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D.W.T.
"Sherlock
Holmes at Hendon" (1915)
Included in: The Aeroplane, 27 October 1915
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Historical Figures: M. Osipenko; C.G. Grey
(Editor of The Aeroplane); Marcus D. Manton;
Roche-Kelly; Birchenough; Barrs; Oswald Watt
(Australian Officer)
(F. Winter)
Other Characters:
Unnamed Characters: Hendon Crowd; Pilot;
French Cavalry Officer; (Osipenko's Lady
Passenger)
Date: Saturday October 23 - Sunday October
24, 1915
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Hendon
Story: Holmes accompanies Watson to watch
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Marcel D'Agneau
The Curse of the Nibelung (1981)
Story Type: Gentle Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Professor Moriarty
Historical Figures: Winston Churchill;
Edith Piaf; Lord Haw Haw
Other Characters: Calthorpe; Sir Charles
Hainsley; Dr. Otto Laubscher; Third Officer
Thomas; Captain Terence Howard; Sullivan;
Commander Felix Mannion; Cook; HMS Mazarin
Crewmen; Lt. Shand / Cornelia Hainsley;
Coastguard; Sir Oswald Partington; Mr. Bartley;
Admiralty Messenger; Grant Talford; French
Peasants; M. Reynaud; Cab Driver; Waiters; Heinric
Döre; Karl Flohn; Train Passengers; Lucy Trishant;
Adle Trishant; Flohn's Servants; Frau Flohn;
Musicians; Onslow Wilson; Betty Wilson; Selwyn
Meyer; Judith Meyer; General Buchnort; SS Officer;
Otto Von Hipplestar; Girls; Ditta Smit; The
Brigade of Radio Bicycles; Sean McCully; Café
Proprietor; Flohn's Driver; Max Millhapt; Customs
Officer; Richard Moorehaus; Porter; Herr Schoeck;
Mechanic; Margot; Matilde; Carl; Hotel Maid;
Guard; SS Guards; Conductor; Boy; Kitchen Staff;
Herman the Butler; Ferret-faced Man; Herr Melnick;
Piano Craftsmen; Klaus Muller; Factory Workers;
Factory Guards; Berliners; Usher; Audience; Hotel
Manager; Frederick the Cat; German Doctor; Hilde;
Eva; Firemen; Farm Worker; Truck Driver; SS
Driver; Colonel Mundt; Captain Ansbach; The Madrid
16; Lt. Hartheim; General Offenbröeder; Marshal
Baumann; Young Soldier; German Pilot; Michel;
Gaston; 2 Nuns; Businessman; Child; Patrick
O'Reilly; Intelligence Officer; Château Guards;
Dog Handlers; Driver; Doktor Hoffnung; 2 Spies;
Messenger; Forbes
Date: December, 1939
Locations: Baker Street; 221B, Baker
Street; Aboard HMS Mazarin; The English
Channel; Hastings; Ambler & Brown's; The Three
Bears Pub; An Avro Plane over France; Paris; The
Hotel Paix; La Cuillre Engraissé Restaurant;
Train; Strasbourg; Château Vernet; Café Zola; A
Horch 12 Automobile; Another Train; Nürnberg; The
Hauptbahnhof; Oesterlein's Opel Garage; Der
Deutsche Hof Hotel; Kaffeehaus; The Kaiserhof; The
Marktplatz; Blintz's Piano Manufacturer's; Flohn's
Mercedes Benz; Flohn's Chocolate Factory; Concert
Hall; River Pegnitz; An Opel Car; Odenwald; A
Farm; A Renault Car; A Mercedes-Benz; Karlsruhe;
Der Schloss Hotel; Château Schwaften; German
Plane; French Airfield; French Farm; Citröen Car;
A Train; Lyon Station; A DKW Car; Cowshed;
Churchill's Office; St James's Park; Piccadilly
Story: Churchill calls on Holmes and
Watson to investigate the disappearances of
British agents in Nazi Germany, and to try to
obtain a secret scientific formula. Their ship is
sunk in the English Channel, and returning to
England, they find themselves assigned a female
assistant, Lt. Cornelia Shand. Flying to France,
their plane is shot at. En route to a Wagner
Festival in Nürnberg, Holmes solves a murder at a
château in Strasbourg. His investigations lead him
to the home of a German chocolate manufacturer,
and the factory that produces Hitler's personal
chocolate. Is the secret formula just a new recipe
for chocolate, or does it hide something more
sinister? Fleeing Germany with top secret
information, Holmes is captured by the SS, and it
is left to Watson to return to London with the
information they have gathered. While imprisoned,
Holmes learns of an old rival's involvement in the
Nazi war effort, and sets off on another quest.
NOTE: In the cover
illustration Holmes and Watson are portrayed as
Nicholas Lyndhurst and David Jason, stars of the TV
series Only Fools and Horses.
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S.E. Dahlinger
"The Adventure of the Aluminum
Crutch" (1969)
Included in: Baker Street Journal, March
1969
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Wiggins; Baker Street
Irregulars
Historical Figures: (Marie Antoinette)
Other Characters: Beggar; Cabby; Man in
Grey; Charing Cross Crowds; Old Woman
Date: February, 1881
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Charing
Cross Station; (Pall Mall)
Story: Wiggins tells Watson that he has
seen Holmes knocked unconscious and bundled into a
hansom outside the Diogenes Club. A note attached
to a rock is thrown through the Baker Street
window telling Watson to bring the aluminum crutch
to Charing Cross Station, where he is met by an
old woman. A search of the place where he was told
he could find Holmes reveals nothing, but his
return to Baker Street leads to a revelation.
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Martin Daley
"The Dulwich
Solicitor" (2021)
Included in: The Return of
Sherlock Holmes (Maxim Jakubowski)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mary Morstan; Mrs Hudson; Stanley Hopkins;
(Mrs Cecil Forrester; Captain Morstan; Silver
Blaze; John Straker; Baker Street Irregulars;
Wiggins)
Historical
Figures: (Herbert Greenhough-Smith; Jack
the Ripper)
Other Characters: Silas
Wagstaff; Mr Kent; (Simon James Rutherford;
Gerald Rutherford; Sarah Rutherford; John
Radford; Mr Kent; Katy Radford; Robert Wilson)
Unnamed Characters: Marylebone Road
Postmaster; Hopkins's Men; Wagstaff's Victims; (Mary's
Mother;
Wagstaff's Maid; Gas-Lighter; Tailor; Plumber's
Mate)
Date: Late September 1888
Locations: Cox & Co.; Lower
Camberwell; 221B, Baker Street; Marylebone Road;
Dulwich; Wyndham Avenue; Wagstaff's Office
Story: After noticing a new, well-dressed,
addition to the ranks of the Baker Street
Irregulars during the events of The Sign of
Four, Holmes learns that the boy, Simon
Rutherford, has been left destitute after the
death of his well-to-do parents. Holmes believes
that the family solicitor, Silas Wagstaff has kept
the boy from his rightful inheritance.
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Lorraine Daly
Sherlock
Holmes and the Lusitania (1999)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Von Bork [Van Bork]; Mrs Watson / Violet
Hunter; Percy Phelps; Annie [Annette Phelps]
Harrison; Joseph [The Tiger / Michael Forrester] Harrison;
Mycroft
Holmes; (Martha; Steiner; Hollis; Jack James;
Sir Henry Baskerville; Selden; Dr Mortimer; Mrs
Barrymore; [Henry] Stamford; Lord Holdhurst; Count
Negretto Sylvius; Louis La Rothiere)
Historical Figures: Mabel Every; Robert Leith; David Craig
McCormick; Captain William Thomas Turner; Alfred
Booth; Sir William Reginald Hall; Arthur Rowland
Jones; Albert Bestic; John Idwal Lewis; Lord Mersey;
Admiral Sir Frederick Inglefield; Lieutenant
Commander H.J. Hearn; Butler Aspinall; Sir Edward
Carson; Frederick E. Smith; Sir Henry Coke; Sir
Ellis Cunliffe; (H.H. Asquith; Guy Gaunt;
Franz von Rintelen; Franz von Papen; Dr Walter T.
Scheele; Arthur Conan Doyle; Captain Daniel Dow;
George Booth; William Pierrepoint; Captain William
Thomas Turner; David Craig McCormick; James Clarke
Anderson; Alfred Vanderbilt; Charles Frohman; Sir
Edward Grey; Winston Churchill; Woodrow Wilson;
Walter Hines Page; Sir Henry Oliver; Captain
Richard Webb; Commander Joseph Kenworthy; Captain
Sandiford; Captain Kerne; Admiral Stileman; Paul
Crompton; George V)
Other Characters: Dobbs; Mrs Dobbs; Jane;
Renata Foster; Hilda Woods; Heaney / James Mallen;
Parfitt; Stephen Dawlish; Dawlish, Jr; Sub-Lieutenant
Harry Oldcastle; Richard Straker; Lieutenant
Villars; (Dr Davis; Sean O'Reilly;
Noakes; Dr Armstrong; Susan Kemp; John Stamford)
Unnamed Characters: Watson's Patients; Ealing Common
Boys;
Lusitania Passengers; Errand Boy; Phelps's
Butler; Oliver's Staff; Wounded Soldiers; Nurses;
Euston Porter; Rugby Station Porter; Liverpool
Cabbie; Adelphi Desk Clerk; Cunard Functionary;
Pierhead Crowds; Adelphi Guests; Adelphi Orchestra;
Briarbrae Nurses; Briarbrae Patients; Hall's
Delivery Man; Briarbrae Kitchen Staff; Fire Brigade;
Lighter Crew; Admiralty Launch Crew; Rear Admiral;
Naval Ratings; Naval Driver; Villars' Men;
Harrison's Men; Hevening Servants; Straker's Butler;
Lusitania Inquiry Attendees; Lusitania
Officers; Trial Assessors; Reporters; Chauffeur
(Police Sergeant; Tiger's Henchmen;
Fenians; Brevoort Hotel Porter; New York Homeless;
Brevoort Kitchen Slavey; Brevoort Chambermaid;
Brevoort Waiter; Herr Doktor; Brevoort Underling;
Lusitania Passengers; Lady of Exalted Rank; Lady's
Maid; Dartmoor Prison Governor; Lusitania
Stewards; Lusitania Crew; Senior Naval Officers;
McCormick's Landlady; New York Senior Naval
Officer; Bulwark Survivors)
Date: 2 August 1914 / April - June 1915
Locations: Ealing; Warwick Dene; Near Von
Bork's Villa; Police Station; Sussex; Holmes's
Villa; The Downs; Fulworth; USA; New York; Brevoort
Hotel; Aboard the Lusitania; Cheyne Walk;
Foreign Office; King Edward Hospital; The Admiralty;
Euston Station; Rugby; Liverpool; Lime Street
Station; Adelphi Hotel; Pierhead; Cunard Building;
Great Crosby; Briarbrae; Avonmouth; Hevening Hall;
Westminster; Central Hall; Diogenes Club
Story: After capturing Von Bork, Holmes
tells Watson that he must return to America as
Altamont to round up the rest of Von Bork's
organisation. On his return, he Holmes tells Watson
of his failed attempt to discover the identity of
the German agent known as the Tiger in New York.
Watson is visited by Mabel Every, housekeeper to
Captain Turner of the Lusitania, who
believes that the Admiralty is planning to place the
blame for its sinking on the Captain, and asks him
to call on Holmes to investigate.
