Rajnar Vajra
"An I for an I" (2001)
Included in: Absolute Magnitude Science
Fiction, Summer 2001
Story Type: Science Fiction Homage
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Professor Moriarty; Dr Watson
Other Characters: Clarence Mason; Stave
Gleason; Enoch Penn; Sponder Hailey; (Rootcraft
Crew; Dr Paul Carter; Stan Terenski)
Date: The Future
Locations: New Florida; Prison; Rootship;
Reichenbach Falls; 221B, Baker Street
Story:The virtuallawyer Clarence Mason
(named after Clarence Darrow and Perry Mason) is
assigned to defend Stave Gleason. Gleason
has been accused of the murder of one of the crew of
his free-agent collection ship, Enoch Penn, a man he
claims never existed, and no body was found on the
ship. Believing Gleason's story, Mason reprograms
himself as Sherlock Holmes to investigate, and
decides that he needs to venture beyond his Grid to
interview Gleason's Rootship, but come face to face
with a virtual Moriarty.
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Mark Valentine
"The Adventure of the Green Skull"
(2008)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes: The Game's Afoot (David Stuart
Davies); The
Improbable
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (John Joseph
Adams)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Mrs Hudson
Other Characters: Mr Reynolds; Victor; Dr
Hawkins; Blind Match-Seller; Lady of the Skull; (Josiah
Walvis;
Watchman; Street Boy; Bow Match-Works
Proprietor; Constable; Walvis's Friends; Thomas
Mostyn; Mostyn's Maid; Raffles / Raphael; Lady's
Mother & Father; Nursemaid; Mr Shardlow)
Date: Beginning of November, 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; East India
Wharf; Lamb & Flag Public House; 4, Pavia
Court; Bun Shop; Blyth Street; Lyphan & Bray
Match-Works
Story: Walvis, a supervisor at the Lyphant
& Bray match-works, falls to his death on the
East India Wharf, and is found clutching a spent
match. Witnesses claim to have seen the man being
pursued by a phantom with a green skull face.
Lestrade consults Holmes, but his investigations
come to nothing, until he is consulted by Reynolds
over the death of his employer, Mostyn, also found
with a spent match in his hand, and a look of
horror on his face. Reynolds reveals that Mostyn
had received an envelope earlier, containing ten
matches, and his boot-boy claims to have seen
Death in the garden. The search for the killer
leads to revelations about the working conditions
in the match factories.
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Mark Valentine &
John Howard
"Jerusalem Keep" (2008)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes: The Game's Afoot (David Stuart
Davies)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Baker Street Irregulars
Historical Figures: (Richard
the Lionheart)
Other Characters: Mr Arncote; Alexandra
Urishay; Peter Urishay; Journalists;
Scene-Sketchers; Sergeants-at-Arms; Hearing Crowd;
Counsel for the Plaintiff; Mr Portwin; ; Heralds;
Lord Fremlingham; Garter Principal King of Arms;
Clarenceux King of Arms; Bearers; Edward Malligo;
Colonel Henry de Vere; Parochial Law Expert; (The
Earl
Marshall; Tom Urishay)
Date: Summer - Autumn
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The
Uxbridge Road; Middlesex; Hertfordshire; Lyonne's
Lodge; Inn; Jerusalem Keep; Godliman Street; The
College of Arms; The Great Hall
Story: When her brother inherits
Jerusalem Keep from their uncle Tom, Alexandra
Urishay embroiders various items, including a flag,
with the design of a shield she has discovered in
the building. A litigious neighbour, Malligo, has
charged them with unlawfully displaying a coat of
arms when they are not an armigerous family. Holmes
travels to Jerusalem Keep, where he becomes
interested in Uncle Tom's research into the area's
connections with Richard the Lionheart, and examines
the family relics, before discovering the secret of
a lion-headed staff. He reveals his findings at the
College of Heralds hearing.
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Cay Van Ash
Ten Years Beyond Baker Street
(1984)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Dr. Petrie
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock
Holmes; The Venomous Lizard, or Gila; (Harold
Stackhurst; Constable Anderson)
Fictional Characters: Dr. Petrie; Sir
Denis Nayland-Smith; Karamaneh; Inspector
Weymouth; Café de l'Egypte Waiter; Ki Ming; M.
Samarkan; Chalmers Cleeve; Zarmi; Li King Su; Fu
Manchu; Peko
Historical Figures: (Edmund Backhouse;
Li Lien Yi; Adelina Patti; Edward VIII)
Other Characters: CID officers; Members of
the London Neurological Society; Speakers;
Waiters; Smith's Attackers; Porter; Coalman; Car
Mechanics; Lewes Police Inspector; Lewes Police
officers; Plainclothes CID Man; Firemen; Ambulance
Men; John Courtney; Jacob Morley; Postman;
Inspector Owen Beynon; Sir Julian Rossiter; Rhys;
Howell; Sergeant Lloyd; Mrs. Howell; Lady Elinor
Rossiter; Gwennie; St. John's Ambulance Men;
Plumber; PC Edwards; Korean; Diners; Ledger Clerk;
Waiter; PC Jones; Clara Jones; Pentrefdu ladies;
Shopkeeper; Mine Gatekeeper; Three Feathers
Clientele; Innkeeper; Wang Lo; Ali; Ivor Thomas;
Dan Fuller; Cliff Langley; Zarmi's Men; Waiter;
Taxi Driver; Samuel Wade; Mrs. Wade; Fong;
Assistant Librarian; Superintendent Gribbler;
Sergeant Hughes; Constable Alun Meredith; Waiter;
Paul Garman; Meredith's Sister; Mr. Jenkins;
Mongol Guards; Gribbler's Men; Swansea Librarian;
Cenarth Fishermen; Pembrokeshire Housewife; Glyn
Idris Constable; Glyn Idris Constable's Wife; Glyn
Idris Women; Constable Parry; Mrs. Parry; Dai
Evans; Professor T. Morgan Davies; Chao Hsing;
Dacoits; Hotel Desk Clerk; Iowerth Williams; Wyn
Crumlin; Ddraig Goch Clientele; Ddraig Goch
Landlord; Philip Randall; Landlord's Wife;
Randall's Sister; Lifeboat Coxswain; PC
Lynchcombe; Page Boy; Mr. Lennard; Nurse; Trevor
Bennett; Mr. Gwynn; Mrs. Gwynn; Lobster Hunters;
Megan Bennett; Dr. Hans Reinhardt; Fishermen;
Children; Rector of Rhossili & Llangenydd;
Sikh Scout; Ahmad; Rhossili Villagers; Tall
Kidnapper; Old Hag; Scoutmaster; Welsh Irregulars
Date: Friday, February 13th, 1914 - April
1st, 1914
Locations: Smith & Petrie's Apartment
off Fleet Street; The Embankment; New Scotland
Yard; The Strand; The New Louvre Hotel; A Vauxhall
Tourer; Holmes's Sussex Villa; Uckfield; A Hotel;
Fleet Street; A Garage; Fulworth; Lewes; Lewes
Police Station; A Taxi (Marylebone Road);
Paddington Station; A Train (The Severn Tunnel;
Monmouth); Wales; Cardiff; Cardiff Station;
Rossiter's Rolls Royce; Rossiter's House; Merthyr
Tydfil; A Hotel; Pentrefdu; Jones's Cottage;
General Store; The Three Feathers; A Ford Truck;
Nant Gareth Mine; A Cardiff Hotel; A Taxi; Heol
Ysguborfawr; 23, Heol Ysguborfawr; Cardiff Public
Library; Swansea; The Gower Peninsula; A Hotel A
Continental Standard Tourer; Bethesda Farm; Carrag
Cerren; Morgan Le Fay's Castle; Capel Gwynfe;
Meredith's Cottage; Fu Manchu's Cottage; Swansea
{Police Headquarters; Carmarthen; Cenarth;
Pembrokeshire; Glyn Idris, Pembrokeshire; Glyn
Idris Constable's Cottage; Glyn Idris,
Cardiganshire; Parry's Cottage; Ty Glas; Davies'
House; Aberystwyth; Three Cliffs Bay; Swansea
Station; Craig-y-nos Castle; Ystradgynlais;
Brynamman; Sarn-y-Rhednwyddwr; Ddraig Goch Inn;
Port Eynon; Swansea Hospital; Clyne Common;
Rhossili; Coastguard Station; Boarding House;
Middleton; Bennett's House; The Rector's House;
Zarmi's Cottage; The Worm
Story: Petrie arrives home to find
Nayland-Smith missing, Weymouth says he's visiting
his brother in Devon, but his brother went down
with the Titanic two years before. While
Petrie was away Smith & Weymouth have had
dealings with the waiter from the Café de l'Egypte
who has seen the supposedly imprisoned Ki Ming and
supposedly dead Samarkan meeting together. At a
medical gathering Petrie encounters Watson and
seeks his aid in enlisting Holmes to rescue Smith
from the Si Fan. Petrie travels down to Sussex,
and brings Holmes back to London to examine
Smith's flat. Holmes deduces the presence of
Karamaneh at Smith's kidnapping. Believing he has
done all he can, they return to Sussex, where an
attack on Holmes's villa, leaves Holmes's
manservant horribly dead. They return to London,
where news of a pillar-box fire suggests the fate
of Smith's missing letter to Petrie, which later
turns up, redelivered even though fire-damaged. A
clue in it sends Holmes & Petrie to Wales to
investigate the death of industrialist Sir Julian
Rossiter. Petrie believes that the attack in
Sussex was the work of Ki Ming, not Fu Manchu, and
that this is evidence of a break in the ranks of
the Si Fan.
On arriving in Wales they learn that
Rossiter ran from his room in terror and fell down
the stairs, and his feet were covered in
criss-cross cuts. After Holmes realises the cause
of his death he also realises that the danger is
still present in the house. A night time vigil
results in the death of one of Fu Manchu's
creatures, although its handler escapes. Holmes
leaves Petrie and travels back to London, while
Petrie goes to Pentrefdu to observe Rossiter's
coalmine. While there appears to be nothing
suspicious in the mine itself, Petrie encounters
Zarmi, the Eurasian, in the village inn. Holmes
returns disguised as a mines inspector, and they
learn that Rossiter was planning on re-opening a
nearby abandoned pit, and when they investigate
find it to be a Si Fan storehouse.
From a coalship's captain they learn
how Smith was smuggled out of London and travel to
Swansea to investigate. There they hear of the
theft of two sheep from an isolated farm, which
later turned up dead as if they had been dropped
from a great height. The local constable was
attacked by a Chinaman while investigating reports
of a fire in the woods. They travel to the village
to investigate, but make little headway. They
receive a call telling them that Smith's wallet
has been found, but as they travel to investigate
they are waylaid and taken before Fu Manchu.
