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J.B.T."Burlap Grones, Detective" (1921)Included in: The Archon (Dummer Academy), Vol. 9 No. 2, January 1921 Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Burlap Grones & Dr Whatson Other Characters: Victor; Count Chilly Beans; (Maria; James) Unnamed Characters: (Chilly's Wife) Locations: USA; Massachusetts, Newburyport; Grones's Rooms; Beans's House Story: Count C. Beans consults Burlap Grones when his personal stock of toothpicks disappears. |
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Alex JackInspector Ginkgo Tips His Hat To
Sherlock Holmes (1994) Ryder gives them the deerstalker that the Dharmapa was wearing during his visit to the museum. From Starov they learn of Ryder's intentions regarding the hat, and its link to the death of his parents. In Zurich they learn from Elsa Klein of the nuclear secrets hidden in the hat. Before leaving Switzerland they visit the Reichenbach Falls, where Milton & Kalavinka barely escape an avalanche, and where they encounter Lance Andrews, whom they had last seen in Boston, and who, they learn in new Delhi, has also been making attempts to obtain the hat. Visiting the exiled Regent, Vajra, in Sikkim, they hear of Ryder and Cusack's death, and of Holmes's sojourn in Lhasa. Gingko sets a trap to reveal a traitor, but he and Milton find themselves stranded in Pleasant Valley. The lamas assist them in reaching Arizona in time for the ceremony and Gingko uses his knowledge of traditions surrounding the hat to forestall the Dharmapa's discovery of its disappearance, but leaves him only a day to recover the genuine hat. The final solution leads to the discovery of Holmes's presence throughout the investigation. |
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Joseph H. Jackson & Edward D.
Evans
"Stories in
Stone" (1973) |
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Neil Jackson"Celeste" (2009) |
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David James"The Adventure of Polly Winthrop"
(2000) |
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"The Adventure of Sacramento
House" (2000) Included in: Sherlock Holmes and the Midnight Bell Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson Other Characters: Agatha Hanley; Catherine Hanley; (Tom Hanley) Unnamed Characters: Hanley's Coachman; Servants; Bank Officials; (Watson's Old Army Compatriot; Compatriot's Widow; Hanley's Friends) Date: October Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Kent; Sevenoaks Station; Sacramento House Story: Holmes is called upon by Agatha Hanley whose late husband has left a fortune in gold concealed somewhere on his estate in Kent. |
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"The Adventure of the
Admiral" (2000) Included in: Sherlock Holmes and the Midnight Bell Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Mrs Hudson Other Characters: Lord Ephgrave; Captain Carpenter; (Sergeant Anderson; Rodney Nelson; William Hanson) Unnamed Characters: Newsagent's Boy; Police Constables; Bank Directors; News-Vendors; Milkman; Kitchen Maid; Cabby; Matilda Crew; Carter; Scotland Yard Officers; Police Sergeants; Coast-guard Captain; Cutter Crew; (Ephgrave's Wife; Bank Staff; Bond Street Crowd; Charing Cross Hospital Doctors; Holmes's Dentist; Coxeter's General Manager; Coxeter's Night-Watchman; Ship Aground Customers; Deptford Police; Bank Robbers; Carpenter's Second Mate; Carpenter's Diving Crew) Date: October Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Bond Street; Ephgrave and Company; Tailor's Shop; Coxeter's Offices; Deptford; Ship Aground Tavern; Diving-Wharf; Chelsea; Scotland Yard; English Channel; Aboard the Matilda Story: Lestrade consults Holmes over the robbery of Ephgrave's bank in Bond Street, where he found the staff convulsed with laughter as the Chairman's wife danced with the tellers. Lestrade and his constables had also been reduced to a helpless state of hilarity shortly after arriving on the scene. When Holmes disappears while investigating the man known as The Admiral, Watson searches the Deptford waterfront to find him, and a chase ensues aboard a coastguard cutter. |
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"The Adventure of the
Midnight Bell" (2000) Included in: Sherlock Holmes and the Midnight Bell Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson Other Characters: Rev. Charles Farthing; Mrs Farthing; Inspector Pringle; Edwards; Thomas Edginton; Sarah Benfield; (Squire Benfield) Unnamed Characters: Police Constables; Police Sergeant; Onlookers; (Squire's Servant; Doctor) Date: Tuesday 16th November Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Sussex; Lampton; Vicarage; Sexton's House; Church; Inn; Fletcham; Inn; Wood; Barn Story: Holmes is called upon by Charles Farthing, the vicar of Lampton in Sussex. recently, on three separate nights the village's church bell has been rung at midnight, and Farthing's investigations have revealed only an empty church on each occasion. Holmes and Watson arrive in the village to find that the local squire has been murdered and the sexton has gone missing. |
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"The Adventure of the
Quincunx Challenge" (2000) Included in: Sherlock Holmes and the Midnight Bell Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Mrs Hudson Other Characters: Alexander McClean; Arthur T. Lassinger; Elizabeth McClean; (Jaswant Devi) Unnamed Characters: Radlett Station Cleaner; Lestrade's Men; Journalists; Edgware Man; St Albans Police inspector; St Albans Police Constables; Lassinger's Wife; Lassinger's Daughters; Kidnapped Girls Date: Late May Locations: Oxford Street; 221B, Baker Street; Radlett Station; Edgware; Greengrocers Shop; St Albans; Mercator House; Tea-Shop Story: Holmes is consulted by silk merchant Alexander McClean after his sister Elizabeth becomes the latest victim in a series of disappearances of young women. Holmes receives a message from the abductor inviting him to a rendezvous at Radlett Station, where a package thrown from a passing express train initiates a game of cat and mouse. |