After performing an appendectomy with the help of
his wife and Miss Every, Watson consults Tadpole
Phelps for more information about the Lusitania.
Holmes persuades him to accompany him to Liverpool
where they meet with Booth, chairman of Cunard, and
with Captain Turner. They are threatened, then
offered assistance by Reginald Hall, in return for
finding out who sank the battleship Bulwark,
who suggests some old acquaintances of Holmes as
possible suspects. Miss Every goes undercover at
Briarbrae, now being run as a sanitarium by a
reformed Joseph Harrison. After surviving a fire,
Holmes races with Watson to prevent another shipping
disaster.
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Andrew Darlington
"The Strange Death of Sherlock
Holmes" (2015)
Included in: The Mammoth Book
of Sherlock Holmes Abroad (Simon Clark)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson
Fictional Characters: Cavor /
The Time Traveller; The Time Traveller's
Manservant; The Time Machine
Historical Figures: (H.G.
Wells)
Other Characters: Lamplighter; Tom Norman;
Venice Hotel Desk Clerk; Monkey Boy; Neanderthal
Tribe; Cavor's Maidservant; (Mrs Hudson's
Sister)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Cavor's
Home; France; Paris; Left-Bank Rooming-House; Gare
de l'Est; Italy; Lake Garda; Venice; Piazza San
Marco; Hotel; Baker Street
Story: Holmes travel around Europe
in search of Cavor and the monkey boy, whom the
freak show owner, Tom Norman, claims he has
contracted with Cavor to make a part of his show.
The case leads to the death of Holmes and to Watson
taing a journey on Cavor's invention.
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Robert D'Artagnan
Sherlock Holmes' Last Case (2001)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Colonel Moriarty; Professor
Moriarty; (Colonel Moran; Mycroft Holmes)
Historical Figures: Martha (Bernays) Freud;
Sigmund Freud; Adolf Hitler; (Wilhelm Fliess;
Carl Jung; Arthur Schnitzler)
Other Characters: Vienna Taxi Driver; Car
Dealer; Wolfgang Kreyenhagen; Coffeehouse Waiter;
Opera Usher; Helen Vogel; Herr Rothberg; Newspaper
Seller; Cab Drivers; Uniformed Doorman; Servant;
Prostitute; Monk; The Wednesday Psychological
Society; Frau Wechsberg; Little Girl; Car Driver;
Policeman; Girl's Mother; Axel; Agreeable-looking
Man; Ditch-diggers; A.B. Turnbull; Farmer; Swiss
Magistrate; Jury; Telephone Operator; Waiter;
Orcheatra; Dancers; Priest; Postman
Date: October, 1908 - May, 1909
Locations: Holmes & Watson's West End
Townhouse; Austria; Vienna; Berggasse; Flat on
Kolingasse; Kreyenhagen Fencing Academy;
Coffeehouse; Royal Opera; Kroehler's Publishing
House; Rothberg's Tailors Shop; Beatrixgasse; 235
Prinz Eugen Strasse; The Stadtpark; St Stephen's
Cathedral; 221B, Baker Street; Stonehenge;
Salisbury; The Rose and Crown; Switzerland;
Reichenbach Falls; Mountain Village; Stumpergasse
29; The Westbahnhof; Paris; Hospital; Lichfield;
Market Place; Cathedral Close; Swan Inn;
Turnbull's Office; The Vienna Woods; Meiringen;
The Englischer Hof; Magistrate's Court; The
Prater; Constantinhugel; A Train; South of France
Story: Holmes and Watson have moved out of
221B, needing more space and security. Martha
Bernays, from Vienna, calls at their new West End
house. She believes that her husband, Freud, is
under the influence of an evil spirit - his
behaviour has changed and he does not remember his
actions. Holmes is challenged to a duel at
Stonehenge by Colonel Moriarty, and suffers
recurring nightmares about Professor Moriarty's
death.
In Vienna Holmes and Watson set watch
on Freud. Holmes takes fencing lessons from
Kreyenhagen to prepare for the duel. Freud appears
to have overcome whatever was plaguing him. Holmes
appears to Watson to know more about Vienna than
he ought to. Watson resolves to have Holmes
consult with Freud, and to find himself a
publisher in Vienna. He also decides to solve the
mystery of what happened to Holmes during the
hiatus. Freud's absences from home begin again.
They follow him, but are unable to gain admission
to the buildings he enters. They learn that one is
a casino, and Holmes, believing Freud to have been
hypnotised, puts a plan in motion to make him
unwelcome there in the future. When Holmes and
Freud finally meet, Freud seems to recognise him,
but calls him Hosmel. Watson is scared by an
unseen pursuer at St Stephen's Church, and attends
a meeting of Freud's Wednesday Psychological
Society in disguise.
They return to London for the duel
with Moriarty at Stonehenge. In London they
discover that Mrs Hudson is planning to open 221B
as a Sherlock Holmes museum. After the duel they
return to Vienna and Watson manipulates Holmes
into consulting with Freud as a patient. They
learn that Freud has now apparently been
hypnotised into making anti-semitic statements in
public. Holmes believes that Freud's migraines
might have a bearing on the case. Moriarty
challenges Holmes to a further duel, at
Reichenbach on the anniversary of his brother's
death. Holmes's sessions with Freud unlock his
memories of the events of the Great Hiatus and his
former visit to Vienna. Holmes's suspicions turn
to Freud's young artist patient, the anti-semitic
Axel. Returning to England, Holmes visits his
parents' grave in Lichfield and learns that he was
adopted. He accepts Moriarty's challenge and after
the duel learns the secret of Moriarty's identity
and of his own past. Back in Vienna they learn
that Freud's problems have been brought to an end
by his wife. They also learn Axel's true name.
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Paul H. Davey, Jr
"The Case
of the Tainted Sump" (1973)
Included in: Compressed Air, Volume 78 Number
2, February 1973
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; (Mrs Hudson; Professor Moriarty)
Other Characters: John Farthing
Unnamed Characters: (Chemist)
Date: Early Spring
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Holmes is consulted by John Farthing
a jointer at a woodworking plant who is applying for
a supervisor's job and needs help understanding a
compressor he is working on.
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Avram Davidson
"The
Singular Incident of the Dog on the Beach" (1986)
Included in: The Other Nineteenth Century
(Avram Davidson)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; (Dr Anstruther; Dr Jackson)
Other Characters: Mr Creevey; (Doothit)
Unnamed Characters: Narrator; Paddington
Station Official; Watson's Servant; Creevey's
Dresser; (Bank Cashier)
Locations: Paddington Station; Watson's
Practice; St Stowe's; Australia; Queensland
Story: The narrator, newly arrived from
America is advised to consult Watson about an
infection in his arm. Watson is about to leave with
Holmes when he arrives, but Holmes deduces the
nature of the infection, before Watson send him to
consult Creevey at St Stowe's.
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David Stuart Davies
"The Adventure of the Whitrow
Inheritance" (2008)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes: The Game's Afoot (David Stuart
Davies)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Other Characters: Matthew Whitrow; Godfrey
Whitrow; Walker; Police; (Godfrey's Mother;
Godfrey's Father)
Date: February, 1889
Locations: 221B, Baker Street;
Simpson's-in-the-Strand; Pinner; Whitrow Brewery;
The Grange; Pinner Station; A Train
Story: Brewery heir, Matthew Whitrow, is
two months short of becoming a partner in the
family business with his uncle, and guardian,
Godfrey, and a number of attempts have been made
on his life. Although the circumstances clearly
implicate his uncle, he does not believe him to be
guilty, and he asks Holmes to find the true
culprit. Holmes uncovers the truth of the murder
plot, and indulges in gunplay with a spurious
burglar, to bring the culprit to justice.
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"The Case of the
Secret Assassin" (2021)
Included in: The Return of
Sherlock Holmes (Maxim Jakubowski)
Story Type: Third-Person Pastiche of the
Rathbone Films
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Hugo Oberstein; Mycroft
Holmes
Historical
Figures:
Winston Churchill; Anthony Eden; Vyacheslav
Molotov
Other Characters: Hubert Grace; Alex Brunner;
(Colonel DuPont)
Unnamed Characters: Dead Man; Diogenes Club
Members; Ambassador Serving Staff; Ambassador
Guests; Ambassador Flunkeys; Waiter; Russian
Delegates
Date: Early Spring, 1942
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Scotland
Yard; Kensington; 13, Caulfield Gardens; Diogenes
Club; Ambassador Hotel
Story: Churchill and Mycroft put Holmes on
the case when the Nazis' top assassin, Alex
Brunner is smuggled into Britain to kill
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"The Case
of the Terrified Tobacconist" (2020)
Included in: The Book
of Extraordinary New Sherlock Holmes Stories
(Maxim Jakubowski)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock
Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector
Lestrade
Other
Characters: Edith Daubney; Samuel Daubney /
Stephen Dawes; Edward Bell
Unnamed
Characters: Lestrade's Constables; Victoria
Passengers; Railway Guards
Date: Autumn 1895
Locations: 221B, Baker
Street; Praed Street; A Smoke in the City
Tobacconists; Victoria Station
Story: Holmes is
visited by Edith Daubney whose tobacconist husband
has fled their home in a state of terror stating
that his life is over.
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"A Certain Notoriety" (2015)
Included in: The
Adventures of Moriarty (Maxim Jakubowski)
Story Type: Canonical Re-visioning
Canonical Characters: Colonel Moran; Sherlock
Holmes; Inspector Patterson; Professor Moriarty; Dr
Watson; (Moriarty Gang; English Woman)
Other Characters: Alfred Coombs; Actors;
Violet Carmichael; Rat & Raven Clientele; Percy
Snaggles; Wally; Scotland Yard Constable; (Barney
Southwell;
Cartwright)
Date: 1891
Locations: Theatre; Scotland Yard; Violet's
House; 221B, Baker Street; The East End; The Rat and
Raven; Watson's House; Switzerland; Reichenbach
Falls
Story: Moran and Violet Carmichael
hire the actor Alfred Coombs to play a professor of
mathematics. Holmes identifies an organising force at
work behind the criminals of London. A plan is put in
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"The Darlington Substitution Scandal"
(1997)
Included in: The Mammoth
Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike
Ashley); The Big Book of
Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Billy
Other Characters: Lord Hector Darlington;
Lady Sarah Darlington; Rupert; Hillary Stallybrass;
Lord Arthur Beacham; Butler; Alfredo Fellini; Joshua
Jones; cabbie; street urchins
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Mayfair; Lord
Darlington's home; the Pandora Club; Commercial
Street; Jones's home
Story: Returning from a Wagner night, Holmes
and Watson find Lord Darlington waiting for them. He
has returned unexpectedly from a trip to France to
find a painting, Louis de Granville's Adoration
of the Magi, has been stolen from his private
gallery, to which he had the only key. Visiting his
house the following morning, Holmes learns that the
painting has now been returned. A visit from art
expert, Hillary Stallybrass, reveals that the
painting is the genuine one, but others in the
collection are fakes. Holmes visits Darlington's
step-son Rupert's club, The Pandora, in disguise,
and, while there, sees the disreputable Lord Arthur
Beacham, and New York gangster, Alfredo Fellini. |
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The
Devil's Promise (2014)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Billy; (Joe) Thurston; Colonel
(Sir James) Warburton; Mycroft Holmes; (Mrs
Watson)
Characters Based on Historical Figures: Bartholomew
Blackwood
(Aleister Crowley)
Folkloric Figures: The Devil
Other Characters: Reverend Simon Dickens;
Jacob Henshaw; Enoch Blackwood; Arabella
Blackwood; Jacob Weatherall; Mrs Weatherall;
Chivers
Howden Villagers; Baker Street Pedestrians;
Cabbies; Houndsditch Passers-by; Houndsditch
Assailants; Old Man; Scottish Doctor; Man in Grey
Ulster; Train Waiter; Train Passengers; Tea Shop
Girl; Cult Members; Simpson's Diners
(Mrs Watson's Sister; Edric Cawthorne;
Thurston's Secretary; Totnes Farrier; Mrs
Laidlaw; Professor Julius Krasinski; Professor
Martin Scowcroft)
Date: July, 1899 - February, 1900
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Devonshire;
Beach; Samphire Cottage; Howden; The Dark Man Inn;
Blackwood's House; Church; Baker Street;
Bishopsgate; Houndsditch; Thurston's Office; Pall
Mall; Army & Navy Club; Paddington; Balfour
Mews; Richmond; Nursing Home; Paddington Station;
A Train; A Woo; Weatherall's House; Tansy Halt
Station; Totnes Station; Totnes; Mrs Laidlaw's Tea
Room; Mycroft's Rooms; Simpson's-in-the-Strand
Story: On holiday in Devonshire, Holmes
takes Watson to view a corpse he has found on the
beach, only to discover that it has vanished along
with any evidence that it was ever there. After
the body has been found, and disappears for a
second time, they visit Howden village, where they
encounter Enoch Blackwood, son of the Satanist
Bartholomew Blackwood, and his sister Arabella.
