Mike Lacey
"Duck
Turpin" (1977)
Included in: Krazy Comic 46, 27th August 1977
Story Type: Comic Strip
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Fictional Characters: Duck Turpin
Locations: A Street
Story: The highwayman duck, Duck
Turpin, attempts to rob Holmes and Watson.
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Mercedes Lackey
A Study
in Sable (2016)
Story Type: Fantasy
Canonical Characters: Baker Street
Irregulars; Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mary
Morstan; Mrs Hudson; (Wiggins; Mycroft Holmes;
Captain Morstan; Watson's Brother; Professor
Moriarty)
Fictional Characters: Puck / Robin
Goodfellow
Folkloric Characters: Sylph; Fauns
Historical Figures: George
Brudenell-Bruce, 4th Marquess of Ailesbury; Pablo de
Sarasate; (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Other Characters: Tommy Grimes; Nan Killian;
Sarah Lyon-White; Neville the Raven; Grey the
Parrot; Lord Alderscroft; Beatrice Leek; Suki;
Selim; Frederick Harton; Agansing; Karamjit; Isabelle
Harton; Captain Landers; Rhodri; Magdalena von
Dietersdorf; Alicia; Freddy Smart; Mrs Horace; Nigel
Hopkins; Mrs Hopkins; Neddy Hopkins; Franklin;
Trevor Howard; Alan Howard; Cedric Edmondson; Agatha
Edmondson; Annie; (M'dela; Johanna von
Dietersdorf; Helmut Reicholt; Mrs Smart; Gupta;
Arabelle; Bob Malsey; Black Reggie; May Fancher;
Lady Harrington)
Unnamed Characters: Toff; Respectable Types;
Loungers; Drunks; Whores; Drowned Girl; Teashop
Customers; Waitress; Cabbies; Celts; Druids;
Violinist; Lively Lady Crew; Langham Hotel
Page; Hotel Guests & Visitors; Elevator
Attendant; Langham Doorman; Spirits; Langham
Concierge; Paddington Crowds; Slough Station Porter;
Slough Cabbie; Solicitor's Clerk; Solicitor; Bank
Employees; Tower Guide; Ravenmaster; Ravenmaster's
Assistants; Ravenmaster's Wife; Yeoman Warders;
Reading Room Readers; Moriarty's Lieutenant; Hampton
Court Warders; Kentish People; Railway & Bicycle
Serving Girl; Railway & Bicycle Landlord;
Railway & Bicycle Chambermaid; Railway &
Bicycle Customers; Opera House Stage Doorman; Opera
House Workmen; Orchestra; Opera Audience; Langham
Desk Clerk; Theatre Driver; Theatre Attendants;
Sennoke Cook; Sennoke Girls; Farmhands; Railway
Porters; Tottenham House Gatekeeper; Footman;
Servants; Butler; Housekeeper; Tottenham House
Guests; Roundhead Ghost; Veiled Woman Ghost;
Cavalier Ghost; Roman Ghost; Catholic Priest Ghosts;
Ghostly Nun; Chikd Ghosts; Elizabethan Ghosts; Old
Woman Ghost; Eighteenth Century Ghost; Grooms;
(The Major; Magdalena's Parents; Young Man; Fire
Magician; Mary's Mother; Watson's Father; Haunted
Man; Street Urchin Air Magician; HMS Penelope
Sailors; Sailor's Sweetheart; Fortune Teller;
Berkeley House Owner; Young Mage; Rope Seller;
Morgue Attendant; Photographer; Stable Master;
Brudenell-Bruce's Valet; Wagon-Driver)
Date: 1880s? (see note below)
Locations: Waterfront; Thames Mudflats;
Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street; 221C, Baker
Street; Exeter Club; Chelsea; Tearoom; Berkeley
Square; Nan & Sarah's Flat; Hotel; Aboard the Lively
Lady; Langham Hotel; Paddington oStation;
Slough Station; Hopkins's House; Solicitor's Office;
Tower of London; British Museum Reading Room;
Hampton Court Palace; Covent Garden Opera House; Sennoke Farm;
The Harton School; A Train; Kent; Sevenoaks; Railway
& Bicycle Hotel; Market; Wiltshire; Burbage;
Tottenham House
Story: Baker Street Irregular Tommy
Grimes follows a toff who seems to be taking
instructions from something invisible. Nan and Sarah
call on Holmes in an attempt to convince him of the
existence of Elementals, and team up with Watson and
Mary, along with Neville the raven and Grey the
parrot, to assist him in his investigations of
supernatural cases. Their first investigation is into
the death of a sailor at Berkeley House, where they
have previously encountered a Shadow Beast. After
dealing with it, they find themselves drawn into
Holmes's case involving the missing sister of an opera
diva, Magdalena von Dietersdorf, who is being plagued
by spirits at the Langham Hotel. Nan becomes worried
about Sarah's relationship with Magdalena.
The Watsons take Nan to Kent to help track down a
Blood Magician, and Magdalena takes Sarah to Tottenham
House, home of the Marquess of Ailesbury. The Watsons
and Holmes follow, accompanied by Nan, and form an
alliance with the violinist Sarasate.
NOTE: Events in this parallel universe do not
coincide with those in ours. "Willie" Brudenell-Bruce
is unmarried here; in our reality he married on May
6th, 1884, so the events of the novel should take
place before that. However, Sarasate already owns the
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A Scandal in Battersea
(2016)
Story Type: Fantasy
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; Mary
Morstan; Baker Street Irregulars; Sherlock
Holmes; (Mycroft Holmes)
Fictional Characters: Puck / Robin
Goodfellow
Folkloric Characters: Brownie; Hobs;
Trolls; Giants; Pooka; Green Men; The Wild Hunt
Historical Figures: (Queen
Victoria)
Other Characters: Nan Killian; Suki; Sarah
Lyon-White; Lord Alderscroft; Graves; Brendan; Mrs
Horace; Neville the Raven; Grey the Parrot;
Alexandre Harcourt; Beatrice Leek; Treadman; Alf; Dr
Huntley; Amelia; Arthur Fensworth; Abernathy;
Memsa'b Isabella Harton; Karamjit; Agansing; Selim;
Gupta; Hobson; Maisie; Durwin; Roan; Maud; Billy;
Elizabeth Penwick; Cynthia Denniston; Sahib
Frederick Harton; Katherine Dalton; Granny Tocsin;
Jilly; Sergeant Frederick Black; The Huntsman;
Mustafa; (Victor Harcourt; Emily
Harcourt; Jackie; Lord
Denniston; Caro)
Unnamed Characters: Pantomime Audience;
Ballet Dancer; Shakespearean Actor; Theatre
Waitress; Hot Chestnut Seller; Alderscroft's
Servants; Paper Flower Seller; Matchgirl; Begging
Woman & Children; Wooden-legged Ex-Soldier;
Music Hall Doorman; Cab Drivers; Pandora's
Customers; Treadman's Boy; Hospital Doorman;
Hospital Boy; Hospital Attendants; Battersea Boys;
Bridal Party; Harton School Children; School
Servant; Strumpets; Servant Girl; Coachmen; Night
Soil Carter; Gallery Visitors; Artist; Cynthia's
Companions; Jackie's Sister; Alderscroft's Coachman;
Hamlet Audience; Schoolchildren; Teacher; Hamlet
Actors; Street Urchin; Cabby; Jilly's Children;
Alf's Boys; American Girls; Haberdasher's Clerk;
Great Eastern Clerk; St Botolph's Rector; Battersea
Park Crowd; Battersea Police Officers; Workhouse
Girl; Nurse; Soldiers; Psychical Workers; Magicians;
White Lodge Members; Mycroft's Men; Karamjit,
Agansing and Selim's Nephews; (Eton
Bookseller; Harcourt's Father; Business
Manager; Housekeeper; Maid; Coroner; Murdered
Children; Amelia's Parents;
Alderscroft's Secretary; Baby's Mother;
Maud's Grand-daughters; Emily's Servant;
Elizabeth's Parents; Battersea Police Officer;
Gallery Guards; Alexandre's Landlord; Mrs Horace's
Girl; American Parents; American Ambassador; Prime
Minister; Madame Maude; Chaplain)
Date: December
Locations: Britannia Theatre; Brompton
Road; Alderscroft's House; Nan & Sarah's Flat;
Music Hall; Pandora's Tea Shop; Bloomsbury;
Treadman's Bookshop, 23, Store Street; Battersea;
Harcourt's Flat; Hampstead Hospital and Sanitarium;
Fenworth's Office; Harton School; Chelsea;
Beatrice's House; Kensington Garden; West Ham;
Stable; 221B, Baker Street; Watson's Surgery;
Grosvenor Gallery; Palace Theatre; Granny Tocsin's
House; Langham Hotel; Haberdashery Shop; Berkeley
Hotel; Great Eastern Hotel; St Botolph's Church;
Battersea Park; Temple; St Paul's Cathedral
Story:
Lord Alderscroft sets the Watsons, Nan and Sarah the
task of searching the lunatic asylums for spiritual
sensitives. Occultist Harcourt finds a book which
promises a source of greater power. Watson is called
to a Sanitarium in Hampstead, where a patient named
Amelia has been having visions of child murders, and
of a London in ruins, taken over by monsters. On
Christmas Eve, Harcourt raises a demonic entity in his
cellar. Holmes brings the girls a case involving a
young girl whose soul has been taken from her body.
More girls turn up in a similar condition, and the
girls, Puck, Holmes and the Watson's journey into
another dimension, and join with the army in defence
of England against the entity's monstrous hordes.
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The Bartered Brides (2018)
Story Type: Fantasy
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; Mary
Morstan; Sherlock Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; Professor
Moriarty; Mycroft Holmes; Moriarty Gang;
Mrs Hudson; (Tommy) Wiggins; (English Woman;
Swiss Boy; Baker Street Irregulars)
Fictional Characters: Puck / Robin
Goodfellow
Folkloric Characters: Spirits;
Revenants; Sylphs; Brownies; Jenny Greenteeth;
Nixie; Salamander; Djinn; (Waterhorse; Troll)
Other Characters: Nan Killian; Sarah
Lyon-White; Suki; Neville the Raven; Grey the Parrot;
Mrs Horace; Mary O'Brien; Ned O'Brien; Meggie
O'Brien; Gerald "Jerry" Baker / Spencer; Rose;
Caroline "Caro" Wells; Mary Ann; Spencer; George;
Peg; Mrs Kelly; Hugo Werlicke; Peter Hughs;
Williams; Lord Alderscroft; Beatrice Leek; Geoff
the Elf; Old Don; Tony; Shen Li / Vladimir Volkov;
Rudolfo / Rudi; Michael / Mike; Xi'er;
Dilawar; Memsa'b
Isabella Harton; Kadar; Taral; Sahib
Frederick Harton; Agansing; Selim; Karanjit; Eddie;
Fred; George; Lily; Charles; (Charlotte
Wells; Brandon Wells; Stephen Wells; Lee
Chin; Maureen Leek; Mustafa; Gupta)
Unnamed Characters: Man in Bushes;
Park Bobby; Alderscroft's Footmen; Pub Clientele;
Pub Servants; Preacher; Spencer's Brides; Sarah's
Neighbours; Strollers; Policeman; Morgue
Assistant; Pub Landlord; Spencer's Supplier; Cab
Drivers; Music Hall Audience; Ballet Dancers;
Music Hall Performers; Bar Staff; Automobile
Driver; Bobbies; Carriage Driver; Poets;
Novelists; Artists; Models; Alderscroft's
Coachman; Exeter Club Doorman; Exeter Club
Members; Chinese Girls; Tobacconist; Meridian Desk
Clerk; Street Preacher; Geoff's Thugs; Grocer;
Grocer's Delivery Boy; Scotland Yard Officers;
Coroner; Watson's Colleagues; Reporters; Shen Li's
Shop Assistant; Shen Li's Servants; Station
Porter; Schoolchildren; Alderscroft's Maids;
Thames Waterman; Alderscroft's Housekeeper;
Alderscroft's Footmen; East End Landlady;
Alderscroft's Servants; Lodging House Attendant;
Lestrade's Men; Hunting Lodge Members; (Gravedigger;
Pawnbroker; Spencer's Mentor; Earth Masters;
Hughs's Parents; Hughs's Landlady; Brown;
Watson's Patients; Mrs Hudson's Girls; Earth
Mage Physician; Mrs Kelly's Shop-lads; Gupta's
Wife; Prime Minister; Chiefv Inspector of
Police)
Date: June 3rd - ?
Locations: Nan & Sarah's Flat; Reichenbach
Falls; A Park; A Pub; Spencer's House; A Morgue;
Dockside Pub; 221, Baker Street; Alhambra Music
Hall; Chelsea; Werlicke's House; The Exeter Club;
Beatrice's House; Pandora's Tea Shop; Cheapside;
Splendid Hotel; Spirit Plain; Tobacconist Shop;
Meridian Hotel; Moriarty Gang Headquarters;
Wapping; Wapping Stairs; Execution Dock; Grocer's
Shop; Funeral Chapel; Chinatown; Shen Li's Shop;
Suburban Railway Station; Harton School;
Alderscroft's Townhouse; The East End; Lodging
House; Methodist Chapel
Story: Post-Reichenbach,
Holmes is undercover and out of reach, tracking down
the remnants of the Moriarty Gang. The O'Brien's sell
off their twelve-year-old daughter as a child bride.
Sarah encounters a spirit that wishes to do something
good before it passes over. Lestrade calls Watson to
examine the body of a headless girl pulled from the
Thames. Spencer carries out his plans to restore
Moriarty to the head of the Organization. Alderscroft
detects a necromancer at work, and Beatrice trains
Sarah and Nan to enter the spirit plain. Moriarty
orders Watson's death.
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The Case of the Spellbound
Child (2020)
Story Type: Fantasy
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mary Morstan; Mrs Hudson;
Baker Street Irregulars; (Inspector
Lestrade; Professor Moriarty; Mycroft Holmes;
Captain Morstan)
Fictional Characters: Puck / Robin
Goodfellow
Folkloric Characters: Spirits; Ghosts;
Sylphs; Grim
Other Characters: Alf; Reg; Sam Browne; Annabelle
Browne; Bartilino Family; Mrs Hardy; Peter Hughs / Caroline "Caro"
Wells; Lottie; Sarah Lyon-White; Grey the
Parrot; Nan Killian; Neville the Raven; Suki; Mrs
Horace; Brendan; Robert; Helen / Ellie Byerly; Simon
Byerly; Roger Byerly; Maryanne Byerly; Rose; Lily;
Colin; Mark; Stephen; Bill; Sam; Ben; Deborah; Jess;
Robbie; Sylvia Morrison; Sapphire Morrison; Tommy;
Paul Sterling; Lord Alderscroft; Harold Linwood;
Reverend Donald Shaw; Ganmer Dolly; Gatfer Cole;
Maude Rundle; Ansel Anglin / The Dark One; George;
Chief Constable Harris; (Frederick Harton;
Isabelle Harton; Beatrice Leek; Gupta; Gerrold
Morrison; Suzie Higgins; Jess Masterson; Mr
Horace; Liz; Sally Byerly; Gatfer Flint; Spencer)
Unnamed Characters: Pub Patrons;
Police Body Wagon Loaders; Dead Man; Dead Child;
Dead Old Woman; Whorehouse Customer; Prostitutes;
Sailor; Lottie's Pimp; East End Children; Drunks;
Cookshop Customers; Crowd Outside Cookshop;
Growler Driver; Retreat Director; Retreat
Patients; Nurses; Cousin; Cousin's Stepmother;
Cousin's Father; Cousin's Maid; Hampton Court
Guides; Gardeners; Train Passengers; Artists; Un
iversity Students; Overweight Man; Alderscroft's
Footmen; Alderscroft's Servants; Housemaid;
Alderscroft's Secretary; Alderscroft's Gardeners;
Earth Masters; Earth Magicians; Rock Inn Coachman;
Rock Inn Porters; Rock Inn Servants; Rock Inn
Guests; Inn Barmaid; Inn Stableman; Sheepstor
Women; Shaw's Housekeeper; Shepherd; Post Office
Clerk; Rock Inn Cook; Dolly's Neighbour; Drake
Manor Customers; Drake Manor Barmaid; Police
Constables; Jury; (Barkeep;
Peter's Parents; Peter's Sister; Caro's Parents;
Badger Court Twins; Alderscroft's Hunting Lodge
Friend; Cousin's Mother; Law Clerk; Dustman;
Sarah's Parents; African Shaman; Alderscroft's
Cook; Sheepstor Squire; Squire's Children's
Nurse; Bailiff; Yelverton Children; Pear Boy;
Mycroft's Lady Acquaintance; Lady's Husband;
Oxford Students; Daisy)
Locations: East End; Whorehouse; Pub;
Browne's Cookshop; Nan & Sarah's Flat; 221,
Baker Street; Convalescent Retreat; Hampton Court
Palace; British Museum;
Alderscroft's Bungalow; Train; Devon; Dartmoor;
Byerly's Cottage; Dark One's Cottage; Yelverton;
Rock Inn; Post Office; Sheepstor; Rectory;
Reservoir; Dousland Road; Cole's Cottage; Maude's
Cottage; Drake Manor Inn; Courtroom
Story: Alf discovers that he is
a ghost after being murdered by his friend Reg.
Alderscroft sends the Watsons, Nan and Sarah to
investigate the case of a friend's young cousin who
is behaving strangely in the asylum she has been
sent to, to see if there is a supernatural reason
for her behaviour. Ellie and Simon Byerly are taken
prisoner on Dartmoor, and the Watsons and the girls
travel to Yelverton in Devon to help find them.
Holmes is there as well, working on a case of his
own.
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Claude Lalumière
"A
Scandal in Arabia" (2015)
Included in: The
Adventures
of Moriarty (Maxim Jakubowski)
Story Type: Extra-canonical Adventure of
Professor Moriarty
Canonical Characters: Professor Moriarty; (Sherlock
Holmes;
Moriarty Gang; Mycroft Holmes)
Fictional Characters: M
Historical Figures: (Arthur
Conan Doyle; Abu Bakr ibn Saad)
Other Characters: Indian Twins; Finaciers;
Politicians; Arms Dealers; Bankers; Diplomats;
Egyptian Government Representatives; Environmental
Activists; Revolutionary Militia Commanders;
Insurance Brokers; Industrialists; Civil Rights
Advocates; Religious Leaders; Assassins; Belgian
Bank Executive; (Moriarty's Father;
Moriarty's Operatives)
Date: 21st Century
Locations: Dubai; Moriarty's Penthouse;
Egypt; Cairo
Story: The centuries-old Persian
Professor Moriarty is living in Dubai, running a
global criminal empire, controlling the world of
politics, economics, and surveillance. He dreams
about the Detective and anticipates an attempt on
his life.
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Geoffrey A. Landis
"The Singular Habits of Wasps"
(1994)
Included in: The
Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
(John Joseph Adams)
Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Mary Morstan; (Mycroft
Holmes)
Historical Figures: Mary Jane
Kelly; Jack the Ripper; (Thomas Henry Huxley;
H.G. Wells; Polly Nichols; Annie Chapman;
Elizabeth Stride; Catherine Eddowes)
Other Characters: Baker Street Neighbours;
Gregory's Uncle; Baxter; Message Boy; Whitechapel
Residents; Barman; Miller's Court Woman;
Constables; Alien Creatures; Cabbie; Whitechapel
Women; Whitechapel Man; (Gregory; Cabman;
Surrey Search Party; Road Workmen)
Date: Late Spring - November,
1888
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Lyceum
Theatre; Whitechapel; Pub; Miller's Court; Surrey;
Covingham
Story: London is shaken by the
double firing of a cannon, but no source of the
noise can be found. The following day Holmes is
visited by two men from Surrey, wishing him to
investigate the disappearance of the body of a
farmhand who died in an accident at work. After
finding strange tracks at the scene of the
disappearance, Holmes goes to consult Huxley, but
finds him absent, and instead talks to his protegé
Wells, with whom he discusses the planet Mars and
wasps. He begins making frequent visits to
Whitechapel. A package is delivered, and the next
day Watson reads of the first of the Ripper murders,
and is surprised when Holmes knows the victim's
name. He resolves to follow Holmes the next time he
leaves, but is warned off. The next day he reads of
another Ripper murder. He takes Mary to see Jekyll
and Hyde at
the Lyceum. Holmes asks him to burn his corpse if he
should die. His suspicions building, Watson begins
accompanying Holmes into Whitechapel. Searching for
him one night, he discovers the body of Mary Kelly.
Back at Baker Street, Holmes explains his actions,
the reason for the killings, and the
extra-terrestrial origin of the cannon blasts and
missing body. They make one more bloody trip into
Whitechapel to put an end to the killings.
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Lucinda Landon
Meg
Mackintosh and the Stage Fright Secret
(2004)
Story Type: Children's Homage
Sherlockian
Detectives: (Sureluck
House & Dr Witson)
Other Characters: Meg Mackintosh; Liddy; Ms
K. Morse; Peter Mackintosh; Simon; Carmen;
Rosie; Nick
Unnamed
Characters:
Ushers; Audience
Locations: USA; School
Story: Meg and Liddy get roles in the school
Mystery
Club's
play The Trick or Treat Mystery, an
adventure of Sureluck House and Dr Witson.
