A thousand and one (almost) uses of the word "Elementary" in Sherlockian pastiches and parodies.

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Elementary!: "Quadrumvirate" (Dana Martin Batory) 27; The Secret of Sherlock Holmes (Gary F. Boothe) 80; "The Adventure of the Paradol Chamber" (John Dickson Carr) 50; "The Adventure of the Captive Forger" (Philip J. Carraher) 141; The Adventure of the Dead Rabbits Society (Philip J. Carraher) 12, 49; Arthur and the Bellybutton Diamond (Alan Coren) 10, 54; Arthur and the Great Detective (Alan Coren) 16, 30, 61; Arthur and the Purple Panic (Alan Coren) 30, 62; The Veiled Detective (David Stuart Davies) 94; Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 24; Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 106, 113; Dr Jekyll and Mr Holmes (Loren D. Estleman) 67; Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 48, 106; My Hero (Tom Holt) 167; The Adventure of the Stalwart Companions (H. Paul Jeffers) 65; "The Scarlet Woman" (Watkin Jones) 113; The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 299; Death by Gaslight (Michael Kurland) 163; "Years Ago & In A Different Place" (Michael Kurland) 182; The Great Game (Michael Kurland) 215, 270; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 47; Son of Holmes (John T. Lescroart) 243; "A Hansom for Mr. Holmes" (Gillian Linscott) 143; The Spy Who Fell Off the Back of a Bus (Marc Lovell) 51; "The Curious Computer" (Peter Lovesey) 238; The Rainbow Affair (David McDaniel) 157; Sherlock Holmes and the Skull of Death (Robert E. McClellan) 35; "The Adventure of the Damsel In Grey" (Michael Mallory) 55; Murder in the Bath (Michael Mallory) 148; A Puzzle for Sherlock Holmes (Robert Newman) 69; The Adventures of the Five Puce Map Tacks (Paul Nizza) 30, 32; The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death (Daniel Pinkwater) 464; "The Bughouse Caper" (Bill Pronzini) 143; "The Adventure of the Pearly Gates" (Mike Resnick) 371; "The Adventure of Ricoletti of the Club Foot (and his abominable wife)" (Roberta Rogow) 139; "The Case of the Eccentric Bequest" (Jane Rubino) 188; "The Adventure of the Metal Murderer" (Fred Saberhagen) 259; "The Swiss Chronometer" (David Scott) 64; Sherlock Holmes and the Plague of Dracula (Stephen Seitz) 188; "The Adventure of the Other Detective" (Bradley H. Sinor) 63; "The Adventure of the Unique Hamlet" (Vincent Starrett) 88; Sherlock Holmes and the Golden Bird (Frank Thomas) 158; "The Siren of Sennen Cove" (Peter Tremayne) 56; Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (M.J. Trow) 67; The Lost Holmes (David Upton) 24; The Probability Pad (T.A. Waters) 83; Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds (Manly W. Wellman & Wade Wellman) 13, 83, 157
Elementary?: The Spy Who Fell Off the Back of a Bus (Marc Lovell) 45
A childish, elementary form of of substitution-cipher: "The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers" (Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr) 72
A clever, if elementary, reconstruction of the clues: "The Case of the Wavy Black Dagger" (Steve Perry) 51
A code-breaker would find it elementary: The Case of Emily V. (Keith Oatley) 301
A more elementary question I have rarely been asked: "The Case of Lady Sannox" (Peter H. Wood) 82
Alimentary, my dear Watson: "Mouse and the Master" (Brian M. Thomsen) 138
Alimentary, my were-Datsun: "The Great Dormitory Mystery" (S.N. Farber) 79
All elementary: A Puzzle for Sherlock Holmes (Robert Newman) 40
All quite elementary: The Adventure of the Stalwart Companions (H. Paul Jeffers) 39
All this is elementary: Sherlock Holmes Vs. Dracula (Loren D. Estleman) 29
All this is fairly elementary: "The Adventure of the Persecuted Painter" (Basil Copper) 321
An elementary...and uncharacteristic mistake: "The Adventure of the Field Theorems" (Vonda N. McIntyre) 43
An elementary example: "The Case of the Rising Ransom" (Douglas Moreton) 125
An elementary exercise: Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) 99
