conan Doyle.

C. O'M

"Why Musical Comedy Has No Plot" (1904)
Also published as "Potluck Bones Dissects Musical Comedy"
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:
Parody
Detectives: Potluck Bones & Cotsun
Characters Derived From Canonical Characters: Mrs Budson
Other Characters: Plantagenette Bailey; Hi-ti Girl Audience; (Critics; Leading Comedians; Lancer; Authors; Composers; Nonden Scones; Kitty Hi-Fly; Covent Garden Salesman; Leafette)
Locations: Bones's Baker Street Rooms; Legall Theatre
Story: During a lull in crime, Bones and Cotson are visited by Plantagenette Bailey, producer of musical comedies at the Legall Theatre. He asks Bones to counter the critics' claims that there is no plot to his new musical The Hi-ti Girl.

Dennis O'Neil

"The Forlorn Death of Sally at the Crossroads" (2019)
Included in:  Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Was Not (Christopher Sequeira)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Doc Holliday
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Historical Figures: Doc Holliday; (The Clantons; Wyatt Earp; Virgil Earp)
Other Characters: Willy Clanton
Unnamed Characters:
Stage Driver; Raggedy Man; Sheriff; Cowpokes; Farmhands; Labouring Men; Yellow Rosie's Clientele; Ranchers; Barkeep; Stout Woman; Townsfolk; Merchants; Farmer; Shopkeeper; (Tombstone Lawmen; Someone in Buckingham Palace)
Date: A while after 26 October 1881
Locations: USA; Keppel's Crossing; Stable; Yellow Rosie's Saloon
Story: Stranded overnight in the town of Keppel's Crossing, Doc Holliday becomes involved in a poker game with a Holmes, who later saves him from being shot. The following morning, the man who tried to shoot him, a cousin of the Clantons, is found dead in the street. A bank robbery and a dead mule figure into the solution.

The Onlooker

"Drama in the Libarary!" (1925)
Included in: The Stapleford & Sandiacre News, 11th July 1925
Story Type: Fantasy Homage Script
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Fictional Characters: Robin Hood; Lady Audley; John Halifax; Emma Woodhouse; Jane Eyre; Antonio the Merchant of Venice; Quentin Durward; Catharine Glover, the Fair Maid of Perth; Elaine; Catherine Macpherson [Good Mrs Hypocrite]; Lorna Doone; Salome Lunton [Sally-on-the-Rocks]; Dr Charles Primrose, Vicar of Wakefield; Lady Susan Vernon; Johnny Ludlow; Sir Francis Holt [Knight Among Ladies]; Sheik Ahmed ben Hassan; Robert Lawne [The Imperfect Lover] (Rev Dr Dryasdust)
Other Characters: Pink Gods; Blue Demons; The Woman Who Was Not; Greatheart
Locations: Long Eaton Public Library
Story: At midnight, the characters from the books in the library have emerged and are holding a debate. Lady Audley arrives with the news that the library is being talked about in town as being disreputable because of the "slithering, sloppy" books it contains that are not the classics. Sherlock Holmes announces his intention of tracking down the complainant.

P. Orlovetz

"The Brothers' Gold Mine"
Included In:
Sherlock Holmes in Russia (Alex Auswaks)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Other Characters: Piotr Haritonovitch Hromikh; Mine Workers; Zinovy Andreyevitch Seltzoff; Mine Guards; Coachmen
Date: Ten Years before the Russo-Japanese War
Locations: Russia; Moscow; Siberia; Zima Station; Irkutsk; Hotel; Brothers' Gold Mine; The Taiga; Post House
Story:
Holmes and Watson travel to Siberia where they are asked to investigate suspected thefts from a gold mine. The owners, the brothers Hromikh, suspect the mine's manager, Seltzoff, of smuggling gold out, but have been unable, despite searches, to discover how he is doing it. They travel to the mine, where Holmes observes the workers. They follow the manager when he leaves the mine, and a carriage chase across the taiga ensues. When he is finally overtaken, no trace of the gold can be found, until a carriage accident forces them to walk, and the gold is found.

"The Railroad Thieves"
Included In:
Sherlock Holmes in Russia (Alex Auswaks)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Other Characters: Captain Zviagin; Baikal Waiter; Officer of Gendarmes; Zviagin's Subordinate; Station Staff; Train Conductors; Stationmasters; Burmistoff; Burmistoff's Stoker; Ivan; Railway Guards; Burmistoff's Assistant; Passengers; Building Workers; Shopkeeper; Traders; Carpenter; Bakhtadian; Chinese Shop Assistant; Depot Manager; Foreman; Labourers; Tunnel Watchmen; Quartermaster's Orderly; Ivan Nikolayevitch Bravoff; Trudin; Verkhoveroff; Zviagin's Gendarmes; Petroff; Sidorchuk; Robbers
(Mitayeff; Mr Yugovitch)
Date: Half a year after the withdrawal of troops from Mukden
Locations: Russia; Siberia; Baikal Station; Zviagin's House; Trains; Railway Stations; Village Shop; Sliudianka; Railway Tunnel; Cave
Story: Touring Siberia, Holmes and Watson are asked by Captain Zviagin to investigate a rash of pilfering of railway cargoes. As he travels through the country by train, Holmes becomes aware of the inefficiencies and corruption of the rail system. He poses as a black marketeer to learn more, and lays in place a plan to bring the gang of black marketeers to justice.

Maitland Leroy Osborne

"Lady Honiton's Diamonds" (1898)
Included in:
The National Magazine, October 1898; Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type:
Parody
Sherlockian Detectives:
Hemlock Holmes
Other Characters: Lady Honiton; (French Maid)
Locations: Lady Honiton's House
Story: When Lady Honiton's diamonds disappear, Hemlock Holmes appears and through a complex series of observations and deductions concludes that Apple's soap provides the final link in the chain of reasoning.

