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"The
Adventure of Dedstone Mill" (2014) Included in: The Mammoth Book of the Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes (Denis O. Smith) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Watson Other Characters: Harriet Borrow; Susan Rogerson; Cabbie; Cart Driver; Gardener; Lessingham's Coachman; John Hartley Lessingham; Captain Fitzclarence Legbourne Legge; Maidservant; Manservant; Mrs Hardcastle; Hammond; Footmen; Maids; Groom; Lizzie Bagnall; Margaret Hartley Lessingham; Edgar Shepherd; (Mr Wilkins; Major George Borrow; Edwin Borrow; Mr Theakston; Walter Lessingham; Samuel Lessingham; Ruth Hartley; Jackie Weston; Weston's Surgeon; Mrs Borrow; Lord Waddle; Sir Arthur Pegge; Lessingham's Servants; Lessingham's Tenants; Jeremiah Meadowcroft; Mrs Maybury; Daniel Blanchard; Mrs Theakston) Date: A Monday in September Locations: Watson's Paddington Practice; St James's Square; London Library; The Strand; Fleet Street; Ludgate Hill; St-Martin-within-Ludgate; Euston Station; Leicestershire; East Harrington Hall; Dedstone Mill Story: Holmes invites himself to dinner with the Watsons in Paddington. He has received a letter from fourteen-year-old orphan Harriet Borrow, who has been left alone with her brother Edwin in the care of their uncle, at East Harrington Hall, after their Aunt Margaret has gone away. She says that she fears for her own and her brother's safety. Holmes recruits the Watsons to accompany him to a meeting with Harriet at the London Library. The children's tutor has been dismissed and a new housekeeper has taken up residence. Her uncle's odious friends are spending more time at the house, and Edwin has seen a witch in the garden. |
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"The Adventure of
Juniper Cottage" (1999) Included in: The Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2 (Denis O. Smith) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson Other Characters: Sidney Potter; Colonel Headley; Major Felgate; Daisy Potter; Major P.Q. Loxley; (Horatio Potter; Major Henry Alfred Ullathorne; Jonathan Pleasant; Jenny Beach; J. Hardiman Smallbone; Mr Vidler; Colonel Shacklewell; Frances Mabel Ullathorne Potter) Unnamed Characters: City Crowds; Commissionaire; Station Crowd; (Woolwich Policeman; County Medical Officer; Ullathorne's Maid; Royal Medway Soldiers; Prime Minister; Secretary of State for War) Date: April, 1880s Locations: The Royal Exchange; 221B, Baker Street; Juniper Cottage; Woolwich; Vidler's Bookshop; Woolwich Arsenal; Woolwich Arsenal Station; Lewisham Station Story: Sidney Potter inherits Juniper Cottage, near Woolwich, from his uncle, Major Ullathorne. He consults Holmes after a stranger tries to buy the house, and is caught searching the downstairs rooms. His interest seems to focus on an Old testament, once the property of Kentish preacher, J. Hardiman Smallbone. |
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"The Adventure of Kendal Terrace"
(2014) Included in: The Mammoth Book of the Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes (Denis O. Smith) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson Other Characters: Henry Claydon; Brixton Crowds; Inspector Spencer; Spencer's Men; Loafers; Percival Slattery; Linton Falk; Lucy Claydon; Rosemary Quinn; (Mr Tanner; Arrested Man; Maid; Policeman; Mildmay Park Family; Mr Stutchbury; Mr Glossop; Biggins; Large Man in Pub; Kendal Terrace Passers-by; George Lubbock; Cabbies; Claydon's Parents; Claydon's Brother; Claydon's Brother's Wife; Leonard, Joan; Lucy's Parents; Susan Townley; Mrs Robson; Portsmouth Railway Officials; Violet Slattery; Colonel Hayward; Greenwich Family; Lord Elvington; Elvington's Guests; Victoria Slattery) Date: A few days before Midsummer Locations: 221B, Baker Street; North Clapham; 14, Kendal Terrace; Public House; George Lubbock & Son Butcher Shop; The Strand; Brixton; Brixton Road; Brixton Police Station; Portsmouth; Southampton; Waterloo Station Story: Henry Claydon calls on Holmes after returning home to find another family living in his house in Clapham, and his wife and servants missing. He tells of the sequence of events leading up to his discovery, including a cancelled business trip, a story about pullets, and a spilled drink. Holmes and Watson accompany Claydon back to Clapham, collecting Inspector Spencer from Brixton Police Station en route. They find the house empty, but for a dead body in the dining room, and an unconscious journalist in the garden. |
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"The Adventure of Queen Hippolyta"
