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Dr Whatson
"More Memoirs of Stirnot Homes"
(1923)
Included in: Ally Sloper's Half Holiday, 10th
February, 1923
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Stirnot Homes; Dr
Whatson
Other Characters: (Landlady; Mr
Attenborough)
Locations: Baker Street
Story: Stirnot Homes attempts to deduce the
source of a loud report that has disrupted the peace
of his Baker Street flat.
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Thomas Wheeler
The Arcanum (2004)
Story Type: Supernatural Mystery
Fictional Characters: The Cthulhu Mythos
Folkloric Characters: Demons; Angels; The Devil;
Zombies
Historical Figures: Arthur Conan Doyle;
Winston Churchill; Lady Jean Conan Doyle (wife);
Jean Conan Doyle (daughter); Tsar Nicholas II;
Rasputin; Kaiser Wilhelm II; George V; Farnsworth
Wright; Charles Altamont Doyle; Bess Houdini; Harry
Houdini; Franz Kukol; Marie Laveau II; James Bruce;
Aleister Crowley; Archbishop Patrick L. Hayes; A.E.
Waite; Gerald William Balfour; Eleanor Balfour;
Sarah Winchester; Margaret Murray; Rose Fitzgerald
Kennedy; William Randolph Hearst; Julie Karcher;
Marie Laveau I; Cecilia Weiss
Other Characters: Daniel Bisbee; Lizzie;
Gulliver Lloyd; Celia West; Montalvo Konstantin
Duvall; Darian Winthrop DeMarcus; Mrs. Bisbee;
Welgerd; Phillip; Barnabus Wilkie Tyson; Madame
Rose; Detective Sergeant Shaughnessy Mullin; Audrey;
Wally; Henry the Knob; Abby; Matthew; Dexter
Collins; Sandra; Paul Caleb; Chief McDuff; Captain
Bartleby; Chops Connelly; Antoine; Rags; Seamus;
Parks; Morris; Tito Beltran; Bobo; Madame Rose /
Erica DeMarcus; Marissa Newlove; Patrick Newlove;
Barnabus Wilkie Tyson; Joe; Judith; Ray Bozeman;
Uncle Toto; Walter; Sebastian Aloysius; Purrilla,
the Cat Lady of India; Dr. Faustus, Master of the
Hypnotic Eye; Otto; Popo; The American Society of
Magicians; Bruce; Bob; Smedley; Johnny Spades;
Carlos the Brazilian Puppeteer ; Gilda the Geek;
Buttons the Juggling Clown; Balthazar the
Magnificent; The Rat Man; (Martha; Mr. Baker)
Unnamed Characters: Duvall's
Mourners; Spanish Princess; Whitechapel Hawkers
& Orphans; Bavarian Butler; Reporters; Man at
Waldorf; Taxi Driver; Police Officers; Audrey;
Doctor; Prostitute; Deputy; Delancey Street
Denizens; Woman on Trolley; Penn Doorman; Bellevue
Guard; Police Officers; Orderly; Bellevue Inmates;
Asylum Guard; German Tourists; Autograph Hunters;
Movie Crew; Aide; Director; Photographer; Masked
Attackers; Laveau's People; Laveau's Brother; Voodoo
Dancers; Rags; Police Photographer; Bellevue Police
Officers; Security Guard; Couple in Cab; Beltran's
Lookouts; Beltran's Girls; Union League Waiter;
Bookshop Waitress; Madame Rose's Boy; Firefighters;
DeMarcus Manor Parking Attendants; DeMarcus's
Guests; Waiter; Man in Santa Claus Suit; Man in
Gorilla Suit; Empire State Express Conductor;
Engineer; Brakemen; Passengers; Farmers
Date: September-October, 1919 / 1912 / 1869
Locations: London; Windlesham; Cemetery;
Whitechapel; The British Museum; Bavaria; New York;
The Waldorf Astoria; Pier 14; Times Square; Pier 5;
Wright's Office; Delancey Street; 1414, Delancey
Street; Broadway; Penn Hotel; The Bowery; Mott
Street; Chinatown; Doyers Street; Bellevue Hospital;
An Asylum; A Ferry; Hoboken; Film Development
Corporation; Harlem; Nightclub; Tarrytown; Crow's
Head; Washington Square Park; St. Patrick's
Cathedral; Brooklyn; Talman Street; Union League
Club; Church Street; Bookshop Cafe; A Theater; The
Hearst Building; The DeMarcus Manor; An Underground
Temple; New York Rescue Society Headquarters; City
Hall Station; Orchard Street; Houdini's Harlem
Mansion; St. John's Hospital Morgue; Louisiana
Swamp; Crowley's Greenwich Village Studio; Willow
Grove Cemetery; A Chapel; Bowery Police
Headquarters; Delmonico's Roof; Grand Central
Station; Metropolitan Life Building; Clinton Hall;
The Empire State Express; Tarrytown; The Mauretania
Story: A man is killed in a road accident
near the British Museum. Churchill phones Doyle to
tell him that the victim was Duvall. Doyle visits
the driver and learns of Duvall's dying reference to
the Arcanum. In Duvall's secret rooms at the Museum,
Doyle discovers that the Book of Enoch has been
stolen. Doyle recalls Duvall's announcement of the
discovery of the book, in 1912, to George II, the
Tzar, the Kaiser and Rasputin. Duvall's notes lead
him to New York in search of Lovecraft. At a press
conference, Madame Rose, a medium, is accused of
Devil worship. A murder is committed by the river,
the second in which the victim's spine has been
removed, the only witness tears her own eyes out.
Doyle finds Lovecraft's apartment
ransacked, Detective Mullins believes Lovecraft, now
in an asylum, is resposible for the murder and one
earlier one. Doyle's visit to Bellevue Asylum to see
Lovecraft reminds him of childhood visits to his
father. Doyle attempts to enlist former Arcanum
member Houdini to assist him. Dexter is attacked by
a gang of masked and hooded figures. Doyle finds
himself in the presence of voodoo priestess Laveau,
and with Houdini's help they spring Lovecraft from
the asylum. He tells them the history of the Book of
Enoch and suggests that they need to consult
Crowley. Doyle consults the Archbishop of New York.
Laveau confronts the voodoo houngan Beltran.
They receive a magical relic from Waite.
Houdini attends a seance, and he and
Doyle face off against William Randolph Hearst.
After Doyle and Lovecraft visit the mission house to
which all the victims were connected, the Arcanum
face demons in the subway. After a fire at the
mission, a visit to the morgue reveals a startling
secret about the victims and leaves the Arcanum
faced with the task of protecting the orphan
Abigail. Houdini is imprisoned for murder and the
Arcanum ally themselves with the American Society of
Magicians.
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Arthur Whitaker
"The Case of the Man who was Wanted"
(1948)
Also published as "The Adventure of the
Sheffield Banker"
Included in: The Further
Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Richard
Lancelyn Green); The Final Adventures Of Sherlock
Holmes (Peter Haining); The Big Book of
Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler); Sherlock
Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches I:
1910-1914 (Bill Peschel); Sherlock
Holmes: The Published Apocrypha (Jack Tracy)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Baker Street Page; Inspector Lestrade; (Mrs.
Watson; Kate Whitney)
Other Characters: Mr. Jervis; Jabez Booth;
Mrs. Purnell; Detective Forsyth; Archibald Winter;
Mrs. Thackary
Unnamed Characters: Railway
Porters; Mrs. Purnell's Maid; New York Police
Chief; Sanitary Inspector; Empress Queen Purser;
Stewards; Passengers; Captain; Customs officers;
Policemen
Date: September, 1895
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; St. Pancras
Station; A Train; Sheffield; A Police Station;
Fulwood; The Cedars; Broomhill; Ashgate Road;
Booth's Lodgings; Manchester Road; Hathersage; (The
Empress Queen; New York; Glossop Road, Broomhill)
Story: As his wife is away, Watson visits
Holmes, who has received a letter from Jervis, a
Sheffield Banker, asking him to assist in tracking
down an employee, Booth, who has cashed forged
cheques at twelve banks in the city and disappeared.
They travel to Sheffield, where, after interviewing
Jervis, they visit Booth's lodgings. There they meet
Lestrade, who claims to have solved the case - a
blotter bears signs of Booth having booked passage
on board the Empress Queen. Lestrade
arranges to have the New York police arrest him on
his arrival. Holmes believes that the answer is not
so simple, but Jervis dismisses him from the case.
Word is received that Booth is has been seen aboard
the ship, which has been placed in quarantine, due
to an illness aboard, in New York harbour, but when
Lestrade arrives, Booth is nowhere to be found. From
the landlady's accounts of his frequent absences, a
missing painting and books, and a morning cup of
chocolate, Holmes is able to hand details of Booth's
whereabouts to Lestrade on his return to London.
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Frank Marshall White
"The Recrudescence of Sherlock
Holmes" (1894)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes
Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899
(Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; Sherlock
Holmes
Other Characters: Reporters; Club Servant; (O'Rourke
Hassan; Cabman)
Locations: USA; New York; Club; (Broadway;
Wall Street; Stock Exchange; New York World
Building)
Story: Watson arrives in New York on a
lecture tour after the death of Holmes.
Holmes makes an unexpected reappearance and is able to
deduce how Watson has spent his day.
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John J. White
"The Adventure of the Nine Hole
League" (2014)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes
Mystery Magazine #13 (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Tobias Gregson; (Mary
Morstan)
Other Characters: Mary O'Reilly; Lord Douglas
Fletcher / Erskine McKnight; Jail Constable; Charlie
Daley; Jenkins; Arthur Andrews; Lord Castor,
Wallace; Baker; Branigan; Smyth; (Mrs Hudson's
Nephew; Messenger; Albert Tenant; Francis
"Frankie" Daley; Beatrix; Beatrix's Father)
Date: 11th-18th June, 1892
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Eltham; Royal
Blackheath Golf Club; Morgue; Gaol; Police Station
Story: Holmes summons Watson to Baker Street
when he is consulted by Mary O'Reilly, whose fiancé
has been accused of murdering Lord Douglas Fletcher,
with one of his own clubs, at the Royal Blackheath
Golf Club, of which Watson is also a member.
They travel to the club, where they meet up with
Gregson, and after examining the murder site and a
chip of wood found on the body, Holmes meets with a
league of elderly golfers and pronounces his verdict.
When the case is over, Holmes reveals a tragic
incident from his past to Watson.
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Jon White
"A Letter from Mycroft Holmes" (1968)
Included in: The Game Is Afoot
(Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Mycroft Holmes;
Sherlock Holmes; Irene Adler; (Dr. Watson; Mrs.
Hudson)
Story: Holmes has written to Mycroft asking
for advice as he is being blackmailed into marriage
with Irene Adler who has compromising photographs of
him. This letter is Mycroft's reply.
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Richard W. White
"The Affair of the Spindled Manager"
(1967)
Included in: Bell Telephone Magazine (July /
August 1967)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Inspector Lestrade; (Mrs Watson; Mrs
Watson's Mother; Mrs Hudson)
Other Characters: Clyde Phinque;
Lestrade's Constables; Subordinate Whyne; (East
Indian Cabbie; Granny Mole)
Date: November, 18__
Locations: 221B, Baker
Street; 111, Barleycorn Row
Story: Lestrade arrives at Baker Street to
arrest Holmes's client, Clyde Phinque, for the
murder of his colleague, Subordinate Whyne, London
manager of Granny Mole's Sorghum Products, Inc.
At the company's offices, in the midst of his
paperwork, they find Whyne's body, with a spindle
through his heart.
