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"The Adventure of the
Christmas Bauble" (2008) Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The Game's Afoot (David Stuart Davies) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson Inspector Lestrade; (Mrs Hudson; Billy) Other Characters: Mrs Dunwoody; Freddie Dunwoody; Mrs Dunwoody's Cook; Lady at Number 42; Maid; Mrs Trumbull; Bertie; Mr Butterworth; Lestrade's Man; Jewellery Salesman; Customers; (Foreign Noblewoman; Jeweller; Hatton Garden Diamond Merchant; Winter; Constables; Store Manager; Morton & Jason Staff) Date: A Week to Christmas Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Morton & Jason's Department Store; Numbers 35 and 42 in a Fashionable Street; The East End Mission To Underprivileged Children; The West End Story: A huge diamond, about to be purchased by a foreign noblewoman, is inadvertantly stolen by a pickpocket from the jeweller outside the lady's hotel. A constable recognised the thief as Winter, and saw him enter a department store, but when he was cornered, there was no trace of the stone. The police have searched among the glitter and baubles of the store's Christmas displays but have not found it there. Lestrade brings Christmas puddings and Christmas crackers to 221B, believing the jewel might be hidden in them. When the search proves unsuccessful, they call on the known purchaser of another Christmas pudding, only to find it has been stolen, as has one from a neighbour's kitchen. The trail takes them to an East End mission, then back to the department store, and some Christmas shopping, before the jewel is recovered. |
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"The Adventure of the Slipshod Charlady" (2015) Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part I: 1881-1889 (David Marcum) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Slipshod Elderly Woman (Mrs Bradley / Miss Skeffington / Miss Wells / Lamont); Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade Other Characters: Naylor; Police Matron; Train Passengers; Policemen; Carriage Driver; Victoria Station Men; (Colonel Fanshawe; Workman; Colonel's Young Friend; T. Dudley; Russian Prince; American Heiress; Earl; Heiress's Father; Barney Granato; Granato's Bodyguards; Russian Lady; Russian Lady's Husband) Date: Late Spring, Several weeks after STUD Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Fanshawe's House; Dudley's Shop; Scotland Yard; Victoria Station Story: Holmes is working on the case brought to him by Mrs Bradley, the "slipshod elderly woman" Watson mentions in A Study in Scarlet. She works for Colonel Fanshawe and is concerned that his manservant, Naylor, spends all day in the cellar. After examining the cellar while Naylor is out, Holmes deduces that what he has seen there may not be as straightforward as it appears. |
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"The Case of the Christmas Cracker"
(2016) Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part V: Christmas Adventures (David Marcum) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Turner; (Mrs Hudson) Other Characters: Beatrice Denby; Lizzie Norton / Lizzie Cruikshank; Mrs Granby / Mrs Belvedere; Silas or Horace Omerod / Mr Cruikshank / Mr Belvedere Unnamed Characters: Cruikshank Children; (Beatrice's Maid) Date: After Watson's Marriage, 28 December Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Dorset Mews; Belvedere's House Story: After he has failed to be impressed by Watson's Christma cracker, Beatrice Denby brings her concerns about Silas Omerod to Holmes. He has proposed an investment to her, but has fled in the street after seeing a poor woman he claimed was his wife, and then visited her house in her absence and stolen jewellery. |
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(2017) Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part VII: Eliminate the Impossible 1880-1891 (David Marcum) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Baker Street Page [William]; Inspector Lestrade; (Mary Morstan) Other Characters: Theophilus Carter; Reverend Jasper Carter; Detective Sergeant Sergeant Booth; Bert "The Turk" Sullivan; (Mrs Carter; Colonel Digby) Unnamed Characters: (Gamekeepers; Tramp; Doctor; Robbery Suspects) Date: Late March in the Year of Watson's Marriage Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Essex; Roundham; Stone Circle; Churchyard; Scotland Yard; Carter's Club Story: Holmes is called on by the Carter brothers, the squire and vicar of Roundham in Essex, who have, over several nights, seen a night-time prowler in the village graveyard, and signs of an attempt to dig up the grave of an unknown vagrant, who had been buried there five years previously. His death had occurred at about the same time as a bank robbery in Colchester. |
