A listing of books, stories (both real and fictional), poems and historical documents mentioned in Sherlockian pastiches and parodies.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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Pabo, The Priest - Sabine Baring-Gould: The Moor (Laurie R. King) 122

Painted Lace - Stein: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 65

Painted Saddles - Carson Montague: My Hero (Tom Holt) 15, 25, 28, 74, 207

Pamela - Samuel Richardson: Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra (Alan Vanneman) 297

The Parable of the Wicked Mammon - Tyndale: The Case of the Maltese Treasure (Thomas Brace Haughey) 88

Paradise Lost - John Milton: Irene at Large (Carole Nelson Douglas) 98, 367; "Shady Sinners of the Styx" (Lawrence Daniel Fogg) 12; "The Dollmaker of Marigold Walk" (Barbara Hambly) 43; Lestrade and the Devil's Own (M J Trow) 105; "The Adventure of the Rara Avis" (Carolyn Wheat) 81
"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mold me man?": Masterminds of Falkenstein (John DeChancie) 264
"Enormous bliss": Sherlock Holmes in Tibet (Richard Wincor) 28
"From morn to noon he fell": Irene at Large (Carole Nelson Douglas) 367
"Sabean odours from the spicy shore": The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (Jamyang Norbu) 3
"The serpent subtlest beast of all the field": The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Laurie R. King) 186

Paradiso - Dante: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 12

The Pardoner's Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer: Watson's Last Case (Ian Charnock) 188

The Parish In Fact & Fiction: Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (M.J.Trow) 39

'Parnellism and Crime' - Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 76, 78

'The Passing Show' - Ambrose Bierce: "The Enigma of the Warwickshire Vortex" (F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre) 477

The Paws of Knowledge: The Last War: Detective Ferrets and the Case of the Golden Hope (Richard Bach) 3, 25-28, 69, 83, 104, 136

The Pearl: The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes (Marcel Theroux) 153

A Penal Reform In England, Scotland & Wales: The Childhood of Sherlock Holmes (Mona Morstein) 131

People My Father Knew - Megan Lloyd George: Lestrade and the Devil's Own (M.J. Trow) 82

The People of the Abyss - Jack London: Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 223; "Five Rings In Reno" (R.L.Stevens) 102-103
"People of the abyss": Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J. Trow) 50

People of the Monolith - Geoffrey: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 90

The Perfect Wagnerite - George Bernard Shaw: The West End Horror (Nicholas Meyer) 31; Lestrade and the Magpie (M.J.Trow) 55

The Perfumed Garden: "The Adventure of the Arabian Knight" (Loren D. Estleman) 158; "The Case of the Naked Bicyclists" (Donald Thomas) 91-92

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medina and Mecca - Sir Richard Francis Burton: "The Adventure of the Arabian Knight" (Loren D. Estleman) 153

Peter and Wendy - J.M. Barrie: The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 134-135

Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie: The League of Heroes (Xavier MaumÉjean) 133, 136, 139, 141-142, 145, 222, 237, 247

Phaedrus - Plato: "Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem: "The Adventure of the Hanging Tyrant" (M.J. Elliott) 74

Phantasms of the Living - Edmund Gurney: Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 96; "The Case of the Phantom Chambermaid" (Donald Thomas) 260-261, 284; Lestrade and the Ripper (M.J.Trow) 21, 23; "A Scandal in Drury Lane, or The Vampire Trap" (Carolyn Wheat) 68

Phantom Army - Max Pemberton: "The Missing Group" (A.S.Reeve) 152

The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (K.J. Anderson) 11, 46, 109, 211; San Francisco Kills (Denny Martin Flinn) 101
see also Phantom of the Opera (Musical)

Phenomena of De-Materialization - Jeelai & Von Nozy: Believe (William Shatner & Michael Tobias) 209

"Philosophy of Conflict" - Havelock Ellis: Lestrade and the Magpie (M.J. Trow) 204

The Philosophy of Money - Georg Simmel: Durkheim Is Dead! (Arthur Asa Berger) 48

Physiology of Common Life - Lewes: "The Matter of the Furnival Curse" (David L. Hammer) 89-90

