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Yahoos (Gullivers Travels - Jonathan Swift)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Allan Moore & Kevin O'Neill) 44

Yahweh: see Jahweh

Yakub Beg (Founded Muslim State in Tarim Basin)
The Siam Question (Timothy Francis Sheil) 160, 180, 182-183

Yale, Linus (American Inventor of Yale Lock)
A Monstrous Regiment of Women (Laurie R. King) 308
Yale Key: The Vampire Serpent (Kel Richards) 28
Yale Lock: Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 271; "The Queen of the Night" (Donald Thomas) 316, 331

Yam, Mr. (Mr. Vampire - Movie)
Anno Dracula (Kim Newman) 155-159, 188, 242-249, 265, 267, 283-286, 299, 302, 331, 335, 365, 441

Yang Kwei Fei (Emperor's Consort in Japanese Literature)
A Slight Trick of the Mind (Mitch Cullin) 130

Yarborough, Ralph W. (American Senator)
Sherlock Holmes in Dallas (Edmund Aubrey) 84

Yarrow, Alfred (British Shipbuilder, 1842-1932)
Yarrows Ltd.: "The Case Of the Greek Key" (Donald Thomas) 151

Yastremski, Carl (American Baseball Player, 1939- )
Inspector Ginkgo Tips His Hat To Sherlock Holmes (Alex Jack) 71

Yates, Mike (Doctor Who - TV series)
Happy Endings (Paul Cornell) 73-282

Yeager, Chuck (American Pilot, 1923- )
The Adventure of the Dreaming Detective (Ralph E. Vaughan) 5, 9-11, 15-16, 21-22, 47-48
The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 140

Yeats, William Butler (Irish Poet & Dramatist, 1865-1939)
"The Coole Park Problem" (Michéal & Clare Breathnach) 166, 168-179, 181-183, 185, 187-188; "The Scarlet Woman" (Watkin Jones) 64-70, 75, 77-95, 102-104, 124
The Adventure of the Dead Rabbits Society (Philip J. Carraher) 68; The Case of the Philosophers' Ring (Randall Collins) v, 88; A Slight Trick of the Mind (Mitch Cullin) 73, 76; A Taste for Honey (H.F.Heard) 29; The West End Horror (Nicholas Meyer) 29; "Angel Down, Sussex" (Kim Newman) 129, 134; The Winged Wheel (Peter H. Wood) 6
"the butler - Yeats": Lestrade and the Brother of Death (M.J.Trow) 71

Yellow Hand (Aka. Yellow Hair. Cheyenne Chief)
Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 292, 294-295, 298

Yellow Jacket (Yellow Jacket: Man of Mystery Comics - Scott McCullar)
"The Vanishing Devil" (Win Scott Eckert) 60

Yelva (Yelva - Henry Bishop)
Spider Dance (Carole Nelson Douglas) 165

Yen, General (The Bitter Tea of General Yen - Movie)
The Night Mayor (Kim Newman) 54

Yersin, Alexandre (Swiss Bacteriologist, 1863(?) - ?)
The West End Horror (Nicholas Meyer) 146; The Holmes-Dracula File (Fred Saberhagen) 162

Yesenin, Sergei (Russian Poet, 1895-1925)
Justice Hall (Laurie R. King) 155

Y'golonac (Cold Print - Ramsey Campbell)
"Nightmare in Wax" (Simon Clark) 425

Yith, The Great Race of (The Shadow Out of Time - H.P.Lovecraft)
The Arcanum (Thomas Wheeler) 171

Yo San (Darling of the Gods - David Belasco)
Shady Sinners of the Styx (Lawrence Daniel Fogg) 10

Yog Sothoth (Cthulhu Mythos Stories)
"A Case of Royal Blood" (Steven-Elliot Altman) 89; "Nightmare in Wax" (Simon Clark) 430; "The Adventure of the Antiquarian's Niece" (Barbara Hambly) 179, 180; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 221
Sothoth (spaceship): "The Interrupted Game" (Dana Martin Batory) 125