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"The Disappearance of the
Cutter Alicia" (2008) Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The Game's Afoot (David Stuart Davies) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (The Cutter Alicia) Other Characters: Captain Mott; Skipper; Mate; Station Master; Violet Blake; Josiah Merritt / Josiah Blake; (Fishermen; Coastguards; Allinson; Toby Allinson; Mrs Allinson; Mrs Allinson's Sister; Mrs Blake's Mother; Mrs Allinson's Mother) Date: Spring Locations: Northumberland; Mott's Cottage; Fishing Village; A Boat; Harbour; Station; Yorkshire; Manufacturing Town; Lodging House Story: Holmes and Watson are in Northumberland, near the site of the disappearance of the cutter Alicia ten or twelve years previously. Holmes wishes to investigate and they visit Mott, who saw her sail into a small patch of mist, from which she vanished. They hire a boat and attempt to follow the Alicia's course, finding themselves back ashore and following a trail to Yorkshire where the truth is uncovered in a lodging house. |
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Abbey School Mystery (2001) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Duke of Greyminster; Mrs Watson; Watson's Maid; (Mary Morstan; Jabez Wilson; Anstruther; Thorneycroft Huxtable; Professor Moriarty; Colonel Moriarty; Stationmaster Moriarty; Colonel Moran) Other Characters: Dr Thomas Longton; Watson Minor; Edmonds; Herbert "Bertie" Watson; Meade; Lord Whitechurch; Mr Donaldson; Merton; Carstairs; Mr Graves; James I. Tromarty; Herr Wieland: Monsieur Legrand; Mr Dennison; Mr Reed; Mr Huxtable; Miss Windlass; (Mr Greville; 'Pie Can' Potter; Miss Greville; Elizabeth; Harold Harris; Abbot Roger de Jourdain) Unnamed Characters: Abbey School Boys; School Cooks; Schoolmasters; Porter; Inn Landlord; Skittles Player; (Carstairs' Father; Greville's Father; Greville's Father's Friend; Greville's Girlfriend; Cabinet Minister; Bishops; Captains of Industry; King; Elizabeth's Servants; School Caretaker; Chairman of Governors; Watson's Teacher Friends; Police; Home Secretary; Villagers, Vilage Doctor; Reed's Baby) Date: December, 1902 - January, 1903 Locations: The Abbey School; 221B, Baker Street; Watson's Queen Anne Street House; Village Inn Story: Holmes is consulted by the Duke of Greyminster when his son, Lord Whitechurch, is expelled from the exclusive Abbey School, having been accused of stealing money from the study of the headmaster, Dr Longton. Holmes declines to take the case, until one of the teachers is the victim of an apparent suicide. he sends Watson to the school to work undercover as an English Teacher. Among the other teachers at the school is a possible Moriarty brother, and the brother of Dr Thorneycroft Huxtable. After another death, Holmes himself arrives at the school. |
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Holmes and the Adler Papers (2001) Arriving in Dopzhe, Holmes and Watson visit the palace, and after being locked in the dungeon, finally gain audience with the King. They decide that Karl and the photograph will be at the castle of the King's cousin, Gottfried. Along with the King's friend Von Gratz, they enter the castle in disguise, but are quickly imprisoned in a tower room. They manage to escape, thanks to Watson's forethought, and returning to the city, learn that Gottfried is there. They plan a second foray, this time into his town house. They retrieve the photo and letters from the King to Irene, but Irene arrives in Dopzhe and attempts to take them at gunpoint. After subduing her, they learn the truth about the theft of the photo, and her real reasons for setting Holmes on its trail: her husband has been kidnapped. The photographic plate is smashed. Watson returns to Gottfried's house to steal a fake plate they have left there, but is caught in the act. Holmes decides to create his own. Their investigations reveal another claimant to the throne, but the affair ultimately ends in tragedy. |