The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Seven (Val Andrews) 16; Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 2; The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini) 19, 193; The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 91, 117-124, 129-130, 156, 159, 179; "The Repulsive Story of the Red Leech" (David Langford) 345; Murder in the Bath (Michael Mallory) 24, 55; The Monstrous Regiment (Glen Petrie) 166; The Patient's Eyes (David Pirie) 205; Sherlock Holmes and the Golden Bird (Frank Thomas) 184; Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra (Alan Vanneman) 297
"Anything for a quiet life...": "Holmes In Scotland (W.R.Duncan Macmillan) 139

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" - Oscar Wilde: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (K.J. Anderson) 131; Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) 10; Sherlock Holmes and the Shakespeare Globe Murders (Barry Day) 41; The Dracula Caper (Simon Hawke) 39-40, 146; Skullduggery (Peter Marks) 131; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 112; The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires (Brian Stableford) 146; A Three-Pipe Problem (Julian Symons) 79; "The Affray at the Kildare Street Club" (Peter Tremayne) 30

Pictures From Italy - Charles Dickens: The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini) 324, 372-373, 384, 398

The Pied Piper of Hamlin - Robert Browning: Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 194; Murder Most Irregular (H. Paul Jeffers) 93, 161

Pilgrimage to Al-Medinah and Meccah - Sir Richard Francis Burton: Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 163-164

Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan: Reply Paid (H.F.Heard) 241; Footsteps in the Fog (Kel Richards) 163; The Vampire Serpent (Kel Richards) 1; The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor) 12

Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 264, 330

"Pippa Passes" - Robert Browning:"An Epilogue" (Richard Warren) 85

"The Pit and the Pendulum" - Edgar Allan Poe: Good Night, Mr Holmes (Carole Nelson Douglas) 40; Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 250, 252, 264
"A crescent of glittering steel...": Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 272

Plain Tales From The Hills - Rudyard Kipling: "The Strange Case of the Megatherium Thefts" (S.C.Roberts) 122

The Plastic Age - Percy Marks: Locked Rooms (Laurie R. King) 286

The Plattner Story - H.G. Wells: The Holmes-Dracula File (Fred Saberhagen) 179

The Platypus of Dune - The Big Red Cheese: An East Wind Coming (Arthur Byron Cover) 260

The Play Actress - Marie Corelli: "The Case of the Yokohama Club" (Donald Thomas) 315

Play Up St. Jim's: The Disappearing Diplomat (Terrance Dicks) 14

The Player on the Other Side - Ellery Queen: A Study In Terror (Ellery Queen) 27

Plays of Terror and the Macabre: "The Darkwater Hall Mystery" (Kingsley Amis) 239

"Pleasures of Hope" - Thomas Campbell: "Distance lends enchantment": Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery (Larry Millett) 5

The Plum Tree - David Graham Phillips: The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor) 36-37

Poems - Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 51

Poems & Ballads - Algernon Swinburne: Dracula's Diary (Michael Geare & Michael Corby) 26, 47

Poems of Childhood - Algernon Smyllie: "A Trifling Affair" (H.R.F.Keating) 206, 209

Poesies - Frederic et Amelie: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 90

The Poetical Works of Mrs. Hemans - The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 77

Poetics - Aristotle: The Affair of the Incognito Tenant (Lora Roberts) 14

The Poison Belt - Arthur Conan Doyle: "The Footprints on the Ceiling" (Jules Castier) 246, 252

La Police - Guyot: Moriarty (John Gardner) 201

The Police Manual: Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J.Trow) 151

Polite Conversation - Jonathan Swift: "There is none so blind as they that won't see": The Great Game (Michael Kurland) 195

Politiques Et Moralistes Français Du XIX Siecle - Emile Faguet: Moriarty (John Gardner) 15

Polk Salad Days Are Here Again - The Big Red Cheese: An East Wind Coming (Arthur Byron Cover) 38

Popular Delusions - Browne: The Guilty Abroad (Peter J. Heck) 272

Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth: Portnoy's complaints: Lestrade and the Leviathan (M.J.Trow) 97

"Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives" - Strand Magazine: Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 184

