Sherlock Holmes Story Summaries

Richard Lid "Passenger on Time Machine Witnesses Mystery Incident" (1945) Included in: The Northerner, 11 May 1945 Story Type: Pastiche Sherlockian Detectives: Herlock Solmes & Dr Whatson Canonical Characters: (Inspector Lestrade) Other Characters: Professor Ambrose Tweetbeak; John Stanley; (Jerry Kane) Unnamed Characters: Narrator Date: 1945 / 1890 Locations: Tweetbeak's Laboratory; London; Berkshire Club; 221-B, Baker Street Story: The narrator travels in Professor Tweetbeak's time machine to 1890s London, where he witnesses Herlock Solmes solving the murder of actress Jerry Kane after encountering her fiance outside the Berkshire Club.
	F. Lines "The Bermuda Blue Print Mystery" (1936) Included in: The Saltus Magazine, Easter 1936 Story Type: Pastiche Sherlockian Detective: Herlock Sholmes Other Characters: Herman K. Biggs Unnamed Characters: Biggs's Secretary; Mechanics; (Night-watchman) Locations: Bermuda; Airport Story: Herlock Sholmes is called in when the plans of the new super-marine stratosphere plane are stolen from Bermuda Airport.
Gillian Linscott "The Adventure of the Late Orang Outang" (2006) Included in: Ghosts in Baker Street (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Other Characters: James Doughty; Peter Alderbrook; John Alderbrook; (Sir Thomas Alderbrook; George the Orang Outang; Sally Nebbs) Unnamed Characters: St Simeon's Principal; Ancient Etruscan Expert; Man On Watson's Left; Servants; Dons; Cab Driver; Farm Labourer; College Scout; (Game Keeper; Butler; Housekeeper) Locations: Oxford; St Simeon's College; 221B, Baker Street; Regent's Park Zoo; Nether Alderbrook Story: At a college dinner, after solving a case in Oxford, Holmes and Watson witness a disagreement between two students, both in competition for a Fellowship at the college, and hear the tale of a ghostly orang outang said to haunt a tower of the family home of one of them. When a local girl is found dead at the base of the tower, Holmes is called back to Oxford, and stages an apparition of his own in order to bring the killer to justice.
	"The Case of Colonel Crockett's Violin" (2009) Included in: Sherlock Holmes In America (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Historical Figures: (Davy Crockett; Colonel William B. Travis; Louis Rose) Other Characters: Benjamin Austin Barratt; Evangeline Legrange; Juan Alvarez; Lee Barratt; Mrs Barratt; (Marianne) Unnamed Characters: Passers-by; Hotel Messenger Boy; Cowboys; Soldiers; Mexicans; Band; Singer; Legrange's Mexican Servants; Picnic Guests; Barratt's Family; Barratt's Doctor; Sheriff's Officer; Alvarez's Wife, Children & Grandmother; (Mrs Legrange's Mother; Barratt's Father; Father's Servant; Legrange's Coachman; Legrange's Housekeeper; Witness; Alvarez's Grandfather; Mexican Cook) Locations: USA; Texas; San Antonio; Menger Hotel; San Pedro Springs; The Alamo; Barratt's Home; Legrange's Home; Barratt's Club; County Jail; Alvarez's House Story: Holmes is summoned to Texas by The Daughters of the Republic of Texas to find out which of two violins, both purporting to be the one owned by Davy Crockett, is genuine. They are invited on a picnic by Mrs Legrange, owner of one of the violins, who tells them how Crockett gave it to her grandmother. Later they learn from Barratt how his violin was given to the only man to leave the Alamo. Barratt's son is attacked, and Legrange's violin is stolen. When the culprit is caught, it is a Mexican who had tried to make an appointment with Holmes earlier, but an examination reveals the violin in his possession not to be the stolen one. Holmes traces the fate of the missing violin and the origins of the surviving one.
"A Hansom for Mr. Holmes" (2001) Included in: Murder in Baker Street (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower) Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Joe, the Hansom Cab Driver Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Other Characters: Joe; Bert 'Slogger' Fleet; Lady Cookham Unnamed Characters: Lilac Waistcoat Man; Brougham Driver; Boy; Flunkey; Garden Party Guests; His Highness; Detectives; Band; Violin Player Locations: Camden Town; Baker Street; Celandine Square Story: Joe, the hansom cab driving narrator, has kidnapped Hector of Hackney, a prize rat-baiting terrier, and is attempting to pass it off disguised as his own injured dog. Joe has the dog in the box of his hansom when he is flagged down for Holmes and Watson. He drives them to Mayfair where he finds himself press-ganged into their service at a garden party. A member of an Eastern European royal family is attending the party and the Foreign Office has received word that an assassination attempt is planned. The dog escapes from the cab and wreaks havoc at the party. The ensuing chaos allows Holmes to close in on the would-be assassin, and Joe finds himself rewarded for his day's work in more ways than one.
	"A Scandal in Winter" (1996) Included in: Holmes for the Holidays (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh) Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Jessica Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Irene Adler {Irene McEvoy} Other Characters: Jessica; Amanda; Franz; Eva; (Mr. McEvoy) Unnamed Characters: Mother; Father; Hotel Guests; Maid; Waiters; Father's Ski Guide; Lame Accordion Player; Skaters; Headwaiter; Porter; (American Lady; Housekeeper) Date: December, 1910 (and looking back to events in December, 1909) Locations: Switzerland; Edelweiss Hotel; Skating Rink; The Village Main Street Story: Holmes and Watson are at a ski resort in Switzerland, where the previous year McEvoy fell from his hotel room window. It was generally assumed that he had been pushed by his wife, Irene, who has returned this year, but is being shunned by everybody as a result. The only witness was a twelve year old girl, Jessica, and from her recollections and observations, and from his own reconstruction of the man's fall, Holmes is able to prove Irene's innocence.
Laura Lippman "The Last of Sheila-Locke Holmes" (2011) Included in: A Study in Sherlock (Laurie R. King & Leslie S. Klinger) Story Type: Homage Other Characters: Sheila Locke-Weiner; (Trista; Caitlin; Harmony; Chloe Beezer) Unnamed Characters: Sheila's Mother; Sheila's Father; Building Superintendent; Babysitter; (Doorman) Date: 21st Century Locations: USA; New York; Sheila's Home; Canal Street Story: Aged eleven, during a bad year at school, Sheila Locke-Weiner takes to wearing a deerstalker and advertises her services as a detective under the name Sheila Locke-Holmes. She discovers a photo in her parents' closet.
	Arthur L. Lippmann "The Doctor's Dilemma" (1924) Included in: Judge, 15 November 1924 Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Unnamed Characters: (Beautiful Girl; Librarians; Grammarians) Locations: 221B, Baker Street Story: Holmes is stumped when a beautiful girl asks him to find a thirteen letter word used colloquially for many present-day ailments.
Ashley Lister "The Case of the Cursed Angel Tears" (2020) Included in: The Book of Extraordinary New Sherlock Holmes Stories (Maxim Jakubowski) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade Other Characters: Countess Pleasington; Marianne Pleasington; (Count Pleasington; William) Unnamed Characters: Brougham Driver; Maid; (Diamond Miners; Assayers/ Umkosi Wezintaba Members; Kommandos; Packet-Ship Passenger; Jeweller; Coroner; Pleasington's First Wife; Hunting Parties; Stable Hand; Auctioneer) Date: Autumn Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Pleasington Estate Story: Countess Pleasington, owner of a pair of earrings made from the diamonds known as the Cursed Angel Tears, which had been cut down from the cursed Star of the North, consults Holme, whose husband has died in a hunting accident, seemingly the latest victim of the curse.
	"The Last Professor Moriarty Story" (2015) Included in: The Adventures of Moriarty (Maxim Jakubowski) Story Type: Extra-canonical adventure of Professor Moriarty Canonical Characters: Inspector (Gordon) Lestrade; Professor Moriarty; Colonel Moran; (Von Herder) Other Characters: Hunt; Chancellor White; (Professor Bell; Professor Phillips; Williamson) Unnamed Characters: Readers; Professors; Students; Lecturers; (Williamson's Father; White's Daughter) Date: December, 1867 Locations: University; Moriarty's Office Story: Gordon is summoned to Moriarty's university office, accused of cheating. As they walk together to Professor Bell's office, Gordon realises how many people at the university are indebted to Moriarty.
Richard Henry Little "The Chicago Adventures of Mr Herlock Sholmes" (1911) Included in: The Chicago Daily Tribune, 26 May 1911 Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Herlock Sholmes & Dotson Unnamed Characters: (Sluggers; Bystanders; Detectives; Policemen; Band; Spitters; Limbless Beggar; Blind Man; Street Car Conductor) Locations: USA; Chicago; Dotson's Hotel; Sholmes's Hotel Story: Sholmes is in Chicago when a shootout occurs between the sluggers of the Amalgamated Poets' Union and the Rhymsters and Doggerel Witers' Council.
	Alison Littlewood "The Adventure of the Avid Pupil" (2017) Included in: Sherlock Holmes's School for Detection (Simon Clark) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Inspector Lestrade; Grimesby Roylott) Other Characters: Simon Smedley Unnamed Characters: Academy Students; Corpse; Trammer; Cab Driver; Police Officers; Dead Woman; (Finely Dressed Man; Trawler-man; Sewer Company Representative; St Michael's Chapel Curate) Date: 1890 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Imperial Academy of Detective Inquiry and Forensic Science; The Embankment Story: One of Holmes's students, Smedley, a police officer, is boasting that he will soon surpass his master. Holmes challenges Smedley to evade him in disguise. Having expressed interest in the discovery of the body of a well-dressed man on the Embankment, Holmes takes up the case when a second body, this time a woman's, is found. He sends Smedley into the sewers to investigate.
"The Mystery of the Red City" (2015) Included in: The Mammoth Book of Sherlock Holmes Abroad (Simon Clark) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson Folkloric Characters: Ghul Other Characters: (Lord P---; Mary Stanier; Mr Stanier; Hamza) Unnamed Characters: Hansom Driver; (Oil Seller; Marie's Maid; Marie's Cook; Marie's Housekeeper; Souk Crowds; Henna Painters; Hawkers; Ape Owner) Date: On the verge of autumn Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Morocco; Marrakech; Marie's House; The Souk; Djemaa el Fna; Graveyard; Baker Street Story: A weakened Holmes arrives back at Baker Street after a series of cases that have taken him from France to Africa. He tells Watson of how he accompanied Lord P--- to Marrakech, where his sister's naturalist husband's grave has been desecrated and his corpse mutilated. The following evening a photograph of her was stolen from her husband's study, by a man whom she swears was her dead husband. From Marie's housekeeper's son, he hears the legend of the ghul. Another arrival at Baker Street leads Watson to ponder the veracity of the legend.
	"The Peculiar Case of Sweetly's Luck" (2022) Included in: Gaslight Ghouls (J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec) Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Historical Figures: (Princess Helena) Other Characters: Jerry Sweetly; Queen Rat; Edie Sweetly; Aunt Nell; (Lanky Harry; Tom Huckell) Unnamed Characters: Small Boy; Hansom Drivers; Slum Children; Costermongers; Crossing Sweepers; Stevedores; (Sweetly's Lady Friend; Sweetly's Wife; Sweetly's Children) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Bermondsey; Metcalf Court; Sewer Story: Jerry Sweetly, a Bermondsey tosher, calls Holmes to investigate the disappearance of his daughter, Edie, whom he says has been abducted by Queen Rat and taken into her lair. Holmes and Watson accompany him into the sewers on a rescue mission.
Morgan Llywelyn "The Repulsive Story of the Red Leech" (1996) Included in: Resurrected Holmes (Marvin Kaye) Story Type: Pastiche (in the style of Ernest Hemingway) Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade Other Characters: Mrs Peebles; Miss Frances; Dr Horatio Floyd Unnamed Characters: Pallid Man; Much Markle Station Master; Dog-Cart Driver; Pub Customers; Dead Woman Date: Late Summer, 1894 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train; The Cotswolds; Much Markle; Hope Hill; The Swan & Cygnets Pub; Bart's Story: Watson persuades Holmes to take a break in the country at his former colleague's house in the Cotswolds. Arriving at Much Markle, they discover that a man who shared their railway compartment is also a guest of Dr Floyd. When they arrive at Hope Hill they learn that their host is not present, nor is he due to be. They learn that Floyd often sends his patients there to convalesce. Another of Floyd's patients arrives and, after a few days, so does a telegram from Lestrade saying that Jack the Ripper has returned to London. Several bloodless bodies have been found around the city. Holmes claims to have already solved the mystery. The solution lays in a larder full of beef and the denouement lays at Bart's in a case of porphyria and a man who sucks the blood from leeches.
	Patrick LoBrutto "The Little Problem of the Grosvenor Square Furniture Van" (1998) Included in: The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Marvin Kaye) Story Type: Parody narrated in part by Lestrade (ascribed to Arthur Stanley Jefferson aka Stan Laurel) Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Mrs Hudson Other Characters: Finlay; Cannady Unnamed Characters: Crowd; Police Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Story: Watson visits Holmes, despite a toothache and the tender ministrations of his new wife, to show him a manuscript written by Lestrade. It tells of Holmes and Watson's attempts to have a piano moved up to their rooms at 221B, which he witnessed, having visited to consult Holmes on the case of a missing poet. The delivery men, assisted by Holmes and Watson are less than efficient, and their efforts end in a fight between the four men and the arrival of the police. There is more disgruntled slapstick between Holmes, Watson and Mrs Hudson after the deliverymen have been arrested, and the piano ends up back out on the street, down which Holmes and Watson flee the wrathful Mrs Hudson. Lestrade agrees to suppress the manuscript for a price.
Steve Lockley "The Persian Slipper" (2013) Included in: Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (George Mann) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade Other Characters: Iqbal; Yousef; Iqbal's Father; (Andreas Palandrou) Unnamed Characters: Lestrade's Constables; (Greek Salesman) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Cheapside Story: Iqbal, the son of the Turk who gave Holmes his Persian slipper, calls at Baker Street. His father is ill, claiming that "the djinn has returned". Holmes and Watson go to Cheapside where they are greeted by Iqbal's twin brother, Yousef, but discover that the old man is already dead. Holmes experiments with candles, and returns to Cheapside to examine the old man's room and bring his killer to justice.
	George Locke "A Nineteenth Century Debacle" (1979) Included in: Murder Impossible (Jack Adrian & Robert Adey) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Morlock Tomes & Clotson Fictional Characters: (Robert Ashfield) Historical Figures: (Robert Adey; Louis Zangwill) Other Characters: Titus Q. Goonhilly / Athanasius Brown; Professor Andras Abelman Veeblefetzer Unnamed Characters: Goonhilly's Companions; American Merchant Date: January 7th, 1883 Locations: Tomes's Rooms Story: Tomes finds a reference to Louis Zangwill's A Nineteenth Century Miracle and realises it bears remarkable similarities to one of his cases in which Titus Q Goonhilly was washed overboard from a ship travelling from Singapore to Western Samoa. At the same time, his body fell from a tree on Wallis Island, nearly 300 miles away.
C.D. Locock "The Case of the Lady Bicyclist and the Postage Stamp" (1908) Included in: Olympian Echoes (C.D. Locock) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Hemlock Jones & Shotgun Other Characters: Inspector Wilkins; (Dr Pillbox; Dr Pilkington; Miss Pilkington) Unnamed Characters: College Porter; Post Office Official; Abingdon Ticket-Collector; Bicycle Thief Date: July Locations: London; Jones's Rooms; Paddington Station; Oxford; Jesus College; Post Office; Oxford Station; A Train; Abingdon Station; Oxford Road; Pilkington's House Story: Jones and Shotgun go on holiday to Oxford, where Jones is sure that Scotland Yard will not find them. They read about the disappearance of the daughte of Shotgun's old friend, Dr Pillbox. After learning that she left on a bicycle and bought a postage stamp, and with a little help from the Times weather forecast and an algebra book, Jones and Shotgun take a train to Abingdon to conclude the case.
	Hugh Lofting Gub-Gub's Book (1932) Included in: Doctor Dolittle: The Complete Collection Volume 4 Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detective: Sherbet Scones Fictional Characters: Tommy Stubbins; Gub-Gub; Dab-Dab; Too-Too; Cheapside; White Mouse; Polynesia; Chee-Chee; Doctor Dolittle Historical Figures: (King Alfred; Sir Walter Raleigh; Sir John Hawkins; Christophe Plantin) Other Characters: (Archbishop of Batterby; Patricia Portly; Hamilton Sandwich; Chillibillibeano; Vanilla Verbena; The Sneakinese; Shah of the Bashibaloukas; Sultan of Kinkidoo; General Pushpoud-ul-Pish; Quince Blossom; Doctor Pillerank; King Guzzle the Second; Al Freshface; Queen of Blenheim-Orange; Princess Mignonette of Marjoram; Prince Pudge; Vladimir, Chief of the Don Cossacks; Belini Anchovy; Don Castro Castor Oil; Duke of Barleduke; Ambassador Linseed; Sir Lancelot lollipop; Viscount van Veal; Conra, Earl of Marshmallows; Gumbo Goulash; Sir Cinnamon Bunn; Sir Benjamin Butterscotch; Sir Haggis McTavish; Lady Viola Vinaigrette; Madame O. Gratin; Sir Simeon Sausagely; Duchess of Doughnut; Sir Marmaduke Marmalade; Fatima, Sultana of Chutney; Countess of Curd; Young Nubbin; Judge Juniper; Lady Dredful Manners; Dowager Countess of Caramel Custard; Marchioness of Cling and Cloy; Sticky Fudge; Pepita Pancake; Squire Squab; Lady Popsy Peppermint; Apple Charlotte; Brown Betty; Dame Gwendolyn Gooseberry; Mistress Sourly Dill; Prince Nastibozo) Unnamed Characters: (Farm Boy; Farm Visitor; Patricia's Wedding Guests; Inuit Chief; Governor General of Canada; Baker; Doctor; Russian Soldier; Farmer's Wife; White Mouse's Owner; Parents; Gardener; Rajah; Rajah's Cook; College Boy; Pig Receiver of Stolen Goods; Assistant Detectives; Scones's Grandmother; Venezuelan Chief of Police; Cab Driver; Police Officers; Poushpoud-ul-Pish's Wife; Farmer's Boy; Guzzle the First; Lord Treasurer; Chancellor of the Exchequer; Chefs; Picnic Staff; Picnic Guests; Chaperones; Court Engraver; First Lord of the Bedchamber; Gingerbread Cook) Locations: Puddleby-on-the Marsh; Dr Dolittle's House Story: Gub-Gub the Pig has styled himself "Doctor of Salad Dressings" and decided to write a twenty volume Encyclopaedia of Food. Each night he reads the other animals the chapter that he has written that day. He tells them about King Alfred and Sir Walter Raleigh, a range of food-related discoveries, and the story of stone soup, and the White Mouse tells about how he became a pea-fielder. After telling them about the wars of the tomatoes on the third evening, Gub-Gub goes on to narrate the famous Food Mystery Story. A rajah visiting England calls in Sherbet Scones the Icebox Detective, when the special seabird eggs used for his famous curried eggs disappear on the day of an important lunch. Later, he works on a string robberies in which no clues have been left behind, except an empty plate in the pantry, where the thief always takes a light meal, and shows a preference for strawberry jam. The Daily Meal sends its reporter, Hamilton Sandwich, to follow him on his investigations. No trace of the stolen goods can be found, which leads Scones to deduce that the thief is a foreigner, but remains stumped until a letter arrives from Venezuela. The thief manages to stay one step ahead of Scones, but goes too far when he kidnaps the love of Scones's life, Vanilla Verbena, to work in his new restaurant. Later, he tells them of the war between the Bashibaloukas and the Kinkidoos, his attempts to lose wait using Doctor Pillcrank's mental method, and the epicnic he has written about King Guzzle the Picnic King and Prince Nastibozo's machinations against him.
