A listing of books, stories (both real and fictional), poems and historical documents mentioned in Sherlockian pastiches and parodies.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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The Meanings of Flowers: The Case of the Missing Marquess (Nancy Springer) 6, 76, 88, 98, 205-206, 213

The Medical Directory: Necropolis (Basil Copper) 15; Dr Jekyll and Mr Holmes (Loren D. Estleman) 45-46, 172; The Secret Diary of Dr. Watson (Anita Janda) 174; The Holmes-Dracula File (Fred Saberhagen) 147; Murder by Decree (Robert Weverka) 103, 109, 113

Medical Jurisprudence - Taylor: "The Adventure of the Persistent Marksman" (Lillian de la Torre) 260

Medical Jurisprudence & Toxicology - Glaister & Rentoul: The Revenge of Moriarty (John Gardner) 25

The Medical Register: "The Adventure of the Dying Doctor" (Colin Bruce) 3, 16

Meditations - John Donne: The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 196
"Each man's death diminishes me": Femme Fatale (Carole Nelson Douglas) 196

Meditations on the Midlands - Oscar Abraham: Castle Rouge (Carole Nelson Douglas) 409

Meetings With Remarkable Men - George Ivanovich Gurdjieff: Inspector Ginkgo Tips His Hat To Sherlock Holmes (Alex Jack) 53

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

Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler: The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 54; The Curse of the Nibelung (Marcel D'Agneau) 75, 131, 191, 260; The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 217

The Melancholy Chronicle - Claude Guichard: "The Eight Pointed Cross" (Bill Paxton) 232-233

Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Robert Maturin: The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor) 146

Memoirs of an Art Forger: Basil In Mexico (Eve Titus) 64

"Memoirs of a Private Detective" - Dashiell Hammett: Locked Rooms (Laurie R. King) 336

Memoirs of a Visit To The Courts of Europe - Crabtree: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 90

Memoirs of Oilock Combs: "The Succored Beauty" (William B. Kahn) 235

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Dr Watson: Sherlock Holmes' Last Case (Robert D'Artagnan) 60-61, 69, 81

Memories & Adventures - Arthur Conan Doyle: The Barker Street Regulars (Susan Conant) 134

Men Are Animals - Victor-Smythe: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 91

Men - My Delight - Velasquez: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 91

The Merck Veterinary Manual: The Barker Street Regulars (Susan Conant) 215

Mesmeric Revelations - Edgar Allan Poe: The Bloody Red Baron (Kim Newman) 86

Metamorphoses - Ovid: The Guilty Abroad (Peter J. Heck) 221

Methode De Violin: The Childhood of Sherlock Holmes (Mona Morstein) 274

Methods & Techniques of Self-Delusion - Sorme: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 91-92

Methods of Observation & Ratiocination: Some Danger Involved (Will Thomas)

Metropolitan Police Manual: Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (M.J.Trow) 90, 118, 198

Micah Clarke - Arthur Conan Doyle: Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 22; Skullduggery (Peter Marks) 130-131; "The Bab Deception" (Bill Paxton) 186; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 82; The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade (M.J.Trow) 153; "The Celestial Pastiche" (David A. Weiss) 223

Michael Strogoff - Jules Verne: The King Edward Plot (Robert Lee Hall) 155

Michelin Guides: Copper Beeches (Arthur H. Lewis) 194

Micrographia - Robert Hooke: Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 8

The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 126

Le Milieu Divin - Teilhard de Chardin: Skullduggery (Peter Marks) 231

The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 92

The Miller's Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer: Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder (M.J.Trow) 13

Miracle Mongers and their Methods - Harry Houdini: Believe (William Shatner & Michael Tobias) 92

The Mirror of Shalott - R.H. Benson: The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 18, 24, 156-157

Mirror of Society: "The Adventure of the Hanging Tyrant" (M.J. Elliott) 78

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo: "The Adventure of the Red Widow" (Adrian Conan Doyle) 251; Rasputin's Revenge (John T. Lescroart) 199

"Miss Yougal's Sais" - Rudyard Kipling: The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (Jamyang Norbu) 16

"The Missing Dagger" - John H. Walker: The Veiled Detective (David Stuart Davies) 46, 49

"The Mistress: A Song" - John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Deadly Sins Murders (Barry Day) 99

Mistress of Two Worlds - Madame Slopesski: The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade (M.J.Trow) 155

