A.B.

A.E.P.

A.J.P.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anna Waterhouse

Mycroft Holmes (2015)
Story Type: Extra-Canonical Adventure of Mycroft Holmes
Canonical Characters: Mycroft Holmes; Sherlock Holmes; (Mrs Hudson)
Folkloric Characters: (Douen; Lougarou)
Historical Figures: Edward Cardwell; Sir James Clark; Sir Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon, Baron Stanmore; Queen Victoria; John Brown; Princess Feodora of Leiningen; Green Riband; (Dr Joseph Bell; William Sheward; Martha Sheward; Charlotte Sheward)
Other Characters: Emanuel; André; Stephen Tidwell; Randolph; Lowe; Phelps; Spencer; Strachan; Gordon; Faulkes; Cyrus Douglas; Gerard Pennywhistle; Ava Pennywhistle; Georgiana Sutton / Anabel Lynch; Charles Parfitt; Captain James Miles; Adam McGuire; Peter Rickets; Edward "Three-Fingered Eddie" Dedos; Huan; Beauchamp; Anabel Lynch Sutton; Little Huan; Charlie Woo; Jessup Jones; Tomas; Nestor Ellensberg; Dr George Curlew; Count Wolfgang Hohenlohe-Langenburg; Trinidad Villagers; Boat Race Spectators; Beadle; Student Guard; Peddlers; Boardmen; Bootblacks; Paperboys; Costers; Hat Owner; Sewer Worker; Bookmaker; Oxford Drunkards; St Giles Women; Messenger; Brougham Cabman; Beggar; Funeral Mutes; East End Boys; Pall Mall Crowds; Clark's Housemaid; Sultana Passengers; Dock Guards; Ship's Steward; Dock Visitors; Wheelchair Woman; Indian Maid; Schoolboy; Wiry Man; Large Man; Red-Haired Man; Stocky Man; Dowager; Dowager's Companions; Ship Attendants; Government Officials; Ship's Doctor's Secretary; Cook's Assistant; Little Boy; Children; Deckhands; Clergyman; Stokers; Purser; Ship's Constable; Trinidad Dock Crowds; Port of Spain Residents; Pie Boy; Bar Patrons; Vendors; Bailiff; Rag Pickers; Hawkers; Chinese Men; Harmonious Order of Closed Fists; San Fernando Residents; Russian Guards; Amerindian Workers; Merikens; Meriken Elder; Meriken Woman; First Island Mercenaries; Slaves; Douglas's Friends; Colonial Bank Clerk; Bank Manager; Bank President; Bank Guards; Bank Driver; Jamaican Lads; Royal Party; Ascot Spectators; Royal Guard; (Mycroft's Father; Mycroft's Mother; Douglas's Family; Flowerseller; Sally Sutton; Roland Traiters; Otis Oswald; Richard Nelson; Upton Bork; Robert Bouvier; Ben Quartermaine; Chief of Police; Mr Sutton; Annie Douglas; Cyrus Nickolus Douglas the Second; Douglas's Parents; Eddie's Mother; Eddie's Sister; Mariana; Noah Jones; Ellensberg's Employer)
Date: 1870 / 6th April - ?, 1870
Locations: London; Putney Bridge; Chiswick Bridge; St Giles Rookery; Regent Street; Regent Tobaccos; Pall Mall; Cumberland House; Borough High Street; Clark's Examination Room; Westminster; Royal College of St Peter; Liverpool Docks; Aboard the Sultana; Gulf of Paria; Trinidad; Port of Spain; Dock; Pub; Plaza del Marina; Governor's Office; West India Regiment Barracks; Chinese Section; Eating Establishment; Lean-To; Sutton Plantation; Hospital; San Fernando; High Street; Douglas's Village; Cemetery; Emanuel's Hut; Company Village; Columbus Channel; First Island; Aboard the Constance; Jamaica; Kingston Harbour; Spanish Town; Colonial Bank; Berkshire; Ascot
Story: A village in Trinidad is abandoned after its children fall victim to the douen and the lougarou.

Mycroft bets on the university boat-race, and flees a drunken mob. His friend, Douglas, tells him of a series of disappearances near his family's village in Trinidad. When Mycroft's fiancée, Georgiana hears the news, she decides to return to her family's plantation near Port of Spain. Mycroft resolves to follow her, in company of Douglas, but when they board the Sultana, Georgiana is not aboard. As they sail to Trinidad, Holmes and Douglas come under attack.

No sooner have they arrived in Trinidad, than they witness the deaths of four of their fellow passengers, and are given a list of names to take to the governor. They learn that more children have fallen victim to the lougarou. A visit to Georgiana's family plantation leads to the discovery of a body, and Douglas learns of the destruction of his family's home.

After learning the true nature of the plot, Mycroft has a tragic reunion with Georgiana. He leads a raiding party of Chinese and Merikens to First Island, mid-way between Trinidad and Venezuela.

Dan Abnett

Gilbert Adair

And Then There Was No One (2009)
Story Type: Homage (with embedded pastiche)
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; The Giant Rat of Sumatra
Fictional Characters: Evadne Mount; (Eustace Trubshawe; The Lone Ranger; Silver; Tonto)
Historical Figures: Gilbert Adair; Carole Blake; Jochen Schimmang; (Martin Hielscher; Umberto Eco; Carmen Callil; Marina Warner; Julian Barnes; Pat Kavanagh; Peter Eyre; Walter Donohue)
Other Characters: Gustav Slavorigin; One-Eyed Man; American Family;Thomas Düttmann; Hugh Spaulding; Hotel Receptionist; Pierre Sanary; G. Autry; Meredith van Demarest; Festival Staff; Dr Eustace Gable; Edward Gable; James Gable; Jerrold; Gable's Servants; Mary Jane; Mrs Treadwell; Inspector Cushing; Two Constables; Adair's Audience; Hildegard; Slavorigin's Bodyguards; Adolescent Girl; Maitre d'; Young Man at Disco; Hotel Manager; Mayor of Meiringen; Inspector Schumacher; Chambermaid; News Vendor; Museum Ticket Issuer; Magrite; Reporters; Museum Sentries; Pianist; (Watson's Patient; Mr Hunter)
Date: September, 2011 / Early Autumn, 1911
Locations: A Train; Oxford; Notting Hill; Portobello Road; The Salvador Deli; Heathrow Airport; Switzerland; Zurich Airport; Meiringen; The Sherlock Holmes Hilton; Sherlock Holmes Museum; Café; The Künsthalle; 221B, Baker Street; Aylesbury Station; The Gables; Restaurant in Meiringen; Meiringen Station; Ice-Cream Parlour; Gallery
Story: Anti-American author Gustav Slavorigin is murdered in Meiringen's Museum of Sherlockiana during the town's first annual Sherlock Holmes Festival. Adair is sent to the festival by his agent, where on the opening night he reads the story "The Giant Rat of Sumatra" from his latest book, The Unpublished Casebook of Sherlock Holmes:

Holmes and Watson are called on by the botanist Eustace Gable. He has recently returned from Sumatra, and his man Jerrold has been bitten by a giant rat concealed among the specimens he brought back. The rat has since taken to terrorising his sons and servants. They travel to Gable's home where they are met with the news that the rat has killed his son James in a locked room. Holmes solves the case but he and Watson agree that the details must not be made public.

During the question and answer session after the reading, he discovers that the original of his own fictional detective character, the crime writer Evadne Mount, is in the audience. She appears to have taken on characteristics of her fictional counterpart, and is annoyed at Adair for stooping to writing Sherlockian pastiche rather than continuing his series about her.

Slavorigin arrives as the Festival's mystery guest, and Adair learns that most of those present have some connection to him. After relating the plot of his latest novel, Slavorigin argues with the American academic Meredith van Demarest over his treatment of 9/11. In the morning, after a dream-disturbed sleep, Adair learns that Slavorigin has disappeared, and is there when his body is discovered in the museum. He and Mount discuss possible suspects, but he is unprepared for her ultimate revelation, which leads to a confrontation on the rim of the Reichenbach Falls.

