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.
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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.
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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.
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"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
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"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
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"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.
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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.
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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
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"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.
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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.
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"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
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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"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. |
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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"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. |
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"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.
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"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.
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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
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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.
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"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.
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"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.
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"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,
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"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. |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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
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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.
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"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.
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"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
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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.
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"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.
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"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
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"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
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"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.
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"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.
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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.
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"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
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"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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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"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.
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"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. |
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"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
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"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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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