(2014) Included in: The Mammoth Book of the Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes (Denis O. Smith) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Vigor, the Hammersmith Wonder (Viktor Kosciukiewicz); Inspector Bradstreet; (Mrs Watson) Other Characters:Godfrey Townsend; Smith's Housekeeper; Cabbie; Circus People; Circus Supervisor; Charing Cross Guard; Inspector Waldron; Captain Alexei Ostralici; Tadeusz Grigorski / Inspector Porter / The Great Tadeusz; Queen Hippolyta / Vera Buclevska; Dover Official; (Dentist; Jacob Smith / Jakob Schmidt; Carriage Driver; Hyde Park Policeman; Smith's Maid; Charing Cross Station Master; Kristina Buclevska; Bradstreet's Colleague) Date: Autumn Locations: 221B, Baker Street; 34, Goucester Terrace; Oxford Street; Waterlow's Tobacconist; Hammersmith; Hyde Park; Rotten Row; Scotland Yard; Charing Cross Station; A Train; Dover; Restaurant Story: Watson visits Holmes at Baker Street to find him examining a cigar case. His deductions about its owner prove correct, when they are called upon by Godfrey Townsend, who has been using it in replacement for his own case which he has lost after being abducted by two men claiming to be Scotland Yard officers, apparently on the orders of a tiara-wearing woman. Holmes quickly links the incident to Ostralici's Circus, where they are put on the path of the villains and the true purpose behind the abduction. |
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"The Adventure of the Amethyst
Ring" (2014) Included in: The Mammoth Book of the Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes (Denis O. Smith) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Watson; Athelney Jones Other Characters: Ann Cooke / Ann Prentice; Maria; Police Duty Officer; Inspector Quirke; Constable Griffin; Jack Prentice; (Mr A. Carter-Smythe; Mrs Carter-Smythe; Dora; Elias Dack; William Prentice; Lily Prentice / Lily Bates; Daisy Weekes / Daisy Prentice; Teddy Bates; English Sailor; Dack's Cronies; 'One-Eye' Vokes; 'Spider' Wilkins) Date: January, Late 1880s Locations: Watson's Paddington Home; A Train; Rotherhithe; The Seven Stars Inn; Police Station Story: Holmes calls on Watson in Paddington and tells him of the unwelcome social invitations he has been receiving since the publication of A Study in Scarlet. He is currently investigating the disappearance of Jack Prentice, a Rotherhithe publican, who took with him a candlestick and left behind a sheet of mysterious symbols. He tells Watson of the man's past as a receiver of stolen goods, and how some of his old associates have recently been seen in the pub. |
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"The Adventure of the Black Owl" (2016) |
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"The Adventure of the Brown Box" (2008) |
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"The
Adventure of the Colonel's Daughter" (2015) Included in: The Mammoth Book of Sherlock Holmes Abroad (Simon Clark) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson Historical Figures:(Alexander III) Other Characters: Alexander Illyanov / Count Vorovny; Berlin Russian Embassy Staff; Station Musicians; Lieutenant Plyanki; Madam Kornieva; Olga Kornieva; Madam Grigorieva; Captain Baturin; Kursakov Regiment Soldiers; Sergeant Azzarudin; Painters; Major Grigoriev; Major Kratusov; Regimental Band; Michael Vorovny; Colonel Korniev; (Russian Ambassador; Igor Lamyashin; Captain Dmitri Drachkov; Kursakov Regiment Officers; Azzarudin's Assistant; Military Policeman; His Imperial Majesty's Special Investigator; Baturin's Second; Caucasus Girl; Major Bannishevsky) Date: Early June, 1886 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Victoria Station; Belgium; Brussels; Germany; Berlin; Hotel; Poland; Warsaw; Hotel; Russia; Moscow; Hotel; A Train; Station Dining Room; Krasnoi; Railway Station; Park; Hotel; Army Camp; Officers' Mess Story: Holmes is called on by Illyanov from the Russian Embassy. Michael, son of the Czar's close advisor Count Vorovny, has been accused of murdering a fellow officer, and Holmes and Watson travel to Krasnoi in Russia to investigate. All who know Michael believe him innocent, but no one is able to prove it. A torn banknote and some dead flowers provide the clues Holmes needs to reveal the truth. |
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"The Adventure of the Crimson
Arrow" (2014) Included in: The Mammoth Book of the Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes (Denis O. Smith) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Inspector Lestrade Other Characters: Audrey Greville; Sir George Kirkman; Captain James Blake; Hepplethwaite; Gardeners; Mrs Greville; Kirkman's Groom; Signalman; Train Driver; (E. Woodforde Soames; Neville Whiting; Kirkman's Guests; Kirkman's Servants; Gamekeeper; Two Members of Parliament; Doctor) Date:May, 1884 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; St John's Wood; Regents Park; Baker Street; Hampshire; Railway Halt; Buckler's Fold Story: Watson reads in the news of the death of the explorer E. Woodforde Soames in an archery accident at a weekend party at Buckler's Fold, the country estate of Sir George Kirkman. The evening editions reveal that the incident is now considered to have been murder. The young artist, Neville Whiting is arrested by Lestrade, but his fiancée Audrey calls at Baker Street to ask Holmes to prove his innocence. Holmes and Watson travel to Hampshire, where they examine the murder site in the woods and a nearby folly, and Holmes begins to cast doubt on Lestrade's case. The case ends with a race to stop a train. |
