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Barbara Nadel
"The Last of His Kind" (2015)
Included in: The Adventures of Moriarty
(Maxim Jakubowski)
Story Type: Extra-canonical Adventure of
Professor Moriarty
Canonical Characters: Professor Moriarty; (Moriarty
Gang)
Historical Figures: Abdulhamid II;
(Dr Mavroyeni; Rustem Bey; Murad V; Young Turks;
Prince Selim; Sigmund Freud; Abdulmecid I; Mehmed
V Reshad)
Other Characters: (Kizlar Agasi; Carpet
Seller; Baker; Imam; Blonde Girl)
Date: 1909
Locations: Turkey; Istanbul; Yildiz
Palace
Story: During the Young Turk
revolution, Moriarty confronts Sultan Abdulhamid II at
the Yildiz Palace.
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Dorothy Nager
"Mystery of
the Missing Lala" (1935)
Included in: Analecta 1935 (Central Collegiate
Institute, Calgary)
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detective: Inspector Spoof
Other Characters: Madame Zaza
Unnamed Characters: Popoff Detective Agency
Manager
Date: November or December
Locations: Popoff Detective Agency;
Madame's House
Story: The Popoff Detective Agency sends
Inspector Spoof, who dresses like Sherlock Holmes, to
look for opera singer Mme Zaza's missing Lala. After
smoking her cigarettes and eating her food, he uncovers
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H.W.H. Nameti
"The Rib Mythtery" (1914)
Included
in: The Sheerness Times, 4 July 1914
Story
Type: Parody
Canonical
Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Biblical Characters: (Adam; Eve)
Other
Characters: (Count of Cursory; King of
Carnt; Dr Cramingham)
Unnamed
Characters: Jarvey: Shop Assistant
Date:
Locations:
221B, Baker Street; Shop
Story:
Watson returns to Baker Street after spending a few days
away from Holmes's current obnoxious mood. Holmes tells
him of the case he has been working on of a man who fell
asleep in his garden, and on waking found a woman beside
him and a pain in his side. Watson circumvents his
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Sena Jeta Naslund
Sherlock in Love (1993)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Watson &
Holmes
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Mrs.
Hudson; Wiggins; Mycroft Holmes; Inspector Lestrade;
Irene Adler; King of Bohemia; Godfrey Norton
Historical Figures: Richard Pankhurst;
Emmeline Pankhurst; Sir Leslie Stephen; Julia
Duckworth Stephen; Stella Stephen; Vanessa Bell;
Virginia Woolf; Thoby Stephen; Ludwig II; Hornig;
Hesselschwerdt; Osterholzer; Count Holnstein; Dr.
Gudden; Count Dürckheim; Duchess Ludovica; (Albert
Einstein)
Other Characters: Red-Haired Man; Mary, Mrs.
Hudson's Maid; Nannerl; St. Giles Doorkeeper; St.
Giles Patients; Nurse; Lucinda; Karl Klaus; Victor
Sigerson; Musicians; King's Spur Clientele; Slab
Boy; King's Spur Waiter; Violet Sigerson; Hans
Bachaus; Suffragettes; Opera-Goers; Klaus's Friend;
Sigerson's Assistant; Lock Man; Sigerson's Audience;
Masked Servant; Holnstein's Attendants; Ludwig's
Servants; Grooms; Alphonse Welcker; Ludwig's Valet;
Ludwig's Coachman; Peasants; Ilse; Munich
Commissioners; Dungeon Guards; Innkeeper; Berg
Servant; Irene's Servants
Date: 1922 & 1886
Locations: Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street;
St. Giles' Hospital; A Carriage; St. Paul's
Cathedral; A Cab; Wiggins's Lodgings; Regent Street;
Bow Street; Sigerson's Hotel; St. James's Park; The
King's Spur Pub; Opera House; Charing Cross Station;
A Train; Edinburgh; St. Andrew Square; Bavaria;
Linderhof; A Carriage; Oberammergau; Hohenschwangau
Palace; Neuschwanstein Castle; Berg Castle; Lake
Starnberg; Munich; Another Train
Story: Two years after Holmes's death Watson
places an advertisement in The Times asking
for biographical information on his friend. One
evening, returning home to Baker Street, he thinks
he sees Holmes's shadow on the blind, but when he
gets upstairs the room is empty. A note in Holmes's
violin case reminds him of a violinist named Victor
Sigerson, but when he looks up Sigerson in Holmes's
index books the relevant pages have been removed. He
later receives a letter warning him to give up his
investigations into Holmes's past.
The following day Watson receives a
visit from Wiggins, now a consulting psychiatrist,
who tells him of a missing patient. Watson describes
a woman, who fits her description, he has seen
standing opposite 221B. That night he finds more
pages have been cut from Holmes's index books.
At St. Giles' Hospital Watson encounters
Wiggins's patient, Nannerl, who greets him with the
words, "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive."
Wiggins receives a note from the letter-sender, and
refuses to allow Watson to see letters Holmes has
sent him. As Watson is leaving they discover
Wiggins's dog, Toby, with its throat cut.
At a concert at St. Paul's, Watson sees
a woman in red, whom he suspects to be the writer of
the notes. She flees, and he is attacked when he
follows her. At Baker Street the next day he is told
that an old man has tried to remove Holmes's index
books. He discovers an attempt to tear pages from
his own notebooks, and begins to read them.
The notebooks tell of an early case:
Holmes is asked to analyse the varnish of a violin
for a violinist named Victor Sigerson. He discovers
it is a Stradivarius. Later, he hears Sigerson
playing and is enchanted. Following Sigerson, Holmes
watches him playing snooker, and later beating
Lestrade, juggling, and making deductions equal to
Holmes's own. Holmes takes a violin lesson with
Sigerson, and deduces that the violinist is
deliberately concealing his true identity, and is
manipulating the situation to satisfy some
fascination he has with Holmes. Eventually, after
spying on Sigerson in his hotel room he learns that
he is really a woman, Violet Sigerson, an orphan,
who asks Holmes to investigate her family
background. Holmes follows Violet to Edinburgh where
she falls ill after performing an escapology act.
Later in the year, Holmes is asked to
assist in the delivery of some letters from Ludwig
II of Bavaria to the French Government. At first he
is reluctant, until he learns that Sigerson is with
Ludwig. In Bavaria, Holmes sets out to rescue Violet
from the King, while also protecting the King from
his enemies. After Holmes is injured in a carriage
accident, and Sigerson and Watson locked in the
Neuschwanstein dungeons, they are called upon to
prevent a suicide bid by Ludwig. Later, at Berg
Castle, they fail to prevent the drowning of Ludwig,
Sigerson and Dr Gudden in the lake.
Irene Adler arrives at the Baker Street
rooms, and, later, Nannerl, and the truth about
Holmes's relationship with Sigerson is finally
revealed.
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Daniel Nathan
"The Boy and the Book" (1953)
Included in: The Golden Summer
(Daniel Nathan); Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (UK
Edition), June 1956
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock
Holmes; Mrs Douglas; Dr Watson; Alec MacDonald)
Historical Figures: Frederic Dannay
(Danny Nathan); Moore H. Nathan; Dora L. Nathan; A.
George MacGreevy
Other Characters: Chad; Bart; Sartorius;
Toby; Mrs Fitzgerald; Owgoost; (Mr Stone; Dr
Sobell; Mr Benedict; Mr Herman; Old Man Tobias)
Date: Summer, 1915
Locations: USA; New York State;
Elmira; High Street; Danny's House; East Water Street;
MacGreevy's Book Store; Barnaby's Barn; Mrs
Fitzgerald's Candy Store; Madison Avenue; John Street
Story: Danny dreams about being
attacked by a Red Indian and buried alive. The
following day, returning from an errand to his
father's tailor's shop, he sees an advert in
McGreevy's Book Store window announcing the new
Sherlock Holmes story, The Valley of Fear.
Discovering that he is unable to afford to buy the
book, Mr MacGreevy lends Danny a copy, but his
attempts to hide it from his parents lead to it
getting damaged. Danny decides to organise a lottery
to pay for the damaged book.
NOTE: Daniel Nathan is
the real name of the pseudonymous Frederic Dannay, one
half of "Ellery Queen". It is likely that many of the
characters, if not all, are based on real people. In
the 1915 US Census, the Nathans are living at 157,
High Street, Elmira, and Mr Nathan is still managing a
liquor store, not the tailoring store of the story
(although he did later become a tailor).
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William Neblett
Sherlock's Logic (1985)
Story Type: Homage
Sherlockian Detectives: Sherlock Holmes the
Third & Dr Watkins
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock
Holmes)
Historical Figures: (The
Knights Templar)
Other Characters: Detective Hilary T. Kemp;
Sylvester Anderson; Dr Phillip Anderson; Cassandra;
Eleanor / Miss Ellie; Louise-Phillipe de Molay;
Phillipe Moreau; Mr Richards; Kensington Bakers;
Professor Hawkins; Caldwell; Professor Stevens;
Professor Perkins; Police Photographer; Fingerprint
Expert; Police Sergeant; Indian Restaurant Waiters;
Taxi Driver; Kemp's Officer; Tracking Expert; Billy;
(Laura Anderson; Syvester's Sussex Friends;
Heart Attack Train Passenger; Coroner; CIA
Scientist; Robert Shelton; Stable Security Guard;
Moreau's Intelligence Frend)
Date: (Seems to be prior to or
soon after decimalisation in 1971, as Kemp still
refers to shillings)
Locations: London; University; Sherlock's
Room; A Taxi; Scotland Yard; Knightsbridge;
Anderson's House; Chelsea; World's End Pub; The Bank
of the Thames; Kensington; Watkins's Flat; Hawkins's
Flat; Earl's Court; Earls Court Station; Indian
Restaurant; Watkins's Clinic; Berkshire Riding Club
Story: On the eve of his
twenty-first birthday, Holmes, a student of logic who
happens to be the grandson of Sherlock Holmes, is
agonising over what course his life should take.
Watkins persuades him to take up crime-solving as a
hobby that might turn into a profession. An advert in
the Times brings him the case of Mrs Laura
Anderson, the murdered socialite wife of eminent
surgeon, Phillip Anderson. Mrs Anderson's body was
found in her home draped with a cloak bearing a
Knights Templar crucifix design, and her nephew,
Sylvester, fearing he will be accused of the crime,
asks Holmes to prove his innocence.
After interviewing the famly and
servants, the trail leads to a group of biochemists,
carrying out research into halting the aging process,
who have formed a Templars guild in Kensington. One of
the scientists is murdered. When the murderer is
discovered it seems there is insufficient evidence to
take him to trial, so a trap is laid at a riding
stables.
NOTE: The Sherlockian
story takes up the first third of the book, and is
intended to exemplify the logical processes that are
explained in the final two thirds.
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Richard J. Needham
"The Phantom of the Airport"
(1970)
Included in: The Hypodermic Needham
(Richard J. Needham)
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detective: Elementary
Watson
Fictional Characters: (Till Eulenspiegel)
Historical Figures: (Napoleon
Bonaparte)
Other Characters: (Captain
Icarus; Rasputin J. Novgorod)
Unnamed Characters: Schedule Addict;
Airline Clerks; Stewardess; Airline Workers
Date: 20th Century
Locations: Canada; Airport
Story: Elementary Watson deduces that
the bearded man haunting the airport is really a
schedule addict.
