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Brighton Clown" (2012) Included in: Sherlock Holmes at the Breakfast Table (L.F.E. Coombs) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Billy; Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes; (Mrs Watson; Mrs Hudson) Other Characters: Congreve; Brighton Police Surgeon; Royal Pavilion Attendant; Hotel Head Waiter; Brighton Crowds; Hotel Manager; Brighton Chief Constable; Prescott / Sir Edward Sandarson; Simon Small; London Police Surgeon; Mr Rogers; Mr Gadsby; Mr Clawer; Prescott's Landlady (Congreve's Son; Dead Clown; Lieutenant Colonel Charteris; Holmes's Informants) Date: Late September Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Brighton; Mortuary; Hotel; Chelsea; 19, The Blundells; Gadsby, Clawer and Rogers' Offices; Islington; Small's Rooms Story: Holmes is called by circus owner Congreve, whose son, a circus clown, has been accused of the murder of an attendant at Brighton's Royal Pavilion during a jewel robbery. After visiting Brighton, Holmes and Watson return to London to learn that a dead clown ha been found in the Thames. The provenance of the stolen ruby, in India during the Mutiny provides the key to unlocking the mystery. |
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Deerstalker" (2012) Included in: Sherlock Holmes at the Breakfast Table (L.F.E. Coombs) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; (Mycroft Holmes; Professor Moriarty) Other Characters: Railway Passengers; Meadborough Railway Guard; Railway Officials; Major Raymond Tresscot-Jones / Mr Millard; Policemen; Admiralty Officials; Professor Rains; Furniture Factory Owner; Piccadilly Policeman; Street Sweeper; Salmon & Gluckstein's Manager; Green's Hotel Manager; Royal Society of Science Secretary; Grantchester Booking Office Clerk; Meadborough Temperance Hotel Manager; Meadborough Station Porter; West Station Staff; (Delivery Men; Guy de Beaumaine; Tobacconist's Assistant; Hotel Staff; Hotel Chambermaid; Hotel Housekeeper; Royal Society of Science Doorkeeper; Royal Society of Science Members; Waiters; Meadborough Beggar; Home Secretary) Locations: A Train; Midshire; Meadborough Station; 221B, Baker Street; Cambridge; Rains's Laboratory; The East End; Furniture Factory; Piccadilly; Salmon & Gluckstein Tobacconists; Buckingham Palace Road; Green's Hotel; Royal Society of Science; Grantchester; Grantchester Station; Meadborough; Temperance Hotel; West Station Story: Travelling home by train, Holmes pours scorn on a deerstalker-wearing traveller on a station they pass through. A man being pursued by the police jumps aboard their train, and Watson makes some deductions about him. Holmes reads about Hertz's experiments with electricity. Two callers arrive on important government business, but Holmes is too drugged-up to see them. When they return the following day, they ask him to investgate a break-in at a laboratory in Cambridge, where research is being carried out into Hertzian waves for the Admiralty. A Boswell Concentrator has been stolen. Holmes deduces the identity of the thief, a connection to the events of their train journey, and the involvement of Moriarty in the case. |
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at Sea or The Missing Bridesmaid" (2012) Included in: Sherlock Holmes at the Breakfast Table (L.F.E. Coombs) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Billy; Baker Street Irregulars Other Characters: Captain Anderson; Waterguards; Cabman; Police Inspector; Karl Norden; Mary Spencer / Mary Hammond; Lestrade's Men; (Hortense de Vere; Hotense's Maid; Simon Downlea; The Honourable Cynthia Cloudsly; Julius Vanderpole; Pirates; Anglia Passengers; Anglia Crew; Harwich Harbour Master; Harwich Police; Anglia Purser; Dutch Informant; Dutch Police; Anglia Mate; Anglia Helmsman) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Baker Street Station; Bishopsgate Station; Liverpool Street Station; Essex; Harwich; Aboard the Anglia; Farringdon Street; Police Station; 25, Leinster Row Story: Holmes reads about Hortense de Vere who was drugged in her hotel room in Holland and missed her friend's wdding. He sees a connection between the incident and the disappearance of diamonds aboard the Hook to Harwich packet boat. Holmes sets the Baker Street Irregulars the task of tracking down an old rival. |
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Play" (2012) Included in: Sherlock Holmes at the Breakfast Table (L.F.E. Coombs) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Billy Other Characters: Lord Marsham's Messenger; Lord Marsham; Marsham's Servants; (James Powall; Frances Powall; Patrick Flyn; Watson's Bank Manager) Date: July, 1896 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Euston Station; Hertfordshire; Tring; Railway Station; Osborn House; Godalming; Powall's House Story: Lord Marsham, the Prime Minister, summons Holmes to Osborn House in Tring. Marsham has received a threatening letter about Ireland, and had a document on the subject of the Irish Question stolen. The document is currently in the possession of the widow of Irish politician James Powall. Holmes poses as a political scholar, Patrick Flyn, to recover the papers. His first attempt yields only a coded message, which must be cracked to conclude the case. While Holmes is playing his violin, Watson remembers his time serving with the Dublin Fusiliers in Ireland. |