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"The Adventure of the English
Scholar" (2014) Included in: The Mammoth Book of the Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes (Denis O. Smith) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson Other Characters: Rhodes Harte; Little Gissingham Station Master; Children with Dog; Emily Jane; Constance Dowling Kraus; Joseph Kraus; Dr Kennett / Adolf Kraus; Mr Bradbury; Trap Driver; (Mr Halesworth; Mr Packham; Train Guard; Colchester Railway Official; Gardener; Harte's Wife; Fox & Goose Landlord; Fox & Goose Customers; Village Constable; Professor David Walters; Superintendent Richards; Chief Constable of Suffolk) Date: Late Spring Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Colchester Station; Suffolk; Little Gissingham; Owl's Hill; Fox & Goose Inn; A Train Story: Holmes is visited by Harte, a solicitor, who some weeks previously fell into literary conversation with Dr Kennett while waiting for a train. Kennett left his satchel on the train, and Harte handed it in to the lost property office at Colchester. Returning along the same railway line some weeks later, he enquired about the satchel, and finding that it had still not been claimed, decided to return it to its owner. In the village of Little Gissingham, Kennett's existence was denied by those that he spoke to, but Harte saw him, from the branches of a tree he climbed, through the window of a house, being threatened by a woman who had earlier told Harte that Kennett did not live there. He also saw another man spying on the house, the same man who later ransacked the rooms that he and another guest were staying at in the village inn. Harte's story leads Holmes to believe that a murder has been planned, and they set off for Suffolk to prevent it. |
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"The Adventure of the Fourth
Glove" (2014) Included in: The Mammoth Book of the Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes (Denis O. Smith) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Baker Street Maid; Mrs Hudson; (John Clay) Other Characters: Yardley; Viscount Latchmere; Philippa, Viscountess Latchmere; Inspector Sturridge; Peter Brocklehurst; Rajah of Banniphur; The Honourable Miss Arabella Norman; Matilda Wiltshire; (Samuel Tollington, 3rd Viscount Latchmere; Sir George Tollington; 5th Viscount Latchmere; The Foulger Gang; Police Inspector; Lady Philippa's Maid; Latchmere's Servants; James Ellison; Thomas Wiltshire; Matilda's Father; James Forrest; Matilda's Grandfather) Date: October, 1885 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Hertfordshire; Latchmere Hall Story: The Latchmere Diamond, owned by the ill-fated Tollington family, is stolen. Holmes is summoned to Latchmere Hall by telegram, while Watson's old war wound condemns him to remaining at home by the fire. Having examined the scene of the theft, and interviewed Viscount Latchmere's houseguests, Holmes learns from Inspector Sturridge that the only clue is one of the Viscountess's gloves found in the garden. |
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"The Adventure of the Inn on the Marsh"
(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; Mrs Hudson Other Characters: Philip Whittle; Prudence Whittle; Railway Guard; Engine Driver; Cromer Station Fly Driver; Wild Goose Inn Serving-Girl; Albert Trunch; Schnabel; Prince Otto von Stamm; Policeman; (Philip's Cousin; Miss Stebbing; Mr & Mrs Williams; Mr & Mrs Myers; Foreign Guests; Lord Mayor of Norwich; Franz Krankl; Von Stamm's Father; Medical Examiner) Date: First week of September, 1883 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Norfolk; Norwich; Hotel; Eastern Daily Press Offices; Norwich Station; Cromer; Cromer Station; Hotel; Welborne; Welborne Marsh; The Wild Goose Inn Story: Newlyweds Philip & Prudence Whittle consult Holmes after staying at the Wild Goose Inn in Norfolk, and discovering that their names have disappeared from the register from their honeymoon stay a few months earlier. Since returning to London they have received a threatening letter. Holmes and Watson travel to Norfolk, where a search through the Eastern Daily Press archives reveals a connection to the principality of Waldenstein, located between Germany and Austria. A visit to the Wild Goose uncovers the truth. |
