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"The Mystery of the Spot Ball"
(1893)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches:
1888-1899 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Other Characters: Mrs Boddle; Baker Street
Policeman; Plainclothes Officers; Mugson; Mr
Tollocks; (Police Inspector; Police
Constables; Police Detectives)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; 16, Tooral
Terrace
Story: After his deductions about Watson's
night out are disproved, Holmes is called upon by
Mrs Boddle, who after hearing strange noises
outside her house, has discovered that her lodger,
Mr Tollocks, has disappeared. At Mrs
Boodle's house, Chief Mugson shows Holmes a billiard
ball and slip of paper, and after examing the garden
and house, Holmes deduces that a murder has been
committed by a secret society from the South
Pacific.
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Peter Calamai
"The Puzzle of the Vanishing
Laboratory" (2003)
Included in: Curious
Incidents 2 (J.R. Campbell & Charles
Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Athelney Jones
Historical Figures: (Herbert Beerbohm
Tree)
Other Characters: Jeffrey Carruthers;
Jeremiah Beglo; Patricia Saunders; Four-Wheeler
Driver; A Constable; Professor A.T.M. Jakobsen; (Count
Gerster;
Pevensey Bay; Sergeant; J.T. Wexham; Walter J.
Wexham; Royal Society of Musicians Chairman)
Date: An Edwardian August
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train;
Eastbourne; A Four-Wheeler; Norman's Bay Martello
Tower; (Pevensey Bay Police Station; Lisle
Street; Royal Society of Musicians Offices)
Story: Holmes has read in the papers about
a Hungarian found in Sussex, with surveying
equipment, claiming he was looking for a site for
a new restaurant. Meanwhile Watson has read of a
young couple exploring a Martello Tower in
Norman's Bay. When the young woman entered the
tower it was full of scientific equipment, but in
the time it took for her to climb down and bring
her companion up, all the equipment had
disappeared. Carruthers, a reporter, brings the
couple to Holmes, who travels down to Sussex to
investigate. An electric switch that seems to
serve no purpose, wooden mouldings on the wall, a
visit to the Royal Society of Musicians, and the
actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm-Tree, set Holmes on
the path to solving the mystery and connecting the
two news stories.
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"The Riddle of the Rideau
Rifles" (2007)
Included in: The MX Book of New
Sherlock Holmes Stories Part II: 1890-1895
(David Marcum); An Investees'
Anthology (David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Bartholomew
Evans
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes /
Sigerson; (Meyers; Dr Watson)
Historical Figures: Sir John
Thompson; (William Gladstone; Colonel Arthur
Percy Sherwood; George M. Dawson)
Other Characters: Bartholomew Evans; Private
Secretary; Evans's University Classmate; Inspector
Jack Wells; Detective Constable O'Reilly; Jephro
Clarke; Patterson, Sr; Patterson, Jr; Hack Driver;
Hibernian Debating Society Members; Colonel Benjamin
Saunders; Police Constables; (Jonathan Evans;
Geological Survey Assistant; Armourer; Carpenter;
Deputy Minister of Militia and Defence)
Date: November, 1940 / March, 1894
Locations: Canada; Ottawa; Prime Minister's
Office; Railway Station; Russell Hotel; Police
Station; Parliament Hill; The Commissariat; LeBreton
Flats; Duke Street; Couillard Hotel
Story: Junior Canadian government
aide Bartholomew Evans is summoned to the Prime
Minister's office. Gladstone is sending a private
investigator, Sigerson, to Canada to help discover who
might be behind a rise in anti-American sentiments in
the country, and Evans is assigned to assist him. They
learn that a young police detective, who had been
investigating the smuggling of explosives, has been
found dead in the Rideau Canal. A tour of the
Commissariat and a disguised infiltration of a meetig
of the Hibernian Debating Society lead the case to a
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"The Steamship Friesland"
(2008)
Included in: Gaslight
Grimoire (J.R. Campbell & Charles
Prepolec)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; The Steamship Friesland; James
Calhoun; Calhoun's Mates (Billy & Darrell);
John
Openshaw; (Colonel Moran; Mrs Watson; Mrs
Hudson; The Lone Star; Lone Star Crew)
Historical Figures: (Arthur
Conan Doyle)
Other Characters: Karl
Neustaedter; Swarthy Ruffians; Lascars; (Watson's
Solicitors; Mrs Watson's Relatives; Jan Brouwer;
McFarlane; Friesland First Officer; River Police)
Date: Early Summer, 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Friesland;
Preston Road
Story: Watson wakes to find Holmes
apparently talking to himself in the sitting room. The
following day Holmes asks Watson to arrange an
appointment with Doyle. On his returns, he tells
Watson that he has been discussing the possibility of
communication with the spirits of the dead, and shows
him a cutting describing the discovery of the body of
Brouwer, First Officer of the Friesland, in
the Thames. He says that he believes he has heard the
spirit voice of John Openshaw accusing Calhoun and his
mates of Brouwer's murder. He and Watson board the Friesland,
aboard which the Klansmen now work, and attempt to
bring justice to the killers, but it is from another
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"The Suspicious Closure of the Wig
& Pen" (2003)
Included in: The Book of Love Letters (Paul
and Audrey Gresco)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; (Mary Morstan)
Historical Figures: Peter Calamai;
Mary Calamai
Other Characters: London Constable
Date: 2003
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: The hundred-and-fifty-year old
Sherlock Holmes deduces that Watson has spent the
afternoon with Mary Morstan, then tells him of his
visit from Mr and Mrs Calamai and their account of
the events of the past year. He deduces that
Professor Moriarty is behind the closure of the Wig
& Pen Club.
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Cy Caldwell
"The
Amazing Adventure of the Punctured Major General"
(1934)
Included in: Aero Digest, November 1934
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade
Historical Figures: (Billy Mitchell;
Cliff Henderson)
Characters Based On Historical Figures: Major General
Sir Benjamin Chummy-Chumley Foulois (Benjamin
Foulois); Sir Douglas MacArthur; (Jim
Farley (James Farley); King Franklin I (Franklin
D. Roosevelt))
Other Characters: (Surgeon General
Carver)
Unnamed Characters: Cabby; Stuffed Admiral;
Ex-Chief of Staff; The General Staff
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Muddled
Mansions
Story: When Major General Sir Benjamin
Chummy-Chumley Foulois, Chief of the Air Corps, is
stabbed in the back, Lestrade takes Holmes and
Watson to Muddled Mansions, the headquarters of the
War Department, to investigate. There they encounter
a sleeping General Staff and Sir Douglas MacArthur.
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Laura Caldwell
"Art in the Blood" (2014)
Included in: In the Company
of Sherlock Holmes (Laurie R. King &
Leslie S. Klinger)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock
Holmes; Professor Moriarty)
Historical Figures: (Vernet)
Other Characters: Drew Dekalb VanWerden; Post
Reporter; Benjamin "Binny" Moriarty; Barbara "BB"
Baden-Shore; Charlotte Raford-Jennings; Tomasina
Winters; BB's Waitstaff; Prisoners; (Gargeau;
Tad; Vietnamese Grocery Clerk; Dekalb's Mother;
BB's Husband; Dekalb's Customers; Christie's
Appraiser; William Sharton)
Locations: USA; New York; Madison Avenue;
Dekalb's Office; BB's House; Dekalb's Apartment;
Prison
Story: Dekalb has been labelled "the
Sherlock Holmes of the Art World" by the New
Yorker, but is accused by a Post
reporter of selling a forged Gargeau painting, Wheels
of
a Rogue, and receives a letter
from his former assistant and lover, Binny Moriarty,
saying that he has the real Gargeau.
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Cami
"A
Strange Suicide" (1921)
Included in: Inter-America, Volume IV Number
5, June 1921
Story Type: Parody Script
Canonical Detective Loufock-Holmes
Unnamed Characters: Unknown Visitor;
(Visitor's Brother)
Locations: Argentina; Loufock-Holmes'
Consulting Room
Story: A sardine-executioner tells
Loufock-Holmes that he committed suicide two hours
previously. Loufock-Holmes visits his house to
ascertain the truth.
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Kenneth
Cameron
Winter
at Death's Hotel (2011)
Story Type: Homage
Historical Figures: Louisa
Doyle; Arthur Conan Doyle; Theodore Roosevelt; Sir
Henry Irving; Buffalo Bill Cody; Marie Corelli;
Victoria Woodhull; (Carrie Brown; Inspector
Thomas Byrnes; Ameer ben Ali)
Other Characters: George Manion; Ethel
Grimstead; Mrs Harding; Gerald Oppenheimer;
William Carnahan; Patrolman James Malone; Mrs Amos
Simmons; Alexander Newcome; Lieutenant Jack
Cleary; Roscoe G. Harding; Sergeant Grady;
Sergeant Harry Dunne; Detective L. Cassidy; Finn;
Mr Carver; Dr Strauss; Harvard Harry; Francotte;
Mr Galt; Lady Jane; Anne-Marie "Minnie" Fitch;
Musgrove; Mamie; McClurg; Mr Clapp; Fred / Daniel
Gerrigan; Cullum; Leonard Rogers; Mrs Wayne; Anna
May; Frederick; Philly Nugent; Herman "Hermie"
Steinhoffer; Richard Hoffman; Deputy Chief Francis
Xavier Halloran; Lieutenant Banks; Old Woebegone;
Gargan; Detective Forcella; Detective Mercer;
Detective-Probationer Matthews; Marion McCousins;
Old Mr Carver; (General Sammartino; Cyrus
Bickle; Masters; Mrs Alonzo Gappert; Colonel
Beauregard; Tenny McLean; Duncan Moy; Mrs
McCrae; Mrs Brown; Lina; Tipple; Officer Flynn;
Miss Castle; Jackson; Foley)
Unnamed Characters: New Britannic
Receptionists; Wagon Driver; Street Sweeper;
Barrow Man; Shop Worker; Elevator Boy; Hotel
Cleaners; Bell Boys; Waitress; Hotel Guests; News
Vendor; News Stall Customers; Murder Squad
Detectives; Nurse; Police Stenographer; Cab
Drivers; Wild West Show Man; Sandwich Board Man; Express
Building Crowds; Express Lift Operator;
Express Receptionist; Urchin; Express
Staff; Copy Boys; Holtzer's Cashier; Tenth
Precinct Officer; Express Telephone
Operator; Hotel Waitress; Restaurant Waiter; City
Hall Staff; Park Crowds; Hotel Waiter; Tenement
Woman; Morgue Attendants; Paresis Doorman; Paresis
Hall Clientele; Musicians; Barman; Walking-Stick
Shopkeeper; Wild West Show Performers; Hotel Night
Doorman; St Bartholomew's Parishioners; Golden Pit
Clientele; Golden Pit Barman; Policemen; Mulberry
Street Residents; Murdered Hack Driver; Milkman;
Brooklyn Bridge Toll Operator; Hotel Cooks; Chief
of Police; Police Commissioners; Night Watch
Commander; Deputy Chief of Police; El Passengers;
Copy Editor; Seventy-Seven Patrons; Seventy-Seven
Barman; Roosevelt's Maid; Halloran's Driver;
Doyle's Editor; Pawn Shop Customer; Pawnbroker;
Italian Waiter; Séance Women; Firemen; Man on
Train; Ferry Passengers; Brooklyn Cab Driver;
Journalists; (Specialist; Homeless People;
Cleary's Brother; Cleary's Sister; Medical
Examiner; Architect; French Maid; Doyle's
Audiences; Harding's Secretary; Hotel
Housemaid)
Date: January, 1896
Locations: USA; New York; New Britannic
Hotel; Sixth Avenue; Greenwich Village; Bleecker
Street; The Bowery; Mott Street; Elizabeth Street;
Twenty-Third Street; City Mortuary; Mulberry
Street; Police Headquarters; Printing House
Square; New York Express Offices;
Holtzer's; Park Row; Tenth Precinct Station;
Restaurant; The Authors Club; Fifth Avenue; City
Hall; The Tombs; Brooklyn Bridge; Shankey's; Sixth
Avenue Saloon; Paresis Hall; Fifth Avenue; Union
Square; Walking-Stick Shop; Central Park; Madison
Square Garden; Clark's; St Bartholomew's Church;
Thirty-Fourth Street; MacDougal Street; The Golden
Pit; West Street; Spring Street; Washington
Street; Van Dam Street; Varick Street; Worth
Street; Broadway; Elm Street; Centre Street; Park
Row; The Seventy-Seven Saloon; Chatham Square;
Madison Avenue; Roosevelt's House; Nassau Street;
Chase's Bank; Publisher's Office; Seventh Avenue;
Friendly Pawn Shop; Madison Square; Brooklyn
Heights; Cleary's House; Jersey City; Pennsylvania
Railroad Terminal; The Brooklyn Ferry
Story: The Doyles arrive at the New
Britannic Hotel in New York with their maid, Ethel.
A beat cop discovers a body dumped in an alley in
the Bowery. Louisa Doyle reads of the murder in the
newspapers the following morning, and realises that
she had seen the dead woman in the hotel the
previous day. Roosevelt brings millionaire Roscoe G.
Harding to the morgue to identify the body of his
wife, and orders Cleary, Commander of the Murder
Squad, to keep the victim's identity out of the
public record. A sprained ankle prevents Louisa from
accompanying Doyle on his lecture trip, and forces
her to remain at the hotel. She sends a message to
Roosevelt about the young woman and the man she saw
her with, but receives a visit from the police
warning her to stay quiet. Looking for more
information, she takes her story to newswoman Minnie
Fitch. Dunne, the detective assigned to close off
the case, continues to investigate behind the backs
of his superiors.
A second murder is committed, the body disfigured
in similar ways to the first. Manion, the hotel
detective, assists Louisa in finding the details of
the first murder. She spends time at City Hall
looking for evidence of police corruption, and
attempts to view the bodies at the city morgue.
Edith, Louisa's maid tells her about the ghost of a
French maid who disappeared in the hotel two years
previously. A guard is killed during the dumping of
a third victim's body, but a police pursuit fails to
catch the killer. Louisa fears that Minnie is the
latest victim, and arrives back from the morgue to
discover that a murder has been committed at the
hotel. After being assaulted outside her room,
Louisa learns the secret of the hotel.
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Steve Cameron
"The
Mysterious Drowning at St Kilda" (2017)
Included In: Sherlock
Holmes:
The Australian Casebook (Christopher
Sequeira)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Historical Figures: Inspector
Richard John Webb; Constable Davidson; J.L. Toole;
Mr Beck (Coffee Palace Manager); Mrs Bowers; (Pauline
Levi;
Louis Lightman; James Shannon (Lightman's
Companion); Mrs Breslau (Pauline's Landlady);
Alexander J. Reid (Young Man on Ship); Samuel
Sicklemore; Matilda Roberts; John Edgar Roberts;
Miss Clayton (Matilda's Sister); Constable
Fleming; Thomas Higgins (Boatman); Dr G.A. Syme
(Autopsy Doctor))
Other Characters: Mrs Withers;
Asylum Matron; Dr Henry Parker; Mrs Parker;
Theatregoers; Coffee Palace Employee; Harold Peters;
Doctor; (Visitors;
Parker's Son; Asylum Attendant; Shipping Agent;
Constable Cutler)
Date: Late May, 1890
Locations: Australia; Fitzroy; Morgue; Kew
Asylum; Melbourne; Parker's House; Collins Street
Café; Theatre; St Kilda; Pier; South Yarra; Coffee
Palace; Carlton; Rathdowne Street
Story:Inspector Webb of the
Melbourne police force, consults Holmes over the
mysterious drowning of a woman at St Kilda who had
first been identified as Pauline Levi, an English
woman, who disappeared on the eve of her wedding to
Mr Lightman, and then as Mrs Roberts, the Tasmanian
wife of an inmate of Kew Asylum.
