"An Affair in Ravello" (2011)
Included in: Between the Thames and the Tiber (Ted Riccardi)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Other Characters: Signora Manfredini; Signore Manfredini; Inspector Grimaldi; Inspector Fausto Niccolini; Habib; Giuseppe Amendola; Villa Door Man; Nuns; Lady Singh; Lady Jennifer Maxwell; Positano Doctors; Pepe / Sujat; Sir Jaswant Singh; (Servant Boy; Bookseller; Singh's Servants; Salvatore)
Date: March
Locations: Italy; Rome; Via Crescenzio; Train Station; Naples Station; Amalfi; Ravello; Albergo Santa Croce; Villa Alessandrini; Convent; Positano; Hospital
Story: After hearing loud roars at night near her villa in Ravello, Lady Singh, wife of one of the richest men in England, hires a local guard, Amendola. After two nights' work, he is found lying in a pool of blood, but when questioned says he did not see his attacker. Holmes explores the Singh's villa, and learns of a large box, containing something living that arrived with Singh's factotum, Habib. He interviews Lady Singh, and learns that she is the sister of Lady Maxwell, whom he met in Calcutta. That evening, Holmes shows unusual interest in Lady Maxwell, and Watson is attacked and hospitalised. Habib reveals the story of the attacker.

"The Case of Anton Furer" (2003)
Included in: The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Ted Riccardi)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Tobias Gregson
Historical Figures: Vincent Smith; Mrs. Smith
Other Characters: Anton Furer; Colonel C.H. Ridlington; Jack Evans; Mukherjee; Mrs. Smith; Tongawallah; Balaram; Tharu Tribesmen; Dacoits; Jang Bahadur; Anthony Fordham; Bahadur's Men; Gagan Singh; Aubert ; (Julius Furer; Buddhist Monk; General Khadga Shamshere)
Date: Spring 1884 / June 1895 / During the Hiatus
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Abandoned Building on Baker Street; Green Park; India; Banaras; Clark's Hotel; Hôtel de Paris; A Train; The Tarai; Motihari; Hariyapur; Tilaurakot; Delhi; (Egypt; Alexandria; Constantinople; Nepal; Rummindai)
Story: The antiquities thief, Anton Furer, is supposed dead. Only Holmes believes him to still be alive and behind a spate of international thefts. Years later, in 1895, he is consulted by Ridlington over a statue of Buddha which has been stolen from his house, apparently in mistake for one he had brought back from Nepal as a favour for a Buddhist monk he met there. The statue is returned, but has been smashed open and a large cloth placed inside it.

Attempts are made to retrieve the second statue from the Baker Street rooms. After revealing the contents of the second statue, Holmes tells Watson that while in Banaras he went to the aid of a distressed woman, wife of the historian Vincent Smith who has disappeared while investigating a possible archaeological fraud. She is going to look for him. Holmes tells her that her husband's assistant was really Furer. Holmes travels into the Tarai to find the men, and enters Fordham's camp with a large party of locals.

"A Case of Criminal Madness" (2011)
Included in: Between the Thames and the Tiber (Ted Riccardi)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Inspector Lestrade; Tobias Gregson; Mrs Hudson)
Other Characters: Major Potter; Actors; Inspector Grimaldi; Hotel Receptionist; Old Crone; Rouxmonts' Men; René Rouxmont; Jeanne Rouxmont; Peters
Date: Spring 1901 - 23rd May, 1902
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Italy; Rome; Holmes's Sussex Cottage; Potenza; Matera; Railroad Hotel; I Sassi; Marsico Vetere
Story: Holmes is elected to the Accademia dei Lincei, delivers a lecture on "The Master Criminal" and in return receives a poisoned envelope. He and Watson set out against the two remaining great criminal geniuses, René and Jeanne Rouxmont, whom Holmes believes are planning to kill him. He tells Watson to announce his retirement and he takes up residence in a cottage in Sussex.

After six months, and several attempts on his life, Holmes learns that the Rouxmonts have gone to Italy where they are stealing the treasures of the newly excavated ruins of the city of Sybaris. With two actors impersonating them in Sussex, Holmes and Watson travel separately and disguised as monks, to Italy. Holmes uses his bee-keeping knowledge to defeat the Rouxmonts.

