A listing of books, stories (both real and fictional), poems and historical documents mentioned in Sherlockian pastiches and parodies.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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I Caught Crippen - Walter Dew: Lestrade and the Brother of Death (M.J. Trow) 9, 25; Lestrade and The Devil's Own (M J Trow) 15, 44, 76, 82, 84; Lestrade and The Kiss of Horus (M.J.Trow) 27; Lestrade and The Leviathan (M.J.Trow) 115, 147-148, 250

I Ching: Inspector Ginkgo Tips His Hat To Sherlock Holmes (Alex Jack) 138, 209; The Case of the 2nd Séance (Sam McCarver) 73; The Probability Pad (T.A. Waters) 14, 58, 111; Everybody's Favorite Duck (Gahan Wilson) 95

I Married a Headhunter - Beveridge: The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes (Marcel Theroux) 101-102

"I Remember, I Remember" - Thomas Hood: Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (Gerald Frow) 116

I, Robot - Isaac Asimov: East of Ealing (Robert Rankin) 100

I Rode with Wyatt: Tombstone's Invisible Man - Buckskin Frank McQuethy: The 6 Messiahs (Mark Frost) 182

"I Saw Eternity the Other Night" - Henry Vaughan: The Monstrous Regiment (Glen Petrie) 263

I Was a Transvestite Mormon: A Three-Pipe Problem (Julian Symons) 52

Iceland, Its Scenes and Sagas - Sabine Baring-Gould: The Moor (Laurie R. King) 122

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: "The Ghost of Sherlock Holmes" (Leslie Halliwell) 246

"Idylls of the King" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Enter the Lion (Michael P. Hodel and Sean M. Wright) 173; Anno Dracula (Kim Newman) 330; "The Case Of the Greek Key" (Donald Thomas) 149
"The old order changeth": The Case of the 2nd Séance (Sam McCarver) 33

The Iliad - Homer: The List of 7 (Mark Frost) 50; The Canary Trainer (Nicholas Meyer) 220; The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume 2 (Allan Moore & Kevin O'Neill) 114; The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes (Marcel Theroux) 84; Sherlock Holmes and The Golden Bird (Frank Thomas) 87

The Illustrated History of Bugland: "The Case of the Frightened Scholar" (William Kotzwinkle) 41-42, 45-46

The Illustrated History of Bugland, Volume II: "The Case of the Frightened Scholar" (William Kotzwinkle) 53-54

Imagining Fact: Avedoi Merek in the Council of Ferra - Shamrock Ferret: The Last War: Detective Ferrets and the Case of the Golden Hope (Richard Bach) 131

An Imbolc Carol - Charolis Dickens: Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 171

Immaturity - George Bernard Shaw: The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 37

"The Imp of the Perverse" - Edgar Allan Poe: The Night Calls (David Pirie) 52, 74; "The Black Heaven" (Ron Weighell) 115

The Imperial German Army List: The Hampstead Poisonings (Glen Petrie) 145

Implied Logic in Everyday Life: Some Danger Involved (Will Thomas) 24

Imprisoned With the Pharoahs - Harry Houdini / H.P. Lovecraft: Pulptime (P.H.Cannon) 29

Improving the Obedience Dog: The Barker Street Regulars (Susan Conant) 79

In Darkest England: The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade (M.J.Trow) 133

"In Memoriam" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 198; Sherlock Holmes Investigates the Murder In Euston Square (Ronald Pearsall) 33, 100
"Sorrow makes us wise": The Shadow of the Rat (David Stuart Davies) 126

"In Memoriam Sherlock Holmes" - Christopher Morley: The Adventures of Young Stamford (Richard M. Caplan, M.D.) 3; The Giant Rat of Sumatra (Daniel Gracely) 3

In the Dusk of the Dawn - Surin: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 91

In the Forbidden Land - Henry Savage Landor: Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 152

In the Shadow of the Rope - Christopherson: Dr Mortimer and The Barking Man Mystery (Gerard Williams) 121

"Incerti Auctoris te Vigilans Oculis": "Illic te Venus...": Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 35

