Brad Uhlenhake
"The Lost
Claus" (1966)
Included in: Pulse (St Joseph's College,
Rensellaer, Indiana), December 1966
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Sir Sherlock Webgot
& Viet Fongheiser
Folkloric Characters: Santa Claus; Mrs
(Cleta) Claus
Historical Figures: John Kriegel; John
Cozzens
Other Characters: Mongies; (Kris
Kriegel)
Date: November-December 1966
Locations: USA; Indiana; Rensellaer; St
Joseph's Chapel; Xavier; Webgot's Office; Electric
Shop
Story: Sir Sherlock has just solved a case
of stolen books when he is visited by Santa Claus,
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Simon Kurt Unsworth
"A Country Death" (2011)
Included in: Gaslight
Arcanum (J.R. Campbell & Charles
Prepolec)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Holmes's Housekeeper (Mrs Roundhay); (Dr
Watson)
Other Characters: Inspector W. M.
Brabbins; Constable Swann; Morgue Attendants;
Rivers; (Bernadette Murray)
Date: During the First World War
Locations: Sussex; Holmes's Cottage;
Morgue
Story: Brabbins is summoned to
investigate the death of Holmes. His body has been
found in his study, swollen and covered in small
black marks, by his housekeeper, Mrs Roundhay. After
attending the autopsy on the body, he returns to the
cottage to find that another death has occurred,
that of the local constable who appears to have
found something of interest in Holmes's papers.
Under siege in the cottage, Brabbins reads Holmes's
notes on the experiment he has been carrying out.
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"The Five Symbols" (2022)
Included in: Gaslight Ghouls
(J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Extra-canonical adventure of
Inspector Lestrade
Canonical Characters: Inspector Lestrade;
Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Baker Street
Irregular
Fictional
Characters: (Dr Julia Ogden; William
Murdoch)
Historical Figures: (Jack the Ripper;
George Chapman; Thomas Bond; Richard Dadd)
Other Characters: Constable Neary;
Coaldust; Benoit Twoknuckles; (Lambeth
Strangler)
Unnamed Characters: Wharf Rat;
Police Officers; Porters; Street Urchins; Street
Vendor; Food Hawkers; Police Driver; (German
Bloke; Irish Blokes; Coroner)
Date: April 2 - May 1912
Locations: Borough Market Dock; Ginnel;
Police Gym; Southwark; Scotland Yard; Hyde
Park; Kensington; 221B, Baker Street; Bedlam;
Primrose Hill
Story: Lestrade is examining the corpse of a
street boy, nails hammered into his eye sockets
during a lunar eclipse, when Holmes and Watson
arrive. Over the next few weeks more dead boys turn
up, with disfigurations to the ears and nose,
followed by a girl with a mutilated tongue. Holmes
confesses that he is unable to find the pattern in
the murders, but urges Lestrade to seek it out.
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"The Hand-Delivered Letter" (2009)
Included in: Gaslight
Grotesque (J.R. Campbell & Charles
Prepolec)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche narrated
by Moriarty
Canonical Characters: Professor Moriarty;
Dr. Watson; (Sherlock Holmes; Mrs Hudson)
Other Characters: Farmer; Farmer's Wife;
Scientist; Wharfman; Moriarty's Men; (Scientists)
Date: May, 1891 - ?
Locations: Switzerland; Reichenbach Falls;
Farm; Scientist's Garret; Warehouse Laboratory;
Watson's House
Story: In a letter to Holmes,
Moriarty describes how he survived Reichenbach, and
travelled, gleaning information from the scientists
he visited, until he discovers the secret of
reanimating the dead. He tells Holmes of Watson's
fate, and what he has in store for Holmes and the
other occupants of 221B.
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David Upton
The Lost Holmes (2003)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Inspector Lestrade
Other Characters: Sir Brandon Ashforth;
Cabman; Mrs. Painter; Swindon Station Crowds;
Ogbourn Porter; Marlborough Station-master;
Marlborough Passengers; Sumner; Fenton Ashforth;
Ellen Ashforth; Joseph Ashforth; Joshua Ternan;
Castle & Ball Landlord; Henry Blofield;
Elizabeth Maitland; Sellars; Adams; Vicar; ;
Villagers; Grave-diggers; Jack; Inspector Bentley;
(Ettie Ashforth; Kingsley Dawes; Christina
Ashforth; Sir Brandon's Sister; John Dawes;
Train Passengers; Cab Driver; Marlborough Police
Officer; Mr. Jenkinson; Ashforth's Boy; Mr.
