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Stanley M. Bierman, M.D., F.A.C.P.
"The
Mystery of the Department of State Cardboard Invert
Proofs" (1978) |
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Earl Derr Biggers"Mr Dooley Discusses College
Athletics" (1905) |
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Rose Biggin"The Chandelier Bid" (2020)Included in: The Book of Extraordinary New Sherlock Holmes Stories (Maxim Jakubowski) Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Irene Adler Canonical Characters: Irene Adler; Dr Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Mrs Hudson; (Professor Moriarty; Mycroft Holmes) Other Characters: W.Bart; Viscount of Marle; Lady Déricourt Unnamed Characters: Countertenor; Auction Crowd; Auctioneer; Auction Clerk; Auction Handlers; Reporters; Photographers; Police Constable; (Art Tutor; Art Student; Colourman) Locations: Theatre; 221B, Baker Street; The Strand; Langford's Auction House Story: Watson calls on Irene Adler to ask her to assist Holmes in a case. Holmes has been visited by and art tutor who is puzzled by the success of her former student, W. Bart, whose work she regards as unremarkable and yet it is sought out by collectors. Together they attend an auction of one of the artist's works. |
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"The Modjeska Waltz" (2015) |
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Lloyd Biggle, JrThe Quallsford Inheritance (1986) Holmes sets Porter to follow Emmeline, and then to accompany her back to Kent, where, in the family home he sees the old woman from Spitalfields. The dead man's wife refuses him entry to the house, so he stays in the impoverished village, where he learns about the Quallsford's export business. He hears only good said about the dead man, and finds signs of a one-legged man everywhere he goes. Holmes arrives in disguise. He and Porter visit the tower, track down the one-legged man and learn of an exorcism. Emmeline's sister-in-law turns her out of the house. Holmes and Porter discover a stable that has had manure shovelled into, rather than out of, it. Porter discovers that Quallsford had been seen in neighbouring towns when he was supposed to be in London. Holmes announces that there is a massive smuggling operation under way in the area and sets out to bring down a criminal with the genius of a Moriarty, but there are more murders before the case is over. Hopkins is in at the end to help with the arrests. |
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The Glendower Conspiracy (1990) In Wales, Jones stays with the poet Dafydd Madryn in Pentrederwydd. He is given a tour of sites connected with Owen in Newtown, and meets Tromblay's son, Benton, who invites him to a lecture he is giving on Owen. The pass he is given bears the same symbol as those he saw used in the pub in London. He learns about Owen Glendower. Evans's pursuer is spotted at Tromblay's lecture. Jones travels on to Pentrederwydd, visiting the site of Huws's death where he meets Meleri and discovers two sets of clog-prints. He learns of a corpse-candle, a ghostly light, seen prior to Huws's death. He meets Tromblay, and hears of a possible revival of the Rebeccas, and of the arrival of a horse dealer and a boy in the village. That night he sees the Rebeccas himself, apparently keeping watch on the invalid Connor, whom he visits the following day. Holmes appears in disguise. Connor is seen climbing out of a window and walking on his hands, and he disappears after an attempt is made on his life. After a dinner given by Tromblay, Holmes sends Jones and Madryn to Aberystwyth, where they encounter Benton again, and realise they are being followed. When Holmes arrives they visit the Camera Obscura in Luna Park, and are surprised to find the identity of the man who is observing them. With the help of a waiter they identify the coracle from which Connor was shot. Benton's lecture is disrupted by dart-throwing farmhands. Holmes sends Porter back to Pentrederwydd with a geologist, who discovers evidence of salting. Jones and Madryn travel to Devil's Bridge, where another Owen lecture is being given, and hear talk of another sighting of the Rebeccas there. They attend the meeting and with a surprise witness, Holmes overthrows a plot against the monarchy. Later, Jones learns who Holmes's real clients were. |
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Marc Bilgrey"The Tatooed Arm" (2011) |
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Frank Bill
"The Modern Hawkshaw" (1917) |
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Otto Binder & John Sikela
"The Great Superboy Doublecross" (1959) |
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Michelle BirkbyThe House at Baker Street (2016) |
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The Women of Baker
Street (2017) Story Type: Extra-Canonical Adventure of Mary Morstan & Mrs Hudson Canonical Characters: Mrs Hudson (Martha Grey); Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mary Morstan; Billy; Mrs Turner; Baker Street Irregulars; Wiggins; Inspector Lestrade; Tobias Gregson; (Irene Adler; King of Bohemia; Godfrey Norton; Mercer; Mme Montpensier; Mlle Carère; Mrs Cecil Forrester; Langdale Pike) Folkloric Characters: (Death) Historical Figures: (Jack the Ripper; Mary Kelly; Inspector Abberline) Other Characters: Rebecca Fey; Sarah Malone; Betty Soland; Miranda Logan; Emma Fordyce; Florence Bryson / Florence Nabour; Eleanor Langham; Ruth Bey / Ruth Nabour; Nora Taylor; Nurse Barry; Grace Taylor; Micky; Mike; Jim; Frank; Mr Langham; Lord Ernest Howe; Lillian Rose; Patrick West; Robert Sheldon; Ruby; (Miss Leman; Sir Richard Pembury; James Langham; Lady Howe; Stephen Turner; Mrs Lestrade; Edward Nabour; Mr Nabour; Robert Hudson) Unnamed Characters: Bart's Patients; Nurses; Cleaners; Doctors; Surgeons; Betty's Daughters; Emma's Business Acquaintance; Tea Girl; Probationers; Eleanor's Butler; Eleanor's Sons; Langham Boys' Irish Nurse; Soldiers; Regent's Park Girls; Park Caretaker; Howe's Son; Grocery Boy; Telegraph Boy; Businessmen; Matchseller; Baker Street Woman; Corpulent Man; Dainty Woman; Sandwich Vendor; Henry Street Man; Pale Boys; Tea Shop Waitresses; Tea Shop Customers; Strand Crowds; Strand Women; Deerstalker Man; Sailor-Suit Man; Strand Youth; Printers; Newspaper Clerks; Newspaper Boys; Telegraph Boys; Fleet Street Crowds; Regent's Park Police Officers; Whitechapel Residents; Strand Constable; Strand Crowd; (Matron; Watson's Cook; Mrs Hudson's Husband; Crossing Sweeper; Missing Boys; Drunken Mother; Professor; Wiggins's Friends; Ballad-Singer; Police Constable; Missing Boy's Parents; Irene's Friends; Emma's Lovers; Emma's Maid; Irene's Maestro; Charity Women; Pembury's Butler; Howe's Wives; Dead Old Woman; Langham's Boot Boy; Male Patient; Mrs Turner's Employer; Bart's Clerks; Blackmailer; Mrs Hudson's Solicitor; Langham Servants; Whitechapel Lady; Cab Drivers; Tramp; Bart's Doctor; Park Keeper; Florence's Son; Vicar; Nabour's Doctor; Nabour's Housemaid) Date: 30 October - December 1889 Locations: St Bartholomew's Hospital; 221B, Baker Street; Park Road; Langham's House; Regent's Park; Teddington; Churchyard; Henry Street; Sarah's Apartment; Pale Boys' House; The Strand; Tea Shop; Victoria Embankment; West's Home off Fleet Street; Whitechapel; Sheldon's Warehouse; Fleet Street; Villiers Street Story: In hospital after an operation, Mrs Hudson witnesses one of the other patients being murdered. Mary Watson starts to investigate after she learns from Wiggins and Billy that boys are going missing from all over London. The Baker Street Irregulars are reporting stories of the "Pale Boys", pale-faced, dark-clothed boys who appear at night. Another patient, a famous courtesan, is murdered in Mrs Hudson's ward. Martha and Mary are able to find out about her past from Irene Adler. When the ward sister tries to move Mrs Hudson into the bed in which the two women had both died, Mary arranges for her to be brought back to Baker Street, where Mrs Turner, whose son is one of the missing boys, has been hired to look after the house during Mrs Hudson's convalescence. Their investigations reveal a link to the blackmailer of their earlier case. |
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Cara Black"Cabaret Aux Assassins" (2003) |
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"The Prideaux Manuscript" (2022) Included in: A Detective's Life: Sherlock Holmes (Martin Rosenstock) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mycroft Holmes; (Mrs Watson) Historical Figures: Vyvyan Holland; Mrs Robinson; Robert Ross; (Cyril Holland; Oscar Wilde; Violet Craigie; Constance Wilde; Dalai Lama; J.M. Stoddart; Otho Holland Lloyd) Other Characters: Alain Prideaux; Vera Robinson; (Monsieur Prideaux; Madame Prideaux; Gaston) Unnamed Characters: Inebriated Man; Middle-Aged Man; Messenger; Tramps; Chimney Sweep; (Cyril's Battery Commander; Cyril's Brother Officer; Wilde's Butler; Scotland Yard Inspector) Date: October 1915 Locations: Maida Vale; Canal; Public House; St John's Wood; Ross's House; Paddington Station; Warwick Avenue; Beauchamp Lodge Story: Holmes calls Watson to meet him on a houseboat. He is investigating the murder of a man found floating barefoot in the canal with his throat cut. The two of them attend a séance, which is also attended by Oscar wilde's son, Vyvyan, attempting to contact the spirit of his brother, Cyril. Mycroft meets with them and asks Holmes to find Wilde's lost manuscript. |
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Leigh Blackmore"Exalted are the Forces of Darkness"
(2009) |
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Gary Blackwood
"Ethan
Unbound" (1992) |
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E.S. Blair"Sheerluck
Jones, or The Encyclopaedia Britannica" (1907) |
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Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell)
"The
Adventure of the Lost Meat-Card" (1918) |
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Robert Bloch"The Dynamics of an Asteroid" (1953) |
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Ruskin Bond"The Stolen Daffodils" (2004) |
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Daniel Bonney
"The Mystery of the Custard Club" (1926) |
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Matthew Booth"The Adventure of the Giant's Hand" (2004)Included in: Sherlock Holmes and the Giant's Hand (Matthew Booth) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; [Stanislaus] Addleton Other Characters: Muir; (Raymond Addleton; Violet Addleton; Dr Eustace Tewson; (Mary Dobson; Jeremiah Dawson; Annabella Wright; Alice Barclay) Unnamed Characters: Crossing Gate Ladlady Date: Autumn, 1894 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Cornwall; Fairdale; Malvere Towers; The Giant's Hand; The Crossing Gate Inn; Fairdale Station Story: Stanley Hopkins consult Holmes over the disappearance of the Historian, Stanislaus Addleton, from his home in Cornwall. The case hinges on a twisted watch chain link, and leads to a murder in an ancient British barrow. |
