W.A.C.
"Sherlock
Holmes at Close Range" (1905)
Included in: Toronto Saturday Night, 3 June
1905
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; (Dr
Watson; Professor Moriar[i]ty)
Historical Figures: (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Other Characters: Narrator; Young Lady
Date: 1905
Locations: Canada; Toronto; Yonge Street
Story: The narrator meet Sherlock Holmes on
Yonge Street in Toronto. Holmes explains why he is in
Canada, and befuddles the narrator with a series of
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Stephen Wade
"The Case of the Vanishing Inn"
(2015)
Included in: The
MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part I:
1881-1889 (David Marcum)
Story Type: Extra-canonical adventure of Dr
Watson & Inspector Lestrade
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; Inspector
Lestrade; Professor Moriarty; (Sherlock Holmes)
Other Characters: Detective Constable Lees;
Old Charger Customers; Landlord; Lizzie; Harry
Devaney; Jim; Jim's Girl; Door Guard; Maurice
Kunstlich; Gunman; Lisette; Policemen; Constable
Hesslam
Date: Early June, 1888
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Poland
Street; Old Charger Tavern
Story: With Holmes away, Watson is alone at
Baker Street when Lestrade calls with the young
Constable Lees, whom he is showing the ropes of
policing. Lestrade has received a note
warning of danger to a royal personage, and asks
Watson to accompany him and Lees to the Old Charger
Tavern in Poland Street, for the demanded rendezvous.
There they face a bar brawl and a blackmailer.
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Wendy N. Wagner
"The Kingdom of the
Sea Awaits You" (2022)
Included in: Gaslight
Ghouls (J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Canonical
Characters: Morvoren
Other Characters: Liam; Johnny;
Captain Michaels; Connor; Captain Overton
Unnamed Characters: Old Woman; Fishermen;
Publican; Lighthouse Keeper
Locations: Cornwall; Rinnick Head; Cottage; The Sea's Arms;
Rinnick Head Lighthouse
Story: Dr Watson awakens, sick, in a Cornish
cottage. The old woman sent to care for him tells him
that Holmes has gone to the lighthouse, and gives him
a talisman for protection. He is taken to the local in
to tend to a dying sailor, whose shipmates say was a
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Howard Waldrop
"The Adventure of the Grinder's
Whistle" (1977)
Included in: Night of the Cooters (Howard
Waldrop); The
Big Book of Jack the Ripper (Otto Penzler)
Story Type: Fantasy Pastiche narrated by
Edward Malone
Canonical Characters: Baker Street
Irregulars; Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector
Lestrade
Fictional Characters: Edward
Malone
Historical Figures: (Jack the
Ripper; Arthur Conan Doyle)
Other Characters: Jenkins; Neddie; Mr
Soakes; Aubrey; Malone's Mother; Toldo Wigmore;
Police Sergeant; Police Officers; Doss House
Manageress; Victim; Dr Daniels
Date: 1888
Locations: Baker Street; Irregulars'
Basement; Whitechapel; Bremick Road
Story: Holmes summons the Irregulars,
of which Malone is hoping to become a member, to the
site of the latest Ripper murder. A witness has heard
a tuneless whistle and the sound of knives being
sharpened. Malone and Watson come face to face with
the killer, and the murder is solved, but the Ripper
remains at large.
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Hilda Moyse Walker
"The Black Thumb Gang" (1920)
Included in: Northern Weekly Gazette, 7
February 1920
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Sherlock Bones
Other Characters: (Greasy Gus)
Unnamed Characters: Lady; (Husband;
Postman)
Locations: Bones's Office
Story: Sherlock Bones arrives at his
office to find a lady waiting there. she is worried
that every day she receives a letter from her husband
in Hassamania with a black thumb print on it. She
fears that he has fallen in with the Black Thumb Gang.
Bones finds a more local solution.
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Jan Walker
The Singular Case of the Duplicate
Holmes (1994)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; (Vamberry;
Tobias Gregson)
Fictional Characters:
Historical Figures: (Arthur
Conan Doyle)
Other Characters: Elizabeth Victoria Bedford
Penrose; Jacob "Jake" Anderson; The Hon. Richard
Charles Claymore Penrose; Mrs Prudden; Mr Prudden; Mr
Judd; Crosbie; Lady Beatrice Featherstone; Nurse
Campbell; Joseph Rickett; Reverend Sutcliffe;
Gentleman Jack Cooper; Clarice Blackwell / Cooper /
Penrose; Ralph Rawlins; Marshall; Snelgrove; Mrs
Ricketts; (Henri Beurrecauld; Bridget; Alfred,
Lord Featherstone; Lady Margaret Elizabeth Bedford
Penrose; Wilson; Chambers; 3rd Baron Featherstone;
James Edward Langley Bedford, 10th Earl of
Newbury; Rebecca Margaret Bedford Penrose; Captain
Sir Patrick deFauconberge Neville; Ames; Lancocke;
David Despain; The Spencer Bunch; The Lavertys;
Rolly Cuttersome; Foxworth; Quigleys; Taylors;
Talcotts; Will Cooper; Duke of Chalford; Lady
Plympton)
Unnamed Characters: Bookseller; Brougham
Driver; Rotherhithe Doorway Sleepers; Crosbie's
Clientele; Baker Street Passers-by; Dress Shop
Proprietress; Cabbies; Featherstone's Footman;
Elderly Couple; Lady Featherstone's Messenger Boy;
Lestrade's Officers: Euston Station Crowds;
Mourners; (Trevor Square Servants; Penrose's
Cook; Penrose's Coachman; Mrs Prudden's
Kitchen Maid; Wigmore
Street Pawnbroker; Holmes's Parents)
Date: 14th November 1901 - ?
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Hyde Park;
Bookshop; Kensington; Trevor Square; Aybrook Street;
Chancer Lane; Lancocke & Judd Offices;
Rotherhithe; Crosbie's Tavern; Queen's Hall; Church
Street; Hertfordshire; Carlingwood; Wethampton;
Benstede Manor; Paddington Station; Berkshire;
Reading; Chippendown; Ladykirk Manor; St Stephen's
Vicarage; St Stephen's Church; Grosvenor Square;
Euston Station; Bedford Square; Bayley Street
Story: After a period of inactivity, Holmes
is approached by Elizabeth Penrose, who demands that
he stop persecuting her, and shows him some
threatening letters that have been sent to her in
his name. While carrying out investigations in
Trevor Square, Holmes sees a man arrive at the
Penrose house and introduce himself as Sherlock
Holmes. Holmes pursues him across Kensington.
Elizabeth moves out of the family home, but her room
in her new lodgings is ransacked, and the law office
where family papers are held is burgled. Meanwhile,
Holmes is approached by Jake Anderson, who has his
request to be taken on as an apprentice denied. He
discovers that the plot stems from events in his own
past, and pursued by the police, he and Watson race
to prevent a murder.
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Karen Wallace & Emma Damon
The Case of the Fiendish Dancing
Footprints (2002)
Story Type: Children's Story
Sherlockian Detectives: Sherlock Hound
& Dr WhatsUp Wombat
Other Characters: Telegram Man; Sir Sid
Whisper; Birdbrain; Professor Ha-Ha Hyena; Dr
GreyMatter
Locations: Hound's Rooms; Secret Service
Building; GreyMatter's Laboratory; Hyena's
Treehouse; 221B, Barker Street
Story: Sherlock Hound tries to teach Dr
Whatsup Wombat to waltz. They receive a
telegram from Whisper, head of the secret service who
asks them to investigate the disappearance of Dr
GreyMatter, the inventor of a mind-reading device. At
the professor's laboratory they find mysterious
dancing footprints in wet cement and hyena pawprints.
Whisper is also abducted, so Hound uses a parrot and a
cheese and pickle sandwich to discover the evil
Professor Ha-Ha Hyena's lair.
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Penelope Wallace
"The World According to Uncle
Albert" (1982)
Included in: John Creasey's Crime Collection
1982 (Herbert Harris)
Story Type: Homage
Detective: Uncle Albert
Other Characters: Frances Stephen; Hound,
the Great Dane; Mrs. Hubbard; Roger; Jane; John
Canning; Batty Annie; the vicar & his wife; Mr.
& Mrs. Payne; Mrs. Caxton; Dr. Spence; Simon
Lantern; Don; Susan; Sammy; P.C. Brown; Inspector
Locations: Uncle Albert's country estate.