Some
months later, back in Baker Street, Watson is
recovering from a period of illness that has left
a gap in his memory. Holmes is acting
strangely, and Watson enlists Thurston to help him
investigate. He returns, alone to Devon, where he
must work to prevent a Satanic ritual from taking
place.
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The
Instrument of Death (2019)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Constable
John Rance;
Wiggins;
Mrs Hudson; Thurston
Fictional Characters: Dr (Gustav)
Caligari; (Cesare)
Other Characters: Emeric Caligari; Rosa
Placzek; Hans Bruner; Miss Stein; Godfrey
Forbes; Mrs Clements; Robert; Lady Sarah
Damury; Sir Jeffrey Damury; Freda; Agatha;
Ruth Marshall; Alan Firbank; Gammy Alf; Blanche
Andrews; Dr Standish; Enid Beaumont; Professor
Christopher Clark; Jenkins; Margaret; Carruthers; Sylvester
Spedding; Arthur Brough; Father Francis Smyth;
Gustav's
Schoolmates; Gustav's Headmaster; Gustav's Tutors;
Bruner's Doctor; Miss Stein's Neighbour;
Undertakers; Prague Constable; Euston Crowds; Cabbies;
Scotland Yard Constable; Caligari's Patients;
Bermondsey Derelicts; Society Party Guests;
Uniformed Policemen; Theatre Admirers;
Actors; Strand Crowds; Firbank's
Neighbours; Bedlam Orderly; Bedlam
Patients; Nursing Home Maid; Spedding's
Receptionist; (Gustav's Mother; Sir
Basil Damury; Caliph of Ranjapur; Thomas Cook's
Clerk; Damury's Doctor; Bowes; Damury's Fellow
Club Member's; Damury's Servants; Sarah's Tea
Circle Friend;
Mr
Sanders; Dr Andrew Dodd; Dr Alexander
Rubenstein)
Date: Spring, 1896
Locations: Prague; Caligari's Home; School;
Bruner's Cottage; Tavern; Singer's Apartment;
London; Euston Station; 221B, Baker Street; Fleet
Street; Thomas Cook's; Kensington; 34, Sedgwick
Street; King Henry's Walk; Scotland Yard;
Bermondsey; Carisbroke House; Savoy Theatre; The
Strand; Chiswick; 14, St Alban's Avenue; Chiswick
High Road; St James's Park; Camberwell; Nursing
Home; St George's Fields; St Mary Bethlehem Hospital
/ Bedlam;
Knightsbridge; Paddington; 47, Robin Terrace;
Marylebone; Cedar Court; Watson's Club; Chelsea;
Pentonville Prison
Story: In Prague, the young Gustav
Caligari learns mesmerism with his tutor, Hans
Bruner, before turning to murder.
Watson returns from a holiday to find that
Holmes is investigating the theft of a ruby
belonging to Sir Jeffrey Damury. As they return the
ruby to Lestrade, word comes that Damury's wife has
been murdered. In London, Caligari searches for a
lone down and out to carry out his bidding. Alan
Firbank consults Holmes after his lover, actress
Ruth Marshall, is attacked in his home after he has
been lured away. Caligari and Holmes begin a game of
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"The Last Baker
Street Adventure" (2022)
Included in: A Detective's Life:
Sherlock Holmes (Martin Rosenstock)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Mrs Watson)
Other Characters: Leonora Coulson Bradley;
Inspector Sullivan; Anthony Bradley; Daisy
Sommerville; Mrs Sommerville; (William Bradley;
Old Man Bradley; Sam Mellor)
Unnamed Characters: Police Constables; (William's
Manservant;
Mellor's Secretary)
Date: Late 1902
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Scotland Yard;
William's House; Chelsea; 31, Priam Gardens; Highgate;
Mellor's Office; Islington; Leonora's House;
Simpson's-in-the-Strand
Story: Holmes invites Watson to Baker Street to
tell him that he has purchased a cottage on the Sussex
Downs where he plans to retire.Watson's departure is
interrupted by the arrival of Leonora Bradley, whose
husband Anthony has been arrested for the murder of
his brother William. The other suspects include a
business rival and a spurned fiancée. |
"The
Monkton House Mystery" (2019)
Included in: The Sign of
Seven (Martin Rosenstock)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Stanley Hopkins; Mrs Hudson; (Langdale
Pike)
Other Characters: Alfred
Langton;
Sir Ronald Martin; Alan;
Celia Martin; Alan Sanderson;
Cora
Langton; Dr Samuel Peters; Captain Henry
Carmichael; Simon Martin;
(Hugo Carrington;
Sergeant Amos Wilkins)
Unnamed Characters: Caped Constable;
Cavalier Club Commissionaire; Cavalier Club
Waiter; Club Members; Simon's Landlady; (Hopkins's
Sergeant; Doctor; Cora's Sister; Carrington's
Solicitors; Sam Rawlins)
Date: 15-16 December, 1899
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Brougham;
Chelsea; Monkton House; Soho; The Artichoke
Restaurant; Old Mitre Court; The Cavalier Club;
Wandsworth; 13, Southwick Street;
Simpson's-in-the-Strand; Morgue; Carmichael's
House
Story: Hopkins asks Holmes for help in
solving the murder of Alfred Langton, the butler
of Sir Ronald Martin, an Egyptologist. Sir Ronald
has disappeared. A search of Martin's House
reveals that they are investigating a double
murder. An estranged son and a disgruntled former
expeditionary partner both have motive for the
murder. Enquiries at a gambling club, a third
murder and information from Langdale Pike lead the
investigation along a different path. |
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"Murder at Tregere
House" (2015)
Included in: The MX Book of
New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part IV: 2016 Annual
(David Marcum); An Investees'
Anthology (David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; (Thurston)
Other Characters: Andrew
Sinclair; Rogers; Dr Eustace Pavlow; Victoria
Pavlow; Morag Cameron;
(Alan Cameron; Anne Cameron; Smithson a &
Wylie; Sinclair's Father; Inspector Crabtree)
Date: Autumn, 1895
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Scotland;
Ayrshire; Tregere House; A Train
Story: Holmes and Watson
accompany Andrew Sinclair to Tregere House in Ayrshire
where his prospective father-in-law, Alan Cameron, the
Laird of Tregere, has been stabbed to death during a
dinner party, and his wife, found standing over the
body, holding a knife, has been arrested. |
"The Reichenbach Secret"
(2008)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes: The Game's Afoot (David Stuart Davies)
Story Type: Canonical Re-visioning
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Holmes's Sussex Housekeeper;(Mrs Towers);
Professor Moriarty / False Moriartys; Colonel
Sebastian Moran; (Von Bork; Martha / Mrs
Hudson; Moriarty Gang; Swiss Lad; Englishwoman)
Other Characters: Artists; Hilda Courtney;
Thugs; Santo Spirito Waiters; (Holmes's Sussex
Neighbour; Count Mario Bava)
Date: Summer, 1916 / May - June, 1891
Locations: Watson's House; Holmes's Sussex
Cottage; Switzerland; Reichenbach Falls; Italy;
Florence; Ponte S. Trinità; Via Michelangelo; Santo
Spirito Restaurant; Via Matteo di Giovanni; Holmes's
Lodgings
Story: Watson travels down to Sussex
after hearing of Holmes's failing health. Holmes
reveals to him that the man he thought was Moriarty
who visited him in Baker Street was an impostor, and
that it was he himself who had arranged for the Swiss
boy to lure Watson back to Meiringen. After battling
another impostor at Reichenbach, Holmes makes his way
to Florence, where he lives as an artist. He rescues
Hilda Courtney, a courier, delivering a diamond, the
Belvedere Stone, from a pair of bagsnatchers. After
dining with her, Holmes is attacked by three thugs,
but he has already realised that all is not as it
seems and he uses Hilda to save himself. The following
day he has his first encounter with the real Moriarty. |
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Revenge from the Grave
(2022)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Stamford; Inspector [Giles] Lestrade; Billy;
Mrs Hudson; Colonel Moran; Mycroft Holmes; Tobias
Gregson; Stanley Hopkins; Inspector Patterson; The
Moriarty Gang; Wiggins; Professor
Moriarty; (Mary Morstan; Mycroft Holmes; Baker
Street Irregulars; Irene Adler)
Fictional Characters: Alf Bassick
Historical Figures: (Sir
Edmund
Monson)
Other Characters: Monsigneur Charles Aubert;
Madame Defarge / Cordelia Moriarty; Gyles; Elizabeth
Courtney; Li Tang; Arthur Richard Courtney;
Inspector Stead; Constable Johnson / Sam Harper;
Gustave Jourdan; Douglas Keating; Mrs Hardcastle;
Horace Hardcastle; Jacob Brooks; Officer Buchanan;
Nigel Harrison; Sergeant Amos Pringle; Archie Leach;
Irish Mullaney; Daisy Doherty; Sir Gregory Thornton;
Mrs Slater; Samuel Wilkins; Constable Booth;
Constable Fletcher; Sir Justin Butterworth; Arthur
Dodd; (Inspector
Pearson; Soapy Sanders; Sergeant Grey; Ethel;
Eric; Bony Johnson; Chu Sen; Sir Gregory; Ralph
Cousins)
Unnamed Characters: Street Women; Drunken
Ruffians; Opium Smokers; Chinese Opium Den
Attendant; Ashtree House Neighbour; Cabbies;
Warehouse Bruisers; Diogenes Club Members; Diogenes
Club Servant; Diogenes Club Assailants; Mycroft's
Assistant; Cab office Clerk; Hardcastle's Mother;
Hardcastle's Children; Three Tuns Patrons; Three
Tuns Barman; DeFarge's Gang; Funeral Guests;
Reporters; Prison Officers; Prisoners; Prison
Governor; Scotland Yard Constable; Undercover
Officers; Pig & Whistle Patrons; Wiggins's
Mother; Diogenes Club Commissionaire; Diogenes Club
Lackey; Policemen; Organisation Officials; Railway
Passengers; Victoria Station Porter; (Scotland
Yard Sergeant; Pearson's Companions; Chiswick
Doctor and Wife; Delivery Men; Deptford Crowd;
Mycroft's Sûreté Contact; Brooks's Cell Mate;
Cordelia's Mother; Moriarty's University Tutor;
Cordelia's Mother's Aunt; Scotland Yard
Commissioner)
Date: January, 1891 / May - September, 1894
Locations: France; Aubert's Chateau;
Watson's Kensington Practice; Marcini's; 221B, Baker
Street; Upper Swandam Lane; The Bar of Gold;
Chiswick; Ashtree House; Bloxsome Street; Sullivan's
Warehouse; Oxford Street; Royal Images
Photographers; Pall Mall; Diogenes Club; Oxford
Circus; Clapham; King Charles Road; Heaton Villa;
Telegraph Office; Cab Company Offices; Kennington;
48, Audley Gardens; Norton Street; The Three Tuns;
Deptford; St Bartolph's Church; Westminster Bridge;
Graveyard; Whitehall; Mycroft's Office; Prison;
Southwark; Beaumont's Warehouse; St James's Park;
Restaurant; Brixton; Mrs Slater's Guest House;
Millman Street; Scotland Yard; Brixton Road; The Pig
and Whistle; Pelham House; Broad Street; City and
Counties Bank; Victoria Station; Kensington Gardens
Story: 1891: Monseigneur Charles
Aubert is murdered in his French chateau by the
woman who has been blackmailing him.