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J.R.
Campbell
"Court
of Honour" (2011)
Included In: A Study in
Lavender (Joseph R.G. DeMarco)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Fictional Characters: Arthur
Birling
Other Characters: Mrs Nyland; Eric
Birling; Schrader; Gillis; Dr Jenkins; (Adam
Bellamy; Headmaster)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; School;
Chapel
Story: Watson delivers the news of
her brother's suicide by poisoning to Mrs Nyland.
After their client has departed, Watson announces
that he is hiring Holmes to bring those who drove
Bellamy to take his own life to justice. They take
Bellamy's lover, Birling, back to the men's old
school, where they carry out a ritual court of
honour in the chapel
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"The Entwined" (2008)
Included in: Gaslight
Grimoire (J.R. Campbell & Charles
Prepolec)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Other Characters: Catherine
Drayson; Mr Drayson; Cabbie; Theodore Willingham;
The Rider; Scotland Yard Officers; (Doctors;
Asylum Staff; Ronald A.Pursey; Jonathan E.
Mulchinock; Russell B.Wolfe; David J. Johnson;
Robert W. Elliott; Mrs Drayson)
Date: Spring
Locations: Asylum; A Cab; Drayson's Home;
221B, Baker Street; Wilingham's Lodgings
Story: Asylum inmate Catherine
Drayson asks Holmes to find out if she has murdered a
number of men, whose names she has given him. Holmes
has confirmed that at least three of the men have been
murdered, while the other two are out of the country.
Miss Drayson, however, has been confined in the asylum
for nearly two years, so could not have committed the
murders unless, as she claims, she can fly between two
worlds. They try to prevent a sixth murder, learn of
the Brotherhood and the Melvaris, and sit vigil
waiting for the killer to appear. |
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"The First Mate's Jacket" (2002)
Included in: Curious Incidents
(J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Other Characters: Constable Henry; Inquiry
Board; Cluney; Mrs. Mary Ranstead; Cab Driver;
Constable; Diver; Captain Dove; (Dock Crowd;
Innkeeper; Mr. Ranstead; Embezzler)
Locations: Falmouth; Train Station;
Killigrew Street; A Cab; A Beach
Story: While assisting Holmes in an
embezzlement case in Falmouth, Watson is called to
aid Mrs. Ranstead, the survivor of a shipwreck. She
and crewman, Cluney, were the only survivors from a
ship which was transporting an ancient meteorite
from St. John's to Falmouth. Holmes and Watson
attend the official enquiry, and Holmes seems taken
with a rope burn on Cluney's jacket. He sends the
local constable out on an errand, and the next day
they mount watch on a buoy he has located. As they
wait Watson spots a rowing boat heading towards it,
and the truth of the matter is made clear. |
"Lord Garnett's Skulls" (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
Other Characters: Cab Driver; Detective
Constable Cambers; Garnett's Head Buttler; Lord
Garnett; Cambers' Constables; Henry Garnett;
Climbing Boy; (Garnett's Dinner Guests;
Garnett's Chief Cook; Lady Garnett; Lady Garnett's
Physician; Workman; Sailor; Chimneysweep)
Date: Late 1890 or Early 1891
Locations: A Hansom Cab; Lord Garnett's
House
Story: Watson encounters Holmes in a hansom
in the street and is whisked off to Lord Garnett's
house. He had been called in by Detective Constable
Cambers after four skulls that Garnett brought back
from Borneo had been stolen from a locked room, but
now Garnett's young son has also been abducted. A
list of visitors to the house, the servants' tales
of treasure, and the boy's story of hearing a ghost
in the night lead Holmes to a resolution of the
case. |
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"The Missing Coppertop" (2003)
Included in: Curious
Incidents 2 (J.R. Campbell & Charles
Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Tobias Gregson; Mrs. Watson
Other Characters: Leslie Warboys; Mrs.
Bodmer; Military Man; Cab Driver; Constable Rimbly;
Gregson's Prisoner; Holmes' Messenger; Mrs. Warboys;
Men on Engine; Norris Bodmer; Constables
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Goddington
Street; Gregson's Hideout; Watson's House; Warboys'
House; Scotland Yard; The Embankment; A Cab
Story: Warboys, a railway man, consults
Holmes over an engine that has gone missing. When
Watson visits the house of a retired driver, whom
Warboys has remembered recently commenting on the
engine, he sees a military-looking man, whom Holmes
identifies as being connected to a blackmail case
over which Gregson is currently holding a man
prisoner. It soon becomes apparent that the two
cases are linked and that Scotland Yard itself is
under attack. |
"Mr Other's Children" (2009)
Included in: Gaslight
Grotesque (J.R. Campbell & Charles
Prepolec)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Inspector Bradstreet; (Mrs Watson; Mrs
Hudson)
Other Characters: Mrs Bradstreet; Cabbie;
Sarah; Hotel Guests; Mr Other; Constables; Coroner;
B Division Officers
Date: December
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Baker Street;
Bradstreet's House; Watson's House; Hotel
Story: Inspector Bradstreet's wife calls on
Holmes when her husband disappears, having
threatened to end his own life. Holmes and Watson
find Bradstreet preparing his own grave, and
persuade him to accompany them back to Baker Street.
A key in Bradstreet's billfold leads them to a
strangely lit hotel room, an unconscious woman, and
a concealed journal in which she writes about her
dealings with Mr Other. They fail to rouse the
woman, and watch as creatures begin to emerge from
her scalp. Watson discovers Mr Other's true nature,
and they realise the nature of Bradstreet's fears. |
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"Relating to One of My Old Cases"
(2015)
Included in: The MX Book of New
Sherlock Holmes Stories Part IV: 2016 Annual
(David Marcum)
Story Type: Third Person Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Mrs Hudson; (Tobas
Gregson;
Dr Watson)
Other Characters: Mrs Mason; Reginald Mason;
Tristan; Mary Leahy; Fireman Second Class Tarven; (Mr
Mason;
Darrel Norville; Clara Norville; Police Officers;
Robbie Norville; Tristan's Landlady; Firemen)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Mason's
House; Portsdown Road; Police Station
Story: Two years after his investigation
into her husband's death, Holmes is visited by Mrs
Mason, who asks for an explanation of his behaviour
on the night of the murder. She has come to him in
relation to the death of her late husband's
mistress, Clara Norville, wanting him to prove that
her son was not behind the fire in which they died. |
Nick Campbell
"The Adventure of the Decadent
Headmaster" (2014)
Included in: Further
Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (George Mann)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Inspector Lestrade)
Historical Figures: Nick Campbell
Other Characters: Secretary of the Chelsea
Psychical Society; The Marvel of Montmartre;
Marcus Crawthew; Students; Tiger Kit Marlowe;
Beetle; Cricket Captain; Schoolmasters; "Froggy"
Lemaitre; Mr Grimes; Policemen; (Cox &
Co. Girl; Arnold Bragg; Mr Tournier; Bragg's
Father; Marlowe's Father)
Date: August, 2013 /
November-December 31st, 1899
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Primrose
Hill; Meadowbrook College for Boys; Regent's Park;
The Langham Hotel
Story: Campbell visits a medium to get
a new story from Dr Watson.
Watson receives a letter from an
anonymous master at Meadowbrook College asking
Holmes to investigate the strange behaviour of the
school's headmaster, involving the departure of one
of the students and the apparent delivery of a
woman's body to the headmaster's rooms. Holmes
dismisses the letter as a schoolboy prank, but the
following week the press carries a story of a master
murdered at the school. The solution to the case is
linked to a card-playing wax automaton, the Marvel
of Montmartre.
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Robin N. Campbell
"The
Adventure of the Misplaced Eyeglasses" (1979)
Included in: A Century of Scottish
Mountaineering (W.D. Brooker)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Baker Street Page; (Mrs Hudson;
Mycroft Holmes; Professor Moriarty; The Politician
[Mr Willoughby])
Historical Figures: Harold
Raeburn;
J.
Norman Collie; (Eberhard Phildius; Oscar
Eckenstein; Aleister Crowley; William Inglis
Clark; Alfred Stieglitz)
Characters Based On Historical Figures: Mr
Lawrie
[Robert Lawrie]
Other Characters: Sergeant McDonald; James Moffat /
James Moriarty
Unnamed Characters: Telegram Messenger;
Crianlarich Youth; Groom; (Police Oficers;
Scottish Mountaineering Club Members; Doctor)
Date: January, Before 1897
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Lawrie's Boot
Shop; Euston Station; Scotland; Crianlarich; Fort
William; Alexandra Hotel; Police Station; Ben Nevis;
Halfway Observatory; Tower Ridge; Summit
Observatory; Gardyloo Gully
Story: Holmes and Watson travel to Scotland
in response to a telegram from Holmes's cousin,
Norman, a research chemist, who has been accused of
murdering a fellow climber, Mr Willoughby, a Foreign
Office secret agent, on Ben Nevis. The case hinges
on the disappearance and subsequent reappearance of
Willoughby's spectacles. Accompanied by Harold
Raeburn, Holmes and Watson scale the mountain to
examine the site of Willoughby's death, and learn
that Aleister crowley was a member of the climbing
party.
NOTE: Holmes and Watson visits Lawrie's shop
near Marble Arch to buy boots. Although Robert
Lawrie did sell mountaineering boots at 38,
Bryanston Street, near Marble Arch, he did not set
up premises there until the 1930s.
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"The Case of the Great
Grey Man" (1985)
Included in: One Step in the Clouds (Audrey
Salkeld & Rosie Smith)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; James Phillimore; (Mrs Hudson;
Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes)
Historical Figures: Hugh T.
Munro; Queen Victoria; Tsar Nicholas II; (J. Norman
Collie; Harold Raeburn; Edward VII)
Other Characters: Mr Scott; Dundee Wullie; (Duke
of
Fife; Donald; Macdonald)
Unnamed Characters: Police Officers;
Highlander; Ghillies; Lynwilg Landlord; Ponyman;
Airship Crew; (Shooting Party; Landlord's Boy)
Date: August-September 189-
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; North London;
Phillimore's House; Scotland; Braemar; Lynwilg
Hotel; Derry Lodge; Coire Sputan Dearg; Ben Macdhui
Story: James Phillimore, a scientist
suspected of selling secrets to a foreign power
disappears after stepping back inside his house for
an umbrella, despite the house being surrounded by
Holmes, Watson, and twenty police officers.
Frustrated at his failure to find Phillimore, Holmes
resorts to cocaine. His mood is lifted by a letter
from his cousin, Norman Collie about a giant spectre
that has been seen in the Cairngorm Mountains. After
travelling to Braemar, they are told of other
sightings of strange lights, faeries and a giant
bird, and a second death attributed to the spectre.
They encounter a giant hairy beast atop a mountain,
and Holmes flies a kite to avert an assassination.
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J.B. Cannon
"Mister
Misty's Missing Mystery" (1932)
Included in: The Journal (Wofford College),
Volume 43 Number 1, November 1932
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detective: "Misty" Sherlock
Watson Vance Philo Holmes
Other Characters: (Vanwagon Family;
Martha; Freddie the Rat)
Unnamed Characters: Narrator;
Chocolate Center Residents; Police Officers; Waiter;
Vanwagon's Butler; Detective; Judge
Date: June
Locations: Chocolate Center; Dining
Establishment; 420 E-Z Street; Courtroom
Story: The narrator encounters Sherlock
Watson Vance Philo Holmes, whose friends call him
Misty, in the village of Chocolate Center. Holmes
has been hired by the Vanwagon family to find the
murderer of Martha, whom they had adopted several
years previously. They arrive at the Vanwagon's
mansion to find it infested with rats. They discover
that the victim is not all that they expected, and
the butler confesses to the crime.
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P.H. Cannon
Pulptime (1984)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes /
Altamont; (Dr Watson; Mrs Watson; Irene
Adler)
Historical Figures: Frank Belknap Long;
May Doty Long; H.P. Lovecraft; Frank Belknap Long,
Sr; Bess Houdini; Harry Houdini; Sam Loveman;
Rheinhart Kleiner; Everett McNeil; George Kirk;
Arthur Leeds; Wheeler Dryden; James F. Morton;
Hart Crane; Detective Thomas F. Mahoney; (George
Kirk; E.L. Sechrist; Anne Tillery Renshaw;
Lillian Clark; Arthur Conan Doyle; C.M. Eddy,
Jr; Vincent Starrett; Sonia Greene; Sarah
Phillips Lovecraft; Winfield Lovecraft;
Farnsworth Wright)
Other Characters: Jan Martense; Manuel;
Cordelia Garrison; Dinah; (Jack Altamont)
Unnamed Characters: IRT
Passengers; Street Toughs; Speakeasy Doorman;
Speakeasy Customers; Speakeasy Waitress; Bouncer;
Fifth Avenue Doorman; Garrison's Maid; Red Hook
Residents; Illegal Immigrants; Martense's
Lieutenants; Church Girls; Nurse; Dockside Crowd;
(Persian Lodger; Martense's Cook; Wolcott
Street Locals; Doctor)
Date: April, 1925
Locations: USA; New York; Upper West
Side; 825 West End Avenue; Brooklyn; Borough Hall
Station; Willoughby Street; John's Spaghetti
Place; Clinton Street; 169 Clinton Street;
Riverside Park; 278 West 113th Street; 110th
Street; Suydam Street; Red Hook; Wolcott Street;
O'Connell's Saloon; Gotham Hotel; Fifth Avenue; 50
Fifth Avenue; Madison Avenue; Columbia Heights;
Loveman's Apartment; Parker Place; A Sewer;
Martense's Underground Lair; Dance-Hall Church;
Brooklyn Hospital
Story: Long and Lovecraft assist
Lovecraft's elderly neighbour, Mr Altamont of
Chicago, after he is assaulted by street toughs
outside his and Lovecraft's lodging house in
Brooklyn. Altamont reveals that he is Sherlock
Holmes and has been recommended Lovecraft, by
Houdini, as a guide to the backstreets of New York.
Houdini tells them of Jan Martense, a Brooklyn
bootlegger with a chain of speakeasies, who is also
involved in people trafficking. he is also closely
involved with the spirit medium, Cordelia Garrison,
and has possession of sensitive documents belonging
to Holmes's illustrious English client. They attend
visit a speakeasy, and attend a séance. Holmes sets
a plan in motion to retrieve the documents from
Martense's Red hook lair with the aid of the
literary members of the Kalem Club. Holmes, Long and
Lovecraft descend into the sewers to face Martense
in his underground lair.