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"The Adventure of the
Hollow Bank" (2004) Included in: Sherlock Holmes and the Giant's Hand (Matthew Booth) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Abernetty Family; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; (Percy Phelps; John Openshaw) Other Characters: Jarvis ; McGregor Abernetty; Constance Abernetty; Louise Abernetty; Henry Abernetty; Mrs Westlock; (Old Addy; Elizabeth "Eliza" Jarvis; Hilary; Bob Chapman) Unnamed Characters: (Kidnapped Baby) Date: August Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Wiltshire; Hollow Bank Story: Watson receives a letter from his old schoolfriend Gregor Abernetty (his partner in crime when chivvying Percy Phelps with a wicket). he asks Watson to bring Holmes to His home, Hollow Bank, in Wiltshire. A few days after their arrival, Abernetty's butler, whose estranged daughter had recently died, is found with his throat slashed, clutching a butter knife. Holmes suggests that the solution to the mystery hinges on the amount of toast that was consumed at breakfast and the depth to which the parsley has sunk into the butter. |
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"The Adventure of the
York Place Prophecy" (2004) Included in: Sherlock Holmes and the Giant's Hand (Matthew Booth) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mary Jane; [Major Reginald] Merridew; Inspector Lestrade; Colonel [Jeremiah] Warburton Other Characters: Reverend Alistair Craddock; Major Reginald Merridew; Harvey; Elise Warburton; Sebastian Dorey; (Elizabeth Warburton; Albert Tennyson; Stanley Merridew) Unnamed Characters: Vicarage Lad; Warburton's Butler; Police Constables; Craddock's Mad; (Paddington Station Official; Paddington Guard; Warburton's Neighbours; Dorey's Mother; Doctor; Warburton's Soldiers; Rebel Soldiers) Date: Spring, 1889 Locations: Watson's Paddington Practice; 221B, Baker Street; Kent; Chislehurst; Vicarage; York Place; Dorey's House; The Chislehurst Arms; India; Lucknow Story: Watson is called on by Reverend Craddock, who has been attacked by his friend Colonel Warburton, the fifth such incident. Watson takes Craddock to see Holmes. Warburton has been acting bizarrely since an argument with the medium Sebastian Dorey, a new arrival in their village, culminating in an act of desecration in the church. Holmes and Watson arrive in Kent to learn that Warburton has been murdered, and Holmes deuces that he has been crucified. |
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"The Dragon of Lea Lane" (2008) |
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"The
Lancelot Connection" (2020) Included in: The Book of Extraordinary New Sherlock Holmes Stories (Maxim Jakubowski) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Folkloric Characters: (Sir Lancelot; King Arthur; Queen Gunevere) Historical Figures: (William Shakespeare) Other Characters: Professor Cavendish Fawcett; Percival Warlock; Laurence Maguire; Zachariah Templeton; Anna Fawcett Unnamed Characters: (Old Italian Woman) Date: Towards the end of 1895 Locations: Oxford; Museum; Fawcett's House Story: While staying in Oxford, Holmes is approached by Professor Fawcett, who has come into possession of the lost manuscript of an Arthurian play by William Shakespeare. The manuscript has been stolen from the museum at which it was due to go on display, and Fawcett's assistant murdered. |
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"The Tragedy of Saxon's Gate" (2008) Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The Game's Afoot (David Stuart Davies) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Dr Moore Agar; Stanley Hopkins Other Characters: Chambers; Stanislaus Merrison; Elias Merrison; Dennis Walcombe; (Elizabeth Merrison; Lady Henrietta Forsythe; Lord Falmouth; Lucy Ketteridge; Elias's Son) Date: Latter Half of 1896 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Norwood; Saxon's Gate; A Train Story: Dr Moore Agar bursts into 221B, in fear that he is about to be arrested for the murder of his fiancée, Elizabeth. Hopkins arrives and tells them that Elizabeth died of morphine poisoning the day after a dinner at which Agar accused her of having an affair with family friend, Walcombe. Morphine is missing from Agar's medical bag, and he had administered her a sedative shortly before her death. Holmes, Watson and Hopkins visit Saxon's Gate, the family home, and question Walcombe and Elizabeth's father and brother. Holmes's enquiries at the registry office lead to him inviting the true murderer to Baker Street. |
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"The Verse of Death" (2015) Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part II: 1890-1895 (David Marcum) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Mary Morstan Other Characters: Jacobs; Dr James Lomax; Agatha Wyke; (Edmund Wyke / Vincent Usher; Sebastian Wyke; Kent Police; Lestrade's Constable; Violet Usher; Finlay Meade; Lomax's Mother; Harry Coombes) Date: Towards the end of September, 1890 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Kent; Railway Station; Cawthorne Towers Story: Lestrade brings Holmes the case of Edmund Wyke the financier, found dead in his locked bedroom in his isolated house in Kent after receiving a series of poems in the post in the week leading up to his death. Holmes and Watson arrive in kent to find that Lestrade has arrested Wyle's gambler son, Sebastian. At Cawthorne Towers, Holmes examines the murder weapon: a carved dagger of the Egyptian El-Khalikan assassin cult. His investigations uncover a tale of deception, miscarried justice and revenge. |
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"The
Wargrave Resurrection" (2015) NOTE: Perhaps the author of the memoirs of the surgeon of a whaling ship (p.167) in Galsworthy's library was Arthur Conan Doyle. |
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Gary F. BootheThe Secret of Sherlock Holmes (1997) The secret service clearly believes that a murdered security guard was responsible for the theft, aided by treasury man Sawyer's carelessness over security precautions. Pinkerton's have been unable to come up with anything against the murdered man. Burns on the victim's hands, tape marks on the security boxes, and string marks in the dust on top of them provide clues, but it is a chance remark by Sawyer's wife that finally enables Holmes to deduce how the plates were stolen. Holmes contacts Dubuque in Paris, because he believes the theft is connected to the death of Pierre Curie and the scandal surrounding Marie Curie. Holmes, Boomer and Swanson visit Curie in Paris, then travel to Germany in pursuit of a radium thief. In Frankfurt, Reisenweiver, a former Irregular, now a police detective, is able to set him onto his man. They set out to retrieve the radium and the plates. |
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Don BoscoThe Immortal Nightingale (2012) |
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The Peranakan Princess (2012) |
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The Scroll of Greatness (2014) Story Type: Children's Fantasy Homage Canonical Figures: (Sherlock Holmes) Sherlockian Detective: Sherlock Hong Historical Figures: (Sir Cecil Clementi Smith) Other Characters: Chinatown Residents; Coolies; Madam Bao; Dr Woo; Constable Richard Flint; Master Hong; Miss Priya; Madam Hong; Aisha; Thugs; Indian Patrolmen; Riverbank Crowd; Mangosteen Man; Indian Military Man; European Woman; Chinese Monks; (Master Chun; Jayathri; Amelia Graham; Lady Jane Graham; Ram Joshi; K.K. Joshi; Abdullah Ali Hazan; Fatma Ali Hazan; Snake Charmer; Great Master Fu; Master Fu's Disciples; Master Hong's Parents) Date: 1891 Locations: Singapore; Chinatown; Mansion; Police Station; River Valley Road; Sherlock's House; Riverside Story: When he is too late to gain entry to the exhibition of the Scroll of Greatness in Singapore's Chinatown, Ali climbs over the back wall of the mansion it is being displayed in. He is caught by the mansion's owner, Dr Woo, and taken to the police station, where he is accused of stealing the Scroll. Sherlock sets out to find the real thief. |
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The Legend of Lady Yue (2014) Story Type: Children's Fantasy Homage Sherlockian Detective: Sherlock Hong Historical Figures: (Lady Yue; King Guojian) Other Characters: Aisha; Riverside Crowds; William Fong; Constable Richard Flint; Pickpocket; Procession; Coolies; Master Hong; Madam Hong; Ah Mah; Patrolmen; Edward James; Pui; Jayathri; Hamish Morty; Miss Priya; Old Master Foo; Robert Foo (Aisha's Sister; William Fong; Aisha's Mother; John Chung; Receptionist; Hanlin Academy Library Master; Pui's Grandfather; Pui's Brothers; Master Foo's Servants; Jayathri's Uncle; Master Hong's Friends; Guojian's Guards) Date: 1891 Locations: Singapore; Singapore River; Pier; River Valley Road; Sherlock's House; Coleman Street; Adelphi Hotel; Jayathri's House; Celestial Reasoning Association's Villa Story: Sherlock and Aisha go to the waterfront to watch Harmston's Circus arrive in Singapore. An explosion occurs at the Adephi Hotel, and Miss Priya is abducted by a ghost. A valuable book she was translating, The Sword of Lady Yue, has also disappeared. |
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Rolfe Boswell"Colonel Warburton's Madness" (1962) Warburton tells them how, while he was stationed in Peshawar, Moran arrived in his headquarters mess, claiming to be in the region hunting Asiatic lions. Warburton agreed to accompany him on his hunt, ending up, by misfortune, on his own, he spotted a saucer-shaped flying object in the sky. The vehicle landed, and a creature came out of it. Mycroft reassures him that there have
been many such encounters. Holmes visits the
Astronomer Royal at Greenwich, and the next day Lanner
arrives to consult him over a suspected poisoning
related to an inheritance. The following day, back at
the Diogenes Club, the Holmes brothers reveal their
deductions about the origins of the visitor. |
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Anthony Boucher"The Adventure of the Bogle Wolf"
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"The Adventure of the Illustrious
Impostor" (1944) Included in: The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson Fictional Characters: (Roderick Alleyn; Inspector French; Supt. Wilson) Historical Figures: (The Duke of Hamilton; Rudolf Hess) Date: May 1941 Story: In conversation at his bee-farm in Sussex, Holmes suggests to Watson that the Rudolf Hess held prisoner by the British is an impostor, and that the real Hess has been murdered in Germany. |
