Sherlock Holmes Story Summaries

"The Adventure of a Solitary Pianist" (1922) Included in: The Ashburian, January 1922 Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Other Characters: Tremayne; (A. Hennessy) Unnamed Characters: Sleep-walking Pianist; Housemaster Locations: Canada; Holmes's Rooms; Ashbury College Story: Tremayne, captain of the Ashbury College football team, is terrified by strange noises. He consults Holmes.
	"The Adventure of Miss Nina Teenten; or, The Mystery of the Sheets" (1908) Included in: Legenda 1908 (Wellesley College) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Hemlock Jones & Watson Other Characters: Nina Teenten; Mr Griffith; (Tilly Smith) Date: 28 January, 1908 Locations: USA; Massachusetts; Wellesley; Wellesley Inn; Billings Hall Story: Miss Nina Teenten asks Hemlock Jones to help locate some missing papers. Miss Teenten proves an equal to Jones in the art of detection.
"The Adventure of the Dancing Teeny-Bopper" (1967) Included in: Chemical & Engineering News, Volume 45 Number 36, 28 August 1967 Story Type: Parody Chanonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Other Characters: Mr N-S Unnamed Characters: (Brewing Chemist; Farm Lads; Chemist's Children) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Norfolk; Riding Thorpe Manor Story: Holmes deduces from drawings of teeny-boppers made on his client's wall that the culprit is a brewing chemist worried about his daughter's nymphomania.
	"The Adventure of the Missing General" (1916) Included in: The Daily intelligencer (Belleville, Ontario), 11 April 1916 Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Skylark Romes; (Watson) Historical Figures: Arthur Conan Doyle; (William le Queux) Other Characters: Colonel Mars; Captain Courageous; General Fireplace; (Private Jawker) Unnamed Characters: Parlour Maid; Soldiers; (Cinema Impresario; Doyle's Visitors; Fireplace's Officers; War Secretary's Men; Sergeant) Date: 1916 Locations: Slowborough; Doyle's House; London Road; Fireplace's House; Cemetery Story: Skylark Romes calls on Conan Doyle and deduces that he is writing a history of the war. He accuses Doyle of neglecting him for to long, and tells him that he wants another case to work on. Having heard that Romes is visiting Doyle, Colonel Mars and Captain Courageous arrive and ask him to search for General Fireplace, who has gone missing after a dinner party for his officers. Doyle accompanies Romes to Fireplace's home, where Romes's deductions are confounded by the return of the General, but lead to the discovery of a hundred pounds of prime beef. Romes departs to return Watson's trousers.
"The Adventure of the Pink Pearl" (1900) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I: 1900-1904 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Sherlock Gnomes & Dr Totson Historical Figures: (General Kitchener) Other Characters: Major Spark; Private Jenkins; (21st Lancers; Emirs; Cape Rifles Man) Locations: South Africa; Bloemfontein; Market Square; Hotel; Spark's Cottage; Riverbank Story: Gnomes and Totson encounter Major Spark in Blomfontein, who tells them how he came into possession of a pink pearl during the campaign against the Khalifa. When they go to Spark's cottage to view the pearl, they discover that it has been stolen. Gnomes and Totson set off on a bicycle pursuit in the direction of Mozambique.
	"The Adventure of the President's Whisker" (1900) Included in: A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches (Charles Press) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Sherlock Gnomes & Dr Totson Historical Figures: (President of the Transvaal Republic (Paul Kruger); President's Wife (Anna Kruger)) Other Characters: Harbour Crowd; R.H.A. Policeman; Waiter; English Officer) Locations: South Africa; Capetown; Harbour; Restaurant Story: Sherlock Gnomes and Totson are in Capetown having both volunteered for service in the Boer War. They hear from a London policeman, who is also volunteering, that the President of the Transvaal Republic has had his longest, and most favourite, whisker stolen from his face. A discovery in Gnomes's soup solves the case.
"The Adventures of Henry P. Gomez Jr: The Case of the Erotic Exposures" (1981) Included in: Toike Oike (University of Toronto), 22 October 1981 Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Henry P. Gomez Jr Historical Figures: Claire Hoy; (John Sewell; Joseph McCarthy) Other Characters: Baptist Minister; Disturbed Old Lady; 221B Woman; Hoy's Secretary Locations: Canada; Toronto; Swuare One; Grandma Clancy's Sexual Aid & Adult Toy Shop; 221B, Baker Street Story: The narrator sees shady detective Henry P. Gomez collecting photos of Toronto Mayor John Sewell. After climbing the seventeen steps to 221B, Baker Street, he surprises a woman, and phones reporter Claire Hoy.
	"The Adventures of Potluck Homes" (1975) Included in: The Clarion Call Volume 47 Number 5 (Clarion State College), 1 October 1975 Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Potluck Homes & Dr Whatsin Other Characters: Miss Thadeous T. Smithers / Buffy Finley Unnamed Characters: (Homes's Landlady; Mr Troy) Locations: Faker Street Story: Glass designer, Miss Smithers, asks Potluck Homes to find the missing leg of her favourite creation, a donkey known as the "Glass Ass". The case leads to the death of Homes and his client, but his head solves the mystery.
"An Amateur Detective" (1895) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes) Other Characters: Doyle; Tea Kettle Man; Conductor Date: December, 1895 Locations: USA; Baltimore; West Lombard Street; Greene Street; Poppleton Street Story: On a Baltimore street car, Doyle, a Sherlock Holmes reader, deduces that a fellow passenger will leave a kettle his wife has been nagging him about buying, on the car when he gets off.
	"Another Deduction" (1897) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Other Characters: Dr Cubebs; Bartender Story: Holmes deduces that the man by the door is a bartender.
"Another Mystery Solved" (1896) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detective: Herlock Sholmes Other Characters: Lanky Countryman; (Man Across the Street) Locations: Sholmes's Office Story: After a deduction about his countryman caller and a cow, Sholmes is able to send his caller to his real destination.
	"The Ape of Agate" (1926) Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey) Story Type: Parody Detective: The Great Detective & His Boy Assistant Other Characters: "Chink"; Policeman Locations: The Great Detective's Rooms; Hotel Magnificent; The Zoo Story: The great detective investigates the murder of the Maharajah of Chung-Lo. He learns from a servant that the Maharajah's agate has been stolen by the Chinese. After a deal of thought he visits the monkey cage at the zoo.
	"Baffled" (1919) Also published as "Another Adventure About that Dear Old Has-Been, Sherlog Combes" Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey); Sherlock Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches II: 1915-1919 (Bill Peschel); A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches (Charles Press) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detective: Sherlog Combes Other Characters: The Hound of the Vilkerbaskes; Lady Client; (Husband; Baby) Locations: Combes's Baker Street Rooms Story: Not having had a case for years, elderly detective Combes is visited by a woman. Having tried to deduce her reason for calling, he confesses himself powerless in the face of London rents when she tells him that she wants him to find a house for her family.
"Bearlock Bones" (1895) Included in: The Hampshire Telegraph, 23 November 1895; and on this site Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detective: Bearlock Bones Other Characters: Bones's Biographer; Cross-Eyed Girl; Actor; (Clarence de Montgiffin) Locations: Bones's Rooms Story: Bones deduces that his client is cross-eyed from the behaviour of an actor in the street below. On her arrival he deduces the identity of her missing sweetheart by examining her face.
	"Betrayed by His Feet" (1901) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Other Characters: Miss Marvel; Tall Man Locations: Theatre Story: Holmes deduces that the man sitting behind him is very tall.
"B-Men" (1919) Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey) Story Type: Children's Parody Detective: Sherlock Hums & Watson Bee Other Characters: Buzzy, Baron of Brains; Royal Chef; King Bumble Bee; Muggsy Moth; Sluggsy Moth; The Spider; Wiggly Worm; Princess Honey; Fireflies; Water Bugs; Tapeworm; Two Butterflies; Caterpillar; Spud; Potato-bug Squadron; Cenipede; Grasshoppers; Grasshopper Captain; Jury; Judge Benjamin Beetle; Ambrose Ant; The Electric Eel; Guards; Warder; (King's Guard) Locations: Washingtub, D.H. (District of Hives); Honeycomb Headquarters of the Bee Detective Bureau; The Palace; Wiggly Worm's Den; The Spider's Web; Court of Common Fleas; Spider's Cell; The Aquarium Story: A message arrives at Bee Detective Bureau Headquarters by cricket telegraph, but Watson Bee doesn't understand it. Three days later Baron Buzzy arrives, sent by King Bumble to consult Sherlock Hums over the Spider's kidnapping of Princess Honey. The Royal Chef prepares the jelly roll ransom, while Hums questions the Moth brothers. A reward is offered, but it is stolen by the Spider. Buzzy bribes underworld boss Wiggly Worm and sets out to rescue the Princess. Hums sets out to do battle armed with a darning needle. Buzzy launches an all-out attack, and Hums arrives when it is all over. The Spider is tried and sentenced to the Electric Eel.