Stephen Osborne

"The Adventure of the Bloody Coins" (2011)
Included In:
A Study in Lavender (Joseph R.G. DeMarco)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes
Historical Figures: (Oscar Wilde)
Other Characters: Sir Miles Danvers; Mays; Pierre; Marshall Owen; Lestrade's Men; Hotel Clerk; (Lord Bettinger; Wallace Pound)
Date: November
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Diogenes Club; France; Paris; Hotel Montmartre
Story:
Holmes wakes Watson with the news that Mycroft has disappeared after a man he was seen with has been murdered at the Diogenes Club. The victim has been found naked in a private chamber, with blood-spattered coins and a match-book from a French hotel lying beside the body. After solving the crime, Holmes and Watson travel to Paris to find Mycroft.

MacLean O'Spelin

"The Adventure of la Soupe Chinoise" (1975)
Included in: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, October 1975
Story Type: Homage
Sherlockian Detectives: Shih Lok & Wa Tze-na
Other Characters: Rue du Boulanger Crowds; Uncle T'ou Kai; La Cousine; Incle's Customers; Uncle's Relatives; Gamblers; Tonkinese Boyesse
Locations: China; Cho-Lon; Rue du Boulanger; Shih Lok's Rooms; Uncle's Restaurant; Le Grand Monde Casino
Story: Chinese scholar, Shih Lok, works as an investigator for an insurance company. One of his investigations takes him and his companion Dr Wa Tze-na to their friend Uncle T'ou Kai's restaurant, where the smell of the soup leads him to deduce the facts behind a death and an insurance fraud.

Ovis

"The Adventure of the Aberdeen Parcel" (1926)
Included In:
The West Saxon, Christmas Term 1926 (University College, Southampton)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade
Other Characters: Supt Lugworm;
Mr Angus; Gubbings; William Pottle
Date: 1st January
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Slopshire; Sludgecombe; Killiekrankie
Story: Lestrade takes Holmes and Watson to Sludgecombe to investigate the death of Mr Angus and his dog. Holmes plays the bagpipes to lure the killer.



Dilys Owen

"Merseyside Mouse Goes a-Haunting" (1972)
Included In:
Child Education, October 1972
Story Type: Children's Parody
Sherlockian Detective: Sherlock Mouse
Other Characters: George, The Merseyside Mouse
; Prince Carl; Blackie
Unnamed Characters: Mice; Cats
Locations: Liverpool; Radio Merseyside Headquarters; Speke Airport
Story: When George's radio show Merseyside Mouse is hijacked on the air by Merseyside Moggie, he hires Sherlock Mouse to investigate. They discover that a gang of cats has set up a rival station on the same wavelength. They enlist the help of Blackie, the cat who lives in the basement of Radio Merseyside to help solve the problem.

Dr L.J.M. Owen

"The Adventure of the Lazarus Child" (2017)
Included In:
Sherlock Holmes: The Australian Casebook (Christopher Sequeira)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Other Characters:
Miss Morgan; Dr John William Morton; Sergeant Beard; Billy Lyons; Mrs Lyons; Mr Lyons; Mr Matthews; Train Man; Police Constables; Mrs Burns; Smugglers; (Sydney Landlady; Beard's Brother; Beard's Father; Reporter; Billy's Brother; Mine Workers; Mr Burns; Mine Paymaster; Train Engineer; Watson's Old Regimental Colleague; Bank Manager's Wife; Samurai Warriors)
Date: 1890
Locations: Australia; New South Wales; Queanbeyan Station; Globe Hotel; Hospital; Lyons' House; Matthews's Apothecary; Police Station
Story:
Watson takes Holmes to Queanbeyan to investigate the case of Billy Lyons, a boy risen from the dead after his drowned body was pulled from the water, three days dead. Having ascertained the truth of the resurrection, Holmes begins investigating the events of those three days. The boys smoking habits lead to Watson discovering Holmes lying in the path of an oncoming train, and Holmes's recent reading solves the case.

Coland Oyle

"A Hitherto Unpublished Memoir of Sherlock Holmes" (1903)
Included in:
The Hartley University College Magazine, Volume 3 Number 8, June 1903
Story Type:
Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Other Characters: Red Caps; Common Room Men; Women
Date: After EMPT
Locations: Southampton; High Street; Hartley University College; The Avenue; A Clearing
Story: Holmes visits Watson, who is now working at Hartley University College in Southampton. Holmes smells fish and smoke, witnesses the exit of twenty women, and finds a dead bird.

Croton Oyle

"The Affair of the Lost Compression" (1903)
Also published as "Motoring with Sherlock Holmes"
Included in:
The Affair of the Lost Compression and Other Stories (Ferret Fantasy); Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I: 1900-1904 (Bill Peschel); A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches (Charles Press)
Story Type:
Parody
Detectives: Romes & Scotson
Other Characters: Gerald Goodley; Goodley's Aged Mother; Tom Fowler; (Mrs Scotson; Mrs Scotson's Friends; Women in Window; Small Boy; Miss Seebrighte; Ferdinand Smickton; Mechanic; Johnson Digby)
Date: November
Locations: Romes's Rooms; St Pancras Station; Norfolk; Goodley's House; The East End; Public House
Story: While his wife is away, Scotson visits Romes.
They are called upon by Gerald Goodley, a young motorist. He is in love with Miss Seebrighte, who has announced that she will marry the winner of a race between him and Ferdinand Smickton. Only that morning, Goodley has discovered that his car has been tampered with and lost its compression. He has found a hobnail nearby, and the word "Watoe" has been scratched on his car. A trip to Goodley's home is followed by and expedition, disguised as sailors, into the East End to meet the most dangerous man in London.