Michael Hardwick

Prisoner of the Devil (1979)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Dubuque; Mycroft Holmes; Adolphe Meyer; (Mary Morstan; Dr Verner; Black Peter Carey; Stanley Hopkins; Patrick Cairns; Arthur Cadogan West; Violet Westbury; Hugo Oberstein; Colonel Valentine Walter; Sir James Walter; Watson's Father; Watson's Brother (Henry))
Historical Figures: Mathieu Dreyfus; Alfred Dreyfus; Lucie Hadamard Dreyfus; Pierre Dreyfus; Jeanne Dreyfus; Major Georges Picquart; Marquis du Paty de Clam; Armand Cochefert; Cochefert's Secretary; Felix Gribelin; Hubert-Joseph Henry; Ferdinand Forzinetti; General Darras; Sergeant of the Guard; Queen Victoria; Eusapia Palladino; Major Marie-Charles Walsin-Esterhazy / Fitzgerald; (Edgar Demange; Colonel Maurel; Raphael Dreyfus; Jeanette Dreyfus; Jacques Dreyfus; Dreyfus's Brother; Dreyfus's Sisters; Orderly; Lieutenant-General de Boisdeffre; General Mercier; Alphonse Bertillon; Kaiser Wilhem II; Abdul Karim (The Munshi); Felix de Lamothe; Edouard Drumont; Colonel Maximilian von Schwartzkoppen; Colonel Fanizzardi; Colonel Jean Conrad Sandherr; Captain Lauth; Cesare Lombroso; Sir Oliver Lodge; Bernard Lazare; General Billot; General Gonse; Anne de Nettancourt Esterhazy; Madame Bastian; Louis Leblois; Auguste Scheurer-Kestner; Emile Zola; Godefroy Cavaignac; Count Christian esterhazy; Mme de Boulancy)
Other Characters: Door Attendant; Prison Guards; Handwriting Experts; President of Court; Court Officers; Soldiers & Ex-Servicemen; Diplomats; Journalists; Court Martial Crowd; Artillerymen; Republican Guard Lieutenant; Café Patrons; Queen's Indian Attendants; McRither; Passengers; Ship's Master; Ship's Officers; British Guiana Officials; Hotel Proprietor; Albert Gonselin; Seamen; Cayenne Wharf Crowds; Convict Porter; Mme Louveque; Bar Customers; Louveque's Girls; Violinist; French Guiana Officials; Raoul; Manuel; Murderer; Millionaire Nobleman; Louveque's Waiter; Devil's Island Guards; Mycroft's Messenger; Postlethwaite; Diogenes Members; Cabby; Constable Dobson; Ambulance Attendants; Swiss Band; Tourists; Waiter; Messenger Boy; Rue Maurice Concierge; Claudine's Maid; Mademoiselle Claudine; Seamus Murphy; Sailors; Georgetown Bar Patrons; Gonselin's Lookout; Bartender; Bartenders Wife; Bar Girls; Pianist; Captain Muros; Dynamite Johnny O'Brien; French Navy Matelots; O'Brien's First Mate; Second Mate; Bosun; Hyde Park Protestors; Military College Troops; (Court Officers; Municipal Guards; Times Correspondent; Dreyfus's Maid; Italian Hairdresser; One-Eye Jules; Governor's Office Clerk; President of France; Captain Hunter; Hunter's Third Officer; Daily Chronicle Journalist; Police Surgeon; Meyer's Porter; Porter's Wife; Prison Settlement Commandants; Picquart's Staff; Medium; Holmes's Geneva University Friend; Watson's Mother; Claudine's French Visitor; Hotel Receptionist; Hotel Porter; Picquart's Messenger; New York Rescue Syndicate; German Embassy Cleaning Woman; French Dancer)
Date: 1928 / May, 1895 - December, 1896/ October, 1894 - January, 1895 / June, 1899 / 1906 / 1907
Locations: Watson's Home; 221B, Baker Street; France; Paris; 6, Avenue du Trocadero; Alma Bridge; Quai d'Orsai; Rue St-Dominique; Cherche-Midi Prison; Courtroom; War College Courtyard; Left Bank Café; Windsor Castle; A Steamer; British Guiana; Georgetown; Hotel; Ship; French Guiana; Cayenne; Mme Louveque's; A Fishing-Boat; Devil's Island; A Canoe on the Caribbean; Pall Mall; Diogenes Club; 13, Great George Street; A Train; Kent; Switzerland; Geneva; Restaurant; Le Havre; University of Geneva; Rue Maurice; Claudine's Apartment; Café Maurice; Hotel; Ratcliff Highway; Sumner Shipping Agency; Georgetown Bar; O'Brien's Ship; Hyde Park; French Embassy
Story: Mathieu Dreyfus calls on Holmes to prove his brother's innocence, but Holmes turns down the case, unwilling to interfere with the legal processes of another country. He does, however, continue to show an interest in the case, and some time later, he and Watson travel to Paris to confer with Dubuque. After solving the Bruce-Partington case, Holmes is asked by the Queen to investigate the Dreyfus affair because she has received a letter from the Kaiser accusing the British Government of engineering the affair to foment trouble between France and Germany.

