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Keith Oatley
The Case Of Emily V. (2003)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Emily
Vincent, Freud and Watson
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Mycroft Holmes
Historical Figures: Sigmund Freud
Other Characters: Emily Vincent; Charles S.;
Sara Rosenthal; Bertha; Dr Woolf; Mr. Jones;
Diogenes Footman; Diogenes Members; Diogenes Butler;
Mrs S's Maid; Catherine S.; Cabbie; Mrs Mountjoy;
S's Mistress; Herr Kydorf; Frau König; Sara's Maid;
The Psychological Wednesday Society; Constable;
Lotte; Coachman; Railway Official; Ticket Inspector;
Trient Porter; English Family; Cab Driver
(Sara's Cook; Sara's Father; Emily's Friend;
Emily's Father; Emily's Mother; Caroline; Emily's
Governess; Sara's Servant; Thornton; Watson's
Colleague; Charles's Colleague; Colleague's Wife;
Augustus Pemberton; Oberlander; Oberlander's
Secretary; Von Oldenburg; Headmistress; Boy; Stadt
London Hotel Chambermaid; Zwierschütz Waiter; Ida;
Ida's Friend; Kitchenmaid; Hotel Manager;
Telegraph Clerk; Grosvenor Porter; Stadt London
Night Porter)
Date: 12th May, 1904 - 1916
Locations: Vienna; Sara's House; Berggasse;
Freud's House; Emily's Apartment; G---------; A
Mountain; 221B, Baker Street; Hospital Library;
Baker Street; St Marylebone High Street; Restaurant;
Diogenes Club; Pall Mall; B-------; S's House;
Clifton Gardens; Edgware Road; Regent's Park; Hotel
Imperial, Vienna; Berlin; Clusius Gasse, Vienna; A
Train; Sudbahnhof; Train to Italy; Trient; Medical
Bookshop; A Train; Paris; A Hotel; St-Germain
Apartment; The Flche d'Or; Grosvenor Hotel
Story: Emily is sent to Freud by friends who
are unaware that she has killed Charles S. He
reports on her case to the Psychological Wednesday
Society. Emily tells in her diary how S., her
guardian, a British diplomat, tracked her from
England to Vienna, and how he met his death in the
mountains. She becomes increasingly scared that
Freud will uncover her secret. When she tells Freud
about her guardian's childhood abuse of her, he is
sceptical. She also shares the details of her
therapy and past with her friend Sara. Her fears
become worse when the body is discovered. She finds
herself becoming closer to Sara, whom she tells of
the death of S. Emily and Sara plan to deliberately
mislead Freud regarding the nature of Emily's
problem.
Watson takes up a study of
psychopathology in the belief that he can help
Holmes during his bouts of melancholia. Holmes and
Watson travel to Vienna at the request of the
Foreign Office to investigate S's death. Mycroft
believes he may have been assassinated by German
intelligence agents. He also asks Holmes to contact
Emily whom he regards as a possible recruit for his
intelligence agency.
After interviewing Mrs S. and deducing
that Emily is in Austria, and meeting S's mistress,
Holmes sets out for Vienna with Watson. He stops off
in Berlin to inquire into Oberlander's intelligence
agency. In Vienna he sets about locating Emily, who
becomes worried when she learns that he is looking
for her. Holmes discovers evidence of S's
intelligence activities which suggest he may have
been working for the Germans. Sara resolves to
deliberately mislead Holmes, and to set up a network
of spies at his hotel. Watson attends a lecture by
Freud and develops his own reasons for wishing to
divert Holmes from solving the case. Sara arranges
for the two women to disappear. Holmes meets with
Freud and learns more about the case and about
himself, and in return Freud learns more about
Emily.
Holmes brings the case in Vienna to an
unsatisfactory conclusion, and expresses his
admiration for Sara as an adversary. He still
retains doubts about the circumstances of S's death.
He encourages Watson to send his account of the case
to Sara and Emily, now living together after fleeing
to Paris. Emily still worries about her part in the
events and Holmes's intentions, and Sara forces a
confrontation upon her friend in London, and herself
strikes a deal with Holmes and Watson.
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Agnes Mary O'Brien
"The
Adventure of the Pair of Shoes" (1903)
Included in: The Smith College Monthly, November
1903
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Inspector Lestrade; (Countess of Morcar;
Baker Street Irregulars)
Other Characters: (Bishop John Willis)
Unnamed Characters: Lestrade's Messenger;
Bishop's Coachman
Date: Shortly after BLUE
Locations: Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street
Story: When calling at 221B one evening,
Watson finds a pair of shoes outside the door, and
Holmes deduces that their owner is a burglar. Holmes
believes they are connected to the case Lestrade
brings them, involving the theft of church plate in
South Kensington.