Charlie Adams, Gareth Hale & Norman Pace

"Dr Watson" (1985)
Included in: Falsies: Forged Diaries of the Famous (Charlie Adams, Gareth Hale & Norman Pace)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Other Characters: Churchwarden; Scrote; His Lordship
Date: 8th July
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Hillman Hunter Estate
Story: After some banter about the churchwarden's pipe and his violin, Holmes and Watson travel to the Hillman Hunter estate, where, after some banter with the butler and his lordship, Holmes shoots the murderer with a comedy gun. They return to Baker Street for some more banter.

Guy Adams

"An Adventure in Three Courses" (2014)
Included in: Further Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (George Mann)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Mary Morstan; Colonel Senbastian Moran)
Other Characters: Headwaiter; Ronald Lacey; Imogen Lacey; Cyril Foster; Lucy Brentford; Lucy's Partner; Lady Siobhan Moran; (Roger Carruthers; Harry; Thomas Millan)
Date: 1894 or 1895
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Dining Club
Story: To commemorate the first anniversary of Mary's death, Holmes invites Watson to dinner at a newly-opened private dining club off the Strand. They make deductions about the other diners, and Holmes realises that the presence of their fellow guests is not by chance.

Sherlock Holmes: The Army of Dr Moreau (2012)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mycroft Holmes; Mrs Hudson; Shinwell Johnson; Inspector Lestrade; Wiggins; Billy; (Mary Morstan)
Fictional Characters: Professor George Edward Challenger; Professor Cavor; Abner Perry; Professor Oliver Lindenbrook; Roger Carruthers; Norman Greenhough; Moreau's Journalist Assistant (Mitchell); Albert; Inspector George Mann; (Dr Moreau; Editor; Montgomery; Edward Prendick; The Beast Folk)
Other Characters: Museum Caretaker; Indian Waiter; Indian Restaurant Customers; Club Doormen; Mayfair Passers-by; Adelphi Toughs; Steamboat Passengers; Dockside Crowds; Bouquet of Lilies Clientele; Barman; Old Man; Klaus; Martin; Kane's Men; Kane; Campbell; Greenhough's Secretary; Albert; Inspector George Mann; Constable Scott; Cab Drivers; Waiter; Diogenes Club Footman; Kirk; Fellowes; Lord Newman; Security Officers; Mitchell's Lookout; (Mr Haywood; Mrs Ashburton; Crowd Outside Moreau's Lab; Cab Driver; Postmaster; Rotherhithe Bodies; Rotherhithe Crowds; Rotherhithe Kids; Johnson's Policeman Friend; Police Surgeon; Mario; Thomas; Blind Man; Watson's School Nurse; Alice Bradley; Harold Court; Billericay Coroner; Charles; Chestnut Seller; Parliament Security Officers; Sir Bartleby; Peers; Lord Messingham; Lord Wharburton; Speaker of the House)
Date: January 1900
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Great Russell Street; Montague Street; British Museum; Belgravia; Indian Restaurant; Mayfair; The Strand; Adelphi Theatre; The Thames; Rotherhithe; Bouquet of Lilies / Bucket of Lies Pub; E.C. Kenton & Waldemar Warehouse; Kane's Lair; Strand Offices; Mitchell's Home; Scotland Yard; Liverpool Street Station; Essex; Billericay; Police Station; Moon Cottage; The Dog & Sheep Pub; Carruthers' Hotel; Diogenes Club; Mitchell's House; King's Cross Station; Mitchell's Underground Lair; Baker Street; Euston Road
Story: Mycroft comes to 221B, brings Holmes and Watson up to date regarding the history of Dr Charles Moreau, and tells them that the recent series of murders in Rotherhithe are likely the work of Moreau's beast folk. He sends them to the British Museum to meet the scientific members of the team he has assembled to discover if Moreau has returned to England. A meeting with Shinwell Johnson brings them more details of the killings, and some leads to follow up, which take them, in disguise, to Rotherhithe, and thence to Kane's underground lair.

Watson does some investigating on his own, visiting Mitchell, the journalist whose work led to Moreau having to leave England. After meeting Mann at Scotland Yard, he travels with him to Essex to find out about the apparent suicide of Edward Prendick.

He returns to Baker Street to find Holmes being attacked by Kane, whose true nature is revealed after he has been subdued. They join forces in pursuit of the scientist, but not before he abducts the Prime Minister. Later, Watson is also abducted and taken to the scientist's lair, where he is destined to become another victim of his experiments. Holmes leads a party, including Kane, Johnson, Wiggins and Challenger, to the rescue.

Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God (2011)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Tobias Gregson; Mrs Hudson; Billy; Langdale; (Mary Morstan; Mycroft Holmes)
Folkloric Characters: Demons; Spirits; Zombies
Fictional Characters: Dr John Silence; Thomas Karnacki; Julian Karswell; Smoke; Flame; (Dr Martin Hesselius; Lawrence Van Helsing; Charles Kent; Dodgson; Mrs Karswell; John Harrington)
Historical Figures: The Golden Dawn; Aleister Crowley; Samuel Mathers; (Arnold Bennett)
Other Characters: Hilary De Montfort; Langford; Elderly Gentleman; Constable Wilson; Simcox; Elsa Simcox; Mrs Simcox; Possessed Passers-by; Cuthbert Wells; Club Waiter; Lord Bartholomew Ruthvney; Stevens; Inspector George Mann; Liverpool Street Crowds; News Vendor / Train Driver; Doxy; Young Couple; Minister; Elderly Lady on Underground Train; Young Lads; Elderly Lady at St Pancras; Guard; Dining Car Patrons; Young Woman; Clerk; Algernon Newman; Author; Inverness Porter; Unsworth Lodge Landlady; Charles; McGillicuddy; Crowley's Housekeeper; Crowley's Guests; Laura; Old Jamie; Charles's Brother; Bank Passengers; (Pritchard; Mrs Shuttle; Major Thorkipps; Mrs Thorkipps; Station Master; Wilkinson; Perkins)
Date: 27th December, 1899 - 1st January, 1900
Locations: Knaves Club; Grosvenor Square; 221B, Baker Street; Fortune's House; Simcox's Rooms; Scotland Yard; Metropolitan Morgue; St James's Street; Pike's Club; Ruthvney Hall; Liverpool Street Station; Regent's Park; St Pancras Station; Cheyne Walk; Carnacki's Flat; Trains; British Museum Reading Room; Gilbert Place; Scotland; Inverness Station; Unsworth Lodge; Loch Ness; Foyers; Boleskine House; Oxford Street; Tottenham Court Road; Museum Station; Chancery Lane Station; Bank Station; Mayfair Bistro
Story: After leaving his club, De Montfort is seen running screaming through the streets and later found battered to death in Grosvenor Square. Dr John Silence calls at Baker Street and tells Holmes and Watson of Elsa Simcox, the young daughter of a former patient, whose strange behaviour suggests some kind of possession. Holmes dismisses Silence's statement that the entity has asked for him by name, along with De Montfort and the Laird of Boleskine, but when he reads of De Montfort's death he decides to make contact with Gregson. After viewing the body and site of death he consults with Langdale Pike, from whom he learns that De Montfort was a member of the Golden Dawn, and that the Laird of Boleskine is Alisteir Crowley.

When another member of the Golden Dawn dies a mysterious death, Holmes and Watson accompany Silence to Scotland to call on Crowley. Watson begins to experience strange symptoms. On the train to Inverness they encounter Carnacki in the midst of a bizarre incident in the dining car. Carnacki has been called into the investigation by an anonymous occult author who has told him about the threat posed by the Breath of God. Holmes leaves Watson with Carnacki and Silence while he carries out his own investigations.

Crowley tells them of magickal attacks co-ordinated by Mathers, leader of the Golden Dawn, that have been made on him, and introduces them to Karswell. That evening the five are forced to face a series of demonic attacks. Holmes re-enters the fray, and the six travel back to London where Holmes reveals their real foes in the construction tunnels of the Central London Railway.

