A listing of books, stories (both real and fictional), poems and historical documents mentioned in Sherlockian pastiches and parodies. Titles in italics are fictitious.

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A Rebours - J.K. Huysmans: Anno Dracula (Kim Newman) 66

Ab Urbe Condita - Livy: The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini) 6

ABC Railway Guide: The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Laurie R. King) xiii; The Moor (Laurie R. King) 225

"Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel" - Leigh Hunt:"May his tribe increase": Lestrade and The Kiss of Horus (M.J. Trow) 129

The Accusing Skeleton - John Abergavenny: "The Case of the Suicidal Lawyer" (Martin Edwards) 395-397, 401

Across Wildest Africa - Henry Savage Landor: Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 152

An Actor Prepares - Konstantin Stanislavski: Moriarty (John Gardner) 107

Adam Bede - George Eliot: Against the Brotherhood (Quinn Fawcett) 102

"Adlestrop" - Edward Thomas: "I remember Adlestrop": Lestrade and the Ripper (M.J. Trow) 39, 149, 199, 215

The Advancement of Learning - Francis Bacon: Moriarty (John Gardner) 201

Advances in Organic Chemistry - Janifer: The Empress of India (Michael Kurland) 154

The Adventure of the Conan Doyle Ghouls - Hess-Feldstein: Murder Most Irregular (H. Paul Jeffers) 32

"The Adventure of the Dark Angels" - Adrian Conan Doyle: "Report of A Recent Conversation In A Remote Cottage on the South Downs" (Norman W. Ward) 76

The Adventure of the Dead Rabbits Society - Philip J. Carraher: "The Adventure of the Magic Alibi" (Philip J. Carraher) 15, 32

The Adventure of the Promiscuous Pachyderm - Moriarty: "The Adventure of the Gowanus Abduction" (Joyce Harrington) 165

"The Adventure of the Seven Clocks" - Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr: "Report of A Recent Conversation In A Remote Cottage on the South Downs" (Norman W. Ward) 76

The Adventure of the Spinster's Dream - Moriarty: "The Adventure of the Gowanus Abduction" (Joyce Harrington) 167

The Adventure of the Wand of Death - Clovelly: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 90-91

The Adventure of the White Shadow - Mason M. Mower: The Prayer of the Night Shepherd (Phil Rickman) 266

Adventures Among the Abominable Snowmen - Redvers Fenn-Cooper: All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 26

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain: Sherlock Holmes and The Greyfriars School Mystery (Val Andrews); The List of 7 (Mark Frost) 386; The Canary Trainer (Nicholas Meyer) 9; "Give Me Lib, or Give Me Death" (Rod Reed) 211 {The Adventures of Honeybear Finn}

The Adventures of Lola Montez - Lola Montez: Spider Dance (Carole Nelson Douglas) 160, 396, 430, 434, 436-437

The Adventures of Picklock Holes - Cunnin Toil: Brigade (M.J.Trow) 238

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (K.J. Anderson) 109; Sherlock Holmes and The Greyfriars School Mystery (Val Andrews); The Canary Trainer (Nicholas Meyer) 39

Aeneid - Virgil: The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes (Marcel Theroux) 84
"Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor": The Revenge of the Hound (Michael Hardwick) 47
"Exoritur clamorque virum clangorque tubarum": Sherlock Holmes in Tibet (Richard Wincor) 4
"Tantaene animis caelestibus irae: Sherlock Holmes and The Railway Maniac (Barrie Roberts) 180

Aesop's Fables: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 23

"An Aesthetic Analysis of the Fin-de-Siècle Styles and Manners of the Capitals of the European Monarchies" - Gottfried Kasper: The Great Game (Michael Kurland) 36-37

"The Affray at the Kildare Street Club" - Peter Tremayne: "A Study In Orange" (Peter Tremayne) 252, 254

The African Colony - John Buchan: Lestrade and The Mirror of Murder (M.J. Trow) 201

