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"The Episode of the Bold Bad
Undergraduate and the Postage Stamps" (1913)
Included in: As It Might Have
Been (Robert C.S. Adey);Sherlock
Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches I:
1910-1914 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Other Characters: Hubert Tiddlecombe;
Tiddlecombe's Companions; Scotland Yard Detectives
Date: 1897
Locations: A University Town; St Timothy's
College; 221B, Baker Street
Story: Staying in a great University town,
Holmes and Watson are visited by three men from St
Timothy's College, where a student has had a
shilling's worth of postage stamps stolen from his
room. Holmes disguises himself as a drainpipe to
keep watch and bring the culprit to justice.
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Stuart Palmer
"The Adventure of the Marked Man"
(1944)
Included in: The Further
Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Richard
Lancelyn Green); The Game Is Afoot
(Marvin Kaye); The
Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto
Penzler)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Tobias Gregson; Mrs. Hudson; (Emilia
Lucca)
Other Characters: Allen Pendarvis; Donal
Pendarvis; Sub-Inspector Owens; Constable
Tredennis; Capstan & Anchor Barmaid; Penzance
Constable; Penzance Doctors; Hansom Driver; (Pendarvis's
Housekeeper; Maudie Tredennis)
Date: April, 1895
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train;
Cornwall; Penzance; Penzance Station; The Capstan
& Anchor; Penzance Police Station; A Hansom;
Mousehole; The Grey Mouse Inn; Pendarvis's House
Story: After Watson returns from a walk in
the park, Holmes deduces that he is intending to
make Emilia Lucca the second Mrs Watson. Allen
Pendarvis, of Mousehole in Cornwall, visits them,
telling of three written death threats and a shot
fired at him. He claims to have no enemies, but
after further questioning, Holmes arranges to have
his brother Donal arrested. Donal is soon released
from prison, and threatens to sue for false
arrest. Holmes and Watson travel to Cornwall, and
stand watch over the house with Constable
Tredennis. They are able to prevent any further
violence, but Holmes dispenses his own form of
justice.
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"The Adventure of the
Remarkable Worm" (1944)
Included in: The Misadventures
of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen)
Story Type: Pastiche-Parody / Untold Story
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Isadora Persano
Date: April 1893
Story: Holmes is approached by Isadora
Persano who, having woken up in the charity ward of
Charing Cross Hospital, remembers only collapsing in
Oxford Street. He has with him a flask containing
what appears to be a venomous worm, previously
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William J. Palmer
The Dons
and Mr Dickens (2000)
Story Type: Extra-Canonical Adventure of
Mycroft Holmes
Canonical Characters: Mycroft Holmes; (Sherlock
Holmes)
Characters Based on Fictional Characters: Constable
Reginald
Morse [Inspector Morse]
Historical Figures: Wilkie Collins; Charles
Dickens; Inspector Charles Frederick [William]
Field; Rogers; Lewis Carroll; Ellen Ternan; Queen
Victoria; George Hamilton-Gordon; (Catherine
Dickens; Dickens's Children; Angela
Burdett-Coutts; William Henry Wills; William
Makepeace Thackeray; John Forster; William
Macready)
Other Characters: Rogers; David Ackroyd; Irish Meg
Sheehy; Sleepy Rob; Mike; Stadler; James
Potterson; Terence "Tally Ho" Thompson; Horace
Stadler; John Barnet; Wherry Squonce; John "Jack"
Bathgate; (Inspector Collar; Welsey Carroll;
Ellen Byrne; Abby Potterson; William Crenshaw;
Gerard Norman; Alan Hayman)
Unnamed Characters: River Police Constables;
Field's Constables; Carriage Loaders; Train
Passengers; Trainman; Oxford Tramps; Workmen;
Students; Bumpkins; Cyclists; Desk Serjeant; Christ
Church Porter; Bulldog Clentele; London Tavern
Audience; Tweedy Gentlemen; Mousy Man; Plump Girl;
Fat Couple; Plump Widows; Nondescript Man; Dons;
Tramp; Oxford Constable; Waiter; Balliol
Porter;Porter's Lackey; Headington Bumpkins; Fishing
Couple; Street Vendor; Rowing Crews; Procession
Crowds; Trumpeters; Mycroft's Men; Actress;
Coachmen; Scots Guards Footmen; (Oxford Livery
Man; Chinese Opium House Keeper; Stadler's
Cleaning Woman; Mike's Daughter; Irish Rebels;
British Soldiers)
Date: November 1 - December 25, 1871 /
November 25 - December 15, 1853
Locations: Maiden Lane; Lord Gordon Arms;
Wellington Street; Household Words Offices;
The Thames; Limehouse Hole; Soho Square; Victoria
Station; Bow Street Police Station;
Garrick Street; London Tavern; Oxford; Oxford
Station; St Aldate's; Police Station; Christ Church
College; Tom Tower; Bulldog Tavern; Christ Church
Meadows; Haymarket; Blue Boar Street; Bear Lane;
Peckwater Quad; High Street; St Mary's Church; Folly
Bridge; The King's Arms; Balliol College; Cumner
Hills; Headington; Magdalen Bridge; Broad Street;
Sheldonian Theatre
Story: Field takes Collins and Dickens to
view the well-dressed but anonymous victim of a
shooting in Chinatown. Mycroft Holmes appears on the
scene, but refuses to reveal the nature of the Home
Office's interest in the case. Collins notices that
the victim is wearing a Christ Church College tie
and suggests that they consult Charles Dodgson.
Dodgson identifies the man as Ackroyd, a history
Don, and with the aid of young Constable Morse they
search his rooms.
At Field's suggestion, Ellen Ternan takes on the
role of barmaid at the tavern where the murdered man
was known to participate in political meetings with
a group of other Dons. Mycroft appears again when
one of the Dons, who has been working on
nitroglycerine, is murdered in Oxford, and a plot
against the Queen is revealed. Collins, Dickens, and
Dodgson are drugged and taken captive. Collins races
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Dennis Panek
Detective
Whoo (1981)
Story Type: Children's Homage
Sherlockian Detective: Detective Whoo
Locations: Forest; Circus
Story: Deerstalker-wearing owl detective
Whoo is woken by banging noises. He sets out by
night to investigate, but is so scared of what he
sees that he hides in a dustbin until morning, when
the truth is revealed.
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Sara Paretsky
"The Curious Affair of the Italian
Art Dealer" (2014)
Included in: In the Company
of Sherlock Holmes (Laurie R. King &
Leslie S. Klinger)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Baker Street Irregulars; (Mary
Morstan)
Fictional Characters: Amelia
Butterworth
Historical Figures: (Titian;
Jack Whicher; Empress Elizabeth)
Other Characters: Upstairs Tenants'
Solicitor; Mr Gryce; Hotel Guests; Frances Fontana
/ Lord Frances Hoovering; Beggar Woman; Signor
Carrera; Charlie; Jarveys; Cadogan Gardens
Housemaid; Cadogan Charwoman; Someringforth's
Manservant; Alicia (or Chloë) Someringforth;
Footman; Amelia's Servant; Duchess of Hoovering;
Duke of Hoovering; (Mrs Watson's Governess;
221B Upstairs Tenants; Russian Cabman; Hapsburg
Diplomat; Italian Prince; French Countess;
Thief; Hotel Night Man; Fontana's Manservant;
Beatrice Fontana; Mr Fontana; Alice Ellerby
Fontana; Neil Someringforth; Carrera's
Assistant; Lady Darnley; Someringforth's Doctor;
Constable; Freddie; Carrera's Assailant; Oliver;
Lady Naseby; Amelia's Friend; Someringforth's
Servants; Oxford Street Crowd; Lady Hoovering's
Sister)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Gloucester
Hotel; Baker Street; Bond Street; The Carrera
Gallery; The Docks; Kensington; 26, Cadogan
Gardens; Pavilion Road; The Strand; Stoggett
House; Cheyne Walk; The Embankment; Ann Lane;
Oxford Street; Sloan Street; Foreign Office;
Waterloo Station
Story: While Watson is staying at
Baker Street, while Mary is visiting her old
governess in Exeter, he is summoned to the
Gloucester Hotel to tend to an American guest,
Fontana, who was badly beaten during the theft of a
painting by Titian, that he was intending to have
authenticated at Carrera's Gallery, from his room.
He returns to Baker Street to find Fontana being
harrassed by a beggar woman on the doorstep.
Charlie, a Baker Street Irregular, brings word that
Carrera has been assaulted, and then was taken away
by a strange woman. Their investigations lead them
to a meeting with Amelia Butterworth.
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The Parodist
"Sherlock
Holmes in Society" (1903)
Included in: Town Talk (14th March 1903)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Other Characters: (Mrs Swelter Smartem;
Swelter Smartem; Tom Pennilesse)
Unnamed Charaters: Policeman; Bell-boy; (Dinner
Guests;
Servants)
Locations: Hotel
Story: Holmes solves the mystery of the
disappearance of Mrs Swelter Smartem's jeweled pin
at a society dinner from the comfort of his hotel
room.
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H.G. Parry
The
Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep (2019)
Story Type: Fantasy
Canonical
Characters: Hound of the Baskervilles;
Sherlock Holmes; Professor Moriarty
Fictional
Characters: Uriah Heep; Dorian Gray;
Artful Dodger; Heathcliff; The White Witch; Miss
Matty; Mr Darcy; Huckleberry Finn; Mad Hatter; Sir
Lancelot; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Matilda Wormwood;
Ebenezer Scrooge; Scheherazade; Victor Frankenstein;
Abel Magwitch; Excalibur; The Jabberwock; Lady
Macbeth; Long John Silver; Dracula; Mr Hyde; Nancy;
Flying Monkeys; Dragon (from A Lion in the
Meadow); Fagin; Bill Sikes; (The Cat in
the Hat; Frankenstein's Monster; Anna Karenina; Mr
Tumnus; Mr Brownlow; Odysseus; Griffin; The Lion
in the Meadow; Daniel Quilp)
Folkloric
Characters:
Goblins;
Gremlins
Historical
Figures: Duke of Wellington; Charles
Dickens; (Arthur Conan Doyle; Oscar Wilde)
Mythological
Figures:
Maui
Other
Characters: Robert "Rob" Sutherland; Dr
Charles "Charley" Sutherland; Lydia; Eva Rusch;
Carmen; Frances; Brian; Troy Heywood; Beth White;
Millie Radcliffe-Dix; Vernon; The Implied
Reader; Joe Sutherland; Susan Walters
Sutherland; Jacob; (Hodgins; Fitzwilliam; Alfred
Grossman; Natasha; Jacqueline Blaine; Eric Umble;
Victor Prometheus Godwin; Mrs Walters; Jono
Maxwell)
Unnamed
Characters: Paralegals; Lambton Quay
Crowd; Cuba Street Crowds; Busker; Street Residents;
Little Old Woman in a Shawl; Eatery Counterman;
Students; University Receptionist; Medics; Hospital
Receptionists; Elderly Couple; Woman in Track Pants;
Hospital Staff; Bus Commuters; Hospital Patients;
Hospital Doctor; Black Finch Diners; Waiter;
Wellingtonians; Television Presenter; News Anchor;
Police Officers; Gargoyles; Year Nine Schoolboys;
Paramedics; Army Officers; Reporters; Sightseers; (Charley's
Doctor; Midwife; Hospital Nurse; Farmer)
Date: 21st Century
Locations: New Zealand;
Wellington; Rob's House; Prince Albert University;
Rob's Office; Courthouse; Highbury; Charley's House;
The Street; Dorian's House; Cuba Street; Left Bank
Arcade; Millie's House; Mad Hatter's Tea Shop;
Public House; Käpiti Coast; Sutherland's House;
Courtenay Place; Darcys' House; Bolton Street
Cemetery; Hospital; Black Finch Café; Satis House;
School
Story:
Rob
Sutherland
receives a call from his brother Charley, a literary
scholar who has the ability to bring fictional
characters to life, who tells him that Uriah Heep
has escaped and is loose on the university campus. During their
attempts to return him to the book, Heep talks about
a new world coming, and the following day shows up
as an intern at Rob's law firm. The same
evening, the Hound of the Baskervilles appears in
Charley's garden, and Charley conjures up Sherlock
Holmes to help them defeat it. Before he leaves, he
tells them of an impossible street in the city,
which they locate the following day, and where
Millie Radcliffe-Dix, a fictional adventurer, and
Dorian Gray are monitoring incursions of fictional
characters into the real world. The Street has only
existed for a couple of years and drawn fictional
characters to it from all over the world. Millie is
concerned that it regularly shifts and changes. It
becomes clear that there is another summoner, with
the same powers as Charley, at work in Wellington,
who is planning to supplant the real world with a
fictional one.
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Henry T. Parry
"The Baker Street Irregulars Murder
Case" (1968)
Included in: Ellery Queen's Mystery
Magazine (Feb 1968)
Story Type: Homage
Historical Figures: (Lizzie Borden)
Other Characters: Lewis Korell; Makepeace
Allen; Wiley Abelson
Locations: A Courtroom; McShane's
Restaurant, New York
Story: During a speech at a meeting of the
Baker Street Irregulars, in which he proposes to
show that instead of tackling Moriarty at
Reichenbach, Holmes was actually at the scene of
the Borden murders in Fall River and quite mad,
television writer, Lewis Korell, is shot with a
Jezail rifle. Evidence seems to point to Makepeace
Allen, BSI secretary, the basement of whose house
contains equipment necessary for making the
weapon.
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Stella Paskins
The Case of the Burning
Building(1998)
Based on an Adventures of Shirley Holmes screenplay
by
Susin Neilsen
Story Type: Children's Homage
Detectives: Shirley Holmes; Bo
Sawchuk
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock
Holmes)
Other Characters: Robert Holmes; Ms
Stratmann; Boris "Bo" Sawchuk; Mrs Fish; Inspector
Markie; Sean; Steve Ryan; Jason; Guy Jennings;
Homeless Woman; Shirley's Grandmother; Policemen;
Teacher; Homeless People; Firefighters; Gang
Members; (Shirley's Grandfather; Shirley's
Mother; Bo's Parents; Judge; Stella)
Date: 1990s
Locations: Canada; Redington; Shirley's
House; Seventeenth Street; Warehouse; Sussex
Academy; Redington Refuge; Alley; Sawchuk Fish
Market; East Side Community Centre; Goldfar Inc.