Lloyd Lonergan "Lulu's Lost Lotharios" (1915) Included in: Moving Picture World, Vol 26 No 8, 13 November 1915 Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: Suburban Homes & Dr Wopson Other Characters: Lulu Leopold Unnamed Characters: Town Constable; Suitors; Guard Locations: Homes's Rooms; Jail Story: Suburban Homes investigates the case of Lulu Leopold, whose suitors all disappear within a day of proposing to her. Homes proposes to her and is abducted and imprisoned. He starts a crap game to enable him and the other suitors to escape and ends up married to Lulu. NOTE: Although I have credited this to Lloyd Lonergan, the piece is a summary of his screenplay and was likely not written by him.
	Charles Loomis "A La Sherlock Holmes" (1899) Also published as "A Trip to the Country" Included in: The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye); Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel); A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches (Charles Press) Story Type: Parody Detectives: Jones Other Characters: Farmer Phelps Unnamed Characters: Narrator Locations: Upper Connecticut Story: Driving through Connecticut, Jones and the narrator are discussing Sherlock Holmes. Jones announces he can give a practical demonstration of the powers of observation and deduction. He makes a series of deductions about the weather and a poultry farm from a number of cakes of ice. Farmer Phelps is able to tell the true story.
	"The Adventure of the Child's Perambulator" (1899) Included in: A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches (Charles Press); Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 (Bill Peschel) Story Type: Parody Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Watson; Inspector Lestrade Other Characters: Sir Edward Percyvale Vere Bermondsey-on-Trent Boggs; (Lady Boggs; Miss Saunders) Unnamed Characters: Cabman; Hogg & Chichester Foreman; Workman; (Watson's Patients; People with Perambulators) Locations: Watson's House; 221B, Baker Street; 27, Henrietta Street; Hogg & Chichester's Warehouse; Restaurant Story: Watson is summoned to Baker Street by a postcard bearing the single word "Come!". They are visited by Sir Edward Boggs whose sick wife has been disturbed at their home by the arrival of of dozens of people with perambulators, since an advertisement was placed in the Times, in their name, reporting one missing. They travel in disguise to the leading perambulator manufacturers, Hogg & Chichester's, but before they can move their investigation to the Isle of Wight, Sir Edward makes a surprise revelation.
	Floyd Lounsbury "Proper Guidance" (1958) Included in: The Flashlight (State Teachers College, Mansfield, Pa.), November 1958 Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detective: Berlock Shomes Locations: USA Story: Berlock Shomes explains his role as a guidance counsellor's counsellor.
Simon Louvish Your Monkey's Shmuck (1990) Story Type: Fantasy Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Professor Moriarty; (Moriarty Gang; Inspector Lestrade) Fictional Characters: (Carl Denham; King Kong; Godzilla) Characters Based on Fictional Characters: (Captain Gurk; Captain Berk; Winnie the Poof; Faglet; Eyesore; Cheshire Bat; Tweedledumb; Tweedledeaf; The White Rabbi) Historical Figures: (Abraham Lincoln; Groucho Marx; Bashful-Stinger) Characters Based on Historical Figures: Jake Akimbo; (Shark Bagle; Gerta Grabbo; Lawerence Parve; Elizabeth Failyor; Mumblon Drabno; Brute Miscaster; Roger Boor; Robert Dinero; Bob Dope; Bing Frisbee; John Drain; Telisuk Fallus; William Shitner; President Fard; Dean Fartin; Geriatric Lewis) Other Characters: Danny H-; Ben Tishman / Benjamin Mishman; Doris; Ellie; Vince Epiglotis; Jack Pritchard; Jerry; Thomas the Investigative Journalist; Little Nel; Big Tim; Giovinezza; Trish; Prish; Knish; Franz the Gorilla; Angel; Adelia; Paula; Frank Zagdanovitch; Rudolph Fihser; Harry; Akram; Jesus; Nabih; Jake Mishkin / Danny Hohenlohe / Zack Armitage / Pedro Rojas / Maria Papadopoulos / Don Krankman; Doctor Houseman; Conway Stebbins / Haile Mengistu Sion Mariam; Van Gardner / Ivan Gargarin; Delaney; Glib Gormenghast; (Lewis Kwame Owusu; Geoffrey Edwards; Fred the Giant Ape; Miss Dahrendorf; Vicki; Elizabeth; Professor D'Pouf; Egbert J. Fudd; Doc Stebbins; Wo So Fat; R.E. Masters; Miss Nin; Jack Geddes; Maisie M'Gee; Ralph Merridew Geddes; Chives Bermondsey; Coot; Sadie; Grwwlf; Angel; Bobby; Mortimer; Mortimer's Dad; Robies; S. Barthelme; Biscuit Tin; Zeldeh; Feigeh; Shloimeh; Roiseh; Yoineh; Egg; Henry; Henry's Wife; Al J-; Martha; Bonzo Hackitt; Princess Bopi; Koshr; Dee Dee Grant; Bernardo Pratt; Grun; Cash; Thirgo Aargh; Ssringh X. Zopi; Thnida Bopi; Professor Wheeg; Professor Jeeb; Ms Thinga Mabob; Professor Sorn Plattvogel; Moishe; Admiral Cornelius Noodle; Professor Pescus; Mildred; Adam; Eve; Madame Clara; Mrs Blighton; C. Highton; Siegfried von Schmeck; E; Elena; Flower Belle Lee; Paul Tallow; Mildred; Fay Chaffee; Karl Burns; Flipper Froth; Pippa Dong; Boss Legree; Tom Knish; Jon Downhill; Lou Cleaver; Kathleen Zeus; Cornelius 'Cracker' O'Shea; Knut Fornicutt; Shady Gertie; Bust; Sagass; Gasket) Unnamed Characters: Doorman; Restaurant Customers; Restaurant Cashier; Fat Lady; Burger Waiters; Burger Woman; Beggars; Barking Man; 52nd Street Doorman; Fireman; Cops; Fire Crowd; Policeman; Touts; Manhattan Waitress; Bloomingdales Store Detective; Art Lovers; Ambulance Men; Cab Driver; Bums; Bagwoman; (Editors; Vampire; Vampire's Friend; Vampire Victim; Long Island Man; Doris's Mother; Globbles; Globble Judge; Soldiers; Doctors; Journalist; Tapeworm; Chemist; Muggers; Working Girl; Cab Driver; Tishman's Cousin; Hell's Angel; Midget; Electric Company Man; Job Applicants; Drunk Gentleman; Mortimer's Dad; Greyhound Driver; Ellie's Colleague; Doctors; Nurses; Justice of the Peace; Henry's Wife; Broadway Mental Case; Stewardess; Spaceship Passengers; Hvulvian Doctor; Emperor-in-Exile; Tralfamadorian; Vug Vugs; Barsoomian Pilgrims; Mildred's Husband; Grumpy Blintsies; The Ombudsman; Reporter; Toyota Kid; French Postman; O'Shea's Wife; Mishkin's Parents) Date: 1981 Locations: USA; New York; Manhattan; 78th Street; Manhattan Restaurant; Ninth Avenue; 76th & Broadway Burger Joint; Regency Cinema; Broadway; Upways; Park Avenue North; Port Authority Station; 112th Street;Times Square; 8th Avenue & 42nd; Expedition Films; 110th Street; Tom's Restaurant; Paula's Cafe; East 52nd Street; 11th Avenue; Souvlaki Stall; Bryant Park; Bellevue; Bloomingdales; Bagel Nosh; Avenue A; Kenya; Ogalu Mental Hospital; Globble Village; London; South Kensington; Wo So Fat's Chinese Emporium; 221B, Baker Street; Barthelme's Shop; Kennington Oval; San Francisco; Gettysburg Story: Deluged with rejection letters, illegal Englishman in New York, author Danny H-, struggles to write a story about an African vet 's encounter with a giant ape, set in the Kenyan bush. In a nearby restaurant he re-reads his Jewish vampire story, Drekula, and recalls other stories about a village of globbles, and talking turds. His landlord, independent film-maker Ben Tishman, disappears on a trip to Long Island to meet with a financier. Tishman's girlfriend, Ellie, asks Dany to help find him, which reminds him of a San Francisco P.I. story he had written about a chicken, and a Sherlock Holmes story, The Screaming Biscuit Tin Strikes Again, in which Holmes teams up with Moriarty against a world domination conspiracy of material objects led by a biscuit tin. The disappearance may be linked to Tishman's sighting of a UFO over the Natural History Museum, and Danny decides to search through Tishman's thirty hours of film footage of New York city, pausing only to pen a story about Godzilla's mother-in-law, while a story narrated by an egg comes to mind as he builds up to his search. He hears Vince Epiglotis banging on the pipes, and discovers that some of the film, concerning the "Mad Bomber", is missing. Danny tries to meet the Mad Bomber and becomes involved with a waitress while writing a new story as an act of revenge against Jake Akimbo. Other rejected manuscripts are revisited, the Mad Bomber's apartment building burns down, and Danny meets figments of his imagination. Reporter Jake Mishkin is assigned investigates a series of writers' brains being wiped of ideas. He discovers that his twin brother has disappeared.
	Allan Loux "Jiff You Like It" (1927) Included in: America's Humor, Vol. 6 No. 4 (February 1927) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detective: Padlock Combs Fictional Characters: Antoinette; Smith; Marquis Dessaix Historic Figures: Harry Stephen Keeler [Editor of America's Humor] Other Characters: Count de Bility; Major Premise; Sigmund X. Spiddleducker; (Antoinette the Cow; Adolph Spiddleducker) Unnamed Characters: Man Who Controlled the Destinies of the Kingdom of Castornia; Baby; Rabbi; Dairy Workmen; Dairy Girls; (Experts; Congressman) Locations: Paris; Combs' Rooms; Spiddleducker's Dairy Farm Story: Padlock Combs investigates the Milk King Sigmund X. Spiddleducker's missing cow Antoinette, who disappeared from the dairy. Recently a green cow has appeared in her place. Combs spends a night sleeping in a pasture beside the green cow in an attempt to solve the mystery, but disguising himself as a crock of butter proves to be a great error. NOTE: The story begins as a parody of "Jazz You Like It" by Carey Wonderly appearing earlier in the same issue of America's Humor.
James Lovegrove "The Adventure of the Botanist's Glove" (2015) Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part III: 1896-1929 (David Marcum); The Manifestations of Sherlock Holmes (James Lovegrove) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Billy) Other Characters: Mary Smith; Mrs Frensham; Cecil Harrison; Geraint Cramb; Sir Peregrine Carruthers; (Lady Jane Carruthers) Unnamed Characters: Hospital Orderly; Police Officers; (Sir Peregrine's Gardeners; African Tribesman) Date: September, 1903 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Sussex; Bridlinghall Place; Haywards Heath; Hotel; Cramb's Office; Hospital; A Train Story: Orphaned servant-girl Mary Smith consults Holmes when her master, the botanist Sir Peregrine Carruthers, dies of an allergic reaction to a bee-sting. Holmes and Watson accompany her to Sir Peregrine's home in Sussex, where they learn that changes made to his will after his wife's death might prove a motive for murder. Examination of the body reveals how his death was arranged.
	"The Adventure of the Challenging Professor" (2020) Included in: The Manifestations of Sherlock Holmes (James Lovegrove) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Mary Morstan) Fictional Characters: Professor Challenger; Jessie Challenger; (Professor Summerlee; Edward Malone; Pterodactyl) Characters Derived from Fictional Characters: (Lord Motson = Lord John Roxton) Other Characters: Eldon; Araminta Ffolkes; Ida; (Richard Montclair; Mr Ffolkes; Mrs Ffolkes) Unnamed Characters: (Challenger's Cook) Date: July, 1909 Locations: Sussex; Holmes's Farm; Rotherfield; The Briars Story: Watson is visiting Holmes in Sussex, when Professor Challenger arrives at Holmes's farm. His assistant, Montclair, has been killed by a pterodactyl, the mate of the one that escaped from Queen's Hall.
"The Adventure of the Deadly Séance" (2019) Included in: The Sign of Seven (Martin Rosenstock); The Manifestations of Sherlock Holmes (James Lovegrove) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Mary Morstan; (Watson's Brother; Watson's Father) Other Characters: Alec Carstairs; Ellen Efralstein; Swami Dhokha / Ishaan Bakshi; Aloysius Guthrie; David Ventnor Brown; Clifton Lapham; Isolde Potts; (Sir Hubert Cole; Deakins; Margaret; Susannah; Grandfather Jack; Fenella Leinster; Swami Dhoka; Duchess of Wolverton; Violet Yelland; Jim Leinster) Unnamed Characters: (Carstairs' Cousins; Cole's Servants; Widower; Married Couple; Couple's Daughter; Cole's Doctor; Watson's Patients; Lloyd's Clerk; Eagle of Enterprise Captain) Date: End of October, 1889 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Brixton; Chelsea; Nunhead; All Saints Cemetery Story: Alec Carstairs consults Holmes when he comes under suspicion of murdering his employer, shipping magnate Sir Hubert Cole, a distant relation, whose fortune he has inherited. The night before his death, Cole had attended a séance, at which a malevolent spirit charged him to "remember the eagle". Holmes attends a séance and organises a second.
	"The Adventure of the Emperor's Netsuke" (2020) Included in: The Manifestations of Sherlock Holmes (James Lovegrove) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Mrs Watson; Mary Morstan) Historical Figures: (Emperor Meiji; Sidney Paget; John Henry Middleton) Other Characters: Sensei Iwasaki; Fumitaka Harada; (Bracewell; Thurlby) Unnamed Characters: Saul Kerrison; (Museum Curators; Museum Guards) Date: July, 1896 / 1888 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Harada's Residence, just off Park Lane; Victoria and Albert Museum Story: Holmes tells Watson of a case from 1888, in which Harada, the Japanese envoy to London, after the Emperor's netsuke collection is stolen from the Victoria and Albert Museum, and replaced with fakes.
"The Adventure of the Marchindale Stiletto" (2017) Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part VII: Eliminate the Impossible 1880-1891 (David Marcum); The Manifestations of Sherlock Holmes (James Lovegrove) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Watson's Brother) Other Characters: Sir Albert Marchindale; Nicholas Marchindale; Edward Marchindale; Mrs Fredericks; Lady Constance Marchindale; (Archambault Mar èche-en-Dalle; Philippe Marèche-en-Dalle; Agnes) Unnamed Characters: Manservant; (Messenger; Marchindale Servants; Doctor; West Indies Plantations Manager) Date: September, 1883 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Sussex; Hailsham Station; Abbots Grange Story: Holmes reads in the Times of the disappearance of the Marchindale Stiletto, playfully thrown into a pond, by Nicholas, youngest son of Sir Albert Marchindale, from which it has been unable to be retrieved. Since the loss of the knife, a series of misfortunes has befallen the family, seemingly linked to its legendary curse, including the death of all the fish in the pond.
	"The Adventure of the Third Cab" (2022) Included in: A Detective's Life: Sherlock Holmes (Martin Rosenstock) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Watson; (Lord Cantlemere) Other Characters: Daisy; Alice Ellison; (Helena Risbridger; Jasper Risbridger) Unnamed Characters: Eastbourne Flower Seller; Cabmen Date: September 1908 Locations: Watson's Home; Sussex; Eastbourne; Holmes's Farm; Farthingham Story: Watson receives a letter from Holmes inviting him to Sussex but with a stringent list of odd requirements he must fulfill.When he finally arrives at Holmes farm, Holmes reveals that he is investigating a case involving Jasper Risbridger, the husband of Lord Cantlemere's niece, who has been making regular weekend trips to Eastbourne, apparently to pain the local scenery.
"A Bauble in Scandinavia" (2016) Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part V: Christmas Adventures (David Marcum); The Manifestations of Sherlock Holmes (James Lovegrove) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mary Morstan; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes; Wiggins; Colonel Hayter; (Professor Moriarty; James Ryder; Athelney Jones; John Clay; Duncan Ross; Mr Melas; Sophy Kratides) Unnamed Characters: Diogenes Club Members; Westminster Abbey Congregants Date: 24th - 25th December, 1890 Locations: Watson's Paddington Practice; 221B, Baker Street; Scotland Yard; Pall Mall; Diogenes Club; Westminster Abbey Story: After an argument with Holmes on Christmas Eve, Watson is sent back to Baker Street by Mary on Christmas Day. Finding Holmes absent, he sets about tracking him down, with only a burnt scrap of paper in the grate and a mention of a Scandinavian client as clues.
	The Christmas Demon (2019) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Mary Morstan; (Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; Tobias Gregson; Athelney Jones; Watson's Brother; Watson's Father) Historical Figures: Wold Newton Meteorite; (Edward Topham) Other Characters: Barney O'Brien / Seamus Flynn; Eve Allerthorpe; Winslow; Thaddeus Allerthorpe; Shadrach Allerthorpe; Jennings; Erasmus "Raz" Allerthorpe; Olivia Allerthorpe; Kitty Danningbury Boyd; Fitzhugh Danningbury Boyd; Robert Trebend; Margery Trebend; Becky Goforth; Great-Aunt Maud; Cousin Theobald; Timothy; Stanley Dobbs; Neville Dawson; Nigel Dawson; Dr Greaves; (Clarice; Mr Burgh; Mr Harmondswyke; Baroness Willoughby-Cavendish; Perdita Allerthorpe; Alpheus Allerthorpe; Lady Jocasta Keele; Sir Cyril Keele; Conte di Ruspoli; Bishop of Chichester; Roland Allerthorpe; Sir Mansfield Allerthorpe; Tobias Allerthorpe; Thomas Trebend; Lapham) Unnamed Character: Shoppers; Shop Clerk; Lestrade's Constables; Coffee Shop Patrons; Manservant; Kitchen Maids; Ostler; Allerthorpe Guests; Dog-cart Driver; Sheep & Shearer Innkeeper; Innkeeper's Wife; Carpenters Arms Patrons; Yardley Pedestrians; Mary's Uncle & Aunt; Mary's Cousins; (Jewellery Floor Manager; Fellscar Keep Servants; Yardley Cross Children; Eve's Primrose Hill Friends; Butcher's Apprentice; Gardener; Footmen; Stonemason; Tobias's Wife; Tobias's Son; Mrs Hudson's Sister; York Widow) Date: December 19th, 1890 - January, 1891 Locations: Oxford Street; Burgh & Harmondswyke Department Store; Soho; Coffee House; 221B, Baker Street; A Train; Yorkshire; Fellscar Keep; Bridlington Station; Yardley Cross; Sheep and Shearer Inn; The Carpenters Arms; Watson's House Story: After apprehending a felonious department store Father Christmas, Holmes and Watson are approached by Eve Allerthorpe, who tells them of the presence of a ghost at her family home in Yorkshire, and of the Christmas demon, Black Thurrick. She fears that she will be declared mad before she comes into an inheritance on her 21st birthday on Christmas Eve, and thus lose her claim. Holmes and Watson travel to the Allerthorpes' castle in Yorkshire, to investigate the apearance of bundles of birch twigs - a supposed sign of the presence of the Black Thurrick. After the arrival of the family's Christmas guests, a murder occurs, and Holmes's research reveals a family connection to the Wold Newton meteorite.
The Devil's Dust (2018) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Baker Street Irregulars; Wiggins; (Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes; Watson's Brother) Fictional Characters: Allan Quatermain; Umslopogaas; Zikali; (Lady Luna Holmes Ragnall; Lord Ragnall; Sir Henry Curtis; Stella Quatermain; Harry Quatermain; Faku; Dingaan; Nada; Captain John Good; Ayesha; Hans) Historical Figures: (Vernet; Cetawayo; Dick Turpin) Other Characters: Farley Danvers; Ada Biddulph; Albie; Luther; Ned Maynard; Mr Starkey; Daniel Greensmith / Black Jack Corcoran; Jem; Charlie; Sebastian Fanthorpe; Samuel Fanthorpe; Stanley Fanthorpe; Tucker; Marius van Hoek; (Inigo Niemand / Bradford Wade; George Biddulph; Utphal; Ellerthwate; Becky; Phantom Phillips; Silas Fanthorpe; Raider Tom Chalmers) Unnamed Characters: Notting Hill Constable; Lamplighter; Times Staff; Journalists; Fleet Street Landlord; Cabmen; Eastenders; Alley Man; Third Tough; Hive Residents; Starkey's Men; Fanthorpe's Clerk; Nannies; Young Boy; Boy's Mother; Courting Couple; Bathing Men; Kensington Park Folk; Kensington Policemen; Angler; (Police Officers; Biddulph's Doctor; Ada's Neighbours; Holmes's Parents; Wipe-hauler; Shoreditch Girl; Luther's Mother; Harry's Bearers; Hottentot Cattle Herder; Silasville Doctor; Van Hoek's Men; Freighter Crewmen; Freighter Captain; Train Passengers; Baronet; Diamond Miners; Glazier; Mail Coach Driver; Mail Coach Guard; Post Office Men; Woodsman) Date: Autumn, 1884 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Notting Hill; Ada's House; Baker Street; Marylebone; Regent's Park; Thayer Street Telegraph Office; Printing House Square; Times Offices; Fleet Street Public House; East End; Aldgate Pump; Shoreditch; The Hive; Starkey's Warehouse; Victoria Park; Africa; Natal; The Drakensberg Foothills; Silasville; Silasville Hospital; Southampton; Yorkshire; Quatermain's Home; Mayfair; Fanthorpe Overseas Ventures Offices; Hyde Park; The Serpentine; Kensington Gardens; Park Lane; Hackney Marshes; Epping Forest; Loughton Camp Story: After turning down a client whom he deduces to be an insurance swindler, he is asked by Mrs Hudson to help her friend Ada Biddulph, who is suspected of poisoning her lodger, Mr Niemand. A search of Niemand's room uncovers an African totem and a note scrawled by the man as he was dying. Quatermain warns Holmes off the case, but Holmes ventures into the East End underworld in disguise, in search of a missing journalist. While Quatermain lies wounded, Umslopogaas tells Holmes and Watson of the death of Harry Quatermain, which leads Holmes to make connections to a diamond mine in the Natal. 221B suffers beastly invasions. Quatermain tells Holmes and Watson about Niemand's fear of the Devil's Dust, and together they face wolves and an unexpected adversary in Epping Forest.
