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"Wyllie Lochead - Detective" (1940)
Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey)
Story Type: Parody
Detective: Wyllie Lochead & Dr Smith
Fictional Characters: (The Little Yellow God; Mad Carew)
Other Characters: Mrs Barker; Mr Binks; (Smith's Partner; Maharajah of Katmandu; Timothy Thankerton; Titus Thankerton; Picture House Manager; Two Drunk Men; Witnesses; Glaister)
Locations: Lochead's Gibson Street Flat
Story: The murdered Dr Smith conveys a story through the ouija board: He is visiting Lochead when Binks, a lawyer, calls. Timothy Thankerton, the heir to the Thankerton Thousands, has dropped dead, drinking coffee, an hour before he was due to inherit. His recently released jailbird brother, Titus, was at the next table, and expressed satisfaction at his death. When the post mortem reveals he did not die of poisoning, Lochead makes a startling deduction.

Richard Bach

The Last War: Detective Ferrets and the Case of the Golden Deed (2003)
Story Type: Homage
Detective: Shamrock Ferret
Other Characters: Miss Ginger Ferret; Twelve Kits; Jimkin; Mikela; Hopper; Farmer Ferrets; French Artist Fieldmouse; Burrows Ferret; Miss Yvette; Museum Visitors; Avedoi Merek; Governors; Penguins; Maître d'; Waiter; Boat Captain; Nutmeg Ferret; Bergamot Ferret; Oliver Ferret; Photographer; Jillibar Ferret
(Shamrock's Mother; Shamrock's Father; Salesman; Stilton Ferret; Eliza)
Locations: Shamrock's Flat; A Mountain; Village Meeting Hall; The Museum of Ancient Times; Ferra; Merek's Rooms; Council Chamber; Ebon Mask Bookstore; The Highlands; Mustelania; Loch Stoat; Restaurant; The Starship Rainbow; Oliver's House
Story: Ferret detective, Miss Shamrock Ferret, ponders the cause of mysterious symbols appearing in cornfields. She is able to explain how the patterns are formed, but not what they mean. She gains an assistant, Burrows, and begins a search for a vase seen in a painting. Worldwide concern is expressed when the world's richest ferret risks his life to save a child's toy penguin from an avalanche. The vase is linked to the spaceship that first brought the ferrets to Earth. Shamrock witnesses the destruction of the ferret civilisation on the planet Ferra. Realising she is witnessing her people's past, she sets about saving the civilisation of both Ferra and Earth. In further visions she learns more of the war between ferrets that does not appear in the history books. An anonymous message takes Shamrock and Burrows to Loch Stoat, where on a diving expedition she learns the secret of the Loch and her own past.

Hilary Bailey

The Strange Adventures of Charlotte Holmes (1994)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: Mary Morstan; Watson's Maid (Martha Jane); Mrs Hudson; Dr Watson; Mycroft Holmes; Inspector (Jules) Lestrade; Sherlock Holmes; (Stapleton; Sir Charles Baskerville; The Hound of the Baskervilles)
Historical Figures: Oscar Wilde; Lord Salisbury; George Bernard Shaw; Mrs Patrick Campbell; Queen Victoria; William Ewart Gladstone; (Jack the Ripper; Tsar of Russia; Polly Nichols; Annie Chapman; Liz Stride; Catherine Eddowes; Martha Tabram; Mary Kelly; Arthur Wing Pinero; Princess Alice; Edward VII; Duke of Clarence; Archbishop of Canterbury; Marcel Proust; Princess Mary of Teck; George V; Monster of Glamis)
Other Characters: Charlotte Holmes; Mrs Digby; Betsey Morpurgo; Colonel Justin; Emily Revere; Crown Prince Rudolph of Kravonia; Club Porter; Diogenes Servant; Parsifal Oblomov; Castle Guards; Servant Girl; Chancellor Ristorin; Princess Cunegonde; Princess Ulrica; Palace Boy; Servants; King Weland; Countess Seraphine; Footmen; Soldiers; Norvius Citizens; Blacksmith; Heinrich Krull; Prisoner; Coachman; Innkeeper; Jatyi Citizens; John Land / Prince Oscar; Oscar's Horsemen; Hansom Driver; Fortnum's Waitress; Constable; Lou Morpurgo; Ten Bells Customers; Mrs Wills; Flo Robinson; Young Man; Dirty Boy; Lady Henrietta de Servingholme; Oxford Mission Women; Whitechapel Residents; Flower & Dean Street Women; Albert Wilkinson; Maria Wilkinson; Stanley Wilkinson; Police Constable; Miss Cochrane; Empire Audience; Band; Violette Leduc / Nancy Flood; Stage Hands; Theatre Staff; Chorus Girls; Charlie McGinnis; O'Connor; Madame Ivy Costello; Mr Standish; Policemen; Brixton Traders; Barmaid; Bar Boy; Thomas Flood; Mary Flood; Dominic Flood; Rory Flood; Delivery Man; Charlotte's Breakfast Guests; Sidonie Liebowitz; Physician & Wife; Cordelia Johnson; The Great Marvo / Gustave Lebon; Geoffrey; Eddie; Dora; Duke of Wiltshire; Mrs Gregory; Liza; Lukie; Coachman; Scullery Hand; Male Prostitutes; Major-General Henry Fitzwaters; Shakespearean Actor; Dermot; Jack; Madame Mercury; George; Savoy Desk Clerk; Cabbie; St Paul's Verger; Domenico Gambini; Policemen; Reverend Michael Liversedge; Mrs Barlby; Thwaite's Customer; Mr Thwaite; Mrs Thwaite; Mary Thwaite; Captain Simmons; Henry Liversedge; Murray; Robertson; Moira MacGregor; Alexander; Glamis Guests; Queen's Messenger; Harvard Professor; Kravonian Composer; Lord Mortimer Thursby; House of Commons Policemen; Alexander's Nursemaid; Chelsea Constables; Standish; Mrs Fowles; Cab Driver; Len Morpurgo; Thomas Morpurgo; Mr Jameson; Old Chung; Chinese Crowd; Chinese Girl; Old Woman; Opium Smokers; Old Opium Den Chinese Woman; John Lee; Sailors; Chinese Woman; (Charlotte's Neighbours; Princess Ursula; Emily's Brother; Sir Arthur Grimmond; Sarah Smith; Robert Revere; Gypsy Friend; Grimmond's Business Partner; Lady Grimmond; Watson's Locums; Watson's Aunt; Charlotte's Librarian Friend; PC Bradshaw; Coal Merchant; Fishmonger; Jordan Crouch; Cryptographer; Club Members; Count & Countess of Holstein; Monster; Mr Pemberton-Jones; Innkeeper's Wife; Betsey's Father; Priory Maid; Ripper's Woman; Old Man; Red Paddy; Kitty; Cochrane; Mary's Washerwoman; Mr O'Bannion; Sir Patrick Hall; Wilkinson's Captain; First Mate; Crew Members; Charlotte's Charwoman; Milkman; Man of All Work; Lord Cholmondeley; Foreign Office Man; Buckingham Palace Footmen; Dave Albert; Giovanni; Gypsies; George Street Maids; Settle Policeman; False Constable; Gerald Thursby; Lady Alice Thursby; Thursby's Children; Alice's Father; Miners; Coroner; Lady Suzanna Thursby; Matthew Truscott; Coroner; Harry Bell; Sir Arnold Roper; Polly Fowles; Mr Richmond; Polly's Friends; Thursby's Servants; Club Porter; Constantina von Helle; Richmond's Brother-in-Law; Harold Chung)
Date: ? / 1888 - 1891 / June? - August, ?
Locations: Chelsea; 11, Tuesday Street; 221B, Baker Street; Watson's Club; Diogenes Club; Battersea; Watson's Home; Kravonia; Norvius; Castle Norvius; Forest; Ersting; Jatyi; Church; Fortnum & Mason; Spitalfields; The Ten Bells; The Priory, Balham; Whitechapel; Oxford University Women's Mission; 55, Flower & Dean (or Flower & Hand) Street; Russian Tearooms; Gravesend; The Hackney Empire; Brixton Market; Public House; Buckingham Palace; Mayfair; Grosvenor Square; George Street; Male Brothel; The Strand; Savoy Hotel; St Paul's Cathedral; Scotland Yard; Inn; Yorkshire; Settle; Vicarage; Thwaite's Bakery; Scotland; Glamis Castle; House of Commons; Kilburn; Limehouse; Grimshaw's Wharf; Lee's Warehouse
Story: Holmes's sister, Charlotte, during a visit from Mary Watson, is called upon by Colonel Justin with a gift from Prince Rudolph of Kravonia and an invitation to a ball. She is then visited by Emily, Mrs Hudson's grand-niece, whose brother has been charged with murder. A trip to the dead man's house solves the case.