Story: Uncle Albert is a Sherlock Holmes
buff. During Frances, his niece's 19th birthday
party, her jewelry is stolen. During the night
Frances hears a faint hissing from the front of the
house, and the footprints of a man walking on his
toes are discovered. Uncle Albert is convinced that
the theft was an inside job, but it is left to the
local police to solve the crime.
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Michael Walsh
"The
Song at Twilight" (2009)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes
In America (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon
Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Mycroft Holmes; Mrs Hudson; The Scowrers; Von
Herling; (Dr. Watson; Birdy Edwards; Von Bork)
Historical Figures: H.H. Asquith; (George
V; Sir Edward Grey)
Other Characters: Mrs Murphy;
Maddie McParland; Rooftop Women; Blind Pig Ptrons;
Piano
Player; ; Barman; The Boss; Charlie Morey; Lefty
Louie; One-Eye; Happy Jim; Paddy the Priest; Irish
Street Arabs; Wild Geese Patrons; Barmaid; (Mr
Callahan; Maddie's Father)
Date: July, 1912 - July 1914
Locations: USA; Chicago; Holmes's Sussex
Cottage; Mrs Murphy's Boardinghouse; Bridgeport;
3154 S. Normal Avenue; Blind Pig; New York State;
Buffalo; Altamont Hotel; Ireland; Skibbereen; The
Wild Geese Pub
Story: Mycroft sends Holmes to
America to deliver a sealed envelope to Maddie
McParland in Chicago. He is told by the Prime Minister
that should his mission go awry the government will
deny all knowledge. After delivering the letter, he is
lured to a bar, drugged and held captive, at the end
of which he is branded and accepted as a member of a
Fenian gang. The gang move to Buffalo to lay low, and
Holmes grows a goatee, takes Irish and American
lessons, and works for a motor mechanic. As she lays
dying in his arms, he learns Maddie's true identity,
and sets off in pursuit of her killer to Ireland,
where he also encounters Von Herling.
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Ray Walsh
The Mycroft Memoranda (1984)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Watson &
Holmes, & in Minutes from the Diogenes Club
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock
Holmes; Billy; Tobias Gregson; Mrs Hudson;
Wiggins; Mary Jane; Watson's Brother; Mary Morstan;
(Athelney Jones; Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft
Holmes; Baker Street Irregulars; Tonga; The
Matilda Briggs; The Netherlands-Sumatra Company;
Mrs Cecil Forrester)
Fictional Characters: Lord John Roxton;
(Duke of Pomfret)
Historical Figures: Major Henry Smith;
Arthur Conan Doyle; Sir Charles Warren; Inspector
Frederick Abberline; Mary Jane Kelly; Caroline
Maxwell; PC Robert Spicer; Amelia Palmer; Jack the
Ripper; William Druitt; (Dr Thomas Openshaw;
F.S. Reed; Catherine Eddowes; George Lusk; PC
Edward Watkins; Elizabeth Stride; Louis
Diemschutz; Michael Ostrog; Aaron Kosminski; Queen
Victoria; Lord Salisbury; James Monro; Henry
Matthews; Rosy; Brixton Doctor; Dr Thomas Bond;
Sarah Lewis; Colonel Fraser; Annie Chapman; George
Street Lodging House Deputy; Montague John Druitt;
Mr Valentine; Druitt's Clerk)
Other Characters: Cabbies; Berner Street
Ruffians; Casual Ward Men; Loafers; London Hospital
Porter; Scotland Yard Desk Officer; Everson;
Ringer's Clientele; London Hospital Patients;
Orderly; George Street Tenants; Sloane; Roxton's
Man; Ah Cheong; Chinese Servant; Seaman; Policeman;
(Plain Clothes Policemen; Peshawar Staff Surgeon;
Bruiser Bradshaw; Mycroft's Housekeeper)
Date: 20th October, 1888 - 7th January,
1889
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; St James's
Park; Marylebone Road; Trafalgar Square; Mitre
Square; Whitechapel; Berner Street; Whitechapel
Road; The London Hospital; Scotland Yard; The
Embankment; City Police Headquarters; Whitehall;
Mycroft's Office; York Terrace; Commercial Road;
Everson's Warehouse; Court off Brady Street;
Junction of Lamb & Crispin Street; The Britannia
Pub; White Street; Miller's Court; Dorset Street;
George Street; Palmer's Rooms; The Albany; East
India Dock Road; Limehouse; T'ien Shen Opium Den;
Southsea
Story: Having returned from Baskerville
Hall, Holmes is visited by Smith bearing the kidney
sent by Jack the Ripper, and he and Watson travel
out to the East End to examine the scenes of the
murders, running into Conan Doyle in the process. A
meeting with Gregson is disrupted by Charles Warren,
and results in Holmes's refusal to assist the Yard.
Abberline attempts to change his mind, and he is
reinforced in his task by a summons from Mycroft to
a meeting at which Holmes is offered Warren's job.
Refusing it, he takes to the streets of Whitechapel
in an unlikely disguise, but is unable to stop an
old acquaintance falling victim to the Ripper.
Watson finds himself accused of being the murderer,
but Holmes asks him to find a woman among his London
Hospital patients to act as a Judas goat to trap the
real Ripper. When the woman is attacked, Mycroft
takes a firmer hand and assigns Roxton to assist
Holmes, who reveals to them the identity of the
Ripper and the reason for Watson's absence. Roxton
and Holmes face the Ripper in Baker Street and an
opium den before the case reaches it's conclusion.
NOTE: Not all those listed under
"Historical Figures" are named in the text, being
referred to only by description.
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Walt Disney Productions
The Mystery of the Missing Peanuts
(1977)
Story Type: Children's Story
Sherlockian Detective: Donald Duck (as
Detective Donald)
Fictional Characters: Mickey Mouse; Chip
'n' Dale
Other Characters: Camel; Kangaroo; Ostrich;
Elephant; Penguin; Hippo; Monkey; Octopus; Bears
Date: February 18th, 1886
Locations: The Zoo; Detective Donald's
Office
Story: When zookeeper Mickey notices that
peanuts are disappearing from the animal food shed
he calls on Detective Donald to investigate. Donald
finds a hole in the shed wall, and makes each of the
zoo animals try to reach the peanuts through the
hole to narrow down his list of suspects. When
that fails he sets a trap in the food shed
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Robert Walton
"The Adventure of the Speckled Hand"
(1999)
Included in: Ascent (Allen Steck, Steve Roper
& David Harris)
Story Type: Humorous Third-Person Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Dr.
Watson; Mrs [Penelope] Hudson; (Inspector
Lestrade)
Historical Figures: (Sylvester
Stallone)
Other Characters: Rob Monarch; Napoleon
Pectoral; Katrin Montana; Talbot Amen
Date: Late 20th Century
Locations: USA; Yosemite; Camp 4
Story: Holmes and Watson are climbing in
Yosemite when they come across the corpse of Rob
Monarch. From four spots on Monarch's right hand,
Holmes deduces murder. Holmes loses the company of
Watson and Mrs Hudson to two of his suspects, and
makes another climb to the site of the murder in the
company of his third.
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Daniel Ward
Sherlock Holmes ~ The Way of All
Flesh (2004)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock
Holmes; Mrs. Hudson; Athelney Jones; (Clive)
Thurston; Baker Street Irregular; (Inspector
Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes; Percy Phelps)
Historical Figures: Dr Robert Donston
Stephenson; Minna Mabel Collins; Jack the Ripper; (Mrs
Stephenson)
Other Characters: Patients; News Vendors;
Baker Street Pedestrians; Cab Drivers; Simon
Eversham; Constable Andrews; Inspector Toller;
Police Driver; Josiah Rumney; East Ham Hospital
Attendant; Charing Cross Hospital Porters; Green
Atlas Omnibus Conductor; Dock Workers; Charles
Adams; Vagrants; Arthur Warren; Mrs. Thurston; St
Luke's Matron; Buxton's Porter; Brothel Doorman;
Clientele; Girls; Pianist; Barman; Stephenson's
Jarvey; Captain Hughes; Jeremiah Bootle; Mrs Bootle;
(Templeton; Gianluca Carletti / Pietro Buffón;
Buxton's Porter; Duty Manager; Constable; Police
Sergeant; Dock Workers; Victoria Dock Bobby;
Buxton Manager; Wharfinger; Jarvey; Brand &
Co. Bank Manager; Sergeant Cox; Young Solicitor;
Dr McAuliffe; Urchins)
Date: February 18th, 1886
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Clerkenwell;
Chadwell Street Surgery; Baker Street; Holborn Post
Office; Plaistow; Marsh Lane; East Ham Hospital;
Charing Cross Hospital; Victoria Dock; Nelson Street
Tavern; Brompton; The Thurston Residence; St Luke's
Hospital; Buxton's Hotel; Chelsea; Brothel;
Hampstead; Stephenson's House; A Train
Story: While Watson is serving as locum for
a colleague in Clerkenwell, Holmes is called upon by
Mycroft to investigate the murder of an Italian
government envoy whose mutilated body has been found
in the Thames. He begins his investigations at the
docks disguised as a sailor turned groom. Meanwhile,
Athelney Jones arrests a vagrant who has pawned the
dead man's possessions. When the body of a young
solicitor is found at Plaistow, Watson is sent
undercover to locate a house of ill repute, an
investigation which takes him into a circle of
spiritualists, into captivity, and into a bizarre
sacrificial ritual.