1894: When Colonel Moran is rescued from Scotland
Yard, a message is left behind for Holmes, warning him
that Moriarty has returned for revenge. His inquiries
suggest that a French woman, calling herself Madame
Defarge, is working with Moran to resurrect the
Moriarty Gang.
Holmes is called upon by elderly spinster Elizabeth
Courtney, whose brother Arthur, a gambler and opium
addict has been abducted, but deduces that the case is
some kind of ruse. He receives a message from Moriarty
at the Bar of Gold, and a corpse is delivered to 221B.
The case turns into a quest to rescue Mycroft, as
Holmes is lured into a booby-trapped church.
A prison break is planned, and a plot to steal the
Empress Josephine's necklace. The Moriarty gang's bank
robbery scheme is infiltrated. Moran explains Madame
Defarge's origins.
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The Ripper Legacy (2016)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; Baker Street
Irregulars; Inspector [Giles] Lestrade; Professor
Moriarty; Colonel Sebastian Moran; (Mary
Morstan; Thurston; John)
Historical Figures: The Prime
Minister (Earl of Rosebery); The Home Secretary
(H.H. Asquith); (Jack the Ripper; Mary Kelly;
Duke of Clarence; Sir Charles Warren; Inspector
Abberline)
Other Characters: Ronald Temple; Hilda
Bennett; Annie Grimes; Percy Grimes; William Temple;
Charlotte Temple; Susan Gordon; Dark Gentleman;
Gertrude Chandler; Inspector Dominic Gaunt;
Alice Sunderland; Henshaw; Taylor; Barrow; Sir Jasper
Coates; Samuel McCafferty; Beaumont; Dr
Graham Murray; Crowther; Dr Maxwell; Sergeant Arthur
Moxon; Cab Drivers; Chandler's Housemaid; Camberwell
Guard; Whitechapel Pedestrians; Blind Beggar; Street
Singer; Street Girls; Saracen's Head Customers;
Barman; Piano Player; Old Woman; Lord Nelson
Customers; Gaunt's Carriage Driver; Liveried Servant;
Tall Man; Nurse; Diogenes Members; Diogenes Servant;
Firemen; Fire Onlookers; Mortimer's Assistant;
Murray's Receptionist; Nurses; Orderlies; Doctors;
Police Officers (Kidnapper; Kensington Gardens
Crowds; Scotland Yard Surveillance Officer;
Smithers; Duke of Dartington; Mr Mortimer; Ralph
Harbottle; Lady Emilia Forsythe)
Date: March, 1895
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Watson's
Club; Kensington Gardens; Cricklewood; Cedar Lodge;
Grimes's House; Camberwell; John Ruskin Street;
Whitechapel; Bat Street; The Saracen's Head;
Whitehall; Mycroft's Office; Christopher Docks; Lord
Nelson Tavern; Bayswater; Greenway, Prince's Square;
Scotland Yard; Streatham; Diogenes Club; Surrey;
Richmond; Galworth Hall; Coates's Townhouse;
Chelsea; Mortimer's Invalid Conveyances; Baker
Street; 5, Angel Court; 10, Downing Street; Reading
Gaol; Moriarty's Underground Headquarters; Murray's
Surgery; Iron Gate; Tower Bridge; The Embankment; St
Katharine's Way; Leonine Chambers; Bart's Hospital
Story: Stockbroker Ronald Temple
consults Holmes when his eight-year-old son William is
abducted by two men in Kensington Gardens. The trail
leads Holmes to a baby farm in Camberwell and reveals
a connection to the Ripper murders and a familiar
conspiracy. Watson is held captive, and Holmes
uncovers links to the government and faces old enemies
again. The situation becomes more complicated for the
abductors when the child falls ill. |
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The
Scroll of the Dead (1998)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Baker Street Irregulars; (Mycroft
Holmes;
Thurston)
Other Characters: Cabby; Manservant; Uriah
Hawkshaw; Sir Robert Hythe; Mrs. Hawkshaw;
Sebastian Melmoth; Black Cloud; Nigel Hawkshaw;
Inspector Amos Hardcastle; Sir Chales Pargetter;
Museum Security Man; Queen Henntawy; Jenkins;
Tobias Felshaw; Catriona Andrews; Late-night
Revellers; Brandon; Julia; Blacksmith's Arms
Landlord; Blacksmith's Arms Clientele; Nathan;
Gamekeeper; Gamekeeper's Partner; Skoyles;
Watson's Cab Driver; Prince Regent Clientele;
Prince Regent Barman; Conway Hotel Clientele
Conway Desk Clerk; Sir Alistair Andrews; Prison
Nurse; Prison Officer; Dawson; Stationmaster;
Penrith Market Crowds; Joseph A. Cooper; Flinty
O'Toole; Sergeant Porter; Priest; John Phillips;
Sir George Faversham; Aunt Emilia; Archie
Woodcock; Club Porter; Cabbie; Constables
(Sammy Daventry; King Pinneedjem; Setaph;
Alfred Briggs)
Date: May, 1895 & May, 1896
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Kensington;
Frontier Lodge; British Museum; Melmoth's House in
Curzon Street; Baker Street; A Train to Norwich;
Norfolk; Holden Parva; The Blacksmith's Arms;
Holden Hall; Alfred's Cottage; A Train to London;
A Cab (Oxford Street); The Prince Regent on
Salisbury Street; The Conway Hotel; Scotland Yard;
Kent; Lee; The Elms; A Sleeper Train to Penrith; A
Railway Station; Penrith; A Suburban Churchyard;
Ullswater; Grebe Island; Grebe House; Aunt
Emilia's House; Woodcock's Shop; Watson's Club; (Egypt)
Story: When Mycroft sends Holmes and Watson
to a séance to expose a false medium, they
encounter the Wildean Melmoth, who believes he can
conquer death. The following year Holmes is called
on to investigate the theft of an Egyptian scroll
from the British Museum. The scroll is believed to
contain directions to the tomb of the priest
Setaph, who was buried with a scroll containing
instructions for overcoming death. Holmes believes
that Melmoth is behind the theft, but soon learns
that he has died in a shooting accident. Returning
to Baker Street Holmes and Watson find Catriona
Andrews waiting for them; her father, one of the
archaeologists who discovered the stolen scroll,
has disappeared, and his partner, Faversham, has
been murdered and his house ransacked. They break
into Melmoth's house to view the body, then
journey to Norfolk to view the scene of his death.
Further investigations lead to unexpected
revelations about some of the principals in the
case. A visit to Faversham's homes in Kent and in
the Lake District brings matters to a head.
NOTE:
"Sebastian Melmoth" was the alias adopted by
Oscar Wilde during the latter years of his life.
It is made clear in the novel, however, that this
Melmoth is not Wilde.
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"The Secret of the Dead"
(2014)
Included in: The Mammoth
Book of Best British Crime 11
(Maxim Jakubowski)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; (Mycroft
Holmes)
Fictional
Characters:
Sergeant (Richard) Cuff; (The
Moonstone)
Other Characters: Reuben Flowers;
Annie Lincoln; Dr Joshua Randle; Buckley;
Albert Dawson; Emilia Barrett; (Mrs
Dryfield; Holmes's Parents; Mrs Matthews; Parson
Phillips; Andrew Barrett)
Unnamed
Characters: Gammidge & Brown
Clerk
Locations: Yorkshire; Village Pond; Cuff's
Cottage; Village Green; Randle's Surgery;
Botham Lodge; The Leg of Mutton; York; Gammidge
& Brown's Offices
Story: After Annie Lincoln's body has been
discovered floating in the village pond, Sergeant
Cuff, now retired, is offered
assistance in his garden by
the young Sherlock Holmes, who is visiting
his aunt, Mrs Dryfield. Cuff tells
Holmes that he believes Annie, a local gossip,
was murdered, and that her death was the
second in the village within a month. |
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The
Shadow of the Rat (1999)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Stamford; Inspector Lestrade; The Giant
Rat of Sumatra; Mrs Hudson; The Matilda Briggs;
Mycroft Holmes; (Mary Morstan)
Other Characters: Simpson's Waiter; Diners;
Mrs Sanderson; Scotland Yard Constable; Dead Man;
Miss Sanderson; Cab Driver; Alice (Mellor)
Callaghan; Dr Simeon Karswell; Baldwin; George;
Bridge of Dreams Members; Eric; The Captain; Tom
Herrick; Josiah Barton; Abe Chapman; Rat Handlers;
Three Assailants; Cabman; Bart's Nurses &
Doctors; Old Man in Morgue; Bill; Dock Watchman;
Sailors; Gunson; Fraser; Baroness Emmuska Dubeyk;
Baroness's Men; Parker; Stableman; Empire Stage
Doorman; The Great Salvini; Diogenes Club Doorman;
Diogenes Clerk; Diogenes Members; Adelphi Clerk;
Tramp; Marcini's Waiter; Companies House Clerk;
Cab Drivers; Rat Guard; George; Inspector Lanyon;
Lestrade's Men; Solomon Street Man; Welsh
Sergeant; Sailors; Cabbie; Actress; (Professor
Lindstrom; Birdie Evans; Mr Duddridge; Coules;
Dr Alec Callaghan; Bella Callaghan; Sir Randolph
Dowson; Katarina; Captain Rogan; Robin; Dead
Sailor)
Date: Early Autumn, 1895
Locations: Simpson's; Chiswick, 32,
Tunnacliffe Road; 221B, Baker Street; Scotland
Yard; Victoria Embankment; Bart's; Mayfair; The
Bridge of Dreams; Cooper Street; Muswell Road;
Blackwall; Christopher Dock; The Matilda
Briggs; A Coach; Crescent Lodge; Buddington;
The Cross Keys; Courtfield Gardens; Wood Green
Empire; Diogenes Club; Enfield; Adelphi Hotel;
Park; Marcini's; Companies House; Baker Street;
Rotherhithe; Solomon Road; Eagle Printing Co;
Oxford Street
Story: Holmes and Watson encounter a
drunken Stamford at Simpson's, and, after taking
him home, they notice needle marks on his arms.