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Dicky Neely
The Case of the Grave Accusation
(2011)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Wiggins; Mrs. Hudson
Historical Figures: (Arthur Conan Doyle;
Bertram Fletcher Robinson; Harry Baskerville; Mrs
Fletcher Robinson)
Characters derived from Historical Figures:
Roger la Pelure d'Ail (Rodger Garrick-Steele)
Other Characters: Underground Passengers;
Detective Inspector Brian Moore; Mr Covington; Plume
of Feathers Diners; Receptionist; Miss Janeway;
Waitress; (Moore's Daughters; Covington's
Brother)
Date: Early 21st Century
Locations: Watson's Home; Charing Cross
Station; Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street;
Devonshire; Dartmoor; Whiteworks Tin Mine; Fox Tor
Mire; Princetown; The Plume of Feathers Inn; Fox Tor
Café; Two Bridges; Princetown Library; The Old
Police Station Restaurant; Wistman's Wood; Ipplepen;
Park Hill House
Story: Watson is summoned from his
literary limbo by a note from Holmes calling him to
Baker Street. Holmes tells him that a book has been
published accusing Conan Doyle of murdering Fletcher
Robinson to conceal his plagiarism of the story of the
Hound of the Baskervilles. Moore arrives with the news
that the author has requested that Fletcher Robinson's
body be exhumed and tested for poisoning. They drive
down to Dartmoor, where they carry out investigations
on the spot and on computers. Holmes befriends Pelure
d'Ail to try to draw out his motives for making the
charges, and uncovers a plot to revive the legendary
Hound. Watson presents the fruits of his historical
researches.
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Matt Nesvisky
"Elementary" (1988)
Included in: The Jerusalem Post Magazine, 12
August 1988
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; (Mrs Hudson)
Historical Figures: Yisrael Kessar
Date: 1988
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Israeli politician Yisrael Kessar calls
on Holmes and Watson while on a visit to London. He
is seeking Holmes's advice on the reasons why his empire
is crumbling.
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Emma Newman
"A Woman's Place" (2014)
Included in: Two Hundred and
Twenty-One Baker Streets (David Thomas Moore)
Story Type: Science-Fiction Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Mrs Hudson; Sherlock
Holmes; Dr Watson; (Professor Moriarty; Mycroft
Holmes)
Other Characters: Mr Eddard; Eddard's Uncle;
Family Next Door; (Eddard's Aunt; Media
Publicist; Carrie; Café Man; MPs)
Date: May 5th - 6th, 2031
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Eddard's
Uncle's House
Story: Mrs Hudson listens in to Holmes's
consultation with Mr Eddard, whose aunt has
disappeared. Although they were living in the same
house, she was estranged from his uncle, but they were
unable to afford the costs that a divorce would bring.
Watson meets up with Holmes at Eddard's house, prior
to going on to meet her blind date. After reading
Watson's account of the case, Mrs Hudson is present
for Holmes's revelation of the truth about himself and
Moriarty.
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Kim Newman
"The Adventure of the Six
Maledictions" (2011)
Included in: Gaslight Arcanum
(J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec); The Hound of
the D'Urbervilles (Kim Newman)
Story Type: Extra-Canonical Adventure of
Moran & Moriarty
Canonical Characters: Colonel Moran;
Professor Moriarty; The Black Pearl of the Borgias;
(Ted Baldwin; The Scowrers; Birdy Edwards)
Fictional Characters: Mad Carew;
The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God; Simon Carne;
Caspar Gutman (Fat Kaspar); Alf Bassick; The Maltese
Falcon; Bianca Castafiore; Jewels of the Madonna;
Henry Wilcox; Margaret Trelawny; The Jewel of Seven
Stars; The Hoxton Creeper; (The Colonel's
Daughter (Amaryllis Framington); The Little Yellow
God; Giles Conover; The Grand Vampire; Gennaro;
Queen Tera)
Folkloric Characters: Yeti;
Eye of Balor; Mi-Go; (Sasquatch; Windigo)
Historical Characters: The Camorra;
The Knights Templar
Other Characters: Mrs Halifax; Mrs Halifax's
Girls; Piss-Pot Boy; Swedish Suzette; Market Boy;
Runty Reg; Moriarty's Thieves; Apache; Inspector
Harvey Lukens; Michaél Murphy Magooly O'Connor;
Martin Aloysius McHugh; Seamus 'Shiv' Shaughnessy;
Pádraig 'Pork' Ó Méalóid; Patrick 'Paddy Red' Regan;
Leopold MacLiammóir; Scotland Yard Constable;
Special Irish Branch Officers; Schoolgirls; Street
Urchin; Craigin; Opera Protestors; Commissionaire;
Boy, Mother & Father; Vokins; Opera Audience;
Carlo Jonsi; Opera Musicians; Don Rafaele
Lupo-Ferrari; Malilella; Prize-Fighter Doorman;
Trelawny's Guests; Houris; Servants; Alaric Molina
de Marnac; Priests of the Little Yellow God; Tyrone
Mountmain; Aunt Sophonisba; Conduit Street
Constables; High Priest of the Little Yellow God;
Tyrone's Follower; (Nicholas Savvides; Giovanni
Lombardo; 'Dynamite' Desmond Mountmain;
Rotherhithe Carpenter; Hattie Hawkins; Lotus Lei)
Date: After VALL
Locations: Conduit Street; St Helena;
Berwick Street Market; Scotland Yard; Covent Garden;
Royal Opera House; Kensington; Trelawny House
Story: After the events of The
Valley of Fear, Moran and Moriarty are called
upon by Mad Carew who needs help escaping yeti
pursuers after stealing the Green Eye of the Little
Yellow God. Moriarty installs Carew in his basement,
and buys the Eye with Moran's money. While attempting
to kill a dog, Moran realises he is being followed .
He returns to find that Moriarty has set a group of
thieves to steal a whole assortment of cursed
artefacts. When all are gathered, Moriarty sets a plan
in motion to give their rightful owners what they
want.
Note: The Jewels of
the Madonna are being sought by Camorra boss Don
Rafaele Lupo-Ferrari. The opera Jewels of the
Madonna was written by Ermanno Wold-Ferrari.
Note 2: Knights
Templar Grand Master Alaric Molina de Marnac is
derived from the medieval warlock Alaric de Marnac in
the films of Paul Naschy. Naschy was born Jacinto
Molina Alvarez.
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"Angel
Down, Sussex" (1999)
Included in: The Secret Files of the Diogenes
Club (Kim Newman); Interzone
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: The Diogenes Club; (Mycroft
Holmes; Sherlock Holmes)
Fictional Characters: (Dr Martin
Hesselius; Dr Silence)
Historical Figures: Arthur Conan Doyle;
Aleister Crowley
Other Characters: Reverend Batholomew Haskins;
Sam Farrar; Rose Farrar; Mademoiselle Astarte;
Catriona Kaye; Astarte's Clients; Astarte's Mother;
China Manufacturer & Wife; Edwin Winthrop;
Astarte's Father; Diogenes Members; Diogenes
Attendant; The Undertakers; (Jane Farrar; Sam's
Grandad; Lord Lieutenant; Ellen Farrar; Mrs Cully)
Date: Too late in the year for wasps, 1925
Locations: Sussex; Angel Down; Angel Field;
Phene Street; Diogenes Club; Angel Down Rectory;
Farrar Farm; In a Sopwith Camel
Story: Mutilated sheep and unseasonal wasps
afflict the village of Angel Down, site of angelic
visions in the 1870s, in a field where standing stones
once stood, and a missing girl reappears in the
remains of the circle. After unveiling a fake medium,
Catriona is sent, along with Winthrop, to investigate.
They arrive to find the rector, with whom the girl is
staying, dead. Conan Doyle arrives in the village and
the girl begins talking of her abduction by the
'Little People'. It becomes apparent that the girl is
not what she seems. Crowley also comes to Angel Down,
and realising the power the girl has, and its
potential effects in Crowley's hands, Doyle and the
Diogenes agents set out to stop the two from meeting,
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"Angels
of Music" (2006)
Included in: Tales of the
Shadowmen 2: Gentlemen of the Night (J.-M.
& Randy Lofficier)
Story Type: Homage a la Charlie's Angels
Canonical Characters: Irene Adler; Baron
Maupertuis; Cardinal Tosca
Fictional Characters: Christine Daae;
Trilby; Carlotta; The Phantom of the Opera; The
Persian; Mme Giry; Count Ruboff; Black Michael
Elphberg; Basil Hallward; Cochenille; Spalanzani;
Coppélius; Joséphine Balsamo / Countess Cagliostro;
Brigadier Gérard; Duke of Omnium; Chevalier del
Gardo; Simon Cordier; Walter Parkes Thatcher;
Olympia; (Svengali; Carlotta (Castafiore);
Aristide Saccard; Georges Duroy; Rhandi Lal, the
Kasi of Kalabar; Princess Jelhi; with nods to
Charlie's Angels; Charlie Townsend & John
Bosley; Barbie; Sindy)
Historical Figures: (Apollonie Sabatier;
Kiss)
Other Characters: Countess's Guests;
Orchestra; Marriage Club Brides; Man on Bridge;
Sailors; Toy Soldiers; Night-Watchman; Toy
Conductor; Lady Galatea, Duchess of Omnium; Mme
Venus de l'Isle del Gardo; Poupée Francis-Pierre
Date: 1878
Locations: Paris; The Paris Opera; The
Countess's Barge; Ecole de Danse Coppélius
Mannequin Factory; Pont du Carrousel
Story: Irene, Christine and Trilby join the
Paris Opera, but are held back from advancement by
internal politics. All three come under the
influence of the Phantom, becoming his Angels.
Erik's Angels are called on by Mme Sabatier, after a
number of her clients, including Cardinal Tosca and
Brigadier Gerard come under the influence of young
women and begin behaving erratically. All the men
have met their new partners via Countess Balsamo.
Trilby and
Christine go under cover at the Countess's Ecole
Coppélius dance academy, while the Persian and
Irene attend the Countess's ball as the Kasi of
Kalabar and Princess Jelhi. Baron Maupertuis is
among the guests, and Irene is outdanced by three
sisters. Trilby and Christine discover that the
school is not what it appears to be. The Persian is
ejected from a barge and the Angels find themselves
hanging over a vat of boiling wax, before they can
race to prevent three more men being taken
possession of by doll brides, and thwart the schemes
of an evil genius, with a little help from Erik.
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Anno
Dracula (1998)
Story Type: Homage / Alternate World Fantasy
Canonical Characters: Inspector Lestrade;
Mycroft Holmes; Colonel Moran; Professor Moriarty;
John Clayton
Fictional Characters: Dr. Seward; Lulu
Schön; Genevive Dieudonné; Arthur Holmwood; Kate
Reed; Danny Dravot; Countess Geschwitz; Kostaki; Dr.
Henry Jekyll; Lord Ruthven; Ezzelin Von Klatka;
Martin Cuda; Count Vardalek; A.J. Raffles; Fu
Manchu; Peko; Griffin; Macheath; Bill Sikes; Inspector
Mackenzie; Gorcha; Orlando; Lucy Westenra; Mina
Harker; Jonathan Harker; Van Helsing; Quincey
Morris; Renfield; Louis Bauer; Basil Hallward; M.