"The Case of Hodgson's Ghost" (2003)
Included in: The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Ted Riccardi)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Colonel James Moriarty; (Mycroft Holmes; Professor Moriarty; Baron Maupertuis)
Historical Figures: Brian Houghton Hodgson; Shiv Shankar; Gunanand; Dr. Daniel Wright; (Edward Gardner; Mrs. Gardner; George Abraham Grierson; Maharajah)
Folkloric Characters: (Vishnu)
Other Characters: Gorashar; Bazaar Crowds; Gorashar's Family; Servant Boys; Asan Worshippers; Rizzetti; Old
Newar Woman; Lakshman; Edward Richardson; Lucy Richardson; Residency Servants; Guards; Maidservant; Processions; Shrine Children; Saunders; Lucy's Attendant; James Morrison; Tundhikhel Crowds; Moriarty's Cavalry; Caspariste; Lucy's Guard; Trafalgar Square Strollers; Aldersley Boy; Cabby; (Kakovetsky; Thalmann; Anna Miramar; Mrs. Richardson; Ellen van Maupertuis; Maya; Salim; Hodgson's Sons)
Date: A February during the Hiatus and Late Summer, 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Tibet; Lhasa; Nepal; Dolakha; Banepa; Katmandu; The Main Bazaar; Gorashar's Inn; Asan; Hanuman Dhoka; Makhantol; Bhotahity; The British Residency; The Bansbari; The Tundhikhel; Baker Street; Trafalgar Square; Aldersley; Hodgson's House; (Mrs. Richardson's Home near Oxford; The Chandragiri Pass)
Story: Some time after reading of the death of the Orientalist Hodgson, Holmes tells Watson of his time in Nepal.

He journeyed there from Tibet with the trader, Gorashar, and stayed at his family's inn in Katmandu. His explorations, disguised as a Kashmiri Brahman, reveal a gathering of known criminals in the bazaars. On a night-time foray he witnesses the murder of Rizzetti the poisoner by two Englishmen. He visits the British Resident and finds him weakened by illness, but recognises Wright, the Resident Surgeon, as one of the men he had seen with Rizzetti. He hears of stories of ghosts at the Residency.

He accompanies the Resident's daughter Lucy on a shrine tour, and she tells him of her unhappy home life in England on account of her mother's lover, Morrison, who has shown a strong interest in her father's experiences of Nepal. Holmes believes Morrison may be in Katmandu. He returns to the Residency at night and sees the resident fire at a giant apparition in the garden. Removing the Resident back to his hotel, Holmes learns that the apparition is reputed to be the ghost of Hodgson.

Holmes becomes convinced that he knows the identity of his adversary and a letter from Mycroft affirms his belief. Returning to the Residency he finds the surgeon, Wright, murdered and learns his true identity. He also learns of the disappearance of Lucy. Events come to a head after earthquakes and planetary alignments signify a time of chaos, and the appearance of the god Vishnu himself.

Back in England, Holmes visits the real Hodgson from whom he learns the history of his greatest enemy.

"The Case of Isadora Persano" (2011)
Included in: Between the Thames and the Tiber (Ted Riccardi)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Inspector Lestrade)
Historical Figures: Cesare Lombroso; Oliver Lodge; B.K. Mallik; Winifred Lewis; Arthur Conan Doyle; Madame Blavatsky; (Guglielmo Marconi; Nikola Tesla)
Other Characters: Charles Herriot; Isadora Persano; (Peter Tomkins; Watson's Colleagues; Palladino Gang; Nicola Ciocchi)
Locations: Italy; Rome; Florence; Fiesole; La Sonnambula
Story: After returning to England for the execution of his uncle's will, Watson arrives back in Rome, from where Holmes takes him to Florence. Lombroso has fallen under the influence of the medium Persano, who has made contact with the spirit of his mother. As her influence has grown, Holmes has decided that he must reveal her as a fraud. The seance he, Lombroso and Watson attend is also attended by Lodge, Mallik, Lewis, Conan Doyle and Blavatsky, and is remarkable for the manifestation of Watson's uncle.

NOTE: The "Isadora Persano" of this story is a spiritual medium, and therefore cannot be the journalist and duellist Isadora Persano of the canon.

