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, whose
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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 guest
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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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