The following day, Mary discovers that Rudolph has spent the night at Charlotte's house, and some days later Charlotte travels to Kravonia. While she is gone, Holmes suffers a breakdown. Mary and Watson get Mycroft to decode Charlotte's letters to Holmes: Arriving in Kravonia, Charlotte learns from Ristorin that Russian troops are massing along its borders, and of the events, including a monster in the palace, that led to the cancelation of Rudolph's wedding to Ursula of Holstein. Meanwhile an Anarchist bomb explodes in the city, Charlotte poses as governess to two evil young princesses, the King's sister-in-law acts increasingly suspiciously, and strange noises are heard from the dungeons. Charlotte resolves to avoid "the Bad Thing" and seek out Land, leader of the Kravonian People's League in the bandit-infested region of Ersting. On her arrival back in England she tells of her exploration of the dungeons, and her journey to Ersting.

Lestrade sends Charlotte evidence from the murder of Annie Chapman to analyse, and together they visit the East End. After Mary Kelly's murder, Charlotte receives an anonymous message which, despite Holmes forbidding her from going to Whitechapel, leads her to a Flower and Dean Street lodging house, accompanied by her friend, Lady Henrietta. Their quest leads to Gravesend, and from there to the Ripper's downfall.

Charlotte leaves London and travels the world, returning two years later. Attending the Music Hall with Lestrade, she witnesses the shooting of the "Little Cockney Nightingale". Holmes goes to France in search of a missing magician who may be connected to the crime. Charlotte comes up with a solution. The man arrested as the Ripper escapes from jail along with the dead woman's Fenian brother, and Charlotte hosts a fashionable party. She tells the Watsons that she believes the wrong man was arrested for the Ripper murders, and of her involvement in the jail break.

A new cook wreaks havoc in Charlotte's household, while Charlotte is called to Buckingham Palace. Mary finds herself working as a servant in a male brothel, assisting in a case of national importance. Although Charlotte is unable to tell Mary exactly what it concerns, she is looking for a missing clergyman's son. After being fired by the brothel-keeper, Madame Mercury, Charlotte visits the boy's father in Yorkshire, who is threatening a lawsuit against the Duke of Clarence. The case would be a threat to some of the highest of the land. Charlotte and Lestrade eventually locate the boy. Mary goes to Glamis Castle and devises a game to discover the hiding place of the Monster of Glamis and another prisoner.

Mary is expecting a baby, and Charlotte is investigating the murder of Lord Thursby, an investigation which Holmes takes over. It is revealed that Charlotte has secretly married Rudolph and that they have a son, Alexander, who is later abducted. With Charlotte bedridden, Holmes vanished, and Lestrade taken off the case, Mary takes it upon herself to carry out investigations which solve both the murder and the abduction, and exacts her own form of justice.

Len Bailey

Katharine Baker

Dwight Baldwin & J.M. DeSantis

Sir Arthur Cannon Ball

"Hurlock Shoams - One of His Adventures" (1907)
Also published as "Sherlock in Oklahoma!"
Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches II: 1905-1909 (Bill Peschel); A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches (Charles Press)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Hurlock Shoams & Dr Squatson
Characters Based on Historical Figures: (Sir Arthur Cannon Ball)
Other Characters: Cortwright; Cortwright's Son; (Mrs Cortwright)
Locations: Beaker Street; Shoams's Rooms; Cortwright's House
Story: Shoams is visited by Cortwright, a manufacturer. A pink-ribbon-tied cigar has gone missing from a box of six given to him as a present by his wife, to be followed that morning by the disappearance of another. At Cortwright's house, Shoames discovers a half-smoked clue, and returns that evening with Squatson, in disguise to unmask the culprit.

NOTE: Although Charles Press has titled this "Sherlock in Oklahoma!", it having originally appeared in Sturm's Oklahoma Magazine, there is no internal evidence in the story to indicate in which state, or indeed which country, the story is set.

Brian Ball

"The Case of the Captive Clairvoyant" (1983)
Included in: The Baker Street Boys (Brian Ball)
Story Type: Children's Story / Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Baker Street Irregulars. Narrated by Stanley Hopkins. (Based on the TV series The Baker Street Boys)
Canonical Characters: Stanley Hopkins; The Baker Street Irregulars (Sparrow; Rosie; Queenie; Beaver; Shiner); Wiggins; Inspector Lestrade; Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Other Characters: Mr Trump; Bert; Madame Pompadour; Mary Ashley; The Amazing Marvin; Gorgeous Gertie; Stage-hands; Audience; Man with Note; Signor Maccarelli; Constables; Thug; O'Neill
Locations: Trump's Music Hall; Irregulars' Derelict House Home; Kidnappers' Hideout
Story: Sparrow befriends Mary Ashley the assistant and stepdaughter of the magician, Marvin. She tells him that she hates her stepfather, and Sparrow sees him hypnotising her. The Irregulars help Mary escape from the theatre, and Queenie takes over her job with Marvin. After reacting strangely to a note from an audience member, Marvin is murdered and Queenie abducted. Lestrade and Hopkins are called to investigate. Wiggins finds the paper handed to Marvin, which has a single spot of blood on it. O'Neill, a Pinkerton's agent tells the Irregulars that he's been on to Marvin, a member of the Iron Fist Gang, for some time. They realise that Mary holds the key to Marvin's stashed loot, and decide to use her as bait to draw out Queenie's abductors. Wiggins performs a mind-reading act, and Holmes and Watson arrive just in time to save the day.

NOTE: A version of the same story has been novelised by Anthony Read, from his screenplay for the BBC TV series The Baker Street Boys.

John Ball

"The Case of the Elderly Actor" (1959)
Included in: Baker Street Journal, October 1959
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: Teddy Fairchild; Ed Grant; Sherlock Holmes Society Members; Train Conductor; Baggageman; Re-write Man; Roger Fry
Locations: New York; London; Eastbourne; The Sussex Downs; Holmes's Sussex Villa
Story: Reporter Fairchild, is sent to England to stage an interview in Sussex with an actor hired to play Holmes, as part of a gag arranged with the Sherlock Holmes Society of London. He travels to Eastbourne, where he is directed to Holmes's cottage, and interviews the old man he finds there, who presents him with a copy of his book on beekeeping. When he returns to New York he is admonished by his publisher for failing to turn up for the interview that had been arranged. The question is raised of just who it was, then, that he did interview.

"The Ripe Moment" (1968)
Included in: Baker Street Journal, September 1968
Story Type: Extracanonical Adventure of James Phillimore
Canonical Characters: James Phillimore
Other Characters: Narrator; Jerry; Yamaguchi; Jerry's Assistants
Locations: Jerry's Lab
Story: At their lab in the desert, Jerry and the narrator discuss the moral implications of scientific advance. Jerry reveals that he is working on a time machine that is able to bring living things from the past to the present. After several attempts to demonstrate the machine, Jerry causes a very angry James Phillimore to appear.

H.H. Ballard

"Sherlock Holmes' Daughter" (1905)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches II: 1905-1909 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; (Dr Watson)
Historical Figures: (Alfonso XIII)
Other Characters: Narrator; Dr 'Billy' Brown; Thomas Vanderpool; Elsie Venner. Holmes; Passengers; Sergeant Bateson; (Dr Bancroft; Ship's Purser; Vanderpool's Fiancée; Vanderpool's Father; Anarchist)
Date: August-September, 1893
Locations: USA; The Mediterranean; Aboard the Normannia; Spain, Barcelona; Palace
Story: At a tenth anniversary reunion of old school-friends, banker Vanderpool tells of his encounter with Sherlock Holmes's daughter.

Having originally trained as a doctor, and sidelining in archaeology, Vanderpool is sailing back from Greece, when he is approached by Elsie V. Holmes, in disguise, who asks him for help with her father, whom Vanderpool finds lying in a stupor in their cabin. The following day, she asks Vanderpool to take her away from her father. Some weeks later, Vanderpool receives an explanatory letter from Watson.