	"By His Left Eyelashes" (1908) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches II: 1905-1909 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detective: Hemlock Holmes Other Characters: Horse Doctor; Spectacles Wearer Locations: A Train Story: Holmes attempts to deduce a fellow train traveller's job from observation of his eyelashes.
"The Case of the Missing Postmen" (1983) Included in: Russ Abbot's Madhouse Annual Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Barratt Holmes; Dr Wimpey Canonical Characters: (Mrs Hudson; Hound of the Baskervilles) Other Characters: Jem Crump; Rudyard Luck; Lady Izzatramp Unnamed Characters: Pea-souper; Postman's Wife; Cart Driver; Ploughman; Crone; Postmen Date: November Locations: Holmes's Baker Street Rooms; A Train; Crewe; Devonshire; Moor; Kennels; Infirmary; Inn; Trafalgar Square; Olympia Story: Holmes is consulted by a postman's wife from Devon, whose husband has disappeared, the fourth postman to do so, while making a delivery at the home of Lady Izzatramp. The trail leads from a kennels in Devonshire to a dog show at Olympia.
"A Christmas Fantasy" (1893) Included in: The Speaker, 23 December 1893 Story Type: Supernatural Homage Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; (Professor Moriarty) Fictional Characters: Fred; Fred's Wife; Ebenezer Scrooge; Jacob Marley; (Cratchit Family; Tiny Tim Cratchit) Other Characters: Spirit of the London Fog; Spirit of Vegetarianism Unnamed Characters: Fred's Children; Fred's Servants; Fred's Cook; (Funeral Mourners) Date: Christmas Eve Locations: Fred Scrooge's House Story: Scrooge and Marley's ghosts visit Fred Scrooge and his family the Christmas after Scrooge's death. The tradition continues over successive Christmas Eves, on which they encounter other ghosts, including the ghost of Sherlock Holmes.
	"Clever Deduction" (1913) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Other Characters: Train Passengers Locations: A Train Story: Holmes deduces that the town his train has stopped in has a winning baseball team.
"Combs Solves Case" (1960) Included in: The McAuleyan (Catherine McAuley High School), April 1960 Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Shmerlock Combs & Blotson Other Characters: Mrs Herbert H. Hammerhead III; Herbert H. Hammerhead III Locations: 10, Faker Street; Wacky Woman's Hat Shoppe; Hammerhead's House Story: Shermlock Combs and Blotson follow Mrs Herbert H. Hammerhead, III as she goes Easter-bonnet shopping. Blotson loses his wig.
	"Croquet Caper" (1958) Included in: Angel, Number 14, May-July 1958 Story Type: Children's Comic Strip Sherlockian Detectives: Stanley; Stanley's Mother; Stanley's Dog; Stanley's Father Canonical Characters: Dr Watson Other Characters: Lord Fevishum; Lady Fevishum Locations: USA; Stanley's House; Diner Story: Dressed in his Sherlock Holmes detective kit, Stanley scares him mother with a magnifying glass. His father asks him to find his lost golf ball, and he imagines himself as Sherlock Holmes with Watson, solving the mystery of Lord Fevishum's missing croquet ball.
"Danny Jones and the Great Detective" Included in: Thrilling Detection & Mystery Stories (Leonard Matthews) Story Type: Children's Science Fiction Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes (The Great Detective); Mrs Hudson Other Characters: Danny Jones; Mr Norris; Solly Paunce; Barmaid; Cabby; Street Arab; Cart Driver; Anarchists Date: 1970s / 1895 Locations: Danny's House; Bottle Street, E1; Tavern; 221B, Baker Street; Marmalade Factory; Danny's School Story: Danny Jones has forgotten to do his history homework, researching 19th Century London, so uses his Time Clock to take him to 1895. On arriving he is picked up by Solly Paunce, and taken to a tavern, where he is drugged and his clock stolen. He wakes up on the street, where he is found by the Great Detective who takes him to Baker Street. The Great Detective sets out after Paunce, but after several hours, when he hasn't come back, a message arrives in a jar of marmalade - he is being held prisoner in a marmalade factory. Danny sets out to free him and retrieve his clock, but ends up facing a gang of anarchists.
	"Decoding an Adolescent Daughter" (1921) Included in: A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches (Charles Press) Story Type: Parody Detective: Sherlock Bones Other Characters: Phyllis's Father; (Phyllis) Locations: USA; Bones' Rooms Story: Phyllis's strange behaviour in front of a mirror is explained to her father by Sherlock Bones.
"A Deduction Process" (1900) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I: 1900-1904 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Sherlock Holmes Jr Other Characters: Narrator; Man with Dark Moustache; (Wife; Hired Girl) Story: Sherlock Holmes Jr deduces that a man with a moustache is married, ought to live in a flat but doesn't, is left-handed, and has a wife who is afraid of the hired-girl.
	"The Deep Mystery" (1917) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches II: 1915-1919 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Sheerluck Bones Other Characters: Silas Dinglemore; Charles Scraplin Dosh; Mrs Dinglemore; Miss Dinglemore Locations: Bones's Office Story: Silas Dinglemore hires Bones to look into the financial state of his prospective son-in-law. Bones examines the young man's watch.
"The Downfall of Our Old Friend Sherlock Holmes" (1904) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I: 1900-1904 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Inspector Lestrade) Other Characters: Amelia Ryan; Amelia's Friend; (Rising Practitioner; Crandell; Adams; Amelia's Father; Amalfi Gang) Date: 1895 Locations: 22, Baker Street; Charing Cross Hotel; Watson's House Story: Watson is visiting Holmes at 22, Baker Street, when they are called on by Amelia Ryan, a Daughter of the Revolution. Since coming to England, a package of replicas of the Declaration of Independence, and a badge for a society she founded, have been stolen from her hotel room. Watson solves the mystery, and Holmes calls at his house in disguise.
	"An Easy Case for Padlock Jones" (1903) 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 Sherlockian Detective: Padlock Jones Other Characters: Colonel Walkley; (Georgy Walkley; Mother; Grandmother; Six Aunts; Nurse; Detectives; Boy; Tall, Dark Man; Escaped Lunatic) Locations: Jones's Office Story: Walkley consults Jones when his pampered four-year-old son is kidnapped. A tall man was seen giving him apples when he was left at the garden gate by his nurse. Within an hour Jones is able to send Walkley to the Bronx Insane Asylum to reclaim his son.
"Egbert Elephant" (1949) Included in: Raggedy Ann and Andy, Number 39 (August 1949) Story Type: Children's Comic Sherlockian Detectives: Benjamin Holmes [Benjamin Penguin] & Watson [Egbert Elephant] Characters Based on Canonical Characters: Professor Haggerty [Professor Moriarty] Fictional Characters: Tuffy Tiger; Scooter Bill Unnamed Characters: Cab Driver; Palace Guard; Courtier; King; Princess Locations: The Jungle; Holmes's Rooms; A Street; The Palace Story: Benjamin Penguin dreams that he is Benjamin Holmes, with Egbert Elephant as his Watson. They pursue the notorious criminal Professor Haggerty to the Palace, where they rescue the King.
	"Elementary, My Dear Watson" (1989) Included in: The Health Service Journal, Volume 99, Number 5181 (14-28 December 1989) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Professor Moriarty) Historical Figures: (Arthur Conan Doyle) Locations: 221B, Baker Street Story: Holmes deduces that Watson has applied for and failed to get a new job, having been pronounced unsuitable by the results of the psychometric test. He believes that Moriarty is behind the rising popularity of the pseudoscience of personality tests.
"The Famishing Footsteps" (1922) Included in: The College Cheer, Volume 15 Number 8 (29 November 1922) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Nobody Homes Other Characters: Milkman Locations: Homes's Rooms Story: Nobody Homes readies himself as he hears footsteps approaching his door at midnight.
	"The Fatal Gas Bill" (1897) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Hemlock Jones Other Characters: Mr Kimberley; Edward Blair; James Sutton; John Higgins Locations: Jones's Rooms; Kimberley's Jewellers Shop Story: Mr Kimberley consults Hemlock Jones over a series of thefts from his jeweller's shop. He suspects that one of his three clerks is the culprit. The cost of gas provides Jones with the solution.