The following day Lestrade summons them to
Scotland Yard to view a body pulled from the
Thames. Watson identifies it as showing symptoms
of bubonic plague. A clue leads them back to
Stamford, but they find his room deserted, and his
landlady's daughter denies that he ever lived
there. At Bart's, Watson meets an old
acquaintance, and they learn of Stamford's recent
erratic behaviour. Investigations lead them to the
Bridge of Dreams Club where the preferred sport is
rat-baiting, but on the way home they are attacked
and Holmes disappears. The following day Watson
receives a visit from Matron Callaghan, who has
found Stamford in the old morgue at Bart's, but
once again he has disappeared by the time Watson
arrives. His quest for Holmes takes him aboard the
Matilda Briggs where he discovers the Giant
Rat. When he and Holmes are finally reunited,
Watson finds himself being held prisoner by his
friend. Before the affair is over he faces a
Hungarian Baroness and a black panther, employs
the services of a hypnotist, and overcomes a plot
to blackmail the British Government.
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"Sherlock Holmes and the Ghost of
Christmas Past" (2008)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes: The Game's Afoot (David Stuart Davies)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson
Other Characters: Caroline Harrison; (Septimus
Harrison;
Caroline's Friends; Oscar Leyland; Harrison's
Servants; Sheridan; Police; Doctor)
Date: 22nd-24th December, 1899
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Kensington;
Harrison's House
Story: Caroline Harrison has returned from a
visit to friends to find that a coarse Australian,
Leyland, has moved into the home she shares with her
father. He is a friend from her father's youth. Just
before Christmas she is woken by gunshots, and finds
her father wounded and Leyland dead, victims of a
burglary. The following Christmas she consults
Holmes when her father claims he is being haunted by
Leyland's ghost which appears in the mirror of his
room. Holmes arranges to spend the evening,
disguised as Leyland, in Harrison's room to reveal
the truth of the matter. |
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Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau
Affair (1991)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Tobias Gregson; King of
Bohemia; (Sir Jasper Meek)
Fictional Characters: Colonel Sapt; Rupert
of Hentzau; Fritz von Tarlenheim; Princess Flavia; (Rudolf
V;
Rudolf Rassendyll; Josef; Black Michael; Lord
Burlesdon)
Other Characters: Cobb; Cab Driver; 'Checked
Cap'; Cab Driver; Baker Street Pedestrians; Second
Cab Driver; Oxford Street Crowds; Sapt's Driver;
Charing Cross Lobby Crowds; Gregson's Men; Woman at
Burdett Road; Nicholas Bulesdon; Man at Burdett
Road; Pall Mall Passers-by; Diogenes Members;
Diogenes Porter; Two Diogenes Servants; Waiter on
Train; Dining Car Occupants; Cologne Crowds; Thief;
Four Louts; Border Guards; Stephan; Alexander
Beauchamp; Gustav; Beauchamp's Driver; Baron
Heinrich Holstein; The Blue Bugles; Embassy Lackey;
Sir Roger Johnson; Captain Salberg; Rassendyll's
Cook; Horseman; Palace Kitchen Maid; King's Doctor;
Archbishop of Strelsau;Dead Palace Servant; Blue
Bugles Officer; Strelsau Crowds; King's Soldiers;
Commander of the Ruritanian Border Forces; Station
Guard; Two Bohemian Halbardiers; Boris Gasanov;
Bohemian Servant; Captain of the Bohemian Guard; (Roberts)
Date: September, 1895
Locations: Hyde Park; Baker Street; 221B,
Baker Street; Oxford Street; Oxford Circus; Regent
Street; Charing Cross Hotel; 104, Burdett Road; Pall
Mall; The Diogenes Club; The South Eastern
Continental Express; A Ferry; Belgium; Ostende; A
Train; Germany; Cologne Station; The Golden Lion
Train; Ruritania; A Coach; The Boar's Head;
Strelsau; Liver Stable; British Embassy; The King's
Hunting Lodge; The Royal Palace; The Forest of
Zenda; The King's Fishing Lodge; Customs House;
Steinbach Station; The Royal Train; A Train
Story: Holmes and Watson return from a walk
to find Sapt awaiting them. He tells them the recent
history of Ruritania, of the King's madness in the
wake of a recent illness, of Rupert of Hentzau's
plans to take over the throne, of the upcoming visit
of the King of Bohemia, and the need to find Rudolf
Rassendyll, who has disappeared, to take the King's
place again. While Holmes is following a man who has
been following Sapt, Sapt is murdered in his hotel
room. A raid on the man's house leaves Gregson
wounded, but results in the rescue of a young boy.
With Mycroft's assistance, Holmes and Watson travel
to Ruritania to rescue Rassendyll from Hentzau. In
Cologne they are attacked by a group of roughs, and
a further attempt is made on their arrival in
Ruritania. Having survived both, they soon find
themselves prisoners of Hentzau. After being
rescued, they learn that the situation has become
more desperate, with the death of the King making
Hentzau's path to the throne easier, and putting
Rassendyll's life in more jeopardy. Holmes makes
contact with Rassendyll and a plan is put into
operation to save the monarchy, in which Holmes must
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"The Spirit of Death" (2018)
Included in: Gaslight
Gothic (J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Tobias Gregson; (Inspector Lestrade;
Stanley Hopkins)
Historical Figures: (Sigmund
Freud)
Other Characters: Joseph Bradshaw; Bradshaw's
Friends; Bradshaw's Doctor; Sir Eustace Carabine;
Lecture Audience; Morgue Constable; Alexander Karswell
Locations: Bradshaw's House; Bart's; 221B,
Baker Street; Scotland Yard Morgue; Islington;
Karswell's House
Story: Gregson consults Holmes after two men
die after suffering an unexplained palsy-like fit.
Both men have lectured or written on the theories of
Freud, and challenged the views of Alexander Karswell
on the untapped potential of the mind. Holmes devises
a plan to turn the attack back on its source. |
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The
Tangled Skein (1998)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Sir Henry Baskerville; Dr Mortimer; Mrs
Hudson; Jack Stapleton; Inspector Lestrade; Baker
Street Irregulars; (The Hound of the
Baskervilles; Barrymore; Mrs Barrymore; Sir
Charles Baskerville; Beryl Stapleton)
Fictional Characters: Abraham Van Helsing;
Dracula; (The Bloofer Lady; Hampstead Child;
Dracula's Brides; The Demeter)
Historical Figures: Vlad Tepes;
(De Reszke Brothers)
Other Characters: Celia Lydgate; Matthew
Boulton; Watkins; Violet Markham; Silas Gardner;
Dr Collins; Meinster
Down-and-Out; Hansom Drivers; London Gardens C;
Mary Gardner; Catherine Hunterrowd; Cab Driver;
Mission Paupers; Celia's Landlady; Mortuary Desk
Sergeants; Dracula's Bride; Northumberland Hotel
Diners; Northumberland Hotel Waiters; Grey Goose
Landlord; Gardner's Maid; Carol Singers; (John
Grenfell; Aubrey Lydgate; Mrs Lydgate; Hampstead
Constable; Police Surgeon; Katherine Elliot;
Varna Port Officials; Sir Ralph Markham; Donald
Fraser; Lady Markham; Medical Specialist; Coombe
Tracey Tradesmen; Academy Teachers; Academy
Students; Academy Parents; Mrs Gardner;
Catherine's Parents; Milly White; Gabriel White;
Lady Rowena Durband; Lady Durband's Footman's
Twin Brother; Coombe Tracey Blacksmith)
Date: November - 25th December, 1888
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Charing
Cross Road; Kentish Town; London Gardens; 1,
London Gardens; Marylebone Road; Shooter's Hill
Mission; McCauley Street; Scotland Yard Mortuary;
Hampstead Heath; Northumberland Hotel; Bellmount
Private Cemetery; Baker Street; Paddington
Station; The Devon Express; Devonshire; Coombe
Tracey; The Grey Goose Inn; The Gardner Academy
for Young Ladies; Post Office; Dartmoor; Black
Tor; Neolithic Hut; Vixen Heights; White's Farm;
Grimpen; Mortimer's Surgery; Baskerville Hall;
Grimpen Mire
Story: After concluding the Baskerville
case, Holmes and Watson see Sir Henry and Dr
Mortimer off on a world cruise. Holmes pooh-poohs
a talk given by Van Helsing on vampires, and
receives a deadly package from a mysterious
caller. A coded telegram lures Holmes into a trap
in Kentish Town, and Celia Lydgate arrives at
Baker Street with a warning. With the assailant
identified, Watson sets out on a single-handed
mission to rescue Celia from his clutches.
Lestrade arrives at Baker Street with news of a
body, drained of blood, found on Hampstead Heath,
where appearances of a "Phantom Lady" are also
being reported.
During
their vigil on the Heath, Holmes and Watson
encounter the Phantom Lady and Van Helsing, who
reveals to them the history of Dracula.
After dealing with their first vampires, Holmes and
Watson follow Dracula's trail to Dartmoor, where
they attempt to save his latest victim, a student at
a finishing school for young ladies. Ultimately,
their quest takes them back to Baskerville Hall.
NOTE: Meinster, Dracula's
dwarfish, one-eyed assistant, is named after
Dracula's disciple Baron Meinster, from the Hammer
film, The Brides of Dracula.