India and the Colonial Experience - Krishnan Viswarath: Night Watch (Stephen Kendrick) 60

"Indoor Sports" - Tad Dorgan: Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 65

Industrial Democracy - Sidney & Beatrice Webb: Durkheim Is Dead! (Arthur Asa Berger) 108

The Inferno - Dante: The Adventures of Young Stamford (Richard M. Caplan, M.D.) 26; The Curse of the Nibelung (Marcel D'Agneau) 122; The Shadow of the Rat (David Stuart Davies) 60; The Tangled Skein (David Stuart Davies) 143; Sherlock Holmes and The Apocalypse Murders (Barry Day) 177; Sherlock Holmes and The Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 111, 168; From Prussia with Love (John DeChancie) 236; "Flashman and the Tiger" (George MacDonald Fraser) 303; The Whitechapel Horrors (Edward B. Hanna) 134; "The Italian Sherlock Holmes" (Reginald Hill) 236; Enter the Lion (Michael P. Hodel and Sean M. Wright) 170; "The Shadows on the Lawn" (Barry Jones) 142; The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Laurie R. King) 348; Death By Gaslight (Michael Kurland) 259; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 223; "The Weeping Masks" (James Lowder) 99; "The Adventure of the Voorish Sign" (Richard A. Lupoff) 369; Sherlock Holmes and The Ice Palace Murders (Larry Millett) 47, 290; The Case of Emily V (Keith Oatley) 67; Evolution (John Peel) 55; The Hampstead Poisonings (Glen Petrie) 136; The Monstrous Regiment (Glen Petrie) 134; A Samba for Sherlock (Jô Soares) 16; Ten Years Beyond Baker Street (Cay Van Ash) 17; "The Sect of the Salamander" (Ron Weighell) 103
"Abandon hope all ye who enter here": Some Danger Involved (Will Thomas) 13
"CosÏ andammo infino alla lumera...": "The Case of the French Savant" (Ted Riccardi) 118
"Gia era, e con paura il metto in metro...": Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders (Larry Millett) 290
"If he were beautiful as he is hideous": The Monstrous Regiment (Glen Petrie) 252
"Lasciate ogne speranza...": The Angel of the Opera (Sam Siciliano) 20

Inquest - Epstein: Sherlock Holmes in Dallas (Edmund Aubrey) 31

Inside Cats - Hagerup: Basil and The Lost Colony (Eve Titus) 19

The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu - Sax Rohmer: Killer Finish (Denny Martin Flinn) 198

Institutio Oratoria - Quintilian: "The House That Jack Built" (Edward Wellen) 280

Instructions to Young Sportsmen - Colonel Peter Hawker:"The Case of the Sporting Squire"(Guy N. Smith) 154

The Insulted and the Injured - Dostoevsky: The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini) 34, 262

Interesting Localities - see: Black's Guide to Riads, Railways and Interesting Locations

The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud: Sherlock Holmes' Last Case (Robert D'Artagnan) 309; Sherlock Holmes and The Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 56; Sherlock Holmes and The Shakespeare Globe Murders (Barry Day) 121-122; Locked Rooms (Laurie R. King) 11; The Case of Emily V (Keith Oatley) 13, 40-41, 48-49, 59, 67, 103, 128, 149, 311, 350

"Intimations of Immortality" - William Wordsworth: The Rainbow Affair (David McDaniel) 154
"But I yet know, where'er I go, that there hath passed away a glory from the earth": The Rainbow Affair (David McDaniel) 154
"The rainbow comes and goes...": The Rainbow Affair (David McDaniel) 154

Intricacies - Dozyphrase: "The Major General's Pepper-Pots" (John Kendrick Bangs) 210

Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation - Jeremy Bentham: A Slight Trick of the Mind (Mitch Cullin) 144

The Invasion of 1910 - William Le Queux: The Bloody Red Baron (Kim Newman) 16; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 233

The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (K.J. Anderson) 48; Doctor Watson and the Invisible Man (Noel Downing) 1, 3-8, 13, 19, 52, 62, 66-67, 127; The Patient's Eyes (David Pirie) 6; The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor) 146