The play is about the theft of a Halloween
raven decoration from Old Jane's house. Meg
steps in when the raven really disappears.
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Bob Landry
"Homicide
on the 40c Tour (1935)
Story Type: Parody Script
Canonical
Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Other Characters: Mr Ogo
Unnamed
Characters:
(Blonde)
Locations: USA; New York;
Holmes's Rooms
Story: Holmes tells Watson the plot of the
Ogo Salts radio show that they have been invited
to participate in about a murder at Radio City. Mr
Ogo arrives and tells them that the plot has been
changed after objections from NBC.
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Andrew Lane
All-Consuming Fire (1994) (as Andy
Lane)
Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Colonel Warburton; Mrs. Hudson; Billy;
Inspector MacDonald; Inspector Lestrade; Giant Rat
of Sumatra; Mycroft Holmes; Baron Maupertuis;
Professor Moriarty
Fictional Characters: The 1st Doctor;
Susan; The 7th Doctor; Bernice Summerfield; Ace;
Inspector Cribb; The 3rd Doctor; Madame Sosostris;
Bernice Summerfield; Lord John Roxton; Azathoth
Historical Figures: Baden-Powell;
Cardinal Ruffo-Scilla; Pope Leo XIII; Inspector
Abberline; Walter Dew; Enrico Caruso; (Dr.
W.C. Minor)
Other Characters: Siger Holmes; servant;
Gloria Warburton; stoker; Reverend Hawkins;
serveur; chef de train; Sherringford Holmes;
cabbie; urchins; librarian; Jehosophat Ambrose;
Mr. Jitter; library guards; Kate Prendersly; maid;
sentries; barman; Mack "The Knife" Yeovil; fight
crowd; haggard woman; ringmaster; rat keepers;
Punishers; Frank; Alf Froome; pickpocket; Jessup;
Diogenes Club members; Diogenes footmen; Barker;
tattooed man; footman; Madame; children;
K'tcar'ch; Surd; Sherringford Holmes; lascars;
beggars; traders; crew of the Matilda Briggs;
conjurer; waiter; dockside crowd; bar customers;
khitmagar; Rakshassi demons; train passengers;
soldiers; Tir Ram; Smithee; ice seller; train
stewards; Indian bearer; O'Connor; Ghulam Haidar;
Tir Ram's servants; Maupertuis' army; fakirs; the
Shlangii; firemen; Chinese men; American soldiers;
looters; (Matthew Jolly; Josephine Jolly)
Date: 1887
Locations: India; Jabhalabad; Vienna; The
Orient Express; Austria; The Pope's Train;
Victoria Station; a four-wheeler; Victoria Street;
Parliament Square; Whitehall; Trafalgar Square;
Charing Cross Road; Oxford Street; 221B, Baker
Street; a Hansom; St. Giles Rookery; the Library
of St. John the Beheaded; Holborn; Kean's Chop
House; another Hansom; Whitefields Lodge; Ry'leh;
Scotland Yard; Hyde Park; The Serpentine; Hackney
Marshes; Diogenes Club; Pneumatic Railway; Euston;
Drummond Crescent; another four-wheeler; The Matilda
Briggs; Port Said; The Plain of Leng;
Bombay; Ballard Pier; A Hotel; Warburton's
Bungalow; Tir Ram's palace; Temple Cave; A
Caravan; San Francisco; The Palace Hotel
Story: Holmes and Watson are returning
from a visit to Vienna aboard the Orient Express.
The train is stopped and they are taken aboard
another, where they are commissioned by the Pope
to locate books missing from the Library of St.
John the Beheaded. In London, they visit the
Library, where Watson sees a hooded figure
disappearing through a door which Holmes later
finds to be locked. Returning to Baker Street,
they find the Doctor waiting for them and
reluctantly agree to work together. Watson and the
Doctor visit Kate Prendersly, a patron of the
library, who tells them of a time she saw a man
eating books. Before she can go on, her body
bursts into flames. Meanwhile, Holmes visits
Hackney Marshes, where the library guards are
being punished, and witnesses a dogfight between
three dogs and the Giant Rat of Sumatra, a strange
three-legged creature. Later, in a meeting with
Mycroft, Watson meets Holmes older brother,
Sherringford, who reveals that it is the diaries
of their father, Siger Holmes, that have been
stolen, containing information about a means of
passing from this world into others.
Holmes, Watson and the Doctor set sail
aboard the S.S. Matilda Briggs for India,
the site of Siger's experiences, where they meet
up with Bernice. The Doctor is carried off by a
Rakshassa, and Holmes, Watson and Bernice travel
on in pursuit of Baron Maupertuis to Jabhalabad,
where they stay with Colonel Warburton. On a visit
to the Nizam's Palace, where they meet Lord John
Roxton and a missionary named O'Connor, they are
taken prisoner by Maupertuis, and led to a cave
temple, where, as the portal opens up to the
planet Ry'leh, they are attacked by Rakshassi, and
O'Connor's true identity is revealed, Maupertuis
and his men escape through the portal and it
closes behind them. Eventually, Holmes and his
companions manage to reopen the portal and pass
through to the planet Ry'leh, where they must
confront Azathoth, and learn the truth about his
human assistants.
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"The Case of the Haphazard Marksman"
(2016)
Included in: Associates of
Sherlock Holmes (George Mann)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Langdale
Pike
Canonical Characters: Langdale Pike; Sherlock
Holmes; Dr Watson; Baker Street Irregular; (Professor
Moriarty;
Mrs Watson; Mycroft Holmes)
Historical Figures: (Oscar Wilde; Edward
VII)
Other Characters: Club Footmen; Molly
Morris; Scotland Yard Constable; Gordon Drake;
Pleasure Garden Visitors; Band; Lad in Cloth Cap;
Garden Attendant; Holmes's Agents; The Right
Honourable Quentin Furnell; Lighting Men; Audience;
Blackmailer; (Leather Worker; Earl of
Montcreif; Earl's Valet; Pike's Agents; Furnell's
Wife; Furnell's Daughter)
Locations: Pike's Club in St James's;
Scotland Yard; Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens; Prince's
Theatre
Story: Holmes brings Molly Morris to
consult with Langdale Pike. Her fiancée, Gordon, has
been shot in Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. The police,
however, claim that he was stabbed by a mugger. With
the victim coming from a well-to-do family, Pike asks
to accompany Holmes to view the body as Watson
examines the wound. Pike's knowledge of London gossip
leads him to believe that someone else may have been
the marksman's intended target. It transpires that
they are both correct, and the case ends in a trap set
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"The Curious Case of the Compromised
Card-Index" (2014)
Included in: Further
Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (George Mann)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Mrs Watson; Wiggins; Baker
Street Irregulars; Charles Augustus Milverton;
Professor Moriarty)
Other Characters: Two Scallywags; Solomon
Shavetsky; Cabbie; Morgan's Butler; Aloysius Morgan;
(Amyus Crowe; Stage Manager)
Date: 1890
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Shaftesbury
Avenue; The King's Theatre; Hampstead Hill;
Hampstead Garden Suburb; 27, Byron Avenue
Story: Holmes and Watson return home
from a case in America to find a dead ape in Holmes's
chair. Holmes believes that the incursion may have
something to do with his new card index system and
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"The Dark Carnival" (2019)
Included in: The Sign of
Seven (Martin Rosenstock)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Baker Street Page; Lord Robert St Simon;
Baker Street Irregulars; (Inspector Lestrade;
Inspector Bradstreet; Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes;
Lord Holdhurst; Langdale Pike)
Historical Figures: Sir Kenelm Digby; (Prince
Henry
of Battenberg; Johannes Brahms)
Other Characters: Mr Epplestone; Dr
Ffitch; Barkins; Lord Elmsfield; Sir Ashton Lyle;
Gallichan; (Lady Elmsfield; Earl of Cathcart)
Unnamed Characters: Bedlam Orderlies; Bedlam
Inmates; Elmsfield's Butler; Cracksmen; Snakesmen;
Lyle's Servants; Rough-clad Men; Footman; Waiters;
String Quartet; Maitre d'; Diners; Chefs; Kitchen
Porters; Underground Passengers; Underground Guard;
Bear Fighter; Fight Crowds; Bookies; Hotel Servant;
(Organ Grinder; Threadbare Old Men; Retired Royal
Artillery Officer; Composer; Baker Street
Landladies; Peers; Elmsfield's Maids; Elmsfield's
Cook; Elmsfield's Footmen; Afghan Tribal Elders)
Date: January, 1896
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Whitehall; The
Home Office; St George's Fields; Bethlem Royal
Hospital; Chelsea; Elmsfield's House; Battersea
Bridge; Battersea; Southwark; Westminster Bridge
Station; Underground Train; Wembley Park Station;
The Fields of Elysium; Northumberland Avenue; Tavern
Story: On the recommendation of Lord
Holdhurst, Kenelm Digby summons Holmes and Watson to
the Home Office after Lord Elmsfield goes wild with
a sword in the House of Lords. When they visit
Elmsfield at the Bethlem Royal Hospital, they find
him dead of a head wound in a locked, guarded cell.
At Elmsfield's house, they discover evidence that he
has been living a double life, so Holmes puts
together a team of cracksmen and snakesmen to help
him solve the mystery. The trail eventually leads to
a Battersea dining club, and an underground fighting
arena.
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"The Disappearing Anarchist Trick"
(2015)
Included in: The MX Book of
New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part IV: 2016 Annual
(David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson;
Mycroft Holmes; Shinwell Johnson; Baker Street Irregulars;
Wiggins
Other Characters: Irish Woman; Theatre Crowd;
Cab Driver; Cab Passenger; Theatre Staff;
Orchestra; Magician; Greyson; Ryan Mellor;
Brewster; Aldiss; Mycroft's Agents; (Professor
Tulp; Ministers; Anarchists; Rusian Trick
Designer; Theatre Manager; Stagehands; Sopranos)
Date: Winter, 1894
Locations: Hampton Wick; 221B, Baker
Street; Whitehall; Mycroft's Office; Hoxton;
Fortune Theatre
Story: Holmes is suffering from a sprained
ankle when he is called to Mycroft's office.
Mycroft asks him to prevent a list of agents,
obtained by an anarchist cell, being smuggled out
of the country by a red-haired Irish woman.
Holmes and Watson, with the help of Shinwell
Johnson, Wiggins, and the now-grown-up Irregulars,
follow the woman to the Fortune Theatre, where the
stage magician makes her disappear.
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"The Disembodied
Assassin" (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; Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes
Historical Figures: (Queen
Victoria; Edward VII)
Other Characters: Hansom Driver;
Pedestrians; Police Guards; Mr Drescombe;
Humberstone's Butler; Lord Humberstone; Lady
Humberstone; Humberstone's Bodyguards
Date: 23rd January, 1901
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Oxford
Street; Trafalgar Square; Diogenes Club; Richmond
Park; Humberstone's House
Story: On the day following Queen
Victoria's death, Mycroft presents Holmes with the
task of finding the murderer of Lord Humberstone, a
member of the Queen's Privy Council. Humberstone was
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"The Last Professor Moriarty Story"
(2015)
Included in: The
Adventures of Moriarty (Maxim Jakubowski)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; Sherlock
Holmes; Professor Moriarty; (Mrs Hudson;
Holmes's Sussex Housekeeper (Mrs Turner); Mycroft
Holmes)
Other Characters: Arthur Chidlow / Jon
Paulson; The Yiddishers; The Hoxton Mob; The
Bessarabian Tigers; The King's Cross Gang; The
Watney Streeters; Maltese Gangster; Elderly Man;
Phonograph Man; Italian Man; Swarthy Man; East End
Thug; (Mrs
Hudson's Sister; Holmes's Agent)
Date: After the Great War
Locations: Holmes's Sussex Cottage;
Wimbledon; St Alkmund's Chapel
Story: Watson has joined Holmes in
retirement in Sussex. Holmes reads of Moriarty's death
in the papers. Holmes is asked by the Home Office to
track down documents left by Moriarty. Clues in the
newspaper death notices take Holmes and Watson to a
funeral in Wimbledon attended by the criminal gangs of
London and the Home Counties, at which a phonograph
recording of Moriarty is played giving clues to the
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"The Unexpected Death of the
Martian Ambassador" (2017)
Included in: Further Associates
of Sherlock Holmes (George Mann)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Lord
Holdhurst
Canonical Characters: Lord Holdhurst; (Mycroft
Holmes;
Dr Watson)
Other Characters: Holdhurst's Butler; Night
Porter; Cracksman; Darius Trethewey; Edith; (Lady
Holdhurst;
Finger Man; Irish Peer; Holdhurst's Staff; Martian
Ambassador; Mrs Trethewey)
Date: 23rd March - 17th
April, 1895
Locations: Chelsea; Holdhurst's House;
Whitehall; Foreign Office
Story: When businessman Darius Trethewey
brings an ambassador from Mars to the Foreign
Office, and the Martian dies during negotiations,
Mycroft suggests that his brother be called in to
investigate.
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Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud
(2010)
Story Type: Children's Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Mycroft Holmes; Baron Maupertuis; (The
Paradol Chamber)
Other Characters: Amyus Crowe; Matthew
"Matty" Arnatt; Fat Man; Deepdene Students;
Students' Families; Mr Tulley; Mr Tomblinson;
Mycroft's Driver; Footman; Sherrinford Holmes;
Anna Holmes; Farnham Townspeople; Carriage Driver;
Man in Carriage; Train Passengers; Porters;
Railway Guard; Manor Servants; Maid; Dead Man;
Doctor; Cart Driver; Clem; Martin; Joe; Stouffer;
Flynn; Denny; Virginia Crowe; Guildford
Townspeople; Professor Arthur Albery Winchcombe;
Winchcombe's Butler; Fairground Workers; Nat
Wilson; Wilson's Barker; Maupertuis's Servants;
Tavern Patrons; Landlord; Serving Girl; Crowe's
Cart Driver; Waterloo Crowds; Waterloo Porter; Cab
Driver; Hotel Porters; Desk Clerk; Hotel Diners;
Boatman; Rotherhithe Women; Snagger; Nicholson;
Bill; Bill's Woman; Clock Seller; Tunnel Crowds;
Little Girl; Girl's Parents; Firemen; Stevedores;
Dockmaster; Sailors; Dockers; Mr Surd; French
Farmer; Cherbourg Harbourmaster; Fort Guards;
Tavern Woman; (Siger Holmes; Mrs Holmes;
Holmes's Sister (Charlotte?); Dead Tailor; Wint)
Locations: Deepdene School for Boys;
Dorking; Inn; Aldershot; Farnham; High Street;
Holmes Manor; Woods; Barn; River Wey; Guildford;
Dapdune Wharf; High Street; Chaelis Road;
Winchcombe's House; Farnham Castle Fairground;
Maupertuis's House; Tavern; Waterloo Station;
Sarbonnier Hotel; Trafalgar Square; The Thames;
Rotherhithe; Warehouse; Rotherhithe Tunnel; Tower
Bridge; France; Maupertuis's Chateau; French
Village; Cherbourg; The English Channel; A
Seafort; Tavern
Story: Matty Arnatt sees a
mysterious cloud and hears a scream. Mycroft arrives
at Holmes's school at the end of term to tell him
that their father is caught up in military action in
India and their mother is ill, and that he will be
staying with his Uncle Sherrinford and Aunt Anna in
Farnham for the holidays. Unwelcome in their house,
he meets Matty, who tells him about the cloud. He
sees a cadaverous figure in a carriage and receives
a warning from Mycroft about the housekeeper. A
tutor, Crowe, is employed for him, and while they
are out studying the countryside, Holmes discovers a
boil-covered body.
Crowe teaches him more about the
science of deduction, and after finding yellow
powder at the site of the death, and seeing a man
carrying a sack of yellow powder from the house
where Matty saw the cloud to the property the
cadaverous man had come out of, he climbs over the
wall to investigate and finds himself locked in a
burning barn. He continues to learn from Matty, and
meets Crowe's daughter, Virginia. When he and Matty
travel by canal to Guildford to consult with
Winchcombe, an expert in tropical diseases, their
boat comes under attack. With Winchcombe's
assistance Holmes comes to realise that bees have
been responsible for the deaths.
While under curfew, Holmes sneaks out
to the fair to meet Virginia, and finds himself in a
boxing match, and a prisoner of Baron Maupertuis.
After his escape, the trail of the Baron leads him,
Matty and the Crowes to London. After facing
Maupertuis's men there, Holmes finds himself a
prisoner once again, this time in France with
Virginia, and he must escape to prevent a deadly
attack on the armed forces of the British Empire
planned by Maupertuis and his associates in the
Paradol Chamber. The case reaches its explosive end
on a fort in the English Channel.
NOTE: Maupertuis and
his servant Surd also appear in Lane's Doctor Who
novel All-Consuming Fire (above).
NOTE 2: Holmes
appears to refer to his sister as Charlotte here
(p.19: "Give
my love to Mother, and to Charlotte." ).
However, he must be referring to some other member
of the household, as in Fire Storm her
name is given as Emma (p.150).
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Sherlock Holmes: Red Leech (2010)
Story Type: Children's Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Mycroft Holmes
Historical Figures: John Wilkes
Booth / John St Helen; Captain C.H.E. Judkins;
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin; (Abraham
Lincoln; Edwin M. Stanton)
Other Characters: James Hillager; Will
Gimson; Amyus Crowe; Mycroft's Carriage Driver;
Mrs Eglantine; Sherrinford's Maids; Sherrinford
Holmes; Anna Holmes; Matthew "Matty" Arnatt;
Godalming Children; Gilfillan; Ives; Berle;
Virginia Crowe; Hamlet Folk; Cart Driver; Dock
Crowds; Porters; Dock Workers; Scotia Passengers;
Rufus Stone; Helmsman; Grivens; Stewards;
Engineer; Pilot; Immigration Officers; Newsboys;
Jellabee Guests; Brown Bowler Man; Store Clerk;
Newspaper Buyers; Loiterers & Pedestrians;
Boarding House Tenants; Duke's Men; Cab Passenger;
Cab Driver; Station Ticket Collector; Train
Passengers; Jersey Ticket Collector; Train Guard;
Engine Driver; Captain Rubinek; Duke's Servants;
Duke; Mrs Dimmock; Pikerton's Agents; Perseverance
Citizens; Stable Keeper; Army Corps of Engineers;
(Major Siger Holmes; Holmes's Mother; Mother's
Doctor; Holmes's Sister; Sister's Doctors &
Nurses; Farm Worker; Elderly Widow; Widow's
Maid; Purser)
Locations: Borneo; Surrey; Farnham;
Holmes Manor; Godalming; Guildford Road;
Shenandoah; Crowe's Cottage; Southampton; Docks;
Aboard SS Scotia; Atlantic Ocean; United
States of America; New York Harbour; Jellabee
Hotel; General Purpose Store; Boarding House;
Pennsylvania Station; A Train; New Jersey;
Perseverance; Duke's House; Hotel; Stables;
Niblo's Garden
Story: Hillager and Gimson are in the
Borneo jungle looking for a giant red leech under
orders of Duke. Crowe gives Holmes a lecture on
ants, and Mycroft arrives with news that he is
considering withdrawing Holmes from school, to be
tutored full-time by Crowe. Holmes overhears
Mycroft telling Crowe that John Wilkes Booth is
thought to be in England using the name "John St
Helen". Holmes and Matty visit the house in
Godalming that Booth is said to be living in, and
Holmes is captured. After helping Holmes escape,
Matty is kidnapped, and a horseback chase ensues.
Holmes
sails with Crowe and Virginia aboard the SS Scotia
to America in pursuit of Booth and his protectors.
Holmes learns to play the violin on the voyage, is
chased through the ship and encounters Graf von
Zeppelin. In New York, he locates Matty, and he
and Virginia set off by train to rescue him. They
are captured again, and Holmes makes a
train-rooftop escape, before encountering Duke,
the porcelain-masked animal collector and head of
a new Confederate plot against Canada. He
demonstrates his use of leeches and attempts to
feed Holmes and his friends to others of his
exotic pets. Before the case is over, Holmes is
riding desperately to save his enemies from death
from the sky, and facing a pair of cougars.