"The Case of the French Savant" (2003)
Included in: The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Ted Riccardi)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson;
Historical Figures: Shiv Shankar; Gunanand; Sylvain Lévi; Maharajah Deb (or Bir) Shumshere Jang Bahadur Rana; Madame Lévi; Dharmadeva; (Rayjavati; Manadeva)
Other Characters: Gorashar; Head Priest; Brahman; Boy; Lakshman; Soldier; Maharajah's Servants; Bodhnath Beggars; Changu Pilgrims; Priests; Family of Untouchables; (Edward Richardson; Lucy Richardson)
Date: April, 1896 and during the Hiatus
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Nepal; Katmandu; Bhaktapur; Changu Narayan; Thapathali; Bodhnath; Gokarna Forest; The Chandragiri Pass
Story: Holmes lets Watson see a portfolio of his drawings of Asia, and before consigning them to the fire allows him to choose one to keep. Watson asks the story behind the picture.

Holmes tells him that after the Hodgson's Ghost case he stayed in Katmandu a while, clearing up the criminal population and visiting nearby sites of interest. The picture showed the temple of Changu Narayan which he visited with Gorashar, then returned to to make the picture recording the inscription on a pillar which he believed would help him solve the ancient murder of King Dharmadeva. He also noticed how at certain times of day a beam of light was reflected onto statues of Vishnu and Ganesh, and a boy who rotated the disc off which the sun reflected.

He tires of the task and resolves to leave Katmandu, but as he is about to do so he receives a visit from Lévi, the French Orientalist, whom he does not take to, but who is also interested in the temple inscriptions. The following day he receives word from the Maharajah that Lévi has disappeared. He traces him to the temple, arriving in the middle of some kind of funeral rite. His investigations lead him into an underground treasure chamber from which no one who has entered has been able to return. In it also lies the secret of the King's death.

NOTE: The Prime Minister at the time of this case, and mentioned in the previous case in the collection, "The Case of Hodgson's Ghost", was Bir Shumshere Jang Bahadur Rana. Deb Shumshere was his successor, in office for only three months in 1901.

"The Case of the Plangent Colonel" (2011)
Included in: Between the Thames and the Tiber (Ted Riccardi)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Historical Figures: (Aton Rubinstein; The Khedive)
Other Characters: Alice Morel; Signora Manfredini; Maria; Arrigo Sanzio; Pasqualino; Colonel Santoro; Inspector Grimaldi; Courier; (Busoni; Theodor Leszhitisky; Alice's Director; Herbert Spenser / Charles Darwin, Jr; Piano Tuner; Santoro's Daughter; Mr Anzio; Baroness Horvath; Giorgio; Brindisi Policeman)
Date: Late April 1898
Locations: Italy; Rome; Villa Borghese; Via Palestrina; Trattoria; Via Crescenzio; 27, Via Ezio; British Embassy; La Casa Sanzio; Café
Story: In Rome, Holmes and Watson are approached by British pianist Alice Morel who is in the city practising for a piano competition. She has rented a flat from Colonel Santoro, but has found the piano she practises on tampered with on a number of occasions, and been visited by the Colonel's estranged wife who has summonsed her to appear in court to testify against the Colonel, who does not have the right to rent out the property. The Colonel has pleaded with her to leave the city.

Holmes and Watson arrange for her to take rooms in their lodgings and go to examine her flat, where they find what appears to be a hanged man. They discover that the British consul who met Alice on her arrival in Rome was a fraud and that the piano was one that should have been sent to Egypt, and eventually uncover the secret of the pianos and a dead body.

"The Case of the Two Bohèmes" (2011)
Included in: Between the Thames and the Tiber (Ted Riccardi)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Historical Figures: Henri Murger; Ruggiero Leoncavallo; Giacomo Puccini; Umberto Giordano; Richard Strauss; (Giuseppe Giacosa; Luigi Illica; Cesare Lombroso)
Other Characters: Signora Manfredini; Gabriel / Gabriele; Michael; Raffael; Lucia; Cab Driver; (Leoncavallo's Librettist; Journalist; Courier; Inspector Grimaldi; Louis Frobin; Rich Merchant)
Date: December 1899
Locations: Italy; Rome; Manfredini Residence; Via Muzio Clementi; Café Momus; Via Condotti; Piazza di Spagna; Café Margutta; Villa Orsini; Via Orlando di Lasso; Campo dei Fior
Story: While Holmes is out with his Roman versions of the Baker Street Irregulars, Watson is called on to help an old man who has fallen in the snow. It transpires that the man is Murger who has come from Paris to see Holmes. The following day they are called on by Leoncavallo and Puccini. Both have discovered La Scènes de la Vie Bohème and were trying separately to make contact with its author to gain permission to turn it into an opera.

