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A

And Then There Was No One (Gilbert Adair) 91; "The Phantom Pistol" (Jack Adrian) 495; "The Resources of Mycroft Holmes" (Charlton Andrews) 210; Sherlock Holmes and the Egyptian Hall Adventure (Val Andrews) 94; Sherlock Holmes and the Houdini Birthright (Val Andrews) 129; Sherlock Holmes and the Man Who Lost Himself (Val Andrews) 36-37, 43, 76; Sherlock Holmes and the Sandringham House Mystery (Val Andrews) 79; Sherlock Holmes at the Varieties (Val Andrews) 5; The Torment of Sherlock Holmes (Val Andrews) 9; "International Investigators, Inc." (E.G. Ashton) 80; "The Ultimate Crime" (Isaac Asimov) 341

B

"The Case of the Elderly Actor" (John Ball, Jr.) 216; "The Adventure of the Brimstone Chalice" (Dr. Hill Barton)281, 291; The Quallsford Inheritance (Lloyd Biggle, Jr.) 1; The Baker Street Phantom (Fabrice Bourland) 91; "The Case of the Detective's Smile" (Mark Bourne) 19; "As to ‘An Exact Knowledge of London’" (Tony Broadbent) 34; Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) 1-2, 6, 52, 56, 58, 90; The Haunting of Torre Abbey (Carole Buggé) 229; The Star of India (Carole Buggé) 170

C

"Holmes on the Range" (John Connolly) 377-379, 383
Chronicles of the Lost Years (Tracy Cooper-Posey) 33-34, 37, 39-40, 109, 141-143, 175
"The Coming Back of Shedlock Combs" (Leavitt Corning)

"The Riddle of the Rideau Rifles" (Peter Calamai) 197; "The Steamship Friesland" (Peter Calamai) 187; "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor" (Peter Cannon) 40; The Adventures of Young Stamford (Richard M. Caplan, M.D.) 84, 109-110; The Adventure of the Dead Rabbits Society (Philip J. Carraher) vii; "The Adventure of the Talking Ghost" (Philip J. Carraher) 179; "The Unmasking of Sherlock Holmes" (Arthur Chapman) 231; "Mrs. Farintosh & An Opal Tiara" (Ian Charnock) 173; Watson's Last Case (Ian Charnock) 151-153; "Recalled To Life" (Paula Cohen) 198, 216; The Barker Street Regulars (Susan Conant) 110, 210; The Case of the Reluctant Agent (Tracy Cooper-Posey) 28-29; Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? (Paul Cornell) 314; "The Case of the Anarchist’s Bomb" (Bill Crider) 169

D

Sherlock Holmes' Last Case (Robert D'Artagnan) 62-64, 66, 169, 221, 223, 225, 322
Revenge from the Grave (David Stuart Davies) 14-18, 133, 181, 229
"The Reichenbach Secret" (David Stuart Davies) 392
The Veiled Detective (David Stuart Davies) 224
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Michael Dibdin) 136-146, 149, 162-163, 189

The Ripper Legacy (David Stuart Davies) 8, 182, 185; Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair (David Stuart Davies) 125; Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 49-50; Sherlock Holmes and the Apocalypse Murders (Barry Day) 122; Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 107; Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Deadly Sins Murders (Barry Day) 142; Sherlock Holmes and the Shakespeare Globe Murders (Barry Day) 187; The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Michael Dibdin) 189; "By Any Other Name" (Michael Dirda) 204; Castle Rouge (Carole Nelson Douglas) 519; Good Night, Mr Holmes (Carole Nelson Douglas) 3; The Albino’s Treasure (Stuart Douglas) 216; "The Camberwell Poisoner" (Ruth Douglass) 62; "The Adventure of the Deptford Horror" (Adrian Conan Doyle) 230, 245; "The Legacy of Rachel Howells" (Michael Doyle) 403; Time for Sherlock Holmes (David Dvorkin) 34

E

"Sons of Moriarty" (Loren D. Estleman) 148, 204

"The Adventure of the Extraordinary Lodger" (M.J. Elliott) 22; "The Adventure of the Hanging Tyrant" (M.J. Elliott) 52, 71;

F

"An Empty House" (Lindsay Faye) 171-173
"Flashman and the Tiger" (George MacDonald Fraser) 317, 331-340
The List of 7 (Mark Frost) 220