Post Mediaeval Preachers - Sabine Baring-Gould: The Moor (Laurie R. King) 122

The Power of Sound - Edmund Gurney: "The Case of the Phantom Chambermaid" (Donald Thomas) 283

Practical Beekeeping: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Seven (Val Andrews) 17

Precious Stones - Dr. Max Bauer: "The Rangoon Jade" (Frank Thomas) 44

Precious Stones & Gems - Edwin Streeter: "The Rangoon Jade" (Frank Thomas) 44; Sherlock Holmes and the Golden Bird (Frank Thomas) 207

Précis D'Anatomie Et De Dissection - H. Beaunis: A Samba for Sherlock (Jô Soares) 23

The Prelude - William Wordsworth: "Voyaging through strange seas": Young Sherlock: The Adventure at Ferryman's Creek (Gerald Frow) 99

The Premature Burial - Edgar Allan Poe: The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes (Larry Millett) 175

Premature Burial & How It May Be Prevented - Tebb & Vollum: "A Ballad of the White Plague" (P.C.Hodgell) 213-214

Preservation Techniques in the Valley of the Kings: The Jewelled Peacock of Persia (Jake & Luke Thoene) 119-120

Prester John - John Buchan: Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder (M.J.Trow) 239-240

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen: My Hero (Tom Holt) 74
It is a truth universally acknowledged...": My Hero (Tom Holt) 80, 83

Prima Inter Primes - Adeline Hatton: Sherlock Holmes and the Apocalypse Murders (Barry Day) 19

The Primal Sin - Adeline Hatton: Sherlock Holmes and the Apocalypse Murders (Barry Day) 19

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark: Lestrade and the Sawdust Ring (M.J.Trow) 151

Primitive Culture - Sir Edward Burnett Tyler: The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires (Brian Stableford) 13

The Prince - Machiavelli: Sherlock Holmes: Draco, Draconis (Brett Spencer & Dorian David Altamont) 17-18
"Nonè indizio a chi reclamare...": Sherlock Holmes: Draco, Draconis (Brett Spencer & Dorian David) 18

"The Princess" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "Sir Walter Vivian all on a summer's day...": The Dorking Gap Affair (Glen Petrie) 217

Princess Mary's Gift Book: "The Case of the Yorkshire Fairies" (Joe Cooper) 212; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon) 89

Prince Otto - Stevenson: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 65

Principia - Isaac Newton: "The Case of the Borderland Dandelions" (Howard Engel) 46

Principia Mathematica - Whitehead & Russell: The Case of the Philosophers' Ring (Randall Collins) 3, 13, 16; The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 213

Principia Medicina: The Jewelled Peacock of Persia (Jake & Luke Thoene) 119

Principia Philosophiae - René Descartes: Moriarty (John Gardner) 15

Principles of Biology - Herbert Spencer: The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (Jamyang Norbu) 144

Principles of Deduction: The Last War: Detective Ferrets and the Case of the Golden Hope (Richard Bach) 3

Principles of General & Comparative Physiology - William Benjamin Carpenter: All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 61

Principles of Medicine - Bristowe: The Demon Device (Robert Saffron) 17

Principles of Science - William Stanley Jevons: The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 149

Prior Analytics - Aristotle: "The Execution of Sherlock Holmes" (Donald Thomas) 54

The Prismatic Bezel - Knight: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 91

The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope: The Nine Wrong Answers (John Dickson Carr) 12; Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair (David Stuart Davies) 11-17, 60, 97-98, 121; Masterminds of Falkenstein (John DeChancie) 133; The 6 Messiahs (Mark Frost) 35-37, 39, 377-378; The King Edward Plot (Robert Lee Hall) 22; Sherlock Holmes and the Golden Bird (Frank Thomas) 122; Lestrade and the Devil's Own (M.J. Trow) 84

Prisoners of Baron Samedi: The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 236

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes - Vincent Starrett: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 4

"The Problem of Cell 13" - Jacques Futrelle: "The Adventure of the Dying Ship (Edward D. Hoch) 117; Sherlock Holmes and the Titanic Tragedy (William Seil) 57, 157-158