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"The Anomaly of the Empty Man" (1952) Included in: The Science-Fictional Sherlock Holmes (Robert C. Peterson); The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sebastian Wolfe) Story Type: Homage Canonical Characters: Dr Verner; Carina; Sherlock Holmes Other Characters: Lamb; Inspector Abrahams; Slavko Catenich; Irma Borigian; Fencers; Carina's Dresser; (James Stambaugh; Kaguchi; Ronny Furbish-Darnley; Major MacIvers; Sir Frederick Paynter; Two Young Aristocrats; Moishe Lipkowitz; Bishop of Cloisterham; Captain Clutsam; Clutsam's Family; Messenger) Date: 1952 / 1901 Locations: San Francisco; Stambaugh's Apartment; The Montgomery Block; Verner's Studio; London; Clutsam's House; Verner's Kensington Practice Story: Lamb is called to opera fanatic Stambaugh's apartment by Inspector Abrahams, where an unfinished drink, a burned-out cigarette, a revolving record player turntable and a complete set of clothes (and eyeglasses) laid out on the floor exactly as if the body had dissolved from inside them, are evidence of a bizarre incident. Lamb calls on Verner whose studio resembles that of his French near-namesake, and who plays him a recording of "the greatest dramatic soprano of this century" and tells him of an incident in 1901 after he had taken over his Kensington practice and his encounter with the soprano Carina, over whom many men took their own lives. After her death, rumours of black magic began to spread, and a series of disappearances began, identical to Stambaugh's. One of the men was Verner's patient, and he and his cousin (Holmes) were called in to investigate. Holmes discovers that they had all purchased a recording of Carina singing Pergolesi's Pater Noster, which had also disappeared. Verner tells of his experiment with and near death over the recording, and his attempts to destroy all remaining copies. Abrahams believes that a vacuum cleaner holds the solution to the mystery and Lamb is left with the Carina recording. |
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The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars
(1940) Story Type: Homage Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes; Mrs Hudson; Dr Watson; Ricoletti; Altamont) Characters Based on Canonical Characters: Belle Craven (Sarah or Susan Cushing); Peter Black (Jim Browner); Teddy Fircombe (Bob Ferguson); Dr Royal Farncroft (Grimesby Roylott); Anna Trepovna (The Old Russian Woman) (Alice Craven (Mary Cushing); Mrs Fircombe (Mrs Ferguson); The First Mrs Fircombe (The First Mrs Ferguson); Master Fircombe (Jacky Ferguson); Baby Fircombe (Baby Ferguson); Amy Gray (Julia Stoner); Florence Gray (Helen Stoner)) Fictional Characters: (Max Farrington) Historical Figures: The Baker Street Irregulars; (Christopher Morley; Alexander Woolcott; Vincent Starrett; Elmer Davis; Larry Wagner & His Rhythmasters; Tuskegee Quartet) Other Characters: Maureen O'Breen; F.X. Weinberg; Miss Blankenship; Stephen Worth; Professor Drew Furness; Harrison Ridgly III; Miss Purvis; John O'Dab / Jonadab Evans; Fred; Aminta Frowley; Dr Rufus Bottomley; Dr Gordon Withers; Otto Federhut; Talipes Ricoletti; Mrs Hudson; Lieutenant A. "Andy" Jackson; Lieutenant Herman Finch; Sergeant Hinkle; Sergeant Watson; Mr Feinstein; Grossmann; Joe; Captain Fairdale Agar; Larry Gargan; Judith; Captain Norris; Gomez; Miss Freese; A.K.; Vernon Crews; Ann Larsen; German Man; Caterers; Reception Servants; Decorator's Men; Cameramen; Messenger Boy; Newspaper Columnists; Reporters; Crutch Man; Masked Guard; Masked Chess-Players; Patrolman; Sailors; Police Sergeant; Police Chauffeur; Withers' Nurses; Russian Priest; Rathskeller Waiters; Rathskeller Orchestra; Rathskeller Headwaiter; Record Store Clerks; Cab Driver; Salvation Army Man; Arbuthnot's Secretary; Nurse; (G.G.; Phillida Ridgly; Harrison Ridgly II; Harold Swathmore; Paul Jackson; Miss Loring; Denny; Rita La Marr; Doktor Friedrich Vronnagel; False English Major; Professor Giancarelli; Beat Policeman; Agar's Crew; Alice's Sisters; Alice's Brother-in-law; Anna Sosoyeva; Fircombe's Wives; Fircombe's Children; Children's Nurse; Young; Architect; Anna's Customer; Speeding Driver; Gangster's Toughs; Dr Vladimir Radin; Sergeant Levine; John Zed; Ambulance Men; Taxi Driver; Mr Arbuthnot; Commisar V.N. Plotnikov; Gwendolyn Abercrombie) Date: June - July, 1939 Locations: USA; California; Los Angeles; Hollywood; Metropolis Pictures; 221B Romualdo Drive; 1233 Berendo Street; Withers' Sanatorium; Anna's Apartment; The Rathskeller; Sunset Boulevard; Police Headquarters; Hollywood Boulevard; Record Store; Bank; Hotel Elite, 232 South Main Street; New York; Sirrah Magazine Offices; Algonquin Hotel; Prater Restaurant; Missouri; Columbia; Aminta Frowley's Select Coaching School for Young Ladies Story: When Metropolis Pictures announce that they are filming "The Speckled Band", to be scripted by ex-private detective Stephen Worth, the Baker Street Irregulars organise a letter-writing campaign, targeted at producer F.X. Weinberg. Unable to fire the writer, Weinberg invites a group of Irregulars to Hollywood, where they stay at 221B Romualdo Drive with a housekeeper named Mrs Hudson. A series of odd visitors and messages to and from Worth arrive at 221B, and the press reception is disrupted by the drunken arrival of Worth himself. That same night Worth is shot dead and Maureen O'Breen, in charge of organising the Irregulars' visit, is knocked unconscious. Police Lieutenant Jackson, who was a guest at the reception, finds that the body has vanished, and that he is a suspect. Nonetheless, Lieutenant Finch asks for his assistance in the investigation. A series of Sherlockian clues begin to appear, and one by one, the following day, the Irregulars are drawn into incidents involving an aluminium crutch, a tired captain, Colonel Warburton, a venomous lizard, and an old Russian woman, each of which seems to have a Sherlockian theme, and to implicate one of the other Irregulars in the game which is afoot. Each escapade brings an Irregular to the attention of the police, and sows further seeds of suspicion among them. NOTE: Drew Furness's psychologist friend at UCLA, Professor Giancarelli (P.117), is probably based on Joseph A. Gengerelli, who was associated with the Psychology Department from 1929. |
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"The Greatest Tertian" (1952) Included in: The Science-Fictional Sherlock Holmes (Robert C. Peterson) Story Type: Science Fiction Parody of Sherlockian Scholarship Detectives: Sherk Oms & Wa Tsn Historical Figures: Sherk Sper (Shakespeare) Date: The Future Story: An extract from a Martian document on the history of their neighbouring planet that asserts that two of the Earth's greatest figures "Sherk Oms" and "Sherk Sper" were actually the same person. |
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Radio Plays by Boucher and Denis Green Adapted by Ken Greenwald, H. Paul Jeffers and Carla Coupe |
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A. Boukhov"The End of Sherlock Holmes" (1918) |
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Fabrice BourlandThe Baker Street Phantom (2010) Singleton and Trelawney are visited by Lady Jean in their Montague Street rooms. She tells them that Major and Mrs Hipwood, the current residents of 221, Baker Street, are experiencing strange phenomena, which she believes are spiritual in origin and connected to her husband's last message and a series of murders, similar to those of Jack the Ripper, taking place in London. Singleton realises that the sites of the murders are important locations in Dracula and The Picture of Dorian Gray. He and Trelawney visit 221, where a spirit photograph taken of them by Dryden, the Hipwoods' nephew, appears to show the spirit of Sherlock Holmes. Further murders occur, replicating those of the Ripper and Mr Hyde. Singleton and Trelawney attend a seance at 221B. The spirit of Holmes materialises and advises them to go to Narrow Street to stop another murder. Before doing so, they visit the Psychic Bookshop and talk to Doyle's daughter Mary. In Narrow Street they are rescued from the ghost of Jack the Ripper by Doyle's former neighbour, Dr Ashley Kirkby. The following day, Singleton puts forward his theory that London is being haunted by the ghosts of literary villains from Victorian literature. Kirkby confirms his idea, and states that fictional characters can be given spirit by the intellectual energy of readers, and that so much has been written speculatively about the Ripper that he has been revived in the same way. They decide that they must call on the spirit of Holmes once more to help them track down and quell the murderous phantoms. |
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Mark Bourne"The Case of the Detective's Smile"
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Nicholas Boving"The Elphberg Red" (2012) |
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"The
Evil Among Us" (2015) Included in: Tales of the Shadowmen 12: Carte Blanche (J-M & Randy Lofficier) Story Type: Extra-canonical supernatural adventure of Dr Watson Canonical Characters: Dr Watson Fictional Characters: Jules Maigret; Comte de Saint-Germain (Comte d'Ingraville); Abbé Jules Dervelle; Mr Mocata; Father Brown; (Madame Maigret) Folkloric Characters: Demon Other Characters: Waiter; Farmer's Daughter; Gendarmes; Comte's Steward; (Mme Maigret's Relations; Farmer; Abdul el Hazid; Curate) Date: December, 1929 Locations: France; The Ardennes; Inn; d'Ingraville's Chateau; Chapel; Dervelle's House; Mocata's House; Railway Station Story: Holidaying in the Ardennes, Watson is asked by Maigret to help investigate the murder of the Comte d'Ingraville, rumoured to actually be Saint-Germain. The Comte has been dismembered in a windowless chapel, the doors of which were ripped from their hinges. Hidden in a corner of the chapel, they find a girl, driven mad by what she has witnessed. After visiting Dervelle and Mocata, both of whom had grievances with the Comte, they are joined in their investigation by Father Brown, who finds a demonic book in the chapel. |
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Rhys Bowen"The Case of the Lugubrious
Manservant" (2004) |
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"Cutting for Sign" (2010) Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The American Years (Michael Kurland) Story Type: Third Person Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Other Characters: Dorothy Williams; Reverend Claybourne Williams; Miss Buckley; Big Man; Cowboy; Coach Driver; Bandits; Shadow Wolf; Tucker; Mrs Tucker; Willard Jensen; Tyler Jensen; Lynch Mob; Hank; Deputies; Judge; Carter Cleveland; Chuck Hawkins; Man in Red; (Ronald Fletcher) Locations: USA; Arizona; Tucker's Ranch; Tucson Story: Holmes is travelling by stagecoach to Tucson when the coach is held up by bandits. He is knocked out and left in the desert. He is helped on his journey out of the desert by Shadow Wolf, a Native American, who teaches him how to read the signs of the desert and takes him to Tucker's ranch. Arriving in Tucson, he recognises one of the men who held up the coach, but learns that his father is one of Tucson's leading citizens. He also discovers that Shadow Wolf has been accused of murder. Holmes uses the skills he has learned from Shadow Wolf and Tucker to find the real murderer. |