African Game Trails - Theodore Roosevelt: The Nine Wrong Answers (John Dickson Carr) 83, 85, 105, 107-108, 119-120, 123

After London - Richard Jefferies: Anno Dracula (Kim Newman) 393

"Against Quarrelling" - Isaac Watts: "Let dogs delight...": The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Laurie R. King) 67

Agamemnon - Robert Browning: "The Case Of the Greek Key" (Donald Thomas) 149

The Age of Fable - Thomas Bulfinch: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 107

The Age of Reason - Thomas Paine: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 111

Air and Fire - Scheele: The Childhood of Sherlock Holmes (Mona Morstein) 263

Aladdin: The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 258-259, 262-271

Alcedama - Aleister Crowley: Doctor Watson and the Invisible Man (Noel Downing) 18; Sherlock Holmes and The Terror Out of Time (Ralph E. Vaughan) 52

Alchemy and Britannic History - Eckermann: "The Adventure of the Hanging Tyrant" (M.J. Elliott) 63

Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll: "The Case of the Detective's Smile" (Mark Bourne) 23; "The Adventure of the Librarian's Ghost" (Jon L. Breen) 24-25, 31-32, 35; The Case of the Philosophers' Ring (Randall Collins) 27; Sherlock Holmes and The Alice In Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 24; Sherlock Holmes and The Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 55, 108, 177, 181; Sherlock Holmes and The Seven Deadly Sins Murders (Barry Day) 117; "The Christmas Client" (Edward D.Hoch) 263; My Hero (Tom Holt) 123, 135; The Case of the Second Séance (Sam McCarver) 116; The Disappearance of Edwin Drood (Peter Rowland) 35; "The Adventure of the Other Detective" (Bradley H. Sinor) 46; "The Case Of the Greek Key" (Donald Thomas) 112-115, 118
"One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it...": "The Case Of the Greek Key" (Donald Thomas) 114