Karamaneh is present and signals Smith to warn
"Davies of Glyn Idris". When they finally track
him down they discover he is a professor of
Chinese literature and is able to tell them
something of the Si Fan's history and goals, and
his theories on Fu Manchu's background. Holmes
& Petrie are drugged and the professor
murdered - his face a rictus of agony and covered
in blotches, blood running from his ears - along
with his two Siamese cats. Holmes is unable to
discover the murder device and the dacoit murderer
flees, killing the professor's servant who is able
to write a message in Chinese before he dies. They
spend the night besieged by dacoits while Holmes
works to translate the message.
A phone call informs them that a man
has been killed in the same manner as the sheep.
They travel to Sarn-y-Rhednwyddwr where the man
was snatched by a great bird from a causeway
across a marsh. They identify the next victim,
Randall, a mathematician, but are unable to
prevent him, too, from being carried away. Zarmi's
van is spotted and they are able to narrow down
their search to the south side of the Gower
Peninsula. Randall turns up unharmed, but unable
to remember the three days he was away, and a dead
dacoit with his hands cut off sends Holmes and
Petrie out onto the Peninsula where they finally
learn the truth about the "worm" referred to in
Smith's letter. Holmes returns to London and a
German doctor takes his room in their boarding
house. He makes regular trips onto the Worms Head,
a string of islands linked by a causeway only
accessible at low tide, where a party of boy
scouts are camping. Petrie folllows one of the
scouts to an isolated beach where he again
encounters Zarmi. She says that she will help him
free Smith, but when he goes to their rendezvous
he is captured by Ali and transported out to the
worm on Wang Lo's kite, where he is finally
reunited with Smith. It is left to Holmes, in one
of his greatest impersonations, to free the two of
them, destroy Fu Manchu's latest device of
destruction and prevent the assassination of the
Prince of Wales.
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Van Clupper
"Sherlock Holmes Again" (1894)
Included in: The Western Mail, 7 November
1894; and on this
site
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Historical Figures: Arthur Conan
Doyle
Other Characters: Van Clupper; Welsh Head
Constable; Detectives; (Police Chief; Welsh
Member of Parliament)
Locations: Wales; Club-room; Police Station
Story: Van Clupper recognises Holmes at his
club, and Holmes explains why Doyle decided to kill
him off, and how he survived. He tells how the
police had rejected his services in a jewel robbery
case some years previously, and how he has since
gotten his revenge.
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J. Brooks Van Dyke
No Ordinary Terror (2004)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Mycroft
Holmes; Baker Street Irregulars; Sherlock Holmes;
(Mrs Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade;
Tobias Gregson; Colonel Moran)
Historical Figures: (Emmeline
Pankhurst; Auguste Rodin)
Other Characters: Dr Nigel
Thornton; Professor Henry Davies; Students;
German; Mary Palmer; William Palmer; Ida Palmer;
Richard Watson; Emma Watson; Constable; Evelyn
Moxely; Inspector Albert Swayne; Dr Gregory; Mrs
MacIntosh; Thora Mansfield; Reverend Geoffrey
Halsey; Cab Drivers; Chief Detective Inspector
Gordon Lestrade; Duty Officer Beatty; Officer
Muldowney; St Pancras Constables; Conductors;
Passengers; Waiters; Milos Krajic; Herr
Muellershon; Herr Hess; August Porter / Mr
Symonds; Train Constable; Henry; Porters; Dogcart
Driver; Angus Thompson; Mrs Thompson; Celia
Norris; Constable Graves; Dr Hazeltine; Carol
Herbert; Greta Hoeksma; Mr Haas; Mrs Haas; Gunther
Haas; Hildegaard Einbecker; Mr & Mrs
Einbecker; Thompson's Nephew; Cart Driver;
Strathairn Constables; Exeter Street Workmen;
Thornton's Maid; Mrs Thornton; Charles Steele;
Trevor Clark; Elizabeth Thornton; Burton Howell;
Cab Drivers; Haas's Neighbour; Herr Krauss;
Watson's Patients; Jutta Schmidt Gregory; Miners;
Lucas Griffin; Fiona Rhys; Constable Miller;
Constable Stratton; Davies' Landlady; Scotland
Yard Clerk; Lad Assistant; Simon; Nannies &
Babies; Lambeth Urchins; Lizzie Broom; Petey
Broom; Mrs Broom; Taddy; Ollie; Dr Beecham;
Rundell's Clerk; Mr Rundell; Constable Harry
Coyle; Dr Mull; Rhys's Footman; Bramwell Rhys;
Glyn Rhys; Rhys's Butler; Helen McMannus; Alby;
George Pratt; Evan; Thadd; Kynan; Miners' Wives;
Cock & Bull Owner; Pit Number Twenty;
Painters; Werner; Tram Conductor; Scotland Yard
Lab Assistant; Dr Hugh Crane; Segeant Hanes;
Mycroft's Men; Mrs Clifford; Paddington
Stationmaster; Hansom Drivers; Lloyd; North
Cambria Neighbours; Bart's Sister; Patients;
Scotland Yard Desk Sergeant; Clark's Footman;
Valet; Colonel Rainer Schmidt; Dray Driver; (Simon;
Reggie; Officer Plant; Director Wallace; Haas;
Mrs Townsend; Mr Walters; Thompson's Brother;
Margaret Griffin; Davies' Parents; Mr Campbell;
James Davies; Chancellor McWilliams; Ian
Mansfield; Gertie; William Griffin; Edgar
Griffin; Dr Thomas; Arthwyr Vaughn; Clive
Farleigh; Telegraph Operator; Dr Hoeltzer;
Clark's Butler)
Locations: University of London; Beeton
Park; The Palmer House; Davies' Rooms; Queen
Street; Elephant & Castle; Metropolitan
Tabernacle; Victoria Station; St Pancras Station;
Scotland Yard; Trains; Scotland; Strathairn;
Bart's; Dalnabridge; Exeter Street; Thornton's
House; Haas's Apartment Building; Warden Street;
Wales; Blaenllyn; Davies' Rooms; Victoria
Embankment; Lambeth; Mycroft's Rooms; Rundell's
Toy Shoppe; The Rhys Mansion; The Watson
Residence; Crown & Lion Pub; Cock & Bull
Pub; Paddington Station; 313, North Cambria; Clark
Greens
Story: Davies evades a pursuing German,
and arrives at his fiancee, Mary's house, where
the Watson's are guests. He tells Dr Watson's son,
Richard, that Thornton, his boss, and some Germans
are after his new discovery as a way to administer
poison through the skin. Thornton is killed and
Davies is the chief suspect. Mary goes to the
Watsons for help. Davies goes into hiding in
Scotland. Mycroft advises Lestrade's son to drop
the case, and of the involvement of the Satanic
Nachtgeist organisation. Emma, Watson's daughter,
investigates the murder in London, and the linked
cases of a woman and child admitted to Bart's.
Richard goes after Henry and, pursued by the
Germans, they flee to Wales. On his return to
London, Richard sets the Irregulars to watch their
suspects. The Germans track Davies to Wales, and
Emma is tailed around London. Richard uncovers
details of Nachtgeist's plans. Mary is abducted.
As the stakes become higher, Holmes briefly joins
the fray.
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Richard Van Lier
"Final Enigma" (1950)
Included in: The Penman
(Washington-Lee High School), Winter 1950
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock
Holmes; Dr. Watson; Inspector Lestrade
Folkloric Characters:
(King Arthur)
Other Characters: James Andrew
Bluntworthy; Clive; Morris; Mag Potter; Peebles; (Lord
Chopwick;
Edna Bluntworthy; Stedford)
Unnamed Characters: Lestrade's Bobbies;
Antique Dealer
Date: 4 February, 189-
Locations: 221B, Baker Street;
Limehouse
Story: Holmes is visited by the
explorer Bluntworthy. Nine years earlier, in Africa,
he and his partner Stedford had discovered a new
species of beetle. Bluntworthy fled Africa and changed
his name after Stedworthy was murdered, but since a
return visit the previous year, a number of attempts
have been made on his life. Later, Lestrade brings
news that Bluntworthy has been murdered in Limehouse.
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Alan Vanneman
Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat
of Sumatra (2002)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Billy; Inspector Lestrade; Mrs Hudson; The
Giant Rat of Sumatra; (Mary Morstan; Professor
Moriarty; Sebastian Moran; Mycroft Holmes)
Historical Figures: Lord Cromer; (Dr
David Livingstone; Cheng-Ho)
Other Characters: Elizabeth
Trent; Hoskins; Watson's Dinner Companions;
Sergeant Hall; Mrs Keeps; Mary O'Hara; Cabmen;
Sergeant Smith; Starkey; Southern Star Sailors;
Captain Manning; Gibraltar Military Guard; Monkey
Seller; Beggarly Arab; Porters; Wu Si; Captain
MacDougall; Prophet Crew; Ship's
Carpenter; Chinese Cook; Cabin Boy; Archibald
Beamish; Morris; Simpson; Emily Saunderson; Sir
Roger Ainsby-Gore; Sir Roger's Dinner Guests;
Captain Saunderson; Dr Bouvier; Major Thomas;
Stebbins; El-Kavil; Intrepid Lieutenant; Intrepid
Sailors; British Officers; Courtesans;
Mistress of the House; Black Prince Ensign;
Black Prince Officers; Sir Harry Speers;
Aziz; Temple Girl; Low Caste Man; Young Priest;
Temple Boy; Monks; Old Man; Older Priest; Temple
Guide; Chinese Broker; Singapore Dock Crowd; Lord
Barington; Soldiers; Molo; Government House
Subaltern; Sir Warren Clayborne; Claiborne's
Lackey; Rickshaw Drivers; Chinatown Residents; Wu
Shih; Arthur Craven; Widow Han; Soo Ling; Widow
Han's Servants; Ming Pao; Barber; Widow Han's
Office Boy; Widow Han's Clerk; Madame Rainier;
Widow Han's Women Friends; Mr & Mrs Amspray;
Mr & Miss Botts; Mr & Mrs Winifred-Owen;
Mr & Mrs Sampson; British Officer; Lieutenant
Dinwiddie; Hunters; Ramajan Mukerjee; Deirdre;
Watson's Boy Servant; Lieutenant; Junk Captain; Dulcinea
Crew; Monkey Boys; Harat; Junk Captain &
Crew; Telegraph Office Clerk; Ensign Smithson;
Marines; Wrathful Crewman; Admiral;
Cromer's Private Secretary; Worthington's Servant;
Lord Archie Worthington; Worthington's Guests; Mrs
O'Hara; (Raleigh Trent; Inspector Howard Maul;
Dr Thomas Matthews; Sir Henry Givens; Stafford;
Li Wu; Clayborne's Footmen; Minister for
Colonial Affairs; Threatening Man; Rooming House
Men; Mary de Guize; Henri de Guize; Fionna
O'Boyle; Fionna's Nurse; Count Modred; Modred's
Minions; Woodcutters; Charcoal Burner; Fionna's
Daughter; McCardey; Cates; Duke of Leicester;
Levant Shipping Clerk; Chief Inspector
Sam Hall; Two Young Gallants; Henri de Coueur;
Chianganagahouk; Lord Ramsbottom; Diego Mendoza;
Hernando Mendoza; Luis Mendoza; German
Ambassador; Captain Jones; Frigate Captains;
Admiral Watkins; Sir Edward Havisham; Indian
Trader; Indomitable's Executive Officer; Mr
Masetto; Singapore Merchants; Enderby &
Cross Clerks; Capitan General of the
Philippines; Widow Han's Maid; Captain Lin;
Captain Tang; Captain Wu; Captain Liu; Captain
Shan; Captain Soong; Brennan; Monsieur Compte;
Meng-Wu; German Archaeologists)
Date: 24th January- ?, after EMPT
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Watson's
Club; Mrs Keeps's Rooming House; Harcourt Street;
Archer & Company's Office; Farnsworth Docks;
The Southern Star; Ship to Tangier;
Gibraltar; Morocco; Tangier; The Prophet;
Egypt; Alexandria; British Consulate; India; Diu;
Hotel; House of Assignation; Aboard the Black
Prince; Mahabalipuram; Aziz's Corral;
Abandoned Temple; Temple of Shiva; Calcutta;
Burma; Rangoon; Singapore; Government House;
Chinatown; Craven's Office; The Widow Han's;
Chinese Dock; Mukerjee's Gin Shop; Harbour; Aboard
the Dulcinea; The Sunda Strait;
Tanjungpinang; Aboard the Heliotrope;
Madras; Aboard the Wrathful; Aberdeen;
Worthington's London Townhouse
Story: Watson receives a letter from
Mary's cousin Elizabeth in Singapore, telling him
of her husband's suicide. Holmes shows an unusual
interest, and when Elizabeth visits Baker Street
she asks him to investigate her husband's death.