"A Study in Scarborough" (2014)
Included in: Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets (David Thomas Moore)
Story Type: Homage
Characters Derived From Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; (Sherlock Holmes; Inspector (Gordon) Lestrade; Martha / Mrs Hudson; Billy; Jabez Wilson; Mary Morstan; Lngdale Pike; Isadora Klein; Mycroft Holmes; Tobias Gregson; (Harry) Stamford; Miko Clash / Rene Adler)
Fictional Characters: (Edward Malone)
Historical Figures: (Shirley Eaton; Jean Seberg; Mickey Rooney; Brigitte Bardot; Susan George; Anouska Hempel; Oliver Reed; Jeremy Brett (Pete Huggins); Edward Hardwicke (Teddy Hardwicke); Ray Galton & Alan Simpson (Ray Simpson); Nicholas Lyndhurst; Christopher Lee)
Characters Derived From Historical Figures: Arthur Doyle; Eddie Conan; (Pete Huggins (Jeremy Brett); Teddy Hardwicke (Edward Hardwicke); Ray Simpson (Ray Galton & Alan Simpson)
Other Characters: Interviewer; (Willy Scott; Mayor of Blackpool; Watson's Agent; Doyle's Publisher; Holmes's Parents; Watson's Parents; Sanatorium Patients; Stamford's Brother; Radio Producer; Writers; Mary's Baby)
Date: 2010s
Locations: Narrator's Home; A Train; Scarborough; Railway Station; Coffee Shop; The Front; Watson's House
Story: Arthur Doyle travels to Scarborough to interview John Watson, half of the comedy double act, Holmes and Watson. Watson tells him about his first meeting with Holmes in a sanatorium, the creation of their detective and doctor characters, and their career journey through theatre, radio, TV and film, Watson's marriage to Mary Morstan, and the end of the partnership.

Nathan M. Adams

"The Adventure of the Society Dame" (1905)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches II: 1905-1909 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Other Characters: Lady in Black
Locations: Holmes's Rooms
Story: Holmes deduces the identity of the writer of an item in Smart Set Topics defaming his client, the Lady in Black.

"God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" (1975)
Included in: Sports Illustrated, December 22-29, 1975
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes)
Historical Figures: Nathan M. Adams
Other Characters: Narrator; Dowle; Inn Guests; Jane; Scottish Desk Clerk; Mwangi; Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers; Bagpiper; Policemen; Mr Kovacs; Mrs Kovacs; Salvation Army Band; Inn Servants; Marcel; Trencher-Jones; Mr Galsworthy; Mrs Galsworthy; Embassy PR Man
Date: 24th - 26th December, c.1970 / 1974
Locations: Kenya; Chapel; Brown Trout inn; Lake Sasumua; USA; Montana
Story: Dowle and Adams travel to Lake Sasumua in Kenya for some Christmas trout fishing, and stay at the Brown Trout Inn. They encounter Trench-Jones, a deerstalker wearing fellow-fisherman, whom they refer to as Sherlock Holmes, who introduces them to the deadly toebiter nymph.

Irene Adler

Sherlock, Lupin & Me: The Dark Lady (2011)
(Italian text by Alessandro Gatti, translated by Chris Turner)
Story Type: Children's Pastiche narrated by Irene Adler
Canonical Characters: Irene Adler; Sherlock Holmes; Mycroft Holmes
Fictional Characters: Arsène Lupin; Théophraste Lupin; (Henriette d'Andresy; The Dreux-Soubises)
Other Characters: Horatio Nelson; Fishermen; Hooded Man; Irene's Mother; François Poussin / Jacques Lambert / Julien Lascot; Townspeople; Journalist; Van Hesselink; Leopold Adler; Dr Morgoeuil; Hotel des Artistes Desk Clerk; Octave; Gang of Boys; Spirou; Coachman; Lady in Black; Jerome; Gambling House Guard; Gamblers; Salvatore Macri; Gambling House Servants; Lascot's Mother; Lady Martigny's Servant; Lady Martigny; Lady Fouchet; Baroness Annette Gibard; Sherlock's Mother; (Coachman; Sherlock's Father; Violet Holmes; Chief Inspector Flebourg; Parisian Jeweler; Corrupt Police Officers; Mr Martigny)
Date: 6th July - ?, 1870
Locations: France; Sant-Malo; City Walls; The Harbour; Ashcroft Manor; Irene's Summer House; 48, Rue Saint Sauveur; Food Shop; Beach; Post Office; Hotel de la Paix; Hotel des Artistes; The Old Barracks; Lupin's House; Gambling House; Railway Station; Paris; Saint-Germain-des-Prés; Irene's House; Rue Saint-Sulpice; 6, Rue de Mézières; Martigny's House
Story: When twelve-year-old Irene's Adler's parents take her on holiday to Saint-Malo, the first person she meets is Sherlock Holmes, who introduces her to Arsène Lupin. They take her to their hideout at the abandoned Ashcroft Manor, near which they find a dead man on the beach, and Irene spots a hooded figure watching them. Deciding to investigate they learn that two hotels in the town had guests answering the description of the dead man. Meanwhile, the town is plagued by the exploits of the Rooftop Thief. After a rooftop escape from a gambling den, and a visit to the Post Office, Irene accompanies her father to Paris to discover the dead man's identity.

Sherlock, Lupin & Me: The Soprano's Last Song (2011)
(Italian text by Pierdomenico Baccalario & Alessandro Gatti, translated by Chiara Pernigotti)
Story Type: Children's Pastiche narrated by Irene Adler
Canonical Characters: Irene Adler; Sherlock Holmes; (Mycroft Holmes)
Fictional Characters: Arsène Lupin; (Théophraste Lupin; Henriette d'Andresy)
Historical Figures: Wilkie Collins
Other Characters: Horatio Nelson; Leopold Adler; Mrs Adler; Philippe; Philippe's Wife; Sergej Trudoljubov; Mr Jabkins; Giuseppe Barzini; Alfred Santi; Henri Duvel; Ophelia Merridew; Enoch; Hortence Cheepnis; Jack; Aunt Betty; Parisian Society Ladies; Ladies' Daughters; Parisian Barricade Builders; Train Passengers; Boulogne Station Crowd; Ferry Businessmen; Ferry Passengers; Ferryport Crowds; Sailors; Vacationers; Guard; Homeless Person; Opera Audience; Opera Orchestra; Young Lady; Telegrapher; Coachmen; Coffee House Patrons; Wallet Thieves; Woman with Wallet; Onlookers; Irish Fishmonger; Claridge's Waiters; Claridge's Concierge; Old Bell Concierges;Old Bell Staff; Laundress; Reporters; Spanish Man; Café Customers; Beggars; Gambling House Guards; Paperboy; Globe Reporter; Deputy Editor; Hortence's Daughter; Tavern Patrons; Tavern Owner; Royal Opera House Guard; Opera House Employees; Scotland Yard Officers; Scotland Yard Inspector; Whitechapel Crowd; Ophelia's Nurse; Postman; (Mrs Gambetta; Sherlock's Mother; Sherlock's Cousin; Mr Aronofsky; Archibald J. Nisbett; Policemen; Prussian Noblewoman; Man on Ship; Ship's Captain; Violet Holmes; St Mary's Parish Priest)
Date: September, 1870
Locations: France; Paris; Irene's House; Gare du Nord; Amiens; Boulogne; Boulogne Station; Grand Cochon Restaurant; Ferry; Dover; Train; London; Claridge's Hotel; Covent Garden; Royal Opera House; Carnaby Street; Shackleton Coffee House; Old Bell Hotel; Hotel Albion; St Giles; Fleet Street; Globe Offices; Pub; Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street; Savile Row; Bethnal Green; Tavern; Holmes's House; Whitechapel; Hyde Park; Adler's London House
Story:During the Franco-Prussian War, Irene is in Paris, where her foster-mother's attempts to introduce her to the ladies of Parisian society are disrupted by her father's plans to take Irene to London to see Ophelia Merridew perform at Covent Garden in Barzini's Plot of Destiny.

In London, Irene is reunited with Holmes, and after she has repeated dreams about Ophelia Merridew, he brings her news that Barzini's assistant, Santi, has been murdered, and Lupin's father arrested for the crime.

During their search of a hotel room, the relationships of the young trio begin to change. News soon follows that Ophelia has disappeared. There investigations take them to Baker Street, where Sherlock shows interest in 221B. He and Irene face danger in Bethnal Green, where another murder is attempted, and the three venture into the basements of the Royal Opera House and face danger onstage.