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"The Adventure of the Minor Canon"
(2016) Included in: The Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2 (Denis O. Smith) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson Other Characters: Martin Zennor; Wallace Wakefield; Michael Earley; Stafford Nugent; Dr Glimper; Hubert Bebington; Inspector Jackett; Jake Sligo / Jacob Glimper; (Canon Seagrave; Sir Anthony Ingoldsby; Henry Jeavons; Dr Wallis) Unnamed Characters: Cabbie; Policemen; (Dean of Canterbury Cathedral; Archbishop of Canterbury; Zennor's Mother; Zennor's Sister; Seagrave's Secretary; Nugent's Friend; Lambeth Palace Chief Librarian; Carter) Date: June Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train; Kent; Canterbury; Canterbury Cathedral; Lambeth Palace; St John's Wood; Hamilton Terrace; St Mark's Church Story: Martin Zennor consults Holmes after being accused of stealing from Canterbury Cathedral, where he is a minor canon, a missing cheque having been found in his coat pocket. |
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"The Adventure of the
Old School Friend" (1999) Included in: The Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2 (Denis O. Smith) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; Mary Morstan; Watson's Maid; Sherlock Holmes; Inspector Lanner; (Dr Farquhar; Dr Jackson) Other Characters: Septimus Witherington; Alfred Herbert; Gilbert Rowsley / Stephen Hollingworth / George Robinson / Gabriel Tooth; Harrison; Strong; Elijah Hassocks; Constable Jefferson; Constable Cook; Inspector Poynter; (Tobias Henderson; Mr Persquith; Dr Jessop; Newsome; Colonel Sir Reginald Hollingworth; Lady Hollingworth; Philip Hollingworth; Albert Ormadone; Wellington Worsley; Hector Greig; Lord Thuxton; Inspector Clarke; General Appleton) Unnamed Characters: Woman Who Had Been In Borneo; Paddington Station Employee; Club Porter; Harrison's Companion; Ariel Helmsman; Dock Police Officers; Cuzco Officer of the Watch; Sailors; (Watson's Patients; Herbert's Classmates; Persquith's Servant; Cabbie; Club Secretary; Cabbie; Charles Street Butler; Charles Street Lady's Maid; Lanner's Agents; Bishops; Judges; Kent Police Officers) Date: August Locations: Watson's Paddington Practice; The Star & Garter; Oxford Street; Hollingworths House; Lancashire & Yorkshire Club; 221B, Baker Street; Carstone Court; Fleet Street; Quebec Street; Scotland Yard; The Thames; Aboard The Ariel; Albert Dock; Wapping; Greenwich; Kent; Persquith's House; Little Wickling Halt Story: One of Watson's patients, Alfred Herbert, tells him of an encounter with an old schoolmate, Stephen Hollingworth, on a railway station in Kent, and how, a few days later he read of an art robbery at Hollingworth's parents house. in the same article it said that the man he met had died some months earlier. Later, he meets Hollingworth again. He gives Herbert a locked bag to look after, and asks for a fifty pound loan. Herbert has since become convinced that the man was not really Hollingworth. When Herbert is assaulted in Fleet Street, and discovers that the bag contains a strange idol, Watson decides to take the case to Holmes. |
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"The Adventure of the Purple Hand" (1982) One evening, he catches his wife and Dobson in an embrace, although she explains that Dobson has sprained his ankle and she is helping him home. He also becomes concerned at the overly familiar relationship building between his wife and Helen Dobson. He tries to dismiss the Dobsons, but his wife persuades him not to. Some time later, he again sees a figure in the garden, and later still he receives a letter bearing the purple handprint. The following day, Watson reads of the body of a man, with a bottle of ink in his pocket, found in the Thames near Pringle's home. As they journey to Low Meadow, Holmes tells Watson of a Balkan secret society, the Seven-Fingered Hand. They arrive too late to prevent tragedy, and are unable to prevent the ultimate escape of the villain. |
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"The Adventure of the Richmond