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L. Frank JamesAn Opened Grave (2005) Having overheard Filby discussing the Time Machine at the Diogenes Club, Holmes has resolved to steal it, and he and Watson travel back in time. They arrive in the middle of a druid ritual, with six months to reach the Holy Land before the Crucifixion. Betrayed by the Arch Druid, they find themselves under arrest. In Gaul they are set upon by brigands, live with gypsies, and are captured by a Sheik, before finally reaching Jerusalem, where they witness Christ's entry into the city. They become separated, Watson becomes a prisoner again, and survives an earthquake. Holmes examines the tomb of Christ, and after recovering the stolen Time Machine crystal they return to the twentieth century. |
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Craig Janacek"The
Adventure of the Fateful Malady" (2015) |
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"The
Case of the Double-Edged Hoard" (2015) NOTE: This story is a reworking of "The Silver Hatchet" by Arthur Conan Doyle. |
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Anita JandaThe Secret Diary of Dr. Watson (2001) Later, Holmes is distressed - Lestrade has given him a copy of the Ripper letters, but in his own handwriting. Holmes sends Watson to Dartmoor to keep watch over Sir Henry Baskerville. Bored with the chore, Watson decides he will attempt to solve the mystery himself. Eventually Holmes arrives on Dartmoor to clear things up, and suggests to Watson that the story might make a serial, rather than a novel. Watson's stories have begun to appear in The Strand (edited by Mary's cousin, Nat), but already he is having problems choosing which ones to write up - there seems to be a sameness to many of Holmes's cases, he thinks. Holmes is spending increasing amounts of time visiting the Watsons, and Mary believes he is lonely. She arranges for him to meet her old school friend, and then a number of other friends. After an embarrassing night at the theatre, Holmes brings them a goose in apology. Upon cutting open the goose, Mary finds a blue carbuncle inside. Mary Sutherland calls on Watson, aghast at learning the facts of her fiancé's disappearance in The Strand. Watson later writes "A Scandal In Bohemia" in an attempt to preserve Holmes from Mary's matchmaking. He decides to move his practice to Kensington to avoid the attentions of his readers who begin to seek him out after SCAN is published. Mary moves on to matching Stamford up with Mary Sutherland. Watson gets another story when he visits an opium den to bring home the husband of another of Mary's friends. In 1891 Holmes faces Moriarty, and sets off for the Continent in pursuit of him, with Watson in tow, only to meet his fate at Reichenbach. After Holmes's death, Watson resolves to give up writing. He returns to writing "The Final Problem" in 1893 after attacks on Holmes's reputation by Colonel Moriarty. In 1894 Watson's son is born, but dies in infancy, followed shortly thereafter by Mary. Holmes returns from the dead and Watson joins him in the capture of Colonel Moran, but begins to feel that in the light of the things Holmes has kept from him, their relationship cannot continue in the same way. NOTE: In this revisualising of the canon several of the characters become characters in Watson's stories: Hermia Marie Cathcart = Susan Cushing; Alec Brownley = Jim Browner; Stephen Smith = Alec Fairbairn; Henrietta Marie Cathcart = Mary & Sarah Cushing; Lassiter = Frankland; Loretta Lassiter = Laura Lyons; Abel Hucknell = Isa Whitney; Claire Hucknell = Kate Whitney |
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Roger Jaynes"The Case of the Baffled Courier" |
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"The
Case of the Dishonoured Professor" NOTE: The Spanish ancestor that Watson tells Holmes about (P.12) is Henriques from Michael Hardwick's The Private Life of Dr Watson. |
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"Moriarty's Fiendish Plan" Included in: Sherlock Holmes: A Duel with the Devil (Roger Jaynes) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Professor Moriarty; Mrs Hudson; Wiggins; Mycroft Holmes; (Tobias Gregson; Fred Porlock; Baker Street Irregulars; The Moriarty Gang) Historical Figures: Lord George Sanger; Andrew Oliver (Arthur Oliver); (Jean Baptiste Greuze; The Home Secretary) Other Characters: Sanders; Douglas; Douglas's Friend; Rajan-Raj; Trafalgar Square Crowds; Trafalgar Square Constables; Abbott's Lane Onlookers; Abbott's Lane Constables; Peter Jacobsen; Edward Biggle; Sticker; Aerialists; Juggler; Tumblers; Clowns; Contortionist; Sword-Swallower; Archie Dennis; Gymnasts; Circus Workers; Ulric; Cabbie; Pedestrians; Gallery Visitors; Gallery Guide; Gallery Guard; 'Bloody' Jack Langdon; Joseph Potter; Motor Launch Captain; (Crimson Vandals; Sergeant Mayhew; Police Constable; Abrams; Clark; Martha; Pierre D'Arcy; Whitehall Officials; Golden Swan Contact; Moriarty's Servant; British Museum Clerk; Mr Cornelius; Claude Jarre; Potter's Landlady; Barclay's Bank Clerk; Potter's Sister; Thurgood Potter; Grimaldi the Illusionist; Palmyra; Paul Galpin; Langdon's Carriage Driver; Moriarty's Lurkers; Moriarty's Housekeeper; French Ambassador) Date: Saturday 17th November - 24th December, 1888 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; West India Docks; Moriarty's Secret Lair; Piccadilly Circus; Haymarket; Pall Mall; Trafalgar Square; Stepney; Abbott's Lane; Jacobsen's Art Shop; Brook Street; Potter's Rooms; Chiswick; Potter's Sister's House; Sanger's Grand National Amphitheatre; National Gallery; Charing Cross; Embankment; Cleopatra's Needle; The Thames; France; Calais Story: While Watson is out, Lestrade consults Holmes over the fourth incident involving the Crimson Vandals, who coat statues of royalty in red paint. He shows Holmes the runic messages that have been left at the crime scenes. Their conversation is disrupted by the return of Watson, who attempts to murder Holmes. Within the following days another statue is painted, in Trafalgar Square, and an art dealer is murdered in Stepney. The trail leads to a murder at Sanger's Circus, and an art gallery in Calais, then on to the National Gallery where two Greuzes are on display. |
