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Milo Yelesiyevich
Wilde About Holmes
(2008)
Story Type: Canonical Revisioning narrated by
Wilde & Holmes
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Professor Moriarty; (Dr Watson; Mary Morstan;
Mycroft Holmes; Inspector Patterson)
Fictional Characters: Gladys
Hallward
Historical Figures: Oscar Wilde; Norman
Forbes-Robertson; Lillie Langtry; John Kelly; Barney
O'Shane; Inspector Williams; Grover Cleveland;
Frederick Gebhard, Jr; Frederick Gebhard, Sr;
Richard D'Oyly Carte; Henrietta Labouchere; Miss
Jay; Mrs Pendleton; Daniel Manning; Frances Folsom;
The Whyos; Red Rocks Farrel; Googy Corcoran; Slops
Connolly; Baboon Connolly; James G. Blaine; Sam
Ward; Mrs Schermerhorn; Edgar Saltus; Colonel Morse;
Bury I. Dasent; Jay Gould; John Jacob Astor; Russell
Sage; A.A. Hayes; Mrs Hayes; Clara Morris; Theodore
Tilton; Jeanne-Marie Langtry; Henry E. Abbey;
Napoleon Sarony; David Belasco; Pierre Lorillard;
Leonard Jerome; Kate Hodson; Arthur Elwood; Abe
Hummel; Benoit Coquelin
(James Whistler; Lady Jane Wilde; Lady Elizabeth
Lewis; J.M. Stoddart; Edward Burne-Jones; Mary
Cornwallis-West; George Childs; Mary Anderson;
Reggie Le Breton; Charles A. Dana; Reverend Ball;
Reverend Kingsly Twining; Mrs Folsom; Oscar
Folsom; Ulysses S. Grant; Ernest Fenellosa; Rev.
Samuel D. Burchard; Lester Wallack; Edward VII;
Henry Labouchere; William Le Breton; Diamond Jim
Brady; Richelieu Robinson; Edward Langtry; George
Lewis; William Ewart Gladstone; François Joseph
Regnier; Sarah Bernhardt)
Characters Based on Historical Figures:
Amber Halpin (Maria Halpin); Dandy John Nolan (Dandy
John Dolan); Jeanne-Marie Langtry (Oscar Folsom
Cleveland)
Other Characters: Woman in Window; Hansom
Driver; Lillie's Maid; Sailor; Dockers; Customs
Officers; Political Marchers; Cyprians; Porter;
Brevoort Commissionaire; Desk Clerk; Kelly's Aides;
Journalists; Artists; Brevoort Porters; Brevoort
Page; 23rd Street Ostlers; 23rd Street Crowd; Amber
Halpin; Office Boy; Gebhard's Butler; James
Mitchell; Streetwalkers; The Captain; French Waiter;
Amber's Butler; Policeman; Liveried Servants;
Gebhard's Guests; Gebhard's Maids; Cleveland's
Physician; Hotel Waiter; Moriarty's Spies; Police;
Vagabonds; Newsboy; Police Headquarters Children;
McGurk's Waiters; McGurk's Clientele; Charley the
Chisler; Pumpkinhead O'Malloy; McGurk's
Streetwalkers; Chinese Man; McGurk's Policemen;
Ludovic the Vampire; Ryder; Maxwell; Hack Driver;
Fifth Avenue Desk Clerk; Fifth Avenue Bellboys;
Delmonico's Beggars; Delmonico's Patrons; Clergymen;
Children; Wilde's Valet; Chickering Hall Audience;
Hayes's Guests; Blaine's Aide; Newsboys; Captain of
the Arizona; Crewman; Lord X; Lady Y
(Covent Garden Child; Todd; Margaret;
Barber; Mrs ----; Mary Smithfield; Mr Smithfield;
Smithfield's Child; Chinese Workman; Ward;
Inspector Wilson; Train Boy; British Ambassador)
Date: 1874 & October- November, 1884
Locations: Boat Quay; Holmes's Rooms; The Arizona;
New York; Castle Garden; Pearl Street; Fifth Avenue;
Brevoort Hotel; 362 West 23rd Street; Gebhard's
House; The Louvre; French Café; Hotel Savoy; The
Bowery; Palace of Illusions; Police Headquarters;
McGurk's Suicide Hall; The House of Lords, Houston
& Crosby Streets; Brooklyn Bridge; Ward's Home;
The East River; Broadway; Blaine's Headquarters;
Fifth Avenue Hotel; Delmonico's; Cathedral of St
John the Divine; Chickering Hall; 112 East 29th
Street; Poe's House; Park Theatre; Wall Street;
Stock Exchange; Wallack's Theatre; Chicago; Grand
Pacific Hotel; San Francisco; Kansas City;
Washington D.C.; France; Paris
Story: 1874: Wilde suffers a hansom
accident while travelling across London to meet Lillie
Langtry off her ship. She visits Holmes, who is
working on a distillate of opium, and begs him to love
her.