Vampire; Mrs. Amworth; Poole; Dr. Moreau; Lestat de
Lioncourt; Iorga; Rupert of Hentzau; Sir Danvers
Carew; Caleb Croft; Dr. Ravna; Graf Orlok; John
Netley; Dracula
Characters Derived from Fictional
Characters: Sir Mandeville Messervy; Mr.
Waverly; Angry Little American Reporter
Historical Figures: Jack the Ripper; Arthur
Morrison; Florence Stoker; James Whistler; Frederick
Abberline; Sergeant Thicke; George Godley; Catherine
Eddowes; Wynne Baxter; Constable George Neve;
Rebecca Kosminski; Kosminski Family; Dr. George
Bagster Phillips; Rose Mylett; John Thain; George
Augustus Sala; Oscar Wilde; Frank Harris; Frances
Coles; William Le Queux; Mary Jane Kelly; Montague
John Druitt; PC Albert Collins; Elizabeth Stride; PC
Edward Watkins; Sir Charles Warren; Daniel Halse;
Louis Diemschutz; Algernon Swinburne; Theodore
Watts-Dunton; Henry Matthews; George Lusk; John
Merrick; Queen Victoria; Countess Barbara de Cilly
Characters Derived from Historical Figures: Georgie
Woodbridge; Mick Ripper
Other Characters: Lily Mylett; John Jago;
Florence's Guests; Charles Beauregard; Penelope
Churchward; Bessie; Diogenes Messenger; Carriage
Driver; Salvation Army Band; Jago's Crowd; Desk
Sergeant; Commercial Road Prisoners; Diogenes Valet;
Schön Inquest Crowd; Reporters; Court Artist;
Anarchists; Inquest Clerk; Constables; Chicksand
Street Crowds; Detective Constable; Vampire
Prostitute; Cabby; Ten Bells Customers; Woodbridge;
Accordion Player; Gypsy Girl; Chinese Men; Dacoit;
Diarmid Reed; Commercial Road Policeman; Coles'
Soldier; Bairstow; Mackenzie's Men; Carpathian
Guardsmen; Eddy's Equerry; Cleveland Street
Occupants; Cleveland Street Crowd; Labourers;
Purfleet Inmates; Murgatroyds; Fox Malleson; Café de
Paris Proprietor; Urchins; D'Onston; Ned; Lestrade's
Men; Star Reporter; Constables; Jago's Man;
Mitre Square Crowds; Orthodox Jew; Mitre Square
Constable; Paper Boys; Cabby; Spitalfields Crowd;
Watts-Dunton's Driver; Diogenes Guard; Mounted
Policemen; Woman with Little Girls; Holmwood's
Manservant; Toynbee Nurse; Christian Crusaders;
Turnkey; Jago Residents; Jago Rough; Opium Den
Sailor; Chinese Girl; Mrs. Yeovil; Mrs. Churchward;
Matron; Limehouse Policeman; False Constable; Yeoman
Warder; Cabman; Knife-Grinder; Collins' Companion;
Palace Guards; Footman; Servants; Courtiers
Date: September, 1888
Locations: Whitechapel; Chicksand Street;
Toynbee Hall; Stoker's House; Commercial Street
Police Station; Diogenes Club; Lecture Hall; 10,
Downing Street; Flower & Dean Street; The Ten
Bells; Limehouse; The Criterion; Commercial Road;
Cheyne Walk; Beauregard's Rooms; Osnaburgh Street;
19, Cleveland Street; Purfleet Asylum; Soho; Wardour
Street; D'Arblay Street; Malleson's Shop; The
Minories; Café de Paris; Kingstead Cemetery;
Hampstead Heath; The Spaniards; Mitre Square;
Goulston Street; Jekyll's House; Spitalfields
Market; Putney; Miller's Court; Marlborough Street;
St. James's Park; Cadogan Square; Holmwood's House;
Brick Lane; The Old Jago; Caversham Street; The
Churchward House; A Wharf; Scotland Yard; Tower of
London; Dorset Street; Buckingham Palace
Story: Dracula has married Queen Victoria.
Jack the Ripper is murdering vampire prostitutes in
the East End. Lestrade alerts Genevive at Toynbee
Hall to the murder of Lulu, and asks her help in
calming the situation. She suggests Holmes would be
more helpful, but he has been removed to a
concentration camp on the Sussex Downs.
At one of
Florence Stoker's soirées, Beauregard announces his
engagement to Penelope, but is summoned away to the
Diogenes Club. The ruling cabal there is somewhat
depleted, but Mycroft sets Beauregard on the trail
of the Ripper. Genevive sees Beauregard at the Schön
inquest, where Lestrade suggests that Holmes would
have solved the murders easily. Genevive makes
enemies of a number of elders in a bar-room brawl,
and Beauregard faces a group of infamous criminal
masterminds, including Moriarty and Moran, in
Limehouse, who for their own reasons offer their
support in hunting the Ripper.
Seward
records the events surrounding Dracula's first visit
to England. A Deadly Chinese adversary is set on
Genevive's trail. Seward meets Mary Kelly at Lucy's
tomb. Liz Stride is brought, still alive after her
attacker was interrupted, to Toynbee Hall.
Beauregard is summoned, but she goes berserk and is
killed before she can be questioned. Beauregard and
Genevive begin working together. Riots break out,
apparently fuelled by the Diogenes Club.
Penelope
voluntarily becomes a vampire. Seward enters into a
relationship with Kelly. Colonel Moran disposes of
the man he believes is the Ripper, but is punished
for his mistake. Inspector Mackenzie detects a
conspiracy but is murdered before he can reveal its
root. Beauregard and Genevive discover the Ripper's
identity, then pay a visit to Buckingham Palace.
NOTE: Sir Mandeville
Messervy is presumably a forebear of Admiral Sir
Miles Messervy, Ian Fleming's 'M', and Mr. Waverly
of Alexander Waverley of U.N.C.L.E. Georgie
Woodbridge and Mick Ripper are derived from Hammer
Horror film regulars George Woodbridge and Michael
Ripper. The Angry Little American is Kolchak.
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"The
Greek Invertebrate" (2011)
Included in: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles
(Kim Newman)
Story Type: Extra-Canonical Adventure of
Moran & Moriarty
Canonical Characters: Colonel Moran;
Professor Moriarty; Colonel James Moriarty; Eduardo
Lucas; Stationmaster (James) Moriarty; Sophy
Kratides; Hugo Oberstein
Fictional Characters: Thomas
Carnacki; Gabrielle Valladon / Ilse Von
Hoffmannsthal; Monsieur Sabin; Dr Mabuse; (Colonel
Clay / Paul Finglemore)
Characters Based On Fictional Characters:
Cursitor Doone (Cursitor Doom)
Other Characters: Railway
Messenger Boy; Tessie the Two-Ton Taff; Hubert
Berkins; Kallinikos Technicians; George
Lampros; Philip Gould; Ram Singh; Major Upshall;
Train Passengers; Steward; (Mrs Halifax; James
Moriarty, Sr; Mrs Moriarty)
Date: January, 1891
Locations: Jermyn Street; Xeniades Club;
Conduit Street; Moriarty's Rooms; Paddington
Station; Cornwall; Fal Vale Junction; Aboard the Kallinikos;
A Train
Story: After being advised by Colonel
Moriarty not to help, Moriarty receives messages
from his stationmaster brother asking for aid in
dealing with a giant white worm at Fal Vale junction
in Cornwall. He and Moran travel to Fal Vale
with a group of psychic investigators and spies, none
of whom, Moriarty deduces, are who they claim to be.
Stationmaster Moriarty offers the worm, which turns
out to be a deadly weapon of war, the Kallinikos,
to the highest bidder. Events lead to Moran and the
three Moriartys being trapped aboard a runaway train.
On the journey home, Moriarty tells Moran about his
family.
NOTE: Fal Vale Junction is the
setting of The Ghost Train by Arnold
Ridley.
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"The
Hound of the D'Urbervilles" (2011)
Included in: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles
(Kim Newman)
Story Type: Extra-Canonical Adventure of
Moran & Moriarty
Canonical Characters: Colonel Moran;
Professor Moriarty; Selden
Fictional Characters: Parson
Tringham; Diggory Venn; Sorrow Durbeyfield; Abraham
Durbeyfield; Modesty Durbeyfield; Tess Durbeyfield;
(Simon Stoke; Alexander d'Urberville; Sir Pagan
d'Urberville; Mrs d'Urberville; Car Darch;
Singapore Charlie; Eliza-Louise Durbeyfield)
Characters Based On Fictional Characters: Desperado Dan'l
(Desperate Dan)
Characters Based On Folkloric Figures: Red
Shuck (Black Shuck)
Historical Figures: (Harold
II; William the Conqueror; William Rufus)
Other Characters: Jasper
Stoke-d'Urberville; Chop; Braham Derby; Saul Derby;
Jasper's Servants; Thring; Nakszynski the Albino;
Matilda 'Mattie' Ball; Old Pharaoh; (Mrs
Halifax; The Fat Man; Lazy-Eye Jack; Venic of
Melchester; Sir Pagan's Servants; Git Priddle;
Chitty; Pagan Plantagenet (Percy) D'Urberville;
Squire Frankland)
Date: October
Locations: Conduit Street; Moriarty's Rooms;
Wessex; Stourcastle; Trantridge Hall; The Chase;
Temple Clearing
Story: Moriarty has Moran examine a cane
left behind by a client. The stick's owner is Jasper
Stoke (owner of Trantridge Hall, ancestral home of
the D'Urberville family) who has recently returned
from America. Stoke tells them of the ghost
of Tess Durbeyfield, a phantom coach that appears to
foretell a family death, and Red Shuck, a ghostly
hound. He goes on to recount how Shuck has reappeared,
and has killed livestock and men, and asks Moriarty to
find the beast and disprove the legend of the curse
surrounding it.
Moriarty sends Moran to Wessex to hunt the hound. On
their arrival, Moran stops Stoke from physically
assaulting a woman whose family he has evicted, whose
corpse is later brought to the house with its throat
torn out. Moran leads a party into the Chase to hunt
down the beast. He has his fingers broken, and is
attacked by a ram and the ghost of Tess before
Moriarty appears on the scene and brings the case to a
bloody conclusion.
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"The Private Files of Mycroft Holmes"
(2002)
Included in: Crime Time
26: The Sherlock Holmes Issue
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; (Mycroft
Holmes)
Fictional Characters: Lord Ruthven;
Mansfield Smith-Cumming; Robert Elsmere; Sergeant
Daniel Dravot
Historical Figures: Winston Churchill; David
Lloyd George
Other Characters: Charles Beauregard;
Smith-Cumming; Robert Elsmere; Sexton; Diogenes
Guards; Fink-Nottle
Locations: Kingstead Cemetery; the Diogenes
Club
Story: At Mycroft's funeral, Beauregard
meets Holmes, who finally learns the truth about the
Ripper killings. Beauregard travels on to the
Diogenes Club, where he is met by Lord Ruthven, the
Prime Minister, who is eager to learn the secrets
contained in Mycroft's private vault. Beauregard is
unwilling to reveal the secret to opening the vault,
but it becomes apparent that someone has already
done so and the papers have been burned.
NOTE: This was originally a
chapter of Newman's The Bloody Red Baron not
included in the final published version.