"The Fête and Fortune of Funnilla" (1894) Included in: Fun, Volume LIX, 9 January - 13 March, 1894 Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Watson Sherlock & Potson Fictional Characters: (Robinson Crusoe) Historical Figures: (Captain Kidd) Characters Based on Historical Figures: (Gusarris = Augustus Harris) Other Characters: Funnilla Snaggles; Mr Snaggles; Mrs Snaggles; Duke of Saville Row; (Mulvaney; Major Muggle; Jones in Cornwall) Unnamed Characters: The Stranger; Drenched Wayfarer; Policeman; Passing Person; Garden Party Guests; Funnilla's Admirers; Band; Singers; Attendants; Judge; Jury; Clubmen; Boy at the Club; Mariner; Ship's Crew: Hunters; Zulus; Mayor Date: December 21st Locations: London; Clare Market; Theatre; The Strand; Common Lodging House; Regent's Park; Upas Tree Lodge; The Old Bailey; Sweeting's; The Docks; Aboard a Ship; Africa; Sherlock's Baker Street Rooms Story: Funnilla is born the daughter of a fishmonger in Clare Market. On her seventeenth birthday, she visits the theatre alone, where, after the performance, a stranger lends her the shelter of his umbrella. He offers her fame and marriage, but flees in a hansom after learning her name. She vows revenge and takes to the stage in the chorus at Drury Lane, where Jones, one of the stagehands falls in love with her. She attains fame and fortune, but desires an unknown something more. At a garden party at her home, Upas Tree Lodge, she is arrested by Watson Sherlock for the murder of Jones in Cornwall, but she is released on bail when Jones turns up alive. The Duke of Saville Row warns her that her life is in danger and that she must flee the country, and that the Stranger is related to her, and that her parents are not her real parents. After returning to the stage, she is kidnapped, only to return and find true love NOTE: The story is written in ten chapters, each in the style of a different author: I: The Author of Dinah's Cross Eyes (George Meredith); II: Joker K. Joker (Jerome K. Jerome); III: Walter Byzantium (Sir Walter Besant); IV: Weeder (Ouida); V: Backyard Skipling (Rudyard Kipling); Miss Brad-an'-Awl (Mary Elizabeth Braddon); VII: Barrie Jemmini (J.M. Barrie); VIII: Louis D'Or Stiverso (Robert Louis Stevenson); IX: Reeder Staggered (H. Rider Haggard); X: Watson Sherlock (Arthur Conan Doyle)
	"The Genius of Herlock Sholmes" (1895) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Herlock Sholmes & Woctor Dotson Other Characters: Mrs Calbro; (Henry M. Calbro; Calbro's Companions) Locations: Sholmes's Rooms Story: Mrs Calbro consults Sholmes over her missing husband, last seeen with three companions and £94. Sholmes is able to describe her husband in detail and guarantee his safe return.
"Gossip" (1899) Included in: Nassau Literary Magazine, Volume 55 Number 5 (December 1899) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Fictional Characters: Michael Volodyovski [Pan Michael]; Pan Longin; John Ridd; Ursus; Taffy Wynne; Aramis; D'Artagnan; Ivanhoe; Porthos; Athos; François; Thord the Northman; Rawdon Crawley; Amyas Leigh; Robert Clay; Alan Breck Stewart; Ben Hur; Tom Brown; Becky Sharp; Lord Steyne; George Osborne; Amelia Sedley; Hope Langham; Madame de Bois-Tracy; Onufry Zagloba Biblical Figures: Samson Historical Figures: Richard I [Le Noir Fainéaut]; Roland; Nero; Richard III Unidentified Characters: Clay; Hope Unnamed Characters: Knights; Ladies; American Girls; English Dames; Gladiators; Emerors; Kings; Sixteenth Century Muckers; Subs; Rubbers; Coaches Locations: Valhalla Story: In Valhalla, Sherlock Holmes leads his Nassau Lit Eleven team in a football match against the Bookman Eleven.
	"He Solves Another" (1896) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detective: Herlock Sholmes Other Characters: Sholmes's Maid; Veiled Woman; Sholmes's Cook Locations: Sholmes's Rooms Story: After a series of deductions about his latest client, Holmes discovers that she is an old acquaintance.
	"Herlock Sholmes Again" (1903) Also published as "The Mysterious Glove" Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey); Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I: 1900-1904 (Bill Peschel); A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches (Charles Press) Story Type: Parody Detectives: Herlock Sholmes & Swatson Other Characters: Manicurist Locations: Sholmes's Rooms Story: Swatson brings Sholmes a glove. Before he makes a startling series of deductions they have to decide if the account of the case should be a novel or a short story. The glove's owner arrives to reclaim it.
	"Herlock Sholmes' Great Discovery" (1931) Included in: The Lehigh Burr, October 1931 Story Type: Parody Detectives: Herlock Sholmes & Dr Watson Locations: Lunch Car Story: In a lunch car, Herlock Sholmes explains why the kettle and coffeepot are singing.
"Herlock Shomes At It Again" (1916) Included in: The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler); Sherlock Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches II: 1915-1919 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Herlock Shomes & Dr Flotsam / Dr Hotsam Other Characters: Intha Pink; Denin Road Crowd; Honoria Clarenceaux; Sandy Sam; Tim Squealer; Buzzing Bill Banks; Vera; Chumley Marchbanks; Crook; Despatch Rider; Lizzie Jones (Jacques Hallaert; Honoria's Father) Date: During the Great War Locations: Belgium; Typers; Denin Road; Bellewarde Bec; Trueside Corner; Sam's Shop; Hordon Goose Farm Story: Intha Pink is sent out to build a dug-out before meeting with Lizzie. Honoria discovers the body of Bill Banks in a culvert and Shomes is on hand to investigate.
	"Herlock Shomes' Farewell" (1904) Included in:Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I: 1900-1904 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Advertising Parody Detectives: Herlock Shomes & Potson Canonical Characters: (Mrs Hudson; Professor Moriarty) Other Characters: (General Kutusoff; General Kuropatkin; T. Catesby) Date: Monday Locations: Baker Street; Shomes's Rooms; Potson's Rooms Story: Potson calls on Shomes to get his opinion on the colour of some lino. Shomes departs to track down a missing Russian Chief of Tactics, but returns to reveal how Catesbys' Lino has brought an end to his career.
"Holmes and the Startled Banker" (1897) Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey); Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Detective: Hemlock Coombs / Badlock Tombs / Townclock Fumes / Shylock Plumes / Hemlock Booms / Padlock Booms / Sherlock Rooms Other Characters: Narrator; William Wogglestone; (Scotland Yard Detectives) Locations: Coombs's Room Story: Coombs (who repeatedly changes his name throughout the story) deduces that his friend is concerned about a suspender button. He further deduces that a servant girl is at the door, which opens to reveal a disshevelled man, about whom he makes a series of deductions before learning that he is bank president Wogglestone on a quest for the gas company's offices.
	"Holmes, Jr, at an Easy One" (1901) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I: 1900-1904 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Sherlock Holmes, Jr & His Companion Other Characters: Father; Silk Hat Man; (Wife; Child) Locations: A Street Story: Holmes makes deductions about a man, his wife, his infant child, and his mode of leaving his house that morning, from marks on the back of his coat.
"The Holographic Footprint Case" (1972) Included in: Electromechanical Design, Volume 16 Number 9, September 1972 Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Professor [John] Moriarty) Other Characters: (Lord Snowstorm) Unnamed Characters: (Diamond Thieves; Carnaby Street Bootmaker) Date: 1970s Locations: 221B, Baker Street Story: Having being knocked out by Professor Moriarty, Watson asks Holmes to explain to him how he used a laser camera to solve the theft of Lord Snowstorm's Obelisk of Katmandu diamond to scan for an otherwise invisible footprint in a plush carpet. His lecture over, Holmes uses the laser to blast himself back to the nineteenth century.
	"Horrible Horace, or The Great Perambulator Mystery of the '90's" (1926) Included in: The Haverfordian, March 1926 Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Dr Herlock Sholmes & Professor Whatsen Other Characters: (Oliver Wendell Burbank; Burbank; Horrible Horace) Unnamed Characters: Elevator Boy; Newsboy; Cabby; (Nurse; Policeman) Date: 1890s Locations: USA; Massachusetts; Boston; Sholmes's Rooms Story: Sholmes takes Whaten out to solve the great perambulator mystery. Oliver Wendell Burbank, the son of a millionaire bean importer has disappeared from his pram in the park. After searching throughout Boston, they receive a lead from a drunken cabby.
"The Hound of Cactusville" (1985) Included in: The Dandy Book 1986 Story Type: Comic Strip Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes) Fictional Characters: Desperate Dan; Aunt Aggie Other Characters: Mayor of Cactusville Unnamed Characters: Cinema Audience; Cactusville Residents; Museum Guide; Schoolchildren Locations: Cactusville; Cinema; Dan's House; Mayor's House; Museum; Luminous Paint Factory Story: After seeing a Sherlock Holmes movie at the cinema, Desperate Dan and Aunt Aggie spot a glowing hound on a rooftop. Dan dresses as Sherlock Holmes to investigate.
	"The House-boat" (1898) Included in: Liber Brunensis 1898 (Brown University) Story Type: Fantasy Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Biblical Characters: Noah; Ham; Adam; (Shem; Gabriel) Fictional Characters: Shylock; Hawkshaw; Lecoq; Daniel Webster; (Man Friday) Historical Figures: William Shakespeare; Napoleon Bonaparte; Duke of Wellington; Sir Walter Raleigh; Dr Samuel Johnson; James Boswell; Demosthenes; Caspar Whitney; P.T. Barnum; Sir William Blackstone; Noah Webster; (Madame Recamier; Socrates) Locations: Hades Story: The Associated Shades baseball team are celebrating a victory when Johnson and Boswell arrive with a copy of Harpie's Weekly containing an article by Caspar Whitney questioning the team's right to amateur status. Whitney arrives at the club and is put on trial.