"L'Invitation au Voyage" - Baudelaire: A Samba for Sherlock (Jô Soares) 47

The Irrational Knot - George Bernard Shaw: The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 37

Isaiah and the Universal God - Rabbi Leonard Mandleberg: Night Watch (Stephen Kendrick) 60

Isis Unveiled - Helena Blavatsky: The List of 7 (Mark Frost) 1-2, 43, 64; The Arcanum (Thomas Wheeler) 23

Islam Comes to Egypt - Maurice Steed-Spaulding: Sherlock Holmes and The Sacred Sword (Frank Thomas) 35

The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells: "A Case of Royal Blood" (Steven-Elliot Altman) 78; The Dracula Caper (Simon Hawke) 14; The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor) 146

It Is Time, Lord - Chappell: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 65

Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott : Mrs Hudson and the Malabar Rose (Martin Davies) 200; Holmes on the Range (Steve Hockensmith) 117; Lestrade and The Sawdust Ring (M.J.Trow) 50

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

"J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" - Arthur Conan Doyle: The Other Log of Phileas Fogg (Philip José Farmer) 116; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 81-82

"Jabberwocky" - Lewis Carroll: Sherlock Holmes and The Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 139; Irene at Large (Carole Nelson Douglas) 375
"Twas brillig and the slithy toves...": Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 139

J'Accuse - Emile Zola: "Cabaret Aux Assassins" (Cara Black) 229

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Punjat's Ruby (Marian J.A.Jackson) 140-141; The Bloody Red Baron (Kim Newman) 245
"Fee Fi Fo Fum": Irene's Last Waltz (Carole Nelson Douglas) 177, 269, 390

Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution - Stephen Knight: Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 104

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 43, 73, 76, 82, 197, 216, 267, 336, 387; Dracula's Diary (Michael Geare and Michael Corby) 10

Jataka: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 23

Jaundice in Indonesia: The Jewelled Peacock of Persia (Jake and Luke Thoene) 120

"Joan Hunter Dunn" - John Betjeman: The Kentish Manor Murders (Julian Symons) 170

John Burnet of Barns - John Buchan: Sherlock Holmes and The Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 143

Jonathan Wild - Henry Fielding: The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 214

Jonathan Wild: Master Criminal - Pierce: Sherlock Holmes and The Golden Bird (Frank Thomas) 166-167, 178-183, 212

Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding: "For clergy are men as well as other folks": "Missing Parsons" (Douglas Moreton) 149

Journal Intime : Recueil de Pieces Authentiques sur le Captif de Ste. Helene - Comte Henri-Gratien Bertrand: "The Case of the Phantom Chambermaid" (Donald Thomas) 273

A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe: Lestrade and The Kiss of Horus (M.J.Trow) 103

Journey to Lhassa through Western Thibet - Hurree Chunder Mookerjee: The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (Jamyang Norbu) 142

The Joy of Sex: San Francisco Kills (Denny Martin Flinn) 134

"Judge Rummy" - Tad Dorgan: Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 65

The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling: Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair (David Stuart Davies) 58; The Adventure of the Three Madmen (Philip José Farmer) 141, 151, 165; Evolution (John Peel) 144

Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 328

Jurgen - James Branch Cabell: Locked Rooms (Laurie R. King) 286

Jus' the Sky - Brown: The Winged Wheel (Peter H. Wood) 88-89

The Kabbalah

Kama Sutra: "The Adventure of the Arabian Knight" (Loren D. Estleman) 153; Inspector Ginkgo Tips His Hat To Sherlock Holmes (Alex Jack) 190; The Empress of India (Michael Kurland) 198; The Probability Pad (T.A.Waters) 139; The Tale Not Told (Constance Wilder-Wokoun) 76-77, 79

Das Kapital - Karl Marx: "Ten Lords A-Leaping" (Jake Arnott) 320, 327; "The Adventure of the Old Russian Woman" (Ian Charnock) 111; Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 107; The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 19, 29, 32, 57, 83, 86, 90, 139-140; The Holmes Factor (Brian Freemantle) 48; The Case of the Maltese Treasure (Thomas Brace Haughey) 105; The Demon Device (Robert Saffron) 267; Escapade (Walter Satterthwaite) 66