An elementary mistake: The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death (Daniel Pinkwater) 460
But it's elementary, my dear Olavo: ; A Samba for Sherlock (Jô Soares) 130
Elemen-: "Sussex Interview" (P.M.Stone) 410
Elemental: "Sussex Interview" (P.M.Stone) 41
Elemental, my dear Engels: "Ten Lords A-Leaping" (Jake Arnott) 319
Elementariness itself: The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 63
Elementary assumption: Sherlock Holmes Vs. Dracula (Loren D. Estleman) 131
Elementary, Crow: The Revenge of Moriarty (John Gardner) 290
Elementary, Cullen: "The Adventure of the Glass Room" (Philip J.Carraher) 172
Elementary, dear fellow: Sherlock Holmes: Draco, Draconis (Brett Spencer & Dorian David) 176
Elementary, dear Mycroft: The Tale Not Told (Constance Wilder-Wokoun) 27
Elementary deduction: The Italian Secretary (Caleb Carr) 59; Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 6; The Adventure of the Three Madmen (Philip José Farmer) 112; The Adventure of the Stalwart Companions (H. Paul Jeffers) 52; "The Adventure of the Queen Bee" (Frederic Arnold Kummer) 168; Sherlock Holmes and the Skull of Death (Robert E. McClellan) 15; Wolfman of Dartmoor (Kel Richards) 288
Elementary details: "The Sunleys of Canterbury" (Miles Elward) 29
Elementary, Girac: "The Adventure of the Parisian Gentleman" (Robert Weinberg & Lois H. Gresh) 254
Elementary, Holmes: Eye of the Crow (Shane Peacock) 206
Elementary, in fact?: The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Laurie R. King) 70
Elementary knowledge: Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (Gerald Frow) 104; "The Giant Rat of Sumatra" (Orville Horwitz & H.A. Schroeder) 25
Elementary, Lestrade: The Monster of St. Marylebone (Wayne Worcester) 40
Elementary, Lord Calhoon: "The Eight Pointed Cross" (Bill Paxton) 225
Elementary, ma'am: "Sherlock Holmes in Oz" (Ruth Berman) 439
Elementary, Mr Wainwright: The Spy Who Fell Off the Back of a Bus (Marc Lovell) 45
Elementary, Mrs Hudson: Elementary, Mrs Hudson (Sydney Hosier) 206
Elementary, my boy: "Cross of Gold" (Michael Collins) 349; The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Michael Dibdin) 59
Elementary, my dear Bond: "The Stolen Daffodils" (Ruskin Bond) 39
Elementary, my dear Brown: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Michael & Mollie Hardwick) 15
Elementary, my dear Colonel: Sherlock Holmes and the Devil's Grail (Barrie Roberts) 35
Elementary, my dear Dawson: "The Struldbrugg Reaction" (John Sutherland) 285, 292
Elementary, my dear Dr Watson: Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) 104
Elementary, my dear Dr Weston: Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 115
Elementary, my dear Doyle: Evolution (John Peel) 98
Elementary, my dear dum-dum: "Dr and Mrs Watson at Home" (Loren D. Estleman) 182
Elementary, my dear Father: The Secret of Sherlock Holmes (Gary F. Boothe) 73
Elementary, my dear fellow: "The Martian Crown Jewels" (Poul Anderson) 7; "The Case of the Bewildering Alibi" (Ned Hubbell) 244; "In Flanders Field" (H. Paul Jeffers) 18; "The Little Problem of the Grosvenor Square Furniture Van" (Patrick LoBrutto) 199; The Canary Trainer (Nicholas Meyer) 91
Elementary, my dear Hamlet: My Hero (Tom Holt) 156
Elementary, my dear Holmes: Arthur and the Great Detective (Alan Coren) 38; Sherlock Holmes' Last Case (Robert D'Artagnan) 177; Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 10; "As It Might Have Been" (Colin Howard) 73; The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Laurie R. King) 212
Elementary, my dear Hurree: The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (Jamyang Norbu) 145
Elementary, my dear Inojozas: ; A Samba for Sherlock (Jô Soares) 167
Elementary, my dear Jones: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Michael & Mollie Hardwick) 15
Elementary, my dear Jeffrey: Inspector Ginkgo Tips His Hat To Sherlock Holmes (Alex Jack) 173
Elementary, my dear Jotson : "The Adventure of the Biscuit Tin" (Charles Hamilton) 17; "The Bound of the Haskervilles" (T.P.J.) 167, 170