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll: Young Sherlock Holmes (Alan Arnold) 118; "The Interrupted Game" (Dana Martin Batory) 135; Sherlock Holmes in New York (D.R.Bensen) 88; "The Case of the Detective's Smile" (Mark Bourne) 23, 25-26; "The Adventure of the Librarian's Ghost" (Jon L. Breen) 32; "The Case of the Unmarked Graves" (Colin Bruce) 113; The Case of the Philosophers' Ring (Randall Collins) 26; The Case of the Reluctant Agent (Tracy Cooper-Posey) 153; Arthur and The Bellybutton Diamond (Alan Coren) 12, 17; Sherlock Holmes and The Alice In Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 24, 27, 36, 39-40, 62, 65, 84, 87, 114, 126-128, 133, 156, 171; Sherlock Holmes and The Apocalypse Murders (Barry Day) 36-37; Sherlock Holmes and The Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 7, 54-55, 181; Sherlock Holmes and The Seven Deadly Sins Murders (Barry Day) 55, 61; Sherlock Holmes and The Shakespeare Globe Murders (Barry Day) 63; Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 52, 95, 244, 318; "Dracula on the Rocks" (Carole Nelson Douglas) 17; Femme Fatale (Carole Nelson Douglas) 64, 228, 259; Absolute Discretion (Grant Eustace) 50, 122; Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 264, 387; The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 82, 177; Faction Paradox: Erasing Sherlock (Kelly Hale) 105; "The Christmas Client" (Edward D.Hoch) 263-264; My Hero (Tom Holt) 71-72, 115-116, 135, 157; The Game (Laurie R. King) 220; Copper Beeches (Arthur H. Lewis) 220; The Canary Trainer (Nicholas Meyer) 79, 185; The West End Horror (Nicholas Meyer) 111; Eye of the Crow (Shane Peacock) 7; East of Ealing (Robert Rankin) 146; The Problem of the Missing Miss (Roberta Rogow) 15; The Problem of the Spiteful Spiritualist (Roberta Rogow) 271; Death's Angel (Kathleen Sky) 20, 30, 138; "Sherlock Holmes Solves The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Harry B. Smith) 225; "Sherlock Holmes and The Chinese Junk Affair" (Roy Templeman) 67; Sherlock Holmes and The Treasure Train (Frank Thomas) 45; Dr. Mortimer and The Aldgate Mystery (Gerard Williams) 103; Everybody's Favorite Duck (Gahan Wilson) 103
"As large as life and twice as natural": Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 115
"Cabbages and kings": Good Morning, Irene (Carole Nelson Douglas) 68, 139; An Opened Grave (L. Frank James) 10; The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man (Daniel Stashower) 97
"Curiouser and curiouser": Arthur and the Bellybutton Diamond (Alan Coren) 12; Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 62; Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 244; Irene's Last Waltz (Carole Nelson Douglas) 393; "The Case of the Suicidal Lawyer" (Martin Edwards) 393; San Francisco Kills (Denny Martin Flinn) 88; Night Watch (Stephen Kendrick) 32; Evolution (John Peel) 91; "Alimentary, My Dear Watson" (Lawrence Schimel) 211; Sherlock Holmes' Lost Adventure (Lauren Steinhauer) 42
"Drink me": Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 89-90; My Hero (Tom Holt) 72, 144; The Art of Detection (Laurie R. King) 1; "Alimentary, My Dear Watson" (Lawrence Schimel) 210
"Eat me": Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 89; My Hero (Tom Holt) 72; "Alimentary, My Dear Watson" (Lawrence Schimel) 210
"He only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases": The Game (Laurie R. King) 274
"How do you know I'm mad?": Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 144
"If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you": Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 115
"I'll be judge, I'll be jury": Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 115
"Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday...": Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 114
"Off with his head!": Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 61, 88
"Oh my ears and whiskers": Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 39; My Hero (Tom Holt) 116
"The question is...which is to be master": Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 24, 86, 173
"Sentence first-verdict afterwards": Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 154
"She is a capital one for catching mice...": "Alimentary, My Dear Watson" (Lawrence Schimel) 211
"Six impossible things before breakfast": "Alimentary, My Dear Watson" (Lawrence Schimel) 212; Death's Angel (Kathleen Sky) 117
"Soup of the evening, beautiful soup": Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 114
"Speak roughly to your little boy...": Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds (Manly W. Wellman and Wade Wellman) 87
"Take care of the sense...": Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 115
"The time has come, the walrus said...": Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 109
"Tweedledum and Tweedledee resolved to have a battle...": Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 112

All About Chartered Accountancy: Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J. Trow) 97

All-Consuming Fire: Being A Reprint From The Reminiscences of Dr. John Watson As Edited By Arthur Conan Doyle: All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 3

Allan and the Holy Flower - H. Rider Haggard: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (K.J. Anderson) 137; The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 24

Allan and the Ice Gods - H. Rider Haggard: The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 24

Allan Quatermain - H. Rider Haggard: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (K.J. Anderson) 64, 137; The Adventure of the Three Madmen (Philip José Farmer) 155-156; The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 24

Allan's Wife - H. Rider Haggard: The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 24

Almanach de Gotha: "The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby" (Adrian Conan Doyle) 174; Dracula's Diary (Michael Geare and Michael Corby) 7, 102; The King Edward Plot (Robert Lee Hall) 24-25; The Great Game (Michael Kurland) 91-92; The Hampstead Poisonings (Glen Petrie) 190; "The Case of the Maupertuis Scandal" (June Thomson) 201

Alone with the Hairy Ainu - Henry Savage Landor: Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 152

The Amateur Cracksman - E.W. Hornung: "The Problem of the Sore Bridge - Among Others" (Philip Jose Farmer) 35

The Amazing Story of Nikola Tesla - Hugo Gernsback: The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 30-31

Amazon Basin: The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes (Marcel Theroux) 101-102, 145