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Gong" (2012) Included in: Sherlock Holmes at the Breakfast Table (L.F.E. Coombs) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mycroft Holmes; (Mary Morstan) Other Characters: Inspector Doswell; Station Hotel Hall Porter; Cabinet Minister; Simon Waterstone; Mr Langham; Arthur Hastings / Battle; Constables; (Watson's Friends; Police Surgeon; Isabella Waterstone; Minister's Visitor; Parlour Maid; Telegraph Clerk; Battle) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Newton St Botolph; Railway Station; Station Hotel; Minister's House; Police Station Story: Mycroft arrives in Baker Street with news that a cabinet minister has been murdered. At the minister's home in Newton St Botolph, Holmes pays particular attention to plants and clocks. |
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Mystery of the Wires" (2012) Included in: Sherlock Holmes at the Breakfast Table (L.F.E. Coombs) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Baker Street Page Boy; Inspector (Superintendent) Lestrade Other Characters: Ministry Porters; Foreign Office Official; Lord Craneford; Mr Harcourte-Smith; Ministry Secretaries; Whitehall Pedestrians; Commissionaire; Property Agent; (Engineers; Linesmen; Foreign Office Telegraphist; Craneford's Private Secretaries; Charles Botolomy; Hansom Driver; Young Islington Lady Telegraphist; Stout Islington Woman; Transylvanian Ambassador; Embassy Staff; Embassy Cooks; Ambassador's Guests; Maidservant; Guards) Date: Spring, 1900 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Foreign Office; Whitehall; West End Turkish Bath for Gentlemen; Coffee House; Islington; Café de l'Europe; Transylvanian Embassy Story: Holmes is summoned to the Foreign Office where he is informed by the Foreign Minister and the Postmaster General that telegraph messages to Britain's Ambassadors overseas are being intercepted, the wires tapped somewhere in Whitehall. |
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Cricket" (2012) Included in: Sherlock Holmes at the Breakfast Table (L.F.E. Coombs) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes Other Characters: Lady Constance Roget-Gascoigne; Cricketers; Cricket Supporters; Sir Percy Marmaduke Roget-Gascoigne Bart; Lieutenant Patrick Mayhew Roget-Gascoigne of Clonmare; (Waterloo Crowds; Army & Navy Club Hall Porter; Major Strubbshaw; Cabinet Member; Well-Known Gentlemen; Alley Passers-by; South African Field Hospital Staff) Date: August, 1900 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Dorset; Blandford; Crown Hotel; Station Hotel; Lady Constance's House; Cricket Pitch; Templecombe Station; Waterloo Station; Waterloo Bridge; Army & Navy Club; Madame Tussaud's; Grosvenor Square; South Africa Story: A telegram from a person of importance sends Holmes and Watson to the aid of Lady Constance in Dorset. She tells them that since her husband Percy returned from the war in South Africa, he has been a changed man, and has frequently asked her for large sums of money. They observe Sir Percy at a cricket match, and later Holmes follows him on a train to London. The trail leads to a door in an alley through which a series of well-known gentlemen pass, but the solution lies in a field hospital in South Africa. |
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Railway Van That Vanished" (2012) Having located the missing van through an examination of the railway around Little Newark, a visit to the D'Oyly Carte company's Mikado provides Holmes with further inspiration. A visit from Mycroft and the Foreign Secretary emphasises the importance of the case, which ends in an encounter with a Samurai warrior. |
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| "The
Royal Arsenal Affair" (2015) Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part III: 1896-1929 (David Marcum) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mycroft Holmes; Mrs Hudson Other Characters: Arsenal Men; Bystanders; Crossing Keeper; Superintendent Shershay; Plumstead Police Officers; Stringer; Plumstead Housewife; Salvation Army Captain Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Woolwich; Royal Arsenal; The White Swan; Railway Crossing; Plumstead Marsh; Fort; Plumstead Police Station; Leghorn Road Story: Mycroft asks Holmes, on behalf of the Prime Minister, to find a large, missing, dangerous, unspecified machine or apparatus, stolen from the Woolwich Arsenal. It is so dangerous that the Arsenal officials can't even tell Holmes what it is called. Apparently no one saw the flaw in the plan to leave it in an unguarded shed outside the Arsenal grounds despite the fact that the criminal gang whom it had been captured from were still at large. In a cunning ploy they put a sign on the shed saying "clothing store", but the machine was stolen anyway. Holmes deduces that it must have taken more than one man to steal it because it weighed half a ton and was so big that it would half-fill the Baker Street sitting room. He also deduces that it must have been taken away on a