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"Sherlock Holmes and the
Belgravian Letter" (2008) Included in: Sherlock Holmes and the Three Poisoned Pawns (Emanuel E. Garcia, Roger Jaynes & Eddie Maguire) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; (Peter Carey; Jonas Oldacre; Mycroft Holmes; Colonel Moran) Historical Figures: (Lord Salisbury) Other Characters: Constable Bennett; Sergeant Potter; Mr Davis; Sir Arthur Wilcox; Doctor William Morrison; Lady Althea Wilcox; Dr Ormsby; Helen Millay; (Henry Gilham; Mrs Gilham; Mrs Davis; Edward Balmaster) Unnamed Characters: Hyde Park Crowds; Vendors; Children; Hurdy-Gurdy Man; Telescope Man; Belgravia Police Constables; Gunman; (Insurance Salesman; Wilcox's Maids; Cab Driver; Private Detective) Date: August, 1895 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Belgravia; Cadogan Place Story: Holmes is consulted by Lestrade after the shooting,in his home, of Sir Arthur Wilcox, confidential assistant to the Prime Minister. The government are concerned that state documents might have been stolen from his safe. Holmes sets up a ruse to learn the truth of Sir Arthur's death, and two vigils on the same night are necessary to bring the case to a close. |
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Sherlock Holmes and the
Chilford Ripper (2006) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; (Mary Morstan; Mycroft Holmes; Professor Moriarty; Ronald Adair; Murray) Historical Figures: (General Frederick Sleigh Roberts; Queen Victoria; William Ewart Gladstone) Other Characters: J. Thurgood Morton; Dr Geoffrey Blake; Gwendolyn Tate; Constable Newton; Mr Weatherby; Stephen Langley; Stanley Archer; Meg Pryor; Edward Lattimer; Hansen; Parker; Alice Reeve; Allen Hastings; (Colonel Collingwood; Wilcox; Thurston Blake; Barrymore; Bishop Timothy Mayhew; Thomas Harper; Toby Turner; Molly Brighton; Albert or Gordon Brighton; Violet McVey; Lawrence Tate; John Blair; Cynthia Dennis; Dr Ferguson; Harry Cooper; Miles Thorne; Madame Carbono; Sir Harold Langley; Simpson; Thaddeus Compton; Viceroy Adam-Brooke; Colonel Wilkinson) Unnamed Characters: Liverpool Street Crowds; Liverpool Street Porters; Colchester Carriage Driver; Chilford Residents; Policemen; Clergyman; (Collingwood's Niece; Watson's Colleague; Collingwood's Niece's Husband; Harper's Apprentice; Marsh People; Blake's Colleague; Blake's Essex Driver; Ferguson's Widow; Coggeshall Redhead; Chilford Boys; Home Secretary; Prime Minister; Indian Prince; Pretoria Guards) Date: September, 1894 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Liverpool Street Station; Essex; Colchester; Chilford; Archer's Rooms; Weatherby's Well Inn; Lattimer's Shop; Blake's Home; Hastings' Farm; Cemetery; India; Bombay Story: Holmes and Watson are called upon by Watson's old army colleague Dr Geoffrey Blake. Three residents of his home village of Chilford in Essex have been violently butchered, and their homes ransacked, in as many nights. Holmes and Watson travel by train to Chilford, where Lestrade is already investigating, and believes that marsh-living gypsies are behind the murders, and another murder has taken place. They meet Stephen Langley, owner of the local racing stables, and his military colleagues from India, who accompanied him back to the village and who form the Cooper Club, named after one of their fallen colleagues. The first and latest victims was members of the club. Holmes solves the case and a major theft that has remained unsolved and plagued the government since 1891. |
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H. Paul Jeffers"The
Accidental Murderess" (2005) |
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"The
Adventure of the Blarney Stone" (2005) from a radio play by Anthony Boucher & Denis Green (1946) Included in: The Forgotten Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (H. Paul Jeffers) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Mycroft Holmes) Other Characters: Paddy Quinn; Men at the Blarney Stone; Pub Customers; Sean O'Flaherty; Kathleen; Jeffrey Hankin; Michael Corcoran; Molly Hankin; Sergeant O'Malley; (Seamus Donnelly) Date: March, 1899 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Ireland; Cork; Blarney Castle; Blarney; Pub; O'Malley's Office Story: After investigating a murder case in Ireland, Watson persuades Holmes to visit the Blarney Stone. In the pub that night they witness an unfaithful wife, a barroom brawl and a challenge to kiss the Blarney Stone which ends in death the following day. Holmes restages the death to trap the murderer. |
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"The
Adventure of the Grand Old Man" (2005) from a radio play by Anthony Boucher & Denis Green (1946) Included in: The Forgotten Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (H. Paul Jeffers) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson Historical Figures: Edward VII; Queen Alexandra Other Characters: Reeve's Business Manager; Dr Harvey Manners; Hugh Kingslake; Silas Reeve; Catherine Reeve; Martin Reeve; Postmistress; Reverend Mr Norman Miller; (Sir Basil Wentworth; Coachman; Reeve's Servants; Colin McGrath) Date: A Tuesday between May and July Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Haymarket Square; Restivo's Restaurant; Theatre; Carlisle; The Reeve House; Chiswick; Post Office; Inn Story: Holmes receives theatre tickets from playwright Martin Reeve to a performance which will be attended by the Prince of Wales. Reeve's business manager asks Holmes to travel to Carlisle, where Reeve is ill and his doctor believes someone is trying to murder him. In Carlisle they learn that Reeve has seen an apparition from his past - a blue-eyed blond young man, the real author of the play that made Reeve famous. Reeve asks Holmes to trace the heir of this man so that part of his estate may be bequeathed to them. Hairs from a wig, village gossip and an old photograph bring the case closer to its solution, but events take a tragic turn. |