Calimachus Balzoff

"The Moving Picture Mystery" (1922)
Included in: Hot Dog: The Regular Fellows Monthly, June 1922
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes (The Great Detective); Watson
Other Characters: Susie McSquirt; Girls; Blonde; Movie Director; (Director's Wife; Waiter)
Locations: Great Detective's Rooms; USA; California; Hollywood
Story: The Great Detective travels to Hollywood to an establishment full of girls and underwear, where a great movie director has had his head smashed with a rolling pin and a couple of flat irons.

John Kendrick Bangs

Deanna Baran

"The Adventure of the Turkish Cipher" (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; (Mrs Hudson; Baker Street Maids)
Other Characters: Young Woodford; Woodford's Father; Charles Woodford; (Woodford's Grandfather; Charles's Wife)
Date: During the War in Burma / During Holmes's Undergraduate Years
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; University; Liverpool
Story: Holmes tells Watson of a case from his undergraduate years.

His fellow student, Woodford, whose family imported dried fruits from Turkey, has been looking into the affairs of his uncle, Charles, who has recently returned to England and married a young bride, and who receives mysterious packages from Turkey. After dinner in his uncle's rooms, he discovers a ciphered message, and comes away believing he has been poisoned.

Holmes explains how he deciphered the message and discovered Uncle Charles's secret.

Don W. Baranowski

Sherlock Holmes The Adventure of the Frankenstein Monster (2006)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; King of Bohemia; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; (Mary Morstan; Irene Adler; Billy)
Fictional Characters: Victor Frankenstein; The Frankenstein Monster; Henry Clerval; Elizabeth Lavenza; Magistrate; Justine Moritz; Baron Alphonse Frankenstein; (M. Waldman; William Frankenstein; Cemetery Caretaker)
Historical Figures: (Mary Shelley)
Other Characters: Cabbies; Jailer; Jail Woman; Rosenlaui Innkeeper; Fitzhugh Jeffreys; Fishing Boat Crew; Dover Magistrate; Wedding Guests; Frankenstein Maid; Pembroke Maid; Duty Watch Mate; Captain; (Burgomaster; Constable; Townspeople; Dover Inn Desk Clerk; Frankenstein Servants)
Date: Immediately after SCAN
Locations: Castle Frankenstein; 221B, Baker Street; Strasburg; Switzerland; Geneva; Magistrate's House; Jail; Riverbank; Inn; Rosenlaui; Reichenbach Falls; The Alps; A Glacier; The Monster's Cave; Germany; Belgium; Brussels; France; Croydon; Tower; Hastings; English Channel; Small Town Outside Brighton; Telegraph Office; Dover; Courthouse; Pembroke; Lavenza Mansion; A Ship
Story: An old dictionary discovered in an attic is found to contain a Watsonian manuscript along with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein manuscript.

Frankenstein creates his monster. At the end of the Irene Adler case, Holmes and Watson are stopped in the street by Clerval. He has come to consult with Watson, concerned about Frankenstein's health. Some weeks later he arrives back at Baker Street, this time with Frankenstein, in a state of terror. Frankenstein's young brother, William, has been killed, and he is talking about a monster being responsible. Holmes has already visited the castle and seen the body. When a servant is charged with murder and Frankenstein has a further relapse, Holmes and Watson travel to Geneva. As they near the castle, Watson sees a tall figure in the trees. While Holmes examines the river bank where the body was found and encounters the monster, Watson visits Justine in prison. After a lynch mob hangs Justine, Holmes returns to London, leaving Watson in Geneva. When he returns, he, Watson and Frankenstein pay a visit to the Reichenbach Falls and travel on into the Alps.

They encounter the monster again, and it orders Frankenstein to create a mate for it. They return to London and find a deserted tower-like building for Frankenstein to begin his work in. Lestrade arrives with news of a series of grave robberies. Holmes and Watson go to the tower and witness the results of his work, and Holmes assists Frankenstein in covering up the events of the night, but Holmes finds himself adrift in the English Channel without a boat. He summons Baron Alphonse and Elizabeth to Baker Street, and they arrive with news that Clerval has been murdered. Frankenstein and Elizabeth are married, and a plan is made to lure the monster into a trap when they reach their final honeymoon destination in Pembroke, but more deaths ensue, and they pursue the monster back into the Alps, where, on an ice-locked ship, Holmes and Watson are left to deal with the monster alone.

David W. Barber

William Barden, Jr.

Maurice Baring

"From the Diary of Sherlock Holmes" (1911)
Included in: A Sherlock Holmes Compendium (Peter Haining); Seventeen Steps to 221B (James Edward Holroyd); The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye); Sherlock Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches I: 1910-1914 (Bill Peschel); The Misadventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Sebastian Wolfe)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Turner
Other Characters: Lady Dorothy Smith; Client; Bill
Date: January
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Eaton Square
Story: Holmes's diary tells of the case of Lady Dorothy's stolen ring, which was recovered by Lestrade despite Holmes's seemingly accurate deductions; of an incident where his deductions went astray because his client was wearing someone else's clothes; and of Mrs. Turner's nephew, Bill's part in the appearance of a carbuncle in the Christmas pudding.

Weaver C. Barksdale

Jonathan Barnes

"The Presbury Papers" (2016)
Included in: Associates of Sherlock Holmes (George Mann)
Story Type: Extra-canonical adventure of Professor Presbury
Canonical Characters: Professor Presbury; Dr Watson; Mycroft Holmes; (Edith Presbury; Trevor Bennett; Alice Morphy; H, Lowenstein)
Other Characters: Cambridge Students; Cambridge Fellows; E.S. Foote; Mrs Scott; Panjandrum; Scheherazade Lowenstein; Young Woman; Dean Street Bystanders; Detective Inspector Arnold Blakely; I.A. Richards
Date: 1904 -1913
Locations: Cambridge; Sapperson College; Seaton Leigh; London; Bloomsbury; Bostonian Hotel; Dean Street; Waterloo
Story: A series of articles, diaries and letters tell how Presbury left his college in Cambridge and moved to the village of Seaton Leigh, where he is visited by Lowenstein's daughter, who invites him to a hotel in Bloomsbury, where he is given access to an improved form of Lowenstein's serum, and receives a warning from Dr Watson.

David Barnett

"Woman's Work" (2013)
Included in: Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (George Mann)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Mrs Hudson / Martha; Inspector Lestrade; Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Baker Street Irregular
Other Characters: Herbert; Highfield's Shop Assistant; White Horse Clerk; Eliza Ramsbottom; George Morris; Lady Morris; (Melvin Jacobs; Lord Morris of Fife)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Billingsgate Market; Covent Garden; Highfield's; White Horse Transport & Travel Offices; Mayfair; Lady Morris's Townhouse
Story: Martha Hudson is attending to her scrapbook when Lestrade arrives with a dead fish stuffed with jewels. Mrs Hudson remembers a news story about the theft of Lady Morris's jewels in Paris. After putting the information in Holmes's way, she goes to Billingsgate Market and Covent Garden to inquire into the origins of the fish, and checks Lady Morris's travel manifest. After passing the information along, she visits her friend Eliza, who works for Lady Morris, and the truth is revealed. Watson writes a fictionalised version of the story for the Strand.

Joseph Baron

"The Man who "Bested" Sherlock Holmes" (1893)
Included in: Downham Market Gazette 18th February 1893;  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; (Neville St Clair)
Fictional Characters: (Mr Pickwick; Tom Jones; Count Fosco; Sarah Battle; C. Auguste Dupin; Sylvester Sound)
Historical Figures: (Wilkie Collins; Fergus Hume; Edgar Allan Poe; Rudyard Kipling; Henry Cockton; David Cox)
Other Characters: Anderson; Captain J.H. McDonald; Poll the Parrot; (Mrs McDonald; Kate "Kitty" McDonald)
Unnamed Characters: Narrator; McDonald's Dog-Cart Driver; Anderson's Servant; McDonald's General Servant; (Narrator's Cook's Sister's Husband; McDonald's Cook; Widow's Son; Widow)
Date: July 5th, 1892
Locations: Anderson's Rooms; Luton Square; McDonald's House
Story: After an argument about whether Sherlock Holmes's name will go down in posterity, private detective Anderson tells his friend how he received a summons to investigate a burglary at the Luton Square home of retired army officer J.H. McDonald. He arrives to find Holmes has also been hired to investigate the theft, of a jewelled brooch. The investigation is accompanied by an ongoing commentary from McDonald's pet parrot.