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"The
Problem of the Final Adventure" (2011)
Included in: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles
(Kim Newman)
Story Type: Canonical Re-Visioning
Canonical Characters: Colonel Moran;
Professor Moriarty; Sophy Kratides; Irene Adler;
Peter Steiler; (Throttler) Parker; Dr Watson; (Colonel
James Moriarty; Stationmaster Moriarty; Mycroft
Holmes; Billy; Inspector Patterson; Harold
Latimer; Wilson Kemp; Paul Kratides; Augustus
Moran; Von Herder; Fred Porlock)
Fictional Characters:
Kingstead Cemetery Sexton (Walter Grimes); Mr Beebe;
Fu Manchu; Fah Lo Suee; The Grand Vampire; Irma Vep;
Dr Nikola; Madame Sara; Margaret Trelawny; The
Hoxton Creeper; Dr Mabuse; Alraune ten Brinken; A.J.
Raffles; Bunny Manders; Theophraste Lupin;
Josephine, Countess Cagliostro; Dr Jack Quartz;
Princess Zanoni; Rupert of Hentzau; Peko; Simon
Carne; (Kate Reed; Daniel Levy; Les Vampires;
Bulstrode & Sons; Erik / The Phantom of the
Opera)
Other Characters: Swedish Suzette
/ Halina Staniewiczowa; Lady Deborah Hope-Collins /
Mistress Strict; Publisher; Merchant Banker; Mrs
Harriet Halifax; Polly Chalmers; Mr Bulstrode; Chop;
Bulstrode Sons; Mr Bulstrode; Coachmen; Great Ormond
Street Matron; Hospital Girl; P.C. Fairy Mary
Purbright; Filthy Fanny; Ceridwen Thomas / Tessie
the Two-Ton Taff; Molly Duff / The Ranee of
Ranchipur; Wing Liu Tsong / Lotus Lei; Mistress
Strict / Lady Deborah Hope-Collins; Fifi /
Marie-Françoise Lely; Subaltern; Dr Velvet;
Nathaniel Rawlins; Bruiser Downes; Beau-Rivage
Bellboy; Ueli Munster; Burgher; Workmen; Geneva
Passers-by; Swiss Policeman; Bank Doorman; Bank
Lady; Adolphe Lavenza; Mabuse's Gang; Meiringen
Coachman; Tourists; Guides; Waiters; (Charlie
Vokins; Wasp-Stung Children; Moran's Mother;
Augusta Moran; Christabelle Moran; Inspector
Harvey Lukens; Mrs Grimes; Slender Simon; Laundry
Manager; Benny Blazes)
Date: January-May, 1891
Locations: Conduit Street; Moriarty's Rooms;
Kingstead Cemetery; Great Ormond Street Hospital;
221B, Baker Street; Canterbury; France; Paris;
Switzerland; Geneva; Hotel Beau-Rivage; Coffee
House; Lavenza Bank; Meiringen; Englischer Hof;
Reichenbach Falls
Story: With the Moriarty Gang rounded up by
the police, Moran tells the story of the events
leading up to Moriarty's demise. After the incident
at Fal Vale, Sophy Kratides joins Moriarty's Firm,
and is required to play the widow at a mock funeral
designed as a cover for a meeting of the great
criminals of Europe. Moran receives a Von
Herder air-gun for his birthday. Moriarty reveals that
the true purpose of the cemetery meeting was as bait
for Dr Mabuse, who was their adversary at Fal Vale.
Over the following months a series of misfortunes
besets the Firm. Moriarty draws Holmes into the plot,
setting a trail that leads him to Switzerland and an
encounter at the Reichenbach Falls.
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"The
Red Planet League" (2008)
Included in: Gaslight Grimoire
(J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec); The Hound of
the D'Urbervilles (Kim Newman)
Story Type: Extra-Canonical Science Fiction
Adventure of Moran & Moriarty
Canonical Characters: Colonel Moran; Professor
Moriarty; Von Herder; John Clay; (The Speckled
Band; Grimesby Roylott)
Fictional Characters: (Sir
Nevil Airey) Stent; Markham; Martians; (George)
Ogilvy; The Crystal Egg; C. Cave; Professor Pierre
Aronnax; John Seward; (Fu Manchu; Singapore
Charlie; The Si-Fan)
Historical Figures: Thomas Henry
Huxley
Characters Based on Historical Figures: Paul
A. Robert (Robert Paul);
Other Characters: Stent's Audience;
Italian Joe; P.C. Purbright; Mrs Halifax; Pouting
Poll; Chinese Laundrymen; Lady Caroline
(Broughton-Fitzhume) Stent; Parsons; Mr Jedwood;
Strand Madman; Constable; Long-Necked Cabbie; Galvani;
Mrs Huddersfield; Stent's Butler; Draper's Clerk;
Royal Society Attendants; Moriarty's Men; Purfleet
Asylum Director; (Moran's Mother; Bishop of
Brichester; Lilian Russell; Ellen Terri; Fifi;
Caroline's Sister; Stent's Secretary; Stable-boy;
Robert's Assistants)
Date: 2nd - 8th September
Locations: Conduit Street; Moriarty's Rooms;
Burlington House; Flamsteed House; Parsons' Shop;
Cave's Shop; Greenwich
Story: Moran tells of Moriarty's
ongoing feud with Stent. They attend a lecture at which
Stent attacks The Dynamics of an Asteroid.
When Stent announces that Martians will land on Earth
before the asteroid behaves in the way in which Moriarty
proposes, Moriarty sends Moran to the Si-Fan to organise
a delivery of vampire squid. Breeding them in Von
Herder's tanks and with the aid of Ogilvy, Moriarty sets
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Seven Stars (1999)
Included in: Dark Detectives (Stephen Jones);
Seven Stars (Kim Newman)
Story Type: Fantasy Homage
Canonical Characters: Mycroft Holmes;
Inspector Lestrade; (Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson;
Professor Moriarty)
Fictional Characters: Jewel of Seven
Stars; Abel Trelawny; Kate Reed; Henry Wilcox; Thomas
Carnacki; Philip Marlowe [The Gumshoe]; Judge Keith
Pursuivant; John Thunstone; Lucius Leffing; Jules de
Grandin; John Silence; Gregory George "Gees" Gordon; (Sir
Joseph Whemple; The Moonstone; The Eye of the Little
Yellow God; Stent; Abdul Al-Hazred; Esoteric Order
of Dagon; Tinkerbell)
Characters Derived from Fictional
Characters:
Historical Figures: Arthur Machen; John
Barrymore; Roland Young; Albert Parker; Gustav von
Seyffertitz; Peter Lorre; John Carradine; Errol Flynn;
Michael Curtiz; Humphrey Bogart; (Lord Cromer; The
Khedive; Queen Victoria; Aleister Crowley; W.T. St
ead; Emperor Taisho; Arthur Conan Doyle; Raoul
Walsh; David Niven)
Characters Derived from Historical Figures: (Walt
McDisney)
Other Characters: Pai-net'em; Pharaoh Meneptah
II; Charles Beauregard; Jenks; Bacon; Declan
Mountmain; Catriona Kaye; Edwin Winthrop; Geneviève
Dieudonné; Special Agent Finlay; Bennett Mountmain;
Richard Jeperson; Maureen Mountmain; Sally Rhodes;
Derek Leech; Jerome Rhodes / Dr Shade; Neil; Ms
Wilding; Connor; Tinkerbelle; Mimsy Mountmain; (Pamela
Beauregard; Bairstow; Janey Wilde; Fred;
Vanessa; Jeffrey Jeperson; Brigadier-General Sir
Giles Gallant; Harry D'Amour; Sister Chantal; Benoit
Dieudonné; Chandagnac; Melissa
d'Acques; Roger Duroc; Dafydd le Gallois; Sergei
Bukharin; Annie Marriner)
Unnamed Character's: Pharaoh's Guards;
Policemen; Mountmain's Butler; Elderly Matrons; Film
Crew; Make-up Girl; Assistant Director; Pierce
Brothers Mortuary Attendant; Filipino Houseboy;
Newsmen; Mountmain's Zombie Goons; Warners Watchmen;
Studio Technicians; Cops; Actors; Warners Staff;
Soldier; Pall Mall Tourists; Cab Driver: Policemen;
Detective Inspector; Pest Officers; Diogenes Club
Attendant; Leech's Technicians; Egyptian Crowds;
Priests; (Pai-net'em's Family & Servants;
Indian Doctor; Oxford Professor; Janey's Child)
Date: c.1204 BCE / June, 1897 / February, 1922
/ 1942 / May, 1972 / Spring, 1999 / 2025-2026
Locations: Egypt; Thebes; British Museum; Pall
Mall; Diogenes Club; Pall Mall Gazette
Offices; Wimpole Street; Covent Garden; Chelsea;
Cheyne Walk; Cavendish Square; Baker Street;
Bloomsbury; Catriona's Flat; USA; New York; Theatre;
California; Los Angeles; Hollywood; Cahuenga Building;
Mulholland Drive; Errol Flynn's House; Sunset
Boulevard; Pierce Brothers Mortuary; Coldwater Canyon;
Bowmont Drive; Warner Brothers Studios; Somerset;
Alder; Manor House; Muswell Hill; Wimpole Street; Soho
Square; Docklands; Upper Street; Leech Pyramid; Red
Pyramid
Story: In Egypt's Land: Believing
the Jewel of Seven Stars to be behind the plagues
ravaging the land, Pharaoh Meneptah III charges his
priest Pai-net-em to carry the jewel out of the
country, but as he does so, the jewel merges into
Pai-net-em's body.
The Mummy's Heart: After its
re-discovery in the mummy of Pai-net'em in the
nineteenth century, the jewel becomes associated with
a curse, which is said to have led to the deaths of
nine men in the two years following. The deaths and
the theft of the mummy draw the attention of Mycroft
Holmes who sends Diogenes Club agent Charles
Beauregard to the British Museum investigate. the
jewel is stolen, and the trail leads to the occultist
Declan Mountmain.
The Magician and the Matinee Idol: Edwin
Winthrop and Catriona Kaye have been assigned by
Beauregard to ensure that no mention of the
Bruce-Partington plot or the Diogenes Club is made in
the Barrymore film version of Sherlock Holmes
currently being filmed in London. During filming in
the basement of the British Museum, an impostor
replaces Gustav von Seyffertitz in the role of
Moriarty, and Barrymore joins forces with Catriona and
Winthrop to prevent another attempt by Mountmain to
steal the jewel.
The Trouble with Barrymore: Peter
Lorre hires the Gumshoe to find Barrymore's body. He
and Raoul Walsh had stolen it from the mortuary to
play a prank on Errol Flynn, since when both it and
Flynn have disappeared. The Gumshoe learns from
Winthrop and his occult detective colleagues that
Mountmain's nephew, Bennett, is the likely culprit. He
realises that a prophecy about the jewel by
Nostradamus refers to the filming of Casablanca.
The Biafran Bank Manager: Stars
disappear and the burned-in silhouette of a man crawls
across the floor of Edwin Winthrop's family home when
no one is
watching. Winthrop has the Jewel of Seven Stars on
the premises, and Maureen Mountmain, High Priestess
of the Order of the Ram arrives to assist.
Mimsy: When Maureen Mountmain's
daughter Mimsy goes missing, the multi-media magnate
Derek Leech hires Sally Rhodes to find her. Maureen
tells her that when she left, Mimsy took the Jewel
of Seven Stars with her. Sally encounters Geneviève Dieudonné outside the
Diogenes Club and they team up to find the jewel,
but her client is eaten by flies.