Horror" (1999) Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The Game's Afoot (David Stuart Davies); Sherlock Magazine; The Mammoth Book of the Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes (Denis O. Smith) as "The Adventure of the Richmond Recluse" Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson Other Characters: David Boldero; Silas Boldero; Mary "Mad Mary" Ingram; (Simon Boldero; Boldero's Father; Simon Boldero's Housekeeper; Beatrice Underwood; Samuel Boldero; Daniel Boldero; Jonathan Boldero; Mrs Boldero; Rachel Boldero; Mrs Underwood; Mr Farrow; Redfearn; Newsagent; Thomas Evans; E.J. Archbould; Violet Evans; R.S. Baker; Richmond Police-Inspector; Mr Underwood) Date: Early Spring, 1884 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Waterloo Station; Richmond; Richmond Station; Hotel; Richmond Hill; Newsagent's; Hill House; (Lincoln's Inn; Farrow & Redfearn's Offices; Registry of Wills; Cheapside; Butler's Court; Valentine, Zelley & Knight's Offices) Story: Holmes is consulted by Boldero, whose brother has disappeared, and who suspects that his cousin Silas may be behind the disappearance. Having visited the miserly Silas's home in Richmond, he almost plunged to his death through a door in his room which opened onto nothing, and below which slithering sounds could be heard. Holmes and Watson travel to Richmond with Boldero, where they encounter a mad charwoman and an African crocodile. |
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"The Adventure of
the Silver Buckle" (1997) Included in: The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike Ashley) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; The Grice Patersons (Alexander & Donald) Other Characters: Murdoch MacLeod; The MacGlevin; Dr. Oliphant; Angus Johnstone; Fergus Johnstone; Hamish Morton; Mrs. Morton; Mrs. Baird Duthie; Constable MacPherson; Wattie; hotel servants; constables; Charlie Henderson; Mary Monteith; (Mrs. Formartine) Date: Late Summer, 1887 Locations: Scotland; Kilbuie; Loch Echil Hotel; Loch Echil; the Island of Uffa Story: Fearing the state of Holmes's health, Watson persuades him to take a holiday in Scotland. A few days into the stay, fellow guests, the Johnstones, report a fishing calamity, and another guest, Morton, states that his boat sank while he was fishing. The hotelier, Murdoch MacLeod, says that this has been an unlucky season, during which a female guest has fallen down the stairs, and another has lost a valuable brooch. The Grice Patersons arrive shortly thereafter, and tell of their visit to the Island of Uffa in the loch, and their encounter with a strange figure, which MacLeod believes was the mysterious "Black Pig", their visit to the Laird's museum, and the mystery of their disappearing, and then re-appearing dinghy. The following morning the Laird of Uffa arrives at the hotel, accusing the Grice Patersons of having stolen the MacGlevin Buckle. Holmes and Watson set out for the island to investigate. |
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"The Adventure of the Smiling Face" (2014) Holmes and Watson accompany her to Beckenham, where they find Palfreyman missing, and an account of events from his past, left for Georgina to read, involving the search for the tomb of King Pellas II and the goddess Threspotia. The present case concludes in a woodland clearing with two dead bodies, but only one set of footprints leading to it. Holmes's investigations reveal the tragic connection the events of the past have with the case at hand. |
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"The Adventure of the Tomb on the
Hill" (2016) Included in: The Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2 (Denis O. Smith) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Inspector Lestrade Other Characters: Everard Dryson; Mr Appleby; Mrs Cosgrove / Lucy Lambert; Gerald Tacolstone; Andrew R. Philips; Dr Sherwood; Albert Cosgrove; (Mrs Larchfield; Mr Appleby; Henry Cosgrove; Colonel Sir Spedding Eldersly) Unnamed Characters: Chelsea Police Officer; Park Keeper; Police Van Driver; Policemen; Police Sergeant; (Workmen; Tacolstone's Housekeeper; Eldersly's Descendant; Bellecourt Night-Watchman; Diamond Gang; Plainclothes Men; Billy Padgett; Dartmoor Prison Warder) Date: Third Week of February, 1883 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Gloucester Place; Bond Street; Marchmont Gallery; Chelsea Police Station; Oakley Street; King's Road; Barnes Common; Philips's Cottage; Barnes Station; Scotland Yard; Victoria Park; Higham's Park; Higham's Park Station Story: Everard Dryson discovers that a pair of workmen have replaced The Tomb on the Hill, an oil painting he had recently purchased, with a duplicate in which the inscription on the tomb is different from the original, along with a few other details. When they visit the gallery from which Dryson purchased the painting, they are told that another copy of it has been stolen. Lestrade believes that the case is linked to the theft of the Bellecourt diamonds some years previously. |
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"The Adventure of the