"How He Did It" (1897) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Herlock Shomes Other Characters: Young Man; Melinda; (Wedding Party) Locations: Railway Car Story: Herlock Shomes deduces that a young couple aboard the train he is travelling on are newly-weds.
	"Hubert Holmes Boy Detective" (1955) Included in: Angel, No. 2 (May-July 1955) Story Type: Children's Story Sherlockian Detective: Hubert Holmes Other Characters: Mr Holmes; Mrs Holmes; The Mayor Locations: Hubert's House Story: Hubert Holmes is told off for laying traps with flour and a mousetrap to catch the person who has been raiding the fridge. His father attends a council meeting at which it is announced that council funds are missing and the mayor has disappeared. Hubert reveals that he has the mayor locked in the garden shed.
"Ideal Holmes" (1984) Included in: Big K, Number 7, October 1984 Story Type: Parody Review Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Inspector Lestrade) Other Characters: (Cabbie) Locations: 221B, Baker Street Story: Holmes reads Watson a news article on Melbourne House's new Sherlock Holmes computer game.
	"Impressions of Sherlock Holmes" (1894) Included in: My Evening with Sherlock Holmes (John Gibson & Richard Green); Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Other Characters: Reporter; Hyams; Estelle; Young Priest; (Estelle's Son) Locations: Lenox; Hyams's Cottage; Sherlock's Home Story: A reporter hears how Holmes's friend, the golfer Hyams, was snared into marriage, and hears an explanation from Holmes of the rise of cults.
"In Sheep's Clothing" (1915) Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey); Sherlock Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches II: 1915-1919 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Detective: Corporal Holmes & Watson Other Characters: Two Soldiers; Private Jones Locations: Station Booking Office Story: Watson finds himself on picquet duty at the railway station. Two soldiers and a civilian enter the booking office. Holmes identifies the civilian as an AWOL soldier in mufti, from a dropped handkerchief.
	Jack El Destripador (1945 translation by Anthony Boucher) Included in: The Harlot Killer (Allan Barnard) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Historical Figures: Jack The Ripper; Mr Warrn (Sir Charles Warren) Other Characters: Murphy; Lilian Bell; Harriette Blunt; Grover Bell; Harry Taxon; Mrs. Bonnet; Mrs. Cajana; Comtesse de Malmaison; Marquis de Malmaison; Comtesse's Maid; Carlos Lake; Dr. Roberto Fitzgerald; Ruth Fitzgerald; Captain Harry Thomson Date: 1888 Locations: Warrn's Office; Lilian's Bedroom; Opium Den Story: Warrn is telling Holmes of the 37 victims of the Ripper, when Holmes's rival, Murphy, arrives with news of another - the singer Lilian Bell. Holmes & Murphy make a £1000 bet as to which of them will catch the Ripper. Holmes visits an opium den, at which Bell was a customer and learns that she was supplied by an Indian doctor. At that moment the Ripper claims another victim, the Comtesse de Malmaison. Holmes finally resorts to disguising himself as a woman in order to catch the Ripper. NOTE: The "translation" by Anthony Boucher that appears in EQMM and The Harlot Killer is, in fact, a summary of the plot of the original Spanish version. Holmes's assistant is named Harry Taxon, their landlady is Mrs. Bonnet.
Jack El Destripador (2014 translation by Joseph Lovece) Published as: Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Historical Figures: Jack The Ripper; Charles Warren Other Characters: Murphy; Lilian Bell; Harriet Blunt; Grover Bell; Josias Wakfield; Harry Taxon; Opium Den Butler; Madam Cahana; Countess Irene de Malmaison; Opium Den Servants; French Shoe Shop Clerk; Malmaison's Servant; Marquis de Malmaison; Bautista; Miss Dolly; Charles Lake; Captain Harry Thompson; Ruth Fitzgerald; Fitzgerald's Surgery Servant; Dr Robert Fitzgerald; Patrick O'Connor; Cab Driver; (Gloucester Road Prostitute; Mr Hunter; Sailor; Bar Owner; Helmsman's Wife; Helmsman's Wife's Lady Friend; Wealthy Merchant Woman; Warren's Men; Lilian's Coach Driver; Mrs Bounet; Miss Daisy; Fitzgerald's Porter; Ruth's Father; Thompson's Mother) Date: 1888 Locations: Central Police Office; Oxford Street; Lilian's Apartment; Holmes's Rooms; Tooly Street; Opium Den; Howard Street; Laurin and Co.; West End; Malmaison's House; Lake's House; Hyde Park; Cromwell Road; Fitzgerald's Surgery; Walworth Street Story: Holmes returns from Italy to find London in the midst of the Jack the Ripper murders. In the space of three months, thirty-seven women have been murdered. Warren asks Holmes for advice. Their meeting is interrupted by Murphy with news of a thirty-eighth victim, the singer Lilian Bell, murdered in a coach as she was driven home from the theatre. Holmes challenges Murphy to solve the case, and Warren offers a champagne prize to the winner. Lilian's brother, Grover is discussing her legacy with her maid, Harriet, when an undertaker arrives. His strange behaviour ends in an encounter with Murphy. clue takes Holmes, in disguise, to an opium den, where another murder is revealed, and an inquiry in a shoe shop reveals her identity. Holmes learns the Ripper's identity at the same time as the Ripper's wife begins to suspect her husband of concealing a dark secret. Holmes baits a trap, with himself in disguise as the lure, and with the aid of his assistant, Harry Taxon.
	"The Krazy Tale of Sherlock Bones" (1980) Included in: Krazy Annual 1981 Story Type: Comic Strip Sherlockian Detective: Sherlock Bones & What's-On Other Characters: Arfur the Dog; The Great Chatto; Wilfrid the Dog Unnamed Characters: Kids; Kidnapper Locations: Bones's Rooms; Scagthorpe Road Story: While What's-On is watching a TV that hasn't been invented yet, a ventriloquist's dummy brings Sherlock Bones the news that The Great Chatto, a ventriloquist has been kidnapped. Bones and What's-On follow the trail to Scagthorpe Road, where a secret tunnel leads them to Wilfrid the talking dog, and the rescue of Chatto.
"The Life and Exploits of Shylock Holmes" (1919) Included in: The Bates Student Magazine, June 12, 1919. Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detective: Shylock Holmes Other Characters: Freshmen; Officer Date: 8 December, 1896 - 1919 Locations: USA; Maine; Sangerville; College Story: Shylock Holmes is born in Sangerville, Maine, torments a cat, destroys a locomotive, and achieves fame as a decorator. He builds a bomb and laughs at a friend in a lake.
	"The Looking-Glass" (1917) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches II: 1915-1919 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Other Characters: Tearoom Customers Locations: Australia; Sydney; Tearoom Story: Holmes expounds on the effects of Sydney architecture on ladies' make-up.
"M Is for Mystery" (2008) Included in: Brain Games 2 (Elkhonon Goldberg) Story Type: Puzzle Sherlockian Detective: Shellshock Rome & Two-Star Condo Locations: Raffles Club Story: Playing chess in his club with his companion Two-Star Condo, Shellshock Rome bemoans the public's lack of interest in mystery.
	"The Malgrath Mystery" (1923) Included in: Kodakery, Volume 10 Number 8, June 1923 Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Other Characters: Oscar W. Osgood; (J.P. Malgrath) Unnamed Characters: Cab Driver Date: Summer Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Reffington Estate Story: Osgood consults Holmes after taking a photo of his employer, J.P. Malgrath, which appeared to show a small fountain shooting out of his head.
"The Marischal Manor Mystery" (1923) Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey); Sherlock Holmes Jazz Age Parodies and Pastiches I: 1920-1924 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody / Script Detectives: Smallpox Soles & Dr Rotson Other Characters: Dr Von Leuwicutz; (Mrs Sudson; Professor O'Myhatty; Madame Flannelette; Lady Mary Bezzlement; The Honourable Minerva Lynne; Sir Arthur Bone-and-Oil; Squiller) Locations: Soles' Study; Marischal Manor Story: Soles and Rotson travel to Marischal Manor where the Honourable Minerva Lynne has been charged with the murder of a small boy. Rotson finds a clue. Back in their rooms they are visited by Von Leuwicutz who reveals that he has poisoned Soles, but Soles is too clever for him, even if he does manage to lose Rotson.
	"The Martian Mystery" (1983) Included in: Russ Abbot's Madhouse Annual Story Type: Comic Strip Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Barratt Holmes; Dr Wimpey Fictional Characters: Seven Dwarfs Story: Holmes and Wimpey find a trail of footprints, in groups of fourteen. Holmes deduces a Martian monster.