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Howard Whitehouse
The Island of Mad Scientists (2008)
Story Type: Children's Fantasy Adventure
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes;
Mycroft Holmes)
Fictional Characters: Professor Cavor;
The Time Traveller; Professor Pierre Aronnax;
Axel Lidenbrock; Professor Summerlee; Abraham Van
Helsing; Wadley; Beast Man; Cavorite; (Reverend
Chasuble; Griffin; Dr Moreau; Time Machine)
Historical Figures: Nikola Tesla; Queen
Victoria; Abdul Karim, the Munshi; Sigmund Freud; (Thomas
Edison; Karl Benz; Lord Salisbury)
Other Characters: The
Collector; Foglamp; Emmaline Cayley; Princess
Purnah; Robert "Rubberbones" Burns; Professor
Ozymandias Bellbuckle; Lal Singh; Lucinda "Lucy"
Butterworth; Hercules; Titch; Winthrop Botts; Samuel
Soap / Emerald Ernie / Inspector Trout /
Superintendent Flatfoot / Lucky Luke Lariat;
Lancelot 'Stilters' Stilton; P.C. Squelch; Mr Peel;
Strand; Bert; William McGinnis; Lady Agatha Stilton;
Mr Blackbeard; Mrs McGinnis; Dr Aloysius Smoot;
Malvolia Wackett; Inspector Pike; Dr Sneed; Dr
Grockle; Angus; Billiam; Mrs Burns; Mr Vasilieff;
Rev. H.D.F. "Harry" Hawkes; Len; Will; Sam the
Barber; Mizzarbeau; Professor Synthesis; (Malvolia
Wackett; Miss Chasuble; Lady Flagstone;
Marie-Thérèse; Major Butterworth; Fred Stilton;
Madame ZaZa; Uncle Bakkistabbo; Uncle
Stabbibakko; Sharposwishi; Danny Burns; Tess Burns;
Susan Burns, Annie Burns; Mr Burns;
Josie Pinner; Hepzibah Foozleberry)
Unnamed Characters: Rubberbones's
Grandmother; Botts's Cousin; Leeds Station Boy;
Ticket Inspector; Merchant Seamen; Strathcarrot
Station Porter; McGinnis's Housekeeper; Saucy
Emmaline Captain; Engineer; Second Mate;
Scottish Trawler Crew; Secretary of the Royal
Society of Mad Scientists; Two Old Ladies; Port
Haddock Constable; Carriage Driver; Pike's
Constable; Dairy Farmers; Chipping Piebury Ticket
Inspector; Police Constables; Business Travellers;
Tea Lady; Old Man; Police Superintendent; Port
Haddock Stationmaster; Grandchester Cab Driver;
Cape Porridge Fisherman; Fisherman's Wife;
Fisherman's Child; Train Passengers; Ferry Ticket
Collector; Farmer; Poet; Shepherd; Housewife; Cart
Driver; Grandchester Postal Clerk; Queen's Secret
Service Escort; Pilkington Shopkeeper;
Nochtermuckity Butcher; Scientists; Collector's
Cook; Gaelic-speaking Ladies; Country Doctor;
Postman; Nochtermuckity Station Porter; Hotel
Clerk; Nochtermuckity Residents; St Grimelda's
Matron; (Grimethorpe Boy; Grimethorpe
Ticket Collector; Fishwick Fishermen; Retired
Colonel; Podgemout Servants; Housewife's Seven
Children; Belgian Birdman)
Date: November, 1894
Locations: Scotland;
Invermisery House; Strathcarrot Station;
Nochtermuckity; Hard Knox House; Station Hotel; Isle
of Urgghh; Port Haddock; Cape Porridge;
Invercrockery; Glasgow; Yorkshire; Lower Owlthwaite;
Grimethorpe Railway Station; Leeds Railway
Station; Manchester; London; Podgemout Parva;
Podgemout Castle; Chipping Piebury; Grandchester;
The Pig and Whistle; Pilkington-under-Hill; St
Grimelda's School for Young Ladies; Irish Sea;
Aboard the Saucy Emmaline
Story: The Collector, who keeps scientists
in the dungeon of his Scottish mansion arranges for
master of disguise, Samuel Soap, to kidnap Emmaline
and Rubberbones. Sherlock Holmes has suggested that
Aunt Lucy takes Emmaline, Rubberbones and Princess
Purnah away until things calm down. Professor Cavor
is abducted. After an incident involving the theft
of a car, Aunt Lucy and the Princess end up posing
as Lady Flagstone, a spirit medium, and her ward at
Podgemout Castle, while the others make for the Isle
of Urgghh, home of the Royal Society of Experimental
Science. Emmaline and the Professor survive a
shipwreck, and are joined by the robot, Angus. After
jumping from a train, the Princess teams up with
Harry Hawkes, a vicar and part-time tramp. Holmes
asks Mycroft to intercede in the problem of the
Princess's schooling. Professor Bellbuckle and
Rubberbones are captured by the Collector, and the
Time Traveler and Professor Cavor assist in
their escape .
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Howard Whitman
"Walking
Around" (1975)
Included in: Palm Beach Life,
Vol.68 No.3, March 1975
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock
Holmes; Dr Watson
Historical Figures: Howard Whitman; (Judge
Howard H. Harrison; Larrabee)
Other Characters: Veniremen; Clerk; (The
Lady Steamroller)
Date: 1974
Locations: USA; Florida; Palm Beach; County Court
House
Story: Serving on the jury with Whitman
are Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. Holmes deduces
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Dixie J. Whitted
"The
Adventure of the Stainless Spinster" (2017)
Included in: Crime Rhymes (Dixie J. Whitted)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; (Mrs Hudson; Mary Morstan; Mycroft Holmes)
Historical Figures: (Lizzie
Borden; Everett Brown; Thomas E. Barlow; Hyman
Lubinsky; Andrew Borden; Abby Borden; Bridget
Sullivan; Emma Borden; Dr Seabury W. Bowen; Alice M.
Russell; John Morse; Miss Bowen; Adelaide Churchill;
Mrs Bowen; Mary A. Raymond; Dr William Dolan; Police
Officers)
Date: 1893
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Watson arrives at 221B outraged at the
news that Lizzie Borden has been absolved of the
murder of her parents. Holmes explains why he believes
the verdict was correct and who the actual murderer
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Kenneth Whittington
"On the Trail of the Airplane
Thieves" (1922)
Included in: The Cohongoroota (Shepherd
College State Normal School), 1922
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detective: Hemlock Bones
Unnamed Characters: Thieves;
Police Officer; (Bones's Maid)
Locations: Bones's Rooms
Story: Hemlock Bones sets off in pursuit of
a gang of bank robbers in his private plane, solving
the problems of food, drink, and a missing engine en
route.
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Linda Wicklund & Shelly Nielsen
"The Case
of the Crafty Serpent" (1990)
Included in: Adventure Club: Exploring the
Universe of God's Promises (Linda Wicklund &
Shelly Nielsen)
Story Type: Educational Monologue
Sherlockian Detective: Sherlock Homely
Biblical Characters: Adam; Eve;
Serpent; God
Unnamed Characters: (Sarge)
Locations: Garden of Eden
Story: Sherlock Homely is sent back through
time by his sarge to investigate the disappearance of
Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. He finds a
letter from Adam and Eve explaining what happened.
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Sam Wiebe
"The
Glennon Falls" (2015)
Included in: The MX Book of New
Sherlock Holmes Stories Part II: 1890-1895
(David Marcum)
Story Type: Extra-canonical adventure of
Professor Moriarty
Canonical Characters: Professor Moriarty; (Colonel
Moran; Sherlock Holmes)
Other Characters: Margaret Ann Glennon; Mr
Moriarty; Yarborough; Cutler; Mr Glennon; Inspector
Collins; Moriarty's Father's Cook; Cutler's
Landlady; Collins's Constables; Pawnbroker; (Art
Critic; Moriarty's Mother; Yarborough's Servant)
Date: May 3, 1891 / During Moriarty's
Childhood
Locations: Switzerland; Meiringen;
Moriarty's Htel; England; Moriarty's Chldhood Home;
London; The East End; Southwark; Mrs Glennon's Rooms
Story: The evening before meeting Holmes
at Reichenbach, Moriarty recalls his first crime.
The eleven-year-old Moriarty conceives a plan,
utilising his father's rare book collection, to rid
himself of his governess, Mrs Glennon.
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Constance Wilder-Wokoun
The Tale Not Told (2000)
Story Type: Canonical Re-visioning
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Mycroft Holmes; Mrs Hudson; Dr Watson; Baker Street
Irregulars; Inspector Lestrade
Other Characters: Charlotte Holmes; Vikas;
Mde. [sic] Eglantyne; Indian Women; English Men;
Neisha; Vikas' Mother; Holmes's Mother; Holmes's
Father; Aide de Camp; Vikas' Father; Ship's Officer;
Captain; Passengers; Station Man; Conductor; Mr
Hudson; Lady Elizabeth Traymore; Mr Arnow; Two
Constables; Terence Meyers; Kate; Eglantyne's Women;
Sarah; Marcia; Sir John Dracott; Amin; Trevor
Ashington; Parsons; Lord Ashington;Lestrade's Men;
Gerald Eggarts; Sir John's Woman; (Dhar; Dr
Bains; Todd Denby; Parsons)
Locations: India; The Holmes Residence;
Eglantyne's Indian Brothel; A Ship; Winchester
Station; Traymore Manor; 221B, Baker Street; Meyers'
Office; Eglantyne's London Brothel
Story: During their childhood in India,
where their father serves as ambassador, Holmes and
Mycroft rescue a young girl from a brothel. In the
house Holmes sees a cap belonging to another young
friend who has disappeared. A few days later the
brothel is closed and the Madame disappears. Holmes
and Mycroft are sent to England to stay with their
mother's great-aunt Elizabeth, while their parents
journey into the interior. Arriving in England they
are met by Mr & Mrs Hudson and taken to their
aunt's estate. Lady Traymore is not fooled by
Holmes's (who we now learn is really a girl,
Charlotte) impersonation of a boy, but allows it to
continue. The new village doctor, Watson, is
employed to tutor the children. News arrives that
their parents have been killed in India. Mr Hudson
is killed in a carriage accident.
When Lady Traymore dies, Mrs Hudson,
Mycroft and Holmes move to Baker Street. Mycroft
goes to Oxford. Watson sets up practice and becomes
a police surgeon, Holmes becomes his assistant. She
decides to become a consulting detective. Eglantyne
reappears in London involved in the murder of the
son of Lord Denby, and of a Baker Street Irregular.
Holmes decides to infiltrate Eglantyne's London
brothel, where she will use an hypnotic crystal to
convince any clients that she has given them their
money's worth. There she finds the missing boy and
an old acquaintance from India. After the rescue
Holmes reveals Mme Eglantyne's secret, and its
influence on her own life. Lestrade joins them for
the final arrests.
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Conrad Williams
"Rosenlaui"
(2015)
Included in: The
Adventures of Moriarty (Maxim Jakubowski)
Story Type: Extra-canonical Adventure of
Professor Moriarty
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Professor Moriarty
Other Characters: Narrator; Narrator's
Mother; Hotel Staff; Hotel Guests; Holmes's
Emissary; (Pascal; Tobias; Doctor)
Date: 3rd May, 1891
Locations: Switzerland; Meiringen;
Schilthorn Hotel; Rosenlaui Glacier
Story: The son of the owner of the
Schilthorn Hotel in Meiringen has been paralysed since
birth. Holmes and Watson briefly stop by at the hotel,
and Holmes asks the narrator to keep watch for the man
who is following them. When Moriarty arrives, he takes
the narrator away from the hotel to teach him a lesson
in life.