Velvet Mask" (2016) Included in: The Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2 (Denis O. Smith) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Athelney Jones; (Duke of Balmoral) Other Characters: Isabel Ballantyne; Richard Hudson Hardy; Kathleen; Jeanie; Katharine; Michéle; Mr Edgecumbe; Jimmy Webster; Captain William Trent; Lydia Summers; Count Laszlo of Sipolia; Ludovic Xavier; (Sir Montague Knelling; Solomon Tanner; Kempston Vernon; Sir Cecil Summers; Mrs Abbott) Unnamed Characters: Theatre Cleaners; Chorus Members; (Carpenters; Gas Company Inspector; Orchestra; Albion Doorman; Doorman's Daughter; Private Detective; Isabel's Friends; Laszlo's Coachman; Stage-Hand) Date: January, 1886 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Waterloo Road; Hardy's Theatre; Southwark Palace Theatre Story: Holmes is consulted by actress, Isabel Ballantyne, after rehearsals of Richard Hudson Hardy's new play, The Lavender Girl, at the old Albion Theatre are disrupted, apparently by the ghost of the theatre's previous owner. Isabel is convinced that there is a human agency behind the incidents, which have become increasingly dangerous. Hardy himself arrives at Baker Street with more information, including an incident from the previous night in which a seamstress was accosted by a masked figure. After exploring the lower reaches of the building, Holmes and Watson take Athelney Jones to the theatre to prevent a murder. |
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"The Adventure of the
Willow Pool" (2002) Included in: The Mammoth Book of the Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes (Denis O. Smith) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson Other Characters: Captain John Reid; Messenger; Mr Coleman; Anthony Blythe-Headley; Noah Blogg; Henry Yarrow; Mrs Dickens; John Dickens; Admiral Blythe-Headley; Mary Blythe-Headley; Colonel Reid; William N. Northcote; Captain Arthur Ranworth; Jack Blogg; (Captain Meadowes; Louisa Reid; Major French; Major Bastable; Mrs Reid; Isaac Barham; Villagers; Bunning; Topley Grange Servant; Topley Grange Gardener; Colonel Finch; Oakbrook Hall Gardeners; Village Boys; Sarah Dickens; Harry Cork; Oakbrook Hall Housekeeper; Miss Mead; George Childers; Mr Dickens; Coroner; Oakbrook Hall Maid; Mrs Blogg; Oakbrook Hall Servant) Date: October, 1881 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Pulborough; Topley Cross; Oakbrook Hall; Topley Grange; A Train; TheWhite Hart Inn; Jenkin's Clump; The Willow Pool; Hawthorn Farm; Churchyard Story: Captain Reid returns home from serving in India and Afghanistan to find himself treated with cold indifference and contempt by his family and neighbours, from whom he had expected a warm welcome. He has also received an envelope containing a white feather. After travelling to Sussex, Holmes is quick to identify the events that have led to Reid's ostracisation, but takes longer to uncover the truth behind the rumours. |
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"The Adventure of
the XYZ Club" (2016) Included in: The Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2 (Denis O. Smith) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade Other Characters: Julian Ashby; Inspector Welch; Philip Warnock; Stavros Xantopoulos; Archibald Loxton; (Charles Churchfield; Lavinia Churchfield; Great-Aunt Caroline; Thomas Wilkinson; Sir Lionel Churchfield) Unnamed Characters: Paddington Crowds; Railway Guard; Bourne End Sergeant; (Lapsed Members of the XYZ Club; Waiters; Restaurant Manager; Ashby's Maidenhead Cousin; Bourne End Constable; Fire Brigade; Football Players; Holmes's Banking Source) Date: Saturday-Monday, Early Spring, 1886 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Paddington Station; Maidenhead; The Thames; Buckinghamshire; Bourne End; Challington House; The Black Bull Story: Oxford undergraduate, Julian Ashby, is a reluctant member of the XYZ Club, a society set up for purely hedonistic pleasures by banker's son Charles Churchfield. Arriving unexpectedly late, and by river, at Churchfield's house, Ashby was surprised by a young woman in the boathouse, knocking himself unconscious. He describes his story to Holmes, and the following morning, summons him to Challington House by telegram. En route, Homes and Watson encounter Lestrade, and arriving at Bourne End, learn from the local police that there has been a fire at the house, and that Churchfield is believed to have perished in it. Before leaving the house, Asby discovered a dead man in one of the beds. |
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"The East Thrigby