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Norman W. Ward
"Colonel Warburton's Madness" (1955)
Included in: The Best of the Pips (The Five
Orange Pips of Westchester County)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Colonel Warburton
Other Characters: Robert Warburton; Vincent
Harrison; Mrs. Atkinson; Trap Driver; Sergeant
Nicholson; Barney Hutton; (Shopkeeper; Mrs.
Atkinson's Son)
Date: Spring, 1890
Locations: 221B, Baker Street;
Northumberland; Bellingham; The Warburton Arms;
Warburton Manor
Story: Holmes is visited by Robert
Norberton, who, it transpires, is the nephew of the
commander of Watson's old regiment. He is worried
about his uncle, who, on a recent visit, seemed not
to recognise him. Holmes sends Watson to
Northumberland to visit Warburton, who he finds
sitting unresponsively in a chair, and who fails to
recognise, or even acknowledge him. All he learns is
that a package addressed to Harrison, his servant,
arrives every week. Back in Baker Street, Holmes
seems inordinately interested in the servant's right
ear, and intercepts a package of tea, before
restoring Colonel Warburton to his senses.
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"Report
of a Recent Conversation in a Remote Cottage on the
South Downs" (1955)
Included in: The Best of the Pips (The Five
Orange Pips of Westchester County)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Locations: Holmes' Sussex Villa
Story: Watson visits Holmes in Sussex. Holmes
deduces that he came by train and left in a hurry.
Watson is outraged at a series of stories by a
relative of his literary agent and someone named Carr,
which, he says, they are claiming are genuine
Sherlockian adventures. Holmes reassures him, and
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Mark Wardecker
"The Adventure of the Docklands Apparition"
(2013)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes
Mystery Magazine #10 (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock
Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade;
Mycroft Holmes; Wiggins; Baker Street Irregulars;
Adolph Meyer (Lang)
Other Characters: August Pierpont;
Lombard Street Clerks, Businessmen & Workmen;
Policemen; Sailors; Stevedores; Imperial Bank Staff;
Bank Patrons; Diogenes Club Servant; District
Messenger; Buckley; Lewis Owen / Lester Owen;
Lestrade's Men; (Helena; Imperial Bank Clerks;
Sailors; Dockworkers; Riffraff; Ruffian with a
Truncheon; Docks Constable; Peters; Detective;
Imperial Bank Director; Stinson)
Date: Spring, 1896
Locations: 221B, Baker Street;
Finsbury; Christopher Street; Lombard Street; Imperial
Bank of England; Tobacco Shop; Christopher Docks;
Diogenes Club; Aldgate; Pub; 110, Vine Street; Owen's
Flat
Story: Holmes is consulted by
Pierpont, an accounts manager at the Imperial Bank of
England. He has found a photograph of a beautiful
woman on the front stoop of his house. He has since
seen the woman in the vicinity of his bank and near
his home. Watson, on stakeout, fails to spot the
woman, but the following day, Pierpont says that she
has led him to the Christopher Docks, where he has
seen his colleague, Owen, murdered.
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"The Adventure of the Second
Round" (2011)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Magazine #5 (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Dr Watson; Lord Maynooth; Mrs Hudson
Other Characters: Growler Driver;
Inspector Nicholson; Lord Morris; Lady Morris; Maid;
Perkins; Boggis; Bagatelle Club Servant; Members;
Theatre Manager; Cecilia Benson; Dr Smythe; Hospital
Inmates; Nurses; (Dr Edmund Samuels)
Date: November
Locations: 221B, Baker Street;
Kensington; Sherrinsthorpe Manor; Regent Street;
Bagatelle Club; The Strand; Burbage Theatre; St
Veronica's Hospital for Women
Story: Holmes and Watson are summoned
to Kensington by a letter from Inspector Nicholson. They
arrive to find that Lord Morris has been shot at his
desk. The gun used is on the desk and has been reloaded.
Watson finds his appointment book with pages torn out.
From Lady Morris they learn of a stranger who has
visited the dead man, and from his coachman they hear
about the Bagatelle Shakespeare Society. A meeting with
Lord Maynooth at the Bagatelle Club puts them on the
track of a missing actress at the Burbage Theatre, and
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R. Bruce Warden
"Herlock Sholmes Lends Santa a Hand" (1912)
Included in: The Western, Volume 17
Number 3, December 2012
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Herlock Sholmes
Folkloric Characters: (Santa Claus)
Other Characters: Mr Skinflint
Unnamed Characters: (The Milkman)
Date: Christmas
Locations: Sholmes's Rooms; Skinflint's House
Story: Sholmes investigates Skinflint's empty
Christmas stocking after Skinflint complains that Santa
has reneged on his promise to deliver presents if
Skinflint tips the milkman.
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Kaaron Warren
"The Lantern Men" (2014)
Included in: Two Hundred and
Twenty-One Baker Streets (David Thomas Moore)
Story Type: Homage
Sherlockian Detectives: Sherlock Holmes; John
Watson
Other Characters: Grandfather; Bachelor;
T-Shirt Man; Peter Jones; Dead Man; Pathologist;
Bakery People; Teenagers; Sam; Builders; Drifter Girl;
(Boys)
Date: 2010s
Locations: Australia; Peppertree; Peppertree
Lodge; Peppertree Museum; Bakery; Holmes's Office;
Council Offices
Story: Australian architect Holmes is called
by Watson, his builder colleague, to the old mansion
that they are converting into the town museum. A body
has been found in the walls. Events bring back
memories of their teenage years and uncover a town
secret.
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"Shadows
of the Dead" (2017)
Included In: Sherlock
Holmes: The Australian Casebook (Christopher
Sequeira)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; (Mrs Watson)
Historical Figures: Dr Constance
Stone; (Dr Singleton)
Other Characters: Melbourne Landlady;
Patients; Postman; Trackside Families; Opium Addicts;
Nurses; (Paperboy;
Lacrosse Players; Ophthalmologist; Army General;
Blackjack Vaughan; Postman's Mother; Dismembered
Postman; Diplomat)
Date: 1890
Locations: Australia; Melbourne; Collins
Street; Collingwood; Dr Singleton's Mission; A
Train; Sydney; Manly Beach; Cave; Hospital
Story: Observing a woman on a train,
Holmes is puzzled that she appears to be a doctor
rather than a nurse, and ascertains that she is
Constance Stone, Australia's first female doctor. She
asks him to investigate the case of a young military
veteran who claims to have been partially blinded
after seeing shadows of the dead in a cave in Manly.
Holmes and watson travel from Melbourne to Manly to
explore the cave.
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Richard Warren
"An Epilogue" (1976)
Included in: More Leaves from the Copper
Beeches (The Sons of the Copper Beeches)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; (Victor Hatherly; Lady Brackenstall;
Captain Jack Croker; Teresa Wright; Fowler; Alice
Rucastle; J.H. Neligan; Captain James Calhoun;
Birdy Edwards; Biddle; Hayward; Moffat)
Other Characters: (Adelaide-Southampton
Line President; Bank Watchman)
Date: August, 1923 / January, 1898
Locations: Holmes' Sussex Villa;
(Mauritius; Port Louis; St Helena)
Story: Holmes summons Watson to Sussex,
where he tells him of a letter received in 1898 from
St Helena, which appeared to refer to Lady
Brackenstall & Captain Croker. He contacted
Brackenstall, who told him that Croker's letters to
her had recently stopped. From the president of the
shipping line which owned the Bass Rock
Holmes learned of Croker's involvement with the wife
of the Governor of Mauritius, the former Alice
Rucastle, and of their disappearance. Twenty-five
years later he received another letter from Croker
telling him of the arrivals of a number of familiar
figures in St Helena in the intervening years, and
of a recent bank robbery, asking him to travel to
the island to investigate. Holmes announces his
decision and leaves Watson a letter, only to be
opened if he does not return.