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"The Rummy Affair of Young
Charlie" (1994)
Story Type: Supernatural Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes /
Altamont
Fictional Characters: Bertie Wooster;
Jeeves; Aunt Agatha Gregson; Charles Dexter Ward;
Blandot; Aged Money-Lender; Upholsterer; Erich Zann;
(Arthur Jermyn; Pongo, the White Ape; Tuppy
Glossop; Theodore Howland Ward; Mrs Ward; Uncle
Tom Travers; Claude Wooster; Eustace Wooster; Dr
Marinus Bicknell Willett; Randolph Carter; Strange
Old Mulatto; Uncle Willoughby; Sir Alfred Jermyn;
Beefy Bingham; Doctor Muñoz; Student of
Metaphysics; Mrs Herrero)
Other Characters: (St John)
Unnamed Characters: Gamin; Rue
d'Auseil Residents
Locations: Berkeley Mansions; France; Paris;
Hotel; Rue d'Auseil
Story: Bertie Wooster and Jeeves travel to
Paris, at the behest of Aunt Agatha, to keep Charles
Dexter Ward, the son of her American friends, out of
trouble. when Ward disappears, Jeeves tracks him
down to a house in the Rue d'Auseil, where he has
apparently moved to be in closer association with
the violinist Erich Zann. Also lodging in the house
is the elderly American, Altamont, who gets them to
assist him in a plan to extract the details of a
mysterious manuscript from Zann using the soothing
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Peter Cannon
"The Adventure of the Noble
Husband" (1998)
Included in: The Confidential Casebook
of Sherlock Holmes (Marvin Kaye); The Big Book of Sherlock
Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson
Fictional Characters: (Adrian Mulliner)
Historical Figures: Louise Hawkins Doyle;
Arthur Conan Doyle; Jean Leckie; P.G. Wodehouse;
E.W. Hornung; Constance Hornung; Mary Doyle; (Jack
Hawkins;
Mary Conan Doyle; Kingsley Conan Doyle; Fletcher
Robinson)
Other Characters: (Mason)
Date: Summer, 1900
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Lord's
Cricket Ground; Paddington Station; Gloucester;
The Everson; (Undershaw)
Story: Louise Doyle visits Holmes and
tells him that she suspects her husband of having
an affair. She says that he is involved in a
literary feud, has taken up the banjo, and has
been pressing snowdrops in books. When Doyle
returns from South Africa, Holmes sends Watson to
meet him at a cricket match at Lord's, where he
finds him in the company of Jean Leckie. Doyle
travels to Gloucester after a confrontation with
his brother-in-law, Hornung, and Holmes follows
him there, having learned of his destination from
Wodehouse, to find him in the company of more than
one woman.
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"The Problem of the Three
Edwardian Pennies" (2013)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes
Mystery Magazine #10 (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson;
Sherlock Holmes
Historical Figures: Arthur Machen
Unnamed Characters: Suffolk Trap
Driver; Men in Blue Jerseys; Inquest Official; (Machen's
Editor;
Fishermen)
Date: After 1901(During the Reign of
Edward VII)
Locations: High Holborn; The Dog and
Duck; Suffolk; Martello Tower; Station
Story: Since Holmes's retirement,
Watson has made the acquaintance of Arthur Machen, who
tells him of his own encounter with Holmes at a
treasure-trove inquest into a horde of coins found in
Suffolk after a section of cliff collapsed. |
"Holmes and the Loss of
the British Barque Sophy Anderson" (1996)
Included in: Resurrected
Holmes (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Third Person Pastiche (in the
style of C.S. Forester)
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Billy;
Dr Watson; (Mycroft Holmes)
Other Characters: Sir Joseph Porter;
Commander Henry Bush; Lt. Richard Hornblower; Lt.
Patrick McCool; Captain George Budd, M.D.; Jack
Luhulu; (Sophy Anderson Crew; Howard
Grimes; Captain Koch; Nurse)
Date: 1887
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train;
Portsmouth; Naval Headquarters; The Admiralty
Story: Admiralty Sea Lord Porter calls at
Baker Street. The Sophy Anderson under
command of Lt. Richard Hornblower (great-grandson of
Horatio Hornblower) and sporting new experimental
engines has sunk in the North Sea after an
explosion. Porter asks Holmes to discover whether
foreign agents were responsible for the sinking. He
believes that a German submarine may have been
behind the disaster, and that this may be part of a
plot centred around the maritime events that will be
a part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations.
Holmes travels to Portsmouth to interview the ship's
survivors. A comatose Polynesian steward seems to be
the focus of Holmes's concern, and an impersonation
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Wilson Cantrell
"Right
Dress" (1957)
Included in: The Dude, November 1957
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Hemlock Sholmes'
Doctor Whatsup;
Canonical Characters: (Professor
Moriarty)
Other Characters: Fifi LaRuelaRue
Locations: USA; New York; Madison Avenue
Story: Fifi LaRuelaRue plots the death of
Hemlock Sholmes who has spurned her love, despite
the fashionable wardrobe of gifts she has given
him.
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Bernard
E.J.
Capes
"A
Notable Interlude" (1907)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian
Parodies and Pastiches II: 1905-1909 (Bill
Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock
Holmes; Dr Watson
Other Characters: Narrator; Mr
Shapter; Valombroso; Inspector Jannaway; (Mr
Dalston; Johnny; The D's; Coachman)
Story: When Valombroso objects to
working with Jannaway on the search for Dalston, it
is decided that he will work with Holmes instead.
NOTE: This is a chapter from
Capes's novel The Great Skene Mystery.
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Montgomery Carmichael
"On the Threshold of the Chamber of
Horrors" (1894)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches:
1888-1899 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Other Characters: Edward Clay; Waxworks
Attendant; Policeman
Locations: Baker Street; Marylebone Road;
St John's Wood Station; Mme Tussaud's Wax Museum;
Marlborough Road Station; Grovend Road; Lisson
Grove; Bloomsbury; Temperance Hotel
Story: Edward Clay, the London Road
Murderer, is hiding out in a Temperance Hotel in
Bloomsbury. As he is walking down Baker
Street he notices the celebrated detective and his
companion looking down at him. With the two in
pursuit, he flees, arriving eventually in Mme
Tussaud's where he encounters a wax model of
himself.
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Caleb Carr
The Italian Secretary (2005)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; (Shinwell
Johnson)
Historical Figures: Queen Victoria; (Mary,
Queen
of Scots; Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley; David
Rizzio; Lord Salisbury; Edward VII)
Other Characters: Military Intelligence
Officer; Naval Officer; Intelligence Men; Train
Attacker; Lord Francis Hamilton; Gavin Hackett;
Andrew Hackett; Mrs Hackett; Dennis McKay; Alison
Mackenzie; Robert Sadler; "Likely Will" Sadler;
Fife & Drum Barman; Fife & Drum Patrons;
Colour Sergeant; Roxburghe Clerk; Garrison
Commandant; Policemen; Duke of Hamilton;
Golden-Haired Girl; Punjabi Shop Proprietor; (Sir
Alistair Sinclair; Alec Morton; Jackson)
Date: September (before 1901)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Euston
Station; Train; Scotland; Edinburgh; Prince's
Street Station; Holyroodhouse; The Fife and Drum;
Roxburghe Hotel; Edinburgh Castle; Balmoral
Castle; Baker Street; Punjabi's Shop[
Story: Holmes receives a cryptic telegram
from Mycroft summoning him to Scotland after the
deaths of the architect and foreman involved in
restoration work at Holyroodhouse. Holmes
astonishes Watson by suggesting that the ghost of
David Rizzio, the murdered secretary of Mary,
Queen of Scots may be at the root of the killings.
Travelling to Scotland they undergo a bomb attack
on their train, and are accused of one of the
murders. Mycroft tells them of a number of
attempts on the Queen's life, and that the
perpetrator of the latest has escaped from the
prison ship on which he was being transported. At
Holyrood they examine one of the victim's
injuries, find a damsel in distress and a secret
passage, and hear a ghostly voice. After Holmes
identifies those involved in the events at the
palace, he and Watson arrange to be taken on an
illicit ghostly tour, but instead come under siege
from an enemy armed with mediaeval weaponry.
Watson has an encounter with a spirit.
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John Dickson Carr
"The
Adventure of the Conk-Singleton Papers" (1948)
Included in: The Game Is Afoot
(Marvin Kaye); The
Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sebastian
Wolfe)
Story Type: Parody / Script
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Conk-Singleton; Professor Moriarty; (Porlock)
Historical Figures: (William Ewart
Gladstone; Queen Victoria)
Other Characters: Narrator; (Lord
Scarborough)
Date: 1st January, 1888
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Lord Cosmo Conk-Singleton visits
Baker Street with letters sent between the Queen and
the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister, it seems,
has been poisoned by whiskey laced with prussic
acid, sent to him as a Christmas present by the
Queen. Holmes refuses to investigate, but reveals
that one of the letters, and his client, are fakes,
and that it is part of a plot to steal the
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"The
Adventure of the Paradol Chamber" (1949)
Included in: The Misadventures
of Sherlock Holmes (Sebastian Wolfe)
Story Type: Parody / Script
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Colonel Moran; (Inspector Lestrade;
Tobias Gregson; Athelney Jones)
Historical Figures: (Queen Victoria)
Other Characters: Narrator; Lady Imogene
Ferrers; M. De Marquis De Paradol; (Lord
Matchlock; Men in Masks)
Date: August, 1887
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: After reading of Lord Matchlock's
fainting spell, and deducing that he was wearing
no trousers, Holmes and Watson are visited by his
daughter, Lady Imogene, with a pair of trousers
which had been thrown from a window of Buckingham
Palace, where her father was in talks with the
Queen and the French ambassador, de Paradol, who
also arrives at Baker Street to retrieve his
pants, which he had taken off in front of the
Queen. A treaty, which was concealed in a copper
lined chamber of the trousers has disappeared and
a traitor is revealed in their midst.
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The
Nine Wrong Answers (1952)
Story Type: Homage
Historical Figures: (C.T. Thorne;
Abraham Lincoln; William H. Seward; Edwin M.
Stanton; John Hay; Jefferson Davis; George
Washington; Stonewall Jackson)
Other Characters: William (Bill) Dawson;
George Amberley; Laurence Herbert (Larry) Hurst;
Joy Tennent; New York Taxi Driver; Dingala's
Patrons; Vagrant; James Brook; Howard Fowler; G.
Vassilov; G.V. Aguinopopolos; Ronald Wentworth;
Marjorie Blair; Plane Passengers; Dingala's Police
Officer; Waldorf Doorman; Hotel Guests; Walfdorf
Receptionist; Bus Passengers; Idlewild Passport
Officer; Woman in Queue; Air-Line Counter Girl;
Air Steward; Albert Court Hall Porter; Hatto;
Gaylord Hurst; Tuffrey; Eric Cheever; Bus
Conductor; Chemist; BBC Reception Girl; Bee
Roberts; Walter Kuhn; Norma; Del Durrand;
Felicity; BBC Orchestra; Radio Announcer; Actors;
Franz; Monica Carslake; Robert MacTavish; Studio
Attendant; Rabbie; Joe the Radio Man; Programme
Engineers; Times Radio Critic;
Controller of Programmes; Dr Pardoner; Patricia
Conway; Thomas / Tommy; Rev. James Dawson; Admiral
Hooker's Guests; Sergeant Frank Green; Chief
Inspector Partridge; Inspector Conway; Old Lady on
Green Park Station; Uniformed Policeman
(Miss Ventnor; Lady Alice Penrith; Joe the
Elevator Man; Bill's Mother; Larry's Mother;
Herbert Hurst; Ann Heston; Harry Trevor;
Lieutenant Michael T. McGinnis; Assistant
Medical Examiner Gortz; Howard McHavern; Sir
Ashton Cowdray, K.C.; Vice-Admiral the Hon.
Benbow Hooker; Horace Snufferley; Dr Lambert;
Bradley Somers; Old Gentleman; John Blair;
Marjorie's Mother; Edward J. Riley; Dora Riley;
H.F. Thompson; Mrs Thompson; Harry T. Pinckney;
Mrs Pinckney; Picot; Albert Street Police
Officers; Police Surgeon; Bill's Grandfather;
Oculist)
Date: Tuesday, 12th June - 22nd June, 1951
Locations: USA; New York; 120 Broadway;
Greenwich Village; Sheridan Square; Bleecker
Street; Arcadia Street; Dingala's Bar; Park
Avenue; Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; Madison Avenue;
Wall Street; Broadway; Fourth Avenue; Idlewild
Airport; Highgate; Albert Street; Albert Arms,
14A, Albert Court; South Kensington Underground
Station; Green Park Underground Station;
Piccadilly; St James's Street; 68, St James's
Place; Piccadilly Circus; Boots the Chemist;
Broadcasting House; The Mall; Green Park;
Piccadilly Circus Underground Station; Baker
Street Underground Station; Baker Street; Abbey
House
Story: Summoned to the New York offices of
Amberley, Sloane and Amberley, regarding a legacy
from his grandmother in England, Bill Dawson is asked
to
witness Larry Hurst sign a document involving a
legacy from his uncle. Hurst asks Dawson to take his
place travelling to England for six months to visit
his uncle, a requirement of the agreement he has
signed. He tells Dawson about the cruel tricks that
his uncle used to play on him, and that he fears for
his life. When Larry is murdered, Dawson swears
vengeance.
On the plane to England he meets Marjorie, an old
flame, and persuades her to play the role of Larry's
fiancée. The first evening of humiliation at the
hands of Gaylord and his servant Hatto is
interrupted by an unexpected arrival. The evening
ends with Gaylord threatening to murder Dawson some
time in the following three months. Later that
evening, Dawson comes under attack at Broadcasting
House. The final showdown takes place at the
Festival of Britain Sherlock Holmes Exhibition in
Baker Street.
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Molly Carr
"The Curious Case of the Well-Connected Criminal"
(2016)
Included in: The
MX
Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part V:
Christmas Adventures (David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Billy; (Baker Street
Irregulars; Mrs Turner; Mycroft Holmes)
Other Characters: Willie Cameron;
Constance Cameron / Marquise de Brinvilliers / Madame
de Pompadour; (Albert Block; Elsie; Edward Stokes)
Unnamed Characters: Oxford Street Shoppers;
Savoy Waiter; Hotel Employee; (Police Constables;
Physician; Watson's Patients; Highlands Laird;
Factor)
Date: December
Locations: Oxford Street; 221B, Baker Street;
Savoy Hotel; London Hospital
Story: While Christmas shopping in Oxford
Street, Watson realises that he is being followed.
This leads to an encounter at the Savoy Hotel with
Constance Cameron, whose fiancé, Albert Block, has
disappeared. Summoned to the London Hospital, they
learn of Albert's demise. The case ends in a
confrontation with an intruder at 221B
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Gethyn Carr-Harris
"The Case of the Scruffy Note" (1984)
Included in: The Rampant Lion 1983-1984
(Glenlyon Norfolk School, Victoria, British Columbia)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Inspector Lestrade
Other Characters: Mr Chumwit; Roy
Hickmagog; Danny Chumwit
Unnamed Characters: School Receptionist; Form
Eight Teacher; (Bishop of St Paul's Cathedral)
Date: August, 1880
Locations: 222B, Baker Street; Le
Willows-Crescent School
Story: Newly arrived from Canada, Mr Chumwit, a
cousin of the Bishop of St Paul's Cathedral, calls on
Holmes when his eight-year-old son, Danny, is
kidnapped. A ransom has been demanded. A clue in the
ransom note sends Watson to a French-speaking school.