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"Sherlocked" (2018) Included in: For the Sake of the Game (Laurie R. King & Leslie S. Klinger) Story Type: Homage Other Characters: Detective Constable Clare Patterson; Thames Valley Police Officers; Other Police Officers; Forensics teams; Reporters; Chief Superintendent Barclay; Charlie Tanner; DI Hammond; College Porter; Groundsman; Professor Theodor Orville; Ada Johnson; Dr Heathcliff; Orville's Sister; (Dr Tanner; Professor Treadwell; Dr Ransom; Professor Tweedie) Date: May Locations: Thames Valley; Hotel; Police HQ; Oxford; St Clement's College; Orville's Sister's House; Clare's House Story: The Thames Valley police introduce their new crime scene robot, Sherlock. Constable Patterson's boss is keen to prove that a human investigator will prove superior. They have a chance to take on Sherlock, when an Oxford professor is found dead inside a locked room. |
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Rick (Richard L.) Boyer"The Adventure of Bell Rock Light"
(1998) Holmes and Watson travel out to the lighthouse where they must spend the night after high seas force their ship to leave without them. Holmes examines the remains of the capsule and learns of the death of Ross's wife three years before, and of his rivalry with Hayne Edwards over her. Holmes later interviews Edwards, learns of his time spent living in China, and admires a picture of Chinese fishermen on his wall. When he hears of Edwards' recent holiday, a telegram to the keepers of the Skerryvore Light brings a solution to the problem. |
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"The Adventure of the Eyrie Cliff" (1998) They visit Cardwell's cottage, meeting his housekeeper and his friend, Gaines, and are able to follow the tracks of his last walk to a bay known as "The Eyrie Cliff". In the sea they find the body of Cardwell's dog. As they are searching the bay, an elderly birdwatcher, Helgeson, arrives. He has lived in the area for about four years and has recently heard what sounds like whales spouting at night. Mycroft arrives in Sussex, but Holmes and Watson become trapped in a submerged cave and follow a smugglers' tunnel, which eventually brings them into the presence of the missing man. It is revealed that there is a traitor among Mycroft's closest aides. With the aid of a crack, though unpredictable, military unit, Holmes and Watson must face both the traitor and the crew of a German U-Boat in a final shootout in Ballow's Wash. |
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"The Adventure of Zolnay the Aerialist" (1998) Holmes and Watson travel next to the London Hospital, where Anna is warded. Watson runs into his old colleague, Frederick Treves, but Anna dies without regaining consciousness. Back at the circus, Holmes shows interest in the run-in, through which the animals enter the tent, and discovers strange tracks and an even stranger canvas slipper outside. The solution to the mystery is finally learned from Treves' patient, John Merrick, who has been used as a dupe by one of the circus performers. Holmes, disguised as Merrick, carefully lays a trap to get the murderer to reveal his guilt. NOTE: One wonders if the reference
to "Morley's Chop House", where Holmes and
Watson have dinner (P.28), is in homage
to Christopher Morley, one of whose stories (in Tales
from a Rolltop Desk) was titled "The
Commutation Chophouse". |
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The Giant Rat of Sumatra (1976) When Holmes, Watson and Lestrade board the Matilda Briggs, they find it deserted except for the body of the Captain, mauled by a huge animal. With the aid of bloodhounds, they learn how the creature was removed from the ship, and discover that Ripley, responsible for bringing it to England, had been following them during their investigations. Lord and Lady Allistair receive a ransom note for their daughter, whose disappearance in Bombay Holmes has been investigating. He sends Watson to their country home where the payment is to be made, while he continues investigations in London. In Shropshire, Watson becomes aware of a pair of gypsies, who seem to be interested in the house, and a spy is uncovered on the staff. He also hears of a large wild boar which has appeared, leaving traces in the surrounding forest. A message arrives from Alice Allistair, with a second pin-pricked secret message, which Watson is unable to decode. Later he and Farthway, the gamekeeper, find the body of the boyfriend of one of the maids, with injuries identical to those of the Captain of the Matilda Briggs. Holmes arrives at Strathcombe, and Watson is selected by the kidnappers to deliver the ransom with Lord Allistair. In the forest he is forced to face both the giant rat and an old adversary. NOTE: Holmes recalls his fight with Bully Boy Rasher (p.71-72). This fight was first mentioned in The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers by Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr. |
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A. Comyn Boyle
"The Mystery of the Chewed Pencil" (1912) |
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"The Mystery of the
Missing Master" (1912) Included in: McGill Daily, Volume 1 Number 43 (16 December 1911) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Picklock Holes & Dr Hotson Other Characters: Mr Yonsen; Mr Killmore; Slim Shimmins; Zink McParvenue; (Chief Scampeau; Charles W. Sweldon; Riddertons; Pip Pastry) Unnamed Characters: Messenger Boy; Swindler Hotel Clerk; Students; Rugby Spectators; Newsboy Locations: Shaker Street; Holes's Rooms; Canada; Montreal; Swindler Hotel; Swindler Street; McHell University; The Onion Club; Mount Boyal; Rugby Field; The Aljoy; Pumpkins Story: Holes fails to turn sawdust into diamonds, and receives a mysterious summons to Montreal. On their arrival, he and Hotson learn that members of McHell University's rugby team have disappeared. Holes investigates, disguised as a college boy, infiltrates the team's changing rooms, and recovers the missing players. |
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Paul Braczyk
"Fort-ifications" (Part 1) (1974) |
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"Fort-ifications" (Part 2)
(1974) Included in: Caveat Emptor, No.13, May-June 1974 Story Type: Science-Fiction Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Professor Moriarty; (Inspector Lestrade) Unnamed Characters: Hansom Driver; Yin Fu Locations: Regency Park; 221B, Baker Street Story: Holmes takes Watson to the Regency Park Botanical Exhibit, where they encounter the UFO again and effect an arrest. |
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"Fort-ifications" (Part 3)
(1974) Included in: Caveat Emptor, No.14, July-August 1974 Story Type: Science-Fiction Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Inspector Lestrade; Professor Moriarty) Other Characters: (Yin Fu; Yin Fu's Mother) Locations: 221B, Baker Street Story: Holmes reveals to Watson the origins of the UFO, and the involvement of Professor Moriarty. |
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Jill Braden"The Caribbean Treaty Affair" (2015)Included in: The Adventures of Moriarty (Maxim Jakubowski) Story Type: Extra-canonical adventure of Dr Watson Canonical Characters: Professor Moriarty; Colonel Moran; Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Mycroft Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; Moriarty Gang; Baker Strret Page) Historical Figures: (Albert Marth; Edward Agar; William Pierce; Fanny Kay; Newgate Prison Governor) Other Characters: Moriarty's Landlord's Boy; Ministry Man; (Moriarty's Servant Girl; Hocking; Chimney Sweeps; Diplomat; Maids; Bankers; Professor; Moriarty's Colleagues; Countess R-; Collier; Black; Ministry Man's Uncle) Date: April Locations: Moriarty's Chambers; 221B, Baker Street Story: As they wait in Moriarty's chambers to commence a crime in Whitehall, Moran asks Moriarty to tell him about his earliest criminal consultation. Moriarty tells him about the disappearance of the Crimean payroll from a locked railcar that occurred during his time working for Albert Marth at Durham University, and how his solution of the case led to his career in crime. The current job does not go according to plan. |
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Alan Bradley"Nothing of Value" (1976) |
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"You'd Better Go In Disguise" (2011) Included in: A Study in Sherlock (Laurie R. King & Leslie S. Klinger) Story Type: Pastiche narrated by De Voors Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Tobias Gregson) Historical Figures: (Evelyn Laye) Other Characters: De Voors; Hyde Park Children & Nannies; Samuel Montague; Park Keeper; Frieda Barnett; Heinrich Barnett; Police Constables; (Welland Barnett; Ellen Dimity; Barnett's Neighbours; Tea Broker) Date: After LAST? Locations: Hyde Park; The Serpentine Story: De Voors senses he is being watched in Hyde Park. He finds himself talking to the watcher, Samuel Montague, who goes on to make a series of deductions about him. De Voors makes some deductions of his own. One of the people they observe is the wife of Welland Barnett, whose murder is on the front page of that day's papers. After more deductions, several truths are revealed and arrests made. NOTE: At the end of the story, Holmes announces that he will retire to St Mary Mead. |
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Worthen Bradley"Bad Day on Baker Street" (1959) |
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Kathleen Brady"The Adventure of the Boulevard Assassin" (1998)Included in: The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Marvin Kaye) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson Historical Figures: Ida Tarbell; Sam McClure Other Characters: Policeman; Hotel Concierge; Police Clerk; Inspector; Sergeant; Policemen; Henri Troutout; Martin Kaspi; Georges Jacquot; Charles Coman; Edouard Knodler; Gilbert Daziell; Basil Pontell; Picot; Door Guard; Clerk; Tarbell's Assistant; (Luc; Ernst; Night Watchman) Date: 3rd October, 1894 Locations: Paris; 221B, Baker Street; Hotel; Boulevard des Italiens Police Station; Avenue de l'Opéra; Compagnie de Darmaux Offices; New York; McClure's Offices Story: Holmes and Watson are in Paris, being interviewed by Tarbell, when a police station is blown up as part of the anarchist campaign anticipated by Holmes. Tarbell accompanies them to the scene of the explosion. A man's dying words take them to the offices of an industrial firm where, they learn, the bomb had initially been delivered. Tarbell does some investigating of her own and leads Holmes to his man. As a result of the case Watson gains a contract with McClure's magazine. |