	"The Fallen Financier" (2013) Included in: Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (George Mann); The Manifestations of Sherlock Holmes (James Lovegrove) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson Historical Figures: (H. Greenhough Smith) Other Characters: Thisbe Markinswell; Cicero the Labrador; Jenny Volteface; Jack / Jacob Markinswell Unnamed Characters: Young Couple; Elderly Gentleman; Well-to-do Family; Bathers; Nanny; Country Squire; Conjuror; Spirit Medium; Singers; Dog Trainer; Stagehand; (Young Lady; Farmer; Hikers) Date: After Holmes's Retirement Locations: Eastbourne; The Promenade; Beachy Head; The Meads; Markinswell's House; Seaside Road, Hippodrome Theatre Story: While strolling along the prom at Eastbourne, Holmes and Watson are approached by Thisbe Markinswell, whose London financier husband Jacob, a successful financier, has gone missing. He is believed to have killed himself, after acting erratically for several weeks, but she believes he is still alive. They visit Beachy Head, where Markinswell was last seen, and meet a dog walker who witnessed his disappearance. After searching Markinswell's home, they visit the theatre and pay a backstage visit to the quick-change artist Jenny Volteface.
Gods of War (2014) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Holmes's Sussex Housekeeper (Hettie Tuppen); (Mary Morstan; Second Mrs Watson; Mycroft Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; Wiggins; Baker Street Irregulars; Colonel Moran; Watson's Housemaid (Jemima)) Fictional Characters: (C. Auguste Dupin; Sir Nigel Loring) Folkloric Characters: (Horus; Thor; Ares; Huitzilopochtli; Kali) Historical Figures: (Duchess of Devonshire; Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man; Duke of Devonshire; Sidney Paget; Aleister Crowley; Prince Serge Vincent de Bolotoff) Other Characters: Llewellyn; Gervaise Barraclough; Hubert Searle; Giganta; Reptilio the Human Cobra / Caleb Smith; Mr McMahon; Patrick Mallinson; Tom Enwright; Davey; Constable Pumphrey; Constable Ayers; Inspector George Tasker; Craig Mallinson; Elizabeth Vandenbergh; Jenks; Sir Josiah Partlin-Gray; Albert Tuppen; Angel the Dog; Victor Anstruther; Lord Eustace Harington; (Jeremy Tremlett; Mrs Searle; McMahon; Jenny Fitch; Clive Mallinson; Jocelyn Mallinson; Roderick Tripp; Inga Partlin-Gray; Billy Tuppen; Charlie Nine-Fingers; Mr Daykin; Fanny; Fowlkes; Dr Wilcox; Harold Anstruther) Unnamed Characters: Terminus Road Crowds; Circus Ragamuffin; Circus Audience; Strongman; Clown; Tattooed Man; Bearded Woman; Rhinoceros Man; Roustabouts; Circus Orchestra; Tiger Inn Patrons; Milkman; Dead Body; Winnick Fisher Folk; Police Constables; Eastbourne Promenaders; Swimmers; Morris Oxford Owner; Fire Onlookers; Firemen; Lamplighters; Tramp; Cab Driver; Mallinson's Servants; (Barraclough's Messenger; Tremlett's Landlady; Tremlett's Acquaintances; Searle's Twin Daughters; Watson's Stillborn Child; Blacksmith; Blacksmith's Father; Kidnapped Baby; Kidnapper; Baby's Parents; Mallinson's Servants; Mallinson's Butler; Tea-Planter's Wife; Nawab's Son; Tea-Planter; Coroner; Ayub Khan's Man; Sikh; Tiger Inn Barmaid; Butcher; Butcher's Errand Boy; Drunk Sailor; Counting House Landlord; Builder from the Midlands; Builder's Assistant; Colonial and Overseas Club Lobby Clerk; Watson's Next-Door-Neighbour; Harington's Father; Brooklands Pilots) Date: 1923 / Late September, 1913 Locations: Sussex; Eastbourne Station; Terminus Road; Barraclough's Jewellers; Gilbert's Recreation Ground; McMahon's Freak Show Tent; East Dean; The Tiger Inn; Holmes's Cottage; Village Green; Birling Gap; Little Chelsea; Tripp's Costumiers; Eastbourne Police Station; Meads Road; Forest; Settleholm Manor; The Promenade; Shop; Eastbourne Pier; Tearoom; Duke's Drive; Grand Parade; Lower Parade; Willingdon Road; Cuckmere River; The Seven Sisters; London, Pall Mall; Colonial and Overseas Club; British Library; Surrey; Brooklands Aerodrome; The Long Man of Wilmington Story: Watson arrives in Eastbourne only to be immediately dragged by Holmes to Barraclough's jewellers, where a thousand pounds worth of jewellery has been stolen. The case takes them on a visit to the circus freak show. The following day, the body of Patrick Mallinson, son of a local big-wig aviator, is found on the beach at Beachy Head. They visit Elizabeth Vandenbergh, who has recently broken up with Patrick Mallinson, and she tells them of strange hieroglyphic markings she had seen on his body. Holmes leads a night-time foray to examine Mallinson's father's biplane. Watson is attacked on Eastbourne Pier, and is left to investigate alone when Homes goes undercover. The death seems to be the latest in a series linked to astronomical events and an Egyptian cult. Holmes has a flying lesson, and after a siege at his cottage, he and Watson find themselves reluctant participants in a ritual on the Long Man of Wilmington.
	"The Innocent Icarus" (2014) Included in: Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets (David Thomas Moore); The Manifestations of Sherlock Holmes (James Lovegrove) Story Type: Fantasy Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Basker Street Irregulars; Wiggins; (Mycroft Holmes) Other Characters: Lady Arabella Lanchester; Charlie Gartside; Algernon Roxton; (Sir Hugh Lanchester; Amos Pilkington; Earl of Bracewell; Albert Filey; Cecil Filey) Unnamed Characters: Baker Street Vendors; Rickshaw Strongmen; Mercuries; Lanchester's Butler; Mercury Messenger; ( Lady Arabella's Maid; Lanchester's Mercury; Richmond Constables; Loom Operators; Lady Arabella's Chelsea Friends; Actress; Hercules Stagehand; Crown Court Jury; Coroner; Filey's Political Opponent; Bracewell's Club Fellows) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Richmond Hill; Lanchester's Mansion; Bethnal Green; The Mason's Rest; Shadwell; Roxton's Workshop Story: Holmes, one of the few "Standard" people remaining in a world where everyone has special powers, is called on by Lady Arabella Lanchester, whose industralist husband has died in a fall from a balcony, which she believes was murder. She suspects Pilkington, whom her husband had fired from the board of his cotton mill company, or Gartside, an "Icarus" steeplejack, who had been fired for carelessness. Lady Arabella, who is an "Olfactory", noticed a curious odour at the scene of her husband's death. Holmes sees this as the latest in a series of similarly patterned deaths.
The Labyrinth of Death (2017) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Billy; John Hector McFarlane; (Mary Morstan; Inspector Lestrade; Anstruther; Jackson; Hound of the Baskervilles; Violet Smith; Abernetty Family; Don Juan Murillo; Ex-President Murillo; Wiggins; John Clay; Paddington Guard; Percy Phelps; Wilson, the Notorious Canary Trainer; Colonel Hayter) Historical Figures: (Achille Rivarde; Queen Victoria; Sidney Paget; Raffaele Fiorini; George Newnes; Emmeline Pankhurst) Other Characters: Sir Osbert Woolfson; Isidore Dupree; Humbert Dupree; Bess Dupree; Mr Scadden; Sergeant-Major Malachi Hart; Sir Philip Buchanan; Dr Archibald Pentecost; Hannah Woolfson / Shirley Holbrook; Mr Quigg; Ada Wyngarde; Edwin Fairbrother; Polly Speedwell; Mr Labropoulos; Cedric Strickland; William Dorr-Temperley; Philomena Caversham; (Professor Malcolm Quantock; Margaret Woolfson; Winifred Forshaw; Sophia Jane Tompkins; Mrs Dupree; Mrs Scadden; Henry Tompkins; Esmerelda Tompkins; Gilbert Fanthorpe Carswell; Mr Speedwell; Jerome Simms; Dennis Kinsella; Tobias Nithercott) Unnamed Characters: Woolfson's Butler; Cook; Housemaid; Coachman; Dupree's Children; Dupree's Servants; Governess; Dog-Cart Driver; Fatted Calf Customers; Charfrome Hoplites; Elysians; Baker Street Neighbour; Holmes's Clients; Train Guard; Dorchester Carpenter; (Oculist; Scullery Maid; Scotland Yard Officers; Hannah's Employers; Margaret's Doctor; Watson's Patient; Charfrome Labourers; Sepoy; Dorchester Police; Gypsies; Artist; Abernetty's Maid; Netherlander Sailors; Lestrade's Constables; Edwin's Parents; Nithercott's Neighbours; Laurel-eating Family; Cook; Argentine Cattle Rancher; Rancher's Daughter; Hannah's Nurse) Date: Summer, 1895 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Mayfair; Woolfson's House; Dorset; Poole; Apsley Grange; Branksome Chine; Waterton Parva; The Fatted Calf; Charfrome Old Place; Dorchester; Waterton Magna; Dorchester Hospital Story: Holmes is hired by High Court Judge Sir Osbert Woolfson to search for his missing daughter, Hannah. Deducing that she has gone in search of a missing schoolfriend, Holmes and Watson travel to Dorset, where they encounter Sir Philip Buchanan, leader of a sect, founded on Ancient Greek culture, known as the Elysians. With an accomplice inside the Elysians, they continue investigating the sect, but when Watson returns alone to Dorset, he is taken prisoner, and he and Holmes are forced to face the dangers of a modern Labyrinth.
	"The Noble Burglar" (2014) Included in: Further Associates of Sherlock Holmes (George Mann); The Manifestations of Sherlock Holmes (James Lovegrove) Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Toby Canonical Characters: Toby; Old Sherman; Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade; (Mrs Watson) Other Characters: The Honourable Jeremy Farnaby-Coutt; Bill Jervis; (Viscount Harrington; Sir Reginald Theakswood; Lady Angela Theakswood) Unnamed Characters: Farnaby-Coutt's Manservant; Lestrade's Constables; (Police; Farnaby-Coutt's Friends) Locations: Lambeth; 3, Pinchin Lane; Park Street; Sumner Street; Tabard Street; Stamford Street; Waterloo Station; Kensington; Westminster Bridge; Victoria Embankment; Albert Bridge; Upper Thames Street; Southwark Bridge Road; Chelsea; Farnaby-Coutt's House; Southwark Bridge Story: Toby joins Holmes and Watson on their mission to apprehend the womanising aristocratic burglar, Jeremy Farnaby-Coutt. Farnaby-Coutt has been shot, during a burglary by Sir Reginald Theakswood, but when the police arrest him, he shows no sign of wounds.
"Pure Swank" (2016) Included in: Associates of Sherlock Holmes (George Mann); The Manifestations of Sherlock Holmes (James Lovegrove) Story Type: Canonical Re-visioning Canonical Characters: (Clarence) Barker; Dr Ray Ernest; Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector MacKinnon; Josiah Amberley; (Baker Street Irregulars; Wiggins; Professor Moriarty; Ronald Adair; Colonel Moran; Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; Mrs Amberley; Lady Eva Blackwell; Charles Augustus Milverton) Unnamed Characters: Ernest's Housekeeper; Ernest's Receptionist; Constables; (Master Mason; Sign-writer; Draper; Police Contacts) Date: (Jan, 1926 [When Barker writes down his account of the case]) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; West End Pub; Ernest's House; Lewisham; The Haven Story: Barker tells of his progress from Baker Street Irregular to consulting detective, and Holmes's rejection of a suggested partnership. He meets fellow Freemason Dr Ray Ernest prior to "The Retired Colourman", and a night's drinking leads directly to the events of that story, which play out in ways that Holmes was not aware of.
	Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons (2020) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Barrymore; Mrs Barrymore; Sir Henry Baskerville; Dr Mortimer; Mr Frankland; Laura Lyons; Jack Stapleton; Beryl Stapleton; Colonel James Moriarty; Stationmaster Moriarty; (Mary Morstan; Hound of the Baskervilles; Sir Charles Baskerville; Selden; Dr Verner; Hugo Baskerville; Cartwright; Inspector Lestrade; Rodger Baskerville; Anthony; Perkins; Watson's Bullpup; Mrs Hudson; Mortimer's Spaniel (Asclepius); Professor Moriarty; Lyons; Mr Sherman) Other Characters: Corporal Benjamin Grier; Mr Wonnacott; Harry Baskerville; Jethro Satterley; Loach; Damerell; Juan; Gilberto Suarez; Ramón Pérez; (Lady Audrey Lidstone Baskerville; High-Backed Wolf; The Lidstones; Duc d'Alençon; Ethel Satterley; Lord Torkington; Chalfont, Pettit & Quirke; Captain McCandless; Garcia) Unnamed Characters: Lucy's Owner; Hyde Park Crowd; Bartonhighstock Station Booking Clerk; Bartonhighstock Inn Landlord; Dog-cart Driver; Farmers; Crofter; Turk's Head Patrons; Farrier; Coombe Tracey Shopkeepers; Butcher; Laura's Landlady; Café Patrons; Grimpen Mire Labourers; Mortimer's Lad; Wagonette Driver; lodging House Tenant; Watson's Locum; Coombe Tracey Messenger; Dock Crowds; Stevedores; Portsmouth Customs Clerk; Aegean Passengers; Steward; Northern Industrialist; Italian Aristocrat; Coffee Magnate; Magnates Wife & Son; First Mate; Waiters; Puerto Limón Station Officials; Costa Ricans; Indios; Mestizo Children; Village Headman; (Baskerville Scullery Maid; Postmaster's Son; Gardener; Stockbroker; Police Officers; Mrs Hudson's Sister; Merripit House Owner; Mortimer's Patients; Vicar of Thorsley; Exeter Police Inspector; Search Parties; North Lancashires Lieutenant; Netley Patient; Portsmouth Customs Officer; Watson's Patients; Aegean Chef; Stapleton's Child; Beryl's Parents; Midwife; Moriarty's Parents; Stephen Mortimer) Date: Early Autumn, 1894 Locations: Hyde Park; 221B, Baker Street; Devonshire; Bartonhighstock; Baskerville Hall; Wonnacott's Farm; Village Inn; Dartmoor; Crookback Samuel; Clyst St Margaret; The Turk's Head; Grimpen Mire; Lafter Hall; Coombe Tracey; Laura's Lodgings; Café; Portsmouth Docks; Customs House; Aboard RMS Aegean; Costa Rica; Puerto Limón; Rio Banano; Garcia Mansion Story: After an encounter with a dog in Hyde Park, Watson calls on Holmes, who has a client, the American soldier Benjamin Grier, with him. Grier has been visiting Baskerville Hall, where Sir Henry's wife, Lady Audrey, has been found, killed, as if by a monster. Sir Henry appears to have gone mad, firing at Grier on his arrival, and causing the Barrymores to leave The Hall. At the village inn Grier is told about livestock drained of blood and a giant moth that his been seen flying across the face of the moon. Holmes travels to Devon with Grier, but Watson opts to stay in London. Holmes's investigations open the possibility that Stapleton survived Grimpen Mire and has returned for revenge. Sir Henry arranges for Grimpen Mire to be drained to confirm whether Stapleton's remains lie at the bottom. When the case seems solved Holmes returns to London, but leaves Grier to continue his watch over the Baskervilles. A few days later Holmes returns to Dartmoor with Watson, when Mrs Barrymore is attacked by a venomous creature, and Baskerville's son Harry abducted. A trans-Atlantic chase to Costa Rica ensues.
Sherlock Holmes and the Highgate Horrors (2023) Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche / Canonical Re-visioning Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson / Dr Hill Barton; Athelney Jones / Peter Jones; Mrs Hudson; Irene Adler; Slim Youth in an Ulster; Mycroft Holmes; Mary Morstan; Watson's Maid; Lord Cantlemere; Patrick Cairns; Stanley Hopkins; Carey's Wife; Carey's Daughter; Black Peter Carey; The Sea Unicorn; Inspector MacKinnon; Josiah Amberley; Mrs Amberley; Ray Ernest; Barker; Billy [Wilhelmina Taylor] / Violet de Merville; Baron Adelbert Gruner; Gruner's Butler; Gruner's Footman; Kitty Winter; Shinwell Johnson; Mary Maberley; Douglas Maberley; Isadora Klein [Isadora Maria Pereira Dos Santos]; Langdale Pike; Steve Dixie; Susan Stockdale; Mrs Watson; Count Negretto Sylvius; Sam Merton; Martha; (Tobias Gregson; Godfrey Norton; King of Bohemia; Vicar of Little Purlington; Mr Sherman; Baker Street Maid; [Manfred] Klein; Mortimer Maberley; Perkins) Fictional Characters: Night-gaunt; Formless Spawn; Mi-Go; Necronomicon; (Nyarlathotep; Great Old Ones; Outer Gods; Cthulhu; Azathoth; Byakhee; Ghast; Shoggoth; Shub-Niggurath; Von Junzt; Yog-Sothoth; Nug; Yeb; Deep Ones) Historical Figures: James Lovegrove; Hugh Enes Blackmore; H.P. Lovecraft; (Arthur Conan Doyle; H. Greenhough Smith; William L. Chenery; Queen Victoria; Vernet; Sir Arthur Newsholme) Other Characters: Constable Gorham; Jem Roker; Thisbe Pickering; Dr Ulrich Felder; Everard Pickering; Marcus Knightley; Amelia Throckmorton; Milton Goldsworthy; Sir Alexander Chalfont-Banks; Sir Martin Tideswell; Sir Stockton Spaulding; Professor Avery Mellingford; Georges; Molly Upshaw; Trenton Opera Company; Betsy; Hank; Natty; Zeke; Glaw Za-Jooll; Clovis; Sea Unicorn Crew; First Mate Crabtree; Bosun Gillen; Sanchez; Able Seaman Jones; Able Seaman Hamish McGovern; Engineer Moorhouse; Lusk; Able Seaman Tomelty; Midshipman O'Neal; Draycott; Yardley; Ingles; Boothe; Coleby; Captain Enoch Thorne; Richard Brayn; Ellis; Arthur Vance; Dora Vance; Sir Hartley Winter; Morley Babington; Octavius Dysart; Ranax Za-Ko; Ezra Woolfson; Lionel Axton, KC; Mrs Axton; Duchess of Lomond; Frederick; (Mr Dole; Constable Block; Dr Ross Moore-Moffatt; Marquess of Beecherston; Dr Nicolson; Parrish; John Smith; Mr Harper; Mr Whitman; Cornelia Waunchope; Abigail Roxbury-Trent; 'Gypsy' Jim Acosta; Xanthe Dudderige, Marchioness of Kilminster) Unnamed Characters: Providence House Staff; Providence House Inmates; Archivist; Nurse; Felder's Secretary; Spaulding's Valet; Farmer; Mellingford's Cook; Fontaine's Waiter; Fontaine's Diners; Waiting Staff; Vermont Inn Patrons; Backwoodsmen; Tenor; Duke; Duke's Secretary; Victoriahavn Dockhand; Broadmoor Orderly; Cultists; Police Officers; Gruner's Maid; Cabmen; Gruner's Servants; Gruner's Neighbours; Freemason; Klein's Guests; Juggler; Members of The Cultured; Charitable Matron; Wayward Noble; Academics; Philosopher; Playwright; Pamphleteer; Babington's Manservant; Axton's Valet; St Thomas's Doctor; Royal Free Hospital Senior Consultant; (Groombridge Owners; Police Constables; Secretary's Parents; Mary's Friend; Press Baron; Chicago Union Boss; Innsmouth Audience; Victoria & Albert Museum Guards; Museum Curators; London News Reporter; Elderly lady; Ticket Inspector; Carriage Driver; Gruner's Valet; Psychic Mediums; Watson's Receptionist; Klein's Housemaid; Hotel Chambermaid; Mrs Hudson's Sister; Mrs Hudson's Nieces) Date: 2022 / May, 1929 / Autumn, 1888 - November, 1918 Locations: Sussex; Providence House; Groombridge Place; 221B, Baker Street; Highgate Cemetery; Swain's Lane; Pub; Lanningbourne Common; Camden; Felder's Surgery Off Harley Street; Muswell Hill; Watson's Paddington Practice; Pall Mall; Diogenes Club; Dagon Club; Sussex; Rye; Romney Marsh; Mellingford's House; The Strand; Fontaine's; USA; Vermont; Windham County; Inn; Round Hill; Yuggoth; New Hampshire; Portsmouth; New Jersey; Trenton; Woodman's Lee; Aboard the Sea Unicorn; Norway; Victoriahavn; Barents Sea; Greenland Sea; Greenland; Norwegian Sea; Aboard the Francis Dudley; Sussex; Ashdown Forest; The Feystone; Aboard a Train; Broadmoor Asylum; Crowthorne; Hammersmith; Victoria & Albert Museum; Pinchin Lane; Deptford; Peckham; Plum Lane; Shrewsbury House; Shooter's Hill; Kingston; Gruner's Mansion; Mayfair; Harlesden; Harrow Road; Watson's Queen Anne Street Practice; France; Deauville; Harrow Weald; The Three Gables; Hammersmith; Axton