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J.C. Ochiltree
"Sherlock Holmes Baffled" (1895)
Included in: The Sunday Journal
(Indianapolis), 14th April 1895 and on this site
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; (Mrs Watson)
Other Characters: Butcher; (Sailor;
Butcher's Wife; Butcher's Lad; Janes; Janitor)
Date: June
Locations: Watson's House; 221B, Baker
Street; Butcher's Shop
Story: Holmes visits Watson and tells
him of his investigations into licorice root, and of
an series of thefts from a butcher's shop which he has
been unable to solve. Holmes's janitor reveals the
truth to Watson.
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Weston Ochse
"The Girl
in the Key of C" (2018)
Included in: For the Sake of
the Game (Laurie R. King & Leslie S.
Klinger)
Story Type: Homage
Other Characters: Danny; Hooker; Driver;
Frank; Edna Carruthers; Longshoremen; Pickup Driver;
Bangers; Port Police Officers; Crew Foreman; Gang
Leader; (Mr Southard)
Date: December 24th-25th
Locations: USA; California; Los Angeles;
L.A. Harbor
Story:
Danny, a hotdog vendor on the L.A. docks gets
talking to a psychic hooker on Christmas Day, and his
life changes forever.
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John O'Connell
Baskerville (2011)
Also published as: The Baskerville Legacy
Story Type: Homage
Historical Figures: Arthur Conan Doyle;
Bertram Fletcher Robinson; Duke of Norfolk; Lady
Sarah Wilson; Ivor Guest; Harry Baskerville; Joseph
Fletcher Robinson; Rosalinda Fletcher Robinson; Sir
John Robinson; Arthur Pearson; Gladys Hill Morris;
Major Kitson; Madame d'Esperance
(Louisa Doyle; Jean Leckie; Philip Richard
Morris; Charles Altamont Doyle)
Characters Based on Historical Figures:
(Barnes (Frederick Bowden); Alice Barnes (Alice
Bowden))
Other Characters: Soldiers; Johnny Porter;
Hospital Orderlies; Patients; Hospital Sergeant;
Lord Edward Talbot; Sergeant-Major; Girl on
Paddington Station; Swindon Clerk; Taunton Woman;
Newton Abbot Station Porter; Mrs Saxham; Nancy;
Pearson's Secretary; Cabbie; Warren Street People;
Betty; Franny; Bouncers; Golf Caddy; Royal Links
Waiter; Old Woman with Keys; Ned; Phyllis; Ipplepen
Parishioners; Prison Governor; Prisoners; Guards;
Grimspound Tourist; Duchy Hotel Manager; Duchy
Hikers; Molly; (W.E. Crimp; Major Matson;
Undertaker; Mrs Higgins; Henry King; Gladys's
Actress Friend; Anna)
Date: December, 1906 / July 11th -
April, 1901
Locations: France; Paris; Rue-Saint-Lazare;
Hotel Concorde Saint-Lazare; South Africa; Cape
Town; Aboard SS Briton; Paddington
Station; Swindon; Taunton; Westbury; Newton Abbot;
Ipplepen; Park Hill; St Andrew's Church; Addison
Crescent; Fleet Street; Daily Express
Offices; Purley; Riddlesdown; St John's Wood;
Southampton Row; Warren Street; Norfolk; Cromer;
Golf Course; Royal Links Hotel; Devonshire;
Dartmoor; Bovey Tracey; Haytor; Hemsworthy Gate;
Widecombe; Bowerman's Nose; Hound Tor; Jay's Grave;
Heatree House; Princetown; Two Bridges; Wisht Wood;
Duchy Hotel; Dartmoor Prison; Fox Tor; Childe's
Tomb; Grimspound; Yelverton Road
Story: 1906: Fletcher Robinson
sends a manuscript detailing the "Baskervilles
business" to his solicitor with
instructions that it not be read until his and
Doyle's immediate descendents are dead.
1900: Robinson meets Doyle aboard the SS
Briton sailing out of Cape Town. Doyle buys a
story idea from him. He witnesses Doyle's strange
attempt to save the life of a sergeant-major. Back in
England, Robinson contemplates Doyle's offer to
collaborate on a story. After visiting his parents, he
goes to stay with his uncle, Sir John, in London, and
begins work at the Daily Express. His
fiancée Gladys persuades him to contact Doyle, and he
accompanies him to Cromer, where they hear of local
ghosts, and Black Shuck, and conceive the idea for The
Hound of the Baskervilles.