Jack Adrian

"The Phantom Pistol" (1983)
Also Published as "Golconda's Magic Death by Christopher Bendel
Included in: The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives (Mike Ashley); Amazing Stories from the World of Crime (Hamlyn Publishing Group)
Story Type: Third-Person Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes (Mr H.); Stanley Hopkins; (Colonel Moran; Von Herder)
Other Characters: The Great Golconda / Rupert Forbes-Sempill; Mephisto / Ernest Forbes-Sempill; Audience; Robert Adey; Stagehand; (Golconda's Girl Assistant)
Date: November, 1912
Locations: High Holborn; Empire Palace of Varieties
Story: The Great Golconda is giving his farewell performance, when he is killed during a bullet catching trick. Hopkins was one of the audience members who checked the gun before the trick. With his friend, Mr H., who had accompanied him to the theatre, he questions the manager, and learns that Golconda and his assistant, Mephisto, are actually twin brothers, and the sons of a recently deceased baronet. The mystery of how the magician's prop could have fired the deadly bullet seems to be connected with Mephisto wearing black gloves for the trick for the first time. Mr H. sends a stagehand above the stage to solve the mystery of the murder weapon

NOTE: Robert Adey is named after Jack Adrian's co-editor on Murder Impossible, while Pronzini, the Italian vendettist is named after his collaborator on Hardboiled, Bill Pronzini.

Mark Alberstat

"The Adventure of the Sunken Parsley" (2015)
Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part III: 1896-1929 (David Marcum); An Investees' Anthology (David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson
Other Characters: Inspector Neal; Michaels; Sir Evan Thornton; Lady Elizabetta Thornton; Mario Conti; Police Constable; (Doctor)
Date: Early September, 1898
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Liverpool (Street) Station; Hertfordshire; Hertford; Hertford Station; Hartham House
Story: Holmes and Watson travel to Hertford to investigate the murder of Sir Evan Thornton, who has been found dead in his bed, but whose death was clearly not a peaceful one. A walk in Thornton's garden solves the case.

Sue Alexander

Steven-Elliot Altman

"A Case of Royal Blood" (2003)
Included in: Shadows Over Baker Street (Michael Reaves & John Pelan)
Story Type: Fantasy Pastiche narrated by H.G. Wells
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Fictional Characters: The Shoggoth
Historical Figures: H.G. Wells; Queen Emma of Waldeck Pyrmont; Princess Wilhelmina; King Willem III; Elisabeth Cookson; (Prince Nicolaas; Prince Alexander)
Other Characters: Turkish Baths Valet; Wells's Coachman; Captain of the Dordrecht; Elderly Couple; Dutch Soldiers; Jan Gent; Passersby; Girl; Palace Guards; Lady-in-Waiting; Palace Servants; Sanatorium Attendant; Sarah Cookson; Guardsmen
Date: February, 1888
Locations: 33, Northumberland; 221B, Baker Street; The Dordrecht; Holland; Rotterdam; Noordeinde Palace; A Coach; Leiden; Public Sanatorium; The Veluwe
Story: Holmes recruits Wells to assist in investigating a purported poltergeist attack on a member of the Dutch Royal Family. The young princess, Wilhelmina, has been seeing a young girl around the palace. After the first appearance, she was found with blood on her neck, but no wounds. Holmes finds a copy of the Necronomicon hidden in the library, and Wells dreams of the Dark Ones. Visiting the courtesan, Cookson, in Leiden sanatorium, they find a picture of the girl in her locket. They identify her as Sarah, her daughter, and Gent arrests her. Later that day Wells is visited by the girl, and realises that she is some kind of creature. Returning to Leiden, they learn of the creature's origins and set out to track and destroy it.

Victor G. Ambrus

Kingsley Amis

"The Darkwater Hall Mystery" (1978)
Included in: Collected Short Stories (Kingsley Amis); The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Mrs. Hudson
Other Characters: Lady Emily Fairfax; Sir Harry Fairfax; Black Ralph; Carlos; Miles Fairfax; Captain Jack Bradshaw; Dolores
Date: Closing days of July, 1885
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Darkwater Hall, Wiltshire; (Hurlstone)
Story: With Holmes, a victim of depression, sent off to stay with Reginald Musgrave, Watson is alone at Baker Street when Lady Fairfax arrives. She tells Watson that her husband, Sir Harry's life is in danger from a poacher named Black Ralph. Watson suggests she consult Lestrade or one of Holmes' rival investigators, but she persuades him to investigate for her. He travels to Darkwater Hall where he meets Sir Harry's twenty-minute-younger twin brother, Miles, and Captain Bradshaw who is clearly in love with Lady Emily. Black Jack is seen at the window, and a rifle discovered missing from the armoury. The following day, Sir Harry is shot at during a shooting party. Watson brings the investigation to its conclusion.

Lou Anders

"The Sleep of Reason" (2014)
Included in: Further Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (George Mann)
Story Type: Science Fiction Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Mrs Hudson)
Sherlockian Detectives: S. Quentin Carmichael & Dr Avery F. Wilson
Characters Based on Fictional Characters: Joanna Carson (John Carter)
Other Characters: Wiliam Alderbert; Salbatanu; Kralomoc; Cetus; Inanna; Shabbathai; Tzedek; Martian Guards; (Major Van Wyck; Yavapai Chief; Chol Joon-Ho; Martian Ambassador)
Date: 23rd January, 1900
Locations: USA; New York; 177B Bleecker Street; Mars / Moosrab; receiving Chamber; Palace; 221B, Baker Street
Story: Dr Wilson returns home to 177B Bleecker Street to find New York consulting detective S. Quentin Carmichael apparently dead on the floor. Carmichael manages to communicate to him the story of a visit from novelist Alderbert, who has received a message from Joanna Carson, the Queen of Mars. Carmichael transfers his consciousness to Mars, using meditation, to investigate the apparent murder of the Martian ambassador by his counterpart from Jupiter. Holmes has his own connection to the case.

Note: "Moosrab" is Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Barsoom" backwards.

Isaac Anderson

"The Great Security Bank Mystery" (1902)
Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey); Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I: 1900-1904 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Detective: Showman Hoyle
Other Characters: Watchman; Bank President; Cashier; Police Sergeant; Patrolmen
Locations: The Security National Bank
Story: The Watchman awakes to find the bank has been robbed. He calls the bank president, and the great detective Showman Hoyle is called in, deduces that there has been a robbery, and sets the police on the trail of the suspect.

K.J. Anderson

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
(from a screenplay by James Dale Robinson, based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill)
Story Type: Fantasy Adventure
Canonical Characters: Professor Moriarty; (Sherlock Holmes)
Fictional Characters: The Phantom of the Opera {The Fantom}; Allan Quatermain; Captain Nemo; Ishmael; Dorian Gray; Edward Hyde; Henry Jekyll; ('M')
Other Characters: Bartholomew Dunning; Bartholomew's Sisters; Constable Dunning; Policemen; Bank Soldiers; Fantom's Henchmen; Lieutenant Dante; German Guard; Karl Draper; Factory Prisoners; German Soldiers; Kenyan Hawkers; Sanderson Reed; Wagon Driver; Britannia Club Members; Valet; Bruce; Nigel; Assassins; Elderly Hunter; Hansom Driver; Rodney Skinner; Nemo's Crew; Herr Muller; Eva Draper; Gondolier; Carnival Crowds; Guards; British Representative; German Ambassador; French Leader; Russian Diplomat; Italian Diplomat; Spanish Ambassador; Portuguese Ambassador; Patel; Lady Recordist; Mongolian Guards; Kidnapped Scientists; Mongolian Workers; Foreman; Scientists' Families; M's Valet; British & American Soldiers; Campion Bond; Aide
Date: 1899
Locations: London; Moorgate Passage; Tabard Row; Threadneedle Street; Bank of England; Germany; Hamburg; Valkyrie Zeppelin Works; Kenya; Nairobi; The Britannia Club; Tottenham Court Road; The Albion Museum; Tiger Bay; France; Paris; Rue Morgue; The Nautilus; The Mediterranean Sea; Italy; Venice; Mongolia; The Amur River
Story: The Bank of England is robbed by the Fantom and Da Vinci's plans of Venice stolen. A German Zeppelin factory is destroyed and an engineer kidnapped. The two countries blame each other and war seems imminent. M sends Reed to recruit Quatermain to lead a team to stop the Fantom's planned attack on a peace conference in Venice. He is joined by Nemo, the invisible Skinner (who stole Griffin's formula), and Mina. They are attacked by the Fantom's men when they go to recruit Gray, and are aided in the fight by American agent Sawyer. In Paris they capture Hyde, who is also essential to the mission. As they attempt to prevent the destruction of Venice, it becomes clear that there is a traitor in their midst, and the Nautilus is almost destroyed. They realise that the Fantom has taken a sample of that which gives each of them their special qualities, and is planning to create super warriors, alongside his advanced battle machinery. They follow him to his lair in Mongolia - where it is revealed that he is really Moriarty - and endeavour to foil his plans.