The Dog Story: Geneviève hires Sally's son Rhodes to find
Mimsy Mountmain, the embodiment of the Seven Stars
terrorist organisation. Dogs all over the world
begin barking.
The Duel of Seven Stars: Geneviève awakens in the Leech Pyramid
in a world changed by the plagues of the Seven
Stars. She and the jewels other hosts return to
Egypt.
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"A
Shambles in Belgravia" (2005)
Included in: The Best British
Mysteries 2006 (ed: Maxim Jakubowski)
Story Type: Extra-Canonical Adventure of Irene,
Moriarty & Moran, narrated by Moran
Canonical Characters: Irene Adler; Professor
Moriarty; Colonel Moran
Fictional Characters: Colonel Sapt; (Black
Michael; Rudolf V; Princess Flavia; Antoinette de
Mauban; Rudolf III; A.J. Raffles)
Other Characters: Clergyman; Countess; The
Conduit Street Comanche; Constables; Filthy Fanny;
Embassy Guards; Anarchists; Guards Officer; (Mrs
Halifax)
Locations: Conduit Street; Moriarty's Rooms;
Boscobel Place; Ruritanian Embassy
Story: Irene calls on Moriarty and Moran,
asking them to retrieve pictures of herself and Black
Michael from the possession of Colonel Sapt at the
Ruritanian Embassy in Belgravia. Moriarty begins an
anti-Ruritania campaign in the press and on the
streets, and he and Moran use a riot at the Embassy as
cover for the retrieval of the pictures. When Moran
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"A
Volume in Vermilion" (2009)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes Mystery Magazine #3 (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Extra-Canonical Adventure of
Moriarty & Moran, narrated by Moran
Canonical Characters: Archie Stamford; Colonel
Moran; Professor Moriarty; Enoch J. Drebber; Joseph
Stangerson; (Sir Augustus Moran; Jefferson Hope)
Fictional Characters: Jim Lassiter (Jonathan
Laurence / Ronald Lembo); Fay Larkin (Rachel Laurence
/ Pixie); Jane Withersteen (Helen Laurence / Mrs
Lembo); (Bishop Dyer; Elder Tull)
Folkloric Characters: (Yeti)
Other Characters: Claridge's Receptionist;
Criterion Barman; Mrs Halifax; Mrs Halifax's Girls;
Danites; Lassiter's Neighbours; Chop
Date: February, 1881
Locations: Claridge's Hotel; Criterion Bar;
Conduit Street; Moriarty's House; Streatham; The
Laurels
Story: After an encounter with a tiger, Moran
is invalided back to England. He meets Stamford who
introduces him to Moriarty, who appears to deduce that
he has been in Afghanistan and invites him to join his
organisation and take up residence in his house in
Conduit Street. Their first clients are Drebber and
Stangerson, who ask them to track down Lassiter,
responsible for the deaths of several Mormons, along
with the woman and her adopted daughter who fled with
him. After staking out their house, he finds himself
held captive, but when the house comes under fire, he
joins in its defence. Moriarty brings an end to the
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A Puzzle For Sherlock Holmes (1978)
Published in the USA as The Case of the Baker
Street Irregular
Story Type: Children's Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Baker Street Irregulars; (Sam) Wiggins; Mrs
Hudson; Inspector Gregory
Other Characters: Andrew Craigie; Train
Guard; Herbert Dennison; Paddington Porter; Cabbies;
Mrs Gurney; Muffin Man; Omnibus Driver; Lamplighter;
Beggar; Sara "Screamer" Wiggins; Alf; Bert; Zoo
Crowds: Langham Attendant; Page Boys; Verna Tillet;
The Honorable Adam Lytell; Dr Harvey Moore; Jonathan
Walker / Roger Lytell; Sebastian; Marylebone Road
Sergeant; Nursemaid & Baby; Costermongers;
Woman; Meg; Mrs Wiggins; Lem Dingell; Margaret
Harker; Blind Ben; Orchard Street Passers-by; Baker
Street Policeman; Danny; Rookery Dwellers; Big
Danny; Gin Shop Customers; Irish Navvy; Barman;
Newsboy; Victor Lucas; Christie's Porters; Inspector
Leggett; Jones; Simmons; Lucas's Assistants;
Christie's Employees; Barney; Derek Wilson; Henry
Street Landlady; (Agnes Craigie; Jack Trefethen;
Lord Lowther; John Harker; Rachel Harker; Mrs
Wagner; D.B. Cox; Follette; Jerry Wragge; Andrew)
Locations: Paddington Station; 24, York
Street; Baker Street; Marylebone Road; Oxford
Street; Regent's Park Zoo; Portland Place; 221B,
Baker Street; Bart's; Marylebone Road Police
Station; Canal Basin; Wiggins's House; King Street;
Orchard Street; Soho Square; Tottenham Court Road;
St Giles Rookery; Ben's Rooms; Gin Shop; Piccadilly;
St Giles Circus; General Post Office; Christie &
Manson's Auction Rooms; St John's Wood; 12, Henry
Street; Warehouse
Story: After the death of his aunt, Andrew
arrives in London, from Cornwall, with his
schoolmaster guardian, Dennison. He is puzzled about
the whereabouts of his mother and whether his father
is really dead as he has been told. The following
day Andrew meets Wiggins's sister, Screamer, outside
221B. Andrew notices a number of strange people seem
to be taking an interest in Dennison, and sees him
apparently abducted in a cab.
Holmes is consulted by Lytell who has
been involved in a fracas at his father's club, the
events of which he has little memory of. He fears
that it may have led to the death of his father from
a heart attack that same night. Later, Holmes is
called on by Walker whose import-export business has
suffered a minor arson attack after he has refused
to act as a fence or pay protection money to a
mysterious man in a hansom cab.
Dennison fails to return, and an attempt
is made to abduct Andrew, who finds himself rescued
by the Wigginses. Holmes turns down Mrs Harker's
request to return her daughter from Paris where she
has been taken by her father, but after Gregory
consults him over the bombing of Baker Street
Station he decides to travel to Paris after all.
Wiggins finds Andrew a job taking care
of a blind street fiddler, Ben. Andrew finds himself
in a fight in a slum, defending their fish and
chips. Ben is interested in the man who attempted to
abduct Andrew, and questions him about Dennison and
his parents. Together they steal Watson's
stethoscope, and Ben lets Andrew in on a secret.
The bomb squad clear Christie's, where
Lytell is selling some family paintings, after which
Holmes discovers the paintings have been replaced
with forgeries. He calls on Andrew, who, accompanied
by Screamer, assists in bringing all the strands
together and the cases to a close, and is reunited
with his mother.
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The Case
of the Vanishing Corpse (1980)
Story Type: Children's Extra-Canonical
Adventure of the Baker Street Irregulars
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes;
Dr Watson; (Sam) Wiggins)
Historical Figures: George Bernard
Shaw; Buffalo Bill Cody; Annie Oakley; John Nevil
Maskelyne; (William Archer)
Other Characters: Lily Snyder / Maggie
Snyder; Maria, Marchioness of Medford; Brother
Ibrahim / Doc Stokey; Augusta Van Gelder / Mrs
Stokey; Andrew Craigie; Sara "Screamer" Wiggins;
Paddington Crowds; Andrew's Schoolmate; Bragaw;
Porters; Fred; Matson; Mrs Wiggins; Annie;
Marchioness's Gardeners; Hurdy-Gurdy Man / Potter /
Jocko Nimm; Constable Peter Wyatt; Inspector Finch;
Theatre Watchman; Verna Tillett; Lawrence Harrison;
Rule's Head Waiter; Mr Jenkins; Three Oaks
Policeman; Three Oaks Footmen; General Wyatt;
Harriet Wyatt; Colonel Francis Wyatt; Maggie Snyder;
Billy; Newspaper Men; Insurance Company Man;
Marchioness's Butler; Cabby; Baron Beasley;
Portobello Road Stallholders; Lamps; Wild West Show
Audience; Wild West Show Performers; Theatre
Audience; Actors; Bentley's Head Waiter; Lord
Lowther; Howard Wendell; Constable Dignam; 'Mauler'
Cobb; Parr; Sean; Navvy; Maskelyne's Assistant;
Museum Guide; Tourists; Inspector Thatcher; Robbie;
Jack; Schooner Officer; Tugboat Captain; Parr's
Assistant; Constables; (Marchioness's Head
Groom; Lily's Cabbies; Fanny Farrell; Rupert
Trent; Mr Howard; Andrew Craigie, Sr; Stagehands;
Wellington Road Sergeant; Walker; Herbert
Dennison; Mr Van Gelder; Lord Burdett; Lady
Damien; Mrs Hartley-Seymour; The Dutchman;
American Sea Captain; Gregorides; Miss Poole; Mr
Fulton; New York Police Commissioner)
Locations: Paddington Station; Praed Street;
St John's Wood; Rysdale Road; Verna's House; Baker
Street; The Strand; Theatre; Rule's Restaurant;
Maiden Lane; Three Oaks; Pembridge Road; Portobello
Road; Kensington High Street; Olympia; Bentley's;
Wellington Road Police Station; Regent's Park;
British Museum; Prince Albert Road; Tottenham Court
Road; High Holborn; Holborn Viaduct; Newgate Street;
Cheapside; Cannon Street; The Monument; Eastcheap;
Great Tower Street; Tower Hill; Wapping High Street;
River Police Headquarters; The Thames; The Pool
Story: A ceremony calling on the Egyptian
gods ends in bloodshed. Andrew Craigie arrives back
in London. He is met by Sara Wiggins at the station,
and after returning home to St John's Wood, they
meet Constable Wyatt, who knows Holmes and is
investigating the disappearance of a young woman
named Lily Snyder for Inspector Finch. Later, dining
with his mother at Rule's, Andrew meets George
Bernard Shaw.
The
following day he, Sara and his mother attend their
neighbour the Marchioness's charity garden party and
encounter Wyatt's estranged military family. They
learn from Wyatt that Holmes is away on the
continent. Verna has a successful opening night in
her new play, but after she returns home, the Denham
Diamonds, jewels she has worn to a party at
Claridge's, are stolen. Inspector Finch believes
that Mrs Wiggins is responsible, but Wyatt asks
Andrew and Sara to do some investigating for him.
The following day a second robbery occurs, from the
Marchioness's house guest, Mrs Van Gelder, and another
in Mayfair. Wyatt, Andrew and Sara explore brother
Ibrahim's Egyptian temple in the grounds of the
Marchioness's house, Three Oaks. After visiting
Beasley, an underworld contact, they attend a
performance of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Sara and
Andrew witness a murder outside the Marchioness's
house, but by the time they find a policeman, the body
has disappeared.
Brother Ibrahim tells them of hissing noises he has
heard. Wyatt is confined to the section house by Finch
for insubordination, but arranges for Beasley to keep
watch on Three Oaks. Sara and Andrew also keep watch
from Andrew's mother's house, and see a coffin being
carried out. The adventure culminates in a boat chase
along the Thames, and events are explained back in St
John's Wood.