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The Veiled Detective (2004)
Story Type: Canonical Revisioning
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson (John
Walker); Sherlock Holmes; Inspector Lestrade;
Professor Moriarty; Colonel Moran; Mrs (Kitty)
Hudson; (Henry) Stamford; Jefferson Hope; Enoch
Drebber; Joseph Stangerson; Arthur Charpentier;
Tobias Gregson; Cab Driver; Lauriston Gardens
Constable; Loafers; Stretcher Bearers; Mrs Rance;
John Rance; Mary Morstan; Mrs Cecil Forrester;
Mycroft Holmes; The Moriarty Gang; St Monica's
Clergyman; Peter Steiler; Swiss Lad; (Young
Girl; White-Haired Gentleman; Lucy Ferrier; John
Ferrier; Mr Melas; Inspector Patterson; English
Lady)
Other Characters: Wounded Soldiers; Captain
Alastair Thornton; Soldiers; Arthur Sims; Badger
Johnson; Harry Jordan; Night-Watchman; Jonas
Abercrombie / Ernest Brand; Disreputable-looking
Fellow; Bank Teller; Old Sunburned Gentleman; Harry;
Moriarty's Men; Fat Northern Businessman; Alexander
Reed; Businessman's Wife; Orontes Barman;
Purser; Lincoln Scoular; Club Lackey; Ambrose Jones;
Torquay Terrace Cab Driver; Alehouse Landlord;
Diogenes Members; Loafer; Patrick Graves; Carriage
Driver; Maxwell; Jenson; Victoria Porters; (Hawkins;
Amelia
Abercrombie; Abercrombie's Maid; Harry Drysdale;
Raja of Kalipaur; Mellors; Bentham)
Date: 27 June, 1880 - May, 1891
Locations: Afghanistan; Candahar; London;
Meredith & Co. Offices; Scotland Yard;
Moriarty's Residence; 14, Montague Street; City
Bank; Portland Street; Water Street; The Orontes;
London Dock; Reed's Club; Holborn; 221B Baker
Street; Bart's; Watson's Hotel in the Strand;
Criterion Bar; Wigmore Street; Hope's Lodgings;
Regent's Park; Torquay Terrace; Euston Station;
Brixton; 3, Lauriston Gardens; Halliday's Private
Hotel; Audley Court; The Turk's Head; Mrs
Forrester's House; The Butcher's Arms, Marylebone
High Street; Diogenes Club; Church of St Monica,
Edgware Road; Watson's Paddington Home; Graves's
Chiswick Home; West India Docks; Hyde Park Corner;
Paddington Station; Victoria Station; Canterbury;
Strasburg; Meiringen; The Englischer Hof;
Reichenbach
Story: Surgeon John Walker is
court-martialled for getting drunk the night after
the battle of Maiwand. Holmes's activities come to
the attention of Moriarty. Holmes investigates the
kidnapping of a banker's daughter, but is attacked
while carrying out a bank robbery and learns his
client is not who he claims to be. On board the Orontes
Walker meets Reed, who introduces him to the
Moriarty Gang. Holmes's Montague Street landlord
finds himself abducted and threatened. Moriarty
gives Walker the new identity of Watson, sets up an
establishment in Baker Street, with an ex-actress as
landlady, and contrives to have Watson introduced to
Holmes, take up residence at 221B and report on his
activities. Hope carries out his revenge on Drebber
& Stangerson, but Holmes plays a very different
role in the final events to that previously reported
by Watson, and Walker decides to keep some of the
details concealed from Moriarty. He falls easily
into his new identity assisting Holmes and recording
his adventures in various versions for the public,
and less easily for Moriarty, and eventually meets
and falls in love with Mary Morstan. Mycroft
provides counsel to Moriarty on how to deal with the
situation. Moriarty sets Watson up in practice in
Paddington, but instructs him to stay involved in
Holmes's work, but Holmes's response to his marriage
leads to estrangement. When Holmes starts to
investigate the Moriarty Gang, Watson is ordered to
stop him. Holmes attempts to prevent the theft of
the Elephant's Egg ruby, Watson's allegiances are
put to the test and he discovers that Holmes knows
his past. Events reach their head at the Reichenbach
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Martin Davies
Mrs. Hudson and the Spirits' Curse
(2004)
Story Type: Extra-Canonical Adventure of
Mrs Hudson narrated by Flosam, the maid
Canonical Characters: Baker Street Maid
(Flottie/Flotsam); Mrs. Hudson; Sherlock Holmes;
Dr Watson; Morrison, Morrison & Dodd;
Inspector Gregory; (The Giant Rat of Sumatra;
The Matilda Briggs; Wiggins; Billy)
Fictional Characters: A.J. Raffles
Other Characters: Scraggs; Mrs Siskin;
Swordsmith; Mr Rumbelow; Penge; Nathaniel Moran;
Maurice Orlando Fogarty; Smale; Boy at Fogarty's;
Cold-Faced Woman; The Honourable Rupert Spencer;
Betty Trent; Gregory's Messenger Boy; St James's
Policemen; French Hotel Official; Carruthers;
Cabbie; Brown's Doorman; Brown's Manager; Brown's
Staff; Desk Clerk; Fish Seller; St Pancras
Policemen; Elderly Gentleman; St Pancras Woman;
Gentlemen in Tails; Neale; Woman at Neale's
Lodgings; Reynolds; Hetty Peters; Rumbelow's Maid;
Gladys; Neale's Footman; Neale's Cook; Melmoth's
Messenger Boy; Jenkins; O'Donnell; Spencer's
Housemaid; James; Mrs Gresham's House; Carrington;
Fogarty's Girl; Flynn; Mrs Flegg; The Earl of
Brabham; Smale's Driver; Hansom Drivers;
Piccadilly Policeman; Small Boy
(Lurantong; Whitfield; Postgate; Pagi Hunters;
White Settler; Old Pagi; Pagi Elders; Chinaman;
James Winterton; Mr Norman; Matilda Briggs
Captain; Matilda Briggs Crew; Lord Ponsonby;
Monsieur Bertillon; Lord Plinlimmon; Jeb Trent;
Jeb's Captain; Moran's Father; Belgian Hotel
Guest; St James's Hotel Night Porter; Hotel
Manager; Flower Seller; Lad with Parcel; Police
Officers; Shipping Company Caretaker; Mr
Whitley; Michaels; Mathers; Portman Street
Policeman; Holmes's Boy; Boy Lurker; Philpotts;
Fotheringays' Footmen; Melmoth; Lewis Monk; Red
Lion Landlord; Gay Girls; Fotheringay's Maid; Mr
Fotheringay; Holmes's Driver; Sir George
Farnborough)
Locations: Scraggs's Barrow; Mrs Hudson's
Previous Home; Holmes & Watson's Residence;
The Fotheringay Household; Limehouse; Mrs Trent's
Home; St James's Hotel, Knightsbridge; Brown's
Hotel, Mayfair; Exeter Market; St Pancras; Neale's
Lodgings; Bloomsbury Square; Spencer's Residence;
Kensington; Rumbelow's Residence; 84, Cavendish
Street; Portman Street; Moran's Rooms; Oxford
Street; Piccadilly; Cable Wharf
(Sumatra; Port Mary; Singapore; Paris; Rangoon
& Occident Shipping Line Offices; The Red
Lion)
Story: Caught stealing a cabbage, young
orphan girl Flottie is taken to Mrs Hudson who
gives her a job as an apprentice cook. When their
employer dies they are taken on as housekeeper and
maid by Sherlock Holmes. A one-eyed caller leaves
a silver dagger and a note bearing a seal
depicting a giant rat announcing that Nathaniel
Moran will call on Holmes the following day. Mrs
Hudson does not agree with Holmes's deductions
regarding Moran, who tells them of the company he
established in Sumatra, the shooting of a sacred
giant rat and the subsequent blinding and death of
his colleague and other local residents, and the
curse put on himself and his colleagues by a local
priest. Mrs Hudson does not believe that all is as
straightforward as it appears.
Holmes receives a letter from
Morrison, Morrison & Dodd concerning rumours
that the Matilda Briggs is possessed by
evil spirits. From a figure from her past Flottie
learns that her long-lost brother has been found.
His sorry condition is used in an attempt to
blackmail her into giving up Holmes's conclusions
over the Moran case, but she comes to a
realisation which defeats the plan. Mrs Hudson
learns of other disturbing events aboard the Matilda
Briggs and one of Moran's associates in
London is killed by a snake. Mrs Hudson, Flottie
& Scraggs set up a watch on the surviving
members of the company and are forced to deal with
a poisonous spider.
Raffles brings Mrs Hudson some
purloined documents and a tale of a scorpion in a
jewel box and Spencer reveals the provenance of
the other creatures used in the attacks. From
Neale she learns the true events in Sumatra and
later in London, but he is killed before he can
reveal the true identity of the criminal
mastermind known as Melmoth. Watson is sent to
guard Moran, but when Moran is shot it appears
that Watson is the killer. A raid is made to
rescue the boy who was presented as Flottie's
brother, but Holmes fails to return from it and
Flottie is abducted. Mrs Hudson leads the rescue
party, reveals the truth and helps shape Watson's
writings.
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Mrs.
Hudson and the Malabar Rose (2005)
Story Type: Extra-Canonical Adventure of
Mrs Hudson narrated by Flotsam, the maid
Canonical Characters: Baker Street Maid
(Flottie / Flotsam / Flot); Mrs. Hudson; Sherlock
Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade; James
Phillimore
Other Characters: Newsboy; Blue; Scraggs;
Home Office Messenger; Mr Hicks; Mrs Smithers;
Godwin Branchester; Baker Street Constable; Docks
Overseer; Randolph Place Man; Sir John's Butler;
Sir John's Maid; Major General Sir John Plaskett;
Policeman; Reynolds; Hetty Peters; The Right
Honourable Rupert Spencer; Earl of Brabham;
Lavinia "Vinnie" Phillimore; Boy with Wreath;
Salmanazar's Servant; The Great Salmanazar;
Blenheim Policemen; Bert; Blenheim Doorman; Old
Perch; Perch's Customer; Mr Herbert; Mrs
Williamson; Mr Rumbelow; Lola del Fuego; Mr
Prescott; Carrington; Vicar of St Margaret's; Mr
Bushy; Mr Choudrey; Royal Jeweller; Regal
Audience; Salmanazar's Assistants; Carpenters;
Plainclothesmen; Strongmen; Archdeacon; Dowager
Duchess of Marne; Blenheim Guests; Blenheim Staff;
Dentist; Cab Driver; Mermaid Doorman; Ticket
Seller; Mermaid Audience; Performers; Dancer;
Fidelma Fontaine / Maud Phillimore; Cyclist; Mrs
Griffiths; Woman Dressed as Britannia; Monkey
Crowd; Pantomime Actors; Scotland Yard Sergeant;
Mills; Chief Inspector; Savoy Guests; Butler; Sir
Marcus Stewart; Constable Andrews; Clerical
Gentleman; Tavern Crowd; Fred; Charing Cross Boy;
Trafalgar Square Crowds; Trafalgar Square Boy;
Pantomime Horse
(John; John's Mother; Maharajah of Majoudh;
Princess Alicia Karageorgevich; Simkins; Lord
Shastonbury; Jennings; Mr Rumbelow; Lord Clyde;
Monk; Simpson; Lola's Fiancé; Sir Phillip
Westacott; Lord Boothroyd; Urchin; Irish
Navvies; McAdam)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Baker
Street; The Docks; Randolph Place; Bloomsbury
Square; The Spencer Residence; Ealing; Sefton
Avenue; The Smithers House; Piccadilly; Brown's
Hotel; Blenheim Hotel; Islington; Kimber Street;
Toyshop; Holborn; Rumbelow's Office; Regal
Theatre; Stepney; Mermaid Theatre; Tearoom off
Paul Street; The Tudor Rose off the Haymarket;
Trafalgar Square; Scotland Yard; The Savoy; Public
House; Covent Garden; The Strand; Charing Cross;
An Alley
Date: Late December
Story: After an encounter with a pickpocket
reminds her of her days in the orphanage, Flottie
reads of the arrival of the Malabar Rose, a ruby
sent as a gift to the Crown by the Maharajah of
Majoudh. Holmes receives a visitor from the Home
Office in connection with the ruby, and a Mrs
Smithers asks him to find her son-in-law,
Phillimore, who disappeared after going back
indoors for his umbrella. Holmes learns that a
magician, the Great Salmanazar, is suspected of
planning to steal the jewel, that 11 decoy jewels
have been made to protect it, and attempts have
already been made on three of them. He dismisses
Mrs Smithers lightly, but Mrs Hudson believes
there may be more to her case and decides to
follow it up, learning of Phillimore's recurring
illness, and his wife's recent surprise gift.
Flottie
accompanies Watson to confront Salmanazar. Holmes
and Lestrade oversee the preparations for display
of the ruby. Meanwhile, the Earl of Brabham begins
to act strangely and Flottie sees more of the
pickpocket. On Boxing Day, Salmanazar's final
trick goes wrong, and the ruby disappears from a
sealed room, seemingly transformed into a
butterfly. Mrs Hudson has the Blenheim Hotel set
on fire, Dr Watson witnesses a striptease, a
threatening note arrives at Baker Street, and a
toymaker disappears. Another fire threatens Mrs
Hudson and Flottie's lives, and Holmes helps a
criminal escape, while the ruby is stolen a second
time and a trap is laid for the thief.