American Constitution: The Patient's Eyes (David Pirie) 204

American Encyclopaedia: The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 96; Sherlock Holmes and The Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) 54

American Kennel Club Obedience Regulations: The Barker Street Regulars (Susan Conant) 1

Amerika - Franz Kafka: The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini) 330

Analysis from Zero: The Last War: Detective Ferrets and the Case of the Golden Hope (Richard Bach) 2-3

Analytical Mechanics - Joseph Louis, Comte de Lagrange: Moriarty (John Gardner) 15

Ananga Ranga: The Probability Pad (T.A.Waters) 24, 139

The Anatomy of Nonscience - Dr Horace Verner: "The Anomaly of the Empty Man" (Anthony Boucher) 31, 39, 45

The Ancient Allan - H. Rider Haggard: The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 24

Ye Ancient and Accepted Sovereign Remedy for Black Water Fever: The Jewelled Peacock of Persia (Jake and Luke Thoene) 119

Ancient Egyptian Artefacts Recovered During the Napoleonic Era: The Curse of the Pharoahs (Kel Richards) 66

Ancient Folk Tunes of Old Ireland: Solar Pons Versus the Devil's Claw (Basil Copper) 96, 123

The Ancient Mariner - Coleridge: see The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Ancient Metalwork - Walker: "The Riddle of the Golden Monkeys" (Loren D. Estleman) 150

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: "Sherlock Holmes, Dragon-Slayer" (Darrell Schweitzer) 132

Animal Farm - George Orwell: The Case of the Maltese Treasure (Thomas Brace Haughey) 108

Animal Talk: The Barker Street Regulars (Susan Conant) 79

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy: Some Danger Involved (Will Thomas) 113

The Annotated Sherlock Holmes - William S. Baring-Gould: Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World (Thos. Kent Miller) 5

The Annual Register: The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade (M.J. Trow) 48-49

Anticipations - H.G. Wells: The Dracula Caper (Simon Hawke) 16

Antiquities Historical and Modern of the County of Cornwall - Borlase: "The Matter of the Furnival Curse" (David L. Hammer) 96

The Antiquity of Man - Keith: Skullduggery (Peter Marks) 256

Anti-Semitism in Medieval Europe: Some Danger Involved (Will Thomas) 68

Any Old Iron - J.R. Hartley: Lestrade and the Magpie (M.J. Trow) 106

The Apiarist's Handbook: Sherlock Holmes and The Secret Seven (Val Andrews) 17

Apophthegmata Patrum Aegyptiorum: "The Case of the Two Coptic Patriarchs" (John A. Wilson) 83

An Apostle of the Tules - Bret Harte: W.G. Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 88

The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim - Mir Bahadur Ali: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 90

The Arabian Nights: Sherlock Holmes in New York (D.R.Bensen) 119; Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) 20; "A Full Account of Ricoletti of the Club Foot and His Abominable Wife" (Ian Charnock) 142; The Case of the Philosophers' Ring (Randall Collins) 116; Chronicles of the Lost Years (Tracy Cooper-Posey) 82; Sherlock Holmes and The Seven Deadly Sins Murders (Barry Day) 71; Castle Rouge (Carole Nelson Douglas) 67; Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 28, 422; Good Night, Mr. Holmes (Carole Nelson Douglas) 11; "The Adventure of the Arabian Knight" (Loren D. Estleman) 152-153; The Whitechapel Horrors (Edward B. Hanna) 200; Prisoner of the Devil (Michael Hardwick) 176; "The Enchanted Garden" (H.F.Heard) 125; Supping with Panthers (Tom Holland) 237; The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 120, 214, 238-247, 253; The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 31; Anno Dracula (Kim Newman) 358; The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (Jamyang Norbu) 11; The Problem of the Spiteful Spiritualist (Roberta Rogow) 172; The Angel of the Opera (Sam Siciliano) 163, 223; "The Case of the Naked Bicyclists" (Donald Thomas) 91; Sherlock Holmes and The Golden Bird (Frank Thomas) 16; Ten Years Beyond Baker Street (Cay Van Ash) 10, 205; Sherlock Holmes and The Giant Rat of Sumatra (Alan Vanneman) 89, 215; Sherlock Holmes and the Hapsburg Tiara (Alan Vanneman) 220; The Mycroft Memoranda (Ray Walsh) 26; The Tale Not Told (Constance Wilder-Wokoun) 15