House; St Thomas's Hospital; Holmes's Sussex Villa; Hampstead Story: Sequestered in Providence House, recovering from the stresses of editing the Cthulhu Casebooks. On a trip to Groombridge Place he is shown another Watsonian manuscript. Athelney Jones brings Holmes a case concerning grave robberies in Highgate Cemetery. Jones's investigations have revealed that the wife of one of the victims has seen her husband outside their home on the previous evening. Holmes's examination of the graves suggests that the corpses dug themselves out. The following day, a gravedigger is found dead of a rapidly-growing throat cancer, the cells of which are intermingled with some kind of fungus. The following winter, Mycroft summons Holmes and Watson to a meeting of the Dagon Club. He outlines the details of several prominent figures in power who have undergone radical shifts in their attitudes to British governmental policies, and asks Holmes to find out what has terrified them into taking these new stances. He learns that all the men have encountered monsters and thereafter threatened by a mysterious woman resembling one of their loved ones. His investigations lead to dinner with Irene Adler, where she tells him of the incident in Vermont that led to her current condition. In 1895, after solving the case of Black Peter, Holmes returns to Woodman's Lee and recovers Peter Carey's logbook of his last voyage aboard the Sea Unicorn voyage in 1883. The Sea Unicorn sails north out of Dundee, but its crew are frustrated by the absence of whales, and the misfortunes suffered on the rare instances they do sight them. Carey sees a strange creature descending from the sky and sets out to capture it. Sailing home from their mission, sickness starts to spread through the crew, followed by madness. Carey and Cairns escape with a tin box filled with some of the relics they have recovered. In 1898, Holmes receives word from Inspector MacKinnon that Josiah Amberley has escaped from Broadmoor. Holmes believes that his case provided evidence of the direct involvement of the Mi-Go in human affairs. At Broadmoor, they learn that prior to his escape, Amberley had been visited by Barker, who in the intervening week has been following a series of anonymous notes asking him to investigate acts of vandalism. Holmes and Watson are captured by a cult. in 1902 Watson takes up with a new lady-friend, after saving her from being run down by a pantechnicon. Holmes is consulted by Sir Hartley Winter, who is concerned about his daughter Kitty's relationship with Baron Gruner. Holmes discovers that Gruner is now the owner of Black Peter's Mi-Go relics. When Kitty is abducted by Shinwell Johnson, Holmes recruits Billy into the case. After learning of the death of Douglas Maberley, Holmes offers his services to his mother, Mary Maberley. Mrs Maberley tells him of her sons relationship with Isadora Klein and the gatherings she runs, of a group known as "The Cultured". Holmes goes undercover as Langdale Pike to learn more about them, and sends Watson on a break-in mission at the Three Gables. He and Holmes meet up again with Irene Adler, and work together to prevent an alien conquest. The following summer, Count Negretto Sylvius and Sam Merton call at 221B to recover a missing brain. Holmes discovers a spy and decides to retire. During the flu pandemic after the Great War, Watson becomes aware of a series of deaths, seemingly from a bloodier, third wave of the flu. He informs Holmes, who summons him to his villa in Sussex. He believes the outbreak may be connected to the Duchess of Lomond. NOTE: The oncologist Dr Ross Moore-Moffatt appeares to be named after the actors Moore Marrott and Graham Moffatt.
	Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities (2017) Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche / Canonical Re-visioning Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Tobias Gregson; Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; Mary Morstan; Rajah; Achmet; Dost Akbar; Abdullah Khan; Jonathan Small; Mahomet Singh; Major Sholto; Captain Arthur Morstan; Red Leech; Professor Moriarty; Hound of the Baskervilles; (Don Juan Murillo; Valentine Walter; Carruthers; Violet Smith; Tonga; Susan Cushing; Grant Munro; Effie Munro; Lucy Hebron; Carlo; Alice Rucastle; Cadogan West; Violet Westbury; Sir James Walter; Inspector Lestrade; Charles Augustus Milverton; Henry Baker; Bartholomew Sholto; Baker Street Irregulars; Countess of Morcar; Silver Blaze; Victor Hatherley) Characters Based on Canonical Characters: Snake Men = Baker Street Iregulars; W'gnns = Wiggins Fictional Characters: Ghasts; Byakhee; The Necronomicon; Nightgaunt; Nasht; Kaman-Thah; Zoogs; Outer Gods; Azathoth; Tulzscha; Yog-Sothoth; Shub-Niggurath; Shoggoth; (Elder Gods; Great old Ones; Azathoth; Yig; Cthulhu; Nyarlathotep; Cats of Ulthar; Bokrug; The Thuum'ha; Taran-Ish; Abdul Alhazred; Ludwig Prinn; Friedrich Wilhelm von Junzt; Mi-Go) Folkloric Characters: Ghoul Historical Figures: (William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin) Other Characters: McBride; Kitty; Mrs Owen; Zachariah Conroy; Burrell; Dr Simon Joshi; Nathaniel Whateley; Professor Cyrus Nordstrom; Hieronymus Lake; Abner Brenneman; Junior Brenneman; Charley; Amos Russell / Swift Brown Bear; Dr Champlain; R'luhlloig; (Mrs Gregson; Gong-Fen Shou; The Atwells; Chastity Tasker; Absalom Conroy; Derwent Baslow; Jack Baslow; Noah Whateley; Oliver Whateley; Harriet; Susannah) Unnamed Characters: Gregson's Constables; Bethlem Inmates; Turkish Bath Clients; Pimlico Children; Pimlico Householders; Street Urchins; Andaman Witch Doctor; Hansom Drivers; Bethlem Attendants; Snake Men; Dog-cart Driver; Marsh Smallholder; Cathurians; Conroy's Parents; Miskatonic Students; Miskatonic Professors; Miskatonic Dean; Red Indians; Fort Fredericks Residents; Old Woman; Pocassets; Fur Trapper; Arkham Police Detective; (Metropolitan Railway Employees; Purfleet Farmhand; McBride's Father; Watson's Patients; Westminster Grandees; Dagon Club; Mycroft's Miskatonic Contact; Rajah; Soldiers; Lizard Men; Lively Lady Crew; Arkham Gazette Reporter; Innsmouth Boatman) Date: Spring, 1895 / 1893 / 1900 Locations: Underground Tunnel; Aldgate Station; 221B, Baker Street; Southwark; St George's Fields; Bethlem Royal Hospital; Waterloo Road Turkish Bath; Pimlico; Mrs Owen's House; Diogenes Club; Watson's House; India; Agra Fort; Thames Foreshore; Isle of Dogs; Purfleet Station; Rainham Marshes; Farmhouse; Cavern of Flame; Dreamlands; Enchanted Wood; Cathuria; USA; Massachusetts; Arkham; Miskatonic University; Lich Street; Miskatonic River; Lake Makadewa; Fort Fredericks; Lost Town; Arkham Hospital; Boston; Dartmoor; Grimpen Mire Story: After defeating a trio of ghasts in the Underground system, Gregson tells Holmes and Watson of a new inmate of Bethlem Royal Hospital who was found wandering, scratched and naked, near Purfleet. They arrive at the asylum to find that the man is scrawling messages in R'lyehian on his cell walls. A message from Lord Kelvin suggests they contact Nathaniel Whateley, a naturalist from Miskatonic University, currently living in Pimlico, but they arrive at his lodgings only to learn that he has disappeared, although they find a menagerie of preserved monstrosities and a letter from Mycroft in the attic. Watson recalls the death of Mary Morstan. They return to Bedlam to find that the mystery man, whom they believe to be Zachariah Conroy, another Miskatonic University scientist, has been abducted by a nightgaunt. Holmes sets W'gnns and his Snake Men Irregulars on its trail, eventually locating it in Rainham Marshes, with the aid of the Necronomicon. There, they are sent on a trip to the Dreamlands, and locked in a barn with a ghoul. They read Conroy's journal of his voyage up the Miskatonic River, aboard the Innsmouth Belle, with Whateley, in search of non-Linaean species; andcome face to face with an Outer God.
Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (2016) Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche / Canonical Re-visioning Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Young (Valentine) Stamford; Mrs Hudson; Tobias Gregson; Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers; Professor Moriarty; Inspector (Gabriel) Lestrade; (Athelney Jones; Victor Trevor; Mycroft Holmes; Mrs Farintosh; Ronald Adair; Colonel Moran) Fictional Characters: Great Old Ones; Cthulhu; Elder Gods; Outer Gods; The Necronomicon; Nyarlathotep; (Lobon; Ludwig Prinn; Hastur the Unspeakable; Friedrich Wilhelm von Junzt; Abdul Alhazred) Historical Figures: James Lovegrove; (H.P. Lovecraft; Helena Blavatsky) Other Characters: Mason K. Jacobs III; Li Guiying; Zhang; Gong-Fen Shou; Captain Roderick Harrowby; Private Edginton; Lockwood; Private Smythe; Private O'Connor; Lance Corporal Fielding; Chastity Tasker; Whitworth; (Henry Prothero Lovecraft; Rhonda Lachaise; Simple Simeon; Mr Farintosh) Unnamed Characters: Nap Players; Lascars; Prostitute; Pub Patrons; Publican; Old Yorkshireman; Scotland Yard Prisoners; Scotland Yard Officer; Oxford Street Crowds; Brass Band; Liberal Peer; Old Chinese Woman; Opium Smokers; Golden Lotus Staff; Thacker; Surrey Shepherd; Celtic Chieftain; Surrey Cottager; Cottager's Wife; Train Passengers; Afghanistan Relief Force; Harrowby's Men; Goatherd; Lizard Men; Afghan Villagers; Morgue Attendants; Bishopsgate Onlookers; Bishopsgate Police Officers; Mrs Hudson's Friends; Tobacconist's Delivery Boy; Telegram Messenger; Diogenes Club Footman; Pall Mall Page; New Year's Revellers; Sailor Zuvembies; Snake Men; (Peshawar Surgeons; Jewish Baker; Spice Pedlar; Crossing Sweeper; Match Girl; Harley Street Clinician; St Thomas's Surgeon; St Brigid's Nurse; York Road Tenants; Police Constables; St Bride's Crypt Keeper; Stevedores; Mile End Road Constable; University of London Dons; King's College Chair of Political Economy; Lestrade's Constable; Gregson's Neighbours; Diogenes Club Members; Diogenes Serving Staff; Sergeant Major; American Antiquarian; Sikh Lieutenant) Date: Spring, 2014 / 1928 / Autumn, 1880 - January, 1881 Locations: Afghanistan; Arghandab Valley; Peshawar; Kokeran; Ta'aa; Pub off the Commercial Road; 221B, Baker Street; Scotland Yard; The Embankment; Oxford Street; Marylebone; Limehouse; Golden Lotus Opium Den; Surrey; Dorking; North Downs; Box Hill; The Pacific Ocean; Antarctica; USA; Louisiana; Greenland; New England; Whitechapel Road; London Hospital; Bishopsgate; British Museum; Great Russell Street; Coffee House; Moorgate; Moriarty's House; Pall Mall; Diogenes Club; Mycroft's Rooms; Shadwell; St Paul's Church Story: Lovegrove inherits three Watsonian manuscripts from a very distant relative, and discovers a familial link to H.P. Lovecraft. After returning from Afghanistan, Watson encounters Stamford in an East End pub, where he becomes involved in an altercation with a pair of lascars, which leads to his first encounter with Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is investigating a string of deaths, and reports of strange moving shadows in the Shadwell area and believes that Stamford is involved. Holmes takes Watson to a Limehouse opium den, and is himself taken on a dream-quest by a Chinese crime lord. Watson tells him of the events that occurred when he accompanied Captain Harrowby on an archaeological side-trip, after the retreat from Maiwand, to the ancient underground city of Ta'aa. Together they face the shadows in London. Their researches at the British Museum reveal that the museum's copy of the Necronomicon has disappeared, which puts them on the trail of Moriarty. The disappearance of Gregson and Mycroft accelerates events to their conclusion in the crypt of St Paul's Church.
	Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea Devils (2018) Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche / Canonical Re-visioning Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Ian Murdoch; Maud Bellamy; Fitzroy McPherson; The Lion's Mane [Kl'aach-yag]; Inspector Bardle; Mycroft Holmes; [Werther] Von Bork; Baron [Manfred] Von Herling; Professor Moriarty [R'luhlloig / The Hidden Mind]; Tobias Gregson; Tom Bellamy; Holmes's Sussex Housekeeper; (Professor Presbury; Godfrey Emsworth; Eugenia Ronder; Sahara King; Ronder; Harold Stackhurst; Lord [Ichabod] Cantlemere; Baker Street Irregulars; Count Negretto Sylvius; Giuseppe Gorgiano; Dr Shlessinger; Baron Adelbert Gruber; Josiah Amberley; Emilia Lucca; William Bellamy; Mary Morstan) Characters Based on Canonical Characters: W'gnns [Wiggins] Fictional Characters: Necronomicon; Cthulhu; (Zuvembie; Deep Ones; Nyarlathotep; Deep Ones; Erich Zann; Ithaqua; Yig; Hastur; Old Ones; Outer Gods; The Alert) Folkloric Characters: (Nü Gui) Historical Figures: James Lovegrove; (Kaiser Wilhelm II; H.P. Lovecraft) Other Characters: Unthank; Klaus; Samuel Grady; Zelda Grady; Captain Johan Künstler; Blanche Grady; Sarah Cummins; Deborah Smythe; Wolfgang; Pfaff; Schneider; Dörper; (Milton Goldsworthy; Sir Alexander Chalfont-Banks; Mrs Goldsworthy; Lady Cantlemere; Zachariah Conroy; Nathaniel Whateley; Mrs Gregson; Judith Smythe; Lotte) Unnamed Characters: Dogcart Driver; Cultists; Sussex Policemen; Pall Mall Crowd; Postman; Pall Mall Constable; Diogenes Club Members; Pall Mall Maids; Mycroft's Page; St James's Post Office Clerk; Von Bork's Valet; Von Bork's Servants; German Embassy Guards; Embassy Staff; Snake Men; Train Guard; Vicar of East Dean; Holmes's Housekeeper's Son; Newford Inhabitants; Sea-Devils; Newford Policemen; Submarine Crew; Durban Dock Porters; Durban Sailors; Durban Children; Boer; Durbanites; Servant; British High Commission Guards; Gibberers; Toadies; (South African Tribal Wizard; Eastbourne Costumier; General; Industrialist; Press Baron; Chalfont-Banks's Butler; Chalfont Banks's Valet; German Agents; Holmes's London Contacts; Von Bork's Parents; German Naturalist; Embassy Butler; Sailors; Blanche's Parents; Sarah's Son; Newford Doctor; Watson's Mother; Eastbourne Police; Medics) Date: September - December, 1910 / Late Summer, 1911 Locations: Sussex; Holmes's Farm; Cavern; Crowlink; East Dean; Fulworth; Newford; Grady's House; Aboard SM U-19; Atlantic Ocean; Morocco; Rabat; Gulf of Guinea; Angola; Benguela; Cape of Good Hope; South Africa; Durban; Dock; British High Commission; Pacific Ocean; R'lyeh; Eastbourne; London; Pall Mall; Diogenes Club; Mycroft's Rooms; St James's Post Office; Chelsea; King's Road; Von Bork's House; Prussia House; Snake Men's Tunnels; Sewers; River Fleet; The Thames; Marylebone Story: Watson arrives at Holmes's bee farm in Sussex to fin it deserted, and is taken prisoner by three hooded men from the Brotherhood of the Pulsating Cluster and taken to a sea cave where Maud Bellamy is about to be sacrificed to Kl'aach-yag. With the cult defeated, Holmes and Watson head for London after receiving a strange phone-call from Mycroft, but arrive to find that Mycroft and the six other Dagon Club members have all committed suicide. Each received a mysterious package, apparently sent by Mycroft, immediately before their death. Holmes deduces that they were really sent by Von Bork and discovers Moriarty in the form of R'luhlloig concealed in the German Embassy. An old friend rescues Holmes and watson from snake men. Returning to Sussex, they are approached by Tom Bellamy, who tells them of his fears that the Sea-Devils are returning to the town of Newford and abducting women to breed with. One of the missing women is Maud's friend Blanche Grady. After resolving the identity of the Sea-Devils, Holmes and Watson find themselves aboard a German submarine en route to R'lyeh where R'luhlloig will confront Cthulhu.
Sherlock Holmes and the Three Winter Terrors (2021) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mary Morstan; Mrs Hudson; Watson's Maid [Enid]; Baker Street Irregulars; Wiggins (Mycroft Holmes; Percy Phelps; Watson's Brother; Countess of Morcar; Mr Sherman; James Ryder) Historical Figures: (Queen Victoria) Other Characters: Timothy 'Ragged Rascal' Wragge; Kester Gormley; Mrs Harries; 'God' Talbot; Jeremy Pugh; The Hon. Hosea Wyatt; Vincent Yeowell; Vernon Agius; Quimp; Mrs Quimp; Eustace Agius; Faye Agius / Faye Carmody; Sturridge; Nell 'Mousy' Baxter; Bumpo Rattigan; Florrie Smith; Gracie Smith; Professor Astronomo; Kavanagh the Great; Elsie; Hitesh Basu; Dr Burnell; Professor Isidore Carmody; Jonah Denbigh; Fitch; "Black Jack" Travers; Ned Craddock; Flossie; Patrick Hesketh; Barnaby; Gabriel 'Ginger' Hesketh; Mabel; (Hector Robinson; Lord Gilhampton; William Chapman; Old Sarah; John Markby; Admiral Hatherwaite; Obadiah Jackson; Mrs Robinson; Matron Ives; Ordway; Peggy; Duchess of Holmthorpe; Charlie Jepson; Doakes; Danvers Lockforth) Unnamed Characters: Robbers; Messenger Boys; Pupils; Teachers; Gurnard Patrons; Eustace Agius's Butler; Eustace Agius's Maid; Tivoli Cloakroom Attendant; Tivoli Acting Manager; Tivoli Audience; Cossack Dancers; Minstrels; Ventriloquist; Juggler; Dancers; Actors; Dog Act; Mime Artist; Baritone; Tivoli Orchestra; Parisian Songstress; Tivoli Stagehand; Kavanagh's Assistants; Eagle Rock Old-Timer; Hesketh's Mob; Carmody's Cook; Carmody's Carriage Driver; (Lloyd's Names; Bilbao Harbourmaster; Seventeenth Century Witches; Priest; Chapman's Wife; Chapman's Sons; Trothe Fishermen; Watson's Dormitory Captain; Parents; Police Sergeant; Eustace Agius's Scullery Maid; Eustace Agius's Servants; Mill Workers; Tarleton Crescent Policeman; Coalman; Butcher's Boy; Soho Landlady; Soho Man; Basu's Parents; Carmody's Daughter; Carmody's First Wife; Carmody's Second Wife; Carmody's Stepson; Carmody Funeral Guests; Gamekeeper; London Weekly Cornucopia Editor; Surrey Policemen; Gabriel 'Ginger' Hesketh) Date: 1919 / December, 1889 / December, 1890 - January, 1891 / Mid-December, 1894 / 1873 - 1874 Locations: The Strand; Paddington; Watson's House; Kent; Larksham; Saltings House Preparatory School; Trothe; Gurnard Inn; Knightsbridge; 43, Tarleton Crescent; Hyde Park; The Red Lion; The Strand; Tivoli Music Hall; Soho; Frith Street; Surrey; Haslemere; Grayshott Grange; Betchfield; Burnell's Home; USA; Idaho; Eagle Rock; Canada; Yukon Story: 1889: Watson discovers that a man he has rescued from robbers is an old school friend, Timothy Wragge. He tells Watson that he is in London to report to Scotland Yard his concerns about the drowning of a student at the school he teaches at, Saltings House. Watson, instead, takes him to see Holmes. Wragge tells them the legend of a witch's curse upon the school, and the ghost said to haunt the grounds. 1890: Holmes is called upon by the cotton mill owner Eustace Agius, father of one of the Saltings boys. He has been finding mysterious sooty hand and foot-prints about his home, followed by the appearance of a bright orange, flickering light outside his bedroom window, and a room mysteriously filled with smoke. Holmes believes the incidents to be connected to a fire at one of Agius's cotton mills the previous year, which led to the deaths of ninety-six mill workers. Holmes and Watson arrive at Algius's house the following day, to find that he has died during the night after being woken by a ghostly apparition. 1894: Holmes is called on by Hitesh Basu, whose academic sponsor and surrogate father, Professor Carmody has been mauled to death and partially eaten in the grounds of his home, Grayshott Grange. A man named Jonah Denbigh, rumoured to have survived a winter on a Canadia mountain by eating the flesh of his companions, thus becoming known as the Yukon Cannibal, lives in the woods near Carmody's estate. Arriving in Surrey, Holmes and Watson discover that Carmody's wife is Faye, the widow of Eustace Agius.
	"The Strange Case of Dr Sacker and Mr Hope" (2018) Included in: Gaslight Gothic (J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec); The Manifestations of Sherlock Holmes (James Lovegrove) Story Type: Fantasy Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes / Sherrinford Hope; Dr Watson / Ormond Sacker; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Mary Morstan; (Baker Street Irregulars; Grimesby Roylott; Watson's Brother; Percy Phelps) Fictional Characters: Dr Henry Jekyll Other Characters: (Madame Navarre; Derek Singleton; Desmond Singleton; Inigo Dodds; Ezekiel Bodkin; Ned Phillips; Lord Cecil Grenville-Rushwood; Digby 'Mayhem' Maynard; Robert Keller) Unnamed Characters: (Mrs Hudson's Sister; Lestrade's Men; Eyewitness; Ferryman; Shoeshine Boy; Watson's Friends) Date: Early Spring, 1887 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Watson's Paddington Practice Story: Watson arrives at Baker Street to be told by Mrs Hudson of Holmes's recent strange, aggressive behaviour. As he waits, Lestrade arrives with news that Holmes has been implicated in the murder of a pair of gang bosses. When Holmes returns, he has undergone a transformation, and claims that his name is Sherrinford Hope. After more criminals are murdered, Watson receives a visit from Dr Jekyll.