His company has tried to dissuade her from
investigating it, and accused her husband of
embezzlement. Holmes attitude is peremptory, but
early the following morning they learn that
Elizabeth has killed herself. Holmes proves to
Lestrade that it was, in fact, murder. He resolves
to sail for Singapore. Watson is sent a romantic
novel manuscript to read. Holmes tells Watson of
links between Barington, Governor of Singapore,
and Moriarty. He also tells him that there was an
animal in Elizabeth's room on the night she died.
While searching the ship on which Elizabeth sailed
from Singapore Holmes is bitten by a large animal.
He arranges with the Foreign Office that his cover
in Singapore will be an investigation of the theft
of a thousand rifles from an army transport ship.
Watson find's himself in the arms of the would-be
novelist.
The first leg of their journey takes
them to Tangier, stopping at Gibraltar where
Holmes examines a barbary ape's teeth. In Tangier
they join the Prophet, aboard which Watson
is to serve as ship's doctor, under its Islamic
African captain, MacDougall. From evidence in a
trunk left by Elizabeth, Holmes deduces that her
husband's company are involved in the slave trade.
In Trent's notebooks Holmes reads of a race of
three foot tall, tailed cannibal creatures, the
"monkey boys", said to have originated in Sumatra,
and still to exist in the back alleys of
Singapore. One of the ship's crewmen is found to
be carrying a picture of Holmes, who apparently
has a price on his head. In Alexandria,
Ainsby-Gore, Barington's cousin is murdered.
Holmes is summoned back to England, leaving Watson
to travel on alone, but not before a romantic
fling with an army officer's wife. MacDougall
tells Watson of Harat, a giant rat creature,
leader of the monkey boys, and when they stop in
India, Watson's room is entered by a giant rat. In
Mahabalipuram he visits a temple where he learns
more about the creatures, and takes away a box
containing the corpse of one of the monkey men.
Holmes rejoins the ship, and finds a golden scroll
in the globe held by the corpse. MacDougall tells
him of an island destroyed by "The Dance of
Shiva", an explosive device used by Harat.
They are met by Barington on arrival
in Singapore, and visit Craven, Elizabeth's
solicitor, who offers them durian - an offer they
decline - and sends them to stay with the Widow
Han. Holmes becomes suspicious of Barington's
habit of wearing rouge, and becomes romantically
involved with the Widow. He and Watson are
arrested and given a week to leave the island.
Watson finally gives in to the durian. Barington
announces that the rifles have been recovered.
Holmes and Watson re-encounter MacDougall and sail
with him in search of a ship that Holmes believes
bears their quarry, on the way their crew are
murdered. When their boat is shelled, they find
themselves prisoners aboard a ship full of giant
rats, come face to face with Harat, and witness
the power of the Dance of Shiva.
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Sherlock
Holmes
and the Hapsburg Tiara (2004)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Inspector
Lestrade; Sherlock Holmes; The Baker Street
Irregulars; Mrs. Hudson; Baker Street Page (Tobias
Gregson;
Mycroft Holmes)
Historical Figures: Winston Churchill;
Cecil Rhodes; Frank Rhodes; Colonel Elmhirst
Rhodes; Lady Jennie Churchill; George
Cornwallis-West; Margot Tennant Asquith; Herbert
Henry Asquith; Lord Grey; David Lloyd George;
Fritz Kreisler; (Lord Camden; Charles Metcalf;
Lewis Mitchell; Dr. Jameson; Barney Barnato)
Other Characters: Lestrade's Hansom
Driver; Train Driver; Sergeant Madden; Jensen;
Rhodes' Servants; Sarah; Mr. Huperman; Jennie;
Jenkins; Betty Marbles; Dolly Marigold; Dolly's
Footmen; Helen; Paddington Attendant; Southend
Four-Wheeler Driver; Southend Constable; Daisy;
Patricia; Eunice Marbles; Molesworth's Waiter;
Brougham Driver; Gerald; Lord St. John; The Duke
of Ascot; Sir Samuel Jenkins; François Lestrange;
Madame la Comtesse D'Espinau; Orient Express
Passengers; Gentlemen's Lounge Waiter; Orient
Express Conducteur; Waiters; M. Brilleton;
Jacques; Michel Rabin; Bagagistes; Countess's
Maids; Samuel Patterson; Major Harold Soames; Pera
Palace Attendant; Coachman; Madame Vincent's
Doorman; Madame Vincent's Girls; Madame Vincent;
Madame Vincent's Manservants; Boatmen; Aristides
Adanopholos; Adanopholos' Men; Kariye Priest; Pera
Palace Servants; Hagia Sophia Turks; Countess's
Guests; Countess's Servant; Maurice; Adanopholos'
Wife & Daughter; The Latrobes; Sir Samuel's
Bodyguards; Orient Express Contrôleur; Hauptmann
Gerhard Schwartz; Archduke Josef Anton Salvator;
Archduke's Servants; Rogers; Galenians Members;
Café Waiter; Diplomatic Courier; Embassy Official
(Rome); Villa Sentry; Princess Lucia; Princess's
Servants; Princess's Companions; Young Man; HMS
Quarrelsome Captain; Ensign; Grand Duke of
Carinthia; False Archduke; Venice Officials;
Carabiniere; Guard Commander; (Sir Robert
Johnson; Colonel Kensington; Lord Catsworth;
Dickie Emmons; Freddie Madden-Bonsbright;
Archduke's Valet; Jonathan; Villager; Blair
Atholl Station Master; Jonas White; Mrs. White;
Gwladys Soames; Nellie; Copper; Harrison's
Driver; Princess Esterhazy; Jenkins' Assistant;
Adanopholos' Wife & Daughter; Lord Adcock;
Ari; M. Compte; Dr. MacLaurin; Horatio Thompson;
Lord Millworth)
Date: 1900 - 1908
Locations: A London Street; Lestrade's
Hansom; A Railway Siding; A Train; Blair Atholl;
Loch Rannoch; Glasgow; 221B, Baker Street; Charing
Cross Hospital; Bond Street; Huperman & Co.
Offices; A Hansom; The Park; Dolly Marigold's;
Paddington Station; Southend-on-Sea; A Public
House ; Molesworth's Restaurant; A Hotel Room; A
Brougham; 19, Bromley Street; The Galenians Club;
Drury Lane Theatre; The Orient Express (France;
Paris; Germany; Augsburg; Austria; Hungary);
Turkey; Constantinople; Siereki Station; A
Coach-and-Four; The Pera Palace; A Carriage;
Madame Vincent's; A Boat on the Golden Horn;
Galata; Kariye; The Hagia Sophia; Countess's
Villa; A Turkish Train; Turkish Station; Sir
Samuel's Carriage; Calais; Railway Station; Hotel;
Paris; Gare de l'Est; Café; Italy; Rome; A Villa;
A Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost; Santa Marinella; A
Warehouse on the Docks; A Steam Launch; HMS
Quarrelsome; The Enchantress; Venice; A Concert
House
Story: Holmes and Watson find themselves
aboard a train bound for an unknown destination,
only to be confronted at journey's end by
Churchill. Churchill tells them of an encounter
with an old friend, Josef, archduke-palatine of
Austria, at which he realised that the man he was
looking at was an impostor. The man and his
servants have since disappeared. Cecil Rhodes, at
whose house the events have occurred, warns Holmes
and Watson off the case.
After
returning to London, Holmes learns of the death of
an employee of a vault & safe manufacturing
company. He believes it is connected to the events
in Scotland. He sets the Baker Street Irregulars
to track down the duke and the impostor. A visit
to a brothel leads Holmes and Watson to Southend
where they receive a taunting letter.
After
Rhodes' death Holmes begins searching, on behalf
of De Beers and Rhodes' brothers, for the Great
Blue Diamond, the theft of which, he believes, was
behind the events at Loch Rannoch. His
investigations take him to Paris, but Churchill
instigates measures to prevent him travelling
further afield for several years. Learning that
the diamond has been cut up, and is in
Constantinople, Holmes and Watson journey there
aboard the Orient Express. The former Irregular,
Jennie, stows away aboard to journey with them.
They find themselves investigating a murder aboard
the train, and Watson is seduced by a suspected
murderess. In Constantinople, Holmes discovers
that the safety of a diamond smuggler's family
depends on him, and the jewels still have to be
returned to England while all parties involved are
eager to get their hands on them.