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Berton Braley"The Mystery of the Stolen Pet"
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Giles BrandrethOscar Wilde and a Death of No
Importance (2007) Wilde begins visiting the city's morgues and dissecting rooms in search of Billy's corpse, and is attacked by Billy's uncle. Sherard pursues Fraser's fiancée, Veronica. A grisly gift arrives on Constance Wilde's birthday and Fraser takes over the case. Wilde and Sherard visit an unusual Gentlemen's Club. They visit the scene of Billy's murder, and his mother, again, and learn of her real relationship with Billy's uncle, O'Donnell, and the other loss she suffered on the day of Billy's murder. Sherard becomes increasingly suspicious of Wilde's friendship with John Gray. Fraser makes an arrest. Wilde and Sherard accompany Fraser and Veronica on a trip to Paris, but they return upon learning of the death of a key witness, and on their return find that Fraser's suspect is also dead. Wilde hands two murderers over to the police and reveals the truth about his deformed acquaintance. |
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Jack the Ripper: Case Closed (2017) They visit Ostrog in the Surrey Lunatic Asylum, only to have their doubts raised about his true identity, and miss a meeting with the actor Richard Mansfield, who was appearing in Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde at the time of the Ripper murders. Catherine Eddowes's apron is taken to a seance. Wilde becomes aware that he is being followed, and another body turns up in Tite Street. They interview a freak show proprietor, and visit a second asylum to see Kosminski, before attending a society Twelfth Night party, receiving a severed head, and attending a birthday party for the late Duke of Clarence. Wilde gathers the suspects together at the Langham Hotel for his final revelation. |
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Michael Braunstein
"The
Adventures of Sherlock Homes" (1980) |
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J.H. Brearley"Should a Public Monument Be Erected
to Sherlock Holmes?" (1894) |
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Michéal & Clare Breathnach"The Coole Park Problem" (2006) |
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Jon L. Breen"The Adventure of the Canine
Ventriloquist" (1996) |
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"The Adventure of the Cheshire Cheese"
(2001) Included in: Murder in Baker Street (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Wilson Hargreave) Other Characters: Calvin Broadbent; (Algernon Fordyce; Mrs. Fordyce; Doctors; 1456 Club Members) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; (The Cheshire Cheese; New York; Broadbent's House) Story: The American, Calvin Broadbent, tells how the Fleet Street writer Fordyce lectured to his club, The Ichabod Crane Club, and later died while staying in his house. Before his death he told Broadbent of his membersip of the 1456 Club which met at the Cheshire Cheese in London. He gives Broadbent a sonnet to read to the club, and asks him to collect debts from its members for his widow. On reading the sonnet to the club he was denounced as an impostor and driven from the building. Holmes explains the club members' attitudes and sends a cable to Wilson Hargreave. |
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"The Adventure of the Librarian's
Ghost" (2006) Included in: Ghosts in Baker Street (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Watson Historical Figures: (Emily Davison; Herbert Jones) Other Characters: Preservation Club Servant; Sir Richard Bootcrafter; Priam; Mrs Crandall; Reggie Bootcrafter; Gilbert Bootcrafter; Caroline Bootcrafter; Daphne Bootcrafter; (Chauncey Stocker; Sir Edgar Bootcrafter; Sir William Bootcrafter; Sir Gavin Bootcrafter; Clarissa Helmsworth) Date: Late Autumn, 1909 Locations: Watson's Home; The Preservation Club; Bootcrafter Hall; A Train; Victoria Station Story: Holmes is drawn out of retirement by Sir Richard Bootcrafter's story of a ghost in the library of his family home. Legend has it that the first librarian returns to mark passages in books, in red, in times of political turmoil within the country, to give guidance to the serving parliamentary members of the family. Holmes's investigations reveal unsuspected political inclinations within the household, and a mysterious discovery in a secret stairway. |
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"The
Adventure of the Missing Three Quarters" (2009) Included in: Sherlock Holmes In America (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower) Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Clive Armitage Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Historical Figures: Amos Alonzo Stagg; Glenn "Pop" Warner; Pete Hauser; Albert Exendine Other Characters: Clive Armitage; Perry Garth; Chad Armbruster; Cabby; Clayton "Saucy" Cumberland; Football Crowd; Football Players; (James "Oscar" Gustavson; Brian O'Hara) Date: Autumn, 1907 Locations: USA; Chicago; Grand Central Station; University of Chicago; Stagg's Office; Cumberland's Room; A Cab; Marshall Field Story: British journalist Armitage, now living in America, encounters Holmes in Chicago. Armitage introduces Holmes to Stagg, athletics director at the University. He tells Holmes that the day before a big American football game, a new student, Cumberland, who was to be unveiled as his secret weapon, has disappeared. He has received a letter suggesting Cumberland may have joined his rival Warner's team at the Carlisle Indian School. His roommate, Armbruster, says Cumberland had been worried and that he heard him referring to "the missing three quarters". Holmes removes a letter from their room, puzzlingly addressed to James Gustavson, but beginning "Dear Oscar". He tracks down the missing player and explains what has happened, then joins Armitage and Stagg to watch the game. |
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"The Adventure of the Mooning Sentry"
(2002) Included in: Murder, My Dear Watson (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson Historical Figures: D.W. Griffith Other Characters: Sir Eldridge Masters; Sir Eldridge's Butler; Lady Miranda Masters; Conrad Barrows; Lady Veronica Travers; Ernest Wheeler; Servants; Lady Miranda's Maid Date: October, 1917 Locations: Sir Eldridge's House Story: Holmes and Watson attend a special screening of Birth of A Nation at a country house, attended by the director, Griffith. Mycroft believes there is a German spy among the guests, who may attempt to kill Griffith. During the screening, Lady Miranda screams, and claims that one of the actors in the film has appeared in her bedroom and other locations several times over the last few days. Holmes and Watson must investigate both mysteries. |
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"The Adventure of the Naturalist's
Stock Pin" (1999) Included in: More Holmes for the Holidays (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson Historical Figures: Charles Darwin; (Thomas Henry Huxley; Erasmus Darwin; Jean Lamarck; Sir Charles Lyell; Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker; Alfred Russel Wallace; George Romanes; Romanes's Butler) Other Characters: Ecuadorian Guide; Cab Driver; Edgar Gamble / Lamburt LeSue / Merwin A. Drauss / Mark Caljane; (Professor Isaiah Corcoran) Date: Christmas 1881 Locations: Galapagos Islands; 221B, Baker Street; The Highwayman's Rest, Fleet Street Story: The author is given a manuscript while on holiday in the Galapagos Islands. Holmes is visited by Darwin, calling himself Mr Beagle, who has received a series of messages from individuals with unlikely names, the latest inviting him to a social event, where he fears an attempt will be made upon his life, but at which he hopes to regain possession of a stolen stock pin. Holmes advises Darwin to accept the invitation, but attends the rendezvous at the Highwayman's Rest himself, disguised as the naturalist, faces a charge of plagiarism in Darwin's stead, and retrieves the pin. |
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"The Adventure of the Unique Holmes"
(1987) |
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Gregory Breitman"The Marriage of Sherlock
Holmes" (1926) |
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Grendel Briarton
"Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot"
(1967) |
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Poppy Z. Brite & David Ferguson"The Curious Case of Miss Violet
Stone" (2003) |
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Tony Broadbent"As To 'An Exact Knowledge of
London'" (2011) |
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Darryl Brock"My Silk Umbrella" (2010) |
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Helen BrookeMystery in London (2000) |
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Keith Brooke"The Case of the Air that Was Taken"
(2020) |
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Clive Brooks
"The Abergavenny Adventure" (1990) |
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"The Adventure of the
Alicia Cutter" (1990) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Revisited Volume 1 (Clive Brooks) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; (Mycroft Holmes; Alec Macdonald) Other Characters: Mrs Jackson; (Charlie Jackson; Thaddeus Jones) Unnamed Characters: Cabbie; Dock Watchman; Police Constable; Prime Minister; Robbers; (Strand Editor; Journalist; Bart's Doctors) Date: Late Spring - Six Months Later Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Nightingale Lane; St Catherine's Dock; Ropemakers Fields; Limehouse Pier Story: Holmes is consulted by Mrs Jackson whose husband Charlie is first-mate aboard the cutter Alicia, which she has watched sail from St Catherine's dock into a patch of mist and completely disappear. Distracted by other cases, Holmes sets Watson on the case, but it is only six months later, after a visit from Lestrade that he realises that the case is linked to a robbery from the Royal Mint. |
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"The Adventure of the
Aluminium Crutch" (1990) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Revisited Volume 1 (Clive Brooks) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mycroft Holmes; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade Other Characters: Henry Mitcheldean; Angus Johnson; (Sir Samuel Clarkfield) Unnamed Characters: Baker Street Figures; Hampshire Police Constable; Clarkfield's Butler; Evening Standard Clerks; Lamplighter; Cabbie; Lestrade's Constables; Politician Date: January Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Hampshire; Clarkfield's House; Fleet Street; Evening Standard Offices; Seymour Street; Old Quebec Street; Marble Arch Story: Mycroft consults Holmes when the Minister of Defence, Sir Samuel Clarkfield, is found dead in his locked study, from where a top secret document regarding the government's new torpedo-boat destroyer has been stolen. As they travel to Hampshire to investigate, Holmes deduces the speed of the train. Marks in the flower-bed, the dead man's pipe, and a post in the Evening Standard's agony column provide clues which lead to a meeting at Marble Arch. |