The Archaeological History of the Gorgan Empire, The Classic Age - Professor John Dieffenbach: "Quadrumvirate" (Dana Martin Batory) 27, 31-32, 40

The Architecture of the Universe - Nathaniel Bramwell: Sherlock Holmes and The Railway Maniac (Barrie Roberts) 95

L'Armee Nouvelle - Jean Jaures: Son of Holmes (John T. Lescroart) 230

The Army List: The Hampstead Poisonings (Glen Petrie) 137

Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (K.J. Anderson) 39; "The Adventure of the Russian Grave" (William Barton and Michael Capobianco) 31-32; "Three Cases of Relative Jealousy" (Colin Bruce) 128; Femme Fatale (Carole Nelson Douglas) 217; The Other Log of Phileas Fogg (Philip José Farmer) 64, 108, 127, 129, 154; "The Very First Affair" (Johan Heliot) 260-261, 266, 269-270; Inspector Ginkgo Tips His Hat To Sherlock Holmes (Alex Jack) 201, 206; The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 83, 210, 218
"A well-used minimum suffices for everything": "The Case of the Man Who Was Wanted" (Arthur Whitaker) 56

Ars Amatoria - Ovid: "Dummodo sit dives...": The Demon Device (Robert Saffron) 84

Ars Conjectandi - Jakob Bernoulli: Sherlock Holmes: My Life And Crimes (Michael Hardwick) 67

Ars Memoria - Robert Fludd: "The Case of the Fiery Messengers" (Ron Weighell) 8

Art and Revolution - Richard Wagner: The Holmes Factor (Brian Freemantle) 175

The Art of Acting - Lacy: Moriarty (John Gardner) 106

The Art of Bicycle Riding - Crawley: Lestrade and The Guardian Angel (M.J.Trow) 130

The Art of Boxing - Daniel Mendoza: The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 128

The Art of Calligraphic Forgery: The Kentish Manor Murders (Julian Symons) 137

L'Arte del Violino - Locatelli: The Childhood of Sherlock Holmes (Mona Morstein) 274

Arthur and the Great Detective - Alan Coren: Arthur and The Bellybutton Diamond (Alan Coren) 14

The Arts of Beauty - Lola Montez: Spider Dance (Carole Nelson Douglas) 433

The Artwork of the Future - Richard Wagner: The Holmes Factor (Brian Freemantle) 175

The Arun: A Natural History of the World's Deepest Valley - Edward W. Cronin, Jr.: Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World (Thos. Kent Miller) 2

As in a Looking Glass: Irene at Large (Carole Nelson Douglas) 108

Ashenden - William Somerset Maugham: The Demon Device (Robert Saffron) 100, 284

The Astonishing History of Troy Town - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch: "The Strange Case of the Megatherium Thefts" (S.C.Roberts) 122

An Astronomer in Spain - Gordon Macleod: Sherlock Holmes and The Railway Maniac (Barrie Roberts) 94

At Bertram's Hotel - Agatha Christie: Murder Most Irregular (H. Paul Jeffers) 131

At Long Last Lust - Daphne Farquitt: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 265-267, 271-272, 305-306, 326, 328

'At the Mountains of Madness' - H.P. Lovecraft: The Arcanum (Thomas Wheeler) 45-46

The Attwater Firewitch - Arthur Conan Doyle: The Book of the Dead (Robert Richardson) 29-192

