A listing of books, stories (both real and fictional), poems and historical documents mentioned in Sherlockian pastiches and parodies. Titles in italics are fictitious.

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Pabo, The Priest - Sabine Baring-Gould: The Moor (Laurie R. King) 122

Painted Lace - Gertrude Stein: Painted Gertrude by Lace Stein: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 65

Painted Saddles - Carson Montague: My Hero (Tom Holt) 15, 25, 28, 74, 207

Paintings of the Spanish Inquisition: The Language of Bees (Laurie R. King) 101

Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov: And Then There Was No One (Gilbert Adair) 155
"A hawk-nosed, lanky, rather likeable private detective"
: And Then There Was No One (Gilbert Adair) 108

Palmer's Index to The Times: Death on a Pale Horse (Donald Thomas) 112

Pamela - Samuel Richardson: Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra (Alan Vanneman) 297

"Pandora" - Henry James: The Fifth Heart (Dan Simmons) 50-51

The Parable of the Wicked Mammon - William Tyndale: The Case of the Maltese Treasure (Thomas Brace Haughey) 88

Paradise Lost - John Milton: Irene at Large (Carole Nelson Douglas) 98, 367; "Shady Sinners of the Styx" (Lawrence Daniel Fogg) 12; "The Dollmaker of Marigold Walk" (Barbara Hambly) 43; "The Fallen Financier" (James Lovegrove) 346; "The Aristotelian" (Steve Poling) 54; Lestrade and the Devil's Own (M J Trow) 105; "Sherlock Holmes in Perth: The Case of the Straw-Street Boarding House" (Watson’s Under-study) 333; The Adventure of the Incognita Countess (Cynthia Ward) 50; "His First Bow" (J.W. Wells) 59; "The Adventure of the Rara Avis" (Carolyn Wheat) 81
"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mold me man?": Masterminds of Falkenstein (John DeChancie) 264
"Enormous bliss": Sherlock Holmes in Tibet (Richard Wincor) 28
"From morn to noon he fell": Irene at Large (Carole Nelson Douglas) 367
"The mind is its own place...": The Star of India (Carole Buggé) 88
"Sabean odours from the spicy shore": The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (Jamyang Norbu) 3
"The serpent subtlest beast of all the field": The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Laurie R. King) 186

Paradise Regained - John Milton: "Peter Sims" (Maurice Baring) 178

Paradiso - Dante: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 12; The Fifth Heart (Dan Simmons) 478

Parallaticae commentationis praxeosque nucleus quidam - John Dee: "The Angel of Truth" (I.A. Watson) 134

The Parasite - Arthur Conan Doyle: "By Any Other Name" (Michael Dirda) 205

The Pardoner's Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer: Watson's Last Case (Ian Charnock) 188

Paris in the Twentieth Century - Jules Verne: Sherlock Holmes and the Knave of Hearts (Steve Hayes & David Whitehead) 69

The Parish In Fact & Fiction: Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (M.J.Trow) 39

The Parliament of Fowls - Geoffrey Chaucer: "The life so short, the craft so long to learn": "The Adventure of the Old School Friend" (Denis O. Smith) 195

'Parnellism and Crime' - Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 76, 78

A Passage to India - E.M. Forster: Dreaming Spies (Laurie R. King) 8-9; The Language of Bees (Laurie R. King) 252

'The Passing Show' - Ambrose Bierce: "The Enigma of the Warwickshire Vortex" (F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre) 477

Passion Flowers - Miss Bunion: "A Unique Collection" (Coggeshall Macy) 283

The Paws of Knowledge: The Last War: Detective Ferrets and the Case of the Golden Hope (Richard Bach) 3, 25-28, 69, 83, 104, 136

The Pearl: "A Volume in Vermilion" (Kim Newman) 69; The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes (Marcel Theroux) 153

Peau de Chagrin - Honoré de Balzac: Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 269

"Pen, Pencil and Poison" - Oscar Wilde: "Fleurs du Mal" (Brian Stableford) 130

A Penal Reform In England, Scotland & Wales: The Childhood of Sherlock Holmes (Mona Morstein) 131

Penelope's Terrible Surprise: The Three Locks (Bonnie MacBird) 101

"People Much Talked About in London" - Bertram Fletcher Robinson: The Case of the Grave Accusation (Dicky Neely) 77-78

People My Father Knew - Megan Lloyd George: Lestrade and the Devil's Own (M.J. Trow) 82

The People of the Abyss - Jack London: Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 223; "Five Rings In Reno" (R.L.Stevens) 102-103
"People of the abyss": Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J. Trow) 50

People of the Monolith - Justin Geoffrey: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 90

The Peranakan Annals: The Peranakan Princess (Don Bosco) 40, 45, 47, 56

"The Perfect Knight" - Raymond Chandler: The Final Page of Baker Street (Daniel D. Victor) 56

The Perfect Wagnerite - George Bernard Shaw: The West End Horror (Nicholas Meyer) 31; Lestrade and the Magpie (M.J.Trow) 55

The Perfumed Garden: "The Adventure of the Arabian Knight" (Loren D. Estleman) 158; "The Loss of Chapter Twenty-One" (Mark Hodder) 15-16, 24-26, 28-29, 31-34; "The Case of the Naked Bicyclists" (Donald Thomas) 91-92

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medina and Mecca - Sir Richard Francis Burton: "The Adventure of the Arabian Knight" (Loren D. Estleman) 153

Peter and Wendy - J.M. Barrie: The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 134-135; Sherlock Holmes: My Life (Lawrence R. Spencer) 75, 78, 82, 103

Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter: Double Trouble Squared (Kathryn Lasky) 74

Phaedrus - Plato: The God of the Hive (Laurie R. King) 326
"Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem: "The Adventure of the Hanging Tyrant" (M.J. Elliott) 74

Phantasms of the Living - Edmund Gurney: Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 96; "The Case of the Phantom Chambermaid" (Donald Thomas) 260-261, 284; Lestrade and the Ripper (M.J.Trow) 21, 23; "A Scandal in Drury Lane, or The Vampire Trap" (Carolyn Wheat) 68

Phantom Army - Max Pemberton: "The Missing Group" (A.S.Reeve) 152

A Phantom Hand - Jo March: The Bookman (Lavie Tidhar) 140

The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (K.J. Anderson) 11, 46, 109, 211; San Francisco Kills (Denny Martin Flinn) 101; Island of the Mad (Laurie R. King) 53; "The Greek Invertebrate" (Kim Newman) 314; "The Purloined Face" (Stephen Volk) 232, 285
see also Phantom of the Opera (Musical); Phantom of the Opera (Film)

Pheneas Speaks - Arthur Conan Doyle: "By Any Other Name" (Michael Dirda) 212

Phenomena of De-Materialization - Jeelai & Von Nozy: Believe (William Shatner & Michael Tobias) 209

Philip's Atlas of London: Sherlock Holmes and the Nine-Dragon Sigil (Tim Symonds) 19

Philogelos - Hierocles & Philagrius: "A Study in Ha Ha" (Colin Mochrie) 9-10

"Philosophy of Conflict" - Havelock Ellis: Lestrade and the Magpie (M.J. Trow) 204

The Philosophy of Money - Georg Simmel: Durkheim Is Dead! (Arthur Asa Berger) 48

Phlegon de Mirabilibus: Sherlock Holmes and the Affair in Transylvania (Gerry O’Hara) 71, 136

Physics - Aristotle: The Labyrinth of Death (James Lovegrove) 314

Physiology of Common Life - George Henry Lewes: "The Matter of the Furnival Curse" (David L. Hammer) 89-90

The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Seven (Val Andrews) 16; Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 2; The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini) 19, 193; The Strange Return of Sherlock Holmes (Barry Grant) 12, 45-46, 180; "What the Dickens!" (Rhys Hughes) 142; The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 91, 117-124, 129-130, 156, 159, 179; The God of the Hive (Laurie R. King) 172; "The Repulsive Story of the Red Leech" (David Langford) 345; Murder in the Bath (Michael Mallory) 24, 55; The Dragon Turn (Shane Peacock) 20; The Monstrous Regiment (Glen Petrie) 166; The Patient's Eyes (David Pirie) 205; Sherlock Holmes and the Golden Bird (Frank Thomas) 184; "A Summer Day’s Outing" (Edwin Turnbladh) 10; Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra (Alan Vanneman) 297
"Anything for a quiet life...": "Holmes In Scotland (W.R.Duncan Macmillan) 139

Picture and Text - Henry James: The Fifth Heart (Dan Simmons) 395

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" - Oscar Wilde: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (K.J. Anderson) 131; "The Prideaux Manuscript" (Cara Black) 277; The Baker Street Phantom (Patrice Bourland) 36, 89, 115, 136-137; Jack the Ripper: Case Closed (Gyles Brandreth) 41, 154; Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance (Gyles Brandreth) 8, 98, 105, 107, 135-137, 149, 184, 190, 306, 327; Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) 10; Sherlock Holmes and the Shakespeare Globe Murders (Barry Day) 41; "By Any Other Name" (Michael Dirda) 201; Fire in the Blood (P.N. Elrod) 101; A Knife in the Fog (Bradley Harper) 273; The Dracula Caper (Simon Hawke) 39-40, 146; The Bartered Brides (Mercedes Lackey) 82; Skullduggery (Peter Marks) 131; The Holmes Affair (Graham Moore) 279; The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep (H.G. Parry) 77, 184; "Dr Blackadder’s Clients" (Arthur Porges) 61; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 112; The Sign of Fear (Robert Ryan) 127; "Curtain Call" (J. Scherpenhuizen) 262; "Fleurs du Mal" (Brian Stableford) 149; The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires (Brian Stableford) 146; A Three-Pipe Problem (Julian Symons) 79; "The Affray at the Kildare Street Club" (Peter Tremayne) 30

Pictures From Italy - Charles Dickens: The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini) 324, 372-373, 384, 398

The Pied Piper of Hamlin - Robert Browning: Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 194; Murder Most Irregular (H. Paul Jeffers) 93, 161; "The Forlorn Death of Sally at the Crossroads" (Dennis O’Neil) 46; The Dead Can Wait (Robert Ryan) 392; Lestrade and the Giant Rat of Sumatra (M.J. Trow) 192; Lestrade and the Gift of the Prince (M.J. Trow) 104
"Rats! They fought the dogs...": Murder Most Irregular (H. Paul Jeffers) 93

Pierre Grassou - Honoré de Balzac: Dreaming Spies (Laurie R. King) 254

"A Pilgrim in Meditation" - Raymond Chandler: The Final Page of Baker Street (Daniel D. Victor) 56

Pilgrimage to Al-Medinah and Meccah - Sir Richard Francis Burton: Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 163-164

Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan: The Devil’s Promise (David Stuart Davies) 20, 26; Reply Paid (H.F.Heard) 241; Footsteps in the Fog (Kel Richards) 163; The Vampire Serpent (Kel Richards) 1; The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Nancy Springer) 57; Sherlock Holmes and the Nine-Dragon Sigil (Tim Symonds) 266; The Limehouse Text (Will Thomas) 186, 195; The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor) 12