Offices; Deserted Warehouse
Story:Shirley Holmes discovers a chest
containing artefacts left by her
great-great-uncle Sherlock Holmes.
A homeless woman flees a burning
warehouse. Shirley reads about a string of arsons
and decides to investigate the warehouse on the way
to school. Arriving late, she has her first
encounter with Bo Sawchuk, who she later sees in an
altercation with an older boy. She tracks down the
homeless woman, and learns that she heard a scream
after she fled the building. A fire is set at the
school, and Bo becomes the chief suspect.
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A.B. "Banjo" Paterson
"The Last of Sherlock Holmes: The
Mystery of the Governor's Message and the
Missing----" (1905)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches II:
1905-1909 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; (Professor Moriarty)
Characters Based on Historical Figures:
(Sir Tarry Hawser (Sir Harry Rawson))
Other Characters: Men Going Into
Pub; Velvet-Footed Official; German Band; Swagman;
Station Crowd; Prime Minister
Locations: Australia; Sydney; Phillip
Street; Holmes's Sitting Room; railway Station
Story: In Sydney, Holmes receives a
telegram from Sir Tarry Hawser, governor
of New South Carolina. The telegram speaks of a
loss, but the cipher being lost, Holmes is unable to
tell what has been lost. Nonetheless he believes
Moriarty is behind it.
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J.A. Patterson
"Murder
in the Blue Room" (1936)
Included in: Detective Picture Stories #1,
December 1936
Story Type: Comic Book Pastiche
Sherlockian Detectives: Spurlock &
Watkins
Other Characters: Lady Ashley; Miss Lovelace;
Servants; The Butler; (Lord Hector Ashley)
Locations: Parkhurst Mansion; Spurlock's
Rooms
Story: A few days after her husband's
murder, Lady Ashley discovers the body of his
secretary, Miss Lovelace. She summons Spurlock and
Watkins, but when they arrive, they discover Miss
Lovelace alive. Enquiries at Boxford Medical College
solve the case. |
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Valerie J. Patterson
"Green and Red Trappings" (2003)
Included in: Curious
Incidents 2 (J.R. Campbell & Charles
Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock
Holmes
Date: 24th December
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: On Christmas Eve Watson is certain
that, this year, Holmes will not be able to deduce
what his present is.
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Barbara
Paul
"Eleemosynary,
My
Dear Watson" (1999)
Included in: More Holmes
for the Holidays (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon
L. Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson
Other Characters: Chinese Boys; James
Lombard; Lord Edgar Blanchard; Constable; Wilfred
Lombard; Workman; Blanchard's Servant; Lady
Blanchard; Limehouse Constables; Mr Chu; Bank of
England Official; Blanchard's Coachman;
Constables; Hu Wei-Yung; (Chinese Robbers)
Date: 23rd-25th December,
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Berkeley
Square; Lombard's Shop; King's Cross; Blanchard
Residence; Knightsbridge; Lombard Residence;
Limehouse; The Golden Lotus; Mr Chu's Opium Den;
Bank of England; Telegraph Office; Northey Street;
Salvation Army Mission; Regent's Canal
Story: Out walking, Holmes and Watson see
a group of Chinese boy carol singers shortly
before a violent robbery occurs in a jeweller's
shop. The customer, Lord Blanchard, says that this
is the second such robbery he has experienced.
They trace the owner's wastrel son to a Limehouse
opium den, and learn the identity of one of the
robbers. The following day, Lord Edgar is abducted
and Holmes and Watson encounter the carollers
again and interrupt another robbery. They venture
back into Limehouse in an attempt to rescue
Blanchard and recover the stolen goods.
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"The Sleuth of Christmas Past" (1996)
Included in: Holmes for the
Holidays (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L.
Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; A Baker Street Irregular;
Inspector Lestrade
Other Characters: Mr. Curtis; Amy Stoddard;
Thomas Wickham; John Fulham; Etienne Piaget; Mr.
Stoddard; Grimes; Mrs. Curtis; Carolers; Policeman;
Men in Coldharbor Lane; Coachman; Kerward Lane
Ticket-Seller; Hansom Driver; Fulham's Servant;
Stoddard's Servant
Date: 21st - 24th December, 1887
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Manchester
Square; Crawford Street (Curtis's Shop); Coldharbor
Lane (Wickham & Piaget's Warehouse); Grosvenor
Square (Fulham's House); Bayswater Road (Stoddard's
House); A Hansom Cab
Story: After meeting Curtis, their local
chemist, and learning of his concerns about the
Merchants Association's Christmas Charity Fund,
Holmes and Watson return home to find Amy Stoddard
waiting for them. She tells them of her concern over
her fiancé, Wickham, a wine dealer and another of
the Fund's administrators, who has had her copy a
passage out in her father's handwriting, which read
like an extract from a will, and whom she has been
told by his business partner, Piaget, has booked
passage on the Mary Small, a ship bound for
France. Curtis is shot in his shop, and Lestrade
learns from his wife that his concerns were about a
wine dealer. Wickham says that it was Piaget who was
booked aboard the ship, not him, a statement which
the ticket-seller seems to confirm. Amy's father's
friend, Fulham, expesses concern over Wickham's
character, however. Holmes's investigations appear
to have uncovered the truth of the matter, but then
Amy is abducted from her bedroom. |
Margaret Paulus
"Sherlock
Holmes and the Gorgon's Head" (1942)
Included in: Scholastic, 9-14 November 1942
Story Type: Children's Playscript
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Historical Figures: (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mythological Characters: (Medusa)
Other Characters: John; Ken
(Miss Smith; Mr Harris)
Unnamed Characters: Students
Date: 1940s
Locations: USA; School Library
Story: Ken is left alone in the school
library, trying to find out about Medusa. He comes
across a book of Sherlock Holmes stories. As he
reads, Holmes and Watson appear in the library and
assist him with his research.
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E.D.N. Pavri
"The
Solution" (1953)
Included in: The
Illustrated Weekly of India, 18 October 1953
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Fictional Characters: (Hercule Poirot)
Other Characters: (Lord Fortune)
Unnamed Characters: (Visitor; Maharaja)
Date: 1953
Locations: India; Bombay; Hotel
Story: An elderly Holmes has travelled to
Bombay with Watson to solve the theft of a
Maharaja's jewels. He deduces that their recent
visitor is a motorist who has been driving through
the Silence Zone areas of the city.
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Bill Paxton
"The Bab Deception" (2000)
Included in: The Hidden Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes (Bill Paxton)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Watson
& Holmes
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft
Holmes; (Spirits of Mary Morstan & Moriarty)
Historical Figures: Victoria Claflin
Woodhull; Frank James; Arthur Conan Doyle (Spirits
of Woodhull's Father, James's Father, Charles
Doyle & Tsar Alexander III) (Shah
Nasr-ed-Din; Queen Victoria)
Other Characters: Inspector Bradley
Macintosh; Sir Randolph Gretzinger; Rafid Alhawaj;
Lady Merryanne Gretzinger; Constables; Diogenes
Page; Dr. Mortimer O'Reilly; Heather Stone; Suhair
Tawfik; Al-Jodaly Alheloo; Nickolay Romanovich;
Daniel Webster Rainbe; Rainbe's Assistant; Rafid
Ali; Alexander Zworykin; Alhandi Jamilah; Abinuk
Alhawaj
Date: August, 1896
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Gretzinger's
House, Tennison Road; The Diogenes Club; The Crown
& Goose; A Coroner's office; Rainbe's House
Story: Holmes expounds at great length on
his occult beliefs and invites Watson to a séance.
Lestrade and Macintosh take Holmes and Watson to
the home of Sir Randolph Gretzinger, former
Ambassador to Persia, who has been murdered along
with his servant. Holmes finds a copy of the Bayan
in Gretzinger's hand, and he expounds at length on
Babism. He deduces that the men have been injected
with poison, and expounds at length on snake
venom. The following day they are summoned to the
Diogenes Club, where Mycroft expounds at great
length on the politics of petroleum. After
visiting the dead man's widow and urging her to
continue his oil negotiations with the Shah of
Persia Holmes is visited by representatives of the
Baha'i who fear that the book was planted on the
body to implicate them. They expound at length on
the assassination of the last Shah. Holmes and
Watson are invited to a séance and Holmes expounds
at length on the other guests. A spirit claiming
to be Moriarty hurls a dagger at Holmes. Holmes
organises members of the "Baker Street Baha'i" in
the Russian Embassy to locate Gretzinger's missing
appointment book, from which he is able to learn
the murderer's name.
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"The Eight Pointed Cross" (2000)
Included in: The Hidden Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes (Bill Paxton)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Historical Figures: (Remains of King
Mausolus & Queen Artemisia of Caria)
Other Characters: Lord Calhoon; Falgrove;
L'Isle Adam; Reservation Clerk; Falgrove's
Assistant; Adam's Assistant
Date: Late Autumn, 1897
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Malta;
Valletta; Castle of St. Peter
Story: Lord Calhoon brings Holmes a suit of
armour belonging to his ancestor, a Knight Templar,
with a map etched inside it. Holmes expounds at
length on the Knights Templars. Holmes and Watson go
to Malta to investigate. On board ship they see
Falgrove, the restorer who discovered the map.
Holmes continues to expound on the Knights of Malta
and the Seven Wonders of the World. In Valletta,
Holmes visits the library, and on his return is able
to expound at great length on the history of the
Mausoleum. He believes the map is a clue to finding
the lost treasure of Mausolus and Artemisia. They
find the treasure. |
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"The Macabre Affair" (2000)
Included in: The Hidden Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes (Bill Paxton)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson
Historical Figures: Alfred Binet; Marie
Curie; Pierre Curie; Karl Knoepker
Other Characters: Binet's Receptionist;
Paris Cabby; Karl Knoepker; Godfrey St. James;
Inspector Bradley Macintosh; Lord James Kensington;
Sir Charles Farthington; Sir Rodney Grope;
Constables; Dr. Mortimer O'Reilly; Thomas Kingsley;
Usher; Percy Fawnsworth; Receptionist; Miss Philpot;
Daisy Talcan; Page; Robert An'aga; Malcolm Hathaway;
Tobias Wecht; Tongan Guards; Mr. Tu'ma; Bank
Employees; Cleaning Crews; Maintenance Workers;
Firemen; Policemen; Security Guards; Registrar; Paul
Bodmin; Bodmin's Assistant; Workman; Captain of
Guards; George Wallace; Franklin Wren; Johnathon
Wilson; Grope's Secretary; William Slatterly; Said
Karnak; Jinnah Patel; Bertram Woolrich
Date: February, 1896
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train;
Paris; Hotel D'Alsace; The Sorbonne; Leipzig; Bank
of England
Story: Holmes is reading up on graphology,
and suggests that he and Watson go to Paris and
Leipzig. In Paris, Alfred Binet expounds at great
length on graphology. Marie and Pierre Curie come to
tea. In Leipzig, Karl Knoepker expounds at even
greater length on graphology. Back in England they
are called in by Lestrade to investigate the death
of a manager of the Bank of England, while he was in
the process of assessing the value of artefacts
brought as collateral by the King of Tonga. The man
was tied to a table and his heart cut out, seemingly
in an Aztec ritual. While they are investigating the
murder a bomb explodes, destroying the records of
who was in the building at the time. Holmes sends
out questionnaires to all bank staff and visitors,
and brings Knoepker to London to analyse the
handwriting. Several attempts are made on Holmes's
life before a gold swindle is revealed and the
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Shane Peacock
Eye of the Crow (2007)
Story Type: Children's Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Inspector Lestrade; Professor Moriarty
(Malefactor); Irene Adler (Irene Doyle); (Mycroft
Holmes)
Historical Figures: (Lewis
Carroll; Benjamin Disraeli; Anna Swan; Blondin;
Charles Dickens; William Ewart Gladstone; Great
Farini; El Niño (Lulu) Farini)
Other Characters: Blackfriars Bridge
Crowds; Ex-Army Man; Woman in Bonnet; National
Gallery Passers-by; Trafalgar Square Irregulars;
Grimsby; National Gallery Constable; Southwark
Boys; Ratfinch; Rose Holmes; Wilberforce (Wilbur)
Holmes; Omnibus Driver; Omnibus Passengers; Old
Bailey Crowd; Inspector Lestrade (father);
Mohammad Adalji; Jailers; Police; One-Legged
Lunatic; Man in Sailor's Cap; Old Yard Street
Children; Crew; Trafalgar Square Crowds; Opera
Crowds; Opera Bobbies; London Bridge Woman;
Whitechapel Crowds; Beggar; Old Yard Street Man;
Lestrade's Men; Bow Street Turnkeys; Bow Street
Constable; Andrew C. Doyle; Miss Stamford; Bow
Street Bobbies; Westminster Bobbie; Drunken
Sailors; Crippen; Waterman's Boy; Whitechapel Road
Man; Pieman; Tinker; Well-Dressed Man & Woman;
Tradesmen; Coachman; Irene's Companion; Street
People; St Paul's Crowds; Dupin; Leicester Square
Crowds; Haymarket Actors; Actress; Maude; Street
Band; Conjurer; Fire Eater; Mr Lear; Carnaby
Street Crowds; Crossing Sweepers; Gray's Inn Road
Crowds; Gray's Inn Road Policeman; Bart's Crowds;
Maids; Nurses; Patients; Smithfield Crowds; Cook;
Crystal Palace Crowds; Dancers; Mayfair Crowds;
One-Eyed Man; Newsgirl; Newsboy; One-Eyed Man's
Wife; Medical Student; Butcher; J.T.R.; J.T.R.'s
Servants; (Lillie Irving; Mr & Mrs
Sherrinford; Mr & Mrs Holmes; Violet Holmes;
Hatter; Schoolchildren; School Bully; Rose's
Students; Adalji's Parents; Prudence; Doyle's
Maid; Mayfair Housemaid; J.T.R.'s Wife)
Date: May, 1867
Locations: Whitechapel; Southwark;
Blackfriars Bridge; Fleet Street; Trafalgar
Square; National Gallery; Borough High Street;
Royal Opera House; The Old Bailey; Temple Bar
Gate; The Strand; Morley's Hotel; The East End;
Old Yard Street; Covent Garden; Bow Street; London
Bridge; Bow Street Police Station; Butcher's Shop;
Seven Dials; Bloomsbury Square; Bedford Place;
Montague Street; Doyle's House; Westminster; Wild
Street; Lincoln's Inn Fields; Waterloo Bridge; The
Mint; Whitechapel Road; St Paul's Cathedral;
Leicester Square; Whitcomb Street; Theatre Royal,
Haymarket; Soho; Carnaby Street; Lear Glass
Blowing; Billingsgate; British Museum; High
Holborn; Holborn Hill; Gray's Inn Road; Bart's;
Smithfield Market; Sydenham; Crystal Palace;
Mayfair; New Bond Street; Berkeley Square;
One-Eyed Men's Houses; Regent Street; Fetter Lane;
Thames Embankment; Scotland Yard; Northumberland
House
Story: Living over a hatter's shop in
Southwark, with his family, suffering anti-Semitic
taunts, and playing truant, the thirteen-year-old
Holmes reads of a murder in Whitechapel. Seeing
Adalji, the Arab accused of the murder, at the Old
Bailey, leads Holmes to believe he is innocent. He
follows a pair of crows to the site of the murder,
and returning there later, discovers a glass eye,
and is arrested by Lestrade on suspicion of
withholding evidence. In Bow Street police
station, he encounters Adalji again, and learns
that the murder was committed with Adalji's
butcher's knife.