The two writers travel to Dartmoor,
where Doyle announces his decision to include Holmes
in the story. Robinson decides to write his own
Dartmoor story to rival the Hound. Doyle
arranges a séance with Mme d'Esperance, and an old
friend of Robinson's makes contact from the spirit
world. Robinson has an argument with Doyle and sees a
vision on the moor.
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Gerry O'Hara
Sherlock Holmes and the Affair in
Transylvania (2011)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Fictional Characters: Lucy
Westenra; Dracula; Landlord of the Golden Krone
Hotel; Landlady of the Golden Krone Hotel; Country
Folk; Bistritz Coachman; Coach Passengers; Dracula's
Brides; Gypsies; Peasant Mother; Renfield; Berserker
Characters Based on Fictional Characters: Mina
Svbado (Mina Harker); Janos Svbado (Jonathan
Harker); Brother Arminius (Arminius of Buda-Pesth
University); Dr Josef Westenra (John Seward); Sandor
Reviczky (Arthur Holmwood); (Herr Hofner (Peter
Hawkins); Barge Captain (Captain of the Demeter);
Barge Crew (Crew of the Demeter))
Historical Figures: King Carol
Other Characters: Ambassador; Entourage;
Military Band; Bucharest Women; Courier; Westenra's
Servants; Asylum Inmates; Westenra's Cook; Postman;
Hotel Royal Waiter; Peasant with Lieter-Waggon;
Monks; Asylum Attendants; Eva; Graveyard Man; Cab
Drivers; River Patrol NCO; Urchins; Policemen; Dog
Handler; Westenra's Cook; Budapest Carters; Asylum
Gatekeeper; Anton; Petrof; Dr Lukacs; Undertakers;
Zoo Superintendent; Zoo Keeper; Brother Tamas;
Funeral Guests; Dr Vajda; Hospital Houseman; Gypsy
Orchestra; Tavern Customers; Policeman; Abbot;
Coachman; Nuns; Lawyer; Bruno; Sandor's Batman;
Farmer & Wife; (Romanian Royal Family
Member; Pallbearers; Hofner's Manservant;
Westenra's Deputy; Labourer; Sandor's Men;
Sailors; Mina's Children)
Locations: Romania; Bucharest; Train
Station; A Train; Vidin; Budapest; Train Station;
Westenra's House; Graveyard; Klausenberg; Hotel
Royal; Transylvania; Bistritz; Golden Krone Hotel;
The Mittel Land; The Carpathians; The Borgo Pass;
Castle Dracula; Monastery; Seward's Asylum; Chapel;
Cafe; Obuda Quays; Aboard a Barge; Constanza House;
Kriszna; Tavern; Westenra Tomb; Monastery; Leopold
District; Summer House; Town House; Farm
Story: Leaving Bucharest after a case
involving a member of the Romanian royal family,
Watson receives a letter from his niece Mina, in
Budapest, whose husband Janos, a solicitor, has
disappeared on a trip to Transylvania. His partner has
also been found dead.
After reading letters from Janos to
Mina, Holmes decides he and Watson must travel to
Janos's destination - Castle Dracula. Before they
leave, they witness Mina's cousin Lucy sleepwalking
out to a graveyard. They travel by coach to the
Castle, meet the Count, and Watson is visited by three
vampire women. Exploring the castle, they find the
Count in a coffin, and Janos a prisoner.
They return with him to Budapest, where
Westenra shows them Renfield, an inmate of his asylum.
A barge, its crew all dead, loaded with boxes of
earth, drifts into Budapest during a storm. Lucy
continues to be visited by Dracula in various forms.
More deaths occur and Holmes and his companions track
the Count back to Castle Dracula for a final brief
showdown.
NOTE: Much of the text
of this novel is transcribed directly from Bram
Stoker's Dracula with the British settings
switched to Romanian ones and some changes of
character names.
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Neal R. O'Hara
"Are You There?" (1922)
Included in: Duluth Herald, 25 April 1922
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
(Dr Watson)
Historical Figures: (Mary Landon Baker;
Allister McCormick; Henry Cabot Lodge; Sir Oliver
Lodge; Burton Holmes)
Characters Based On Historical Figures: A. Con
'Em Doyle [Arthur Conan Doyle]
Unnamed Characters: Central Operator
Locations: USA
Story: A. Con 'Em Doyle puts a call through to
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Charles O'Hegarty, Michel Choquette &
Frank Springer
"The Strange Case of the Queen's Pupils" (1971)
Included in: National Lampoon, July 1971
Story Type: Parody Comic
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Dr Watson; Professor Moriarty
Other Characters: Sir John Thomas; La-Oud-Phat
Historical Figures: Prince Albert Victor, Duke
of Clarence
Unnamed Characters: Schoolboys; Organ
Grinder
Date: Spring, 1881
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Teddington; Sir
Wankalot's School
Story: Holmes receives a letter from Sir John
Thomas, headmaster of Sir Wankalot's School, who is
concerned about the listless behaviour of his pupils.