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Sherlock Holmes: Black Ice (2011)
Story Type: Children's Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Mycroft Holmes; Jew Broker; The Paradol Chamber; (Baron
Maupertuis)
Historical Figures: Count Pyotr
Andreyevich Shuvalov; (Tsar Alexander II;
Prince Yusupov)
Other Characters: Amyus Crowe; Mrs
Eglantine; Maid; Farnham Locals; Matthew "Matty"
Arnatt; Rufus Stone; Ticket Seller; Virginia
Crowe; Sherrinford Holmes; Ticket Collector; Train
Passengers; Waterloo Crowds; Hansom Driver;
Brinnell; Diogenes Club Members; John Robertshaw;
Police Officers; Sergeant Coleman; Diogenes Club
Footman; London Crowds; Printers; Printer's
Assistants; Bouncer; Waterloo Bridge
Toll-Collector; Tunnel Children; Cab Driver;
Museum Attendant; Falcon Man; Security Guard;
Museum Teashop Patrons; Teashop Waiter; Sarbonnier
Waiter; Sarbonnier Family; Charing Cross
Shopkeeper; Thugs; Mister Kyte; Hotel Maid; Hotel
Porter; Kyte's Theatrical Company; Thomas Malvin;
Aiofe Dimmock; William Furness; Diane Loran;
Rhydian; Judah; Pauly; Henry; Mr Eves; Musicians;
Pyotr Ilyich Morodov; Kursk Porters; Muscovites;
Maître d'Hôtel; Moscow Cab Driver; Tea Sellers;
Moscow Policemen; Man in Furs; Market Crowd;
Chestnut Seller; Carriage Driver; Robert
Wormersley; Third Section Agents; Soldiers;
Section Three Guards; Diogenes Club Waiters; (Actress;
Stone's
Landlady; Murdoch; Orville Jenkinson; Veiled
Woman; Spanish Ambassador; British Diplomat;
Shuvalov's Secretary)
Locations: Surrey; A Lake; A Forest;
Holmes Manor; Farnham; Canal Bank; High Street;
Farnham Station; Crowe's Cottage; A Train; London;
Waterloo Station; Hansom Cab; Westminster Bridge;
Trafalgar Square; Pall Mall; Diogenes Club; Bow
Street Police Station; Chancery Lane; Printer's
Shops; Drury Lane; Shaftesbury Tavern; Seven
Dials; Charing Cross Road; Aldwych; Waterloo
Bridge; Underground Tunnels; The Bone Yards;
Aerated Bread Company Tearoom; Passmore Edwards
Museum; Sarbonnier Hotel; Piccadilly Circus;
Leicester Square; Cambridge Circus; Tottenham
Court Road; Pawnshop; Whitechapel; King's Theatre;
Charing Cross Station; A Train; France; Belgium;
Prussia; Russia; Moscow; Kursk Station; Slavyansky
Bazaar Hotel; Wormersley's Apartment; Neglinnaya
Street; Neglinnaya River Tunnels; Cafe; Lubyanka
Square; Section Three Headquarters; Shuvalov's
Office
Story: Crowe teaches Holmes about fishing.
Holmes receives a summons to London from Mycroft,
and Rufus Stone arrives in Farnham. Holmes and
Crowe arrive in London to find Mycroft in the
Strangers Room at the Diogenes Club with a dead
body and a knife in his hand. Mycroft cannot
remember what has happened. He is arrested, but
Holmes and Crowe search the room and find a
leather case and a damp patch on the floor. Crowe
and Mycroft deduce how the man died, and the card
he presented Mycroft points them in the direction
of the Paradol Chamber.
After
following a suspect, Holmes is chased through
underground tunnels by feral children to the Bone
Yards and the Necropolis Railway. A further lead
takes Holmes and Crowe to the Passmore Edwards
Museum, where Holmes comes under attack from a
bird of prey. Mycroft, released on bail, surmises
that the events are designed to distract him from
involvement in the sale, by Russia, of Alaska to
the United States. Holmes buys a violin in
Tottenham Court Road, and learns the art of
theatrical make-up.
Mycroft
arranges for himself, Holmes and Stone to travel
under aliases to Moscow with Kyte's Theatrical
Company. There they visit the ransacked
apartment of Wormersley, Mycroft's missing agent and
old university friend. Holmes is framed for theft,
and finds himself once more pursued through an
underground tunnel, this time facing feral dogs.
Mycroft is taken away by the Third Section and
Holmes realises the depth of the plot that has been
organised against his brother, and learns the secret
of the Paradol Chamber.
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Sherlock Holmes: Fire Storm (2011)
Story Type: Children's Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Mycroft Holmes; The Paradol Chamber; (Baron
Maupertuis)
Historical Figures: (Burke
& Hare; Dr John Knox; Colonel John
Chivington; Black Kettle; Andrew Johnson)
Other Characters: Kai Lung; Sailor; Giant
American; Bryce Scobell; Rufus Stone; Stone's
Landlady; Farnham People; Matthew "Matty" Arnatt;
Cart Drivers; Sherrinford Holmes; Anna Holmes; Mrs
Eglantine; Sherrinford's Maids; Sherrinford's
Cook; Ostler; Market Crowds; Ned Fillon; Tom
Payne; Josh Harkness; Tannery Workers; Marky;
Nicholson; Sherrinford's Groom; Farnham
Ticket-Office Clerk; Guildford Station Guard;
Waterloo Crowds; Mycroft's Driver; King's Cross
Crowds; Chestnut Seller; King's Cross Guard; Mr
Kyte; Newcastle Station Guard; Ticket Collector;
Edinburgh Station Crowds; Edinburgh Cab Driver;
Edinburgh Citizens; Barman; Tavern Patrons; Thin
Men; Hotel Maid; Newspaper Vendor; Scobell's
Thugs; Cramond Urchins; Amyus Crowe; Virginia
Crowe; Gahan Macfarlane; The Black Reavers;
Dougie; Fergus; Dunlow; Brough; Police Constable;
Aggie Macfarlane; Ventham's Butler; Hendricks; Mrs
Mulhill; Gloria Scott Sailor; (Farnham
Mayor's Son; Farnham Police; Siger Holmes;
Holmes's Grandfather; Holmes's Grandmother;
Doctors; Joseph Lamner; Sir Benedict Ventham;
Emma Holmes; Holmes's Mother; Geo. Thribb;
Boarding House Owner & Daughter; Crowe's
Men; Scobell's Wife & Son; Mr Larchmont)
Locations: Kai Lung's Shop; Surrey;
Farnham; Stone's Lodgings; Holmes Manor; Stables;
Marketplace; Tannery; Farnham Station; Tea Shop; A
Train; Guildford Station; London; Waterloo
Station; Mycroft's Cab; King's Cross Station;
Newcastle Station; Scotland; Edinburgh; Edinburgh
Station; Fraser Hotel; Tavern; Library; Princes
Street; Park; Tenement Building; Cramond; Crowe's
Cottage; Chapel Yard; Shepherd's Hut; Black
Reavers' Warehouse; Edinburgh Police Station;
Ventham's Manor House; Aboard the Gloria
Scott
Story: An American asks a Chinese
tattooist to tattoo the name "Virginia Crowe" on
his forehead in red, the colour of blood. After a
violin lesson with Stone, Holmes returns home and
sees the housekeeper Mrs Eglantine searching the
library and confronting his uncle Sherrinford. He
searches the housekeeper's room and finds a plan
of the house and a set of notes. He learns that
she is in league with the blackmailer, Harkness,
whose work he brings to an end. His uncle tells
him about his father's early life. Calling at the
Crowes' cottage, Holmes and Matty find it
deserted, as if Amyus and Virginia had never lived
there. A clue left by Crowe takes Holmes, Matty
and Stone to Edinburgh, and Holmes spots a
familiar face watching him on the journey up, and
loses Stone.
While searching the papers for further clues from
Crowe, Holmes reads about the activities of the
Black Reavers, and a spate of sightings of the
walking dead. Before they can get to Crowe, he and
Matty are captured. After escaping with Stone, they
find the Crowes, and learn of their adversaries'
involvement in the massacre of Native Americans at
Fort Lyon. An ambush at Crowe's cottage leads to the
group being split up, and Holmes and Virginia are
captured by the living dead men and find themselves
reunited with their friends in the lair of the Black
Reavers. Holmes must solve a murder to secure their
release. After their return home, Holmes finds
himself aboard the Gloria Scott bound for
China.
NOTE: Although Holmes's sister's
name appeared to be Charlotte in Death Cloud
(p.19: "Give my love to Mother, and to
Charlotte." ), it is here given as Emma
(p.150).
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Young Sherlock Holmes: Snake Bite
(2012)
Story Type: Children's Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Mycroft Holmes; The Gloria Scott; (The
Paradol Chamber; Baron Maupertuis)
Other Characters: Amyus Crowe; Diogenes Club
Footman; Diogenes Club Members; Crew of the Gloria
Scott; Jackson; Mr Larchmont; Gittens; Wu
Chung; Scorby; Captain Tollaway; Fiddler; Sabang
Residents; Sabang Sailors; Satay Seller;
Stallholder; Jacobus Arrhenius; Chinese Pirates;
Shanghai Crowds; Chinese Harbour Officials; City
Guards; Robber Boys; Cameron Mackenzie; Harris;
Malcolm Mackenzie; Mrs Mackenzie; Mackenzie's
Chinese Servants; Captain Bryan; Officers of the USS
Monocacy; Mackenzie's Dinner Guests;
Fruitseller; Tsi Huen; Wu Fung-Yi; Healer; USS Monocacy
Crew; Bryan's Translator; Beggar; Residence Guards;
Residence Officials; Stationery Stallholder; Noodle
Seller; Dr Forbes; Farmers; Wu Fung-Yi's Uncle;
Uncle's Sons; Boat Owner; Arrhenius's Daughter;
Dragon Boat Crew; Lieutenant MacCrery; Chinese Chef;
Governor of Jiangsu Province; Governor's Retinue;
Chinese Soldiers; Mycroft's Sailor; (Mycroft's
Agents; Mr
Kyte; Rufus Stone; Holmes's Mother; Siger Holmes;
Anna Holmes; Sherrinford Holmes; Virginia Crowe;
Ship's Doctor; Matty Arnatt; Captain of the Monocacy;
Emma Holmes; Prefect Chen; Aaron Wilson Jr)
Locations: Diogenes Club; Aboard the Gloria
Scott; Sumatra; Sabang; China; Shanghai; Gate
of the Leaping Dragon; Mackenzie's House; Renmin
Dong Lu; Wu Chung's House; Prefect's Residence; Gate
of the Virtuous Phoenix; Yangtze River; Aboard the
USS Monocacy; Snake Bite Hill; Ruined Fort
Story: Holmes has been given a place on the
crew of the Gloria Scott by the First
Mate, Larchmont. He still doesn't recall how he came
to be aboard the ship. After weathering a tropical
storm, the ship stops in Sumatra, where it picks up
the veiled and gloved Dutchman, Jacobus Arrhenius.
En route to Shanghai, they are attacked by pirates.
In Shanghai, Holmes is rescued from robbers by
Cameron Mackenzie, son of a shipping agent, and has
dinner at Mackenzie's house with the officers of the
American warship Monocacy. TheGloria
Scott's
cook dies, apparently of a snake bite, and Cameron's
father is killed the same way. Holmes, Cameron and
Wu Fung-Yi sail up the Yangtze River to stop an
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Sherlock Holmes: Knife Edge (2013)
Story Type: Children's Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; The
Gloria Scott; Mycroft Holmes; Baron
Maupertuis; The Paradol Chamber
Historical Figures: (Prince Alfred;
Queen Victoria)
Other Characters: Mr Larchmont; Ambrose
Albano; Sir Shadrach Quintillan; Mrs Silman; Herr
Doctor Holtzbrinck; Louis-Adolphe von Webenau;
Niamh Quintillan; Count Pyotr Andreyevich
Shuvalov; Máire; Amyus Thaddeus Crowe; Virginia
Crowe; Matty Arnatt; Rufus Stone; Mr Kyte; Gloria
Scott Crew; Dock Workers; Gawkers;
Tradesmen; Accommodation People; Carriage Drivers;
Galway Residents; Maître d'Hotel; Tailor; Shoe
Man; Hotel Valet; Shuvalov's Manservant; Castle
Servants; Footwomen; Telegraph Office Proprietor;
Abductors; Cart Driver; Galway Police; Police
Sergeant; Maupertuis's Men; (Uncle
Sherrinford Holmes; Aunt Jane Holmes; (Siger
Holmes; Mrs Holmes; Travis Stebbins; Larchmont's
Wife; Captain Tollaway; Charlotte Holmes;
Mycroft's Agent in Cadiz; Jacobus Arrhenius;
Gahan Macfarlane; Indian Holy Man; Niamh's
Mother; Invictus; Fritz Holtzbrinck; Doctor;
Bryce Scobell; Mrs Eglantine; Crowe's Wife;
Farnham Baker; Farnham Actors)
Locations: Atlantic Ocean; Aboard the Gloria
Scott; Ireland; Galway; Spanish Arch;
Hotel; Salthill; Cloon Ard Castle; Telegraph
Office; Shop; Beach; Folly; Cave
Story: Sailing home on the Gloria
Scott, Holmes reads Virginia's letter
telling him of her engagement. He is met in
Galway by Mycroft. Mycroft is in Ireland to
investigate the claims of Ambrose Albano, a spirit
medium, who is staying at Cloon Ard Castle, where
they will also be guests. The castle is owned by Sir
Shadrach Quintillan, a former slave in the
Caribbean, knighted for saving the life of Prince
Alfred. They discover that representatives of a
number of governments are there, and that Albano's
claimed ability to communicate with recently
deceased spies is to be sold to the highest bidder.
Holmes meets Quintillan's daughter, who tells him
about the beast that is said to come out of the sea
to carry off livestock in the environs of the
castle. A séance is held, the beast is seen, a
murder occurs, and Mycroft is injured. Albano
disappears during an abduction attempt, and Amyus
and Virginia Crowe arrive at the castle. Another
example of spiritual powers is given, and a body
appears in an impossible location. Holmes and Crowe
come face to face with an old adversary.
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Sherlock Holmes: Stone Cold (2014)
Story Type: Children's Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Mycroft Holmes; Reginald Musgrave; Mortimer
Maberley; (Oscar Meunier)
Historical Figures: Pablo Sarasate; Lewis
Carroll
Other Characters: Rufus Stone; Matty
Arnatt; Mrs McCrery; Thomas Millard;
Mathukumal Vijayaraghavan; Paul Chippenham; Mr
Mutchinson; Stevens; Adam Bagshawe; Sergeant
Clitherow; Constable Harries; Ainsley Dunbard; Doctor
Wilberforce Lukather; George Squier; Ferny Weston;
Marie Weston; Jude Weston; Sutton; Dillman; Sarasate's Audience;
Messenger; Bargemen; Students; Townspeople; Ladies;
Whiskered Man; Businessman; Carriage Driver;
Carriage Passenger; Farmer; Anatomy Lecturer;
Lecturer's Assistants; Law Student; Mrs McCrery's
Scullery Maid; Mrs McCrery's Servant Boys; Handyman;
Post Office Clerk; Master of Christ Church; Village
Postmistress; Bicyclist; Postman; Orchard Men;
Military Band; Park Crowd; (Sherrinford
Holmes; Siger Holmes; Holmes's Mother; Holmes's
Sister; Sister's Admirer; Mycroft's Agents;
Bellboy; Amyus Crowe; Virginia Crowe; Senior
Master; Mr McCrery; Chen-shu; Anna Holmes;
Rachel Bagshawe; Daniel Hussein; Sir Benedict
Ventham; Hospital Board of Directors; Thomas
Natrous; Jacobus Arrhenius; Boy in Photo;
American Railway Entrepreneur; Italian Judge;
Vatican Official)
Locations: Theatre; Baker Street; Camden
Lock; Grand Junction Canal; Oxford Canal; Oxford;
36, Edmonton Crescent; Christ Church College; Oxford
Post Offices; Oxford Hospital; Mortuary;
Post Office; Village Post Office; Wolvercote;
Gresham Lodge; Maberley's House; Barn; Park
Story: Sherlock, Mycroft and Stone attend
a Sarasate concert. Mycroft proposes
sending Sherlock to Oxford to study with Charles
Lutwidge Dodgson. Matty accompanies him, with his
barge. He lodges with Mrs McCrery, whose other
lodgers include Reginald Musgrave. Holmes becomes
interested in a case of stolen body parts, regarding
which Dodgson has been interviewed by the police,
and exploring outside the city, he discovers a
strange house, and receives warnings of a creature
made od stitched together body parts in the woods.
He attends an anatomy lecture, interviews a
pathologist, and looks for a pattern in the dates of
the thefts.
Sherlock has a fight with a monkey, and Dodgson
takes his photograph. He discovers strange wax
relics, and has a fight in a deadly menagerie. He
meets ex-police detective turned consulting
detective Ferny Weston, who agrees to teach him all
he knows. Weston asks him to investigate the case of
his former sergeant, Mortimer Maberley, who is
convinced that his house moves, in the middle of the
night, into the orchard below it.
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Young Sherlock Holmes:
Night Break (2015)
Story Type: Children's Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Mycroft Holmes; James (Westley) Phillimore; Paradol Chamber;
(Baron
Maupertuis)
Historical Figures: Lewis Carroll; Ferdinand
de Lesseps
Other Characters: Rufus Stone; Matty
Arnatt; Mrs McCrery; Major Siger Holmes; Mulhall; Anna
Holmes; Mr Lydecker; Emma Holmes; Colonel Cyrus
Rossmore; George Throop; Marie Winstanley; Jonathan
Phillimore; K. James Marius Reilly; Mrs Loran; François; Mohammed Al-Sharif; Abdul Aziz;
George Clarke; Oxford Students; Cab Driver; Tea Shop
Serving Girl; Station Guard; Agricultural Labourers;
Train Travellers; Former Soldier; Down-at-heel lady;
Fake Vicar; Holmes Lodge Footmen; Servants; Vicar;
Pall-bearers; Throop's Workmen; Phillimore's Cook;
Arundel Cabbie; Mycroft's Men; Arundel Stable Boys;
Foreign Office Visitors; Foreign Office Doormen;
Diplomats; Whitehall Newsboys; Foreign Office
Employees; Blind Barrel Organ Man; Tea Room
Waitress; Arundel Travel Agent; Arundel Tailor; Princess
Helena Passengers; Ship Stewards; Gibraltar
Street Vendors; Market Traders; Princess Helena
Crewmen; Alexandrians; Alexandria Hotel Desk Clerk;
Train Passengers; Bedouin Tribesmen; Train
Conductor; Ishmaili Cart Driver; De Lesseps'
Footman; Café Customers; Ishmaili Cabbies;
Desert Travellers; (Holmes's Mother; Sherrinford
Holmes; Siger's Commanding Officer; British
Soldiers; Arundel Stationmaster's Boy; Farmer's
Daughter; Holmes Family Doctor; Sussex Coroner;
Amyus Crowe; Mrs Eglantine; Virginia Crowe; Niamh
Quintillian; Phillimore's Chemist; Mycroft's
Superiors; Clarke's Men; Ambrose Albano; Mr Kyte;
Mr Wormersley; British Consul; Jonathan's
Colleagues; Ishmaili Police; Ferny Weston; Oxford
Scholar)
Locations: Oxford; Christ Church College;
36, Edmonton Crescent; Oxford Station; Tea Shop;
Train; Sussex; Arundel; Arundel Station; Holmes
Lodge; Chapel; Phillimore's House; Whitehall; The
Foreign Office; Charing Cross; Aerated Bread Company
Tea Room; Victoria Station; Southampton; Aboard SS
Princess Helena; English Channel; Atlantic
Ocean; Gibraltar; Mediterranean Sea; Malta;
Valletta; India; Egypt; Suez Canal; Cairo; Alexandria;
Quayside; Hotel; Alexandria Station; A Train;
Ishmaili; De Lesseps' House; Café; Cab Garage;
Tombs
Story: Mycroft brings Sherlock the news that
their mother has died of consumption, and they
return, accompanied by Matty, to Holmes Lodge in
Suffolk for the funeral. They discover that their
sister Emma is being courted by James Phillimore,
and talks of faceless men hiding in the bushes. When
Holmes and Mycroft call on Phillimore, he vanishes
after stepping back into his house for an umbrella.
The outcome of their investigation takes
Sherlock and Matty to Egypt in search of
Phillimore's brother, an engineer working on the
Suez Canal construction project. Holmes takes fences
lessons during the voyage, and has an
encounter with the Paradol Chamber.
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"The Zen Garden
Murder" (2022)
Included in: A Detective's Life:
Sherlock Holmes (Martin Rosenstock)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mycroft Holmes; (Mrs Watson)
Other Characters: Mrs Hardcastle; Mr
Hardcastle; Li Hsen; Henderson; Sir Reginald
Summersly; Natsume Rintarō; (Dr Mordhurst; Mrs
Mordhurst; Earl of Chichester)
Unnamed Characters: Sir Reginald's
Footmen; (Sir Reginald's Cook; Buddhist Priest;
Butcher; Fishmonger; Summersly's Son)
Date: After Holmes's Retirement
Locations: Sussex; Holmes's Cottage; Sir
Reginald's House
Story: Holmes is tasked by Mycroft with
investigating Sir Reginald Summersly, a retired
diplomat, who had held several posts in Asia.He and
Watson arrive at Sir Reginald's home to find him
murdered in his Zen garden, with no signs of
disturbance on the sand around him, or evidence of a
weapon.