Elementary, my dear lady: Sherlock Holmes Meets Annie Oakley (Stanley Shaw) 118
Elementary, my dear Lestrade: Lestrade and the Ripper (M.J. Trow) 221
Elementary, my dear MacBride: The Second War of the Worlds (George H. Smith) 35, 57
Elementary, my dear Makinson: "The Adventure of the Touch of God" (Peter Crowther) 290
Elementary, my dear Mary: "The Case of the Captive Clairvoyant" (Brian Ball) 23
 Elementary, my dear Mayor: "The Adventure of the Missing Group" (A.S. Reeve) 153
Elementary, my dear Miss MacTague: The Second War of the Worlds (George H. Smith) 68
 Elementary, my dear Parker: "The Adventure of the Haunted Rectory" (Basil Copper) 38
Elementary, my dear Pedro: ; A Samba for Sherlock (Jô Soares) 255
 Elementary, my dear Phillimore: "The Adventure of the Forgotten Umbrella" (Mel Gilden) 59
 Elementary, my dear Pons: "The Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus" (August Derleth & Mack Reynolds) 99
Elementary, my dear Queenie: "The Case of the Disappearing Despatch Case" (Brian Ball) 67
Elementary, my dear Sabrina: Sabrina The Teenage Witch: Hounded By Baskervilles (Mercer Warriner) 4
Elementary, my dear self: "The Weeping Masks" (James Lowder) 114
 Elementary, my dear Signora Masina: "The Italian Sherlock Holmes" (Reginald Hill) 239
 Elementary, my dear Sir: "The Adventure of the Persistent Marksman" (Lillian de la Tour) 241
Elementary, my dear W: The Second War of the Worlds (George H. Smith) 54, 113
 Elementary, my dear Watson: "Dr Watson" (Charlie Adams, Gareth Hale & Norman Pace) 153; "The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound" (Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson) 108; "Purple Peanut" (Anon.) 130; "A Case of Mis-identity" (Colin Dexter) 103; "The Adventure of the Red Widow" (Adrian Conan Doyle) 252; Elementary, My Dear Groucho (Ron Goulart) 64; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon) 74; "The Adventure of the Gowanus Abduction" (Joyce Harrington) 173; "A Case for the Admiralty" (Edmund Hastie) 63; "The Giant Rat of Sumatra" (Orville Horwitz & H.A. Schroeder) 28, 29; "The Mysterious Death at Wetherby Manor (Ned Hubbell) 37; An Opened Grave (L. Frank James) 215; The Secret Diary of Dr. Watson (Anita Janda) 95; The Art of Detection (Laurie R. King) 118; "The Adventure of the Missing Countess" (Jon Koons) 315; "The Adventure of the Queen Bee" (Frederic Arnold Kummer) 132, 162; The Surrogate Assassin (Christopher Leppek) 270; The West End Horror (Nicholas Meyer) 62; Sherlock in Love (Sena Jeter Naslund) 44; The Adventures of the Five Puce Map Tacks (Paul Nizza) 20; The Case of Emily V. (Keith Oatley) 321; "The Bab Deception" (Bill Paxton) 161; "The Macabre Affair" (Bill Paxton) 38, 98, 101; "The Greatest Detective of All Time" (Ralph Roberts) 306; W.G. Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 239; "The Case of the Purloined L'Isitek" (Josepha Sherman) 321; A Samba for Sherlock (Jô Soares) 19; "Mouse and the Master" (Brian M. Thomsen) 138; "The Kidnapping of Mycroft Holmes" (Peter Tremayne) 213; The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade (M.J.Trow) 69; "But Our Hero Was Not Dead" (Manly Wade Wellman) 152
Elementary, my friend: The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 290; "The Adventure of the Missing Countess" (Jon Koons) 307
Elementary observation: "The Adventure of the Mocking Huntsman" (M.J. Elliott) 23
Elementary, old fellow: Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (M.J. Trow) 13
Elementary, old man: "The Case of the Scientific Recluse" (Ned Hubbell) 57
Elementary, Parker: "The Adventure of the Snitch in Time" (August Derleth & Mack Reynolds) 68
Elementary powers: "The Crime" (Miss Drew) 69
Elementary precaution: Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (Gerald Frow) 118
Elementary problem: Death by Gaslight (Michael Kurland) 110
The elementary rules of detective work: The Veiled Detective (David Stuart Davies) 36