Moby Dick - Herman Melville: Time for Sherlock Holmes (David Dvorkin) 134; The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes (Marcel Theroux) 175

The Modern Apostle & Other Poems - Naden: Anno Dracula (Kim Newman) 393

Modern Magic - Professor Hoffmann: Sherlock Holmes and the Egyptian Hall Adventure (Val Andrews) 15, 19, 30; The Revenge of Moriarty (John Gardner) 70, 127, 150; The Pandora Plague (Lee A. Matthias) 286

Modern Methods of Investigation - Calder-Copse: The Case of the Missing Case (Robin Kingsland) 6-7

Modern Universal International Encyclopedia: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 212

A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift: Spider Dance (Carole Nelson Douglas) 426

The Molly Maguires and the Detectives - Allan Pinkerton: Sherlock Holmes: My Life And Crimes (Michael Hardwick) 22

Molly's First Romance: The Kentish Manor Murders (Julian Symons) 141

The Monk - Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor) 146

The Moon Man: The Life of Major Julian James - Edgar Rice Burroughs: The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 204-205

Moonfleet - J. Meade Faulkner: "The Adventure of the Haunted Rectory" (Basil Copper) 23, 30, 37

The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins: The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini) 52, 106, 234, 326, 402, 404-405, 422; ; The King Edward Plot (Robert Lee Hall) 22; "Years Ago & In A Different Place" (Michael Kurland) 174; Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (M.J.Trow) 95, 98

Moony: The Life of Robert Goddard: The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 187

The Morganatic Marriage of George V - Mylius: "The Case of the Blood Royal" (Donald Thomas) 166

La Morte D'Arthur: Watson's Last Case (Ian Charnock) 26; Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J.Trow) 193

Morte D'Arthur - Thomas Malory: "The Mystery of Avalon" (Paul D. Gilbert) 42-43; Justice Hall (Laurie R. King) 82; Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J. Trow) 193; Dr. Mortimer and the Aldgate Mystery (Gerard Williams) 30-31, 35-37, 169-172, 210, 213

Morte D'Arthur - Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Enter the Lion (Michael P. Hodel & Sean M. Wright) 173; The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade (M.J.Trow) 21; Dr. Mortimer and the Aldgate Mystery (Gerard Williams) 18, 30, 171, 210
"Clothed in white samite": Lestrade and the Magpie (M.J. Trow) 71
"More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of": Enter the Lion (Michael P. Hodel & Sean M. Wright) 173
"Revolving many memories": "Sherlock Holmes and 'The Woman'" (Michael Harrison) 122
"So all day long the noise of battle rolled...": Sherlock Holmes and the Devil's Grail (Barrie Roberts) 117

Morton's Fork & Knife Guide To London: Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 191

"The Moses of Michelangelo" - Sigmund Freud: The Case of Emily V. (Keith Oatley) 294

The Motivated Minds of Mankind - Sir Randolph Rapp: Sherlock Holmes and the Sacred Sword (Frank Thomas) 94

The Mourning Bride - William Congreve: "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned...": The Hampstead Poisonings (Glen Petrie) 207-209

Mouse About Town: Basil of Baker Street (Eve Titus) 16

Mouse's Atlas: Basil of Baker Street (Eve Titus) 24

A Movie Director In Nazi Germany - Felix Denker: Elementary, My Dear Groucho (Ron Goulart) 206

Mowgli - Rudyard Kipling: Lestrade and the Leviathan (M.J.Trow) 145

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

Mr. Midshipman Easy - Captain Marryat: The Whitechapel Horrors (Edward B. Hanna) 215

Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management - Isabella Beeton: Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 83; Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (M.J. Trow) 56, 58

Mrs. Beeton's Cookbook - Isabella Beeton: A Letter of Mary (Laurie R. King) 170; "Tears, Idle Tears" (E.V.Knox) 45; Lestrade and the Hallowed House (M.J.Trow) 418

Mrs. Beeton's Shilling Cookery - Isabella Beeton: The King Edward Plot (Robert Lee Hall) 57

Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 111

Mrs. Fernworthy's Book of Botany For Beginners: Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Deadly Sins Murders (Barry Day) 178

"MS Found In A Bottle" - Edgar Allan Poe: The Adventure of the Ancient Gods (Ralph Vaughan) 12

"The Muckraker and the Dandy: The Conflicting Personae of David Graham Phillips" - Daniel D. Victor: The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor) xiii