The Stuff of Nightmares (2013) Story Type: Steampunk Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; Baker Street Irregulars; Inspector Lestrade; Mary Morstan; Colonel Sebastian Moran; Professor Moriarty; (Giant Rat of Sumatra) Fictional Characters: (Professor Challenger) Historical Figures: (Queen Victoria; Sir William Melville; Jack the Ripper; Sir Edward Bradford; William Waddington; Mary Alsop King Waddington) Other Characters: Grimsdyke; Grout; Abednego 'One Arm' Torrance; Bill 'The Bull' Sinnott, Jasper Creevy; Baron Cauchemar; The Abbess; Pearl; Benoît; Thibault, Viscomte de Villegrand; Aurélie; Sergeant Bryant; Gedge; Kaylock; Constable Mitchell; (Uncle Bart; Mr O'Flannery; Mrs O'Flannery; Monsieur Pelletier; Delphine Pelletier; Madame Pelletier) Unnamed Characters: Waterloo Bomb Victims; Sailor-Suited Child; Bookstall Owner; Nanny; Widow; Mother & Baby; Policemen; Telegram Delivery Boy; London Crowds; Diogenes Club Members; Diogenes Club Attendant; Waterloo Onlookers; Bottomless Tankard Patrons; Piano Player; Pub Singer; Barkeep; Merchant Navy Rating; Clipper Captain; Chinese Women; Police Constable; Harlot; Newspaper Sellers; Primrose Hill Protestors; Policemen; Waterloo Navvies; Coffee House Serving Girl; Courier; Stepney Residents; Spaniel Walker; Baker's Boy; Scotland Yard Prisoners; Country Locals; (Mary Morstan's Cousin; Abbess's Clients; St James's Park Groundskeeper; Politicians; Pelletier's Customers; De Villegrand's Friends; Marquis; Les Hériteurs de Chauvin; Doctor) Date: Autumn, 1890 Locations: Waterloo Station; 221B, Baker Street; Pall Mall; Diogenes Club; Watson's Paddington Practice; Shadwell; The Bottomless Tankard; A Sewer; Moorgate; The Abbess's Brothel; Hampstead; Villa de Villegrand; Primrose Hill; Kent; Ramsgate; St James's Park; Coffee House; Stepney; Graveyard; Bloomsbury; Victoria Embankment; New Scotland Yard; Aboard the Airship Delphine's Revenge; France; Paris; Pelletier's Workshop; Marquis's House; Jardin du Luxembourg; Hôtel-Dieu Hospital; Dover; The Midlands Story: Watson is caught up in a bomb attack on Waterloo Station, the third such attack in London. He calls on Holmes, and accompanies him to the Diogenes Club to meet with Mycroft, who wants Holmes to investigate the bombings. Holmes is more interested in reports in the news of Baron Cauchemar, a character similar to an armour-plated Spring-heeled Jack, whom he believes is connected to the terror attacks. The following day, Holmes sets Watson the task of shadowing the people trafficker, "One Arm" Torrance. Watson is captured by Torrance, but is rescued by the nightmarish Cauchemar. Holmes and Watson pursue Cauchemar into the sewers. A visit to a brothel leads them to a dissolute French diplomat. A fourth bomb attack, this time in St James's Park, leads to outbreaks of rioting across London, and draws Moriarty's attention. Holmes is rescued from a collapsing church, and he and Watson take a trip in Cauchemar's underground vehicle, the Subterrene, and visit his subterranean workshop. After almost losing their lives in a trap, Holmes sets in place a plan to draw Cauchemar in to assist in saving the Queen from certain death, and they set out by air to prevent an attack on the royal train.
	The Thinking Engine (2015) Story Type: Steampunk Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Colonel Sebastian Moran; Professor Moriarty; (Mary Morstan; Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes; Baker Street Irregulars; Colonel James Moriarty / Stationmaster Moriarty; Hilton Soames; Giles Gilchrist) Fictional Characters: John Vansittart Smith; (Sosra; Atma) Historical Figures: Harry Houdini; Marquess of Salisbury; John Seary;Sir william Thomson; Colonel Sir Edward Bradford; H.H. Asquith; Professor Edward Caird; (Djedhor; Sir Edward Maunde Thompson; Thomas Herbert Warren; Duke of Marlborough; William Kissam Vanderbilt; Alva Vanderbilt; Consuelo Vanderbilt; Lewis Carroll; Sarah Hounslow; George Newnes; Benjamin Jowett; Elias Ashmole) Other Characters: Inspector Eden Tomlinson; Constable Briggs; Hercules; Mrs Judd; Archie Slater; Lord Knaresfield; Professor Malcolm Quantock; Nahum Grainger; Dr Mukherjee; Dr Merriweather; The Hon. Aubrey Bancroft; Coggins; Stanway; Stevens; Mr Gill; Preston; Hugh Llewellyn; Allardyce; Jenkins; Knight; Mrs Bruell; Grimsdyke; Gasparini; (Wallace Rubenstein; Duchess of Milnthorpe; Sir Edward Beechworth; Mrs Tomlinson; Tabitha Grainger; Elsie Grainger; Flora Grainger; Tobias Judd; Mrs Slater; Charles, Thirteenth Earl of Shiplea; Trenchard; Hargreaves; Mr Bruell; Mrs Rubenstein; ) Unnamed Characters: Museum Visitors; Randolph Maître d'; Gallery Audience; Journalists; Oxford Policemen; Angler; Magdalen Porter; Swimmers; Physician; Rowing Crew; Oriel College 1st VIII Rowing Team; Special Branch Officer; Bruell's Lodgers; Brush Salesman; Merton Groundsmen; Turf Landlord; Oxford Times Editor; London Newspapermen; Gallery Watchman; Sunday Promenaders; (Museum Night Watchmen; Watson's Child; Austro Hungarian Ambassador; Housemaid; Merchant Sailor; Ealing Anarchists; High Street Onlookers; Oxford Police Sergeant; Oxford Constable; Judd's Elderly Woman Neighbour; Judd's Next-door Neighbours; Grainger's Employer; Coroner; Slater's Mother; Slater's Bookmaker; Epsom Stable Hands; West End Actress; Slater's Father-in-law; Illustrated London News Editor; Moran's Police Guards; St Edmund Hall Students; Hotel Boots; Forger; Goatherd; Goatherd's Wife; Swiss Doctors) Date: January - March, 1895 Locations: British Museum; 221B, Baker Street; Temple Lane; Public House; Oxford; Randolph Hotel; Police Station; Jericho; Grainger's House; Judd's House; University Galleries; Beaumont Street; Walton Street; Port Meadow; The Isis; St Giles Street; The Eagle & Child; Magdalen College; Parson's Pleasure; Radcliffe Infirmary; Oriel Boathouse; Folly Bridge; Summertown, Bruell's Guesthouse; Botanic Garden; Blackwell's; Catte Street; Turf Tavern; Oxford Times Offices; Bodleian Library; Balliol College; Bodleian Librarian; High Street; Mitre Inn; St Giles Street; Martyrs; Memorial Story: Holmes and Watson face a reanimated mummy at the British Museum. Two months later, Holmes reads of the development of a Thinking Engine, which its inventor, Malcolm Quantock, has also challenged Holmes, in the pages of the Times, to beat at solving a series of murders in Oxford. Watson accompanies Holmes to Oxford, where Inspector Tomlinson tells them about Quantock's recent strange behaviour. He also provides them with the details of the murders in the Jericho district of a bricklayer's family, and the unbreakable alibi of Grainger the bricklayer, provided by a dog that did nothing in the night-time. At a demonstration the following day, the Thinking Engine's solution replicate's Holmes's, but when Grainger is found dead, Holmes decides there is more to the case than meets the eye. A blackmail case and a poisoning bring Holmes up against the machine again, and Holmes takes a naked dip. A missing rowing team member provides the impetus for another investigation. Holmes consults the Thinking Machine, and falls victim to addiction, before reaching the conclusion that he is facing an old adversary.
Charles J. Lovell "Here's Your Chance to Learn the Ropes!" (1945) Included in: Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies, Number 78 (June 1945) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detective: Picklocke Joames Historical Figures: (Jahangir; Dr Alexander Cannon) Other Characters: Narrator Locations: Canada; Deception Ridge; Joames's Rooms Story: While climbing Deception Ridge, the narrator sees three other climbers behaving strangely. He shows the photograph he has taken of them to his friend, who deduces that they were practising the Indian rope trick.
	Marc Lovell The Spy Who Fell Off the Back of a Bus (1988) Story Type: Homage / Spy Parody Historical Figures: (Arthur Conan Doyle) Other Characters: Appleton Porter; Albert; Dead-Battery; Angus Watkin; Agnes; Marie; Wiley; Falcon; Susan; Denver Campbell; Bullybeef; Carl Schmidt; Tilda; Hattie; Baldy; Mimi; Linda Dexter; Reginald; Percy; Marcel; (Walter Brent) Unnamed Characters: Shoe Shop Man; Wig Woman; Warehouse Man; Library Browsers; Library Staff; Hotel Maid; Mérimée Policeman; Carlton Girls; Carlton Waiters; Carlton Patrons; Brit Agent; Boules Players; Italian Waiter; Mérimée Owner; Lincoln Headwaiter; Lincoln Guests; Waiter; Grim-faced Couple; Hindi Cook; Pedestrians; Punk Girls; Sailor; Priest; Finnish Couple; Spanish Waiter; Greek Pressmen; Waiter; Small Girl; Girl's Mother; Cabbie; Angler; Falcon's Steward; Tall Trio; Policewoman; Shoppers; Stallholders; Wheelchair Man; Chiropodist's Patients; Nurse; Bar Customers; English Waitress; Tourist Couples; Gallery Crowd; Shoestore Salesgirl; Manager; Teenagers; Auctioneer; Auction Girl; Auction Guards; Bicycle Owner; Pre-teen Girl; Policemen on Bus; Bus Passengers; Bus Driver Locations: Harlequin Mansions, Bloomsbury; Junk Shop; Suburban House; Shoe-repair Shop; Wigmaker's; East End Warehouse; Public Library; France; Cannes; Hotel Mérimée; The Croisette; The Carlton; Italian Restaurant; Railway Station; Hotel Lincoln; Indian Restaurant; The Bunker; Spanish Restaurant; Sidewalk Café; Rue d'Antibes; Linda's Hotel; Café; Falcon's Yacht; Café; Store; Market; Chiropodist's Waiting Room; Wiley's Hotel; Bar; John Bull's Pantry; Gallerie Centrale; Shoestore Story: British spy Appleton Porter is given the job of impersonating a Canadian billionaire at a bibliophile convention in Cannes in order to retrieve a manuscript on account of which two people have already died. The manuscript is an attack on Sherlock Holmes written by Arthur Conan Doyle revealing the despicable truth behind the character. It is vital for to the honour of the nation that it should not fall into the wrong hands but that it should be destroyed. It soon becomes apparent that Cannes is full of agents of many different countries and Apple is kept guessing whether they are goodies or baddies, while trying to discover who is selling the manuscript and who is trying to buy it. He anonymously receives a photocopied page of the manuscript, has his identity tested, and keeps losing girls. He finds himself abducted in a taxi, and pursuing a car on a motorcycle with two Finns. When a fourth girl is abducted, he follows her abductor to a yacht where he sees a double of himself before being taken prisoner, and is rescued just as he is about to free himself. When he learns that the manuscript has been left for safety at an auction house he has to outbid the others to get hold of it, despite having been offered it for free. When the manuscript is stolen, a bicycle and bus chase ensues, the agents congregate and each nation makes its claim on Holmes's origins. Finally, the manuscript is rescued and Apple has to make a decision between the demands of espionage and the needs of literature.
Peter Lovesey "The Curious Computer" (1987) Included in: The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Martin H. Greenberg, Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh & Jon L. Lellenberg) Story Type: Homage Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes (Professor Moriarty; Irene Adler) Other Characters: "Grievous" George Harmer; Lilian 'Silicon Lil' Norton; Porno Sullivan; 'Hash' Brown Unnamed Characters: Crime Bosses Locations: Belgravia; Victoria Station Story: Crime boss Harmer is concerned about Holmes (Home Office Large Major Enquiry System), Scotland Yard's new computer system. He confesses his fears to stripper Silicon Lil, who suggests he convene a gathering of British crime bosses, and introduces him to 'The Professor', the only man capable of defeating 'Holmes'. The Professor tells them of his mathematical expertise, his treatise on the binomial theorem, a climbing accident in Switzerland, and his computer hacking skills. When he succeeds in cracking the computer with his own system, Moriarty (Microcomputer Output Rendered Impotent And Rot The Yard), Harmer gathers the nation's crime bosses together, and only then does he learn about Lil's great-grandmother, her relationship with the Professor, and the Professor's true identity.
	"The Four Wise Men" (1999) Included in: More Holmes for the Holidays (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson Other Characters: Colonel Sloane; Ruff; Andrew Hall; Alison Pugh; Cicely Dawson; Mr & Mrs Dawson; Jeb Wiggs; Unnamed Characters: Cicely's Sister; Congregation; Two Policemen; Rector; Church Wardens; Ticket Collector; Elderly Couple; Young Woman & Child Date: December, 1895 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train; Taunton; Bullpen; The Feathers Inn; Bullpen Church; Taunton Station Story: Watson receives an invitation from Sloane, his old commanding officer, to spend Christmas in Bullpen, near Taunton, and play the role of Joseph in the local Christmas masque, simultaneously helping guard the Star, one of the most valuable medieval treasures in England, traditionally used in the pageant. After the church service Holmes reveals that the star is a fake and sets out to recover the real one before the last train leaves Taunton.
Gary Lovisi "The Adventure of the Missing Detective" (2004) Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years (Michael Kurland); The Secret Files of Sherlock Holmes (Gary Lovisi) Story Type: Fantasy / Canonical Revisioning narrated by Holmes Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Tobias Gregson; Colonel Sebastian Moran; Professor Moriarty; (Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes) Historical Figures: 13th Dalai Lama; (Albert Edward Victor (Eddy), Duke of Clarence; Queen Victoria; Edward VII) Other Characters: Hans; Gerda; (Reynolds) Unnamed Characters: Baker Street Neighbour; Diogenes Butler; Cock & Crow Barman; Hyde Park Crowds; Police Captain; Bobbies; Household Guardsmen; Grand Hotel Majordomo; Tibetan Monks; (Old Man) Date: May, 1891-1894? Locations: Switzerland; Reichenbach Falls; Hans & Gerda's Farm; Village Inn; Cemetery; London; Victoria Station; Baker Street; Diogenes Club; Pall Mall; The Cock & Crow; Watson's Lodgings at the Whistle & Thump; Great Russell Street; Lestrade's Flat; Hyde Park; Grand Hotel Story: After falling after Moriarty at Reichenbach, Holmes is nursed through a coma by a farming couple, who found him at the bottom of a ravine, miraculously uninjured. Months later, in a copy of the Times, he reads that Eddy, the Duke of Clarence, is King of England after the deaths of Victoria and Edward, and that he is awarding a knighthood to Moriarty, who apparently has not died at Reichenbach. He also reads of strange political turmoils all over the world. He disinters Moriarty and finds what appears to be his own body in the grave. Fearing for the future of the world he heads back to London where he finds 221B has been destroyed by a fire, and that Mycroft has been assassinated. He finds Watson, taken to drink, in an East End pub. Holmes comes to the conclusion that he has somehow been transported to a parallel world. A visit to Scotland Yard by Watson reveals that Lestrade and Gregson have been dismissed and that Moran is now in control. Holmes enlists Lestrade and Gregson's aid, witnesses a riot in Hyde Park and visits the Dalai Lama in order to bring the reign of terror to an end and return to his own world.
	"The Affair of Lady Westcott's Lost Ruby" (2017) Included in: Sherlock Holmes & Mr Mac (Gary Lovisi) Story Type: Extra-canonical adventure of Alec MacDonald Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Baker Street Irregulars; Wiggins; Inspector Alec MacDonald; Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; (Birdy Edwards; The Scowrers; Ivy Douglas; Inspector Lestrade; Baskerville Family; Lady Frances Carfax) Historical Figures: (Jack the Ripper; Queen Victoria; Horatio Nelson) Other Characters: Chief Inspector Sir Charles Maine; Lady Anne Westcott; Gerald; Maria; Jenkins; Higgins; Mr James-Jones; Philip Hargrove; Prince Johan Gotha-Coburg; Bobby Blake; (Lord Simon Westcott; Stanislaw Porcoro; Ricardo; Rostoff; Rutin) Unnamed Characters: Westcott's Cooks; Police Officers; Maids; Groom; Gardener; Gardener's Son; Driver; Embassy Guards; Special Courier; Messengers; (Boxley Killer; Husband; Wife; Butcher) Date: Autumn, 1899 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Baker Street; 20, Abercrombie Road; Marylebone; MacDonald's Flat; Scotland Yard; Diogenes Club; British Royal Library; German Embassy Story: Alec MacDonald has been assigned to investigate the disappearance of a Yorkshire terrier named Ruby from the home of Lady Westcott in Abercrombie Road. The following day, the dog is found with its throat cut, an event soon followed by the disappearance of Lady Westcott. Despite the wishes of his superiors, MacDonald brings Holmes in to help solve the case, learns the true nature of Lady Westcott's relationship to the Queen, and the threat that her disappearance constitutes to the monarchy.
"The American Adventure" (2010) Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The American Years (Michael Kurland); The Secret Files of Sherlock Holmes (Gary Lovisi) Story Type: 3rd Person Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Mycroft Holmes; (Professor Moriarty) Historical Figures: Joseph Bell Other Characters: Mr Thorson; Captain Charles Morrow; John Martin; Mr Jackson; Diana Strickland; Rupert Strickland; (Mrs Shay; Mr Jacobs; Mrs Abernathy) Unnamed Characters: Pensioned Soldier; Stage Door Johnnies; Actresses; Stage-Door Boy; Hotel Bellboy; Detectives; Stagehands; (Strickland's Family; Professor) Date: 1876 / October, 1911 Locations: Diogenes Club; On Board the Oceanic; USA; New York; Union Square Hotel; Criterion Theater; 221B, Baker Street Story: Mycroft summons Holmes to the Diogenes Club where he meets Bell. Bell requests him to accompany him to New York, where his actress sister, Diana Strickland, is in trouble. On the voyage out, Bell gives the young Holmes a lesson in detection, and Holmes works with him to investigate the death of an American passenger. In New York, Diana tells them that her husband Rupert has suddenly become hostile towards her, and she believes he is trying to kill her. Holmes finds himself romantically entangled with Diana and hears about a professor, while Bell sees her in a loving goodbye with her husband, who is later found dead, shot in self defence by Diana. Holmes learns the facts behind the situation, and many years later receives a letter from Bell, bringing the case to a close