Elementary, really: Arthur v. The Rest (Alan Coren) 58; The Whitechapel Horrors (Edward B. Hanna) 28; "The Case of the Two-Faced Transom" (Douglas Moreton) 89; The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor) 79; The Jewel of Covent Garden (Wayne Worcester) 139
Elementary secrecy: The Italian Secretary (Caleb Carr) 68
Elementary sequence of deduction: Sherlock Holmes: Draco, Draconis (Brett Spencer & Dorian David) 3
 Elementary, sir: "The Adventure of the Second Scarf" (Mark Aronson) 100; The Adventure of the Dead Rabbits Society (Philip J. Carraher) 124; "The Future Engine" (Byron Tetrick) 216
Elementary, to be sure: The Monster of St. Marylebone (Wayne Worcester) 198
An elementary trick: Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (Gerald Frow) 114
Elementary, Watnot, elementary: "The Reigate Road Mystery" (Anthony Armstrong) 63
Elementary, Watson : "A Slaying In Suburbia" (G. Kelly) 51; "The Adventure of the Illegal Alien" (Anthony R. Lewis) 333; "The Loss of the British Bark Sophy Anderson" (Gary Lovisi) 6
Elementary, Watson, most elementary: "The Adventure of the Marked Man" (Stuart Palmer) 99
Elementary, Watson, quite elementary: The Waters of Death (Kel Richards) 84
Father makes it sound so...elementary.: The Secret of Sherlock Holmes (Gary F. Boothe) 88
A few elementary lessons: "The Giant Rat of Sumatra" (Orville Horwitz & H.A. Schroeder) 26
Have I made it...elementary?: The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man (Daniel Stashower) 49
He has described his results as "elementary": Exit Sherlock Holmes (Robert Lee Hall) 123
Holmes forbore to say that it was elementary: ; Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds (Manly W. Wellman & Wade Wellman) 156
Holmes would say that was elementary: "The Yuletide Affair" (John Stoessel) 169
How obvious and elementary: "The Repulsive Story of the Red Leech" (David Langford) 349, 350
In elementary terms: "The Bride of the Moon" (Alan Stockwell) 88
It is all rather elementary: "The Adventure of the St Marylebone Ghoul" (Bill Crider) 151
It is an elementary idea, Watson: The Case of Emily V. (Keith Oatley) 183
It is elementary: "The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers" (Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr) 56; "The Three-faced Villain" (Edmund Hastie) 78; Sherlock Holmes and the Earthquake Machine (Austin Mitchelson & Nicholas Utechin) 49; The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death (Daniel Pinkwater) 457
It is elementary my dear fellow: Sherlock Holmes: Draco, Draconis (Brett Spencer & Dorian David) 57, 158
It is elementary my dear Stoker: The Dracula Caper (Simon Hawke) 187
It is elementary to me: "The Adventure of Exham Priory" (F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre) 391
It is elementary, Watson: The Jewel of Covent Garden (Wayne Worcester) 15
It is logical; elementary, I might say: Exit Sherlock Holmes (Robert Lee Hall) 123, 232
It is not at all elementary to me: The Case of Emily V. (Keith Oatley) 322
It is quite elementary: An Opened Grave (L. Frank James) 60
It is really quite elementary: Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 5
It's elementary: Rags to Riches: The Case of the Hire Shop Fiend (Richard Roberts)
It was all really elementary: "Before The Adventures" (Lenore Carroll) 193
It was an elementary case: "The Adventure of the Talking Ghost" (Philip J. Carraher) 195
It was elementary: "The Adventure of the Haunted Rectory" (Basil Copper) 57; "The Adventure of the Left-Behind Wife" (Michael Mallory) 14; A Study in Terror (Ellery Queen) 163; "Our American Cousins" (Roberta Rogow) 398; "The Case of the Notorious Canary Trainer" (Henry Slesar) 55; Lestrade and the Leviathan (M.J.Trow) 238
It was purely an elementary exercise in deductive reasoning: "The Adventure of the Tired Captain" (Bob Byrne) 95
It's alimentary, my dear Kali: Inspector Ginkgo Tips His Hat To Sherlock Holmes (Alex Jack) 163
It's elementary: "The Adventure of the Magic Alibi" (Philip J. Carraher) 69; Arthur and the Great Detective (Alan Coren) 14; The Arcanum (Thomas Wheeler) 325; The Tale Not Told (Constance Wilder-Wokoun) 35