After an initial argument, on learning of the other's intentions, they agreed to write the opera together, but were then both sent manuscripts of the opera, each claiming to be written by the other. Murger tells Holmes that he is to meet with an unknown man who is purchasing the rights to his book. Holmes sets out to deduce the forger's identity.

"The Case of the Vermilion Face" (2011)
Included in: Between the Thames and the Tiber (Ted Riccardi)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson
Historical Figures: Pope Leo XIII
Other Characters: Padre Antonio Gasparri; Inspector Grimaldi; Swiss Guard; Young Priest; Suor Angelica; Signora Piperno; Morgue Attendant; Francesco Sarubbi; Cardinal Spontini; Cardinal Corelli / Padre Giovanni; Signor Barca; Maria Teresa; (Redfern; Padre Roberto; Fisher Boy; Carabiniere; Cemetery Custodian)
Date: 7th April - July 1903
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Italy; Rome; Via Gregoriana; Pensione; Via Condotte; Café Greco; The Vatican; Palace of Justice; Barca's Osteria
Story: Holmes and Watson have read in the papers of the disappearance of Cardinal Corelli when they are visited by Padre Gasparri, sent by the Pope to ask them to investigate. They travel to Rome where they hear details of the case from Grimaldi and meet with the Pope. In the Cardinal's room they discover a picture of Christ with a vermilion substance smeared on its face. Holmes identifies signs of a struggle, after which the room was tidied again. The investigation steps up when the Cardinal's body, an apparent suicide, is found in the Tiber, its face, too, smeared with vermilion. Holmes deduces that all is not as it seems and calls on Spontini, leader of the Curia, who reveals the truth about Corelli's origins. The rest of the truth is learned from Padre Giovanni.

"The Case of the Viceroy's Assistant" (2003)
Included in: The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Ted Riccardi)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Mrs. Hudson)
Historical Figures: Lord Curzon
Other Characters: Fakir; Sir Reginald Maxwell; Karim; Lady Jennifer Maxwell; James Hamilton; Sergeant Laughton; Curzon's Secretary; Three Gurkhas; Temple Residents; Dumb Girl; Karol Lissanevitch Rastrakoff; (Jeremy Hume; Jennifer's Sister; Rose Hamilton; Mrs. Hume; Edward Staunton; Humphrey Maxwell; Mrs. Staunton)
Date: During the Hiatus and shortly after the Return (but the hiatus is placed during the reign of Edward VII)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Tibet; Nepal; India; Banaras; Calcutta; An Hotel off the Chowringee; Maxwell's Office; Curzon's Office; A Temple of Kali; (Wyck Rissington, Yorkshire; St. David's Pembrokeshire; Nairobi; Rangoon)
Story: Holmes tells Watson of his visit to India after leaving Tibet.

Arriving in Calcutta, he encounters a fakir whom he realises has been following him. He contacts an old school friend, Maxwell, now assistant to the Viceroy and learns of his unhappy marriage, and of an upcoming visit by the King. He is visited by Maxwell's wife who tells him of her early love for James Hamilton, and of meeting and marrying Maxwell. Shortly after her arrival in Calcutta she met Hamilton again, and also discovered that he was her husband's half-brother.

The following day, Holmes is summoned by Lord Curzon; both Hamilton and Maxwell have been horribly murdered and a secret file stolen. A visit to Maxwell's office and another to a temple dedicated to Kali bring matters to a head in India, and a visit to Yorkshire on his return to England ties up the remaining loose ends.