Poul Anderson

"Eve Times Four" (1960)
Included in: Time and Stars (Poul Anderson)
Story Type: Homage / Science-Fiction
Characters: Arsang XXXIII; Teresina Fabricant; John Jacob Newhouse; Hedwig Trumbull; First Mate Lefkowitz; Captain Ironsmiter; Marie Quesnay; Mr. Fred; Kamala Chatterji; Sir John Baskerville; (Mr. Manfred)
Locations: A spaceship; a lifeboat; an unknown planet; the planet Holmes; the town Irene
Story: En route from Earth to Xenophon, a spaceship meets trouble while in the vicinity of the double planet Holmes-Watson. A lifeboat from the ship, its navigation charts missing, is forced to land on an unknown planet. Faced with no hope of rescue, third mate Newhouse suggests that they must start a colony and begin to populate this new world, citing a law that planetary castaways must have children, and that former marriages are annulled. The women of the party are not so enthusiastic about this. Rescue eventually comes in the shape of Sir John Baskerville, legal officer of Irene, the only town on the planet Holmes.

"Time Patrol " (1955)
Included in: Guardians of Time (Poul Anderson)
Story Type: Homage / Science Fiction
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Historical Figures: (Hengist)
Other Characters: Mr. Gordon; Manse Everard; Gordon's Assistant; Patrol Recruits; Charles Whitcomb; Dard Kelm; Spaceship Pilot Trainer; London Watchman; J. Mainwethering; Clerk; London Crowds; Constable; Scotland Yard Inspector; Saxon Villagers; Wulfnoth; Wulfnoth's Family; Saxon Boy; Guards; Canterbury Crowds; Inn Customers; Stane's Guards; Stane / Rozher Schtein; Eadgar; Concubine; Mainwethering's Guards; Mrs. Enderby; Mary Nelson; Two Time Patrol Men; Danellian; (Lord Wyndham; James Rotherhithe; Ing Empire Merchant)
Date: 1954 / The Ogligocene Period / June, 1894 / 1947 / AD 464 / AD 461 / November 17th, 1944
Locations: New York; Time Patrol Academy; New York Public Library; London; Warehouse; Dalhousie & Roberts Import House; A Hansom Cab; Addleton; The Wyndham Estate; Jutish Thorp; Canterbury; An Inn; Stane's House; Streatham; Everard's House; Mary's House; Piccadilly Circus
Story: Everard's job application results in his having to take a barrage of psychological tests, which lead to him becoming a member of the Time Patrol. At the Patrol's Academy he meets other recruits from many different time periods, and learns that the Patrol has been set up to police the lanes of time travel. Back in his own time Everard reads a reference to the Addleton tragedy and the ancient British barrow (see GOLD). Further research revealed that the archaeologist, Lord Wyndham, died after opening a case of ingots of unknown metal in the barrow, and his assistant, Rotherhithe was arrested for his murder. His family hired a "well-known private detective", who proved Rotherhithe's innocence.

Suspecting the presence of radioactive material, which suggests misuse of the time lanes, Everard travels back to 1894 to investigate with his companion, Whitcomb. A visit to Addleton, where he encounters the detective, his assistant and a Scotland Yard man at the barrow, confirms his suspicions. They travel back to Jutish Kent when the casket was placed inside the barrow. There they learn of the wizard Stane who was buried in the barrow. They journey back again to confront Stane in Canterbury. After they have control of Stane's time machine, Whitcomb attempts to save his fiancée, killed during the Blitz. Everard has to make a choice between his friend and the laws of time.

Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson

"The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound" (1953)
Included in: Earthman's Burden (Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson); The Science-Fictional Sherlock Holmes (Robert C. Peterson); Sherlock Holmes Through Time & Space (Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh)
Story Type: Parody / Science Fiction
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes; Lestrade; Mrs. Hudson; Sir Henry Baskerville; The Hound of the Baskervilles)
Other Characters: Whitcomb Geoffrey; Alexander Jones; Rajat Singh; A Hoka Bobby; Landlord; Farmer Toowey; A Ppussjan
Locations: The planet Toka: Jones's office; Devonshire, England; London; 211-B, Baker Street; Dartmoor; St. Vitus-Where-He-Danced; The George & Dragon Inn; Baskerville Hall; Grimpen Mire
Story: Whitcomb Geoffrey is investigating an interstellar dope smuggling ring operated by the ppussjans. His investigation brings him to the planet Toka, inhabited by small teddy-bear-like Hokas, creatures who have adopted their characters & civilisation from Victorian literature. Geoffrey & Jones journey to the Hoka version of London, where they meet a Hoka version of Lestrade, who takes them to see a Hoka Holmes, who insists on referring to Geoffrey as Gregson, and Jones as Watson. The group journey to Dartmoor in search of the renegade ppussjan, where they are told of the fate of Sir Henry Baskerville, swallowed whole by an enormous hound. They suspect there may be a connection between the hound affair and the ppussjan, and their investigations lead them to a confrontation at Grimpen Mire.

Peter K. Andersson

"The Adventure of the Dark Tower" (2015)
Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part III: 1896-1929 (David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; (Sherlock Holmes; Mrs Watson; Billy)
Other Characters: Dr Elmsley Purkiss; Hotel Receptionist; Police Superintendent; Policemen; Julius Bedrock; Millicent Ellis; (Squire Marchmont: Roderick Marchmont; Roderick's Brother; Roderick's Father; Maiden; Witch; Shepherd; Shepherd's Wife; Newlywed Couple; Ornithologist; Young Girl; Jenny Mayle; Farmer; Farmer's Family; Farmhand; Elizabeth Bedrock; Prison Director)
Locations: Herefordshire; Inchwood Cottage; Marchmont Manor; Hotel; 221B, Baker Street; Police Station; Inchwood Copse
Story: On holiday in rural Herefordshire, Watson comes across the isolated cottage of the historian Elmsley Purkiss. Purkiss tells him of the legendary curse upon the family of his landlord, Squire Marchmont, and the local tales of disappearances and hauntings in the nearby woods. Purkiss came to Herefordshire to spend a few days investigating the stories and has found himself unable to leave, having witnessed the horrors of the wood for himself. Letters from Holmes lead Watson to a solution.

Charlton Andrews

"The Bound of the Astorbilts" (1902)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches: 1900-1904 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Hound of the Baskervilles
Historical Figures: William Waldorf Astor; (Bertram Fletcher Robinson)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Moor
Story: Watson and Holmes both make deductions about a recent visitor from a crushed bone collar-button. Their visitor returns, with items removed from their rooms.

"The Resources of Mycroft Holmes" (1903)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I: 1900-1904 (Bill Peschel); A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches (Charles Press)
Story Type: Extra-Canonical Exploit of Mycroft Holmes
Canonical Characters: Mycroft Holmes; (Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson)
Folkloric Characters: (The Wandering Jew)
Historical Figures: (Charles II; Charles IX of France; Marie Touchet; William Shakespeare; Francis Gastrel; The Man in the Iron Mask; Louis XIVl; Benigne d'Auvergne de Saint-Mars; Joseph Balsamo, Count Cagliostro)
Other Characters: Professor Mustie; Rushem; (London Correspondent; Foxy Quiller; Earl of Willingham; Giles Harcourt; Blind Crusader; Alertius; The Pompeian Lector; Israel Mustie; Mycroft's Father; Israel's Mother; Israel's Grandfather; Israel's Uncle; Gaston de Vrayeulx)
Locations: USA; Daily Saffron Office; Diogenes Club
Story: He Repudiates Sherlock
Professor Mustie is sent by the editor of the Daily Saffron to interview Mycroft Holmes. Mycroft tells him his opinion of Sherlock, and why he will not set up in competition with him, but instead has become a Solver of Historical Mysteries. He reveals Mustie's family history, and consents to Mustie becoming his biographer.