The Mummy - Jane Loudon Webb: "Sherlock Holmes and the Mummy's Curse" (H. Paul Jeffers) 90

Murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie: Lestrade and the Brother of Death (M.J.Trow) 214, 221

Murder Most Foul: Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (M.J.Trow) 146

The Murder of Delicia - Marie Corelli: Lestrade and the Kiss of Horus (M.J.Trow) 217

Murder on the Orient Express - Christie: Sherlock Holmes and the Shakespeare Globe Murders (Barry Day) 86; San Francisco Kills (Denny Martin Flinn) 134

Murders at the United Notions - Quinn: "Give Me Lib, or Give Me Death" (Rod Reed) 208

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" - Edgar Allan Poe: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (K.J. Anderson) 90, 192; "The Unmasking of Sherlock Holmes" (Arthur Chapman) 231; The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Michael Dibdin) 99; Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 55, 64, 159; "The Adventure of the Disappearance of Whistler's Mother" (Robert L. Fish) 141; "The Mary Queen of Scots Jewel" (William O. Fuller) 279; The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 11; Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 15-16, 63-64, 70, 146, 222; "The Hidden Church" (Watkin Jones) 36; "The Incident of the Impecunious Chevalier" (Richard Lupoff) 15, 22; The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill) 17-18, 22; "The Case of the Two-Faced Transom" (Douglas Moreton) 88, 92; Anno Dracula (Kim Newman) 212; The Night Mayor (Kim Newman) 37; W.G. Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 178; A Samba for Sherlock (Jô Soares) 9; Lestrade and the Deadly Game (M.J.Trow) 21
"A razor, besmeared with blood": Nevermore (William Hjortsberg)272

Der Mutwillige Speichellecker - Vuelph: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 91

My Dear Holmes - Gavin Brend: "The Case of the Elderly Actor" (John Ball, Jr.) 211

My Life Already - Baron Rothschild: Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (M.J.Trow) 56

My Life Among The Himalayan Masters - Arminius Vamberg: The List of 7 (Mark Frost) 251

My Life in SpecOps - Thursday Next: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 125

My Prison Life - Jabez Spencer Balfour: The Revenge of Moriarty (John Gardner) 210

My Secret Life - Walter: Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J. Trow) 215, 218

Mysteries - Wilson: The Tulpa (J.N.Williamson) 184

Mysteries of Beekeeping Explained - M. Quinby: A Slight Trick of the Mind (Mitch Cullin) 109

Mysterious Island - Jules Verne: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill) 16

'Mystery Glows in the Rose Bed' - Farid ud-din Attar: Night Watch (Stephen Kendrick) 17

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab - Fergus Hume: "The Adventure of the Forgetful Assassin" (M.J. Elliott) 109

The Mystery of Central Park - Nellie Bly: Femme Fatale (Carole Nelson Douglas) 96, 124; Spider Dance (Carole Nelson Douglas) 114

The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu - Sax Rohmer: "The Riddle of the Golden Monkeys" (Loren D. Estleman) 142, 146-147
"Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long, magnetic eyes of the true cat-green.": The Vampire Serpent (Kel Richards) 10, 74

The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens: The Adventures of Young Stamford (Richard M. Caplan, M.D.) 42; The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 9, 11, 21, 23-32, 39-42, 48, 54-55, 57-59, 63, 72, 81, 85, 90, 98-101, 104-105, 110, 112-116, 118-123, 130, 146-148, 180, 184, 190-193, 195-196; The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini) 6-424; The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 125, 129, 154-155; Night Watch (Stephen Kendrick) 10; The Surrogate Assassin (Christopher Leppek) 58-59, 62; "The Sound of the Buskervilles" (Douglas Moreton) 122; "Sherlock Holmes and the Drood Mystery" (Edmund Pearson) 155-162; "Sherlock Holmes Solves The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Harry B. Smith) 215-225
"And he, too, went up the postern stair": "The Sound of the Buskervilles" (Douglas Moreton) 122

The Mystery of Edwin Druid - Charolis Dickens: Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 171

"The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" - Edgar Allan Poe: The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 116; Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 64, 118, 122, 146; "The Incident of the Impecunious Chevalier" (Richard Lupoff) 22; "The Case of the Two-Faced Transom" (Douglas Moreton) 88; A Samba for Sherlock (Jô Soares) 9
"Completely buried in the flesh": Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 272