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Andrew Lang
"At the Sign of the Ship" (1895)
Included in: Longman's Magazine, September 1905
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Fictional Characters: (Edwin Drood;
John Jasper; Dick Datchery; Helena Landless; Neville
Landless; Stoney Durdles; Princess Puffer; Reverend
Crisparkle; Mr Grewgious; Rosa Bud)
Historical Figures: (J. Cuming Walters;
Charles Dickens; John Forster; Richard Proctor;
Charles Allston Collins; Andrew Lang)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Watson asks Holmes if he has ever
considered investigating historical mysteries such as
that of Edwin Drood. After hearing Watson's theory on
the case, Holmes sends for a copy of Dickens' novel,
along with Proctor's study of it, and sets forth his
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Jeffrey Lang
The Light Fantastic (2014)
Story Type: Science Fiction Homage
Canonical Characters: Professor Moriarty; (Sherlock
Holmes)
Characters Based on Canonical Characters: Mrs
Hudson
Fictional Characters: Data; Jean-Luc Picard;
Geordi La Forge; Alice Android; Lal; Worf; Leah
Brahms; Beverly Crusher; Countess Regina Bartholomew;
Reginald Barclay; Harry Mudd; Stella Androids; Uhura;
Broik; Vic Fontaine; Voyager Doctor; Kivas
Fajoi; noonien Soong; (Montgomery Scott;
Will Riker; Deanna Troi; Dr Pulaski; René
Picard; Akharin; Rhea McAdams; Bruce Maddox; Wesley
Crusher, Q; Lore; B-4; Emil Vaslovik / Flint;
Captain James T. Kirk; Norman; Miles O'Brien; Ensign
Ro; Quark; Nog; Captain Braxton; Roger Korby;
Varria; Guinan; Jarrell)
Other Characters: Oban; Settu; Kelly; Alice;
Shakti; Jimmy McGuire; Sophia Moriarty; Gladys
Moriarty; Todd; Jiro; (Kathan; Mr & Mrs
Fischler; Mr & Mrs Templesmith; Mister Oboloth;
Maisie Androids; Annabel Androids; Herman Androids;
Kevar; Proxima; Clea)
Unnamed Characters: Diner Patrons; Diner
Servers; Casino Patrons; Pit Bosses; Dealers; Casino
Servers; Security Workers; Timeless Citizens;
Butcher's Wife; Dead Child; Ensigns; Enterprise-D
Work Crews; Enterprise-D Crew Members;
Transporter Operator; Daystrom Security Guard;
Daystrom Researcher; Commons Residents; Daystrom
Security Officers; Starfleet Officers; Xenolinguists;
Andorian; Bajoran Station Worker; Deep Space 9 Crowds;
Bouncer; Ferengi Bar Staff; Androids; (Chicken
Trader; Alice's Guy; Oboloth's Administrative
Assistant; Couple Who Had Owned Lal's House;
Property Inspector; Contractor; Alice's League
Contact; Mudd's Banker; Fontaine's Contacts; Fajo's
Probation Officer)
Date: A Timeless Time / 2384 - November 2385 /
2270-2285
Locations: Moriarty's Placeless Place; Orion
Prime; Oban's Diner; The Commons; Lal's House; Lode
Stone Casino; Data's Apartment; Aboard USS Enterprise-E;
Earth; San Francisco; Upper Haight; Aboard the Archeus;
Daystrom Institute; Lee's House; Veridian III; Mudd's
Uncharted Planet; Barroom; Deep Space 9; The Plaza;
Quark's Bar; Holosuite; Fontaine's Hotel; Mudd's
Planetoid; Fajo's Collection Room; Moriarty's Planet
Story: Moriarty is working on an horologe
to free him and his wife Regina from their timeless
imprisonment.
Data is working as a short-order cook in a diner,
using the alias of "Davey", when he learns that two
men have been asking questions about him. He
returns home to find his daughter Lal and her
caretaker Alice missing. A holographic message
from Moriarty tells him to find a means for him to
exist in the real world. Data summons Geordi to help
him.
Moriarty tells Lal and Alice about his and Countess
Regina's departure from the Enterprise, and
of the fate of their daughters, Sophia and Gladys.
Alice deduces that the events were linked to
the destruction
of the Enterprise-D on Veridian III.
A hundred and fifteen years earlier Alice had been
one of the androids living with Harry Mudd on the
uncharted planet to which Kirk had exiled him, tasked
with the role of educating Mudd. Instead she aids him
in his escape, before abandoning him with Uhura at a
xenolinguistics conference.
After infiltrating the Daystrom Institute and
discovering that Moriarty is no longer in the holo
program created for him, Data and Geordi travel to
Deep Space 9 to consult with Vic Fontaine, and make
contact with the Voyager Doctor. Former Enterprise
engineer Albert Lee suggests that Moriarty's
consciousness could be uploaded into an android. Data
and George visit the elderly Harry Mudd who has Roger
Korby's device for transferring consciousness into an
android, but he tells them that Kivas Fajo has the
only remaining Exo III slug compatible with it.
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David Langford
"The Repulsive Story of the Red
Leech" (1997)
Included in: The Mammoth
Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike
Ashley)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Other Characters: Martin Maximilian
Traill; Selina Traill; Wilfrid Jarman; Dr. James;
Basil Jarman
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Hampstead
Heath; Highgate Ponds; A Public House; A Cab;
Theobald's Road; offices of Jarman, Fittle &
Coggs
Story: Martin Traill must sign the papers
that will allow him to claim his inheritance, but
since a spirit warning received at a séance given
by his sister, he has been unable to do so,
feeling a great pain in his hand each time he
tries. He tells Holmes that the same hand was
bitten by a red leech on Hampstead Heath some
months previously, although luckily a passing
doctor was able to tend to the bite. Holmes and
Watson journey to the Heath, where Holmes is able
to find the remains of the leech (which he later
deposits on Watson's plate of kippers). Bringing
X-ray technology to bear on the case, Holmes is
able to solve it but not without an explosion and
a bullet in his shoulder.
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Sterling E. Lanier
"A Father's Tale" (1974)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes Through Time and Space (Isaac Asimov,
Martin Harry Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh)
Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche
Detective: Verner
Canonical Characters: The Giant Rat of
Sumatra
Other Characters: Young Club Member;
Brigadier Ffellowes; Mason Williams; Captain
Ffellowes; Dato Ali Burung; Umpa; Ffellowes' Crew;
Ship's Cook; Islanders; The Not-Men / The Folk;
Cornelius Van Ouisthoven
Date: Autumn, 1881
Locations: A Club In New York; A Boat off
The Coast of Sumatra; A Sumatran Island; Kampong
De Kan
Story: Brigadier Ffellowes tells how his
father picked up a shipwreck victim after a storm
off the coast of Sumatra. Before passing out, the
man warns him to look out for Matilda Briggs. When
he regains consciousness he says that his name is
Verner, ad he needs Captain Fellowes' help, as a
gentleman and a patriot, in a matter of some
urgency. They land on an island, and, taking
control of the crew, Verner leads them inland,
stopping on the way to look at animal tracks. As
they camp for the night they lose two sentries to
something in the jungle. Verner eventually reveals
to Ffellowes that he plans to totally destroy a
native village occupied by a Dutch scientist named
Van Ouisthoven, and what the natives refer to as
the "Not-Men". Eventually they arrive at a
European-style village where they are attacked by
giant human-like rat creatures. The ship Matilda
Briggs is in the harbour, loaded with
females and infants, Verner says that it, too,
must be destroyed. As he explores the village,
Ffellowes learns more of Ouisthoven's experiments,
and discovers Ouisthoven himself, kept prisoner by
the "Folk" who are attempting to leave aboard the
ship. The men must unite to stop them.
NOTE: This story owes as much to
H.G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau
as it does to the Holmesian canon.
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Kasey Lansdale
"The Patchwork Killer" (2014)
Included in: Two Hundred and
Twenty-One Baker Streets (David Thomas Moore)
Story Type: Scence Fiction Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock
Holmes; (Dr Watson; Mary Morstan; Irene Adler)
Characters Derived from Canonical
Characters: Maria Hernandez /
Maria Turner (Mrs Hudson / Mrs Turner)
Other Characters: Watson; Darlene Jenkins;
Detective Michaels; Blind Man; Maria Hernandez; Blue
Moon Girls; Blue Moon Customers; Dancer; Mrs
Peppard; Dave; Drifter
(William Watson; Caroline Watson; Yogurt Shop
Girl; Dental Hygienist; Plastic Surgeon; Charley
Peppard; Man in Alley; Plastic Surgeon's Mother;
Mrs Peppard's Parents)
Date: 2010s
Locations: USA; 221B Baker Street; Blue Moon
Cabaret; Peppard's House; Mortuary
Story: Watson, an American dentist whose
great-great-uncle was Dr John H. Watson, is involved
in the police hunt for the Patchwork Killer, who
cuts his victims skin apart, then stitches it back
together again. Watson lives with a clone of
Sherlock Holmes, who appears out of a tiny wooden
box.
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Ring W. Lardner
"A Lesson in
Handwriting Analysis" (1915)
Included in: The
Big
Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto
Penzler); A Bedside Book
of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches
(Charles Press); Sherlock
Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches II:
1915-1919 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; (Mrs Hudson)
Historical Figures: (Ring
Lardner; Richard J. Warner)
Other Characters: (Chicago
Tribune
Editor; Letter Writer)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Holmes bemoans the typewriter, and
explains how handwriting reveals the character of
the writer in ways that typewritten messages
cannot. He uses a letter to the editor of
the Chicago Tribune complaining about Ring
Lardner's column to illustrate his point.
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Kathryn Lasky
Double
Trouble Squared (1991)
Story Type: Children's Supernatural Homage
Canonical Characters: Mr Sherman; Baker
Street Irregular; (Sherlock Holmes; Toby; Dr
Watson)
Characters Based on Canonical Characters:
(Harry Stoner [Julia Stoner]; Henry Stoner [Helen
Stoner]; Bartholomew Sholto [Grimesby Roylott])
Historical Figures: Queen
Elizabeth II: (Arthur Conan Doyle; Doyle's Heirs)
Other Characters: Liberty Bell
Starbuck; July Burton "J.B." Starbuck; Putnam
Starbuck; Madeline Starbuck; Charlotte "Charly"
Starbuck; Amalie "Molly" Starbuck; Chelsea Cohen; Mr
Zoltrono; Iris Wetzel; Aunt Honey; Zanny Duggan; Mr
Moonpenny; Lucille Rhodes; Yeoman Jack; Kate;
Ambassador Whitmore; Lulu Whitmore; Isabelle
Whitmore; Fifi Whitmore; Shadrach Holmes; Simon;
Godfrey Swepstone; Jonathan Swan; Boggles; Dunphy;
Mr Ambersley-Witt; Robeson Andrews; Philpot
Kingsley; Nigel Morebutt; (Sammy Kendall;
Lucy Kendall; Davy Kendall; Randy Kendall;
Rosemarie Duggan; Felicity Farnham; Jane Gerstein;
Muriel Braverman; Lady Aberdeen)
Unnamed Characters: Schoolchidren; Hotel
Doorman; Hospital Attendants; Hearse Driver; Palace
Guards;Mayfair Housemaids; Manservants; Movers; Pet
Shop Owner; Florist; Beefeaters; Tower of London
Tourists; Viper Man; Ambassador's Guests; Bookshop
Clerk; Bookshop Customers; Bride; Blue Carbuncles
Members; Reporters; Lloyd's Security Guards;
Secretary; Ms Photographer; (Springdale
School Principal; Corpse; BBC Weatherman)
Date: 1990s?
Locations: USA; Washington DC; Dakota
Street; School; London; Baker Street Station; Baker
Street; Pub; Marylebone High Street; Hotel; Carlos
Place; Green Park; Birdcage Walk; Westminster
Bridge; St Thomas's Hospital; Lambeth; Pinchin Lane;
Mayfair; Oxford Street; Wimpole Street; Devonshire
Place; 3, Devonshire Mews; Wigmore Street; Pet
Store; Florist's; Tower of London; Ambassador's
Residence; Green Park Underground Station; Covent
Garden Underground Station; Bow Street; Bow Street
Runners Bookshop; Pump Court; Lloyd's of London;
Carlton Club; Sussex; Windlesham; Slaughter Glen;
Stratford-on-Avon; The Rose and Crown
Story: Twins Liberty and J.B. Starbuck, and
their younger twin sisters, Molly and Charly, move
to London when there father is given the job of
under secretary to the American ambassador. the
twins are psychic, and recently their power has been
coming stronger and they are picking up signals from
further afield. J.B. senses that the bust of
Sherlock Holmes outside his room has some kind of
life to it. Their babysitter Zanny accompanies them
to London, and takes them to Baker Street on their
first day in the city, and when they are woken by a
strange ringing in their dreams, they take a
night-time trip to Pinchin Lane where they have a
spooky canonical encounter.
The family move into a mews house in Devonshire
Place. The twins continue to hear a voice in their
minds, and feel that they have been drawn to the
house. Liberty starts to experience disturbances in
the psychic connection she shares with her siblings.
On their birthday they visit Windlesham and have
another disturbing encounter, while, on their return
home, things start to appear and disappear in their
bedroom. July discovers that their mews home is
joined on to Conan Doyles' Devonshire Place
residence. They discover a manuscript version of
"The Speckled Band" in which Holmes has a twin
brother named Shadrach. The twins must find a way to
have the manuscript published to free the ghosts of
characters who never made it to the final drafts,
while staying out of the clutches of the ghost of an
unused villain. They meet with members of the Blue
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Mark A. Latham
Betrayal in Blood (2017)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector [Roger] Bradstreet;
Langdale Pike; Mycroft Holmes; (Colonel
Moran; Professor Moriarty; Mary Morstan; Baker
Street Irregulars; Adolph Meyer)
Fictional Characters:
Inspector [Frank] Cotford; Arthur Holmwood;
Abraham Van Helsing; Jonathan Harker; Kate Reed;
Lucy Westenra; Mina Harker; Whitby Harbourmaster;
Lucy's Maid (Betty Hobbs); Dr John Seward; Dr
Patrick Hennessey; Renfield; Dracula; Quincey
Morris; Alfred Singleton; (Lord Godalming;
Mrs Westenra; Peter Hawkins; Crew of the Demeter;
Mr Marquand; The Gypsies; Dracula's Brides;
Bloofer Lady; Mr Swales; Captain of the Demeter;
Roumanian Mate; Russian Consul; Dailygraph
Correspondent; S.F. Billington; Woman Who Stole
from the Dead; Berserker; Lucy's Maids (Mary,
Wendy & Alice); Thomas Bilder the
Wolf-Keeper; Simmons (Renfield's Attendant);
William Young; Francis Aytown; Van Helsing's
Wife (Elisabet);
Van Helsing's Son)
Historical Figures: (Bram
Stoker (Theatre Manager); Arminius Vambery)
Other Characters: Genevieve Holmwood
/ Jennie Megginson / Genevieve Kidd; Mainwaring; Sir
Maugham Jarsdel; Lady Jarsdel; Mrs Dryden; Robert
Browning; Terrence; Constable Perkins; Constable
Bryant; Captain Brownsworth; Corporal Phillips;
Police Constables; Courier; Surrey Coachman;
Cabbies; Royal Society Guests; Scientists;
Dilettantes; Financiers; Members of Parliament;
Queen's Physician; Princess; Blackall Girls;
Schoolmistress; Seamen; Harbourmaster's Staff;
Browning's Clerk; Laundry Manageress; Asylum
Inmates; Asylum Orderlies; Caretakers; Doctors;
Asylum Visitors; Duty Nurse; Asylum Stewards;
Bicyclists; Cabbies; Draymen; Hampstead Crowd; German Twins;
Hampstead Policemen; Police Surgeon; Carfax
Constables; Somerset House Clerk; Orient Express
Passengers; Old Woman on Train; Bistritz Citizens;
Sahlings Manager; Coach Driver; Peasants; Szgany
Gypsies; Royal Engineers; (Sir Toby Fitzwilliam;
Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner;
Postmaster's Wife; Watson's Patients; Miss
Breckendorf; Nuns; Mrs Browning; Theatre
Manager; Carriage Driver; Exeter Police
Inspector; Betty's Employers; Leverson &
Critchley; Mrs Critchley; Police Coroner;
Holmes's Informants; Mycroft's Man; Klomser
Concierge; Varna Harbourmaster)
Date: 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Whitechapel;
Wentworth Street; Cotford's Flat; Surrey; Ring;
Carfax; Purfleet Asylum; New Burlington House;
Devon; Exeter; Harker's Office; Blackall School;
Yorkshire; Whitby; Mina's House; Angel Hotel;
Harbourmaster's Office; Harbour Board Offices;
Highgate Cemetery; East End Laundry; Transylvania;
Castle Dracula; Hampstead; Spaniards Road;
Hampstead Heath; B Division Headquarters; Cockspur
Street; Somerset House; Austria; Vienna; Klomser
Hotel; Railway Station; Hungary; Buda-Pesth;
Bistritz; Hotel Sahlings
Story: Holmes receives details of the
Dracula case from Mycroft. Holmes has
encountered Van Helsing before, and believes that
there is more to the case than has been made public.
Bradstreet, who has taken on the case, arrives at
221B and tells Holmes about the mental decline of
his colleague, Cotford, who was involved in the
original case, and who believes that a conspiracy of
murder is concealed within it.
Spurred on by discrepancies in the
so-called Dracula Papers, Holmes visits the
impoverished and ailing Lod Holmwood and his new
wife, Genevieve. He and Watson examine Carfax Abbey
and Purfleet Asylum, and encounter Van Helsing at a
Royal Society dinner. In Exeter, they meet with
Harker, but it is Kate Reed whose story hints at a
deeper conspiracy. From there they journey to Whitby
to meet with Mina Harker and investigate the fate of
the Demeter, and, back in London, break
into Lucy Westenra's tomb.
His researches, with the assistance of
Langdale Pike, lead Holmes to figures expurgated
from the official Dracula Papers.The facts they
uncover take Holmes and Watson on a journey to
Transylvania.
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"The Case of the Stranded
Harlequin" (2022)
Included in: Gaslight Ghouls
(J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Folkloric Characters: Grindylows
Historical Figures: George
Brudenell-Bruce, Lord Savernake
Other Characters: Eleanor Basford;
Dennis Wigram; Eli Collins; Roderick Harrington;
Hapgood; Smith; Harold Basford
Unnamed Characters: White
Hart
Patrons; White Hart Landlord; Harrington's Men;
Policemen; (Postmistress; Miners; Magistrate;
Land Inspectors)
Locations: Wiltshire Downs; The White Hart;
Bruce Tunnel; Harrington's House; Mine; Savernake
Forest
Story: Holmes has caught a cold while on
holiday on the Downs. He and Watson are visited by
Eleanor Basford, whose husband Harold has
disappeared after going to investigate the collapse
of the Bruce rail and canal tunnel, which
superstitious locals are blaming on grindylows or
river fairies. Watson is attacked by something under
the water while investigating a canal-boat laden
with explosives trapped in the tunnel.
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"The Cuckoo's Hour" (2018)
Included in: Gaslight
Gothic (J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Stanley Hopkins
Folkloric Characters: (Jack
o'the Green / The Green Man)
Other Characters: Estella Harding; Mr Paxman;
Mr Lafferty; Mrs Lafferty; Ironmongers; Erasmus M.
Harding; Erasmus & Jennett's Son; (Sir
Theobald Harding; Peter Harding; Ralph Harding;
Algernon Simmerson; Estella's Mother; Poachers;
Police Surgeon; Jennett Harding)
Date: August
Locations: Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street;
Suffolk, Badingham; Paxman's Office; Atreus Manor; The
Devil's Forge
Story: Holmes is called on by Estella Harding,
whose uncle, Sir Theobald, has died, according to
local superstition, under the curse of Jack o'the
Green. Sir Theobald has left his fortune to whichever
of his four heirs can decipher the puzzle of his home,
Atreus Manor. Two of her cousins have tried to solve
the mystery, but one has disappeared and the other has
been driven mad. The trail leads from a pet cemetery,
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"The Curious Case of the Vanished Youth" (2017)
Included in: Further Associates
of Sherlock Holmes (George Mann)
Story Type: Extra-canonical adventure of
Langdale Pike
Canonical Characters: Langdale Pike; Dr
Watson; (Sherlock Holmes; Inspector Lestrade;
Mycroft Holmes; Mary Morstan)
Historical Figures: Lord Alfred
"Bosie" Douglas; Oscar Wilde
Other Characters: Dorothea's Housemaid;
Dorothea Beresford; Vine Patrons; Vine Landlord;
Bess; Dipper; Cabbie; Watson's Nurse; Varieties
Audience; Ushers; The Magnificent Balthazar / Cecil
Blaylock; Pianist; Alice Blaylock; Lucy; Montagu's
Servants; Algernon Dinmont / Monmouth / Lord Percy
Montagu, Earl of Torrington; Montagu's Butler;
Montagu's Valet; Carriage Driver; Prisoners;
Housemaid; Potboy; Toby Cottingford; Footman; (West
End Producer; Whiggins; Sir Denis Cottingford;
Dorothea's Father; Dorothea's Friends; Polly; Lady
Devonshire; Member of the Royal Family;
Ticket-seller; Blaylock's Cousin)
Date: Autumn, 1891
Locations: Albemarle Club; Holborn;
Dorothea's House; Mile End; The Vine; Watson's
Kensington House; The Hoxton Varieties; Pitfield
Street; Hackney; Balthazar's Flat; Bexley; Montagu's
Estate
Story: When fellow Albemarle Club member,
Bosie, tells Langdale Pike about the disappearance
of Toby Cottingley, Pike decides to investigate.