The Pilgrim's Scrip - Sir Austin Feveral: "A Unique Collection" (Coggeshall Macy) 283

Ping Pong You're Dead! - Hugh Spaulding: And Then There Was No One (Gilbert Adair) 228

Pink Gods and Blue Demons - Cynthia Stockley: "Drama in the Library!" (The Onlooker) 5

Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 264, 330

Pipe Rolls of the Plantagenets - Plucknett: "The Case of the King’s Evil" (Donald Thomas) 77, 108-109

"Pippa Passes" - Robert Browning: "An Epilogue" (Richard Warren) 85
God's in his heaven and all's right with the world": "The Commencement Mystery" (G.S.) 322; "An Encounter in Central Park" (Basil Rathbone) 186

"The Pit and the Pendulum" - Edgar Allan Poe: Good Night, Mr Holmes (Carole Nelson Douglas) 40; Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 250, 252, 264
"A crescent of glittering steel...": Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 272

Plain Tales From The Hills - Rudyard Kipling: "The Strange Case of the Megatherium Thefts" (S.C.Roberts) 122

Plane Co-ordinate Geometry and Conic Sections - Aubrey Thatcher: "The Case of the Dishonoured Professor" (Roger Jaynes) 83

The Plastic Age - Percy Marks: Locked Rooms (Laurie R. King) 286

Plato - Benjamin Jowett: "A Bauble in Scandinavia" (James Lovegrove) 292

The Plattner Story - H.G. Wells: The Holmes-Dracula File (Fred Saberhagen) 179

The Platypus of Dune - The Big Red Cheese: An East Wind Coming (Arthur Byron Cover) 260

The Play Actress - Marie Corelli: "The Case of the Yokohama Club" (Donald Thomas) 315

Play Up St. Jim's: The Disappearing Diplomat (Terrance Dicks) 14

The Player on the Other Side - Ellery Queen: A Study In Terror (Ellery Queen) 27

"Playing With Fire" - Arthur Conan Doyle: The Baker Street Phantom (Fabrice Bourland) 93-94, 116

The Plays of Shakespeare and the Bacon Delusion - Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes and the Shakespeare Letter (Barry Grant) 43, 162

Plays of Terror and the Macabre: "The Darkwater Hall Mystery" (Kingsley Amis) 239

"Pleasures of Hope" - Thomas Campbell: "Distance lends enchantment": Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery (Larry Millett) 5

The Plum Tree - David Graham Phillips: The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor) 36-37

La plurité des mondes habités - Camille Flammarion: "The Lunacy of Celestine Blot" (Stephen Volk) 388

Pnakotic Fragments: Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities (James Lovegrove) 20

Pnakotic Manuscripts: Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities (James Lovegrove) 20, 424; Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (James Lovegrove) 262, 359; Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea Devils (James Lovegrove) 39

Pnun: And Then There Was No One (Gilbert Adair) 163, 226

Poë et Cie: Histoire du roman d'énigme de Poë au postmoderne - Pierre Sanary: And Then There Was No One (Gilbert Adair) 33

Poems - Emily Dickinson: The Bughouse Affair (Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini) 54

Poems - Orphan: The Great Game (Lavie Tidhar) 689

Poems - Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 51

Poems - Oscar Wilde: Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 301

Poems & Ballads - Algernon Swinburne: Dracula's Diary (Michael Geare & Michael Corby) 26, 47

The Poems of Catullus: Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 302

Poems of Childhood - Algernon Smyllie: "A Trifling Affair" (H.R.F.Keating) 206, 209

The Poems of John Donne: A Scandal in Battersea (Mercedes Lackey) 50

Poésies - Fréderic et Amélie: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 90

Le Poète-Rotisseur - Ragueneau: "A Unique Collection" (Coggeshall Macy) 284

Poetic Blossoms - Abraham Cowley: Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance (Gyles Brandreth) 20

Poetica Erotica - T.R. Smith: The Evil in Pemberley House (Philip José Farmer & Win Scott Eckert) 97

Poetical Fancies: The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter (Theodora Goss) 368

The Poetical Works of Mrs. Hemans: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 77

Poetics - Aristotle: The Affair of the Incognito Tenant (Lora Roberts) 14

The Poetry of Catullus: The Holmes Affair (Graham Moore) 229

"The Poet's Knowledge" - Raymond Chandler: The Final Page of Baker Street (Daniel D. Victor) 56

The Poison Belt - Arthur Conan Doyle: "The Footprints on the Ceiling" (Jules Castier) 246, 252

The Poison Garden - Sherlock Holmes: "Did Sherlock Holmes Meet Hercule -?" (Julian Symons) 161

Poisons and Their Criminal Uses - Sherlock Holmes: "A Death in Venice" (Ted Riccardi) 112-114, 123

Poisons and Their Effects - Sedford: The Fifth Heart (Dan Simmons) 385

Poisons Common to the English Country Garden - Sherlock Holmes: "The Adventure of the Golden Hunter" (Jan Edwards) 442

La Police - Guyot: The Return of Moriarty (John Gardner) 201

The Police Handbook: Lestrade and the Giant Rat of Sumatra (M.J. Trow) 46

The Police Manual: Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J.Trow) 151

Police Review: "The Saviour of Cripplegate Square" (Bert Coules) 262

Polite Conversation - Jonathan Swift: "There is none so blind as they that won't see": The Great Game (Michael Kurland) 195

Politiques Et Moralistes Français Du XIX Siecle - Emile Faguet: The Return of Moriarty (John Gardner) 15

Polk Salad Days Are Here Again - The Big Red Cheese: An East Wind Coming (Arthur Byron Cover) 38

Polk's Directory: Strongwood (Larry Millett) 187

"Pons Asimnorum" - Euclid: "Sherlock Holmes and Certain Critics" (Ellis G. Roberts) 97

Popular Delusions - Browne: The Guilty Abroad (Peter J. Heck) 272

Popular Sea Tales - William H.G. Kingston: Unquiet Spirits (Bonnie MacBird) 253

Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth: Portnoy's complaints: Lestrade and the Leviathan (M.J.Trow) 97

The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James: Murder at Sorrow’s Crown (Steven Savile & Robert Greenberger) 58; The Fifth Heart (Dan Simmons) 203, 315, 509, 521; "The Adventure of the Aspen Papers" (Daniel D. Victor) 261

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Robot: Your Monkey’s Shmuck (Simon Louvish) 68

"Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives" - Strand Magazine: Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 184

Possessions - Nancy Holder: "The Adventure of My Ignoble Ancestress" (Nancy Holder) 230

Post Mediaeval Preachers - Sabine Baring-Gould: The Moor (Laurie R. King) 122

Pow-Wows Or The Long-Lost Friend: "The Adventure of the Long-Lost Enemy" (Marcia Wilson) 145, 150

The Power House - John Buchan: "By Any Other Name" (Michael Dirda) 213

The Power of Sound - Edmund Gurney: "The Case of the Phantom Chambermaid" (Donald Thomas) 283

Practical Beekeeping: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Seven (Val Andrews) 17

Practical Botany for Beginners - D.T. Gwynne-Vaughan & Frederick Bower: "The Mystery of the Acetylene Lamp" (Anonymous) 94

Precious Stones - Dr. Max Bauer: "The Rangoon Jade" (Frank Thomas) 44

Precious Stones & Gems - Edwin Streeter: "The Rangoon Jade" (Frank Thomas) 44; Sherlock Holmes and the Golden Bird (Frank Thomas) 207

Précis D'Anatomie Et De Dissection - H. Beaunis: A Samba for Sherlock (Jô Soares) 23

The Prelude - William Wordsworth: "Voyaging through strange seas": Young Sherlock: The Adventure at Ferryman's Creek (Gerald Frow) 99

The Premature Burial - Edgar Allan Poe: The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes (Larry Millett) 175; "Father of the Man" (Stephen Volk) 85
"Magic pinions and wizard wheels...": "The Case of the Ghosts at Bly" (Donald Thomas) 127

Premature Burial & How It May Be Prevented - Tebb & Vollum: "A Ballad of the White Plague" (P.C.Hodgell) 213-214

Preservation Techniques in the Valley of the Kings: The Jewelled Peacock of Persia (Jake & Luke Thoene) 119-120

Prester John - John Buchan: Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder (M.J.Trow) 239-240

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen: 148; "The Adventure of the Sunken Parsley" (Mark Alberstat)The Evil in Pemberley House (Philip José Farmer & Win Scott Eckert) 54, 122, 149; Sherlock Holmes and the Abbey School Mystery (John Hall) 112-113; My Hero (Tom Holt) 74
"Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?": The Evil in Pemberley House (Philip José Farmer & Win Scott Eckert) 71
"It is a truth universally acknowledged...": My Hero (Tom Holt) 80, 83

Prima Inter Primes - Adeline Hatton: Sherlock Holmes and the Apocalypse Murders (Barry Day) 19

The Primal Sin - Adeline Hatton: Sherlock Holmes and the Apocalypse Murders (Barry Day) 19

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark: Lestrade and the Sawdust Ring (M.J.Trow) 151

Primitive Culture - Sir Edward Burnett Tyler: The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires (Brian Stableford) 13

The Prince - Machiavelli: Sherlock Holmes: Draco, Draconis (Brett Spencer & Dorian David Altamont) 17-18
"Nonè indizio a chi reclamare...": Sherlock Holmes: Draco, Draconis (Brett Spencer & Dorian David) 18

The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain: "The Humorist’s Curse" (Bill Peschel) 259; The Final Page of Baker Street (Daniel D. Victor) 223

Prince Otto - Robert Louis Stevenson: Robert Otto by Prince Louis Stevenson: The Book of Changes (R.H.W. Dillard) 65

"The Princess" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
"Sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair": "The Adventure of the Eminent Collector" (Tony Reynolds) 126
"Sir Walter Vivian all on a summer's day..."
: The Dorking Gap Affair (Glen Petrie) 217

The Princess Bride - William Goldman: The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep (H.G. Parry) 452

The Princess Casamassima - Henry James: The Fifth Heart (Dan Simmons) 3, 260-261, 263-264, 266, 360

Princess Mary's Gift Book: "The Case of the Yorkshire Fairies" (Joe Cooper) 212; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon) 89

Prince Otto - Stevenson: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 65; "Behind the Mask of the Ripper" (Jean-Marc Mouiller) 170

The Principals of Jurisprudence - Abd al-Qadir bin Abd al-Karim al-Wardighi al-Khayrani al-Shafshawni: Sherlock Holmes The Missing Years: Timbuktu (Vasudev Murthy) 30

Principia - Isaac Newton: "The Case of the Borderland Dandelions" (Howard Engel) 46

Principia Mathematica - Whitehead & Russell: The Case of the Philosophers' Ring (Randall Collins) 3, 13, 16; The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 213

Principia Medicina: The Jewelled Peacock of Persia (Jake & Luke Thoene) 119

The Principia of Mars - William Alderbert: "The Sleep of Reason" (Lou Anders) 216