Katie's Secret: Lestrade and the Leviathan (M.J.Trow) 39

The Katzenjammer Kids (Cartoon Strip): "A Scarletin Study" (Philip José Farmer) 198

Kelly's Directory: The Secret of Sherlock Holmes (Gary F. Boothe) 4; Lestrade and the Devil's Own (M.J. Trow) 187-188; Dr Mortimer and the Barking Man Mystery (Gerard Williams) 209

Kenkyusha's Japanese-English Dictionary: The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror (Daniel Pinkwater) 515

Kent Monuments - Corby: The Quallsford Inheritance (Lloyd Biggle Jr.) 110

The Key of Solomon: Doctor Watson and the Invisible Man (Noel Downing) 65, 125

"Khaled" - F. Marion Crawford: The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 30

Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson: The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini) 422

Kim - Rudyard Kipling: The Game (Laurie R. King) 8, 13, 43, 124, 169, 260, 328; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 141, 147; Lestrade and the Hallowed House (M.J.Trow) 476
"Little friend of the world": The Game (Laurie R. King) 124

King Albert's Book: Lestrade and the Magpie (M.J. Trow) 68

King Arthur - Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Anno Dracula (Kim Newman) 330

King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (K.J. Anderson) 23, 64, 70, 137; "The Adventure of the Conk-Singleton Papers" (John Dickson Carr) 268; Sherlock Holmes and the Thistle of Scotland (L.B.Greenwood) 185; The King Edward Plot (Robert Lee Hall) 22; The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 24, 32, 38; Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World (Thos. Kent Miller) 11

King's Handbook: The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes (Larry Millett) 121, 123, 125

"The King's New Clothes" - Hans Christian Andersen: A Taste for Honey (H.F.Heard) 53

Kitab-al-Azrif - Abdul al-Hazred: "The Adventure of the Arab's Manuscript" (Michael Reaves) 272-276, 278, 280-281, 283-285, 288, 294

"The Knight's Tomb" - Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
"His soul is with the saints"
: Lestrade and the Magpie (M.J. Trow) 56
"Where is the grave of Sir Arthur O'Kellyn": Lestrade and the Magpie (M.J. Trow) 56

Know The Game: Cricket: Happy Endings (Paul Cornell) 130

Known Chemical Substances: San Francisco Kills (Denny Martin Flinn) 132

The Kojiki

The Koran

"The Kraken" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 79

"Kubla Khan" - Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Sherlock Holmes and the Apocalypse Murders (Barry Day) 137-138, 145, 167, 173, 176; The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 9, 93-94; The Case of the Vanishing Corpse (Robert Newman) 163; Sherlock Holmes in Tibet (Richard Wincor) 14-15
"A stately pleasure dome": The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (Jamyang Norbu) 232
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan": Sherlock Holmes in Tibet (Richard Wincor) 14
"Through wood and dale the sacred river ran...": Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 187

Den Kunskapsrike Skolmästaren - Carl Rosander: Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery (Larry Millett) 48, 176

Kunst und Altertum - Goethe: "We can study the world as much as we like...": Sherlock Holmes: Draco, Draconis (Brett Spencer & Dorian David) 219

The Ladder of Life - Challenger: "Everything Comes In Circles" (Dana Martin Batory) 22

The Lady and the Tiger - Stockton: "Sherlock Holmes & 'The Woman'" (Michael Harrison) 127

"Lady Clara Vere de Vere" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
"How e'er it be, it seems to me, 'tis only noble to be good"
: The Monstrous Regiment (Glen Petrie) 99
"Kind hearts are more than coronets"
: The Great Game (Michael Kurland) 153

Lady Hester and the Danvers Papers - Charlotte M. Yonge: The Revenge of Moriarty (John Gardner) 103

"Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight": The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 9; Sherlock Holmes in Tibet (Richard Wincor) 15

"The Lady of Shalott" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Four grey walls and four grey towers / overlook a space of flowers": Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 148, 150, 154
"The mirror crack'd from side to side": Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 171; Good Night, Mr Holmes (Carole Nelson Douglas) 265