He is visited by Irene, daughter of
the philanthropist, Doyle, and with her help, and
some porridge, escapes from jail. He turns to the
Trafalgar Square Irregulars, a gang of street
boys, and Irene for help in solving the murder. He
realises that the crows have witnessed the murder,
and attempts to reconstruct what they saw. Threats
are made against him, and he draws his mother into
the case, which has led him to Mayfair, where she
gives singing lessons. Irene is almost killed and
Holmes's mother discovers a league of one-eyed
men. Events lead Holmes's quest for justice to
turn into one for revenge.
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Death
in the Air (2008)
Story Type: Children's Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Inspector Lestrade; Professor Moriarty
(Malefactor); Irene Adler (Irene Doyle)
Historical Figures: Alfred Vance;
Fakir of Oolu; The Great Farini; El Niño Farini;
George Leybourne
Other Characters: Crystal Palace Police;
Monsieur Mercure; Crystal Palace Audience; Band;
Fainting Woman; Man in Top Hat; Sigerson
Trismegistus Bell; Elephant & Castle Crowds;
Iceman; Beatrice; Street Urchins; Trafalgar Square
Irregulars; Grimsby; Crew; Lincoln's Inn Fields
Beggars; Lincoln's Inn Fields Men; Crystal Palace
Crowds; Wilberforce Holmes; L'Hirondelle / The
Swallow / Johnny Wilde; Inspector Lestrade, Sr; La
Rouge-Gorge / The Robin / Mabel; L'Aigle / The
Eagle / Jimmy; Denmark Street Costermongers;
Denmark Street Children; Leicester Square Crowds;
Organ-Grinder; Hawkers; Alhambra Audience;
Alhambra Orchestra; Dancers; Oscar Slater;
William; Woman Backstage; Crystal Palace Night
Guard; Newspaper Deliveryman; St Martin's Lane
Couple; Toothless Woman; Cheesemonger; Lazarus;
Toshers; Faustian Bargain Patrons; Midget
Acrobats; The Animal Boy; Singers; Charing Cross
Crowds; News Vendors; Charing Cross Conductor;
Train Passengers; Boaters; Young Crystal Palace
Guard; Crystal Palace Officials; Inebriated Man;
Gang of Boys; Dante; Strand Crowds; Dock Workers;
Boy in Black; Old Tunnel Woman; Mrs Hawkins; Old
Regent's Park Woman; Charon; Sutton; Crowley;
Sticks; Brim; Hansom Driver; Scotland Yard Night
Sergeant; Scotland Yard Constables; Stable Boys; Times
Reporter (Hobbs); Lestrade's Men; (Rose
Holmes; Zazu; Lord Redhorns; Tradesman; Andrew
C. Doyle; Ahab Spell; Crystal Palace Engineer;
Jewish Pawnbroker)
Date: July 1st, 1867
Locations: Sydenham; Crystal Palace;
Denmark Street; Bell's Shop; Elephant and Castle;
Southwark; Rose Street; Soho Square; Lincoln's Inn
Fields; Smithfield Market; Leicester Square; Royal
Alhambra Theatre; Covent Garden; Waterloo Bridge;
Dulwich; Dulwich Road; Trafalgar Square; St
Martin's Lane; Crown Street; The Faustian Bargain
Public House; Charing Cross Station; A Train;
London Bridge Station; Bermondsey; Palace Station;
St Martin's Lane; Drury Lane; Bloomsbury & St
Giles Workhouse; Seven Dials; White Lion Street;
The Strand; London Docks; Thames Tunnel; Grand
Surrey Docks; Rotherhithe Street; London Bridge;
Montague Street; Regent's Park; Hyde Park;
Kensington; Chelsea; Battersea Bridge; Scotland
Yard; Southwark
Story: Holmes witnesses the aerialist
Mercure fall from his trapeze at the Crystal
Palace. He notices that the trapeze has been cut,
and hears Mercure's last words. Six weeks after
the death of his mother, Holmes is now working as
apprentice to the apothecary, Bell, who is facing
eviction from his shop. Holmes hears, from Irene,
who is hanging around Malefactor now, of a gang of
robbers, and the five hundred pound reward for
their arrest, and wonders if he can get a reward
for discovering who caused Mercure's fall. He
visits the Royal Alhambra Music Hall, learns more
about the Mercures from El Niño Farini, and breaks
into the Crystal Palace to examine the crime
scene.
The
following day, he reads of a robbery at the
Crystal Palace, and uncovers the Swallow's
connections to the Brixton Gang responsible for
the robberies around the city. He is
pursued through Rotherhithe, and witnesses Bell
teaching Mrs Hawkins his own personal martial art,
Bellitsu. He returns to Rotherhithe disguised as
Bell, and infiltrates the gang's headquarters,
interrupting a rat-baiting event, and ending up a
captive. Rescue comes from above and leads to a
rooftop escape followed by a visit to Scotland Yard
and a horseback return to Rotherhithe. Holmes does
not receive his expected reward.
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Vanishing
Girl
(2009)
Story Type: Children's Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Inspector Lestrade; Professor Moriarty
(Malefactor); Irene Adler (Irene Doyle)
Historical Figures: Thomas Barnardo;
Thomas Hanlon; (Fourdrinier Brothers)
Other Characters: Robert Self; Man with the
Limp; Paul 'Dimly' Waller; Workhouse Beadle;
Workhouse Boys; Andrew C. Doyle; Victoria
Rathbone; Victoria's Coachman; Lord Rathbone; Lady
Pauline Rathbone; Icarus; Sigerson Trismegistus
Bell; Reporters; Inspector Lestrade, Sr; Mr Hobbs;
Dupin; Dupin's Customers; Stationer; Grimsby;
Crew; Kings Cross Crowds; Ticket Inspectors;
Constance; Constance's Husband; Kings Cross
Porter; Family on Train; Railway Guards; Railway
Porter; Passengers; Conductor; Farm Children; Jack
McMudo; Penny Hunt; Paper Mill Workers;
Rumpleside; Muddle; St Neots Ticket Inspector;
Constable Bradstreet:Hornsey Ticket Inspector;
Medical Student; Scotland Yard Desk Sergeant;
Scotland Yard Constables; Belgravia Police;
Belgravia Onlookers; Constable Gregory;
Fishmonger; Rathbone's Guests; Coachman;
Rathbone's Servants; Rathbone's Cook; Barrymore;
Kitchenmaid; Stepney Girl; Workhouse Cook;
Workhouse Nurse; White Horse Lane Boys; Portsmouth
Train Passengers; Portsmouth News Vendor;
Portsmouth Crowds; Bush Villas Landlord; Southsea
Police Detectives; Captain Waller; Hansom Driver;
Portsmouth Thug; Waterloo Crowds; St Neots Railway
Employee; St Neots Milkmaid; Blacksmith;
Tradesmen; Polly Hunt; Penny's Husband; Postman;
Eliza Shaw; Workhouse Man; Lestrade's Men;
Workhouse Concierge; Toby; (Irene's Mother;
Rose Holmes; Wilberforce Holmes; Papermaker;
Pierce; Penny's Friend; Lestrade's Constables;
Captain Dimly; Rathbone's Groom; Rathbone's
Footmen; Rathbone's Maids; Beatrice Leckie;
National School Headmaster; Mudlark; Mr &
Mrs Waller; Rathbone's Stable Boy; Southwark
Lion Tamer; The Littlest Irregular; Trafalgar
Square Crowds; Messenger Boy)
Date: August-December, 1867
Locations: Stepney; Ratcliff Workhouse;
Hyde Park; Rotten Row; Denmark Street; Bell's
Shop; Scotland Yard; White Hall Street; Trafalgar
Square; Bloomsbury; Montague Street; Euston Road;
Kings Cross Station; Stevenage; St Neots; Little
Paxton; Little Barford; Muddle's Tobacconist Shop;
Grimwood Hall; St Neots Station; Hornsey Station;
Seven Sisters Road; Oxford Street; Belgravia;
Belgrave Square; Rathbone's House; Snowfields
Road; National School; Smithfield Market;
Shadwell; Stepney High Street; St Dunstan's
Church; White Horse Lane; Great Russell Street;
British Museum; Portsmouth; Portsmouth Station;
Southsea; Park; King's Road; 1, Bush Villas;
Waterloo Station; Waterloo Bridge; Post Office
Story: Irene Doyle sees a boy at the
Ratcliff Workhouse who closely resembles her dead
brother. Victoria Rathbone, daughter of a
prominent politician, is abducted in Hyde Park,
but it is three months before Scotland Yard
announces that a ransom note has been received.
The watermark of the paper on which the ransom
note was written gives Holmes his first clue, and
leads him to a paper mill near St Neots, and from
there to a manor house protected by a wild beast.
He thinks he has found Victoria, but when he
returns to London, he learns that Lestrade has
found her in another part of the country. A couple
of weeks later Rathbone is robbed of all his
valuables.
Holmes
trades on young Lestrade's sympathy to be given
access to Rathbone's house, and learns of Irene's
familial relationship to the Rathbones. He
infiltrates a costume party given by the Rathbones,
disguised as a footman. Later he visits the workhouse
to see Paul.
Victoria is kidnapped a second time. Holmes travels
to Portsmouth to find the man he believes to be
Paul's father and to examine the house where
Victoria was previously discovered. He returns to
Grimwood Manor to bring the case to a close.
NOTE: It is not clear whether the
Constable Gregory who is on duty at Rathbone's house
in Belgravia goes on to become Inspector Gregory of
Silver Blaze.
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The
Secret Fiend (2009)
Story Type: Children's Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Inspector Lestrade; Professor Moriarty
(Malefactor); Irene Adler (Irene Doyle); (Mycroft
Holmes)
Historical Figures: John Bright; John
Bedford Leno; Friedrich Engels; Karl Marx;
Benjamin Disraeli; (Spring-Heeled Jack)
Other Characters: Louise Stevenson; Beatrice
Leckie; Sigerson Trismegistus Bell; Drunken
Tradesman; Westminster Policemen; Dupin; St Paul's
Waifs; Milkwomen; Westminster Bridge Crowds;
Trafalgar Square Crowds; Trafalgar Square Police;
Trafalgar Square Irregulars; Grimsby; Crew; Andrew
Doyle; Paul Waller / Paul Doyle; Alfred Munby;
Southwark Beggar; Borough High Street Crowds;
Whitehall Coachman; John Silver; Southwark
Bobbies; Inspector Lestrade, Sr; Snowfields
Pupils; Headmaster; London Bridge Pedestrians;
Fleet Street Newsboys; Fleet Street Pedestrians;
Reform League Man; Utterson; Lambeth Passers-by;
Mr Leckie; Birdcage Walk Pedestrians; Brompton
Road Pedestrians; Brompton Road Vendors; Scotland
Yard Desk Sergeant; Lincoln's Inn Field Gentlemen;
Couple Outside the College of Surgeons; Crowd
Outside Hatter's Shop; Peelers; Protestors; Lady
in Barouche; Barouche Driver; Henry & Edward's
House Agent; Kensington Footmen; Scullery Maid;
Limehouse Child; Mr Stevenson; Mrs Stevenson;
Stevenson Children; Limehouse Sailor; Rotherhithe
Toughs; Blackheath Governesses & Children;
Hide's Servant; Simian; Denmark Street
Pedestrians; Ratfinch; Rookery Residents;
Prostitute; Disraeli's Coachman; (Beatrice's
Father; Rose Holmes; Wilberforce Holmes; Hobbs;
Knightsbridge Coachman; Knightsbridge Ladies;
Constable Balfour; Constable Cummey; Hobbs;
Carousing Lads; Working-Class Women; Burly
Tradesmen; Treasure Family; Jackel)
Date: February-March, 1868
Locations: Westminster Bridge; Denmark
Street; Bell's Shop; Leicester Square; Trafalgar
Square; Westminster; Whitehall; Downing Street;
Crown Street; The Strand; Thames Street; Fleet
Street; St Martin's Lane; Blackfriars Bridge;
Southwark; Blackfriars Road; Borough High Street;
St George's Circus; Bridge Street; The Mint;
Hatter's Shop; Scotland Yard; Westminster Road;
Snowfields National School; Snowfields Road;
Montague Street; Lambeth; Hermiston National
School; Birdcage Walk; Constitution Hill; Hyde
Park Corner; Wellington Arch; Knightsbridge;
Brompton Road; Queens Gardens; Lancelot Place;
Drury Lane; Lincoln's Inn Fields; Lincoln's Inn
Field; College of Surgeons; National Art Gallery;
Kensington; Limehouse; Narrow Road; Samoa Street;
London Bridge; Rotherhithe; Deptford; Greenwich;
Greenwich Park; Blackheath; Hide's House; Soho
Square; Shoreditch Road; Church Street; Bethnal
Green Road; Bethnal Green; Old Nichol Street
Rookery
Story: A servant girl, Beatrice's friend,
is abducted by a leaping figure resembling
Spring-Heeled Jack on Westminster Bridge. Holmes
finds her unharmed beside the river and doubts
Beatrice's story, so Beatrice goes to Scotland
Yard where young Lestrade takes on the case.
