WARNING: These are summaries, not reviews, and may contain story spoilers.
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WARNING: These are summaries, not reviews, and may contain story spoilers.
Click on these links for publication details of editions used for indexing
"The
Case of the Abducted Cook" (2002) |
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"The
Case of the Bashful Bohemian" (2002) |
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"The
Case of the Bearded Baritone" (2002) |
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"The
Case of the Bibulous Bulldog Owner" (2002) Included in: The Case of the Parson's Parrot and Other Stories (S.M. Ghatak) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Billy) Other Characters: Adair-Jonathan Sidney Adair; Sir Cathcart Ashleigh-Bowen, Bart; First-Class Train Passengers; Trap Driver; (Lady Ashleigh-Bowen; Ramzak General; Ramzak Officers; Ramzak Troops; Waziris; Venetia Gilmour; Reverend Gilmour; Lady Susan Huntington; Lord Huntington; Captain Audrey Beaumont) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Baker Street; Hampshire; Much Sepington; Railway Station; The Rookery Story: After Holmes has played the fiddle for several hours, Adair falls into the Baker Street rooms. His fiancée, Venetia Gilmour, has tripped over his bulldog, Bulstrode, and refuses now to remain under the same roof as the animal. Holmes, disguised as a gipsy, and Watson disguised as a bulldog. travel to Much Sepington to save the marriage. |
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"The
Case of the Dancing Noblemen" (2002) Included in: The Case of the Parson's Parrot and Other Stories (S.M. Ghatak) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson Other Characters: Lord Nordec; Sir Jasper Burgess; (Big Mac; Major Abner Pugh; Pathans; Ebenezer Pilchard; Big Mac's Neighbour; Mr Abercombie; Roland, Seigneur de Nordieux) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Watson's Surgery; Gloucestershire; Market Nordec; The Pig and Whistle; Burgess Hall Story: Lord Nordec is being blackmailed into giving up his role as leader of the dance at the annual flower dance at Nordec Towers. Holmes concocts a plan to lure the blackmailer into having his injured leg forcibly cured. |
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"The
Case of the Devil's Spawn" (2002) Included in: The Case of the Parson's Parrot and Other Stories (S.M. Ghatak) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Billy Other Characters: Benito Seraphini; Londoners; Cabby; (Donaldson; Cousin Francesco; Sicilian Banditti; Pathan Elders; Major Archibald Holloway; Faqr-ud-Din; Pathan Dancers; Abdul Gafoor Khan) Date: November, 1887 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Soho; Seraphini's Trattoria; Hyde Park Story: Soho restaurateur Seraphini consults Holmes when his rstaurant becomes infested with mice so savage that they attack the cats he has bought to catch them. Holmes decides to lure the mice out with his fiddle. |
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"The
Case of the Lame Centre-Forward" (2002) |
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"The
Case of the Moving Scarecrows" (2002) |
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"The
Case of the Parson's Parrot" (2002) Included in: The Case of the Parson's Parrot and Other Stories (S.M. Ghatak) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson Other Characters: Reverend Joshua Benjamin Parker; Mrs Parker; Curate; Henry; Village Constable; Colonel Sir Alaric Trelawney; (Baron Lothar von Zundapp-Holstein; Major Reginald Carter-Hays; Carter-Hays Men; Afridis; Comtesse de Hautcloque; Comte de Hautcloque; Lady Cynthia Trelawney) Date: 1894 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Norfolk; North Walsham North Walsham Station; The Vicarage; Police Lock-up Story: Parker, the vicar of North Walsham, calls at Baker Street, and after playing an extended version of Sonny Boy on his harmonium, tells them that his parrot, Patrique, has undergone a personality change, refusing to join in with his and his wife's evening hymn singing, preferring to sing Music Hall songs and expressing a desire for buttered rum. |
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"The
Case of the Purloined Bible" (2002) |