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Gerard Williams
Dr Mortimer and the Aldgate Mystery
(2000)
Story Type: Extra-canonical Adventure of Dr
Mortimer
Canonical Characters: Dr Mortimer; Mrs (Ruth)
Mortimer; Sir Henry Baskerville; Dr Watson; Mary
Morstan; (Sherlock Holmes; The Hound of the
Baskervilles; Sir Charles Baskerville)
Historical Figures: Frederick Wensley; (Johann
Zoffany)
Other Characters: Dr Eustace Ferraby; Dolly
Ferraby; Ferraby's Daughters; Coachman; Clothes
Seller; Pastry Peddler; Violet Branscombe; Ord;
Archibald Boynton-Leigh; Lavinia Nancarrow; Demelza
"Demmy" Penruddock; Lance Boynton-Leigh; Kensington
Garden Couples; Percival Tooke; Taveern Waiter; Mr
Krolick; Ferraby's Coachman; Whitechapel Residents;
Violet's Patients; Queenie Bryant; Bill Bettridge;
Warsaw Cafe Clientele; Waiter; Chess Players; Angel
Alley Attackers; Jack Ronald Agar; Dolly; Deechy;
Cohen's Waiter; Cabby; Matchseller; Jewish Men; Hot
Cross Bun Barman; Hot Cross Bun Clientele; Sammy the
Shiner; Peckfuller's Maidservant; Mr Peckfuller;
Highgate Waiter; Plumbers' Row Attackers; Cabbies;
Rosie Bartlett; Agar's Men; Mr Politis; Billy;
Infirmary Police Constable; Junior Minerva Club
Member; Sergeant Prudhoe; Mortimer's Landlady;
Inspector Hector Moultry; Leman Street Police
Officers; Ginger Lane Constable; Top-Hatted Man;
Junior Minerva Club Porter; Mr Gillis; David
Zeinvel; Sergeant Bovill; Eleanor Ramsbotham; Dr
Jane Bonsor; Jane's Maid; Jane's Attendant;
Chophouse Waiter; Station Hotel Duty-Man; Malton
Cabbie; Lowesby; Theodora Boynton; Theodora's
Coachman; North Grimston Porter; Verger; Charlie
Noble; Violet's New Pharmacy Lad; Soused Herring
Woman; Ragman; Leman Street Constable; James Tooke
(Mortimer's Solicitor; Ferraby's Father;
Ferraby's Mother; Ferraby's Father's Chief Clerk;
Mortimer's Housemaster; Subalterns; Indian
Caretaker; Mrs Bettridge; Hettie Ovingham; Miss
Mainsforth; India Office Official; Mr Kearney;
Dartmouth Medical Officer; Sir Edgar
Crowninshield; Cary-Evans; Adelaide Boynton-Leigh;
Edmund Peckfuller; Francis Corcoran; Descadilhas;
Kurt Frohwein; Sir Jonas Fairmead; Constantia
Leigh; Constantia's Daughters; Firemen; Queenie's
Parents; Finn; Lance's Nurses; Richard Cary
Boynton; Captain Matthew Nancarrow; Loetitia
Nancarrow; Bengal Club Secretary; Richard Tenniel
Boynton; Rachel Leigh; Hot Potato Man; Arabella
Boynton; Maclure; London Hospital Sister; Reverend
Hilary Venables; Shipley's Coachman; Woolwich
Clergyman; old Indian Woman; Indian Gardener;
Indian Sweeper)
Date: 24th July, 1939 / March-August, 1890
Locations: Torquay; Grimpen; Watson's
Kensington House; Eaton Square; Mark Lane Station;
Fenchurch Street; Aldgate; Aldgate Station;
Middlesex Street; Wentworth Street; Cobb Street;
Ginger Lane; Kensington Gardens; The Round Pond;
Tavern; Charing Cross; Krolick's Bookshop; Brick
Lane; 154, Whitechapel Road; Bloomsbury; Coptic
Street; Junior Minerva Club; Osborn Street; Warsaw
Cafe; Angel Alley; Fournier Street; Agar's Studio;
Mortimer's Rooms off Fleet Street; Fieldgate Street;
Cohen's Restaurant; East Ham; The Hot Cross Bun;
Gatti's; Highgate; Ponds Villa; East Harding
Street; Eyre & Spottiswood Offices; The Cheshire
Cheese; Plumbers' Row; Winthrop Street; Brady
Street; Durward Street; Bloomsbury Square; Leman
Street Police Station; Blackfriars Station; Seymour
Place; The New Women's Hospital; Holloway; Bonsor's
Hotel; The Strand; Chophouse; A Train; Yorkshire;
York Station; Malton; Station Hotel; Yorkshire
Wolds; North Grimston; Beck Hall; North Grimston
Station; North Grimston Church; King's Cross
Station; Euston Road; Italian Restaurant; Durward
Street; New Road; Whitechapel Road; The Minories;
Tower Bridge; The Thames; Aboard the Saltwell;
Fenchurch Street
Story: After the death of his wife,
Dr Mortimer leaves Grimpen, but is talked out of
retiring by Watson, who sets him up as locum to an old
friend from Bart's, Eustace Ferraby. One of his first
patients is the highly-strung Lavinia Nancarrow. Her
guardian, Archibald Boynton-Leigh, insists that
anything Mortimer wishes to give her must first be
passed to him. When he arrives at the house, he runs
into Dr Violet Branscombe, whom Boynton-Leigh accuses
of interfering in his ward's affairs. He removes
unprescribed bottles of laudanum and bromide of
potassium from Lavinia's room. In Kensington Gardens,
he encounters Tooke, who says he is in love with
Lavinia, and who had been ordered to stay away from
her by Boynton-Leigh and told that she must never
marry. He also tells Mortimer about the artist, Agar,
his rival suitor, who is hunting works by the artist
Zoffany for an American collector. On his next visit,
he learns that Lavinia has not been out of the house
since she arrived in London. He renews his
acquaintance with Violet, who tells him that Agar is a
middleman in the flesh trade, whom she is hoping to
bring to justice. After playing chess in the Warsaw
Cafe, Mortimer is attacked on the street and rescued
by Agar.
After Ferraby returns, Mortimer accepts
Violet's offer of a post at her Whitechapel surgery.
From a burglar contact they learn of Agar's
involvement in an attempted art theft. Boynton-Leigh
makes plans to send Lavinia to a clinic for nervous
disorders in France. A fire destroys Violet's surgery,
and Mortimer is approached by the police after Agar is
murdered and Lavinia disappears. Violet comes under
suspicion of murder. A family portrayed in a Zoffany
painting may hold the key to the mystery, and red
candlesticks coupled with a trip to Yorkshire provide
a further clue. When the case is over, Mortimer
marries Violet.
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Dr
Mortimer and the Barking Man Mystery (2001)
Story Type: Extra-canonical Adventure of Dr
Mortimer
Canonical Characters: Dr Mortimer
Historical Figures: Sir Edward Clarke;
Frederick Wensley; Henry Irving; (Bram Stoker)
Other Characters: Dr Violet Branscombe; Violet
Starr; David Zeinvel; Axelband; Mrs Snell; Cabbie;
Poland Street Women; Poland Street Policeman; Jim
Postgate; Jane Bonsor; Trial Spectators; Judith
Vulliamy; Lord Justice Calthrop; Court Official;
Solomon Solomons; Constable Edwin Luckham; Francis
Carmody; Eliza Donkin; Detective Sergeant Houlsby; Mr
Calton-Freke; Sir James Ettrick; Emilio Quandt; James
Withers; Fritz Moritz; Edwin Mordew; Alexander Miller;
Dr Federoff; Jules Cazes; Lottie; Constable Ernest
Seddon; James Tolley; Mr Woodnutt; Witnesses; John
Burton Gaselee; Sidney Arthur Wellcome; Emmanuel
Shalit; Lettice Jephson; Cabbie; Simpson's Waiter; De
Kok's Clerk; Willem de Kok; Coe's Landlady; Prison
Guard; Muffin-Man; Magnolias Inmates; Hector Jephson;
Custodian; Visitors; Montelimar Close Man; Finchley
Road Carter; Cab Driver; Moberley's Parlourmaid;
Randall Moberley; Florence; Mrs Read; Emily Chaytor;
Mannie Shaffer; Warsaw Waiter; Warsaw Proprietor;
Cricket-Capped Loafer; PC Kennedy; Mrs Bennett;
Newsboy; Brown's Desk Clerk; Mrs Custance / Cora
Raines; Stewart's Maid; Gabbitas & Tring Clerk;
Louisa Wincott; Express Clerk; Mrs Chinnery / Dinah
Raines; Reverend Cormell Jephson; Cook's Clerk;
Leonard; Logan's Customers; Cantor; Bonsor's Husband;
Lyceum Stage Door Keeper; Irving's Dresser; Soho Club
Girls; Union Street Children; Workers Club Crowd;
Speakers; Mark Diamant; Charlie's Mother; Sword
Swallower; Charlie Noble; Nevill's Attendant; Nevill's
Customers; Craven Passage Women; Craven Passage
Constable; George; Charing Cross Desk Sergeant; Reform
Club Doorman; Flunkey; Edward Coram; Frostic Place
Cabbie; Dunk Street Policeman; St Mary's Ticket Office
Man; Left Luggage Attendant; Le Thuillier; Old Oliver;
Dispensary New Boy; Mr Maidment; Tivoli Stage Doorman;
Stanley; Simpson's Waiter; Scrutton Ground Cabbie;
Isaac Flitterman; Mrs Flitterman; Apprentice-Improver;
Woman Coat-Machinist; Four Children; Chief Inspector
Moultry; Vulliamy's Maid; Cabbie; House-Agent's Clerk;
Wensley's Men; Hospital Orderlies; Head Porter;
Plain-Clothes Constable; Hansom Driver; Wormwood
Scrubs Door Keeper; Rosser; Captain Sutton
Kirkpatrick; Miller's Cabbie; Cora's Cabbie;
Sisterson; (General Pyotr Ivanovich Ostyankin;
Drunken Mother & Her Child; Union Street Idlers;
Brummie Ida; Semyon Klaff; Leman Street Police;
Reverend Hilary Venables; Constable Matthew Divitt;
Mr De Kok; Dr Reginald Pinnock; Federoff's Card
Partners; Major Tvardoffsky; PC Yeatman; Leman
Street Desk Sergeant; Coutts Chief Cashier; Lord
Raglan Bartender; Barmaid; Desmond Coe; Gedge's
Maid; Sophie Carlin; Judith's Grandfather;
Grandfather's Coachman; Warsaw Informant; Lieutenant
Alexander Nikolayevich Kostromin; Lieutenant
Grigoriy Yefimovich Yevdokimoff; Russian Ambassador;
Eustache Fabre-Lebreuil; State Counsellor
Pamphiloff; Violet's Aunts; Seppie Frame; Woolf;
Freddie; Mrs Tighe; May Tighe; Rustem Pacha)
Date: February, 1891 / August 1939 / May -
October 1886
Locations: Whitechapel; The People's
Dispensary; Fieldgate Street; Cohen's Restaurant;
Osborn Street; Axelband's Tailors; Klaff's Lodgings;
Poland Street; 11, Poland Street; Coptic Street; The
Junior Minerva Club; Henrietta Street; Mortimer's
Rooms; The Old Bailey; The Cheshire Cheese; Fleet
Street; Simpsons; Charing Cross; Temple Gardens;
Bouverie Street; Clerkenwell Road; Dundee Buildings,
Cornhill; Warwick Square, Pimlico; Crutched Friars;
Wormwood Scrubs; Hampstead; Montelimar Close;
Magnolias Nursing Home; Finchley Road; Soho Square;
Leadenhall Street; Bayswater; Pembridge Square; Osborn
Street; Warsaw Café; Flower and Dean Street; Portugal
Street; Driver's Oyster Bar, Chancery Street; Brown's
Hotel, Albemarle Street; 8, Farm Street; Mrs Stewart's
Confectionery Shop, Oxford Street; Gabbitas &
Tring Offices, Regent Street; Boscobel Street;
Lewisham Workhouse; Mayfair; 19, Farm Street; Charing
Cross Hotel; Regent Circus; Express Messenger Company;
Charing Cross Station; Soho Working Girls' Club;
Thomas Cook's Office; Royal Thames Yacht Club; Dorset
Street; Lyceum Theatre; St James's Park Station; Great
Eastern Hotel; Cohen's Restaurant; Commercial Road;
Berner Street; International Workers' Educational
Club; Poplar High Street; Nevill's Turkish Baths;
Northumberland Street; Craven Passage; Charing Cross
Police Station; The Reform Club; Frostic Place; Old
Montague Street; Finch Street; St Mary's Station;
Farringdon Road Station; Sadlers Wells Theatre; Tivoli
Theatre; Brick Lane; Blitz's Eating House;
Westminster; Strutton Ground; 22, Maddox Street;
Berkeley Square House-Agents; Charing Cross Hospital;
Ratcliff Highway; (Union Street; Warsaw Café;
Wentworth Street; Leman Street; Cadogan Hotel;
Kettners Restaurant, Romilly Street; Chicksand
Street; Coutts Bank, The Strand; The Lord Raglan,
Limehouse; Spitalfields; Lamb Street; Prussia;
Berlin; Ebury Street; Odessa)
Story: Working with his new wife, Violet
Branscombe, at the Whitechapel People's Dispensary,
Mortimer is drawn into the case of Solomons, a
Ruthenian social revolutionary accused of the murder
of General Ostyankin. Mortimer attends Solomons'
trial, where the political implications of the case
become clear to him. He notices the presence of a
veiled lady among the crowd, and hears a story of
false identities and unusual gold sovereigns. He sets
out to track down a missing witness, and hears about a
burned walking stick. A visit to Solomon in Wormwood
Scrubs brings details of the high class of people
using the brothel in which the General was murdered,
and the goings-on there. Another murder is reported
and Mortimer's investigations take him to a nursing
home for syphilitics, and to a young girl who may have
been taken, blindfolded, to the murder house. He
begins to realise that evidence is being covered up at
official levels. When the trial ends with a verdict of
guilty and a sentence to hang, Mortimer's
investigation becomes more urgent, and he begins to
have suspicions about a card game that is serving as
an alibi. Links to an assassination in Odessa begin to
appear, but a trap laid at Nevill's Turkish Baths
leads to Mortimer being arrested as a peeping tom and
the abduction of his wife, while the public
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Gerrald E. Williams
"Sherlock Holmes Solves the Case of
the Missing Transistor Clues" (1978)
Included in: Radio-Electronics, February 1978
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Unnamed Characters: Narrator
Locations: 221, Baker Street
Story: Watson has received a new, but
non-functioning, Oriental transistor amplifier.
Holmes helps him diagnose the problem.
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Barbara Williamson
"The Thing Waiting Outside" (1976)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes Through
Time and Space (Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry
Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh)
Story Type: Supernatural Homage
Canonical Characters: The Hound of the
Baskervilles
Fictional Characters: (Lilliputians;
Red Queen)
Other Characters: Boy; Girl; Mother; Father;
(Cleaning Lady)
Locations: A House
Story: To curb their overactive
imaginations, the children's parents take away the
children's books after they claim to have spoken
with characters from them. That night, the
boy takes a copy of The Hound of the Baskervilles
to his parents.