Toby's sweetheart, Dorothea, tells him that Toby
disappeared after they had visited a music hall in
Mile End, where the magian, The Magnificent
Balthazar, was performing. When he learns of more
disappearances, Pike enlist Watson to assist him in
his inquiries.
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The Red Tower (2018)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Inspector Lestrade; (Dr Verner; Mary
Morstan)
Other Characters: Benson; James H. Crain, Lord
Beving; Judith Sugden; Madame Adaline Farr / Gertrude
Mellinchip; Simon Cole; Lady Esther Crain; Sally
Griggs; Geoffrey Melville; Theobald Crain, Marquess of
Berkeley; David Langton; Constance Langton; Josiah
Cavendish; Jane Cavendish; Reverend Cyril Parkin; Sir
Thomas Golspie; Eglinton; Constable Hardacre; Polly;
Constable Aitkens; Arthur Cole; Mrs Griggs; Mrs
Dallimore; Train Passengers; Footmen; Servants;
Parkin's Groom; Undertaker; Undertaker's Man; Cabbie;
Parkin's Housekeeper; Carriage Driver; (Lady
Agnes Crain; Blackheath Spiritualists; Lady Sybille
Crain; Estate Manager; Esther's Physician;
Mackenzie; Cruddas; Cavendish's First Wife; Cynthia
Melville; Charles Cavendish; Edmund Crain, Eighth
Lord Berkeley; Cromwell's Spy; Ninth Lord Berkeley;
Sybille's Guards; Sybille's Servants; Godfrey Crain;
James's Great-Grandfather; James's Grandfather; Lady
Elizabeth Berkeley; Elizabeth's Doctor; Mellinchip's
Client's Husband; Golspie's Maid; Golspie's
Gardener; Jago Kettering; Kettering's Valet;
Kettering's Butler; Expedition Members; Wasimbu
Warriors; Slavers; Wasimbu Tribe; Tugullah Tribe;
Shaman; Uuka; The Tagullah Devil; Frank
Higginbotham; Jack Bloomfield; Lestrade's Sergeant;
Mr Sugden; James's Wife)
Date: April, 1894
Locations: The Criterion; Berkshire; A Train;
Bracknell Station; Swinley; Crain Manor; Golspie's
House; Vicarage; Madame Farr's Cottage; Mrs
Dallimore's Cottage; Abandoned Cottage; Africa
Story: Watson travels to Crain Manor in
Berkshire to visit his friend, James Crain, son of the
Marquess of Berkeley, who has also invited Madame
Farr, a spiritualist medium. On his first night there,
he sees Mary's ghost, and the ghost of Lady Sybille
Crain appears after a séance, leading James to tell
his guests the story of the family curse. The
apparition presages two deaths, and Watson summons
Holmes and Lestrade to investigate. During their
investigation they expose false spiritualists and hear
of a fateful expedition to Africa. A fight takes place
in a spiritualist's cottage before the case reaches
it's conclusion in an abandoned miller's cottage and
Holmes presents his deductions. |
"Sherlock Holmes and the Popish
Relic" (2014)
Included in: Further
Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (George Mann)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Mary Morstan)
Historical Figures: (The
Golden Dawn)
Other Characters: Ms B-; Three Members of the
Golden Dawn; Pregnant Young Lady; Young Lady's
Brother; Ageing Widow; Sad-Looking Young Man; Ms B's
Amanuensis; Sir Daniel Hotchkiss; Gig Driver; Harry
Turnham; Traveller's Rest Customers; Jemima
Drebbins; Connie; Connie's Mother; Lord Septimus
Bairstowe; Harry Drebbins; Policemen; Inspector
Denby; (Young
Lady's Husband; Lady Hotchkiss; Poacher; Maid)
Date: October
Locations: Threadneedle Street; 221B, Baker
Street; Buckinghamshire; Chalfont Road Station;
Chalgrave; Traveller's Rest Inn; Tattlesby Abbey; A
Train
Story: Watson attends a séance and
receives a warning about the future. Holmes is
consulted by Sir Daniel Hotchkiss, who has inherited
Tattlesby Abbey from his eccentric uncle, but has no
proof that his uncle is actually dead. He asks Holmes
to find his uncle and prove whether he is living or
dead. Strange sounds have been heard, and lights and a
ghostly monk seen in the Abbey grounds, and a strange
draught blows through the house. Arriving in Chalgrave
village, Holmes and Watson are told of legends of a
saintly relic buried in the grounds of the Abbey.
After spending a night in the haunted abbey, the
investigation leads Holmes and Watson underground. |
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Robert Lauderdale
"The Best Laid Plans" (2009)
Included in: Gaslight
Grotesque (J.R. Campbell & Charles
Prepolec)
Story Type: Canonical Revisioning narrated
by Lestrade
Canonical Characters: Inspector Lestrade;
The Moriarty Gang; Professor Moriarty; Dr. Watson;
(Sherlock Holmes; Inspector
Patterson; Tobias Gregson; Inspector Jones;
Inspector Bradstreet)
Other Characters: Moriarty's Guests;
Police Surgeon; Lestrade's Men; Raven Child;
Lizard Woman; Sergeant Jenkins; Moriarty's
Creatures; Lestrade's Colleagues
Date: May, 1891 - 1894
Locations: Lestrade's Home; Moriarty's
Lair; Morgue; Scotland Yard
Story: Lestrade recalls the day
that the Moriarty Gang was brought down through
Holmes's efforts. He recalls his own encounter with
Moriarty and the Professor's miraculous escape from
death, and the discovery of an underground lair full
of human-animal hybrids.
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Janice Law
"The
Holmes Impersonator" (2015)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes
Mystery Magazine #18 (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock
Holmes)
Other Characters: Narrator; Dr Jean Watson;
Paul Bergman; Julia Bergman; Bergman's Guests;
Barman; police Officer; (Museum Visitors;
Museum Board Member; Chief of Police; Agnes;
Edith; Martin; Porter St Armond; Caterer)
Date: 21st Century
Locations: USA; Bergman Mansion
Story: The narrator works as a guide, in
costume as Holmes, at a Sherlock Holmes museum.
The museum holds a Christmas murder mystery benefit
at the mansion home of Paul and Julia Bergman. When
the LaFarge family diamonds are stolen from Julia's
room, the narrator and museum director, Dr Jean
Watson, decide to investigate.
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H.F. Lawson
"Further
Memoirs of Chubblock Holes: The Bangkok Affair"
(1909)
Included in: Social Shanghai, Volume VIII,
July-December 1909
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Chubblock Holes &
Whichdaughter
Other Characters: Mr Topham; (Prince
Kiukiang)
Unnamed Characters: Landing Stage Crowd;
Coolie
Locations: Siam; Bangkok; Aboard the Petchaburi
Story: Chubblock Holes and Whichdaughter are
in the process of embarking from Bangkok aboard the
Petchaburi. Holmes deduces that their fellow
passenger is Topham, a traveller in medicines, and
uncovers his reasons for leaving Singapore.
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Alain le Bussy
"A Matter Without Gravity" (2009)
Included in: Tales of
the Shadowmen 5: The Vampires of Paris
(J.-M. & Randy Lofficier)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; (Mrs Hudson; Mrs Watson; Mrs Watson's
Mother)
Fictional Characters: Lord Edward
Beltham; Arnold Bedford; Professor Cavor; The Time
Traveller; Cavorite
Historical Figures: H.G. Wells
Other Characters: Chambers; Innkeeper;
Train Waiter; (Watson's Colleague; Minister)
Locations: Devon; Beltham Manor; 221B,
Baker Street; Wells' Home; Two Bridges; Post
Office; Inn; A Train
Date: 1896
Story: Holmes and Watson have been
summoned to Beltham Manor by the disagreeable Lord
Beltham. The Manor has been plagued by a
series of unexplained incidents, and Beltham
believes that his neighbour, Wells, may be behind
them. Holmes tells Watson of his involvement in
Government research into aerial warfare, and suffers
a fall on the moor. They visit Wells, taking lunch
with him, Bedford, Cavor and the "Traveller",
sampling an unfamiliar food cooked with electricity.
Intrigued by the sounds of construction from within
the house, Holmes and Watson return by night. While
Holmes is inside the house, Watson is knocked down
by a strange force.
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"The
Sainte-Genevive Caper" (2005)
Included in: Tales of the
Shadowmen 1: The Modern Babylon (J.-M. &
Randy Lofficier)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes)
Fictional Characters:Ganimard, (Arsène
Lupin)
Historical Figures: Lord Dunsany
Other Characters: Count Sainte-Genevive;
Guests; Orchestra; Countess Sainte-Genevive;
Footman; Duchess; Marquis; Policemen; Herman Mayer
Locations: Sainte-Genevive's Castle; Paris;
Préfecture of Police
Date: 1920
Story: At the annual fête held by
Sainte-Genvieve to commemorate his namesake saint's
day, Ganimard shares his belief with Dunsany that
Lupin poses a threat to the evening, and that Holmes
has been hired by the Count's father-in-law as
security. The predicted attack comes in a blackout
at midnight, but the following day Ganimard
discovers that nothing has been stolen, and it is
only later that he realises what has really
happened. |
James le Fanu
"The Case
of the Missing Data" (2002)
Included in: BMJ, Number 7378, 21 December
2002
Story Type: Dialogue
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; (Silver Blaze; John Straker; Fitzroy
Simpson; Mrs Hudson)
Date: 26 February - March 2000
Locations: 221B, Baker Street;
Story: Holmes and Watson study the data
relating to changes in the incidence of heart
disease across a number of countries since the 1950s
to discover whether it is related to lifestyle
changes. |
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Stephen Leacock
"An Irreducible Detective Story"
(1916)
Included in: The Game Is Afoot
(Marvin Kaye); The Big Book of
Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler); Sherlock
Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches II:
1915-1919 (Bill Peschel);
The
Misadventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery
Queen)
Story Type: Parody
Detective: the great detective
Other Characters: Tourist; Ship's Captain
Locations: New York; The Gloritania
Story: From a hair found on the body of a
dead man, the great detective finally tracks down
a mass murderer.
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"Maddened by Mystery: or,
The Defective Detective" (1911)
also published as "The Great Detective"
Included in: The Misadventures
Of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen); The Misadventures
Of Sherlock Holmes (Sebastian Wolfe)
Story Type: Parody
Detective: The Great Detective
Story: The Great Detective investigates the
kidnapping of the Prince of Württemberg in Paris.
After visits from the Prime Minister of England, the
Archbishop of Canterbury and the Countess of
Dashleigh, he begins his investigations, but he is
not pleased when he finds out that the Prince is not
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Steve Leadley
"The Circle of Blood" (2009)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes and the Circle
of Blood (Steve Leadley)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; (Mycroft Holmes; Mrs Hudson)
Historical Figures: Emlen Physick; Frances
Ralston; Emilie Parmentier; John Wanamaker;
Harriet Tubman; (Benjamin Harrison; Philip
Syng Physick; Major General Oliver Otis Howard)
Other Characters: Washington Hotel
Manager; Bellhop; Telegraph Clerk; Fourwheeler
Driver; Washington Porter; Republic
Band; Children; Well-Dressed Elderly Gentleman; Republic
Captain; Sailors; Baggage Handlers; Porters;
Valets; Robert; Carlton Hotel Guests; Tourists;
Bill; Bill's Companion; Joseph Goodfellow;
Constable Gallachio; Physick's Butler; Cape May
Residents; Chalfonte Guests; Chalfonte Old Man;
Angler; Congress Hall Attendants; Baseball
Players; Congress Hall Band; Trolley Conductor;
Wanamaker's Butler; Wanamaker's Coachman; Samuel
Legree; Wagon Driver; Trolley Pilot; Officer
Toland; Tubman's Companions; (Minister;
John W. Dawkins; Goodfellow's Employee;
Goodfellow's Neighbour; Police; Undertaker;
Telegraph Operator)
Date: Some time between 1889 & 1893
Locations: USA; Washington City; Hotel;
Telegraph Office; Railway Station; A Train;
Newcastle; Delaware Bay; Aboard The Rebublic;
New Jersey; Cape May Point; Higbee's Landing;
Delaware Bay House; Cape May; Hughes Street;
Goodfellow's House; Physick's House; Hughes
Street; Franklin Street; Columbia Street; Howard
Street; The Chalfonte Hotel; The Stockton Hotel;
Stockton Baths; Pier; Congress Hall; Wanamaker's
House; Telegraph Office; Ocean Drive; A Ship
Story: In America on government
business, Holmes and Watson are on the point of
leaving Washington when they receive a telegram from
Physick asking them to investigate a murder in Cape
May. Goodfellow, an elderly dry goods merchant has
been found stabbed through the jaw, a bust of
Socrates next to him, circled with his own blood. On
arrival they are met by Physick, who takes them to
Goodfellow's house, instructing them on local
landmarks and history on the way. Holmes examines
the murder site and body. Two coloured lanterns
attract his attention. Watson tours the city and
learns more of its history, attends a Sousa concert,
and discovers billiards and baseball. A visit to a
gambling house helps Holmes solve the murder. He
enlists the help of the Postmaster General and
chases a one-armed man to bring the case to a close
after a fight aboard a trolley car. Harriet Tubman
is present to help add details during the final
revelation.
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"The Highland Intrigue" (2009)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes and the Circle
of Blood (Steve Leadley)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mary Morstan; Mrs Hudson; (Murray;
Watson's Accommodating Neighbour)
Historical Figures: (Rob Roy McGregor;
James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose)
Other Characters: Edinburgh Porters;
Well-Dressed Couple; Railway Passengers; Thief;
Railway Authorities; Edinburgh Constables; Edinburgh
Sergeant; Lamplighters; Liam; Hamish Graham; Kyata;
Servant; Mr McCloud; Sailors; Firemen; Duncan
Dunnahue; Ship's Captain; Cab Driver; Round Tree
Waiter; Donald; Steamer Passengers; Games Crowds;
Vendors; Games Contestants; Musicians; Highland
Dancers; Dunoon Telegraph Clerk; Couple on Train;
Fourwheeler Driver; Post Office Clerk; Apoplectic
Old Man; Gavin Graham; (Duke of Montrose; Mary;
Sikh Foreman; Indian Worker; Magistrate; Dr
Dunbarton; Undertaker; Messenger; Jean Grenet;
Erin; Edinburgh University Toxicologist;
Sub-Saharan Africa Expert; Scottish Soldiers in
India; Jewel Expert)
Date: After 1912 (References Scott
of the Antarctic)?
Locations: Watson's House; 221B, Baker
Street; King's Cross Station; Scotland; Edinburgh;
Waverly Station; Tay Bridge; Dundee; Tay Bridge
Station; Fintry Castle; Gelly Burn; Mains Graveyard;
McCloud's Office; Dock Street; The Round Tree; A
Train; Glasgow; Buchanan Street Station; A Paddle
Steamer on the River Clyde; Dunoon; Ferry Brae;
Telegraph Office; Hunters Quay Hotel; Dundee Post
Office; Pub
Story: Watson receives a letter from an old
army friend, Graham, who has inherited a lairdship
in Scotland after the strange death of his uncle.
Holmes is unable to accompany him, so Watson travels
to Scotland to investigate. At Edinburgh, he waylays
a luggage thief. At Fintry Castle, Graham tells him
how he solved a murder in India. He goes on to say
that when his uncle, recently returned from a
diamond-dealing visit to South Afica, was found dead
in bed, a delicate part of his body had turned
black. He also discovered a cryptic message in
Gaelic in a drawer. Watson pays a nighttime visit to
the family crypt to examine the body. On hearing the
details of the case, Holmes decides he needs to be
on the scene. While Holmes investigates a possible
clan feud, Watson and Graham look for the "Duncan"
mentioned in the message in town. Watson learns more
of the town's history, but the man he is looking for
dies in a fire aboard a whaling ship before he can
speak to him. A dog is found dead, it's snout turned
black and fur falling out, after digging up
something, which is no longer there, in the woods.
Holmes talks to some professors in Edinburgh and
cables Antwerp, while Watson digs up the dead dog
and attends the Highland Games. Before the case is
over Holmes consults a jewel expert and rehangs a
tapestry, Watson waits in a post office, and a maid
disappears. A final visit to the family mausoleum
concludes the case and recovers an historical
treasure. |
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"The Medium Problem" (2009)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes and the Circle
of Blood (Steve Leadley)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Baker Street
Irregulars
Historical Figures: (Harry Houdini;
William Turner)
Other Characters: Inspector Dickerson; Erin;
Miss Ripley; Mrs Saunders; Saunders's Cook; Mrs
Dickerson; Commodore Uriah Peters; Benton;
Antoinette; Willie Ross; Lady Winfield; Cab Driver;
Post Office Clerk; Hiram Silver; Newsboy; Timbor's
Butler; Antoinette's Servant; Sir Bradley Timbor;
Hansom Driver; Malcolm; (Dickerson's Uncle; Mr
Saunders; Lord Alfred Winfield; Miss Fortham;
Oliver; Captain Jason Wilkes; Mrs Dickerson's
Mother; Mr Ross; Pickpocket; Restaurant Managers;
Lady Winfield's Butler; Colonel Stephens; Mrs
Stephens; Lord Cheltham; Mrs Curtis; Stanley Kern
MP, Mr & Mrs Yarborough; Candice Boice; Baron
Von Sickle; Baroness Von Sickle; Chancellor of the
Exchequer Paulson; Lady Winfield's Servants;
Randolph; Reporter; Confectioner)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Saunders
House; Scotland Yard; Chelsea; Antoinette's House;
Post Office; Timbor's House
Story: Watson is outraged by stories of the
medium Antoinette in the papers, but Holmes takes
little interest. Leaving 221B, Watson meets
Dickerson, who has attended one of Antoinette's
séances, and discovers that the patient he is
attending believes herself cured by Antoinette.
Deducing that her food had been deliberately
poisoned, he decides to attend one of Antoinette's
séances. Holmes becomes interested when a diamond is
stolen from one of Antoinette's clients, Lady
Winfield, particularly when the police choose to
consult Antoinette rather than himself. Antoinette
claims the jewel was stolen by a spirit named
Randolph. When the jewel is recovered, Holmes
predicts a spate of future robberies, and sends a
letter to Houdini. A Turner painting is stolen. The
solution to the mystery lies in a walking stick and
a spilled pot of tea. |
Anne Lear
"The Adventure of the Global
Traveler" (1978)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes Through Time and Space (Isaac Asimov,
Martin Harry Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh)
Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche
narrated by Moriarty
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Professor Moriarty; Colonel Moran
Fictional Characters: The Time Traveller;
The Time Machine
Historical Figures: William Shakespeare;
H.G. Wells
Other Characters: Waitress; Shakespeare's
Audience; Actor
Date: 1891 & 1640
Locations: Washington D.C.; The Folger
Library; Capitol Hill; The Hawk & Dove Bar;
Reichenbach; Richmond; The Globe Theatre
Story: The narrator finds a manuscript
written by Moriarty, which tells how he survived
Reichenbach with the help of Colonel Moran.
Returning to Richmond he was able to build a time
machine, which he used to extend the limits of his
crimes. Unfortunately the machine broke down and
he was transported back to Elizabethan England,
finding himself on the stage of the Globe Theatre
in the middle of a performance of Macbeth.
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Tim Lebbon
"The Horror of the Many Faces"
(2003)
Included in: Shadows Over
Baker Street (Michael Reaves & John
Pelan); The
Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
(John Joseph Adams)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Inspector Jones; Mrs. Hudson; (Irene
Adler)
Other Characters: Murder Victim; Murderer
Locations: An Alleyway; Watson's Home;
Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street
Story: On his way home, Watson comes across
Holmes in an alleyway brutally murdering a man.
The following day he reads of six similar murders.
The witnesses to each one describe different
murderers. Jones asks Watson to help find Holmes
after he tells him what he saw, and he finds
himself holding Holmes at gunpoint in the Baker
Street rooms, only to be greeted by a second
Holmes in the doorway.
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Maurice Leblanc
Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes
(1908)
(originally serialised as two novellas: "La
Dame Blonde" (1905-1907) & "La Lampe Juive"
(1907))
"The Jewish Lamp" appears separately in I Believe in
Sherlock Holmes (Douglas G. Greene)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Herlock Sholmes & Mr.