Free; The Rt. Hon. Hugo Charteris; Ashforth's
Cook; Sir Brandon's Doctor; Footpad)
Date: The first week of November, 1895
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Fulham;
John Dawes' Rooms; Paddington Station; Trains;
Swindon Station; Chiseldon Station; Ogbourn
Station; Marlborough Station; Oakwood Halt; The
Mere, Oakwood, Wiltshire; Marlborough Police
Station; The Castle and Ball Hotel; Blofield's
Butchers Shop; St. Botolph's Church, Oakwood;
Sellars' Cottage; Savernake Forest; Free's Shop;
Marlborough High Street; Elllen Ashforth's
Carriage; (A Train; Burdrop Park;
Kirkwhelpington, Northumberland)
Story: Sir Brandon consults Holmes: He
believes that he is going to be murdered by John
Dawe, a man whom he has forbidden from marrying
his daughter, Ellen because he is the son of the
man who seduced his first wife, Ettie. A scarab
has been stolen from his private museum, and a
poem left in its place, and he has been shot at in
his library. Two days later, Watson reads that
Ashforth has been murdered on the 9.55 from
Swindon to Marlborough, and Lestrade is in charge
of the investigation. Holmes interviews Dawes's
landlady and examines his rooms which have twice
been broken into. They travel, on the train taken
by Sir Brandon, to his home in Wiltshire to
interview his family. He learns that Sir Brandon's
pride in his appearance had declined rapidly three
years previously, but that Dawe is unusually
fastidious over his, and that all the family, the
butler, and Ternan, a fellow collector of
antiquities had motive and opportunity for the
murder. Holmes quickly reaches a conclusion
regarding the murderer, but must set about finding
proof.
Dawe is
arrested by Lestrade, but by the time he is
released appears to be suffering from some form of
insanity, and after his return to the Ashforth's
house he is found dead. Holmes himself is
attacked, and another death takes place in the
house. A trip to Northumberland, and Watson's
interview with a furniture dealer and observation
of another kind of deal lead to a solution to the
crime, but further events include another attack
and the discovery of a blood-stained dress. Holmes
gathers the principals together, and they listen
to Lestrade's theories before the murderer is
revealed.
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Sherlock Holmes's Christmas (2005)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Colonel James Moriarty; Inspector Lestrade;
Professor Moriarty; (Mrs Hudson; John Clay;
Colonel Moran; Swiss Boy; Parker; Von Herder;
Ronald Adair)
Other Characters: Major Reculver Yates;
Porson; Henry St John Bosco; Randal Norton; Carolyn
Norton; Celia Montague; Grafton Montague;
Waiting-Maid; William Clunies-Ross; Rosalind
Clunies-Ross; Heatherdene's Butler; Sir Seton
Heatherdene; Edward Urie; Sam Parkin; Theodore
Bargus; Crown & Cushion Waitress; Chestnut
Vendor; Skaters; Windsor Guard; St George's Choir;
Maid; Yates's Cook; Carol-Singers; Police Doctor;
Police Officers; Children; Townsfolk; Priest;
Inspector Atkins; Common Loafer; Police Officers;
Israel 'Porky' Sless - The Camden Ripper; (John
Ayto; Constable; Lady Heatherdene; Montague's
Father)
Date: 20th - 29th, 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train;
Slough Station; Eton; Pocock's Lane; Tilstone Court;
Jourdelays; Eton High Street; The Crown &
Cushion; Windsor; Windsor Castle; The Horseshoe
Cloister; The Curfew Tower; St George's Chapel;
Police Station
Story: Holmes is consulted by Major Yates
whose secretary, Ayto, has been murdered. He is
concerned that Lestrade will arrest an innocent man,
his paying house-guest, Norton, for the murder.