Holmes attends a political rally in Trafalgar
Square. He captures a Spring-Heeled Jack in
Southwark, but the attacks continue. Holmes
is attacked by the Trafalgar Square Irregulars, and
Beatrice's lfe is threatened. The Jack turns to
murder, fomenting violent political protests. When
Holmes's name is linked to the murders, he is given
twenty-four hours to solve the case.
NOTE:
It is hinted on P.112 that Irene Doyle
will become Irene Adler: "I
may actually take to the stage...Perhaps I will go
to America in a few years, create a whole new
existence for myself, a whole new biography to put
in the play programs and papers. Did you know that
I had a wild American upbringing?"
NOTE 2: Utterson, the former
member of the Trafalgar Square Irregulars, takes his
name from Robert Louis Stevenson's J.G. Utterson (The
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde). The
life plan he reveals to Holmes ("I will get out
of London when I am educated, change my name, go
to the South Seas, and write adventure stories")
is a further link to Stevenson. Other references
(including Louise Stevenson, John Silver, Robert
Hide, Lanyon Street, Samoa Street, and the Treasure
family) continue the links to Stevenson.
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The
Dragon Turn (2011)
Story Type: Children's Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Irene Adler (Irene Doyle); Inspector Lestrade;
Professor Moriarty (Malefactor)
Historical Figures: Charles Dickens; (George
Leybourne)
Other Characters: Alistair Hemsworth;
Venus of the Hottentots / Juliet; Sigerson
Trismegistus Bell; Inspector Lestrade, Sr;
Scuttle; Harrison Starr; Beatrice Leckie; Oscar
Riyah / Abraham Hebrewitz / The Wizard of
Nottingham; Constable Monroe; Ratfinch;
Wilberforce Holmes; Hilton Poke; Grimsby; Crew;
Andrew C. Doyle; Paul Waller / Paul Doyle; Hobbs;
Simpson Small; Egyptian Hall Audience; Backstage
Doorman; Lestrade's Bobbies; Leicester Square
Crowds; Dickens's Audience; Whitehall Pedestrians;
Scotland Yard Officers; Actor; Snowfields
Headmaster; Omnibus Passengers; Crystal Palace
Visitors; Scotland Yard Desk Sergeant; Egyptian
Hall Attendants; Usher; Theatre Orchestra;
Plainclothes Policeman; Street Urchin; Fleet
Street Crowds; News of the World Receptionist;
Street
People; Stable Boys; Thugs; Lowlifes; Chelsea
Policemen; Crown Street Gentlemen; Mudlarks;
Denmark Street Bobbie; Lestrade's Colleague;
Reporters; West End Pedestrians; (Mr
Hollingswood; Wizard of Nottingham; Mrs
Hemsworth / Mrs Nottingham; Irene's Singing
Instructor; Trafalgar Square Irregulars;
Constable Spears; Rose Sherrinford)
Date: Late August - 1st,
September, 1869
Locations: Indian Ocean; Egyptian
Hall; St James's Hall; Denmark Street; Bell's
Shop; Cremorne Gardens; World's End Hotel;
Scotland Yard; London Bridge; Piccadilly Street;
Leicester Square; Belgravia; Knightsbridge Road;
King's Road; Chelsea; Snowfields School; The Mint;
St James's Square; Whitehall Street; Montague
Street; Fleet Street; News of the World Offices;
Jermyn Street; Crown Street; Cremorne Road; The
Thames; Battersea Bridge; The West End; Bow Street
Story: Holmes and Irene attend a
performance at the Egyptian Hall to celebrate
Irene's sixteenth birthday. While they are
backstage, visiting Hemsworth, the magician and
explorer who has made a dragon appear on stage,
the Lestrades arrive and arrest him for the murder
of a rival magician, the Wizard of Nottingham,
parts of whose body have been found in his
workshop.
At
Irene's urging, and with Lestrade's reluctant help,
Holmes is able to examine the scene of the crime,
Meeting the Cockney street urchin Scuttle during his
investigations. Meanwhile, Beatrice brings news that
Holmes's father may be ill, and the two are reunited
at the Crystal Palace. His conversation with his
father leads him to question his conclusions about
the murder. Under threat from Lestrade senior,
Holmes is forced to search for the dragon or face
public disgrace and criminal proceedings.
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Becoming
Holmes
(2012)
Story Type: Children's Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Mycroft Holmes; Professor Moriarty (Malefactor);
Irene Adler (Irene Doyle); Inspector Lestrade;
Stamford; Dr Watson
Historical Figures: (Charles Dickens;
Robert Lowe)
Other Characters: Sigerson
Trismegistus Bell; Grimsby / Ronald Loveland; Sir
Ramsay Stonefield; James; Lady Stonefield; Angela
Stonefield; Brett; Dr Craft; Sutton / Hopkins;
Scuttle; Alistair Hemsworth; The Wizard of
Nottingham; Crew; Beatrice Leckie; Sergeant
Landless
Denmark Street Passers-by; Newsboys; Londoners;
Treasury Employees; Treasury Boy; Bank of England
Guards; Businessmen; Bank of England Police
Officers; Stonefield's Footmen; Bank of England
Officials; Stonefield's Groom; Cab Drivers;
Hounslow Woman; Hounslow Man; Scotland Yard Desk
Sergeant; Whitechapel Residents; East End Thugs;
Bart's Patients; Nurses; Cathedra; Gardener;
Falstff Barman; Marmaid; Falstaff Patrons;
Egyptian Hall Box Office Woman; Redcross Street
Old Woman; Beatrice's Young Man; Scotland Yard
Night Sergeant; Scotland Yard Boy
(Rose Holmes; Wilberforce Holmes; Lambeth
Bricklayer; Bricklayer's Wife; Oberon Obese;
Snowfields School Headmaster; Gabriella
Stonefield; Stonefield's Doctor; Mr Adler;
Andrew C. Doyle; Irene's Singing Tutors; Paul
Waller Doyle; Paul Doyle; Johnny "The Swallow"
Wilde; Mudlark; Charon; Crew's Parents; Harrison
Starr; Angelina Hemsworth; Beatrice's Father)
Date: 13th June - , 1870
Locations: Hounslow; Denmark Street;
Bell's Shop; London Bridge; The Docks; Crown
Street; Trafalgar Square; Whitehall Street; The
Admiralty; Inn; The Treasury; Fleet Street;
Ludgate Hill; Cheapside; Threadneedle Street; Bank
of England; Oxford Street; Holborn Viaduct; Regent
Street; Mayfair; Hanover Square; Park Lane;
Knightsbridge; Kensington; Hammersmith Road; Kew;
Brentford; Hounslow High Street; Park; Leicester
Square; The Boy and Man Public House; Scotland
Yard; Whitechapel; The Sewers; Charterhouse
Street; St Bartholomew's Hospital; London Bridge
Station; A Train; Kent; Strood Station; Rochester
Bridge; Rochester; Rochester High Street; College
Yard; Rochester Cathedral; Falstaff Tavern;
Cremorne Gardens; Egyptian Hall Theatre;
Southwark; Borough High Street; Public House; St
Saviour's Church; Church Street; Rochester Street;
Redcross Street; Cross Bones Graveyard; The Old
City; Montague Street; Irene's House; Hatter's
Shop; St Saviour's Cemetery; Lower Thames Street;
Billingsgate Fish Market; Tower Wharf; The Thames
Story: The death of Dickens, coming soon
after the death of Wilberforce Holmes, sends
Holmes into a depression, while all over London,
people plot against him. Grimsby is given a key
position in the Treasury, helping to oversee
police funding. Holmes suspects that he has been
put in position by Malefactor, and predicts that
his superior will soon meet with foul play. He
decides that he needs to find out first how
Grimsby gained his appointment, and begins by
looking into the bachground of Sir Ramsay
Stonefield, Governor of the Bank of England.
Malefactor reappears in Bell's shop and warns
Holmes to drop his Treasury investigation.
After his
dicovery of Stonefield's secret ends in tragedy,
Holme swears to bring an end to Malefactor's
organisation. Grimsby is murdered and Irene
arrives back in England. Holmes consults Lestrade
over Grimsby's murder and his search for Malefactor
takes him into the sewers. He has his first
encounter with Stamford and his friend John, and
journeys to Rochester Cathedral to meet an old
adversary. He finds himself in a crypt full of
snakes before coming face to face with his nemesis.
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Wanda Pearce
"Murder
on
the American Express" (1990)
Included in: A Bunch of Fun Dramas (Wanda
Pearce)
Story Type: Children's Parody Script
Sherlockian Detective: Herlock Sholmes
Characters Based on Canonical Characters: Moriarity
Characters Based on Fictional Characters:
Mick Charles [Nick Charles]; Molly
Charles [Nora Charles]; Ricky Dillane [Mickey
Spillane]; Mrs Marble [Miss Marple]; Jessica
Ketcher [Jessica Fletcher]
Other Characters: Josephine
LaSuer; Crockett; Mary
Unnamed Characters: Waiter
Locations: The Cruise Ship American
Express
Story: A group of great detectives
are guests of Josephine LaSuer aboard the cruise
ship American Express. When their hostess is
murdered they lay the blame on each other until the
true culprit is uncovered.
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Matthew Pearl
"The
Adventure of the Boston Dromio" (2009)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes In America (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon
Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; (Wilson Hargreave)
Historical Figures: Anna Harris
Smith
Other Characters: Dr Joseph
Lavey; Detective Dugan; Police Officers; Animal
rescue League Employee; Colonel Brenton; Kindness
Club Children; League Agent; Two Young Women; Two
Boys; Prisoners; Julius McArthur / George Simpson
/ George Smith / George Fitzbeck; Prison Guards; (Amelia
Lavey;
Mary Ann Pinton / Mary Painting; Minister;
Prosecuting Attorney; Butler; Kittens' Owner;
Betsy; Deputy Sheriff)
Locations: USA; Massachusetts; Boston;
Watson's Lodgings; Police Headquarters; Lavey's
House; Carver Street; Animal Rescue League;
Restaurant; Charlestown Prison
Story: On a tour of America with
Holmes, Watson dines with Lavey, the surgeon who
tended to his wounds in Afghanistan, who complains
about the odd behaviour of his housemaid. Two days
later he calls on Watson again to tell him that she
is dead, and that the police found him lying
unconscious over her body with his rifle in his
hand. Watson cables Holmes to come to Boston from
Portland, Maine, where he has been staying. They
visit Lavey's house with Detective Dugan, and learn
that the girl was suffocated. Holmes asks to see
Mary's kitten, which is being kept at the Animal
Rescue League. There they meet Anna Harris Smith,
the League's founder. Holmes takes the kitten to a
restaurant and then visits a prison to find the
girl's killer. Back at the Animal Rescue League he
explains the significance of the cat.
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Ronald Pearsall
Sherlock Holmes Investigates The
Murder in Euston Sq. (1989)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; (Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes;
Mrs Hudson)
Historical Figures: Matilda
Hacker; William Strohman; Joseph Savage; PC Isaac
Dowling; Inspector William May; Inspector Charles
Hagen; Dr Henry Davis; Sergeant Richard Beeson;
Sergeant James Galland; A.J. Pepper; Edward
Hacker; Superintendent Robert Davis; Francis
Reichenbach; Mrs Bastendorff; Hannah Dobbs; Mary
Bastendorff; Peter Bastendorff; Mr Mead; Trial
Jury; Mr A.L. Smith; Peter Bastendorff (son of
Sewerin Bastendorff); Sewerin Bastendorff, Jr;
Rosa Bastendorff; Mr Findlay (Finley); William
Partington (Harlington); Inspector Gatling; Prince
Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh; Tsar Alexander II; Mr
Whiffling; J.E. Richards
(Woburn Place Cabman; PC Thomas Martin; Hannah
Earls; Frederick Thompson; Prince Arthur; Grand
Duchess Maria Alexandrovna; Brooks; Lefler;
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent; Queen Victoria;
Prince Albert)
Characters Based on Historical Figures:
Matilda "Matty" Bastendorff (Christine
Bastendorff)
Other Characters: Dolly Beck; Agnes;
Esther Hoskins; Dummy; Prudence; Dora; Robert;
Pertwee; Jenkins; Mr Gamble; Sir Edmund
Thistlethwaite; Ralph; Lily; Mr Bellamy;
Mrs Bax;
Lord Euston / Mr Smith; Lord Arthur Clifton; Lady
Augusta; Captain Mannovski; Stekel; Adrey
Charles Gosling; Henrietta; Dr Biddulph; Mrs Hacker;
Belinda; Euston
Square Onlookers; Carpenter (but see Note below);
Postman; Bedford Place Maid; Bedford Place Police
Constable; Water Rates Clerk; Morgue Assistant;
Kentish Farmer & Wife; Farmer's Son; Coachman;
Hoskins's Servants; Hoskins's Butler; Euston
Station Porter; Euston Station Clerk; Police
Sergeant; Drummond Street Man; Prisoners; Holloway
Policemen; Prison Warders; Martin's Wife &
Child; Streetwalker; Jenkins's Parents; Camberwell
Attackers; Lamplighter; Reporter; Editor; Omnibus
Passengers; Hacker's Neighbours; Ware Cabman; Ware
Hall Flunkey; Ware Women; Accordion Player; Pub
Clientele; Ware Post Office Boy; Prostitute;
Jermyn Street Maid; Jermyn Street Woman; Young
Nobleman; Coachman; Elderly Landlord; Prostitute's
Brother; Banker; Euston's Co-Conspirators;
Euston's Housekeeper; Under-gardener; Euston's
Butler; Assassin; Man from Frankfurt; European
Peasants; Customs Man; St Petersburg Beggars;
Commissionaires; Peasant Tea Seller; English
Woman; Russian Uniformed Men; Hotel d'Angleterre
Waiter; Russian Surgeons; Asylum-Keeper; Asylum
Servant Girl; Asylum Nurses; Asylum Director;
Asylum Inmates; Geography Master; Asylum-Keeper's
Wife; Asylum Doctors; Canterbury Servant;
Augusta's Coachman; Lady Augusta's Husband;
Gardener; Lady Augusta's Butler; Servant;
Housekeeper; Employment Agency Lady; Young Irish
Lady; Nuns; Hampstead Jew; St Martin's Lane
Street-walker; Cabbie; Whiffling's Daughter;
Highbury Couple; (Writer; Man in Photo;
Undertaker; Watson's Euston Square Patient;
Uncle Alf; Uncle Les; Uncle Sep / Septimus;
Uncle Will; Battersea Clergyman; Jessie;
Clerical Gentleman; Streatham Farmer;
Cigar-Divan Attendant; French Cook; New Owners
of 4, Euston Square; Mr Robins; Gamble's Friend;
Ex-Cracksman; Photographer; Equerry; Holmes's
Researcher; Self-Made Halifax Man; Yorkshire
Mine-Owner; Whiffling's Wife; Devon Postman)
Date: May, 1879 / 1889
Locations: 4, Euston Square; The Old
Bailey; 221B, Baker Street; Police Station; Pall
Mall; Agnew's Gallery; Kentish Town; Rochester
Road; Bedford Place; St Mary's Hospital;
Streatham; 155, Drummond Street; Bow Street Police
Station; Offices of Messrs Hitchen, Gamble &
Footloose; Holloway Prison; Jenkins's House;
Camberwell Green; Newspaper Office; Park; 15,
Jermyn Street; Public Bath; Prostitute's Home;
Holywell Street; Bookshop; Bayswater; St Martin's
Lane; Gower Street; Putney; Mrs Hacker's House;
Islington; Highbury; Sussex; Brighton; Kemp Town;
Kent; Canterbury; Council Office; Kent; Farm;
Hoskins' House near Rochester; Erith Marshes;
Erith; Essex; Southend; Hotel; Pier;
Hertfordshire; Ware; Baldock Street; The Red Lion;
The Hall; Pub; Barn; Euston's House;
Lodging-House; Germany; Berlin; Russia; St
Petersburg; Vosmsenski Prospekt; Mannovski's
House; Hotel d'Angleterre; The Alexander Hall;
France; Paris; Oxfordshire; Asylum near Banbury;
Lady Augusta's House
Story: The body of Matilda Hacker is found
in the cellar of 4, Euston Square. Hannah
Dobbs, the landlady's servant is charged with her
murder. Ten years later, Watson presents Holmes with
a portfolio of notes on the case, the compiler of
which has mysteriously disappeared. Inspector May
tells about the discovery of the body. Matilda's
brother, Edward, recounts his sister's debts and
royal connections. Hannah Dobbs tells of a past
filled with abuse and exploitation. Holmes visits
the house in Euston Square and finds rat bones. As
he reads through the remaining statements, Holmes
becomes convinced that Mycroft has manipulated him
into becoming involved, and that the murder
investigation really involves two separate cases.