He Solves the Mystery of the Shakespearean Authorship
The following day, Mycroft sets about discovering who wrote Shakespeare. He uses the Diogenes Club's first folio to search for a suspected cipher, taking eight-and-three-quarter minutes to discover the true authorship.

He Solves the Mystery of the Man in the Iron Mask
On the third day, Mycroft is set the task of uncovering the identity of the Man in the Iron Mask. After Mustie outlines the various theories about his identity, Mycroft relates the modern trends of advertising and competition to the problem and deduces that the Mask was a friend rather than an enemy of Louis XIV.

NOTE: A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches (Charles Press) only includes the first section of "He Repudiates Sherlock".

Val Andrews

Sherlock Holmes and the Egyptian Hall Adventure (1993)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Billy; Inspector Lestrade; Mrs Hudson; (Irene Adler)
Historical Figures: John Nevil Maskelyne; David Devant; Nevil Maskelyne; Buatier de Kolta; (Queen Victoria; Edward VII; Kaiser Wilhelm II)
Other Characters: Cyril Randolph / Cyrano; Jugglers; Egyptian Hall Audience; Cleric; Clown; Shifty Jack; Mabel Cosgrove / Madame Patricia; Pianist; Theatre Attendants; Police Constable; Police Sergeant; Dr Simpsom; Performers; Theatre Staff; Miss Glenrose; Stage Door Keeper; East End Troublemakers; Mr Webber; Stringer; Matthew Craig; Railway Guard; Lunatic on Train; Ticket Inspector; Station-Boy; Three Bridges Station Master; Haywards Heath Cab Driver; Windrush's Elderly Retainer; Lady Windrush; Cabby; Sir Bertram Staines; Projector Operator; Kurt Schmidtt; Lestrade's Constables; (Panjandrum; Guardsman Gray; Charles McDougal; Courier Reporter; Charlie; Midgets; Sir Percival Windrush; Lady Windrush's Lover; Jeweller; Hansom Driver; Theatrical Agent; Schmidtt's Agent; Schmidtt's Doctor)
Date: Late Spring, 1898
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Picadilly; Egyptian Hall; New Bond Street; Oxford Street; Baker Street; Coffee Stall near Middlesex Street; The East End; Webber's Shop; Stringer's Shop; Commercial Road; Victoria Station; Three Bridges Station; Sussex; Haywards Heath; Windrush Towers; Mortuary
Story: Cyril Randolph, a magician performing at Maskelyne's Egyptian Hall, consults Holmes when Lady Windrush's ring disappears in the middle of one of his tricks. Holmes and Watson attend that evening's performance, which is disrupted by Buatier de Kolta who accuses Randolph of stealing his trick. The evening ends when Holmes and Watson are called backstage to find that Randolph has been murdered.

Sherlock Holmes and the Houdini Birthright (1995)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Holmes's Sussex Housekeeper; Baker Street Irregulars; (Inspector Lestrade; Watson's Brother)
Fictional Characters: (Dr Locke)
Historical Figures: Harry Houdini; Arthur Conan Doyle; Jean Leckie; Bess Houdini; Daisy White; Theodore "Dash" Weiss / Hardeen; Bernard Ernst; Bess's Guets; Joseph Dunninger; John Mulholland; Milbourne Christopher; Burton L. King; Jim Collins; Jim Vickery; (Greenhough Smith; Cecelia Weiss; Kingsley Doyle; General Gordon; Will Goldston; William Ellsworth Robinson / Chung Ling Soo; Whitehead; Dr Kennedy; Detroit Surgeons; Arnold De Biere; Horace Goldin; The Great Cirnoc; Kleppini; Dr A.M. Wilson; Clinton Burgess; Al Jennings; Jesse James; Bob Ford; Walter B. Gibson; Kaiserin Josephine; Ehrich Weiss; Gladys Weiss; Prince Erich; David Hammel; Al Capone; Dr Leo Dretzka; Dr George L. LeFevre; Welsh Brothers Clowns; Welsh)
Other Characters: Houdini's Chauffeur; Blandford Hall Ticket Woman; Professor Bernard; Bernard's Audience; Mary Fraser; Godfrey Sheridon; Miss Smith; Kate Courtney-Smythe; Embankment Constable; Woman; Richard Hawke; Dr Robert Blackthorne; Marina Blackthorne; Mrs Morgan; Ritz Waiter; Movie Director; Actors; Technicians; Scene Shifters; Brownstone Bellboy; Capone's Collector; Appleton Registrar's Assistant; Burlesque Dancers; Grand Central Crowds; Grand Central Waitress; Hungarian Agents; Budapest Jewish Quarter Residents; Registry Assistant; Georges Zoltan; Zoltan's Accomplice; Captain Maroc; Countrysiders; Maroc's Companions; Contessa Irena; Taxi Driver; Hotel Clerk; Budapest Police Sergeant; Constables; Paris Street Artists; Artist's Audience; Boston Matron; Photographer; The Manhattan Deerstalkers; Brownstone Desk Clerk; Zookeeper; Joe Casey; Reverend Joshua Bridger; (Chinese Mandarin; Grimes; Major George Armitage; Armitage's Lover; Wallace; Chimney Sweep's Boy; Charlie; Artisan; Doc Brady; Montreal Princess Theatre Manager; Detroit Garrick Theatre Manager; Detroit Nurse; Medical Team; Elmer; Cockney; Cop; Guy in Golfing Knickers; Chief Eagle Hawk; Atlantic City Jeweller)
Date: Summer, 1922 / November, 1926 / Midsummer, 1927
Locations: Watson's Finchley Practice; Sussex; Fowlhaven; Charing Cross Hotel; Blandford Hall; The Polytechnic; British Museum; Fleet Street; The Embankment; Piccadilly; The Ritz; New York; Brownstone Hotel; 67 Payson Avenue; Movie Studio; Houdini's Storehouse; Little Italy; Italian Restaurant; Train; Chicago; Appleton, Wisconsin; Registrar's Office; Burlesque Theatre; Grand Central Station; Refreshment Room; Hungarian Embassy; Hungary; Budapest; 12, Sip Street; Hotel; Castle; City Centre Hotel; Police Headquarters; France; Paris; Cafe; Aboard the Burgundy; New York Steamship Office; Central Park Zoo; Joe's Diner; Algonquin Hotel
Story: Houdini calls on Watson and asks to be taken to Holmes's Sussex cottage to ask him to help judge the veracity of a spirit-written message from his mother channelled through Lady Jean. He also tells Holmes of Marina Blackthorne, a medium he is trying to prove to Doyle is a fake. Holmes attends a seance in disguise, while Watson, banished from the hotel, saves a young woman from suicide. Holmes arranges for an announcement of his own death to be printed in order to prove his case.

In 1926, Watson reads of Houdini's death. The following year, Holmes arrives at Watson's door, and invites him to a meeting with Bess Houdini at the Ritz. She believes Houdini was murdered, and asks Holmes to travel to New York to investigate. From Houdini's brother, Holmes hears of a Hungarian assistant, Zoltan, who worked for Houdini for a short time just before his death. From his lawyer and friends he hears a list of people who had grudges against Houdini. A sealed box, left by Houdini, leads them to Walter B. Gibson, and suggests links with a Magyar Nationalist society.