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J.N. Williamson
"The
Adventure of the Man Who Never Laughed" (1996)
Included in: Holmes for the
Holidays (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L.
Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Colonel Moran; Mycroft
Holmes)
Historical Figures: (Thomas Nast;
Charles Fort; Sigmund Freud; Josef Breuer)
Other Characters: Eleanor Chesterfield; Carol
Singers;
Sydney Chesterfield; (Neal Family; Kisner;
Koontz; Chesterfield's Parents; Mr Calhoun)
Date: December, 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street;
Story: Alongside correspondence from Thomas
Nast and Charles Fort, Holmes receives a letter from
Eleanor Chesterfield, whose brother Sydney, an
aspiring author who has become unable to smile or
laugh, has disappeared. Holmes goes to church and
joins a band of carol singers, while Watson reads
Freud.
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The Ritual (1976)
Story Type: Horror Homage
Sherlockian Detective: Dr Martin Ruben
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock
Holmes)
Historical Figures: (Basil
Rathbone; Napoleon Bonaparte; Adolf Hitler; Attila the
Hun; Genghis Khan; Vlad the Impaler; Aleister Crowley;
Marquis De Sade)
Figures from Religious Belief: The
Antichrist; (God; The Devil; Judas Iscariot)
Other Characters: Robert Meggitt;
Richard Meggitt; Susan Meggitt; Johno Meggitt; Esther
Teller; Mrs Curtis; Reverend Gregory Bassett; Lynn;
Claude Rice; Steven Williams; Charles V. Dietrich; Amy;
Betsy; Arabelle Berry; Arnie Greenbur; Barry Caldwell;
Dr Laird Glenn; Edwina Ball; Eddie Floyd; Francine
Lucas; Betty Williams; Arlo Trabull; Sgt Thalmus King;
Margaret "Sunny" Rice; Beth Wales; Wilhelm Peck;
Adelaide Baker; Evie Dietrich; Betsy Mander; Lily
D'Andrea; Junior Police Officer; Pete Blane; Jilly
Randolph; Jo Bassett; Larry Bassett; Tom Bassett; Joanie
Bassett; Belinda Bassett; Teenage Boy; Waitress; Ruben's
Students; Glenn's Receptionist; Cadillac Driver; Old
Man; Church Choir; Church Congregation; Steak 'n' Shake
Carhop; Police Officers; Pharmacist's Assailant; Funeral
Guests; Elderly Hospital Man; Hospital Receptionist;
Asian Merchants; Asian Men & Women; Asian Youth; (Chuck
Lawrence; Richard's Father; Car Mechanic; Ed Lucas;
Cousin Millie; Hale Teller; Dwight Teller; Mae Reilly;
Phoebe Reilly; Herman Greenburg; Becky Greenburg; Mrs
Baretti; Ruben's Father; Mrs Trabull; Andy Trabull;
Kathy Trabull; Mr Pine; Teddy; Dr Glenn's Pinochle
Cronies; Professor Shelton; Old Man; Old Woman;
Witches Coven; Pharmacist; Fire Chief; Arson Suspect
Lifeguard; Drowned Child; Drowning Witnesses; Liquor
Store Owner; Liquor Store Robbers; Reverend Earl
Forrest)
Date: January - 5th February, 1977
Locations: USA; Indiana; Carmel;
Meggitt's House; Bassett's Rectory; Richard's Office;
Steak 'n' Shake; School; Lott Hall; Glenn's Office; Miss
Ball's House; Keystone Avenue; Dietrich's House;
Trabull's Dry-Cleaning Store; Road 31; Arabelle's
Apartment; Range Line Road; Rice's House; Church;
Mortuary; Hospital; Police Station; Bassett's House;
Indianapolis; Badler University; Lott Hall; Frat House;
Ruben's Apartment; Noblesville; Cemetery; Asia; Market
Story: Objects start moving by
themselves in the Meggitt household, and at
thirteen-year-old Robert Meggitt's school. At the same
time, people in their home town of Carmel, Indiana,
begin behaving oddly. The Meggitts' doctor refers them
to Dr Martin Ruben, a parapsychologist, who has become
tired of people telling him he looks like Sherlock
Holmes, when he really looks like Basil Rathbone. As a
result of recently re-reading the canon, Ruben has a
propensity for peppering his conversation with
Sherlockian quotes, an making Holmesian deductions.
Ruben discovers that Robert was born on the day that was
said to be the date on which the Antichrist would
appear, and that his subconscious is inhabited by the
voices of history's great dictators, who have told him
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The Tulpa (1981)
Story Type: Horror Homage
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock
Holmes)
Historical Figures: Indianapolis
Indians; Chicago Cubs; Philadelphia Phillies; Greg
Luzinski; Pete Rose
Characters Based on Historical Figures:
Jay Finley Smith (Jay Finley Christ / Edgar W. Smith);
Vincent Christopher Smith (Vincent Starrett /
Christopher Morley / Edgar W. Smith)
Folkloric Characters: Tulpa
Other Characters: Charlie Kavanagh;
Ellen Neal; Steve Neal; Mary Neal; Scott Neal; Luke
Harte; Myrtle Lucas; William W. McDonald / Bill
MacDonald; Rd Bales; Chief Inspector Roy Drolier;
Clarence Hunter; Ronnee Aletter; Franklin Weston; Big
Jim; Mrs Hunter; Evan Schlieman; Mayor Dan Luger; Mary
Litholtz; Mel Randolph; Mary Jo Randolph; Eddie
Crawley; Terry Hancock; Fred Burns; The Master's
Clients; Vincent Christopher Smith; Teddy Gerald /
Northumberland; Greg Cohen; Ken Smythe; Margo Smythe;
Pete Wilkinson; Ellen Peck; Max Leibowitz; Fred
Sivola; Phil Thermopolis; Jack Sanger
Mortuary Director; Funeral Guests; Priest;
Pallbearers; Limousine Driver; Doctor; Dr Franklin
Laudig; Old Woman in Hospital; News Vendor; Indians
Manager; Cab Driver; Wrigley Field Crowd; Black
Teenager; Policemen; Wrigley Field Attendants; Doyle
Teenagers; Bank Customers; Bank Tellers; Bagatelle
Bartender; Reporter; Times Secretary;
Theatre Crowd
(Edna Kavanagh; Louisa; Hal Mitchem / Hal Mitchum;
Eddie; Mrs Hunter; Father Edward; Mrs Hopping;
Ronnee's Coven; George; H. A. Johnson; Horse Creek
School Children; School Bus Driver; Semi Driver;
Uncle Petey; Lucy McDonald; Lynn Randolph; Larry;
Mrs Hancock; Willis Bechtman; Professor Ruthoffer;
Rena Calvert; Lenny Calvert; Sue; Theatre Ushers;
Postal Union Steward; The Fultons; Tommy Drolier)
Date: July - September
Locations: USA; Indiana;
Indianapolis; Mortuary; East 38th Street; Cemetery;
Hospital; Times Building; Route 465; Doyle;
Baker Street; Thor Bridge; Parliament Avenue;
Northumberland Avenue;Dawson & Neligan's; Doyle
First National Bank; Randolph's House; Crawley's
Apartment; Bagatelle Club; Lyceum Theatre
Evansville; Stadium; Illinois; Chicago; Lake Shore
Drive; Weston's Office; Prince Valiant Hotel; Ronnee's
Apartment; A Plane; Wrigley Field; O'Hare Airport;
Wyoming; Horse Creek; Custer Bridge; Airport
Story: After his wife's death,
Charlie Kavanagh starts experiencimg headaches and
premonitions, and after collapsing at the funeral, is
diagnosed with arteriosclerosis. His daughter Ellen
and son-in-law Steve Neal, live in the
Sherlockian-themed Doyle, Indiana, a town founded by
Baker Street Irregular Jay Finley Smith, and take
Charlie in to live with them. People in the town begin
to report seeing moving shadows. Steve tries to use
Charlie's predictions, but fails to prevent a tragedy
at a baseball game. A bank hold-up ends in tragedy, as
a tulpa appears in town.
The town's Sherlockian society, The Master's Clients'
monthly meeting is attended by Baker Street Irregular
Vincent Christopher Smith, but ends in carnage. Having
identified the creature, Steve sets out to destroy it
before it destroys his family.
NOTE: As Steve Neal explains to his
family about J.W. Dunne's research into time, his son
Scott is described as "suddenly losing interest
in his pal George" (P.123), a reference to
George Pal, director of the first film version of The
Time Machine.
NOTE 2: J.N. Williamson was a
Sherlockian, and his middle name was Neal, suggesting
that Steve Neal is modelled in part upon
himself.
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A. Dewar Willock
"A Study in Red by A. Donan Coyle" (1892)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes
Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899
(Bill Peschel); A
Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and
Pastiches (Charles Press)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock
Holmes
Other Characters: Narrator; Mrs
Smith; (Maid-of-all-work)
Date: 25th December
Locations: Mrs Smith's Lodging House
Story: After making deductions about
the staff from his Christmas dinner, Holmes decides to
leave Mrs Smith's lodging house.
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Alan Wilson
"The Adventure of the Tired Captain"
(1958)
Included in: The Further
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Richard
Lancelyn Green)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Inspector Lestrade
Other Characters: Rachel Webber; Captain
Joshua Webber; Mrs. Marchmont; Mr. Brooks; Adam
Belter; Firemen; Webber's Neighbour; (Rachel's
Schoolfriend; Tradespeople)
Date: The July following Watson's marriage
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Hexton Manor,
near Aldershot; The Bear Inn; A Train
Story: Rachel Webber consults Holmes over
the bizarre behaviour of her father, who has thrown
the butter dish into the fireplace, fired his pistol
at the housekeeper, and now nailed shut the doors to
the east wing of their house, Hexton Manor. The
behaviour, it seems, was brought on by the arrival
of a letter, which he claimed brought bad news
regarding some financial affairs. At the village
inn, Holmes learns of a furious altercation between
the Captain and a friend he had met there. When he
and Watson visit the Manor, they are told that the
Captain is unusually tired and has retired to his
bed, and yet they see the door of his study closing.
Holmes summons Lestrade to the scene and they lie in
wait outside the house. The solution, Holmes
reveals, lies in the Captain's past, and an old
smuggling case involving his first officer. Before
they can bring the culprit to justice, however, the
east wing is set ablaze.
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Bob Wilson
Stanley Bagshaw and the Frantic Film
Fiasco (1970)
Story Type: Children's Comic Rhyming Graphic
Novel
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Fictional Characters: Macbeth's Witches;
Aladdin; Aladdin's Genie; Biggles; Pinocchio; The
White Rabbit
Folkloric Characters: Sir Lancelot; Robin
Hood
Historical Figures: Macbeth; Linford
Christie; Robert Falcon Scott; Napoleon Bonaparte;
Adolf Hitler; Henry VIII; Dick Turpin
Other Characters: Stanley Bagshaw; Gran;
Arnold Crumb; Algernon Bigwurdz; Usherette; Pilots;
Sports Commentator; Starter; Nun; Chief Bleeding
Toe; Stadium Crowds; Native American Scouts;
Stagecoach Driver; Sheriff
Locations: Huddersgate; 4, Prince Albert
Row; The Roxy Cinema
Story: Stanley goes to the cinema. The
manager is depressed because of criticisms over his
film programming, and a critic is coming to a
screening to check the stories. While he's helping
dust the projection room, Stanley knocks over a
stack of film cans. He attempts to put the films
back together, but gets sections from different
films mixed up, and the resulting screening becomes
a critical success.
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David Niall Wilson & Patricia Lee
Macomber
"Death Did Not Become Him" (2003)
Included in: Shadows Over
Baker Street (Michael Reaves & John Pelan)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Wiggins
Other Characters: Aaron Silverman; Sebastian
Jeffries; Michael Adcott; Carriage Driver; Morgue
Clerk
Date: (1902)
Locations: Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street;
Watson's Flat; Asylum of St. Elian; Morgue
Story: Watson consults Holmes after he is
visited by three men, one of whom he had signed a
death certificate for a week previously. Holmes's
investigations take him to the morgue where it is
discovered that the man's body has indeed disapeared
and to an abandoned asylum where bizarre experiments
have been carried out.
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Derek Wilson
"The Bothersome Business of the Dutch
Nativity" (1997)
Included in: The Mammoth
Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike
Ashley)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mary Morstan
Historical Figures: William Spooner; (Rembrandt)
Other Characters: Adrian Hungerford; Augusta
Hungerford; fellows of Grenville College;
Blessingham; Dean of Grenville College; Grenson; Dr.