Auld Licht Idylls - James M. Barrie: "The Adventure of the Two Collaborators" (James M. Barrie) 42

Autumn Vespers - Menshov: A Slight Trick of the Mind (Mitch Cullin) 167, 177

The Awakening - Kate Chopin: The Case of Emily V (Keith Oatley) 364-366

Ayesha: The Return of She - H. Rider Haggard: Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World (Thos. Kent Miller) 5, 7

"B.24" - Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 201

Bab Ballads - William S. Gilbert: "The Dilemma of the Distressed Savoyard" (Crighton Sellars) 454

Babbitt - Lewis: Believe (William Shatner and Michael Tobias) 120

Baedeker Guides (All editions): Young Sherlock Holmes (Alan Arnold) 131; The Pursuit of the Houseboat (John Kendrick Bangs) 154; "The Interrupted Game" (Dana Martin Batory) 125; The Curse of the Nibelung (Marcel D'Agneau) 159; The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Michael Dibdin) 137; Sherlock Holmes and The Boulevard Assassin (John Hall) 8; Sherlock Holmes: My Life And Crimes (Michael Hardwick) 53; O, Jerusalem (Laurie R. King) 303-304, 308; The Great Game (Michael Kurland) 30-31, 40, 119-121, 205; The Canary Trainer (Nicholas Meyer) 35; The Case of Emily V (Keith Oatley) 185; The Monstrous Regiment (Glen Petrie) 80; W.G. Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 225; The Demon Device (Robert Saffron) 124, 162

Baker Street Studies - H.W. Bell: "The Case of the Elderly Actor" (John Ball, Jr.) 211

"The Ballad of East and West" - Rudyard Kipling: "East is East...": The Empress of India (Michael Kurland) 11

"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" - Oscar Wilde: "A Study In Lavender Lace" (Larry Townsend) 37; Lestrade and The Deadly Game (M.J.Trow) 188
"That little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky": "The Execution of Sherlock Holmes" (Donald Thomas) 28

"The Balloon Hoax" - Edgar Allan Poe: The Bloody Red Baron (Kim Newman) 87

Bardo Thodol (Tibetan Book of the Dead): The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 6, 11, 13, 23, 93, 115; Inspector Ginkgo Tips His Hat To Sherlock Holmes (Alex Jack) 52; Night Watch (Stephen Kendrick) 232; Believe (William Shatner and Michael Tobias) 224; Sherlock Holmes in Tibet (Richard Wincor) 32-33, 35-37

Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 1; The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 173

Bartlett's Quotations: see Familiar Quotations

Basil and the Pygmy Cats - Eve Titus: Basil in the Wild West (Eve Titus) 62

Basis for Stasis - Clyde Beatty: Necropolis (Basil Copper) 367

La Bataille de Vienne - Rosny-Ainé: The Bloody Red Baron (Kim Newman) 36

The Battle of Dorking - Sabretache (George Chesney): The Bloody Red Baron (Kim Newman) 16; The Dorking Gap Affair (Glen Petrie) 332-333; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 232

The Battle of St. Petersburg - Edgar Allan Poe: The Bloody Red Baron (Kim Newman) 33, 36-38, 81, 83, 87-88, 232, 277

The Bayan: "The Bab Deception" (Bill Paxton) 158-159, 168, 177-178, 189, 205, 212

The Bayeux Tapestry: Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 94

"Be Prepared: An Interview with Baden-Powell": The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 197

Beak and Talon: "The Horror of Hanging Wood" (John Taylor) 138, 140

The Beast in Revelation - Sundheim: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 91

The Beauties of Creation: or a New Moral System of Natural History, Displayed in the Most Curious Quadrupeds, Birds, Insects and Flowers of Northern England - George Riley Mycroft: Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 7

Beauty and the Beast: "Angels of Music" (Kim Newman) 155

Bees: The Feminin' Monarchi: Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) 173