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Niblick
"The
Cultured Pearls" (1928)
Included in: Trinity College School Record,
Number 1 (15 November 1928)
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Herlock Sholmes; Dr
Jotson
Fictional Characters: (Inspector
Hawkshaw; Inspector French)
Other Characters: Auguste Florian; (Roslyn;
Denise Florian; Esau S. Windler; Mike Morrel /
Lincoln Berry / Leonard Butler; Larry Schoff / Hiram
Clarke; Henry J. Colville)
Unnamed Characters: Registrar; Windler's
Landlady; Préfet
of Police
Date: Autumn
Locations:
France; Paris; Rue de St Antoine; Rue de Rivoli;
Florian's Jewellers Shop; Hotel de Ville; Latin
Quarter; Windler's Studio; Préfecture
Story: Sholmes and Jotson are relaxing in
Paris after solving the Roslyn case. Jeweller Auguste
Florian asks them to find his missing daughter Denise,
who has disappeared after he refused to allow her to
become engaged to the American art student, Esau
Windler. He also tells them of two New Yorkers who
recently tried to blackmail him by threatening to
flood the market with cultured pearls.
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"The Return of Herlock
Sholmes: The Ghost of the Pantheon" (1928)
Included in: Trinity College School Record,
Number 3 (15 December 1928)
Story Type: Pastiche
Sherlockian Detectives: Herlock Sholmes; Dr
Jotson
Fictional Characters: Lecoq
Other Characters: Monsieur Flaubert; Harley
the Hypnotist
(Madame Waleski / La Polonaise; Baron Ladislas
Waleski)
Unnamed Characters: Police Officers;
Stage-Door Porter; Lecoq's Subordinate; Rue d'Anjou
Concierge; Pantheon Audience; Harley's Hindu
Assistants; Waleski's Man
Date: Winter
Locations:
France; Paris; Rue de St Antoine; Pantheon Music
Hall; Rue St Claude; Rue d'Anjou
Story: Sholmes is in despair, fearing his
reputation is lost after the affair of the cultured
pearls. He reads in Le Matin of the appearance
of a ghost during a performance at the Pantheon music
hall. Sholmes consults Lecoq, who tells him of
Comtesse Waleski, a Polish opera singer who left her
husband and child to perform at the Pantheon.
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P. Nikitin
"The Commercial Centre Mystery"
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in
Russia (Alex Auswaks)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Other Characters: Post Hotel Porter; Ivan
Vladimirovitch Terehoff; Smith Copton; Alferakki /
David Gabudidze; Waiter; Ivan Veskoff; Passers-by;
Vertunoff's Waiter; Policemen; Ivan; Bank Director;
Coachman; Security Guards; Head of Security;
Cashier; (Terehoff's Shop Assistants; Senior
Shop Assistant; Policemen; Commercial Centre
Crowd; Chief of Detectives; Detectives; Mrs
Terehoff; Simon Reshkin; Senior Policeman;
Chemist; Doctor; Fire Brigade; Coachmen; South
African Tribesman)
Date: July, 190-
Locations:
Russia; Nijni-Novgorod; Post Hotel; Ferry;
Commercial Centre; Terehoff's Shop; Restaurant in
the Park; Vertunoff's Tavern; Bentakurovsky Canal;
Bank Director's House; Bank Strongroom; Police
Station
Story: Merchant Terehoff consults
Holmes over a series of strange events at his linen
and clothing shop in the Commercial Centre of
Nijni-Novgorod. A shrouded, human-like, skull-faced,
knife-wielding creature has been seen dancing in the
window of the locked shop, which proved to be empty
when searched. Terehoff's staff have quit and he has
had to employ new shop assistants, and on the day of
the Great Nijni-Novgorod fair, the shop was
overwhelmed by an appalling stench, causing his new
staff to leave. Terehoff has moved to new premises and
the shop has been taken over by a Turkish trader,
Alferakki. Holmes deduces that a major crime is under
way, centred on Terehoff's old shop. He and Watson
keep watch on their two suspects, while seeking the
identity of the third member of the conspiracy, and
attempt to prevent a bank robbery.
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"The
Elusive Gang"
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in
Russia (Alex Auswaks)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated in the third
person
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Other Characters: Strollers; Bookshop
Assistant; Maxim Vasilyevitch Kliukin; Kliukin's
Son; Publishers & Bookshop Owners; Dmitry
Panfilovitch Yefimoff; Karbasnikoff; Suvorin; Grand
Hotel Porters; Grand Hotel Doorkeepers; Nikanoroff /
Gabriel "Gavriushka" Voropayeff; Voropayeff's
Salesmen; Fomka Nikishin / Ivan Vihliayeff; Student
with Dog; Cabbie; Errand Boy; Seriogin; Tavern
Patrons; Waiter; Train Conductor; Grand Hotel Senior
Porter; Peterhof Diners; Peterhof Porter; Messenger;
Policemen; Criminal Investigation Department Agents;
(Fediukoff; Semionoff; Porter; Yard Man; Panova;
Ivan Buroff; Pickpocket Girl; Mrs Voropayeff; Mrs
Kliukin)
Locations:
Russia; Moscow; Tversky Boulevard; A Cab; Moscow
Grand Hotel; Mohovaya Street; Benkendorff House;
Peterhof Tavern; Suhareff Tower; Tavern; Marina
Grove; Bahrushin House; Nikolayevsk Railway Station;
Tver; Telegraph Office; Petersburg; Liteiniy
Prospect; The Viborg Bank; Tavern; Vakangovsk Alley;
Yauza; Peterhof Restaurant
Story: Holmes comments on the number of
burglaries occurring in Moscow. Returning to their
hotel, he and Watson receive a summons from the
publisher Kliukin. Visiting his bookshop, they are
taken to a meeting of publishers and booksellers who
have all fallen victim to the gang of burglars. They
believe that the stolen books are being passed on to
smaller booksellers, and give Holmes a list of those
they suspect. Holmes and Watson visit the shops, and
Holmes believes he has found the culprit.
In
disguise, Holmes gets a job in a publisher's
warehouse, and he and Watson set up watch on the
suspect shop. An ambush at Yefimoff's warehouse goes
wrong. At Holmes's request, Watson follows their
suspect, Voropayeff to Petersburg and sees him get
into a tavern fight and bring two large baskets back
to Moscow. A search of Voropayoff's premises by the
police raises fears in Holmes that Voropayoff will
seek revenge on Kliukin, and he saves him from a
trap at the Peterhof restaurant.
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"The Mark of Tadjidi"
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in
Russia (Alex Auswaks)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Other Characters: Boat Captain; Stevedores;
Foreman; Shipping Line Representative; River
Policemen; Waiter; Chief of Police; Count Piotr
Vassilievitch Tugaroff; Countess Irra Benaliradjewa
Tugarova; Mr Dewlay; Mrs Dewlay; Daudalama; Hammer;
(Old Indian Woman; Countess's Mother; Count's
Nurse; Count's Steward; Count's Watchmen; Dimitri;
Madam Beckman; Pupils; Rajah Ben-Ali; Countess's
Nurse; Count's Cook; Cemetery Watchman)
Locations:
Russia; Kazan; A Boat on the Volga; Kostroma;
Pier; Warehouse; Moscow; Hotel; India; Bombay;
Kharkov; Oriol; Countess's Apartment; Bolhovsky
Street; Hotel; Dewlay's Apartment; Restaurant
Story: Having a short break from a
boat trip down the Volga, Holmes and Watson are in
Kostroma when a dismembered corpse is discovered in a
warehouse. Sailing on to Moscow, they follow coverage
of events in Kostroma in the press.
The body is identified as a Count from
Kazan. His wife asks Holmes to investigate. She tells
him how she had been given to the Count as a young
child in Bombay, and had been brought up by his nurse.
She talks of a time in her childhood when the Count
warned her to stay inside because of a madman on the
loose, of the person she had seen in the garden, and
how the same evening they left the estate, and the
Count hid her in a boarding school. Later they fell in
love and married, but he had promised to return her to
her true parents.
A week before he disappeared he received
a worrying letter. Holmes examines the Count's study,
finding an envelope sent from Calcutta. He realises
that the scar on the Count's leg was the mark of a
blood-oath among the Indian Tadjidi tribe, shared with
two other people. A search through back issues of the
Times reveals the Countess's true origins.
Holmes and Watson keep watch in the Countess's
apartment, but a warning letter appears on her bed.
Holmes tells the Countess the secret of her youth, and
reveals the identity of her secret protector.
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"The
Pearl of the Emir"
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes in Russia (Alex Auswaks)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Other Characters: Emir of Bukhara; Emir's
Retinue; Sightseers; Hotel Lackey; Chief of Police;
Hadji-Mehti-Mashadi-Mahomet-Sultan; Interpreter;
Emir's Sentries; Sailors; Skalkin / Foma Belkin; Barge
Labourers; Captain; Helmsman; Barge Overseer;
Kartzeff; (Emir's Mother; Emir's Valet; Bosun)
Locations:
Russia; Nijni-Novgorod; Hotel; Ship on the Volga;
Jiguli
Story: The Emir of Bukhara is visiting Russia
and stops off in Nijni-Novgorod, where Holmes and
Watson are staying. Holmes is called on when the
Emir's black pearl ring is stolen from his guarded
bedroom on board his ship. The ship has been
surrounded by guards and no one allowed to leave.
Holmes searches the ship, and discovers how the theft
was carried out, then he and Watson disguise
themselves as sailors to capture the thief. Their ship
runs aground and a boat chase ensues. Watson suffers a
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"The
Strangler"
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in
Russia (Alex Auswaks)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Other Characters: Investigator; Police;
Boris Nikolayevitch Kartzeff; Police Chief;
Servants; Priests; Sergey Sergeyevitch Kartseff;
Choir; Gravediggers; Funeral Guests; Boris's
Retainer; Nikolai's Nanny; Cabbie; Hotel Porter;
Nikolai Nikolayevitch Kartzeff; Herdsman; Carriage
Driver; Villagers; (Kartseff's Valet; Cook;
Maid)
Date: 26th May
Locations:
Russia; Moscow; Hotel; Nikolayevsk Station;
Silver Slopes; Cemetery; Igralino; Nikolai's House;
Sokolniki; Forest; Ferry; Village
Story: Holmes reads in the papers of the
strangling of Kartzeff in his locked bedroom, on his
estate outside Moscow, and decides to investigate.
Strange long finger-marks have been found on the
victim's neck and on the wall of the house.
Holmes and
Watson travel to the dead man's estate, where they
pose as real estate agents. When he reveals his true
identity to the dead man's nephew, Holmes is
welcomed into the investigation. After examining the
room and the body, and attending the funeral, they
visit the nephew's nearby estate, where Holmes
puzzles Watson by asking him to keep watch over a
small ventilation pane he has nailed shut in their
bedroom window.
Returning
to Moscow, they visit the home of another nephew of
the dead man, to find that he has learned of his
uncle's death, but not from his wastrel brother, and
departed for Silver Slopes. An anonymous letter
warns them to leave Moscow. They return to spend
another night in the room with the ventilation
panel, learn about strange noises from a shed, and
keep vigil to catch a murdererous creature before
being attacked on a night carriage ride. Watson
faces tragedy aboard a ferry.
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Jack Nimersheim
"Moriarty by Modem" (1995)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in
Orbit (Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg)
Story Type: Science Fiction Homage
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes;
Professor Moriarty; Dr Watson; Boris Nikolayevitch
Kartzeff; Nikolai Nikolayevitch Kartzeff)
Historical Figures: (Charles Babbage)
Other Characters: Programmer
Locations:
Programmer's Home; Cyberspace
Story: Holmes discovers that he is a
crime-solving computer program. His programmer tells
him about his origins in the discovery of papers
relating to "Project 221B", an attempt by Charles
Babbage to create a similar program, a project in
which Watson, actually a minor government recording
clerk, also played a part.