Holmes and Watson travel to the school, where a
pornographic barrel organ puts them on the trail of the
culprit.
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Oiv
"Hairlock Shomes" (1951)
Included in: The Carleton, 25 October 1951
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Hairlock
Shomes & Wotsot
Unnamed Characters: Three Screaming
Women; Victim; Crowd
Locations: Canada; Ottawa; Carleton College; The
Bytowne Cinema
Story: A storm brews, and three thousand miles
away, Hairlock Shomes and his pet dachshund Wotsot solve
a murder by the dispersal of a crowd.
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"The Further Adventures
of Hairlock Shomes" (1951)
Included in: The Carleton, 6 December 1951
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Hairlock
Shomes & Wotsot
Other Characters: Sluggem Shearing; Dr I.M.
Champagne; "Hy" Kurtman
Unnamed Characters: Body; Conductor
Locations: Canada; Ottawa; A Train
Story: Shomes solves his final case, a murder on
a train.
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James O'Keefe
"The Adventure of the Deadly Interlude"
(2014)
Included in: The
Adventure of the Plated Spoon and Other Tales of
Sherlock Holmes (Loren D. Estleman)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson;
Mary Morstan; Sherlock Holmes; Colonel Moran; John
Douglas / Jack McMurdo / Birdy Edwards; (Porlock;
Inspector Alec MacDonald; Professor Moriarty; The
Scowrers; McGinty; Ted Baldwin; Mrs Douglas)
Other Characters: Jean-Baptiste Thibadeau;
Laughing Friar Proprietor's Wife; Dandridge's Butler;
Dandridge's Guests; Pianist; Sir Cecil Dandridge;
Trevor Atkins; Marie L'Espanaye / Yvette Rousseau;
Inspector Thompson; Constable McGregor; (Dandridge's
Man; Antwerp Man; Leonard Trelawney; Trelawney's
Wife and Children, Peer; Royal Lion Bank Officer;
Jebediah Watts; Mary Watts; Watts's Child; French
Police)
Date: During the Hiatus / 1894
Locations: Watson's Office; Paddington Station;
Sussex; Dickencroft; The Laughing Friar; Maple
Meadows; Cherry Lane; Constabulary; 221B, Baker
Street; A Train; Belgium; Antwerp; Sidewalk Café;
Norwood Station
Story: After Holmes's death at Reichenbach,
Mary advises Watson to take a break from his practice,
so he travels to the Sussex village of Dickencroft,
where he has a number of encounters with men who seem
familiar to him. He is invited to dinner by Sir Cecil
Dandridge, but the evening ends in veiled threats, and
the murder of the host. Watson becomes a suspect when
links to Moriarty are discovered.
After his return and the arrest of Moran,
Holmes tells Watson of a case of mistaken identity in
Antwerp during the Great Hiatus, which takes them Back
to Dickencroft. Holmes explains how events there are
linked to the Valley of Fear case.
NOTE: Marie L'Espanaye's
name is derived from the female murder victims in
Poe's stories "The Mystery of Marie Roget" and "The
Murders in the Rue Morgue".
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Nick Oldham
"The Spy
and the Towers" (2017)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes's
School for Detection (Simon Clark)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Mrs Hudson; Baker Street
Irregulars
Historical Figures: E.W. Crutwell;
Edward VII; Sidney Reilly; (Princess Alexandra)
Other Characters: Jimmy; Potter; Thomas
O'Hara; William Melville; Lestrade's Hansom Driver;
Tower Bridge Construction Team; Construction
Workers; Workers' Families; Police Officers;
Edward's Bodyguards; Blackpool Crowd; Street
Performers; Fortune-tellers; Magicians; Beggars;
Blackpool Constables; Tower Dancers; Lift Operator;
Tower Audience; (Fishmonger; Noreen; Constable
Johnson; Dog-walker; Irish Rebels)
Date: Mid-May, 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Duncannon
Street; Teashop; 1, Russell Square; Baker Street;
Tower Bridge; Manchester; Lancashire; Preston;
Blackpool; North Station; Blackpool Tower; Hospital
Story: Ace, a student at the Imperial
Academy of Detective Inquiry and Forensic Science who
was expected to go on to work within the intelligence
community, disappears while on a mission of national
importance, following O'Hara, an Irish Home Rule
rebel. He has left behind a note, warning Lestrade of
a threat to "the tower". The trail leas from an
encounter with the Prince of Wales at Tower Bridge to
one with the Prime Minister at Blackpool Tower.