"The Lady or the Tiger" - Frank R. Stockton: "Sherlock Holmes and 'The Woman' (Michael Harrison) 127

Lady Pakenham's Carbuncle - Percy Hinchcliffe: Lestrade and the Leviathan (M.J.Trow) 144

Lady Rose's Daughter: "Herlock Sholmes Again" (Anon.) 36

"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" - W.B. Yeats: Watson's Choice (Gladys Mitchell) 183
"Bee-loud glade": A Taste for Honey (H.F.Heard)
29

Lake Wobegon Days - Garrison Keiler: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 74

Lament For The Makars - Dunbar: The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 91

Lament For The Molly Maguires - Lewis: Copper Beeches (Arthur H. Lewis) 11-12

The Lamp of Destiny - Ernest Wild: "The Case of the Peasenhall Murder" (Donald Thomas) 178

The Land Registry: The Hampstead Poisonings (Glen Petrie) 137

The Lanes of Evil - Charles Dickens: Young Sherlock Holmes (Alan Arnold) 170

Lash Cordon, Worldbeater - Andy Blake: The Probability Pad (T.A. Waters) 65

The Last Galley - Arthur Conan Doyle: Slickensides (John Buxton Hilton) 143

The Last of the Barons - Bulwer-Lytton: Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder (M.J.Trow) 131

The Last Sherlock Holmes Story - Michael Dibdin: Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) xiv

Last Stage To Tombstone - Carson Montague: My Hero (Tom Holt) 25

Latin For Idiots - Summers: Lestrade and the Gift of the Prince (M.J.Trow) 13

"Law and the Dual Personality" - Dr Henry Jekyll: Dr Jekyll and Mr Holmes (Loren D. Estleman) 46

Lawd Today - Wright: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 65

The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (M.J.Trow) 39

The Lay of the Last Minstrel - Sir Walter Scott: Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (M.J. Trow) 39

The Lays of Ancient Rome - Thomas Macauley: Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Deadly Sins Murders (Barry Day) 125, 127; Lestrade and the Hallowed House (M.J.Trow) 578

The League of Heroes: The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 236-237, 251-252

Leaves From A Higland Journal - Queen Victoria: Reply Paid (H.F.Heard) 34; "Holmes In Scotland (W.R.Duncan Macmillan) 129

Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman: The 6 Messiahs (Mark Frost) 136

Lectures On Rhetoric - Hugh Blair: Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (Gerald Frow) 113

"The Legality of Insanity" - Dr Henry Jekyll: Dr Jekyll and Mr Holmes (Loren D. Estleman) 46

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving: "The Adventure of the Cheshire Cheese" (Jon L. Breen) 167; Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 232; Sherlock Holmes and the Treasure Train (Frank Thomas) 221

Legends of Ancient Houses - Derwent: "The Human Mystery" (Tanith Lee) 222

Legends of the Patriarchs & Prophets - Sabine Baring-Gould: The Moor (Laurie R. King) 118

Lemegeton: Doctor Watson and the Invisible Man (Noel Downing) 126-127

"Lenin and Inessa Armand" - Bertram Wolfe: The Demon Device (Robert Saffron) 283

Lenin in Zurich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The Demon Device (Robert Saffron) 283

Lenore - Bürger: "A Ballad of the White Plague" (P.C.Hodgell) 211-212

Lestrade and the Magpie - M.J. Trow: Lestrade and the Kiss of Horus (M.J.Trow) 55

Lestrade and the Sawdust Ring - M.J. Trow: Lestrade and the Kiss of Horus (M.J. Trow) 142

A Letter to His Grace, the Duke of Norfolk, on the Occasion of Mr. Gladstone's Recent Expostulations - John Henry Newman: Enter the Lion (Michael P. Hodel & Sean M. Wright) 196

Letter to M. Dacier in regard to the alphabet of the phonetic hieroglyphics - Champollion: Sherlock Holmes and the Sacred Sword (Frank Thomas) 117