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Mercer Warriner
Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Hounded by
Baskervilles (2002)
Story Type: Children's Fantasy Novel
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Fictional Characters: Sabrina the Teenage
Witch; Roxie; Aunt Zelda; Morgan Cavanaugh; salem;
Aunt Hilda; Miles Goodman; Josh; Drell
Mythical Characters: Sisyphus
Other Characters: Students; Dr. Mortimer
Cartwright; Baskers; Beatrice "Bea"
Bodenheimer-Brown; Dr. Finius Allerzapper; Witch
With Allergies; Flute Player; Swimmers; Bea's
Lawyer; Six Council Witches; Orchestra
Locations: Sabrina's House; Adams College;
Newman Hall; Zelda & Hilda's House; The Other
Realm; Allerzapper's office; Hilda's Coffee Shop
Story: When she doesn't have time to read The
Hound of the Baskervilles for a class
assignment, Sabrina conjures up Sherlock Holmes to
tell her the story. In the first class of the day
she accidentally sneezes her animal communication
teacher, Dr. Mortimer Cartwright, and his dog,
Basker's (short for Baskerville) personalities into
each other's bodies. She takes them to her aunts who
are unable to reverse the spell. She gets an A+ in
her English test. Her aunts decide she is suffering
from an allergy and send her to Dr. Allerzapper. As
she continues to sneeze, more people take on animal
characteristics. She has to find a way to cure her
allergy and restore Dr Cartwright to normal for a
special presentation dinner at the weekend.
Allerzapper diagnoses a guilt allergy which can only
be cured by purging the guilt. His receptionist,
Bea, an old flame of Salem's, is using Sabrina's
allergy for her own underhand schemes. All Sabrina
has to do to sort out everyone's problems is work
out what is causing her guilt.
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T.A. Waters
The Probability Pad (1970)
Story Type: Psychedelic Science Fiction
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
(Altamont); Dr. Watson (Dr. Hudson)
Fictional Characters: Winnie The Pooh;
Dracula; The Caterpillar; The Seven Dwarfs
Historical Figures: T.A. Waters; Michael
Kurland; Chester Anderson
Other Characters: Uptown Girl; Piltdown
& His Primates; Pentalpha Audience; Weinie;
Wendy West; A Bum; Amy Muscar; Blonde; Mystic Jake
Sheba; Nobody Bartender; Annie; Solidus Plim;
officers; Chairman Plik; Null-T; Cops; A Parade of
Children, Hippies, Winos, Optional Psychos,
Photographers, Revolutionaries &
Unclassifiables; Frederick Kurland; Shapeless;
Girls; Coachman; Transylvanian Townspeople;
Bartender; Big Tex; Alphonse; Velia; The Kwikantha
Dead; What's That Clientele; Pair of Outlander
Females; Party Guests; Triskans; Wake-Up Service
Girl; Washington Square Park Crowd; Mounted
Policemen; Knights; Children of Bacchus; Orchestra;
Teen-age Thugs; Monster; (Perry Diogenes)
Locations: New York; Greenwich Village; The
Pentalpha; Broome Street; Houston Street; Sullivan
Street; Cafe Nobody; Waters' Apartment; Lower East
Side; Kurland's Apartment; Second Avenue; The Jewel
Bar; MacDougal Street; Bleecker Street; Rivington
Street; Mystic Jake's Apartment; Trisk; Orchard
Street; Transylvania; Town Square; Inn; A Coach;
Castle Dracula; A Desert; Wonderland; The What's
That?; Washington Square Park
Date: The Near Future; Saturday, April 30th,
1904 (Sherlockian section only)
Story: Chester disappears while coming
downstairs from the loft and a stair rail appears,
then disappears again; Waters & Kurland
investigate. Returning to the Pentalpha bar they
meet Chester, who denies having been at the loft,
and says someone is impersonating him. Waters &
Kurland learn that doubles of themselves have been
seen in the city and soon discover that doubles of
people and things are appearing throughout the
Village. They realise the connection between all
those duplicated is that they own vidiphones, and
their chief suspect becomes Mystic Jake who claims
not to own one, but to have met his own duplicate.
In searching Jake's apartment Waters witnesses the
arrival of a shape-shifting alien, and Kurland is
adopted by an eight foot teddy bear who thinks he is
'Christopher'.
On a return trip to sabotage Jake's
vidip they find themselves zapped through time and
space to nineteenth century Transylvania. There they
meet 'Altamont', who they immediately recognise as
Holmes, and 'Dr. Hudson', who are investigating
strange events centring on Castle Dracula. They
travel to the castle with Altamont & Hudson,
where as prisoners in the dungeon they witness
Altamont carry Dracula to his death. They finally
deduce how to return to their own time, but not
before passing through a World War II desert battle
and Wonderland. They throw a party, but it is
interrupted by the arrival of Solidus Plin, an
alien, in the guise of a standard lamp, a vacuum
cleaner and a 3D TV set, who explains the Triskan
invasion plan and asks their help to thwart it.
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Alan Watkins
"Sherlock Holmes and the Invisible
Car Park" (1976)
Included in: Beyond Baker Street (Michael
Harrison)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock
Holmes; Dr Watson
Historical Figures: Stanley Orme;
Edward Fletcher; Robert Carr; Dame Joan Vickers; (Fred
Peart; Marcus Lipton)
Other Characters: Cabbie; Uniformed Attendant
Date: November, 1972
Locations: New Palace Yard; Palace of
Westminster; Strangers Bar
Story: Holmes and Watson arrive at the Palace
of Westminster to find the surface of New Palace Yard
being churned up by cranes and excavators. Holmes
reveals that an underground car park is being
constructed, and explains to Watson the machinations
that have taken place, and the threat to Big Ben.
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Dr Watson
"The Crawfordsville Case" (1895)
Included in: The Wabash, April 1895; The
Ouiatenon, 1896
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Historical Figures: Charles B.
Kern; John E. Fry; Henry C. Hall; Harry O.
Pattison; William M. Hedrick; Walter
Whittington; (George Stockton
Burroughs; Prof. Duane Studley; Howard Dickerson;
Marshal Grimes)
Other Characters: (Professor
Wienerwurst)
Unnamed Characters: Policeman; Students
Locations: USA; Holmes's Apartment;
Crawfordsville; Wabash College; The Crawford House
Story: Holmes and Watson travel to Wabash
College to investigate a series of thefts. Their
attention is drawn to the Athletic Association.
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"The Colonial Adventures of
Shamrock Holes" (1904)
Included in: Victoria Daily Times, 23rd April,
30th April, 4th May, 1904
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detective: Shamrock Holes
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; (Professor
Moriarty)
Historical Figures: (Lord
Kitchener; Christiaan de Wet; Marie Curie; Baron
William Thomson Kelvin; Sir Oliver Lodge; Sir
William Ramsay; Sir William Crooke)
Other Characters: Sir Everard
Lanington; Earl of Larwick; Lord Dulwink; Sylvester
Butts; (Duke of Yo-; Stanley; Prince Hyanlohe;
Noggs; Sam Ling; George)
Unnamed Characters: Equerry; First
Lord; Landlord; Butts's Stable Man; Butts's Maid; (General
Traffic Superintendent)
Locations: 13, Baker Street; Canada; Nova
Scotia; Halifax; Winnipeg; British Columbia;
Victopolis; Hotel; Buts's Farm
Story: Part I: Some Scouting and an
Engagement
In the after math of the "Hound of the
Basket balls" case, Shamrock Holes is called upon by
Sir Everard Lanington, and employed to travel with the
Duke of Yo- to Canada.
Part II: Mystery of the Right-Handed Shunt
As the tour passes with no sign of danger,
Holes and Watson take on the task of tasting the Dukes
food and drink, to test it for poison. When their
carriage is disconnected from the Duke's train, and
they are left stranded in Winnipeg, Holes deduces that
Moriarty is behind it.