"An Envoy to Lhasa" (2003)
Included in: The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Ted Riccardi)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Mycroft Holmes)
Historical Figures: Dorjieff (Dorjiloff)
Other Characters: Pensione Portiere; Signor Berolini / James Munro; Two Cabinet Ministers; Villa Servant; Potala Official; Gorashar; Sentry; Man with Dead Yak; Rastrakoff; Mirbeau; Pema; Regent's Guards; Gethong Tsarong; Grand Lama's Brother & Sister; Purna Lal; Garden of Punishment Guard; Prisoners; Sir William Manning; Sackville-Grimes; Pushkar; Potala Monks; Clement Moorcroft; William Moorcroft; Clement Moorcroft's Aunt; Mr. Barzami; Thieves; Kashmiri Merchants; Gyerong; Ladakhi Merchant; Farouk; Dharma Ratna; Colonel Gillespie; Pasang; Pasang's Mother; Amdo Headman; Tenzing Gyerong; Gelugpa Monks; (Platon Gilbert; Wilamowitz-Moellendorf; Sviadek; High-ranking Monk)
Date: March 1895 & During the Hiatus
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Florence; A Pensione; A Villa; Aboard the SS Downes-Porter; Bombay; Shigatse; Tibet; Lhasa; Lodge; Gorashar's Residence; Pema's Residence; The Garden of Punishment; The Potala; America; Boston; New York; California; Persia; Kashmir; Amdo
Story: When Watson notices that a gold-handled Tibetan knife has replaced the jack-knife that holds Holmes's unanswered correspondence, Holmes tells him the story behind the artefact.

Holmes is sent to Tibet to search for the missing British emissary Sir William Manning, to ensure the signing of a treaty and neutralise the Russian agent Dorjiloff. In Lhasa no one admits to any knowledge of Manning. He discovers one of Manning's monogrammed buttons, and encounters Dorjiloff at one of Gorashar's soirees. From the Princess Pema he learns of Manning's fate, but believes that the body he is shown is not Manning's. When he finally learns Manning's story he realises that the plot that is afoot is not directed against Manning. He enters the Potala disguised as a monk and bearing the golden knife to bring the case to its conclusion and reveal the true identity of the Regent, who assists in his campaign against Dorjiloff.

Holmes allows Watson to read the Regent's diary, which tells his life story.

NOTE: The character Clement Moorhouse (and his father, William) is derived from the English explorer, William Moorcroft (1770-1825).

"A Singular Affair at Trincomalee" (2003)
Included in: The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Ted Riccardi)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mycroft Holmes; Colonel Sebastian Moran; (Atkinson Brothers)
Historical Figures: William Ewart Gladstone; Arabi Pasha; (Queen Victoria)
Other Characters: Eaton Square Men; Diogenes Guard; Ethiopian Polo Player; Marie de Benoît; Colonial Secretary; Diogenes Members; Jewel Dealers; Franziska van Rhede; Van Rhede's Coolie; Innkeeper; Gorashar; Vansittart's Peon; Anthony Vansittart; Arthur Wellesley; Vansittart's Orderly; Thyagamma; Nelusko; Sweeper; Abdul Latif; Rebels; Rama IV; (Gniessen; Young Thief; Captain of the Susannah II)
Date: June, 1897 / September, 1893
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; House on Eaton Square; Diogenes Club; Aboard the Susannah II; Pondicherry; A Train; Rameswaram; A Steamer; Ceylon; A Train; Marichakudi; Chetty Street Hotel; Pearl Town; Tank Street; Circuit House; Thyagamma's Hotel; Trincomalee; Les Portes d'Argent; Foul Point
Story: Escaping the Jubilee crowds and heat, Holmes and Watson go to the Diogenes Club, where Holmes and Mycroft tell Watson of a case in Trincomalee:

The Prime Minister decides to acquire a pearl, found in Ceylon, to present to the Queen. Mycroft asks Holmes to help procure it. On his journey he encounters many jewel dealers. In Rameswaram, he sees one of them, van Rhede, contact Moran. The father and daughter who found the pearl have not been seen for some time, but are said to have taken it to the Atkinson brothers, gem merchants in Trincomalee.

Holmes meets the exiled Egyptian leader Arabi Pasha, and learns more of Moran from Vansittart, the British Resident. Arabi Pasha says he can get Holmes the pearl in return for his freedom. Gladstone agrees to the deal. The pearl's finders are found murdered. Holmes obtains the pearl, but must duel with Moran and face new enemies and old while trying to get it out of the country.