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John P. Oliver
"An
Eyewitness Account of Holmes" (1977)
Included in: Murder Ink (Dilys Winn)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: Inspector Lestrade;
Sherlock Holmes; (Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Mrs
Watson; Professor Moriarty)
Historical Figures: John P. Oliver; (Arthur
Conan Doyle; Jack the Ripper)
Other Characters: Mary Watson
Unnamed Characters: Retired Detective Inspector;
Scotland Yard Officers
Date: 1970s
Locations: Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street
Story: On an exchange visit, working at
Scotland Yard, Oliver bumps into a retired police
detective in the Black Museum, who recommends that he
visits Holmes. Arriving in Baker Street, he finds Camden
House and knocks on the door of the house opposite. The
door is answered by Mary Watson, granddaughter of Dr
Watson and Mrs Hudson, who sends him up to see Holmes.
Holmes tells him about the time he spent in New York,
and bemoans the state of crime in present times and the
influence of Conan Doyle.
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C. O'M
"Why Musical Comedy Has No Plot" (1904)
Also published as "Potluck Bones Dissects
Musical Comedy"
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I:
1900-1904 (Bill Peschel); A Bedside Book of
Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches
(Charles Press)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Potluck Bones & Cotsun
Characters Derived From Canonical Characters:
Mrs Budson
Other Characters: Plantagenette Bailey; Hi-ti
Girl Audience; (Critics; Leading
Comedians; Lancer; Authors; Composers; Nonden
Scones; Kitty Hi-Fly; Covent Garden Salesman;
Leafette)
Locations: Bones's Baker Street Rooms; Legall
Theatre
Story: During a lull in crime, Bones and Cotson
are visited by Plantagenette Bailey, producer of
musical comedies at the Legall Theatre. He asks Bones
to counter the critics' claims that there is no plot
to his new musical The Hi-ti Girl.
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One of the Burst Twins
"The
Mystery of the Hot Air; or, Sherlock Holmes Again on
the Job" (1911)
Included in: Jambalaya, Volume XVI (1911),
Tulane University.
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Historical Figures: Paul Tulane; Prof. Henry
Harrison Strauss; Dr Morton Arnold Aldrich; (Gustav
Mann; Professor Owen Meriwether Jones; Dr Alcee
Fortier; Professor Woodward; Dr George Eugene Beyer;
Dr Abraham Louis Metz; Dr Aldrich; Dr William
Benjamin Smith)
Unnamed Characters: Nightwatchman; Student;
Debate Audience; (Authors; Publishers)
Date: Jucember
Locations: USA; Louisiana; New Orleans; Audubon
Street; St Charles Avenue; Tulane University; Gibson
Hall
Story: Holmes and Watson become intrigued by a
sudden gust of air as they are strolling past Tulane
University's Gibson Hall. After ruling out a volcano,
an earthquake, lost radium and a faculty meeting
as possible sources, they discover an unconscious
nightwatchman and a dead professor, before discovering
the source of the hot air in the Assembly Hall.
NOTE: Professor Woodward is either William
Woodward or Ellsworth Woodward.
NOTE: Elsewhere in the yearbook the writers are
credited pseudonymously as Robert Will Burst and Anna
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Dennis O'Neil
"The Forlorn Death of Sally at the Crossroads"
(2019)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes and Doctor
Was Not (Christopher Sequeira)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Doc
Holliday
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Historical Figures: Doc Holliday; (The
Clantons; Wyatt Earp; Virgil Earp)
Other Characters: Willy Clanton
Unnamed Characters: Stage Driver; Raggedy
Man; Sheriff; Cowpokes; Farmhands; Labouring Men; Yellow
Rosie's Clientele; Ranchers; Barkeep; Stout Woman;
Townsfolk; Merchants; Farmer; Shopkeeper; (Tombstone
Lawmen; Someone in Buckingham Palace)
Date: A while after 26 October 1881
Locations: USA; Keppel's Crossing;
Stable; Yellow Rosie's Saloon
Story: Stranded overnight in the town
of Keppel's Crossing, Doc Holliday becomes involved in a
poker game with a Holmes, who later saves him from being
shot. The following morning, the man who tried to shoot
him, a cousin of the Clantons, is found dead in the
street. A bank robbery and a dead mule figure into the
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Kevin O'Neill
"The Case of Spare Libs, Flied Lice and Plain
Clackers" (2009)
Included in: Stuff 'N
Nonsense (Kevin O'Neill)
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Sherbert Homes
& Doctor Whatsup
Historical Figures: (Dalai Lama)
Other Characters: Parker; Des Lawson;
Ho Chi Minh; (Dr Ramprakash; Enid Lawson; Robert
Clatworthy)
Unnamed Characters: Chinese Man; Opium
Smokers
Date: 24th February,
1874
Locations: Baker Street; Chinatown;
Opium Den
Story: Yorkshireman, Des Lawson calls
on Homes and Watson when his daughter and his prize pig
disappear. The case leads them to an opium den in
Chinatown and an encounter with a man who claims to be
the Dalai Lama.