Principia Philosophiae - René Descartes: Moriarty (John Gardner) 15

The Principle of Progressive Trade - Sherlock Holmes: "The Postmaster General" (Angela Milne) 671

Principles in Geology - Charles Lyell: Sherlock Holmes: My Life (Lawrence R. Spencer) 134

Principles of Bee-Keeping: "The Copenhagen Compound" (Thomas S. Roche) 411

Principles of Biology - Herbert Spencer: The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (Jamyang Norbu) 144

Principles of Criminal Investigation - J.K. Harrington: Mrs Hudson and the Irish Invincibles (Barry S. Brown) 168; The Unpleasantness at Parkerton Manor (Barry S. Brown) 43, 45

Principles of Deduction: The Last War: Detective Ferrets and the Case of the Golden Hope (Richard Bach) 3

Principles of General & Comparative Physiology - William Benjamin Carpenter: All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 61

Principles of Geology - Sir Charles Lyell: "The Case of the Ghosts at Bly" (Donald Thomas) 238

Principles of Medicine - Bristowe: The Demon Device (Robert Saffron) 17

The Principles of Psychology - Wiliam James: The Fifth Heart (Dan Simmons) 11, 34, 249, 253

Principles of Science - William Stanley Jevons: The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 149

The Principles of Shakespearean Punctuation - Ebenezer Lobb: "The Adventure of the Stolen Doormat" (Allen Upward) 105

The Principles of the Motor Car: "The Affair of the Lost Compression" (Croton Oyle) 124, 126

Prior Analytics - Aristotle: "The Execution of Sherlock Holmes" (Donald Thomas) 54

The Prismatic Bezel - Sebastian Knight: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 91

The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope: The Nine Wrong Answers (John Dickson Carr) 12; Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair (David Stuart Davies) 11-17, 60, 97-98, 121; Masterminds of Falkenstein (John DeChancie) 133; "By Any Other Name" (Michael Dirda) 207; The 6 Messiahs (Mark Frost) 35-37, 39, 377-378; The King Edward Plot (Robert Lee Hall) 22; The Zenda Vendetta (Simon Hawke) 19, 21, 31; Sherlock Holmes and the Golden Bird (Frank Thomas) 122; Lestrade and the Devil's Own (M.J. Trow) 84

Prisoners of Baron Samedi: The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 236

Le Prisonnière - Marcel Proust: Garment of Shadows (Laurie R. King) 112

The Private Life and Other Tales - Henry James: The Fifth Heart (Dan Simmons) 395

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes - Vincent Starrett: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 4; "The Mysterious Case of the Urn of ASH; or, What Would Sherlock Do?" (Deborah Morgan) 139

"The Problem" - Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Builded better than he knew": "The Resources of Mycroft Holmes" (Charlton Andrews) 221

"The Problem at Braxton Grange" - Sherlock Holmes: "The Adventure of the Burnt Man" (Michael Mallory) 76, 78-79, 84

"The Problem of Cell 13" - Jacques Futrelle: "The Adventure of the Dying Ship (Edward D. Hoch) 117; Sherlock Holmes and the Titanic Tragedy (William Seil) 57, 157-158

Les Problèmes D'Un Problème - Pierre Menard: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 91

Proceedings of the Old Bailey: The Stuff of Nightmares (James Lovegrove) 158

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine: "Bibliographic Bones" (Frank Place) 47

Professional Criminals of America - Thomas Byrnes: "The Strange Missive of Germaine Wilkes" (Mark Mower) 239"The Song at Twilight" (Michael Walsh) 327

The Professor - Charlotte Brontë: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 216

Profile By Gaslight - Edgar W. Smith: "The Case of the Elderly Actor" (John Ball, Jr.) 211

Progress in Flying Machines - Octave Chanute: The Island of Mad Scientists (Howard Whitehouse) 14, 157

Progressive Exercises on the Church Catechism: The Childhood of Sherlock Holmes (Mona Morstein) 145

Prolegomena To A Treatise on the Whole Art of the Celestial Mechanics - Aloysius Moriarty: "Murder at the Murray Hill" (Edgar W. Smith) 65

A Prolegomena To The Binomial Theorem - Mohammed ben Abu: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 75

Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus: The Crack in the Lens (Darlene A. Cypser) 88

Prometheus: The Life of Balzac - André Maurois: Sherlock Holmes and Frankenstein’s Diary (Barry Grant) 41

Prometheus Unbound - Shelley:
"All spirits are enslaved...": The Ritual (J.N. Williamson) 257
"The sound is of whirlwind underground"
: The Bookman (Lavie Tidhar) 269-270

Prominent Persons of South India - Rupak: "A Singular Event in Tranquebar" (Ted Riccardi) 247

The Proof - Agata Kristof: And Then There Was No One (Gilbert Adair) 120

The Proof of the Pudding - Evadne Mount: And Then There Was No One (Gilbert Adair) 97

The Prophecies of King Tut - Dr Khan: The Sceptre of the Pharaohs (Derek Keilty & Mark Elvins) 99

Les Propheties de M. Michel Nostradamus: The Arcanum (Thomas Wheeler) 23

The Proteolosis and Hydrolysis of the Proteins from an Enzymological Standpoint - Gustav Mann: "The Mystery of the Hot Air" (One of the Burst Twins) 354

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber: Durkheim Is Dead! (Arthur Asa Berger) 47, 67

Proverbial Philosophy - Martin Farquhar Tupper: "Sherlock Holmes Baffled" (J.C. Ochiltree) 10

"A Psalm of Life" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 251

"The Psychic Mechanism of Hysterical Phenomena" - Sigmund Freud & Josef Breuer: "The Adventure of the Man Who Never Laughed" (J.N.Williamson) 152, 154

Psychic Self-Defense - H.P. Blavatsky: The List of 7 (Mark Frost) 66, 71

The Psychology of the Unconscious - von Hartmann: "The Malady of the Mind Doctor" (Howard Halstead) 131

Psychopathia Sexualis - Richard Von Krafft-Ebing: Castle Rouge (Carole Nelson Douglas) 58, 70-72, 128, 137, 146-147, 243, 258, 273, 313-314, 331, 444, 458; Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 186, 188, 191, 194, 223, 248-252, 255-256, 258, 265, 342-343, 345-348, 359, 361, 403-405, 412-413, 435, 451, 467-468; Femme Fatale (Carole Nelson Douglas) 33-35, 50, 213; Dust and Shadow (Lyndsay Faye) 151; Sherlock Holmes and the Highgate Horrors (James Lovegrove) 333; The Stuff of Nightmares (James Lovegrove) 158; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 126; "The Case of the King’s Evil" (Donald Thomas) 77

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life - Sigmund Freud: "The Adventure of the Laughing Fisherman" (Jeffrey Deaver) 80; The Case of Emily V (Keith Oatley) 13, 40, 49, 67, 289, 311, 350

Puck of Pook's Hill: "see further into a millstone than most": The Case of the Spellbound Child (Mercedes Lackey) 40

Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain: The Adventures of Young Stamford (Richard M. Caplan, M.D.) 35-37; The Punjat's Ruby (Marian J.A.Jackson) 83, 130; The Fifth Heart (Dan Simmons) 215

Pugh's Almanac: Sherlock Holmes in Australia: The Adventure of the Kidnapped Kanakas (Ken Methold) 84, 106

Punter's Travels in Japan: A Journey through the Land of the Samurai: The Cry of the Innocents (Cavan Scott) 302, 357

"The Pupil" - Henry James: The Fifth Heart (Dan Simmons) 5

"The Purloined Letter" - Edgar Allan Poe: "International Investigators, Inc." (E.G. Ashton) 78; "Xenolith" (Dana Martin Batory) 48; "The Unmasking of Sherlock Holmes" (Arthur Chapman) 231; Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 459; Good Morning, Irene (Carole Nelson Douglas) 226; "The Adventure of the Plated Spoon" (Loren D. Estleman) 240; "The Adventure of the Perforated Ulster" (Robert L. Fish) 126; The Carnelian Crow (Colleen Gleason) 179, 204; The Zeppelin Deception (Colleen Gleason) 70; "The Adventure of the Christmas Bauble" (John Hall) 197; Sherlock Holmes and the Adler Papers (John Hall) 98, 110; "The Adventure of the Six Sherlocks" (Toni L.P. Kelner) 139; Justice Hall (Laurie R. King) 311; The Language of Bees (Laurie R. King) 101; Riviera Gold (Laurie R. King) 335-336; The Great Game (Michael Kurland) 170; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 21;"The Disappearing Anarchist Trick" (Andrew Lane) 256; The Surrogate Assassin (Christopher Leppek) 57; Copper Beeches (Arthur H. Lewis) 149, 233; "The Incident of the Impecunious Chevalier" (Richard Lupoff) 22; Spy Hunter (H.B. Lyle) 70, 73; Holmes Entangled (Gordon McAlpine) 105; Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders (Larry Millett) 295; Strongwood (Larry Millett) 260; The Holmes Affair (Graham Moore) 302; "The Case of the Rising Ransom" (Douglas Moreton) 123; "The Case of the Two-Faced Transom" (Douglas Moreton) 88; "The Adventure of the Six Maledictions" (Kim Newman) 236; Sherlock Holmes Investigates the Murder In Euston Square (Ronald Pearsall) 100, 163, 178; "Porlock’s Demise" (Ted Riccardi) 96; "Our American Cousins" (Roberta Rogow) 392; "The Two Umbrellas" (Martin Rosenstock) 391; "Sherlock Holmes and the Lizzie Borden Connection" (William Schley-Ulrich) III: 13; "The Case of the Purloined L'Isitek" (Josepha Sherman) 327; The Devil and the Four (Sam Siciliano) 99; A Samba for Sherlock (Jô Soares) 9; Sherlock Holmes and the Sacred Sword (Frank Thomas) 83; "The Comfort of the Seine" (Stephen Volk) 20; "The Black Heaven" (Ron Weighell) 142
The Purloined Ladder: "The Adventure of the Elite Type" (Robert L. Fish) 192
The Purloined Letterfile
: "A Case of Facsimile" (Viola Brothers Shore) 86
The Purloined Litter: "The Adventure of the Great Train Robbery" (Robert L. Fish) 170

The Pursuit of the Houseboat - John Kendrick Bangs: "Shady Sinners of the Styx" (Lawrence Daniel Fogg) 11-12

Pyramids and Temples of Gizah - Flinders Petrie: "Sherlock Holmes and the Mummy's Curse" (H. Paul Jeffers) 86

The Qabala

Queen Mab - Percy Bysshe Shelley: The House of Smoke (Sam Christer) 54-55, 133-135

Queen's Quorum - Ellery Queen: The Case of the Grave Accusation (Dicky Neely) 73

"The Quest" - Raymond Chandler: The Final Page of Baker Street (Daniel D. Victor) 56

The Quest for The Historical Jesus - Albert Schweitzer: The Case of the Maltese Treasure (Thomas Brace Haughey) 64

The Quintessence of Ibsenism - George Bernard Shaw: Lestrade and the Magpie (M.J.Trow) 55