The documents reveal secual scandal and a conspiracy
against the monarchy.
NOTE: When Inspector
May first visits Euston Square one of the lodgers is
"a carpenter and joiner looking for work"
(P.21). He is not named, but the 1881 UK
census lists a William Prince, cabinetmaker, as one
of Bastendorff's lodgers. It is not clear if this is
deliberate or coincidental on Pearsall's part.
NOTE 2: Bastendorff's
eldest daughter is named Matilda here. The 1881
census lists his eldest child as Christine
Bastendorff.
NOTE 3: Bastendorff's
friend, Mr Whiffling the Gower Street cabinet maker,
would appear to be Karl L.F. Wippling, recorded in
the 1881 census as living at 48 Gower Place.
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Edmund L. Pearson
"Help! Help! Sherlock!" (1928)
Also published as "Those Bloody-Minded Mystery
Writers
Included in: Life, 12 July 1928; A Bedside Book of
Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches
(Charles Press)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock
Holmes;
Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Tobias Gregson)
Fictional Characters: Philo Vance;
District Attorney Markham; (The Greene Family)
Other Characters: Jethro Browne;
Officials; New York Police; Mr Browne; Eloise
Browne; (Creedon; Grandma Browne; Grandpa
Browne; Aunt Minnie; The Twins; Susie Browne; The
Butler; Little Ned; Uncle Peter; The Cook; The
Girls; Japanese Sword Collector; Chauffeur)
Date: Summer, 1929
Locations: Sussex; Holmes's Villa;
USA; New York; 54th Street; The Browne Mansion
Story: Watson visits Holmes in
Sussex with news from Creedon of a murder in New
York. Philo Vance has been hired to investigate.
Knowing Vance's reputation, Holmes and Watson travel
to New York to take over the case.
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"Sherlock
Holmes
and the Drood Mystery" (1913)
Included in: The Secret Book (Edmund L.
Pearson); The
Game
Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye); The Big Book of
Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Fictional Characters: Thomas Sapsea; Edwin
Drood; John Jasper; Neville Landless; Helena
Landless; Deputy; Mrs. Tope; Dick Datchery; Jack
Tartar; Stoney Durdles; Mr. Grewgious; Princess
Puffer; (Rosa Bud; Mr. Crisparkle)
Other Characters: Passers-by
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train;
Cloisterham; Sapsea's House; The Gatehouse; The
Crozier Inn; The Cathedral; The Churchyard
Story: Holmes and Watson travel to
Cloisterham at the request of Sapsea to investigate
Drood's disappearance. Sapsea believes Landless to
be responsible because he is foreign. When they
visit Jasper, Holmes seems to recognise him from
London. Holmes returns to London, leaving Watson in
Cloisterham, where, in the cathedral, he sees
Datchery watching Jasper. Watson becomes convinced
that Datchery is Helena Landless in disguise. Holmes
returns with Tartar and Neville Landless. Durdles
takes Holmes and Watson to the churchyard, where
events come to a head, and the fate of Edwin Drood
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John Peel
"The Dynamics of an Asteroid"
(2009)
Included in: Tales of
the Shadow Men 5: Vampires of Paris
(Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier)
Story Type: Science Fiction Homage
Canonical Characters: Professor
Moriarty; Sherlock Holmes; (Dr Watson)
Fictional Characters: Denis Borel; Doctor
Omega; Fred; Tiziraou; Zephyrin Xirdal
Historical Figures: (Crew of
the Bounty)
Other Characters: Widow Thibault
Date: May 4th, 1891 / 1896 / 1908
Locations: Switzerland; Reichenbach
Falls; Aboard the Cosmos; France; Paris;
Bois de Boulogne; Rue Cassette; Outer Space;
Asteroid; (Tunguska; Pitcairn Island)
Story: Omega and his companions
rescue Moriarty from his fall at Reichenbach, and
take him into the future to assist them in
preventing an asteroid colliding with the Earth. A
further stop in Paris enlists the aid of Xirdal,
before the journey into space to rendezvous with the
asteroid begins. As they explore its surface, they
face treachery from Moriarty.
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Evolution (1994)
Story Type: Science Fiction Homage
Fictional Characters: The Fourth Doctor;
Sarah Jane Smith; Rutans
Historical Figures: Arthur Conan Doyle;
Jack Lamb; L.C. Dunsterville; Rudyard Kipling;
George Beresford; John Gray; (Crew of the
Hope)
Other Characters: Boy-Dog; Ben Tolliver;
Mermaid; Seal Creature Guards; Sir Edward
Fulbright; Alice Fulbright; Lieutenant Roger
Bridewell; Fulbright's Guests; Colonel Edmund
Ross; Sir Alexander Cromwell; Constable Bernard
Faversham; Jim Brackley; Bodham Crowd; Millicent
Chadwick; Jen Walker; Fulbright's Butler;
Servants; Waiter; Lady Burnwell; Captain Kevin
Parker; Footmen; Lucy; Vicki; Joshua Anders;
Mer-Children; Cherry; Raintree; Brogan; Coachman;
Doctor Martinson; Tom; Billy's Girl; Billy;
Serving Maid; Tobias Breckinridge; Factory
Workers; Factory Children; Jeeves; Cromwell's
Driver; Fulbright's Gardener; Lizzy; Simon; Nan;
Jack Kinney; Percival Ross; Limehouse Residents;
Patrick; Dog-Creatures; Fulbright's Men;
(Abercrombie; Serving Maids; Ronnie Chadwick;
Tim; Cleaner; Breckinridge's Secretary)
Date: 1880
Locations: Dartmoor; Tolliver's Boat; Fulbright
Hall; The TARDIS; Bodham; The Wharf; Aboard the Hope;
The Pig & Thistle Pub; Graveyard; Billy's
Shack; Breckinridge's Factory; Mine; Laboratory;
Limehouse; Warehouse; Mercy Hospital; Beach
Story: A creature is out hunting on
Dartmoor. A mermaid attacks an old fisherman off
the Devon coast after he sees fairy fires in the
water. At Fulbright Hall an engagement party is
under way for Sir Edward's daughter Alice, and her
fiancé, Bridewell. Fulbright suspects Bridewell's
friend Ross of having a hidden reason for being at
the Hall. A howling is heard on the Moor and
Fulbright, Bridewell, Ross and his manservant
Abercrombie set out to investigate.
The Doctor and Sarah Jane arrive in
the TARDIS, having been aiming for India and a
chance to meet Kipling, who, it later transpires,
is in the area, but still a schoolboy. Sarah
encounters the creatures, swiftly followed by the
hunters from the Hall. The Doctor decides to
investigate. Police officer Faversham is
investigating the disappearances of several
children, and when the fisherman's body is brought
in he calls on Doyle, whose whaling ship, the Hope,
is docked in the harbour, to examine the body.
The missing children are being held
captive and are all forced to undergo the
"Change". Sarah and the Doctor stay at the Hall.
The Doctor is loaned a deerstalker and chequered
cape coat for a trip into town to view the body
with Doyle. Kipling and schoolmates, Dunsterville
and Beresford form an attachment to Sarah. The
creatures and the missing children appear to be
connected to a new factory owned by Breckinridge,
and to Doyle's ship.
Alice overhears Ross planning to
search the Hall, and is drugged when she attempts
to open his booby-trapped luggage. Ross and
Abercrombie disappear from the Hall. Sarah, the
Doctor, Doyle and Fulbright set out to trap the
creature, but Ross appears and kills it. Sarah
tours the factory, including Breckinridge's large
marine aquarium. Doyle and the Doctor's autopsy
reveals that the creature was a ten-year-old boy,
and they and Sarah set out to sea to investigate
the fisherman's death. They are attacked and Sarah
is saved by a mermaid and Doyle's skills as a
harpooner.
Sarah and Kipling are kidnapped while
lying in wait for grave robbers, and taken to the
factory, and from there to an underwater
laboratory where Ross's brother is engaged in
genetic experiments. The Doctor, Doyle and Ross
join forces to stage a rescue, and the missing
children are taken, by TARDIS, to a new home.
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John Pelan
"The Mystery of the Worm" (2003)
Included in: Shadows Over
Baker Street (Michael Reaves & John
Pelan)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Isadora Persano
Fictional Characters: Dr. Nikola; (Fu
Manchu?)
Other Characters: Dr. Robert Beech;
Driver; (Nikola's Bearers)
Date: 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Limehouse;
Nikola's Warehouse
Story: Holmes and Watson are shown two
archaeological artefacts and a strange worm by
Beech, an entomologist, but Holmes sends him
packing as a fraud. Soon after, Nikola arrives at
Baker Street and reveals that Beech was his
emissary, and in reality, Persano. He tells Holmes
of the discovery of the artefacts and says that he
believes that they are for communicating with
another world, and asks Holmes to join him in an
attempt to communicate with the beings that live
there. Holmes and Watson meet Persano at Nikola's
Limehouse warehouse where the attempt is to take
place.
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Edrie Pendleton
"Ghosts
in the Library" (1949)
Included in: Plays, November 1949; Plays,
November 1952;
Story Type: Children's Playscript
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; (Dr
Watson)
Fictional Characters: Becky Sharp;
D'Artagnan; David Copperfield; Jo March; (Porthos;
Athos; Aramis; Uriah Heep; Mr Micawber; Aunt
Betsey Trotwood; Clara Peggotty; Mr Barkis;
Steerforth; Meg March; Amy March; Beth March;
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence)
Other Characters: Louise; Don; Mary;
Freddie; (The Voice; Lena Ruben)
Unnamed Characters: Grandma; Grandpa; Career
Girl; Baseball Player; (Parents)
Date: 1949
Locations: USA; Grandparents' House
Story: Four children are staying with their
grandparents, and using their library as a study
room. They have little interest in books. When they
leave to go to a movie, the ghosts of famous
literary characters appear. Returning to the library
because of a storm, the children discover the books
open on the table.
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Hugh Pentecost
"My Dear Uncle Sherlock" (1960)
Included in: Ellery Queen's Mystery
Magazine (Jan 1960)
Story Type: Homage
Detectives: Uncle George Crowder &
Joey Trimble
Other Characters: Hector Trimble; Esther
Trimble; Mrs. Lydia Leggett; Trooper Gilligan;
Dave Taylor; Bill Leggett; Joan Leggett; Red Egan;
Patrick Aloysius Molloy, Shep
Locations: Lakeview, USA: The Trimble
House; The Courtroom
Story: Twelve-year-old Joey Trimble is in
the habit of having stories from The Memoirs
of Sherlock Holmes read to him by his uncle,
ex-lawyer George Crowder. Joey has found the dead
body of Mrs. Leggett's German Shepherd dog, Shep,
and alerted Trooper Gilligan, who, on entering the
house, has discovered that Mrs. Leggett has also
been killed. Shep would only let handyman Dave
Taylor enter the house without barking, so the
evidence seems to indicate that her great-nephew
Bill Leggett must be guilty. In the courtroom,
Uncle George is able to draw on his Sherlockian
experience to show who the murderer actually is.
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Ana Teresa Pereira
"The Adventure
of the Red Dress" (2021)
Included in: The Return of
Sherlock Holmes (Maxim Jakubowski)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade
Fictional Characters: Fay Seton
Historical
Figures: John Dickson Carr; (Clarice
Carr; Adrian Conan Doyle)
Other Characters: Lawrence
Mason; Mrs Danvers; Mr Danvers; Miss Danvers; (Violet
Mason)
Unnamed Characters: (Strand Editor;
John's Cook; Mason's Father; Mason's Friends;
Diogenes Club Member; Mrs Danvers' Sister)
Date: Early 1950s / Autumn
Locations: John's Office; 221B, Baker
Street; A Train; Hampshire; Mason's Cottage; Inn;
Fay's Apartment
Story: John has been commissioned by the
editor of the Strand to write a Sherlock
Holmes story, knowing that he is planning a
collection with Adrian, but his mind is on his
lover, Fay.
Lawrence Mason has married Violet, a woman he
met at a party. Returning home after a visit to
London, he returns to their home in Hampshire to
find Violet completely changed in appearance.