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"The Case of the Red
Leech" (1990) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Revisited Volume 1 (Clive Brooks) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; [Reginald] Crosby the Banker Other Characters: Judith Crosby; Dr Grivaldi Unnamed Characters: Baker Street Passers-by; Crosby's Gardener; Cabby; (Crosby's Housekeeper) Date: Early October, 1894 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Kensington; Crosby's House Story: Holmes is called on by Judith Crosby, wife of Reginald Crosby the banker. Her husband is ill, and being tended to by Dr Grivaldi, but his condition is getting worse after each of the doctor's visits. Grivaldi has also been making lecherous advances towards Mrs Crosby. Having been sent by Homes to examine Crosby, Watson diagnoses anaemia, not the influenza which Grivaldi has claimed to be treating him for. |
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"The Conk-Singleton
Affair" (1990) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Revisited Volume 1 (Clive Brooks) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Conk-Singleton; [Harry Conk & Desmond Singleton] Historical Figures: (Édouard Manet; John Constable) Other Characters: Anthony Dodds; (Lord Canton) Unnamed Characters: (Dodds' Father; Watson's Patient) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Richmond; Oronsay House Story: Holmes is consulted by Anthony Dodds, an art collector, when a copy of a work by Manet that was in his collection is offered at auction as an original. Holmes borrow one of Dodds' other paintings and arranges to have the Baker Street rooms decorated. |
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"The Disappearance of
James Phillimore" (1990) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Revisited Volume 1 (Clive Brooks) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; James "Jim" Phillimore; (Mrs Watson) Historical Figures: (William II) Other Characters: Billy Unnamed Characters: Dead Man; Ale House Customers; Barman; Farm Labourer; Police Constables; Police Sergeant; Rum Runners; (Stationmaster) Date: Midsummer (later than HOUN) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Hampshire; Brockenhurst Station; The New Forest; Newby Park Manor; Phillimore's Cottage; Ale House; Whitefield Moor Story: Holmes receives a leter from his old university friend Jim Phillimore inviting him and Watson to pay a visit to his home in the New Forest. As they travel from the station in Phillimore's trap, hey come across a dead man lying in the road, his face contorted in fear. The following day, Phillimore disappears after going into his cottage to fetch his umbrella. The villagers believe that the ghost of William Rufus is behind the events, and Holmes and Watson encounter the phantom during a vigil on Whitefield Moor. |
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"The Problem of the
Peculiar Pipes" (1990) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Revisited Volume 1 (Clive Brooks) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; John Vincent Harden; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; (Violet Smith) Other Characters: Elizabeth "Lizzie" Brown; (Alice-Mary) Unnamed Characters: Concert-goers; Loafers; Slum Children; Policeman; Cabbie; Harden's Doorman; (Alice-Mary's Husband) Date: April 10th-21st, 1895 Locations: Bow Street; 221B, Baker Street; St John's Wood; Harden's Mansion Story: Watson encounters John Vincent Harden, the tobacco millionaire, outside the National Opera House. Harden shows him a coded message he has received made up of images of pipes, and tells him that threats that have been made on his life. Holmes's investigation of the case turns into an investigation into the murder of Harden's maid. |
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Barry S. BrownThe Unpleasantness at Parkerton Manor
(2010) After hearing that Sir Stanley had died after becoming ill at the end of a family Boxing Day dinner, Holmes and Watson travel to Parkerton Manor in the guise of insurance company officials. Mrs Hudson travels to Kent on a different train. After the murder of the family coachman, Lestrade also arrives. Lady Parkerton's son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren disappear in a coach driven by two foreign-looking men. A trip to Regent's Park Zoo moves the case forwards, as does a stamp from Sarawak bearing the likeness of Sir James Brooke, the White Rajah. Eventually they learn of Sara Parkerton's links to that country, and the trail takes Holmes and Watson to Sir Charles Brooke's estate near Cirencester. Mrs Hudson finally arrives at a solution to the murders, Holmes and Watson return to Parkerton Manor, but it is the local constable who captures the culprit. |
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Mrs Hudson and the Irish Invincibles (2010) Holmes and Watson are taken captive by the Brotherhood and rescued by Mrs Hudson and Wiggins. They question Lassiter and the Times reporter Parkhurst, after Mrs Hudson turns up close links between them and Coogan. Harrison visits them, representing Parnell and Kitty O'Shea. Kitty's four daughters have gone missing along with their maid, Rose O'Connor. A visit to the editor of the Times by Mrs Hudson turns up further connections between Lassiter and Parkhurst. Holmes and Watson accompany Parnell and Kitty to Eltham Lodge to resolve the case of the missing children. Mrs Hudson gathers the interested parties together at Baker Street to reveal the truth about Liam's death. Her plan for the family's continuing safety is disrupted before the case is closed. |
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Eric Brown
"The
Curse of Carmody Grange" (2021) |
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The Martian Menace (2020) Story Type: Science Ficion Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; Baker Street Irregulars; (Inspector Lestrade; Mary Morstan; Professor Moriarty) Fictional Characters: Martians; Professor Challenger; Red Weed Historical Figures: H.G. Wells; Cicely Fairfield / Rebecca West; George Bernard Shaw; G.K. Chesterton; H.H. Asquith; Lilian Lenton; (William Howard Taft; Kitchener; Jules Verne; Joseph Conrad; Beatrice Webb; Sidney Webb; David Lloyd George; Emmeline Pankhurst; Emily Davison; Winston Churchill; Stanley Baldwin;; Virginia Woolf; Rudyard Kipling; Ursula Wood; Walter Sickert; Arthur Balfour; Henry James) Other Characters: Grulvax-Xenxa-Goran; Madame Rochelle; Freya Hamilton-Bell / Dr Amelia Davis; Mr Karbalkian; Baro-Sinartha-Gree; Tavor-Borima-Venn; Karan-Arana-Lall; (Sir Humphrey Grenville) Unnamed Characters: Baker Street Crowd; Police Constable; Martian Ambassador; Martian Attachés; Madame Rochelle's Doorman; Madame Rochelle's Girls; Madame Rochelle's Customers; Embassy Staff; Cab Driver; Hyde Park Protestors; Battersea Porters; Valorkian Passengers; Pursers; Stewards; Street Urchin; Governesses; Children; Newspaper Vendor; Lyons Waitress; Cicely's Landlady; Regent's Park Waiter; Woking Ticket Collector; Salvation Army Collector; Red Line Cab Driver; Woking Driver; Parson; Embassy Receptionist; Embassy Bellboy; Assembly Rooms Audience; Asembly Rooms Official; Taxi Driver; Natural History Museum Employee; Workmen; Infantrymen; Firefighters; Police; (Parisian Contact) Date: Spring 1910 - Autumn 1912 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Grosvenor Square; Martian Embassy; Madame Rochelle's; The Strand; Hampstead Heath; Parliament Hill; Hyde Park; Battersea Docking Station; Aboard the Valorkian; Outer Space; Mars; Glench-Arcana; Patava-Hutava Eating-House; Smerza-Jaran Hotel; Museum of Martian Science; Amazonis Planitia; Zenda-Zakan; France; Pall Mall; Mycroft's Rooms; Workman's Cafe; Piccadilly; Lyons' Tea Room; Regent's Park; Barnes; 22, Willow Avenue; Chelsea; Cheyne Walk; Woking Station; Costume Shop; Martian Research Institute; Euston; Hackney; Assembly Rooms; Marquis of Granby Pub; Hakoah-Malan; Natural History Museum; Hampstead Heath Story: After a second invasion of Earth, Martians are co-existing alongside humans and humanity is benefiting from advanced Martian science and technology. In 1910, Holmes has returned to Baker Street from retirement in Sussex and is called on by the deputy Martian ambassador. He and Watson are taken to the Martian Embassy, where the ambassador has been stabbed in his bed. Among the Embassy staff questioned by Holmes are H.G. Wells and Cicely Fairfield. Two years later, the deputy has been promoted to ambassador, and brings another murder case to Holmes, this time a Martian philosopher, inviting him and Watson to Mars. Holmes becomes suspicious when he can find no record of the philosopher in any reference works. Intrigued, he decides to go nonetheless. Among the passengers flying with them aboard the Valorkian are the ambassador and Professor Challenger, while among the crew is Freya Hamilton-Bell, a young woman Watson encountered at an anti-martian protest. She warns them that their lives are in danger and they have been lured to the planet as part of the Martians' plans to take over Earth. During a museum visited, they and Challenger are captured and imprisoned, and after being rescued, they join up with a rebel faction of Martians. Back on Earth, they learn that Moriarty is still alive. They set out to discover and defeat the simulacra with which the Martians have replaced key figures in society, and learn that the Martians are working in league with a multitude of Moriartys. NOTE: The prologue to the novel was previously published, with some alterations, as "The Tragic Affair of the Martian Ambassador" (see below). |
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"Peril at Carroway
House" (2022) Included in: A Detective's Life: Sherlock Holmes (Martin Rosenstock) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Mrs Watson; Irene Adler; Godfrey Norton; Professor Moriarty) Other Characters: Elizabeth Norton; Moriarty; (Mrs Bains) Unnamed Characters: Club Footman; Newspaper Vendor; Legless Beggar; Apartment Commissionaire; Holidaymakers; Waitress; Chauffeur; Maid; (Mrs Watson's Brother; Elizabeth's Great-Aunt; Elizabeth's Friends; Cook; Gardener; Autograph Hunter; Retired Major) Date: 3rd - 4th May 1926 Locations: Watson's Club; Sussex; Eastbourne; Holmes's Apartment; Seafront; Café-Bar; Pursley; Carroway House Story: Watson visits Holmes in his new seafront apartment to find him wheelchair-bound.Holmes is expecting a visit from Elizabeth Norton, whom he believes to be Irene Adler's daughter, but of whose motives in calling on him he is suspicious. She has been looking after Carroway House, the home of a great-aunt, and a silver tiara has been stolen from a locked safe during a dinner party. Suspecting that the story is untrue, Holmes and Watson nonetheless travel to Carroway House to investigate. |