Wilson
Fictional Characters: Arsène Lupin
Historical Figures: (Napoleon; Marie
Walewska)
Other Characters: M. Gerbois; Shopkeeper;
Young Man; Suzanne Gerbois; Hortense; Police;
Governor of the Credit Foncier; Gerbois'
Neighbours; Grocer; Ernest; Blonde Lady;
Reporters; Ganimard; Folenfant; Cab Drivers;
Gaston; M. Detinan; M. Dudouis; Baron d'Hautrec;
Antoinette Brehat; Sister Augusta; Charles; Cab
Driver; Coroner; Police Commissioner; Auction
Crowd; Exiled King; Italian Tenor; A Prominent
Member of Society; Herschmann; Countess de Crozon;
Count de Crozon; The d'Andelles; Blanche de Real;
Countess's Maid; Madame Real; Waiter; Narrator;
Two Men outside Restaurant; Railway Employee; Cab
Driver; Two Policemen; Elysee Palace Desk Clerk;
M. Thenard; Workmen; Valet; Horseman; Druggist;
Druggist's Assistants; Lucien Destange; Destange's
Domestic; Clotilde Destange; Lad; Lady Cleveden;
Lady Heath; Spanish Ambassador; British
Ambassador; Restaurant Proprietor; Policemen;
Waiter; Commissioner Decointre; Jeanniot; Edmond
Leroux; Victor Leroux; Leonard; Taxi Driver;
Captain of The Swallow; Sailors; Felix
Davey; M. Dubreuil; Child; Davey's Spy; Rue
Crevaux Concierge; Folenfant; Ganimard's Men;
Lupin's Men; Rue Picot Concierge; Railway Porter;
Railway Guards; Postman; Sholmes's Servant;
Sholmes's Valet; Sandwich Men; Dominique; Baron
Victor D'Imbervalle; Suzanne D'Imbervalle;
Burglars; Domestics; Doctor; Henriette
D'Imblevalle; Alice Demun; Dupret; Waiter; Avenue
des Ternes Concierge; M. Bresson; Beggar; Two
Bicycle Policemen; Fisherman; Austin Gilett; Two
Scotland Yard men; (Commandant Bessy; M.
Beloux; Hotel Beaurivage Manager; Sophie
D'Imblevalle)
Date: December 8th-9th (1904?) / 1st
February - 12th March (1905?) / March 27th-April
Locations: France; A Curio Shop; Gerbois'
Cottage; The Lycée; Paris; The Credit Foncier; Rue
des Capucines; 25, Rue Clapeyron; Avenue
Henri-Martin; d'Hautrec's Residence; Drouot
Auction Rooms; de Crozon's Chateau; Japanese Tea
House, Rue Boissy d'Anglais; Restaurant near the
Gare du Nord; A Train; Creil; Gare du Nord; Elysee
Palace Hotel; Park; Drugstore; Destange's
Residence; Chaussee d'Antin; Rue Helder; Hungarian
Restaurant; The Etoile; 40, Rue Chalgrin; Rue
Pergolese; Ganimard's Residence; A Quay; Aboard The
Swallow; 8, Rue Crevaux; Rue Picot;
Sholmes's London Residence; 18, Rue Murillo;
Levallois; 36, Quay des Orfevres; Avenue des
Ternes; Place Saint-Ferdinand; Cafe; Bank of the
Seine; Boulevard Victor Hugo; Rue du Chateau;
Aboard the City of London: (Crecy;
Trouville; Hotel Beaurivage)
Story:
"The Blonde Lady"
Gerbois buys an antique secretary for his
daughter's birthday. The following day the desk is
stolen. Two months later Gerbois learns that he
has won the lottery, but discovers that the
winning ticket was in the stolen secretary. Arsène
Lupin announces that he has the winning ticket and
suggests they divide the winnings. When Gerbois
refuses, Suzanne is kidnapped by a blonde lady.
Two days later Foncier arrives at the Credit
Foncier with the ticket. Ganimard sets a watch on
Gerbois in order to capture Lupin. Lupin reveals
his reasons for wanting the secretary and Suzanne
is reunited with her father. Although he searches
the house, Ganimard fails to find Lupin. Baron
d'Hautrec is found murdered in his bedroom, his
nurse has disappeared and the room is in disarray.
When the police arrive, everything is in its
place, the room tidy and the Baron's body
peacefully in bed.
Ganimard believes the murder was part
of Lupin's theft of the blue diamond, until it is
discovered that the diamond is still on the
Baron's finger. The diamond is sold at auction and
stolen six months later. The Austrian consul is
accused of the theft and Ganimard is called in to
investigate. He believes the case is related,
through the blonde lady, to the Gerbois case. When
Ganimard is once again duped by Lupin it is
suggested that Herlock Sholmes be called in. Lupin
encounters Sholmes in a restaurant and the
challenge is laid that the case will be brought to
a conclusion in ten days. Sholmes and Wilson find
themselves bested by Lupin very early in the game,
and their lives at risk. Sholmes discovers that
all the properties linked to the case shared the
same architect. After taking the blonde lady
prisoner, Sholmes finds the tables turned once
again, and himself en route out of France,
but soon manages to turn them back and hand Lupin
over to Ganimard. Sholmes retrieves the blue
diamond, but Lupin makes his escape.
"The Antique Jewish Lamp"
Back in
London Sholmes receives a letter from Baron
D'Imblevalle asking him to investigate a robbery,
and a second from Lupin warning him not to
interfere. Arriving in Paris, he receives a
warning from a girl to stay away from the Baron's
residence, and sees sandwich-board men touting a
duel between himself and Lupin. He learns from the
Duke that an antique lamp containing a precious
jewel has been stolen. Sholmes demonstrates that
the robbery was not as straightforward as it
appears to be. That night, Wilson is wounded
during another intrusion into the house. Sholmes
and Ganimard believe they have found Lupin, but
the man they have been following kills himself.
Sholmes finds himself adrift with Lupin in a
leaking boat on the Seine, being shot at from the
shore. Sholmes's solution leads to distress and he
finds himself sailing for England, once again in
company of Lupin.
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"Holmlock
Shears
Arrives Too Late" (1906)
(also published as "Herlock Sholms Arrive Trop
Tard", "Herlock Sholmes Arrives Too Late" &
"Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late")
Included in: The Extraordinary Adventures of
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar (Maurice Leblanc);
The Hollow Needle (Maurice Leblanc / adapted by
Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier); The Misadventures
of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen)
Story Type: Parody
Detective: Holmlock Shears / Herlock Sholms /
Herlock Sholmes
Fictional Characters: Arsène Lupin
Historical Figures: (Kings Henry IV,
and Louis XVI of France)
Story: The banker, Georges Devanne, has
hired Shears to protect his home, Thibermesnil
Castle, and its art treasures from the thief, Arsène
Lupin, after books containing plans of the castle's
secret passage have been stolen from his library and
the Bibliothque Nationale, and to solve the mystery
of the family secret. As the title suggests it is
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Fran Lebowitz
"A Study
in Harlots" (1977)
Included in: Metropolitan Life (Fran Lebowitz)
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Sherlock Homes and
Gardens & Dr John Watson
Historical Figures: Liza Minelli; Barbra
Streisand; Jon Voight; Kris Kristofferson; (Mick
Jagger; Elizabeth Taylor; Bill Blass; Rona
Barrett)
Other Characters: Precious Little; Juan
Unnamed Characters: Stewardess; Plane
Passengers; (Account Executive; Los Angeles
Police Chief; Make-up Artist)
Date: Early December
Locations: USA; New York; Homes and Gardens'
Rooms between Park and Madison in the East Sixties;
Plane; California; Los Angeles; Beverly Hills Hotel;
Mr Chow's
Story: Sherlock Holmes and Gardens is
summoned from New York to Los Angeles by Precious
Little to investigate a police chief's claims about
the number of people involved in an underage
homosexual sex scandal.
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Brian S. Lee
"A
Conundrum" (2016)
Included in: A Nosegay of
Pleasant Delights
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Fictional Characters: (Father Brown;
Hamlet; Polonius; Rosencrantz; Guildenstern;
Ophelia)
Historical Figures: (Princess Mary of
Teck; Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence;
Edward VII; Queen Alexandra; Jack the Ripper;
George V)
Unnamed Characters: (Postman)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Holmes shows Watson a cryptic
bloodstained message that he is trying to unravel
the meaning of. The trail has thus far led him to a
quote from Hamlet, but after pursuing a
political red herring, he finally deduces who the
sender was.
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Tanith Lee
"The Human Mystery" (1999)
Included in: More Holmes
for the Holidays (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon
L. Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh); The
Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
(John Joseph Adams); The Big
Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto
Penzler)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson
Other Characters: Eleanor Caston; Vine;
Mrs Castle; Reynolds; Nettie Prince; (Lucy;
Eleanor's Aunt; Sir Hugh de Castone; Hannah
Castone; French Caston Woman; Maria Caston;
Samps & Brown; Mr Smith)
Date: 22nd December
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Crowby,
Caston Gall
Story: Having inherited a house, Caston
Gall, from an aunt, Eleanor Caston learns that any
single female member of the family living in it at
Christmas is cursed to die. In the past, a
sighting of a white fox has accompanied the
deaths. Eleanor has recently received a
threatening note warning her to stay out of the
house, letters have appeared in the snow with no
footprints near them, a number five in red has
appeared on the study wall, and a scratching noise
has been heard in the walls. Holmes and Watson
travel to Crowby where they witness the letters
and the scratching and learn that meat has been
disappearing from the kitchens. His investigations
lead Holmes to deduce that Eleanor has something
other than the threat to her life in mind, and
that he himself is very much central to the events
at Caston Gall.
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R.C. Lehmann
"The Adventure of the Swiss Banker"
(1903)
Included in: The Early Punch
Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Picklock Holes; Dr Potson
Other Characters: Palace Attendants;
European Aristocrats; American Millionaires;
Croupier; Duke Cosimo di Monte Carlo; (Marchese
Casino
Del Rouletti; Potson's Landlady)
Locations: Charing Cross Station; Monaco;
Monte Carlo; Ducal Palace
Story: Holes and Potson are called
to Monte Carlo by Duke Cosimo to investigate the
disappearance of his son, the Machese Casino Del
Rouletti. Holes reveals the missing heir at a
roulette table.
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"The Bishop's Crime" (1893)
Included in: The Early Punch
Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Picklock Holes; Dr Potson
(Un-named in this story)
Other Characters: Bishop of Florida; (Mrs
Drabley)
Date: 14th November, 1892
Locations: Potson's House; Soho; Church
Street
Story: Holes appears at Potson's
house and draws his attention to a series of
accidents involving orange peel. A reference to the
Bishop of Florida in the Evening Standard
puts Holes on the road to a solution.
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"The Duke's Feather" (1893)
Included in: The Big Book of
Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler);
The Early Punch
Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (Bill Peschel); Sherlock Holmes
Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899
(Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Picklock Holes; Dr Potson
(Un-named in this story)
Historical Figures: (Czar of
Russia)
Other Characters: Sergeant Bluff; Duke of
Dumpshire; (Oloa Fiaskoffskaia; Grand Duke
Ivanoff; Alured, Earl Mountravers)
Locations: Blobley-in-the-Marsh; Wurzelby
Farm; Fourcastle Towers
Story: While Holes is in Irkoutsk,
investigating the theft of a silver mine for the
Czar, Potson is holidaying at a farmhouse in
Blobley-in-the-Marsh. Holes appears, swiftly
followed by Sergeant Bluff, and together they go to
Fourcastle Towers, home of the Duke of Dumpshire,
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"The Escape of the
Bull-Dog" (1893)
Included in: The Early Punch
Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Picklock Holes; Dr Potson
Other Characters: Colonel the Reverend Henry
Bagnet; Head Mess-Waiter; Undergraduates; Dons;
Mathematical Moderator; (Mayor of Cambridge;
Vice-Chancellor; The Esquire Bedell)
Date: Early Summer, 1891
Locations: Cambridge; Cambridge Volunteers
Mess
Story: During an epidemic in London, Potson
visits his old military friend, Bagnet, in
Cambridge, when news comes of an escaped bull-dog.
Holes arrives, and issues instructions for the
capture of the dog. |
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"His Final Arrow" (1918)
Included in: The Early Punch
Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (Bill Peschel); Sherlock
Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches II:
1915-1919 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Picklock Holes; Dr Potson
Other Characters: Henry Brabazon Beltravers,
Marquis of Bobstay
Date: During the First World War
Locations: Baker Street; Holes's Rooms;
Marquis's Mansion
Story: Holes is called on by the War Cabinet
to investigate the shortage of one lump of sugar and
three bread-crumbs in the accounts of the
Food-Controller. |
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"The Hungarian Diamond" (1893)
Also published as "Picklock Holes and the
Samovar Diamond"
Included in: A Sherlock
Holmes Compendium (Peter Haining); The Early Punch
Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (Bill Peschel);
A Bedside Book
of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches
(Charles Press)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Picklock Holes; Dr Potson
Other Characters: Emperor-King of Hungary;
Leader of the Opposition; Police; (Grand Duke
of Schnupftuchstein; M. Paul Deroulede; Emperor
of Austria)
Date: August
Locations: Camberwell; Hungary; Pesth
Story: Holes's inference of a
commander-in-chief from a penny whistle is
interrupted by a bugle call. Holes tells
Potson that the great Samovar diamond has been
stolen from the Emperor of Austria, and its
disappearence could have terrible consequences as he
is due to visit Pesth the following week. Holes and
Potson travel to Pesth, taking a clue with them.
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"Lady Hilda's Mystery" (1893)
Included in: The Early Punch
Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Picklock Holes; Dr Potson
Other Characters: Telegraph Boy;
(Cardinal Dacapo; Khan of Bokhara; Khan's
Fourteenth Wife; Lady Hilda Cardamums; Marquis of
Sassafras)
Locations: Bokhara
Story: Potson is in Bokhara, where he
encounters Holes, who is in search of the missing
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"The
Notch in the Tulwar" (1903)
Included in: The Early Punch
Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Picklock Holes; Dr Potson
Historical Figures: (Joseph
Chamberlain)
Other Characters: Carter; (Mrs Coles;
Imaum of Tulliegorum)
Date: 22nd October
Locations: Potson's House
Story: Holes appears while Potson is
eating breakfast and deuces what is
concealed under his napkin. He effects the arrest of
Potson's servant, Carter.
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"Picklock's Disappearance" (1894)
Included in: I Believe in
Sherlock Holmes (Douglas G. Greene); The Early Punch
Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Picklock Holes; Dr Potson
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock
Holmes)
Other Characters: Bloomsbury Policeman; (Bald
Solicitor;
Music Hall Singer; Life Guards; Mrs Potson)
Date: January, 1894
Locations: Bloomsbury; Potson's Rooms;
Piccadilly; Regent Street; Jermyn Street; Bury
Street
Story: Holes and Potson are investigating
the theft of a well-known public monument, when
Holes reveals that a number of attempts have been
made on his life. The following day, Potson receives
a final note from Holes, explaining the role of
Sherlock Holmes in his demise. |
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"The Return of Picklock"
(1903)
Included in: The Early Punch
Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Picklock Holes; Dr Potson
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock
Holmes)
Historical Figures: (Richard
Seddon; Theodore Roosevelt; Paul Kruger; Lord
Curzon; Joseph Chamberlain)
Other Characters: (Mrs Potson; The Khan
of Khiva)
Locations: 259, Peckham Road
Story: Potson is relecting on Holes's
disappearance, when his musings are interrupted by
the sound of a bomb from the street outside. He goes
outside and collapses into unconsciousness when he
discovers Holes lying on the pavement. After he has
revovered from the shock, Holes tells him of his
adventures since his disappearance. |
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"A Scandal in Paflagonia"
(1903)
Included in: The Early Punch
Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Picklock Holes; Dr Potson
Other Characters: Smith; (Chickweed /
King of Paflagonia)
Date: Early December
Locations: Baker Street; Potson's Apartment
Story: In Potson's Baker Street rooms, Holes
deduces what Potson is not thinking about. They are
interrupted by the precipitant arrival of a young
man whom Holes judges to be the King of Paflagonia.
He exits the flat in an even more precipitant
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"The Stolen March" (1893)
Included in: The Early Punch
Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Picklock Holes; Dr Samuel Potson
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock
Holmes;
Swiss Boy)
Other Characters: Isabel Gumpshon; Mrs
Philippa Gumpshon; Augustus O'Brien Gumpshon; Sir
Aminadab Holes; Lady Holes; Hayloft Holes; Skairkrow
Holes; Jemima Gumpshon; Edgar Allan Poe Gumpshon;
Gaboriau Gumpshon; Ann Radcliffe Gumpshon;
Tochtachie Policemen; Lord Tochtachie; Tochtachie's
Retainers; Tochtachie's Butler; (Annabella
Bellasys; Colonel Gumpshon; Footman; The Cook; Ian
Strunachar; David McPhizzle; Tochtachie's
Father-in-Law)
Locations: Belgrave Square; Potson's Rooms;
Fitzjohn's Avenue; Sir Aminadab's House; Scotland;
Daffshire; Tochtachie; A Barn; Tochtachie Castle
Story: Potson reveals the details of Holes's
failed engagement to Annabella Bellasys, the
daughter of a church dignitary, and some details of
his family background. He and Holes are summoned by
Holes's niece, Isabel Gumpshon, to the home of
Holes's parents, Sir Aminadab and Lady Holes, where
Sir Aminadab has murdered the footman, and framed
his wife for the crime. Sir Aminadab sends Holes and
Potson north to Tochtachie Castle in Scotland to
investigate the theft of a march from Lord
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"The Story of the
Lamplighter" (1903)
Included in: The Early Punch
Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Picklock Holes; Dr Potson
Other Characters: Lamplighter; Thomas
Baltimore Jubley; (Cabman)
Date: A Sunday in mid-February
Locations: Baker Street; Jubley's Mansion
Story: Holes and Potson are investigating
the disappearances of a number of grandfather's,
including Holes's own, Thomas Baltimore Jubley. They
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"The
Story of the Lost Picklock" (1903)
Included in: The Early Punch
Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Picklock Holes; Dr Potson
Historical Figures: (Kaiser
Wilhelm II)
Other Characters: (Mrs Coles)
Locations: Baker Street
Story: After the disappearances of a pipe
and a shirt-stud are linked to Potson's
landlady's parrot, Potson judges Holes to have
become lost.
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"The
Story of the Princess" (1903)
Included in: The Early Punch
Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Picklock Holes; Dr Potson
Other Characters: Young Girl; Ruffian; (Imaum
of
Kashmir)
Locations: Baker Street; Potson's
Apartment
Story: Holes bemoans the declining crime
rate of the United Kingdom. A young girl arrives,
claiming to have been followed, and Holes and
Potson set upon a ruffian, returning to find that
a burglary has taken place.
NOTE:
Although Bill Peschel identifies "Three
Fingered
Jack" in Holes's list of dead and gone
criminals as American outlaw
"Three-Fingered Jack" McDowell, it is more likely
that the intended reference is to "Three-Finger'd
Jack" Mansong, an escaped slave-turned-rebel in
Jamaica, when it was under British rule. Like
Sweeney Todd, also in Holes's list, this
Three-Fingered Jack was also the subject of a
successful London play. As Holes goes on to complain
about American criminals, it is unlikely that he
would have included one in his otherwise all-British
list.
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"The Story of the Russian
Anarchist" (1903)
Included in: The Early Punch
Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Picklock Holes; Dr Potson
Other Characters: Inspector Lumpkin;
Lumpkin's Constables; (The Czar's Renegade
Great-Aunt; Tribe of Beni Bashas)
Locations: Potson's House (?)
Story: Holes and Potson set up a crime scene
as a test for Scotland Yard's Inspector Lumpkin,
leading to Holes's arrest and imprisonment. |
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"The Umbrosa Burglary" (1893)
Included in: The Game Is Afoot
(Marvin Kaye); The
Early
Punch Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (Bill
Peschel); The
Misadventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery
Queen)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Picklock Holes; Dr Potson
Other Characters: James Silver; Mrs.
Silver; Boys & Girls; Peter Bowman; Young
Puntsman; Johnny Silver; Burglar
Locations: Umbrosa; Banks of the Thames
Story:
Staying at Umbrosa, the home of Potson's
friend, James Silver, Holes deduces that a
puntsman is a bigamist and a wife murderer. He
later states that a burglary will take place in
the house later that evening, and is none too
pleased when the burglar is captured by Silver's
son Johnnie and his friend Peter Bowman.
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Fritz Leiber
"The Moriarty Gambit" (1962)
Included in: The Game Is Afoot
(Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Professor Moriarty
Historical Figures: Henry Edward Bird;
Johann Zukertort; Wilhelm Steinitz; Joseph
Blackburne; Mikhail Tchigorin; Baron Ignatz
Kolisch
Date: April 23, 1883
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The
Victoria Hall at the Criterion
Story: Holmes tells Watson of his first
meeting with Moriarty, and how in the guise of S.
Vernet, he beat him in a chess championship. It
was as a result of this game that he decided to
take up a career fighting crime.