The Mystery of Sassassa Valley - Arthur Conan Doyle: Evolution (John Peel) 37, 78; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 81

Mysticism - Evelyn Underhill: A Monstrous Regiment of Women (Laurie R. King) 173

The Myth of the Twentieth Century - Alfred Rosenberg: The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 154

Mythical Monsters - Charles Gould: The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor) 146

Nameless Cults - Von Junzt: "A Case of Royal Blood" (Steven-Elliot Altman) 79

The Napoleon of Notting Hill - G.K.Chesterton: Lestrade and the Deadly Game (M.J.Trow) 49, 214
The Keg of Notting Hill: "The Adventure of the Elite Type" (Robert L. Fish) 192

Napoleon's Book of Fate: Sherlock Holmes Investigates the Murder In Euston Square (Ronald Pearsall) 31-32, 50-51, 53, 65, 100, 178, 185

"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" - Edgar Allan Poe: The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini) 6

National Dictionary of Biography: Sherlock Holmes and the Thistle of Scotland (L.B. Greenwood) 185

Naturalis Historia - Pliny the Elder: "The Eight Pointed Cross" (Bill Paxton) 229; Sherlock Holmes: Draco, Draconis (Brett Spencer & Dorian David Altamont) 82

The Navy List; The Hampstead Poisonings (Glen Petrie) 137

Neanderthals - Back After a Short Absence - Gerhard von Squid: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 179

The Necronomicon - Abdul Alhazred: "A Case of Royal Blood" (Steven-Elliot Altman) 78-79, 89, 93; "The Curious Case of Miss Violet Stone" (Poppy Z. Brite & David Ferguson) 143; "Nightmare in Wax" (Simon Clark) 423-425, 428, 430, 434, 437-438; The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 90; The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 162; "The Adventure of the Arab's Manuscript" (Michael Reaves) 272-276, 278, 280-281, 283-285, 288, 294; "The Giant Rat of Sumatra" (Paula Volsky) 171; "A Case of Insomnia" (John P. Vourlis) 339; The Arcanum (Thomas Wheeler) 173; "Death Did Not Become Him" (David Niall Wilson & Patricia Lee Macomber) 418

Nena Sahib: Lestrade and the Deadly Game (M.J.Trow) 172-174, 191, 213, 220

Neue Gedicht - Heinrich Heine: The Holmes Inheritance (Brian Freemantle) 223

Neverland: A Scientific Theory - J.R.R. Tolkien: The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 208

The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes - Leslie S. Klinger: The Art of Detection (Laurie R. King) 311

New Arabian Nights - Robert Louis Stevenson: The Other Log of Phileas Fogg (Philip José Farmer) 155

The New Atlantis - Sir Francis Bacon: "A Scarletin Study" (Philip Jose Farmer) 207; The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (Jamyang Norbu) 177

"The New Colossus" - Emma Lazarus: Castle Rouge (Carole Nelson Douglas) 332, 508

The New Complete Alaskan Malamute: The Barker Street Regulars (Susan Conant) 79

New Experiments Concerning Empty Space - Otto Von Guericke: "The Adventure of the Old Russian Woman" (Ian Charnock) 93

New Grub Street - Gissing: The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 49

"New Jerusalem" - Anonymous: The Dorking Gap Affair (Glen Petrie) 199

The New Psaltery: "The Adventure of the Haunted Rectory" (Basil Copper) 21

The New Revelation - Arthur Conan Doyle: Skullduggery (Peter Marks) 261; Believe (William Shatner & Michael Tobias) 77, 258

A New View of Society - Owen: The Glendower Conspiracy (Lloyd Biggle Jr.) 51, 68-69

The Newgate Calendar: Sherlock Holmes and the Boulevard Assassin (John Hall) 44; The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 156, 214, 216, 220, 227; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 59; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 12, 197; "A Letter To Posterity From John H. Watson, M.D." (Donald Thomas) 17

The Newgate Chronicles: "The Execution of Sherlock Holmes" (Donald Thomas) 42, 58

Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens: The Moor (Laurie R. King) 19; "The Adventure of the Three Verners" (Michael Mallory) 156

The Niebelungenleid: Doctor Watson and the Invisible Man (Noel Downing) 97, 125

Night & Morning - Bulwer-Lytton: Murder Most Irregular (H. Paul Jeffers) 129

A Night on the Divide - Bret Harte: W.G. Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 87