vehicle. Everyone is very polite and understanding. After a whole two-hours-worth of searching for this lethal device, Holmes and Watson stop for lunch at a pub, where Holmes says he can't find any more tracks, so will have to guess where the unspecified thing might be. Luckily he guesses right but he gets caught. Watson goes for help, a buckle comes undone but is quickly done up again causing little to no inconvenience or narrative interest, some other stuff happens, and the machine's not that dangerous after all and we wonder what the fuss was all about. The police superintendent is named Shershay because it sounds like the French for "look for". He's not French. But he does do some "looking for", and finds three huge iron doors in the wall of a fort, that Watson and Mycroft had overlooked the day before when they decided there was no possible hiding place there for the doomsday (or not) machine. |
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Sycamore Seed" (2012) Included in: Sherlock Holmes at the Breakfast Table (L.F.E. Coombs) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Inspector Lestrade; (Mycroft Holmes) Other Characters: Station Passengers; Farmer; Charles Wellbos; Mrs Wellbos; Dr Hedges; Mrs Hedges; Wellbos's Servants; Dead Fisherman; Farmers; Tradesmen; Ballooning Major; Postman; Pilot; Horse Guards Officials; Balloon Factory Officials; Scotland Yard Detectives; Dorset Police Officers; Castle Servants; Professor Bactrac; (Wessex Times Reporter; Reverend Seymour Chase; Farm Labourers; Servants; Gabriel; Horsemen; Mycroft's Informant; Foreign Agents; Government Agent; General X; His Excellency; Cipher Experts; James Fastnett; Flying Machine Inventor; Engineer; Castle Occupants; Prime Minister; Kohlenstoff) Date: Autumn Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Dorchester; Wellbos's Manor House; Mortuary; Field; Castle Story: Holmes receives a letter from his cousin, Charles Wellbos, the chief constable of Wessex. From his cousin's manor house, near Dorchester, under the aliases of Mr Pallisser and Dr McCloud, they are taken by the coroner, Dr Hedges, to the spot where an unidentified body, dressed as a fisherman has been found. Broken tree branches and stories in the papers of a strange airborne apparition put Holmes on the path to solving the mystery. Further investigations turn up a pocket full of sycamore seeds, and crop circles in nearby fields. A balloon ride draws the case to a close. |
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Tenth Jar" (2012) Travelling to the duchess's home in Dorset, Holmes and Watson are assaulted by ruffians. Holmes deduces a marmalade link between his two cases and the involvement of Professor Moriarty |
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Tiptree Typewriter" (2012) Included in: Sherlock Holmes at the Breakfast Table (L.F.E. Coombs) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Inspector (Superintendent) Lestrade; Mrs Hudson; Billy Historical Figures: Sir Frederic Charles Dreyer; (Arthur Pollen) Other Characters: Miss Smith; Essex Police Inspector; Witham Cab Driver; (Holmes's Cambridge Acquaintance; Jack Forest; Miss Smith's Aunt; Kidnappers; Tall Woman; Cab Driver; Police Officers; Miss Smith's Mother) Date: Autumn, 1899 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Admiralty; Notting Hill; Liverpool Street Station; Essex; Chelmsford; Colchester; Tiptree; King's Cross Station; A Train; Witham; Regent's Park Story: Superintendent Lestrade consults Holmes over the mysterious disappearance and return of military plans at the Admiralty. The following day, they are visited by a typist, using the alias of Miss Smith, who tells them how she and her fiancé were the victims of kidnappers. She was released after a day, and offered fifty guineas for the typing she had done, but Jack is still being held captive. From her description of the journey, Holmes deduces that she was taken to Tiptree. They soon realise that the two cases are linked. |
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in the Snow" (2012) Included in: Sherlock Holmes at the Breakfast Table (L.F.E. Coombs) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Mycroft Holmes) Other Characters: Mr Ashendon; Mrs Proud; Inspector Andrew; Hampshire Cabmen; Station Booking Office Clerk; Railway Men; Police Surgeon; Estate Agents; Lempschone; Lempschone's Men; (Charles Woolnough; Postman; Commander in Chief; Stevenson; Household Cavalry Colonel in Chief) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Waterloo Station; Hampshire; Woolnough's House; Railway Station; The Great Heath; Mortuary; Baker Street; Summerfield Station Story: Woolnough, a scientist specialising in high-pressure steam engines disappears. Holmes and Watson travel with Admiralty man Ashendon to the scientist's home in Hampshire. Woolnough's housekeeper tells them that he disappeared after receiving a visitor who introduced himself with a visiting card bearing a picture of a snake. The following day, the scientist, who had a fear of snakes, is found dead, sitting on a stile near his home. Before the case is over, they find themselves held prisoner with only a cobra for company. |
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