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John Lennon
"The Singularge Experience of Miss
Anne Duffield" (1962)
Included in: A Spaniard in the Works (John
Lennon); The
Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sebastian
Wolfe)
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Shamrock Womlbs;
Doctored Whopper
Characters Based on Historical Figures:
Jack the Nipple
Other Characters: Oxo
Whitney; Mary Atkins; Sydnees Aspinall; Cabbie;
Inspectre Basil; Blasted Policeman
Date: Towards the End of March, 1892
Locations: Bugger Street; Wolmlbs's Rooms;
Mary's Room; Picaninny Surplass; Chelthea; Nats
Café; Carringto Average
Story: Womlbs receives a message
that Oxo Whitney has broken out of Wormy Scabs
prison, and shortly thereafter, Whitney arrives in
person. After preparing herself for the evening with
Sydnees, Mary Atkins reads in the paper of the
latest outrage committed by Jack the Nipple.
Inspectre Basil consults Womlbs over the case of
Jock the Cripple. While the Nipple stalks the
streets, Mary picks up a new client. Sydnees
consults Womlbs, who disappears for a week.
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John Leone
Cape May
Tales (2016)
Story Type: Children's Script
Sherlockian Detectives: Sharklock Bones &
Dr Flotsam
Characters Based on Fictional Characters: Mike
Hammer;
(Indiana Bones [Indiana Jones])
Historical Figures: (Captain Kidd; Henry
Hudson; Cornelius Jacobsen Mey; Levi Hutchins;
Jacques Cousteau)
Unnamed Characters: Scuba Diver
Locations: Fishtown; Sharklock Bones
Detective Agency; Mike Hammer's House; USA; New
Jersey; Cape May
Story: Sharklock Bones, a shark detective,
receives a call from the Cape May Chamber of
Commerce asking him to investigate a ghost problem.
As he is busy, he sends his cousin Mike Hammer, a
hammerhead shark, and Data Dolphin. Mike gives Data
a guided tour of Cape May, before they investigate
the sounds of groans and moans coming from the
ocean.
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Christopher Leppek
The Surrogate Assassin (1998)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; (Jefferson Hope; Mrs Hudson; Young
Stamford; Mycroft Holmes; Silver Blaze; John
Straker)
Fictional Characters: Elise McKenna
Historical Figures: Christopher Leppek;
Sir Henry Irving; Edwin Booth; Mary McVicker
Booth; James McVicker; Mary McVicker; Edwina
Booth; Maggie Mitchell; Joseph Booth; Allan
Pinkerton; Samuel Arnold; Dr Samuel Mudd; Frances
Mudd; Mudd's Children; Richard B. Garrett; Mrs
Garrett; Bessie Hale Chandler; Garrie Davidson;
John Wilkes Booth; Mary Ann Booth; Rosalie Booth;
Richard Booth (Samson Morrissey); (Abraham
Lincoln; Mark Gray Lyon; Mary Ann's Mother;
Junius Brutus Booth; Adelaide Booth; Junius
Booth, Jr.; Asia Booth; John Sleeper Clarke;
Sarah Booth; Robert Lincoln; Andrew Johnson;
Edgar Allan Poe; Edwin Stanton; John Surratt;
Michael O'Laughlin; George Atzerodt; David
Herold; Lewis Payne; Mary Surratt; Samuel Chase;
William Henry Seward; Mary Todd Lincoln; Major
Henry Reed Rathbone; Clara Harris; Harry Hawk;
Ford's Audience; Sergeant Silas T. Cobb; Union
Troops; Rebel Cavalrymen; Garrett Family;
Captain Willie Jett; Lieutenant L.B. Baker;
Sergeant Boston Corbett; Ned Spangler; James
Garfield; Charles J. Guiteau; Charles Wood; John
T. Ford, Jr.; Ulysses S. Grant; Ned Spangler;
James W. Pumphrey; Julia Dent Grant; John
Matthews; National Hotel Desk Clerk; Peanut
John; Star Saloon Drunk; Ford's Usher; James G.
Blaine; Edwin M. Stanton; Charles Forbes; John
Parker; Lizzie Williams; John Lloyd; Mudd's
Father; Oswell Swann; Samuel Cox; Thomas Jones;
Colonel John Hughes; Elizabeth Quesenberry;
William Bryant; Dr Richard Stewart; William
Lucas; Ferryman Rollins; Captain Willie Jett;
Major Mortimer Ruggles; Lieutenant A.R.
Bainbridge; Richard H. Garrett; William Garrett;
John Garrett; Robert Garrett; Joanna Garrett;
Lieutenant Edward Doherty; Everton Conger;
Luther Baker; Fannie Garrett; Dr Charles
Urquhart; Ned Freeman; Judge Advocate General
David G. Swaim; Fanny Brown; Effie German; Alice
Grey; Helen Western; John P. Hale; Ella Starr;
Charles Dawson; Dr John Frederick May; Mark Lyon
Gray; John St Helen; Samuel Chester; Louis
Wiechmann; John Taltavul; H.A.W. Tabor; Baby Doe
Tabor)
Other Characters: Lyceum Audience;
Actors; Head Usher; Charlie Yockey; Director; Bothnia
Quartermaster; Crewmen; Reporters; Carriage
Driver; New York Crowds; Masterson; Pinkerton
Agents; Billy McPheeters; Western Union Boy; Cab
Driver; Hester Street Beggars; Mulberry Bend
Knifeman; Washington Cabbie; National Hotel Clerk;
National Waiter; Corporal Jones; Major Caldwell;
Lieutenant Devereaux; Anacostia Residents;
Surrattsville Innkeeper; Ferry Passengers; War
Department Major; 17th Street Crowds; Landau
Driver; Chandler's Maid; Central Park Carriage
Passengers; Carriage Driver; Brooklyn Bridge
Workers; Carrollton Bellhop; Sexton; Mourners;
Baltimore Passers-by; Baltimore Cab Driver;
National Hotel Lift Operator; Hotel Guests; Boy in
Sailor Suit; Firemen; Belvedere Bridge Crowd; (Polk
City Farmer; Farmer's Grandfather; Des Moines
Attorney; Nehemiah Lane; Watson's Theatre
Acquaintance; Oberammergau Assassin; Lyceum
Clerk; Chicago Police; Holmes's Parents; Jarvis;
Patterson House Landlady; Stable Man; Gray's
Orderly; 5th Avenue Irregulars; Georgetown Men;
Hillbilly; Confederate Raiders; Miners; Wilkes
Booth's Wife; Wilkes Booth's Son; Gypsy Fortune
Teller; Ford's Stagehands; Stable Managers;
Churchgoers; Elias Barth; Hepzibah Barth;
Jedediah Barth; Jonathan Barth; Abigail Barth;
Zachariah Barth; Sarah Morrissey; Hermit Woman;
Actor)
Date: March, 1990s / May 6th, 1935 / May -
September, 1881
Locations: Watson's Study; 221B, Baker
Street; Lyceum Theatre; Oxford Circus; Restaurant
on the Strand; Aboard the Bothnia; New
York; Windsor Hotel; The Bowery; Hester Street;
Five Points; Mulberry Bend; A Train; Washington;
National Hotel; Tenth Street; Ford's Theater;
Baptist Alley; Patterson House; Anacostia;
Surrattsville; Surratt's Inn; T.B.; Mudd's House;
Zeckiah's Swamp; Port Tobacco; Mathias Point;
Virginia; Port Conway; Port Royal; Garrett's Farm;
Bowling Green; The War Department; 17th Street;
1421 I Street; Booth Theater; Central Park;
Baltimore; Carrollton Hotel; Eden Street;
Cathedral Cemetery; Fayette Street; Greenmount
Cemetery; Belvedere Bridge; Belair Road;
Pennsylvania Station; Northumberland Hotel
Story: 1990s: Leppek receives a UPS
package from a farmer in Polk City containing an
old manuscript.
1935: Watson re-reads his account of
The Surrogate Assassin and
resolves, with Holmes, to send it to the
descendants of one of the principal characters,
to remain unopened until fifty years after his
and Holmes's deaths.
1881: Holmes declines a deduced
invitation to see Edwin Booth and Henry Irving in
Othello, so Watson goes alone. The
following day, Booth arrives at Baker Street, and
Watson discovers that Holmes and Booth are
cousins. Booth tells Holmes of several attempts on
his life, each accompanied by the delivery of
three acorns. On the way to the Lyceum, site of
the latest attack, Holmes tells Watson the Booth
family's history. He deduces that the attacker is
French and has fled back to his homeland, but will
not give up his persecution. When Booth returns to
America, Holmes and Watson travel with him. As
they sail towards New York, Holmes tells Watson
all he has learned of the Lincoln assassination.
In New York, Holmes and Watson
familiarise themselves with the city, and hear of
an assassination attempt on President Garfield. An
intruder kills Booth's Pinkerton bodyguard. A ring
links the murderer to the Golden Circle, and
Holmes sets his Fifth Avenue Irregulars on watch.
Holmes and Watson venture into Five Points in
search of the killer, but after barely missing
him, Holmes decides to turn his attention to the
details of the Lincoln assassination. They travel
to Washington and Virginia, visiting sites
associated with Booth, and interviewing those
connected with the events there, finally learning
that Booth may still be alive. Returning to New
York, they examine a trunk that belonged to Booth.
Holmes travels to Chicago and brings back a
surprise guest, and summons his colleagues to
Baltimore where another surprise guest is
presented. A pursuit leads to a final
confrontation in a cornfield near the Booths' old
home.
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John T. Lescroart
"The Adventure of the Giant Rat
of Sumatra" (1997)
Included in: The Big Book of
Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock
Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Billy; Mycroft
Holmes; Colonel Moran; Giant Rat of Sumatra; (Professor
Moriarty; Culverton-Smith)
Historical Figures: (Lord
Salisbury)
Other Characters: Diogenes Club
Doorman; Birmingham Sailors; Captain John
Wagner; First Mate Jeffers; Moran's Crew; (Pirates)
Date: December, 1888
Locations: 221B, Baker Street;
Diogenes Club; Atlantic Ocean; Aboard HMS Birmingham
Story: A newspaper article about
Moran's ship, returning from Sumatra, being attacked
by pirates, leads Holmes to suspect a plot to
engineer an outbreak of the bubonic plague. He
learns that Culverton Smith is also in league with
Moriarty and Moran. Holmes and Watson set sail at
the head of a naval fleet aboard HMS Birmingham
to intercept Moran.
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"Dunkirk" (2014)
Included in: In the Company
of Sherlock Holmes (Laurie R. King &
Leslie S. Klinger)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes / Mr
Sigerson; (Dr Watson)
Historical Figures: Winston Churchill; (General
Heinz
Guderian)
Other Characters: Harry; George; Duffy
Black; Soldiers; Boat Crews; Naval Commander;
Expeditionary Force Major; Colonel Bryce Hagin;
14th Highland Regiment; German Troops; Lieutenant
Wilkes; Roger; (Duffy's Brother-in-Law;
Duffy's Sister)
Date: 26th May - October, 1940
Locations: English Channel; Aboard the Dover
Doll; France; Dunkirk; Aa Canal; Kent;
Dover
Story: The crew of the Dover
Doll during the Dunkirk evacuation is
comprised of War Office clerk Duffy Black, his two
young nephews, and the elderly Sigerson. The
evacuations continue for four days, they face attack
from Stukas, and rescue the 14th Highland regiment
under enemy fire. But, before they can return to
Dover, Colonel Bryce Hagin orders them to launch an
attack on the Aa Canal.
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Son of Holmes (1986)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: (Mrs Hudson /
Martha; Sherlock Holmes; Irene Adler; Mycroft
Holmes; Dr Watson)
Fictional Characters: Nero Wolfe (Auguste
Lupa / Julius Adler / Cesar Mycroft); Fritz
Brenner (Fritz Benet); (James Bond; M)
Historical Figures: John T. Lescroart; (Arthur
Conan
Doyle; Ian Fleming)
Other Characters: Kevin James; Hugo
Arrowroot; Harvard Student; Dinner Guests; Friend
in Lyons; Madame Giraud-Neuilly; Jacques Neuilly;
Jean Chessal; Jules Giraud; Charles; Marcel
Routier; Georges Lavoie; Henri Pulis; Paul Anser;
Tania Chessal; Inspector; Gendarmes; Anna Dubrov;
Joseph Watkins; Renee Pulis; Funeral Guests;
Danielle; Factory Guards; Maurice Ponty; Janitor;
Stevedores; Henri Pulis, Jr; Henri's Customer;
Newsboy; Cart Driver; Elderly Officers; Children;
M. Procunier; Jacques Magiot; Magiot's Men;
Monsieur Vernet; Café Waiter; (Lord Peter
Thatcher; Undertaker; Watkins' Agents; German
Agent; J. Chatelet)
Date: January 6th - April, 1983 / May 18th
- 26th & August,1915
Locations: Arlington, Massachusetts;
Morocco; France; Lyons; House near Valence;
Valence; Rue St Philip; La Couronne; The Giraud
House; Flower Shop; The Chessal House; Cemetery;
St Etienne; Bar; St Etienne Arsenal &
Munitions Factory; The Pulis House; Church;
Anser's House; Valence Police Headquarters; Café
Story: 1983: Lescroart is invited to
the Martha Hudson Dinner where he is introduced
to the theory that Sherlock Holmes was a real
person. Later that year, in a house he has
rented in France he discovers a manuscript in a
box in the wine cellar which tells of an episode
in the life of the man who is clearly Holmes's
son, Auguste Lupa.
1915: Jules Giraud seeks out chef
Auguste Lupa because France needs a spy and he
just happens to be the best in Europe. It is
believed that the man behind many European
assassinations, including Archduke Franz
Ferdinand's, is currently in Valence, where two
agents have already been killed. Giraud is aware
that Lupa has, himself, been tracking down the
assassin, and that he also initiated the events
that brought Giraud back to his old home in
Valence. Giraud believes that their man's target
this time would be the destruction of the arms
factory at St Etienne. He invites Lupa to his
regular Wednesday night beer-drinking session with
his small group of friends, and Lupa makes a
series of startling deductions about them, but
later Giraud's fellow-agent, Routier, is poisoned.
Giraud joins forces with Lupa (who is
currently working for the English under the
influence of his uncle), and meets his associates,
Watson and Dubrov, in his orchid room. The
conclusion is obvious that their man is one of
Giraud's friends. Giraud and his friend Georges
take a tour of the factory. The policeman
investigating Routier's death is murdered, and
Lupa and his colleagues shot at. Giraud discovers
that one of his friends has an attic full of guns.
When the police accuse Lupa of the murders, his
relative, Vernet, is brought into the picture.
Giraud loses his chef and his lover, and the
factory is blown up before the case is brought to
a conclusion.
NOTE:
The name 'Auguste Lupa' is a play on
'Nero Wolfe' who was suggested by William S.
Baring-Gould to have been the son of Sherlock
Holmes and Irene Adler. Giraud's Swiss chef, Fritz
Benet, presumably goes on to work for Wolfe as
"Fritz Brenner".
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Rasputin's
Revenge
(1986)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; (Irene Adler; King of Bohemia;
Mycroft Holmes; Professor Moriarty)
Fictional Characters: Nero Wolfe (Auguste
Lupa); (Fritz Brenner)
Historical Figures: John T. Lescroart;
Ferdinand Foch; Vladimir Sukhomlinov; Nicholas II;
Czarina Alexandra; Ekaterina Viktorovna (Katrina
Sukhomlinov); Maurice Paleologue; Anna Vyrubova;
Rasputin; Czarevich Alexei; Sailor (Rudi)
Derevenko; Grand Duchess Olga; Grand Duchess
Tatiana; Grand Duchess Marie; Grand Duchess
Anastasia; Princess Anastasia of Montenegro; Varya
Panina; Prince Felix Yussoupov; Purishkevich;
Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch; Colonel Sukhotin;
Stanislaus de Lazovert; (Peter Stolypin;
Pierre Gilliard (Gaillard); Sergei Sazonov;
Stephen Beletsky; Grand Duke Nicholas
Nikolaevich; Princess Milica (Militsa) of
Montenegro; George V; King Nicholas I of
Montenegro; Kaiser Wilhelm II; Czar Alexander
III; Empress Maria Feodorovna; Fabergé;
Alexander Kerensky; Prince Lvov; Princess Irina)
Other Characters: Dr Don Matoosian; Jules
Giraud; Sukhomlinov's Orderly; Servants; Beggars;
Cossacks; Guards; Lady-in-Waiting; Old Palace
Dinner Guests; Vyrubova's Guests; Boris Minsky;
Crowd Outside Minsky's House; Inspector Dubniev;
Rasputin's Visitors; Rasputin's Doorman;
Rasputin's Women; Detectives; Street Children;
Elena Ripley; Bread Thieves; Peasants; String
Quartet; Leo; Maximilian Pohl; Karel Borstoi;
Monsieur Muret; Villa Rhode Customers; Gypsy Band;
Cubat Maitre D'; Waiter; Cubat Customers;
Firefighters; Royal Messenger; John Tucker Wilson;
Borstoi's Assistant; Lady-in-Waiting; Captain of
the Guard; Prison Guard; Anaxagoras Beria; Grand
Duke Sergei Zostov; Orthodox Priest; Astoria
Guests & Visitors; Delivery Man; Porter;
Astoria Night Clerk; Young Man in the Astoria;
French Embassy Guard; (Mikhail Vayev; Tania
Chessal; Michelle Giraud; Foch's Aides-de-Camp;
Dieter Bresloe; Sergei Lubovitch; Duke Pavlaya
Beretska; Marcel Routier; Alexei's Doctors; Ivan
Kapov; Anna Dubrov; Borstoi's Father)
Date: Mid-September, 1916 - 14th January,
1917
Locations: USA; California; France; Rhone
Valley; Russia; St Petersburg; Winter Palace;
Tsarskoye Selo; Alexander Palace; Old Palace;
Vryrubova's House; Minsky's House; Train Station;
20, 63-64 Gorokhavaya Street; French Embassy;
Princess Anastasia's House; Nevsky Prospekt;
Boulangerie; Villa Rhode; Borstoi's Shop; Cubat;
Restaurant Ernest; Petropavlovskaya Krepost;
Fortress Ss Peter & Paul; Astoria Hotel; Neva
Bridge; Moika Palace
Story: Lescroart receives a package
from Vayev, a Russian archivist, containing an
account of Lupa's adventures in Russia.
Giraud is
sent to Russia by Foch to present a French
arms deal to Nicholas II to keep him fighting on the
Eastern Front. He meets with Sukhomlinov, who warns
him of Rasputin, and explains his position in the
royal household. After his first meeting with
Nicholas and Alexandra he finds himself serving as
tutor to the Czarevich. At a party that evening he
meets Rasputin, and hears a number of different
perspectives on the current state of the country and
of the alliances and loyalties of the people he will
be dealing with. The following day he learns that
Minsky, a commissar who challenged Rasputin at the
party, is dead, and discovers that Lupa is present
at the murder scene and working in the Czar's
kitchens. He tells Giraud of three other friends of
the Czar who have recently been killed.
Giraud witnesses Rasputin whipping himself, and is
taken to meet the royal children. Rasputin saves
Czarevich Alexei from an out-of-control horse. On
the street, Giraud witnesses peasants being executed
for stealing bread. He finds himself becoming
attracted to the royal children's drama teacher,
Elena Ripley. He and Lupa break up a fight in the
royal kitchens, and witness Rasputin disrupt a
performance by Panina. Lupa believes the murders are
an attempt to dishearten the Czar into settling a
separate peace with Germany. Giraud wins the respect
of the Czarevich and learns that the murders may be
more personal than political. Lupa tells him about
his parents and gives him a Fabergé egg to win the
confidence of a suspect. He learns who was behind
the first murder.
Giraud has a disastrous encounter with Alexandra.
Their chief suspect is found hanged, and after
another murder Giraud and Lupa are arrested, tried
and imprisoned. Rasputin takes to visiting Lupa in
prison, standing outside his cell muttering the word
'Rache'. A peasant who seems to know his name is put
in Giraud's cell.
Mycroft alerts Holmes to Lupa's arrest, and he and
Watson sail to St Petersburg. Holmes senses the
presence of Moriarty, and arranges his own arrest in
order to break Lupa and Giraud out of prison. They
realise that the murders are personal, not
political, and directed against Holmes, not the
Czar. With the Czarevich's help they reveal the
murderer. Justice is served against Rasputin by
greater powers.
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Jason Lethcoe
No Place Like Holmes (2011)
Story Type: Children's Homage with
religious emphasis
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; Professor
Moriarty; Sherlock Holmes; Mrs Hudson
Fictional Characters: Father
Brown
Folkloric Characters: (Loch
Ness Monster)
Historical Figures: Frederick Dent;
Queen Victoria
Other Characters: James Dunn; Griffin
Sharpe; Train Conductor; Woman Client; Rupert
'Snoops' Snodgrass; Watts; Cabman; Sarah Dent;
Pastry Vendor; Angler's Club Members; Angler's
Club Official; Mr Gordon; Dent's Housekeeper;
Chinese Men; Fireworks Woman; Cabbie; Mr Jackson;
Nigel Moriarty; Moriarty's Men; Underground
Passengers; Train Engineer; Doctors; Toby;
Telegram Boy; (Mrs
Tottingham; Farmer; Mr Sharpe; Mrs Sharpe; John
H. Andover)
Date: June - August, 1903
Locations:
River Thames; Victoria Embankment; Train;
221A, Baker Street; Baker Street; Oxford Street;
Angler's Club; Moriarty's House; Dent's House;
Limehouse Docks; Liuyang Imports; Moriarty's
Bunker; Underground Train; Charring [sic] Cross
Station; Palace of Westminster; Big Ben; 221B,
Baker Street
Story: Clockmaker Frederick Dent
arrives for a rendezvous beside the Thames, but is
seen being swallowed by a giant creature.