Radioactive Substances and their Radiations - James Rutherford: Exit Sherlock Holmes (Robert Lee Hall) 139

Raffles - E.W. Hornung: "The Problem of the Sore Bridge - Among Others" (Philip Jose Farmer) 35

The Railway Children - Edith Nesbit: "Bloody railway children": Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J. Trow) 65

The Railway Companion: Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac (Barrie Roberts) 172

Railway Guide To Hampshire: Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac (Barrie Roberts) 96

Railway Law for the Man in the Train - George Edalji: Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 213

The Ramayana: The Peranakan Princess (Don Bosco) 11

Rangers of Texas - Carson Montague: My Hero (Tom Holt) 250

"The Rape of Lucrece" - William Shakespeare: The Stratford Conspiracy (Michael Mallory) 30
"Oh opportunity, thy guilt is great": A Taste for Honey (H.F. Heard) 196

The Rape of the Lock - Samuel Butler: The Three Locks (Bonnie MacBird) 158, 160-161; "A Summer Day’s Outing" (Edwin Turnbladh) 10
Rape of the Lox: Elementary, My Dear Groucho (Ron Goulart) 38

Rappaccini's Daughter - Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Fleurs du Mal" (Brian Stableford) 115-116

Rapports Et Proces-Verbaux D'Enquete De La Commissin Instituee En Vue De Constater Les Actes Commis Par L'Ennemi En Violation Du Droit Des Gens: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 81

Ratnakuta Sutra: Sherlock Holmes in Japan (Vasudev Murthy) 205

"Rats in the Walls" - H.P. Lovecraft: Pulptime (P.H. Cannon) 23

"The Raven" - Edgar Allan Poe: Deadpool Killustrated (Cullen Bunn & Matteo Lolli) 71; Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 135, 138, 218; The Carnelian Crow (Colleen Gleason) 4, 178, 204;  The Art of Deception (Leonard Goldberg) 180; "The Enchanted Garden" (H.F. Heard) 124; Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 153, 232-233; The Surrogate Assassin (Christopher Leppek) 58; Holmes Entangled (Gordon McAlpine) 110; The Bloody Red Baron (Kim Newman) 33, 36, 38; "The Hound of the D’Urbervilles" (Kim Newman) 186; The Patient's Eyes (David Pirie) 205; Shadowfall (Tracy Revels) 62; The Book of the Dead (Robert Richardson) 145; "The Adventure of the Second William Wilson" (Daniel D. Victor) 73-74; Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 300
"A demon's that is dreaming": The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 22
"Nevermore": Good Morning, Irene (Carole Nelson Douglas) 83; The Art of Deception (Leonard Goldberg) 180; Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 247; "The Adventure of the Second William Wilson" (Daniel D. Victor) 69
"Once upon a midnight dreary": Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 153, 232
"Quaint and curious volume": Doctor Watson and the Invisible Man (Noel Downing) 51
"There came a tapping as of someone gently rapping": "The Rummy Affair of Young Charlie" (P.H. Cannon) 59; Who Thinks Evil (Michael Kurland) 8

Ray's New Primary Arithmetic for Young Learners: The Patchwork Devil (Cavan Scott) 156

"The Real Story of St Paul's Ice Palace Murders" - Lincoln Steffens: Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders (Larry Millett) 2

"Realism and Fairyland" - Raymond Chandler: The Final Page of Baker Street (Daniel D. Victor) 214

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 160
"I dreamed I went to Mandalay [sic] again": Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J. Trow) 212

Recent Advances In Physical Science - Peter Guthrie Tait: "The Case of the Greek Key (Donald Thomas) 149

"Recessional" - Rudyard Kipling:
"Far-called, our navies melt away...lest we forget"
: Evolution (John Peel)

"Lesser breeds without the law": The Book of Changes (R.H.W. Dillard) 82; The Return of the Pharaoh (Nicholas Meyer) 252

La recherche de Dieu l'usine - General Levass: The Dead Can Wait (Robert Ryan) 364

Recollections - Edward Trelawny: "The Case of the Portuguese Sonnets" (Donald Thomas) 149

Record-globe - Byngham Batchelor: Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (M.J.Trow) 87

The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane: Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell (Nicholas Meyer) 61

The Red Battle Flyer - Edgar Allan Poe & Manfred Von Richthofen: The Bloody Red Baron (Kim Newman) 87

A Red, Red Summer Rose - Rosie M. Banks: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 90-91

The Red Shoes - The Brothers Grimm: Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 67

The Red Thumb Mark - R. Austin Freeman: "The Adventure of the Notorious Canary Trainer" (Ken Greenwald) 196-197

"Rediscovery of the Unique" - H.G. Wells : The Dracula Caper (Simon Hawke) 10-11

The Refugees - Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade (M.J.Trow) 12

"Reginald's Flogging" - Algernon Swinburne: Dracula's Diary (Michael Geare & Michael Corby) 47

Registry of Surgeons: "One for Doctor Watson" (W.S. Doxey) 39

Reichenbachia - Frederick Sandler: The Devil’s Due (Bonnie MacBird) 216

The Relationship of Extradigitalism to Genius - Zubarin: The Bookman (Lavie Tidhar) 141

A Reliable Narrator - Gustav Slavorigin: And Then There Was One (Gilbert Adair) 20-21

Religio Medici: The Affair of the Incognito Tenant (Lora Roberts) 116

"The Remarkable Hero" - Raymond Chandler: The Final Page of Baker Street (Daniel D. Victor) 166, 214

"A Remarkable Quality of the Binomial Theorem": "A to Z Theory" (Toh EnJoe) 53

"Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November": "The House that Jack Built" (Edward Wellen) 296

Renaissance - Walter Pater: "Peter Sims" (Maurice Baring) 189

Renard the Fox: "The House that Jack Built" (Edward Wellen) 285

The Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco on the Condition of the Chinese Quarter of the City - Willard B. Farwell et al: Deadly Season (Tim Champlin) 21, 25-31, 40, 44, 47, 104, 153, 238

Report On the Thug Gangs - William Sleeman: The Siam Question (Timothy Francis Sheil) 495-496, 498, 579

Reports of Trials for Murder by Poisoning - G. Lathom Browne: Mrs Hudson and the Irish Invincibles (Barry S. Brown) 13

Reptilian House - Charles Dickens: The Great Game (Lavie Tidhar) 794

A Reptilian Taxonomy of the Malay Archipelago - Ophelia Wermeston: The Monster of the Mere (Philip Purser-Hallard) 161

The Republic - Plato: "The Adventure of the Librarian's Ghost" (Jon L. Breen) 21-22, 35; Masterminds of Falkenstein (John DeChancie) 23; "Sherlock Holmes and the Mummy's Curse" (H. Paul Jeffers) 90; The God of the Hive (Laurie R. King) 326; Black Ice (Andrew Lane) 42; Red Leech (Andrew Lane) 129, 131, 152, 156-157, 181-182, 186, 289; Sherlock Holmes: My Life (Lawrence R. Spencer) 202

"Requiescat" - Oscar Wilde: Jack the Ripper: Case Closed (Gyles Brandreth) 113

Rescuing the Czar - William Rutledge McGarry: "The Adventure of the Disappearing Sovereign" (Terry Klasek) 85

Researches into the Physical History of Man - James Cowles Prichard: Mycroft Holmes (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anna Waterhouse) 60

Retribution - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "Though the mills of god grind slowly...": "The Mystery of the Missing Child" (Christine Poulson) 244

The Return of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs: "The Case of the Doctor Who Had No Business" (Richard A. Lupoff) 75

The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy: The Dracula Caper (Simon Hawke) 146

Return To Tibet - Heinrich Harrer: Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World (Thos. Kent Miller) 2

Return to Zenda - Anthony Hope: Lestrade and the Devil's Own (M.J. Trow) 76-77, 84

The Revel - Bartholomew Dowling: "The Captive Bride" (Dana Martin Batory) 75-76

Revenge of the Thraals - Handley Paige: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 159

The Reverberator - Henry James: The Fifth Heart (Dan Simmons) 395

Revolutionary Catechism - Netchaev: The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini) 405-406

Revolutionary War Science - Most: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Alliance (Larry Millett)

The Riches of Mohenjo-Daro: The Game (Laurie R. King) 17-18, 31

Rick Chambers and Astarte - Catherine Moreau: The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter (Theodora Goss) 377

Rick Chambers on Venus - Catherine Moreau: The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter (Theodora Goss) 377

The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers: "By Any Other Name" (Michael Dirda) 212; "Libretto by Esau" (Norman Hinton) 493; "The Christmas Conspiracy" (Edward D. Hoch) 144; "A Scandal in Montreal" (Edward D. Hoch) 85; The Red Ribbon (H.B. Lyle) 154; "The Adventure of the F.W.L." (Christopher Morley) 419; The Case of Emily V (Keith Oatley) 166-167
The Riddle of the Sands Hotel: W.G.Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 133

Ride Down The Whirlwind - Carson Montague: My Hero (Tom Holt) 26

Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 1

The Rig Vedas

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Coleridge: The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 10; A Taste for Honey (H.F.Heard) 66; Night Watch (Stephen Kendrick) 154; The Bookman (Lavie Tidhar) 26-27, 37, 142
"Like one that on a lonesome road...": A Taste for Honey (H.F. Heard) 66; The Monstrous Regiment (Glen Petrie) 171-172

The Ring and the Book - Robert Browning: "The Case of the Ghosts at Bly" (Donald Thomas) 261; "The Case of the Portuguese Sonnets" (Donald Thomas) 151, 191

The Ring of Thoth - Arthur Conan Doyle: The Problem of the Spiteful Spiritualist (Roberta Rogow) 111-112

Rinkitink in Oz - L. Frank Baum: Visitors from Oz (Martin Gardner) 32

The Rise of Silas Lapham - Mark Twain: The Fifth Heart (Dan Simmons) 227

The Rise of the Lumpenproletariat - Blasius: Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder (M.J.Trow) 51

Rivals - Jilly Cooper: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon) 213

River of Death: A South American Odyssey - Professor Challenger: Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Deadly Sins Murders (Barry Day) 164

The Rivet In Grandfather's Neck - James Branch Cabell: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 65

Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott: "The Highland Intrigue" (Steve Leadley) 150

"Rob Roy's Grave" - William Wordsworth: "The Highland Intrigue" (Steve Leadley) 150

Robbery Under Arms - Rolf Boldrewood: "The Strange Case of the Megatherium Thefts" (S.C.Roberts) 122

Robert Elsmere - Mrs Humphry Ward: The Fifth Heart (Dan Simmons) 510-511

Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe: Pirate King (Laurie R. King) 58; "Mr Sherlock Holmes Tuttlebury" (W. Carter Platts) 71; "The Adventure of the Velvet Mask" (Denis O. Smith) 95
"As reason is the substance and original of the mathematics...": Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds (Manly W. Wellman & Wade Wellman) 138
Robertson Crusoe: W.G. Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 47

Robinson's County Guide to East Suffolk: "The Secret of Shoreswood Hall" (Denis O. Smith) 370-379