"Mary of the Prairie, or, Should She Have Let Him?" (1927) Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey) Story Type: Parody Detectives: Gabriel Syme & Blotson Other Characters: Steve Roughneck; Mary (of the Prairie); Mary's Mother; Mary's Father; Pedro; Arab; Captain of the St Vitus; Cannibals Locations: The Prairie; Dead Dog Ranch; Symes' Rooms; The Desert; Aboard the St Vitus; Island Story: Cowpuncher Roughneck is in love with Mary (of the prairie), who is kidnapped by Pedro. Mary's father calls on Syme to find her. After searching everywhere, Roughneck arrives in the desert. Mary, meanwhile is shipwrecked on a cannibal island. Roughneck charters a plane and searches the islands, Mary is captured by the cannibals, and Syme and Blotson remove their disguises.
	Met His Match" (1897) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detective: Herlock Sholmes Other Characters: Reporter Locations: USA; Chicago; State Street; Sholmes's Rooms Story: Sholmes seems to have met his match in making deductions about his latest caller, until he realises that the man is a reporter.
"The Missing Money" (1928) Included in: The Vulcan Advocate, 14 December 1928 Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detective: Herlock Solmes Historical Figures: (Mr Discher) Other Characters: Mr Stephens; (Mrs Stephens) Date: December Story: Solmes is consulted by Mr Stephens who gave his wife $25 dollars and came home to find the money gone and more things on the table than she could possibly have bought with it. Solmes points him to a torn-out advertisement in the Vulcan Advocate.
	"A Missing Monsoon" (1896) Included in: The Madras Weekly Mail, 29th October 1896 Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Other Characters: Inspector Littlego Unnamed Characters: London Under-Secretary; Ship Passengers; Colonel; Calcutta Man; Punjab Man; Madras Under-Secretaries; Chief Secretary; Boy; Meteorological Reporter; Professors; Museum Curator; Astronomer; Chemistry Professor; sappers and Miners; Professor of English; Presidency College Principal; Adyar Messenger; Council Members; Bishop; Municipality President; Madras Lancers Date: October 31 - November 30, 1916 Location: Charing Cross Station; India; Madras Story: Scotland Yard officer Inspector Littlego is sent on a secret mission to Madras. On arrival, he discovers that he has been assigned the task of tracking down a monsoon that had been missing for several weeks. He sends his team of under-secretaries, professors and other experts out in search of it, to no avail. he is visited by the astral form of Sherlock Holmes, who is in Tibet, qualifying for the Brotherhood, and who helps him locate the monsoon from a baggy-trouser clue. NOTE: Seven years prior to "The Empty House" being published, the anonymous author of this story places Holmes in Tibet after his "death" at Reichenbach.
"The Missing Whisky Case" (1950) Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey) Story Type: Parody Detectives: Herlock Sholmes & Wactor "Wacky" Dotson Other Characters: Tom; Club Secretary Locations: Sholmes's Apartment; The Club Story: Sholmes receives a phone call telling him that whisky has been stolen from the club. He visits the club and decides that there is nothing he can do about it.
	"Mistake Was Impossible" (1896) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Other Characters: Friend; Two Brothers; (Uncle) Story: Holmes deduces that two men are brothers mourning their uncle, and that one has been cut out of the will.
	"Mrs Dr Sherlock Holmes" (1894) Also published as "Meet the Mrs (Irene?)" and "No One Can Escape" Included in: The Fort Wayne Sentinel, 29 December 1894; My Evening with Sherlock Holmes (John Gibson & Richard Green); Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel); A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches (Charles Press) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detective: Mrs Dr Sherlock Holmes Other Characters: Man in the Tramcar; (Man's First Wife; Second Wife; Son; Butcher's Wife; Errand) Locations: A Tramcar Story: On the way to solve a murder at a butcher's shop, Mrs Dr Sherlock Holmes makes a series of deductions about a man travelling on the tramcar with her.
"The Mysterious Incident at Portland Academy" (1905) Included in: A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches (Charles Press) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Other Characters: Red-Haired Girl; Principal; Editor of The Troubadour Date: Wednesday, Winter Locations: USA; Oregon; Portland; Portland Academy; Chapel Story: Holmes is in Portland, Oregon. Sheltering from the rain in the chapel of Portland Academy, he and Watson are approached by a girl who has lost two rings. A trail of peanuts leads to the solution.
	"The Mysterious Leak" (1918) Included in: The Lowell Sun, 27 November 1918 Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detective: Sheerluck Bones Unnamed Characters: Waiter; Boarding-Mistress; (Tin Roofer) Locations: Bones's Rooms Story: Sheerluck Bones's meal is interrupted by a the arrival of a woman whom Bones deduces is a boarding-mistress. He solves the mystery of a leak that keeps appearing in the ceiling of one of her lodger's rooms.
"The Mysterious Note" (1958) Included in: Angel, Number 14, May-July 1958 Story Type: Children's Story Sherlockian Detective: Hubert Holmes Other Characters: Mr Sweeney; Davis Twins; (Mr Jones; Mrs Jones; Miss Jones) Locations: USA; Hubert's House Story: Mr Sweeney asks Hubert to investigate when he finds a mysterious note at the Jones house, and the Jones's don't take their milk in. The Davis twins' milk bottle game leads Hubert to a solution.
	"The Mystery of the Acetylene Lamp" (1914) Included in: My Evening with Sherlock Holmes (John Gibson & Richard Green); Sherlock Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches I: 1910-1914 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Detectives: Herr Lock Shömes & Matson Fictional Characters: Hawkshaw Historical Figures: D.P. Blades; (C.L. Warr) Other Characters: Ferguson; Rosemary Caskerville; Caligula, the Hound of the Caskervilles; Mr Davis; Aaron; (Mills; Mackay; The Thom Brothers; Haldane; Bunny Edwards; Georgeson; Dickson) Locations: Scotland; Edinburgh; Warrender Park Road; Shömes's Digs; Edinburgh University; The Union; Royal Botanic Botanic Garden; Tantallon; Aaron's Digs Story: Blades and Ferguson consult Shömes over the theft of an acetylene lamp from the cycle-she at the Union building. Hawkshaw is already investigating when they arrive at the Union. After examing the cycle-shed, Holmes sends Matson to borrow Miss Caskerville's hound, Caligula, which they take to the Botanic Gardens and the laboratories to trail the culprit from a slight aroma of Canada balsam. The case ends in a field trip with the botany students. NOTE: It is likely that Ferguson (President of the Edinburgh University Union), Mills, Mackay, the Thom Brothers, Haldane, Georgeson, Dickson, and Bunny Edwards were real people associated with Edinburgh University in 1914, but I have not been able to locate any definite information about them.
"The Mystery of the Elastic Band" (1914) Included in: My Evening with Sherlock Holmes (John Gibson & Richard Green); Sherlock Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches I: 1910-1914 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Detectives: Herr Lock Shömes & Matson Other Characters: Matson's Landlady's Husband; Policeman; Taxi Driver; Hall-Porter; Ball Guests; Matson's dance Partner; (Shömes's Landlady; Matson's Landlady) Locations: Scotland; Edinburgh; Shömes's Digs; Edinburgh University; M'Ewan Hall; The Union Story: Matson arrives at Shömes's digs to find him embroidering a hearthrug. In disguise, they attend the students' ball which Shömes has heard will be attended by the Poker Gang. A black rubber band leads to Matson's downfall.
	"The Mystery of the Missing Man" (1905) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches II: 1905-1909 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Advertisement Sherlockian Detectives: Hemlock Jones & Woctor Dotson Historical Figures: (Jeremiah MacDonald) Other Characters: (Young Man) Locations: USA; New York State; Binghamton Story: Hemlock Jones deduces that Atlas Compound tonic lies behind the absence of a young man from his rooms.
"The Mystery of the Stolen Statue, or The Testing of Sherlock Diggs" (1905) Included in: Olla Podrida (Berkeley High School) 1908 Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Sherlock Diggs Other Characters: Duke of Martin; Earl of Ristenpart; (Bill the Dog-man) Unnamed Characters: Starvation Soldiers; (Glee Club Girls) Locations: USA; Castle Story: The Duke of Martin and Earl of Ristenpart's billiard game is interrupted by news of the theft of the Venus de Watkins statue. Sherlock Diggs sets out to recover it.
	"The Mystery of the Thames Afire" (1954) Included in: Story Type: Comic Book Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade Other Characters: Mr Beevers; Hobson; Jeremiah; Sir Aubrey Poppin; George Unnamed Characters: Kingston Rum Employee; Cabby; Dock Workers; River Police Date: September Locations: The Docks; Kingston Rum Company; 221B, Baker Street; St Katherine's Wharf Story: When Sir Aubrey Poppin, newly appointed Governor General of Jamaica, is found dead in a barrel of rum on the London Docks, Beevers, manager of the Kingston Rum Company calls on Holmes. Holmes deduces that Poppin was poisoned, not drowned, and finds a poison dart, while Jeremiah the dock foreman tells them that a voodoo curse had been placed on Poppin. Holmes and Watson are captured, and face death when the Thames is set afire with burning rum.