Les Problemes D'Un Probleme - Menard: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 91

The Professor - Charlotte Brontë: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 216

Profile By Gaslight - Edgar W. Smith: "The Case of the Elderly Actor" (John Ball, Jr.) 211

Progressive Exercises on the Church Catechism: The Childhood of Sherlock Holmes (Mona Morstein) 145

Prolegomena To A Treatise on the Whole Art of the Celestial Mechanics - Aloysius Moriarty: "Murder at the Murray Hill" (Edgar W. Smith) 65

A Prolegomena To The Binomial Theorem - Mohammed ben Abu: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 75

Les Propheties de M. Michel Nostradamus: The Arcanum (Thomas Wheeler) 23

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber: Durkheim Is Dead! (Arthur Asa Berger)47, 67

"A Psalm of Life" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 251

"The Psychic Mechanism of Hysterical Phenomena" - Sigmund Freud & Josef Breuer: "The Adventure of the Man Who Never Laughed" (J.N.Williamson) 152, 154

Psychic Self-Defense - H.P. Blavatsky: The List of 7 (Mark Frost) 66, 71

Psychopathia Sexualis - Richard Von Krafft-Ebing: Castle Rouge (Carole Nelson Douglas) 58, 70-72, 128, 137, 146-147, 243, 258, 273, 313-314, 331, 444, 458; Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 186, 188, 191, 194, 223, 248-252, 255-256, 258, 265, 342-343, 345-348, 359, 361, 403-405, 412-413, 435, 451, 467-468; Femme Fatale (Carole Nelson Douglas) 33-35, 50, 213; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 126

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life - Sigmund Freud: The Case of Emily V (Keith Oatley) 13, 40, 49, 67, 289, 311, 350

Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain: The Adventures of Young Stamford (Richard M. Caplan, M.D.) 35-37; The Punjat's Ruby (Marian J.A.Jackson) 83, 130

"The Purloined Letter" - Edgar Allan Poe: "Xenolith" (Dana Martin Batory) 48; "The Unmasking of Sherlock Holmes" (Arthur Chapman) 231; Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 459; Good Morning, Irene (Carole Nelson Douglas) 226; "The Adventure of the Perforated Ulster" (Robert L. Fish) 126; Sherlock Holmes and the Adler Papers (John Hall) 98, 110; Justice Hall (Laurie R. King) 311; The Great Game (Michael Kurland) 170; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 21; The Surrogate Assassin (Christopher Leppek) 57; Copper Beeches (Arthur H. Lewis) 149, 233; "The Incident of the Impecunious Chevalier" (Richard Lupoff) 22; Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders (Larry Millett) 295; "The Case of the Rising Ransom" (Douglas Moreton) 123; "The Case of the Two-Faced Transom" (Douglas Moreton) 88; Sherlock Holmes Investigates the Murder In Euston Square (Ronald Pearsall) 100, 163, 178; "Our American Cousins" (Roberta Rogow) 392; "The Case of the Purloined L'Isitek" (Josepha Sherman) 327; A Samba for Sherlock (Jô Soares) 9; Sherlock Holmes and the Sacred Sword (Frank Thomas) 83; "The Black Heaven" (Ron Weighell) 142
The Purloined Ladder: "The Adventure of the Elite Type" (Robert L. Fish) 192
The Purloined Litter: "The Adventure of the Great Train Robbery" (Robert L. Fish) 170

The Pursuit of the Houseboat - John Kendrick Bangs: "Shady Sinners of the Styx" (Lawrence Daniel Fogg) 11-12

Pyramids and Temples of Gizah - Flinders Petrie: "Sherlock Holmes and the Mummy's Curse" (H. Paul Jeffers) 86

The Qabala

The Quest for The Historical Jesus - Schweitzer: The Case of the Maltese Treasure (Thomas Brace Haughey) 64

The Quintessence of Ibsenism - George Bernard Shaw: Lestrade and the Magpie (M.J.Trow) 55

Radioactive Substances and their Radiations - James Rutherford: Exit Sherlock Holmes (Robert Lee Hall) 139