NOTE: The version in Gibson & Green, and Peschel is a heavily edited version of the original, omitting a section in which we learn more about Anderson, see him deduce the ownership of a watch in Sherlockian style, and suggest that Holmes's solution the mystery of the Man with the Twisted Lip owed a debt to The Moonstone or to Fergus Hume, as well as a substantial section of dialogue between Anderson and Holmes. Also missing is a section of dialogue between Anderson and the parrot, and  references to books which suggest solutions to the mystery.

Robert Barr

"The Great Pegram Mystery" (1892)
Included in: I Believe in Sherlock Holmes (Douglas G. Greene); 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); The Misadventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Sherlaw Kombs & Dr. Whatson
Story: Kombs & Whatson are called upon by Wilber Scribbings of the Evening Blade, to investigate the death of Mr. Barrie Kipson, found shot through the head in a first-class compartment of the Scotch Express. Kombs' solution is radically different from that ultimately arrived at by Scotland Yard.

Note: Scotland Yard is represented by Gregory in this story, originally published in The Idler in May 1892. The canonical Gregory did not appear (in "Silver Blaze") in the Strand until December of the same year. It is interesting to note, however, that Doyle was a contributor to The Idler at this time, and on friendly terms with Barr.

See also: Luke Sharp

Stephen Barr

Kevin David Barratt

"The Haunting of Sherlock Holmes" (2015)
Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part I: 1881-1889 (David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Watson's Brother; (Inspector Lestrade; Helen Stoner; Grimesby Roylott)
Other Characters: Pawnbroker; Watson's Sister-in-law; Shopkeepers; Passers-by; Carol Singers
Date: October - December 25th, 1883
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Scotland
Story: Watson receives a letter from his sister-in-law in Scotland, saying that his brother is in poor health. A letter from Mrs Hudson, detailing strange behaviour on the part of Holmes draws him back to London, where he finds Holmes reduced to a state of terror, believing that he is being haunted by the ghost of Grimesby Roylott.

Raymond Barrett

"Catskill Interlude" (1937)
Included in: The Saint Joseph's Collegian, May 1937
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detective: Sherlock Slye
Other Characters: Willoughby Speck; Wonderly Hash; (Lon Kennedy)
Unnamed Characters: Paymaster; Messenger; Armed Robber; Town Constable; (Postmaster)
Locations: USA; Catskill Mountains; Sleepy Hollow
Story: Town detective Sherlock Slye, and a Patented Thief-Prood Messenger Bag invented by Willoughby Speck foil the theft of the Lumber Mills payroll.

Tracy Barrett

The 100-Year-Old Secret (2008)
Story Type: Children's Homage
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson)
Other Characters: Xander Holmes; Xena Holmes; Honeymooners; Gardener; Ballet Dancer; Doormen; Dancing Men Patrons; Dancing Men Waitress; Leroy Brown; Mary Watson; Andrew Watson; Society for the Preservation of Famous Detectives; Mr Batheson; Mrs Holmes; Bus Driver; Gallery Patrons; Gallery Attendant; V&A Guide; Mr Holmes; Mansion Guide; Tea Shop Waitress; Woman in Churchyard; Church Caretaker; Emily Emerson; School Students; Headmaster; Spanish Teacher; Coach Craig; Simon; Soccer Players; Zafir; Café Waitress; Fat Man; Mary Selden; Mr Georgescu; Sarah; Annie; Woman with Tattoos; Man with Piercings; Exhibition Opening Guests; Jack Batheson; Worthington Students; School Custodian; Mr Nolan; Fraser; Worthington Headmaster; V&A Guard; Louis Fontaine; (Nigel Batheson; Marguerite Sawyer Batheson; Abner Batheson; Cedric Batheson; Robert Batheson; Cyril Batheson; Sophie Batheson; Nigel Batheson (II); Miss Bailey; Beggar Boy)
Date: Early 21st Century
Locations: Dulcey Hotel; The Dancing Men Pub; Gallery; Victoria & Albert Museum; Hertfordshire; Taynesbury; Henry VIII's Mansion; Tea Shop; Church of St Freda; Lilac Lane; The Willows; International School; Café; Annie's Gallery; Library; Worthington School; South Kensington
Story: Xena and Xander Holmes have moved from America to London. While playing their game of guessing information about passers-by, they are given a message written in disappearing ink. They follow its instructions and find themselves amongst the members of the Society for the Preservation of Great Detectives, and learn that they are the great-great-great grandchildren of Sherlock Holmes. They are given a book containing records of Holmes's unsolved cases.

Realising that one of the cases relates to a painting by an artist, Nigel Batheson, who is currently the subject of an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, they decide to try to pick up the investigation and find the missing painting Girl in a Purple Hat. Visiting a gallery that has Batheson sketches, Xander sees a girl in a purple hat like that in the painting. Their mother takes them to Batheson's home village, Taynesbury, but they are lumbered with the company of Watson's great-great-great grandson, Andrew.

From clues in the churchyard, they trace Mrs Emerson, a descendant of Batheson, but learn little from her. Xander sees the girl in the purple hat again, and when the children follow her, she leads them to a room full of copies of the painting. After Xander has deduced who the original model was, the trail leads swiftly to the missing painting.

The Beast of Backslope (2009)
Story Type: Children's Homage
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson)
Other Characters: Xander Holmes; Xena Holmes; City Boy; Mr Holmes; Adeline "Lina" Roberts; Mrs Holmes; Nigel Roberts; Emma; Katy; Woman; Sheep Farmer; Librarian; Harold Tuttle; Bookshop Customer; Trevor; Shepherd; Post Office Clerk; Mr Whittaker; Ian Backslope; Auction Preview Viewers; Ian's Mother; Middle-Aged Women; Chemist's Shop Assistant; Boy with Spiked Hair; Young Couple; Man with Flyer; Woman with Stroller; Mayor; Whittaker's Crowd; Tourist; Tourist Agency Man; George Backslope, Lord Chimington; Waitress; Andrew Watson; Maggie; Cameraman; Susan; Derek; Technician; Head of Film School
(The Hendersons; Lord Chimington; Chimington's Cook; Cousin Kelly; Old Fred; Lady Chimington; Flower Show Visitors; James Daniels; Adeline Daniels; Farmers; Young Man; Doctor; Philip Backslope; Gilder; Joseph; Lady Periwinkle, Circus People)
Date: Autumn Break, Early 21st Century
Locations: Backslope; Town Square; Park; Bed and Breakfast; Tuttle's Antiquarian Books; Druidic Temple Ruins; Woods; Stationers; Post Office; Backslope Manor; General Store; Chemist's Shop; Ruined Castle; Restaurant; Café; Library
Story: Xena and Xander are on vacation in the village of Backslope, when they hear a strange howling noise. Xander remembers a case in Sherlock Holmes's notebook concerning the Beast of Backslope. Holmes was called to Backslope by Lord Chimington to investigate a strange creature, but never discovered what it was. When they try to investigate at the local library they discover that the local newspapers from the time of Holmes's investigation have disappeared.

They learn from Mr Tuttle, the bookseller, that the Beast's first appearance was linked to the disappearance of Adeline, the cook at Backslope Manor, who had claimed that her husband James had put a curse on her. Xena sees the Beast in the garden, and they meet Ian, the son of the Lord of the Manor, whom they beleve is trying to put them off the scent.