It's really quite elementary: The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Laurie R. King) 245
...makes my deduction...elementary: "The Adventure of Pinson Manor" (Rock DiLisio) 27
Most elementary: "The Adventure of the Marked Man" (Stuart Palmer) 99
Much too elementary: The Pandora Plague (Lee A. Matthias) 48
My reason was elementary: "The Giant Rat of Sumatra" (Orville Horwitz & H.A. Schroeder) 19
One should never overlook the alimentary: Mrs Hudson and the Spirits' Curse (Martin Davies) 84
Perfectly elementary: A Monstrous Regiment of Women (Laurie R. King) 216
Please don't say elementary: Sherlock Holmes and the Treasure Train (Frank Thomas) 95
Quite elementary: "There's a Time and a Place for Everything" (Marvin Aronson) 55; "The Sinister Cheesecake" (Craig Shaw Gardner) 443; My Hero (Tom Holt) 176; "The Haunted House" (Watkin Jones) 22; "The Adventure of the First Class Carriage" (Ronald Knox) 40; Footsteps in the Fog (Kel Richards) 156; The Waters of Death (Kel Richards) 84; "The Adventure of the Barnegat Burglaries" (H.W. Starr & Orville Horwitz) 135
Really elementary, Watson: A Study in Terror (Ellery Queen) 75
Really, quite elementary, my dear Watson: The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor) 9
Seem elementary: Sherlock Holmes and the Houdini Birthright (Val Andrews) 29
So elementary: Sherlock Holmes: Draco, Draconis (Brett Spencer & Dorian David) 135; Death of a Scavenger (Keith Spore) 19
Such an exercise is elementary to me: Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair (David Stuart Davies) 6
Such things can never be elementary: The Night Calls (David Pirie) 203
Surely it is elementary: "The Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus" (August Derleth & Mack Reynolds) 93
That is elementary: Irene at Large (Carole Nelson Douglas) 277; Death of a Scavenger (Keith Spore) 319
That, my dear Fillmore, is quite elementary: The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 193
That was only very elementary work: "The Singular Affair of the Aluminium Crutch" (Ian Charnock) 138
That, Watson, is elementary: "The Adventure of the Dorset Street Lodger" (Michael Moorcock) 201
That's quite elementary: The Rainbow Affair (David McDaniel) 98
The answer is elementary: "The Accidental Murderess" (H. Paul Jeffers) 62
The elementary tricks that set my dear friend Watson's jaw a-dropping: Femme Fatale (Carole Nelson Douglas) 226
The explanation for my presence here is more elementary: "The Adventure of the Snitch in Time" (August Derleth & Mack Reynolds) 64
The first steps were elementary: "Art in the Blood" (Brian Stableford) 130
The man's height, you see, is elementary: The Giant Rat of Sumatra (Richard L. Boyer) 52
The problem in its essentials was so elementary that even the police might have been able to solve it in time: "The Struldbrugg Reaction" (John Sutherland) 293
The problem...is really extremely elementary: "The Struldbrugg Reaction" (John Sutherland) 289
The steps in this reasoning are so elementary as to be facile: "The Legacy of Rachel Howells" (Michael Doyle) 410
The web of connections was an elementary one: Supping with Panthers (Tom Holland) 365
This somewhat elementary problem: Ten Years Beyond Baker Street (Cay Van Ash) 282
Very elementary: "The Reigate Road Mystery" (Anthony Armstrong) 63; Sherlock Holmes Vs. Dracula (Loren D. Estleman) 98
...was elementary: "The Adventure of the Deptford Horror" (Adrian Conan Doyle) 249; "The American Ambassador" (David Scott) 12
Was that elementary or was it not?: The Case of Emily V. (Keith Oatley) 323
What elementary questions would he ask: Doctor Watson and the Invisible Man (Noel Downing) 31
What is elementary to him is so only because he has taken the time to learn his ABCs: Exit Sherlock Holmes (Robert Lee Hall) 123
You will find it elementary, my dear Holmes: Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds (Manly W. Wellman & Wade Wellman) 19