Robotor: The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 236

Robur the Conqueror - Jules Verne: Sherlock Holmes and the Knave of Hearts (Steve Hayes & David Whitehead) 70

"Rock Me To Sleep" - Elizabeth Akers Allen: "Backward, turn backward, o time, in thy flight": Shady Sinners of the Styx (Lawrence Daniel Fogg) 15

"Rocked in the cradle of the deep" - Emma Hart Willard: The Noble Criminal (Albert Holland Rhodes) 59

The Rocket In Military History - Karl Von Bremen: From Prussia with Love (John DeChancie), 68

The Rocks of Valpre - Ethel M. Dell: "Drama in the Library!" (The Onlooker) 5

Roderick Hudson: "The Adventure of the Aspen Papers" (Daniel D. Victor) 261

Rodney Stone - Arthur Conan Doyle: Baskerville (John O'Connell) 21; Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder (M.J.Trow) 180

Roget's Thesaurus: The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 139; W.G. Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 93; Sherlock Holmes at the 1902 Fifth Test (Stanley Shaw) 36

The Role of the Missionary In Uttar Pradesh - Fellowes: Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder (M.J.Trow) 51

The Role of Wallpaper in Napoleon's Career: Lestrade and the Devil's Own (M.J. Trow) 75

The Roly Poly Pudding - Beatrix Potter: Double Trouble Squared (Kathryn Lasky) 78-79

Romagna Manifesto: The Pandora Plague (Lee A. Matthias) 246

"The Roman Centurion's Song" - Rudyard Kipling: "June's long-lighted days": Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J. Trow) 139

A Romance - Catherine Tilney: The Evil in Pemberley House (Philip José Farmer & Win Scott Eckert) 91

The Romance of Early British Life: From the Earliest Times to the Coming of the Danes - G.F. Scott Elliot: Allan Quatermain at the Dawn of Time  (Thos. Kent Miller) xliv, xlvi

Romance of the Harem - Anna Leonowens: Sherlock Holmes and the King’s Governess (Barrie Roberts) 5, 18, 102

The Romance of Two Worlds - Marie Corelli: Winter at Death’s Hotel (Kenneth Cameron) 77; "The Case of the Yokohama Club" (Donald Thomas) 315; Lestrade and the Kiss of Horus (M.J.Trow) 217

Romulus & Remus: A Study in Fraternal Alliance - Stanislaus Addleton: "The Adventure of the Giant’s Hand" (Matthew Booth) 5

The Room in the Tower - E.F. Benson: The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 156, 159-160

"Rose Among the Heather" - Goethe: The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 154-155

The Rosetta Stone: Young Sherlock Holmes (Alan Arnold) 140; The Case That Time Forgot (Tracy Barrett) 109, 114-115, 117-118, 120-122; The 100-Year-Old Secret (Tracy Barrett) 36; The Adventures of Young Stamford (Richard M. Caplan, M.D.) 116; Watson's Last Case (Ian Charnock) 33; The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Michael Dibdin) 148; Good Night, Mr. Holmes (Carole Nelson Douglas) 89; "The Adventure of the Plated Spoon" (Loren D. Estleman) 219; "The Adventure of the Ascot Tie" (Robert L. Fish) 6;The Clockwork Scarab (Colleen Gleason) 25, 159; The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes (Leonard Goldberg) 177-178; Enter the Lion (Michael P. Hodel & Sean M. Wright) 223; Night Watch (Stephen Kendrick) 105; Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (James Lovegrove) 264; The Mystery Surrounding Watson’s Lost Dispatch Box (Gary Lovisi) 91; The Return of the Pharaoh (Nicholas Meyer) 31, 52, 54-56; Allan Quatermain at the Dawn of Time (Thos. Kent Miller) cxlv; Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders (Larry Millett) 54; Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon (Larry Millett) 74; Sherlock Holmes The Missing Years: Timbuktu (Vasudev Murthy) 18; The Case of the Vanishing Corpse (Robert Newman) 157; The Case of Emily V (Keith Oatley) 110; "Porlock’s Demise" (Ted Riccardi) 93; "And Such Small Deer" (Chris Roberson) 62; "The Adventure of the Bloomsbury Pickpocket" (David N. Smith) 204; Sherlock Holmes and the Sacred Sword (Frank Thomas) 106, 111-112, 140; Bloodguilty (Raymond Thor) 177; The Great Game (Lavie Tidhar) 796; "An I for an I" (Rajnar Vajra) 60; The Arcanum (Thomas Wheeler) 22

Der Röte Kampfflieger - Edgar Allan Poe & Manfred Von Richthofen: The Bloody Red Baron (Kim Newman) 87, 277, 340, 342-343

Roughing It - Mark Twain: The Adventures of Young Stamford (Richard M. Caplan, M.D.) 33; "The Adventure of the Jersey Girl" (Bill Peschel) 362

Round The Red Lamp - Arthur Conan Doyle: "The Adventure of the Noble Husband" (Peter Cannon) 40; "Dr Watson’s Wedding Present" (J. Alston Cooper) 165

The Royal Naval Handbook of Diving: "The Adventure of the Admiral" (David James) 71, 75

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 61; Inspector Ginkgo Tips His Hat To Sherlock Holmes (Alex Jack) 104; The Empress of India (Michael Kurland) 84-86; Death Cloud (Andrew Lane) 46; Sherlock Holmes and the Titanic Tragedy (William Seil) 73; Aunt Edna’s Guide to Paradise (Keith Sharp) 142
"Evermore came out by the same door wherein I went": Dr Mortimer and the Barking Man Mystery (Gerard Williams) 168
"Into this universe , and why not knowing...": The Empress of India (Michael Kurland) 84
"A loaf of bread...": Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Deadly Sins Murders (Barry Day) 132; Death Cloud (Andrew Lane) 46
"The moving finger writes...": The Empress of India (Michael Kurland) 84; The Great Game (Michael Kurland) 144
"Oft as wine has played the infidel...": Who Thinks Evil (Michael Kurland) 52
"What is man...": Reply Paid (H.F. Heard) 260
"The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop": The Empress of India (Michael Kurland) 84

Ruff's Guide To The Turf: "The Adventure of the Phantom Face" (Basil Copper) 117

Rugby Football: Bertram Fletcher Robinson: Baskerville (John O'Connell) 18

Ruins of Old Burma - William Redfern: "The Giant Rat of Sumatra" (Ted Riccardi) 201

Rules and Regulations of the Operating Department: On the Wrong Track (Steve Hockensmith) 181, 204, 246

The Rules Britannia: Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 21-27, 58-59, 62-63, 82-83, 87, 93, 100, 134, 137, 165-166, 172, 182, 197, 206, 214, 227, 257-258, 268, 270-271, 276

Rumplestiltskin: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 45-46

The Runaway Slave - Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "The Case of the Portuguese Sonnets" (Donald Thomas) 178, 184

"Runyon's Rhymes" - Damon Runyon: Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 63

Rupert of Hentzau - Anthony Hope: Lestrade and the Devil's Own (M J Trow) 76

"Rupert's Flogging" - Algernon Swinburne: Dracula's Diary (Michael Geare & Michael Corby) 47

Rush To Judgement - Mark Lane: Sherlock Holmes in Dallas (Edmund Aubrey) 31

Russia's Message - William English Walling: The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols (Nicholas Meyer) 104

The Ruthvenian: The Evil in Pemberley House (Philip José Farmer & Win Scott Eckert) 91

Sabrina Fair - Milton: The Notched Hairpin (H.F. Heard) 14, 52

The Sacred Tantra of the Wheel of Time: The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (Jamyang Norbu) 233

The Sacrificial Lynx - Baudelaire: Holmes Entangled (Gordon McAlpine) 105

Saducismus Triumphatus: "The Adventure of the Unknown Worm" (Daniel McGachey) 70

The Sahhindar Cult in Pre-Diluvian Khokarsa - Professor Challenger

Salome: Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J.Trow) 193

Samson Agonistes - John Milton: "Eyeless in Gaza": The Dorking Gap Affair (Glen Petrie) 298

San Francisco Murders - Joseph Henry Jackson: "The Anomaly of the Empty Man" (Anthony Boucher) 27

The Sands of Crime - Harriet Vane: The Bookman (Lavie Tidhar) 142

Sanskrit-English Dictionary - Monier Monier-Williams: "An Affair in Ravello" (Ted Riccardi) 4

Sansom's History of Witchcraft and Devil Worship - Gilbert Sansom: The Devil’s Promise (David Stuart Davies) 118

Sardonyx - Bartholomew Josselin: "A Unique Collection" (Coggeshall Macy) 284

Satchel Guides: The Flying Scotsman (Quinn Fawcett) 111, 121, 123-125, 138, 144, 152-154, 168, 172, 183, 186, 194, 204-205, 209, 215-216, 223, 239, 258

Satires - Horace: "Populus me sibilat...": "The Adventure of the Bogle-Wolf" (Anthony Boucher) 430; A Study in Murder (Robert Ryan) 341

Satires - Juvenal:
"Imponit finem sapiens et rebus honestis"
: The Strange Return of Sherlock Holmes (Barry Grant) 182
"Mens sana in corpore sano": The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 122, 238
"Nemo repente fuit turpissimus": A Taste for Honey (H.F. Heard) 146, 225; Death by Gaslight (Michael Kurland) 259
"The people long eagerly for just two things - bread & circuses": Sherlock Holmes Meets Annie Oakley (Stanley Shaw) 9
"Quid custodiet ipsos custodes": Lestrade and the Ripper (M.J. Trow) 118
"Who guards the guards": Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J. Trow) 158

Satyricon - Gaius Petronius: Your Monkey’s Shmuck (Simon Louvish) 140; Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 36, 43, 66-67, 162
"Venerast jam tertius...": Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 66

Savonarola to the Signoria - Robert Browning: "The Case of the Portuguese Sonnets" (Donald Thomas) 137, 175-177, 180-181, 183-184, 191

"Say Goodnight Gracie" - Gustav Slavorigin: And Then There Was One (Gilbert Adair) 6-8

"Says Damon Runyon..." - Damon Runyon: Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 63

The Scarlet Bible: "The Adventure of the Unknown Worm" (Daniel McGachey) 70

The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne: Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Deadly Sins Murders (Barry Day) 24
"It is a little remarkable that...": Deadpool Killustrated (Cullen Bunn & Matteo Lolli) 10

The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy: The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols (Nicholas Meyer) 94
"They Seek him here, they seek him there...": "By Any Other Name" (Michael Dirda) 205; The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols (Nicholas Meyer) 93

Scènes De La Vie Bohème - Henri Murger: "Sherlock Holmes & 'The Woman'" (Michael Harrison) 113; "The Case of the Two Bohmes" (Ted Riccardi) 168-169, 172, 182-183; "A Study In Lavender Lace" (Larry Townsend) 64; "Voiceover" (Edward Wellen) 226

The Sceptical Chymist - Robert Boyle: Mycroft & Sherlock (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anna Waterhouse) 336