Giddings; Henry Simkins; Tavistock; Warden of New
College; Hugh Mountcey; Lord Henley; Giddings'
manservant; painting restorers; Mountcey's
companion; Master of Grenville College
Date: 1893 & 1873
Locations: Paddington Station; Oxford;
Grenville College; Christchurch Meadows; a train;
New College; a cab; Holmes's rooms; Giddings' house;
Spooner's rooms; Simkins & Streeter's art
restorers, London
Story: Visiting Mary's relatives in Oxford,
Watson is told of Holmes's first case. Travelling
back to Oxford by train, Holmes encounters Spooner,
who tells him that Rembrandt's Nativity of Our
Lord has been stolen from New College on the
day on which it was due to be taken away for
cleaning & restoration. A number of items have
also disappeared from other colleges over the past
few months. During his investigations Holmes
interviews Dr. Giddings who originally donated the
painting to the college, and Hugh Mountcey, son of
Lord Henley. Holmes solves the mystery, but its
culmination leads to his resigning from the college.
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F. Paul Wilson
"The Adventure of the Abu Qir
Sapphire" (2018)
Included in: For the Sake
of the Game (Laurie R. King & Leslie S.
Klinger)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Holmes
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; (Sussex
Housekeeper; Lascar)
Fictional
Characters: Madame de Medici [Srem];
(Zani Chada)
Other Characters: Arran Davies; Sir Reginald
Serling; Madame's Servants; Limehouse Residents;
Cab Driver; (Davies' Egyptian Housekeeper;
Alexandria Jeweller; British Museum Experts; Dr
Carruthers; Egyptian Street Vendor; Sir
Reginald's
Men; Police;
Sir Reginald's Household Staff; Kwee)
Date: Sunday, July 19th (10 years into
Holmes's retirement / August 24th, 1879
Locations: Holmes's Sussex Villa; Sir
Reginald's Home; Limehouse; Lascar's House; Kwee's
House
Story:
Holmes's retirement is interrupted by the
arrival of Arran Davies who has been framed for the
theft of the Abu Qir sapphire by Madame de Medici, a
name from Holmes's past.
In 1879, Holmes was hired by Sir
Reginald Serling to recover an ancient Akkadian
tablet. The search leads him to the Bar of
Gold lascar,
and Madame de Medici.
Holmes accompanies Davies to Limehouse
where they encounter Madame in the house formerly
owned by the Bar of Gold lascar, now owned by Zani
Chada.
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Gahan Wilson
"The
Adventure of the Fifty Percent Solution" (1978)
Included in: National Lampoon, April 1978
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Soames & Muffin
Canonical Characters: Inspector Lestrade
Characters Based on Canonical Characters: Professor
O'Moriarity
Characters
Based on Fictional Characters: Cramston
[The Shadow]; Fu On Yu [Fu Manchu]; Agent .007 [James
Bond]; Sammy Chan [Charlie Chan]; Charles Spade [Sam
Spade]
Unnamed Characters: His Highness; His Highness's
Brother; Superhero; Sufi Cutthroats
Locations: Soames's Rooms at 221B
Story: Soames is called on by the tiny His
Highness, whose giant brother has disappeared with
paper relating to the Alsatian Submarine Treaty.
Soames and Muffin set out in search, and witness the
downfall of heroes and villains. They recover the
Treaty, but fail to find the brother. |
Everybody's Favourite Duck (1988)
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Enoch
Bone & John Weston
Characters based on Canonical Characters: The
Professor = Professor Moriarty
Characters based on Fictional Characters: The
Mandarin = Fu Manchu; Spectrobert = Fantômas;
Athenee = Hélne
Other Characters: Mandarin's Chauffeur;
Grimmaud's Doorman; Grimmaud's Guard; Miss Tootle;
Miss Tootle's Charge; Limo Driver; Fred Perkins;
George Ashman; Harry Fellows; Senator Barker;
Oriental Assassin; Caucasian Assassin; Security Men;
Marines; Bellboy; Frank Nealy; Debbie; Ol' Doc
Stork; Art Waldo; Dr. Schauer; Rond-Point Clientele;
Frenchy Verne; Rond-Point Staff; Henri Tomas;
Bicyclist; Wall Street Type; Street Vendor;
Athenee's Crowds; Sniper; Paley; Firemen; Fred
Greyer; Intelligence Agents; White; Slate; Blancher;
Silverman; Ben Hewliss; Pilot One; La Salle D'Or
Captain; President Pat Parker; Pressmen; Brass Band;
Waldo World Staff; Waldo World Security Guards;
Pyle; Grey Guards
Locations: London; Madame Grimmaud's Wax
Museum; Elmsville; 257, Maple Street; Washington
D.C.; The White House; The Oval office; New York;
Barton Towers; New Jersey; Waldo World; The Old
Hollow Oak; Elf Castle; The Wizard's Tower;
Schauer's Lab; Le Rond-Point; Madison Avenue;
Athenee's Jewellers; Park Avenue; Greyer's office;
The Mandarin's Tunnels; La Salle D'Or Restaurant;
History Hall; Motel of the Future; Restaurant of the
Future; The Pirate Galleon; A Quackycopter; The
Professor's Lab
Story: After years of inadvertently putting
each other's lives in danger, the Mandarin, The
Professor, and Spectrobert meet in Madame Grimmaud's
Chamber of Horrors and agree to unite forces.
Retired investigator Weston is called on
by government agent Ashman to persuade his old
associate Enoch Bone to come out of retirement and
investigate a terrorist attack on the White House.
While he is trying to do so he and Bone are
subjected to a bomb attack in the Presidential Suite
of the exclusive Barton Towers Hotel in New York. In
the assassin's pocket they find a map of Waldo
World, a cartoon theme park owned by Art Waldo, and
Weston is sent to investigate disguised as a
reporter. At Waldo World he is shown the latest
"Waldobot" replica of the President, Pat Parker. He
also comes across a lead to Le Rond-Point
restaurant, where he learns of a meeting between the
Professor and the Mandarin. The Professor was
carrying two carrier bags, one from Waldo World and
the other from Athenee's, the jewelers on Madison
Avenue. When he goes to check out the shop he is
shot at by a sniper using a highly advanced weapon,
and learns that the shop is owned by Spectrobert's
daughter, Athenee. Bone & Weston return to the
restaurant, where they find Weston's contact in the
oven and Spectrobert lying in wait. He sets the
building on fire, but they escape to headquarters
where the Mandarin communicates with them through
the agency's criminal records computer. They locate
his lair in the basement and venture into it,
managing to avoid the many traps there, but
eventually finding themselves prisoners in his
office.
Having escaped they find themselves back
in the Barton Towers. They witness a purple blotch
following Air Force One with the President aboard,
and destroying an Air Force jet fighter. The
President tells them of his plan to be at Waldo
World for the unveiling of his Waldobot, and that
Waldobots will, in the future take his place at many
minor functions. At the unveiling ceremony the
Waldobot is used in an attack on the President, and
a grey cloud is unleashed turning the crowds into
stone. Bone, Weston and Athenee are left alone to
find out why Waldo has turned traitor, rescue the
President and defeat the three master criminals and
a giant Quacky the Duck robot.
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Greg Wilson
"...But
With a Whimper" (2007)
Included in: On Spec, #70 (Fall 2007)
Story Type: Third-Person Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; (Dr
Watson; Irene Adler; Professor Moriarty: Lord
Saltire)
Historical Figures: (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Other Characters:
Moriarty's
Son; (Mr Harker)
Unnamed Characters: (Self-Appointed Scholars;
American Lady; Village Girl; Moriarty's Wife)
Date: After 1921
Locations: Holmes's Sussex Cottage
Story: Holmes returns from a walk, to his
cottage in Sussex, to find Moriarty's son waiting for
literary revenge.
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H. Chilver Wilson & A.H. Mann
Excerpt from A439, Being the
Autobiography of a Piano (1900)
Included in:Sherlock
Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I:
1900-1904 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detective: Shamrock Homes / Mr
Strong
Historical Figures: (Queen
Victoria)
Other Characters: A439; Senior Constable;
Gertrude Lindsay; Duchesse de Cherrystones; police
Officers; Heinrich Flügelbrecher; Mrs Mackay; John
Lindsay; Vladimir von Hammertitszki; Henriette;
Scarlatti; (Boys; Biddy Bramber; Mahammed; Sir
Southdown Evel; Mrs Mackay's Children; Great
Pianist; Queen's Private Secretary; Angus Mackay;
Klug)
Locations: Southburn; Blue Rock Castle
Story: Chapter XX: Biddy's Spell is Broken
(H. Chilver Wilson)
After the theft of the Duchesse de Cherrystone's
jewels, her companion Gertrude is about to be taken
away by the police, when Mr Strong arrives, proclaims
her innocence, and announces that he is really the
great detective Shamrock Jones. The death of a wich is
reported in the papers, and Homes reveals how he found
the stolen jewels, but news arrives that the thief has
escaped.
Chapter XXI: Mahammed's Identity (A.H. Mann)
Over dinner, a telegram arrives to tell them that
the thief, Mahammed has undergone a change of
identity, and disposed of the jewels. The Duchesse
reveals that the situation is not as dire as her
guests believe, and makes reparations to Gertrude.
NOTE: Only chapters XX
and XXI of the novel are reprinted in Sherlock
Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I:
1900-1904 (Bill Peschel), and
summarised here.
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John A. Wilson
"The Case
of the Two Coptic
Patriarchs" (1949)
Included in: Baker Street Journal, January
1949
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Other Characters: H.J. Evelyn
Bothwell-Jones; Priests; Papnouti; Interpreters; M.
Le Capitaine Jeuville
Date: A Summer shortly after the Boer War
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Regent
Hotel; A Hansom Cab; Claridge's Hotel
Story: Bothwell-Jones of the Foreign office
tells Holmes that Papnouti, the newly-chosen
patriarch of the Coptic church has arrived in London
for talks, unfortunately so has another man, also
claiming to be Papnouti. He asks Holmes to discover
which is the real patriarch. Holmes asks each of the
men three questions: to tell him a story of angels,
what he should do with the thoughts that enter his
head, and whether he should accept wine when
offered. He reveals that it was his observations and
reading, rather than their answers that revealed the
true patriarch, however.
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Marcia
Wilson
"The
Adventure of the Half-Melted Wolf" (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; Tobias Gregson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector
Lestrade; (Mrs Watson; Charles Augustus
Milverton; Langdale Pike; Mycroft Holmes)
Historical Figures: (Edward
VII; Queen Victoria)
Other Characters: Reporters; Theatre
Patrons; Vendors; Charms-Hawker; Bootblack; Lily
Sword; Flower Customers; Policeman; Irish; Cab
Driver; Prince of Shoreditch Customers;
Dwarf; Sailor; Ill-kept Men; Johnny Mark; Bodkin
Mews Constables; Tradesmen; Policemen; Foreign
Office Secretary; (Mrs Watson's Relatives;
Sword; Boche Lane Bath-House Matron; Two Men;
Watson's Publisher; Tom Rees; Joseph Amscott; Sir
Reginald Grey; Sir Reginald's Friends; Omnibus
Passengers; Watson's Patients; Arkwright; Tracy;
Police Constable; Morgue Attendant; Lestrade's
Wife; Museum Chairman; Lestrade's Foreign Office
Contact; Scientists)
Date: Autumn, 1903
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Turkish
Baths; Prince of Shoreditch Inn; Bodkin
Mews; Foreign Office
Story: Holmes and Watson encounter Gregson
at the Turkish Baths. He tells them of a case that
began at a women's bath-house in Boche Lane,
where his informant, a flower-seller named Lily Sword,
has passed on a tip about the recently stolen Wolf of
Britannia, the archaeological find of the century.
Both Gregson and Lestrade have been put on the case,
but Lestrade has disappeared, and his messenger
killed. Holmes realises that the blackmailer, Sir
Reginald Grey, is involved, and is threatened by thugs
from the Foreign Office.
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"A Christmas Goose"
(2016)
Included in: The
MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part V:
Christmas Adventures (David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Shinwell Johnson; Mrs
Hudson; (Tobias Gregson)
Other Characters: Constable Balan; Constable
Ardalean; (Dr O'Neill; Tommy Shenk; Jonas Shenk;
Basil Grim; Garland Grim; James Tracks; Dr
Pennywraith)
Unnamed Characters: Carol Singers;
Muslim Child; Chut Children; Beggar; Rabbi;
Zoroastrians; O'Neill's Housekeeper; Crowd; Slum
Dwellers; Constables; Mortuary Driver; Urchins; (Watson's
Patients; Garland's Children; Grim House Tenants;
Disinfectors)
Date: Thursday 18 December
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; O'Neill's Office;
Grim House
Story: Watson walks among the multi-cultural
Winter celebrations of London. At Baker street, Holmes
is moving his books. Watson encounters Lestrade who asks
him to certify the death of a faith healer who lives in
Grim House, an infamous slum, built by Garland Grim, the
inspiration for Scrooge. After the body is removed,
Lestrade discovers a hidden cache under the floor.
Shinwell Johnson is summoned when a second body is
discovered.