"The Adventure of the Memento Mori" (Lindsay Faye) 176, 196; "The Adventure of the Willow Basket" (Lyndsay Faye) 201; "A Life Well Lived" (Lyndsay Faye) 267, 281; "Notes Regarding the Disappearance of Mr James Phillimore" (Lindsay Faye) 207; "The River of Silence" (Lindsay Faye) 15; San Francisco Kills (Denny Martin Flinn) 26, 28; "Shady Sinners of the Styx" (Lawrence Daniel Fogg) 16

G

Moriarty (John Gardner) 15-21, 28-30, 36-40, 93-94, 120, 127

"Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Hamlet" (Emanuel E. Garcia) 10; "The Case of the Purloined Bible" (S.M. Ghatak) 67-68; "The Two Footmen" (Michael Gilbert) 189; "The Adventure of the Conscientious Constable" (Paul D. Gilbert) 178; "The Adventure of the Dying Gaul" (Paul D. Gilbert) 201; Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra (Paul D. Gilbert) 67; Sherlock Holmes and the Unholy Trinity (Paul D. Gilbert) 67, 167; The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes (Leonard Goldberg) 221-223, 300; They Might Be Giants (James Goldman) 111; The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (Theodora Goss) 53; The Strange Return of Sherlock Holmes (Barry Grant) 179; "The Singular Affair of Mr. Phillip Phot" (The Greek Interpreters of East Lansing) 68-69; Sherlock Holmes and the Frightened Golfer (J.M.Gregson) 51; "Spring-Heeled Jack" (Terrance Griep & Joe Staton) 80; "The Death of Moriarty" (Peter Guttridge) 577

H

The Travels of Sherlock Holmes (John Hall) 23, 60, 64-65, 302-303
The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 3, 5, 36, 100-101
Sherlock Holmes: My Life And Crimes (Michael Hardwick) 40-41, 200-208
Moriarty (Anthony Horowitz) 9-11

Sherlock Holmes and the Abbey School Mystery (John Hall) 108; Sherlock Holmes and the Boulevard Assassin (John Hall) 24; Exit Sherlock Holmes (Robert Lee Hall) 15-16, 24, 46, 67; Prisoner of the Devil (Michael Hardwick) 15, 179; The Revenge of the Hound (Michael Hardwick) 9; I, Sherlock Holmes (Michael Harrison) 89; Sherlock Holmes and the Fall River Tragedy (Owen Haskell) 28; "The Adventure of the Sleeping Cardinal" (Jeremy Branton Holstein) 151

J

The Secret Diary of Dr. Watson (Anita Janda) 245-267, 271, 279
"The Clue of the Hungry Cat" (H. Paul Jeffers) 133
"Moriarty’s Return" (T. Arnold Johnston) 76, 82-83

Inspector Ginkgo Tips His Hat To Sherlock Holmes (Alex Jack) 42, 147; An Opened Grave (L. Frank James) 51; "Sherlock Holmes and the Belgravian Letter" (Roger Jaynes) 130; Sherlock Holmes and the Chilford Ripper (Roger Jaynes) 23; "The Adventure of the Blarney Stone" (H. Paul Jeffers) 70; Murder Most Irregular (H. Paul Jeffers) 60-61, 103, 105; Holmes Coming (Kenneth Johnson) 196-198; "Adventure of the Opera Ghost" (Steven Philip Jones & Aldin Baroza) 6

K

The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 160, 186, 191
"The Hound of the Basketballs" (Harvey Kurtzman & Bill Elder) 52-55

Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell (Paul Kane) 19-21, 152, 292; "The Adventure of the Patient Adversary" (George Kaplan) 23, 28; Night Watch (Stephen Kendrick) 138; The Art of Detection (Laurie R. King) 241; The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Laurie R. King) 389-390; The Game (Laurie R. King) 9, 23; The Language of Bees (Laurie R. King) 27; The Murder of Mary Russell (Laurie R. King) 197-198; "The Adventure of the Solitary Grave" (Christian Klaver) 1; "Reichenbach" (Michael Kurland) 204; "Years Ago & In A Different Place" (Michael Kurland) 164; "E=mc2" (Ted Kuzminski) 198

L

"Pure Swank" (James Lovegrove) 49-51
Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (James Lovegrove) 423-424
"Mycroft's Great Game" (Gary Lovisi) 120-129

