"The Adventure of the Dying Doctor"
(2002)
Included in: Murder, My Dear
Watson (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg &
Daniel Stashower)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Professor Moriarty; Mycroft Holmes
Other Characters: Sarah; Postman; Dr. Nagel;
Ushers; Students; Moriarty's Audience; Margaret
Blackstock
Date: September, 1882
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Watson's Surgery;
Hyde Park; The Royal Albert Hall; (Peshawar,
Eastbourne)
Story: On the same day, Watson learns that he
has an illegitimate son by a nurse he met in Peshawar
and diagnoses himself as having Marchant's disease and
only a year to live. Furthermore, while attending a
lecture given by Moriarty he learns that there is a good
chance of a comet crashing into the Earth. It takes the
combined minds of both Holmes brothers to solve all his
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"The Case of the Deserted Beach" (1997)
Included in: The
Strange Case of Mrs Hudson's Cat (Colin Bruce)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Inspector
Gregory; (Sherlock Holmes)
Fictional Characters: Professor
Challenger; Professor Summerlee
Other Characters: Telegraph Boy; Andrew Miller;
Police Officers; Smuggler's Rest Patrons; Waitress;
Billiard Players; (Watson's Distant Cousin)
Date: Autumn
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Victoria Station;
A Train; Bournemouth; Bournemouth Station; The Beach;
The Smuggler's Rest
Story: When a telegraph arrives from Gregory,
about a body on the beach, while Holmes is out on
another case, watso travels alone to Bournemouth to
investigate. He meets Challenger on the train and
receives a lecture on waves. Gregory take him to few the
body, lying on the beach, but with no footprints in the
sand around it. The man is a technician at Challenger
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"The Case of the Disloyal Servant" (1997)
Included in: The
Strange Case of Mrs Hudson's Cat (Colin Bruce)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; (The Cutter Alicia; Von Herder)
Fictional Characters: Professor
Challenger; Professor Summerlee
Historical Figures: (Queen
Victoria)
Other Characters: Newspaper Seller; Captain
James Falkirk / Sir Oswald Launton; Jenkins; Students;
Burlington Audience; Scientists; (Palace
Scullery-Maid; Jenkins's Child; Newspaper Editors;
Garden Party Guests; King of Molstein; Palace Maid;
Archbishop of York; Dr Adams)
Locations: Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street;
Buckingham Palace; Hyde Park; Burlington Palace
Story: Watson reads in the papers about the
disappearance of the cutter Alicia in a
patch of mist. Her companion ship, the Sea Eagle,
found flotsam from her decks, but no sign of the
vessel. Holmes is called on by Falkirk of the
Household Guards to investigate the death of Jenkins,
a stableman at Buckingham Palace. It happened during a
royal garden party, and while the Queen, and the King
of Molstein, claim to have heard the shot, other
guests standing near them on the verandah did not.
After resolving the case, Holmes and Watson attend a
lecture on the nature of light by Challenger and
Summerlee.
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"The Case of the Energetic Anarchist" (1997)
Included in: The
Strange Case of Mrs Hudson's Cat (Colin Bruce)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; (Mycroft Holmes; Inspector Lestrade)
Fictional Characters: Professor
Challenger; Professor Summerlee
Other Characters: Telegraph Boy; Adams's
Assistants; Dr Adams; Cabbie; Hyde Park Day-Trippers;
Museum Guard; Canvey Island Stationmaster; (Inspector
Arndale)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; British Museum;
Imperial College; Exhibition Road; Hyde Park; The
Serpentine; Euston Road; Fenchurch Street Station; A
Train; Canvey Island; Devil's Point
Story: Holmes receives a message from Arndale
at Scotland Yard informing him of an anarchist warning
of a bomb of enormous power planted in central London.
At the British Museum, they learn of a twin to the
radioactive idol that could be brought to gether with
the original to form a sphere. He and Watson visit
Challenger who proves that E equals m times c squared,
causing them to race to prevent a cataclysm.