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Holmes and the Boulevard Assassin (1998) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Dubuque; Professor Moriarty; The Moriarty Gang Fictional Characters: Arsène Lupin (as Arsne Jupin) Historical Figures: (Sadi Carnot) Other Characters: Auguste Vauban; Banque de France Assistant Manager; Bank Director; Carriage Driver; Senior Clerk; Train Passengers; Gendarmes; Lefevre; Cab Drivers; Sightseers; Waiters; Bistro Customers; Doorman; Steward; Anarchist Speakers; Constantine Duclos; Duclos' Coachman; Georges; Gang Members; Jean Paul; Jupin's Ladyfriend; Maurice The Knife; Denis The Dip; Fifi The Hellcat; Jean Paul's Cabbie; Jupin's Men; Jeweler's Assistant; Jeweler; Bistro Proprietor; Huret's Butler; St. Petersburg Doorman; Manager; Receptionist; Minister of Justice Date: February, 1891 & June, 1894 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Dieppe; A Train; Paris; Banque de France; St. Lazare Station; Rue d'Amsterdam; A Hotel; The Prefecture of Police; Collége de France; Rue St Jacques; Rue Mouffetard; Lefevre's Lodgings; Anarchists' Meeting Hall; Duclos' Carriage; Duclos' House; Halle aux Vins; A Bistro; A Post office; Place de l'Etoile; Avenue du Bois de Boulogne; Bois de Boulogne; Place Vendôme; Jewelers Shop; Jean Paul's Cab; Dubuque's Apartment; Huret's House; Hôtel St. Petersburg Story: Holmes tells Watson of an attempt made by Moriarty, before Reichenbach, to rob a Paris bank with confederates impersonating Holmes and the jewel thief Arsne Jupin. In 1894, with the assassination of President Sadi Carnot, Holmes believes that Moriarty's lieutenant, who impersonated him in the bank affair, is back at work. He and Watson travel to Paris, and with Dubuque's aid infiltrate an anarchist cell. Holmes and Watson are invited to join Moriarty's lieutenant's gang, and take part in robberies at a post office and a jewellers, before finally learning the identity of the gang leader, and preventing a murder at the highest level of government. |
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Holmes at the Raffles Hotel (2008) They are met in Singapore by Arshak's brother, Tigran, who tells them there has been a murder. Mrs Gerard, sister-in-law of Masterton, an export agent and former resident of the hotel, has been poisoned with arsenic filled sugarplums. Her husband, who was hoping for employment in Masterton's firm, has been arrested. Holmes finds it interesting that the visiting Gerards did not stay at Raffles or with the Mastertons. Gerard says that the sweets were given to him to give to his wife by her sister Anya, and Oong the police doctor reveals that only some of them were poisoned, the walnut whirls that were her favourites, but also the violet cremes, which she loathed. In her bag they find a letter telling her to bring £50 to Raffles, leading them to suspect blackmail. They discover that she had hired a private detective to investigate Masterton's background. Holmes rummages through dustbins and questions Gerard and the Mastertons to learn if the death was murder, suicide, or a mistake. There is another poisoning before the case is closed. |
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Travels of Sherlock Holmes (1997) At Mycroft's bidding, after leaving Switzerland, Holmes travels to the Himalayas, and Dyce's journal takes up the story. In Calcutta, Dyce is recruited for a reconnaisance party, investigating Russian activity in Tibet, led by Captain Fenton. They are joined by Sigerson, sent by the Foreign Office. Arriving in Lhasa, they learn that Moriarty is already there. They set out on a trek to protec the Dalai Lama's family, and face a band of Cossacks. Holmes faces Moriarty in hand-to-hand combat. After leaving Tibet, Holmes and Dyce travel to Persia on the trail of Moriarty's Russian associate, Prince Igorov. They encounter Igorov at a dinner at the Turkish Embassy in Teheran, and set about shadowing his movements around the city. Dyce is taken prisoner, and after his release, he and Holmes joined forces with a Turkish secret agent and journey to Mecca, and then the Sudan in pursuit of Igorov. NOTE: Watson's reference to his readers' questioning of the dates in his writing, "clergymen seem particularly prone to that sort of quibbling" (P.32) is a reference to Monsignor Ronald Knox. |
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