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C. Edward Davis
"The Adventure of The White
Bird" (2015)
Included in: The MX Book of
New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part III:
1896-1929 (David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters:Sherlock Holmes;
Dr
Watson
Historical Figures: Charles
Lindbergh; Consuelo Hatmaker Nungesser; Robert
Nungesser; (Jimmy Walker; Joseph A. Warren;
Charles Nungesser; François Coli; James R.
Hatmaker)
Characters Derived from Historical
Figures: Gordon Page
Other Characters: Battery Park Crowds;
Roosevelt Field Spectators; Hotel Guests; Young
Girl; Miss Cannella; Cab Driver; Monson's
Security Guard; Ralph; Mr Sutton; Detective
Raymond Detmer; Carter;
Commander Belanger; Canadian Witnesses; Andrew
Berryman; Mrs Woodhouse; Mr Feliciano;
William R. Monson; (Watson's
Publisher; H.G. Woodhouse)
Date: 4th May - 14th June, 1927
Locations: USA; New York;
Park Avenue; Hotel; Battery Park; Long Island;
Roosevelt Field; New York Public Library; Orteig's
Offices; Kingston; Monson's Factory; Kingston
Station; Mineola; Police Station; Canada;
Newfoundland; Harbor Grace; Saint Pierre Island;
Nova Scotia; Halifax; Maine; Lubec; South Jamesport
Story: Holmes and Watson are in
New York when the French aviators Nungesser and Coli
disappear during their attempt to be the first to
cross the Atlantic by plane. After watching
Lindbergh begin his Trans-Atlantic flight, they are
approached by Nungesser's ex-wife and his
half-brother. She suspects that her father, James R.
Hatmaker may be behind Nungesser's disappearance.
Holmes's attention, however turns towards aviation
entrepreneur, William R. Monson, who had designs on
winning the Orteig Prize for crossing the Atlantic
himself.
NOTE: The aeronautical expert
Gordon Page is named after Gordon Page, one of the
founders of the Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame.
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Hank Davis
"The Giant Cat of Sumatra" (2014)
Included in: The Baen Big Book of Monsters
(Hank Davis, ed.)
Story Type: Fantasy Homage
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; The Matilda Briggs; Giant Rat of
Sumatra [Pinowa]
Fictional Characters: (Cthulhu)
Folkloric Characters: Bastet;
Sekhmet;
Kebechet; Anubis / Anapa; (Amun-Ra)
Historical Figures: Neutron; (Julie
Andrews;
Diana Rigg; Richard Nixon; Sophia Loren)
Other Characters: Toffee Baston / Miss
Bastoli / Miss Helliwell; Officer Chandler; Ray;
Pinowa; (Udjut)
Unnamed Characters: Mayor; Mayor's
Assistant; Cop; Matilda Briggs Crew; Martilda
Briggs Owner; Dock Watchmen; Londoners; New
Yorkers; (Cat Mummy)
Date: 21st Century / Early 20th
Century
Locations: USA; New York;
Mayor's Office; Kinko's; Empire State Building;
England; London; 221B, Baker Street; Docks
Story: Bastet visits the Mayor of
New York, investigating the city's rat problem. The
meeting is interrupted by a giant rat invasion. Her
research completed, she travels back in time and
across the Atlantic, to seek information from Sherlock
Holmes about the Giant Rat of Sumatra. He tells her of
the dockside events surrounding the Matilda Briggs,
the giant rat, and an even bigger cat. Back in the
21st century she contacts Sekhmet, and together they
return to New York to face the demonic Pinowa, with
help from Anubis.
NOTE: The New York cops Chandler and Ray are
presumably an homage to Raymond Chandler.
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Norman M. Davis
"Sherlock Holmes on the
Environment" (1974)
Included in: Sign National Catholic
Magazine, March 1974
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Fictional Characters: (Ralph "The
Ferret" Salisbury)
Historical Figures: (James
F.
"The Fox" Phillips)
Other Characters: Interviewer
Date: 1970s
Locations: Sussex; Holmes's
Cottage
Story: The interviewer visits Holmes
in his cottage near Fulworth and learns his views on
pesticides, pollution and the environment.
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"The Adventure of the Curious
Canary" (2002)
Included in: Murder, My
Dear Watson (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon
Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower); The Big Book of
Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; (Wilson, the Notorious
Canary Trainer)
Other Characters: Mary Lucas; Sir Giles
Halliford; Emily Sommersby; Robert Halliford
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Lewes;
Halliford; A Pub in Halliford; Halliford Hall; A
Train
Story: Holmes and Watson are visited by
Mary Lucas, housekeeper, and now fiancée, to Sir
Giles Halliford. Sir Giles lived alone with his
ward, Emily Sommersby, until recently a man
claiming to be his nephew Robert joined the
household. The previous night Emily heard the
sound of heavy breathing, and a bird chirping from
Sir Giles's library, and there was a strange scent
in the air when she entered the room. She fears
his life may be in danger. Holmes and Watson
travel out to Halliford Hall, but are not able to
prevent Sir Giles's murder.
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Sherlock
Holmes
and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (1998)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock
Holmes; Professor Moriarty; Mrs Hudson; Mycroft
Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; Wiggins; (Wilson
Hargreave; Von Bork)
Fictional Characters: (Alice; Humpty
Dumpty; White Rabbit; Cheshire Cat; Queen of
Hearts; March Hare; Duchess; Pig Baby; Mad
Hatter; King of Hearts; Red King; Frog Footmen;
Walrus; Carpenter; Oysters; Knave of Hearts;
Bill the Lizard; Dormouse; Mock Turtle;
Caterpillar)
Folkloric Characters: (Loch Ness
Monster)
Historical Figures: Winston Churchill; (Lewis
Carroll)
Other Characters: Loch Ness Guests;
Flunkeys; John Moxton; Professor James / Kurt
Krober; James's Assistants; Royston Steel; Alicia
Creighton; Tussaud's Police; Tussaud's Crowds;
Attendants; Museum Officials; Lady Bullard;
Constables; Foreign Secretary; Frog Footmen; Fancy
Dress Party Guests; Sir Giles Broadbent QC; House
of Commons Policemen; Attendants; MPs; New Home
Secretary; The Speaker; Gatekeeper; Lestrade's
Constables; Constable Hawkins; Four-Wheeler
Driver; Passing Dignitary & Companions;
Kroger's Companion
(Old Tug; Alicia's Mother; Julius Minton;
Duchamps; Zuckerman; Foreign Secretary's
Assistants; Mme Solange; Ilya Zokov; Moriarty's
Mercenaries; Alicia's Aunt)
Date: Mid-October-November, 1898
Locations: Scotland; Loch Ness; Hotel;
221B, Baker Street; Madame Tussaud's; Chester
Square; Moxton's House; Watson's Club; St James's
Park; Covent Garden; Houses of Parliament; The
East End; Royston Court; The Embankment
Story: Holmes summons Watson to Scotland
for a fishing trip, taking him to a lochside
gathering at which the American newsman, Moxton,
has announced the Loch Ness Monster will make an
appearance. Holmes reveals the true nature of the
beast to Watson, and also tells him that he
believes that Moxton is Moriarty, somehow having
survived Reichenbach.
Returning
to London, Holmes believes that an agony column
reference to the White Rabbit and Cheshire Cat,
and an invasion of Parliament by white rabbits are
both connected to Moriarty. Mycroft comes to Baker
Street and expresses his belief that Moriarty is
plotting to manipulate public opinion through the
press and through control of certain Members of
Parliament, including his protégé, Steel. At
Madame Tussaud's an attack is made on both the
Foreign Secretary and his wax effigy. Each
incident is accompanied by a Carrollian quote.
Moxton
invites Holmes to an Alice-themed fancy dress
party, and his ward, Alicia, calls on Holmes for
help. The Home Secretary is murdered at the Alice
party. Holmes impersonates Steel in Parliament and
has the Irregulars watch Moxton, who flees the
city. Holmes discovers evidence that Moriarty has
recruited small band of mercenaries. Locating his
new lair, Holmes has to rescue Alicia from a
booby-trapped room, and race to stop a latter-day
Guy Fawkes plot, with a little help from Winston
Churchill.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Apocalypse
Murders (2001)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Mrs. Hudson; Irene
Adler; Mycroft Holmes; Mrs. Turner; Thurston;
Langdale Pike; Fred Porlock; Wiggins; Baker Street
Irregulars
Historical Figures: Jack The Ripper; Oscar
Wilde; Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas; Marquess of
Queensberry
Other Characters: Constable McLinsky;
Simpson's Mâitre d'; Lady Adeline Hatton; Opera
House Page; Lord Daintry; Café Royal Waiter; Café
Royal Mâitre d'; Hansom Driver; Janus Cain; Henry
Harcourt; Constables; Opera Goers; Cain's
Congregation; Cain's Attendants; Nonconformist
Clergyman; Archie Sennott; Raoul Sugarman; Oxford
cab Driver; Magdalen College Porter; Magdalen
College Bursar; Students; Cyril Overton; College
Servant; Head Chef; Cooks; Theatre Audience; Cab
Driver; Theatre Manager; Barman; Policemen
Date: January, 1895
Locations: Croxley Mews; 221B, Baker
Street; Simpson's; A Hansom Cab; Royal Opera
House, Covent Garden; Café Royal; Another Hansom
Cab; Mrs. Turner's House; Maiden Lane; Rules
Restaurant; Hammersmith; Croxley Hall; A Train;
Oxford; Magdalen College; A Club in St. James's;
Porlock's Church; Mitre Square; The Church of the
New Apocalypse; A Cab; Aldgate; Whitechapel;
Regent's Park; St James's Theatre; Trafalgar
Square; London Sewers
Story: Holmes and Watson are called from
dinner at Simpson's by Lestrade, to view the body
of what appears to be a new victim of Jack the
Ripper. Holmes tells Watson that he had worked on
the Ripper case and uncovered the identity of the
Ripper, who was of such high social standing that
his identity could not be revealed, and who was
banished from the country, instead of being
brought to trial. It is possible that he has
returned to London. Holmes and Watson receive
tickets for a performance of La Traviata
at Covent Garden. On arriving there, they discover
that the lead is being played by Irene Adler.
Mycroft is also in attendance and summons them to
dinner the following day. Watson becomes aware
that they are the focus of a purple-eyed, bearded
stranger, who disappears before Watson can point
him out to Holmes.
The next day, Irene visits Baker
Street and tells Holmes of a man who stalked her
in 1888, and seems to have returned, and Holmes
identifies him as the Ripper. They dine at the
Café Royal with Mycroft , who reveals that the
victim, Lady Adeline Hatton, was a member of the
"jury" that tried the Ripper. As they are leaving,
they meet Oscar Wilde, who accompanies them to
Covent Garden. A second member of the "jury",
Henry Hatton, has been killed at a performance of
the Flying Dutchman, and bloodstained roses
are found in Irene's dressing room. Holmes
identifies Janus Cain, head of the Church of the
New Apocalypse, as the Ripper. Mycroft takes
Holmes and Watson to a banquet at Magdalen
College, Oxford to protect the third "jury"
member, Cyril Overton. Wilde and Cain are also
guests of honour at the banquet. Irene is sent to
stay with Mrs. Hudson's friend, Mrs. Turner.