Having
failed in his mission, Holmes returns to England,
and two years later Churchill sets him on the
trail of the jewels and the murderers once again,
prevent a royal marriage, steal a tiara, and avert
a possible war in Europe.
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Ralph E. Vaughan
"The Adventure of the Ancient Gods"
(1990)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Fictional Characters: Cthulhu
Historical Figures: H.P. Lovecraft;
Lillian Clark
Other Characters: Martin Philips; Copley
Desk Clerk; Carter Randolph; Swarthy Man; Man At
Station; Enoch Bowen; The Starry Wisdom Sect;
Pinkertons Agents; Starry Wisdom Guard; Arkham
Police
Date: July 18th, 1927
Locations: Boston; Copley Plaza Hotel;
Railway Station; Train; Arkham; Randolph's House;
Providence, Rhode Island; 10, Barnes Street; A
Train; A Taxi; Philips's House; A Car; A Beach
Story: Philips visits Holmes in Boston to
ask him to look for his cousin Randolph, an
academic studying ancient gods, who has
disappeared. As he leaves Holmes's hotel he is
followed, ánd a similar, though different, man is
at the station when they leave. When they arrive
in Arkham, they discover that Randolph's house has
been ransacked, and a strong fishy smell is
present. They are able to locate the files that
the searchers missed however, from a clue left in
a volume of Poe. The files contain correspondence
from H.P. Lovecraft and they travel to Providence
to find him. He tells them of the Starry Wisdom
Sect, and its leader Enoch Bowen. Back in Arkham,
Holmes hires Pinkertons agents to capture the man
following them, but when the man dies in an escape
attempt they realise he wasn't entirely human.
They journey out to the headquarters of the sect,
where they must save Randolph from being used in a
ritual to raise Cthulhu. Two years later, Philips
receives a letter from Holmes saying that he is
venturing into the other world.
NOTE: The character Carter
Randolph derives his name from the central
character in H.P. Lovecraft's "The Statement of
Randolph Carter".
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"The Adventure of the Counterfeit
Martian" (2013)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The Coils of
Time & Other Stories (Ralph E. Vaughan)
Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Colonel Sebastian Moran
Fictional Characters: Martians; (Captain
Phillip
Strange)
Historical Figures: Ernest Willows
Date: 1905
Locations: Canning Town; Inside a Martian
Tripod; East India Docks; Martian Temple; Aboard an
Airship
Story: In Canning Town, Holmes and Watson
observe the flying machines that have recently begun
appearing as part of the Martians weaponry in their
invasion of Earth. The Martians current activity
seems centred on the East India Docks. Holmes
commandeers a tripod to investigate further, but is
captured by the Martians and finds himself
confronting an old adversary. |
"The Adventure of the Dreaming
Detective" (1992)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in the
Dreaming Detective (Ralph Vaughan)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Professor Moriarty
Fictional Characters: Kaman-Thah; Nasht;
Zoogs; Nyarlathotep
Historical Figures: Albert Einstein;
Nikola Tesla; Ian Fleming (Commander Flemming);
Chuck Yeager; Adolf Hitler; (Intrepid (Sir
William Stephenson); H.P.Lovecraft)
Other Characters: New Yorker Desk Clerk;
Hotel Detective; Elevator Operator; Army Doctor;
Agent Garvin; Nurses; Heinrich Grantz / Wilhelm
Reisen; Tesla's Technicians; Pentagon Technician;
Schwartzmier; Blatz; Nir Residents; Peasant Woman;
Ulthar Crowds; Captain Scrylt; Hooded Shopkeeper;
Kraken's Egg Patrons; Old Sailor; Red-turbanned
Men; Robed Creatures; Seljan; Toadlike Creatures;
Guards; Hitler's Aide
Date: January 2-3 & 7, 1943 / July 3,
1899 / September 16, 1928
Locations: New York; Hotel New Yorker;
Airfield; Colorado Springs; Washington D.C.;
Virginia; Arlington; The Pentagon; The Dreamlands;
The Cavern of Flame; The Gate of Deeper Slumber;
The Enchanted Wood; Nir; Ulthar; Scrylt's Boat on
thr River Skai; Dzan-Dur; The Kraken's Egg Inn;
Nazi Airship; Stone City; Germany; Berlin; Kadath
Story: Einstein summons the dying Tesla
from New York to assist Holmes who is in a
cryogenic dream chamber in Washington D.C. Tesla
recalls his first meeting with Holmes in Colorado.
Holmes asked him to keep watch on one of his
assistants, in reality a wanted murderer, Reisen.
In 1943 word has arrived that Reisen has joined
forces with Moriarty. In 1899 Reisen uses Tesla's
experiments to escape into another dimension. In
1928 after his Arkham adventure, Holmes learned
that Moriarty was alive and the power behind the
Cthulhu cult, saved by Reisen from the Dreamlands.
Holmes journeys into the Dreamlands. In 1943 Tesla
journeys into the Dreamlands where it is believed
Holmes is in danger, there he encounters not only
the expected denizens, but also Nazi soldiers, and
eventually finds himself a prisoner on board a
Nazi airship. Imprisoned in a titanic stone city,
he encounters Seljan, a dwarf who works for
Holmes, and sees Moriarty and Reisen, who plan to
destroy the barrier between the worlds, with
Hitler, who has his own dream chambers in Berlin.
Nyarlathotep, the Devourer of Worlds, is summoned
before events reach their conclusion.
NOTES: Commander
Flemming of the Royal Navy, is presumably intended
to be Ian Fleming. Captain Yeager of the Army Air
Corps is presumably Chuck Yeager.
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"The Adventure of the Laughing
Moonbeast" (1992)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in the Dreaming
Detective (Ralph Vaughan)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Fictional Characters: A Moonbeast;
Nyarlathotep
Historical Figures: Nikola Tesla
Other Characters: Dame Elton; Eyes of
Dylath-Leen; Dwarf Guards; Hyranes Bok; Servants;
Cabbie; Solon the Elder
Locations: The Dreamlands; Dylath-Leen; The
Street of the Weaponeers; Bok's House; The Temple of
Set
Story: Holmes and Tesla are asked to
investigate a Moonbeast which laughs in the night.
The beast's owner, the merchant, Bok, tells of a
voyage and the discovery of the Moonbeast. The beast
is strange because it has eyes, while normal
Moonbeast's are blind. Tesla recognises Bok's house
from his dreams. The beast, although supposed to
have no vocal apparatus has been heard laughing, and
Bok believes he has seen a dark figure leaning over
its pen. An encounter with Nyarlathotep reveals the
secret of the Moonbeast and of past lives. |
"The Adventure of the Night Hunter"
(2012)
Included in: The Great
Detective: His Further Adventures (Gary
Lovisi)
Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; (Mrs
Hudson;
Colonel Moran; Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade;
Professor Moriarty)
Fictional Characters: Predator
Alien; Professor Challenger; (Professor Henry
Higgins)
Other Characters: (Home Secretary)
Date: Late 1910s
Locations: The East End; A Sewer
Story: Holmes is on the trail of the
Night Hunter, a savage killer who takes body parts as
trophies. He has told Challenger that he believes the
killer is neither man nor beast, but from another
planet. The two face the predator in the East End. |
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"The Dog Who Loved Sherlock Holmes"
(2013)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The Coils of
Time & Other Stories (Ralph E. Vaughan)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes)
Fictional Characters: Levi; Little
Kitty; Sunny
Other Characters: Bonifacio; Bnifacio's
Companion; Driver
Date: October
Locations: USA; California; Chula Vista;
Fifth Avenue; Levi's House; F Street; Broadway
Story: Relaxing after a case, dog detective
Levi settles down to read Shelock Holmes. His
reading is interrupted by sounds from outside the
house. He and Little Kitty investigate, discovering
a dog who has been in a car crash. Levi sets out to
find the injured animal's companion. |
"An Incident in the Night"
(2013)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The Coils of
Time & Other Stories (Ralph E. Vaughan)
Story Type: Extra-canonical supernatural
adventure of Dr Watson
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson
Other Characters: Lieutenant Moresby; Mr
Larson; Sailors; Captain Perkins; Woman; (Mr
Barthorpe)
Date: 1880
Locations: Aboard HMS Orontes
Story: Watson awakes from a dream aboard the
Orontes. Out on deck he meets Moresby, a
young cavalry officer, wounded at Maiwand. They spot
a red light in the distance, pacing the ship.