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"The Case of the Faster Businessman"
(1997)
Included in: The
Strange Case of Mrs Hudson's Cat (Colin Bruce)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes
Fictional Characters: Professor
Summerlee; Professor Challenger
Other Characters: Barnum Rolleman; University
Porter;Challenger's Student; Savoy Concierge; (Scientists;
Mandrake)
Date: August
Locations: Marylebone Road; Baker Street; 221B,
Baker Street; Euston Road; University College; Imperial
College; Diogenes Club; Savoy Hotel
Story: American businessman Barnum Rolleman
consults Holmes after receiving a blackmail note form
Mandrake, who claims to have invented a faster than
light method of communication, which could disrupt the
business of Rolleman's brokerage firm. He wants Holmes
to discover whether faster than light communication is
possible. Holmes consults Summerlee, Challenger and
Mycroft. |
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"The Case of the Flying Bullets" (1997)
Included in: The
Strange Case of Mrs Hudson's Cat (Colin Bruce)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes; (Mrs
Hudson)
Fictional Characters: Professor
Challenger; Professor Summerlee
Other Characters: Mrs Hudson's Eldest
Daughter; Dr Illingworth; Mary Latham; Tom Phipps;
Martin Hennings; Runnymede Housekeeper; (Lord
Runnymede; Phipps's Family' University Proctors;
University Bulldogs; Old College Porter)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Cambridgeshire;
Shelford Halt; Runnymede Hall; A Train
Story: Challenger and Summerlee have asked
Mycroft to resolve their argument about whether light
is a wave or a particle. Mycroft, in turn, asks
Sherlock to listen to each of their explanations.
Meanwhile, Illingworth arrives at Baker Street. Two of
the three Cambridge University students who oversee
the observatory at Runnymede Hall, Mary Latham and
Martin Hennings, have been shot at, possibly by the
third, Tom Phipps, whom Lestrade believes is a love
rival . Holmes is curious that the first bullet struck
before the gun's report was heard, while the second
struck after the sound of the shot. The solution, also
points Holmes towards an answer to the light question,
but Mycroft explains why he is in error.
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"The Case of the Lost Worlds" (1997)
Included in: The
Strange Case of Mrs Hudson's Cat (Colin Bruce)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Inspector Lestrade
Fictional Characters: Professor
Challenger; (Professor Summerlee)
Other Characters: Dr Grainer; Kate Grainer;
Arthur Pemberton; Mr Digsby; Kensington Road
Residents; Policemen; Asian Woman; Master of
Ceremonies; Opium Den Audience; Guards; (Lottery
Organisers; Dr Illingworth; Philosophers; Logicians;
Mr Parkes; Parkes's Thugs; Police Officers;
Institute Maid; Willoughby; Dr Adams)
Date: Thursday - Saturday
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train;
Cambridgeshire; Institute of Educational Application /
Fairley Farm; Kensington Road; Office Building; Opium
Den; Euston Road
Story: Holmes attempts to track down those
behind the "Extra Profit Raffles" lottery, and
encounters a mysterious Asian woman. Dr Grainer asks
him to investigate the apparent electrocution of a
young man at the Institute of Educational Application,
in the Fenlands. The solution lies in a theory of
multiple universes. The following day they are called
by Lestrade to assist with a bomb in Kensington Road.
Challenger is already on the scene, and proposes
firing a photon to find out if the bomb is live.
Holmes and Watson are lured to a display of quantum
magic.
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"The Case of the Missing Energy" (1997)
Included in: The
Strange Case of Mrs Hudson's Cat (Colin Bruce)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Morrison; Matilda Briggs; Giant Rat
of Sumatra; (Mrs Hudson)
Fictional Characters: Professor
Challenger; (Professor Summerlee)
Other Characters: Divers; Matilda Briggs
Crew; Doctor; Royal Society Member; Isis
Mate; Isis Captain; Isis Crew; Matilda
Briggs Captain; Hoist Operator; (Financial
Backers; Famous Scientist; Fraudster)
Date: After 1895 and before 1901
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Aboard the Isis;
Barents Sea; Aboard the Matilda Briggs
Story: Holmes is approached by Morrison, an
engineer working for Professor Challenger aboard the Matilda
Briggs in the Barents Triangle, looking for oil
deposits. The ship has been struck by strange events,
at one point being stationary in the water, despite
her engines working at full power. Now two divers who
had been lowered to the sea floor in a diving bell
have returned dead. The circumstances have led the
ship's crew to believe a kraken was responsible,
although a doctor has diagnosed the cause as
heatstroke. Holmes sends Watson to investigate aboard
the Matilda Briggs, and he receives a
lecture on energy conversion and conservation from
Professor Challenger en route. On
Challenger's orders, the diving bell, nicknamed the
Giant Rat of Sumatra, is sent down again, and a
bicycle pump saves the lives of the divers aboard.
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"The Case of the Pre-Atomic Doctor" (1997)
Included in: The
Strange Case of Mrs Hudson's Cat (Colin Bruce)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; (Inspector Lestrade; Mrs Hudson)
Other Characters: (Middle-Aged Lady
Patient; Dr von Kranksch)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Watson is concerned that one of his
patients has fallen victim to a homeopathic quack.
Holmes meanwhile has been carrying out experiments
attemting to measure the size of an atom. He is able
to provide evidence for Watson to use to with his
patient.