Yohannes IV (Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89), 1831-1889)
The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 64, 118, 142

Yonge, Charlotte M. (British Writer)
The Revenge of Moriarty (John Gardner) 103

Yorga, Count (Count Yorga: Vampire - movie)
Anno Dracula (Kim Newman) 66, 274-458 {Iorga}

Yorick (Hamlet âÄì William Shakespeare)
My Hero (Tom Holt) 129
The Adventures of Young Stamford (Richard M. Caplan, M.D.) 69; "Hall of Fame" (A. Bertram Chandler) 31; "The Record of the Tarleton Murders" (Ian Charnock) 52; Sherlock Holmes and the Apocalypse Murders (Barry Day) 128; Good Night, Mr. Holmes (Carole Nelson Douglas) 150; Irene at Large (Carole Nelson Douglas) 97; The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini) 235; The Secret Diary of Dr. Watson (Anita Janda) 70; The Angel of the Opera (Sam Siciliano) 71; The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes (Marcel Theroux) 145; Brigade (M.J.Trow) 377; Everybody's Favorite Duck (Gahan Wilson) 8
"Alas, poor Yorick"

York, Archbishop of
"Our American Cousins" (Roberta Rogow) 392

York, Duke of: see Prince Frederick; George V

Yorke, O. (Writer)
The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 26

Yoshihito (Emperor of Japan (1912-26))
Locked Rooms (Laurie R. King) 9

Young, Sir Allen (British Explorer, 1830-?)
The Hampstead Poisonings (Glen Petrie) 148-149, 156-157, 160, 164-166, 169, 184, 188-192

Young, Arthur (British Agricultural Writer, 1741-1820)
Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (M.J.Trow) 52

Young, Brigham (American Religious Leader, 1801-1877)
"A Study In Lavender Lace" (Larry Townsend) 91, 112-116

Young, Sir George M. (British Historian)
"The Two Failures of Sherlock Holmes" (Donald Thomas) 10

Young, Roland (British Actor, 1887-1953)
Believe (William Shatner & Michael Tobias) 76

Young, Thomas (British Physicist & Egyptologist, 1773-1829)
Sherlock Holmes and the Sacred Sword (Frank Thomas) 116-117

Younger Stamfords of Iowa City (Sherlockian Society)
The Adventures of Young Stamford (Richard M. Caplan, M.D.) 96

Younghusband, Sir Francis (British Army officer, 1863-1942)
The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 23-24, 108
The Game (Laurie R. King) 13; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 152-156, 159

Ysayë, Eugène (Belgian Violinist & Composer, 1858-1931)
Sherlock in Love (Sena Jeter Naslund) 105-106; Sherlock Holmes and the Hapsburg Tiara (Alan Vanneman) 314

Yu'an Hee See (Yu'an Hee See Laughs - Sax Rohmer)
"The Vanishing Devil" (Win Scott Eckert) 67

Yuan Shikai (Chinese General)
The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 82

Yung-Cheng (Chinese Emperor (1722-35))
The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (Jamyang Norbu) 92

Yusupov, Prince Feliks / Felix (Assassinated Rasputin)
Watson's Last Case (Ian Charnock) 80-82, 102-103; The Holmes Factor (Brian Freemantle) 136-137, 177-179, 195, 202, 204-205, 207, 214-215, 268; Rasputin's Revenge (John T. Lescroart) 264, 267-268, 272-275; Sherlock Holmes and the Earthquake Machine (Austin Mitchelson & Nicholas Utechin) 80-82, 90, 92

Yusupov, Princess Irina (Alexandrovna) (Prince Feliks's Wife, Czar Nicholas II's Niece)
The Holmes Factor (Brian Freemantle) 136, 177-178, 202, 204
Rasputin's Revenge (John T. Lescroart) 274

Yznaga del Valle, Maria Consuelo (Cuban-American Socialite, 1858-1909)
Spider Dance (Carole Nelson Douglas) 354