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"The
Adventure of Maltree Abbey" (2005) from a radio play by Anthony Boucher & Denis Green (1947) Included in: The Forgotten Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (H. Paul Jeffers) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Athelney Jones Historical Figures: (Henry VIII; The Venerable Bede; Edward VII) Other Characters: Sybil Carter; Harold, the 14th Earl of Maltree; Jonathan Devers Date: December (post-1901) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Maltree Abbey Story: After her amorous millionaire cousin, Devers, offers to pay her brother, the Earl of Maltree, to disappear, so that he might marry her and inherit the family estate, Sybil Carter asks Holmes to attend a family musical ritual, dating from the time of Henry VII, and warn him off. A tune composed by Henry VIII, and a rosary held by the Venerable Bede lead Holmes to the secret of the family home, Maltree Abbey. |
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"The
Adventure of the Old Russian Woman" (1998) Included in: The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Marvin Kaye) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Mycroft Holmes) Historical Figures: Oscar Wilde; James McNeill Whistler; John Singer Sargent Other Characters: (Young Woman Bidder; Mr Gordon; Vukcic; Agent of the Kaiser; Mycroft's Agent) Date: April, 1883 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Piccadilly; Prince's Hall; Chelsea; Tite Street; Whistler's Studio; Cox & Co. Story: After deducing that letters from San Francisco are from the wife of Watson's ailing brother, and that Watson intends to travel there to attend him, Holmes accompanies Watson to a lecture on America given by Oscar Wilde, after which they encounter Whistler. He invites them to his studio from where a painting of an old Russian woman by an unknown artist has been stolen. At the studio they learn of another bidder for the painting at auction, and Holmes is sketched by Singer Sargent. Holmes visits the gallery where the painting was auctioned, learns that the woman depicted is Serbian, not Russian, and averts a European crisis. |
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"The
Adventure of the Sally Martin" (2005) from a radio play by Anthony Boucher & Denis Green (1946) Included in: The Forgotten Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (H. Paul Jeffers) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson Other Characters: Albert Jones; Silver Dolphin Waiter; Sergeant Dobson; Mrs Byron; Joseph Hartson; Clarence Byron; Captain Jeremy Small; Arthur Coggins; Mrs Jenkins; Constable; (George Byron; Alf Jones; Meyer Jenkins) Date: Thursday in July, 1897 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Kingsgate; Silver Dolphin Inn; Aboard the Sally Martin; The Seaman's Hostel Story: Holmes is invited by cotton tycoon, Byron, to the launching of his yacht, the Sally Martin. When they arrive in Kingsgate they learn that Byron has been murdered. Aboard the yacht all fingers point at the dead man's brother as the murderer. A suicidal confession seems to lay the matter to rest, but further investigations on shore finally uncover the truth. |
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The
Adventure of the Stalwart Companions (1978) Holmes and Roosevelt have been corresponding by post for some time, so when he is performing with the Sasanoff Company in New York, Holmes sends Roosevelt two tickets for Twelfth Night. Roosevelt invites Hargreave to accompany him. After the show, Hargreave is called to a murder in Gramercy Park, outside the home of presidential candidate Tilden, and Holmes and Roosevelt accompany him. The victim, Tebbel, appears to have been shot in the back, in the street, by a robber. Holmes uses Drumgoole's orphans as Irregulars to find out what they can about Tebbel, the dead man,who was a cocaine user. A trip into Five Points results in an interview with Tebbel's half-brother, and reveals that, during the election, Tebbel had been hired by a man named Charles to intimidate Tilden voters. Roosevelt describes the Tilden / Hayes election to Holmes, who, after an investigation disguised as a merchant seaman, reveals that the plot involves a threat to the President. The case takes them back to the home of Tilden and to the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where they find Veil, who describes the plot against the President. A carriage chase and a fight on the Brooklyn Bridge bring the case to an unsatisfactory end. Holmes learns from Mycroft the true identity of Charles after the assassination of President Garfield. |
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"The