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"The Case of the Sabotaged Scientist" (1997)
Included in: The
Strange Case of Mrs Hudson's Cat (Colin Bruce)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson
Other Characters: Dr Illingworth; Hansom
Driver; Dr Adams; Museum Cleaning Women; (Brighton
Lady; Dangerfield; Expedition Members; Watson's
Patients)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; British Museum
Story: Astronomer, Dr Illingworth, consults
Holmes when a photographic plate with which he is
taking pictures of stars is sabotaged, showing strange
amorphous shadows across the image of Orion. The plate
was stored at the British Museum, along with a metal
statue found by the Dangerfield expedition in Central
America, said to have caused burns and sickness to the
expedition members. Another plate is set up and watson
keeps watch.
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"The Case of the Scientific Aristocrat" (1997)
Included in: The
Strange Case of Mrs Hudson's Cat (Colin Bruce)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Fictional Characters: Professor
Summerlee
Historical Figures: (H.G. Wells)
Other Characters: Viscount Forleigh; Lord
Forleigh; (Planetarium Workmen)
Date: Saturday, 1895 or later
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; University
College; Underground Train; Vauxhall; Universal
Planetarium
Story: Viscount Forleigh finds his father,
Lord Forleigh, coshed to death in the locked
planetarium he is building. He believes that he will
be accused of the murder. Holmes has the truth
revealed to him by Summerlee among the exhibits at the
planetarium, which include an orrery, a Foucault
pendulum, and an astrolabe.
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"Death in the East End" (2006)
Included in: Ghosts
in Baker Street (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon
Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson;
Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: Irving Greyshott; Cabbie;
Chapel-Street Youths; Ferret-faced Man; Timmy; Margaret
May; Margaret's Sister; (Margaret's Children;
Watson's Surgeon-General Ancestor; Harry)
Locations: Watson's Practice; A Cab; 33, Old
Chapel Street
Story: Greyshott, an old colleague of Watson's,
seeks Holmes's help, but as Holmes is away in Edinburgh,
Watson accompanies him to the home of Margaret May, a
patient to whom he believes something has happened that
is being concealed by her children. The location reminds
Watson of his ancestor's involvement in an outbreak of
plague centered on the catacombs running beneath the
area, and the rumours that the plague was spread by
living corpses that emerged from them. At the woman's
house, Watson learns that she has died, but the children
believe she will return to life through magic, and has
spoken to them. Watson agrees to sit vigil with the
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"The Strange Case of Mrs Hudson's Cat"
(1997)
Included in: The
Strange Case of Mrs Hudson's Cat (Colin Bruce)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; (Mycroft
Holmes)
Fictional Characters: Professor
Challenger; Professor Summerlee
Other Characters: Angela Hudson; (Scotland
Yard Consultant Scientist; European Scientist; Barnum
Rolleman)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Imperial College;
The Park
Story: Mrs Hudson's daughter, Angela, asks
Watson to help scare of the local tomcats who are
bothering her mother's pet cat, Henrietta. Holmes tells
him that Mycroft is worried about the implications
quantum theory has for weaponry that might be devised
for future wars. While they are out searching for
Henrietta in the fog, they encounter Lestrade, who
wishes to consult Holmes over the possibly fraudulent
"Extra Profit Raffles" lottery. They visit Challenger
and Summerlee, who are working on a similar quantum
problem. |
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"Three Cases of Relative Jealousy" (1997)
Included in: The
Strange Case of Mrs Hudson's Cat (Colin Bruce)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mycroft Holmes; (Mrs Hudson)
Fictional Characters: Professor
Summerlee; (Professor Challenger)
Other Characters: Angela Hudson; Cabbie;
Newspaper Seller; Alfred Smith; Arthur Smith; Waiters;
(Ullman II; Crown Prince; Prince's Wife;
Courtiers; Princess's Brother; Prince's Brother;
Princess's Brother's Servant; Lord Uxbridge)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Park Lane;
Constitution Hill; Birdcage Walk; Foreign Office;
Mycroft's Office; St James's Park; Queen's Walk;
Restaurant
Story: After the death of the king of
Crolgaria in a riding accident, and the Crown Prince
and his wife in a train explosion, it is necessary to
establish the succession to discover whether the
Prince or his wife died first. They meet with Mycroft,
who takes them for luncheon with Summerlee, who
presents them with the puzzle of Siamese twins, Alfred
and Arthur Smith, born by Cesarean section. It is
necessary to prove which is the eldest, so that he may
be the beneficiary of Lord Uxbridge's will. The
argument hinges on Alfred's recent round the world
voyage.
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