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"The Case of the Blind Man's Spectacles" (2017)
Included in: Further
Associates of Sherlock Holmes (George Mann)
Story Type: Extra-canonical adventure of Tobias
Gregson
Canonical Characters: Tobias Gregson; Sherlock
Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Watson's Maid;
Inspector Bradstreet
Historical Figures: (Arthur
Conan Doyle)
Other Characters: Cab Driver; Parker's
Constables; Street Arabs; Canal Crowd; Mr Hollowell;
Constable Smerdon; Constable Brewster; Constable
Georges; Constable Rees; Jerimiah Wentforth; (Watson's
Locum; Parker; Mrs Lestrade; Mrs Gregson; Police
Surgeon; Lucinda Bateman; Lucinda's Father)
Locations: Watson's Surgery; Canal Path;
Scotland Yard
Story: While Lestrade is being operated on by
Watson, Gregson tells Holmes how Lestrade came by his
injuries, while escorting a blind gunpowder
manufacturer, Noah Hollowell, along a canal path. The
pair of women's spectacles that Hollowell was wearing
when he was murdered draw Gregson's attention. His
researches into the dead man's past during the
American Civil War help him solve the case.
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"The
Onion Vendor's Secret" (2015)
Included in: The MX Book of New
Sherlock Holmes Stories Part II: 1890-1895
(David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Sir Henry Baskerville; (Mrs
Hudson; Jack Stapleton; Beryl Stapleton; Baker
Street Irregulars; Anstruther; Dr Mortimer;
Holmes's Sussex Housekeeper)
Other Characters: Onion Johnny; Basker
Street Crowds; Brick-Carters; Onion Sellers;
Folkestone Cooks; Onion Seller's Boy; Cattle Herder;
Charlie Baldwin; Mrs Baldwin; Abraham Quantock;
Sussex Milkman; (Watson's Publisher;
Publisher's Wife; Detectives; Artie Baldwin;
Oriana Quantock; Merripit House Owners; Folkestone
Court Servants; Charlie Baldwin's Son)
Date: 1915 / 1894
Locations: Sussex; Holmes's Cottage; 221B,
Baker Street; Devon; Folkestone; Candlebat Inn;
Folkestone Court; Baskerville Hall
Story: From his sickbed in
Sussex, Holmes gives Watson permission to write up
an old case.
Onion Johnny, a French onion seller, visits Holmes,
to ask him to investigate one of a series of robberies
in the West Country, in which a page boy was shot. Sir
Henry Baskerville has hired detectives, including
Lestrade to investigate the robberies, which were
carried out by Stapleton, in order that he may make
restitution. Johnny and his fellow onion sellers have
heard that the owner of Folkestone Court, Abraham
Quantock, is insisting that the damages for the boy's
death be paid to him rather than the boy's family. In
Devon, meeting with Lestrade, they learn that Quantock
is demanding the deeds of Merripit house as recompense
for his losses.
Onion Johnny arrives in Sussex and his true
identity is revealed.
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Richard Wincor
Sherlock Holmes in Tibet (1968)
Story Type: Pastiche / Philosophical Treatise
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Professor Moriarty
Folkloric Characters: A Tulpa
Historical Figures: (Dalai Lama)
Other Characters: Fat Man; Small Boy;
Alistair; Lady; Antique Dealer; Customer; Narrator;
Old Man; Fritz; Kunzang Nordup; Col. H. Bagby
Holland-Bennett; Corneliu "Balkan" Dimitriev;
Professor Horst Hummel; Señor Julio Chavez; Rick
Weaver; Vice-Chancellor of Lhassa University;
Imperial Guard
Date: 30 September, 1891
Locations: Half Moon Street; Flemings Hotel;
Piccadilly; St James's Park; Chelsea Antique Shop;
Van Wyck's, Museum Street; Cavendish; Tibet; Lhassa
Story: A fat man is intrigued by a cat. A
small boy overhears a couple discussing an execution
by defenestration. A hollow bone in an antique shop
makes the word "murderer" when blown. The narrator
buys a copy of Notes on the Tibet Episode by
Sherlock Holmes.
In Lhassa, Holmes attends a lecture on
"the secrets of life and death, and the mysteries of
existence" given by Kunzang Nordup, lama of the Red
Hat School (Much of the story is made up of the text
of the lecture). He is searching for truth after
hearing Moriarty's last words, "You don't exist,
Holmes!", at Reichenbach. During an interval in the
speech, the spy Balkan gives him a note warning of
danger. The lama announces that two in his audience
are tulpas. After the lecture Holmes encounters
Moriarty again.
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Jacqueline Winspear
"A Spot of Detection" (2011)
Included in: A
Study in Sherlock (Laurie R. King & Leslie
S. Klinger)
Story Type: Homage
Historical Figures: Raymond Chandler;
Florence Chandler; Ethel Thornton; Annie Thornton; (Ernest
Thornton)
Other Characters: Costermonger; Maid; Mrs
Tingley; Mrs Richmond; Police Sergeant; Detective
Inspector Stickley; Chauffeur; Actors; Alexandra
Palace Audience; Mr Hose; Schoolboys; Weston; (School
Matron; Doctor; Lodger; Jim Richmond)
Date: Early 1900s
Locations: Upper Norwood; Margaret Street;
Auckland Road Chandler's House; Mrs Richmond's House;
Upper Norwood Police Station; Alexandra Palace;
Dulwich College
Story: The Boy has been sent home from school
with measles. On the way home he hears an argument and
a gunshot, before passing out. His aunt buys him a
copy of The Boys' Sherlock Holmes to read
while he convalesces. Inspired by his reading, he
gives himself three days to solve the case, sneaking
out to talk to residents of Margaret Street. After
hearing about a suspicious lodger, he manages to
examine the man's room and reports his suspicions to
the police. Returning to school, he notes down a name
he suspects will be useful in the future.
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Augustus Wittfeld
"The Alcohol Annihilator" (1911)
Included in: The Railroad Man's Magazine, March
1911
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Carlock
Bjones; Watchem
Other Characters: Drunk; (Petrolem V.
Rockefeller; Carlock's Man; Doctor)
Locations: USA; Bjones's Rooms; Muttonhead
Racetrack
Story: On his way to the Muttonhead
race-track, Watchem calls in on Bjones, who has
invented a substance that attracts alcohol, causing it
to disappear. Watchem suggests that they test it's
effect on a drunken acquaintance. That night the
compound and all memory of it are lost in a burglary.
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"The Goat Degree" (1910)
Included in: The Railroad Man's Magazine,
September 1910
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Carlock Bjones;
Watchem
Characters Based on Fictional Characters:
(Arsenic Loo Ping [Arsene Lupin])
Other Characters: Pud Judson; Postman; (Emmons;
O.B.C. Osofat; Watchem's Chief; Railroad Directors;
Hoof, Horn & Hide)
Locations: USA; Bjones's Rooms
Story: Railway detective Carlock Bjones is
consulted by O.B.C. Osofat over the disappearance of a
consignment of Fat-Reducio from the Pole-to-Pole
Railway. Pud Judson, a baggage-smasher has disappeared
for four weeks, and returned considerably thinner.
Bjones believes the two events may be connected, but his
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P.G. Wodehouse
"The Adventure of the Missing Bee"
(1904)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I:
1900-1904 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Holmes's Housekeeper
Historical Figures: (Maurice
Maeterlinck)
Other Characters: (Prince of Piedmont;
Frenchman; Giles Scroggins)
Locations: Holmes's Cottage
Story: The bee that Holmes had purchased
from the Army and Navy Stores disappears from its
hive. He deduces that a nearby farmer and an
agent of Maurice Maeterlinck have conspired to steal
it.
NOTE: Perhaps the only
instance of a canonical character appearing in a
parody before appearing in the actual canon: Holmes's
housekeeper at his bee-farm appears here 22 years
before she is mentioned in "The Adventure of the
Lion's Mane".
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"Dudley
Jones, Bore-Hunter" (1903)
Included in: His Last Bow (Arthur Conan Doyle -
Oxford Edition); The
Early Punch Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (Bill
Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Dudley Jones & Wuddus
Other Characters: Miss Pettigrew; Mr.
Pettigrew; Stanley Pettigrew; The Butler
Locations: Grocer Square; Pettigrew Court; The
Midnight Mail Train
Date: June 8, 189-
Story: Miss Pettigrew lives with her father.
Recently her uncle Stanley moved in with them, and has
proved an enormous bore, talking chiefly of his
travels. Jones realises that he is attempting to bore
his brother to death for his inheritance, and travels
with Wuddus, in disguise, to Pettigrew's home to
attempt to out-bore Stanley. At dinner Jones tries
"think of a number" tricks, which Pettigrew counters
with dog stories. After several days, Jones finally
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"From a
Detective's Notebook" (1959)
Included in: The
Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sebastian
Wolfe); A
Sherlock Holmes Compendium (Peter Haining); The Big Book of
Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Stamford; Grey-Haired, Seedy Visitor;
Slipshod Elderly Woman; Railway Porter; Mary
Sutherland; Jabez Wilson; Commissionaire Peterson;
Hall Pycroft; Mr Melas; Mrs Warren; Cyril Overton;
Tobias Gregson; Baker Street Irregulars; John Rance
(Bunce); Inspector Lestrade; Violet Hunter;
Professor Moriarty)
Other Characters: Narrator; General Malpus;
Driscoll; Freddie ffinch-ffinch; Adrian Mulliner
Locations: Mulliner's Club
Story: Private detective, Mulliner, tells his
fellow club members how, alerted by his irregular
financial arrangements, he came to uncover the truth
about Holmes, "the fiend of Baker Street". |
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"The
Prodigal" (1903)
Included in: His Last Bow (Arthur Conan Doyle -
Oxford Edition); The Early Punch
Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; (Professor Moriarty; Sir Henry
Baskerville; The Hound of the Baskervilles)
Locations: The Strand; ABC Shop
Story: Watson, believing Holmes dead at
Reichenbach, meets him in the Strand, returned from
the United States. Holmes explains how he survived
Reichenbach, asks for an update on Sir Henry
Baskerville and the hound, and expresses concern that
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Gene Wolfe
"The Rubber
Bend" (1974)
Included in: Universe 5 (Terry Carr)
Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche
Sherlockian Detectives: March B. Street &
Dr Westing
Characters Based on Fictional Characters: Arch St Louis
[Archie Goodwin]; Noel Wide [Nero Wolfe]; Fritz [Fritz
Brenner]; Alice Dodson [Alice in Wonderland]
Historical Figures: (Damon Knight; Charles
Sanders Peirce; Gene Wolfe)
Characters Based on Historical Figures: Prof.
Louis C. Dodson [Lewis Carroll]
Locations: Street's Apartment; Wide's House;
Groan Building
Date: Tuesday 25th October, The Future
Story: Street sends Westing to stay with his
friend, the mushroom-growing robot gourmet detective
Noel Wide. Wide is working on a case brought to him by
Alice Dodson, whose "father", Louis C. Dodson has
disappeared. An apparition resembling him a\has
appeared on a number of occasions in his laboratory.
When Wide, his assistant Arch St Louis, and Westing
arrive at Dodson's lab in the Groan Building, they
find Street there carrying out his own investigation
of the case.
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"Slaves of Silver" (1971)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes
Through Time and Space (Isaac Asimov, Martin
Harry Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh)
Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche narrated
in third person
Sherlockian Detectives: March B. Street
& Westing
Other Characters: Mrs. Nash; Commissioner
Electric; Deactivated Robots; Robot Clerk
Locations: A Monorail Kiosk; Street's
Apartment; The Hiring Hall; A Tri-D Store
Date: The Future
Story: Westing, a robot bio-mechanic,
responds to a newspaper advertisement, and finds
himself sharing a flat with consulting engineer
March B. Street. They are consulted by Commissioner
Electric, who runs the robot hiring hall. Robots
turning themselves in for deactivating, during
periods when they are not needed in the labour
market, are being stolen from the hall at night.
Westing suspects that they are being used as slaves
in illicit factories. As they wait outside the hall
Westing notices a colour shift on the screen of a
tri-D set, which Street is able to decode as a
distress signal, from which he is able to deduce the
fate of the robots.
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Bruno B. Wolff, Jr
"Sherlock Holmes and the Analytical
Engine" (1984)
Included in: Softalk, Volume 4, Number 8,
April 1984
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Mycroft
Holmes
Canonical Characters: Mycroft Holmes;
Sherlock Holmes; Mrs Hudson; Dr Watson
Historical Figures: (Viscount Salisbury;
Charles Babbage; Heman Hollerith; Wilhelm II)
Other Characters: Sir Geoffrey Wren; (Imam
of Ranjier)
Unnamed Characters: Mycroft's Clerk; Delivery
Men
Locations: Mycroft's Office; 221B, Baker
Street
Date: After July 1898
Story: Swamped with paperwork, Mycroft
receives a visit from his colleague, sir Geoffrey
Wren, head of the War Office intelligence section.