	The Baron's Revenge (2012) Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Sherlock Holmes Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Shinwell Johnson; Kitty Winter; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes; Baron Adelbert Gruner; (Violet de Merville; General de Merville; The Illustrious Client; Gruner's First Wife; Gruner's Toughs; Baker Street Irregulars; Professor Moriarty; The Moriarty Gang; Watson's Father; Mary Morstan; The Second Mrs Watson; Colonel Sebastian Moran) Historical Figures: (Kaiser Wilhelm II) Other Characters: Constable Jenkins; Quimby; Shank Frobish; Tidwell; Sergey; (Simon Germain; Charlotte Booth; Billy Somerset; Countess Alexa Von Huenfeld; Reverend Winslow; Morgan; Sergeant Jones) Unnamed Characters: Scotland Yard Prisoners; Scotland Yard Guards; Mycroft's Men; Limehouse Pub Patrons; Lestrade's Men; Dead Man; Mycroft's Attorneys; Gruner's Men; Trap Driver; (Charlotte's Family; Night Nurse; Holmes's Agents; Watson's Family; Press Critics; Countess's Relatives; Countess's Servants; Countess's Nephew) Date: 1926 / 1905 Locations: Kitty's Room at No. 26; 221B, Baker Street; Whitechapel; No. 111; Scotland Yard; Limehouse; Limehouse Pub; No. 349; Kent; Countess's Palace; Train Station Story: In 1926 Holmes writes up a case, the events of which occured three years after the case of the Illustrious Client. Out of prison, Kitty Winter is being taken care of by Shinwell Johnson, who is serving as her pimp. Lestrade consults Holmes over a murdered prostitute, believing that Jack the Ripper has returned. When he identifies the victim, on whom vitriol has been poured, as Kitty, Holmes realises that her killer must have been Baron Gruner, but Lestrade arrests Johnson. A visit to a pub in Limehouse run by a former associate of Moriarty, leads Holmes to a connection to the Countes Von Huenfeld, but on returning home, he finds himself arrested for murder. Imprisoned in Scotland Yard, alongside Johnson, Holmes eventually realises that the murder may not be all it appeared, and enlists Mycroft's aid in proving his theory. Released, along with Johnson, Holmes sets out for the Countess's palace in Kent. NOTE: The cover illustration is derived from Claude Rains's version of the Phantom of the Opera in the 1943 film version, and poster artwork of Basil Rathbone and Ida Lupino for the 1939 film The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
"The Case of the invisible Assassin" (2017) Included in: Sherlock Holmes & Mr Mac (Gary Lovisi) Story Type: Extra-canonical adventure of Alec MacDonald Canonical Characters: Inspector Lestrade; Inspector Alec MacDonald; Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Huret; Baker Street Page; John Douglas; Mycroft Holmes) Historical Figures: (Nicolas Sadi Carnot) Other Characters: Josiah Wilson; Stephen Crafts; Sir Thomas Maxwell; Simon Simonson; Mr Thomson; Mathias Snelling; Sir Alfred Howarth-James, Earl of Westron; Jeremy Howarth-James; Reggie; Leslie Howarth-James; (Sir Charles Maine; Jones; Lady Anne Westcott; Mrs Spicer; Cruthers; Tiny; Inspector Franco; Barney; Mrs Snelling; Tyrone Howarth-James) Unnamed Characters: Beggar; Strand Passers-by; Piccadilly Crowds; Police Constables; Amalgamated Insurance Managing Director; Charing Cross Passersby; Kent Constables; Whitechapel Crowd; (Book Shop Staff; Reggie's Daughter) Date: Spring, 1894 Locations: The Strand; Scotland Yard; Piccadilly Circus; 221B, Baker Street; Amalgamated Insurance Ltd; Charing Cross; Devon's Restaurant; Kent; Westron's Estate; Whitechapel Story: Josiah Wilson, a bank clerk, is shot in the Strand. Lestrade suspects a beggar was the killer, but MacDonald thinks otherwise. There soon follows the shooting of a Liberal MP in Piccadilly Circus. Holmes disagrees with Lestrade's arrest of one of the man's political rivals, and resolves to find the true culprit. When a third murder occurs, MacDonald is assigned to the case, and consults with Holmes, who has linked two prior deaths to the case, and believes that it is connected to the arrest of Huret the Boulevard Assassin in Paris.
	"Challenger's Titanic Challenge" (2014) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, Issue #12 (Marvin Kaye) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Mycroft Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; Professor Moriarty) Fictional Characters: Edward Malone; Professor Challenger; Jessie Challenger; (Mr McArdle; Professor Summerlee; Lord John Roxton) Historical Figures: (The Titanic; American President; Captain Edward John Smith) Unnamed Characters: Trap Driver; Serbian Assassin Date: 1913 Locations: Enmore Park; 221B, Baker Street Story: To commemorate the first anniversary of the Titanic tragedy, McArdle sends Malone to ask Challenger for his scientific theory upon the scientific reason behind the sinking. Because he is being sent to America, and Summerlee and Roxton are overseas, Malone arranges for Holmes, Watson and Mycroft to assist Challenger. Mycroft alerts Holmes that an assassination attempt is to be made on Challenger. Challenger's researches help avert the assassin's attack.
"Happy Birthday, Mr Holmes!" (2014) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #15 (Marvin Kaye) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; Tobias Gregson; Alec MacDonald; Stanley Hopkins; Inspector MacKinnon; Wiggins; Baker Street Irregulars; Reginald Musgrave; Young Stamford; Archie Stamford; Shinwell Johnson; (Mary Morstan) Other Characters: Jack Thomas; Rafferty; Reverend Mathias James; Colonel Sir Ralph Richards; Miles Abercrombie; (The Young and Lovely Lucille) Unnamed Characters: Party Guests; Member of the Royal Family; French Ambassador; Young Ladies; Prime Minister; Common Labourer; Bobbies; (Mary's Mother) Date: Late 1903 - January, 1904 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Baker Street Story:Watson decides to plan a fiftieth birthday party for Holmes, despite Holmes's wishes to the contrary. As the party commences, Mycroft suggests that Holmes is present in disguise, and Watson sets about deducing which of the guests is really his friend. Things grow desperate when Wiggins reveals that Abercrombie, a dangerous escaped convict, may also be among the guests.
	"The Loss of the British Bark Sophy Anderson" (1992) Included in: Sherlock Holmes in The Loss of the British Bark Sophy Anderson and The Grey Nun Legacy (Gary Lovisi & P. Smith); Sherlock Holmes and the Crosby Murders (Gary Lovisi) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Inspector Lestrade; Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Mrs. Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; Tobias Gregson; (Baker Street Irregulars) Other Characters: Alfie Graham; Patrolman Smithfield; Harry; Lady Susan Copely; Sir William 'Black Johnny' Copely; (Ellen Kent; Lord Cumberland; Captain Simon MacCormic; McCreedy; Dolores Kent; Derek Johnson; Alexander Kent; Lord Cumberland) Unnamed Characters: Woman in Limehouse; The Sons of the Pharoah Cult; Man from the Morgue; Diogenes Club Butler; Two Constables; Baker Street Bobbies; (Beer Wagon Driver; Sophy Anderson Crew; Kent's Sons) Date: 1887 Locations: Limehouse; 221B, Baker Street; Diogenes Club; (Christopher Street; Copely's House; Aboard the Sophy Anderson; A Lifeboat) Story: After a sailor is lured into an ambush by a leopardskin-clad woman, a chewed up human body is found in Limehouse. Susan Copely consults Holmes over threatening letters she has received, followed by two attempts on her life. Holmes believes the events may be connected to the sinking of the Sophy Anderson twenty years previously, which only Copely's father, Sir William, survived. A bomb is thrown into the Baker Street rooms, and Sir William attacks Watson. He tells Holmes and Watson of the last voyage of the Sophy Anderson and of the theft of the Bagdah Emerald, a stone said to have belonged to Moses. Holmes seems defeated, and Watson calls on Mycroft for assistance, but he only advises that Holmes should not get involved. Holmes disappears and Watson learns of the Sons of the Pharoah cult before events reach their conclusion.
"Mycroft's Great Game" (2003) Included in: My Sherlock Holmes (Michael Kurland); Sherlock Holmes and the Crosby Murders (Gary Lovisi) Story Type: Pastiche / Revisioning of the Canon narrated by Mycroft Holmes Canonical Characters: Mycroft Holmes; Sherlock Holmes; Professor Moriarty; Dr. Watson; Colonel Moran; Inspector Lestrade; (Ronald Adair; Mrs. Hudson) Other Characters: Alexander Burbage, Wilson; Captain Hargrove; Jamison; Connor Unnamed Characters: Special Branch Agents; Lestrade's Men Date: 1891-1894 Locations: Mycroft's Pall Mall Rooms; A Cab Stand; Mycroft's Hansom; Victoria station; The Diogenes Club; Reichenbach Falls; Camden House; 221B, Baker Street Story: Mycroft reveals the true nature of his role in the government, and his part in the establishment of the Moriarty gang. He goes on to tell how he manipulated Holmes's journey to Europe in 1891, and of the actual events at the Reichenbach Falls, which happened while Moriarty was still in England. Learning from Mycroft's associate of his brother's involvement, Holmes vows never to return to England. In 1894, Moriarty starts to move more strongly against Mycroft's agents and Holmes returns, ultimately saving Mycroft's life when he is captured by Moriarty and Moran in Camden House.
	The Mystery Surrounding Watson's Lost Dispatch Box (2014) Story Type: Homage Canonical Characters: (Dr Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Irene Adler) Historical Figures: (Arthur Conan Doyle) Other Characters: Professor Thomas Jones; Joseph (Joe) Adler, Jr; Juan Marcano; Fat Jose; Enrique; Pedro; Herman Adler; Amelia Adler; Dr Theodore 'Ted' Williams; Andrea Tatos; Reggie; Tyrone; Ahmad; Charles St Simon; Detective Mallory; Detective Johnson; Barry Zaruba; Herman Zaruba; Clarissa MacDougal; Police Commissioner Rogers; Mayor Jameson; Humphrey; (Jack Adler; Joseph Adler, Sr; Robert X; Crazy Zee; Riomondo; Dr Towbridge; Alberto Marcano; Bill; Shorty) Unnamed Characters: Bookshop Customers; St Simon's Men; Bikini Girls; Armed Waiters; St Simon's Guests; Media People; Cops; Bookstore Fire Onlookers; Firemen; Medics; (Joe's Mother; Juan's Parents; Juan's Sister; The 8th Street Locos; Green Hill Gang; Dollarz Boyz; Riomondo; Dr Towbridge; Alberto Marcano; Bill; Shorty) Date: October Locations: USA; New England; Dorchester; Dorchester Street; The Rare Book Shop; Rutherford Street; Jones's Apartment; Herman Adler's House; City Morgue; Drummond Avenue; Andrea's Hous; East River Bridge; The East Side; Tumar Street; St Simon's Estate; Police Headquarters; Jones & Marcano Bookstore Story: A young man brings a copy of the Strand into Jones's used book store. Having bought it, Jones finds a tormn page, apparently from Watson's journals inside. He tries to find the young man, Joe, but learns the following day that he is dead of a heroin overdose. He enlists the aid of school dropout Juan Marcano, who takes him to see Joe's grandparents, Herman and Amelia Adler, from whom they learn that Herman is Irene Adler's grandson. They also discover that a tin box, which they believe is Watson's dispatch box, has disappeared from the Adlers' attic. After Juan decides that Joe was murdered, they receive a warning to stay off the case, but continue with their investigations nonetheless. Their investigation takes them into a world of gangs and drugs in Dorchester's East Side and up against the crime boss Charles St Simon. They face disappointment and danger when the contents of the box are revealed.
	"Sherlock Holmes - Stymied" (2009) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, Issue #5 (Marvin Kaye); The Great Detective: His Further Adventures (Gary Lovisi) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Historical Figures: Old Tom Morris Other Characters: Daniel Roberts; Mrs Roberts Date: 1903 or 1904 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Scotland; St Andrews; The Royal and Ancient Golf Club; Roberts's House Story: Watson, who has taken to playing golf, calls on Holmes at Baker Street. He tells Holmes that the Claret Cup, the trophy at the British Open, has gone missing, and one of the caddies has gone sick. He and Holmes travel to St Andrews, where Watson diagnoses that the caddy is not sick but stricken with terror. After solving the mystery, Holmes and Watson play a round of golf.
	"A Study in Evil" (2009) Included in: Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, Issue #2 (Marvin Kaye) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; (Mary Morstan; Mary's Aunt) Other Characters: James; Gloria; Ricardo; (Lord Albert Wilfrey; Ronald Wilfrey; John Maulin Morrow) Unnamed Characters: Cabby; (Wilfrey's Servant; Morrow's Parents; Pimp; Lady of the Evening; Prison Warden) Date: After the advent of Watson's marriage Locations: Watson's House; Scotland Yard; Wilfrey's House Story: Mrs Hudson calls on Watson and sends him to Scotland Yard where Lestrade tells him that Holmes has been arrested for murder, having admitted to killing Lord Albert Wilfrey. Holmes explains how he was called to Wilfrey's home and after an argument and a struggle, Wilfrey fell, hitting his head, and died. Holmes refuses a lawyer. Deciding to investigate, Watson visits the Wilfrey estate, where he is astonished by what he learns from the servants. Returning to Scotland Yard, he learns from Holmes his reasons for taking the blame and his plan for the immediate future.
A.J. Low Sherlock Sam and the Missing Heirloom in Katong (2012) Story Type: Children's Story Detectives: Samuel "Sherlock Sam" Tan Cher Lock & Watson Other Characters: Mr Tan; Mrs Tan; Wendy Tan; Jimmy; Auntie Kim Lian; Auntie Gina; Rose; Martha; Donna; Amy; Jane; Angie Lim; (Marie-Anne Lim) Unnamed Characters: Chin Mee Chin Customers; Photographer; Antique House Ladies; Librarian; Restaurant Customers; Cooks; Waiters Locations: Singapore; Katong; East Coast Road; Chin Mee Chin Confectionery; Kim Lian's Bungalow; Katong Antique House; Marine Parade Road; Marine Parade Community Club; Marine Parade Library; Joo Chiat Road; The New Peranakan Place Restaurant Story: Sherlock Sam builds a robot, which comes to be called Watson. Sam wants to be a great detective like Sherlock Holmes. After eating at Chin Mee Chin's, Sam goes to play with his friend Jimmy at Jimmy's grandmother Auntie Kim Lian's bungalow. When she tries to cook ayam buah keluak, Kim Lian discovers that her recipe book, an heirloom handed down from her grandmother is missing. Sam decides to search for the book, beginning at the Katong Antique House where it was taken to be photographed by a young man doing a project on Peranakan heirlooms. The subsequent trail of deductions leads Sam and his friends to the community club and the library. The following day, to add to the mystery, Jimmy's hamster disappears. After solving this case, Sam continues his search for the recipe book.
	Sherlock Sam and the Ghostly Moans in Fort Canning (2013) Story Type: Children's Story Detectives: Samuel "Sherlock Sam" Tan Cher Lock & Watson Other Characters: Mrs Tan; Mr Tan; Wendy Tan; Jimmy; Nazhar; Eliza; Mrs Lim; Officer Siva Unnamed Characters: Teachers; Schoolchildren; Eliza's Friends; DVD Pirates; Policemen; (Nazhar's Father; Hotel Concierge; Hotel Guests) Locations: Singapore; Katong; Sam's House; Fort Canning Park; The Battle Box; Fort Canning Green; The Spice Garden; Cemetery; School; Park Mall Sakae Sushi Story: Sherlock Sam installs a voice recorder in his robot, Watson. The following day, Sherlock's school go on a trip to Fort Canning Park, and visit the Second World War underground bunker known as the Battle Box. Sherlock's sister, Wendy, is looking after Nazhar, a new student, who is also a Sherlock Holmes fan. Sherlock and his friends discover a hidden sally-port to the Fort, and hear ghostly moans coming from inside. That evening, Sherlock persuades his father to take him back to the Fort to use science to prove that there are no such things as ghosts. At school the follow day, Nazhar loses his father's Japanese occupation banknotes, giving Sherlock another mystery to solve.
Sherlock Sam and the Sinister Letters in Bras Basah (2013) Story Type: Children's Story Detectives: Samuel "Sherlock Sam" Tan Cher Lock & Watson Other Characters: Wendy Tan; Mrs Tan; Mr Tan; Officer Siva; Jimmy; Nazhar; Eliza; Mrs Chi; Alejandro; Elena; Yae Lynn; Rachel; Joseph; Marissa; Nathan; Hana; Vineesha; Simon; Hannah; Tehillah; Luis Alvarado; Mr Johnson; Fidel Alvarado; Maria Olga Alvarado; Yvonne Zhang; (Michael Yeo; John Halson; Mrs Alvarado) Unnamed Characters: Hawker; International School Children; Cafe Auntie; Eliza's Family Helper; Art Shop Assistant; Awards Ceremony Guests; Reporters; Photographer; (The Physician's Companion) Locations: Singapore; Katong; Sam's House; Queen Street; Albert Centre; Enterprise International School; Middle Road; L.E. Cafe; Niven Road; Luis's Condominium; Bras Basah; Victoria Street; National Library Story: Sherlock Sam installs a holographic projector in Watson. A chain letter "experiment" has been happening in Singapore, and Luis Alvarado, son of a Mexican children's author has been receiving threatening letters at school addressed to his father. Luis attends Enterprise International School, which Sam and Wendy, where Sam and Wendy are spending a week as exchange students. They visit an art supplies shop at the Bras Basah shopping complex in search of the supplier of the paper the letters are written on. Sam reveals the culprit at the Asian Children's Literature Prize ceremony.
	James Lowder "The Weeping Masks" (2003) Included in: Shadows Over Baker Street (Michael Reaves & John Pelan) Story Type: Canonical Revisioning Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Murray Fictional Characters: He Who Is Not To Be Named Unnamed Characters: Wounded Soldier; The Berkshires; The Ghazis; Dying Soldiers; Afghan Soldier; Afghan Villagers; Village Elder; Boy; Masked Priests; Women; Head Priest; Ghurkas Date: July, 1880 Locations: Afghanistan; Maiwand; An Afghan Village; A Cave; Peshawar Story: Watson tells of his time in Maiwand: his injury, and rescue by Murray. They find themselves sheltering in an Afghan village, where many of the villagers have been afflicted with a mysterious disease. After some days the sick room is visited by the masked priests, The Weeping Ones. Watson observes them bending over the sick villagers. As one bends over him he sees the tears that give them their name, and which seem about to fall on him, until Murray interrupts. The following morning the villagers are dead, and Murray gone. Believing that he has gone to face the priests, Watson sets off for the priests' cave to help him. There he witnesses their rites and learns the truth about the plague.
Tony Lumb "Sherlock Holmes and the White Lady of Featherstone" (1995) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Mycroft Holmes) Other Characters: Charles Thompson; Sergeant Joseph Sparrow; PC Nicholson; PC Windmill; PC Whittacker; Annie Sparrow; Charles Sparrow; Emily Roberts; Mr Holiday; Mrs Roberts; Enoch Roberts; Mr Umpleby; Mr Arundle; Dr Steven; Mr Deckler / Joshua DeKlerk; Sergeant Thurlwell; (John Lewis; Faubert; Maxwell; Hoyles; Asquith; Caley; Ramsden; Hargreaves; Mr Gledhill; Danny Oldroyd; Conrad Holiday; John Morris; David Roberts; Lord Lister; Roslyn Holiday; Mr Hickman; James Gibbs; Cadman) Unnamed Characters: Flying Scotsman Passengers; Waiter; Head Waiter; Stout Gentleman; Pickpocket; Train Constable; Featherstone Railway Porters; Ticket Collector; Shopkeepers; Barrow Owner; Trolley Owner; Urchins; Featherstone Residents; Coach Driver; Paperboy; Young Boy; (Reporter; Chief Constable; Witnesses; Night Constable; Young Lad) Date: The End of July, 1904 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; King's Cross Station; Aboard the Flying Scotsman; Lincolnshire; Grantham; Yorkshire; York Station; Featherstone; Featherstone Station; Station Lane; Station Road; Wakefield Turnpike; Sparrow's House; Green Lane; Featherstone Hall; Scarborough Terrace; Enoch's House; Police Station Story: Holmes and Watson travel on the Flying Scotsman to Yorkshire to visit Sergeant Sparrow in Featherstone. On his arrival, Holmes deduces that there have been two deaths and a robbery in the town. Sparrow tells them of the theft of a South African diamond, the White Lady, and the murder of the man who was bringing it from London to Mr Holiday, the manager of the local mine. The suspected thief was killed in an accident on the station, and his brother, who was also present, has been arrested. There has a been a spate of break-ins in local shops since the robbery occurred. A fish dinner leads to an unsuspected solution.
	Catherine Lundoff "A Scandalous Calculation" (2015) Included in: The Adventures of Moriarty (Maxim Jakubowski) Story Type: Extra-canonical adventure of Professor Moriarty Canonical Characters: Professor Moriarty; Irene Adler; Moriarty Gang; Colonel Moran; King of Bohemia; Godfrey Norton; Mycroft Holmes; (Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson) Other Characters: (Chilton; Master Carragher) Unnamed Characters: Whitechapel Crowds; Coach Driver; Boys; Moriarty's Valet; Footman; Reception Guests; King's Guards; Young Man; Servant; Waiter; Scotland Yard Men Date: After FINA Locations: Whitechapel; Warehouse; Reception House Story: Holding Godfrey Norton hostage to ensure her compliance, Moriarty plucks a disguised Irene Adler off the streets of Whitechapel, and orders her to sing for the King of Bohemia. His scheme to steal the King's signet ring, however does not go according to plan.