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"The Tragic Affair of
the Martian Ambassador" (2013) Included in: Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (George Mann) Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Inspector Lestrade) Fictional Characters: Martians Historical Figures: H.G. Wells; Rebecca West Other Characters: Gruvlax-Xenxa-Schmee; Yerkell-Jheer-Carral; Martian Attachés; Madam Rochelle's Doorman; Madam Rochelle's Girls; Madam Rochelle's Clients; Madam Rochelle; Martian Underling; Taxi Driver; (Ambassador's Life-Mate) Date: Spring, 1915 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Inside a Martian Tripod; Grosvenor Square; Martian Embassy; Madam Rochelle's; The Strand; Hampstead Heath Story: Ten years after the Martian invasion of Earth, Holmes and Watson are called upon by the deputy Martian ambassador to the British Empire. He takes them by tripod to the Martian Embassy where the Martian ambassador has been stabbed to death in his locked bedroom. Holmes interviews the embassy staff, among whom are Wells, working as a scientific advisor, and Rebecca West, the Ambassador's secretary. The trail takes them to Madam Rochelle's brothel, where a final piece of information leads to a solution, and a meeting with Wells and West on Hampstead Heath. NOTE: This story was re-used with some alterations as the prologue to The Martian Menace (see above). |
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"The Vanishing of the
Atkinsons" (1997) Included in: The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike Ashley) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Victor Trevor; The Atkinson Brothers Other Characters: The Atkinsons' House-Boy; Sergeant Mortimer; Plantation Under-Managers; Plantation Workers; Kitchen Boys; Anya Amala; Doctor; Planters; Planters' Wives; Madras Line Clerk; Tamil Ex-Shipping office Manager; Boy; Anya's Son; (Young Sinhalese) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Eastern Empress; Ceylon; Jaffna; The Atkinsons' Plantation; The Hospital Bungalow; Trincomalee; Police Headquarters; Madras Line offices; Bicycle Repair Shop; Post office; Trevor's Trap; Bungalow on MacPherson's Hill; Storage Shed Date: August, 1888 Story: Watson visits Holmes who tells him of an incident in Ceylon, where he was summoned by Victor Trevor, now an estate manager for the Royal Ceylonese Tea Company, to investigate the disappearance of two tea-planters, Bruce and William Atkinson. In the Atkinsons' house a table and lamp have been knocked over. Holmes tours the plantation, learning that the crop has been affected by blight, and visits the brothers' pregnant housekeeper. He also learns that they had considerable gambling debts. The estate workers claim to have heard the brothers' wailing spirits, but other planters believe they have fled the island to avoid their debts. When Holmes learns of an estate worker buying tickets to Madras, and sees Anya's newborn son, he is able to see an end to the problem. A letter about a kidnapping brings about the final discovery of the brothers' whereabouts. |
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Russell A. BrownSherlock Holmes and the Mysterious
Friend of Oscar Wilde (1988) 1895: Wilde calls on Holmes on behalf of a friend who is being blackmailed. Billy arrives, pursued by Hopkins, having been arrested leaving a house "like that on Cleveland Street". Holmes and Watson set out to the house on Charles Second Street to "defend the Family", but call on Wilde instead, where they find the family very much defended. Wilde offers to look into Billy's case if Holmes will take on Wilde's friends. They visit the friend, who is ill and masked, at his hotel, and hear how he was taken by a young man to the house in Charles Second Street, of the ensuing blackmail, and how he has faked his own death to escape it, but to no avail. (Watson's attempts to have Holmes write a portion of the story result in a blazing row, and Watson's departure from Baker Street is only prevented by the intervention of Mrs Hudson). Holmes tells Wilde that the blackmail of his friend is only a step towards a larger crime. He is warned by Lady Queensberry that the Marquess, is seeking revenge for Holmes's role in their divorce. Watson returns to Baker Street after seeing Wilde being propositioned in Trafalgar Square to discover that Holmes is in hospital after being attacked on Charles Second Street. Watson rushes to the hospital, getting a lift from Pike, where Holmes is being tended by Stamford. He takes him home in Baskerville's cab. Wilde learns more about Billy's visit to the house, from his half-brother, Wilson, and also learns of the Guv'nor's blackmailing schemes. Holmes beleves the Guv'nor is in league with Queensberry. Watson and Wiggins are sent undercover to lure out the Guv'nor's assistant, Jackie. Separated from Holmes, Watson finds himself in Charles Second Street, where he comes face to face with an old acquaintance. Holmes arrives, but the place is overrun with constables as he and Watson escape, with the help of Hopkins, Wilde, and Wilde's friend. 1928: On Watson's death, Holmes reminisces on the fates of those involved in the case, and tells how Martha Hudson came to work for him in Sussex. NOTE: Watson's statement that Langdale Pike "had pursued an acting career under the name Brookfield...[and] wrote an 'extravaganza' which caricatured us, with Pike playing Holmes" identifies Pike as Charles Brookfield who wrote and appeared in the Holmes burlesque Under the Clock. NOTE 2: Wilde's "mysterious friend" is Alfred Nobel. |
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Jean Bryett
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Art Buchwald
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"The Great Media Mystery" (mid-1980s) Included in: You Can Fool All of the People All the Time (Art Buchwald) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Historical Figures: (Jerry Falwell; Joan Rivers; George H.W. Bush; Dan Rather; Nancy Reagan; Sam Donaldson; Barry Goldwater; Tom Brokaw; Jesse Helms; David Brinkley; Phyllis Schlafly; Lesley Stahl; Nelson Bunker Hunt; Jack Kemp; Geraldine Ferraro; John Zaccaro) Date: mid-1980s Locations: Holmes's Rooms Story: Holmes comments on the Republican party's treatment of the media at their National Convention. |
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Simon Bucher-Jones"A
Family Resemblance" (2016) Lestrade asks Holmes to investigate the death of Sergeant Major Lewis Rourke, found shot in the chest, with his moustache and sideburns shaved off. |
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Carol Buggé"The Curse of Edwin Booth" (2010) |
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The Haunting of Torre Abbey (2000) The next night the household is awakened by a scream. Holmes reveals its inhuman origins. Watson follows Cary's sleepwalking sister, Elizabeth, to the tithe barn, where he is knocked unconscious. The following evening a séance is held, and Elizabeth appears to become possessed by the spirit of a Spanish girl, said to haunt the barn. After another appearance by the Cavalier, Holmes begins to suspect the involvement of a professional magician, and sends Watson to London to interview Merwyn the Magnificent, who has been performing in the area. Before he can do so, however, a trick goes wrong and Merwyn is shot dead. After his return to the Abbey, Lady Cary's dog is poisoned. The following day Holmes and Watson take part in a fox hunt. Both Holmes' & Cary's mounts are sabotaged. Watson sees the Demon Hunter. The day after the hunt, William is found drowned in the pond. Holmes and Watson announce that they are returning to London, but go back to the house under cover of night, where Holmes is able to reveal the identity of the murderer and the accomplice within the house. |
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"The Madness of Colonel Warburton"
(1996) Included in: Resurrected Holmes (Marvin Kaye) Story Type: Pastiche in the style of Dashiell Hammett Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Colonel (Edward) Warburton; (Sir Leslie Oakshott) Fictional Characters: The Maltese Falcon Other Characters: Waiter; Elizabeth Warburton; Chin Shih; William K. Penstock; Michael Warburton; Noodle House Customers; Waiter; Chinese Goons; Dutch Launch Captain; Cops; Sergeant Mallory; Pride of Peking Captain; (Dr Upshaw) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Aboard the Barbizon Princess; United States; New York; Excelsior Hotel; Central Park; Washington Square; Michael's Townhouse; Chinatown; Doyers Street; Chinese Opera House; Mott Street; Noodle House; The Harbour; Dock Thirty-Four; Aboard the Pride of Peking Story: Advised to relax by Oakshott after being shot, Holmes suggests a cruise to America. Aboard the Barbizon Princess they encounter Colonel Warburton, whom Holmes makes a series of deductions about, and his young wife Elizabeth, and Watson overhears them arguing in the next-door stateroom. They learn that the Colonel fears he has inherited the family madness and that his wife treats him like a child because of it. In New York they read that Warburton's business partner has been murdered and the Colonel has disappeared. Elizabeth takes them to meet the Colonel's half-brother who tells them of blackmail attempts and opium rings. After a visit to a Chinese Opera House, Holmes and Watson find themselves prisoners in Chinatown, but after escaping, they enlist New York's finest to wrap up the case, and Holmes receives an unusual gift in gratitude. |
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"The Revenge of the Fenian Brotherhood" (1998) Included in: The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Marvin Kaye); Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #15 (Marvin Kaye) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Professor Moriarty; Mrs Hudson; (Baker Street Irregulars; Mrs Watson) Other Characters: Sean Moriarty; Concertina Player; O'Reilly's Customers; Waiter; Fenians; Brother Kerry; Brother O'Malley; Annie; Connors; Costermongers; Tuthill; Cab Driver; Policemen Date: November, 1889 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Diogenes Club; Spitalfields; Paddy O'Reilly's Pub; Cannon Street; St Paul's Cathedral Story: Holmes is visited by Moriarty, who seeks his help in rescuing his younger brother, Sean, a Catholic priest, whom he believes has been kidnapped by the Fenian Brotherhood. He and Watson visit Mycroft who tells him that the release of Fenian prisoners has been demanded for Moriarty's release, and that a bomb is going to be planted at some major London site. Holmes & Watson infiltrate a Fenian meeting, but are discovered and taken prisoner. With the aid of an Irregular and Father Moriarty they escape and attempt to avert an explosion. |