"The Disembodied Assassin" (Andrew Lane) 192; "The Last Professor Moriarty Story" (Andrew Lane) 345; Betrayal in Blood (Mark A. Latham) 9, 11; "The Curious Case of the Vanished Youth" (Mark A. Latham) 181; Copper Beeches (Arthur H. Lewis) 112; The Labyrinth of Death (James Lovegrove) 129; Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons (James Lovegrove) 230; The Stuff of Nightmares (James Lovegrove) 112; The Thinking Engine (James Lovegrove) 35, 224-226, 279; "The Adventure of the Missing Detective" (Gary Lovisi) 302, 335; "God of the Naked Unicorn" (Richard Lupoff) 304

M

Sherlock Holmes and the Skull of Death (Robert E. McClellan) 135
"The Adventure of the Concert Pianist" (Margaret Maron) 248
"The Swimming Lesson" (Priscilla Masters) 125
"The Adventure of the Empty Throne" (Brad Mengel) 94-95
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Allan Moore & Kevin O'Neill) 102-103

"The Adventure of the Seventh Stain" (Daniel McGachey) 348; "The Adventure of Exham Priory" (F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre) 372, 377; "Subliminal Deduction" (E. Patrick McQuaid) 1; "The London Wheel" (David Marcum) 415; "The Adventure of the Purloined Paget" (Phillip Margolin & Jerry Margolin) 82, 85; The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (Nicholas Meyer) 16-17; Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World (Thos. Kent Miller) 5; Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon (Larry Millett) xii-xiii, 2; Hellbirds (Austin Mitchelson & Nicholas Utechin) 199; Sherlock Holmes and the Earthquake Machine (Austin Mitchelson & Nicholas Utechin) 24, 102; The Holmes Affair (Graham Moore) 33, 83, 230, 297; Sherlock Holmes The Missing Years: Timbuktu (Vasudev Murthy) 4

N

The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (Jamyang Norbu) 35-37

O

The Case of Emily V. (Keith Oatley) 373; "The Adventure of the Deadly Interlude" (James O’Keefe) 173; "An Eyewitness Account of Holmes" (John P. Oliver) 86

P

"The Final Problem" (Rohase Piercy) 132-134, 142

"The Baker Street Irregulars Murder Case" (Henry T. Parry) 70-71; "The Mystery of the Worm" (John Pelan) 190; "The Startling Events in the Electrified City" (Thomas Perry) 95; Sherlock Holmes and the Story For Which The World Is Not Yet Prepared (Stephen E. Pierce) 7, 206-207; "Sherlock Holmes in the Lost World" (Martin Powell) 153; "Heavy Game of the Pacific Northwest" (Tim Pratt) 69, 90; "The Adventure of the Professor’s Bequest" (Philip Purser-Hallard) 10; The Spider’s Web (Philip Purser-Hallard) 254

Q

A Study In Terror (Ellery Queen) 27

R

Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 34, 125, 138, 148, 154, 162-163, 172-174, 177-179, 181, 209
Sherlock Holmes’s Tibetan Adventure (John F. Rice) 6-8
Footsteps in the Fog (Kel Richards) 122
"The Murder of Conan Doyle" (Ray Russell) 264-265

"The Nottingham Legacy" (Mark Reasoner) 43; "The Curious Affair of the Grey Man of Ben Macdui" (Jack Reilly) 14; "The Case of Hodgson's Ghost" (Ted Riccardi) 73; "The Case of the Viceroy's Assistant" (Ted Riccardi) 38; "An Envoy to Lhasa" (Ted Riccardi) 121-122; "A Singular Affair at Trincomalee" (Ted Riccardi) 235, 244; Sherlock Holmes and the Crosby Murder (Barrie Roberts) 9, 101; The Affair of the Incognito Tenant (Lora Roberts) 24, 216; "The Copenhagen Compound" (Thomas S. Roche) 412; "Our American Cousins" (Roberta Rogow) 388; The Disappearance of Edwin Drood (Peter Rowland) 97; "The Case of the Eccentric Bequest" (Jane Rubino) 149, 161; A Study in Murder (Robert Ryan) 241

S

"You See But You Do Not Observe" (Robert J. Sawyer) 354-355, 357-358
"Sherlock Holmes and the Lizzie Borden Connection" (William Schley-Ulrich) I: 9
Sherlock Holmes and the Plague of Dracula (Stephen Seitz) 201-202, 206
The Siam Question (Timothy Francis Sheil) 4, 13-15, 17, 21-22, 25, 36-37, 41, 58, 110, 122, 241, 361, 566, 576-577
"A Most Diabolical Plot" (Tim Symonds) 295-296, 299-300, 304