The Case That Time Forgot (2010)
Story Type: Children's Homage
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson)
Historical Figures: (Queen Victoria)
Other Characters: Xander Holmes; Xena Holmes; Andrew Watson; Hannah; Shane; Jake Bowen; Karim Farag; Mr Franklin; Mr Singh; Mr Holmes; Mrs Farag; Mr Sanderson; Mrs Sanderson; Sylvia Sanderson; Brian Sanderson; Mr Grayson; Dr Holloway; Rosetta Stone "Rosie" Collins; Selma; Harold; Leroy Brown; Dr Bowen; Dr Asano; Soccer Coach; Soccer Team; Karim's Mother; Tube Passengers; Mrs Holmes; Shane's Father; Tourists; Tour Guide; Van Man; London Crowds; Churchgoers; Students; Cat & Crown Customers; Museum Guide; Big Ben Guards; SPFD Members; Carberry Guard; Karim's Grandfather; Carberry Visitors; Asano's Assistant; (Jill Fenton; Ms Perella; Karim's Grandmother; Ms Jacobsen; Josiah S. Carberry; Amin Farag; Karim's Father; Egyptian Guards; Museum Trustees; Mr Holmes's University Friend; Reporter; Amin's Brother; Karim's Great-Great-Grandfather; Detective; R.S. Collins; Rosie's Son; Rosie's Grandmother; Rosie's Mother; Rosie's Great-Grandmother; Rosie's Grandfather; Fotheringale; Smythe; Mary Watson; Big Ben Caretaker; Laura Sears; Nigel)
Date: Early 21st Century
Locations: School; Tube Station; The Holmes Apartment; Karim's Flat; Chinese Restaurant; Guildhall; Timekeepers Museum; Upper Thames Street; Victoria Embankment; Cleopatra's Needle; St Martin-in-the-Fields; The Cat and Crown; Russell Square; British Museum; Dancing Men Pub; SPFD Headquarters; Library; Westminster; Big Ben; Parliament Square; Carberry Museum
Story: A spate of thefts has broken out at Xena and Xander's school, and Xander finds a mysterious note in his locker. Their schoolmate, Karim, asks them to investigate another case that Sherlock Holmes failed to solve: the theft of an Egyptian waterclock, destined for the Carberry Museum, from a warehouse. Karim's great-great-great-granduncle had been one of the clock's guards, and Karim's grandfather has told him of a secret amulet, with the power to make time stand still, hidden in the clock. The trail leads them to Cleoptra's Needle, where they realise that they are being followed, and Holmes's casebook is stolen from Xander's locker and something unpleasant is left in its place. Their quest reaches its climax in the clock-tower of Big Ben, and ends in the hands of a mummy at the Carberry Museum.

Sir James M. Barrie

"The Adventure of the Two Collaborators" (1893 (first published 1923))
Included in: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle - Oxford Edition); The Adventure of the Plated Spoon and Other Tales of Sherlock Holmes (Loren D. Estleman); The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes (Richard Lancelyn Green); Murder In Baker Street (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower); The Final Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Peter Haining); A Sherlock Holmes Compendium (Peter Haining); The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye); Imitations Of Immortality (E.O. Parrott); 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); The Misadventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen); Sherlock Holmes: My Life (Lawrence R. Spencer); Sherlock Holmes: The Published Apocrypha (Jack Tracy)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Historical Figures: James M. Barrie; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Date: 1893
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Holmes deduces that two men Watson has seen walking along Baker Street are collaborators on an unsuccessful comic opera. The two men (Doyle & Barrie) have come to Holmes's rooms to find out why their comic opera is not a success. Holmes refuses, despite threats, to go to see the show, a decision which ultimately leads to his disappearance in a cloud of smoke.

Dr. Hill Barton

"The Adventure of the Brimstone Chalice" (1959)
Included in: The Baker Street Journal Christmas Annual 1959
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: Professor Moriarty; Ricoletti's Abominable Wife; Morgan; Colonel James Barclay; Charles Augustus Milverton; Enoch Drebber; Jack McGinty; Culverton Smith; John Clay; Grimesby Roylott; Jack Stapleton
Folkloric Characters: Lucifer
Other Characters: Morgan's Secretary
Date: April, 1891
Locations: Enterprises Ltd. Headquarters (Hell)
Story: Moriarty returns to headquarters having failed, at Reichenbach, in a mission, for the first time in over fifty centuries. Morgan takes him to the Chief for punishment. As he waits, he recalls his achievements over the centuries. Finally he comes before the chief and the board. He tells of other plans to conquer Holmes, but is forced to drink from the brimstone chalice for his failure and insubordination, or to develop his E=mc2 formula in such a way as to ensure the mass destruction of humanity. Moriarty thinks over his duel with Holmes and makes his choice.

William Barton & Michael Capobianco

"The Adventure of the Russian Grave" (1995)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Watson; (Sebastian Moran; Professor Moriarty; Mycroft Holmes)
Other Characters: Nadya Filipovna Dolgoruky; Prince Vorontsov; Vassily; Borya; Gortov; Tengiz; (Nikolai Dolgoruky; Nadya's Father)
Date: May, 1908
Locations: Watson's Home; Holmes's Sussex Villa; Belgravia; Russia; Siberia; Krasnoyarsk; Aksenovo; Tunguska
Story: Nadia Dolgoruky tells Holmes of her family's history, and the amassed wealth hidden by her great-great-grandfather in Siberia. She also tells him of her father's involvement with Moran & Moriarty. She has received a much delayed letter from him, along with a ring, on which are coded directions to the treasure. Holmes and Watson travel to Russia, and then by train, boat and on horseback into the Siberian hinterland, only to find that they have fallen victim to a posthumous plot by Moriarty, founded on his Dynamics of an Asteroid, that could lead to their destruction in Tunguska.

Jacques Barzun

"Prolegomena to Dr Watson's Ninth Marriage" (1955)
Included in: The Baker Street Journal, January 1955
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Professor Moriarty; Mrs Watson
Historical Figures: (John Maynard Keynes)
Other Characters: Giovanni Antipasto; Alla Breve Customers; Young Lady; Ray Umberto; (Antipasto's Father; Greengrocer; Signor Morteanoi)
Date: Shortly before Holmes's Retirement
Locations: Soho; Alla Breve Restaurant
Story: Antipasto, head-waiter at the Alla Breve restaurant in Soho, observes Watson dining with a young lady. Holmes arrives to join them. Watson asks Holmes to deduce whether the young lady would be a suitable ninth Mrs Watson.

Dana Martin Batory

"The Captive Bride" (1984)
Included in: The Federation Holmes (Dana Martin Batory)
Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Fictional Characters: Peter Kirk
Other Characters: Hextor; Gunnar Magnusson; Tritosians; American's Palace Clientele; Hornblende; Blainville; Professor Gray Wood; Mrs. Magnusson; Magnusson's Son; (Doctors; Sragis)
Locations: Memory Alpha; The Magnetic Lady; Gunnar's Planet; Starwound House; The American's Palace; Magnusson Crater
Story: Kirk's nephew, Peter, calls on Holmes. He believes that Magnusson, his employer is keeping his new young wife a prisoner in a tower. A number of doctors have been called to tend to the illness he claims she is suffering from, but have been sent away as soon as they arrive at the door. A botanist, who turned his face away, so that Peter could not see it, arrived and was taken out to Cenotaph Island, which Magnusson has now proclaimed out of bounds. He has since been making weekly trips to the island and returning with bulky black plastic bags. Holmes and Watson visit Gunnar's Planet posing as archaeologists and hear tales of monsters from the locals. Holmes begins to understand what is happening when he sees the plants that are growing on the island. But Magnusson's reaction when he learns Watson's true identity is completely unexpected.

Jack Batten & Michael Bliss

Matthew Baugh

"The Adventure of the Ethical Assassin" (2012)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The Crossovers Casebook (Howard Hopkins)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; King of Bohemia; Clotilde von Saxe-Meningen; (Lord Saltire; Francois Le Villard)
Fictional Characters: The Assassination Bureau; Ivan Dragomilov; Herr Haas; (Zaroff)
Other Characters: King's Manservant; Queen's Servants; Sylvie; King's Men; King's Girl; Four-Wheeler Driver; (Carruthers; Blankenship; Czech Police; Milena Jebavyová)
Date: January, Three years after SCAN
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Regent Street; Langham Hotel; Dragomilov's Office
Story: Watson reads of a wave of assassinations, including that of Lord Saltire. Holmes receives a note from the King of Bohemia summoning him to a meeting at the Langham Hotel, where he reveals that an attempt was made on his life in Prague three days previously. Another attack is made during their interview. Holmes departs for the continent, leaving Watson to guard the royal couple. After conferring with Le Villard, Holmes discovers that Dragomilov and the Assassination Bureau are behind the attacks, and commissions them to carry out his own assassination, but cannot prevent the final attempt on the King's life.

NOTE: The assassinated Lord Saltire is presumably the man from whom the young Lord Saltire of The Priory School inherited the title.

Louis Baury

"As They Would Have Told It: After Conan Doyle" (1909)
Included in: The Smart Set, Vol 28 No 2, Jun 1909;  A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches (Charles Press)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Biblical Characters: Eve; (Adam; The Serpent)
Other Characters: (Lynx of Eden Yard)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Garden of Eden
Story: Eve comes to Baker Street to ask Holmes to prove that it was not her who gave the apple to Adam. Holmes goes to Eden to finish the investigation begun by Lynx of Eden Yard.