Adventure of the Stuttering Ghost" (2005) from a radio play by Anthony Boucher & Denis Green (1946) Included in: The Forgotten Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (H. Paul Jeffers) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Inspector Lestrade) Other Characters: Jean Frampton; Ferdinand the Pekinese; Alfie Smith; Jezra Gaunt; (Randal Rogier; Stuttering Steve Hacker; Dartmoor Warden) Date: 1886 ("The only King Fediand I am aware of died a year ago") Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Baker Street; Scotland Yard; Gaunt's Palace Story: Holmes receives a letter from a Pekinese dog, who arrives at Baker Street with his owner, Mrs Frampton. While Watson is out walking the dog, Mrs Frampton holds Holmes at gunpoint and searches thrugh his files. Holmes deduces she is interested in the eight-year-old theft of the Shroesbury emeralds and believes that he knows where the jewels are hidden. Luckily, Watson has his own notes on the case, and Holmes visits a waxworks in order to crack an old code, finding connections with the Templars and the Freemasons, and calling on his knowledge of French, before finding the jewels. |
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"The Book of Tobit"
(2005) NOTE: This radio play has also been adapted as a short story by Carla Coupe |
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"The
Clue of the Hungry Cat" (2005) from a radio play by Anthony Boucher & Denis Green (1946) Included in: The Forgotten Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (H. Paul Jeffers) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson Other Characters: Doris Roberts; Captain Jonathan Wiley; Daniel Post; (Robert Saunders; Helen Caldwell; Inspector Davis; Justice Hardwick; Amanda Post; Minnie the Cat; Eddie Roberts; Chief Constable Harris; Lord Brookfield) Date: A Wednesday in late December, 1895 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Sudbury; Mrs Roberts' House; Fire Station Story: The newspapers carry details of the trial of Robert Saunders, accused of murdering his boss's wife during a robbery. Holmes believes him innocent, but is sure he will be convicted. He and Watson visit the burned-out scene of the murder, and hear from a neighbour how Mrs Post's cat had appeared hungry at her kitchen door on the night of the murder and fire. When the fire chief tells him of a burned-up corset and an alarm clock that was still ticking after the fire Holmes is able to solve the case. |
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"The
Darlington Substitution" (2005) from a radio play by Anthony Boucher & Denis Green (1947) Included in: The Forgotten Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (H. Paul Jeffers) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade Other Characters: Reginald Tremayne; Darlington's Butler; Lord Darlington; Stationmaster; Dr Edwin Godfrey; Chief Constable; Lady Clara Darlington; Maude Harris; Darlington's Son; Lestrade's Men; (Harris's Son) Date: "The months following the fateful day on which [Watson] was introduced to Sherlock Holmes" Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Darlington Residence; Surrey; Godfrey's Cottage; Police Station Story: Lestrade sends Tremayne, who says his life is threatened by his cousin, Lord Darlington, to Baker Street, where he asks Holmes to warn Darlington off. Holmes takes on the case, intrigued to find out what would drive the otherwise upstanding Darlington to these measures. Darlington tells him that Tremayne is threatening to reveal that Lady Darlington's paid companion's son was substituted for the stillborn Darlington heir. Holmes and Watson travel to Surrey to investigate the truth of the claim, but find the doctor involved has been murdered. Back in London, Holmes uses a familiar trick to conclude his Solomonic investigation. |
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"The
Haunting of Sherlock Holmes" (2005) NOTE: Holmes's adventures with Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson Hargreave in New York (P.109) are described in Jeffers's book The Adventure of the Stalwart Companions. |
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"In
Flanders Field" (2005) from a radio play by Anthony Boucher & Denis Green (1945) Included in: The Forgotten Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (H. Paul Jeffers) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Altamont; Von Bork; Mycroft Holmes) Other Characters: Maitland Morris; Cynthia Morris; Staff Car Driver; Corporal; Captain Maxwell; General Sir Stanley Morris Date: Early 1914 / Autumn, 1914 Locations: Von Bork's Terrace; Watson's Harley Street Practice; Paris; The British Front Lines; Victoria Station Story: After investigating the disappearance of an aide de camp in Paris, Holmes and Watson are sent to the British front lines in company of a husband and wife Shakespearean acting partnership. The husband, who is the brother of the General in charge of the sector, disappears before the performance, and Holmes is shot at when he takes his place. |
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Murder
Most Irregular (1983) Story Type: Homage Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes) Characters Based On Historical Figures: Ben Artnikoff (Isaac Asimov); James Donald Cape (John Bennett Shaw); Ethan Cage Remarque (William S. Baring-Gould); John Edgar Foxx (Julian Wolff); Cliff Brownglass (Chris Steinbrunner) Other Characters: David Morgan; Nicole Varney; B. Alexander 'Wiggy' Wiggins; Taxi Drivers; Baker Street Irregulars; Female Author; The Commissionaire; Bill Miner; Waiter; Freddy; Kenny West; Airport Passengers; Durrants Bellmen; Evie; Durrants Hall Porter; Chief Superintendent Ivor Griffith; Policemen; Hotel Guests; Doctor; Night Hall Porter; Durrants Hotel Waiters; Tourists; Horse Guards; Sherlock Holmes Pub Door Woman; Sherlock Holmes Pub Waitress; Paddington Porters; Four-Wheeler Driver; Robert; Sir Malcolm Bannister; Alexander / Lex Bell; Kevin Bell; (Wiggins's Attackers; Herman Sloan; Carrie Lonsback; Joseph Bell; Miss McKeon; Artnikoff's Publisher; Hess-Feldstein's Publisher; Leslie Westin; Police Sergeant; Mrs Bell; Mental Hospital Staff; Bell's Cambridge Neighbours; Miner's Son) Date: 6th January Locations: USA; New York; Morgan's Apartment; First Avenue; Queen Victoria Hotel; Park Avenue; Fifty-Seventh Street; Nicole's Apartment; Lexington Avenue; Morgan's