Sherlock Holmes and the Man Who Lost Himself (1997)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Irene Adler; Mycroft Holmes; Billy; (Professor Moriarty)
Historical Figures: George V; (Sidney Paget; Walter Paget; John Logie Baird)
Other Characters: Professor Mainwaring; J. Arthur Saunders; Sergeant Bulstrode; Mary Mainwaring; Dr Royston; Hauptman; Herr Freid; Captain "Fairy" Page; Sergeant Chevalier; Isadore Levi; Colonel Faversham; Septimus Young; Professor Cathcart; Monty the Ape; Tommy Masters; Algernon Bastow
Bank Manager; Saunders' Young Lady; Photographers; Irene's Dresser; Florence Hotel Clerk; Aida Company; Ferry Passengers; Dover Officials; Splendide Minion; Estaminet Patrons; French Lad; Estaminet Owner; Air Fair Visitors; Air Fair Gate Man; Pilots; French Police Officers; Police Chief; Asylum Aide; Asylum Patient; Ville-Aesop Gendarmes; Village Lads; Villager; Sailors; Dieppe Passengers; French Port Officials; Onion-Sellers; Shoreham Policeman; Café Proprietor; Junk Dealer; Eight Bells Innkeeper; Diogenes Club Members; Messenger; Ville-Aesop Police Chief; Jeweller; Robbery Suspects; Ambassador's Messenger; Scotland Yard Plainclothes Men; Mycroft's Messenger; Police Guards; German Agents; Elephant Keeper
(Hudson; Royston's Nurse; Policeman; Mainwaring's Old Friend; Hotel Manager; Martin Witherspoon; Professor Simpson; Flannigan; Signor Castelli; The Great Lomesh; German Mechanics; Joseph Hogg; War Minister; Lestrade's Wife)
Date: Autumn, 1903 / During The Great Hiatus / 1909
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Small Baker Street Hotel; Victoria Station; Surrey; Reigate; J. Arthur Saunders, Sons and Co; Lorrimer's Bank; Poolford; The Willows; Royston's Surgery; Poolford Police Station; Kent; Dover; A Ferry; Italy; Florence; Opera House; Irene's Hotel; Tavern; France; Paris; Station; Hotel; Bistro; Calais; Estaminet; Hotel Splendide; Air Fair; Gendarmerie; Asylum; Village Café; Woodland; Ville-Aesop; Inn; Dieppe; Waterfront; Cargo Ship; Sussex; Shoreham; High Street; Shoreham Station; The Eight Bells and Bowling Green Inn; Diogenes Club; Ville-Aesop Gendarmerie; Jewellery Shop; Government Laboratory; Simpson's-in-the-Strand; The Thames; London Bridge; Nancy's Steps; Regent's Park Zoological Gardens; Fowlhaven; Buckingham Palace
Story: Watson is visiting Holmes in Baker Street, when they are called upon by Professor Mainwaring, who tells them that his wife Mary has disappeared, along with any record of her having been registered as a patient, while on a visit to their local doctor's surgery. Returning to his home, he discovered that his key no longer fit the door, and that there were strangers in residence there. Holmes and Watson travel to Poolford in Surrey, where Mainwaring has been working on an improved aircraft engine, to investigate, but find themselves arrested and locked in the local police cell.

While testing the effects of a drug given to the professor on himself, Holmes tells Watson of events in Florence and Paris involving Irene Adler during his Great Hiatus.

The trail of Mainwaring's engine leads them to France and an air show. They find themselves incarcerated in an asylum and on the run from the police. They are separated and make their escapes back to England, Holmes solving a jewel robbery en route, and a murder involving an intelligent ape after his return.

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Seven (2001)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Billy; Inspector Lestrade
Other Characters: Septimus Culthorpe (Brother Prior); Brother Pisces (Godfrey Carrington); Shopkeeper; Campion (Brother Shepherd); Brother Reaper (Brother Orchard); Brother Carp; Brother Abacus; Brother Chef; Brother Orchard; Ghostly Army; Village Boy; Izaak Tapforth; Village Constable; Carrington's relatives; Judge Burroughs; Peddlers; Crowd at the Prison; (Gerald Carter; J.D. Norton; Sir Arthur Carrington; Sir Richard Forrest)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Sussex; Grimstone Station; A Dogcart; Grimstone Priory; Grimstone Village; The Old Bailey; Regents Park; Outside a Prison
Story: The Secret Seven are not Enid Blyton's child detectives but a group of non-religious monks, seven in number, living in a priory in Sussex. The group's founder and leader, Septimus Culthorpe, tells Holmes & Watson that two of the monks have died in recent weeks, seemingly of natural causes, after receiving identical letters in the post. A third monk has just received a similar letter. Holmes & Watson join the order in the guise of Brother Hive & Brother Healer, and having found one of the letters hidden away, Holmes is quick to deduce the manner in which the monks were killed, but not the culprit.

His researches at the local library reveal that some years before, jewels were stolen from the priory. On the evening of his discovery a ghostly civil war army appears in the fields outside. Holmes leaves the priory to continue his investigations outside, but in his absence the monks' lambs, chickens and fish are slaughtered. Holmes returns to reveal the guilty party.

Anyhow

"Ideal Interview: Sherlock Holmes" (1893)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; (Dr Watson)
Characters Derived from Historical Figures: (Dr Donan Coyle)
Fictional Characters: (Mrs Grundy)
Other Characters: Anyhow; Station Officials; Guards; Policemen; Attendants; Passengers; Engine Driver; Socialist Orator; Water Rates Collector; (Holmes's Parents)
Date: 1893
Locations: Crystal Palace; Crystal Palace Station; A Train; Battersea Station; Victoria Station; 999, Faker Street
Story: Anyhow finds himself sharing a carriage with Holmes on the train home from the Crystal Palace. The following day, at Holmes's insistence, he interviews Holmes at 999, Faker Street. After avoiding Holmes's trap, he hears of Holmes's early days and career before becoming a detective, the training he received from Watson, and some of his failures, before he is able to make his escape.

A.R.B.

"Lord Sheffield's Mascot" (1906)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches II: 1905-1909 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Other Characters: Hanbury Ashcroft / Slim Jim; Hotel Maids; Cabman; Tin and Bagville Residents; Hotel Servant; Cadger; (Mr Warner; Lord Sheffield; Cricketers)
Locations: Australia; Sydney; Hotel Metropole; Sydney Cricket Ground
Story: Watson persuades Holmes to take a therapeutic holiday in Australia. There, they are called on in their room by English cricketer Hanbury Ashcroft. A diamond and ruby ornament, whose magic powers seem to guarantee success to the England team, belonging to Lord Sheffield has disappeared from a locked room, and a stilleto, monocle, and a letter threatening Warner, the team's captain, left in its place. A feather leads Holmes to the solution.

Alexander Armstrong & Ben Miller

Anthony Armstrong

"The Reigate Road Murder" (1926)
Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey); The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Holmlock Shears & Watnot
Other Characters: Lady; Husband
Locations: Shears's Baker Street Rooms; Lady's House; (Shears's Baker Street Urchins)
Story: Shears is visited by a lady whose husband has been murdered. Scotland Yard are baffled: not only can they not find the murderer, they can't even find the corpse. Shears visits the house and deduces that the three murderers rode away on bicycles in the direction of Reigate.

Jake Arnott

Mark Aronson

Marvin Aronson

E.G. Ashton

Hugh Ashton

"The Adventure of John Vincent Harden" (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; John Vincent Harden; Billy; Mrs Hudson; Wiggins; (Baker Street Irregulars; Stanley Hopkins; Baker Street Cook)
Other Characters: Street Urchins; Police Constable; Kitchen-Maid; Mrs Bulstrode; Albert Finchley; Harden's Footman; Lucy Jones; Lady Julia Harden; Cab Driver; Joshua Leman; (Duke of Northampton; Annabel; Senator; Harden's Servants; Wager Witnessses; Jonathan Eddoes)
Locations: Regent Street; 221B, Baker Street; Harden's House; Tottenham Court Road; Finchley's Ironmongers; Battersea; Leman's House
Story: Holmes and Watson witness Harden being mobbed by street urchins in Regent Street. After he collapses in the street, Watson tends to him and takes him back to Baker Street, where he tells Holmes that the gang of urchins has been following him and taunting him over a past indiscretion with a senator's daughter, and that he has received obscene letters at his home. Holmes believes that the American blackmailer, Joshua Leman, is behind Harden's problems, but is puzzled that no demands for money have been made.