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

The Railway Children - Edith Nesbit: "Bloody railway children": Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J. Trow) 65

The Railway Companion: Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac (Barrie Roberts) 172

Railway Guide To Hampshire: Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac (Barrie Roberts) 96

Railway Law for the Man in the Train - George Edalji: Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 213

Rangers of Texas - Carson Montague: My Hero (Tom Holt) 250

"The Rape of Lucrece" - William Shakespeare: "Oh opportunity, thy guilt is great": A Taste for Honey (H.F. Heard) 44

The Rape of the Lock - Samuel Butler: Rape of the Lox: Elementary, My Dear Groucho (Ron Goulart) 38

Rapports Et Proces-Verbaux D'Enquete De La Commissin Instituee En Vue De Constater Les Actes Commis Par L'Ennemi En Violation Du Droit Des Gens: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 81

Rats in the Walls - H.P. Lovecraft: Pulptime (P.H.Cannon) 23

The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 135, 138, 218; "The Enchanted Garden" (H.F. Heard) 124; Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 153, 232-233; The Surrogate Assassin (Christopher Leppek) 58; The Bloody Red Baron (Kim Newman) 33, 36, 38; The Patient's Eyes (David Pirie) 205; The Book of the Dead (Robert Richardson) 145
"A demon's that is dreaming": The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 22
"Nevermore": Good Morning, Irene (Carole Nelson Douglas) 83; Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 247
"Once upon a midnight dreary": Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 153, 232
"Quaint and curious volume": Doctor Watson and the Invisible Man (Noel Downing) 51

"The Real Story of St Paul's Ice Palace Murders" - Lincoln Steffens: Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders (Larry Millett) 2

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 160
"I dreamed I went to Mandalay [sic] again": Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J. Trow) 212

Recent Advances In Physical Science - Peter Guthrie Tait: "The Case Of the Greek Key" (Donald Thomas) 149

"Recessional" - Rudyard Kipling: "Far-called, our navies melt away...lest we forget": Evolution (John Peel)

Record-globe - Byngham Batchelor: Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (M.J.Trow) 87

The Red Battle Flyer - Edgar Allan Poe & Manfred Von Richthofen: The Bloody Red Baron (Kim Newman) 87

A Red, Red Summer Rose - Banks: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 90-91

The Red Shoes - The Brothers Grimm: Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 67

"Rediscovery of the Unique" - H.G. Wells : The Dracula Caper (Simon Hawke) 10-11

The Refugees - Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade (M.J.Trow) 12

"Reginald's Flogging" - Algernon Swinburne: Dracula's Diary (Michael Geare & Michael Corby) 47

Religio Medici: The Affair of the Incognito Tenant (Lora Roberts) 116

"Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November": "The House that Jack Built" (Edward Wellen) 296

Renard the Fox: "The House that Jack Built" (Edward Wellen) 285

Report On the Thug Gangs - William Sleeman: The Siam Question (Timothy Francis Sheil) 495-496, 498, 579

The Republic - Plato: "The Adventure of the Librarian's Ghost" (Jon L. Breen) 21-22, 35; Masterminds of Falkenstein (John DeChancie) 23; "Sherlock Holmes and the Mummy's Curse" (H. Paul Jeffers) 90

The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy: The Dracula Caper (Simon Hawke) 146

Return To Tibet - Heinrich Harrer: Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World (Thos. Kent Miller) 2

Return to Zenda - Anthony Hope: Lestrade and the Devil's Own (M.J. Trow) 76-77, 84

The Revel - Bartholomew Dowling: "The Captive Bride" (Dana Martin Batory) 75-76

Revelations By Shakespeare's Spirit: The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 55

Revenge of the Thraals - Handley Paige: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 159

Revolutionary Catechism - Netchaev: The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini) 405-406

Revolutionary War Science - Most: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Alliance (Larry Millett)

The Riches of Mohenjo-Daro: The Game (Laurie R. King) 17-18, 31

The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers: "The Christmas Conspiracy" (Edward D. Hoch) 144; "The Adventure of the F.W.L." (Christopher Morley) 419; The Case of Emily V (Keith Oatley) 166-167
The Riddle of the Sands Hotel: W.G.Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 133