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Philip J. Carraher
"The Adventure of the Captive
Forger" (2002)
Included in: Alias Simon Hawkes (Philip J.
Carraher)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated in third
person
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: William Marsden
Lancaster; James Lancaster; Lancaster's Driver;
Station Attendant; George; Annette Ballard; (Charles
Buonocore)
Locations: New York; The Dead Rabbits
Society, Prince Street; Fifteenth Street;
Twenty-Ninth Street; The Bronx
Story: Called out to the Bronx to examine
a possible forged painting, William Lancaster
meets with a severe beating. He tells Holmes of a
woman he believes is being held prisoner in the
home of Buonocore, the man who called on his
services. Holmes and the Lancasters travel back to
the Bronx, where Holmes is able to locate the
house William was taken to, but they arrive to
find it in flames. William rescues the young
woman, and they hear her story, and how her
artistic skills nearly led to her death.
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"The Adventure of the Glass Room"
(2002)
Included in: Alias Simon Hawkes (Philip J.
Carraher)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated in third person
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: Alwyn Pritchett; Detective
Blaine; Patrolmen; Detective Cullen; Eileen Burgess;
Parish; William Burgess; Gordon Burgess; (Charlotte
Davreux;
Mary Faliciano)
Date: August, 1893
Locations: New York; The Dead Rabbits
Society, Prince Street; Pritchett's House
Story: Holmes is called to the scene of a
murder-suicide. An acquaintance, Pritchett has
apparently shot a medium, then himself, inside a
locked glass compartment which he was using to test
her abilities. Holmes's discovery of bloodstains
outside the locked box suggest that matters are not
as straightforward as they seem. |
"The Adventure of the Magic Alibi"
(2002)
Included in: Alias Simon Hawkes (Philip J.
Carraher)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated in third person
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Historical Figures: Inspector
William "Big Bill" Devery; (Servais Le Roy)
Other Characters: David Conroy; Skeleton
Attendants; Servants; Magicians; Band; Greenleaf's
Guests; Clifford Greenleaf; Detective Cullen;
Virginia Greenleaf; Harvey; Singing Newsboys; Dime
Museum Barker; Patrolman Baker; Mrs. Durbin; Mrs.
Victor Cleary; Joseph Taylor; Blake; Rat Catchers;
Rat Baiting Crowd; Jane Montane (Jane Orleneff);
Dead Rabbits Desk Clerk; Stableboys; Police officer;
Ticket Seller; Grand Duke's Audience; Actors; Peter
"Re-Pete" Orleneff; Hansom Driver; Alice Lake (Alice
Steffens); Alice's Companion; Cushman's Bartender;
Cushman's Musicians Cushman's Clientele; Burnt Rag
Police officer; Johnny Dobbs; Policemen
Date: 1893
Locations: New York; The Pontseele House; The
Dead Rabbits Society, Prince Street; Grand Street;
The Bowery; Steve Brodie's Saloon; Fourteenth
Street; Black Pete's Saloon; Montane's Apartment;
Grand Duke's Theatre; The Tenderloin; Cushman's
Palace of Delights; Bloomingdales; Brookstone's; The
Burnt Rag Saloon
Story: At a Halloween party Greenleaf
announces that he will disappear from a locked room
into 'the spiritual world' and twenty witnesses, who
are outside the room while he stages the
disappearance, will be able to search it to prove he
is not in there. When his wife is murdered in
another part of the house during the stunt, he
becomes the chief suspect, but claims that he had
never left the room, and reveals the secret of his
trick as proof. Cullen, convinced of his guilt,
approaches Holmes, in New York in the guise of Simon
Hawkes, to prove his suspicions. The following day,
a showgirl, Montane, another of Greenleaf's guests
is found dead of a drug overdose. After
investigating her recent shopping expedition, Holmes
begins to see the net closing around Mrs.
Greenleaf's murderer. A false arrest and a
re-enactment of the crime bring the case to an end. |
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"The Adventure of the Talking Ghost"
(2002)
Included in: Alias Simon Hawkes (Philip J.
Carraher)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated in third person
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: Broome Street Policemen;
Detective George Blaine; Madam Tollier; Joseph
Carter; Riley; Rosemary Lametta (Howard
Mendelson; George O'Neil; Eleanora Carter; Laura
Carter)
Date: December, 1893
Locations: New York; Lafayette Street; Broome
Street; (Staten Island; Central Park)
Story: A former client of Holmes, Joseph
Carter, has been shot by Tollier, a gypsy fortune
teller, who says that he had tried to kill her to
stop her contacting a spirit, after a séance at
which the spirit of Carter's daughter had appeared
and stated that she had been murdered. Holmes's
investigation reveals connections with his former
case: the murder of Carter's wife. |
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the
Dead Rabbits Society (2001)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated in third person
by Watson
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Other Characters: Angela Costispoti; George
Hammond; Charles Dunmore; Franklin Dunmore;
Drunkard; Woman Tenant; Dead Rabbits Desk Clerk;
Dead Rabbits Waiter; Jolly Pigeon Waiter; Edward
Madden; Detective Hawthorne; Landau Driver; Amelia
Hammond; William Huxley; Braxton; Dr. Rogers; Robert
Costes; Benjamin Willis; Agatha Willis; Charlotte;
Tramp; Detective Riley; Urchin; Rogers' Patients;
Mrs. Costispoti; Mr. Costispoti; Dunmore's
Bodyguard; Detective Cullen; Howard Lethbridge;
Girls; Costes' Brother; Hammond's Driver; Hammond's
Assailants; Holmes's Cook
Date: 1893
Locations: New York; The Brooklyn Bridge; The
Dead Rabbits Society; Dunmore's House; Apartment
Building Opposite Dunmore's; The Bend; The Jolly
Pigeon, Cherry Street; A Landau; Brooklyn; Madden's
Boarding House; A Train; Grand Hotel Station; Black
Oak; Another Train; Lafayette Street; A Carriage;
Rogers' Surgery; Willis's House; Costes' Parents'
House; Another Landau; Costes' Apartment; Another
carriage; Hester Street Italian Restaurant; Holmes's
Home Outside London
Story: During the hiatus Holmes is in New
York in the guise of Simon Hawkes, a Scotland Yard
detective. He is called in by police to view the
body of a pregnant girl who has thrown herself off
the Brooklyn Bridge. A week later Franklin Dunmore,
a fellow member of the Dead Rabbits Society, tells
him of two attempts on his life - a strangling and a
rifle shot - which he suspects his brother of being
responsible for. He asks Holmes to investigate.
After the body of a dead cat is found strung up in
his room, Dunmore agrees to go into the country to
stay with George Hammond. While there, another
attack occurs, and Hammond's wife is killed by the
bullet intended for Dunmore. Holmes journeys out to
Black Oak to investigate. After returning to New
York to interview the witnesses who have already
left, Holmes discovers Dunmore's body, and later
learns of the suicide of another of Hammond's
guests, confessing to the murder. Holmes believes
things are not that simple, and ultimately must
bring about justice in his own way. |
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Sherlock Holmes in New York: The
Adventure of the New York Ripper (2005)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated in third person
and by Watson
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Captain W.C. Streeter; (Mycroft Holmes;
The Moriarty Gang; Colonel Moran)
Historical Figures: Francis J. Tumblety;
Mulatto Servant; (Wolfe Mandelbaum; Frederika
Mandelbaum; Jack the Ripper; Chief Inspector
Thomas Byrnes; Carrie Brown; James Jennings;
Captain Richard O'Connor; Eddie Fitzgerald; Doran;
Griffin; Inspector Alex Williams; Mary Miniter; C.
Kniclo; Mamie Harrington; Frenchy / Ameer Ben Ali;
Mary Ann Lopez; Kelly; Arbie La Bruckman;
Frederick House; Inspector George 'Chesty'
McClusky; Martha Tabram; George Collier; Dr
Timothy R. Killeen; Henry Tabram; Ann Morris;
Private; Corporal; P.C. John Neil; Polly Nicholls;
Thrawl Street Residents; Ellen Holland; Mary Ann
Monk; Emma Elizabeth Smith; Green Family; Walter
Perkins; Annie Chapman; John Davis; John Pizer;
Louis Diemschutz; Elizabeth Stride; George Morris;
Constable Edward Watkins; Catherine Eddowes;
Constable Alfred Long; George Lusk; Dr Thomas
Openshaw; Dr Gordon Brown; Sir Charles Warren;
Daniel Halse; Queen Victoria; Barnaby &
Burgho; Robert Lees; Mary Kelly; Joseph Barnett;
Thomas Bowyer; John McCarthy; James Whitehead;
Mary Ann Cox; Sarah Lewis; Rose Mylett; Constable
Robert Goulding; Constable Joseph Allen; Alice
McKenzie; Dr George Bagster Phillips; Sir Melville
Macnaghten; Montague John Druitt; Duke of
Clarence; Aaron Kosminski; Thomas Neill Cream;
Inspector John Littlechild [Littlefield]; Batty
Street Landlady; Dr Lispenard; Philomene Dumas;
Mrs McNamara; Margaret Tumblety; Patrick Tumblety;
Michael Ostrog; Sir William Gull)
Other Characters: Sally "Rhyming Child"
McBride; Kyosuke Ikegami; Dead Rabbits Members;
Inspector Cullen; Rosie / Beverly Melas; Patrolmen;
Carriage Driver; Nancy Putnam; Dixon; Kumiko
Ikegami; Amy Ikegami; Carl Ikegami; Streeter; Powers
Desk Clerk; Joseph Cushing; Ostlers; Stuart; Harold
Whittier; Cushing's Son; Tumblety's Servant;
Stableman; Pauper; Stableman; Clerk; Rochester
Patrolman; Bobby; Grand Central Patrolman; Grand
Central Crowds; Cab Driver; Preacher; Margaret "Old
Maggie" Stoddard; Barbara Woodall; Mary / "Gentle"
Sadie Chandler; Stable Watchman; New York Police
(Sally Jenkins; Coroner; Meyer; Sea Beach Staff;
Mr Kelly; Rochester Police; Whittier's Cleaning
Lady; Mr Hardin; Rochester Smithy; Chestnut
Vendor; Ikegami's Kaishkumin)
Date: 1893 / 1911
Locations: New York; East Side Hotel; The
Dead Rabbits Society; Prince Street; The Bowery;
Alley; Delancey Street; Gouverneur Street; Water
Street; Lafayette Street; The Battery; Ferry
Terminal; Steamer; Brooklyn; Coney Island; Sea Beach
Hotel; Rochester; Powers Hotel; Clarissa Street;
Sophia Street; Cushing's Stable; Full Cups Pub;
Stuart Stables; St Peter's Churchyard; 616, Weld
Street; Grand Central Terminal; Henry Street; Old
Maggie's Boarding House; Five Points; Elizabeth
Street
Story: A prostitute, Rhyming Child, is
murdered in New York. Holmes tells Watson of his
investigation: in the city under his Simon Hawkes
alias he is taken to the scene of another murder,
against orders, by Inspector Cullen. The murder is
similar to those of Jack the Ripper, and the city
officials wish to keep it under wraps. An arrest has
been made, but Cullen believes it is the wrong man.
He also believes it may be connected to the murder
of Carrie Brown in 1891, believed to be a copycat
Ripper killing, and gives Holmes details of the
earlier case and the embarrassment that the current
one could cause to Chief Inspector Byrnes. More
murders follow, including one of Holmes's friends.
He wires Mycroft for details of the London Ripper
killings, and on reviewing them, develops a theory
as to the original Ripper's identity. He visits
Rochester in search of his suspect, but it is a
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Lenore Carroll
"Before the Adventures" (1977)
Included in: Murder, My
Dear Watson (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon
Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower); Sons of
Moriarty and More Stories of Sherlock Holmes
(Loren D. Estleman)
Story Type: Homage
Detectives: Budger & Doc
Historical Figures: H. Greenhough Smith
Other Characters: Ticket Agent; Dr.
Morestone; Miss Morestone; Brougham Driver; Boy
With Handcart; Maid
Locations: Doc's Rooms; The George &
Dragon; Bankside; Harley Street
Story: Greenhough Smith receives a letter
from "Doc" telling how he came to write stories
about his famous detective character. He tells
how, on returning home, wounded, from Afghanistan,
he met the mysterious Budger, a man able to make
startling deductions from simple observations.
Budger claims to be a private agent, matching
people up with those who require their services.
By some discreet manipulations Budger is able to
set Doc up as assistant to Dr. Morestains, and
help him achieve literary success.
NOTE: Originally published in
Baker Street Miscellany in 1977.
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Susan Casper
"Holmes Ex Machina" (1995)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes
in Orbit (Mike Resnick & Martin H.
Greenberg)
Story Type: Science Fiction Homage
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes)
Other Characters: Dr John Watson; Gene;
Sophie; Mike; Landers
Locations: Vid-Tech Offices
Story: Watson is working for Vid-Tech,
transforming old 2-D movies to 3-D. When the only
surviving copy of Godzilla vs the Smog Monster
goes astray, he programs a holographic Holmes to
assist in finding it.
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Casey
"The
Missing Leek" (1909)
Included in: Labour Leader, Vol. 6 No. 16, 1
April 1909
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detective: Sherlock Jones
Canonical Figures: (Dr Watson)
Fictional Characters: (Mr Dooley; Mr
Hennessy)
Historical Figures: Casey
Characters Based on Historical Figures:
(Donan Coyle)
Other Characters: Evans; (Clarkson;
William Thomas; Newman; Harry Davies; George
Gethin; D.F. Griffiths; Lewis Lewis; Rees Rees;
Morgan Morgan; Avon Avon; Owen More; Philbin;
Comrade Richards)
Unnamed Characters: Labour Leader Editor;
Labour
Supporters; Ticket Collectors
Date: April 1, 1909
Locations: Labour Leader Offices;
Train; Wales; Glamorgan; Blaengwnfi;
Yrhewnnaweithionafwytaedchwaith
Story: When the St David's Day leek
disappears from outside the editor's office, Casey
is sent to Wales to investigate. There he meets
Welsh detective Sherlock Jones.
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Jules Castier
"The Footprints on the Ceiling"
(1920)
Included in: The Misadventures
of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen); Sherlock
Holmes Jazz Age Parodies and Pastiches I:
1920-1924 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Pastiche (in the style of
Doyle's Professor Challenger stories)
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Fictional Characters: Austin; Mrs.
Challenger; Professor Challenger; Edward Malone;
Mr. McArdle; Lord John Roxton
Story: Professor Challenger has
disappeared. Holmes sends Watson to the Daily
Gazette to fetch Malone to help in the
investigation. On the way to Challenger's home
they meet Holmes and Roxton. Challenger's
disappearance seems to be connected somehow to
Zeeman's Phenomenon.