Part III: The Adventure of the Kinto Payuse
Deducing Moriarty's intention, Holes and Watson travel
to Victopolis, where they advertise for business. They
are hired by Sylvester Butts, a farmer, to investigate
the persecution he has been subjected to by his
neighbours, and the death of his thirty-five-year-old
pinto cayuse.
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Dr H.A.E. Watson
"The Lost Democratic Majority" (1904)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes
Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches: 1900-1904
(Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Historical Figures: (Marcus A.
Smith; John F. Wilson; Mike Hickey; E.S. Clark;
Joseph I. Roberts)
Other Characters: Client;
Bystanders
Date: Monday, 7th - Tuesday, 8th
November, 1904
Locations: USA; Arizona; Prescott; Hotel
Burke
Story: Holmes and Watson are stayiong at the
Hotel Burke in Prescott, Arizona, when they are
called on by an un-named client who has lost
the democratic majority.
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I.A. Watson
"The Angel of Truth" (2019)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes
and Doctor Was Not (Christopher Sequeira)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock
Holmes; (Professor Moriarty)
Historical Figures: Jane Dee; Dr
John Dee; Madina Dee; William Cecil, 1st Baron
Burghley; Sir Francis Walsingham; Elizabeth I; (Dee's
Children; Edward Kelley; Arthur Dee; Roger Bacon;
Tycho Brahe; Prince Laski; King Stephen Batory;
Emperor Rudolph; Sir Francis Drake; Theodore Dee)
Other Characters: Lady Jenet
Hastings; (Lady Elsbet FitzHammond)
Unnamed Characters: Courtiers;
Hampton Court Attendant; Master of the Queen's
Wardrobe; Warden of the Queen's Bedchamber;
Wasingham's Private Secretary; Servants; Keeper of the
Queen's Jewel Box; Soldiers; Queen's Guards; (Gentlemen
of the Court; Maids)
Date: Early April 1590
Locations: Mortlake; Hampton
Court
Story: Alchemist John Dee
summons his wife Jane to his laboratory, where he says
he has summoned the Angel of Truth. He
challenges it to reveal the truth of a plot against
the Queen, revealed to him by Walsingham, suggested by
the discovery of pins inserted into her clothing. When
word comes of Walsingham's death, the angel, who calls
himself William Sherlock Scott Holmes, accompnies the
Dees to Hampton Court. After questioning the
royal household, Holmes requests a meeting with the
Queen.
NOTE: Holmes's introduction of himself as
"Sherlock Holmes of Mycroft" refers to Baring-Gould's
idea that Holmes's family came from the homestead of
Mycroft in Yorkshire.
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"Dead
Man's Manuscript" (2009)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes
Consulting Detective Volume One (Ron Fortier)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mary Morstan; Baker Street Irregulars;
Wiggins; Mrs Hudson; (Mycroft Holmes)
Historical Figures: (Rani
Lakshmi Bai; Jayajirao Scindia, Maharaja of Gwalior)
Other Characters: Captain Henry William
Lumley; Constable; Sergeant; Watson's Receptionist;
Watson's Patients; Bow Street Duty Sergeant; Sir
Tarrant Besting; Dr Hogan Forsythe; Museum Staff;
Sergeant Potter; Mrs Lobb; Charles Cayden; Bow Street
Constables; Satim Bey, Jr; Shedlow; (Colonel Sir
Derrington Lumley; Clerk of the Court; Bow Street
Officers; Museum Guards; Museum Visitors; Dr Moore;
Mr Goodge; Lumley's Cousins; Satim Bey, Sr; Mr Reed;
Mr Shawdene; Sybil Dawlish; Indian Man; Hector
Dorner; Dansen; Besting's Servants; Mr Schott;
Hauliers; Travoli Theatre Stagehand; Scotland Yard
Officers)
Date: 1891
Locations: Watson's Paddington Practice; Bow
Street Magistrates Court; 221B, Baker Street;
Cresswell Museum; Clarges Street; Hanley's Hotel; Post
Office; Besting's House
Story: Watson is visited by Lumley, an
old army colleague. He has no sooner told Watson that he
has been seeing his father's ghost, than the police
arrive to arrest him for the destruction of a valuable
document. Watson takes Holmes to hear Lumley's story in
the Bow Street Court cells. The document was a cursed
manuscript that was part of a hoard of treasure looted
by Lumley's father during the Sepoy Mutiny, and
bequeathed, on his recent death, to the Cresswell
Museum. Lumley says that his father's ghost instructed
him to destroy it. Holmes and Watson visit the museum,
and learn something of the manuscript's recent history,
and the hotel in which Lumley saw the ghost, and are
followed by a mysterious carriage. They are visited by
Cayden, an old army friend of Lumley, Sr., who asks
Watson's opinion about Henry's sanity, but who is
disturbed by Holmes's passing reference to pepper. They
take crown prosecutor Besting, and Lumley, back to
Lumley's hotel, where Holmes demonstrates that none of
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Ian Watson
"The Case
of the Glass Slipper" (1988)
Included in: Stalin's Teardrops (Ian Watson)
Story Type: Fantasy Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Fictional Characters: Cinderella's Prince;
(Cinderella; Fairy Godmother; Snow White)
Other Characters: (Hodgkinson; Royal
Heralds)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: While Watson is visiting an old
friend, Holmes is visited by a Prince from a
neighbouring kingdom. He tells Holmes of a beautiful,
glass-slipper-wearing girl, who disappeared from a ball
at his palace on the stroke of midnight. After finding
the girl, Cinderella, and being married to her for a
year and a half, he has started to notice changes in his
bride. He believes she has been replaced by a golem.
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Watson, Jnr.
"Sherlock's Dilemma" (1958)
Included in: As
It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey)
Story Type: Parody
Detective: Mr Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: Miss Ellam; English
Master; Baronsky; Headmaster Mr Sherlock; Games
Master; Greaves; Inspector Titmarsh; Boys; Chung
Ling; (Sir Hubert; Mannering; Webster)
Locations: School
Story: Miss Ellam arrives at the
headmaster's study to find him prostrate on the
floor, a kick from the sports master revives him,
and he tells them of the twin oriental faces he saw
at the window. The school trophies have been stolen.
Mr Sherlock begins investigating. The Chairman of
the governors was seen leaving with a sack, and the
English Master and the Head Boy are both acting
furtively. Mr Sherlock breaks up an opium den in the
conservatory, and learns of a two-headed Chinaman
who walks up walls. He finds himself held captive
and facing almost certain death.
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T.S. Watt
"Giants in These Days" (1953)
Included in: Punch, 6 July 1953
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; (Sussex Housekeeper; Inspector Lestrade; Two
Coptic Patriarchs)
Fictional Characters: Boy Pleydell; Bertie
Wooster; Jeeves; (Berry Pleydell; Daphne Pleydell;
Jonah Mansell; Jill Mansell; Falcon)
Other Characters: Miss Gillibank; (Flail;
Bloodstock; Mrs Festival; Jane Bugworth; Parkinson
Family; Vandy Sabre; illicent Tantamount; Wooster)
Unnamed Characters: Watson's Patients; Woman with
Baby; Bus Conductor; Salvation Army Captain; Clergyman;
(Wooster's Manservant; Tibetan Lama; Great Statesman)
Date: June
Locations: Watson's Consulting Room; Hampshire;
Wooster's Poultry Farm
Story: Boy Pleydell consults Holmes after the
theft of eight pairs of evening trousers from White
Ladies. He suspects the involvement of Bertie
Wooster and Jeeves who are renting a nearby poultry
farm.
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Dan Watters
"The Docklands Murder" (2017)
Included in: Further
Associates of Sherlock Holmes (George Mann)
Story Type: Extra-Canonical Adventure of
Wiggins
Canonical Characters: Wiggins; Sherlock
Holmes; Mrs Hudson; Baker Street Irregulars;
Inspector Lestrade; (Dr Watson)
Other Characters: Albie Macrain; Sailors;
Police; Dock Workers; Jonesy; Ollie; Alex; (Wiggins's
Mother; Robert Gail)
Date: End of August
Locations: Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street;
Tower Hamlets; Docks
Story: When London dock overseer, Robert Gail
is murdered during a dock strike, Macrain, one of the
strike leaders, consults Holmes, fearing he will be
accused of the murder. When Holmes dismisses the case,
Wiggins decides to investigate.