Scholar Gypsies - John Buchan: Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder (M.J.Trow) 201

The Scholar Gypsy - Matthew Arnold: Dreaming Spies (Laurie R. King) 82
"this strange disease of modern life": Dreaming Spies (Laurie R. King) 9

The Scholar of Bygate - Algernon Gissing: The Holmes-Dracula File (Fred Saberhagen) 176

"A School Story" - M.R. James: "The Manor House Ghost" (S. Subramaniam) 227, 229-235

A Schoolgirl's Education: "The Presbury Papers" (Jonathan Barnes) 217

Schutzhund Obedience: The Barker Street Regulars (Susan Conant) 79

Science for the Million: "The Omnibus Murder" (R.E. Swartwout) 127

The Science of Blood Splash Analysis - Sherlock Holmes: The Art of Detection (Laurie R. King) 194

Science of Ethics - Leslie Stephen: Anno Dracula (Kim Newman) 393

The Science of the X-Men: Sherlock Sam and the Ghostly Moans in Fort Canning (A.J. Low) 6

"The Scientific Propagation of the Human Race" - Victoria Claflin Woodhull: "The Bab Deception" (Bill Paxton) 147

Scripta Minoa - Sir Arthur Evans: "The Case Of the Greek Key" (Donald Thomas) 141, 144

The Scroll of Greatness: The Scroll of Greatness (Don Bosco) 9, 11, 13-14, 17, 19-20, 25, 31, 35-36, 38-39, 41, 50, 52, 58-59, 63, 69, 72, 75-79

The SCUM Manifesto - Valerie Solanas: "Half There / All There" (Glen Mehn) 223-227, 231-232, 234-235

Sea-Drift - Walt Whitman: The Bughouse Affair (Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini) 156; "The Bughouse Caper" (Bill Pronzini) 172

Sea Gunner's Practice, with Description of Captain Shotgun's Murdering Piece - R. Blastem: The Bookman (Lavie Tidhar) 141

The Sea Wolf - Jack London: Dead Man's Confession (Cass Lewis) 215

"Seaman's Litany" - Thomas Gray: Death on a Pale Horse (Donald Thomas) 304, 307-309

A Seaman's Manual of the Heavens - Anthony Edwardes: Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac (Barrie Roberts) 97

The Second Caliban Manifesto - Karl Marx: The Great Game (Lavie Tidhar) 794

Second Helping: The Notched Hairpin (H.F.Heard) 45

The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad: Jack the Ripper: Case Closed (Gyles Brandreth) 350; The Revenge of Moriarty (John Gardner) 264; The Irregular (H.B. Lyle) 207; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 227

The Secret Empire: Sherlock Holmes and the Terror Out of Time (Ralph E. Vaughan) 53

The Secret Exploration of Tibet - Peter Hopkick: Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World (Thos. Kent Miller) 2

The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep (H.G. Parry) 119, 134, 136, 147-148, 150, 194, 346, 385, 443

The Secret History of France Under the Third Republic - Félix Faure: "The Case of the Unseen Hand" (Donald Thomas) 124, 127, 141, 143-144, 149-150, 152-153, 155, 157-158

The Secret History of the International Workingmen's Association - O. Yorke: The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 26

The Secret Life of a Ballerina: "The Presbury Papers" (Jonathan Barnes) 217

The Secret Life of Wackford Squeers: "The Problem of the Final Adventure" (Kim Newman) 386

The Secret Manual of the House of Jade: Who Thinks Evil (Michael Kurland) 59

Secret Mysteries of Asia, with Commentary on the Ghorl Nigral - Gottfried Mulder: The Bookman (Lavie Tidhar) 140

The Secret Power - Marie Corelli: Lestrade and the Kiss of Horus (M.J.Trow) 217

Secret Societies - Charles William Heckethorn: "The Adventure of the Dark Angels" (Adrian Conan Doyle) 225

Secret Societies and the Ruling Establishment - Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes and the Egyptian Hall Adventure (Val Andrews) 110

Secrets of a Miracle Murder - Isabel Diamond: The Magic Bullet (Larry Millett) 343

"Secrets of Castle Baskerville" - Marty Clayton: The Kentish Manor Murders (Julian Symons) 75

Secrets of Stage Conjuring - J.E. Robert-Houdin: "The Case of the Yokohama Club" (Donald Thomas) 326-327

The Sedge Moths of Northern Vespuccia: The Bookman (Lavie Tidhar) 104

The Sefer ha-Zohar: The 6 Messiahs (Mark Frost) 32-33, 49-54, 65-66, 80-81, 86-87, 89, 92-93, 98, 117-118, 146-151, 162, 164, 166, 169, 172, 178, 187-188, 245-247, 268-269, 274, 276, 279-281, 347, 385, 396, 398, 404, 415

Selected Letters - H.P. Lovecraft (ed. August Derleth & Donald Wandrei): The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 28

Selected Observations and Moral Extractions - Mary Bennet: The Evil in Pemberley House (Philip José Farmer & Win Scott Eckert) 91

The Self & Its Sheathes - Annie Besant: The Case of the Philosophers' Ring (Randall Collins) 105

Self Help - Samuel Smiles: Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (Gerald Frow) 120; Death in the Air (Shane Peacock) 107; Vanishing Girl (Shane Peacock) 10

Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austen: Femme Fatale (Carole Nelson Douglas) 94

A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Causes - Gustav Slavorigin: And Then There Was One (Gilbert Adair) 4, 123

Senso - Camillo Boito: The Evil in Pemberley House (Philip José Farmer & Win Scott Eckert) 97

The Serendipitous Armchair: A Gentleman's Travelling Companion to London: A Study in Ashes (Emma Jane Holloway) 30

Sermon on Tyrants - Savonarola: The Albino’s Treasure (Stuart Douglas) 238

The Sermons of John Donne: A Scandal in Battersea (Mercedes Lackey) 50

The Sermons of Reverend Dr Throckmorton: The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter (Theodora Goss) 46

The Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan: "Confidence Game" (Jim Harmon) 143; Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (James Lovegrove) 262

The Seven Lamps - John Ruskin: The Strange Doings of J. Leslie Ryder (Daniel Gracely) 112

Seven Lectures To Young Men - Beecher: The Private Life of Dr. Watson (Michael Hardwick) 22

The Seven Per Cent Solution - Nicholas Meyer: The Secret of Sherlock Holmes (Gary F. Boothe) 25; Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) xiv; The Canary Trainer (Nicholas Meyer) 23; The West End Horror (Nicholas Meyer) 11-12, 14

The Seven Poor Travellers - Charles Dickens: The Case of the Invisible Thief (Thomas Brace Haughey) 133

The Seven Worlds Within Our Own - Francesco Ribisi: The Vanishing Man (Philip Purser-Hallard) 228

Seven Years In Tibet - Heinrich Harrer: Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World (Thos. Kent Miller) 2

Seventeen: Booth Tarkington: The Dead Can Wait (Robert Ryan) 68

1760, The Co-ordinate Acme of British Culture - Sidney Silchester: The Notched Hairpin (H.F.Heard) 206

Sex and Character - Otto Weininger: The Case of Emily V (Keith Oatley) 44-45

Sex and Religion - Marie Stopes: Lestrade and the Giant Rat of Sumatra (M.J. Trow) 41

Sex and the Young - Marie Stopes: Lestrade and the Giant Rat of Sumatra (M.J. Trow) 41

Sexual Dimorphism Among the Echinoderms - Cosmo Cowperthwait: The Bookman (Lavie Tidhar) 140

Sexual Inversion - Havelock Ellis: "The Well-Educated Young Man" (William P. Coleman) 92; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 210

Shades of Envy - Alan Sanderson: "The Monkton House Mystery" (Davis Stuart Davies) 317

Shadow Land - Elizabeth Hope: Baskerville (John O’Connell) 144

"The Shadowy Waters" - William Butler Yeats: "Dim pairc-na-tarov...": "The Coole Park Problem" (Michéal & Clare Breathnach) 188

Shaka, King of the Zulus: Zulu Dominance in Africa: "Colonel Warburton’s Madness" (Sasscer Hill) 90

Shakespeare Analysed - Sidney Humphries: "The Case of the Tarleton Murders" (Jack Grochot) 169, 172

Shakespeare Identified - J. Thomas Looney: "Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Hamlet" (Emanuel E. Garcia) 29

Shakespeare's Revelations By Shakespeare's Spirit - Sarah Taylor Shatford: The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 55

Shamanism in the Americas: The Monster of the Mere (Philip Purser-Hallard) 160

The Shape of Things to Come - H.G. Wells: "Sherlock Holmes and the Titanic Swindle" (Len Deighton); The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 178-180; W.G. Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 96

"The Shaving of Shagpat" - George Meredith: The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 30

She - H. Rider Haggard: Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World (Thos. Kent Miller) 5-7, 11, 19-20, 29;The White Worm (Sam Siciliano) 138; Sherlock Holmes and the Masquerade Murders (Frank Thomas) 119

She & Allan - H. Rider Haggard: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (K.J. Anderson) 23, 40, 59, 137; The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 24; Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World (Thos. Kent Miller) 11

"She was a Phantom of Delight" - William Wordsworth: The God of the Hive (Laurie R. King) 323; Pirate King (Laurie R. King) 269

The Sheik - Edith Maude Hull: Pirate King (Laurie R. King) 43; "Sherlock Holmes Solves The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Harry B. Smith) 217

Shen-nung Pen Ts’ao Ching: Mycroft & Sherlock (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anna Waterhouse) 91, 178

Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon - Larry Millett: The Secret of Sherlock Holmes (Gary F. Boothe) 13-14

Sherlock Holmes and the Frankenstein Curse - Dr Watson: Sherlock Holmes' Last Case (Robert D'Artagnan) 31, 80

Sherlock Holmes: Fact Or Fiction - T.S. Blakeney: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 4

Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case - Dr Watson: Sherlock Holmes' Last Case (Robert D'Artagnan) 31, 54, 79-81

Sherlock Holmes in Tibet - Richard Wincor: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 6-14

The Sherlock Holmes Method of Investigative Disease & General Diagnosis - Ottoman: The Curse of the Nibelung (Marcel D'Agneau) 80

Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street - William S. Baring-Gould: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 4;"The Case of the Doctor Who Had No Business" (Richard A. Lupoff) 70; The West End Horror (Nicholas Meyer) 14; The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 59; Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World (Thos. Kent Miller) 5

Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World - Thomas Kent Miller: The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 25, 27

Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula - Loren D. Estleman: Dr Jekyll and Mr Holmes (Loren D. Estleman) 11-14

Sherlock Holmes Versus Mars - Edward Malone: Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds (Manly W. Wellman & Wade Wellman) 8

Shins in Their Relation to Furniture: "The Shot in the Dark" (Wex Jones) 111

"Ship Me Somewhere East of Suez": Sherlock Holmes at the Raffles Hotel (John Hall) 25, 136

A Short History of the Special Operations Network - Millon de Floss: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 43

A Short History of the World - H.G. Wells: Sherlock Holmes and the Nine-Dragon Sigil (Tim Symonds) 19