"The Adventure of Vanaprastha" (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; Alec MacDonald 
Other Characters: Inspector Jowett; Jayant Singh; Constable Hawker; Anil Bannerji; Mrs Bryant; Colonel Richard Cardew; (Sir William Keighley; Signora Galliani; Norman Bryant)
Unnamed Characters: (Watson's Mother)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Eastbourne; Vanaprastha
Story: MacDonald consults Holmes over the death of Colonel Cardew, found slashed to death in his bed in Eastbourne. The Colonel's Indian cook, Bannerji, believes that his death is linked to the theft of a cursed idol from an Indian temple.

Ralph A. Ashton

"The Adventure of the Pius Missal" (1957)
Included in: Baker Street Journal, July 1957
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; The Cormorant; (Von Herder; The Politician; Professor Moriarty)
Historical Figures: Ralph A. Ashton; (Pope Pius V; The Pope)
Other Characters: Antique Shop Proprietor; K. Ryoichi
Locations: Antique Shop; 221B, Baker Street
Story: Ashton stops in at an antique shop on a wet afternoon. Hebuys an old German rifle, which he discovers to be a Von Herder, bearing an engraved plate which states that it was used to kill a cormorant. In the barrel, he discovers an old manuscript, written by Rodolph von Esche and Dr Watson.

Holmes is visited by Ryoichi who has brought his fishing cormorant with him. Holmes plans to use the bird to retrieve a missal by Pope Pius V, stolen by an M.P.

Isaac Asimov

"The Ultimate Crime" (1976)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes Through Time & Space (Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: (Professor Moriarty)
Other Characters: Roger Halsted; Thomas Trumbull; Emmanuel Rubin; Geoffrey Avalon; Mario Gonzalo; Henry; Ronald Mason; James Drake
Story: After general discussion of Sherlockian activities at a Black Widowers' monthly banquet, discussion turns to finding a suitable topic for a Sherlockian paper for Mason, a member of the Baker Street Irregulars. They choose to attempt to deduce the topic of Moriarty's Dynamics of An Asteroid. After much discussion it is Henry, their waiter, who comes up with the most acceptable solution.

Forrest Athey

"The Adventure of the Soporific Cipher" (1969)
Included in: Baker Street Journal, June 1969
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Jonathan Small)
Historical Figures:
Other Characters: Lord Alwin; Messenger Boy; Harold
Date: During the First World War / Friday 6th November, 1896
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Holmes looks back on his most satisfying case.

Lord Alwin arrives at Baker Street in distress having received a telegram from Oxford saying "Send more money". Having learned that Lord Alwin's son Harold is studying mathematics at Oxford, Holmes deduces that the message is a cipher that is somehow connected back to one of his old cases.

Bertram Atkey

"The Case of the Drugged Golfers" (1909)
Included in: The Armchair Detective, Volume 15 Number 2; Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches II: 1905-1909 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson
Other Characters: Colonel Cleak; Police Inspector; Golf Club Members; Waiter; Coachman; (Russian Grand Duke; Indian Cook; Golf Club Servants)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Blameshot Golf Club; A Train
Story: Colonel Cleak asks Holmes to investigate the disappearance of a prize cup at Blameshot Golf Club on the night of an Indian dinner. Holmes examines the club's kitchen, interviews a waiter and recovers the cup.

John Atkinson, Jr

A.A. Attanasio

"Sherlock Holmes and Basho" (1984)
Included in: Beastmarks (A.A. Attanasio)
Story Type: Pastiche (Narrated partly by Basho)
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Historical Figures: Basho
Other Characters:
Locations: The Castle Town of Broken Skulls; The Ancient Caves of Potters; 221B, Baker Street
Story: The poet, Basho, meets an ugly stranger on a journey, who makes a number of deductions about him. In Baker Street, Holmes tells Watson of a dream in which he met the poet.

Edmund Aubrey

Sherlock Holmes in Dallas (1980)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Mrs Hudson; Mrs Watson)
Historical Figures: (John F. Kennedy; Jacqueline Kennedy; Lee Harvey Oswald; Jack Ruby; Warren Commission Members; Lord Patrick Devlin; J.D. Tippit; Patrolman M.N. McDonald; Howard L. Brennan; Major General Edwin A. Walker; Professor A.L. Goodhart; Mark Lane; Edward Jay Epstein; Marina Oswald; Ruth Paine; Albert Bogard; Captain Will Fritz; Governor John Connally; Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig; Arnold Rowland; Barbara Rowland; Roy Truly; Patrolman Marrion Baker; Jack E. Dougherty; Lee Bowers; S.M. Holland; Senator Ralph W. Yarborough; Chief Jesse Curry; Robert H. Jackson; Abraham Zapruder; Elizabeth Cabell; Mayor Earle Cabell; George De Mohrenschildt; Dorothy De Mohrenschildt; Guy Banister; Carlos Bringuier; Ed Butler; FBI Informants; David Ferrie; J. Edgar Hoover; FBI Agents; Vincent Drain; Bardwell Odum; Milton Kaack; Warren De Brueys; Orest Pena; Ruperto Pena; Dean Andrews; Autopsy Physicians; Dr James Humes; Dr Pierre Finck; Admiral Calvin B. Galloway; Dr Robert McClelland; Dr Malcolm Perry; Dr Marion Thomas Jenkins; Commander J. Thornton Boswell; Roy Kellerman; Seymour Weitzman; Nellie Connally; Lt Jack Revill; Ray Rushing; Dial D. Ryder; Woodrow Greener; Earlene Roberts; Johnny Brewer; Wes Frazier; Journalists; Judge David L. Johnston; Tom Howard; John Servance)
Other Characters: Sue Gretchen; The Bourbon Street Ramblers
Secret Service Agent; Air Hostess; Washington Chauffeur; Georgetown Footman; Holmes's Clients; Distinguished Lady; Congress Members; Silver-Haired Senator; Washington Butler; Washington Cook; Texas Chauffeur; Dallas Hotel Page; Dallas Hotel Waiter; Dealey Plaza Drivers; Cab Driver; New Orleans Chauffeur; Maître d'hôtel; Hotel Porter; Hotel Waiters; New Orleans Office Workers; New York Chauffeur; Watson's Physician Friend; Friend's Servant; Plaza Page Boy; Eminent Justice; Senators; (Watson's Medical Partner; Oxford Scholars; Elevator Inspector; Book Depository Superintendent; Book Depository Staff; New Orleans Postmaster; New Orleans Librarian; New Orleans Legal Contact; Man in Dark Glasses; New York Letter Owners)
Date: October
Locations: Jermyn Street; Turkish Baths; 221B, Baker Street; Heathrow Airport; A Plane; USA; Washington DC; Dulles Airport; Client's House; Holmes's Washington Lodgings; National Gallery of Art; Texas; Fort Worth Airport; Dallas; Hotel; Houston Street; Elm Street; The Grassy Knoll; Dealey Plaza; Texas School Book Depository; Irving; West 5th Street; Louisiana; New Orleans; Airport; Vieux Carré; Hotel; Magazine Street; Post Office; Lafayette Square; 544 Camp Street; 531 Lafayette Street; City Library; Chartres Street; Jackson Square; New York; Fifth Avenue; Hotel; Plaza Hotel; Central Park; Upper East Side; Hungarian Restaurant; Pennsylvania Station; Union Station (Washington DC); Pennsylvania Avenue; Virginia; Air Force Base
Story: Holmes invites Watson to accompany him to America, where he has been asked, many years after the event, to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy. After studying the Warren Report, and meeting his clients in Washington, Holmes presents Watson with his views on previous attempts to explain the events of the assassination. In Dallas, they visit Dealey Plaza, and Holmes explores the Book Depository in the role of an elevator inspector. They fly to New Orleans, to investigate Oswald's political beliefs. Holmes becomes concerned about being shadowed. They travel on to New York, where Holmes's life is under threat as the result of an earlier mafiosi case, so that he can examine some documents, while Watson brushes up on his forensics. Back in Washington, they analyse the forensic evidence from the Warren Report, and Jack Ruby's statement, before reporting back o their clients.

NOTE: The address on the message Holmes is given when he arrives in Washington DC is "O Street, Georgetown", this was home to Jackie Kennedy's mother and stepfather, Janet & Hugh Auchinloss, and also to Bobby and Edith Kennedy, suggesting two possible identities for Holmes's client, "a lady of uncertain age".

Bliss Austin

Graham Avery