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Watson's Under-study
"Sherlock
Holmes in Perth: The Case of the Straw-Street
Boarding House" (1908)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches II:
1905-1909 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock
Holmes; Dr Watson
Other Characters: Reporters;
Steward; Waitress; Mrs Wing; John George Harris;
Tiger; Philip John Wing; Alderton; Barker; (Jane
/ Selina; George Harris Hildersley; Kip)
Locations: Australia; A Ship; The Swan
River; Perth; Primal Hotel; Park; 1084, Straw Street
Story: Holmes and Watson are greeted
by reporters when their ship arrives in Australia. In
their hotel they are visited by Mrs Wing, a
boarding-house proprietress, and later by Harris, one
of her lodgers, who tells them of the theft of a purse
and a viola, and the discovery of a violin bridge at
the boarding house. Holmes takes rooms at the house,
in disguise, and buys a dog to solve the case.
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Robert Weinberg & Lois H. Gresh
"The Adventure of the Parisian
Gentleman" (1997)
Included in: The Mammoth
Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike
Ashley)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Huret
Historical Figures: Casimir Perier; (Alfred
Dreyfus)
Other Characters: Inspector Girac;
Politicians; Girac's Men; The Belgian Ambassador; (Edward
Ronet)
Date: October, 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Paris; A
Cab; The President's Club
Story: Holmes is called to Paris, in the
wake of the Dreyfus affair, by Inspector Girac of
the Sûreté, to protect President Casimir Perier from
Huret, the Boulevard Assassin. He is able to deduce
the time and place of Huret's attack, and, in
disguise, to effect the capture of Huret, also in
disguise. Returning to London, he reveals the truth
about the men who hired the assassin.
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Philip Weintraub
"The Flaming Goat" (1928)
Included in: The Dentos 1928 (Loyola
University)
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detective: Shamrock Bones
Other Characters: Stephen Wotosnootski; Hank
Erchiff; (Dr Al E, Vater; S.S. Black; Nell)
Unnamed Characters: Concert Audience;
Householder; Census Taker; Woman; Man
Locations: Concert Hall; House; Centerville;
Main Street; Cliff
Story: Wotosnootski plays in a concert. A
census taker calls. Shamrock Bones tussles with
Sheriff Erchiff. A man and woman fight on a
clifftop.
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David A. Weiss
"The Celestial Pastiche" (1948)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes By Gas-lamp (Philip
A. Shreffler)
Story Type: Homage
Historical Figures: Arthur Conan Doyle
{Angel No.103}
Other Characters: The Recording Secretary;
Members of the Avenging Angels; The Gabriel; Angel
No.17; Angel No.5; Angel No.16; Angel No.82
Locations: Heaven
Story: After the speeches and papers at a
meeting of the Avenging Angels, the Heavenly
Sherlockion scion, the winning entry of the annual
pastiche competition is read by the Gabriel. The
story holds everyone spellbound, and its writer is
introduced as the author of such works as The
White Company.
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Edward Wellen
"The House that Jack Built" (1987)
Included in: The New Adventures
of Sherlock Holmes (Martin H. Greenberg,
Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh & Jon L. Lellenberg)
Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Irene Adler (Adele Nerri); Professor
Moriarty; Mrs Hudson; Hound of the Baskervilles;
Giant Rat of Sumatra; (Moriarty Gang)
Fictional Characters: Cheshire Cat
Other Characters: Navvies; Idiot Savant;
George Adkins; Schoolgirls; Clergyman; Publican;
Weasel-faced Man; Gap-toothed Man; Scruffy Man; Matilda
Mate; Matilda Captain; Pilot; Helmsman;
Lookout; Sailors
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Monument;
42½, Threadneedle Street; The Eagle; The Matilda;
Tropical Island
Story: Worried about Holmes's health, Watson
attempts to conceal the Times from Holmes,
but from it Holmes learns that Irene is missing from
her London hotel. He also finds a cryptic verse in
the agony columns, which he deduces is directed at
himself, and that Moriarty, somehow having survived
Reichenbach, is using Irene as bait to lure him to
his death. Holmes sets out to follow the clues of
the agony columns, and Watson follows Holmes, but is
knocked out in Threadneedle Street. Holmes is led
through a series of traps and puzzles via a
thought-network device, to save Irene who has been
imprisoned along with an idiot savant, who along
with Moriarty is connected to the network, and in
whose mind the challenges take place, and to avert
an attack on the Bank of England. When Watson
regains consciousness he realises the true nature of
the events that have taken place.
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"Voiceover" (1994)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes
Through Time and Space (Isaac Asimov, Martin
Harry Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh)
Story Type: Humorous Science Fiction Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Other Characters: I Suppose; Lord Harry Nash;
The Venusian Voice; A Policeman; The Cormorant
Clientele; Barman; Woman; Waiter; Winthrop Morrill
Locations: New Baker Street; New London; The
Cormorant Public House
Story: Watson is worried: not only does he
seem to be having memory problems, but Holmes has
brought home an irritating,
Cockney-rhyming-slang-spouting, robot dog. They are
visited by Lord Nash, who mistakes Watson for a Baker
Street Irregular. He speaks of a voice that is
ordering him to trigger volcanic eruptions in the
Equatorial Belt. He has forgotten, however, that this
is the day the clocks change, and realises that the
voice can hear him. He dies in terror. They travel to
the Cormorant public house, where they retrieve a
document stolen from Nash by a pickpocket. From its
list of times and dates on which Nash heard the voice
they are able to deduce a threatened invasion from
Venus. I Suppose (the dog) sets out to stop the
Venusian threat, while an accident with a ray gun and
a mirror reveals to Watson that Holmes is in fact a
robot. He later learns about his own strange
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"The Man Who Was Not Dead" (1941)
(Also published as "But Our Hero Was Not Dead")
Included in: The Game Is Afoot
(Marvin Kaye); The
Misadventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery
Queen); The Big Book of
Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson
Other Characters: Amos Boling; Philip Davis;
Constable Timmons
Date: During World War II
Locations: The Sussex Downs; Holmes's
Cottage
Story: Boling, a German Intelligence agent
parachutes into England during World War II, to
activate a group of sleeper agents. Arriving at an
isolated Sussex cottage, he attempts to get a
telephone message through to his contact in
Eastbourne, only to find his plans thwarted by the
cottage's residents.
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Manly W. Wellman & Wade Wellman
Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds
(1975)
Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche
(narrated by Edward Malone & Watson)
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Morse
Hudson; Fairdale Hobbs; Billy; Mrs. Hudson / Martha;
Dr. Watson; Inspector Merivale; John Mason; Sir
Robert Norberton; Shoscombe Prince; Percy Phelps;
Victor Trevor; Mycroft Holmes; Dr. Fordham; Stanley
Hopkins; Violet Hunter
Fictional Characters: Great Portland Street
Dealer {Mr. Templeton}; Tall Dark Man In Grey
{Sherlock Holmes}; Professor Challenger; Martians;
Mrs. Challenger; Jacoby Wace; Lavelle; Stent;
Henderson; Ogilvy; Lord John Roxton; Austin; (Edward
Malone; C. Cave)
Historical Figures: H.G. Wells
Other Characters: Scotland Yard Inspectors;
Seven Dials Forger; Murdered Policeman; Picture
Frame Maker; Scientific Writers; Horsell Crowd;
Bicyclist; Phelps's Servants; Messenger from London;
Woking Postmaster; Newsboy; Brigadier Sir Preterick
Waring; Surrey Refugees; Mrs. Hudson's Aunt &
Uncle; Donnithorpe Rector; Postmaster; Blacksmith;
Villagers; Telegrapher; London Refugees; Refugee
Train Crew; Men on Cambridge Station; Newsboy;
Telephone Caller; Crowd outside Challenger's House;
Pallid-Faced Oldster; Telephone Operators; An
Attorney's Clerk; Austin's Friend; Passerby;
Policemen; Uxbridge Road Crowd; A Fat Man in a Derby
Hat; Cyclist; Dray Driver; Chelmsford Committee of
Supply; Sailors; Captain Howard Blake; Luke Tovey;
Man on Horseback; Plump Bald Man; Regent Street
Crowd; Blowsy Woman; Murray's Neighbours; Murray's
Fellow Lodgers; Preacher; Mr. Morgan; (Ezra
Prather)
Date: December, 1901 - 1902
Locations: Great Portland Street; Templeton's
Antique Shop; A Hansom; Great Orme Street; Hobbs's
Lodgings; 221B, Baker Street; Mars; West Kensington;
Enmore Park; Scotland Yard; Shoscombe Old Place;
Simpson's; Waterloo Station; A Train; Horsell
Common; Chobham Road; Woking; Briarbrae; Woking
Station; A Train; Donnithorpe; Village Inn; Refugee
Train; Cambridge Station; Ware; Hackney Marshes;
Hoxton; A Tobacconist's; The Mouth of the Blackwater
River; A Church; Great Ilford; Camden House; Hyde
Park; Kensington Gardens; Kensington Road;
Cumberland Gate; Uxbridge Road; Edgware Road;
Portman Square; A Public House; A Haberdasher's;
Clerkenwell; Shoreditch; Mile End Road; A Meadow; An
Inn; Chelmsford; Tillingham; A Cottage; A Stone
House; Another Cottage; A Clothier's Shop; Cambridge
Road; Whitechapel; Grosvenor Square; The Serpentine;
Regent's Park; Baker Street; Regent Street; A
Confectioners; Highgate; Murray's Lodgings; Kentish
Town; Camden Road; Stoke Newington; Kingsland Road;
Piccadilly; The Sussex Downs; Holmes's Cottage;
Dollamore's Vintners; A Haberdasher's Shop; A
Provision Store; Park Road; Clarence Gate; Regent's
Park; Primrose Hill; The Martian Camp; St.