Nightingale Woman - Phineas Tarbolde: "The Captive Bride" (Dana Martin Batory) 78

Nights With Uncle Remus - Joel Chandler Harris: "The Adventure of the Magic Alibi" (Philip J. Carraher) 25

The Nine Million Faces of God - Krishnan Viswarath: Night Watch (Stephen Kendrick) 60

The Nine Wrong Answers - John Dickson Carr: The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 18

1984 - George Orwell: San Francisco Kills (Denny Martin Flinn) 187
"Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date": The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 189
"Freedom is Slavery": The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 151
"Who controls the past controls the future": The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 190

Nineteenth Century Poisons - Grossett: San Francisco Kills (Denny Martin Flinn) 56

The No-Force Method of Obedience Training: The Barker Street Regulars (Susan Conant) 79

"No Man Is An Island" - John Donne: Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 62
"Ask not for whom the bell tolls": Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 62
"Every man is a piece of the continent": Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 62
"No man is an island": Good Night, Mr Holmes (Carole Nelson Douglas) 108; Dr Jekyll and Mr Holmes (Loren D. Estleman) 113

No Orchids for Miss Bummerkeh - The Big Red Cheese: An East Wind Coming (Arthur Byron Cover) 260-263

Noli Me Tangere - José Rizal: Sherlock Holmes and the Story For Which The World Is Not Yet Prepared (Stephen E. Pierce) 23

North of the Pecos - Carson Montague: My Hero (Tom Holt) 232

Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen: The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 139; Murder in the Bath (Michael Mallory) 27-28, 37-39; The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor) 146

Notable British Trials: "The Case of the Camden Town Murder" (Donald Thomas) 241

Notable Trials: "A Letter To Posterity From John H. Watson, M.D." (Donald Thomas) 17

Notes of Recent Discoveries In Electricity & Magnetism - J.J.Thompson: Exit Sherlock Holmes (Robert Lee Hall) 139

Notes on a Case of Obsessional Neurosis - Sigmund Freud: The Case of Emily V. (Keith Oatley) 396

Notes on the Tibetan Episode - Sherlock Holmes: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 6

Notice To Mariners: The Second War of the Worlds (George H. Smith) 6

Notre Dame De Paris - Victor Hugo: Irene's Last Waltz (Carole Nelson Douglas) 218; The Great Game (Michael Kurland) 11; The Canary Trainer (Nicholas Meyer) 38; The Angel of the Opera (Sam Siciliano) 109, 121, 241
"Oh, all that I ever loved": The Angel of the Opera (Sam Siciliano) 108

Le Nouvel Opera - Charles Garnier: The Angel of the Opera (Sam Siciliano) 82, 143

Novum Organum - Francis Bacon: "The Case of the Borderland Dandelions" (Howard Engel) 46

Nuclear Power: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon) 206

The Nuns Liked It Too: Copper Beeches (Arthur H. Lewis) 45-46

"The Oblong Box" - Edgar Allan Poe: Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 300

Observation & Reasoning In Politics: "The Ghost in the Machine" (Donald Thomas) 46

Observations on the Effect of the Manufacturing System - Owen: The Glendower Conspiracy (Lloyd Biggle Jr.) 69

The Occult: A History - Wilson: The Tulpa (J.N.Williamson) 112

The Occult World - Alfred P. Sinnett: "A Scandal in Drury Lane, or The Vampire Trap" (Carolyn Wheat) 68

The Ocean Leech - Long: Pulptime (P.H.Cannon) 53

"Ode from the Persian of Half-Queez" - Henry Louis Vivian Derozio: "Hither Lao": Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J. Trow) 8, 135

"Ode on a Grecian Urn" - John Keats: "Mr Montalba, Obsequist" (H.F. Heard) 175
"Heard melodies are sweet...": A Taste for Honey (H.F. Heard) 55

"Ode To A Louse" - Robert Burns: The Probability Pad (T.A. Waters) 53

"Ode To A Nightingale" - John Keats: "Charmed magic casements...": Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds (Manly W. Wellman & Wade Wellman) 16

"Ode to a Suspiring Frog" - Mrs Leo Hunter: The Monstrous Regiment (Glen Petrie) 239

"Ode To Duty" - William Wordsworth: The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 107

Ode To Joy - Schiller: The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 43