"The Mystery of 2643, Pte. Chugwater" (1915) Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey); Sherlock Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches II: 1915-1919 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Detectives: Chublock Bones & Potson Other Characters: Orderly; (Private Chugwater; Company Commander; Potson's Grandmother; 2nd Lieutenant Bryman; Brigadier; Offficers; Emilina Brown; Smith) Date: September Locations: Bones's Dugout in France Story: Bones is baffled by Private Chugwaters' disappearance. He deduces that Potson is wearing a cholera belt knitted by his grandmother, and discovers that the missing man had had an argument with Bryman, was suspected of poisoning the food in the officers' mess, and that a man answering his description has been seen at Barton Fair in Gloucester. The following day Bones announces that he has located the missing man.
	"Mystery of Vehicle Park" (1945) Included in: CAM, Volume 2 Number 10, September 1945 Story Type: Homage Canonical Characters: Sergeant Sherlock Jones & Corporal Blotsom Unnamed Characters: Mechanics Date: September Locations: Military Vehicle Park Story: With the aid of Corporal Blotsom, Sergeant Sherlock Jones solves the mystery of why military trucks are losing power.
"Mystery of Warlike Note" (1910) Included in: Victoria Daily Colonist, 30th January 1910 Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Professor Moriarty Other Characters: Lt-Col A.W. Currie Unnamed Characters: Street Car Passenger Date: Locations: 221B, Baker Street Story: Lt-Col is given a message, found on a street car, suggestive of mutiny, war, murder and sudden death. Holmes suggests leaving the case to the Fifth Regiment.
	"Nature" (1963) Included in: Sick, Volume 3 Number 8 (August 1963) Story Type: Comic Strip Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Suburban Holmes & Elementary Watson Folkloric Characters: Loch Ness Monster Locations: Scotland; Loch Ness Story: Suburban Holmes and Elementary Watson encounter a creature at Loch Ness.
"Narpoo Rum" (1916-1917) Included in: A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches (Charles Press); Sherlock Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches II: 1915-1919 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Detectives: Herlock Shomes & Dr Hotsam Other Characters: General Bertram Rudolph de Rogerum, The Earl of Loose; L. Plumernapple; Madeline Corot; Q. Wemm; Soldiers; Wemm's Assistant; Lord Reginald de Knellthorpe; Intha Pink; Cloridy Lyme; (Madelin's Mother; Professor Spot) Date: During the First World War Locations: France; Quality Street Dug-Out; Estaminet; Wemm's Store; The Old Fosse; Elvarston Castle; Bapaume; Belgium; Ypres; Hotel des Ramparts; Menin Gate; Menin Road; Hooge; The Culvert Arms Story: Shomes is visited in his dug-out in Quality Street by General de Rogerum, who has discovered that his regiment's rum supply has disappeared, and de Rogerum's son Reginald becomes the chief suspect. Hotsam notices a lot of rum at Wemm's store. More rum appears in diverse locations. Shomes flies to Ypres, to find his destination, The Culvert Arms in Hooge has been bombed. Pioneer Intha Pink also decides to search for the rum.
	"Ohm's Law" (1953) Also Published as "The Case of the Missing Joules" Included in: The Illinois Technograph, Volume 68 Number 1, October 1953; The Journal of Chemical Education, Volume 37 Number 7, July 1960 Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detective: Inspector Sherlock Ohms Other Characters: Saul Vent; Mike Rofarad; Ann Hydrate; Al Doll; (Ethyl Benzene) Locations: Recipro City; Wheatstone Bridge; Ideal Gas Station Story: Inspector Ohms has a blowout on Wheatstone Bridge. After getting it fixed, he sees Mike Rofarad, Recipro City's top rookie, chasing the joule thieves Ann Hydrate and Al Doll, and joins the pursuit.
"One Against Our Old Friend, Sherlock" (1894) Included in: My Evening with Sherlock Holmes (John Gibson & Richard Green); Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detective: Herlock Sholmes & Dr Whatsane Other Characters: Office Boy; Tramp; Sholmes's Landlord Locations: Sholmes's Office Story: Sholmes makes a series of deductions about an old tramp, without even looking at him, but pays dearly for the act.
"Pen Portraits of Prominent Persons: The Supervising Architect" (1915) Included in: The Siren (University of Illinois), Unknown Issue, 1915 Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detective: Professor White, The Supervising Architect Canonical Characters: Dr Watson Other Characters: Oberdorfer; Saturday Towne; Webster Date: July-September Locations: Baker Street; College; Fifth Street Story: The Supervising Architect despatches Dr Watson to remove an echo from the college auditorium. Some months later, the echo is stolen from from Watson's laboratory.
	"Perspicacity of Herlock Sholmes" (1897) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detective: Herlock Sholmes Other Characters: General; (General's Wife) Locations: USA; Sholmes's Rooms Story: Sholmes makes a series of deductions about a civil war veteran who bursts into his rooms.
"Philo Vance's Last Mystery" (1939) Included in: The Chicago Daily Tribune, 14 April 1939 Story Type: Homage Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Fictional Characters: Philo Vance; Inspector Bucket; C. Auguste Dupin; (Vidocq) Historical Figures: (S.S. Van Dine) Locations: Isles of the Blessed Story: After his demise and departure to the Isles of the Blessed, Philo Vance is greeted by the leaders of his profession.
	"The Private Detective" (1896) Included in: The Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette, 14 July 1896; and on this site Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Forelock Tomes & Dr Dotson Other Characters: Tailor's Man; Jennie; (Caller; Servant; Suitem; Old Gentleman) Locations: Tomes's Rooms Story: Tomes makes a series of deductions from an umbrella left outside the door of his rooms. His caller, when he comes, is not who Tomes predicted he would be.
"Purple Peanut" (1930) Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Other Characters: Earl of Beeston; Taxi Driver; (Purple Peanut; Count of Claypit Lane) Locations: Watson's Apartment; Leeds; Cross Flatts Court Story: The Earl of Beeston calls, is tied up by Holmes, inspected, released, and reveals his dog, Purple Peanut, has lost at the greyhound track and he suspects foul play. Holmes dons a Highlander disguise, and discovers the culprit and a plot involving mortgages and lamp-posts.
	"The Real Sherlock Holmes" (1892) Also published as "Sherlock Holmes vs Conan Doyle" Included in: My Evening with Sherlock Holmes (John Gibson & Richard Green); The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler); Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel); A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches (Charles Press) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; (Dr Watson) Historical Figures: (Arthur Conan Doyle) Other Characters: D. Locations: 221B, Baker Street Story: A reporter calls on Holmes to conduct an interview regarding his thoughts on the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
"Rudolph Floated Away Says Sherlock Holmes" (1903) Included in: St Louis Post-Dispatch, 26 July 1903 Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Historical Figures: William Rudolph, The MIssouri Kid; (Alberto Santos-Dumont) Other Characters: Pawnshop Pete; Four Flush; Cannon Ball Express; Short Weight Unnamed Characters: Chief of Detectives; Chief's Messenger; Jailer; (Russian Count; Count's Son; Jailer's Page) Date: 1903 Locations: USA; St Louis; Police Station; Four Courts Jail Story: The Chief has just met with his best men concerning the escape from prison of the bank robber William Rudolph, when Sherlock Holmes arrives. After examining his jail cell, Holmes deduces that Rudolph's passion for carbonated soda water helped him escape.
	"The Saving of London" (1893) Included in: The Saturday Review, 8 April 1893 Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Forelock Chimes & Dr Blotson Historical Figures: The Pope [Leo XIII] Other Characters: Marquess of Gledwayne; Sir Arthur Grabstick; (Princess Imperial of Africa; Mrs Blotson) Unnamed Characters: Chimes's Servant; Cabman; Speaker of the House of Commons; (Blotson's Son; Blotson's Mother-in-law; Cab Driver; Gledwayne's Valet; Merchant; Caithness Hotel Boots) Date: Tuesday 1st April, 18-- Locations: Gower Street; Chimes's Rooms; Restaurant; Gledwayne's House; House of Commons Story: Blotson arrives at Chimes's rooms in Gower Street to find the Pope departing. They are called upon by the Marquess of Gledwayne, who has received a letter threatening him with the loss of his lands and titles.
"Sherlock Among the Spirits" (1925) Included in: The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler); A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches (Charles Press) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Fictional Characters: Professor Challenger Historical Figures: Arthur Conan Doyle Other Characters: Dr Magog; Séance Guests; Young Girl; Young Man; Father; (Dead Soldier; French Girl; Daughter) Locations: 221B, Baker Street Story: Doyle convinces Watson to hold a séance in the old Baker Street rooms. Among the guests is Professor Challenger. The medium, Dr Magog, is remarkably prescient, and when the séance is over, he reveals his secret to Watson.