Attempts to warn it off fail, and as it approaches
events occur which Watson will remember for the rest
of his life. |
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"Lestrade and the Lost
River Pirates" (2013)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The Coils of
Time & Other Stories (Ralph E. Vaughan)
Story Type: Extra-canonical adventure of
Inspector Lestrade
Canonical Characters: Inspector Lestrade; (Sherlock
Holmes)
Fictional Characters: (Martin
Hewitt)
Other Characters: Detective Sergeant Jacket;
Newsboy; Eliza Cookwell; Commander Bryson; (Superintendent;
Tyburn
Merchant Bank Night-Guard; Daily Chronicle Editor)
Locations: Scotland Yard; The Embankment;
Lower Westbourne Court; Gabriel Jewelers; A Police
Launch on the Thames
Story: Despite the Superintendent's
suggestion, Lestrade decides not to consult Holmes
over a series of burglaries. Sergeant Jacket has
noticed that the burglaries take place at tmes of
bad weather, and suspects that there will be another
that night. On the way to investigate one of the
earlier crime scenes, they hear news of a sea
serpent sighted in the Thames. The papers aso
contain a letter about "the men who make noises
under the ground". A visit to the letter-writer, and
a reference to one of the lost rivers of London,
puts Lestrade on the trail of the criminals. |
"The Long-Suffering
Landlady" (2013)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The Coils of
Time & Other Stories (Ralph E. Vaughan)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Mrs Hudson; Sherlock
Holmes; Baker Street Irregulars; Inspector Lestrade;
Professor Moriarty; (Dr Watson; Watson's Bull
Pup)
Fictional Characters: (Cthulhu)
Other Characters: Police Constable
Dickerson; Young Woman Client; Bearded Hansom
Passenger; Postman; (Man in Checked Jacket;
Lord Bentham; Lady Weatherly)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: After hearing a gunshot, Mrs Hudson
emerges from her kitchen to find an injured lascar
on the stairs. This is just one of a constant stream
of incidents in her day-to-day life at 221B. |
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"The Man Who Was Not
Sherlock Holmes" (2013)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The Coils of
Time & Other Stories (Ralph E. Vaughan)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes)
Other Characters: Reginald Sinclair; Tenny;
Eddie; Lady Cynthia Smythe-Lambert; Gregor Kasavian;
Scotland Yard Detectives; Constable Barnes; George
Pogues; Edward Rollin Stark; (Mr Craven; Earl
of Danforth)
Date: 1954
Locations: The Olde Cheshire Cheese; Wine
Office Court; Fleet Street; Soho; Kasavian's House;
Waterloo Bridge; Sinclair's House
Story: After his TV series Sherlock
Holmes of Baker Street is cancelled, Sinclair
goes on a pub crawl and wakes up on the floor of the
Cheddar Cheese. When he is run into in the street by
Lady Cynthia's Austin Princess, he finds himself
accompanying her to pay off a blackmailer, and then
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Sherlock Holmes & the Coils of
Time (2005)
(Reprinted in a revised and expanded
format in Sherlock Holmes: The Coils of
Time & Other Stories)
Story Type: Fantasy Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Inspector Lestrade; Dr Watson; Colonel Moran; Mrs
Hudson; Baker Street Irregulars; Tobias Gregson; (Ronald
Adair;
Professor Moriarty; Von Herder; Parker; Mycroft
Holmes)
Fictional Characters: The Time Traveller
(Moesen Maddoc); Morlocks; The Time Machine; Mrs
Watchett; The Editor; The Medical Man; The
Psychologist; Philby; (Eloi; Marlow; Martin
Hewitt; Sebastian Zambra; Weena)
Historical Figures: H.G. Wells; Charles
Howard Hinton
Other Characters: The Brigadier; William
Dunning; Neptune Customers; Barkeep; Constables; Sir
Reginald Dunning; Inspector Charles Kent; Man in
Black; Dinky Clabber; Jimmy; Royal College Youth; Mr
Dawning; Richmond Ticket Agent; Cart Driver; Peter
Yanoz; Hansom Driver; Frying Pan Alley Woman &
Child; Scotland Yard Officers; Pinkertons Agents;
The Morlocks' Prisoners; The Mother-Thing; The Orb;
Olan Jefferson; Halifax Captain; Watchman;
(Enquiry Agent; Crip)
Date: April, 1894 / AD 802701 / 1954 /
Prehistory / The Distant Future / March 26, 1894
Locations: Richmond-Upon-Thames; Maddoc's
House; Rotherhithe; Albion Yard; Neptune Tavern;
Lower Road; Camden House; Baker Street; 221B, Baker
Street; Bath House; Royal College of Science;
Chelsea; 93, Cheyne Walk; 12, Mornington Terrace;
Waterloo Station; Richmond Station; A Steamer on the
Thames; Pinkertons Office; Charing Cross Station;
Frying Pan Alley; The London Sewers; The Realm of
the Winged Sphinx; Temple; Limehouse; Bridge House
Hotel, Borough High Street
Story: The Time Traveller returns from the
future, but does not tell his guests the truth about
his voyage. In the Neptune Tavern there is talk of
the East End Ghosts: pale figures seen throughout
London, and of the vanishments that seem to
accompany them. After leaving the tavern, William
Dunning is attacked near Southwark Park. After the
capture of Colonel Moran, Holmes receives a visit
from Dunning's brother, Sir Reginald, regarding his
brother's disappearance. During his investigations
he encounters Kent, also investigating the
disappearance. The Irregulars put them on the trail
of the Time Traveller, who is also enquiring after
the victims of the vanishments, and takes them into
the company of Hinton and Wells. When they find the
Time Traveller, they learn the true nature of the
ghosts, already deduced by Holmes, and of the role
of the Morlocks in Earth's near future - a future
that they then set out to change, forced to travel
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Sherlock
Holmes
& the Terror Out Of Time (2002)
Story Type: Fantasy Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Mrs
Hudson; Baker Street Irregulars; (Dr Watson;
Inspector Lestrade; Professor Moriarty; Colonel
Moran; The Moriarty Gang)
Fictional Characters: Professor
Challenger; The Great Old Ones (Orms); (Professor
Maracot; War of the Worlds Martians)
Historical Figures: Aleister Crowley; (Gerald
Festus
Kelly; John T. Rennie)
Other Characters: Denak; Denak's Woman;
Denak's Children; Vaxax; Shar; Shar's Men; Tovane
Warriors; India Jack (John) Neville; Malaysian
Cabin Boy; Blue Mermayde Clientele; Orms; Alfred
Paisley; Inspector Henry Wilkins; Laslo Bronislav;
Jensen; Geoffrey McBane; Lord Cecil Whitecliff;
Hansom Driver; Michael; Growler Driver; Newspaper
Seller; Scotland Yard Bobbies; Scotland Yard
Crowds; Fire-Fighters; Chief Inspector Winston
Durant; Commissionaire; Bank Crowds; Bank
Constables; Bank Guards; Cabman; Bullion Court
Soldiers; Commander Brin; The Lord Admiral;
Geoffrey Giles; Sir Robert Conners; Harkeen;
Pinkerton Agents; Durant's Men; George Dunning;
Sappers; Chemist; Irish Dynamiters; River Police
Constable; Navvy Tender; (South River Elders;
Channel Shell People's Emissary; Shaman;
Tarlington; Tarlington's Wife; Wilbur Paisley;
Nigel Larkins; Lord Kettering; Medical Examiner;
M'tollo; Mr Higgens; Reginald Whitecliff;
Reporter; Thaddeus Dyers; PC Odkin; Eastern
Zephyr First Mate; McBane's East End Operative;
Museum Attendant; Mayfair Antique Dealer;
Barton; Port Officers; Dove Serving Lad)
Date: 2617 BC / After 1894 but before 1902
Locations: South River People's Village;
The Plain; Tomb of the Tovane Warriors; Egypt;
Alexandria Harbour; Aboard a Merchantman; The
Thames; Blackwall Basin; West India Docks; West
India Dock Road; Commercial Road; Limehouse;
Strangers' Home for Asiatics; Blue Mermayde
Tavern; Stepney; Jamaica Street; Oxford Street;
Sidney Lane; Raven Grove Place; Whitechapel; ;
Whitechapel High Road; 221B, Baker Street;
Kensington; Bronislav's House; British Museum;
Montague Place; Soho; Crowley's Flat; Bermondsey;
Rotherhithe; Norway Dock; Whitehall Place;
Scotland Yard; Lothbury Street; Threadneedle
Street; Bank of England; Bullion Court;
Throgmorton Road; Old Broad Street; The Admiralty;
Hammersmith; Hammersmith Bridge; Dove
Coffee-House; Union Road; Abandoned Tannery
Story: Prehistoric villagers shelter in
their huts while Vaxax the orm hunts, having been
denied its sacrifice, but it is itself hunted by
Shar the outcast. Shar finds himself trapped with
the orm.
Sailor Neville arrives in London with a stolen
idol, but is pursued and attacked by slithering
tentacled creatures. At Baker Street, Challenger,
Wilkins and Holmes are arguing over evolutionary
theory, when Neville is delivered, dying, to their
door. Examining the dead man they discover clawmarks
on his body. After sensing the death of Neville,
Bronislav is visited by McBane, a former Moriarty
Gang member, who tells him that Holmes has the idol.
Holmes and Challenger take it to Whitecliff at the
British Museum who identifies it as the Maldivian
god M'tollo. He tells them of a visit from
Bronislav, posing as Crowley, also enquiring after
M'tollo. They call on Crowley to learn more about
Bronislav. In the papers they read of sheep being
attacked by large creatures on the Norway Dock. They
are caught in an explosion at Scotland Yard, and
another at the Bank of England as they attempt to
deposit the idol there. They attend a meeting at the
Admiralty after more attacks by the creatures, and
are lured to Hammersmith Bridge, where they face a
murderous attack and a manifestation. Durant leads a
raid on the Dynamiters' headquarters, where Holmes
and Challenger make a final stand against Bronislav
and the orms.
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Robert Veld
"The
Murder at Mrs Macquarie's Chair" (2017)
Included In: Sherlock
Holmes:
The Australian Casebook (Christopher
Sequeira)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Other Characters: Hotel Porter; Gregory
Murray; Samuel Cross; Emily Cross; Cab
Driver;
Police Constables; Woolloomooloo Onlookers; Norman Kelly
/ Walter Thacker; (English Detective; Henry Cross /
Henry Granger; Vagrants; William Cross; Mrs
Henry Cross; Samuel's Neighbours; William's
Landlord; Ben Hall)
Date: 1890
Locations: Australia; Sydney; Hotel
Metropole; Mrs Macquarie's Chair; Redfern; Turner
Street; Woolloomooloo; Judge Lane; George Street
Police Station
Story: Holmes is consulted by
Detective Murray when the body of Henry Cross is
found at the Sydney landmark, Mrs Macquarie's chair.
His son and daughter-in-law were also attacked by a
masked man on the same night, and his other son is
missing.
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Charles Veley & Anna Elliott
"The Vampire of the Lyceum" (2017)
Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock
Holmes Stories Part VII: Eliminate the Impossible
1880-1891 (David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mary Morstan; Watson's Maid; Inspector
Lestrade
Fictional Characters:
Historical Figures: Bram Stoker; Henry Irving;
(Henry Joseph Loveday; Florence Stoker; Ellen
Terry)
Other Characters: Mrs Jacoby; Carol
Rinehart; (Commissioner Bradford)
Unnamed Characters: Cabman; Police Constables;
Police Photographer; Watson's Patient; Beefsteak Club
Members; Cooks; Waiters; Actresses; Musicians; Bistro
Staff; (Carol's Landlord; Nurse; Cocaine
Suppliers)
Date: 31st October, 1890
Locations: Watson's Paddington Practice; Lyceum
Theatre; 221B, Baker Street; Chelsea; Mrs Jacoby's
Studio
Story: Watson is visited late at night by Bram
Stoker, who has collapsed in his office at the Lyceum
Theatre and woken up to find a vampiric creature
squatting over him, and puncture marks in his neck.
After taking Stoker to Holmes, the three return to the
Lyceum, where they discover that Stoker's office has
been ransacked, and that the body of a young
understudy has been placed in a stage-prop coffin.
Lestrade arrests Stoker, and Holmes and Watson attend
a dinner of the Beefsteak Club,, where Henry Irving's
life is at risk.
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Kristin Vichich
"The Adventure of the Lodger's
Secret" (2002)
Included in: Curious
Incidents (J.R. Campbell & Charles
Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock
Holmes; Mrs. Hudson; (Langdale Pike)
Other Characters: Josiah Handen; Bessie
Handen; Lionel Newark; Red Scarf; Brown Cap; Dr.