Leo Baxendale

"Bad Penny" (1966)
Included in: Smash! No. 26 (30 July 1966)
Story Type: Comic Strip
Sherlockian Detective: Herblock Soames / Teddy Thomas
Other Characters: Bad Penny; Boys
Locations: A Street
Story: Bad Penny and Teddy Thomas argue over who has right of way. After Teddy tosses Penny, Penny tortures a series of boys to find him. Teddy disguises himself as Herblock Soames before the two end up mud-wrestling, and Teddy is chased by a bull.

Stephen Baxter

"The Adventure of the Inertial Adjustor" (1997)
Included in: The Mammoth Book Of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike Ashley); The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (John Joseph Adams)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Historical Figures: H.G. Wells
Other Characters: Ralph Brimicombe; Tarquin Brimicombe; Jack Bryson; Jane Brimicombe; Barman
Date: October or November, 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Paddington Station; A Train; Wiltshire; The Brimicombe Residence; Chippenham; The Little George Inn; Another Train
Story: H.G. Wells asks Holmes to investigate the death of Ralph Brimicombe, an inventor who claimed to have built an inertial adjustor, a device capable of manipulating the forces of gravity, in which he said he had flown to the Moon. He died when his brother Tarquin cut the main supporting cable of the machine, on the instructions of Ralph's engineer, Bryson, and it crashed to the ground with Ralph inside it. Bryson claims that Tarquin cut the wrong cable. Looking in the machine, Watson sees that the ceiling is covered with blood, but there is little anywhere else. Wells shows Holmes a photo of a giant red leech, and around the Brimicombe residence they see other giant insects including an ant, and mis-shapen mice. Ralph's wife's dog is suffering from a bone disease after being used in his experiments. Eventually it is the properties of the inertial adjustor itself that lead Holmes towards identifying the true culprit.

Peter Beagle

"Mr. Sigerson" (2004)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years (Michael Kurland)
Story Type: Humourous Pastiche narrated by Floresh Takesti
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes (Sigerson)
Other Characters: Floresh Takesti; The Greater Bornitz Municipal Orchestra; Volodya Andrichev; Lyudmilla Plaschka; Grigori Progorny; Dr. Nastase; Beggar; Stable Owner; Constables; Warder; (Lyudmilla's Cook; Magistrate; Widow Ridnak; Ridnak's Sons; Lyudmilla's Cousin; Lawyers)
Date: Spring - Autumn, 1894
Locations: St. Radomir, Duchy of Bornitz, Selmira; Takesti's Residence; Ilyagi; Andrichev's House; Livery Stable; Police Station; The Ridnak Farm
Story: Sigerson arrives in the town of St Radomir in Selmira with a letter of introduction as a violinist to Takesti the concertmaster of the Municipal Orchestra. When the orchestra's cellist discovers that his wife is unfaithful he appears to take refuge in his music. Later in the year, when his wife becomes ill, he sells his cello to pay for treatment. His purchase of an inferior cello has disastrous effects on the orchestra. His wife's worsening condition forces Andrichev to sell more of his possessions. Sigerson visits Andrichev's house in disguise and discovers that all is not as he has been led to believe. With the aid of the concertmaster and some locally recruited Irregulars, Sigerson sets about putting matters to right and preventing a flight to America, but his solution still leaves him with doubts about the case.

Elizabeth Bear

"Tiger! Tiger! " (2003)
Included in: Shadows Over Baker Street (Michael Reaves & John Pelan)
Story Type: Fantasy Adventure
Canonical Characters: Irene Adler; Colonel Moran
Fictional Characters: Hastur the Unspeakable
Other Characters: Magnus Larssen; Rodney; Graf Baltasar von Hammerstein; James Waterhouse; Northrop Waterhouse; Dr. Albert Montleroy; Conrad Waterhouse; Count Kolinzcki; Mahouts; Beaters; Afghan Shaman
Date: July, 1882
Locations: India; The Malwa Plateau; Kanha; Jabalpur; The Jungle
Story: The shikari, Larssen, is taking a group of Europeans, and the American, Irene Adler, on a hunting trip in India, which coincides with the appearance of a maneater around the village of Kanha. On their first day out they are attacked by, and kill, a tiger, but soon realise that it cannot be the maneater. Three of their beaters do not return from the jungle, from which a noise like drumbeats is heard. In the night Larssen hears a quarrel between Irene and her companion, the Lithuanian Count Kolinzcki, but is uncertain if it is merely a lovers' tiff or something more. The following day a ragged man, who they take to be an Arab emerges from the jungle into their camp and they are attacked by a beast, similar to, but larger and more ferocious than a tiger. Moran arrives on the scene in the middle of the attack and is able to drive the beast away. They learn that the Arab is really an Afghan shaman, and Moran's prisoner. They set off again through the jungle with the beast in pursuit.

NOTE: The "Baltic nobleman" for whom Irene is trying to retrieve the dagger is presumably the future King of Bohemia (pp.32, 45-46).

H. Bedford-Jones

"The Affair of the Aluminium Crutch" (1936)
Included in: The Baker Street Journal, January 1946
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Peter Jones
Other Characters: Dr. Findlay; Lucy Wigmore; Shoreham Green Constable; Mullins; Benito Ghiberti; (Sir Oswald Wigmore; Wigmore's Cook; Wigmore's Gardener; Lady Wigmore; Count Arnaldo Ricci; Mr. Antonio)
Date: The third year of Watson's marriage
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Surrey Commercial Docks; The Calabria; Charing Cross Station; Shoreham Green; Kelmcote Manor
Story: Holmes is consulted by the daughter of Sir Oswald Wigmore because a case that Holmes was involved in fifteen years previously has come to life again. Sir Oswald has been found, apparently after suffering a paralytic stroke in his garden. His gardener has been murdered, and his aluminium crutch, involved in the earlier case, is lying, broken, by his side. In the earlier case, Sir Oswald and his wife had witnessed the murder of a one-legged man, the former owner of the crutch. Holmes had been unable to identify either murderer or victim, but deduces the nature of his man from a spent match. He believes that the murderer has returned to retrieve something hidden in the crutch, and he learns from the butler about an elderly Italian gentleman who had died at the manor prior to the earlier incident. It soon becomes apparent that the events are linked to a forgery case cracked by Peter Jones years before, and that the murderer is still in the house.

Herbert Beeman

Max Beerbohm

"At the St James's Theatre" (1905)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches II: 1905-1909 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody / Theatre Review
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Fictonal Characters: Mrs Chilcote; John Chilcote; John Loder (The Impostor)
Other Characters: Baker Street Servant;
Date: 1905
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Holmes and Watson are called upon by the wife of the rising Member of Parliament, John Chilcote.

Beerbohm explains how events in the play John Chilcote, M.P., turned his mind to Sherlock Holmes during a performance at the St Jame's Theatre.

Holmes investigates Chilcote's strange behaviour and provides a happy ending for his wife.

NOTE: In his review of the play, Beerbohm seems to be under the impression that it was based on a novel by E. Temple Thurston. John Chilcote, M.P. was, in fact, written by Katherine Thurston.

Derrick Belanger

"The Adventure of the Heroic Tobacconist" (2019)
Included in: The Sign of Seven (Martin Rosenstock)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Billy; Mrs Hudson; (Mary Morstan; Inspector Lestrade; Sir Hugo Baskerville; Stapleton; Sir Henry Baskerville)
Other Characters: Mr Tipton; Superintendent Cromwell; Archibald Roberts; Mrs Armstrong; Lord Forster, Earl of Bedford; Mr Lory; (Calyxtus Reginald Armstrong; Lady Forster; Johnny Roberts; Fiona Roberts; Marigold Roberts; Beatrice Mulvaney; Reynolds)
Unnamed Characters: Scotland Yard Officers; Mediterranean Man; Man in Top Hat; Jail Constable; Jailers; Watson's Patients; Witechapel Tobacco Customer; Whitechapel Tobacco Shop Salesman; Forster's Carriage Driver; Funeral Guests; (Mary's Old School Friend; Vagrant; Police Constables; Armstrong's Employees; Armstrong's Servants; Armstrong's Butler; Armstrong's Business Partners; Orphanage Staff; Old Army Men; Counterfeiter; Lory's Sister)
Date: October, 1890
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Oxford Street; Armstrong's Tobacconist; New Scotland Yard; Embankment; Jail; Watson's Paddington Practice; Whitechapel; Armstrong's Tobacco Shop; Baker Street; Simpson's-in-the-Strand
Story: Tipton, a tobacconist's bookkeeper, consults Holmes, concerned that the vagrant arrested for the murder of his employer, Calyxtus Armstrong, is not the real killer. The body was found by Lord Forster, and Superintendent Cromwell and Mr Lory, who, along with Armstrong had been responsible for saving Forster's life at Majuba Hill. Holmes and Watson's investigations suggest that all may not be as it ought to be at Scotland Yard, while the discovery of an unknown marriage complicates the plot.

