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"A Case for the Admiralty" (2000)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes - The Disappearing Prince and Other Stories (Edmund Hastie)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Other Characters: Mr Barton; Civil Servant; Prime Minister; Man in Elias Place
Date: Summer
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Watson's Home; 10, Downing Street; Elias Place; Hanover Gardens
Story: Holmes is consulted by Barton over some documents and blueprints for a battleship missing from the Admiralty for which a ransom has been demanded. Holmes is called to Downing Street to meet with the Prime Minister. He draws up a list of suspects from among those recently dismissed from the Admiralty, but, given a false address, has to track down his chief suspect from only the postmark on the ransom note. Holmes resorts to house-breaking to retrieve the documents.
"The Disappearing Prince" (2000)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes - The Disappearing Prince and Other Stories (Edmund Hastie)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson
Other Characters: Professor Horace Small; Boatkeeper; Sir Bertrand; Russian Agents; Crown Prince of Japan; King's Lynn Constable; Lord Archibald Blair; Athelstan's Porter; Alfred Billington; (Czapiezci)
Date: January, 1904
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Cambridge; King Athelstan's College; Boathouse; On the River Cam; St Perpetua's College; King's Lynn
Story: Holmes is called to King Athelstan's College by Small, an old friend, to investigate the disappearance of the Japanese Crown Prince. A Russian cigarette tells Holmes that the Prince has been abducted, and a glance at the college visitors book reveals a suspect. A missing pair of rowing gloves, and a discarded note lead Holmes and Watson to take a boat trip on the river. A Russian connection sends Holmes in pursuit to King's Lynn to prevent the Prince from being taken out of the country, before returning to Cambridge to face his abductor.
"The Three-faced Villain" (2000)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes - The Disappearing Prince and Other Stories (Edmund Hastie)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Watson's Maid)
Other Characters: Mrs Hurst; Smithson; Cab Driver; Hurst's Cook; (The Boltons; Mr Hurst; Smithson's Brother)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; 51, Cadogan Place; Battersea; Devereux Road
Story: Mrs Hurst consults Holmes after being overcharged on a number of occasions by cab drivers. A piano-playing butler's family connections lead Holmes to his solution.
"A Wilful Case" (2000)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes - The Disappearing Prince and Other Stories (Edmund Hastie)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Mrs Watson)
Other Characters: Jane Wiggold; Jane's Husband; Bank of England Constable; James; (Jane's Mother; Jane's Father; Jane's Elder Brother)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Baker Street; Nightingale Lane; Watson's Surgery; Euston Station; A Train; Lincoln
Story: Holmes is visited by Jane Wiggold after the murders of her heiress mother and elder brother. To prevent her fortune-hunting father from obtaining her money, Jane's mother had excluded him from her will, now Jane and her other brother have made over everything to Jane's husband, of whose existence her father is unaware. Visits to Jane's house in London, and her husband's in Lincoln, confirm Holmes's suspicions about her intentions. A bottle of poison arrow frog poison leads Holmes on a chase to prevent another murder.