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Brittany Cavallaro
A Study in Charlotte (2016)
Story Type: Young Adult Homage
Sherlockia Detectives: Charlotte
Honoria Holmes & Jamie Watson
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock
Holmes;
Dr. Watson; Helen Stoner; Julia Stoner; Grimesby
Roylott; Professor Moriarty; Culverton Smith)
Historical Figures: (Edward
VII; Gary Snyder)
Other Characters: Tom Bradford;
Lena; Monsieur Cann; Lee Dobson; Randall; Mrs
Dunham; Detective Ben Shepard; Harry; Peter; Mason; J. Watson;
Grace Watson; Shelby Watson; Cassidy; Ashton; Ted Wheatley;
Will Tillman; Taylor; Lucas; Penelope; Elizabeth
Hartwell; Bryony Downs / Davis; John Smith; Mrs
Hartwell; Kline;
Larson; Coach Q; Gabriel Tinker; Abigail
Watson; Malcolm Watson; Robbie Watson; Milo Holmes;
Peterson; Michaels; Dr Warner; Lucien Moriarty;
Sherringford Students; Governor Schumer's Son;
Teachers; The Dean; Policemen; Reporters; BBC
Reporter; BBC Cameraman; Waiter; Restaurant
Customers; Casino Dealers; DJ; Elizabeth's Rommate;
EMTs; Medical Examiner; Rugby Team; Nurse; Michigan
Poet Girl; Firemen; (Rose Milton; Sherringford
Athletic Director; Lawrence Hall Hall Mother;
Araminta Holmes; Dobson's Sister; Jameson;
Alistair Holmes; Emma Holmes; Murdered Glasgow
Girls; Charlotte's Scotland Yard Contact; BBC
Radio Presenter; Fiona; Marquess of Abergavenny;
Kristof Demarchelier; Comtesse Tracy van
Landingham; Innsbruck School Headmistress;
Quentin Wilde; Basil; Thom; August Moriarty;
Mariella; Kate; Anna; Maisie; Milo's Agent;
Aaron Davis; Leander Holmes; Charlotte's Cosin
Margaret; Charlotte's Great-Aunt Agatha;
Charlotte's Lawyer; Biology Teacher; Scotland
Yard Officers; Philadelphia Cop; CDC Girlfriend;
D.I. Green; Lena's Boyfriend; Mr Jones; Hadrian
Moriarty; Phillipa Moriarty; Wheatley's Brother;
School Therapist; Andrew; Sherringford Parents;
Physics Teacher; Henry Holmes; Henry's Mother;
Henry's Sons; Julian Holmes; Oxford Don;
Charlotte's Fencing Instructor; Bookshop Owner;
August's Parents; Bryony's Mother)
Date: September - October
Locations: USA; Connecticut;
Sherringford School; Michener Hall; Lawrence Hall;
Sherringford; Restaurant; Underground Tunnels;
Police Station; Jamie's Father's House; Hospital;
Morgue; Market Street; Greene Street; Cafe;
Bryony's Flat
Story: Jamie Watson, the
great-great-great-grandson of Dr Watson, first
meets Charlotte Holmes, the
great-great-great-granddaughter of Sherlock Holmes
at an illicit party at Sherringford School,
in Connecticut, where he is a rugby scholar. A
schoolmate, Dobson, with whom Jamie has had a fight,
is murdered, and Jamie and Charlotte come under
suspicion, particularly in light of the copy of The
Adventures
of Sherlock Holmes clutched in Dobson's hand,
and that the murder seems to be a recreation of "The
Speckled Band". Charlotte believes that the clues
are a warning to them. After an attack during the
school dance, imitating "The Blue Carbuncle", they
discover another attempt by the killer to
incriminate Charlotte, in the tunnels beneath the
school. Jamie becomes suspicious about Charlotte's
past relationship with August Moriarty, and when the
scale of the threats against them increases, he
summons Charlotte's brother, Milo, and sees the
darker side of Charlotte.
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Steve Cavanagh
"The
Box" (2015)
Included in: The Adventures of
Moriarty (Maxim Jakubowski)
Story Type: Extra-canonical adventure of
Professor Moriarty
Canonical Characters: (Professor
Moriarty; Sherlock Holmes)
Historical Figures: Sir Henry
Fielding Dickens
Other Characters: Thomas Clay; Albert
Ruthnick; Judge Campbell; Ham Burglar; Mr
Roderick; Jury; Clerk of Court; Mr Deery; Trial
Attendees; John Robinson; Hugo Loffler; (Sir
Kenneth Horatio Rochesmolles; Royal College
Dean; Mr Triebel; Police Officer; Dock
Constables; Innkeeper)
Date: 29th January - May, 1894 /
14th April, 1916
Locations: The Old Bailey; Dickens's
Chambers
Story: Sir Henry Dickens is hired to
defend art student Ruthnick, who is being tried at
the Old Bailey, charged with forging a document in
an attempt to steal a box belonging to the German
artist Hugo Loffler.
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Randy Cerveny
"The
Mystery of "Eliminating the Impossible"" (2009)
Included in: Weather's Greatest Mysteries
Solved! (Randy Cerveny)
Story Type: Pastiche
Sherlockian Detective: The Great Detective
Other Characters: Rita Monroe-Whittingham;
Alex Whittingham; Harold Reamus; Alfred; (Lord
Raymond Whittingham)
Unnamed Characters: Climatologist;
(White Hart Patrons)
Locations: Whittingham Manor
Story: The meerschaum-pipe-smoking
Great Detective gathers the suspects together at
Whittingham Manor to reveal the murderer of Lord
Raymond Whittingham during a thunderstorm on the
previous night. It is a climatologist, however, who
solves the case.
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Michael Chabon
The Final Solution (2003)
Story Type: Third Person Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes (The
Old Man)
Other Characters: Linus Steinman; Bruno
the Parrot; Richard Woolsey Shane; Simon Parkins;
Reggie Panicker; Reverend Panicker; Mrs Panicker;
Detective Inspector Michael Bellows; Detective
Constable Quint; Martin Kalb; Noakes; Woollett;
Soldier; Mr Sackett; Colonel Threadneedle;
Threadneedle's Driver; East Grinstead Policemen;
Mrs Dunn; Postmaster; Young Women;
(Mr Wilkes; Joseph Black; Satterlee; Fatty
Hodges; Dr Julius Steinman; Le Colonel; Herr
Obergruppenführer; Kalb's Brother)
Date: July, 1944
Locations: Sussex; The South Downs;
Holmes's Cottage; The Vicarage; Hallows Lane;
Police Station; Gabriel Park; The London Road;
East Grinstead; London; Club Row; Black's Shop;
Kalb's Rooms; Railway Station
Story: The old man sees a boy with a
parrot on his shoulder walking along the railway
tracks near his cottage. The parrot lists numbers
in German. The boy indicates that he is German,
but does not answer the old man's questions, or
speak at all. At the Panickers'
Vicarage-cum-boarding-house, Parkins has been
keeping tabs on the parrot, which quotes Goethe
and Schiller, and suspects that new arrival, Shane
has been sent there for the same purpose. When
Shane is murdered, and the parrot goes missing,
the local police consult the old man. Panicker's
son is arrested for the crime, but the old man
believes him innocent. His investigations take him
to an experimental dairy farm that may have a
hidden agenda, and he receives a visitor from
London who fills in the boy's background. The old
man, intercepting Panicker, extends his search for
the bird to London where he witnesses the effects
of the Blitz and reinterprets the boy's writings.
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William E. Chambers
"The Curse of Bridges Falls" (2011)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes
Mystery Magazine #6 (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Mara
Bridges
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Wiggins; Mrs Hudson; (Mycroft
Holmes)
Other Characters: Mara Bridges; Edmond
Bridges the Fourth; Farrell; Bridges' Servants;
Brighton Groundskeeper; Coachman; (Edmond
Bridges the First; Johannes Koopman; Lillian
Bridges; Farrell's Great-Grandfather; Samson
Leeds; Grandfather Bridges; Bridges' Father;
Farrell's Grandfather; Granfather Bridges'
Servants; Grandmother Bridges; Bridges' Mother;
Farrell's Father; Farrell's Mother; Mrs Bridges'
Parents; Phoebe; Arthur Leeds; Leeds's
Intermediary; Jiro Nakabayasha)
Date: December, 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Bridges'
House (a mile from Baker Street); Brighton
Story: Holmes is consulted by
Edmond Bridges and his wife as Bridges approaches
his fortieth birthday, his father, grandfather, and
great-grandfather all having fallen to their deaths
on theirs. The curse was placed on the family by his
great-grandfather's Dutch partner, killed in a duel
over Bridges' great-grandmother Lillian. After
visiting Bridges' house, Holmes sends the Bridges to
Brighton, asking them to return on the eve of
Bridges' birthday. A set of Ninja armour sets Holmes
on the path of a solution.
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Tim Champlin
Deadly Season (1997)
Story Type: Western
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; (Inspector Lestrade)
Fictional Characters: Jay McGraw
Historical Figures: Blind Boss Buckley; (Chief
Patrick
Crowley; Willard B. Farwell; Dr John E. Kunkler;
E.B. Pond; Matt Fallon)
Other Characters: Lieutenant Fred Casey;
Cal; O'Toole; Jeff Brady; Bernard Kohl; Jason
Neal; Dr Donnelly; Captain Thomas Kingsley;
Katherine "Katie" O'Neal; Ivan Sarkoff; Bridget
O'Neal; Tub Moran; Jim Bellson; Kevin O'Toole;
Sergeant Davis; Patrolman Todd; Dr D.L. Dorr; P.J.
Vanderpool; Ho Ming; Roscoe; Harvey Bascomb;
Captain John Moreland; Mar Tan; Oliver Bledsoe;
Kem Ying; Jeffrey Dunhill; Sheriff Joe Cutliffe;
Art; Chinese Opium Smugglers; Cable Car Gripman;
Bridget's Boarders; Stormy Petrels Baseball Team;
Seattle Woodmen Baseball Team; Buckley's
Companion; Sweatshop Guard; Chinese Workers;
Sweatshop Supervisor; Chinatown Residents; Shop
Proprietor; Li Po Tai's Clerks; Police wagon
Driver; Police Wagon Attendant; Chinese Vendor;
Desk Sergeant; O'Toole's Funeral Guests; Priest;
Chinese Fish Vendor; Woman Shopper; Central
Pacific Stars Baseball Team; DuPont Street
Doorman; Chinese Prostitutes; Chinese Madam;
Chinese Client; Chinese Hatchet Men; Star of the
West Barman; Tramp; Star of the West Customers;
Lunch-Time Pedestrians; Salinas Stationmaster;
Chinese Bath Attendant; Chinese Bathhouse Owner;
Chinese Laundry Owner; Palace Hotel Clerk; Hack
Driver; Opium Smokers; Celestial Delights Doorman;
Celestial Delights Proprietor; Seafood Waiter;
Bartender; Seafood Customers; Golden Gate Park
Strollers; Salinas Ranch Hands; Orient Moon
Deckhands; Passengers; Chinese Slavegirls; Tremont
Guests; Salinas Train Depot Family; Baggage
Handler; Train Passengers; Train Messenger;
Tremont Employees; Kearney Street Businessmen
& Shoppers; Chinese Restaurant Customers;
Chinese Waiters; Chinese Cooks; Street Vendor;
Carriage Driver; Hack Driver; Schooner Crew; Beach
Onlookers; Courtroom Spectators; Prosecutor; Jury;
Reporters; Defense Attorney; Judge; Character
Witnesses; Bailiff; (Snuffy; Finney;
Fishermen; Schooner Crew; Chinese Cook; Susie;
Lab Men; Ho Ming's Madams; Dr Andrew Bennett;
Professor Colin Wilson; Tessie Waters; Harvey
Sullivan; Jim Scala; Marcella Stewart;
Marcella's Cousin; Toy Gum; Cutliffe's Deputy;
Thompson; Lopez; Mister Hanson)
Date: June, 1885
Locations: USA; California; San Francisco;
Beach; Station House; California Street; Market
Street; O'Neal's Boarding House; Mission District;
Baseball Field; Boyle's Saloon; Sweatshop;
Chinatown; Shop; Washington Street; Li Po Tai's
Chinese Tea Herb Sanitarium; Dunscombe Alley;
Cemetery; DuPont Street; Ho Ming's Whorehouse;
Cave; Oakland; Bush Street; Star of the West
Saloon; Salinas; Salinas Train Depot; Hotel;
Bathhouse; Palace Hotel; California Street;
Cooper's Alley; House of Celestial Delights Opium
Den; Sutter Street; Chinese Restaurant Kitchen;
Seafood Restaurant; Waterfront; Golden Gate Park;
Casey's Rooming House; Pacific Coast Steamship
Company; Pier Six; Livery Stable; City Hall; The
Western Adition; Kingsley's House; Kearney Street;
Chinese Restaurant; Waterfront; Pier Seven; San
Francisco Bay; Aboard Moreland's Schooner;
Sausalito Beach; Courtroom
Story: Jay McGraw is taking temporary
leave from Wells Fargo in San Francisco helping
his friend in the police department, Fred Casey,
bust a Chinese opium smuggling ring, and playing
on the Stormy Petrels baseball team.In
Chinatown they are summoned to view the headless
corpse, which McGraw identifies as a cop he had seen
talking to Blind Boss Buckley after a baseball game.
After escapng from a sea cave, and taking his
landlady's daughter on a picnic, McGraw visits
Buckley and gets a potential lead while taking a
bath in Salinas.
A professor friend of Casey's
introduces them to Dr Watson, who is in San
Francisco with Sherlock Holmes. Holmes identifies
the murder weapon as a tenth-century Danish war axe,
possibly stolen from the British Museum. Watson asks
them to take him and Holmes to a Chinatown opium
den. McGraw is taken captive in Chinatown, and his
enquiries lead to a murder in a Salinas hotel. The
case ends in a boat chase in San Francisco Bay.
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A. Bertram Chandler
"Hall of Fame" (1969)
(Also Published as "The Kinsolving's Planet
Irregulars")
Included in: The Commodore at Sea (A.
Bertram Chandler)
Story Type: Homage / Science Fiction
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Fictional Characters: Mephistopheles;
Jeeves; Lady Macbeth; Hamlet; Frankenstein's
Monster; Dracula; Robin Hood's Men; King Arthur's
Knights; Dr. Faustus (Horatio Hornblower;
Queeg; Captain Ahab; James Bond; Tarzan; Jane
Porter; Mellors; Lady Chatterley)
Historical Figures: Buffalo Bill; A.
Bertram Chandler (Noah)
Other Characters: Commodore John Grimes;
Sonya Grimes; Admiral Kravinsky; Mayhew; Clarisse;
Commander Williams; the Major of Marines; Mr.