"The Adventure of the Missing Fiancé" (2020) Included in: The Book of Extraordinary New Sherlock Holmes Stories (Maxim Jakubowski) Story Type: Third-Person Pastiche Canonical Characters: Mrs Hudson; Sherlock Holmes; Violet Hunter; Baker Street Maid; Baker Street Irregulars; (Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Mrs Rucastle) Other Characters: Ezra; James "Jimmy" Longrin; (Peter Longrin; Mr Hudson) Unnamed Characters: Drunken Actor; Policemen; (Mrs Hudson's Tenants; Violet's Friends; Head Clerk; School Director; James's Mother; Peter's Father; James's Sister; James's Landlady; Mrs Hudson's Gardener; Actor's Wife; Mrs Rucastle's Cousin; James's Employer) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Story: Violet Hunter returns to Baker Street, and because Dr Watson is away on holiday, Mrs Hudson insists on being present when she explains her problem to Holmes. Her fiancé, James, has disappeared while on a business trip to London, a month before their wedding.
Richard A. Lupoff "The Adventure of the Boulevard Assassin" (1996) Included in: Resurrected Holmes (Marvin Kaye) Story Type: Parody in the style of Jack Kerouac Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Mary Morstan Other Characters: Gertrude Kaye; Fred Westcott; Fraulein Von Trepow; Von Trepow Unnamed Characters: Female Client; Cab Driver 1; Cab Driver 2; Whitechapel Drab; Her Patron de Nuit; Dead Body; Belgravia Servants; Party Guests; Maids; Butlers; Undercover Men; Maid; Kashmiri Rajah; Brigadier; Musicians Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Cab; Whitechapel; Music Hall; Belgravia Story: There is a knock on the door and Watson wonders who it is. A female client enters and asks Holmes to find her missing husband. After Watson makes a series of deductions regarding the woman, he and Holmes travel to Whitechapel, visit a Music Hall and meet Mrs Hudson who is hiding something. They carry on to a party in Belgravia where a Kashmiri rajah has his true identity revealed when his jewels are stolen. Watson discovers their client's unexpected actual identity. The following day he encounters a Prussian officer and two Mrs Hudsons at Baker Street.
	"The Adventure of the Impecunious Chevalier" (2003) Included in: My Sherlock Holmes (Michael Kurland); The Universal Holmes (Richard A. Lupoff) Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Dupin's Biographer & Dupin Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes Fictional Characters: Dupin's Biographer; C. Auguste Dupin; The Maltese Falcon; (Konstantinides; Dracula) Historical Figures: (Ramón Cabrera; Isabella II of Spain) Other Characters: Konstantinides; Duc de Lagny; Duchesse du Lagny Unnamed Characters: Urchin; Cab Driver; Dead Servants; Mayor of Lagny; Chef des Gendarmes of Lagny; Konstantinides' Nephew Locations: Paris; Dupin's Biographer's Lodgings; A Cab; Faubourg St-Germain; 33, Rue Dunôt; Konstantinides' Apothecary; A Hackney Carriage; An Inn; Lagny; Château de Lagny Story: Dupin is outraged at Holmes's comments in A Study In Scarlet. He summons his biographer and tells him of the time when the young Holmes visited him in Paris to learn his techniques and to ask his assistance in searching for the Maltese Falcon. The two journeyed to the village of Lagny, where Dupin's friend, the duke, was holding the bird for Cabrera; At the château they find the duke and all his servants murdered, but are convinced that the bird must still be there. Dupin instructs Holmes to use his powers of observation to locate it.
"The Adventure of the Voorish Sign" (2003) Included in: Shadows Over Baker Street (Michael Reaves & John Pelan); The Universal Holmes (Richard A. Lupoff) Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson Other Characters: Lady Fairclough; Anastasia Romelly; Bishop Vladimira Petrovna Ludmilla Romanova; Philip Llewellyn; (Lord Fairclough; Mrs. Morrissey) Unnamed Characters: Waiter; Trap Driver; Anthracite Palace Servants; (Chef; Dark Man) Date: Winter (1899) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Claridge's; A Train; Wales; Marthyr Tydhl; Anthracite Palace; (Llewellyn Hall, Pontefract, Canada) Story: Lady Fairclough travels from Canada to consult Holmes over the disappearance of her brother in Wales. Previously he had been in correspondence with her husband, who has also disappeared in Canada when their house was swallowed by the great Pontefract earthquake. Both men had built sealed square featureless rooms in their homes. She also tells them of the disappearance of a man at her brother's wedding. They travel to Wales where, at her brother's home, in company of his wife, who denies his disappearance, they take part in a strange ceremony.
	"The Case of the Doctor Who Had No Business" (1969) Included in: Startling Mystery, Winter 1969; The Universal Holmes (Richard A. Lupoff) Story Type: Canonical Re-visioning Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; (Sherlock Holmes; Mrs Watson; Mycroft Holmes; John Clayton; The Cutter Alicia; The Friesland) Fictional Characters: (Edward Malone; Tarzan; John Clayton; Alice Rutherford; The Fuwalda; Lord Tennington; The Lady Alice) Historical Figures: Edgar Rice Burroughs; (Thomas Newell Metcalf; Arthur Conan Doyle) Unnamed Characters: Diogenes Club Members Date: Mid-November, 1911 Locations: London; Pall Mall; Diogenes Club Story: Edgar Rice Burroughs is summoned by telegram to the Diogenes Club. There he meets Dr Watson, who offers him the story of Tarzan, which he has been told of by Mycroft, in return for information on American crime.
"God of the Naked Unicorn" (1976) Lupoff wrote this story as "Ova Hamlet" Included in: Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space (Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh); Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years (Michael Kurland) Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Irene Adler; Sherlock Holmes Fictional Characters: Doc Savage; Patricia Savage; The Avenger; The Shadow; Flash Gordon; Captain Future; John Carter; David Innes; The Spider; The Green Lama; Tarzan; The League's Assistants Other Characters: Albert Payson Agricola Unnamed Characters: Watson's Landlord; Cab Drivers; Mariners; Mechanician Locations: Limehouse; 221B, Baker Street; Watson's Rooms; West India Dock Road; A Cab; Ladbroke Grove Underground Station; An Underground Train; Irene's Autogyro; The Arctic; The Fortress of Solitude; Savage's Autogyro; Angkor Wat; The Temple of the Sun; Easter Island; Peoria; New York; Lower Seventh Avenue Story: After Holmes's retirement to Sussex, Watson, finding himself in straitened circumstances, is forced to take inferior lodgings in Limehouse. There he is visited by Irene, now married to the King of Bohemia, who wishes him to investigate the disappearance of the statue of the God of the Naked Unicorn. Instead of taking him to Bohemia as expected, Irene flies Watson in an autogyro to Doc Savage's Fortress of Solitude, where he is introduced to a number of other heroes, the League of Protectors, and where it is revealed that the theft of the statue is part of a much larger plot. He also learns that Irene is Savage's cousin. Savage tells him that Holmes and Tarzan have been kidnapped, shrunk to the size of pygmies by a device wielded by their captor. Watson and Savage track the villain around the world, finally running him to earth in London, at a familiar address, where he is using his insidious machine to control Holmes and Tarzan's actions and to shrink them smaller and smaller in stature. As Savage, too, comes under his control it is left to Watson to save the day. Note: This story is a biting attack on Philip José Farmer's pairing of Tarzan and Holmes in THE ADVENTURE OF THE PEERLESS PEER. The character Albert Payson Agricola represents Farmer ("Agricola"), accused of diminishing or trivialising the two characters. The name is also derived from the author Albert Payson Terhune, famous for his dog stories.
	"Inga Sigerson Weds" (2010) also published as "The Adventure of the Older Sister" Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The American Years (Michael Kurland); The Universal Holmes (Richard A. Lupoff) Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Elisabeth Holmes Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Mycroft Holmes Historical Figures: Captain Robert Halpin; Jessica Munn Halpin; Ethel Halpin; Belle Halpin; Edith Halpin; Harold; Edward VII Other Characters: Elisabeth Inga Holmes; Mr Tolliver; Clement Ziegfried; Clement Ziegfried; Albert Saxe; Mr Jenkins; Bertram Boatwright; Bonnie Boatwright; John Gaunt Beaufort; (Reginald Beasley Holmes; Mrs Holmes; Inga Elisabeth Sigerson; Jorgen Sigerson; Mrs Sigerson / Miss Tanner; Jonathan Van Hopkins; Clarissa MacDougald) Unnamed Characters: Great Eastern Officers; Crewman; Orchestra; Passengers; Waiters; A Leading Beauty of the London Stage; (Clarissa's Brother) Date: 1875 Locations: Old Romilly Street; Holmes Family Bakery; Southampton; Aboard the Great Eastern Story: Sherlock and his sister Elisabeth (disguised as a boy, Ellery), sail to America, as musicians in Ziegfried's orchestra, aboard the Great Eastern, to attend the wedding of their cousin, Inga Sigerson. They learn that one of the other passengers is claiming to be the rightful King of England, a descendant of the Plantagenets. When he draws a gun on the final night of the voyage, Holmes's scientific experimentation comes to the rescue and prevents a royal murder.
John Lutz "The Infernal Machine" (1987) Included in: The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Martin H. Greenberg, Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh & Jon L. Lellenberg); The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler); Sons of Moriarty and More Stories of Sherlock Holmes (Loren D. Estleman) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson Other Characters: Wilson Edgewick; Beech; Annie; Robby Smythe; Eames; Millicent Oldsbolt; Phoebe Oldsbolt; Major Ardmont; Landen Edgewick; (Sir Clive Oldsbolt; Ingraham Codder; Chief Constable Roberts) Unnamed Characters: King's Knave Patrons; Coachman; (Doctor) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Alverston; King's Knave Inn; The Oldsbolt House Story: Wilson Edgewick consults Holmes after the father of his brother's fiancée, a munitions manufacturer, is shot dead, apparently with a Gatling gun, for which the two brothers are the sole British agents. His brother Landen has been arrested for the murder. In Alverston, Holmes meets witnesses who heard the gun, the only one in England, being fired, and at the Oldsbolt house encounters the dead man's daughters and his old military friend. Holmes discovers the source of the noises heard and a missing pillow, and tinkers with a car to solve the crime and bring the killer to justice.
	D.P. Lyle "Bottom Line" (2018) Included in: For the Sake of the Game (Laurie R. King & Leslie S. Klinger) Story Type: Homage Other Characters: Billy Whitehead; Wilbert Scoggins; Carl Draper; Mrs Whitehead; Cora Draper; Raymond Eldridge; Sheriff Blake; (Mr Whitehead; Robert Olsen; Eldridge's Brother) Unnamed Characters: Visitation Guests Locations: USA; Scoggins' Funeral Home; Billy's House; Draper's Hardware Store; Sheriff's Office Story: Funeral home assistant Billy Whitehead doesn't believe that hardware store owner Carl Draper's death was suicide, as it appears to be. A re-reading of "The Reigate Squires" convinces him that he is right.
H.B. Lyle The Irregular (2017) Story Type: Extra-canonical Adventure of Wiggins Canonical Characters: Wiggins; Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Baker Street Irregulars; Von Bork; (Neville St Simon [Neville St Clair]; Mrs Hudson) Fictional Characters: A.J. Raffles; Bunny Manders; (Inspector Mackenzie) Historical Figures: Vernon Kell; Constable William "Bill" Tyler; Jacob Lepidus; Paul Hefeld; Sir John Spencer Ewart; Sir Edward Henry; Winston Churchill; Tyler's Family; Constance Kell; Peter the Painter; Yakov Peters; Viscount Haldane; Mansfield Smith-Cumming; (Ralph Joscelyne; Jim Kell; Johnny Kell; Vladimir Lenin; Tsar Nicholas II) Other Characters: Lawrence Leyton; Tobias Leach; Ma Leach; Elsie; Emily Tyler; Jim; Mrs Jelly; Soapy; Wilkins; Gerta; Jam / Bela Grybas / Arlekin; Nikolai; Sixsmith; Lieutenant Russell; Lady Agnes; Doc Rogers; Sal / Sally; Bane; Inspector Grimes; Jack; Mr Potts; Otto / Arthur; Mr Grybas; Sarah Grybas; Dunya; Old Marinsky; Vincas Marinsky; Arvo Marinsky; Rayner; Milton; The Honorable Charles Tinsley; René LeQuin; Richard Kent; Klaus; Royston Basil; Mavis Milton; Annie Milton; Mikhail; Mrs Kalina; Mrs Basil; Robert; Jax; Malev; Rijkard; Count Rudi Effenberg; Hans; Marta; Tomkins; Tommy; Herbert; Miller; Inspector Carlton; Constable Trubshaw; Constable Stoner; Michaels; Martha; (Mrs Balducci; Mr Jones; Martindale; Knightly; Willis; Alice; Albert; Jones; Bethell; MacDiarmid; Stasys; Plov Family; Dimitry Plov; Eunice Tinsley; Lady Argyll; R. Larkin) Unnamed Characters: Underground Passengers; Thugs; Baker Street Station Guard; Cabbie; Bailiffs; Cigarette Seller; City Workers; Newspaper Boy; London Bridge Pedestrians; Work Gang; Lamplighter; Bus Passengers; Draymen; Kell's Secretary; Commissionaire; Pub Customers; Tram Drivers; Signalmen; Pub Landlord; Waterman; Waterman's Son; Waterman's Wife; Police Constables; Coroner; Police Inspector; Home Office Pathologist; Tottenham Loafers; Foreign Workers; Gunmen; Park View Boy; Park View Crowd; Medic; Bystanders; Shopkeeper; Hale End Crowd; Tour Leader; Cabinet Room Minion; Cabinet Room Committee; Funeral Cortege; Funeral Congregation; Vicar; Church Choir; Toughs; Drowned Sailor Barman; Drowned Sailor Customer; Russian Bar Customers; Russian Barman; Whitechapel Constables; Magistrate; Grand Hotel Bellboy; Admiralty Man; Concert Audience; Musicians; Knightsbridge Man; Telephone Operator; Grand Hotel Receptionist; Army Driver; Quartermaster; Master of St Cyprian's Workhouse; Workhouse Children; Grand Hotel Concierge; Portsmouth Constables; Coalman; Baker Street Passersby; Train Passengers; Old Lady; Hampstead Police Sergeant; Kell's Police Guard; Blackheath Orphans; Orphanage Overseer; Boatmen; Dock Workers; Property Agent; Laundry Children; Piccadilly Crowds; Mother; Governess; Piccadilly Children; Cinema Audience Organist; Bus Conductor; Arsenal Workers; Arsenal Foreman; Tram Passengers; Tram Conductor; Birdseed Seller; Trafalgar Square Day Trippers; Savile Club Commissionaire; Soho Prostitute; Turkish Bath Clientele; Anarchist Club Members; Whitechapel Hawkers, Loafers, Hookers & Restaurant-Goers; Tearoom Patrons; Young Dvinsk Woman; Okhrana Officers; Borough Streetwalker; Piccadilly Cabbie; Sailors; Oxford Street Boy; Oxford Street Crowds; Speakers' Corner Crowd; Socialist Party Speaker; Hyde Park Police; Second Speaker; Albany Commissionaire; Music Promoter; Curzon Street Desk Sergeant; Immigrants; Aldgate Gents; Exhibition Crowds; Dahomey Warriors; Trafalgar Square Policeman; Post Office Clerks; Peter's Men; Charing Cross Hawkers; Embassy Guests; Embassy Orchestra; Embassy Flunkies; Drivers; Majordomo; Butlers; Canal Boatmen; Library Man; Marta's Son; Arsenal Watchman; Portland Street Station Guards; Costermongers; Barrow Boys; Flower Girls; Orphanage Matron; Northumberland Porters; Northumberland Guests; Northumberland Waiter; Gallery Attendant; Tour Guide; Tourists; Monmouth Street Children; Newsboy; Farmhand; Cromwell Road Policeman; Schoolmistress; Major; Museum Visitors; Carlton's Constables; Gloucester Road Stationmaster; Prostitutes; Madam; Trade-Union Demonstrators; Cabbie; Dover Street Crowds; Cabinet Office Clerk; (Wiggins's Mother; Petersfield Doctor; Portsmouth Coroner; War Office Watcher; Convict; Bela's Mother; Bela's Aunt; Plovs' Driver; Bunch of Grapes Barmaid; Albany Residents; Army Nurse; Jax's Cabbie; Stoner's Father; Stoner's Brothers) Date: December, 1908 - 1909 Locations: Underground Train; Portland Road Station; Baker Street Station; Baker Street; Churchyard; Building Site; Pelham Road; Liverpool Street; Bank; London Bridge; Leach & Son's Offices; Commercial Road; Aldgate East; Fleet Street; The Strand; War Office; Tottenham; Pub; Bill's House; Rotherhithe; The Thames; Barts; Tottenham High Road; Chestnut Road; Tottenham Police Station; Park View; Billet Lane; Hale End; Oak Cottage; Whitehall; Cabinet Office; Soapy's Club; Church; Hampstead; Kell's House; The Drowned Sailor; Whitechapel; Russian Bar; Police Court; Knightsbridge; Concert Hall; War Office; Clapham Road; Brixton Prison; Marylebone; St Cyprian's Workhouse; Park; Marylebone Road; Paddington Station; Brixton Hill; Stockwell; Hampstead Police Station; Blackheath Orphanage for Girls; Villiers Street; Embankment Pier; Wapping; Red Lion Street; Cable Street; Jubilee Street; Piccadilly; Fortnum & Mason; Piccadilly Station; Down Street Station; Regent Street Theatre; Woolwich Arsenal; Northumberland Avenue; Aldwych; Trafalgar Square; Savile Club; Soho; Kingly Street; Marshall Street Baths; Anarchist Club; Praed Street; 221B, Baker Street; The Old Sheer Hulk; Charlton; Milton's Rooms; Tower Bridge; Peter's Teashop; Westminster Bridge; Lambeth; Deptford; Basil's Cottage; Woolwich Station; London Bridge Station; Borough; The Bunch of Grapes; Piccadilly Circus; The Albany; Oxford Street; Park Lane; Speakers' Corner; Hyde Park; Curzon Street Police Station; Aldgate Station; Wood Lane Station; Berkeley Square; General Post Office; Sambrook Street; Jermyn Street; Islington; Charing Cross Road; The Mall; German Embassy; Edgware Road; Euston Road; The Wounded Hart; Whitechapel Free Library; Regent's Park; Covent Garden; Henrietta Street; Shaftesbury Avenue; Upper Street; Northumberland Hotel; National Gallery; Seven Dials; Monmouth Street; Holborn Viaduct; Irregulars' Railway Arch; Embankment; Lots Road; Cromwell Road; Natural History Museum; Stanhope Road; Cromwell Road; Cranleigh Gardens; Collingham Road; New Oxford Street; 24A, Gower Street; Shaftesbury Avenue; Green Park; Wood Lane; Shepherd's Bush Green; Kensal Green Cemetery; Victoria Street; Portsmouth; Grand Hotel; Police Station; Docks; The Eight Bells; Petersfield; Sussex; Holmes's Cottage; Latvia; Dvinsk; Bela's House; The Plovs' House; Marinsky's Warehouse; Ship; South Africa; Ladysmith Story: Vernon Kell's agent, Leyton, is killed while trying to deliver a package to Kell. Wiggins is working as a bailiff for Tobias Leach, when Kell tries to recruit him, on Holmes's recommendation. After his friend, Constable Bill Tyler is killed during the events of the Tottenham Outrage, Wiggins starts hunting for the man behind his death, but ends up in prison. Wiggins recalls his childhood, as Kell loses another man. After leaving prison, Wiggins visits Holmes, who persuades him to work with Kell on an investigation into secrets being leaked from Woolwich Arsenal. The case ends with a race to prevent an anarchist outrage.