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The Star of India (1997) Holmes and Watson travel down to Cornwall after receiving a telegram from Mrs Hudson's sister, Flora Campbell. On their way down, Holmes spots a cryptic message in the Telegraph. Arriving in Tintagel, they discover that the telegram was a hoax, but that Mrs Hudson has disappeared while visiting the Castle. Back in London they find Wiggins murdered and clues leading to old asssociates of Moriarty. Violet returns and reveals that she is being followed and blackmailed. It soon becomes apparent that all the events that have occurred are centred around the fabled Star of India sapphire and extends into the realms of royalty and international relations. Holmes's duel with an old nemesis plays out like a chess game on the streets of London, and takes Holmes back to the Bar of Gold. |
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"The Strange Case of the Haunted
Freighter" (2008) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, Issue #1 (Marvin Kaye) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Mary Morstan; Professor Moriarty) Other Characters: Baker Street Passers-by; Street Vendors; Captain Crane; Men Outside Bank; Seidelmore's Assistant; Colonel Bloodworth; Episcopalian Nuns; Alicia Gallin; Mrs Seidelmore; Dock Workers; Sailors; Scavengers; Financiers; Servants;Andrew Crane; Samuel Snead; Gubbins; (Mary's Sister; Watson's Colleague; Elizabeth Crane; First Mate; Jock the pointer; Bip the spaniel; George Gallin; Ship's Cook) Date: October Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Hansom Cab; Mrs Seidelmore's House; Baker Street; Docks; Aboard the Andrea Morgan on the Thames Story: Watson is at 221B while his wife is away, and he and Holmes are planning a walking holiday in the Lake District. They are called on by Crane, captain of the Andrea Morgan, a freighter that has recently changed its route and cargo to transport spices from Asia. His wife has recently died of food poisoning, and he believes he has seen her ghost several times at the foot of his bed aboard his ship. He has also been suffering sleepless nights and headaches. Holmes and Watson attend a séance. They board the Andrea Morgan disguised as deck-hands. When he discovers the true nature of the ship's cargo, Holmes suspects that Moriarty is behind events aboard ship. He and Watson lie vigil waiting for the ghost. Watson has strange visions as he lies in the captain's bed, and sees the dead wife. |
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"The Strange Case of the Tongue-Tied
Tenor" (1994) Included in: The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye); The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Sir Leslie Oakshott; Professor Moriarty Other Characters: Gerald Huntley; Madame Olga Rayenskavya; Sir Terrance Farthingale; McPearson; Albert Hall Doorman; Stagehands; Freddie Stockton; Stockton's Companions; Cab Driver; Opera Chorus; Orchestra; Lestrade's Men; Juan Quintaros; (Sir Anthony Farthingale) Date: Spring, 1890 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Royal Albert Hall; Simpson's; Hansom Cabs; The East End; Plummer's Court Story: Watson visits Holmes and finds him being consulted by Huntley, the operatic tenor. Huntley, currently appearing in Carmen, has lost his voice, and attempts have been made on his life, including a sandbag dropped on him at the Royal Albert Hall. All this seems to have started when he began a liaison with co-star Rayenskaya, wife of Maestro Farthingale. At the Royal Albert Hall, Holmes finds traces of curare in the tea-making area, and recognises a description of an accomplice of Moriarty. They visit the man, and send a message to Moriarty that they are on to his game. As he is going back to Baker Street however, Holmes is shot. After being attended to by Dr. Oakshott, he has Watson check Farthingale's entry in Who's Who, and find out who will be playing Don José in Carmen that night. The two set out for the Albert Hall to prevent a murder. |
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"The Strange Case of the Voodoo
Priestess" (2004) Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years (Michael Kurland) Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Lucien Brasseaux Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes (Jean Paul Altamont) Other Characters: Lucien Brasseaux; Madame Celeste; Frank Pierce; Lieutenant Daugherty; Waiter; Irishman; Young Lady; Esthmé; Evangeline Latille; Charles Latille; Brasseaux's Men; Ball Guests; Leprechaun; Woman in Ostrich Feathers; Cavalier; Nurse Date: Mardi Gras, 1891 Locations: USA; New Orleans; Royal Street; Eighth District Precinct House; The French Market; Café du Monde; Royal Street; Celeste's Residence; St Charles Street; Latille Residence; Trolley Car; Brasseaux's Cabin; The Comus Ball; Hospital Story: Police chief Brasseaux is visited by voodoo priestess Celeste who wants to report the murder of Brasseaux's friend Latille - a murder that has not yet happened but which she has foreseen. Holmes arrives shortly after, in the guise of Altamont, claiming to be looking for his aunt, but also under orders from Mycroft. When they visit Latille's house they find that he is ill, possibly under a voodoo curse, and Holmes takes an interest in a missing cat. They learn more from Madame Celeste about the source of her warning, and a message attached to a rock thrown through Latille's window suggests a Mafia connection. Two deaths are discovered in the course of their investigations and events reach their climax at the Comus Ball. |
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Maxwell Bukofzer"Christmas Fun" (1934)Included in: The Chess Review, Volume 2 Number 12, December 1934 Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Other Characters: (Duke of Brantingworth) Unnamed Characters: (Watson's Sister; Trapeze Artiste) Date: December 25th Locations: 221B, Baker Street Story: After Christmas dinner, Holmes helps Watson solve two chess problems given to him by the Duke of Brantingworth. |
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"The Puzzling Adventure of the
Misunderstood Monkey Business" (1916) 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: Mr Winner; (Eleanor Daw; Mr Daw) Date: November Locations: 221B, Baker Street Story: Having bemoaned a lack of original chess problems, Holmes is brought one by Mr Winner, whose marriage to Miss Daw has been vetoed by his father unless he can solve it. |
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Cullen Bunn & Matteo Lolli
Deadpool
Killustrated (2013) |
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Anthony Burgess"Murder
to Music" (2009) |
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Jan Burke"The Imitator" (2011) |
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Cary Burkett & Tom Sutton
"The
Hell-Hound of Brackenmoor!" (1979) |
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Ellis Parker Butler"Watson, Once Epaminondas, Joins Deteckative Gubb" (1918)Included in: Sherlock Holmes in America (Bill Blackbeard); Sherlock Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches II: 1915-1919 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Homage Sherlockian Detectives: Philo Gubb & Epaminondas Other Characters: Sarah Quimby / Maggie the Kid; (Orpheus Butts; Susan Dickelmeyer; Gubb's Sister; Otis Smits) Locations: USA; Riverbank; Gubb's House; Quimby's House Story: Having graduated from the Rising Sun Detective Bureau's Correspondence School of Detecting, and having worked late re-papering Sarah Quimby's house, Philo Gubb is having a late lie-in, when his fat nephew Epaminondas arrives, sent by his father, and expecting to be trained as a detective. Gubb decides that Epaminondas will be his Watson, and instructs him to regularly say, "Marvellous!". Their first case comes when Sarah Quimby's house is burgled. A coat button and a broken knife-blade provide the only clues, which seem to point to Gubb himself as the thief. NOTE: This is a chapter from Butler's Philo Gubb, Correspondence School Detective |
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John ButlerElementary, My Dear Watson (2012)Included in: Serendipity (John Butler) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Other Characters: (Rodriguez) Locations: 221B, Baker Street Story: Holmes explains to Watson how he knew that a suspect kept a pet mamba in a closet under the stairs. |
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Bob Byrne"The Adventure of the
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"The
Adventure of the Parson's Son" (2015) Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part III: 1896-1929 (David Marcum) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; Sherlock Holmes Fictional Characters: (Dr John Thorndyke) Historical Figures: G.A. Anson; Reverend Shapurji Edalji; Mrs Edalji; (George Edalji; Defense Counsel; Jury; Arthur Conan Doyle) Characters Based on Historical Figures: Dr Butler (Dr John Kerr Butler); Royster Sharp (John Sharp); Rodney Sharp (Royden Sharp); Other Characters: Police Officers; (Innkeeper; Shopkeepers; Tradesmen) Date: 1903 Locations: Great Wyerly Colliery; Police Station; Inn; The Parsonage; 221B, Baker Street Story: Holmes and Watson are arrested while re-enacting George Edalji's alleged attack on a horse at Great Wyerly. Despite the hostility of the local police, questioning the doctor who identified horse hairs on Edalji's coat, and interviewing Edalji's parents about a series of malicious acts carried out against the family. When his investigations fail to save Edalji from prison, he sets Conan Doyle on the case. |
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"The Adventure of the Tired Captain"
(2002) NOTE: This story is based on an actual case investigated by Doyle. |
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"The Case of the Ruby
Necklace" (2016) Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part V: Christmas Adventures (David Marcum) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Inspector Lestrade; Tobias Gregson; Enoch J. Drebber; Joseph Stangerson; Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes) Fictional Characters: (Inspector Jamison [Jamison's Son]) Historical Figures: (Sir William Gull) Other Characters: Inspector Jamison; (Lord Wilifred Bragington; Lady Bragington; Melissa Bragington; Alice Hitchcock; Jonathan Radwell; Godfrey Stalwinn) Unnamed Characters: (Bragington's Servants; Bragington's Butler; Jamison's Son) Date: December 1881 Locations: 221B, Baker Street Story: Jamison consults Holmes when a necklace, intended as a wooing present for Melissa Bragington, is stolen and found in the room of her former nurse, Alice Hitchcock, a niece of Sir William Gull. Holmes solves the case without leaving his rooms. Before Jamison leaves, he tells Holmes that he has recently had a son, whom he hopes will also become a police inspector. |