Tallent; Mr. Mackenzie; Mr. Briggs
Locations: The Rim Worlds; Port Forlorn;
the spaceship Faraway Quest; Kinsolving's
Planet; Faustus's Castle; Sherwood Forest;
Camelot; Earth; the ship Kantara
Story: The Commodore's wife Sonya brings
back Sherlock Holmes's pipe as a gift for him from
her trip to Earth. Kravinsky sends the Commodore
on an expedition to Kinsolving's planet, a planet
where attempts at colonising have been
unsuccessful: there is something psychologically
strange about it. On Kinsolving's Planet Grimes
soon finds himself in a world populated by
characters from fiction, and a few confused souls
(Buffalo Bill, Hamlet) who are no longer sure if
they are real or fictional. Holmes & Watson
approach him to reclaim Holmes's pipe. Later,
Jeeves introduces him to some of the other
residents and takes him to Dr. Faustus's castle,
from where he finds himself on Earth, on the Kantara,
in the cabin of his own creator, A. Bertram
Chandler.
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Arthur Chapman
"The Unmasking of Sherlock Holmes"
(1905)
Also published as "M. Dupin Calls On Sherlock
Holmes"
Included in: The Game Is Afoot
(Marvin Kaye); The Big Book of
Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler); 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
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson
Fictional Characters: C. Auguste Dupin
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Dupin arrives in Baker Street,
accuses Holmes of being a slavish imitator, and
states that Poe's great virtue was that he knew
when to stop writing about him. He condescends to
admit, however, that Holmes is not really such a
bad fellow.
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Ian Charnock
"The Adventure of the Old Russian
Woman" (1999)
Included in: The Elementary Cases of
Sherlock Holmes (Ian Charnock)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Young
Stamford
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Stamford; The Old Russian Woman (Olga
Pleshkarova); Mycroft Holmes; (Baker Street
Irregulars)
Historical Figures: Karl Marx
Other Characters: Dead Lamplighter; Police
Sergeant; Library Assistant; Readers; Reading Room
Staff; One-Armed Librarian; Oscar Lundholme;
Holmes's Assistant; Constable; Sam Belcher;
Tarantula-bitten Market Porter; Visiting Surgeon;
Cyril Boddy; Alley Attacker; Policeman
Date: January
Locations: Bart's; Back Hill, Lodging
House; British Museum Reading Room; Holmes'
Montague Street Rooms; Hotel Russell Square;
Kentish Town High Road; The Butcher's Arms;
Boddy's Tobacconist; Alley; Diogenes Club; Pall
Mall
Story: Holmes asks Stamford to accompany
him in breaking into a lodging house. The
adventure began in the British Museum Reading Room
where the only other reader there, aside from
Holmes, sat on a pin. He retrieves a paper thrown
away by his fellow reader and attempts to decipher
the Russian lettering on it, and begins to pay
special attention to the man in order to learn
more about his persecutor. He is particularly
interested in an old Russian cleaning woman whom
he follows home, and from whose rooms he follows a
young man. After visiting his tobacconist,
Stamford saves Holmes from a stiletto attack in an
alleyway. The full facts of the case are revealed
during a visit to the Diogenes Club and an
interview with Mycroft.
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"The Case of Vamberry, the Wine
Merchant" (1999)
Included in: The Elementary Cases of Sherlock
Holmes (Ian Charnock)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Young
Stamford
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Stamford; (Josiah) Vamberry; Inspector Lestrade;
Brooks; Woodhouse; (Professor Moriarty; Victor
Lynch)
Historical Figures: Louis Pasteur
Other Characters: Stamford's Mother;
Stamford's Sister; The Cook; Stamford's Father;
Alderman Roach; Stamford's Landlady; Inspector
Craggs; Desk Sergeant; Mr Beal; Mr Wilson;
Constable; Lawyer; (Mrs Craggs; Chief Inspector
John Morrissey; Pinkertons Agent)
Locations: Bart's; Lee, Kent; Stamford's
Family Home; Stamford's Lodgings; Lee Police
Station; Vamberry's Wine Merchants
Story: Holmes is invited to a dinner given
by Stamford's parents to meet Louis Pasteur. Holmes
advises Stamford's father to pull his money out of
Vamberry's wine business, which he deduces is not
successful. Pasteur invites Holmes to France to work
on the phylloxera problem affecting the
vineyards there. After his return, Vamberry is
murdered and Stamford's father arrested. Holmes
visits the scene of the crime and with Lestrade,
takes Vamberry's assistants, who are not who they
claim to be, into police care, from which they are
removed by a Chief Inspector who is also something
other than he appears. Holmes discovers the man
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"A Full Account of Ricoletti of the
Club Foot & His Abominable Wife" (1999)
Included in: The Elementary Cases of Sherlock
Holmes (Ian Charnock)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Young
Stamford
Canonical Characters: Stamford; (Guglielmo
Feliz) Ricoletti; Ricoletti's Abominable Wife
(Angelina); Tobias Gregson; Sherlock Holmes
Folkloric Characters: The Abominable Snowman
Other Characters: Ricoletti's Audience; Rosa;
Palace Audience; Cabby
Locations: Bart's; Leather Lane; Greville
Street; Palace Music Hall
Story: Stamford encounters Ricoletti at
Bart's. A former prizefighter who had disappeared
for some length of time, he had previously earned
money by displaying his club foot for the benefit of
students there. He meets him again, with Holmes,
playing a barrel organ and advertising the "Missing
Link" on show at the Palace Music Hall. They attend
the show and Holmes takes special interest in the
creature. He also tells Stamford of two jewel
robberies that occurred during Ricoletti's street
performance. A murder and a battle with Ricoletti
reveal the missing link between Ricoletti's wife and
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"Matilda
Briggs
and the Giant Rat of Sumatra" (1999)
Included in: The Elementary Cases of
Sherlock Holmes (Ian Charnock)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Young
Stamford
Canonical Characters: Stamford; Victor
Trevor; Giant Rat of Sumatra; Sherlock Holmes;
Mycroft Holmes; (Squire Trevor / James
Armitage; Morrison, Morrison and Dodd)
Other Characters: Laxman Shiva; Dr Roberto
H. Sinnotti; Piero Cresczi; Calcutta Police; Owain Bress;
Captain of the Matilda Briggs; Morrison,
Morrison & Dodd Representative; Crew of the Matilda
Briggs; Dodd's Son; Pearl Fishers;
Trincomalee Harbormaster's Staff; Tea Buyer;
Messenger; Singapore Police; (Esperanza
Deckhands; Esperanza Crew; Bruce
Duggan; Vernon Maclure; Doctors; Li
Xian Kyuong)
Date: 1880-1881
Locations:
India; Pilibhit; The English Club; The Terai;
Trevor's Plantation; Sumatra; Bay of Bengal;
Calcutta; Aboard the Matilda Briggs;
Ceylon; Trincomalee; Diogenes Club
Story: Stamford, using the alias Surgeon
Stewart, meets Trevor in a club in India, and is
invited to his plantation. Trevor shows him
documents relating to the case of the Giant rat of
Sumatra.
After the Esperanza is washed asore
in Sumatra in a storm, Dr Sinnotti, who
specialises in rats, disappears into the interior
in search of specimens that have escaped from the
ship. Trevor later buys the ship and changes its
name to Matilda Briggs, and in July of
1881 the ship is discovered sailing at full steam,
but with no one on board. Investigations reveal
the ship to have been overrun with rats.
Investigations aboard reveal a ratking. Trevor
invites Holmes to investigate. He later
receives a letter from Holmes telling him of a
threat to the British Government .
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"Mrs
Farintosh and an Opal Tiara" (1999)
Included in: The Elementary Cases of
Sherlock Holmes (Ian Charnock)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Young
Stamford
Canonical Characters: Stamford; Sherlock
Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; Wainwright; (Dr
Watson; Ricoletti; Percy Phelps; Mrs Farintosh)
Historical Figures: (Sidney
Paget; Walter Paget; Arthur Conan Doyle; Queen
Victoria; Eleanor of Castile; Edward I; El Cid;
Dona Ximena; The Pope)
Other Characters: Crossy Stamford; Post
Office
Messenger; Fleckingham Arms Landlord; Fleckingham
Arms Customers; Mr Myrland; Mr Reyde; Fleckingham's
Retainer; Lord
Fleckingham; Mr Fomalhaut; Lady Katharine (or
Eleanor) Fleckingham; Harold Fleckingham; Isabella
Eleanor Plantagenet Fleckingham; Niccolo da
Boninsegna, Count of Noto-Palma; Count's
Retainer; (Sam
Belcher; Mrs Farintosh's Sister; Alured
Fleckingham; Henry Fleckingham; Police;
Hungarian Knight; Stamford's Father;
Wainwright's Gang; Tuscan Goldsmiths; Matilda
Plantagenet; Ruling Council Member; Matilda's
Husband)
Date: End of May, 1880
Locations: Stamford's Home; Montague
Street; Suffolk; Woodham Hoo; Fleckingham Arms;
Fleckingham Hall
Story: Holmes calls on Stamford's sister
when Mrs Farintosh, servant to Isabella
Fleckingham, consults him. She has been let go from
her position, followed, and her sewing box has been
stolen. Miss Stamford is to be bridesmaid at the
wedding of Isabella and the Count of Noto-Palma. He
travels to the Fleckingham estate in Suffolk, where
he learns from Lestrade that Mrs Farintosh has been
accused of stealing an opal tiara that once belonged
to Eleanor of Castile, from whom Lady Fleckingham is
descended. Holmes faces an art forger and uncovers
the truth, but it is down to the Count to return the
tiara.
NOTE: Lady Katharine (or Eleanor)
claims descent from the third daughter of Eleanor of
Castile. It is not clear which of Eleanor's
daughters this refers to, as her third, Joanna, died
before she was a year old. As her first was
stillborn, her third living daughter was Eleanor
(1269-1298). The third of her daughters to survive
into adulthood was Margaret of Brabant (1275-?).
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"The Record of the Tarleton Murders"
(1999)
Included in: The Elementary Cases of Sherlock
Holmes (Ian Charnock)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Young
Stamford
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Stamford; (Inspector Lestrade)
Other Characters: Mrs Parsons; Major Hicks;
Hodgson; The Hon. Thomas Wriggleton; Count
Constantine Bellaysarius; Constable; Maid; Unhired
Domestics; Hiring Fair Head Man; Madame Yalta; The
Great Alcalde; Alexander Knox Pennington; Police; (The
Hon. Clive Melvin Moreton-Ashbee; Mayan War Party)
Locations: Bart's; Train; Chipping Oversomer,
Oxfordshire; Police Station; Sibberton Hall;
Sheepstown-by-Stower; (Yucatan)
Story: Holmes shows Stamford the dead body
of a woman and a news item on the death of
Moreton-Ashbee. Travelling to the dead man's home,
Holmes tells Stamford of his acquaintance with
Moreton-Ashbee and his friends, members of the
Festival Hams, an Oxford dining society dedicated to
demeaning its guests. They visit the coroner and
attend the funeral where Stamford encounters the
other Hams, Wriggleton & Bellaysarius. As they
are leaving, Wriggleton's sister brings news that
her brother is dead. Returning to the house, Holmes
learns that the dead man was found in a room
identical to that in which the previous death
occurred, and sharing a common chimney flue with it.
Holmes finds a cigarette end that he does not
recognise. His investigations lead him to a hiring
fair looking for a man of South American origins.
They learn the connection between the deaths in
England and an expedition to the Yucatan, and Holmes
is introduced to cocaine. He and Stamford rush back
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"The Singular Affair of the Aluminium
Crutch" (1999)
Included in: The Elementary Cases of Sherlock
Holmes (Ian Charnock)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Holmes
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Inspector Lestrade
Other Characters: Delicia Ogilvy; Mary
Ogilvy; Miss Slocombe; Tewson & Billings Head
Clerk; Jarvey; Police Sergeant; (Algernon Berry;
Detective; Mrs Berry)
Locations: Montague Street; 34, Percy
Terrace, Shepherd's Bush; Tewson & Billings'
Office
Story: Holmes tells Stamford of his first
case after having placed his first newspaper
advertisement calling for clients. Delicia Ogilvy
consulted him over the disappearance of her fiancé,
Berry, a crippled scientist. He vanished in his own
house leaving behind only his crutch. Holmes
examines the man's home and notices a burning smell
in the lab and a large amount of ash in the grate.
He also finds burn marks on the man's crutch, which
is surprisingly light even though it seems to be
made of teak. Interviewing the staff he learns that
the cook is Miss Ogilvy's mother. While pondering
the solution, Holmes encounters Lestrade for the
first time, who reveals that Berry's body has been
found in the Thames. Holmes now has to prove to the
police that his client is innocent of murder. His
final solution meets with no approval. |
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Watson's Last Case (2000)
Story Type: Extra-canonical adventures of Dr
Watson narrated by Young Stamford & Mycroft
Holmes
Canonical Characters: Young Stamford; Dr
Watson; Mycroft Holmes; Victor Trevor; Squire
Trevor; Trevor's Bull Terrier; Reginald Musgrave;
Hudson (GLOR); Mrs St Clair; (Sherlock Holmes;
Von Bork; Ricoletti; Ricoletti's Wife; The Matilda
Briggs; Old Russian Woman (Olga Pleshkarova);
Vamberry; Watson's Bull Pup; Mary Morstan; Count
Negretto Sylvius; Steve Dixie; Susan; Von Herling;
Beddoes; The Gloria Scott; Head Lama; The
Lion's Mane; Professor Moriarty; Killer Evans;
Neville St Clair; Inspector Lestrade; H. Watson
(Father); H. Watson (Brother); Percy Phelps;
Ghazi; Agatha; Eugenia Ronder; Anna Coram)
Fictional Characters: (Professor
Challenger)
Historical Figures: General Edmund Allenby;
T.E. Lawrence; Arthur Conan Doyle; Sir George
Buchanan; Sergei "Iliodor" Trufanov; Prince Felix
Yusupov; Count Vladimir Fredericks; Tsar Nicholas
II; Tsarevich Alexis; Dr Eugene Botkin; Dr Vladimir
Derevenko; Dr Ostrogorsky; Dr Sergei Fedorova; Dr
Rauchfuss; Alexandra Fedorovna; Rasputin; Grand
Duchess Olga; Grand Duchess Anastasia; Grand Duchess
Tatiana; Grand Duchess Marie; Pierre Gilliard;
Sydney Gibbes; Eugene Kobylinsky; Klementy Nagorny;
Alexander Kerensky; Lewis Carroll; Joseph Conrad; (Edward
VII; George V; Jacob Sverdlov)
Other Characters: Meadows; B-----; H-----;
D-----; James Campbeuil; Arthur Rowbotham; Duchess
Prushnikov; Mrs Rowbotham; Mrs Trevor / Miss
Matthews; Neb; Sherrinford Holmes; Grandfather
Mycroft Holmes; Grandmother (Vernet) Holmes;
Sherlock Holmes, Sr; Hans Rugler; Carel Rugler;
Dieter Netzer; Carolyn Foggarty; Mr Foggarty;
M'twali; James Stamford; Andrew Stamford; Felicity
Carolyn Stamford; (Algernon Berry; Delicia
Ogilvy; Dick Renton; Yuri)
Unnamed Characters: Criterion Customers;
Soldiers; Nurses; Devonshire Regiment; RAF Man;
Piccadilly Circus Crowds; Lawrence's Arabs; Camel
Corps; Diogenes Club Porters; Diogenes Club Members;
HMS Torquay Crew; HMS Torquay
Passengers; American Reporter; Ethiopian Eunuch;
Troika Driver; Grand Dukes; Grand Duchesses;
Princes; Buchanan's Guests; Secret Police; Tsarkoe
Selo Cossacks; Foot Soldiers; Tsarkoe Selo Servants;
Yar Customers; Policemen; English Club Steward;
Workers; Peasants; Revolutionary Guards; Sverdlov's
Agents; Railway Workers; Engine Driver; Old
Retainer; Perm Officials; Rowbotham's Children;
Interrogator; Trevor's Sister; Neb's Father; Fortune
Teller; Indian Boy; Oxford Tutors; Ship's Surgeon;
Gang of Toughs; Italian Organ-grinder; Cockney
Songstress; Holmes's Mother; Old Sailor; Stour
Cook; Dutch Sailor; Pompadour Crew;
American Sailors; Cormorant Fishermen; Stamford's
Children 187; (War Cabinet Members; Rolls Royce
Enthusiasts; European Royal Families; Duke;
Mycroft's Colleagues; Watson's Co-driver; Hansom
Cabbie; Watson's Mother; Watson's Aunt; Watson's
Uncle; Dressers; Wounded Soldier; Rich Chinese)
Date: January - November, 1918 / Early 1916 /
1874 / 1878 - 1879 / 1897
Locations: Criterion Bar; Piccadilly Circus;
221B, Baker Street; Pall Mall; Diogenes Club;
Doyle's Office; Montague Street
Egypt; Palestine; Beersheba; Bair; Aboard HMS
Torquay; Russia; Murmansk; St Petersburg;
British Embassy; English Club; Tsarkoe Selo;
Alexander Palace; Yar Restaurant; Perm; Tobolsk;
India; The Terai; Trevor's Plantation; Pilibit;
Kerala; Norfolk; Donnithorpe; Oxford; Holmes's
College; St Giles; France; Afghanistan; North Sea;
Aboard the Stour; Netherlands; Amsterdam;
USA; San Francisco; Japan; Yokohama; Liverpool; West
Africa; Guinea; China; Shanghai; American Club
Story: Stamford recalls his meeting with
Watson in the Criterion Bar, and on Armistice night
encounters him there again. Watson takes him back to
Baker Street, and tells him how Mycroft sent him to
Palestine, with his Rolls Royce, to meet with,
and work alongside Lawrence of Arabia, before he
dies. Stamford takes Watson's final stories to Conan
Doyle. They discover an account of his last case
hidden in the lining of his briefcase.