Martin-Le-Grand telegraph office; Queen Anne Street;
Watson's Rooms; Kensington; Venus
Story:
The Adventure of the Crystal Egg
While retrieving Fairdale Hobbs's stolen
Cellini ring from Morse Hudson, Holmes purchases an
egg-sized crystal from Templeton, an antiques
dealer, intending it as a gift for Martha Hudson for
Christmas. Morse Hudson seems eager to get his hands
on the crystal. Back at Baker Street, Holmes sees a
strange landscape appear in the crystal. The
following day he takes it to Professor Challenger.
Challenger is able to deduce that the landscape is,
in fact, Mars. Templeton tries to buy back the
crystal. It becomes clear that the crystal is a
device sent to Earth by the Martians so that they
may study this planet. Jacoby Wace, who had studied
the crystal when it was in the ownership of Cave,
another antique dealer, comes to Baker Street and
asks Holmes to help him trace it, Holmes takes him
to see Challenger. While Challenger studies the
crystal further, Holmes investigates a number of
unrelated cases, including that at Shoscombe Old
Place. Holmes reads a magazine story about the
crystal, by H.G. Wells, and Watson points out a
newspaper story about flares erupting from the
surface of Mars. Challenger shows Holmes that the
view in the crystal has changed to the inside of a
Martian craft. The first of the cylinders falls at
Woking and Holmes is summoned by Sir Percy Phelps.
Sherlock Holmes Versus Mars
Holmes & Phelps travel to Horsell Common where
they witness the destruction caused by the Martian
heat-ray. After spending the night at Briarbrae,
Holmes returns to Baker Street & Mrs. Hudson,
Watson is absent, tending to Murray, who is sick.
More cylinders fall, and Holmes sends Billy to stay
with his mother in Yorkshire. He sends word to
Challenger to look after the crystal, as it may be
used to trap a Martian. Phelps asks him to be the
Government's agent in London, the government having
moved to Birmingham, and Mycroft having accompanied
the Royal Family to Balmoral. He agrees to return
after taking Mrs. Hudson to stay with Victor Trevor
in Norfolk. In Donnithorpe, Trevor & Roxton are
in favour of forming a volunteer militia, but Holmes
advises against it. He receives word that London has
fallen to the Martians, but resolves to return all
the same. The train he travels down on is followed
by a martian flying machine, and the crew resolve to
go no further than Ware. Holmes walks the rest of
the way into the city. Having heard the cries of the
Martians, Holmes returns to Baker Street, where he
encounters Hopkins who tells him of the battle
between the Thunder Child and the Martian
war machines. Holmes suggests he should stay in
London, and investigate the Martians' capabilities,
he sends Hopkins to Birmingham to report what they
have learned so far. Exploring London, Holmes again
encounters Morse Hudson, who wants to know where his
wife, Mrs. Hudson, is. He attacks Holmes, but is
captured by a Martian. holmes returns to Baker
Street where he is pondering the possiblity of the
Martians falling victim to Earthly germs when Watson
stumbles through the door.
George E. Challenger Versus Mars
Returning from Horsell, Challenger theorises that
Mars is just a staging post, and that the invaders
come from elsewhere. He is unable to contact Holmes.
In the crystal he witnesses Martians draining the
blood from a human captive. Challenger sends Austin
off to help man the refugee trains, and procures a
horse and trap on which he and his wife join the
tide of refugees leaving London. In Chelmsford a
group of men try to take their horse. Eventually
they reach the coast where Challenger sends his wife
off on a boat to France. Meeting up with a
cavalryman, Tovey, Challenger watches the battle
between the Thunder Child and the Martians,
then sets off for London to retrieve the crystal he
had left there. Returning home he has a narrow
escape from a Martian, but retrieves the crystal.
After witnessing a massacre in Regent's Street, he
goes to Baker Street where he finds Holmes &
Watson.
The Adventure of the Martian Client
Watson stays with the ailing Murray until he dies,
then makes his way back to Baker Street, evading the
Martians, where he meets Holmes, who tells him about
the crystal. Challenger arrives, bringing the
crystal with him. He is followed by a Martian in
search of the crystal. They are abkle to capture
& subdue the Martian, which is diseased &
dying, for further study.
Venus, Mars, and Baker Street
Challenger still believes the invaders to have
originated on a planet other than Mars. After they
have preserved the Martian's body in alcohol, Mrs.
Hudson arrives back at Baker Street. Challenger
hurries Watson outside to allow her and Holmes to be
alone. Climbing into the Martian fighting machine,
Challenger retrieves another crystal for further
study. he and Watson continue to explore the city,
and after a few days venture as far as the Martian's
camp at Primrose Hill, where they find all the
invaders dead or dying. After the invasion life
returns to normal. Watson becomes engaged to Violet
Hunter. He visits Challenger who has made contact
with the invaders who are now attempting to colonise
Venus. Challenger's assistant shows Watson an
element of the Martian heat ray, but Watson is
prevented from inspecting it by the arrival of
Holmes and Hopkins, who reveal Morgan's true
identity.
A Letter from Dr. Watson
Watson points out to H.G. Wells the inaccuracies in
his version of the events.
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Wells
"The Adventure of the Clothes-line"
(1915)
Included in: The Game Is Afoot
(Marvin Kaye); The
Misadventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery
Queen); The Big Book of
Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler);
Sherlock
Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches II:
1915-1919 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Fictional Characters: C. Auguste Dupin;
Ebenezer Gryce; Lecoq; Arsene Lupin; A.J. Raffles;
Rouletabille; Scientific Sprague; The Thinking
Machine; Luther Trant
Historical Figures: Vidocq
Other Characters: Inspector Spyer; The Chief
of Police; Flossie Flicker
Locations: Fakir Street; The East Side; An El
Train; A Tenement Block
Story: The members of the Society of
Infallible Detectives, from their headquarters in
Fakir Street, investigate the mystery of a woman,
seen, by Inspector Spyer, hanging from a clothesline
strung between two tenement buildings. Each offers
his own solution, but the truth is finally revealed
by the chief of police.
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"The
Adventure of the Lost Baby" (1912)
Included in: The Sunday Star Magazine
(Washington DC), 23rd February, 1913; Sherlock Holmes
Great War Parodies and Pastiches I: 1910-1914
(Bill Peschel); and on this site
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Fictional Characters: Arsene Lupin; C. Auguste
Dupin; Lecoq; Vidocq; The Thinking Machine; A.J.
Raffles; Luther Trant; Rouletabille
Other Characters: Mrs Ezra J. Plummer; Ladies;
Mrs Green; (Episcopalian Client)
Locations: Fakir Street; Mrs Plummer's House
Story: The Society of Infallible Detectives
are called on by the widowed Mrs Plummer who has had a
John Rogers statuette, "Weighing the Baby" stolen from
her locked home. After visiting Mrs Plummer's home,
each detective departs with a clue. They return to
Fakir Street with a group of apprehended ladies from
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"The
Adventure of the Mona Lisa" (1912)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches I:
1910-1914 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Fictional Characters: Arsene Lupin; The
Thinking Machine; Lecoq; A.J. Raffles; C. Auguste
Dupin; Luther Trant
Other Characters: Messenger Boys;
Sandwich-Men; Washerwomen; The Chief of Police; The
Thief
Locations: Fakir Street
Story: The members of the Society of
Infallible Detectives, from the headquarters in Fakir
Street, set out to recover the stolen Mona Lisa.