Offic; Airpor; Heathrow Airport; London; George Street; Durrants Hotel; Baker Street; Blandford Street; Kendall Place; Marylebone Road; Baker Street Underground Station; Sloane Square; Park Lane; Upper Grosvenor Street; Duke Street; Manchester Square; New Cavendish Street; Harley Street; Langham Hotel; Wigmore Street; Duke Street; Manchester Square; New Scotland Yard; Victoria Street; Westminster; Broad Sanctuary; Whitehall; Derby Gate; Horse Guards Parade; St James's Park; Waterloo Place; Pall Mall; Piccadilly; Berkeley Street; Berkeley Square; Grosvenor Square; Sherlock Holmes Pub; Paddington Station; A Train; Devonshire; Dartmoor; Baskerville Hall Station; Baskerville Hall; Waterloo Station; The Boat Train Story: New York private detective David Morgan attends the annual dinner of the Baker Street Irregulars. Fellow Irregular Wiggins tells him of an attack on himself, and that several members of the Irregulars, the Men of Tor, have received threatening cards bearing the word "Rache". He believes that an attempt will be made to murder the men in London, where they are meeting with Sr Malcolm Bannister, to make arrangements to establish a business running tours to the restored house on Dartmoor he is opening to the public as Baskerville Hall. Each of the Men of Tor has a theory as to who sent the notes, but before the dinner is over, they learn that one of their number has already been killed. Morgan travels to England with the remaining Men of Tor, and the voice of Holmes guides him through the investigation as they travel from London to Baskerville Hall and the body toll mounts. |
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"The
Paradol Chamber" (2005) |
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"Sherlock
Holmes and the Mummy's Curse" (2006) |
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"The
Singular Affair of the Dying Schoolboys" (2005) from a radio play by Anthony Boucher & Denis Green (1946) Included in: The Forgotten Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (H. Paul Jeffers) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; "Venomous Lizard, or Gila"; (Dr Grimesby Roylott) Other Characters: Lord Randolph Landers; Llewellyn Coffin; Mrs Arkwright; Dr Morgan (or Arthur) Ponsonby; Carruthers Minor; Constable; (Stanley Landers; Eric Landers; Jonas Appleton; Ned Baxter; Emma Baxter) Date: September, 1888 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Cardiff; Village Mortuary; Ponsonby Hall; Village Inn Story: Holmes is consulted by Lord Randolph Landers, who survived the wrecking of the Sophie Anderson, only to learn that his younger brother and heir, Eric, had died aged thirteen at Ponsonby Hall, a school for problem boys from well-to-do families in Wales. Landers has since learned that there have been five similar deaths at the school in the past two years. Holmes discovers that the school's founder is a fomer associate of Dr Grimesby Roylott, and he, Watson and Landers travel to Wales where they learn that all the boys' faces carried expressions of fear, and there were bite marks on the bodies, as if from a small dog or cat. Watson is sent to the school in the guise of a rich Scotsman with a troublesome younger cousin. At the school he learns that another boy is suffering from pneumonia and being treated by Dr Ponsonby, before his identity is uncovered. Holmes and Watson break into the school that night and enter the boy's sickroom to bring the case to a close. |
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Sarah Montague Joffe"Elementary, My Lovely" (1986) |
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Fred Johnson
"The Duke
and the Sleuth (Or a Thoroughbred Affair)" (1915) |
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Kenneth Johnson
Holmes
Coming (2022) |
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Roger Johnson"The Adventure of the Grace Chalice"
(1987) NOTE: This story appeared in radio script form in The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part IV: 2016 Annual |
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Zakariah Johnson"The
Adventure of the Copper Breechloads" (2015) |
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J. Jeremy Johnston
"The Giant
Rat of Sumatra" (1972) |
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T. Arnold Johnston"Moriarty's
Return" (1905) |
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Carole Johnstone"The
Case of the Cannibal Club" (2017) |
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"The
Draugr of Tromsø" (2015) |
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Barry Jones"The Shadows on the Lawn" (1987) |
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Steven Philip Jones"The Case of the Petty Curses" (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; (Mary Morstan; Farquhar) Historical Figures: (Queen Victoria) Other Characters: Halima Angus-Burton; Hip Yee; Tseng; Malcolm Angus-Burton Unnamed Characters: Cab Driver; Police Officers; Angus-Burtons' Servants; (Halima's Parents; Halima's Step-father; Malcolm's Parents) Date: August 1889 Locations: Watson's Paddington Practice; Baker Street; Notting Hill; 17, Kensington Place; 221B, Baker Street; East End; Docklands; The Way To Heaven Story: Watson is summoned by Holmes to accompany him on a visit to Halima Angus-Burton, the Egyptian wife of Malcolm Angus-Burton, a high-ranking official in the Foreign Office, who has accused Halima of placing a curse on him. The couple's Chinese butler Tseng, an orphan who had been raised by Malcolm's parents, has been missing for over a month. The investigation takes them into the heart of the Docklands and a shop named The Way to Heaven, filled with Asian curiosities. |
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Steven Philip Jones & Aldin BarozaAdventure of the Opera Ghost (2009) NOTE: The pages in this book are not numbered. For indexing purposes I have taken the "Prologue" page, which shows Buquet's suicide, as page one. |