"The Tale of the First Adventure" (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; Mary Morstan; (Mrs Hudson; Mr Sherman; Toby; Irene Adler)
Other Characters: Zenas Cooper; Holmes's Classmates; Percival Stevenson; Miss Davis; Willie Muggins; Headmaster Davis; Mr Lemming; Mr Henderson; (Tobias Cooper; Mrs Cooper; Mary's Friend; Robert Steele; Steele's Daughter; Steele's Wife; Holmes's Father; Holmes's Mother; Mathematics Teacher; Marcy Wilson; Julia Moreau; Eva Walker)
Date: Autumn, 1890 / Holmes's Childhood
Locations: Watson's Surgery; 221B, Baker Street; Kennington; School
Story: When one of Watson's patients, Zenas Cooper, tells him that Holmes, as a youth, was involved in a case that saved his marriage, Watson hurries to Baker Street to find out more.

Aged eleven, Holmes attends a day school in Kennington (which leads to his first acquaintance with Mr Sherman). Holmes's friend, Stevenson gets in a fight with another boy, Muggins, which is broken up by the headmaster, Davis. Cooper has become romantically attached to Davis's daughter, but the engagement ring he has bought has disappeared from his coat pocket. He asks for Holmes's help to retrieve it, but Holmes's investigations do not lead to a happy ending.

Sam Benady

"The Abandoned Brigantine" (1990)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in Gibraltar (Sam Benady); The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Mycroft Holmes)
Historical Figures: Captain Benjamin S. Briggs; Sarah Briggs; Sophia Matilda Briggs; James H. Winchester; Albert C. Richardson; Narcis Monturiol i Estarriol; Amadeo I of Spain; Queen's Advocate Frederick Solly Flood; (Arthur Conan Doyle; Dei Gratia Crew; Admiralty Advocate; Queen Maria Victoria; Isaac Peral; Judge Advocate)
Other Characters: Luca D'Este; Republican Kidnappers; Bianca Bernini; Holmes's Irish Landlady; Cab Driver Genoese Carabinieri
Date: December / November 1872
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; New York; Pinkerton's Office; Kidnappers' Apartment; Briggs's Lodging House; Aboard the Mary Celeste; Aboard the Ictíneo III; Spain; Madrid; Gibraltar; Genoa
Story: Holmes deduces that Watson is thinking about the Mary Celeste and, after challenging him to solve the case, tells Watson of his involvement in the mystery. Taking time abroad after university, Holmes secures an unfulfilling post with Pinkerton's in New York. There he encounters an old Italian schoolfriend, D'Este, who has been sent by his cousin, the King of Spain, to find a missing lady-in-waiting, kidnapped by Republicans. They rescue the girl, Bianca, and arrange to smuggle her back to Spain on the Mary Celeste. The captain and his wife are murdered before the ship can sail, but Bianca swears to look after their daughter. The ship is intercepted by a Spanish submarine in the Azores, and pursued by a brigantine, believed to be carrying their enemies.

"The Gibraltar Letter" (1990)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in Gibraltar (Sam Benady); The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mycroft Holmes; (Mrs Hudson; Ricoletti; Ricoletti's Abominable Wife)
Historical Figures: Robert Napier; Lord Napier of Magdala; Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught; (Queen Victoria; George I; Philip V of Spain; Edward VII; Lady Napier)
Other Characters: Convent Servants; Barker; Pepe Ansaldo; Conchita Demaya; Pedro Real; Ana Pedroz; Pedro's Wife; (Guardia; Elderly Banker)
Date: 1876
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Diogenes Club; Gibraltar; The Convent; Gaucín; Hostal Inglés; Ricoletti's House; Ruined Castle of Gaucín
Story: Holmes tells Watson the story of the Gibraltar letter after Watson finds a gold ring in the Persian slipper:

Holmes is summoned to the Diogenes Club by Mycroft because a letter written by George I, which would cede Gibraltar back to Spain has disappeared, along with its finder, the Duke of Connaught. Holmes is sent, at the Queen's request, to Gibraltar, where he learns that the Duke was visiting his lover, who has also disappeared. Having managed to reveal what was written on a missing page of the Duke's diary, he sets up vigil in the Duke's room. When the letter is recovered, the Duke is still to be found, and Holmes learns of the involvement of Ricoletti and his abominable wife. A search of their house reveals nothing, but the trail leads to the cellars of a ruined castle.

Christopher Bendel

Alan Benjamin

S.F. Bennett

D.R. Bensen

"Irene, Good-Night" (1982)
Included in: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (January 1984)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Irene Adler
Canonical Characters: Irene Adler; Sherlock Holmes / [Thaengl] Sigerson; Godfrey Norton; (Professor Moriarty; Dr Watson; Moriarty Gang; King of Bohemia; Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meiningen; King's Thugs)
Historical Figures: Oscar Wilde; (La Goulue; Jane Avril; Valentin le Désossé; Caroline Otéro)
Other Characters: Princesse de Dromer; Princess's Guests; Lucille(Concierge; Godfrey's Clerk; Irene's Father; Russian Ballerina; Cockney Youths; Mme Epinard; Godfrey's Driver; Batrinard; Lebrume; Doctor; Lebrume's Second)
Date: 7th-12th July, 1892
Locations: France; Paris; Princesse de Dromer's Residence; Ile St Louis; Rue de Bretonvilliers; Irene's Apartments; Foyot's; Warsaw; Covent Garden; Serpentine Avenue; St Monica's Church; Briony Lodge
Story: Irene Adler encounters Sherlock Holmes, disguised as the Norwegian explorer Sigerson, at a party in Paris. She asks him to follow Godfrey, who has been acting strangely over the past week, since the arrival of his school friend, Oscar Wilde.

Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976)
(Adapted from the screenplay by Alvin Sapinsley)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Professor Moriarty; Mrs. Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Irene Adler; (Colonel Moran; Moriarty Gang)
Historical Figures: Tom Mix; O. Henry; (W.H. Kendal; G.P. Huntley; Nellie Campbell; Louis Sherry; May Robson)
Other Characters: Cunard Clerk; Liverpool Porters; Moriarty's Men; Pavonia Passengers; Card Players; Napper, Nice Ned; Purser; Ship's Doctor; Miss Jacobs; Dockside Crowd; Hansom Driver; Drab; Four-wheeler Driver; New York Crowds; Subway Labourers; Empire Theater Ticket Clerk; Zimmer; Cab Drivers; Empire Audience; Daniel Furman; Heller; Frau Reichenbach; Inspector Lafferty; Mortimer McGraw; Sandwich-board Men; Landau Driver; Algonquin Waiter; Loafer; Telegraph Office Manager; Sully; Haymarket Proprietor; Nicole Romaine; Algonquin Desk Clerk; Arnold Bozeman; A. Hannzähne; Pawnbroker's Customers; Treff; Treff's Owner; Brynie; Riley; Zoo Man; Zoo Boy; Boy's Brother; Viemeister's Waiter; Vallence's Engineers; Charles Nickers; Policeman; Algonquin Doorman; Lafferty's Driver; Moriarty's Driver; Constables; Exchange Employees; German Bank Representative; Italian Bank Representative; (Adelspate; Stryker; Bethune; Bill Nickers; Ashby; Spinnerton; Lord Brackish; Mr East; Call Boy; McVay; The Twickenham Toffs; Anatole Romaine)
Date: 19th, March - September, 1901
Locations: Victoria Docks; Moriarty's Warehouse; 221B, Baker Street; Cunard Offices; Waterloo Station; A Train; Liverpool Docks; Aboard the Pavonia; The United States; Hoboken; New York; Manhattan Docks; Empire Theater; East River Waterfront; Moriarty's Lair; Algonquin Hotel; Fifth Avenue; Delmonico's; 4 Gramercy Park West; Madison Avenue; 44th Street; Fifth Avenue; Telegraph Office; Haymarket Hotel; Windsor Arcade; Haberdasher's; Third Avenue; Central Park Zoo; Eighteenth Street; Viemeister's Tavern; Lafferty's Office; Bouwerie National Bank; Thomas Vallence & Co Offices; Stuyvesant Square
Story: Holmes insists that seventy-five years should pass before Watson's account of his adventure in New York is released to the public.