The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant: "The Adventure of the Missing Necklace" (Daniel D. Victor) 66

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary: The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini) 189

A Shropshire Lad - A.E. Housman: The Notched Hairpin (H.F. Heard) 14, 52

"The Shunned House" - H.P. Lovecraft: Pulptime (P.H. Cannon) 18

Sidelights On Criminal Matters - J.C. Goodwin: The Nine Wrong Answers (John Dickson Carr) 126

"The Sign of the Broken Sword" - G.K. Chesterton: And Then There Was No One (Gilbert Adair) 222

Signaletic Instructions, Including The Theory & Practice of Anthropometric Identification - Bertillon: Moriarty (John Gardner) 201

Sigurd and Ivan - Lord Bahrami: The Affair of the Mysterious Letter (Alexis Hall) 143

Silas Marner - George Eliot: "The Adventure of the Arsenic Dumplings" (Bob Byrne) 228; The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death (Daniel Pinkwater) 348

"Silk-Hat Harry" - Tad Dorgan: Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 65

Silk Stockings in Their Relations to Crime and Colds in the Head - Timelock Foams: "The Mystery of the Clock That Wouldn't Strike" (Wex Jones) 112

Simon Wheeler, Amateur Detective - Mark Twain: "My Silk Umbrella" (Darryl Brock) 44

"A Simple Theorem Regarding the Binomial Theorem": "A to Z Theory" (Toh EnJoe) 53

Sinaitic Palimpsest: "The Adventure of the Coptic Patriarch" (Séamus Duffy) 122

Sir Galahad - William Morris: "The Case of the Portuguese Sonnets" (Donald Thomas) 178

"Sir Galahad" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "His strength is as the strength of ten...": The Hampstead Poisonings (Glen Petrie) 206

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Scandal in Battersea (Mercedes Lackey) 283

Sir Nigel - Arthur Conan Doyle: "By Any Other Name" (Michael Dirda) 205; "Illusions" (Janni Lee Simner) 364; Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder (M.J.Trow) 131

Sir Quixote of the Moors - John Buchan: Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder (M.J.Trow) 201

Sister Helen - Dante Gabriel Rossetti: "The Case of the Portuguese Sonnets" (Donald Thomas) 178

Six Months - Helenor Quinn: "A Pragmatic Enigma" (John Kendrick Bangs) 102

Six Months of Sodom: Who Thinks Evil (Michael Kurland) 59

Skanda Puranas

Sketches - Mark Twain: "The Adventure of the Jersey Girl" (Bill Peschel) 362

Skull-Face - Robert E. Howard: Allan Quatermain at the Dawn of Time  (Thos. Kent Miller) xlix

Sky Island - L. Frank Baum: The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 259

Slaughter On Shaftesbury Avenue: Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (M.J.Trow) 147

The Sleeping Prophet: The Tulpa (J.N.Williamson) 128

Sleepy Time Tales: A Bird’s Best Friend (Tish Sommers) 12

Sleight of Hand - Sachs: The Pandora Plague (Lee A. Matthias) 286

"Slough" - John Betjeman: And Then There Was One (Gilbert Adair) 11; The Book of the Dead (Robert Richardson) 148

Small Business Accounting Made Easy: "Sherlock Holmes and the Tick Tock Man" (Roy Templeman) 116

"A Smuggler's Song" - Rudyard Kipling: "Four and twenty ponies trotting in the dark": The Winged Wheel (Peter H. Wood) 60

The Snakes' Pass - Bram Stoker: Brigade (M.J.Trow) 374

The Snow Queen - Hans Christian Andersen: Irene's Last Waltz (Carole Nelson Douglas) 352, 401

Snow White: The Bartered Brides (Mercedes Lackey) 193
"Mirror, mirror on the wall"
: Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder (M.J. Trow) 82

The Snows of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway: Your Monkey’s Shmuck (Simon Louvish) 2

So You Think You Can Do It Yourself: Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder (M.J.Trow) 166

So You Think You Know All About Tavistock: Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder (M.J.Trow) 24

So You Want To Be A Spokesman?: My Hero (Tom Holt) 230

"So We'll Go No More A-Roving" - Byron: The Private Life of Dr Watson (Michael Hardwick) 297

Society of American Magicians Directory: Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 266-267

Sociology - Georg Simmel: Durkheim Is Dead! (Arthur Asa Berger) 47

"Sohrab & Rustum" - Matthew Arnold: Oxus, forgetting the bright speed...": The Siam Question (Timothy Francis Sheil) 214

Soils and Earth Composition of the Amazon Basin - Sherlock Holmes: "Fort-ifications" (Paul Braczyk) 14:18

"The Soldier" - Rupert Brooke:
"Gentleness in hearts of peace"
: "Sherlock Holmes & 'The Woman'" (Michael Harrison) 123

"There is a corner of a foreign field...": Dead Man’s Land (Robert Ryan) 343

Some Considerations on the Spectral Composition of Certain Interstellar Nebulosities - Professor James Moriarty: The Infernal Device (Michael Kurland) 137

Some Experiences of A Barrister's Life - Ballantine: I, Sherlock Holmes (Michael Harrison) 9

Some Lectures to Young Men - Henry Ward Beecher: The Private Life of Dr Watson (Michael Hardwick) 22

Some Mistakes of Moses - Robert Ingersoll: "Holmes and the Loss of the British Barque Sophy Anderson" (Peter Cannon) 87

Some Observations on the Rev. R. Williams' Preface To His Lexicon Cornu-Brittanicum - Bonaparte: "The Siren of Sennen Cove" (Peter Tremayne) 52

Some Observations Upon A Series of Kaimuck Skulls - Professor Challenger: Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Deadly Sins Murders (Barry Day) 145; The Evil in Pemberley House (Philip José Farmer & Win Scott Eckert); The Bookman (Lavie Tidhar) 140

Some Suggestions Concerning the Long-Term Rehabilitation of Felons- Sherlock Holmes: A Monstrous Regiment of Women (Laurie R. King) 68

Some Thoughts on an Absolute Value for Pi - Professor Moriarty: Who Thinks Evil (Michael Kurland) 31

Some Thoughts on Simulacra: The Bookman (Lavie Tidhar) 104

Some Thoughts onthe Bondage of Womanhood - Katharine Reed: Seven Stars (Kim Newman) 357

Son of Holmes - John T. Lescroart: Rasputin's Revenge (John T. Lescroart) 12

Son of Palefire: And Then There Was No One (Gilbert Adair) 163

The Son of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs: "The Case of the Doctor Who Had No Business" (Richard A. Lupoff) 75

"The Song of the Bow" - Arthur Conan Doyle: "How Sir Arthur Passed into the World He Created" (Dean Collins) 189

"The Song of the Shirt" - Thomas Hood: Femme Fatale (Carole Nelson Douglas) 104; Irene's Last Waltz (Carole Nelson Douglas) 131, 133, 135
"Stitch, stitch, stitch...": Irene's Last Waltz (Carole Nelson Douglas) 133
"Work, work, work...": Irene's Last Waltz (Carole Nelson Douglas) 135

Songs of Earth and Heaven - Catherine Syms-Caton: "The Adventure of the Hidden Lane" (Lyn C.A. Gardner) 187

Songs of Innocence and Experience - William Blake: Happy Endings (Paul Cornell) 128; "Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Pin-Pricked Corpse" (Lois H. Gresh) 98

Sonnets - Raphael: "A Unique Collection" (Coggeshall Macy) 282

Sonnets - William Shakespeare: The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 65-67, 97; Sherlock Holmes and the Shakespeare Letter (Barry Grant) 20, 165; "Shakespeare the Physicist" (Banesh Hoffmann) 193-197; "The Affair of the 46th Birthday" (Amy Myers) 246, 250; "The Adventure of the Red Dress" (Ana Teresa Pereira) 138; Masters of Lies (Philip Purser-Hallard) 80, 115-118, 121
"Alack! What poverty my muse brings forth": Unquiet Spirits (Bonnie MacBird) 188
"An ever fix'd mark": The House at Baker Street (Michelle Birkby) 167
"For thy sweet love remember'd..."
:
"The Adventure of the Red Dress" (Ana Teresa Pereira) 138
"Her breath reeks": The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 67
"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun": The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 66-67
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day": Elementary, My Dear Groucho (Ron Goulart) 30; Sherlock Holmes and the Shakespeare Letter (Barry Grant) 165; W.G. Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 225
"Summer's lease": Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 134
"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought...": Sherlock Holmes and the Shakespeare Letter (Barry Grant) 35

Sonnets by EBB - Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "The Case of the Portuguese Sonnets" (Donald Thomas) 138, 146-148, 178-179, 183-184, 186, 191

Sonnets From The Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Game's Afoot Mrs. Hudson (Sydney Hosier) 31; "The Case of the Portuguese Sonnets" (Donald Thomas) 138; The Bookman (Lavie Tidhar) 22, 47, 51; The Great Game (Lavie Tidhar) 806-807; "Father of the Man" (Stephen Volk) 74, 83, 87
"Guess now who holds thee": San Francisco Kills (Denny Martin Flinn) 26

Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence: The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols (Nicholas Meyer) 44

The Sons of Jesse James: The All-True Sory of the Give-'em-Hell Boys: On the Wrong Track (Steve Hockensmith) 186, 190-191, 195, 203, 205

"The Sons of Martha" - Rudyard Kipling: Lestrade and the Leviathan (M.J.Trow) 145-146

The Sons of the Pharaoh: The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 236

The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Goethe: The Instrument of Death (David Stuart Davies) 11

The Sorrows of Satan - Marie Corelli: "Shady Sinners of the Styx" (Lawrence Daniel Fogg) 11-12; The Thinking Engine (James Lovegrove) 25-27

The Sorrows of Young Werewolf - K.E. Kelman, PH.: The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror (Daniel Pinkwater) 451

The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea Devils (James Lovegrove) 114

Sotheby's Guide to the Renaissance: The Language of Bees (Laurie R. King) 101

The Soul Has Bandaged Moments - Emily Dickinson: Island of the Mad (Laurie R. King) 94-95

The Soul of Black Folk - W.E.B. Du Bois: Durkheim Is Dead! (Arthur Asa Berger) 48

The Soul of Man Under Socialism - Oscar Wilde: Jack the Ripper: Case Closed (Gyles Brandreth) 254; Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) 38, 70

The South African War: Its Cause & Conduct - Arthur Conan Doyle: "Raffles on the Trail of the Hound" (Barry Perowne) 89

Southern Aurwald and Nivale, including Guienne and Lothringar - Ms Zheng: The Affair of the Mysterious Letter (Alexis Hall) 250

Spacestation Z-5 - Hanley Paige: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 159

Spanking Sessions: A Three-Pipe Problem (Julian Symons) 52

The Spectre of Tullyfane Abbey" - Peter Tremayne: "A Study In Orange" (Peter Tremayne) 252

Speculations on the Sources of Hampstead Ponds, with Some Observations on the Theory of Tittlebats - Mr Pickwick: "A Unique Collection" (Coggeshall Macy) 283