Letters - Gustave Flaubert: "Voiceover" (Edward Wellen) 226

Letters - Pliny: The Notched Hairpin (H.F.Heard) 36-37

Letters From Terra - Van Veen: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 91

Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes: The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 100

Liber Ivonis: "The Giant Rat of Sumatra" (Paula Volsky) 171

Liber Logaeth - John Dee: "The Adventure of the Arab's Manuscript" (Michael Reaves) 273-274

Life After Death - Leadbeater: The Case of the Philosophers' Ring (Randall Collins) 135

Life, Being & Language - Austin: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 90

The Life, Crime & Capture of John Wilkes Booth, and the Pursuit, Trial & Execution of His Accomplices: The Surrogate Assassin (Christopher Leppek) 112, 116-117, 230, 247, 316

Life of Gladstone - Viscount Morley: Lestrade and the Leviathan (M.J.Trow) 140

Life of Nelson - Sabine Baring-Gould: The Moor (Laurie R. King) 122

Life of St. Augustine: "Sherlock Holmes, Dragon-Slayer" (Darrell Schweitzer) 134

Life of St. Columba - Adamnan: The Waters of Death (Kel Richards) 42

Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell: The Affair of the Incognito Tenant (Lora Roberts) 187

The Life of the Bee - Maurice Maeterlinck: The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Laurie R. King) xv

Life On Other Worlds - H. Spencer Jones: "The Adventure of the Extraterrestrial (Mack Reynolds) 165

Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain: The Adventures of Young Stamford (Richard M. Caplan, M.D.) 114

"Light Shining Out of Darkness" - William Cowper: "God works in a mysterious way...": "Daydream" (Basil Rathbone) 495

Lightning Kid's Debut - Roberts: Pulptime (P.H.Cannon) 29

Linley's Strategies of Chess: The Childhood of Sherlock Holmes (Mona Morstein) 130

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis: My Hero (Tom Holt) 124

Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens: Sherlock Holmes and the Thistle of Scotland (L.B. Greenwood) 178; "The Adventure of the Glass House" (Michael Mallory) 68; "The Adventure of the Other Woman" (Michael Mallory) 18; "The Adventure of the Ripper's Scrawl" (Michael Mallory) 32; "The Case of the Sporting Squire"(Guy N. Smith) 155, 158; Lestrade and the Magpie (M.J.Trow) 145

Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Case of the Missing Marquess (Nancy Springer) 111

Little Red Riding Hood: "The Adventure of the Bogle-Wolf" (Anthony Boucher) 428-430

The Little White Bird - J.M. Barrie: The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 133

Lives - Plutarch: "The Dollmaker of Marigold Walk" (Barbara Hambly) 32; Lestrade and the Ripper (M.J.Trow) 122

The Lives of the Caesars - Suetonius: The Notched Hairpin (H.F.Heard) 36, 147, 194

"Living With Two Men" - Mrs Hudson: Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (M.J. Trow) 27

Lloyd's List: "Holmes and the Loss of the British Barque Sophy Anderson" (Peter Cannon) 78; Dr Mortimer and the Barking Man Mystery (Gerard Williams) 50

Lloyd's Shipping Guide: Sherlock Holmes and the Golden Bird (Frank Thomas) 34; Sherlock Holmes and the Sacred Sword (Frank Thomas) 102

"Locksley Hall" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 194, 196; Anno Dracula (Kim Newman) 65
"Till the war-drums throbb'd no longer...": The Great Game (Michael Kurland) 295

The Lodger - Marie Belloc Lowndes: Lestrade and the Ripper (M.J. Trow) 195-196

Logic - John Stuart Mill: The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 69, 76

Logic or The Morphology of Thought - Bernard Bosanquet: Moriarty (John Gardner) 15

London - Fry: The Revenge of Moriarty (John Gardner) 280

London A To Z: The Case of the Blackmail Boys (Terrance Dicks) 74; The Cinema Swindle (Terrance Dicks) 69; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon) 186-188

London Labour and the London Poor - Mayhew: The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 49

London Soils - Sherlock Holmes: The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Laurie R. King) 268, 272