Griffin Dunne travels from Boston to
England to stay with his uncle, Snodgrass, who lives
at 221A Baker Street and, like his more successful
neighbour, is also a consulting detective. He gets
off to a bad start with his uncle, forbidden from
being in the house between 8.00 in the morning and
6.00 in the evening, from entering Snodgrass's study
or having any contact with Watts, his robot butler.
Griffin encounters Dent's wife looking for Holmes,
and when they get no response to their knocking at
221B, he takes her to his uncle. She tells them that
her husband has been eaten by the Loch Ness Monster.
Griffin and his uncle find themselves
embroiled in a plot engineered by Professor
Moriarty's cousin Nigel, involving stolen fireworks,
an artificial seagull, a London landmark transformed
into a timebomb, an underwater battle and a threat
to the lives of Sherlock Holmes and Queen Victoria.
With the help of God and Snodgrass's inventions,
they bring the case to a close, and Snodgrass
avenges a childhood wrong.
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Mark Levy
"Juggling with Sherlock's Friend"
(2014)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes
Mystery Magazine #15 (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; (Cadogan West; Bruce-Partington
(Fred Bruce & James Partington))
Other Characters:Narrator; Moriarty's
Customers; Exotic Dancers; New Yorkers;
Pickpockets; Undercover Cop; Cop; Dave; Working
Girls; (Mary)
Date: 2013
Locations: USA; New York; Second Avenue;
Moriarty's Tavern; Novelty Shop; Rockefeller Plaza
Story: The narrator shares a drink with
Holmes and Watson in Moriarty's Tavern.
They have journeyed to 21st century New York, having
ffound a curious artefact among the possessions of
Cadogan West. While his friend is analysing it,
Watson learns to juggle.
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Ann Margaret Lewis
"The Affair of Miss Finney" (2015)
Included in: The MX Book of
New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part II: 1890-1895
(David Marcum); An Investees'
Anthology (David Marcum) Story
Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mary Morstan; Baker Street Maid; Stanley
Hopkins; (Mrs Hudson)
Other Characters: Melinda Finney; Hopkins'
Constables; Mr Finney; Charles Hamming; Paul
Somersfield; Joshua Gable; (Watson's Patient;
Patient's Housekeeper; Patient's Baby Girl;
Preston; Mrs Hudson's Son; Barclay; Finney's
Sister)
Date: Third Week of June, 1890
Locations: Watson's House; 221B, Baker
Street; Southwark; Anchor Brewery; Celtic Knot
Pub; Baker Street
Story: Watson arrives home late after
delivering a baby, only to have Holmes appear on
his doorstep shortly thereafter. A young
woman, Melinda Finney, has been brought to Baker
Street, having escaped after being assaulted and
imprisoned. She is too distraught to answer Holmes's
questions, so he asks Mary to accompany him back to
221B to talk to her. The clues Melinda gives Mary
lead Holmes and Watson to her father's pub in
Southwark, and three suspects gathered at 221B.
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Anthony R. Lewis
"The Adventure of the Illegal
Alien" (1995)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes
in Orbit (Mike Resnick & Martin H.
Greenberg)
Story Type: Science Fiction Homage
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes;
Dr Watson; Wiggins; Baker Street Irregulars;
Mycroft Holmes; Professor Moriarty)
Other Characters: AI Educator; Account
Executive; Korifer; Detective-Lieutenant
Tarkummuwa; Mark Doniger; Ogden Operatives Branch
Manager; Terran World Police; Branch Manager's
Assistant; (Mokr;
Dr Gustavus Adolphus Doniger; Mokr's Daughter)
Date: 2125
Locations:
London; Minsky C/Si; Boston; Manchester; Mark
Doniger's Office; Manx Spaceport; Ogden Operatives
Office; The WorldNet
Story: An Artificial Intelligence version
of Holmes is created to investigate the death of
Mokr, a political refugee from the planet
Erawazira, for Korifer, an illegal alien on Earth.
It creates artificial Baker Street Irregulars to
search the WorldNet for the real Holmes. Korifer
tells of Mokr's refusal to sell land to the new
government of Erawazira, his flight to Earth, and
his death in Boston. The AI contacts the dolphin
that investigated the crime in Boston, calls in an
old debt to learn the truth, creates a Watson, and
comes to a self-realisation, but leaves his client
dissatisfied.
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Arthur H. Lewis
Copper Beeches (1971)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock
Holmes; Dr Watson; Mycroft Holmes; Mrs Hudson;
Holmes's Sussex Housekeeper; Von Bork; Baker
Street Irregulars; Irene Adler; Mrs Watson;
Violet Hunter; Sir Charles Baskerville; Sir
Henry Baskerville; Colonel Moran; Josiah
Amberly; Lord Saltire; Neville St Clair; Toby;
Abe Slaney; Elsie Patrick; Porlock; Colonel
Ross)
Historical Figures: The Sons of
the Copper Beeches; Herbert P. Middleton;
Monsignor Lallou; William Smith; Frank J. Eustace,
Jr; H.W. Starr; Arthur H. Lewis; Kenneth Souser;
Nels Nelson; Richard T. Nalle; William H. Miller;
Ralph Earle II; John B. Koelle; Joseph H. Gillies;
Thomas L. Stix; William MacMurtrie, Jr; Richard A.
Sprague
(The Baker Street Irregulars; Christopher
Morley; Felix Morley; Alexander Woollcott; Gene
Tunney; William Gillette; Elmer Davis; Rex
Stout; Francis Philben; Carl Anderson; Henry
Shalet; Ames Johnston; Melvin L. Sutley; Thomas
Hart; Abel Green; Arlen Specter; Marciarose
Shestack; Nicholas Frignito)
Other Characters: Frank; Marvin Abrams;
Charlie Starr; Donald Donaldson; Ed Johnson; Jack
Wharton; Colonel H. Wesley Eberhardt; Ellen Dawson
Eberhardt; Juliet; Tom Gilford; Nemo Movie Theatre
Cashier; Pinball Players; Hippies; Siggy;
Panhandlers; Sixteenth Street Crowds; Blind
Beggar; Salvation Army Man; Military Policeman;
H&H Customers; Bus Boy; H&H Cashier;
Salvation Army Personnel Officer; Mr Rismiller;
Mansion House Desk Clerk; Emma Trier; Pop Trier;
Otto Trier; Charlie Trier; Hilda Eberhardt
Crawshaw; Bob Crawshaw; Sandy; Sandy's Owner; John
C. Eberhardt; Whitefish Bar Waitress; McClure
State Troopers; Bean Soup Server; Carnival
Barkers; Carnival Crowds; Gypsy Joe; Sheriff Dave
Roberts; Jon Mungie; Snyder County Veterans' Band;
Booking Agent; Mr Sillman; Bozo the Clown; Bozo's
Cashier; Folies Bergeres Dancers; The Polish
Giant; Mary King; Hugo the Human Skeleton; Alvin
the Anatomical Miracle; Gerald-Geraldine Eng, the
Wild Man of Borneo; Olga, the Headless Teuton;
Doctor; Prince Eric; Astoria Gibbons; Stella
MacGregor; Freak Show Master of Ceremonies;
Magician; Belly Dancers; Weight Guesser; Knitting
Woman; Waiter; Francis Gowen; Millie Tomassio;
Inspector Fox; Police Officers; Dan; Lehighton
Deputy Sheriff; William R. Moody; Postal
Inspector; Postman; Press Club Members; Press Club
Waiter; Jerry Kaufman; George Beebelheimer;
Chosie; Motel Clerk; Motel Proprietor; Reporters;
Photographers; Interviewers; Cameramen; Pickets;
Tupper Lewis III; Nurses; Interns; Inquirer
Photographer; (British Physician; Arthur
Redstone; Daniel S. Knight; Jasper Patterson;
Slaves; Dr Gerald Mott Foster; Gerald Foster,
Jr; Workman; Judge Ulmebaum; Bert Olisandro; Dr
Orville Horlach; Helene Biddle Patterson Abrams;
Estes Bigelow; Les Dévots du Maître; Dévots'
Commissionaire; Charlie's Mistress; Dorothy
Johnson; Veda Wharton; Martin J. Moynihan; BSI
Gasogene; Ellen's Distant Cousin; Coleman; Mrs
Coleman; Mr Kim; Eberhardt's Korean Servants;
Eberhardt's Korean Mistress; Staff Sergeant;
Colonel; Lieutenants; Michael Wilson; Marchetti;
Jesse Taynton; Paul Gitlin; Connie Donaldson;
Grandpa Kaiser; Valley Forge Headmaster; Kenneth
J. Eberhardt; Korean Houseboy; Frankie Abrams;
Mr Bradley; Martha Eberhardt; Joe Eberhardt;
Beckie Eberhardt; Jennie Eberhardt; Alvin
Eberhardt; Hazel Ryan Eberhardt; Kathy Ryan;
Jake Weiss; Oak Street Evangelical Lutheran
Church Trustee; Theatrical Entrepreneur; Will
Eberhardt; John C.'s Desk Clerk; John Eberhardt;
Mrs Wagner; Bill Hanson; Irwin Kirby; Cousin
Archie; Art Harrison; George Hoffman; Hoffman's
Secretary; Dr Maurice Katz; John Raleigh; Wilton
Krogman; Bergie; Mighty Mame; Joe Spelman; Ray
Hendrickson; Gibson and Fowler; Postman; John
Morgan; Ed Holling; Holling's Secretary;
Millie's Pentagon Friend; Wallace Wondershow's
Patch; Wallace; Chester Western Union Clerk;
Rensselaer County Sheriff; Chuck; Pinkertons
Chief; Horace Redstone; Juliet's Dutch Nurse;
York County Sheriff; Bertha O. Franklin; Mr
Vincent; Telephone Operator; George Phillips;
Delivery Boy; Dave Braveman; Myerston Coroner;
Old Ladies at Joe's Funeral; Lutheran Minister;
Barney (Slim) Kelley; Lebanon Chief of Police;
Stockyard Inn Waiter; Coffin Delivery Men; Jason
Fox; François; Lord Philip MacKlein; Harold; Don
La Van; Eberhardt's Lawyer)
Date: March - September, 1969
Locations:
United States of America; Pennsylvania;
Philadelphia; Camac Street; The Diogenes Club;
Locust Street; Baskerville Hall; Rittenhouse
Square; Spruce Street; Jessup Street; Frank's
House; South Twelfth Street; Friend Meeting House;
Seventeenth Street; The Architects Club; Market
Street; Sixteenth Street; City Hall; H&H;
Mahanoy City; Bradley's Tobacconist; The Mansion
House Hotel; Triers' Corner; Locust Valley; The
Thatcher Farm; Lancaster; Nevin Street; Presque
Isle Peninsula Park; Whitefish Bar; Library; The
Pen and Pencil; Inquirer Office;
McClure; Bean Soup Grounds; Hioward Johnson's;
Penn A.C.; Widener Building; Philadelphia Police
Department Headquarters; Frankford; Lehighton; The
Carlisle; Post Office; The Press Club; Dutch
Restaurant; Lebanon; Courthouse; Hummelstown;
Stockyard Inn; Glen Hill; Beebelheimer's Funeral
Parlor; Cemetery; Motel; Camac Street; Graduate
Hospital; France; Paris; George V Hotel; Lancaster
Hotel; Korea; Seoul
Story: After a meeting of the Sons
of the Copper Beeches Sherlockian society in
Philadelphia, the drinking continues at Colonel
Eberhardt's home. Conversation turns to the question
of whether a man, in the computer age of the late
1960s, could choose to disappear completely in the
United States. Colonel Eberhardt bets the other Sons
that he will be able to do so, with his wife, and
that, although he will remain within 125 miles of
Philadelphia, they will not be able to find him for
six months. The prize for the winners is to be the
Carl Anderson manuscript collection. After
researching the Colonel's past, the hunt begins with
a search for beggars on Market Street, and Frank
receives a message in Dancing Men code. In Mahanoy
City they discover that someone has been asking for
shag in Bradley's tobacco shop, and an interview
with a centenarian tailor leads them to a farm in
Locust Valley, where they unwittingly adopt a dog.
An interview with Eberhardt's sister is
non-productive, but they learn more about his youth,
and his Lutheran pastor father, from a cousin. Jack
Wharton discovers that Ellen Eberhardt has stopped
donating to her favourite charities, and the money
is instead sponsoring a number of right-wing
organisations.
A sprig of gorse is the clue that
sparks the next leg of the chase, taking them to the
McClure Bean Soup carnival. They become increasingly
concerned about Ellen's safety, particularly when
they learn she is allergic to bee stings but has not
collected her medication for three months, and even
more so when they learn of the Colonel's activities
during the Second World War. They are joined in
their hunt by Millie Tomassio, a glamorous police
officer, and attempt to deduce which of the many
carnivals in the state during Labor Day week,
Eberhardt is most likely to be hiding out at. Frank
receives an invitation to the gasfitters' ball, and
further references to the canon arrive at frequent
intervals, including a wax bust, a canary and old
phonograph records. The death of Eberhardt's
carnival worker brother Joe brings new confusion to
the case, but also new suspicions when they learn he
was buried in an extra-large coffin. Disinterring
the coffin reveals not the expected discovery, but a
Persian slipper and a copy of the Musgrave Ritual.
The chase comes to its conclusion and the truth is
revealed during the September meeting of the Sons of
the Copper Beeches at Philadelphia's Diogenes Club.
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Brian Lewis
"Charlie's Choice" (1966)
Included in: Smash! No. 3 (19th February 1966)
Story Type: Children's Comic
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Other Characters: Charlie
Unnamed Characters: Football Players; Charlie's
Friends
Locations: Charlie's Home Town
Story: Charlie's football has a puncture, but
luckily there is a football match on his magic TV and
he is able to get the ball from that. The footballers
recruit Sherlock Holmes from another channel to track
down Charlie, who uses the football net to thwart
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"Charlie's Choice"
(1967)
Included in: Smash! No. 60 (25th March 1967)
Story Type: Children's Comic
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: Charlie
Unnamed Characters: Passers-by; Bank Robbers;
Policeman
Locations: Charlie's Home Town
Story: Charlie witnesses a bank robbery, but
worries that Holmes and Watson, when they emerge from
his TV set, are too old-fashioned to bring the robbers
to justice. Holmes uses his violin to get his men.
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Cass Lewis
Dead Man's Confession (1993)
Story Type: Children's Homage
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock
Holmes; Professor Moriarty; Dr Watson)
Other Characters: Shelly Elizabeth Holmes;
P.J.; Dodge; Thelma Rice; Sergeant Garcia; Lynn
Lauder; Detective Brown; Mary Conan Holmes; Robert
Sherlock Holmes; Omnidial Cleaners; Man with
Greasy Hair; Kevin Conan Holmes; Joanne Chung;
Vice Principal Thorne; Amanda Blaine; Kay Delaney;
Maria Rodriguez; Mrs Dunn; Toby Ryan; Mike
Thompson; High School Students; Spike the German
Shepherd; Golfers; Caddies; Gail; Julie Edwards;
Sidney Dunn; Principal Hawkins; Graduation Day
Audience; Maria's Parents; Caterers; Sammie Slam;
Tricia Tansil Holmes; Joseph Mahoney Holmes; Dr
Prager; Reporters; Family Friends; Mourners; John
Lane; Toby's Parents; Harry; Michael Morrison;
Artie Hanks; Police Officers; TV Station Telephone
Operator; Tambler's Secretary; Jackie Tambler;
Riley's Hostess; Waitress; Bus Passengers; Bus
Driver; Nicholas (Nick) Cramer; Stephen Baker;
Baker's Secretary; Security Guard; Television
Camera Operator; Peggy Holmes; Heather Holmes;
Russell Holmes
(Mr Kinnard; Mrs Rice's Daughter; Mrs Rice's
Grandchildren; Eileen Conan; Omnidial Vice
President; James Hunt; Elizabeth McIntyre
Holmes; Emmet Joseph Holmes; Ruth Edwards; Joan
Kennedy; Artie Hanks; Police Officers; Eileen
Conan; Driver; Business Broker; Charles Lapidis;
R.J. Tambler; Michael Tambler; Hyannis Land
Owner; R.J.'s Attorney; Lapidis's Lawyer;
Farmer; Charles Lapidis, Jr; Charles Lapidis
III; Mrs Lapidis; Morrison's Friend; Morrison's
Wife; Morrison's Phone Company Friend; Rosalind;
Rosalind's Banker Father; Rosalind's Sailor
Husband)
Date: 1993
Locations:
United States of America; Massachusetts;
Boston; Peppercorn Park; Police Station; Waltham;
Route 128; High School; Robert's Office; Shelly's
House; Newbury Street; Julie's House; Dubliners
Country Club Golf Course; Maria's House; Hospital;
Cemetery; Riley's; Danson Street; Mason Street;
Baker & Friedman's Office; Toby's House;
Library; Wendt Street; Baker Street Books;
Story: A week before her high
school graduation, Shelly Holmes,
great-granddaughter of Sherlock Holmes, intervenes
in a purse-snatching incident. She has taken photos
of the thieves, members of the Steel Dragons gang,
which she gives to the police. The following day she
accompanies her father, a private investigator, on a
stakeout of the Omnidial Corporation's offices. Her
father tells her how Sherlock Holmes met his wife in
Yorkshire during the Great Hiatus. They follow a man
they spot taking trash bags out of Omnidial's
dumpster. Her father shows her a box of family
memorabilia kept by her grandfather and dating back
to Sherlock Holmes. Her father begins working on the
case of the serial kiler, the Back Bay Slayer, as
well as a messy divorce case.
Shelly gets home from her graduation
party to discover that her parents have been killed
in a car crash. Wanting to prove that she could run
her father's business, Shelly decides to solve the
Slayer case, but when she learns that the police
have taken her father's paperwork, she decides to
work on a case from a letter sent to Sherlock Holmes
after he retired to New York, regarding a
double-crossing on a land deal and two deaths. A
one-armed man breaks into her father's office.
Shelly contacts the letter writer's
great-granddaughter, Jackie Tambler, a TV news
reporter, who tells her about the land swindle. She
returns home to find the house has been ransacked,
and she flees from the large man who appears outside
and who had been watching her at her parents'
funeral. She and her boyfriend Toby research the
Tambler case at the library. A search through the
book collection of Lapidis, the man accused of the
land swindle turns up valuable clues.
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Shariann Lewitt
"The Secret Marriage of Sherlock
Holmes" (1998)
Included in: The
Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
(Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Holmes
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Mycroft Holmes
Historical Figures: King Abdul Aziz ibn
Saud
Other Characters: Porter; Salah; Bader ibn
Abdullah; Abdul Aziz ibn Saud; Ahmed al-Rasheed; Khalid
ibn Peterson; Rasheed's Servants; Noura
Date: 1893
Locations: Marseilles; Jedda; Riyadh;
Murrah Camp; The Empty Quarter; Village
Story: During the hiatus, Holmes's
researches in Montpellier are interrupted when
Mycroft sends him to deliver a missive to a
representative of the Ottoman Turks at Mecca.
Arriving at Jedda, he is taken to a Murrah Bedouin
encampment outside Riyadh, and travels with them
and a Europe-educated Rasheedi prince across the
desert of the Empty Quarter. He discovers that a
boy in the camp is the deposed Saudi prince, Abdul
Aziz. Rasheed's travelling companion, Peterson, is
half-English and a scholar of Shari'a law, and
Holmes learns of Islamic marriage customs from
him. Abdul Aziz believes that Rasheed will try to
kill him as an enemy of his family. When Holmes
discovers that the prince's sister is also among
the party he realises that Rasheed is planning a
marriage rather than a murder to gain control over
the royal lineage, and he takes extreme action to
prevent it.
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David Lewman
Spongebob
Detectivepants: The Case of the Missing Spatula
(2006)
Story Type: Children's Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Spongebob
Detectivepants
Fictional Characters: Spongebob Squarepants;
Mr Krabs; Squidward; Patrick; Sheldon J. Plankton;
Karen Plankton; Sandy Cheeks; Mrs Puff
Unnamed Characters: Customers; Beach Users
Locations: The Krusty Krab; The Chum Bucket;
The Treedome; Driving School; Spongebob's Pineapple;
Goo Lagoon
Story: Spongebob arrives to start the day's
work at the Krusty Krab but discovers that his
favourite spatula, Flipper, is missing. He dons a
deerstalker and begins his investigation, which
takes him from the most suspected to the least
suspected.
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