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Steven Philip Jones & Seppo Makinen"The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll &
Mr Holmes" (2009) NOTE: The pages in this book are not numbered. For indexing purposes I have taken the title page, which shows Hyde trampling the girl, as page one. |
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Tristan Jones"Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Mary Celeste" (1982)Included in: Yarns (Tristan Jones) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; (King of Bohemia) Fictional Characters: (J. Habakuk Jephson) Historical Figures: Fanny Richardson; Frederick Solly-Flood; Miss Golightly; Arthur Conan Doyle; (The Mary Celeste; Albert Richardson; Captain Benjamin Briggs; Captain David Morehouse; Oliver E. Deveau; John Wright; Sarah Briggs; Sophia Matilda Briggs; Mary Celeste Crew) Other Characters: Major Arbuthnot; Carson; (Miss Shaughnessy: Captain Coffin; Professor Clitheroe; Clothilde Fontaine; Lady Yarborough) Unnamed Characters: Dover Porter; Boulogne Baggage Handler; Paris Hansom-Cab Driver; Berkshire Regiment Soldiers; Duchess of Athlone Steward; Levantine Merchants; Merchants' Runners; Government House Sentry; Subaltern; Orientals; Spanish Ladies & Gentlemen; Bluejackets; (Milkman; Farmer; Royal Personage; Bohemian Courtesan; Watson's Patients; Cornhill Magazine Editor) Date: Late June, 1886 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Waterloo Station; Kent; Dover; English Channel; Boulogne; Paris; Marseilles; Gibraltar; Government House; Woolwich Story: Fanny Richardson, the wife of the first mate of the Mary Celeste travels from America to consult Holmes over the disappearance of her husband and the rest of the ship's crew. Holmes and Watson travel to Gibraltar, where investigations at Government House, and memories of some old cases reveal the solution, They return to London and introduce Mrs Richardson to a mystery writer. |
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Watkin JonesThe Case of the Scarlet Woman (1999) Book I: "The Haunted House" |
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II: "The Hidden Church" Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; Baker Street Irregulars Historical Figures: (The Order of the Golden Dawn; MacGregor Mathers; Aleister Crowley) Other Characters: Tanith Hekaltey; Mrs. Hunter; Mr. Gill, QC; Cab Driver; Tanith's Landlady; Policemen; Perkins (Rupert Hekaltey) Date: April 1900 or 1901 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Battersea; Simpson's; The Strand; Brixton; (Golden Dawn Meeting House) Story: Tanith Hekaltey consults Holmes over her brother's kidnapping, having received a message accusing him of being a liar and a traitor. Her father had died six weeks previously and had expressed concern over his son's recent activities before he died. Evidence in Rupert's lodgings points to him being involved with the Order of the Golden Dawn. Mycroft is summoned to Baker Street and becomes angered at Holmes's involvement in the case. Mycroft tells of a schism in the Order, and believes that Hekaltey has been abducted as a supporter of the sect's founder, Mathers. Holmes, in disguise, attends a meeting of the Golden Dawn, but is later charged by their lawyer with housebreaking. Holmes eventually becomes aware that he is being manipulated for someone else's ends, and it becomes apparent that the case is linked to the earlier one at the haunted house in Chancery Lane. |
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Book III: "The Scarlet Woman" |
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Wex Jones
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"The Adventure of the Two-Dollar
Bill" (1915) Included in: Sherlock Holmes in America (Bill Blackbeard) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Timelock Foams & Potson Characters Based on Canonical Characters: (Moriarity) Other Characters: (Potson's Army Friends; Nijeffsky) Locations: Faker Street; Tobacconist's; Lyric Hall Story: While Potson is at the tobacconist's, a two dollar bill disappears from the table in his rooms at Faker Street. |
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"The Adventure of the
Two-Faced Clock" (1915) Included in: Sherlock Holmes in America (Bill Blackbeard) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Timelock Foams & Potson Characters based on Canonical Characters: (Moriarity) Locations: Foams's Rooms; The Clock Room Story: Foams expects a murder to occur in the rooms opposite his. He deduces from a clock face that Moriarity is behind the crime. |
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"The Adventures of the Moving
Picture House" (1915) Included in: Sherlock Holmes in America (Bill Blackbeard) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Timelock Foams & Potson Characters Based on Canonical Characters: (Moriarity) Historical Figures: (Jan Kubelik) Other Characters: (Comic Actor; Fat Woman) Locations: Faker Street; Moving Picture House Story: Foams and Potson visit a moving picture house. Foams deduces that the film is a plot against him by Moriarity. |
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"He Solves the Famous
Mystery of the Goldfish Globe" (1915) Included in: Sherlock Holmes in America (Bill Blackbeard) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Timelock Foams & Potson Locations: Bakingpowder Street Story: Foams discovers why the water in his goldfish bowl has been whipped to a foaming frenzy. |
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"The Missing Golf Balls" (1905) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches II: 1905-1909 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Other Characters: McStingo; Detective Night Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Scotland; Golf Course Story: Holmes travels to Scotland to investigate the case of McStingo's four thousand missing golf balls. |
