STORY SUMMARIES

Plot outlines, and character listings for each story. Stories are listed alphabetically by author. A more recent addition to the site, this does not yet include all the stories indexed on the rest of the site, but is growing steadily.

WARNING
These are summaries, not reviews, and may contain story spoilers.

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TV & Movie Guest Appearances

HISTORICAL & FICTIONAL CHARACTERS

....and other folkloric & cultural icons. These have been lumped together because we couldn't decide where Shakespeare's kings should go. Arranged in alphabetical order - pick a letter...

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CANONICAL CHARACTERS Characters drawn from the original Sherlock Holmes stories.

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What is this site about?

The site was initially a listing of historical, fictional and canonical characters appearing, or mentioned, in published Sherlock Holmes pastiches, parodies and other Sherlockian writings. Later, it expanded into a collection of summaries of those stories (intended as an aide memoire for those, like the compiler, who can no longer remember what happened in which pastiche). For a history of the site & answers to FAQs go to the Notes page. A listing of the latest additions can be found on the Updates page. Books in the yet to be done pile are here.

Why?

Uh......we're not clear on that one yet, but would welcome any ideas on what possible use it might be. Many indexes exist for the canonical stories, but, understandably, none for the vast number of more recent efforts. This is an attempt to fill the gap.

NEW

14th August 2024

"Winston’s Diary: A Day in the Life of Winston Zeddmore" (Dan Abnett)
"The Mysterious Leak" (Anonymous)
"Tom and Jerry" (Anonymous)

"The Mysterious Mystery or Who Did It?" (Evelyn Cummings)
"A to Z Theory" (Toh EnJoe)

"Solutions" (John L. Flynn)

The Case of the Missing Stradivarius (Emanuel E. Garcia)
"Watson Tells Sherlock Holmes That Ruhland Ouster Clews Point to Welfare Board and Two Medical Schools Here" (Gerald G. Gross)
"Seven per cent" (Earle Hackett)
Sherlock Holmes & Mr Mac (Gary Lovisi)
 "Dr Luke and the Case of the Disappearing Patriarch" (Josh McDowell & Bob Hostetler)
"The Adventure of the Yellow Stain" (Donald McMurry)
"A Unique Collection" (Coggeshall Macy)
"Paralysed Patricia" (A.S. Noad)
"The Mystery of the Hot Air" (One of the Burst Twins)

"Sherlock Holmes in Love" (Bill Sharpe)
"The Great Dover Mystery" (Homer A. Thomas)
"The Scarlet Herring" (David Thomson)
The Adventure of the Incognita Countess (Cynthia Ward)

Index to Crossovers Expanded 2 (Sean Lee Levin)


19th May 2024

Sherlock Holmes and the Long Acre Vampire (Val Andrews)
"The Hound of Cactusville" (Anonymous)
"The Great Media Mystery" (Art Buchwald)
"The Adventure of the Misplaced Eyeglasses" (Robin N. Campbell)
"The Adventure of the Shanghai Merchant" (Doyland Cone)
"The Case of the Bubbling Well Burglaries" (Doyland Cone)
"The Discovery of the Spurious Note Factory" (Doyland Cone)
"The Case of the Artist’s Stain" (Joseph Crossen)
"The Ghost of Snaggle Castle" (Slaba Eyce)
"The Affair of Gilbert Grindleigh, Esq., O.B.E., Coiner and Philanthropist" (F.W.J.W.)
Observations by Gaslight (Lyndsay Faye)
Expo ’98: Sherlock Holmes in Omaha (Berkley Forsyth)
"Unlock Flats, the Detective" (Henry Waldorf Francis)
"Kilmannock Revived" (Hunter Gowan)
"The Secret of the Fortune Cookie" (Ricki Glinert)
The Art of Deception (Leonard Goldberg)
"Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Pin-Pricked Corpse" (Lois H. Gresh)
The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
(Alexis Hall)
The Hounds of the Vatican; or, Holmes’s Last Bow
(G. Randolph Holms)

"E=mc2" (Ted Kuzminski)

"Further Memoirs of Chubblock Holes: The Bangkok Affair" (H.F. Lawson)
Cape May Tales (John Leone)
Spy Hunter (H.B. Lyle)

"The Adventure of the Missing Princess" (Michael Mallory)

"The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes" (Tim Ostermiller)
"Miss Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (M.J. Trow)
"Walking Around" (Howard Whitman)
"The Five Pipsqueaks" (Michael Yaeger)

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By request: a listing of pastiche anthologies and their contents, with links to story summaries. Listed by editor / author:
A-B | C-E | F-G | H-K | L-R | S-Z

Stories in Non-Sherlockian Anthologies

Stories in Magazines, Newspapers & Yearbooks