Ride Down The Whirlwind - Carson Montague: My Hero (Tom Holt) 26

Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 1

The Rig Vedas: The 6 Messiahs (Mark Frost) 173

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Coleridge: The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 10; A Taste for Honey (H.F.Heard) 66; Night Watch (Stephen Kendrick) 154
"Like one that on a lonesome road...": A Taste for Honey (H.F. Heard) 66; The Monstrous Regiment (Glen Petrie) 171-172

The Ring of Thoth - Arthur Conan Doyle: The Problem of the Spiteful Spiritualist (Roberta Rogow) 111-112

The Rise of the Lumpenproletariat - Blasius: Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder (M.J.Trow) 51

Rivals - Jilly Cooper: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon) 213

River of Death: A South American Odyssey - Professor Challenger: Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Deadly Sins Murders (Barry Day) 164

The Rivet In Grandfather's Neck - Cabell: The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 65

Robbery Under Arms - Rolf Boldrewood: "The Strange Case of the Megatherium Thefts" (S.C.Roberts) 122

Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe: "As reason is the substance and original of the mathematics...": Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds (Manly W. Wellman & Wade Wellman) 138
Robertson Crusoe: W.G. Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 47

Robotor: The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 236

"Rock Me To Sleep" - Elizabeth Akers Allen: "Backward, turn backward, o time, in thy flight": Shady Sinners of the Styx (Lawrence Daniel Fogg) 15

The Rocket In Military History - Karl Von Bremen: From Prussia with Love (John DeChancie), 68

Rodney Stone - Arthur Conan Doyle: Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder (M.J.Trow) 180

Roget's Thesaurus: The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 139; W.G. Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 93; Sherlock Holmes at the 1902 Fifth Test (Stanley Shaw) 36

The Role of the Missionary In Uttar Pradesh - Fellowes: Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder (M.J.Trow) 51

The Role of Wallpaper in Napoleon's Career: Lestrade and the Devil's Own (M.J. Trow) 75

Romagna Manifesto: The Pandora Plague (Lee A. Matthias) 246

"The Roman Centurion's Song" - Rudyard Kipling: "June's long-lighted days": Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J. Trow) 139

The Romance of Two Worlds - Marie Corelli: "The Case of the Yokohama Club" (Donald Thomas) 315; Lestrade and the Kiss of Horus (M.J.Trow) 217

The Room in the Tower - E.F. Benson: The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 156, 159-160

The Rosetta Stone: Young Sherlock Holmes (Alan Arnold) 140; The Adventures of Young Stamford (Richard M. Caplan, M.D.) 116; Watson's Last Case (Ian Charnock) 33; The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Michael Dibdin) 148; Good Night, Mr. Holmes (Carole Nelson Douglas) 89; "The Adventure of the Ascot Tie" (Robert L. Fish) 6; Enter the Lion (Michael P. Hodel & Sean M. Wright) 223; Night Watch (Stephen Kendrick) 105; Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders (Larry Millett) 54; Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon (Larry Millett) 74; The Case of the Vanishing Corpse (Robert Newman) 157; The Case of Emily V (Keith Oatley) 110; Sherlock Holmes and the Sacred Sword (Frank Thomas) 106, 111-112, 140; Bloodguilty (Raymond Thor) 177; The Arcanum (Thomas Wheeler) 22

Der Röte Kampfflieger - Edgar Allan Poe & Manfred Von Richthofen: The Bloody Red Baron (Kim Newman) 87, 277, 340, 342-343

Roughing It - Mark Twain: The Adventures of Young Stamford (Richard M. Caplan, M.D.) 33

Round The Red Lamp - Arthur Conan Doyle: "The Adventure of the Noble Husband" (Peter Cannon) 40

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 61; Inspector Ginkgo Tips His Hat To Sherlock Holmes (Alex Jack) 104; The Empress of India (Michael Kurland) 84-86; Sherlock Holmes and the Titanic Tragedy (William Seil) 73
"Evermore came out by the same door wherein I went": Dr Mortimer and the Barking Man Mystery (Gerard Williams) 168
"Into this universe , and why not knowing...": The Empress of India (Michael Kurland) 84
"A loaf of bread...": Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Deadly Sins Murders (Barry Day) 132
"The moving finger writes...": The Empress of India (Michael Kurland) 84; The Great Game (Michael Kurland) 144
"The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop": The Empress of India (Michael Kurland) 84