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"The Mystery of the
Alarm Clock That Didn't Alarm" (1915) Included in: Sherlock Holmes in America (Bill Blackbeard) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Timelock Foams & Potson Characters based on Canonical Characters: (Moriarity) Other Characters: (Prince of Ruritania) Locations: Foams's Rooms Story: Foams and Watson oversleep, missing their appointment with the Prince of Ruritania. Potson discovers why the alarm clock failed to awaken Foams. |
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"The Mystery of the
Clock That Wouldn't Strike" (1914) Included in: Sherlock Holmes in America (Bill Blackbeard) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Timelock Foams & Potson Other Characters: Countess of Crumpsall Story: Foams ponders the reason why the Countess of Crumpsall carried around a clock that did not strike. |
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"The Mystery of the Grange" (1914) Included in: Sherlock Holmes in America (Bill Blackbeard) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes (Unnamed); Dr Watson Other Characters: Sir Edward Plantagenet; Miss Ermentrude Plantagenet; Bill Plantagenet; The Butler; Two Maidservants Date: The 15th Locations: The Grange Story: The butler at the Grange finds the entire Plantagenet family, and their maidservants, murdered. |
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"The Mystery of the
Missing Shell" (1915) Included in: Sherlock Holmes in America (Bill Blackbeard) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Timelock Foams & Potson Locations: Foams's Rooms Story: Foams deduces the story behind the newspaper headline "Shell missing". |
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"The Mystery of the
Railway Station Sandwich" (1915) |
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"The Mystery of the
Strange Noise" (1916) Included in: Sherlock Holmes in America (Bill Blackbeard) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Timelock Foams & Potson Characters Based on Canonical Characters: (Moriarity) Locations: Faker Street Story: Potson is puzzled when Foams buys black tights and a sword and takes to locking himself in his bedroom. |
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"The Recrudescence of Sherlock Holmes"
(1908) Included in: Sherlock Holmes in America (Bill Blackbeard) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson Fictional Characters: Hawkshaw Other Characters: Boarding-House Occupants Locations: 221B, Baker Street; West Upper Tooting; Boarding-House Story: Holmes, bemoaning the lack of great criminals, and having remained motionless in his armchair for five years, receives a telegram addressed to Pinky Pink from Doodlebug Dingbat. After deducing that this is not the sender's real name, he receives a visit from the sender, in disguise. |
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"The Shot in the Dark" (1914) Included in: Sherlock Holmes in America (Bill Blackbeard) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Other Characters: Mr Splurge; James Harkins Locations: Splurge's House Story: Mr Splurge is found dead by his butler, Harkins. Holmes suspects the presence of a snake in the dark. |
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Alison Joseph"Moriarty
and the Two-Body Problem" (2015) |
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Magda Jozsa"The
Dentist" (2012) |
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"Bad Habits" (2012) Included in: The Great Detective: His Further Adventures (Gary Lovisi) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Stanley Hopkins; Mycroft Holmes; (Baker Street Page) Other Characters: Mr Phillips; Sister Mary Ignatius; Village Constable; Blacksmith; Sergeant Robert Reid; Bart Hayes; Duncan Martin; Mr Crabtree; Tom Werner; Ida Hastings; Nuns; Mother Superior Augustine / Clara Hastings; Sister Agnes; Sister Julius / Julia Hastings; Sherbrook Station Master; Doctor; Mrs Reid; Governor Snowden; Prison Guards; Telegrapher; Train Passengers; Train Driver; Fireman; Paddinton Porters; Paddington Constable; Cabby; Blacksmith; John Hastings; Robert Hastings; John Hastings' Second Daughter; Police Officers; (Paddington Security Man; Mother Superior Capuano; Postman; Jim Pyke; Mr King; Mr King's Sister; Mrs Philmore; Prisoners; Merrivale Convent Mother Superior) Date: 1886 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Paddington Station; Village Police Station; Scotland Yard; Devon; Sherbrook; Sherbrook Police Station; Dartmoor; Sisters of Mary Convent; Post Office; Sherbrook Station; Doctor's House; Reid's House; Princeton Prison; Blacksmith's Shop; Trafalgar Square Story: Watson returns home to find Holmes trying to musically paralyse a spider. A letter arrives from Sister Mary Ignatius, but when the nun herself fails to arrive as announced, Holmes and Watson travel to Dartmoor to investigate why she and her fellow nuns are in fear of their lives, after first checking the train she was due to arrive on, and the route she took, only to find her dead body. In Sherbrook, they meet local police officer, Reid, who tells them about the new Mother Superior at the convent. They visit the convent, interview the station-master, and question the doctor about the death of the previous Mother Superior. The following day they visit the prison and hear about the new Mother Superior's visit there, and the incarceration of the two Hastings who robbed the Bank of England. Holmes is attacked on the train back to London, and when he regains consciosness has no recollection of the case. Watson returns to Dartmoor alone, has to be rescued by Holmes, and the ending of the case leads to the recovery of the spoils of a robbery at the Bank of England. |