In 1916, at Sherlock's suggestion, Mycroft sends
Watson to the court of Nicholas II, to assess and
report back on the situation Russia. There, he is
summoned to the bedside of the ailing Tsarevich,
where he encounters Rasputin and pledges to cure the
Tsarevich. Illness and orders from Mycroft lead to
him being present to witness the Revolution, and
being tasked with the rescue of the Romanoffs.
Stamford sheds some light on Holmes's early years.
Victor Trevor tells him of his childhood encounter
in Norfolk with Sherrinford Holmes, and his first
encounter and friendship with Holmes in Oxford.
Holmes decides to give up Biblical scholarship and
become a consulting detective. Stamford's sister,
who would become Mrs Neville St Clair, tells of
Holmes's family background.
Stamford sheds some light on Watson's rugby-playing
youth, and reveals the details of his own youth,
sea-faring days, war service, and his role in
Holmes's addiction to cocaine.
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Simon Cheshire
"The Adventure of the Dented
Computer" (2003)
Included in:
Story Type: Children's Homage
Sherlockian Detectives: Kevin; Weasel Watson
Other Characters: Mrs Womsey; Wayne Banks;
Jonathan "Thug" Robinson; Mega-Maurice; (Sally
Robinson; Sickly O'Sullivan)
Unnamed Characters: Kevin's Mum; Kevin's
Grandad; Students; St Egbert's Irregulars; Thug's
Dad; (Cleaning Lady)
Date: 2000s
Locations: St Egbert's School; Kevin's
House; Thug's House
Story: Kevin is a Sherlock Holmes fan, wears
a deerstalker he found in his grandad's attic, and
is even considering changing his name to Sherlock
Holmes. The students of 7A are bewildered when Thug
Robinson starts handing in pieces of outstanding
work across a whole range of subjects. Kevin
recruits Weasel Watson to help him investigate.
After following Thug for several days, and
recruiting the infants as his St Egbert's
Irregulars, Kevin spots Thug talking to
Mega-Maurice, the smartest boy in school. Kevin and
Watson infiltrate Thug's bedroom looking for a
battered computer.
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Lionel Chetwynd
"The Shadow Not Cast" (2011)
Included in: A Study in Sherlock
(Laurie R. King & Leslie S. Klinger)
Story Type: Homage
Other Characters: Rabbi Eliezar Burman;
Sergeant-Major Robert Jackson; Jackson's Students;
Captain Snow; Zakaria; Captain Eric Turner; Baxter;
Policeman; Gerry Rivers; Freyda Simon; Gorgi
Pelachi; Will Diamond; Sergeant; Bar Patrons; P.K.;
P.K.'s Bodyguards
Date: 21st Century
Locations: USA; Washington D.C.; Synagogue;
Carlisle Barracks; Columbia Heights; Pelachi's
Offices; Diamond's Office; Ninth Street; Jackson's
Home
Story: A rabbi is killed during a burglary.
When FBI agent Hamstein tells Captain Turner of
another related murder, of a financial reporter,
across town, Turner brings in army investigator
Jackson, who brings along his new student, Snow. At
the site of the second murder they find the rabbi's
business card with a list of biblical citations.
NOTE: Aside from the
methods of the investigators there is no Sherlockian
content in this story.
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Lee Child
"The Bone-Headed League" (2011)
Included in: A Study in Sherlock
(Laurie R. King & Leslie S. Klinger)
Story Type: Homage
Other Characters: FBI Agent; Scotland Yard
Sergeant; Inspector Bradley Rose; Ezekiah Hopkins
Date: February, 21st Century
Locations: Baker Street; Scotland Yard;
British Library; USA; Kansas; Leavenworth Prison
Story: An FBI agent working at the American
Embassy in London is called to the scene of a murder
on Baker Street. The victim appears to have false
papers, and the agent recommends Inspector Rose, the
investigating officer, to read The Red-Headed
League, believing the body to be a decoy.
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Rob Chilson
"Logos: My Tale Is Read" (1991)
Included in: Amazing Stories, #561, August 1991
Story Type: Fantasy Homage
Sherlockian Detective: Sir Stanleigh Storm
Historical Figures: Rob Chilson
Other Characters: Hugh Hesseltine; Maria; (Will
Honeycutt)
Unnamed Characters: Hostess; Villagers; Singing
Boy; Carrier; Hostler's Boy; Father
Locations: Langdon; Wheat and Sickle Pub
Story: Hugh Hesseltine arrives at the Wheat
and Sickle pub in Langdon, where he encounters the
briar-smoking, deerstalker-wearing great detective Sir
Stanleigh Storm. They realise that each, to
the other, is a fictional character from a series of
books by R. Chilson. While they are examining
the strange flowers on the front of the pub, Chilson
himself arrives. The three tool up to face a
dire beast.
NOTE: Sir Stanleigh Storm owns a Watson .39
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Mike Chinn
"The Adventure of the Haunted Room" (2017)
Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock
Holmes Stories Part VII: Eliminate the Impossible
1880-1891 (David Marcum)
Story Type:
Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson
Historical Figures: (William Friese-Green;
John Rudge)
Other Characters: Violet Trecoming;
Gwen Westgate; Grantford Sparks; (Hubert
Trecoming)
Unnamed Characters: Cabbie; Cherry Road
Passers-by
Date: Early Spring, 1890
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Camberwell; East
Dulwich; 187, Cherry Road
Story: Mrs Trecoming consults Holmes over an
apparition of a man that has been seen multiple times
in the window of the front room of the home in East
Dulwich that she shares with her sister. Her sister,
Gwen, also claims to have seen it appear in the room
itself. That night, Holmes and Watson visit Cherry
Road and witness the phenomenon for themselves.
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"The Adventure of
the Vanishing Man" (2016)
Included in: The
MX
Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part V:
Christmas Adventures (David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Billy
Historical Figures: (Louis
Le Prince)
Other Characters: Jerzy Krakowski;
Mrs Krakowski; Edwin M'Gurk; Connie; Jocelyn
Barrington; Laura Whitside; (Wenman Higgins; Mr
Whitside)
Unnamed Characters: Mrs Hudson's
Guests; Trap Driver; Gardener; (Laura's Family;
Higgins's Cook)
Date: 24 - 25 December
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Norfolk;
Norwich Station; Corvin House; North Walsham
Story: Mrs Hudson's Christmas party is
interrupted by the arrival of Edwin M'Gurk, whose
employer, Wenman Higgins has vanished before his eyes
while walking across the lawn of his home in Norfolk.
Information about Higgins's pastimes and finances
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"A Function of Probability" (2015)
Included in: The
Adventures of Moriarty (Maxim Jakubowski)
Story Type: Extra-canonical adventure of
Professor Moriarty
Canonical Characters: Professor Moriarty; (Moriarty
Gang;
Colonel Moran; Sherlock Holmes)
Historical Figures: Wilhelm I; (Frederick
III;
Otto von Bismarck; Kaiserin Augusta; Wilhelm II;
Andreas Schlüter)
Other Characters: Hawes; Leonard Eastman /
Leofric, Duke of Granat-Östermann and Baron von
Reichschliesser; Herr Eisenerz; Stadtschloss
Servants; Screaming Woman; (Heinrich
Sciffersohn; Serb Servant; Kaiser's Physician)
Date: 1888
Locations: College; Moriarty's Study;
Germany; Unter den Linden; Kaffeehaus; Berliner
Stadtschloss
Story: Professor Moriarty is called on
by Leofric, a minor German nobleman, who seeks his
help in assassinating Kaiser Wilhelm. Moriarty travels
to Berlin and gains access to the Kaiser's palace. |
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Sam Christer
The House of Smoke (2016)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Simeon
Lynch
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Professor James Moriarty; Colonel Sebastian Moran;
(Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson)
Historical Figures: Louise
Masset; Patrick Hoolihan; Edward VII: (James
Billington; John Bellingham; Herbert Spencer;
William Warbrick; Sir Matthew White Ridley;
Merry Hampton; The Baron; George Baird; Queen
Victoria)
Other Characters: Simeon Lynch / Terry
Perch; Sebastian the Jew; The Scuttlers;
Danny; Fingers; Professor Brogan Moriarty; Tobias
Johncock; Surrey Breed; Sirius Gunn / Thierry De
Breton; Dr Reuss; Lady Elizabeth Audsley / Lizzie
MacIntosh; Michael Brannigan; Alexander Rathbone;
Boardman; Baker; Jane; Bailey; Cornwell; Harrison
Huntley; Ralph; Theodore Levine; The
Blinders; Billy; Henry; Briggs; Father Francis
Deagan / Ernest Braithwaite; Mrs Ellis; Victoria
Graftbury; Lady Graftbury; Lord Graftbury;
Giles; Brandon Timms; Jeremiah Beamish; Charles
Arthur Connor; James Arthur "Jimmy" Connor; Blackson
/ Bosede Bangura; Miller; Jonathan J. Clark; Mr
Gray; Mr Southgate; Thackeray; Cyril Lynch; Philomena
Lynch; Leadbetter; Reece; Huiwi Chan; Lee
Chan; Wu Chan; PC Thomas J. Jackson; Isaac
Pickering; Wallace; Molly Lynch; Frederick;
Inspector Mather; Lin; Sun Shi; Benjamin Crowther;
Christopher Ellis Ackborne; Willy Watkins; Newgate
Warders; Scuttlers' Women; Moriarty's Servants;
Newgate Prisoners; Prison Orderlies; Asylum Staff;
Asylum Inmates; Bargemen; Moriarty's Kitchen Maid;
Newgate Governor; Prison Chaplain; Workhouse
Governors; Workhouse Boys; Workhouse Inmates;
Boxing Crowd; Workhouse Doctor; Tissington Hall
Judge; Matlock Police Officer; Moriarty's Groom;
Photographer; Undertakers; Workhouse Masters;
Workhouse Boys; Workhouse Matron; Pall-Bearers;
Funeral Attendant; Brannigan's Cousins;
Brannigan's Nieces; Peak District Villagers;
Moriarty's Men; Hoolihan's Gang; Southwark Police;
Derby Coachman; Derby Station Crowds; St Pancras
Porters; Albert Road Servants; Chan's Men; Highway
Robbers; Lincoln Whore; Banker; Gypsy
Fortune-teller; Epsom Racegoers; Moriarty's
Business Partners; Trainers; Jockeys; Members of
Parliament; James Moriarty's Chauffeur; Motor Car
Driver; James Moriarty's Coachman; Lee Chan's
Bodyguards; Harley Street Police Officers; Rookery
Inhabitants; Cab Driver; Clerkenwell Police;
Prison Doctor; Baldy; Young Convicts; Warbrick's
Assistants; Execution Crowd; (Old Bailey
Judge; Wilberforce Singleton; Singleton's
Butler; Singleton's Cook; Singleton's Housemaid;
Holmes's Cocaine Supplier; Lady of the Night;
French Mechanic; Tavern Patrons; Alice Armer;
Mario; Moriarty's Mother; Moriarty's Bostonian
Friend; Betsy; Chan; Bertrand de Breton;
Graftbury's Cook; Harvard Businessman; Workhouse
Matron; Blackston's Parents; Tavern Landlord;
Drunkards; Mr Potts; Mr Flanders; Mr Addison;
Surrey's Parents; Moriarty's Father; The
Fireman; Bai Chan; Equestrian Veterinarian;
Andrew O'Connell; Elizabeth's Father;
Elizabeth's Maid; Elizabeth's Doctor; P.C.
Cross; Moriarty's American Men; Moriarty's
American Servants; Harley Street Surgeon;
Alice's Madam; Royal Secretary; Sheffield
Pawnbroker; Leeds Jeweller; Home Office Doctor;
Coroner's Officer)
Date: May, 1884 - 19 January,
1900 / 1875 / 1878
Locations: London; Newgate Gaol;
East End; Workhouse; Southwark; St Pancras Station;
Albert Road; Moriarty's House; Harley Street;
Rookery; Clerkenwell; Police Station; Manchester; A
River; A Mill; Goddard Grange; Derbyshire; Peak
District; Dovedale; Moriarty's House; Tissington
Hall; Matlock Bath; Graveyard; Derby
Station; A Train; Milldale; Viator's Bridge; Birmingham;
Winson Green; All Saints Mental Asylum;
Warwickshire; Graftbury's House; Lincoln; Surrey;
Epsom Station; Epsom Racecourse; Tattenham Corner;
Tavern; Mycroft's House
Story: From his cell in Newgate
Gaol, awaiting his execution, Lynch recounts his
life story: He flees to Manchester after his first
murder in 1884, where he meets Sebastian the Jew and
is recruited into the Scuttlers, a gang of thieves.
After working his way up through the ranks, he is
recruited to work for Professor Brogan Moriarty.