	The Red Ribbon (2018) Story Type: Extra-canonical Adventure of Wiggins Canonical Characters: Wiggins; Baker Street Irregulars; Sherlock Holmes; (Von Bork (as Van Bork); Dr Watson) Historical Figures: Vernon Kell; Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming; Sir Patrick Quinn; Constance Kell; Kell's Children; Winston Churchill; Sir Edward Henry; Sir Edward Grey; H.H. Crippen; Ethel Le Neve; Georgiana Kell; Lawrence Oates; Edith Garrud; Peter the Painter; Lady Quinn; Charlie Chaplin; Ada Wright; H.H. Asquith; Viscount Haldane; Sir William Nott-Bower; George Gardstein; Charles Perelman; Superintendet Mulvaney; Fritz Svaars; Joseph Sokolov; Hector Charles Bywater; Captain Bernard Trench; Lieutenant Vivian Brandon; (Edward VII; Constable William "Bill" Tyler; Alexander Bethell; Marie Lloyd; Mary Jane Clarke; Constable Piper; Sergeant Bentley; Sergeant Choate; Constable Woodhams; Sergeant Charles Tucker; Yakov Peters; Yourka Dubof; Dr Scanlon) Other Characters: Millicent / Millie; Thomas Clay / Big T / Tommy; Captain Bernard Trench; Lieutenant Vivian Brandon; Simpkins; Tobias Etienne Gerard Marchmont "Soapy" Pears; Jax; Little Els; Martha; Poppy; Boy; Harold Moseby-Brown; Detective Jackson; Sid; Archibald Carter; Dinah; Pru; Tansy; Abernathy; Nobbs; Count Rudi Effenberg; Symes; Bulldog; Captain Bobrowski; Armand; Mawson; Gorot; Ralph; Clarrie; Alice Pears; Wilkins; The Three Figaros; Jacko; The Five Hunters; Rosa; Matilda; Fat Harry; Inspector Carlton; (Helm; Leitner; Sternberg; Bela Grybas; Sal; Frankie; Mueller; Arbuckle; Bevington; Bryce; Sybella; Dorothea; Chao Lan; Bertie; Flea; Agnes; Knightly; Dr Krestin; Victor Kell; The 3 Laurels; That Brute Simmons; Mr Memory) Unnamed Characters: Man on Bus; Bus Conductor; Streetwalkers; Nanny; Fleet Street Runners; Reporters; Printers; Messengers; Scotland Yard Charge Sergeant; Special Branch Officers; Vere Street Children; Millie's Mother; Belgravia Policeman; Kell's Servants; Olifa Girls; Newsboys; Minstrels; Onlookers; Purdey's Sales Clerk; Cabbies; Priest; Churchgoers; The Cabinet; Aides; Scotland Yard Desk Sergeant; Train Passengers; Boy on Train; Soapbox Orator; Market Traders; Butcher; Matron on Bus; Marylebone Commuters; Marylebone Stationmaster; Suffrage Speaker; Suffrage Audience; Lyons' Diners; Lyons' Waitresses; Dinah's Friends; Funeral Mourners; Hurdy-Gurdy Player; Beggar; Mortuary Attendant; Bloodied Axe Barman; Boxers; Busboy; Duke of Cambridge Customers; Patna Cabin Boy; Patna Crew; Santa Cruz Telegraph Operator; Santa Cruz Square Men; Santa Cruz Barman; Mawson's Clerk; Carter's Brother; Flask Barman; Tilbury Sergeant; Tilbury Constable; Amsterdam Station Porter; Ticket Inspector; Ju-Jitsu Students; Hillman's Porter; Hillman's Guests; German Ticket Inspectors; Borkum Ticket Clerk; Strand Guests; Bath Chair Pensioners; Borkum Seaman; Ferry Passengers; Ferry Quay Band; Borkum Police; Emden Police; German Naval Intelligence Officer; Lascar; Chinese Junk Captain; Club Waiter; Fish & Chip Vendor; Tram Conductor; Transport Workers; White Feathers Customers; Hyde Park Suffragettes; Hyde Park Speakers; Indian Woman; Reading Room Readers; Librarians; Museum Tavern Barman; Crown Patrons; Crown Barmaid; Russians; Smithfield Butchers; Embassy Customer; Kell's Footman; Dockers; Dock Police; Boatmen; Elephant & Castle Barman; Music Hall Audience; Music Hall Band; Music Hall Waitresses; Warm-Up Man; Music Hall MC; Tommy's Men; Music Hall Comic; Bishop; Parliament Square Protestors; Parliament Square Police; Press Photographer; Parliament Square Onlookers; Great Russell Street Clerks; Museum Tourists; Meux's Brewers; Carol Singers; Nobbs's Sister's Artist Friend; Taxi Drivers; Rising Sun Publican; Rising Sun Patrons; Rosa's Mother; Leman Street Police Officers; Brass Band; Sidney Street Onlookers; Sidney Street Police; Scots Guards; Reporters; Film Crew; Embassy Girls; F Division Officers; Millie's Baby; (Flower Seller; German Ambassador; Nobbs's Brother; German Security Guard; Nobbs's Cousin; North End Road Traders; Delivery Boys; Kell's Doctor; Kell's Family Nanny; Cable Street Gunsmith) Date: May, 1910 - January, 1911 / 1890 Locations: Belgravia; Ranleigh Terrace; Embassy of Olifa; Hammersmith Bridge Road; Hammersmith Bridge; Victoria Street; Secret Service Building; The Duke of Cambridge Pub; Fleet Street; The Cheshire Cheese; Cabinet Office; Whitehall; New Scotland Yard; Lambeth; 18, Vere Street; Hampstead; Kell's House; Paddington Railway Arch; Purdey's; Church; Cabinet Briefing Room; Charing Cross Station; Waterloo Junction; Petticoat Lane; Liverpool Street; Borough; Sal's Tea Hut; Islington; Hilldrop Crescent; Marylebone Station; Lyons' Corner House; Park Lane; Edgware Road; Symes's Flat; Horseferry Road; Mortuary; The Bloodied Axe; Rosslyn Hill; Belsize Park; Embankment Station; Paddington Station; Duke of Cambridge Pub; Soho; Molinari's Coffee House; The Foreign Office; Golden Square; The Flask; Tilbury Docks; Tilbury Police Station; Kell's Club; The White Feathers; Regent Street; Hyde Park; Euston; British Museum Reading Room; Museum Tavern; Theobald's Road; Crown Tavern; Clerkenwell Road; Clerkenwell; Artillery Square; Smithfield Market; 14, Ranleigh Terrace; Cutler Street; Elephant & Castle; Royal Standard Music Hall; Parliament Square; Barons Court; Fulham Road; Whitefields; Great Russell Street; Tottenham Court Road; Sidney Street; The Rising Sun; Charley Martin's Mansions; Leman Street Police Station; Commercial Road; Tower of London; Heal's; Aboard the SS Patna; Tenerife; Santa Cruz; Post Office; Café; Mawson & Swain; Quayside; Aboard the Terra Nova; Holland; Amsterdam; Central Station; A Train; Germany; Bremen; Hillman's Hotel; Emden; Ferry Quay; Borkum; Kohler's Strand Hotel; Ferry Quay; Wilhelmshaven Story: Wiggins is still on the trail of Peter the Painter, but agrees to help Jax search for her friend Millie, who has gone missing. Kell sets him the task of tracing the source of a cabinet leak, while they make preparations to forestall an assassination at the King's funeral. Wiggins visits a high class brothel, and renews his acquaintance with Tommy, an ex-Irregular. Constance Kell joins a group of suffragettes, and Wiggins forestalls an outrage during the funeral procession. Wiggins finds himself in the Canary Islands, and on his return is arrested, then shipped off to Amsterdam, and thence to Germany to rescue two of Cumming's agents. He is in the midst of things when the government takes harsh action against the dockworkers and suffragettes, and at the siege in Sidney Street. NOTE: There is no indication as to whether or not the Mr Memory who performs at the Royal Standard Music Hall is the Mr Memory from Hitchcock's The 39 Steps.
The Year of the Gun (2020) Story Type: Extra-canonical Adventure of Wiggins Canonical Characters: Wiggins; Sherlock Holmes; Von Bork; (Dr Watson; Baker Street Irregulars; Altamont) Fictional Characters: Harry Hope Historical Figures: Little Patsy Doyle; John Coffey; Thomas King; Vernon Kell; Patrick Pearse; Big Jack Zelig; Charles Becker; Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein; Herbert Bayard Swope; Harry Houdini; Rose Schneiderman; Jack Sirocco; Maud Swartz; Lefty Louie Rosenberg; Gyp the Blood; Eugene O'Neill; (Constable William "Bill" Tyler; Henry Joseph Bailey; Constance Kell; Big Tim Sullivan; Herman Rosenthal; Lillian Rosenthal; Mansfield Cumming) Other Characters: Petey Tyrone; Anderson; Rooney; Vincent Hannigan; Fitz; Patrick O'Connell; Mooney; Margaret "Molly" Lansdown-Smith; Rashers; Macauley; Civ; Connie; Kennedy; Mr Lynch; Maggie; Kathleen; Toner; Captain Roderick Masters; Mahoney; Lieutenant John J. Donohue; Baseball; Officer Jones; Phelps; Weiss; Dolores; Meath; Sarah Grybas Marinsky; Cork; Lieutenant Cairns; (Patrolman Hennessy; Bela Grybas; Gogarty; Malone; Sal; Becky; Knightly; O'Shea; Jax; Levi Roth; Arvo Marinsky; Stanhope; Tollington) Unnamed Characters: Titanic Passengers; Titanic Sailors; Tourists; Guinness Draymen; Old Men in Pub; Tea Seller; Dublin Thugs; Dublin Metropolitan Police Officers; Royal Irish Constabulary Officers; Dubliners; Henrietta Street Children; Slum-dwellers; Pub Customers; Gamblers; Prostitutes; Harp Busker; Abbey Theatre Audience; Beggar; Abbey Ticket Clerk; Mulligan's Barman; Coopers; Watchmen; Bald Man; Tailcoat Woman; Barmen; Young Loafers; Maid; Fitz's Mother; Fitz's Father; Fitz's Sister; Shopkeeper; Guinness Wharf Crowd; St Stephen's Green Steward; O'Connell's Men; Tram Passengers; Tram Conductor; Clerys Sales Assistants; Restaurant Counter Man; Pearse's Audience; Poker Players; Dealer; Segal's Customers; Segal's Band; Segal's Waiter; Ship Boy; Ship Passengers; Zelig's Heavies; Street Car Conductors; Street Car Passengers; New Yorkers; New York Children; Flophouse Occupants; New York Policemen; Tenement Resident; Charwoman; Diner Waitress; 45th Street Shopkeeper; Ice-cream Seller; Metropole Barman; Red-Haired Irishman; Metropole Waiter; Metropole Pianist; El Passengers; Swope's Boatmen; Houdini Onlookers; Weiss Clientele; Weiss's Clerk; Rose's Audience; Sirocco's Men; Metropole Doorman; Metropole Bellhops; Sullivan's Man; Jimmy the Priest's Customers; Jimmy the Priest's Barman; O'Neill's Friend; Chorus Girls; Sarah's Children; Waldorf Bellhop; Clothier's Boy; Train Warning Guard; Boatmen; Olympic Waiter; Cowes Crowds; Gladiator Crew; German Officer; Naval Officer; Milford Haven Coastguard; Navy Ratings; (Coffey's Cousin) Date: 11th April - May 1912 Locations: Aboard the Titanic; Ireland; Queenstown; Dublin; Francis Street; Rooney's Pub; Coombe Street; Mountjoy Prison; Pubs; Sackville Street; The Pillar; Henrietta Street; Mulligan's Pub; St Stephen's Green; Brothel; The Liberties; Abbey Theatre; Grafton Street; Mount Street; Inghinidhe Rooms; Westland Row; Dromgoole's Hotel; Clerys Department Store; Restaurant; Rutland Street; USA; New York; Hudson River Docks; Lower East Side; Second Avenue; Segal's International Café; Times Square; Hotel Metropole; 48th Street; Hell's Kitchen; Broadway; West 45th Street; 42nd Street Station; Upper East Side; Kell's Manhattan Townhouse; Weiss People-Finding Union; Rose's Office; Occidental Hotel; Jimmy the Priest's; 141 Essex Street; Waldorf Astoria Hotel; Aboard the Olympic; Aboard the Santa Clara; Isle of Wight; Cowes; Gloster Hotel; Milford Haven Story: Wiggins is put off the Titanic in Ireland when card-play turns into gun-play. In Dublin he spends a week in prison after rescuing gang boss Patrick O'Connell from an attack on Coombe Street. He works for O'Connell to earn money for a passage to New York, and is drawn into association with the Irish Liberation movement. After the murder of Wiggins's roommate Fitz leaves O'Connell out of pocket, he takes Wiggins to New York, looking for funds. Wiggins immediately runs afoul of both the police and the mob. O'Connell is arrested and Wiggins is reunited with Sherlock Holmes and Vernon Kell. Back in Ireland, Wiggins works on a mission to infiltrate an arms deal.
	Spy Hunter (2023) Story Type: Extra-canonical Adventure of Wiggins Canonical Characters: Wiggins; Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; [Gustav Phillip Justinian Graf] Von Bork; Archie [Moreton]; (Baker Street Irregulars; Von Bork; Professor Moriarty; Hosmer Angel; Neville St Clair; Adams; Wilson, The Notorious Canary Trainer; Jonathan Clay; Mrs Hudson) Fictional Characters: Carruthers; Hercule Poirot Historical Figures: Mehmed Mehmedbasic; Nedeljko Cabrinovic; Archduke Franz Ferdinand; Trifko Grabez; Cvjetko Popovic; Vaso Cubrilovic; Gavrilo Princip; Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg; Sir Vernon Kell; Mansfield Cumming; Winston Churchill; Constance Kell; Mata Hari; Georges Ladoux; Sir Edward Grey; Hector Charles Bywater; Frank Foley; (Christabel Pankhurst; Emperor Franz Joseph; Joseph Chamberlain; Mary Richardson; Emily Davison; Louise MacLeod; Charlie Chaplin; Keir Hardie; Wilhelm II; Diaghilev; Bill Tyler; Hebert Asquith; Nicholas Hartwig; Sir Edward Henry; Henriette Caillaux; Joseph Caillaux; Annie Bell; Tsar Nicholas II; Sergey Sazonov; Venetia Stanley; Leopold Berchtold; Von Hötzendorf Jean Jaurès; Vivian Brandon; Bernard Trench) Other Characters: Simpkins; Tosher; Big Ed; Little Ronnie; Tommy; Mrs Jepson; Corporal Maddox; Maguire; Phelps; Mr Garratt; Dogger; Jack Pilch; Mrs Pilch; Karl Gustav Ernst / The Pentonville Postman; Billy; Michaels; Martha; Monsieur Raymonde; Boy; Herman Block; Claudette; Rasher; Pikestaff; Netherfield; Augustus Millfield Browne; Gilles; Jax; Jean-Claude; Maxim DuPont / Schmidt; Clough; Xavier; Hans; Mortimer; Lothar; Bruno; (Tobias Etienne Gerard Marchmont "Soapy" Pears; Ruffian; Counterscarp; H2O; Sal; Tobias Leach; Graves; Schultz; Patrick O'Connell; Inspector Melville; Martindale; Papa De Hem; Athelney Smith; Maxim DuPont; Mr & Mrs Hermann Wolff; Bela Grybas; Paul; Delphy; Symes; Alice Pears; Bulldog Wallace; Rijkard; Nancy; Sybil Thwaites) Unnamed Characters: Sarajevo Crowds; Gendarmes; Driver; Army Officer; Building Site Workmen; Kings Arms Patrons; Kings Arms Landlord; Building Site Foreman; Mother Red Cap Patrons; Mother Red Cap Barman; Sailor Cap; Cloaked Man; Kell's Employees; Garratt's Clerks; Garratt's Customers; East Street Old Woman; East Street Child; East Street Man; East Street Passers-by; Ernst's Customer; Belgian Waiter on Train; Gare du Nord Telephone Clerk; Belgian Cavalry Troupe; Tram Conductors; Tram Passengers; Prostitutes; Pianist; Musicians; Mata Hari's Audience; The Little General; Man in Blue Jacket; Gare du Midi Crowds; Driver; Porter; Station Master; Guard; Engine Driver; Train Passengers; Train Fireman; Customs Officers; Quévy Railwayman; Train Waiter; Blond Man; Parisians; Élysée Footman; Café Waiters; Young Englishman; Paris Prostitutes; Moulin Rouge Dancers; Moulin Rouge Waiter; Moulin Rouge Clientele; Moulin Rouge Band; Rioters; Kitchen Crew; Manager; Cleaning Woman; Busboy; Blind Beggar Char; Blind Beggar Drinkers; Suffragettes; Policemen; Opium Den Assistants; Issy Stewards; Airshow Crowds; Pilots; Water Boy; DuPont's Mechanic; Eiffel Tower Diners; Gendarmes; Kell's Servants; Kidnappers; Von Bork Steward; Cab Driver; Holloway Warden; Deputy Prison Governor; Holloway Prisoners; Prison Guard; Von Bork's Naval Officers; Berliners; Street Band; Bywater's Caretaker; Kell's Maid; Boy with Hoop; Beer House Clientele; Berlin Policeman; Train Drivers; Dover Passengers; Rowing Squad; Dover Customs Men; Dover Official; Dover Policeman; Police Driver; Cabby; Young Dandy; Clerkenwell Policemen; Churchill's Footman; Police Sailor; (Cabby; Roman Road Audience; German Count; Club Attendant; Bent Stockbroker; Wiggins's Mother; Cattle Baron; Heiress; Bent Bookie) Date: 28 June - 28 July, 1914 Locations: Bosnia; Sarajevo; Appel Quay; Franz Joseph Street; London; Lambeth; Building Site; Cumming's Office; Watergate House; Kings Arms; Roman Road; Holloway Road; The Mo ther Red Cap; Watson's Consulting Room; Old Kent Road; Garratt's Pawnbrokers; 42, East Street; Walworth Road; Churchill's Club; Islington; Caledonian Road; The Prince Arthur; Ernst's Barbershop; Hampstead; Kell's House; Foreign Office; Whitechapel; The Blind Beggar; New Oxford Street; Drury Lane; Drury Lane Theatre; Holloway Prison; Belgium; Brussels; Gare du Nord; Bordello; Post Office; Gare du Midi; Café le Cirio; Quévy; France; Paris; Élysée Palace Hotel; Rue du Fauborg Saint-Honoré; Café; Hôtel L'Alsace; Moulin Rouge; Issy-les-Moulineaux; Eiffel Tower; Quai d'Orfèvres; Germany; Berlin; Barracks; Potsdamer Platz; Kreuzberg Street; Tiergarten; Café am Neuen See; Beer House; Stuttgart Station; Aachen; Kelmis; Dover; Hoxton; The Old Number 9; Clerkenwell; Sewer; Churchill's Apartment Story: After the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, both Vernon Kell and Sherlock Holmes attempt to lure Wiggins away from his job on a building site and back into the Secret Service, but it is only after an attack on Holmes that he takes up the hunt for Von Bork again. He follows a lead to Brussels where he meets an old acquaintance in a bordello, and makes a dangerous new enemy. He travels on to Paris with Mata Hari, and ends up fighting for his life in an airplane. Meanwhile, Watson carries out his own investigations in London and Constance Kell goes missing. Wiggins is abducted and put on a sealed train heading for Germany. The case ends in the London sewers.
	Miriam Lynch Creighton's Castle (1975) Story Type: Homage / Gothic Mystery Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Irene Adler; Mrs Hudson) Historical Figures: (Arthur Conan Doyle) Characters Derived from Historical Figures: Roger Creighton (William Gillette) Other Characters: Judith Devereaux; Michael Creighton; Billy Devoe; Eva Hudson; Chickie Landell; Margaret Halliday; Charles Alvin; Storm Kingsley; Hal Chisholm; Maurice Todhunter "Toddy" Halliday; Williams; (Sister Eulalia; Brother Matthew; Sister Melitas; Little Edna Barlett; Louise Devereaux; Doctor; Police) Unnamed Characters: Taxi Driver; Mother Superior; Cigar Smoking Train Passenger; Conductor; Theatre-Goers; (News Broadcaster) Date: November, mid-1970s / November, 1926 / November, 1918 Locations: A Theatre; Connecticut; Creighton's Castle; St Monica's Academy; New York; Amsterdam Avenue; Trains; Station; West Sixty-Sixth Street Story: Attending a performance of 221B, Baker Street, in the 1970s, Judith is reminded of events in 1926: She arrives at Creighton's Castle, home of actor Roger Creighton, noted for his performance as Sherlock Holmes in the self-penned 221B, Baker Street, sent by her father, the comedian, Billy Devoe, to deliver a letter. She recalls the death of Charles Alvin during her previous visit in 1918, and discovers that the same houseguests are present again, that Creighton is planning a revival of the play, and that she is forced to stay the night. She recalls Creighton's apparent infatuation with her, and its abrupt ending, and her fondness for his son, Michael. She is waiting to meet Creighton outside when a falling rock barely misses her, and she spots a deerstalker-clad head peering over the roof. She becomes increasingly aware of the tensions between Creighton and his guests. A séance is organised at which a "spirit" makes accusations against the host, and later, Judith is attacked again. Michael tells her about his mother and about Creighton's past in the circus. Before she can leave, the following morning, another of the guests, Chisholm, is murdered. Judith begins to suspect Michael may be involved, and that her father might be blackmailing Creighton. She returns to New York, but is soon on her way back to Connecticut, following her father, who has gone to confront Creighton. There, she finds herself locked in Creighton's private museum, and realises that the murder has been covered up, and Michael has gone away, only to reappear with a strange young boy who tells her that the Castle residents plan to kill both of them. Michael tells her who the boy really is, and Judith realises who the murderer must be, but when she and the rest of the castle guests are held at gunpoint she learns her mistake, and discovers that the roots of the murders lie even further back in time than she suspected, and more people are to die before things come to a close.
Gayle Lynds & John Sheldon "A Triumph of Logic" (2011) Included in: A Study in Sherlock (Laurie R. King & Leslie S. Klinger) Story Type: Homage Other Characters: Judge Linwood Boothby; Artie Morey; Emmy Holcrofts; Judge Gibson Watts; Julia Austrian; (Ina Lederer; Harold Doak) Unnamed Characters: Watts' Guests; Court Clerk; (Federal Drug Enforcement Investigator; Ina's Brothers; Watts's Law Clerk; Piano Tuner; Watts's Law School Classmate) Date: Early 21st Century Locations: USA; Maine; Franklin County Courthouse; Muscongus Bay; Watts' Home; Lewiston; Ina's Apartment Story: Hollcrofts approaches Judge Boothby with concerns about the apparent suicide of his niece, Ina, a court stenographer. She has found a large sum of money among her possessions and fears it may have been come by illegally, and when she is looking for transcripts relating to Harold Doak, she is approached by a drug enforcement officer asking about Ina's dealings with Doak. The piano wire used to hang Ina provides the vital clue.
	Peter Lyon "The Hound of the Basketquills" (1946) Included in: The Carmel Pine Cone (18 October 1946) Story Type: Parody Sherlockian Detectives: I-naw Bones; Unnamed Narrator Other Characters: Inspector Igo Woof; The Hound of the Basketquills; Miss Princess Van Sniffoe Unnamed Characters: Human; (Dog in Charge of Cafe au Hambuerqua) Date: 13 February 1897 Locations: 243, Charlington Drive; 247, Charlington Drive Story: Champion Pekingese, Miss Princess Van Sniffoe, disappears from her London home. Dog detective I-naw Bones assists Inspector Igo Woof in his investigation. Woof hears the howl of the Hound of the Basketquills, the legendary dog that dresses in human clothes.

SHERLOCKIAN STORY SUMMARIES

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Lackey - Lewitt | Lid - Lyon

Richard Lid

F. Lines

Gillian Linscott

Laura Lippman

Arthur L. Lippmann

Ashley Lister

Richard Henry Little

Alison Littlewood

Morgan Llywelyn

Patrick LoBrutto

Steve Lockley

George Locke

C.D. Locock

Hugh Lofting

Lloyd Lonergan

Charles Loomis

Floyd Lounsbury

Simon Louvish

Allan Loux

James Lovegrove

Charles J. Lovell

Marc Lovell

Peter Lovesey

Gary Lovisi

A.J. Low

James Lowder

Tony Lumb

Catherine Lundoff

Richard A. Lupoff

John Lutz

D.P. Lyle

H.B. Lyle

Miriam Lynch

Gayle Lynds & John Sheldon

Peter Lyon

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