Ruff's Guide To The Turf: "The Adventure of the Phantom Face" (Basil Copper) 117

Ruins of Old Burma - William Redfern: "The Giant Rat of Sumatra" (Ted Riccardi) 201

The Rules Britannia: Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 21-27, 58-59, 62-63, 82-83, 87, 93, 100, 134, 137, 165-166, 172, 182, 197, 206, 214, 227, 257-258, 268, 270-271, 276

Rumplestiltskin: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 45-46

"Runyon's Rhymes" - Damon Runyon: Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 63

Rupert of Hentzau - Anthony Hope: Lestrade and the Devil's Own (M J Trow) 76

"Rupert's Flogging" - Algernon Swinburne: Dracula's Diary (Michael Geare & Michael Corby) 47

Rush To Judgement - Sherlock Holmes in Dallas (Edmund Aubrey) 31

Sabrina Fair - Milton: The Notched Hairpin (H.F.Heard) 14, 52

The Sacred Tantra of the Wheel of Time: The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (Jamyang Norbu) 233

Salome: Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J.Trow) 193

Samson Agonistes - John Milton: "Eyeless in Gaza": The Dorking Gap Affair (Glen Petrie) 298

San Francisco Murders - Joseph Henry Jackson: "The Anomaly of the Empty Man" (Anthony Boucher) 27

Satchel's Guides: The Flying Scotsman (Quinn Fawcett) 111-258

Satires - Horace: "Populus me sibilat...": "The Adventure of the Bogle-Wolf" (Anthony Boucher) 430

Satires - Juvenal:
"Mens sana in corpore sano": The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 122, 238
"Nemo repente fuit turpissimus": A Taste for Honey (H.F. Heard) 146, 225; Death by Gaslight (Michael Kurland) 259
"The people long eagerly for just two things - bread & circuses": Sherlock Holmes Meets Annie Oakley (Stanley Shaw) 9
"Quid custodiet ipsos custodes": Lestrade and the Ripper (M.J. Trow) 118
"Who guards the guards": Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J. Trow) 158

"Says Damon Runyon..." - Damon Runyon: Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 63

The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne: Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Deadly Sins Murders (Barry Day) 24

Scènes De La Vie Bohème - Henri Murger: "Sherlock Holmes & 'The Woman'" (Michael Harrison) 113; "A Study In Lavender Lace" (Larry Townsend) 64; "Voiceover" (Edward Wellen) 226

Scholar Gypsies - John Buchan: Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder (M.J.Trow) 201

The Scholar of Bygate - Algernon Gissing: The Holmes-Dracula File (Fred Saberhagen) 176

Schutzhund Obedience: The Barker Street Regulars (Susan Conant) 79

Science for the Million: "The Omnibus Murder" (R.E. Swartwout) 127

The Science of Blood Splash Analysis - Sherlock Holmes: The Art of Detection (Laurie R. King) 194

Science of Ethics - Leslie Stephen: Anno Dracula (Kim Newman) 393

"The Scientific Propagation of the Human Race" - Victoria Claflin Woodhull: "The Bab Deception" (Bill Paxton) 147

Scripta Minoa - Sir Arthur Evans: "The Case Of the Greek Key" (Donald Thomas) 141, 144

Sea-Drift - Walt Whitman: "The Bughouse Caper" (Bill Pronzini) 172

The Sea Wolf - Jack London: Dead Man's Confession (Cass Lewis) 215

A Seaman's Manual of the Heavens - Anthony Edwardes: Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac (Barrie Roberts) 97

Second Helping: The Notched Hairpin (H.F.Heard) 45

The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad: The Revenge of Moriarty (John Gardner) 264; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 227

The Secret Empire: Sherlock Holmes and the Terror Out of Time (Ralph E. Vaughan) 53