Belinda: Mrs Hudson and the Malabar Rose (Martin Davies) 4

La Belle et la Bête: The Canary Trainer (Nicholas Meyer) 59

Ben Hur - Lew Wallace: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 339; Sherlock Holmes and The Treasure Train (Frank Thomas) 241

Beowulf: Sherlock in Love (Sena Jeter Naslund) 177

Berlitz Guides: "The Sound of the Buskervilles" (Douglas Moreton) 120

Bestiary: Justice Hall (Laurie R. King) 82

Bestrafen von der Tugendhaft, Der - Heinrich Ludvig Georg von Feldenstein: "The Adventure of the Voorish Sign" (Richard A. Lupoff) 359

The Betrothed - Manzoni: The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini) 51

Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche: "The Interrupted Game" (Dana Martin Batory) 124

Bhagavad-Gita: The List of 7 (Mark Frost) 386; Inspector Ginkgo Tips His Hat To Sherlock Holmes (Alex Jack) 163; Skullduggery (Peter Marks) 261

The Bible

The Big Snooze: Lestrade and The Sign of Nine (M.J.Trow) 147

Bill of Rights: The Patient's Eyes (David Pirie) 204

Black Bear Annual: Sherlock Holmes and The Red Demon (Larry Millett) 243

Black Beauty - Anna Sewell: The Case of the Missing Marquess (Nancy Springer) 29

"The Black Cat" - Edgar Allan Poe: Sherlock Holmes and The Secret Seven (Val Andrews) 42; Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 43, 63-64, 146; The Night Calls (David Pirie) 34, 188; The Angel of the Opera (Sam Siciliano) 218; The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade (M.J.Trow) 17
"Decayed and clotted with gore: Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 272

The Black Path of Fear - Cornell Woolrich: The Night Mayor (Kim Newman) 37

Black's Guide to Roads, Railways and Interesting Localities - Adam & Charles Black: The Dorking Gap Affair (Glen Petrie) 120, 151, 157; The Monstrous Regiment (Glen Petrie) 172, 191

Bleak House - Charles Dickens: The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 31, 80, 127-130; The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini) 235; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 60; "The Case of the Naked Bicyclists" (Donald Thomas) 92; Dr. Mortimer and The Aldgate Mystery (Gerard Williams) 11

Blood Flukes of Borneo: The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Laurie R. King) 15

Blood Stains: Mrs Hudson and the Malabar Rose (Martin Davies) 4

Bloodblades of Shimmaroon - Jane Armitage: My Hero (Tom Holt) 223

A Bloody Shovel - Latimer: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 90-91

The Blue Book: Copper Beeches (Arthur H. Lewis) 105

Body and Mind - Henry Maudsley: The Dark Water (David Pirie) 200

The Body in the Library - Agatha Christie: "A body in the library?": Lestrade and the Ripper (M.J. Trow) 128

Bons Mots series: Lestrade and The Dead Man's Hand (M.J.Trow) 193

The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts - Arthur Edward Waite: Doctor Watson and the Invisible Man (Noel Downing) 65

Book of Coming Forth by Day: "The Curse of Nectanebo" (Ron Weighell) 62

Book of Dartmoor - Sabine Baring-Gould: The Moor (Laurie R. King) 225-227, 241

Book of Eibon: "The Adventure of the Antiquarian's Niece" (Barbara Hambly) 177, 183

The Book of Gentlemen's Amusements for Winter Evenings: Lestrade and the Brother of Death (M.J. Trow) 49

Book of Hours: "The Case of the Itinerant Yeggman" (June Thomson) 177, 180 (See also: Les Très Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry)

The Book of Kells: Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 195

The Book of Kor: Sherlock Holmes and The Seven Deadly Sins Murders (Barry Day) 57-58, 63, 66, 75, 78-81, 83, 86-87, 89-91, 96, 101-105, 118, 120, 132, 140, 142-143, 153-155, 159, 167-170, 173-178, 184-185