They have information that Germany is planning to
stoke up the Boer crisis, but have been unable to
crack the German codes. Mycroft brings Sherlock in
to assist. With the aid of Watson and Charles
Babbage's Difference Engine they set to work to find
the secret of the German cypher.
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Harry Wood
"The Arrival" (1900)
Included in: Emmerich Manual Training High
School Annual 1900
Story Type: Fantasy Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Historical Figures: Edward Markham; Dr
Samuel Johnson; Edgar Allan Poe; Nero; (Joseph
Addison)
Folkloric Characters: Charon
Locations: Hades
Story: The poet Edward Markham arrives in
Hades to be greeted by the shades of several famous
figures.
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Peter H. Wood
"The Case of Lady
Sannox" (2002)
Included in: Curious Incidents
(J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; Inspector
Lestrade; (Langdale Pike)
Fictional Characters: Lord Sannox; (Douglas
Stone; Lady Marion Sannox; Pim; Hamil Ali; John
(MacGregor))
Other Characters: Mr. Cartland; Stone's
Housemaid; Dr. Ronald Moore; Cabman; Mrs. Dawson;
Dawson's Girl; Frederick 'Baron' Dawson; Sannox's
Footman; (Williams; Cab Driver; Sir William
Guthrie; Johnson; Makepeace; Sannox's Coachman;
Maidservant)
Date: November
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Baker Street;
Mayfair; Half-Moon Street; Stone's House; Islington;
Dawson's House; Pall Mall; Diogenes Club; Berkeley
Square; Sannox's Townhouse; (Paddington Station)
Story: Solicitor Cartland's client, the
brilliant surgeon, Stone, has been found in his home
apparently having suffered some kind of mental
breakdown. The only word he has uttered is 'Marion',
the name, Watson tells Holmes, of Lady Sannox, with
whom he was said to be having an affair. Cartland
believes the breakdown is not from natural causes.
Later in the day, after Watson has met with Stone's
doctor, an old acquaintance, Holmes is pulled off
the case by Cartland. Holmes learns from Langdale
Pike that Lord Sannox has recently disappeared,
while an invalid lady has been seen leaving the
Sannox house with a servant and physician, heading
for Paddington Station. He also learns that stone
had been called out on a case by a stranger, Hamil
Ali, the previous night. The following day Holmes
learns that Lady Sannox has retreated to a priory.
Visits to Lady Sannox's parents, from whom he hears
details of her marriage, and to Mycroft, set Holmes
towards a solution to the mystery.
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The
Winged Wheel (1995)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche narrated by
Watson and Holmes
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mycroft Holmes; Holmes's Housekeeper; Young
(Richard) Stamford; (Von Bork)
Folkloric Characters: (Arianrhod)
Historical Figures: (Vernon
Kell; Prime Minister (H.H. Asquith); Home
Secretary (Reginald McKenna); Foreign Secretary
(Sir Edward Grey); Lord Raglan; Lady Raglan;
Kaiser Wilhelm II; Richard Fiedler)
Other Characters: Anderson; Danson;
Detective-Sergeant Christian; Chief-Inspector
Grahame; Sheila Stamford; Catherine Kinrade;
Lieutenant Cranshaw; Harry L. Bailey; William Crowe;
Mrs Crowe; Sydney Corlett; Harold Faragher; Charles
Kerruish; Miss Cannell; Tommy Quayle; Captain
William Clague; Billy; Constable Albert Craine;
John-Caesar Curphey; Kapitan Moeller; Harbour
Porter; Hotel Waiters; Islanders; Holiday-Makers;
Singers; Motorcycle Racers; Street Sweepers; Race
Officials; Clerk of the Course; Timekeeper; French
Racer; Carriage Driver; Hotel Barman; Snaefell
Holiday-Makers; Catherine's Guests; Vicar of
Kirkmichael; Kirkmichael Captain of the Parish;
Captain's Wife; Race Spectators; St John's Ambulance
Men; Cab Driver; Hospital Nurse; Hospital Orderlies;
Hospital Matron; Hotel Manager; Government House
Servants; Government House Butler; U-Boat Crewman;
Cave Sentry; Coastguards; Petty-Officer; Farmer;
Farmer's Wife; Government House Cook; Sheila's
Sister; (Mycroft's Agents; Cranshaw's Father;
Mycroft's Superiors; Auto-Cycle Union Secretary;
Chief Constable; Murray Barrows; Batholomew
Corrin; Sanders; Stamford's Sons; Admiralty
Official; Ramsey Police Constable; Catherine's
Father; Catherine's Brother; Corrin's Landlady;
Hotel Boots; Bailey's Parents; Farmers; Farmers'
Wives; Railway Staff; Lezayre Crossing Keeper;
Engine-Driver; Fireman; Ramsey Police Sergeant;
Strand Street Irregulars; Recently-Married Client;
Servant Girl; Catherine's Maid; Vicar's Son;
Crellin; Director of Naval Intelligence; Chief
Superintendent Algar; Liverpool Constable;
Corrin's Cousin; Divisional Inspector Murray;
Reporters; Governor's Chauffeur; Government House
Handyman; Fishermen; Coroner)
Date: June, 1912
Locations: Sussex; Holmes's Cottage;
Wimbledon; Watson's House; London; One of Mycroft's
Clubs; Euston Station; Train; Liverpool; Ferry; Isle
of Man; Douglas; Hotel; Police Station; Mountain
Road; Keill-ny-ree; Douglas Promenade; Villa Marina;
Quarter Bridge Road; The Quarter Bridge; Laxey;
Bungalow Hotel; Douglas Café; Ballacraine; St
John's; Tynwald Hill; Peel; Kirkmichael; The North
Corony; Woodlands; Lower Promenade Gardens;
Hospital; Bray Hill; Glencrutchery Road; Government
House; Cronk-ny-Mona; Injebreck; Colden Mountain;
Teare's Cottage; Little London; Traaie-Vaaish;
Cliff-Top; Sea-Cave; Telegraph Office; Stamford's
House
Story: Watson motorcycles down to Sussex to
visit Holmes, and is surprised to find Mycroft
there. Three of Mycroft's agents have died on the
Isle of Man in the past two years, and now a young
naval lieutenant, Cranshaw, the unacknowledged son
of an important personage, has disappeared there in
the middle of a motorcyle ride. A reference to the
Celtic goddess Arianrhod has led to suspicions of an
Irish republican connection. Watson suggests that he
enter the motorcycle race that Cranshaw was
participating in, as their cover for being on the
island. They encounter Stamford, who is now a
consulting surgeon at the island's hospital, on the
ferry. After discovering the site of Cranshaw's
disappearance, Holmes traces his footprints, which
disappear in the ruins of an ancient chapel. Watson
is introduced to Catherine Kinrade, a local singer,
and takes part in the Tourist Trophy practice race.
Holmes learns of Cranshaw's sailing trip with a
friend around the Friesian Islands, and from an
Australian acquaintance, Watson hears of his
concerns about German submarines.
Watson
dreams of Cranshaw's abduction, and attends a
concert given by Catherine Kinrade.
Mycroft's agent in Germany learns that the island is
being used as a way-station for weapons being supplied
to Irish republicans by Germany. Mycroft has also been
informed of a plot by the Children of Arianrhod to
seize power on the island. Watson is hospitalised
after a motorcycle accident, and a series of attacks
by snakes continues. Holmes realises that he is
working to prevent an island-wide plot to assassinate
the entire Tynwald, and receives help from a moorland
hermit to do so.
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Bill Woollatt
"The Adventure of Shylock Bones" (1919)
Included in: The Collegiate Era (Windsor, Ontario)
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detective: Shylock Bones
Other Characters: Lady Client; (U. Ketchem;
I. Cheatem; Prof. U.R.A. Nother; "One Eyed" Pete)
Locations: Crooks Alley; Bamboozle Building;
Thief's Paradise Road
Story: Part 1: Shylock Bones visits the house of
a lady who has been robbed.
Part 2: Shylock Bones spots a footprint and receives
some cheese.
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H.M. Woolsey
"Sherlock Holmes at Groton" (1903)
Included in:Sherlock
Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I:
1900-1904 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Other Characters: Holmes's Butler; Groton
Head-master; Dead Boy; (Boy's Father; Night
Watchman; Boy's Friend; Big Bill; Treasurer)
Date: The 20th - three weeks later
Locations: USA; Massachusetts; Boston; Holmes's
Rooms; Groton School; School Infirmary
Story: After the Doctor reads of a suicide at
Groton School in the Boston Herald, Holmes
receives a telegram summoning him there to
investigate. The case puts Holmes on the trail of Big
Bill the bank robber.
NOTE: No reason is given
for Holmes's residence in Boston.
NOTE: The narrator is
only referred to as "Doctor", so there is a remote
possibility that he is not Watson.
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Wayne Worcester
The Monster of St. Marylebone (1999)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson;
Baker Street Irregulars; Inspector Lestrade;
Sherlock Holmes; Mycroft Holmes; Tobias Gregson;
Wiggins
Historical Figures: (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Other Characters: Inspector William Barrows;
Thomas Langley; Langley's Assistants; Billy; Dr
Charles Peacham; Abigail Masterson; Nigel Whitney;
Constable Martin Dibble; Policeman; Alexander
Gibbons; Mary Gibbons; Scotland Yard Mortuary
Workers; Reporter; Hospital Guard; Edward
Richardson; Alistair Simmons; Gerald Cooke; George
Winston Randall; Oliver Bemis; Robert Bledsoe; Bond
Street Shoppers; Blue-Coats; Bond Street Police;
Madeleine Toussaint; Marie; Edward Gibbons;
Breckinridge Servant; Lady Elizabeth James;
Genevieve; Sidney Gibbons; Cab Driver; Hansom
Passenger; Hansom Driver; Dickie Quinn; Neville
Rolfe; Alice Felson; Victor Kerr; James Worthy;
Millicent Worthy; Conductor; Rolfe's Clerks;
Policemen; Tommy Jacobs; Albert Gibbons; Jamey
Gibbons; Fire Crowd; Firemen; O'Keefe's Barman;
Michael McCormick; Ian Donovan; O'Keefe's Customers;
Patrick Day Quinn; Ennistymon; Shepherd; Gavin
O'Reilly; William O'Reilly; (Duffy; Albert;
Police Commissioner; Donaldson; Haverford;
Watkins; Coughlin; Monkey Jack; Aubrey Gibbons;
Quincy Morton; Hubert Jackson; Lord Cecil James;
Mrs Gibbons' Dairyman; The Carstairs; Ginny Quinn;
Malay Seaman; Toby Felson; Peter O'Reilly)
Date: January, 1999 / January-March, 1889
Locations: Hastings or Eastbourne; 221B,
Baker Street; Charing Cross Hospital; 12, Victoria
Crossing; Upper Wimpole Street; Scotland Yard;
Holborn Restaurant; Randall's Pub; Bond Street;
Pennington Lane; Birmingham; Breckinridge;
Paddington Station; Regent Street; Kensington
Station; Cornwall; A Train; Langham Hotel; A Train;
Dublin Ferry; Ireland; Dublin; O'Keefe's Public
House; Baggot Street; Lahinch; Liscannor; O'Brien's
Tower; Cliffs of Moher
Story: A cache of Watsonian manuscripts
are discovered during the renovation of flats in
Hastings, or maybe Eastbourne.
Watson waits in Baker Street for Holmes,
missing for two days, who has been investigating the
Monster of Marylebone, responsible for a string of
gruesome murders, the victims all respectable
working-men. Lestrade and Billy, leader of the
Irregulars, bring news that he has been found,
naked, strung up, and terribly injured, alongside a
beheaded Irregular. Watson weeps. He and Lestrade
continue to work on the murders as Holmes lays in
hospital, and Watson decides to put all that has
happened onto paper.
The first victim is a tobacconist,
strung up and mutialated in his own shop. The second
is a gentleman's clothier and chairman of a Bond
Street civic society. Holmes is angered when the
wife has the murder scene cleaned and tidied before
he can view it. Peacham tells Watson that Holmes
will be able to return home soon, and will
eventually make a full recovery. Watson weeps. Nurse
Masterson is assigned to care for Holmes at Baker
Street. Holmes and Watson begin to get a picture of
the second victim's character and family, and his
dealings with the other merchants on Bond Street,
but find themselves being warned off by one of the
Bond Street Civic Association's thugs. They discover
a connection between the two victims, but not in
time to prevent a third and fourth murder.
Feeling awkward over the presence of
Masterson at Baker Street, Watson takes a holiday in
Cornwall, where he feels he is being followed, and
finds himself held at gunpoint on his journey home,
with rescue coming from an unexpected source. As
Holmes is recovering, Masterson moves out of Baker
Street, but Holmes believes her insights into the
psychology of the murderer are useful, so she
continues to work with him and Watson. Holmes
believes that there is more than one murderer, and
an arrest is made. But another man is murdered
shortly after Holmes interrogates him. Another
interview convinces Holmes that he now knows the
killer's identity, but Mycroft complicates matters
by suggesting a political link to the case. A
kidnapping, a house fire, a journey to Ireland and a
vengeful father bring the case to its close.