Bertram Walden; Hansom Driver; White Street
Unfortunates; Joseph; Lady Evelyn Marscott; Baby
Date: April
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; White
Street; 64, White Street; Hansom Cab
Story: The Handens have taken in a new
lodger, Newark. Since his arrival, a pair of
ruffians have been hanging around, and he has been
receiving long visits from a mysterious man in
black. Recently cries in the night have been heard
from his room. Holmes visits the Handens and
identifies the man in black as a doctor, but
Newark refuses to see him. Hearing of Newark's
imminent departure, and having already deduced the
circumstances of his confinement, and had his
deductions confirmed by Langdale Pike, he and
Watson lie in wait to bring the case to its
conclusion.
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Daniel D. Victor
"The Adventure of the Aspen Papers"
(2015)
Included in: The MX Book of
New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part I: 1881-1889
(David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Baker Street Irregulars;
Tobias Gregson; (Baker Street Page; Mary
Morstan)
Historical Figures: Henry James
Characters Derived from Fictional
Characters: Rosa (Olimpia); Rita
Borden (Tita Bordereau); Olivia Borden (Juliana
Bordereau); Professor Thomas Warren (Narrator of The
Aspern Papers); (Jeremy Aspen (Jeffrey
Aspern); Warren's Manservant (Pasquale))
Other Characters: Hansom Drivers; Police
Officers; (Undertaker)
Date: Late October, 1887
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; London
Bridge; Southwark; The Hollows
Story: Mrs Hudson shows Henry James up to
Holmes's rooms. He is concerned about an
acquaintance, Warren who has disappeared after
taking up rooms in the home of Olivia Borden, an
elderly former paramour of the American poet Jeremy
Aspern. Warren is preparing a biography of Aspen,
and hoping to obtain papers in the possession of
Miss Borden. Holmes and Watson visit the house and
are told that Warren has gone away. The following
day, a Baker Street Irregular brings news of the old
lady's death, and Warren reappears. Holmes deduces
murder.
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"The
Adventure of the Missing Necklace" (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; Mary Morstan; Mycroft
Holmes; Grandmother Vernet)
Characters Derived from Fictional
Characters: James Laws =
M. Loisel; (Matilda Laws = Mathilde Loisel;
George Rimpon = Georges Rampouneau; Mrs Forrest
= Mme Forestier; Jeweller)
Historical Figures: Gustave
Flaubert; Guy de Maupassant
Other Characters: Holmes's Landlady's Son;
Inspector Goforth; Mr Robbins; Constable's
Dimweather's Landlady; Albert Dimweather; (Cabinet
Ministers)
Date: February, 1898 / Summer,
1879 / June, 1879
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; France;
Paris; Cemetery; Calais; Normandy; Étrechat;
Bloomsbury; Montague Street; Russell Square;
Bedford Street; Park Lane; Scotland Yard; Lock
& Co, 6, St James's Street; Dimweather's Rooms
off Tavistock Square
Story: Holmes
complains to Watson about the way Guy de
Maupassant changed the facts of one of his early
cases in his story "The Diamond Necklace".
Holmes travels to France with Mycroft to attend his
grandmother's funeral; among the mourners are
Flaubert and Maupassant. Holmes visits Maupassant in
Normandy, and tells him of a recent case.
Walking through Russell Square, Holmes finds a
derby hat placed over a pile of cat droppings. His
investigations lead him to the discovery of a bag
of jewellery, including an imitation diamond
necklace. An advert in the agony columns brings
him in contacy with James Laws, whose wife,
Matilda, lost the necklace, borrowed from her
friend, Mrs Forrest, while they were attending a
ball in Park Lane. Holmes uses the hat to trace
the culprit.
Wenh Maupassant writes up the story, he leaves out
all mention of Holmes's investigation.
NOTE: This story is a reworking
of "The Diamond Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant.
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"The Adventure of the
Second William Wilson" (2017)
Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock
Holmes Stories Part VII: Eliminate the Impossible
1880-1891 (David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Billy; Inspector Lestrade; (Mrs Hudson)
Fictional Characters: (William Wilson)
Historical Figures: (Edgar Allan Poe)
Other Characters: William Wilson /
Gordon Bleechford
Unnamed Characters: Police Constables; (Wilson's
Mother;
Wilson's Grandparents; Wilson's Landlady)
Date: December, 1882
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Inns of Court;
Bell Yard; Fleet Street; Covent Garden; Wilson's Rooms
Story: Holmes is visited by William Wilson, who
claims to be the son of the man on whom Poe based his
story of the same name. Like his father, he says that
he has recently started seeing, and being followed by
a man who is his doppelgänger. Holmes and
Watson fail to spot anyone following Wilson, but
matters become more serious when their client is
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The
Final Page of Baker Street (2014)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Billy; Mrs Hudson / Holmes's Sussex
Housekeeper; Mrs Watson; Inspector Youghal; Baker
Street Irregulars; Colonel Sebastian Moran; (Bannister;
Lord
Cantlemere; Count Negretto Sylvius; Sam Merton;
The Prime Minister; The Home Secretary; Wiggins;
Tobias Gregson; Parker the Garrotter)
Historical Figures: Daniel D. Victor;
Florence Thornton Chandler; Raymond Chandler; (Cissy
Pascal;
Arthur Herman Gilkes; Maurice Chandler; Grace
Thornton Fitt; Anne Thornton; Ernest Thornton;
Ethel Thornton; Arthur Balfour; Aretas
Akers-Douglas; H.F. Hose; Colonel Robert
Kekewich; Arthur Conan Doyle; Henry 'Teddy'
Hope; Cecil Cowper)
Characters Derived from Fictional
Characters: Terrence Leonard / Paul
Martin (Terrance Regan); Norris; Elaine Sterne
(Eileen Wade); Raphael "Rafe" Sterne (Roger
Stearns Wade); Cora Goring (Linda Loring); Dr
Goring (Dr Loring); Lucius Ward, Lord Steynwood
(General Sternwood); (Carmen (Carmen
Sternwood); Sylvia Leonard (Sylvia Lennox))
Other Characters: Miss Shelvington; Mrs
Wallingham; Mrs Titmus; PC Sam Ruggles; Schulhof;
Dr Vering; Denis Woodbury; Southampton Row Crowd;
Southampton Row Police Constable; Crown &
Eagle Publican; Mayfair Constable; Youghal's
Constables; CID Desk Sergeant; Vering's
Attendants; Enoch Parker; Train Passenger;
Sterne's Guests; Sterne's Hired Butler; Sterne's
Maid; Hired Footman; Hired Servants; Mrs Jenkins;
Stennwood's Chauffeur Steynwood's Footmen;
Steynwood's Butler; Marlow Policemen; Moran's
Companion; Inquest Attendees; Coroner; (Dulwich
College Students; Photographer; Dulwich
Constable; Mrs Meeks; Leonard's Chauffeur;
Drivers; Pedestrians; British Officer; Loyal
North Lancashire Regiment; Boers; Watson's
Patients; Billy's Neighbour; Cora; Ivy; Nancy;
Violet McGee; Sussex Apiarist; Mrs Watson's
Cousin; Inverness Police; Steynwood's Solicitor;
War Office Officer; Medical Records Office
Clerk; Dr James Cuthbert; Jeweller)
Date: 21st Century / 1925 / April, 1903 -
April, 1912
Locations: USA; California; Los Angeles;
Sunset Boulevard; Beverly Hills; UCLA; Charles E.
Young Research Library; 221B, Baker Street;
Dulwich; Dulwich College; Upper Norwood; Auckland
Road; Baker Street; Queen Anne Street; Watson's
House; Langham Hotel; Bloomsbury; Billy's Rooms;
Southampton Row; The Crown and Eagle; Mayfair;
Steynwood's House; Telegraph Office; Victoria
Embankment; Scotland Yard; Paddington Station;
Scotland; Inverness; Hotel; Holborn; Vering's
Clinic; Victoria Station; Waterloo Station;
Buckinghamshire; Bourne End; East Bourne; Marlow;
High Street; Market House; West Street; Idyllic
Vale; Berkshire; Maidenhead; South Africa;
Rooiwal; Sussex; Eastbourne; Fulworth; Holmes's
Cottage
Story: Victor discovers a manuscript
in the Raymond Chandler collection at the UCLA's
Charles E. Young Research Library detailing his
time with Sherlock Holmes.
After
investigating the habits of young Raymond Chandler
at the request of his mother, Holmes ends up
employing him as a page-boy at 221B, and gives him
the name 'Billy'. recognising his budding literary
talents, Watson encourages Billy to write up the
Mazarin Stone case. On Holmes's retirement, Billy
returns to full-time schooling, before travelling in
Europe. On his return to England, he begins work at
the Admiralty, and then as a journalist for the Daily
Express.
In October, 1910, Billy appears at Watson's door
with Terrence Leonard, whom he has rescued after a
drunken altercation with his wife Sylvia left him
lying in the street. After a second encounter,
Leonard (a Boer War veteran) and Billy become
friends. When his wife, daughter of Lord Steynwood,
is murdered, Leonard comes to Watson searching for
Billy, and Watson enlists the aid of Inspector
Youghal, who believes that Leonard was the murderer.
When Youghal takes Billy into custody, Watson calls
Holmes out of retirement.
Holmes's arrival coincides with news from Scotland
of Leonard's death at Loch Ness, and the appearance
of Elaine Sterne who asks Holmes to investigate her
novelist husband's disappearance. Billy attends a
party at the Sternes' house in Marlow, at which
tensions erupt among those present. Holmes and
Watson also receive an invitation to Marlow, and a
warning from an old adversary.
When Billy is at the scene of another death some
months later, Holmes returns to London, and he and
Watson attend the inquest in Marlow. The ensuing
revelations lead to more death, and to Billy's
decision to leave England and return to America.
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The Seventh Bullet (1992)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Wiggins;
Watson's Maid (Polly)
Historical Figures: Daniel D. Victor;
David Graham Phillips; Carolyn Frevert; Fitzhugh
Coyle Goldsborough; Albert Beveridge; Henry
Frevert; William Randolph Hearst; Theodore
Roosevelt; Henry Cabot Lodge; Senator Winthrop
Murray Crane; Senator Joseph W. Bailey; Senator
William J. Stone; Senator Shelby Cullom; Senator
Knute Nelson; Senator Boies Penrose; Colonel John
Jacob Astor; Madeleine Astor; (Admiral Sir
George Tryon; Rear Admiral Sir Hastings Markham;
Anne Stead; William F. Stead)
Other Characters: Mr. Wigmore; Diogenes
Club Porter; Waterloo Workmen; Vicar; Southampton
Porter; Southampton Crowds; New York Crowds; New
York Porter; Rollins; Waldorf Commissionaire; Mr.