London Underworld - Mayhew: The Childhood of Sherlock Holmes (Mona Morstein) 294

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

Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 65; "The Riddle of the Golden Monkeys" (Loren D. Estleman) 140

Lord Kraven, Savior of the Empire: The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 252

Lord of the Rings - J.R.R.Tolkien: Masterminds of Falkenstein (John DeChancie) 133

The Lord's Way - Portnoy: Lestrade and the Leviathan (M.J.Trow) 65

Lorna Doone - R.D.Blackmore: I, Sherlock Holmes (Michael Harrison) 29; The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade (M.J. Trow) 177

The Lost and Hostile Gospels: An Essay on the Toledoth Jeschu, and the Petrine and Pauline Gospels of the First Three Centuries of Which Fragments Remain - Sabine Baring-Gould: The Moor (Laurie R. King) 122

"Lost Hearts" - M.R. James: "The Case of the Fiery Messengers" (Ron Weighell) 25

"Lost in a Pyramid, or The Mummy's Curse - Louisa May Alcott: "Sherlock Holmes and the Mummy's Curse" (H. Paul Jeffers) 90

The Lost World - Arthur Conan Doyle: "The Footprints on the Ceiling" (Jules Castier) 245; Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Deadly Sins Murders (Barry Day) 156-157; Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 328; The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 50; Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 56; The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 202, 289; Skullduggery (Peter Marks) 83-84, 181, 272; Believe (William Shatner & Michael Tobias) 98

Love Among The Artists - George Bernard Shaw: The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 37

Love Laws of Ancient Greece: A Three-Pipe Problem (Julian Symons) 52

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" - T.S.Eliot: Justice Hall (Laurie R. King) 155

"The Luck of Roaring Camp" - Bret Harte: W.G. Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 88

Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir - Malcolm: The Case of the Philosophers' Ring (Randall Collins) vi

The Lurking Fear - H.P.Lovecraft: Pulptime (P.H.Cannon) 74

The Lustful Turk: Lestrade and the Gift of the Prince (M.J.Trow) 27, 33, 91

Lust's Dominion: The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 39-40

The Lycanthropicon: The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror (Daniel Pinkwater) 515-516

Lyrics of Love and Life - Thomas Davenport: Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 22

The Mad Apostle and Other Poems - Constance Naden: Anno Dracula (Kim Newman) 393

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert: Happy Endings (Paul Cornell) 195; The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 20, 146-148; The Dracula Caper (Simon Hawke) 146; Rasputin's Revenge (John T. Lescroart) 49; Anno Dracula (Kim Newman) 101; The Monstrous Regiment (Glen Petrie) 181

The Magic Feather Duster: A Brief History of Domestic Service in Victoria's England: Faction Paradox: Erasing Sherlock (Kelly Hale) 52

Magic Gems: An Illustrated Guide With Notes & Pedigrees: "Sherlock Holmes in Oz" (Ruth Berman) 431, 433

Magic Made Easy - Harry Houdini: The Pandora Plague (Lee A. Matthias) 286

Magna Carta: "The Case of the Ruby Ring" (Judie Angell) 65, 79, 108; "Xenolith" (Dana Martin Batory) 43; The Adventures of Young Stamford (Richard M. Caplan, M.D.) 57; "A Full Account of Ricoletti of the Club Foot & His Abominable Wife" (Ian Charnock) 154; Castle Rouge (Carole Nelson Douglas) 470; Femme Fatale (Carole Nelson Douglas) 102; The Case of the Maltese Treasure (Thomas Brace Haughey) 30; The Dorking Gap Affair (Glen Petrie) 144, 179; Escapade (Walter Satterthwaite) 73; Sherlock Holmes Meets Annie Oakley (Stanley Shaw) 111, 129; Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J. Trow) 110, 220; Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder (M.J.Trow) 18

Magnetism, Electricity & Matter - J.J.Thompson: Exit Sherlock Holmes (Robert Lee Hall) 139

The Mahabharata: The Game (Laurie R. King) 31, 45, 69, 115; Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra (Alan Vanneman) 193, 196

Mahala - Sabine Baring-Gould: The Moor (Laurie R. King) 91

"The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon" - W.T. Stead: Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) 30; Lestrade and the Leviathan (M.J.Trow) 176