"Ode To Naples" - Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 107

"Ode to the West Wind" - Percy Bysshe Shelley: "If winter comes can spring be far behind": Sherlock Holmes' Last Case (Robert D'Artagnan)

Odes - Horace: Justice Hall (Laurie R. King) 313-314; Sherlock Holmes and the Somerset Hunt (Rosemary Michaud) 97
"Cras ingens iterabimus aequor":"The Adventure of the Gold Hunter" (Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr) 37
"I have served in the field, and not without honour": Dr Mortimer and the Barking Man Mystery (Gerard Williams) 5
"Surely oak and threefold brass...": Sherlock Holmes' Lost Adventure (Lauren Steinhauer) 107

The Odyssey - Homer: Mrs Hudson and the Spirits' Curse (Martin Davies) 7; Supping with Panthers (Tom Holland) 380-381; The Canary Trainer (Nicholas Meyer) 136; The Case of Emily V (Keith Oatley) 28
"Wine-dark sea": "The Adventure of the Gold Hunter" (Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr) 39

L'Oeuvre - …mile Zola: A Samba for Sherlock (Jô Soares) 56

Of the Deflowering of Maids - R.H.W.Dillard: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 90

The Oklahoma Kid: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 3

Old Country Life - Sabine Baring-Gould: The Moor (Laurie R. King) 21, 255

The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens: The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 94, 156, 162-163, 173; Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 170; W.G. Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 45; Dr Mortimer and the Barking Man Mystery (Gerard Williams) 20
"Partick'ler Select": Dr Mortimer and the Barking Man Mystery (Gerard Williams) 20

An Old English Home & Its Dependencies - Sabine Baring-Gould: The Moor (Laurie R. King) 255

Old Mortality - Sir Walter Scott: Mrs Hudson and the Malabar Rose (Martin Davies) 200; "The Ghost of Sherlock Holmes" (Leslie Halliwell)

Old Puzzles: Reply Paid (H.F.Heard) 190

"The Old Vicarage at Grantchester" - Rupert Brooke: "ten to three...at least by the church clock...Honey for tea": Lestrade and the Brother of Death (M.J. Trow) 163

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens: Sherlock Holmes and the Egyptian Hall Adventure (Val Andrews) 58; Sherlock Holmes and the Man Who Lost Himself (Val Andrews) 105; Sherlock Holmes at the Varieties (Val Andrews) 74; The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 90; The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini) 414; The Revenge of Moriarty (John Gardner) 45; Dracula's Diary (Michael Geare & Michael Corby) 36; The Whitechapel Horrors (Edward B. Hanna) 34; "The Singular Affair of the Dying Schoolboys" (H. Paul Jeffers) 155; Eye of the Crow (Shane Peacock) 24; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 21; Some Danger Involved (Will Thomas) 181
"The law is an ass": The West End Horror (Nicholas Meyer) 98

"On an Invitation to the United States" - Thomas Hardy:"For, wonning in these ancient lands...": Sherlock Holmes: Draco, Draconis (Brett Spencer & Dorian David)

On and Off Stage With Mr and Mrs Bancroft - Squire Bancroft Bancroft: Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J.Trow) 178

On Criminal Responsibility - Maudsley: "The Case of the Talking Corpse" (Donald Thomas) 244

On Electromagnetic Waves In Air and their Reflection - Heinrich Hertz: Sherlock Holmes: My Life And Crimes (Michael Hardwick) 101, 104, 143, 147-148

"On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer" - John Keats: "Silent on a peak in Darien": Sherlock Holmes' Last Case (Robert D'Artagnan) 240

On Fulling and Frottage - Gonagra: "The Adventure of the Barnegat Burglaries" (H.W. Starr & Orville Horwitz) 121

On Geology - Sir Charles Lyell: "The Case Of the Greek Key" (Donald Thomas) 149

"On His Blindness" - John Milton: "Mentioned in Dispatches" (Douglas Moreton) 140
"They also serve who only stand and wait": The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Michael Dibdin) 43; Good Night, Mr Holmes (Carole Nelson Douglas) 345; Irene's Last Waltz (Carole Nelson Douglas) 128; "Mentioned in Dispatches" (Douglas Moreton) 140

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

On Murder Considered One of the Fine Arts - Thomas De Quincey: The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini) 18; "The Case of the Camden Town Murder" (Donald Thomas) 220