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The
Jewel of Covent Garden (2000)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock
Holmes; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; (Tobias
Gregson)
Historical Figures: (Arthur Conan Doyle;
Pinkerton)
Other Characters: Dr Reginald F. St
John-Smythe; Inspector William Barrows; Thomas
Langley; Tommy Rogers; Costermen; Old Tom; Paddy;
Newsboy; Flower Sellers; Pickpocket; Streetwalker;
John Godey; Tavern Waiter; Seven Dials Men; Cuthbert
Wilson; Lady Mirabelle Llewellyn Armstrong; Sarah;
Lord David Armstrong; Jane Ryder; Cab Driver; Aurora
Butler; Alan; Cub Members; Stewards; John Ryder /
Jack Clough; Aurora Messenger Boy; Carol Singers;
Charles T. Weatherbee; Mr Hazelton; Freddy; Alfie; Telegraph
Receptionist; Telegraph Employees;
Theodore Winchell; Peter Brooks; Armstrong's Driver;
Settlement House Residents; Newsboy; Hansom Driver;
Constable Ridley Thompson; Matrons; Nurses; Doctors;
Edna Phillips; Polly McGovern; Inspector Miles
Wallingford; Constable John Comerford; Baker Street
Watchers; Reverend Dwayne Tisbury; Tisbury's
Followers; Police Lieutenant; Cab Driver; Phineas
Cobb; Armstrong's Footman; Armstrong's Guests;
Drivers; Traffic Managers; Captain of Valets;
Valets; Runners; Costermen; Berkeley Square Crowds;
Giacomo Famiglietti; Settlement House Attendant;
Lord Basil Poundstone; Lestrade's Men; Hansom
Driver; Scotland Yard Policeman; (Liveried
Messenger; Charles Roberts; Detectives; Lieutenant
Alfred Cochran; Cochran's Friends; Mr Arnold; Tink
Walters; John Hudson; Estelle Carstairs; Lord
Cedric Atkinson; Street Arab; Emma Ryder; Plymouth
Constable; Mrs Lestrade)
Date: February 24th - 25th, 2000 / June 6,
1889 / December 20th - 31st, 1889
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Covent Garden;
Cursitor Street; Aldersgate Street; Charterhouse
Square; Tavern; St Giles; Planetree, 24 Berkeley
Square; St James Street; Aurora Club; Baker Street;
Bond Street; Hazelton's Leather Goods Shop; Corner
of Vigo Street; Daily Telegraph Offices;
Hope Settlement House; Simpson's-in-the-Strand;
Diogenes Club; High Holborn Street; Scotland Yard
Story: Oxford University experts confirm
that the box containing the manuscripts belonged
to Watson.
Young
costermonger's assistant, Tommy arrives dramatically
in Baker Street. He has been sent an invitation to a
violin recital at the home of Lady Armstrong. Holmes
recognises the boy's uncle as a former society
burglar, and sets Watson to follow him, a task which
leads him into St Giles, where he is attacked. A
visit to Lady Armstrong results in an invitation to
the recital, and to the Aurora Club, for Holmes and
Watson. A Christmas message, purportedly from Holmes
appears in the press. Mrs Hudson and Watson give
Tommy lessons in etiquette. Watson buys Tommy's
uncle some gloves. Lady Armstrong hires Holmes to
investigate her husband's fiancée and her brother.
She also tells him of a previous attempt to steal
the "Blood of Punjab", a ruby she intends to wear at
the recital. Tommy and his uncle spend Christmas Day
at 221B. The following day a bomb is delivered to
the Settlement House where they live. Holmes becomes
more aware that someone is impersonating him, and
when he comes under suspicion for the bombing, he
goes undercover to draw the strands of the plot
together, prevent a robbery, and save Tommy's life.
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"Sweet
Rewards" (2001)
Included in: And the Dying Is Easy (Joseph
Pittman & Annette Riffle)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock
Holmes; Inspector Lestrade
Historical Figures: (Pieter Bruegel the
Elder)
Other Characters: Lady Pembroke; (John W.
Goodrich; Dr James Winston)
Unnamed Characters: Hotel Concierge; Hansom
Drivers; Hotel Porters; Hotel Guests; Hotel Staff;
Sandwich Vendor; Assailants; Tea Room Hostess;
Patrolman
(Louvre Director)
Date: July
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Shoreham By Sea;
The Arms Royale; Tavern; Brighton Station; A Train
Story: Holmes and Watson are on holiday in
Shoreham By Sea, when they witness the collapse of
Lady Pembroke in their hotel lobby, and recover a
painting by Breugel stolen from the Louvre.
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Ralph Wotherspoon
"My Dear Holmes (His
Positively Last Appearance on Earth)"
(1928)
Included in: The Early Punch
Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Other Charcters:
Date: 1928
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; 32a, Nordic
Road
Story: Watson visits Holmes at Baker Street
and asks him to act as anesthetist while he carries
out an operation. After arriving at the wrong
house, Holmes's curiosity leads to a fatal outcome.
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Adrian
Wright
"The Embers of Truth" (2016)
Included in: The Voice of Doom (Adrian Wright)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes;
Mrs Hudson; Dr Watson; Baker Street Irregulars)
Fictional Characters: (Colonel
Addleton; Percy Longton)
Historical Figures: (Arthur Conan
Doyle; Cottingley Fairies; E.V. Knox; Charlie
Chaplin; Adrian Conan Doyle)
Other Characters: Francis
Jones; Gordon Jones; Mrs Reilly; Jim Daley; Mr
Grimchance; Beryl Sanders; Felicia Dean / Shillingford
Dean / Jack Robbins / Mr Moriarty; Miss Simms; Uncle
Billy; Professor Faversham; Mrs Evans; Mrs Jones; Mr
Jones; (Kathleen O'Flaherty; Daisy Delmont; Harold
Sneddock; Monsieur Gardonimi; Ronald Spinks)
Unnamed Characters: Branlingham Children;
Branlingham Women; Faversham's Secretary; Daily
Sketch Staff Member; Taxi Driver; (Mrs
Hudson's Husband)
Date: November 1956
Locations: Norfolk; Red Cherry House:
Bide-a-Wee Tea Rooms; Strutton-by-the-Way; Bundler's
Cottage; Norwich; Balmoral Guest House; Branlingham
Common
Story: Gordon Jones encourages his cousin
Francis to help him organise a village bonfire night.
Francis becomes aware that a man in a trench coat
seems to be shadowing him. The boys are visited by
Felicity Dean, who tells them that her real name is
Shillingford Dean, and that her mother was Mrs Hudson.
She shows them a manuscript by her mother, which, she
says, proves that Holmes and Watson really existed and
reveals the scurrilous truth about them, and that the
man in the trench coat has been following her ever
since she found it. In the ensuing days they are
visited by a reporter wanting to buy the manuscript,
and by Professor Faversham, an authority on Holmes
from the British Museum, both urging them to make the
truth about Holmes known to the wider world. Francis
uses his knowledge of Holmes to uncover the truth of
the case.
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Mark
Wright
"The Property of a Thief" (2013)
Included in: Encounters of
Sherlock Holmes (George Mann)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; (Mrs Hudson; Mary Morstan; Giant Rat of
Sumatra)
Fictional Characters: A.J. Raffles;
Bunny Manders
Other Characters: Carriage Driver; Cunningham's
Guests; Eaton Place Couple; Cunningham Hall Staff;
James Cunningham; Elizabeth Cunningham; Young Lady;
Gentlemen of England Cricket Team; Sergeant Cope; (James's
Father; Postmistress; Cunningham's Maid)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Baker Street;
Victoria Station; Kent; Cunningham Halt Station;
Cunningham Hall
Story: Watson goes to spend the weekend at
Cunningham Hall, the home of two old friends of Mary
Morstan's, James and Elizabeth Cunningham, renowned
for their house parties. Among the guests are Raffles
and Bunny Manders, there for the planned cricket
match. That evening, Watson is woken by James, and
taken to the drawing room, where Elizabeth's tiara has
been stolen from the wall-safe. Holmes is summoned,
and deduces that the thief was someone within the
house, and announces that a search must be carried out
through all the guests' belongings. It is only on
their return to Baker Street that the tiara's location
is revealed, and Holmes and Watson lie in wait in the
darkness for the thief to appear.
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Vincent W. Wright
"The Adventure of the Bookshop Owner"
(2015)
Included in: The MX Book of New
Sherlock Holmes Stories Part II: 1890-1895
(David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Baker Street Irregulars; (Mary
Morstan; Wiggins)
Other Characters: Inspector Chamberlain;
C.L. Stevens; Page Boy; Jack Collier; (Mary's
Friend; Watson's Colleague; Parker; Parker's
Assistant; Jacob Collier; Collier's Neighbour;
Collier's Boy; Arnold George; Postman; Prime
Minister's Cousin; Collier's Runner; Southall
Police Constable; Chamberlain's Men; Grand Garden
Hotel Owner; Benjamin Tower; Holmes's Manchester
Colleague; Tower's Son; Bookshop Customer; Thomas
Cady; Manchester Judge)
Date: July 1st - 2nd, 1890
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Southall;
High Street; Stevens' Butcher's Shop; Uxbridge Road;
Grand Garden Hotel
Story: Holmes summons Watson to Baker Street
to hear Inspector Chamberlain's account of the
murder of bookshop owner Jacob Collier in Harrow.
An empty, blood-stained wooden box has been found on
the counter of the man's shop, from which the smell of
sausages leads Holmes to a butcher's shop in Southall.
A visit from a man claiming to be Collier's friend
puts Holmes on the trail of past crimes.
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"The
Adventure of the Christmas Surprise" (2016)
Included in: The
MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part V:
Christmas Adventures (David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; (Mary Morstan)
Other Characters: Alden Mallory; Snook; Lady
Miriam Carlyle; (Vicar of Stowmarket; Julian
Carlyle; Mrs Mallory)
Unnamed Characters: Henchman; (Fitzrovia
Idealists Society Members)
Date: December, not long
after Watson's marriage
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Watson's House
Story: Mallory arrives at Baker Street,
collapses, and after he is revived tells Holmes that he
has been followed and that Holmes's life is in danger.
Shortly thereafter a gunman named Snook arrives.
After the gunman is dealt with, it appears that the case
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"The
Adventure of The Green Lady" (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; Billy; (Mrs Hudson)
Other Characters: Geoffrey Alexander
Huntington; Stonechurch Gatekeeper; Stonechurch
Doorman; Noah; Charles P. Calgary / Owens; Theo
Danforth; Auction House Employees; Marvin; Newsboys;
(Dunn; Lady Greyburne; Isaiah Huntington;
Tousignant; Assistant Inspector Elliot; Phineas
Baxter; Edward; Smith)
Date: May 25th - 26th, 1897
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Hertford
Street; The Stonechurch Building; Blackfriar's
Auction House
Story: Holmes is visited by
wealthy Bostonian, Huntington, whose has had a valuable
painting, La Dame Verte d'Ypresby Tousignant,
stolen from a locked, windowless room in his apartment.
He says that he wants Holmes to prove that his apartment
was broken into, but not to recover the painting,
because of legal complications associated with it. After
visiting Huntington's apartment and the auction house
where the painting was sold, Holmes reveals the true
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Jamie
Wyman
"A Scandal in Hobohemia" (2014)
Included in: Two Hundred and
Twenty-One Baker Streets (David Thomas Moore); alt.sherlock.holmes
(Jamie Wyman, Gini Koch & Glen Mehn)
Story Type: Homage
Sherlockian Detectives: Sanford
'Crash' Haus; Jim Walker
Characters derived from Canonical Characters: Mrs
Hudson; (Leland Haus (Mycroft Holmes);
Enoch Drebber; Moriarty)
Other Characters: Agent Adele 'Pinky' Trenet;
Madame Yvonde; Carnival Barker; Woman in Sequins;
Dwarf; Big Man; Carnival Crowd; Bearded Lady; Circus
Performers; Arty; Mars; (Drebber's Family;
Johnny; Mary Watson; Calvin Bailey; Baker Street
Baby)
Date: During the Great Depression
Locations: USA; Arkansas; Soggiorno Brothers'
Traveling Wonder Show; Caravan 221
Story: Wounded war veteran Pinkertons agent,
Jim Walker, encounters Sanford House, in disguise, at
Soggiorno Brothers' Traveling Wonder Show. Walker's
partner, Trenet, has brought him there to consult Haus
over the death of a hobo, Enoch Drebber, a former Salt
Lake City accountant. His death occurred on the day
Haus's show left the area, and is the latest in a
series of events linked to the carnival. Their
investigations uncover a murder in the carnival.
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