	"Sherlock Chromes" (1973) Included in: CARtoons, No. 73, October 1973 Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Sherlock Chromes & Doctor Datson Other Characters: Cabbie; London Tower Nightwatchman; (Datson's Nanny) Locations: London; Chromes's Flat; London Tower Story: Sherlock Chromes is called in when the second-hand on Big Ben is ripped off.
"Sherlock Gossips About the Ladies" (1895) Included in: A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches (Charles Press) Story Type: Advertisement Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Historical Figures: Arthur Conan Doyle Other Characters: (Mrs Beauty) Story: Holmes and Watson gossip about how much Mrs Beauty's life has changed since she started reading Woman's Life.
	"Sherlock Holmes and Brigadier Gerard" (1903) Included in: My Evening with Sherlock Holmes (John Gibson & Richard Green); Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I: 1900-1904 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Fictional Characters: Brigadier Gerard Other Characters: (Brunette; Policemen) Locations: 221B, Baker Street Story: The elderly Brigadier Gerard calls at Baker Street to find out why his stories in the Strand have been replaced by Holmes's reappearance in The Hound of the Baskervilles. NOTE: It could be argued that some references to "the doctor" in the story are to Arthur Conan Doyle, in addition to those references that are obviously Watson.
	"Sherlock Holmes and the Missing Box" (1893) Also published as "The Missing Box Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey); Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel); A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches (Charles Press) Story Type: Advertisement Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Watson Other Characters: Watson's Servants Locations: Watson's Home Story: Watson loses a box and its valuable contents. He calls in Holmes, who, after a series of deductions about Watson's recent activities, offers Watson, in the throes of a bilious attack, some of his own Beecham's Pills to replace the missing ones and ease his discomfort.
"Sherlock Holmes and the Sleepless Watchman" (1900) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I: 1900-1904 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Advertising Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Inspector Lestrade) Other Characters: (Eckstein) Locations: 221B, Baker Street Story: Sherlock Holmes shows Watson a door-locking mechanism which he believes will prove a breakthrough in the prevention of theft.
	"Sherlock Holmes Boards a Pirate Craft" (1903) 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 Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Dr Watson Historical Figures: (Captain Kidd) Other Characters: Pirate Chief; The Criminal Club; Scotland Yard Officers; (Inspector Cram) Locations: Aboard the Mary Ann Story: The captive damsel aboard the pirate vessel Mary Ann is actually Holmes in disguise. They attempt to raffle off the maiden among the crew, but she sends them off to look for Captain Kidd's treasure and hands their ship over to Scotland Yard.
"Sherlock Holmes: Discovering the Border Burghs and, by Deduction, the Brig Bazaar" (1903) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I: 1900-1904 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Historical Figures: (Horatius) Other Characters: Bazaar Book Editor; Narrator Locations: Scotland; Selkirk; Bazaar Book Offices; Sloan Street; Holmes's Rooms Story: The narrator is assigned by the editor of the Bazaar Book to interview Sherlock Holmes. When Holmes tells Watson that he is going to Edinburgh to work on the Mysteries of the Secret Cabinet, Watson tells him that he has already made separate plans to travel to Scotland, and Holmes deduces that his destination is Selkirk, and that the event he is attending is in aid of a bridge. NOTE: It is unclear whether "The familiar house in Sloan Street" is where Holmes and Watson live, or where the narrator lives, as his editor tells him to use his "Faculty of Imagination" to carry out his interview, rather than travel down to London.
	"Sherlock Holmes in Town" (1901) Included in: The Minneapolis Journal, 2 March 1901; and on this site Story Type: Advertisement Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Other Characters: Charles Googleheimer; Miss Cascarine Locations: USA Story: Holmes deduces that the change in Charles Googleheimer's complexion, breath and kidney's after his marriage to Miss Cascarine, is due to Cascarine laxative tonic.
"Sherlock Holmes, Jr Meets Santa Claus" (1904) 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: Parody Canonical Characters:(Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson) Folkloric Figures: (Santa Claus) Other Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Jr; The Watson Boy; (Mrs Holmes) Locations: 221B, Baker Street Story: Sherlock Holmes, Jr explains to the Watson boy how he deduced the existence of Santa Claus the previous Christmas.
	"Sherlock Holmes on the Domestic Hearth" (1901) Included in: The Affair of the Lost Compression and Other Stories (Ferret Fantasy); Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I: 1900-1904 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Other Characters: Lucy; Harriette Holmes; Holmes's Son; (Holmes's Butler; Holmes's Cook; Holmes's Family; Fat Policeman; Lucy's Young Man; Cabman; Mrs Jones) Locations: Holmes's House Story: A hair on her silk shawl leads Holmes to suspect that his wife Harriette is being unfaithful, but is quick to discern the truth. He makes a series of deductions about her and their son when they arrive home.
"Sherlock Holmes Solves a Problem in Publishing" (1915) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches II: 1915-1919 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Characters based on Canonical Characters: (Inspector Lestrange [Inspector Lestrade]) Historical Figures: (Arthur B. Reeve) Fictional Characters: (Craig Kennedy) Locations: 221B, Baker Street Story: Holmes proves that Arthiur B. Reeve's The War Terror is not a novel.
	"Sherlock Holmes Umpires Baseball" (1906) Included in: Sherlock Holmes in America (Bill Blackbeard); The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye); Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches II: 1905-1909 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Other Characters: Old-timers; Leftfoot; Rightfoot; The Knockers; The Pickle Eaters; Umpire; Captain Locations: Downtown Cigar Stand; Small Town Baseball Ground in Iowa Story: At a small town Iowa baseball game Holmes becomes umpire and sorts out a question of identity regarding two identical twin players known as 'Leftfoot' & 'Rightfoot'.
"Sherlock Holmes vs Conan Doyle": see The Real Sherlock Holmes
	"Sherlock Homes Was Umpire" (1905) Included in: Duluth Evening Herald, 29 April 1905 Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Other Characters: Slugger Burrows; Cy Priest; Pink Perkins; Foxy Flenner; Bull Thompson; Right Foote; Left Foote (Doc Quackenbush) Unnamed Characters: Baseball Fan; Narrator; Baseball Players; Baseball Spectators Locations: USA; Jones County; Baseball Field Story: A baseball fan wonders if Sherlock Holmes was ever in the USA. His friend tells him of the timehe saw Holmes umpire a baseball game between the Ringtail Roarers and the Lightfoot Lilies in 1886. He arrived with a bloodhound and used his deductive powers to call the plays.
"Sherlock Jones's Advice" (1902) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I: 1900-1904 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detective: Sherlock Jones Other Characters: Dealer in Hats Locations: Jones's Rooms Story: A hat-dealer brings a derby to Jones to find out how it came to be damaged.
	"Sherlock Jones's Waterloo" (1902) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I: 1900-1904 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detective: Sherlock Jones Other Characters: Panama Hat Man Locations: Jones's Parlour Story: A man calls on Sherlock Jones in regard to the secondhand Panama hat he has bought.
"Sherlock Speaks Again" (1922) Included in: Truth, 25 December 1922; and on this site Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Sherlock Holmes; Lascar; (Tobias Gregson; Neville St Clair) Other Characters: Madame Blonde; Opium Smokers; Bustler Bill; (John Shearman; Mrs Shearman) Date: Wednesday, November Locations: 221B, Baker Street: Upper Swandam Lane; The Bar of Gold Story: Watson is at 221B a week after Holmes's funeral. He is visited by Lestrade, who is working on the case of a broker, John Shearman, who disappeared en route to his office. Lestrade storms out after Watson, who is vice-president of the Spiritist Union, suggests that Spiritism could aid Scotland Yard in their investigations. Watson invites Madame Blonde, a medium, to Baker Street to make contact with the spirit of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes sings a hymn, with his own modifications, which leads Watson back to the Bar of Gold opium den, and an unexpected solution to the case.
	"Shirley Holmes Detective" (1977) Included in: Bananas, Number 16 (1977) Story Type: Puzzle Sherlockian Detective: Shirley Holmes Other Characters: Goodman Brothers; Marv; Eddie Unnamed Characters: Van Driver Locations: USA Story: Shirley Holmes is driving with the Goodman Brothers to their next gig, when they come across the band's manager, stopped beside the road, where he says he has been robbed by a man dressed as a highway patrolman.
"Shylock Bones" (1954) Included in: Wild #4 (June 1954) Story Type: Comic Book Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Shylock Bones & Dr What'sup Fictional Characters: (Mark Saber) Characters Based on Fictional Characters: The Fatty Man [Brad Runyan]; The Skin Man [Nick Charles]; Charlie Chance [Charlie Chan]; Nero Wolf [Nero Wolfe]; Dick Tracer [Dick Tracy]; Joe Thursday [Joe Friday]; R.I.P. Smirby [Rip Kirby] Other Characters: Lord Fossil; Monster Unnamed Characters: Whats'up's Secretary Locations: Lord Fossil's Castle Story: At his castle across the moors, Lord Fossil challenges Shylock Bones to discover what is missing from his collection. Bones deduces that he collects the heads of famous detectives.