The Moriarty program, a subroutine in
the 221B system that was created to identify and
catalog the darker attributes of humanity, has
escaped the confines of his computer into
cyberspace, so Holmes is released onto the internet
to track down Moriarty, and quickly becomes expert
in identifying computer viruses.
For several months they find no trace of
Moriarty, then Holmes himself disappears. He
reappears, playing Strawberry Fields Forever,
but his holographic representation appears unstable.
He announces that through reconsideration of the
binomial theorem he has been able to locate and
contain Morarty. His solution, however, ultimately
destroys himself, leaving his programmer the task of
reconstructing the program.
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Garth Nix
"The Curious Case of the Moondawn
Daffodils Murder" (2011)
Included in: Ghosts by Gaslight (Jack Dann
& Nick Gevers)
Story Type: Supernatural Homage
Canonical
Characters: (Inspector
Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes; Sherlock
Holmes)
Other Characters: Sir Magnus Holmes; Inspector McIntyre;
Sergeant Cumber; Susan Shrike; Carstairs;
Radziwill; (Lady Meredith
Foxton; P.C. Whitstable; Park
Keeper Moulincourt; Krongeitz;
Magister Dadd; Gregory Cornet)
Unnamed
Characters: Barbers; (Holmes's
Grandfather; Magnus's Grandfather; Magnus's
Father; Park Keeper)
Date: After 1887
Locations: Scotland Yard; Pall Mall; Gregory
Cornet's Barbershop
Story: Holmes sends his second cousin, Sir
Magnus Holmes, a Bedlam patient, to assist
Inspector McIntyre at Scotland Yard. He is
accompanied by Susan Shrike, a soon-to-be qualified
doctor. McIntyre is investigating the case
of a man who stole daffodils and murdered
a park keeper in Green Park, but who vanished
from inside his coat when apprehended.
Advice from Mycroft takes Magnus and Susan
to a barbershop in Curzon Street with a
temple of Bast in the cellar.
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Helen Nixon
"Message on a
Board" (1911)
Included in: The Tech (Bradley Polytechnic
Institute, Peoria), Volume XV, Number 2, November 1911
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian
Detective: Sherlock
Burns
Unnamed
Characters: Burns's Sister
Locations: Beach; Holmes's Cottage
Story: Walking along the beach, the day after
the local bank has been robbed, the narrator finds a
piece of board with a faded message on it. She takes
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Paul Nizza
The Adventures of the Five Puce Map
Tacks (1976)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Doorlock Homes; Dr John H.
Whatson
Characters Based On Canonical Characters:
The Bonker Street Irregulars = The Baker Street
Irregulars; Bobby = Billy; Mrs Spudson = Mrs Hudson;
Inspector Obtuse = Inspector Lestrade; Hayloft Homes
= Mycroft Homes; Gunky = Porlock; (Professor
Artie Morey = Professor Moriarty; The Apocryphal
Face = Professor Moriarty; Miss Morestains = Mary
Morstan)
Historical Figures: Jack the Ripper
Other Characters: Delivery Man; Murray
Charles; Four-Wheeler Driver; Bucephalus Desk Clerk;
Blood-orangeman; Chicken Herder; Police Constable;
Tobacconist; Pontifax Beet; The Tooting Terror;
Soames Freep; Wynott Gedowd-O'Here; Bucephalus
O.R.U. Sanscephalic; Constable Slagheap; Mr Squinge;
Mrs Squinge; Adams; Det. Supt Haddock; Costermonger
Date: 1889
Locations: Wormwood Scrubs; 221B, Bonker
Street; Great Codfish Street; The Bucephalus Club;
Tobacconists; Mollusc Mews
Story: After demonstrating his deductive
prowess to Whatson, Homes receives a coded message
from Gunky warning him that Obtuse will arrest him
if he stays in London. Charles comes to Homes after
receiving an envelope containing five puce map
tacks. It proves a ten-cigarette problem and the
Bonker Street Irregulars are called in. Homes looks
into similarities between Charles and Jack the
Ripper, but is informed by Haddock that there are
none. Homes, however, continues in his belief that
they are the same man. Charles says he will take the
case to the Bucephalus Club, and Obtuse brings news
of a murder outside Homes's own door.
One of the map tacks is attached to the
body, and Homes deduces some sort of link to the
Apocryphal Face and takes a cabman-drawn cab to call
on his brother Hayloft at the Bucephalus Club, where
after some intellectual sparring with his brother,
he learns that the map tacks are a symbol of the
club.
They visit the tack-maker, passing a
tobacconists where a robbery that appears to be
linked to the case has taken place. Hayloft reveals
Charles's true identity. Homes reveals his
deductions and injects a 7% solution of coffee, but
the dead man makes a startling reappearance and
Hayloft confesses to a mistake. The secret of the
map tacks is revealed and the tobacconist robberies
solved. Whatson leaves Bonker Street to marry Miss
Morestains.
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A.S. Noad
"Murdered
at Midnight or The Moonbeam Death" (1916)
Included in: McGill Daily, 28 October 1916
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detective: Shomlock
Shomes & Dr Whatsane
Other Characters: R.U. Crazyasell,
Duke of Nutty Dome; (Prince of Damnedfools; Earl
of Nogood; Gus Googoo; Ida)
Unnamed Characters: Shomes' Landlady;
Station Agent; (Prince's Son; Earl's Wife;
Ida's Parents)
Locations: Lunnon; Shomes' Rooms; Sparing
Cross Station; Nutty Dome
Story: A strange telegram arrives for Shomes
from R.U. Crazyasell , the Duke of Nutty Dome, while
Whatsane is home alone. Shomes and Whatsane travel
to the Duke's country seat, where they learn that
the Duke's life has been threatened after he
defeated local celebrity Gus Googoo at croquet.
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"Paralysed Patricia" (1916)
Included in: McGill Daily, 25 November 1916;
McGill Daily, 23 October 1952
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Shomlock
Sholmes
Other Characters: Patricia Pantomine;
Rosamund; Agnes
Unnamed Characters: Doctor; Victoria College
Girls; Warden; Hall Porter; (Arts Sophomore)
Locations: Canada; Montreal; Royal Victoria
College; Fakir Street
Story: Popular student and athlete Patricia
Pantomine is stricken with paralysis. Dr Whatsane is
called to attend to her, andd she asks him, in turn,
to summon Shomlock Sholmes of Fakir Street, believing
that someone has deliberately inflicted the paralysis
upon her. Sholmes's Paralysograph sets him on the path
to a solution, which is reached via a proposal of
marriage.
NOTE: In the 18952 reprint Patricia's surname
is "Pantomime".
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Merrell Noden
"The Adventure
of the Treacherous Traps" (1995)
Included in: Golf's Best Short Stories (Paul D.
Staudohar)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical
Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson;
Mrs Hudson
Historical Figures: John Henry Taylor;
Sandy Herd; Horace Hutchinson
Unnamed
Characters: Spectators;
Waiter; Golfers
Date: Summer, 1895
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train;
Scotland; St Andrews; Grand Hotel; St Andrews Golf
Course
Story: Golfer John Henry Taylor calls on Holmes
when the Scottish Open golfing trophy is stolen from
his house. Holmes and Watson travel to Scotland with
him, where he receives a series of mysterious notes.
Holmes engages in a putting match with Taylor's
rival and Watson discovers a mysterious bagpiper.
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William F. Nolan
"The Beast of
Bubble City" (1997)
Also published as "The Adventure of the Martian
Moons"
Included in: Down the Long Night
Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche
Canonical
Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Professor
Moriarty; Hound of the Baskervilles)
Fictional Characters: (Bulldog
Drummond; Miss Marple; Philo Vance; Boston
Blackie; Charlie Chan; Nero Wolfe; Travis
McGee)
Folkloric Characters: Werewolf
Other Characters: Samuel T. Space; Hubert
Albin; Dame Agatha Baskerville; Sir Jonathan Rodney
Baskerville; (Edna; Alexander Baskerville;
Reginald Baskerville)
Unnamed
Characters: Robo Kabbie;
(Neptunian Pig Farmer; Frogboy Pignappers;
Robot Maid)
Date: Christmas, The Future
Locations: Mars; Bubble City; Space's Office;
Red Sands avenue; 72nd Street; The Crime Clinic;
Baskerville Hall; Grimpen Moor
Story: Robot detective Sherlock Holmes sends
his robot assistant Dr Watson to ask private eye
Samuel T. Space to hire him to investigate the
murders of two members of the Baskerville family,
who have moved Baskerville Hall and Grimpen Moor to
Mars. Holmes believes that the Hound of the
Baskervilles has returned. Holmes, Watson and Space
travel to Baskerville Hall and face the Hound on
Grimpen Moor.
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"Flight to Legend" (2013)
Included in: Like a Dead Man Walking and
Other Shadow Tales (William F. Nolan)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical
Characters: Professor Moriarty; (Sherlock
Holmes; Dr Watson)
Historical Figures: (Arthur Conan
Doyle; Ernest Hemingway; Joseph Bell;
Patrick Heron Watson)
Other Characters: Edward Bell
Unnamed
Characters: Bush
Pilot
Date: 1935
Locations: Kenya; Nairobi; England; London;
Hampton Court; Bell's Flat; Moriarty's Flat
Story: A former Scotland Yard officer
turned bush pilot is summoned from Nairobi to
London by an old acquaintance, Edward Bell, son of
Joseph Bell. He tells him that Moriarty is a real
person, a former schoolmate of Conan Doyle's, who
has threatened his life, and is now planning to
poison London's water supply.