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S.J. Perelman
"Chefs
Chafe as Steak Smugglers Flood Turkish Baths"
(1930)
Included in: Judge, Volume 98 Number 2514, 4
January 1930
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Inspector Lestrade
Fictional Characters: Old King Brady;
Raskolnikov
Characters Named After Historical Figures:
Sabatini [Rafael Sabatini]; Jeffrey Farnolstein
[Jeffrey Farnol]
Other Characters: Fred Pudding; Bob; (Victor
Ergot)
Unnamed Characters: (Brady's Operatives)
Locations: USA; New York; London; 221B,
Baker Street; Canada; Manitoba
Story: Brady, chief of the New York Secret
Service, is waging a war against people smuggling
steaks into Turkish baths to broil them for free on
the coals. His plans to set sail in a ketch are
thwarted by the arrival of excisemen, one of who is
revealed to be Sherlock Holmes, before all is
revealed to be a fantasy dreamed up by the laads of
The Moving-Picture Boys' Vacation in Eastern
Manitoba.
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"Master Sleuth Unmasked"
(1930)
Included in: Judge, Volume 99 Number 2542, 19
July 1930; The Early and Essential Perelaman (S.J.
Perelman)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Professor Moriarty; (Sherlock
Holmes;
Dr Watson)
Historical Figures: (Herbert Hoover)
Characters Named After Historical Figures: Beaumont
[Francis Beaumont]; Fletcherstein [John Fletcher]
Other Characters: Pierre de la Matzos;
Beaumont; Fletcherstein
Unnamed Characters: Sherlock Holmes Fans;
Traders; Telephone Operators
Locations: USA; New York; Hotel Hubbub
Story: With the press filled with rumours
that Sherlock Holmes is a woman, Professor Moriarty
visits the French investigator, Pierre de la Matzos,
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Gilbert S. Perez
"The Case of the Lion Countermark" (1953)
Included in: The Numismatist,
Vol. 66 No. 3, March 1953
Story Type: Pastiche Script
Canonical Characters: Sherlock
Holmes;
Dr Watson
Historical Figures: (Aloĩss Heiss;
Adolfo Herrera y Chiesanova, Jerónimo Antonio Gil)
Other Characters: (Don Pepe)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Holmes and Watson discuss the
provenance of a Lion Dos Mundos coin, supposedly from
Nicaragua.
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Peter Pericarp
"Modern Miranda" (1894)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches:
1888-1899 (Bill Peschel); A Bedside Book of
Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches
(Charles Press)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock
Holmes;
(Dr Watson; Professor Moriarty)
Other Characters: Lawrence
Hathaway; Iris Grey; Mrs Moreton-Plunkett; Mr Grey;
Tom Harding; Dr Delaney; Mrs Goodman; Cabman; Baker
Street Servant; Tall Man of Foreign Appearance;
Sister Helen; Edith Deschamps / Edith Hamilton /
Edith Cohen; Hathaway's Guests; Newspaper Sellers; (Slum-Hunting
Fellow; Baroness Bleithauer; Robinson)
Locations: Chelsea; Mrs
Moreton-Plunkett's House; Cheyne Mansions; Oxford
Street; 221B, Baker Street; Paget Nursing Home;
Whitehall Court
Story:After Harding is shot with an
arrow in Mrs Moreton-Plunkett's garden, and Iris
Grey disappears from a flat in Chelsea, Lawrence
Hathaway consults Sherlock Holmes, who, however, has
to leave for the continent. After his recovery,
Harding is collected from the Paget Nursing Home by
his fiancée, Edith. Some months later, Holmes is to
be a guest at a dinner party given by the Hathaways,
but events prevent him from recounting his story of
the return of Iris.
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Summer Perkins
"The Deadly Soldier" (2015)
Included in: The MX Book of
New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part I: 1881-1889
(David Marcum)
Story Type: Extra-canonical adventure of
Professor Moriarty
Canonical Characters: Professor Moriarty;
Colonel Sebastian Moran; (Inspector Turner)
Other Characters: Police Constable;
Inspector Andrew Turner; Policemen; (Constable
Charles
Woodlite; Mrs Turner; Rebecca Turner; Jonathon
March; Moriarty's Clients; Moran's Boss)
Locations: Conduit Street; Moriarty's
Residence; Saunders, Otley & Co.; Clapham;
Turner's House; Regent Street; Pub
Story: Moriarty is shot at in his home by
a man he has identified as a soldier, who has been
lurking outside for the past three nights.
He arranges for Inspector Turner to tail him in
order to apprehend the man, but this only results in
the murders of three of his clients before he comes
face to face with his assailant.
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Barry Perowne
"Design in
Red" (1949)
Included in: Mystery Book Magazine, Volume 8 Number
3, Summer 1949
Story Type: Homage
Sherlockian Detective: Aubrey Hamel
Other Characters: Alonzo Bede; Walter Fagg /
Pettifer; Aubrey Hamel; Alexander Colton; Roland
Weems; (Aunt Alice)
Unnamed
Characters: Club Members; Janitor; Police
Officers
Date: November
Locations: A Gentleman's Club; Newspaper
Office; Bede's Apartment; Alice's House; Colton's
House; Hamel's Apartment Building
Story: Alonzo Bede, an amateur criminologist
believes that the new waiter at his club, who has
been reading The Bridge of San Luis Rey, is
an escaped murderer, Pettifer. He starts hoping that
Pettifer will kill his fellow club members, Colton,
Weems and Hamel (a meerschaum-smoking actor famous
for playing Sherlock Holmes), but later learns from
Weems that he himself is the intended victim of a
murder pact. Bede sets in place a plan to ensure
that his name becomes a household word.
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"Raffles on the Trail of the Hound"
(1975)
Also published as "The Baskerville
Match"
Included in: Raffles of the Albany (Barry
Perowne); Ellery Queen's Mystery
Magazine (July 1975); The Big
Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto
Penzler)
Story Type: Homage in the style of
Hornung's Raffles stories
Fictional Characters: A.J.Raffles; Bunny
Manders
Historical Figures: Herbert Greenhough
Smith; W.W.Jacobs; (Arthur Conan Doyle;
Fletcher Robinson; Harry Baskerville; Sir
Richard Cabell; Sidney Paget)
Other Characters: Sirius; Landlady; Vicar
of Widecombe-in-the-Moor; Convicts; Landlord; The
Man with the Cat; Book-dealer
Date: 1902
Locations: Greenhough Smith's Office; A
Train; Raffles' Rooms at The Albany; Dartmoor: An
Inn under Black Down; Princetown; The Stone Rows;
Rowe's Duchy Hotel; (Bovey Tracey;
Widecombe-in-the-Moor)
Story: The Strand magazine has
received a letter addressed to Conan Doyle from
"Sirius", a resident of Bovey Tracey, stating that
a giant hound has been sighted on Dartmoor and
that he has discovered its whelps, and requesting
Doyle to view the lair. Summoned by Greenhough
Smith, and suspecting a threat to Doyle's life
connected with his Boer War book fund campaign,
Raffles and Bunny journey down to Dartmoor to
investigate, and lie in wait at the whelps' lair.
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"The Victory Match" (1976)
Also publish as "Raffles: The Enigma of the
Admiral's Hat"
Included in: Raffles of the Albany (Barry
Perowne); The Big Book
of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler)
Story Type: Homage in the style of Hornung's
Raffles stories
Fictional Characters: A.J.Raffles; Bunny
Manders
Historical Figures: Arthur Conan Doyle; James
Watson; Queen Victoria; (Commodore Vanderbilt;
Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster; Prince
Albert of Monaco; Leonard Jerome; Lady Jennie
Churchill; Lord Randolph Churchill)
Other Characters: Lieutenant-Commander
Braithwaite; Station Porter; Sailors; Victory Visitors;
Ladies-in-Waiting;
Able-Seaman John Hayter; Gentlemen-of-England
Cricket Team; Steward; Slopshop Man; Aristotle
Andiakis; Groom; Coachman; Achilleion
Crewmen; (Marine Guard; Miranda Hayter;
Hayter's Accomplice; Queen's Private Secretary)
Date: Early August (Cowes Week), Between
1882 & 1890
Locations: A Train; Portsmouth; Portsmouth
Station; Lord Nelson Inn; Aboard the Gosport
Jezebel; Aboard HMS Victory; Royal
Naval Barracks; Cricket Ground; Southsea; Elm Grove;
Bush Villas; Isle of Wight; Cowes; Portsea;
Slopshop; Corfu Restaurant; Cowes Station; Aboard
the Achilleion
Story: Raffles and Bunny travel to
Portsmouth for a cricket match against the Royal
Navy during Naval Week. Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar
uniform is stolen, although his hat is left behind.
After being injured in the match, Raffles seeks out
Conan Doyle at Bush Villas. Raffles and Bunny stage
a burglarious assault on the yacht of Greek
millionaire Andiakis, while Doyle and Watson
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Anne Perry
"The Case of the Bloodless Sock"
(2001)
Included in: Murder in
Baker Street (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L.
Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower); The
Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
(John Joseph Adams); Sons of
Moriarty and More Stories of Sherlock Holmes
(Loren D. Estleman)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; (Professor Moriarty)
Other Characters: Groom; Robert Hunt;
Hunt's Staff; Jenny Hunt; Cook; Butler; Josephine;
Hodgkins; Percy Bradford; (Kitchen Maid)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; County
Durham; Morton Grange; Hampden
Story: Watson visits an old friend in the
North, only to find on his arrival that his
friend's five-year-old daughter, Jenny, is
missing. The child is found but Hunt asks Watson's
advice over the future of the nursemaid who
allowed the child to wander, but to whom she is
devoted. He then receives a letter, signed "M",
stating that the child might be abducted again at
any time. After hearing a description of her
abductor from the child, Watson sends for Holmes.
When they arrive back at the house they learn that
Jenny has disappeared again. After she returns
another letter arrives from Moriarty, and
exploring the village, Holmes finds a child's
sock, which gives him the solution to the case
even though it proves not to be the one Jenny was
wearing. He calls for the ice-cream man to help
prove his theory.
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"The Christmas Gift" (1999)
Included in: More Holmes for
the Holidays (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L.
Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade
Other Characters: Audience; Announcer;
Vassily Golkov; Cab Driver; Dudley Street Porter;
Boy; Hall Manager; Hansom Driver; Sandwich Seller;
Old Men; Boys; Washerwoman; Helena Carburton
(Hugo Carburton; Ol' Gertie; Jeannie Carburton)
Date: 22nd - 25th, December, 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Strand;
Concert Hall; Baker Street; Dudley Street; Golkov's
Rooms; Concert Hall; Regent's Park; Shaftesbury
Avenue; Stable Yard; Gertie's House; Scotland Yard
Story: When it is announced that Golkov, the
violinist at whose concert Holmes and Watson are in
attendance, is ill, Holmes sets off in pursuit of
the far from sick musician, only to find him
knocking on their own door. His Stradivarius has
been stolen and an inferior model left in its place.
He believes it disappeared while Helena, the woman
he hopes to marry, was alone with it. A ransom has
been demanded - money that has been raised for an
orphanage. Holmes believes that Helena's father is
behind the plot to discredit Golkov and prevent him
from marrying his daughter. Holmes sets a plan in
motion, with Watson as the villain, to save
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"Hostage to Fortune " (1999)
Included in: The New Adventures
of Sherlock Holmes (Martin H. Greenberg,
Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh & Jon L. Lellenberg); The
Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto
Penzler)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft
Holmes)
Other Characters: Robert Harris; Kidnapper;
Sleeping Men; Messenger; Villagers; Naomi
MacAllister; Old Woman; Child; Driver; (Harris's
Friends; Urchin)
Date: Spring
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Prince's Hall,
Trafalgar Road; Brick Lane; Scotland; Inverness;
Rosemarkie; Upper Eathie
Story: Harris consults Holmes after the
disappearance of his daughter, Naomi, during a trip
to the theatre. He has received a ransom demand of
ten thousand pounds. Unable to raise all the money,
he wants Holmes to persuade the kidnappers to accept
what he has been able to. Holmes accepts, but at the
rendezvous with the kidnapper, he disappears, and
the following day, Watson receives a ransom demand.
From clues in a partial letter on the back of the
ransom note, he endeavours to track down Harris's
daughter, and through her, Holmes. The quest takes
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"The Watch Night Bell" (1996)
Included in: Holmes for the
Holidays (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L.
Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Other Characters: Millicent Bayliss; Colonel
John Bayliss; Alyson Franklyn; Theodore Franklyn;
Nora; Servants; Butler
Date: 22nd-25th December & 31st December
Locations: 221B, Baker Street;
Northumberland; Allenbury Hall
Story: Millicent Bayliss tells Holmes that
she believes her sister has been persuaded by her
husband to kill their father, a hero of Rorke's
Drift. Holmes and Watson travel to the family home
in Northumberland, and during the Watch Night
service in the family chapel, the chapel bell falls,
nearly killing the Colonel. Holmes discovers that
the beam supporting the bell has been drilled
through and orders the house to be searched. The
drill is found and Holmes reveals the identity of
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Anne Perry & Malachi Saxon
"The Case of the Highland Hoax"
(2002)
Included in: Murder, My
Dear Watson (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon
Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Professor Moriarty
Historical Figures: Queen Victoria
Other Characters: Harriet Ridley; Reverend
Talbot Ridley; King's Cross Porter; Martin Ridley;
Aberdeen Porter; Taggart; Mrs. MacPhail; Shona;
Morag; James ; ian; Wee Jamie; Callum; Angus;
Reverend Edwin Murray; Doctor; Constable;
Undertakers; Captain Urquhart; Queen's staff;
Ghillies; Railway Guard
Locations: Baker Street; 221B, Baker
Street; King's Cross Station; A Train; Aberdeen
Station; Another Train; Ballater; Ballater
Station; A Trap; A Castle
Story: Watson receives an invitation from
his brother-in-law, Talbot Ridley, to take a
holiday at a castle in Scotland. Ridley has been
given the holiday as a gift from an anonymous
parisioner. Watson invites Holmes, but he is
planning a holiday in Switzerland. In Scotland,
Ridley meets a fellow man of the cloth, Edwin
Murray, but after inviting him to dinner, Edwin is
found dead, poisoned by a bottle of port. Holmes
arrives in Scotland and is quick to deduce that
Moriarty is behind the murder, and that the Queen,
staying nearby at Balmoral, may be at risk in a
plot designed to discredit Holmes.