Altamont; Millard Pankhurst Buchanan; Bearded Man;
Roosevelt's Maid; Waldorf Bellboy; Shooter;
Policemen; Detective Ryan; Frevert's Maid;
Algernon Lee; Bellevue Nurses; Dr. Milton
Farraday; Mr. Knowland; Capitol Guards; Newton
James; Frank Davis; Princeton Club Porter; Jacob
Jacoby; Policeman; Miles Kennedy; Morristown
Police; Taxi Driver; Buchanan's Butler; Mrs.
Buchanan; Langham Hall Porter; Delivery Boys;
Larder Clientele; Waterloo Ticket Clerk; Waterloo
Taxi Driver; White Star Crowds; Carol Singers; (Dr.
Ira Harris; Turkish Telegraph Clerk; Butcher)
Date: Friday, March 13th - April &
December, 1912
Locations: Watson's Queen Anne Street
Surgery; Holmes's Sussex Villa; The Diogenes Club;
Waterloo Station; Southampton; R.M.S. Majesty;
New York; 119, East Nineteenth Street; The
Waldorf-Astoria; Columbus Circle; The New York
American Building; Central Park; Oyster Bay;
Sagamore Hill; Vincent Place; Twenty-First Street;
Gramercy Park; 112, East Nineteenth Street;
Bellevue Hospital; Washington D.C.; Union Station;
Massachusetts Avenue; Delaware Avenue; Senate
office Building; The Capitol; The Botanic Gardens;
The Spring Grotto; The Princeton Club; New Jersey;
Morristown; Fifth Avenue; Pier 59; The Olympia;
The Langham Hotel; The Royal Larder; Winchester;
The Wite Star Dock, Southampton; (The Levant;
Syria; Tripoli; 221B: Baker Street)
Story: Having written his doctoral
dissertation on David Graham Phillips, Victor
travelled to Princeton to view the Phillips
collection there. In the bottom of one of the
boxes of manuscripts he found an account of
Phillips's assassination, written by Dr. Watson.
A year after the assassination of
Phillips, an old acquaintance of Holmes, his
sister Carolyn Frevert asks Watson to take her to
Holmes in Sussex. There she enlists his aid in
investigating her brother's death, which she
believes was the result of a conspiracy, not the
act of a lone madman. Holmes agrees to visit New
York to investigate, but on learning from Mycroft
that the assassin's sister and her husband are
currently in Europe, he sends Watson on ahead. In
New York Watson investigates Phillips's
background, encountering, among others, William
Randolph Hearst and Theodore Roosevelt. After
obtaining a copy of Goldsborough's diaries, Holmes
arrives in New York and begins his investigation
of the crime scene, interviewing those who knew
Phillips or Goldsborough. At the scene of the
murder, Holmes himself, is shot at. He then
travels to Washington D.C., to interview the
senators attacked by Phillips in his Treason
of the Senate articles. On returning to New
York another of the senators is found dead in his
New Jersey home after contacting Holmes. He is
holding House of the Vampire, the same
book that Goldsborough had been reading at the
time of the assassination. His killer is killed,
but Holmes gains information that sets him on the
trail of the man behind Phillips' murder, and they
travel back to England in pursuit. Their man
escapes, but history seals his fate.
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Bev Vincent
"Bloody
Sunday" (2020)
Included in: The Book of
Extraordinary New Sherlock Holmes Stories
(Maxim Jakubowski)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Simpson;
Baker Street Irregulars; (Professor Moriarty;
Colonel Sebastian Moran)
Historical Figures: (William
O'Brien)
Other Characters: Mrs Mortimer; Mr Straker;
Edward Mortimer; (P.V. Firmin; William Mansell)
Unnamed Characters: Bloody Sunday Crowd;
Mounted Guards; Military Officers; Police Officers;
Hansom Driver; Cab Driver; Lestrade's Constables;
Bank Robbers; Express Messenger; (Newspaperman)
Date: 13th November 1887
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Hyde Park;
Piccadilly Circus; Trafalgar Square; Clapham; 18,
Lark Hall Lane; The Strand; P.V. Firmin & Sons'
Offices
Story: Watson returns from Trafalgar
Square and tells Holmes of his involvement in the
events of Bloody Sunday. Holmes recalls a request for
information on a missing man, Edward Mortimer in the
previous day's agony columns and summons Lestrade,
believing that Moriarty will have carried out a major
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Nik Vincent
"The Case of the Scented Lady" (2017)
Included in: Further
Associates
of Sherlock Holmes (George Mann)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Mrs Hudson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Hudson; Sherlock
Holmes; Dr Watson
Other Characters: (Suffragette; Young
Gentleman; Politician; Politician's Wife; Missing
Industrialist; East Indian Factotum)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: The scent of a lady and a signet ring
found in the ashes of Holmes's fireplace intrigue Mrs
Hudson as she cleans his rooms. On his return he leads
her through the facts of the case. |
Phillip Vine
"The Adventure
of the Missing Master" (2021)
Included in: The Return of
Sherlock Holmes (Maxim Jakubowski)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mary Morstan; Mycroft Holmes; Inspector
Lestrade; Professor Moriarty
Historical
Figures:
(Arthur Conan Doyle; Songtsen Gampo)
Other Characters: (Jennifer
Cross)
Unnamed Characters: Islington Crowds;
Street Vendors; Three Bridges Taxi Driver; Civil
Servants; Train Guard; Diogenes Club Doorman;
Police Chauffeur; Cessna Pilot; Boxer
Date: September 2021
Locations: Islington; Watson's Flat;
Public House; Diogenes Club; London Bridge
Station; Sussex; Three Bridges Station; Forge Wood
Conference Centre; Airfield
Story: A reincarnated Holmes
appears at the Islington flat of the grandson, and
reincarnation of, Dr Watson and his wife, the
reincarnated Mary Morstan. Holmes had been tasked
by Mycroft with finding the missing reincarnation
of the Tibetan king, Songtsen Gampo, but now that
the news of his disappearance has been leaked to
the press, he also has to uncover the traitor
among Mycroft's staff.
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Peter Viney
The Case
of the Dead Batsman (2014)
Story Type: Children's Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson
Historical
Figures:
(Edward VII)
Other Characters: Colonel Abbot; Dr
Lennon; Adrian Fitzroy; Herbert Crane; Mr Jones;
Smith; (Queen of Ruritania; Giles Pendryth;
James Dodds; Juliet Pendryth; Frederick
Truebody; Young Carter; Jack Miller; Lord
Fitzroy)
Unnamed Characters: Abbot's
Housekeeper; Cricketers; (Watson's Patient;
Havelock Policeman; Abbot's Sister; Dodds's
Aunt)
Date: July 1889
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Paddington
Station; A Train; Devon; Exeter; Havelock; Abbot's
House; Cricket Field; Church
Story: Watson visits Holmes at 221B, to
find him working on a case involving the deaths in
Devon of two members of Havelock village cricket
team, both struck in the forehead by a ball during
matches. The two of them travel down to Devon,
where they learn that one of the dead men had
recently been under pressure to sell his farm, and
the other had owned the adjacent farm. Holmes
volunteers Watson to play for the team in their
upcoming match against Baskerton.
NOTE: The Falmoor bowler Frederick
Truebody was probably named after England
cricketer Fred Trueman.
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Stephen Volk
"The Comfort of the Seine" (2011)
Included in: Gaslight
Arcanum (J.R. Campbell & Charles
Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Holmes
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; (Inspector
Lestrade;
Dr Watson)
Fictional Characters: (C.
Auguste Dupin; Adolphe Le Bon; Madame
L'Espanaye)
Historical Figures: Edgar Allan
Poe; (Joseph Walker; Dr Snodgrass; Dr John
Carter; Charles Baudelaire)
Other Characters: Peter Scales; Olaf
Scales; Flower Seller; Labourers; Stall-holders;
Knife-sharpener; Morgue Visitors; Morgue
Attendants; Pallbearers; Griswold; Bobo; (Reynolds)
Locations: Cambridge; Cross-Channel Ferry;
France; Paris; Quai de la Corse; Café Dauphine;
Place Louis-Lépine; Marché aux Fleurs; The Louvre;
Rue Quincampoix; The Paris Morgue; Mouffetard; Rue
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire; Rue Cuvier; The Ménagerie;
Street Café; Saint-Germain; Book Shop; Pont Neuf;
île de la Cité; Rue de la Femme-sans-Tête
Story: On a break from university,
the young Holmes is visiting Paris with the Scales
twins, where he becomes fascinated with a young
flower girl. When she disappears, he discovers her
body in the Paris Morgue, where he also encounters
an old man named Dupin. He follows a trail of clues
from Poe's stories and biography to uncover the
man's true identity. The events leading up to the
girl's death are revealed, and Holmes's life takes a
new path.
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"Father of the Man" (2018)
Included in: Gaslight Gothic
(J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Mrs
Hudson; (Inspector Lestrade; The Gloria
Scott; Dr Watson)
Fictional Characters: (C.
Auguste Dupin)
Historical Figures: Edgar Allan
Poe; Jack the Ripper; (Joseph Walker; Dr
Snodgrass; Mary Ann Nichols; Annie Chapman;
Elizabeth Stride; Catherine Eddowes; Mary Kelly;
George Lusk; Charles Warren)
Other Characters: Le Bon; Ezra P. Dugdale /
Patrick Paul Reynolds; Gravedigger; Hotel Concierge;
Fiacre Driver; Mouton Blanc Landlord; Train
Passengers; Solomon Grotowski; Gendarmes; Hotel
Guest; Postman
(Fabienne Gagnon; Julius Jack Reynolds; Annie
Phelps; Muldoon; American Spiritualist; James
Quaperlake; Nathan Bullhouse; Baltimore Victims;
Marie-Louise Desmet / Cléopâtre; French Criminal)
Date: Soon after Easter, 1878 /
1888
Locations: France; Paris; Rue de la
Femme-sans-Tête; Église Jésus-le-Roi
Cemetery; Hôtel de Laâge; Le Mouton Blanc; Prison;
221B, Baker Street
Story: Poe is investigating the violent
murder of a prostitute in Paris. A Pinkerton's agent
asks Holmes if "Dupin" will investigate the
disappearance of Reynolds, the man whose corpse was
mistaken for Poe's. Poe is buried alive. After they
discover the Pinkerton's true identity and motive, a
further murder takes place, and the killer escapes
justice, only to reappear years later.