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"The Mysterious
Case of the Man on the Grassy Knoll with the Hound in
the Basket and their Part in Delaying the Invention of
the Internal Combustion Engine" (2009)
Included in: Stuff 'N
Nonsense (Kevin O'Neill)
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Sherbert Homes
& Doctor Whatsup
Historical Figures: (Rudolf Diesel;
Albert Einstein; Adolf Hitler)
Other Characters: Parker; Earl Grey;
Lady Windemere-Fancy; (Lord Windemere-Fancy;
Madeleine)
Unnamed Characters: Cabbie
Date: April
Locations: Baker Street
Story: Lady Windemere-Fancy calls on
Baker Street detective Sherbert Homes when her husband
runs off with Madeleine, her French maid. Homes and
Whatsup travel to Baden-Baden to prevent an
assassination attempt, and reminisce on their return
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"The Mysterious
Case of the Man on the Grassy Knoll with the Hound in
the Basket and their Part in Delaying the Invention of
the Internal Combustion Engine" (2009)
Included in: Stuff 'N
Nonsense (Kevin O'Neill)
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Sherbert Homes
& Doctor Whatsup
Historical Figures: (William Webb
Ellis)
Other Characters: Denzil ap Evans-Boyo;
(Oggi-Oggi bin Linah; Denzil ap Evans-Boyo; Dickie;
Bishop of Llandaff)
Unnamed Characters: Presbyterian
Woman; Druids
Locations: Baker Street; Wales;
Aberystwyth; Presbyterian Chapel; Cardiff
Story: The Arab mastermind bin Linah
announces a plan to destroy Buckingham Palace with an
explosive-filled dirigible. The Home Secretary asks
Homes to travel to Wales to investigate rumours of Welsh
Nationalist involvement. In Cardiff, he and Whatsup are
captured by Druids.
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The Onlooker
"Drama in the Libarary!" (1925)
Included in: The Stapleford
& Sandiacre News, 11th July 1925
Story Type: Fantasy Homage Script
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Fictional Characters: Robin Hood; Lady Audley;
John Halifax; Emma Woodhouse; Jane Eyre; Antonio the
Merchant of Venice; Quentin Durward; Catharine Glover,
the Fair Maid of Perth; Elaine; Catherine Macpherson
[Good Mrs Hypocrite]; Lorna Doone; Salome Lunton
[Sally-on-the-Rocks]; Dr Charles Primrose, Vicar of
Wakefield; Lady Susan Vernon; Johnny Ludlow; Sir Francis
Holt [Knight Among Ladies]; Sheik Ahmed ben Hassan;
Robert Lawne [The Imperfect Lover] (Rev Dr
Dryasdust)
Other Characters: Pink Gods; Blue Demons; The
Woman Who Was Not; Greatheart
Locations: Long Eaton Public Library
Story: At midnight, the characters from
the books in the library have emerged and are holding a
debate. Lady Audley arrives with the news that the
library is being talked about in town as being
disreputable because of the "slithering, sloppy" books
it contains that are not the classics. Sherlock Holmes
announces his intention of tracking down the
complainant.
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P. Orlovetz
"The Brothers' Gold Mine"
Included In: Sherlock Holmes in
Russia (Alex Auswaks)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Other Characters: Piotr Haritonovitch
Hromikh; Mine Workers; Zinovy Andreyevitch Seltzoff;
Mine Guards; Coachmen
Date: Ten Years before the Russo-Japanese
War
Locations: Russia; Moscow; Siberia; Zima
Station; Irkutsk; Hotel; Brothers' Gold Mine; The
Taiga; Post House
Story: Holmes and Watson travel to
Siberia where they are asked to investigate suspected
thefts from a gold mine. The owners, the brothers
Hromikh, suspect the mine's manager, Seltzoff, of
smuggling gold out, but have been unable, despite
searches, to discover how he is doing it. They travel
to the mine, where Holmes observes the workers. They
follow the manager when he leaves the mine, and a
carriage chase across the taiga ensues. When he is
finally overtaken, no trace of the gold can be found,
until a carriage accident forces them to walk, and the
gold is found.