Lestrade had received a telegram from the murdered
man saying that he had information regarding a
number of unsolved crimes. A perusal of Yates's
entry in Holmes's index yields some very familiar
details. He and Watson travel to Yates's home in
Eton, where after questioning the guests and staff,
Watson thinks he recognises a figure he sees in the
dark. Later an attack is made upon Holmes, and much
strange behaviour on the part of Yates, his guests
and staff is observed before another murder takes
place. On Christmas Eve the "ghost" of Moriarty
appears at a window of the house and Holmes comes to
the realisation that one of his minions is among the
members of the household. Eventually discovering
Moriarty's hiding place, Holmes uses an old trick to
ascertain if he is still using it. Meanwhile more
evidence builds up against Norton, and another
murder occurs, this time in a locked room. Holmes
departs for London, but promises to unveil the
murderer the following evening and gathers together
all those involved in order to do so. A surprise
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Allen Upward
"The Adventure of the Stolen
Doormat" (1900)
Included in: I Believe in
Sherlock Holmes (Douglas G. Greene); Sherlock
Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I:
1900-1904 (Bill Peschel); A Bedside Book
of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches
(Charles Press)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
(H-lm-s / Mr H----s); Dr Watson (Dr W-----)
Other Characters: Ebenezer Lobb; Susan;
Police Constable; Johnson; (Aunt Penelope;
Gipsies)
Locations: Camberwell; Camberwell Grove;
The Dovecote
Story: When his india-rubber doormat is
stolen, Lobb summons Mr H----s to Camberwell to
investigate. H----s and his inept assistant Dr
W----- begin their investigation, while the local
constable pursues his own suspects.
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A. B. Urquhart
"Sherlock
Holmes
at Gleneagles" (1921)
Included in: The Perthshire Advertiser, 18
May 1921: and on this site
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; (Inspector Gregory)
Other Characters: (Lord Excess
Profits; Caddie; Gregory's Wife's Cousin;
Knock-out Craggs; Professor of Golf; Whitecraigs
Golf Professional; Man from China; Central
African Potentate; Auchterarder Maiden)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Gleaneagles
Story: Holmes tell Watson about his
attempt to learn to play golf in a week and his
match against Inspector Gregory at Gleneagles.
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Nicholas Utechin
"The
Adventure of the Highgate Financier" (2015)
Included in: The MX Book of
New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part IV: 2016 Annual
(David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Tobias Gregson; (Mycroft
Holmes; Boy in Buttons)
Historical Figures: (Karl
Marx)
Other Characters: Jocelyn
Derwent; Police Constables; Mitchelson; Thornton
Derwent; Basil Chalmers; Nigel Thorpe; (Viscount;
Cabinet Ministers; Mrs Chaldecott; Jocelyn's
University Friend; Amy; Scotland Yard
Detectives; Jocelyn's Mother; Undertaker;
Doctor; Barts Regius Professor)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Baker
Street; Highgate; Derwent's House; Highgate Hill;
Highgate Station; Highgate Cemetery
Story: Holmes is consulted by Jocelyn
Derwent, son of a city financier who was found
dead in his bath, seemingly of natural causes.
He and Watson accompany Derwent to Highgate, where
Gregson is in charge of the investigation.
NOTE: Mitchelson is named after
Utechin's Sherlockian writing partner, Austin
Mitchelson.
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"The Adventure of the
Purple Poet" (2016)
Included in: The
MX
Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part V:
Christmas Adventures (David Marcum); An Investees'
Anthology (David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; (Mrs Hudson)
Historical Figures: (Percy Bysshe
Shelley; Thomas Jefferson Hogg; Dr George Rowley)
Other Characters: Reginald Macan; Dr
Rowley; Professor Teasdale; Wilson; Kerr; Seton; Dix
Unnamed Characters: College Porter;
Oxford Shoppers; College Stewards (College
Servants)
Date: December 24
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Baker Street;
Paddington Station; Oxford; University College
Story: Holmes wakes Watson on Christmas Eve
and announces that they are going to Oxford. They
meet Holmes's friend Macan who tells them the the
statue of Shelley at University College has had its
head painted purple. A peek into the colleges liquor
cabinet leads to an answer.
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