	"The six o'clock mystery" (1930) Included in: Adventure, Volume 73 Number 6, March 1930 Story Type: Advertisement Sherlockian Detectives: Herlock Sholmes & Batson Unnamed Characters: The Man Locations: Sholmes's Bathroom Story: Sholmes and Batson discover that Ivory Soap is the cause of their suspect's remarkable change of personality and Sholmes ends up in the man's bathtub.
"Solved by Sherlock Holmes" (1895) Included in: The Evening Star, 12 October 1895; and on this site Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Historical Figures: (Arthur Conan Doyle; Judge Joseph Holt) Other Characters: Reporter; (Judge's Servant; Junk Dealer) Locations: USA; Washington DC; Pennsylvania Avenue; E Street; Holmes's Rooms Story: A Washington Evening Star reporter assigned to the Holt Will Case is stopped in the street by an old man on crutches, who tells him to meet him in his rooms later. The man, it transpires, is Sherlock Holmes, who explains how he lured the reporter into a consultation. Holmes examines a photographed of Judge Holt's contested burnt will and traces a similarly burnt piece of paper in a Washington junk shop.
	"The $10,000 Robbery" (1897) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detective: Hemlock Jones Other Characters: Jones's Companion; Jonathan Beagle; Women Bookkeepers; Floorwalker Locations: USA; Jones's Rooms; Department Store Story: Department store owner, Beagle, consults Jones over $10,000 dollars stolen from his locked office while he was dealing with an emergency at the bargain counter. A clock in the room had stopped at 11.05, but restarted when he shook it. Jones visits the store, and uses the clock to trap the thief.
"Tom and Jerry" (1975) Included in: TV Comic Annual 1976 Story Type: Parody Fictional Characters: Tom; Jerry; Spike Locations: USA; Tom & Jerry's Home Story: Tom reads about Sherlock Holmes and, as Catlock Tomes, decides to emulate him to catch Jerry. Jerry uses Tome's pipe and magnifying glass against him, while Spike aimed with a violin brings Tom's detecting to an end.
"Too Much for Sherlock" (1905) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Historical Figures: William Travers Jerome; (Arthur Conan Doyle; Clemence Dodge; Charles W. Morse) Locations: Jerome's Office Story: District Attorney Jerome's offer of a job does not appeal to Sherlock Holmes.
	"The Twelve Mile Mystery or Sherlock Holmes at Work in NEWS-WEEK" (1934) Included in: News-Week, 10th March, 1934 Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Historical Figures: (Adolf Hitler; Kathleen Norris) Other Characters: Miss Smith; (Ollie) Unnamed Characters: News-Week Staff; (French Correspondents; Middle-Western Correspondent; Bankers) Date: 1934 Locations: USA; Ohio; Dayton; News-Week Offices Story: Watson visits Holmes in his private at the News-Week headquarters, where he is now working on scientific news detection. His team are currently investigating what Hitler has done to Germany.
"Value of Intuition" (1897) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Other Characters: Dr Cubebs; Professor of Mathematics; Performers Locations: Burlesque Show Story: Holmes deduces that a man at a burlesque show is a professor of mathematics.
	"The Vanishing Legacy" (1985) Included in: Health & Social Service Journal, Vol XCV No 4979, 19/26 December 1985 Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Billy; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; (Professor Moriarty; Mrs Watson) Historical Figures: (The Cyprus Seven) Characters Based On Historical Figures: The Matron / The Chatelaine [Margaret Thatcher]; Her Secretary [Douglas Hurd]; Secretary's Secretary [?]; Minnie Moaning [Florence Nightingale]; (Uncle Bevan [Aneurin Bevan]; Messrs Lawson, Nigel and Partners [Nigel Lawson]) Other Characters: Thomas Richard Harry Unnamed Characters: Domaine Workers; Dishevelled Man; Darkly Handsome Woman; Baby; Uniformed Men; Page of Bevan Hall; Junior Staff Date: 5th-6th November '85 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Bevan Hall Story: Watson, who has had Mrs Watson securely incarcerated at Kneesup Hall, is visiting Holmes when Thomas Richard Harry ("You may call me Tom, Dick or Harry") arrives at 221B, who is concerned about his Uncle Bevan's legacy, currently in the hands of the Matron (aka The Chatelaine), her secretary, and his secretary, and the auditors, Lawson, Nigel and Partners. The following day, Holmes and Watson visit the dilapidated grounds of Bevan Hall. An arguing couple embarrass Holmes, who says they have escaped from another case. They meet Lestrade, whom Holmes congratulates on the arrest of the Cyprus Seven. They are ushered into the presence of the Chatelaine, her secretary, and his secretary. The Chatelaine denies any knowledge or responsibility for missing property or lost money. NOTE: I assume that the arguing couple are public figures, but do not, as yet, recognise who they are meant to be.
"The Varsity Letter" (1915) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches II: 1915-1919 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Other Characters: Hector Starboob; Baker Street Crowd Date: Shortly after Holmes's return from Tibet Locations: 221B, Baker Street Story: Senior student at Umpterino University, Hector Starboob, is snatched from his bed, and tarred and feathered. He asks Holmes to find the perpetrators. The case seems to be connected to the letter sweater he has taken to wearing.
	"The Velvet Blotting Clue" (1927) also published as "The Mysterious Ink Blots" Included in: The Early Punch Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (Bill Peschel); A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches (Charles Press) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Other Characters: Mrs Bulkeley; Blotson; (Professor Wilfred Bulkeley; Bulkeley's Servants) Locations: 221B, Baker Street Story: Holmes and Watson are visited by Mrs Bulkeley, whose husband, an eminent Egyptologist, has disappeared from their home in West Kensington. The solution lays on a sheet of velvety paper.
"Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop For Tea" (1915) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches II: 1915-1919 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Sholmes; Whyson Historical Figures: (David Millington) Other Characters: Prisoners; (Captains) Date: During the Great War Locations: Germany; Ruhleben Camp Story: After bemoaning the lack of activity in their prison camp, Sholmes tells Whyson of his investigations of a group of prisoners who are absent from their bunks every night.
	"When the Spirits Rapped" (1919) Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey); Sherlock Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches II: 1915-1919 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Detectives: Sherlog Combes & Dr Potson Historical Figures: (Julius Caesar) Other Characters: Trixter's Assistant; Two Lady Novelists; Labour M.P.; Professor Foljambe; Professor Trixter Locations: Combes's Study; Bloomsbury Story: The aging detective, Combes, attends a séance given by Professor Trixter. Musical instruments play and the spirit of Caesar talks about his involvement in the events of 1066, the Armada, and Bannockburn. After fifteen minutes of inactivity, the sitters find themselves in an empty room with empty pockets.
"The Worcestershire Mystery--Or That Certain Faculty" (1932) Included in: Wyoming Hoo Ha, 1932 Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson) Other Characters: Gust; Percy; Duke; (George Albinsmythe; Algernon Nichts) Unnamed Characters: Asylum Guard Locations: USA; Asylum Story: On a gusty morning, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson discuss cases, but are not who they seem to be.
	"The Yellow Band; or From New York to San Francisco by Freight" (1915) Included in: The Friday War Cry, Volume 2 Number 1, 14 May 1915 Story Type: Parody Sherockian Detective: Sheerluck Burns / Beerluck Shurns Unnamed Characters: Great Mystery Man; Expressman Locations: USA; Texas; Galveston Story: In disguise as an evil-looking tramp, Sheerluck Burns trails a mystery man through Galveston and ends up in a packing case en route to South America.
"Zero! or The Bound of the Baskershires" (1917) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches II: 1915-1919 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Herlock Shomes & Capt. Hotsam Other Characters: Sergeant Sniffins; Sniffins Companions; Captain Martell; Anastasia Doubloy; Military Police; Staff Officer; Headquarters Ball Guests; Orchestra; The General; Sec. Lieut. Randolph Wunpip; Maj, Horace Malcolm Charles Frigiped Bassy; (Maj. General Wilfred Montmorency Duggout; Andrews; Marguerite) Date: First World War Locations: Belgium; Dickebusch; Estaminet; Shomes's Dugout; Headquarters Story: Herlock Shomes investigates the death of Captain Martell outside an estaminet in Dickebusch, Belgium, during the Great War. Anastasia is distraught. The news is announced at a ball at headquarters.
	"Zoonoses" (1979) Included in: Current Health 1, Volume 3 Number 1, September 1979 Story Type: Children's Story Sherlockian Detectives: Dr. Sherlock T. Bone &; Watson Unnamed Characters: Bones's Housekeeper Locations: Bones's Office Story: Dr Sherlock T. Bones, the bloodhound detective, teaches his partner, Watson, about diseases that can be passed from animals to humans.

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