Mystery" (2016) Included in: The Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2 (Denis O. Smith) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson Historical Figures: (Tacitus) Other Characters: Uncle Moreton; Aunt Phyllis; Sylvie; Matthew Hemming; Ursula Hemming; Percival Hemming; Michael Shaxby; Giles Stainforth; Cecil Crompton; Constable Pilley; Reverend Amos Beardsley; Mr Pigge; John Clashbury Staunton; Adrian Staunton; Detective Inspector Tubby; David Shaxby; Ethel Crompton; (Mr Thoresby; Mrs Staunton) Unnamed Characters: Crompton's Housekeeper; (Author; Crompton's Cambridge Correspondent; Cambridge Undergraduates; Mrs Staunton's London Friend; Pony Boy; Stainforth's Servant) Date: Winter, 1880s / Summer, Mid-1860s Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Lincolnshire; East Thrigby; The Highlands; High Grove; Louth Story: Watson mentions an unsolved mystery from the book he is currently reading, to Holmes, who reveals that he investigated the case when he was twelve years old, and staying with distant relations near East Thrigby in Lincolnshire. Before his arrival, a pair of silver candlesticks had been stolen from the rectory, and it was widely believed that a troublesome local youth, Michael Shaxby, was responsible. Holmes meets a local historian, Crompton, who believes that the remains of a Roman villa in his garden, may provide proof that Tacitus visited Britain. While he is away from home, his house is broken into, and Roman artefacts stolen, and the following day Crompton is murdered. |
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"A Hair's Breadth"
(2014) Included in: The Mammoth Book of the Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes (Denis O. Smith) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Inspector Lanner Other Characters: Mr Scrimgeour; George Woodward; Basil Thorne / Matthew Quinlivan / Varney / Rev. B. Arnold; Gordon Square Policemen; (Lady Yelverton; Dr Illingworth; Lady Yelverton's Servants; Mrs Edwards; Alfred King; Susan Moore; Mrs Unwin; Leicester Police; Mrs Unwin's Maid; Glasgow Post Office Sorter; Leicester Ticket Clerk; Leicester Station Porter; Superintendent of Railway Police; Earl of Redcastle) Date: Three weeks after Watson's marriage Locations: Holborn; Cheapside; Scrimgeour's Office; South Audley Street; Ludgate Hill; Brown's Coffee Shop; Leicester; Mrs Unwin's Boarding House; Southampton Row; Russell Square; Gordon Square; 221B, Baker Street; Leicester Station Story: Shortly after his marriage, Watson runs into Holmes in Holborn. Holmes tells him that he is on his way to call on the murderer of Lady Yelverton, but does not yet have the evidence to secure an arrest. Lady Yelverton had been falling under the influence of Quinliven who had been calling on her regularly, apparently over charitable and religious affairs, and has been found dead after one of his visits. A hair found in Leicester provides the key to the case. |
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"An Incident in
Society" (2014) Included in: The Mammoth Book of the Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes (Denis O. Smith) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson Other Characters: Captain Walter Armstrong; Marines; Flegge; Norton; Duchess of Pont; Duchess's Guests; ; Duchess's Butler; Commanding Officer of the Army Medical Department; Grizelda Magdalena Hoffmansthal / Princess Zelda; French Chargé d'Affaires; Naval Officer; Colonel Fitzwarren; Footmen; Russian Archduke; Zelda's Maid; (Major Colefax; Major Lavelle; Commander Fordyce; War Office Doorman; Admiral Pettigrew; Armstrong's Mother; Italian Ambassador; Russian Ambassador; American Ambassador; Count Wilhelm of Mullenstein; Editor of the Telegraph; Deputy Editor of the Times; Chief Foreign Correspondent of the Berlin Post) Date: A few days before Christmas in the early '80s Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Trevor Place; Norton's House; Belgrave Square; Duchess of Pont's House Story: Captain Armstrong of the War Office's Secret Service Department calls on Holmes, having discovered that the code books in his department head's safe appear to have been tampered with. A parrot sets Holmes on a path that leads him into the heart of a party thrown for the great and the good of London society. |
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"The Jet Brooch" (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 Hudson Other Characters: Lady Hilary Datchett; Lily; Jane Page; Mr Boardman; Michael Datchett; Sir George Datchett; Olivia Datchett Unnamed Characters: Ostlers; Vegetable Delivery Man; Datchett's Cook; Carol Singers; (Postman; Tutor; Mr Page; Mrs Page; Mrs Page's Sister) Date: December, 1881 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Kensington; Cumberland Gardens Story: Holmes receives a package containing a jet brooch packed in flour. When the brooch's owner arrives, demanding its return, Holmes sets out, disguised as a knife grinder, to investigate. He learns that someone had put the brooch in the room of the chambermaid, Jane Page, and she is scared that she will be accused of stealing it, or that someone is trying to frame her for its theft. |
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"The North Walk