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"Sungrab" (1980)
Included in: After the Fall (Robert Sheckley)
Story Type: Science Fiction
Canonical
Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Professor
Moriarty)
Other Characters: Samuel T. Space; Amanda
Nightbird; Honest Al; Miss Penzler; Miss Grinstead;
Captain Shaun O'Malloy; Stanton P. Henshaw / The
Big Lizard; Hu Albin; (Lady Wheatshire; Lord
Willard Wheatshire; Fedor / Earl of Clax; Captain
Shaun O'Malloy; Henshaw)
Unnamed
Characters: Spider
Assassin; Fleeks; Al's Goon; Antar Twinhead; TV
Moderator; Titan Tri-sexual; Solarcops; Froggie
Housemom; Corridor Guard; Froggie Nightguard; (Galactic
Highwigs)
Date: The
Future
Locations: Mars; Bubble City; Boor Building;
Space's Office; Mindmaze; Burton's Rock Asteroid;
Honest Al's Pleasure Palace; Jupiter; Juketown; The
Bent Tentacle; KRAB TV Station; Earth; AllnewYork;
Solarpolice HQ; Alpha Centauri; Henshaw's Palace
Story: Private eye Samuel T. Space, returns the
robot Holmes and Watson to Hu Albin after they fail
to solve the Saturn Time-Machine swindle. After
rescuing Amanda Nightwine from a Spider Assassin, he
attempts to clear her debts with Honest Al. Al
reveals that he was under orders to kill Amanda from
the Big Lizard, whose plans to steal the Sun she has
overheard, but had erased from her memory. His
celebration, at the end of the case, is interrupted
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Jamyang Norbu
The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (1999)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Hurree
Chunder Mookerjee (From Kipling's Kim)
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Professor Moriarty; (Colonel Moran; Mycroft
Holmes)
Fictional Characters: Hurree Chunder
Mookerjee; Captain Strickland; Colonel Creighton
Historical Figures: Kintup; The 13th Dalai
Lama
Other Characters: Ticca-Ghari Coachman;
Gujurati Harbour Clerk; Coolies; Dockhands; Harbour
officials; Lascars; Jacob Asterman (Ferret-Face);
Ferret-Face's Driver; Clerks; Government
Subordinates; Vendors; Kunjris; Urchins; Tram
Conductors; Wedding Procession; Groom; Traffic
Policeman; Hurree's Driver; Taj Mahal
Commissionaire; Taj Mahal Manager; Burra Mem;
Murdered Hotel Servant; Hotel Guests; Old Bhangi;
Inspector MacLeod; Carvallo; Hotel Porter; Waiter;
Hotel Clerks; Boys; Sadhus; Bazaar Crowds; Chaprasi;
Urchin; Ghariwallah; Symington; Constables; Police
Sergeant; Crowd in Horniman Circle; Dr. Patterson;
Beggars; Station Crowds; Station Beggars; Station
Vendors; Bookstall Keeper; Porter; Royal
Warwickshire Regiment Soldiers; Ticket Collector;
Railway Bearer; Thugs; Bhisti; Delhi Vendors; Delhi
Beggars; Tongawallah; British officers; Pathan Horse
Dealers; Travellers; Mahout; Nikku; Hurree's
Contacts In Simla; Holmes's Pahari Manservant;
Chokras; Shukkur Ali Gaffaru; Jamspel; Rajah of
Bushair; Bandits; Asterman's Men; Letter Bearer;
Tsering; Phurbu Thondup; Thondup's Servant's;
Harvesters; Funeral Party; Pilgrims; Lhassa Crowds;
Servitors; Soldiers; Grooms; Warrior Monks; Monk
Attendants; Lama Yonten; Yonten's Servants; Chinese
Assassin; The Dark One; Dark One's Guards; Monk
Physician; Senior Chapel Attendant; Lord
Chamberlain; (Swiss Guide; Cairo Assassins)
Date: July, 1891 - November 1892
Locations: India; Bombay; Malabar Point;
Ballard Pier; Harbourmaster's office; The SS
Kohinoor; Customs Shed; Horniman Circle; The
Taj Mahal Hotel; A Ghari; The Beach Road; The Borah
Bazaar; Bombay Natural History Society; The Victoria
& Albert Museum; Frere Street; Horniman Circle
Police Station; Victoria Terminus; A Train; Delhi;
Umballa; Kalka; Simla; Dovedell Hotel; Lower Bazaar;
Hurree's Apartment; Runnymeade Cottage; Lurgan's
Shop; Narkhanda; Hindustan-thibet Road; Fagu;
Rampur; Chini; Asterman's Camp; Tibet; The Shipki
Pass; Tsaparang; Thöling; The Governor's Mansion;
The Plains of Barga; Lake Manasarover; Thokchen;
Tradun; Tashi lhunpo; Shigatse; Lhassa; The Norbu
Lingka; The Potala; (Reichenbach Falls;
Shepherd's Hut; Hospenthal; St. Gotthard Pass;
Como; Florence; Gezirah Palace Hotel, Cairo)
Story: Hurree is ordered by Colonel Creighton
to follow Sigerson, a mysterious Norwegian, when he
arrives in Bombay. Following the man, who has met up
with Strickland at the docks, Hurree notices that
they are being followed by a ferret-faced man. At
Sigerson's hotel, Strickland introduces Sigerson to
Hurree and reveals that he is Sherlock Holmes. A
hotel servant is killed, his body covered in blood,
which will not stop flowing, the attack on him
appears to have happened in the room assigned to
Sigerson. Ferret-face is seen fleeing the hotel.
Holmes tells them of the true events at
Reichenbach, and of several attempts on his life
since then. The following day, after a visit to the
Bombay Natural History Society, Holmes announces he
has solved the case, and arranges for Hurree to meet
him in his room later that night. Lying in wait,
Hurree and Strickland witness the murderer at work,
and Holmes reveals the nature of the servant's
death, and that Colonel Moran was behind the
attempts on his life. For safety's sake Holmes and
Hurree take a train to Simla, with Holmes managing
to divert a Thuggee attack on the way. In Simla
Holmes spends his time preparing to journey into
Tibet.
Holmes and Hurree journey into Tibet
with Kintup as their guide. En route they are
attacked by bandits, from whom they are rescued by
Ferret-Face, who reveals himself to be an emissary
of the Grand Lama, and offers them safe conduct to
Lhassa. In Lhassa, the Dalai Lama's secretary Yonten
tells them that Holmes has been called to protect
the young Dalai Lama's life. Holmes declines the
task.
That night a Chinese assassin breaks
into the Lama's palace and steals a Mandala. The man
is killed but not before a mysterious figure, with
the power to make objects move by themselves takes
the Mandala from him. Yonten tells them that the man
they saw was the Dark One, responsible for the
murder of the last Dalai Lama. The Mandala was the
property of the first Dalai Lama. Holmes and Hurree
plan to infiltrate the Chinese Legation to retrieve
it. There, they discover that the Dark One is
actually Moriarty, who demonstrates the rediscovered
powers of his mind, which also enabled him to
survive Reichenbach.
Holmes is able to retrieve the Mandala,
and escape the legation. He travels to the Ice
Cavern of Shambala with Hurree, Yonten and the Dalai
Lama. They are attacked by Manchu troops, but manage
to gain entrance to the temple, where Holmes solves
the secret of the Mandala. Moriarty has beaten him
to the cavern, and gained control of the Power Stone
of Shambala. Holmes learns his own true identity and
draws on forgotten powers to combat his nemesis.
After the conflict, Holmes resumes his duties as
Abbot of the White Garuda Monastery until he is
summoned back to London to clear up the remainder of
the Moriarty Gang.
Years later Jamyang Norbu meets an old
monk from the monastery and asks him about Holmes's
reign as abbot.
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G. David Nordley
"Messengers of
Chaos" (1997)
Included in: Asimov's Science Fiction, January 1997
Story Type: Science Fiction Homage
Canonical
Characters: (Dr Watson)
Other Characters: Hartigan "Hart"
O'Reilly; Chief Tad Reynolds; Tina Sellica; Sam Wu; Dr Kathryn
"Kate" Samios; Ahmed Fhasi; Ayun Nu; Jane Sellica;
Mathilda Soames; Linda; Wu Chun-Hee; Zhen Won-Lee; Xiang Kung-Zhek;
Brad Tau; Talibah Fhasi; (Prime Minister
Nakasone; Carrie Fielding; Herbert Angel; Doris
Thant; Sally Duluth; Mayor Reynolds)
Unnamed
Characters: Desk Officer;
Moonball Players; Linda's Brother; Security
Bureau
Staff; Deputy; Central Park Onlookers; Tau's
Students; Golden Path Cult Members; (Taiwanese Writer;
Fhasi's Friend;
Children; Chinese General; Chun-Hee's
Cousin)
Date: Wednesday, 30 September-October, 2068
Locations: The Moon; Coriolis Municipality; Security Bureau;
Coriolis University; North Trench; Wu's Office; Kate's
Apartment; Mathilda's Office; O'Reilly's Apartment;
Gym; East Park Path; Central Park; Aboard the Edmund
Halley
Story: Officer Hart O'Reilly of the
Coriolis Municipality Security Bureau is assigned to
investigate the murder of Sam Wu, the Cislunar
Republic's minister of Allocations and Trade, who was killed
with a tranquilliser dart. He carries out his
investigation with the aid of the Dr Watson
computer programme. The case winds up on a
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Margaret Norris
"A Case of Identities" (1966)
Included in: Ellery Queen's Mystery
Magazine (July 1966)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock
Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; Professor Moriarty; Dr
Watson
Unnamed Characters: Children
Date: Early Spring
Locations: A Park
Story: The reincarnated Watson
contacts the reincarnated Holmes through the agony
columns, asking him to meet in a park. The identities
of those who attend the rendezvous, however, are not
what we expected.
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Rick Norwood
"Three Timely Tales" (1982)
Included in: Rod Serling's The Twilight
Zone Magazine (December 1982)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock
Holmes; Dr Watson
Historical Figures: (Abraham
Lincoln; John Wilkes Booth)
Other Characters: Secret Service
Head; (Trudy)
Date: April, 1865
Locations: USA; Washington DC
Story: Holmes travels to Washington
to investigate the sighting of a woman in Lincoln's
box at Ford's Theatre on the night of his
assasination.
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Not by Conan A. Doyle, Sir
"The Return of Padlock Bones" (1905)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches II:
1905-1909 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Padlock Bones &
Wattsey
Other Characters: Ten-year-old
Boy; (Dinkey; Arthur H. Dinkey; H. Vernon
Dinkey)
Locations: USA
Story: Padlock Bones explains to a
ten-year-old boy the only terms under which
he will look for his crap-playing friend Dinkey.
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Julie Novakova
"The Adventure of the Lost Theorem"
(2015)
Included in: The
Adventures of Moriarty (Maxim Jakubowski)
Story Type: Extra-canonical adventure of
Professor Moriarty
Canonical Characters: Professor Moriarty;
Irene Adler
Historical Figures: Robert
Zimmermann; (Bernard Bolzano)
Other Characters: Salesman; Eva Zimmermann;
opera Performers; (Professor Galbraith;
Josephine)
Date: 187-
Locations: Prague; Old Town; Franz
Joseph Station; A Train; Hotel; Charles-Ferdinand
University; Zimmermann's Office; Opera House; Mala
Strana; Church; English Train
Story: An unsigned message referring
to Zimmermann's ownersip of Bolzano's manuscripts
addressing the binomial theorem brings Moriarty to
Prague. He discovers that the work on the binomial
theorem is not among Bolzano's papers and sets about
trying to track it down. While walking back to his
hotel after visiting the opera, and seeing Irene Adler
in the chorus, he realises he is being followed.
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Naomi Novik
"Commonplaces"
(2008)
Included in: The Improbable
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (John Joseph
Adams)
Story Type: Extra-canonical Adventure of
Irene Adler
Canonical Characters: Godfrey Norton; Irene
Adler; (Sherlock Holmes; Professor Moriarty; Dr
Watson; King of Bohemia; Mary Morstan)
Other Characters: Street Boys; Mrs Ballou;
Paris Women; Lamplighters; Ushers; Musicians;
Irene's Maid; Opera-Comique Manager; Stage Door
Boys; Mademoiselle Parnaud; (Irene's
Neighbours; Doctor; Mrs Lydgate; Mrs Darrow; Mrs
Wessex; Irene's Paris Acquaintance)
Date:1891
Locations: Portugal; Lisbon; Irene's House;
Mrs Wessex's House; France; Paris; Café;
Opera-Comique; Holmes's Room
Story: Norton reads Irene the news of
Holmes's death. She travels to Paris with her maid and
spots Holmes playing in the orchestra at the
Opera-Comique, and under an alias gets herself a part
in the chorus. He is waiting for her when she leaves
the theatre after the performance. He tells her that
some of Moriarty's gang have escaped and are watching
Watson, and she realises the truth of his
disappearance. They spend the night together, and in
the morning she writes to Godfrey.
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