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"The
Railroad Thieves"
Included In: Sherlock
Holmes in Russia (Alex Auswaks)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Other Characters: Captain Zviagin; Baikal
Waiter; Officer of Gendarmes; Zviagin's Subordinate;
Station Staff; Train Conductors; Stationmasters;
Burmistoff; Burmistoff's Stoker; Ivan; Railway Guards;
Burmistoff's Assistant; Passengers; Building Workers;
Shopkeeper; Traders; Carpenter; Bakhtadian; Chinese
Shop Assistant; Depot Manager; Foreman; Labourers;
Tunnel Watchmen; Quartermaster's Orderly; Ivan
Nikolayevitch Bravoff; Trudin; Verkhoveroff; Zviagin's
Gendarmes; Petroff; Sidorchuk; Robbers
(Mitayeff; Mr Yugovitch)
Date: Half a year after the withdrawal of
troops from Mukden
Locations: Russia; Siberia; Baikal Station;
Zviagin's House; Trains; Railway Stations; Village
Shop; Sliudianka; Railway Tunnel; Cave
Story: Touring Siberia, Holmes and Watson are
asked by Captain Zviagin to investigate a rash of
pilfering of railway cargoes. As he travels through
the country by train, Holmes becomes aware of the
inefficiencies and corruption of the rail system. He
poses as a black marketeer to learn more, and lays in
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Maitland Leroy Osborne
"Lady
Honiton's Diamonds" (1898)
Included in: The National Magazine, October
1898; Sherlock
Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899
(Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Hemlock Holmes
Other Characters: Lady Honiton; (French
Maid)
Locations: Lady Honiton's House
Story: When Lady Honiton's diamonds
disappear, Hemlock Holmes appears and through a
complex series of observations and deductions
concludes that Apple's soap provides the final link
in the chain of reasoning.
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Stephen Osborne
"The Adventure of the Bloody Coins"
(2011)
Included In: A Study in
Lavender (Joseph R.G. DeMarco)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes
Historical Figures: (Oscar
Wilde)
Other Characters: Sir Miles Danvers; Mays;
Pierre; Marshall Owen; Lestrade's Men; Hotel Clerk;
(Lord Bettinger; Wallace Pound)
Date: November
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Diogenes
Club; France; Paris; Hotel Montmartre
Story: Holmes wakes Watson with the
news that Mycroft has disappeared after a man he was
seen with has been murdered at the Diogenes Club. The
victim has been found naked in a private chamber, with
blood-spattered coins and a match-book from a French
hotel lying beside the body. After solving the crime,
Holmes and Watson travel to Paris to find Mycroft.
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MacLean O'Spelin
"The Adventure of la Soupe
Chinoise" (1975)
Included in: Ellery Queen's Mystery
Magazine, October 1975
Story Type: Homage
Sherlockian Detectives: Shih Lok
& Wa Tze-na
Other Characters: Rue du Boulanger
Crowds; Uncle T'ou Kai; La Cousine; Incle's Customers;
Uncle's Relatives; Gamblers; Tonkinese Boyesse
Locations: China; Cho-Lon; Rue du
Boulanger; Shih Lok's Rooms; Uncle's Restaurant; Le
Grand Monde Casino
Story: Chinese scholar, Shih Lok,
works as an investigator for an insurance company. One
of his investigations takes him and his companion Dr
Wa Tze-na to their friend Uncle T'ou Kai's restaurant,
where the smell of the soup leads him to deduce the
facts behind a death and an insurance fraud.
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Tim Ostermiller
"The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes" (1992)
Included in: Computer Game Review and
CD-ROM Entertainment, Volume 2 Issue 5, December 1992
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Tobias Gregson; Wiggins
Historical Figures: (Jack the Ripper)
Other Characters: Sarah Carroway; Henry
Carruthers; Shelia Parker; Mr Epstein; Mrs Worthington;
Belle; James Saunders; Jonas; Antonio Caruso; Jacob
Farthington; Paul; (Anna Carroway)
Unnamed Characters: Coroner; Blind
Salesman; Belle's Cleaning Girl; Rugby Coach; Billiard
Players; Bartender; Housekeeper; Children
Locations: 221B,
Baker Street; Regency Theatre; 21, Praed Street;
Southwark Morgue; Scotland Yard; Chancery Opera House;
Belle's Parfumerie; Kensington Field; Eaton Dormitory;
St Bernard's Public House; Caruso's Flat; 25, Bunhill
Row; Farthington's Office; Picnic Area
Story: A letter from Lestrade takes
Holmes and Watson to the scene of the Ripper's latest
murder. The victim is Sarah Carroway, an actress. They
examine her dressing room and lodgings, and analyse a
white powder found on her corpse. The trail leads to
Sarah's sister's dressing room at the opera house, and
then to a parfumerie, where they endeavour to learn
about Sarah's young man.