Watson attends a meeting of Cain's church.
At the banquet in Oxford, Holmes
manages to pre-empt Cain's plot, but Wilde learns
that Cain has plans afoot for Valentine's Day.
Back in London, Holmes receives further
information about Cain from Langdale Pike and Fred
Porlock: Cain has bought up a whole section of
Whitechapel in the name of his Church. Irene
infiltrates the church, and Holmes and Watson
break in with the aid of the Baker Street
Irregulars. With the help of Wilde, their
investigations lead to a final showdown in the
London sewers.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat
Murders (2001)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft
Holmes; Von Bork; Colonel James Moriarty; (Baker
Street
Irregulars)
Ficxtional Characters: Hercule Poirot
(Aristide Nemo)
Historical Figures: Sigmund Freud; Dan Leno;
Marie Lloyd; John Buchan; Edward VII
Other Characters: Mr Montague; Bayswater
Policeman; Mrs Cawston; Lady Guest; Impostor;
Simon Pettigrew; Marge Pettigrew; Police Officers;
Pettigrew's Maid; Diogenes Servant; Brown's Maitre
d'; Waiters; Sir Angus McDoum; Anglo-German
Solidarity Audience; Middlesex Audience; Cockney
Fellow; Dowager Lady; Russian Magician; German
Military Men; German M.C.; The Great Mysterioso;
Mycroft's Assistant; Sergeant Micklem; Humble
Wayfarer Landlord & Wife; Mrs Platt; Newsboy;
Café Royal Attendant; Journalists; Harold Soper;
Zuberbier; Quentin E. Dowd; Doum Servants; German
Lecturers; Royal Party; Sons of Albion; Scottish
Soldiers; Policemen; German Sailors; British
Sailors
(Klaus Geier; William Phipps; German Tenor)
Date: Early September, 1900
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Bayswater;
Watson's Club; Pettigrew's Flat; Diogenes Club;
Brown's Hotel; Westminster Hall; Middlesex Music
Hall; Drury Lane; The Yorkshire Express;
Yorkshire; Humblethwaite; The Humble Wayfarer Inn;
Brotherton's Residence; The Moor; A Train; King's
Cross Station; Café Royal; Scotland; Invercrory;
Hotel; Fishing Smack; Isle of Doum; Castle Doum
Story: Lestrade tells Holmes of a murder in
Bayswater. A note left with the victim refers to
Jabez Wilson. Visiting the murder site they
discover that the body has been adorned with a red
wig. The landlady claims that Holmes had been to
visit the man several times over the past few
days. A tobacco dottle found in the room proves to
be of Holmes's own mix. Watson unknowingly
encounters the impostor, and a second murder is
accompanied by a note referring to Grimesby
Roylott. Again, the victim's wife claims that he
had had contact with Holmes.
Mycroft brings news of a third murder,
this time accompanied by five orange pips. He
tells Watson that the three murdered men were
involved in the design of a new submarine. Worried
about Holmes's behaviour, and with Holmes having
disappeared, Watson consults Freud, who is staying
in London. Mycroft takes Watson to a meeting on
Anglo-German Solidarity, with speeches by Von Bork
and Scottish Nationalist McDoum. Holmes is at the
meeting in disguise, makes reference to "the 64
steps" and arranges a rendezvous at a Music Hall
performance where they see the Great Mysterioso -
man of a thousand faces. Lestrade gets a warrant
for Holmes's arrest.
In Yorkshire the last of the
scientists is attacked by a giant hound, then by
Holmes himself, but rescue comes from an
unexpected source. Watson attends a Summit
meeting, disguised as a journalist, at Castle
Doum, at which the Prince of Wales is to be
present. There, he teams up with John Buchan, and
encounters the Poirot-like Aristide Nemo, but
fails to penetrate Holmes's disguise. One of the
other journalists meets with a tragic accident.
The Prince arrives, and he and the submarine must
both be saved, but all is not as it seems.
NOTE: Holmes says of Aristide
Nemo (P.157): "He will end up as the hero of some
cosy detective stories written by some middle-aged
lady with literary pretensions in which he uses
his limited English and his little grey cells...".
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Sherlock Holmes and the Seven
Deadly Sins Murders (2002)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft
Holmes
Fictional Characters: Professor
Challenger; Professor Summerlee
Other Characters: Uma; Sunil; Mr. Smith;
Harry, the Innkeeper; Sergeant Drummond; Sir Simon
Briggs; Blackmore, the Butler; Diogenes Club
Porter; Diogenes Club Steward; Victor Pelham, MP;
Pierre Pascal; Bob McKay; Evan Staunton; Pelham's
Secretary; Mr. Hinckley; Woman In Museum;
Tourists; Hansom Driver; Judson, Concirge;
Strollers in Park; Ayub; Khali; Crowd at Pascal's;
Musicians; Assistants; Passers-By; Waiters; Mâitre
d'; Handmaidens; Policemen; Thorogood; Archie
Sennott; Isaac Goetz; Waterloo Porters;
Journalists; Messengers; Auction Crowd; Savoy
Page; Lestrade's Men (Kor, Ayala)
Date: August, 1895
Locations: Scotland; An Inn; The Hall; A
Train from Scotland to London; 221B, Baker Street;
The Diogenes Club; The British Museum; A Hansom
Cab (Shaftesbury Avenue; Piccadilly Circus; Hyde
Park Corner); Eaton Square; Hyde Park; Lestrade's
Carriage; Outside the Zakhistan Embassy; Chez
Pascal Restaurant; Mycroft's Rooms; Watson's Club;
Waterloo Station; Challenger's Home, Enmore
Gardens, Kensington; The Savoy Hotel
Story: Holidaying in Scotland, Holmes &
Watson are asked by the local constable to view
the body of an unpopular local landowner, Sir
Simon Briggs, who has been murdered, suffocated in
the vacuum of his personal vault, after reporting
that his house was being watched. At the scene of
the murder is a photo of a group of seven young
men; the face of one of them has been scratched
out. They take the photo to Mycroft, who shows
them an identical one and tells them of the
poisoning of an MP in the House of Commons that
very day. He also reveals that the two men were
members of a group of Oxford students, The Seven
Sinners, who took as their names the names of the
Seven Deadly Sins. Other members of the group
include himself and Professors Challenger and
Summerlee. He also tells them of an eighth man,
Staunton, who was refused membership. Back at
Baker Street Holmes receives a letter which he
deduces to have come from the mysterious Indian
woman whom they had seen at their inn in Scotland.
Lestrade has the photo enlarged, which reveals
that Briggs was holding a book written in
Sanskrit. Holmes deduces that it is this that the
murderer is searching for.
Enquiring about the book at the
British Museum, they are met by a man who, Holmes
tells Watson, is an impostor. Watson follows his
carriage, but at the end of the journey a
different man emerges. Watson learns from the
Indian woman, Uma, that the book is the holy book
of the country of Zakhistan, of which she is the
high priestess, and that she has been sent to
retrieve it. She was being aided by a white man
who calls himself Mr. Smith, who carried out the
murders. Holmes suspects that Smith is Saunders.
They travel to the building which Watson saw the
man from the museum enter, only to find a third
victim. A fourth murder, of chef Pascal, is
prevented, and they manage to lure Saunders to
Mycroft's rooms, but he escapes before they can
capture him. When Challenger returns from his
expedition, Holmes seeks his aid to lay a trap for
the murderer.
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Sherlock
Holmes
and the Shakespeare Globe Murders (1997)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; Inspector
Lestrade; (Mrs Watson; Watson's Maid; Billy;
Mary Morstan; Grimesby Roylott; Jabez Wilson;
Oscar Meunier
Historical Figures: Sigmund
Freud; Queen Victoria; Marquess of Salisbury;
Edward Alleyn; (George Robey; William
Shakespeare; Philip Henslowe)
Other Characters: Flora Adler; Cabbies;
Paperboy; Builders; Carlotta Adler / Carlotta
Montevecchio / Charlotte Mencken; Florenz Adler;
Edward Hamilton Fiske; Dame Ivy Fosdyke; Pauline
French; Harrison Trent; Ted Allan / Henry Lowe;
Simon Phipps; Marsham Square Constables; Constable
Baker; Henry Tallis; Actors; Hospital Orderlies;
Stage Hands; Professor Campbell Bryson; College
Servant; Oxford Don; Train Passengers; Cabbies;
Carruthers; Waiter; Bloomsbury Constables;
Bloomsbury Crowd; Mrs Harris; Savoy Page Boy;
Waiter; Lestrade's Men; Constable Ingleby;
Constable Croker; Police Doctor; Club Members; St
James's Park Strollers; Playgoers; Trumpeter;
Brigade of Guards; Sedan Bearers; Equerries;
Lady-in-waiting
(Mrs Watson's Aunt; Duchess of Albemarle;
Duchess's Butler; Florenz Adler; Mycroft's
Messenger; Barley Mow Landlord; Fiske's
Landlady; Lawyer; Police Surgeon; Fiske's
Doctor; John Summers; Carlotta's Aunt;
Carlotta's Child; Iris Tallis; Joan Lithgow;
Christopher Lowe; Mrs Lowe; Clay Lithgow;
Lithgow's Children; Lowe's Solicitors; Savoy
Chef; Watson's Army Colleagues; Chemist)
Date: September, 1899
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Pall Mall;
Diogenes Club; Mycroft's Rooms; Bankside; Globe
Theatre; A Hansom Cab; Marsham Square; Regent's
Park; Islington; The Barley Mow; The Frog and
Parrot; Fiske's Lodging House; Oxford; Balliol
College; The Master's Garden; A Train; Paddington
Station; Bloomsbury; Fosdyke's Hotel; Mayfair;
Brown's Hotel; The Embankment; Savoy Hotel;
Watson's Club; St James's Park; Southwark Bridge
Road
Story: While his new wife is visiting her
aunt in Harrogate, Watson calls on Holmes at Baker
Street. They are visited by the Flora Adler,
daughter of impresario Florenz Adler, who is
building a reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe
Theatre, due to open with a performance attended
by the Queen. Her father has received mysterious
typed quotations from Shakespeare and a drawing of
a rose. They are then summoned by Mycroft who
tells them that the Queen has received similar
messages. Visiting the Globe, they learn that
Adler has no daughter.
A snake
is delivered in a bunch of roses to one of the
actresses. Lestrade arrives with news that another
of the actors, who had suggested he had
information for Holmes, is dead, his body mounted
on the horse of a statue in Marsham Square. Adler
is visited by Tallis, his estranged son who is
representing a consortium who wish to buy out the
theatre. A stabbing occurs during a rehearsal of Julius
Caesar.
After
learning more about the Adlers' pasts, from them
and from Pinkertons, Holmes takes Watson to Oxford
to brush up their Shakespeare, and Holmes notices
that they are being followed by a man in disguise.
Watson is pulled away from a regimental reunion when
another murder occurs, this time in a bath. Holmes
consults with Freud, and arranges a gathering at the
Savoy of all those involved.
Holmes fails to arrive, as does one of the
actresses, and dinner is interrupted by the arrival
of another quotation. Rushing back to the Globe,
Watson discovers the missing actress being pulled
from the Thames, and Holmes's body on stage. A last
note from Holmes instructs that the opening
performance must go on. The performance of Hamlet
becomes a real-life drama, and is interrupted by the
appearance of an actor from the past, and a
disguised Holmes.
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