Mystery" (2002) Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The Game's Afoot (David Stuart Davies); The Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2 (Denis O. Smith) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Anstruther) Other Characters: Jarvey; Police Constable; Strand Crowd; Inspector David Stoddard; Thomas Mason; Sir Gilbert Cheshire, Q.C.; Temple Policemen; Oliver Brown; Stephen Lewis; Elijah Smith; London Bridge Policemen; (Sir John Hawkesworth, Q.C.; Dr J Gibbon; Edmund of Essex; Grand Commander of the Knights Templar; Sir Gilbert's Colleagues; Philip Ormerod; Sir George Lewis; Stephen Lewis's Friends; Peter Russell; Russell's Doctor; Mr Justice Nellington; Lord Justice Beningfield; Mason's Friend; Mrs Mason; Police Doctor) Date: 26th (a week-day) of a month late in a year when Holmes had been in practise less than ten years. Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Strand; The Inner Temple; The North Walk; Cheshire's Chambers; Newgate Prison; Carey Street; Holborn Viaduct; London Bridge Story: From Watson's cigar and book, Holmes deduces that Anstruther is postponing his holiday. He is bemoaning his current lack of cases, when he is summoned to the Inner Temple by Stoddard. Sir Gilbert Cheshire, Q.C. has been murdered on the North Walk of the Inner Temple, at the site of a similar murder, on a similar foggy night, ten years previously, and of the murder of a Templar Knight in 1285. The dying man named the previous murder victim, a nephew of whose is a junior in his chambers, before he died. Upstairs they discover forced doors and searched papers. After Holmes gets all involved to sign their statements, he is able to bring a conclusion to both cases, but it is the murderer who metes out justice. |
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"The Secret of
Shoreswood Hall" (1998) Included in: The Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2 (Denis O. Smith) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Baker Street Maid; (Baker Street Irregulars;Wiggins) Other Characters: Lady Amelia Davenoke / Amelia Adams; Hardwick; Edith Strensall; Mr Jelks; Sir Edward Hurst Geoffrey Davenoke; (Sir John Arthur Cavendish Davenoke; Lady Congrave; Claude Adams; Juliana Clemens; Lady Davenoke; Mrs Adams; Staples; Dr Ruddock; Arthur Blackstone; Sir Geoffrey Davenoke; Mrs Pybus; Mr Solferino; Marmaduke Morton; Colonel Forbes Macallan; Guy Davernuck; Roland Davenoke; Robert Davenoke; Sir Charles Davenoke; Thomas Swefling; Richard Davenoke; Arthur Davenoke; Elizabeth Davenoke; Joseph) Unnamed Characters: Man in Red Muffler; Cab Driver; Phillimore Gardens Workman; Phillimore Gardens Loafers; Trap Driver; Davenoke's Servants; Village Men; Police Officers; Coroner's Jury; (Farmer's Son; Armed Men; Beast's Victims; Chief Steward; Shoreswood Servants; Royal Suffolk Hotel Manager) Date: Latter Part of August, 1887 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; King Street; Gloucester Place; George Street; Edgware Road; Phillimore Gardens; Suffolk; Shoreswood Hall; Framlingham; The Black Lion Story: Lady Davenoke's account of the disappearance of her husband, Sir Edward, from the family home, Shoreswood Hall in Suffolk, while she was in Montpelier, is interrupted by a fainting fit. On her recovery, she tells Holmes and Watson of the legendary hidden room at Shoreswood Hall, and of footsteps outside her room, strange lights, and a shadowy figure in the garden |
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"The
Watcher in the Woods" (2015) Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part IV: 2016 Annual (David Marcum) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Other Characters: Cuthbert Lidington; Mr Carter; Mr Martin; Plough Landlord; George Customers; George Landlord; Mr Beresford / Walters; (Duchess of Deptford; Serenus Charling; Apstone Rector; Local Carter; Colonel Strother; Lidington's Cleaning-Woman; Meade Taylor; Mr Westerton; Mr Stroulger; Mr Smith / Farley; Police Inspector; Maidstone Prison Officer; Train Robbers; Mr Beresford; Mrs Beresford; Mrs Walters; Florence Walters; Ashford Literary & Scientific Society Members; Seth Woodall; Ashford Policemen; Walters's Housekeeper; Walters's Sister; Florence's Husband; Florence's Children) Date: End of October, 1886 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train; Kent; Ashford; Ashford Station; Sandhurst & Martin's Office; Walters's House; Ham Street; The Plough Inn; The George Inn; Apstone; Naxon House Story: Amateur alchemist, Cuthbert Lidington, has rented Naxon House, the former home of alchemist Serenus Charling, on the edge of Romney Marsh. He consults Holmes after receiving a strange message, and noticing a cloaked figure observing him from the edge of a nearby wood, although his walking companion was unable to see it. His neighbours have told him of strange events in his house, rumoured to be built on the site of an ancient temple, and that two of its former occupants were driven mad. Holmes deduces a link to a bullion robbery in the 1860s. |