"On the Composition of Vampire Tissue" - Dr. Henry Jekyll: Anno Dracula (Kim Newman) 235

"On the Effects of Pressure on the Absorption of Gases by Charcoal" - John Hunter: "The Execution of Sherlock Holmes" (Donald Thomas) 51

On the Excavation of Primeval Saxon Sepulchres: A Practical Manual For The Antiquarian - Pitt-Rivers: "The Adventure of the Rara Avis" (Carolyn Wheat) 81

On the Identification and Classification of Gemstones by the Analysis of Chatoyant Colours in Polished Stones - Sherlock Holmes: The Siam Question (Timothy Francis Sheil) 415

On the Isolation of the Queen - Brihtric Donne: Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 278

On the Psychology of Dissimulation - Eick: "Sherlock Holmes Solves The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Harry B. Smith) 224

On the Usage of the Art of Escapology and Prestidigitation in Criminology - Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes' Lost Adventure (Lauren Steinhauer) 135

On Trigonometry and the Holy Name - Mohammed ben Abu: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 51

One Hundred and One Things To Do With a Piece of Knotted String: Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J. Trow) 100

100 Number Puzzles: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon) 206

One Hundred Ways To Prepare Hardtack: "Sherlock Holmes Solves The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Harry B. Smith) 217

Optiks - Isaac Newton: Believe (William Shatner & Michael Tobias) 175

Opus Nonoginta Dierum - William of Occam: The Monstrous Regiment (Glen Petrie) 71

The Oral-Sadistic Impulse - Sigmund Freud: The Bloody Red Baron (Kim Newman) 129

The Orations of Demosthenes: "The Bab Deception" (Bill Paxton) 185

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Meredith: "The Case of the Yokohama Club" (Donald Thomas) 320

The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin: "The Adventure of the Naturalist's Stock Pin" (Jon L. Breen) 190; "A Full Account of Ricoletti of the Club Foot & His Abominable Wife" (Ian Charnock) 153-154; The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 60; The Case of Emily V (Keith Oatley) 28; "The Adventure of the Marked Man" (Stuart Palmer) 99; Sherlock Holmes Investigates the Murder In Euston Square (Ronald Pearsall) 76; Evolution (John Peel) 211; W.G. Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 74; Sherlock Holmes' Lost Adventure (Lauren Steinhauer) 73, 163; "The Case of the Sumatran Rat" (June Thomson) 178; Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (M.J.Trow) 56

The Origin of the Family - Friedrich Engels: "Ten Lords A-Leaping" (Jake Arnott) 325

The Origins of the Universe: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon) 206

Orthodoxy - G.K.Chesterton: Lestrade and the Deadly Game (M.J.Trow) 37

Ossian's Ride - Hoyle: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 65

The Other Side of Death - Leadbeater: The Case of the Philosophers' Ring (Randall Collins) 104

"Otho The Great" - John Keats: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 65; Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds (Manly W. Wellman & Wade Wellman) 20

The Otterbury Incident - Cecil Day Lewis: Lestrade and the Deadly Game (M.J.Trow) 41

Otto of the Silver Hand - Pyle: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 65

Our Feline Foes - Hagerup: Basil and the Lost Colony (Eve Titus) 10

Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens: The Nine Wrong Answers (John Dickson Carr) 67; The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 173; The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini) 16; My Hero (Tom Holt) 149; "The Adventure of the Damsel In Grey" (Michael Mallory) 55; "The Riddle of the Young Protestor" (Michael Mallory) 296; Some Danger Involved (Will Thomas) 35-36

Our American Adventure - Arthur Conan Doyle: The Art of Detection (Laurie R. King) 244

Our Second American Adventure - Arthur Conan Doyle: Locked Rooms (Laurie R. King) 334

Out of Africa - Karen Blixen: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 48, 176

The Outcast of Poker Flat - Bret Harte: W.G. Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 88

Outlines of Vertebrate Evolution - Professor Challenger: Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Deadly Sins Murders (Barry Day) 145

Overcome Your Fear of Flying: Happy Endings (Paul Cornell) 259

"The Owl and the Pussycat" - Edward Lear: Basil in the Wild West (Eve Titus) 30; Basil of Baker Street (Eve Titus) 63

"Ozymandias" - Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Adventures of Young Stamford (Richard M. Caplan, M.D.) 74; Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 204; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 141; The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires (Brian Stableford) 114