The Holmes-Dracula File (Fred Saberhagen) 148-149, 195; "The Russian Countess" (David Scott) 54; "The Dilemma of the Distressed Savoyard" (Crighton Sellars) 453; The Case of the Baffled Policeman (Allen Sharp) 10, 22; The Adventure of the Second Swag" (Luke Sharp) 243; Sherlock Holmes at the 1902 Fifth Test (Stanley Shaw) 142-143; "The Adventure of the Other Detective" (Bradley H. Sinor) 43; The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man (Daniel Stashower) 115; "Art in the Blood Revealed" (Regina Stinson) 30; "Sussex Interview" (P.M.Stone) 409, 415; The Crimes of Dr Watson (Duane Swierczynski) 11, 70; Sherlock Holmes and the Nine-Dragon Sigil (Tim Symonds) 23, 252-253

T

Death on a Pale Horse (Donald Thomas) 45; "Sherlock Holmes: The Actor" (Donald Thomas) 275-276; Sherlock Holmes and the Treasure Train (Frank Thomas) 6, 144-145; "The Case of the Gustaffson Stone" (June Thomson) 220; "The Case of the Stray Chicken" (June Thomson) 65; "The Case of the Watchful Waiter" (June Thomson) 256, 258-259, 265; "The Affray at the Kildare Street Club" (Peter Tremayne) 28; "The Last Windigo" (Hayden Trenholm) 125; "The Kidnapping of Mycroft Holmes" (Peter Tremayne) 233; "A Study In Orange" (Peter Tremayne) 273, 276

U

Sherlock Holmes's Christmas (David Upton) 15, 21, 91-92, 204, 209-211

V

Sherlock Holmes & the Coils of Time (Ralph E. Vaughan) 15-21, 78, 99-101

Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra (Alan Vanneman) 209; "The Adventure of the Counterfeit Martian" (Ralph Vaughan) 159, 161; "The Adventure of the Dreaming Detective " (Ralph Vaughan) 20; Sherlock Holmes and the Terror Out of Time (Ralph E. Vaughan) 70; The Final Page of Baker Street (Daniel D. Victor) 37, 40, 148-149, 206; The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor) 3, 76, 164

W

"The Adventure of the Second Round" (Mark Wardecker) 65; "The House that Jack Built" (Edward Wellen) 288; "Voiceover" (Edward Wellen) 247; Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds (Manly W. Wellman & Wade Wellman) 81-82, 197-198; "The Adventure of the Man Who Never Laughed" (J.N.Williamson) 142, 147; Sherlock Holmes in Tibet (Richard Wincor) 5-6; The Winged Wheel (Peter H. Wood) 7, 110; "The Embers of Truth" (Adrian Wright) 64

Y

Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 300-303

"Mrs Hudson Stays for Tea" (Gilbert Youmans) 49


"I have a theory that the individual represents in his development the whole procession of his ancestors": Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) 70; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 7
"I must have fainted for the first and the last time in my life": Prisoner of the Devil (Michael Hardwick) 179
"I owe you a thousand apologies. I had no idea that you would be so affected": Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 125
"I travelled for two years in Tibet": Inspector Ginkgo Tips His Hat To Sherlock Holmes (Alex Jack) 42
"It was in the spring of the year 1894...": A Study in Terror (Ellery Queen) 27
"My collection of M's is a fine one": "A Most Diabolical Plot" (Tim Symonds) 296
"a network of mews and stables, the very existence of which I had never known": Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 34
"The old shikari": Copper Beeches (Arthur H. Lewis) 48
"The second most dangerous man in London": The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 14; Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 49; Sherlock Holmes and the Shakespeare Globe Murders (Barry Day) 187; Irene at Large (Carole Nelson Douglas) 380; The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 100; "The Adventure of the Patient Adversary" (George Kaplan) 23; The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 144; Copper Beeches (Arthur H. Lewis) 4, 18, 48; The Baron’s Revenge (Gary Lovisi) 81; The Final Meeting (Tracy Mack & Michael Citrin) 13; "The Adventure of the Deadly Interlude" (James O’Keefe) 173; "The Butler's Footprints" (David Scott) 41; "A Most Diabolical Plot" (Tim Symonds) 296; The Final Page of Baker Street (Daniel D. Victor) 148; "Bloody Sunday" (Bev Vincent) 63; "The Adventure of the Man Who Never Laughed" (J.N. Williamson) 147
"Work is the best antidote to sorrow": The Crimes of Dr Watson (Duane Swierczynski) 18
see also: The Great Hiatus