Maidstone and its Importance in Western Civilisation as Evinced in the Life of William Hazlitt, Essayist, Born in Maidstone 1778. Left Maidstone 1780 - Denton: Lestrade and the Ripper (M.J. Trow) 79

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

Malleus Maleficarum: All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 14, 87

The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett: Elementary, My Dear Groucho (Ron Goulart) 211; Death's Angel (Kathleen Sky) 144

A Man of Property - John Galsworthy: The King Edward Plot (Robert Lee Hall) 198-199, 223, 225

"The Man of the Crowd" - Edgar Allan Poe: "The Black Heaven" (Ron Weighell) 115

"The Man of the Year Million" - H.G. Wells: The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires (Brian Stableford) 79

Man, Visible & Invisible - Leadbeater: The Case of the Philosophers' Ring (Randall Collins) 104

The Man Who Laughs - Victor Hugo: East of Ealing (Robert Rankin) 82
The Man Who Smirked: Elementary, My Dear Groucho (Ron Goulart) 224

The Man Who Was Thursday - G.K.Chesterton: Lestrade and the Deadly Game (M.J.Trow) 37
The Man Who Was Thirsty: "The Adventure of the Elite Type" (Robert L. Fish) 192

The Man Who Would Be King - Rudyard Kipling: "Holmes Ex Machina" (Susan Casper) 238; "The Riddle of the Young Protestor" (Michael Mallory) 306

Mandingo - Onstott: The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes (Marcel Theroux) 48-49, 80, 142, 201, 214

Mansfield Park - Jane Austen: Escapade (Walter Satterthwaite) 3

A Manual of Forensic Toxicology: My Hero (Tom Holt) 213

Manual of Operations For Surgery - Bell: The Patient's Eyes (David Pirie) 199

The Manuscripts of Jesus College - M.R. James: "The Case of the Fiery Messengers" (Ron Weighell) 25

Many Cargoes - Jacobs: Prisoner of the Devil (Michael Hardwick) 329

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

Maritime Physician - Cobalt: Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra (Alan Vanneman) 101

Marmion - Sir Walter Scott: Brigade (M.J.Trow) 319
"O, what a tangled web we weave": The Haunting of Torre Abbey (Carole Buggé) 256; Murder in the Bath (Michael Mallory) 100

Married Love - Marie Stopes: A Monstrous Regiment of Women (Laurie R. King) 51; Escapade (Walter Satterthwaite) 3, 20

Mars - Omega: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume 2 (Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill) 56, 62

Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens: "Sherlock Holmes Solves The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Harry B. Smith) 222
"Ain't no such person": A Taste for Honey (H.F. Heard) 54

The Martyrdom of Man - Winwood Reade: "The Case of the Sabotaged Scientist" (Colin Bruce) 70; A Slight Trick of the Mind (Mitch Cullin) 197-198; "The Adventure of the Three Ghosts" (Loren D. Estleman) 120; The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 96; I, Sherlock Holmes (Michael Harrison) 68, 84; The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (Nicholas Meyer) 28; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 25

Mary de Guize, or The Goblet of Gold - Mary O'Hara: Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra (Alan Vanneman) 46-47, 57, 67-69, 73, 300, 305

'The Masque of the Red Death' - Edgar Allan Poe: Castle Rouge (Carole Nelson Douglas) 257; Irene's Last Waltz (Carole Nelson Douglas) 65, 369; The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 99; The Angel of the Opera (Sam Siciliano) 109
"And darkness and decay and the Red Death...": The Angel of the Opera (Sam Siciliano) 109
"No pestilence had ever been so fatal...": The Angel of the Opera (Sam Siciliano) 107

The Masquerader: The Nine Wrong Answers (John Dickson Carr) 12

The Masqueraders - Georgette Heyer: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon) 77

Materialism and Empirio-Criticism - V.I. Lenin: Durkheim Is Dead! (Arthur Asa Berger) 48, 108-109

McGuffy's Reader: "Dr. & Mrs. Watson At Home" (Loren D. Estleman) 183