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Thomas Perry
"The Startling Events in the
Electrified City'" (2011)
Included in: A Study in Sherlock
(Laurie R. King & Leslie S. Klinger); The Big Book of
Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; Sherlock
Holmes; (Mrs Hudson; Mrs Watson)
Historical Figures: William McKinley;
Sydney Barton Booth; Dr Roswell Park; William Bull;
Dr Mann; John Milburn; George B. Cortelyou; Leon
Czolgosz; Ida Saxton McKinley; Mark Hanna; Theodore
Roosevelt
Other Characters: Captain Frederick Allen; Deutschland
Crew; Coast Guard Crewman; Hotel Bellman; Soldiers;
Cabriolet Driver; Bartender; Dignitaries; Train
Passengers; Spaniard; Middle-Aged Lady; Conductor;
Sous-Chefs; Exposition Crowds; Police Officers;
African; Orderlies; Park's Assistants; Nurses;
Iroquois Indians
Date: August 25th - September
14th, 1901
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Aboard SS
Deutschland; USA; New York Harbour; Huson
River; Albany; Buffalo; Train Station; Genesee
Hotel; 1168, Delaware Avenue; Main Street; Telegraph
Office; Pan-American Exposition Grounds; University
of Buffalo; A Bar; A Train; Niagara Falls; Goat
Island; Luna Island; Restaurant; Hospital; Police
Station; Canada; Montreal; Aubeurn Penitentiary
Story: Naval captain Allen takes Holmes and
Watson to America, where President McKinley's life
is under threat. In Buffalo, where the Pan-American
Exposition is being held, they are taken to meet
McKinley who asks Holmes to ensure that he is
assassinated. While touring the Exposition grounds,
Holmes tells Watson that part of the challenge will
be to keep McKinley alive long enough to arrange the
assassination attempt. He enlists the help of John
Wilkes Booth's nephew, and sundry local officials.
Holmes prevents a number of attempts on the
President's life before putting his own plan into
action.
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Steve Perry
"The Case of the Wavy Black Dagger"
(2003)
Included in: Shadows Over
Baker Street (Michael Reaves & John
Pelan)
Story Type: Third Person Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Other Characters: Sita Yogalimari
Date: 1884
Locations: New York
Story: Holmes is visited in New York by
the Balinese priestess Sita Yogalimari. She shows
him a kris, the partner of which is missing. The
two are necessary for the slaying of Black Naga,
one of the Old Ones, whose time of rising is fast
approaching. Her deductions about Holmes equal his
own about her before the two daggers are reunited.
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Bill Peschel
"The
Adventure of the Jersey Girl" (2015)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches:
1900-1904 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Extra-Canonical Adventure of
Irene Adler narrated by Mark Twain
Canonical Characters: Irene Adler; (Sherlock
Holmes;
Dr Watson; Mycroft Holmes)
Historical Figures: Mark Twain;
Olivia Clemens; Joe Twichell; (Mathilde
Marchesi)
Other Characters: Count Dietrich
von Nordmark; Gunter; Passers-by; Ticket Seller;
Beer-Hall Students; Professor; Leatherface;
Leatherface's Toughs; Officer of the Law; Fencing
Students; Opera Cast; Carriage Driver; Dietrich's
Friends; Dietrich's Servants; Small Man; Duel
Referee; Doctors; Hotel Maid; (Irene's
Mother; Irene's Father)
Date: 1878
Locations: Germany; Heidelberg; Hotel
Shloss; Twain's Study; Theaterstrasse 10, The
Opera House; Beer-Hall; Student Corps Building;
Beer Garden; Dietrich's House; Heidelberg Castle
Story: Twain is with his family in
Heidelberg as a stop on their European tour. While
unwillingly buying tickets at the Opera House, he
encounters Irene Adler, and later is set upon by the
servants of her companion. She takes him for a
duelling lesson with the swordsman student Gunter,
but soon finds himself challenged to a real duel.
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"The
Adventure of the Stomach Club Papers" (2015)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches:
1888-1899 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Mark Twain
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Historical Figures: Mark Twain;
Sinbad; Danbury; Olivia Clemens; Henry Irving;
Twain's Daughters; (James Whitcomb Riley;
Washington Servant; Washington Landlady)
Other Characters: Alf Randall;
Stuart MacNaughton; Mrs Randall; Lyceum Audience;
Actors; Twain's Servants; Londoners; MacNaughton's
Butler; MacNaughton's Housemaid; Holmes's
Landlady; MacNaughton's Guests; Humorist; Poetess;
Printer; Inventor; MacNaughton's Footmen; (Madame
Caillaux; Stomach Club Members; Stomach Club
Waiters; Stomach Club Maid; MacNaughton's Cook;
MacNaughton's Wife & Children)
Date: Summer, 1879
Locations: USA; Twain's House; London;
Hotel; Lyceum Theatre; Montague Street; 24,
Montague Street; Mayfair; South Audley Street
Story: Twain reads of the death of the
bookseller and publisher, Stuart MacNaughton.
In 1879, in London, Twain attends a performance by
Henry Irving at the Lyceum. Backstage, a squinting
dwarf tells him to call at MacNaughton's home to
discuss a speech on onanism given at the Stomach
Club in Paris. Among the Lyceum cast is a young
Sherlock Holmes, who makes a series of deductions
about Twain and his wife, including that Twain is
being blackmailed by MacNaughton. After Twain makes
his call, and spies out the lay of MacNaughton's
house, Holmes puts a plan into action at a dinner
party that evening to bring an end to the blackmail.
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"The Humorist's Curse"
(2014)
Included in: The Early Punch
Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Extra-canonical adventure of Dr
Watson
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; (Sherlock
Holmes)
Historical Figures: Mark Twain;
Bret Harte; (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Other Characters: Pioneers Cricket Club; St
George Cricket Club; Cricket Spectators; Chisholm;
Doctor Gillespie; Buck Kennedy; Colonel Warden;
Market Street Crowds; Ruffians; Chen Yin; Big Jim
Crosby; Chinese Diners; Chinese Cook; Chen Fu;
Chinese Prisoners; Bartender; Saloon Patrons
Date: June or July, 1906 / July
4th, 1868
Locations: South Africa; Cape Town; USA;
Connecticut; Hartford; California; San Francisco;
Market Street; Martin's; Montgomery Street;
California Street; Chinatown; Chinese Restaurant;
Occidental Hotel; Big Jim's Saloon
Story: Twain recounts his memories of
Harriet Beecher Stowe. He goes on to recall
meeting Watson in San Francisco in 1868. Twain and
Bret Harte are enjoying the 4th of July celebrations,
when they overhear Watson explaining the finer points
of cricket. They take him on a tour of the city, but
after losing him, find him rescuing a young Chinese
woman from a trio of ruffians. She takes them to
Chinatown and tells them how, as a result of a debt,
her husband is being held in forced labour by Big Jim
Crosby. Watson resolves to free him, and Twain follows
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Doug Peterson
"The
Case of the Poisoned Tongue" (1987)
Included in: I Never Promised You a Hot Tub
(Doug Peterson)
Story Type: Third Person Religious
Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Fictional Characters: Mrs White; Mr
Green; Colonel Mustard
Other Characters: Dr Phelps; Mrs
Phelps; (Mrs Gregory)
Unnamed Characters:
Suspects; (Phelps's Patients; Doctor;
Spanish Immigrant)
Story: Holmes gathers the suspects
together to reveal which one of them is the
murderer. All the victims have fallen victim to
words, and the Good Book reveals the truth.
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Sheerluck
Holmes
and the Hounds of Baker Street (2005)
Story Type: Children's Pastiche
Sherlockian Detectives: Sheerluck Holmes
& Dr Bob Watson
Other Characters: Constable
Scooter; Morty Poppins; Nommy; Sniffy;
Morty
Unnamed Characters: Waitress; Doylie's
Customers
Locations:
Baker Street; Doylie's Pizza Place
Story: Sheerluck Holmes (a cucumber) and
Dr Bob Watson (a tomato) are taken to Doylie's
restaurant by Constable Scooter to investigate the
disappearance of Sniffy, who has disappeared with
hurt feelings during a darts championship.
NOTE: Pages are unnumbered. For indexing
purposes I have counted the first story page ("Dogs
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Glen Petrie
The Dorking Gap Affair (1989)
Story Type: Extra-canonical Adventure of
Mycroft Holmes
Canonical Characters: Mycroft Holmes;
Sherlock Holmes; Mrs Turner; (Victor Trevor)
Historical Figures: Earl of Granville; Sir
George Chesney; (Admiral Saisset; Louis
Adolphe Thiers; Prince Otto von Bismarck;
Pauline García-Viardot; Bettino Ricasoli)
Other Characters: Jean-Christophe
Thibault; Sailors; Ferry Passengers; Inspector
Greatorex; Sergeant McManus; Folkestone Cab
Driver; Train Passengers; Ticket-Collector; Mr
Whettam; Stableman; Cuthbert Jenks-Robinson;
Footman; Carl Philipp Emmanuel Guttmann; Balliol
Musicians; Balliol Audience; Mr Spode; King; Mitre
Clerk; Sir James Swarthmoor; Reverend Sir Horatio
Rumbelow; Sir James's Manservant; Assistant
Paddington Station-Master; Paddington Factotum;
Paddington Porter; Princess Sofya Sergeyevna
(Sophie) Trubetskoy; Market Crowds; Pall Mall Gay
Ladies; Cyril; Pall Mall Passers-by; Rector of St
James; St James Congregation; Church Beadle;
Child; Madame Tirard; Athenaeum Waiter; Jermyn
Street Passers-by; Organ-Grinder; Urchins;
Dolly-Mops; Girl with Hoop; Nursemaids; New
Diogenes Member; Thompson; Diogenes Waiter;
Sleeping Diogenes Member; Clubmen; Diogenes
Porter; Cyril's Children; Sophie's Nyanya; Captain
Edwin Barnaby; Abigail Rodgers; Mrs Rodgers; Billy
Lavendar; George Rodgers; Old Tom; Isabella
Jenks-Robinson ; Ranmore Manservant; Farm-maid;
Farmhands; Rosie; Treasury Clerks; Mr Phillips; Mr
Martins; Foreign Office Official; Granville's
Aides; Diogenes Attendants; Mabel; Maisie; Pall
Mall Blood; Egham Trap Driver; Indian Syce;
Cricketers; Students; Venables; Cissie; Sophie's
Maids; Bruton Street Porter; Coachman; Kendall's
Hotel Policemen; Kendall's Head Porter; Inspector
Grimes; Williams; Holy Cross Doctor; Figgis;
Driffield; Diogenes Members; White Posts
Chambermaids; Guests; Waiter; Emily; Grooms;
Dorking Residents; Tobacconist's Assistant; Mr
Fredericks; Jeannine; Bruton Street Policeman;
Jemima-Anne; Wotner; Mrs Barnaby; Twenty-First
Lancers; Guildford & Bramley Mounted Yeomanry
Band; Chesney's Men; Garden Party Crowds;
Sergeant-of-Gunners; Ragamuffins; Charing Cross
Porters; Railway Attendants; Charing Cross
Passengers; Railway Guard; Bookseller; (Sir
Philip Doughty; Madame Thibault; Kent Policeman;
Countess of Kilgarden; Papal Nuncio; Mr Turner;
Pierre Tirard; Johor Baru Tunku; Prince Sergey
Trubetskoy; Frederick Colton; Princess
Trubetskoy; Princess Katerina Orlov; Prince
Nikolay Orlov; Trubetskoys' Torquay Parlourmaid;
Torquay Physician; Mrs Armitage; Sergeant
Parrish; Mrs Peters; Harry; Jemima Whettam; Liza
Makepeace; Examining Doctors; Boatman; Lizzie;
Kendall's Manager; Kendall's Porter; French
Embassy Men; Annie; William Cornwallis-Herbert;
Sophie's Cook; White Posts Ostlers; Dorking
Policemen; Cousin Seb; Barnaby's Aunt; Barnaby's
Father; Lady Silverdale; Mr Wilkins; Wantage
Sisters; French Ambassador; German Ambassador)
Date: April - June, between 1871 &
1873
Locations: Cross-Channel Ferry; Folkestone;
Trains; Station; Ranmore Hall; Oxford; Balliol
College; The Broad; The Turl; The High; Mitre
Hotel; Paddington Station; Pall Mall; 73a, Pall
Mall; Church of St James, Piccadilly; Jermyn
Street; Kendall's Hotel; Athenaeum Club; Diogenes
Club; Bruton Street; Sophie's Apartment; Rodgers'
Farm; Eldeberry Woods; St Martha's Hill; Silent
Pool; The Treasury; Mycroft's Office; The Foreign
Office; Horse Guards Parade; Egham; Cooper's Hill;
Indian Civil Engineering College; Staines; Holy
Cross Mortuary; Brasenose College; Carlton Club;
Dorking, White Posts Hotel; Box Hill; Ranmore
Common; Tobacconists; Charing Cross Station; The
Strand; Bookshop
Story: Thibault arrives in England with
information for the Government, but not does not
meet his expected contact. Visiting Sherlock in
Oxford, Mycroft is called on by Cabinet Secretary
Swarthmoor to look into Thibault's disappearance,
and finds himself being watched as he returns
home. Thibault's mistress arrives in London, and
Mycroft suggests that she is an agent of the
French Government. He discovers that his shadows
are Russian Princess Sophie Trubetskoy and her man
Cyril, and learns from them that Bismarck's agent,
Guttmann, whom Sophie blames for her sister's
death, is in England.
Abigail finds a dead man in Silent
Pool, near Ranmore Hall, but when the police
search, it has disappeared and she is not
believed, but is given a job at the Hall, where
she comes to the attention of Guttmann. Guttmann
arranges for farmboy Billy Lavendar to be disposed
of. Mycroft and Sophie visit Sir George Chesney
who suggests that the plot may involve the defence
of Dorking Gap, a major strategic location in the
event of an invasion of Britain.
After identifying Thibault's body,
pulled from the Thames, Sophie plans to accompany
Mme Tirard to France but she disappears, while
Mycroft attempts to send Sherlock to Dorking, but
instead receives advice on the importance of
European railways to his investigation. With
limited time to prove his theory to his superiors,
Mycroft and Cyril travel to Dorking, where he
learns that a German marching band is arriving to
play at a fete at Ranmore Hall. When Mycroft is
captured and imprisoned in a well, Sophie enlists
Chesney and Captain Barnaby to aid in his rescue.