The Book of Martyrs - Foxe: "The Adventure of Mrs. Burlingame's Diamond Stomacher" (John Kendrick Bangs) 58; The Curse of the Nibelung (Marcel D'Agneau) 191

Book of Mormon: The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (Nicholas Meyer); The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes (Marcel Theroux) 100

Book of Peerage: "The Mysterious Death At Wetherby Manor" (Ned Hubbell) 12

Book of Revealments - St Zvlkx: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 117-118, 310-312, 375

The Book of St. Dunstan: "The Adventure of the Hanging Tyrant" (M.J. Elliott) 62

The Book of Shadows: "The Bab Deception" (Bill Paxton) 153

Book of Songs: Inspector Ginkgo Tips His Hat To Sherlock Holmes (Alex Jack) 138

Book of the Fifteen Gods: "Everything Comes In Circles" (Dana Martin Batory) 23-25

The Book of the Law - Aleister Crowley: The Case of the Philosophers' Ring (Randall Collins) 126, 128-129, 143

A Book of the Rhine from Cleve to Mainz - Sabine Baring-Gould: The Moor (Laurie R. King) 122

A Book of the West: Devon - Sabine Baring-Gould: The Moor (Laurie R. King) 224-225, 243-244, 247-252, 254

The Book of Thoth - Aleister Crowley: "The Adventure of the Angel's Trumpet" (Carolyn Wheat) 286, 288

Bored to Death - Edgar Wallace: Lestrade and The Mirror of Murder (M.J. Trow) 165

Bounty Hunting for Pleasure and Profit - Kurt Lundqvist: My Hero (Tom Holt) 107

Bowles Complete Book of Cyphers: The Case of the Second Séance (Sam McCarver) 73, 81, 85

Boxiana or the Annals of Modern Pugilism: Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 18

The Boy Detective: The Case of the Vanishing Corpse (Robert Newman) 161; A Puzzle for Sherlock Holmes (Robert Newman) 55

The Boy Who Cried Wolf: The Scottish Ploy (Quinn Fawcett) 182

The Boy's Bumper Book of Dinosaurs: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 328

The Boy's Guide to Elementary Chemistry: "The Omnibus Murder" (R.E. Swartwout) 127

Bradshaw & the Diamond of M'Shala: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 389

Bradshaw Defies the Kaiser: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 174

Bradshaw Hunts Big Game: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 174

Branch Lines - James Henry Strachan: "The Devil's Tunnel" (John Taylor) 108

Brazilian Cookbook: A Samba for Sherlock (Jô Soares) 190

"Break, Break, Break" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade (M.J. Trow) 20

Bredon Hill - Housman: The Notched Hairpin (H.F.Heard) 14, 52

Bride for the Seventh Zombie: The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 182, 188

The Bridge - Crane: Pulptime (P.H.Cannon) 45

Bridge of Sighs - Thomas Hood: The Holmes-Dracula File (Fred Saberhagen) 64

Brigade - M.J. Trow: Lestrade and The Kiss of Horus (M.J.Trow) 29

Brigadier Gerard - Arthur Conan Doyle: The Patient's Eyes (David Pirie) 6; Lestrade and The Mirror of Murder (M.J. Trow) 180

"Bringing Up Father" - George McManus: Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 63

Britain's Pagan Places: The Prayer of the Night Shepherd (Phil Rickman) 221

British Beekeeper's Guide Book - T.W. Cowan: The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor) 16

British Birds: Eye of the Crow (Shane Peacock) 16, 19

British Birds - Bond: "Everything Comes In Circles" (Dana Martin Batory) 21

British Birds of Coasts, Estuaries and Lakes: "The Case of the Abandoned Lighthouse" (June Thomson) 197

The British Campaign in France and Flanders - Arthur Conan Doyle: The Demon Device (Robert Saffron) 18