A meeting with Moran does not go as Moriarty planned, and he swears vengeance on Holmes. A few days later, Watson reads of Irene's stage appearance in New York, and the receipt of torn theatre tickets in that morning's post makes Holmes resolve to sail there immediately. En route he breaks up a crooked card game and accompanies Tom Mix on the violin. Arriving in New York, Holmes realises that Moriarty was also aboard their ship, in disguise. Irene fails to arrive at the theatre for her performance, and at her home, Holmes learns that her son, Scott, has been abducted. Holmes receives a note warning him not to cooperate with the police, a warning he reluctantly heeds when they consult him over the theft of all the gold from the vaults of the International Gold Exchange, a crime which threatens world peace. Holmes believes that both crimes are part of Moriarty's revenge, but decides that if he can rescue the boy without Moriarty finding out, he will be free to work on the gold theft. His investigations take him to the room of a ballet dancer in a theatrical boarding-house. Meanwhile, Watson explores the city, buys a tie, visits a pawnbroker and the zoo, witnesses the rescue of a dog, and encounters O. Henry. With Scott restored to his mother, Holmes examines the bank's elevator and deduces that the appearances of the robbery may be deceptive. Scott is abducted again, and Holmes faces Moriarty in his headquarters once more.

E.F. Benson & Eustace H. Miles

"The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Lord Watson" (1903)
Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey); The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler); Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I: 1900-1904 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Mrs Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen; (Professor Moriarty; Hound of the Baskervilles; Watson's Brother; Mycroft Holmes; Mrs Hudson; King of Bohemia)
Fictional Characters: (Sir Richard Calmady)
Other Characters: (Watson's Servant; Mrs Smith; Sir Richard's Mother; Paris Jeweller)
Date: Some two years after Holmes's disappearance
Locations: 221B, Baker Street;
Story: Lord Watson is sitting in the Baker Street rooms, reading his unpublished accounts of Holmes's cases and regretting having killed him off in The Final Problem. When a woman client arrives, he pretends to be Holmes, but she reveals that she is Holmes in disguise. Holmes makes a series of deductions about Watson and tells him what really happened in Switzerland. He then goes on to tell Watson what it is about him that makes him such an annoying companion, but why, even so, he has returned. The Queen of Bohemia calls, in search of a diamond.

Lara Bergen

Arthur Asa Berger

Durkheim Is Dead! (2003)
Story Type: Sociological Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Watson; Watson's Maid; Inspector Lestrade
Fictional Characters: Cecily Cardew (Lady Cecily Bracknell); (Algernon 'Ernest' Moncrieff)
Historical Figures: Marianne Weber; Emile Durkheim; Max Weber; Sigmund Freud; Georg Simmel; V.I. Lenin; W.E.B. Du Bois; Beatrice Potter (Webb); Sidney Webb; (Weber's Father; Martha Freud; Karl Marx)
Other Characters: Vittorio Settembrini; Policemen; Waiters; Desk Clerk; (Hotel Detective; Cook; Barmaid; Roughs; Salvation Army Woman; Congregation; Preacher)
Date: Late December, 1910
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Watson Residence; Claridge's Hotel
Story: Holmes is consulted by Marianne Weber, who is concerned over her husband's depression, threats made against him, and the possibility that he will do violence to someone. He is also visited by Durkheim who fears that Weber is suicidal, and goes on to explain his theories on the subject. The following day Lestrade brings news that at a gathering of sociologists, during a fight between Weber and Durkheim, Lady Bracknell (presumably, the former Cecily Cardew) had a diamond stolen, and Durkheim has since disappeared.

At Claridge's, Lady Bracknell explains that all those present, except Freud and Lenin, had put in applications for funds for their research to her charitable institution. Weber explains the theoretical differences that led to his fight with Durkheim. Freud describes to them his consultations with Weber. Simmel expounds on the relation between the individual and society. Lenin fears that one of the hotel workers will be blamed for the theft. Du Bois explains his common interests with Durkheim. Beatrice Webb explains her views on suffrage and invites them to a party at which all the sociologists will be present. Durkheim reappears at the hotel and relates his overnight adventures. At the party, Holmes reveals the jewel's location.

Anthony Berkeley

"Holmes and the Dasher" (1925)
Also published as by A.B. Cox
Included in: The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen); The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler)
Story Type: Parody (in the style of P.G.Wodehouse)
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. ("Bertie") Watson
Story: Cissie Crossgarters has been let down by Freddie Devereux who proposed to her, only, on the following morning, to recant on account of the proposal having been made under the influence of "the demon rum". Cissie wants Holmes to sort things out.

Ruth Berman

Adrian Berry

"Elemental, My Dear Watson" (1986)
Included in: Ice With Your Evolution (Adrian Berry)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Historical Figures: (Rupert Murdoch; Arthur Scargill)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Having followed the stories of the disputes between Murdoch and the print unions, Holmes suggests a solution to the problem of bogus news stories being telephoned in to the Times.

Bill Berry

"Wanted: Dr Watson, for Murder" (1965)
Included in: Purple and White, Volume 45 Number 3 (North Shore Country Day School), November 1965
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Inspector Lestrade
Other Characters: (Thurney; John Camberwell)
Date: 1887
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Watson calls on Holmes, who deduces that he has been playing golf. Lestrade arrives and announces that he is arresting Watson for the murder of his golfing friend, Camberwell.

Robert Berryman

Simon Bestwick

"The Adventure of the Orkney Shark" (2017)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes's School for Detection (Simon Clark)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Lieutenant Commander Grabowsky Atherstone
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Mycroft Holmes
Historical Figures: Lieutenant Commander Noel Grabowsky-Atherstone; Evelyn "Eve" Atherstone Hales; Flight Sergeant George "Sky" Hunt; Flight Sergeant Walter Potter; George Kimberley Atkins; Sam Church; (The Prime Minister (Stanley Baldwin); Herbert Carmichael "Bird" Irwin; Squadron Leader Ralph Sleigh "Mouldy" Booth)
Other Characters: Mr Blacksmith; Flight Lieutenant Bowman; Sergeant Greene; Corporal O'Hara; Cladach Duillich Men; Navigator; Coxswains; Academy Servant; Royal Marines; Ourang Medan Crewmen; Assistant Wireless Operator; Count Melchior von Eisenholm; Airship Crew; ( Aborigines; Australian Murderers)
Date: c.1st - 15th November, 1927 / 4th October, 1930
Locations: Scotland; Orkney Islands; RNAS Cladach Duillich; Aboard Airship R.36 Over the North Sea; 1, Russell Square; The Skule Skerries; Edinburgh; Hospital
Story: When twenty British ships are sunk in the North Sea over a three month period by the so-called Orkney Shark, Mycroft sends Holmes north to Scotland to search for the suspected enemy submarine by airship, accompanied by Lieutenant Commander Grabowsky Atherstone. Atherstone takes his Australian aboriginal companion Mr Blacksmith alonging, hoping that Holmes will accept him into the Detective Academy.

John Gregory Betancourt

"The Adventure of the Amateur Mendicant Society" (1996)
Included in: The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike Ashley); Resurrected Holmes (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche (in the style of H.G. Wells)
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; The Amateur Mendicant Society; Inspector Lestrade
Other Characters: Colonel Oliver Pendleton-Smythe; Nellie Coram; Dr. Jason Attenborough; Rag Merchant; Dean of Eton; Dickie Clarke; The Secret Mendicant Society; Policemen; Rear Admiral
Date: Tuesday, 24th April, 1887
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Baker Street; Mrs. Coram's Rooming House; Eton College; Piccadilly Circus; The London Docks; Kerin Street; The Amateur Mendicant Society's Clubrooms; Harley Street
Story: Mrs. Hudson announces the arrival of Colonel Oliver Pendleton-Smythe, whose disappearance the newspapers reported a few days previously. Holmes refuses to see the Colonel, but follows him to his rooming-house. He tells Watson that he suspects the Colonel of being involved in a secret organisation known as The Amateur Mendicant Society. They visit the Colonel the following day, and learn the truth about his involvement with the society, and its links to his schooldays at Eton. Returning to Baker Street they realise they are being watched. Holmes soon uncovers not one, but three secret societies.

NOTE: Two slightly different versions of this story exist in Resurrected Holmes and The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventure.

Betty Lou