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The
Monstrous Regiment (1990)
Story Type: Extra-canonical Adventure of
Mycroft Holmes
Canonical Characters: Mycroft Holmes; Mrs
Turner; Sherlock Holmes; (Squire Trevor;
Victor Trevor; Professor Moriarty; (Sergeant)
Tobias Gregson)
Historical Figures: Januarius Aloysius
McGahan; George Leybourne; Viscount Cross; George
Pleydell Bancroft; Marie Bancroft; (Otto von
Bismarck; Napoleon III; Sultan of Turkey; Tsar
Alexander II; Prince Milan of Serbia; Queen
Victoria; Kaiser Wilhelm I; Joseph Joachim; The
Bancrofts; Lord Derby; Benjamin Disraeli;
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy; Count Pyotr Shuvalov;
Lord Odo Russell)
Other Characters: National
Gallery Attendant; Protestors; Divan Customers;
Waiters; Cigar Girl; Carl Philipp Emmanuel
Guttmann / Pastor Gustav-August von Holz / Parson
August; Prostitutes; Amelia; Clergyman; Bishop;
Sir James Swarthmoor; Junior Treasury Clerks;
Treasury Porter; Sightseers; Lamplighter; Olympia
Manager; Box-office Attendant; Foyer Attendant;
Couple in Box; Olympia Audience; Dancers;
Bandmaster; Orchestra; Jenny Miller; Stage-hands;
Stage Manager; Performers; Cyril Prettyman; Young
Man; Buckingham Row Pub Clientele; Growler Driver;
Swarthmoor's Attendants; Euston Porters; Ticket
Inspector; Vicar of Wetwood; Emily; Euston Guard;
Rugby Porters; Passengers; Station Attendant;
Paper Boy; Lamp Attendant; Undertaker; Mourners;
Chief Inspector Quilt; Sir Ralph Dearing;
Coachman; Vanderlys Gatekeeper; Florrie; Kitchen
Servants; Mrs Arbuthnot; Lady Sowerby; Footmen;
Brown; Maisie; Cab-Driver; Prince of Wales
Attendants; Theatre Audience; Cloakroom Maids;
Programme Sellers; Hansom Driver; Brewer's Dray
Driver; Millichip; St Thomas's Matron; Dr Feldman;
Porters; Patients; Nurses; Chaplain; Rosalie
Mottram; Nurse Redfern; Westminster Bridge
Prostitute; Mr Partick; Cooper; Brancaster
Station-Master; Old Tom; Scolt Head Islanders; Mrs
Rigg; Old Seaman; Japhet; Growler Driver; St
James's Rector; Diogenes Members; Diogenes
Waiters; Little Girl & Mother; Workman;
Cabbie; Wareham Lampman; Major Edwin Barnaby; Mr
Lewis; Arabella Hornby; Henrietta-Louise Hornby;
Whitlock; Fräulein von Holz-zu-Birkensee; Colonel
Sir Rinaldo Hornby; Mr Crashaw; Lady Hornby;
Hornby's Servants; Groom; Worth Matravers
Villagers; Sexton; Maddy Orchard / Abigail
Rodgers; Watts; Hawkins; Hodgson; Jesse; Princess
Sophie Trubetskoy / Claudine Lebrun; Parson
Sabine; Guttmann's Men; Submarine Crewman;
Yeoman-Warder; Guardsmen; Sergeant; Execution
Spectators; Surgeon-Major; Subaltern; Orderly;
Private Ferris; Senior Officer; Men in Overcoats
and Top Hats; Warders; Clergyman; Dustmen; (Turkish
Officer;
Sophie's Contacts; Serving Girl; Chief Inspector
Grimes; Louis Ponsonby; Lord Dewsbury;
Dewsbury's Maid; Florence Boardman; Rear-Admiral
Sir Fitzroy Parkinson; Lady Dewsbury; Emily
Richards; Mr Wellbody; Gilbert Nuttall; Evelyn
Rookworthy; Lord Cormorant; Warwickshire Police
Officers; Mr Turner; Albert Correy; Sir Philip
Doughty; Miss Stansfield; Paper Boy's Mother;
Susan; Ellen Brown; Mr Hetherington; Cicely;
Annie; Rosie; Pastor Schumacher; Ludwig Rotwang;
Signor Viviani; Madame Viviani; Amy; Mrs
Burnside; Jim; 'Melia; Telegraph Boy; Bishop;
Mrs Sabine; Mrs Withershanks; Bishop's
Secretary; Princess Orlov; Baron von Schwering)
Date: Mid or Late 1870s
Locations: National Gallery; Margaret's
Street; The James Street Divan; James Street;
Haymarket; 73a Pall Mall; The Treasury; Horse
Guards Parade; St James's Park; Olympia Theatre;
Victoria Street; Emmanuel Hospital; Swarthmoor's
Office; Euston Station; Train; Rugby Junction;
Vanderlys Hall; Carlton Club; Prince of Wales's
Theatre; St Thomas's Hospital; The Embankment;
Westminster Bridge; Margaret Street; Wellbody's
Office; Train; Norfolk; Brancaster Staithe; Pub;
Scolt Head Island; Prior's Fairing; The Dish of
Lampreys; Fairing Manor; East Barsham; Liverpool
Street Station; St James's Church, Piccadilly;
Jermyn Street; Diogenes Club; 10, Downing Street;
Dorset; Wareham Station; Corfe; Isle of Purbeck;
Seacombe House; Worth Matravers; St Nicholas'
Church; The Winspit; Tower of London
Story: Mycroft tells reporter McGahan
about Guttmann's machinations in the Balkans.
Returning home he receives an invitation to see
Cyril perform at the Olympia Theatre. Swarthmoor
reminds Mycroft of the death of Ponsonby, after
sealed Admiralty orders were stolen from his care,
and tells him of a similar incident leading to the
death of Lord Derby's private secretary. Mycroft
is sent to Vanderlys to investigate, taking Cyril
as his valet, but delays the visit after
spotting Guttmann at the theatre.
On the
train, he begins to suspect that a domestic staff
agency may be at the root of the matter. On
arriving in Warwickshire, he learns that an arrest
has been made, but sets about proving that the
girl accused is innocent. His life is endangered
in an infectious diseases ward, and he visits the
staff agency. He is lured to an island on the
Norfolk coast where he finds Sherlock, who has
been drugged and brought there by Moriarty,
waiting for him. The plot leads them to Dorset,
where Mycroft believes another despatch is to be
intercepted. He discovers that Barnaby and
Princess Sophie have been sent ahead of him, and
both the papers and the Princess disappear.
Guttmann makes an unexpected mistake, but his
associate has a rendezvous at the Tower of London.
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The
Hampstead Poisonings (1995)
Story Type: Extra-canonical Adventure of
Mycroft Holmes
Canonical Characters: Mycroft Holmes;
Sherlock Holmes; Billy; Mrs. Turner; Mrs. Hudson;
Dr. Watson
Historical Figures: Edward Marshall Hall;
Ethel Marshall Hall; Sir William Vernon Harcourt;
Sir William Gordon Cumming; Forrest Fulton; Sir
Allen Young; Louisa, Duchess of Manchester; Lord
Hartington; Edward VII; Duchess of Devonshire;
Princess Alexandra; Sir Richard Webster; (Lt.
John Chard; Lt. Gonville Bromhead; General
Hamilton-Browne; Surgeon-Major Reynolds; Sir
Henry Clifford; Sir Henry Ponsonby; Sir William
Gull)
Other Characters: Mycroft's Driver;
Princess's Porter; Nanny; Princess's Footman;
Princess Sophie Trubetskoy; Cyril; Jeannine;
Princess's Maid; Princess's Groom; Ragged
Children; Gaoler; Prison Clerks; Cecily Bradfield;
Prisoners; Prison Visitors; Wardresses; Hilda;
General Bradfield; Prison Matron; Diana Tuttle;
Turnkeys; Colonel Edwin Barnaby; Lady Dolly
Murray; Lord Adolphus Murray; Murray's Pageboy;
Boaters; Lakeside Spa Members; Aggie; Josiah
Hartz; Augustine Bullfinger; Dr. Moldwyn Pugh; Sir
James Swarthmoor; Swarthmoor's Three Companions;
Cock Tavern Waiter; Diogenes Club Attendant;
George; Diogenes Club Porter & Staff; Austen;
Maisie; Ragged Children; Jarvey; Hampstead Women;
Two Girls; Milly; Miss Bickleigh; Hampstead
Policeman; PC Hawkshawe; Men in Hollybush Place;
Roberts; Policemen; Police Inspector; Dr. John
Bickleigh; Chief Inspector Wilmot; Hampstead Desk
Sergeant; Prisoners; Milkman; Milkman's
Assistants; Postman; Hampstead Maids; Baker's Boy;
Brown; Constable; Mrs. Turner's Boy; Sir Frederick
Colton; Burns; Clerks; Porters; Scrubbing Women;
Finnegan's Waiters; Carl Philip Emmanuel Guttmann;
Guttman's Cabman; Veronica; Mycroft's Cab Driver;
Liverpool Street Crowds; Porters; Duke of
Streltsau; Colonel Valentine Blake; Mrs. Blake;
Assistant Stationmaster; Lord Ranelagh; Lord
Lingard; Lady Lingard; Regimental String Band;
Stationmaster; G.E.R. Director; Railway Attendant;
Colonel-Major Baron von Goeben; Train Guard;
Sandringham Estate Men; Ghillie; Footmen;
Hall-porters; Page; Palliser; Sandringham Guests;
Footmen; Maids; Mycroft's Valet; Bessie Martin;
Sir Napier Soames; Lady Lechslade; Helen Gurney;
French Tutor; Smedley & Ditchling's Office
Boy; Smedley; Mr. Justice Muckleburn; Jury;
Archibald Russell; James Cathcart QC; Wardresses;
Court Usher; Villiers Manyon; Clerk of the Court;
Courtroom Crowds; Mr. Hillmore; Couple with Small
Dog; (Captain Septimus Athelney Meadowthorpe;
Helena Meadowthorpe; Parthenope Manyon; Two
Ruffians; Mordecai Stote; Mr. Dykes-Robinson;
Mrs. Bickleigh; Annie Gibbs; Flett; Murray's
Maids; Cab Driver; Streltsau's Gun Loader)
Date: 1890 or later
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Mycroft's
Hansom; Portman Square; Bruton Street; Princess's
Mansion; Millbank Prison; Hampstead; Kenwood
House; Haverstock Hill; Baker's Row; Church Row;
Graveyard; Marshall Hall's Home;Bryanston Street;
Bullfinger's Growler (Oxford Street); Whitehall;
The Cock Tavern; The Diogenes Club; Somerset
House; The Home Office; Pall Mall; Mycroft's
Rooms; Corner of South End Road and Downshire
Hill; Downshire Hill; Bickleigh's House; Hollybush
Place; The Assembly Room; Hampstead Police
Station; Hollybush Lane; Minerva Court; Horse
Guard's Parade; Marshall Hall's Office, Fountain
Court; Chancery Lane; Serle Street; Lincoln's Inn
Fields; Finnegan's Dining Rooms, Clement's Lane;
The Embankment; New Bond Street; Piccadilly;
Liverpool Street Station; The Royal Train;
Norfolk; Sandringham House; Smedley &
Ditchling's Offices; Squire's Mount; Number Three
Court; St. James's Park; (Italy; Florence;
Hampstead Heath; Bickleigh's House; Isandlwana;
Rorke's Drift)
Story: Mycroft is present when Marshall
Hall consults Holmes over a case he is defending.
Diana Tuttle has been accused of poisoning her
employer and lover, Meadowthorpe. Holmes is
engaged in the Lauriston Gardens affair, so
Mycroft decides to take on the case. He enlists
Princess Sophie to visit Tuttle in jail and learn
more about the events of the night of
Meadowthorpe's death. They also learn more of
Manyon, whose daughter was Meadowthorpe's fiancée,
and who was at the doctor's house on the night of
his death, who has property dealings in the
Hampstead area. Mycroft's investigations suggest
that Manyon has links with the Prince of Wales's
baccarat playing crowd.
Mycroft
is warned off the case by his superiors, and
reasons that Tuttle's solicitors are doing all in
their power with the co-operation of the prison
authorities not to have their client hanged as he
previously thought, but to prevent the trial, or
at least the evidence, ever coming to court. On a
second visit to Hampstead, Mycroft learns that one
of the principal witnesses in the case has been
found drowned, and finds himself under arrest.
Meanwhile, Sherlock suggests the case may be
designed to draw Mycroft's attention away from
other matters. Eventually Mycroft becomes aware of
the presence of his old adversary Guttmann.
He is
invited by Princess Alexandra to spend a week at
Sandringham House, where he encounters a cockatoo,
also named Mycroft, and the Prince of Wales, and
where another man is shot in mistake for him. The
successful conclusion of the affair depends on
Mycroft and Marshall Hall's courtroom defense of
Tuttle, and Sherlock's knowledge of typewriters.
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H.A. Phillips
"Shylock Bones, M.A." (1926)
Included in: The Black and Red,
Number 51, December, 1926
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Shylock
Bones
Other Characters: Paul Muschmann
Unnamed Characters: The Council
Locations: Canada; School;
Tuck-Shop
Story: Shylock Bones, a master at a
leading school investigates the disappearance of a
whistle, while disguised as a motor mower and a P.T.
instructor.
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Eden Phillpotts
"Peters, Detective" (1954)
Included in: Ellery Queen's Mystery
Magazine, April 1954
Story Type: Homage
Sherlockian Detectives: Vincent
Peters & Maydew
Other Characters: Gideon;
Westcliffe; Fowle; Doctor Dunstan; Mathers; James;
Bray; Pratt; Matron; Mrs Peters; (Johnson
Major; Peters' Father; Peters' Godfather; Bray's
Brother; Pratt's Father; Peters' Uncle)
Locations: Merivale School
Story: A new boy, Vincent Peters,
arrives at Merivale school, and says that he intends
to be a detective when he grows up. He carries a
picture of Holmes, and is learning to play the
violin. Halfway through his second term, his pet
guinea pig is murdered. He believes that a rival
guinea pig owner must be innocent, because he so
obviously appears to be guilty. A message with a
half-sovereign to buy another guinea pig appears in
his desk. A missing pencil sharpener eventually
leads Peters to the solution.
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