In Newgate, he is visited by Holmes
who attempts to persuade him to turn Queen's
evidence against Moriarty. He also discovers that
his life may be ended before ever he meets the
executioner, and receives a ghostly visitor. An
anonymous gift provides a possible means of escape.
The theft of a tiara is Moriarty's
first test for Lynch, after which he learns that he
is destined to become a member of Moriarty's
Trinity. He tells of his first boxing match and how
he joined the Hooligans, and is shown Moriarty's
collection of skulls. His position in Moriarty's
organisation rises as does the number of deaths he
carries out, until his final arrest.
He learns the truth of his parentage,
and of his saviour.
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Agatha Christie
"The Case of the Missing Lady"
(1929)
Included in: Partners in Crime (Agatha
Christie); The
Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery
Queen)
Story Type: Homage
Fictional Characters: Tommy & Tuppence
Beresford
Story: Tommy and Tuppence of Blunt's
Brilliant Detectives emulate Holmes in their
attempt to help Arctic Explorer, Gabriel
Stavansson, trace his missing fiancée, the
Honourable Hermione Crane. When they finally
locate her in Maldon, Sussex, the play is not
nearly as foul as they expected.
Note: In each story in
Christie's PARTNERS IN CRIME Tommy & Tuppence
adopt the techniques of a different fictional
detective. The version published in Ellery Queen's
THE MISADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES is a
conflation of chapter 3 "The Affair of the Pink
Pearl", and chapter 9 "The Case of the Missing
Lady".
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Anatole Chujoy
"The Adventure of the Turned Worm"
(1955)
Included in: The Baker Street Journal, July
1955
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Other Characters: Band of the Grenadier
Guards; Ticket Seller; Audience; Charles Ghoti;
Charles Fish
Date: August Bank Holiday
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The
Embankment; Embankment Gardens
Story: Holmes and Watson run into Lestrade
at a band concert. He has solved a forgery case
and arrested one of the men involved, but cannot
find his accomplice. He has the man's name,
Charles Ghoti, and his address in an apartment
block, but there are fifty apartments, no one
knows the name, and he cannot get a warrant to
search them all. Watson is able to suggest the
name he ought to look for.
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Dwight Church
"Shylock Combs and the Case of the
Flying Phonograph" (1941)
Included in: Advocate, Volume 52 Number 1,
December 1941
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Shylock Combs &
Dr Potsam
Other Characters: Peter Q. Piffle; Angus
Flanagan; Patrick McTavish / Looie the Dip
Unnamed Characters: Boarding House
Occupants; Police Officers; (Looie's Mother)
Date:
Locations: Combs's Rooms; Pigs-Knuckle
Avenue; The Sign of the Sour Dishrag Restaurant;
Police Headquarters
Story: Pickle magnate Peter Q. Piffle
consults Combs after an attempt is made on his
life with a phongraph dropped from a great height.
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F.P. Cillié
"The Adventure of the Second Stain"
(1967)
Also published as "The Adventure of the Green
Empress"
Included in: The Further
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Richard
Lancelyn Green)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Dubuque; Fritz von Waldbaum; (Mary
Morstan; Watson's Patient)
Other Characters: A Cabbie; Lord Malton;
Lady Elizabeth Malton; The Duke of Lindford; Major
Hugo Dashwood; Sir Graham Hylton-Smith; Cabman; (Johnson;
James
Morgan; Lucy; Beryl; Cathy)
Date: Monday 23rd, July, 1888
Locations: The East End; A Public House; A
Cab; Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street; Another
Cab; Summerdowne
Story: After Holmes makes a series of
deductions about a visitor to Baker Street from
his walking stick, the man himself, Lord Malton
the Secretary for War, arrives and tells of the
disappearance of an emerald, the Green Empress,
from his wife's bedroom. Returning to her room
unexpectedly, Lady Malton discovered her brother,
the Duke of Lindford - known to be in financial
difficulties - standing with her jewelry box in
his hands, the emerald ring gone. A search of his
room failed to turn up the stone. Dubuque &
Von Waldbaum have been hired, but have failed to
make any progress. Examining Lady Elizabeth's
room, Holmes finds a recent inkstain in a drawer,
and points out to Watson the significance of there
being no second stain. A search of the house's
refuse bins yields up an ink-stained handkerchief.
After an interview with Lindford, Holmes calls
together Malton, Dubuque and von Waldbaum, and
displays the stolen emerald, which he then
proceeds to smash, and announces that this is a
case not of theft, but of fraud. The motive for
the disappearance of the ring, he says, is
gambling debts, and goes on to tell the facts of
the matter, the significance of the missing stain,
and the dreadful choice Lindford had to make.
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David N. Cisler
"The Problem of the Sussex
Scalping" (2003)
Included in: Curious
Incidents 2 (J.R. Campbell & Charles
Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Historical Figures:
Other Characters: Eliza Savegin; Peter
Savegin; Abigail Savegin; Rail Passengers; Roger
Warren; Manservant; Sir Roger Warren; Shepherd,
The Butler; Stableboys; Cabby; 'Skinny' Skolnic;
Mrs. Roberts; Thomas Packard; Charlie; Constable;
Constable Jones; Sergeant Neal
Date: A Monday in Early January, 1891
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train;
Sussex; Lewes; Roger's Carriage; Brantworth Manor;
The White Hart; The Crown Inn; A Dogcart; A
Bakery; A Stable; The Twittens
Story: Holmes learns that a former client,
Eliza Savegin, daughter of Sir Ronald Warren, has
been kidnapped and her husband, Peter, has
disappeared. Eliza's father has received a ransom
note and her cut-off hair. Holmes believes the
husband to have been involved in a similar case
before, and so, likely to be responsible for,
rather than a victim of, the events. Examining the
Savegins' rooms, Holmes discovers a football
schedule, and a visit to a bakery opposite a
stable provides him with further evidence,
enabling him to explain the events behind the
disappearance.
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Benjamin S. Clark
"Sunshine, Sunshine" (1960)
Included in: The Baker Street Journal,
Christmas Annual 1960
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: James Phillimore
(Edgar Smith); Merryweather; (Crosby the
Banker; Dr Watson; Sherlock Holmes)
Other Characters: (Mr Graves;
Phillimore's Naive Wife; Phillimore's Children;
Phillimore's Servants)
Date: Ten years after Phillimore's
disappearance
Locations: A Pacific Island; Phillimore's
Beach House; 20, Sloane Square; Sloane Square;
Sloane Square Station
Story: James Phillimore awakes in his
beach house, ten years after his disappearance.
He recalls his job in a bank, the means by which he
effected his disappearance and his reasons for it,
and the way he chose his new name. He receives a
surprise when he settles down to read "Thor Bridge".
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Simon Clark
"The
Adventure of the Falling Star" (1997)
Included in: The Mammoth
Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike
Ashley)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Other Characters: Professor Charles
Hardcastle; Cabbie; Maid; Edward Hardcastle; Dr.
Columbine; Clarkson the Gardener; Police
Locations: A Four-Wheeler; The Strand;
Hampstead; Hardcastle's House
Date: June
Story: Holmes is summoned by an old
acquaintance, Professor Hardcastle, to investigate
the disappearance of a meteorite from a collection
in his locked laboratory. The meteorite reappeared
in his son's bedroom the following day. When Holmes
and Watson arrive at the Professor's home, they find
him raving in the garden clutching some sprigs of
thyme, amongst which he has found another of his
meteorites, again in his son's bedroom. He suggests
that the thyme links the disappearances to an old
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"The Case of the Wrong-Wise Boots"
(2017)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes's School
for Detection (Simon Clark)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; (Inspector Lestrade)
Other Characters: Miss Charlton; Mr Garret;
Mr Paswan; Charles Keppel / Major Robin
Fox-Warren; Joplin; Mrs Keppel; Mrs Jacob; Thomas
Rawcliff; John Lavelle; Gwyneth Fox-Warren;
Gwyneth's Daughter; Railway Engineer's Wife;
Mrs Keppel's Servants; Mrs Keppel's Maids; London
Constables;
North Reiff Constables; Station Porter;
Lavelle's Gang; (Man in Dover; Fifteen-year-old
Bootboy; Bootboy's Mother; Falmouth Poisoner;
Sir Benjamin Keppel; Physician; Jeremiah Poole;
Rawcliff's Father; Rawcliff's Grandfather;
Fox-Warren's Landlord; Gwyneth's Friend;
Sailors; Shopkeepers; Ship's Captain; Captain's
Wife; Stationmaster)
Date: November
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; 9, Juniper
Terrace; A Train; Scotland; North Reiff; Bothy
Road; Harbour View; Chapel Cottage; Police Station
Story: After setting six of his
students investigative tasks, Holmes invites them to
stay to listen to the story of his latest client,
Keppel, who tells them that he has recently
discovered himself in a strange street, wearing
strange clothes, in front of a house which he
recognised as his own, even though he has no
recollection of ever living there. On making
enquiries at the house he was told that he has been
dead for two years. As the case proceeds, Keppel
faces a charge of murder. Holmes sends his students
ahead of him to Scotland where they encounter a pair
of boots filled with flower petals.
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"The Climbing Man" (2015)
Included in: The Mammoth Book
of Sherlock Holmes Abroad (Simon Clark)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Other Characters: Grey Guards; Dhow Helmsman;
Sarim; Edward Priestly; Compound Sentry; Mousaf;
Professor Hendrik; Eden Hendrik; Native Workers;
Tribesmen; Benjamin Gordon Priestly; (Bandits;
Harold Priestly; Prudence Hendrik; Captain Grey)
Locations: Mesopotamia; Euphrates River;
Priestly's Camp; Tirrash
Story: Holmes and Watson come under
fire while in Mesopotamia on the trail of a European
gang of plunderers of ancient sites. Holmes is
wounded, and when the dhow transporting them down the
Euphrates runs aground, they encounter Edward
Priestly, an archaeologist. He tells them how he has
found the dead body of his brother, missing for four
years, inside a sealed underground chamber that has
not have been opened in three thousand years. They
soon realise that they are in their enemies' camp, but
Holmes is determined to solve the mystery. He must
make his deductions with only two small-viewing holes
cut into the chamber walls, and under the threat of
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"Holmes Receives a Most Intriguing
Proposal" (2017)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes's
School for Detection (Simon Clark)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; (Mrs Hudson)
Other Characters: Baker Street Pedestrians; (Burglar;
Undertaker's
Assistant)
Date: Autumn, 1890
Locations: Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street
Story: Returning home after a tussle
with a burglar, Holmes and Watson find Lestrade
waiting for them. Holmes deduces that Lestrade has
been engaged in a case involving an undertaker.
Lestrade asks Holmes to mentor students in detection
at the newly established Imperial Academy of Detective
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"Nightmare in Wax" (2003)
Included in: Shadows Over
Baker Street (Michael Reaves & John Pelan)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche narrated by
Moriarty, Holmes & Watson
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Professor
Moriarty; Victor Hatherley; Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: Watson's Visitors; Dr.
Cowley; Village Creatures; Navvies; Soldiers;
(Father Solomon Buchanan)
Locations: Watson's House; A Train; Burnston
Date: 1915 & November 1st, 1903
Story: Three high-ranking government
officials bring Watson a phonograph cylinder on
which Moriarty has recorded an account of his
attempt to use the Necronomicon to become
all-powerful. He is journeying by train to the
location of a lost village, Burnston, which had been
drowned beneath the North Sea and which he has hired
a company of hydraulic engineers to recover. The
navvies have discovered living creatures in the
village which have, according to Hatherley, who has
stopped the train to inform Moriarty of events,
started attacking them. |
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"Sherlock Holmes and the
Diving Bell" (2011)
Included in: Gaslight Arcanum
(J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Other Characters: Tugboat Captain; Captain
Smeaton; Fitzwilliam Crew; Jessup;
Katrina Barstow; Claudine Millwood; George Barstow;
(Winch-Man; Edith's Father; Edith)
Date: 1904
Locations: Cornwall; Fowey; Tugboat; Aboard
the Fitzwilliam
Story: Holmes summons Watson to
Fowey, from where he takes him out to the location of
a sunken diving bell. Five years earlier, Barstow had
been lost when the submarine chamber Pollux
had become snagged on the wreck that the crew of the
salvage vessel Fitzwilliam were trying to
recover silver bullion from. The Fitzwilliam has
returned to attempt to salvage the diving bell. The
diving bell Castor has returned from its
search with both its crewmembers dead, and noises
resembling a voice have been heard over the
communication cable from the Pollux. Holmes
and Watson descend in the Castor to uncover
the truth. |
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Logan Clendening, M.D.
"The Case of the Missing
Patriarchs" (1934)
Included in: The Misadventures
Of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen); Profile
By Gaslight (Edgar W. Smith); The Big Book of
Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Historical / Fictional Characters: Adam;
Eve; Jehovah
Story: Dead and in Heaven, Holmes is
called upon by Jehovah to locate the missing Adam
and Eve.
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Elka
Cloke
"The
Adventure of the Poesy Ring" (2011)
Included In: A Study in
Lavender (Joseph R.G. DeMarco)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Baker Street Irregulars;
Inspector Lestrade; (Dr Verner)
Other Characters: Frederick Croft; Russell
Carter; Bathhouse Attendant; Bathhouse Patrons;
Clay's Servant Girl; Walter Clay; (Captain
Elliot Clay; Doctor)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street;
Knightsbridge; Jermyn Street; Turkish Baths; Rye;
Clay's House
Story: Croft asks Holmes to locate a
missing opal ring which belonged to his late partner
Captain Elliot Clay and disappeared from his hand on
the night of his death. A visit to the Turkish baths
reveals the ring's location, but a visit to Clay's
house in Rye is needed to reveal the truth about his
death. Watson makes moves to bring a change to his
relationship with Holmes.
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J.
Storer Clouston
"The
Truthful Lady" (1920)
Included In: I Believe in
Sherlock Holmes (Douglas G. Greene); Sherlock Holmes
Jazz Age Parodies and Pastiches I: 1920-1924
(Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; (Sherlock
Holmes)
Other Characters: Narrator; F.T.
Carrington; Carrington's Companion; (Lord
Algernon Fitzpatrick; Duke of Munster; 1st Duke
of Munster; Lady Diana Mountfalcon)
Locations: Carrington's Office
Story: Carrington tells the
story of how he was once consulted by Dr Watson.
Watson has been consulted by Lord Algernon
Fitzpatrick whose late father's will, leaving
everything to him, has gone missing. Only an earlier
will, leaving everything to his sister, remains. The
pink bon-bons that Watson is sucking prove vital in
leading Carrington to a solution.
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John
Clunk
"The
Strange Case of Cornelius Candlewick III" (1940)
Included In: The Old Line (University of
Maryland), Volume 10 Number 3 (December 1940)
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detective: Hotshot H. Holms
Other Characters: Peeves; Cornelius
Candlestick II; Cornelius Candlestick III
Unnamed Characters: Co-ed
Date: November
Locations: USA; Baltimore; Maryland; Holms's
Rooms; University of Maryland
Story: Hotshot Holms, a sophomore at
the College of Agronomy resolves to become a campus
leader. Cornelius Candlestick II summons him for help
when his son, Cornelius Candlestick III, fails to
achieve straight As. Holms follows Cornelius around
the University making note of his activities.
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