The Sphinx of the Ice Realm - Jules Verne: "The Lunacy of Celestine Blot" (Stephen Volk) 411

"The Sphinx Without a Secret" - Oscar Wilde: Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance (Gyles Brandreth) 264

"The Spider and the Fly" - Mary Howitt: Sherlock Holmes and the Nine-Dragon Sigil (Tim Symonds) 50
"Will you walk into my parlour...": The Hampstead Poisonings (Glen Petrie) 147, 180; The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan (Nancy Springer) 109

Spies for the Kaiser - William le Queux: Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 233

The Spies' March - Rudyard Kipling: “slip through his lines and learnâ€: Dreaming Spies (Laurie R. King) 157

The Spirit of Man in World Literature - Adolf Kraus: "The Adventure of the English Scholar" (Denis O. Smith) 257

The Spirit of the Laws - Baron de Montesquieu: Mrs Hudson and the Irish Invincibles (Barry S. Brown) 168

Spirist Vapors and Ether: "Ozone Holmes" (Bill Skurski) 47

Splendeurs Et Misères Des Courtisanes - Honoré de Balzac: A Samba for Sherlock (Jô Soares) 29, 249

Sport in the Rockies: "The Adventure of the Hanging Tyrant" (M.J. Elliott) 78

Spurrell's Welsh-English Dictionary: The Thinking Engine (James Lovegrove) 183

"The Squaw" - Bram Stoker: Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 182

The Squire of All or Nothing - Aubrey Syms-Caton: "The Adventure of the Hidden Lane" (Lyn C.A. Gardner) 187

Stage Ways & Means: Exit Sherlock Holmes (Robert Lee Hall) 45-46, 90, 141-142, 186, 203-204, 213, 250, 261

A Stalk on the Wild Side - Millon de Floss: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 42

Stamps of the World: The Unpleasantness at Parkerton Manor (Barry S. Brown) 149, 152

Stanford's Gazetteer of England & Wales: The Monstrous Regiment (Glen Petrie) 161

"Stanzas - April, 1814" - Percy Bysshe Shelley: "Ere Midnight's frown and morning's smile": Jack the Ripper: Case Closed (Gyles Brandreth) 299

The Stark Munro Letters - Arthur Conan Doyle: "The Adventure of the Noble Husband" (Peter Cannon) 37; "By Any Other Name" (Michael Dirda) 206; "The Bab Deception" (Bill Paxton) 193; Believe (William Shatner & Michael Tobias) 97; Sherlock Holmes: My Life (Lawrence R. Spencer) 154-155

Stars of Catalonia - Reverend Oliver Corlett: Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac (Barrie Roberts) 95

A Statesman's Life - George, Lord Loomborough: Masters of Lies (Philip Purser-Hallard) 102, 144

"The Statistics of American Stupidity" - Gustav Slavorigin: And Then There Was One (Gilbert Adair) 8-9

The Statue and the Bust - Robert Browning: "The Case of the Portuguese Sonnets" (Donald Thomas) 178

Steam-Engine: Theory and Practice - William Ripper: The Bookman (Lavie Tidhar) 104

Steel Eye Span - Truaz Steele: Lestrade and the Sawdust Ring (M.J. Trow) 89

The Sticky Wicket In Cricket: Basil and the Lost Colony (Eve Titus) 10

The Stilled Strings - Kathleen Hudson: "The Embers of Truth" (Adrian Wright) 71

Stirring Tales of Noble Deeds: Mrs Hudson and the Malabar Rose (Martin Davies) 108

The Stolen Child - W.B. Yeats: The Adventure of the Dead Rabbits Society (Philip J. Carraher) 68

Stonehenge - William Cunnington: Reply Paid (H.F.Heard) 217-220

Stonehenge: Plans, Description, and Theories - Flinders Petrie: "Sherlock Holmes and the Mummy's Curse" (H. Paul Jeffers) 86

The Stones of Venice - John Ruskin: The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (Theodora Goss) 311

Storia della teratologia - Cesare Taruffi: "Bibliographic Bones" (Frank Place) 48

Stories in Seashells - Leakin Steamcock: "The Mystery of the Chewed Pencil" (A. Comyn Boyle) 7

Stories The Animals Tell Me: The Barker Street Regulars (Susan Conant) 79

The Story of an African Farm - Olive Schreiner: Baskerville (John O'Connell) 17

A Story of Days To Come - H.G. Wells: The Dracula Caper (Simon Hawke) 16

The Story of English Literature from the Earliest Times to the Present - Professor David Walters: "The Adventure of the English Scholar" (Denis O. Smith) 235

The Story of the Malakand Field Force - Winston Churchill: The Year of High Treason (Vithal Rajan) 157

The Strand Library: The Fifth Heart (Dan Simmons) 114

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson: Sherlock Holmes and the Greyfriars School Mystery (Val Andrews) 84; "Repercussions" (Dwight Baldwin & J.M. DeSantis) 37; The House at Baker Street (Michelle Birkby) 186; The Women of Baker Street (Michelle Birkby) 22, 48, 71; The Baker Street Phantom (Fabrice Bourland) 86, 115, 136; Jack the Ripper: Case Closed (Gyles Brandreth) 177-178, 185; The Adventure of the Dead Rabbits Society (Philip J. Carraher) 25-26; Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 82; Irene at Large (Carole Nelson Douglas) 205-206; "The Case of the Suicidal Lawyer" (Martin Edwards) 399; Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Holmes (Loren D. Estleman) 23, 246-249; "Notes Regarding the Disappearance of Mr James Phillimore" (Lindsay Faye) 213; The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini) 137; A Study in Crimson (Robert J. Harris) 112; "The Singular Habits of Wasps" (Geoffrey A. Landis) 230; The Case of Emily V. (Keith Oatley) 368; The Moonstone’s Curse (Sam Siciliano) 37, 46-47, 108; A Samba for Sherlock (Jô Soares) 150; Sherlock Holmes: My Life (Lawrence R. Spencer) 77; The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Nancy Springer) 150; Anatomy of Evil (Will Thomas) 160; "The Vampire of the Lyceum" (Charles Veley & Anna Elliott) 419; The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor) 146; "Rosenlaui" (Conrad Williams) 197
"All sorts and conditions of men": W.G. Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 119

The Strange Case of the Tongue-Tied Tenor - Carole Buggé: The Star of India (Carole Buggé) 56

The Strange Experiences of Alkali Dick - Bret Harte: W.G. Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 87-88

The Strange Mushroom - Clare Quilty: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 90-91

Strange Powers of Pets: The Barker Street Regulars (Susan Conant) 79

Strange Things Amongst Us - Spectre Stricken: "The Case of the Unquiet Grave" (John Hall)236

Strangers on a train - Patricia Highsmith: And Then There Was No One (Gilbert Adair) 34

The Stroke of 12 - Evadne Mount: And Then There Was No One (Gilbert Adair) 97

Strüwwelpeter - Heinrich Hoffmann: The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade (M.J.Trow) 27-28, 43-44, 50-51, 61, 81-86, 94, 98, 100, 107, 121-126, 135, 145, 152, 157, 162-163, 168, 174, 176, 180, 184, 187, 189, 192-197; Brigade (M.J.Trow) 216, 226, 314, 326; Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J.Trow) 162; Lestrade and the Hallowed House (M.J.Trow) 487, 529

Stuart Chronicle: The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas (Tracy Mack & Michael Citrin) 133, 135-138, 140-142, 176, 185-187, 196-202, 205, 208-213, 215-219, 221, 225-230, 233; The Final Meeting (Tracy Mack & Michael Citrin) 162

Stud City - Gordon Lachance: The Bookman (Lavie Tidhar) 141

The Student's Darwin - Edward Aveling: The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 41

Studies On Hysteria - Sigmund Freud & Josef Breuer: The Case of Emily V (Keith Oatley) 17, 46-49, 51, 67-68, 149-150, 311, 350

A Study of the Powers of the Unseen World: Against the Brotherhood (Quinn Fawcett) 16, 19, 70

The Stuff of Life: Sherlock Sam and the Ghostly Moans in Fort Canning (A.J. Low) 6

The Styles of Punctuation in Notable English Authors - Barton-Finch: A Study in Crimson (Robert J. Harris) 89

The Subjection of Women - John Stuart Mill: The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 76

Successful Obedience Handling: The Barker Street Regulars (Susan Conant) 79

Suffolk Companion: The Dark Water (David Pirie) 126

Suffragettes: The Devil's Hands: A Letter of Mary (Laurie R. King) 164

Suggestions to Authors: "Bibliographic Bones" (Frank Place) 52

Summa Contra Gentiles - St. Thomas Aquinas: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 12; "The 13th Letter" (T.) 120

The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway: Holmes Entangled (Gordon McAlpine) 110

"Sunsets" - Richard Aldington: "The wind blowing over London from Flanders": Lestrade and the Magpie (M.J. Trow) 11

The Superiority of the Aryan Race - Dr Helga Krieger: Elementary, My Dear Groucho (Ron Goulart) 98, 105-106, 116-117, 132, 249-250

Supernatural Events In Sussex: Sherlock Holmes and the Skull of Death (Robert E. McClellan) 111-112

A Survey of Delinquent Behaviour: "The Saviour of Cripplegate Square" (Bert Coules) 262

Susan Lenox, Her Fall & Rise - David Graham Phillips: The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor) 37

Sussex Gazetteer: "Peril at Carroway House" (Eric Brown) 347, 351

"Sweethearts" - Arthur Conan Doyle: Jack the Ripper: Case Closed (Gyles Brandreth) 186, 208

Sweets, by A Stranger: Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder (M.J.Trow) 53

A Swinburne Bibliography - Wise: "A Letter To Posterity From John H. Watson, M.D." (Donald Thomas) 13

The Sword of Lady Yue: The Legend of Lady Yue (Don Bosco) 32, 35, 42, 53, 57, 69-70, 74, 77-78

Sword of the Zenobians: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 1, 54-55

The Sworn Book of Honorius: Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (James Lovegrove) 261

Sybil - Benjamin Disraeli: Masters of Lies (Philip Purser-Hallard) 55; Some Danger Involved (Will Thomas) 125

Sylvester Sound the Somnambulist: "The Man Who "Bested" Sherlock Holmes" (Joseph Baron) 3

The Symposium - Plato: The Case of Emily V. (Keith Oatley) 352; "The Aristotelian" (Steve Poling) 42

Syriatic Palimpsests: "The Adventure of the Unknown Worm" (Daniel McGachey) 72

"The System of Dr Tarr and Professor Fether" - Edgar Allan Poe: "The Lunacy of Celestine Blot" (Stephen Volk) 386

Systema Naturae - Carl Linnaeus: Mycroft & Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anna Waterhouse) 301-302

Système de Graphologie - Hippolyte Michon: Lestrade and the Ripper (M.J.Trow) 121

Système de la nature - Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis: "And Such Small Deer" (Chris Roberson) 67

Sylvie & Bruno - Lewis Carroll: The Problem of the Missing Miss (Roberta Rogow) 84