The Secret Exploration of Tibet - Peter Hopkick: Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World (Thos. Kent Miller) 2

The Secret History of the International Workingmen's Association - O. Yorke: The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 26

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

Secret Societies - Charles William Heckethorn: "The Adventure of the Dark Angels" (Adrian Conan Doyle) 225

Secrets of Stage Conjuring - Robert-Houdin: "The Case of the Yokohama Club" (Donald Thomas) 326-327

The Sefer ha-Zohar: The 6 Messiahs (Mark Frost) 32-33, 49-54, 65-66, 80-81, 86-87, 89, 92-93, 98, 117-118, 146-151, 162, 164, 166, 169, 172, 178, 187-188, 245-247, 268-269, 274, 276, 279-281, 347, 385, 396, 398, 404, 415

Selected Letters - H.P. Lovecraft (ed. August Derleth & Donald Wandrei): The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 28

The Self & Its Sheathes - Annie Besant: The Case of the Philosophers' Ring (Randall Collins) 104

Self Help - Samuel Smiles: Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (Gerald Frow) 120

Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austen: Femme Fatale (Carole Nelson Douglas) 94

The Seven Lamps - John Ruskin: The Strange Doings of J. Leslie Ryder (Daniel Gracely) 112

Seven Lectures To Young Men - Beecher: The Private Life of Dr. Watson (Michael Hardwick) 22

The Seven Per Cent Solution - Nicholas Meyer: The Secret of Sherlock Holmes (Gary F. Boothe) 25; Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) xiv; The Canary Trainer (Nicholas Meyer) 23; The West End Horror (Nicholas Meyer) 11-12, 14

Seven Years In Tibet - Heinrich Harrer: Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World (Thos. Kent Miller) 2

1760, The Co-ordinate Acme of British Culture - Sidney Silchester: The Notched Hairpin (H.F.Heard) 206

Sex & Character - Otto Weininger: The Case of Emily V (Keith Oatley) 44-45

Sexual Inversion - Havelock Ellis: Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 210

"The Shadowy Waters" - William Butler Yeats: "Dim pairc-na-tarov...": "The Coole Park Problem" (Michéal & Clare Breathnach) 188

The Shape of Things to Come - H.G. Wells: The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 178-180; W.G. Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 96

"The Shaving of Shagpat" - George Meredith: The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 30

She - H. Rider Haggard: Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World (Thos. Kent Miller) 5-7, 11, 19-20, 29; Sherlock Holmes and the Masquerade Murders (Frank Thomas) 119

She & Allan - H. Rider Haggard: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (K.J. Anderson) 23, 40, 59, 137; The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 24; Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World (Thos. Kent Miller) 11

The Sheik: "Sherlock Holmes Solves The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Harry B. Smith) 217

Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon - Larry Millett: The Secret of Sherlock Holmes (Gary F. Boothe) 13-14

Sherlock Holmes and the Frankenstein Curse - Dr Watson: Sherlock Holmes' Last Case (Robert D'Artagnan) 31, 80

Sherlock Holmes: Fact Or Fiction - T.S. Blakeney: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 4

Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case - Dr Watson: Sherlock Holmes' Last Case (Robert D'Artagnan) 31, 54, 79-81

Sherlock Holmes in Tibet - Richard Wincor: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 6-14

The Sherlock Holmes Method of Investigative Disease & General Diagnosis - Ottoman: The Curse of the Nibelung (Marcel D'Agneau) 80

Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street - William S. Baring-Gould: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 4; The West End Horror (Nicholas Meyer) 14; The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 59; Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World (Thos. Kent Miller) 5

Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World - Thomas Kent Miller: The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 25, 27

Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula - Loren D. Estleman: Dr Jekyll and Mr Holmes (Loren D. Estleman) 11-14

Sherlock Holmes Versus Mars - Edward Malone: Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds (Manly W. Wellman & Wade Wellman) 8

A Short History of the Special Operations Network - Millon de Floss: Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 43

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary: The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini) 189

A Shropshire Lad - A.E. Housman: The Notched Hairpin (H.F.Heard) 14, 52

"The Shunned House" - H.P. Lovecraft: Pulptime (P.H.Cannon) 18