Gradually the premises fill with more and more
"genuine" copies of the painting recovered by the
detectives, until a phone call from the chief of
police announces that the thief has given himself up
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"Cherchez la Femme" (1917)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches II:
1915-1919 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Fictional Characters: C. Auguste Dupin; Arsene
Lupin; Lecoq; The Thinking Machine; Ebenezer Gryce;
Craig Kennedy; Rouletabille
Historical Figures: Eugène-François
Vidocq
Other Characters: Elmer Ensign; Gracie
Golightly; Watson's Understudy; Fluffy Raffles; (Kid
Knapp; Minna Ensign; Kitty Ketcham; Zykowski)
Locations: USA; New York
Story: Elmer Ensign hires the Society of
Infallible Detectives to find his missing aunt, Gracie
Golightly, an ex-dancer who was planning to change her
will, away from a butlers' charity to her nephew and his
wife. A ransom note has been received.
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"Sure Way
to Catch Every Criminal. Ha! Ha!" (1912)
Also published as "The International Society of
Infallible Detectives"
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes in America (Bill Blakbeard); Sherlock Holmes
Great War Parodies and Pastiches I: 1910-1914
(Bill Peschel); A Bedside Book of
Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches
(Charles Press)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Fictional Characters: Professor Augustus
S.F.X. Van Dusen; Lecoq; A.J. Raffles; Arsene Lupin
Other Characters: Chief of Police; Messenger;
Archaeologist; Farmer; Pastry Cook; Criminal
Locations: Fakir Street
Story: The members of the Society of
Infallible Detectives, hold an indignation meeting, at
their headquarters in Fakir Street, over the
introduction of the 'Portrait Parle', a way of
recording physical details of criminals, believing
that it will remove the possibility of startling
detective exploits in the future. The chief of police
wants them to find a criminal in hiding and sends the
man's portrait parle - a box containing a lantern,
gimlet, hook, hatchet, scarab, apple, carrot, mutton
chop and pie. The detectives make their deductions and
are sent out by Holmes to find the criminal. They each
return with a different man, but the police find the
real criminal. |
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J.W. Wells
"His First Bow" (1951)
Included in: Ellery Queen's Mystery
Magazine, December 1951
Story Type: Homage
Other Characters: Miss Tilley; Adam
Lake; Lieutenant Charles Ames; Patrolmen; 75th Street
Bystanders; Miss Clark; Mr Bellows; (Connelly; Mr
Stanton; Mark Willoughby; Clark, sr; Clark, jr; The
Sellingtons; Photographer)
Locations: USA; New York; Courtney
Library; 75th Street; Willoughby's Books
Story: Lieutenant Ames calls on Adam
Lake, Director of the Courtney Library, after a
bookseller, Mark Willoughby is murdered with a gun
from a display featuring a first edition of A
Study in Scarlet. After Willoughby's assistant
is arrested, Lake returns to see the Holmes display by
night, and gets the clue he needs to solve the case.
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Oliver Wells
"The
Adventure of the Shattered Boudoir Glass" (1918)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches II:
1915-1919 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Other Characters: Cops; Victim; (Mayor of New
York; Crown Prince of Austria)
Date: Thursday
Locations: USA; New York; Biltmore Hotel;
Fifth Avenue; England; Holmes's Country Place
Story: In New York on a lecture tout, Holmes
receives an anonymous noting telling him that a murder
will be committed in an empty house on Fifth Avenue.
His investigations result in a broken boudoir glass
and the arrival of the cops. Watson loses his faith in
Holmes.
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Zack Wentz
"Simplicity Itself" (2013)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes
Mystery Magazine #10 (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche apparently
narrated by the bastard son of Dick van Dyke
Canonical Characters: Sherlock
Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson
Other Characters: Narrator and
presumably some others
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Oh, for goodness sake! Wentz
has decided to try to write this as a Cockney. If you
want to struggle through nine pages of stuff like "I'm
'oldin me 'at like I'm chauntin' lay, griddlin' inna
street", go ahead: I'm really not going to be
reading this one for you. It appears to be about a
cheery Cockney drug-dealer delivering Holmes's stash.
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Werex
"The Adventure of the Missing Hop" (2013)
Included in: The Gateway, Volume 21,
Number 5 (30 October, 1930)
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detective: Hemlock Homes
Other Characters: Hiram K. Bilgewater;
Poizunn Ennybody; Rustless Rupert; Burlington Bertie;
Lobelia Bilgewater
Unnamed Characters: Police; Strong Men; Drinkers;
(Armed Detectives; Girl Guides; Mother-in-laws)
Locations: Lager Springs; Bilgewater
Brewery; Haunted House
Story: A hop from the Bilgewater
collection of six is stolen from the brewery's safe.
Hemlock Homes and his dog, Rustless Rupert, arrive to
investigate. Burlington Bertie holds the hop to ransom,
wanting to marry Bilgewater's daughter, Lobelia.
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Robert Weverka
Murder by Decree (1979)
(Based on the screenplay by John Hopkins)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade
Historical Figures: Jack the Ripper; Edward
VII; Edward's Family; Catherine Eddowes; Mary Jane
Kelly; Sir Charles Warren; Robert James Lees; Grace
Lees; John Netley (John Slade); Annie Crook; Lady
Gull (Lady Spivey; Sir William Gull (Sir Thomas
Spivey); Lord Salisbury; Henry Matthews; (Polly
Nicholls; Annie Chapman; Elizabeth Stride; Joseph
Hyam Levy; Joseph Lawende; Constable Edward
(Oliver) Watkins; Mrs Gull; John Kelly; Alice
Crook; Duke of Clarence; Queen Victoria)
Other Characters: Opera Audience; Opera
Performers; Sir Goeffrey [sic] Harlton; Opera House
Concierge; Cab Drivers; Mr Makins; Mr Lanier; Mr
Carroll; Makins's Companions; Mitre Square Crowd;
Constables; Wharf Man; Dock Guard; Lees' Butler;
Lees' Maid; Newspaper Vendor; Lees' Housekeeper;
Nuns; Settlement House Inmates; Alehouse Patrons;
Danny; Public House Proprietor; Police Sergeant;
Prisoners; Telegram Boy; St Christopher's Chief of
Medical Staff; Wickshire Attendant; Dr Hardy;
Latimer; Head Nurse; Mother Superior; Downing Street
Constable; (Lord Starkweather; Lady
Starkweather; South American Businessman; Henry
DeRyder; Inspector Foxborough; M. Poinard;
Telegraph Boy; Park Lane Constable; River-Ferry
Captain; Eddy's Friend; Catholic Priest; Midwife;
St Christopher's Intern)
Date: September, 1888
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Covent Garden
Opera House; Whitechapel; Mitre Square; Wharf;
Wentworth Dwellings, Goulston Street; Elizabeth
Wharf; 25, College Row; Scotland Yard; Catholic
Setlement House; Public House; Police Station; St
Christopher's Hospital; Victoria Station; Train;
Reading; Wickshire Hospital; Brook Street; Spivey's
House; Dorset Street; 13, Millers Court; Hospital;
Providence Row Convent; 10, Downing Street
Story: Holmes is puzzled when, after the
second Ripper murder, he has still not been
consulted by the Yard. Returning from the opera on
the night of the third murder, Holmes is visited by
members of a citizens' committee from the East End
who wish him to investigate the murders. That same
evening, he receives an anonymous note, and, with
Watson, travels to view the scene of the Eddowes
murder, but they are seen off by Sir Charles Warren.
He is given a tip-off about a further clue, and is
able to chemically reconstruct the chalked message
about "The Juwes". A further tip-off almost leads to
a confrontation with a swordsman on the Elizabeth
wharf, and sends him to talk to Lees, a medium who
has seen the Ripper in a vision, and later in
person. They read of the murder of Makins, leader of
the Citizens' Committee, Holmes makes a connection
between the murders and Freemasonry. He visits the
Lees again, and sends Watson to Whitechapel to
interview the victims' friends. He finds himself
under arrest, but leads Holmes to Mary Kelly, who
reveals a story linking the murders to the Royal
Family. Holmes visits an asylum, is almost killed,
and is called before the Prime Minister before the
case reaches its unsatisfactory conclusion.
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