1884: Wilde sails to America after his
play Vera is closed in London for political
reasons, and encounters Holmes on the dock as he
disembarks, recalling how he had almost come to share
rooms with him ten years previously. There is a mix-up
over their luggage and Holmes is almost arrested for
possession of banned books. He has arrived in New York
in pursuit of Moriarty who has allied himself with the
Whyos gang. They are both staying at the Brevoort,
where Holmes receives an official welcome from Mayor
Kelly. Later, they are visited by Grover Cleveland,
who asks Holmes to retrieve a birth certificate from
the actress Amber Halpin, with whom he fathered a
child nine years previously and who is blackmailing
him into breaking his engagement to Frances Folsom.
Wilde already has a meeting, regarding Vera,
arranged with Halpin, and it is he who discovers her
true identity, while undertaking the task of marrying
her off to Gebhard. Gebhard wants to finance Wilde's
play, but his father has threatened to cut off his
allowance if he is not married by the following day.
Holmes and Wilde use a familiar trick to retrieve the
birth certificate.
At Gebhard's wedding, Holmes comes face
to face with Moriarty, and at Cleveland's hotel he
discovers that Moriarty now has the birth certificate.
The newspapers are full of the details of the
Cleveland scandal. Holmes discovers he is being spied
on, goes mad and writes a weird John Lennon-esque
chapter to prove it, then pulls himself together
again. He and Wilde discover they are being spied on
by the Whyos. Holmes is arrested in an opium den, and
later captured by Moriarty, who is in league with
Blaine and Kelly. He and Moriarty fight on the
Brooklyn Bridge, while Wilde organises an American
lecture tour.
There follows much philosophising and
political chicanery, but little to hold this reader's
interest.
Oh, and Holmes discovers he has a
daughter.
The last fifty or so pages are Lillie's
diary.
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Jane Yolen
Shirlick Holmes and
the Case of the Wandering Wardrobe (1981)
Story Type: Children's Homage
Detective: Shirli
"Shirlick" Holmes
Other Characters: George
Parker; Women Raking Leaves; Gloria; Candy; Frances
Bird Baylor; Police Chief "Chiefy" Parker; Gloria's
Mother; Professor Baylor; Mrs Holmes; Candy's
Mother; Lester Gravel; Mr Lolly; JF; Auction
Bidders; Shirli's Father; Shirli's Grandmother;
Sandwich Man; State Tropers; (Doc Kaiser; Bubba
Baylor; Willard A. Baylor; Mrs Parker)
Date: Autumn
Locations: USA; Hansfield; George's Yard;
Empty House; George's House; Auction House; School
Story: George Parker challenges
Shirli Holmes, who wants to be called "Shirlock", to
solve the mystery of antique furniture being stolen
from summer houses in their town. She begins
investigating with her friends Candy, Gloria and
Frances. The Girls visit the houses that have been
burgled to find clues, but are caught and warned off
the case by George's father, the chief of police,
although he assigns them the task of keeping watch
over the houses. Cigars, lollipop sticks and Juicy
Fruit wrappers provide them with clues, which lead to
Shirlick being trapped inside a wardrobe as it is
stolen.
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Gilbert Youmans
"Mrs Hudson Stays for Tea" (1985)
Included in: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
(January 1986)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs (Dorothea "Dottie") Hudson;
Inspector Lestrade; (Grimesby Roylott; Baker
Street Cook)
Historical Figures: (Arthur
Conan Doyle)
Other Characters: Tea Shop Waitress; Mr
Fowler; Purse-Snatcher; (Baker Street Lodgers;
Sergeant Hudson; Fowler's Assistant; Carrie;
Cornelia Ransom; Mrs Hudson's Relative; Fowler's
Employer)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Tea
Shop
Story: Mrs Hudson consults Holmes over her new
gentleman friend, Mr Fowler, an American who runs a
fish stall in Soho, and whom she fears is more
interested in her widow's pension and 221B than he is
in her. It transpires that he has something altogether
different in mind.
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