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"The First Footers" (2022)
Included in: Gaslight Ghouls
(J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Inspector Lestrade; (Mrs Hudson;
Mrs Watson)
Folkloric Characters: Beelzebub
Other Characters: Dr Arshad Girai; Nusrat Girai; Faiza Girai;
Shameena Girai; Reverend Kirkbright; Fred Vigar;
Timothy Pettitt; Harry Hudgell; Peter Thirkettle; (Basheer
Girai)
Unnamed Characters: Parish
Spinsters; Beehive Patrons; Beehive Publican; First
Footers; Townsfolk; Policemen; Nurses; Peer; (Coroner;
Watson's Friends)
Date: December - January
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Watson's
House; Wiltshire; Compton Lydiard; Swan Hotel; The
Beehive Pub; Hospital
Story: Holmes and Watson are visited by
Maiwand veteran Dr Arshad Girai, a dentist, whose
brother Basheer drowned on the previous New Year's
Eve. He has received an invitation to a rendezvous
at the Beehive from a group calling themselves the
First Footers, whom he believes are responsible for
his brother's death. They travel to Compton Lydiard
in Wiltshire where the village Mummers play leads to
a confrontation in the woods.
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"Hounded" (2009)
Included in: Gaslight
Grotesque (J.R. Campbell & Charles
Prepolec)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche / Canonical
Re-imagining
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; The Hound
of the Baskervilles; Inspector Lestrade; (Sherlock
Holmes; Mary Morstan)
Other Characters: Daniel Hebron; Mrs
Sharman; Mr Bythesea; Monty Coventry; Em Coventry;
Daphne Hebron; Coachman; King's Lynn Coroner; Mrs
Race; Butcher Boy; Collier; Lamp-Lighter; Dr
Stanley; St Thomas's Doctors; St Thomas Victims;
Mortuary Attendants; Innes Court; Nurses; Dr
Clifford Royce-Mills; Innes Court Patients; (Holmes's
Nurses; Met Officers; Holmes's Canadian Cousins;
Vernet; Gravediggers; Silver Tree; Child Spirit;
Gamekeeper; Farm Labourer; Hampstead Heath Man;
Wife; Constables; Mudlarks; Hartlepool Woman;
Widnes Baby; Bristol Women; Guardsman)
Locations: Turnpike Lane; Mortlake; Watson's
Home; Norfolk; Burnham Overy Staithe;
Wells-next-the-Sea; King's Lynn; Hampstead Heath;
Coventry's House; Wapping; Hartlepool; Widnes;
Bristol; St Thomas's Hospital; Innes Court
Story: Watson attends a seance given
by Daphne Hebron. He recalls Holmes's last years in a
nursing home and funeral. Watson, who is recognised,
even though he uses an alias, has brought Holmes's
meerschaum, but it is the Hound of the Baskervilles,
not Holmes, who materialises. Returning home, he
recalls the true events of the case. He and Holmes
were summoned to Norfolk by a coachman and gamekeeper
after the death of a farm labourer. An encounter with
a spectral hound led Holmes to question his beliefs
and to persuade Watson to present a fictionalised
version of the case to his readers. A week after the
seance, Lestrade shows Watson a news story about a
hideous murder on Hampstead Heath. Watson believes the
Hound has returned, a belief reinforced when he learns
of the medium's death. His pursuit of the creature
leads to him spending his final days incarcerated at
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"The
Lunacy of Celestine Blot" (2015)
Included in: The Mammoth Book
of Sherlock Holmes Abroad (Simon Clark)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Holmes
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Young (Tom) Stamford; (Inspector (George)
Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes)
Fictional Characters: (C.
Auguste Dupin)
Historical Figures: Edgar Allan
Poe; Jean-Martin Charcot; Jules Verne; Honorine
Verne; Albert Gigot; (Pierre-Jules Hetzel;
Sigmund Freud; Gaston Verne)
Other Characters: Asylum Inmates;
Sub-Warden; Asylum Attendants; Hennetier;
Celestine Blot; Asylum Guards; Madame L'Espanaye;
Le Bon; Verne's Servant; Amiens Station
Passengers; Amiens Surgeons; Amiens Nurse; Asylum
Warders; Claude Bident; Titus Corcoran; Lamiche;
Gertrude Socha / Contessa de Calvi; Police
Officers; (Attacked Man; Celestine's Family;
Moon Men; Nurses; Holmes's Aunt; Mycroft's
Alienist; Sazzarin; Goyon; Mathurine; Hetzel's
Assistants)
Date: 1879
Locations: France; Paris; Salpêtrière
Hospital; Rue de la Femme-Sans-Tête; Poe's Rooms;
Amiens; 44 Boulevard Longueville; Bois de
Vincennes; 36 Quai des Orfèvres; Lac Daumesnil
Story: A young Holmes, and Poe,
now living in Paris having adopted the identity of
Dupin, visit Charcot's asylum. Charcot introduces
them to Celestine Blot, who suffers paroxysms any
time she sees an image of the moon. She claims that
the malady began when she was abducted by creatures
from a flying craft, and was confined after
attacking Jules Verne, whom she believes is in
collusion with the creatures. An inmate of the
asylum, Gertrude Socha, has now disappeared from her
locked room, and Celestine claims that the woman was
abducted by the Moon Men. After hypnotising
Celestine, and examining maps of the solar system,
Holmes and Poe visit Verne. Poe is attacked before
they can return to Paris, and Holmes is left to
bring the case to its conclusion
NOTE: Poe's servants Madame
L'Espanaye and Le Bon are named after characters
from "The Murders in the Rue Morgue".
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"The
Purloined Face" (2013)
Included in: Beyond Rue Morgue (Paul Kane
& Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Holmes
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; (Inspector
Lestrade)
Fictional Characters: (C.
Auguste Dupin)
Historical Figures: Edgar Allan
Poe; (Lon Chaney; Auguste Rodin)
Other Characters: Cinema Audience; Le Bon;
Olivier Guédiguian; Anaïs Jolivet; Madame
L'Espanaye; Opera Doorman; Orchestra; Opera
Singers; Laurent Loubatierre; Costumier; Copyist;
Dance Manager; Ballerinas; Beckstein; Marie-Claire
Chanaud; Boy; Christophe; Opera Audience; Henri
Bermutier; Dressers; Wardrobe Mistresses;
Rennedon; Parisians; édith Dufranoux;
Streetwalkers; Chinaman; Bordello Customers; Young
Girl; Street Sweepers; Colonel Guy Follenvie;
Madame Lop-Lop; (Holmes's Doctor; Mathilde
Guédiguian; Anaïs's Boy; Francesco Mazzini;
Malandain; Rosa; Stage Crew; Plain Clothes
Police Officers; Madame Floch / Tante Berthe;
Vidal)
Date: April
Locations: Cinema; France; Paris; île de la
Cité; Rue de la Femme-sans-Tête; Avenue de
l'Opéra; Opéra Garnier; Boulevard des Italiens;
Rue St Marc; Rue St Denis; Rue Blondel.; Bordello
Story: Poe-Dupin and Holmes are called on
by Guédiguian, manager of the Paris Opera, and the
prima donna, Anaïs Jolivet, who has been the
victim of an acid attack in her dressing room. The
attack has rekindled rumours of a fantôme
at the Opera. At the Opera, they are in time to
observe the aftermath of another attack and hear
reports of the masked assailant. At the opening
night of La Traviata, Holmes and "Dupin"
set up watch backstage, and with a porcine
assistant pursue the Phantom through the streets
and bordellos of Paris.
NOTE:
This story pays homage both to Gaston
Leroux's Phantom of the Opera and Daphne
du Maurier's Don't Look Now.
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Paula Volsky
"The Giant Rat of Sumatra" (1996)
Included in: Resurrected
Holmes (Marvin Kaye); Sherlock Holmes
Mystery Magazine #5 (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche in the
style of H.P. Lovecraft
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock
Holmes; Mrs Hudson; Wiggins; Baker Street
Irregulars
Historical Figures: Sweeney Todd (A
Fleet Street barber "of remarkably demonic
aspect")
Other Characters: August Belknap; Plunker;
Talliard's Lady; Professor Sefton Talliard; The
Faithful; Ur-Allazoth; (Dyak Guide; Zebulon
Loftus; Abe Engle; Tertius Crawley; Village
Chieftain; Faithful Stowaway; Matilda
Briggs Captain; Deck Hands; Crew)
Date: March
Locations: Baker Street; 221B, Baker
Street; Regents Park; Notting Hill Gate;
Talliard's Lodgings; Fleet Street; Belknap's
Lodgings; Ludgate Circus; Blackfriars Bridge; (Sumatra;
Aboard the Matilda Briggs; Batavia Bay;
Providence, Rhode Island; Brown University)
Story: Watson arrives at Baker Street
having failed to buy a copy of De Vermiis
Mysteriis. Holmes has received a letter from
a potential client who arrives disguised asa
woman. The client, Belknap, tells them of a
missing professor of anthropology, Talliard who he
believes is hiding in London. He believes that he
has information that could save the lives of
Talliard and his colleagues. He tells of an
expedition to Sumatra where they witnessed a
sacrificial ceremony for the giant rat-god
Ur-Allazoth.by the hjill-people known as The
Faithful. They removed a plaque from the idol of
the god. Before they left the island one of their
party was murdered, and a second aboard the Matilda
Briggs. The ship mysteriously sank as it
approached Java, and the killings continued after
the survivors returned to America. Belknap has
been followed ever since, but believes that
returning the plaque will stop the pursuit. Holmes
states that he can locate Talliard in a matter of
hours and sets the Irregulars on the case. They
arrive to late to save him and set out to prevent
a similar fate befalling Belknap.
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John P. Vourlis
"A Case of Insomnia" (2003)
Included in: Shadows Over
Baker Street (Michael Reaves & John
Pelan)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock
Holmes
Other Characters: Dr. Arthur Mashbourne;
Marylebone Crowd; Train Conductor; Inn Hostess;
Dentist; Magistrate's Clerk; Inswich Woman; Mail
Clerk; Butcher; Young Mother; Boy; Village Men;
Transom Driver; Carthon Footman; Servants; Lady
Emily Carthon; Butler; Creature; Barrington
Constable; (Apothecary; Estella; Captain
Carthon; Egyptian Grave Robbers)
Date: A Thursday in March (1899)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Marylebone
Station; A Train; King's Cross Station;
Barrington; Inswich; The Black Hart Inn Carthon
House; (Egypt)
Story: While suffering from a bout of
sleeplessness, Holmes learns of a plague of
insomnia afflicting the village of Inswich. He and
Watson travel there, encountering Dr. Mashbourne
on the train. In Inswich they learn that the
population is being kept awake by some kind of
night creature. They spend a night at Carthon
House, where they hear of the death of Lady
Carthon's husband. In the night Watson is attacked
by the creature.
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