NOTE: This is a strategy guide for the Lost
Files of Sherlock Holmes computer game, written in
pastiche form.
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Ovis
"The
Adventure of the Aberdeen Parcel" (1926)
Included In: The West Saxon, Christmas Term
1926 (University College, Southampton)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Inspector Lestrade
Other Characters: Supt Lugworm; Mr Angus;
Gubbings; William Pottle
Date: 1st January
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Slopshire;
Sludgecombe; Killiekrankie
Story: Lestrade takes Holmes and Watson to
Sludgecombe to investigate the death of Mr Angus and
his dog. Holmes plays the bagpipes to lure the killer.
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Dilys Owen
"Merseyside
Mouse Goes a-Haunting" (1972)
Included In: Child Education, October 1972
Story Type: Children's Parody
Sherlockian Detective: Sherlock Mouse
Other Characters: George, The Merseyside Mouse; Prince Carl;
Blackie
Unnamed Characters: Mice; Cats
Locations: Liverpool; Radio Merseyside
Headquarters; Speke Airport
Story: When George's radio show Merseyside
Mouse is hijacked on the air by Merseyside
Moggie, he hires Sherlock Mouse to investigate.
They discover that a gang of cats has set up a rival
station on the same wavelength. They enlist the help
of Blackie, the cat who lives in the basement of Radio
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Dr L.J.M. Owen
"The
Adventure of the Lazarus Child" (2017)
Included In: Sherlock
Holmes: The Australian Casebook (Christopher
Sequeira)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Other Characters: Miss Morgan; Dr
John William Morton; Sergeant Beard; Billy Lyons; Mrs
Lyons; Mr Lyons; Mr Matthews; Train Man; Police
Constables; Mrs Burns; Smugglers; (Sydney Landlady; Beard's
Brother; Beard's Father; Reporter; Billy's
Brother; Mine Workers; Mr Burns; Mine Paymaster;
Train Engineer; Watson's Old Regimental Colleague;
Bank Manager's Wife; Samurai Warriors)
Date: 1890
Locations: Australia; New South Wales;
Queanbeyan Station; Globe Hotel; Hospital; Lyons'
House; Matthews's Apothecary; Police Station
Story: Watson takes Holmes to
Queanbeyan to investigate the case of Billy Lyons, a
boy risen from the dead after his drowned body was
pulled from the water, three days dead. Having
ascertained the truth of the resurrection, Holmes
begins investigating the events of those three days.
The boys smoking habits lead to Watson discovering
Holmes lying in the path of an oncoming train, and
Holmes's recent reading solves the case.
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Coland Oyle
"A Hitherto
Unpublished Memoir of Sherlock Holmes" (1903)
Included in: The Hartley University College
Magazine, Volume 3 Number 8, June 1903
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Other Characters: Red Caps; Common Room Men;
Women
Date: After EMPT
Locations: Southampton; High Street; Hartley
University College; The Avenue; A Clearing
Story: Holmes visits Watson, who is now
working at Hartley University College in Southampton.
Holmes smells fish and smoke, witnesses the exit of
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Croton Oyle
"The Affair of the Lost Compression"
(1903)
Also published as "Motoring with Sherlock Holmes"
Included in: The Affair of the
Lost Compression and Other Stories (Ferret
Fantasy); Sherlock
Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I:
1900-1904 (Bill Peschel); A Bedside Book of
Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches
(Charles Press)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Romes & Scotson
Other Characters: Gerald Goodley; Goodley's
Aged Mother; Tom Fowler; (Mrs Scotson; Mrs
Scotson's Friends; Women in Window; Small Boy;
Miss Seebrighte; Ferdinand Smickton; Mechanic;
Johnson Digby)
Date: November
Locations: Romes's Rooms; St Pancras
Station; Norfolk; Goodley's House; The East End;
Public House
Story: While his wife is away, Scotson
visits Romes. They are called upon by Gerald
Goodley, a young motorist. He is in love with Miss
Seebrighte, who has announced that she will marry the
winner of a race between him and Ferdinand Smickton.
Only that morning, Goodley has discovered that his car
has been tampered with and lost its compression. He
has found a hobnail nearby, and the word "Watoe" has
been scratched on his car. A trip to Goodley's home is
followed by and expedition, disguised as sailors, into
the East End to meet the most dangerous man in London.
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