Disguised as a journalist, John James, Holmes sails to Guiana, where with the aid of ex-convict fisherman he is able to land secretly on Devil's Island and speak with Dreyfus, but finds himself adrift in the Caribbean on his escape from the Island. On his return to London, Holmes decides to use the press to renew public interest in the case, spreading the rumour that Dreyfus has escaped, utilising Adolphe Meyer as an intermediary in the spreading of the story, and the anti-semitic Libre Parole as its mouthpiece. Holmes has an angry meeting with Mycroft, and later learns that Meyer has been murdered.

A meeting with Picquart in Geneva reveals more evidence of Dreyfus's innocence. They also, at the request of Dreyfus's wife consult the medium, Palladino, who appears to make contact with the spirit of Watson's father, and refers to an officer who looks like a black vulture, and Haydn's Farewell Symphony. Watson interviews the alluring spy, Claudine. Holmes gives Picquart the name of his chief subject, but Picquart comes under political attack, and a pamphlet stirs up more outrage in Paris. Holmes puts together a crew for a rescue voyage, and sails to Guiana, where a death occurs almost as soon as they arrive, and they find themselves in the midst of a bar-room brawl.

They encounter O'Brien, leader of an American mission to rescue Dreyfus. The joint raid does not go according to plan, and a surprise awaits them in Dreyfus's hut. On his return to England, Holmes is warned off the case by, and learns the truth of it from, Mycroft.

The Revenge of the Hound (1987)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Watson (Coral Atkins); Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes; White Mason; Tobias Gregson; (Killer Evans; The Hound of the Baskervilles)
Historical Figures: Edward VII; (Oliver Cromwell; Henry Ireton; John Bradshaw)
Other Characters: Henrietta "Henry" Wilmington Atkins; Hotel Russell Waiters; Rugby Players; Boaters; Police Driver; Hampstead Constables; Sergeant Roberts; Chapman; Hospital Attendant; Cabby; Marble Arch Constables; Inspector Arkwright ; Workmen; Dr Garside; Lord Belmont; Arkwright's Assistants; Equerry; Deckhands; Ferry Passengers; Peter Anderson; John Sweh; Captain Bassett; Newhaven Sergeant; Victoria Station Porters; Passenger; Ticket Collector; Sailors; Cabbies; Crowd; Constables; Sergeant Clegge; Jack Robbins; William; Lavinia Glanvill; Glanvill's Maid; Edwards; Belmont's Footman; Guild Workmen; Cabby; Annie Dodds; Cemetery Attendants; Highgate Crowd; Matthew Spurrier; Belmont's Watchers; Albany Street Duty Sergeant; Police Drivers; Funeral Constables; Wardresses; Undertaker's Manager; Highgate Gateman; Gardener; Cemetery Attendants; Oliver's Men; Special Branch Men; Slav; (Inspector Blenkinsop; Hampstead Tramps; Editor; Hubert Glanvill; Mr Poole; Malay Owners of the Bar of Gold; Russian Library Patrons)
Date: 1st - ?, July, 1902
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Russell Square; Grand Agricultural Hall, Islington; Hotel Russell; Blackheath; Regent's Park; Hampstead Heath; Heath Street; Hospital; Marble Arch; A Train; Dieppe; Cross-Channel Ferry; Buckingham Palace; Newhaven; Lewes ; A Train; Victoria Station; Canterbury; Mickleden; Alkhamton; Deal; The Vale of Health; Highgate Cemetery; Baker Street; Albany Street; Old Moore Public House; (The Bar of Gold; The Free Russian Library, Commercial Road; Shinwell Johnson's House)
Story: Watson has his proposal of marriage accepted by Coral Atkins days after being shot by Killer Evans, while Holmes announces his plan to retire, then asks him to go to Lausanne on the Carfax case. Lestrade arrives with news of an attack on a tramp on Hampstead Heath by what is being said to have been the Hound of the Baskervilles returned from the dead. They visit the Heath, hear a strange wailing, and find footprints, but Holmes loses interest after visiting the vagrant who was attacked, and who later disappears. The following day Holmes summons Watson to Marble Arch, where an excavation at the site of the Tyburn gallows is uncovering the remains of those hanged there. Watson's deductions lead to the discovery of the beheaded bodies of Oliver Cromwell, Ireton & Bradshaw: remains which, Holmes believes, could foment revolution. Mycroft arrives at 221B to tackle Holmes over his refusal of a knighthood. Lestrade brings the news that the bones of Cromwell and his companions have been stolen.

As they return from Lausanne, Holmes tells Watson of his visit to Buckingham Palace where, in light of a planned visit to America, the King is keen to have Holmes retrieve a compromising letter from Mrs Glanvill. A Chinese steward is murdered on their ferry, but Holmes arranges with White Mason to let the murderer go free. When they arrive back in London they find Gregson investigating the decapitation of a statue of Charles II. Holmes sends Watson to retrieve the King's letter, and Watson finds himself spending the night at Lord Belmont's country home. He arrives back in London to be dragged back to Hampstead by Holmes, where he learns that the hound case is connected to the shipboard murder, before they visit the fair and view a body in Highgate Cemetery. Watson provides the key to linking their other cases into the picture. They take a wolf to a "funeral" and attend a revolutionary gathering in a crypt before bringing all the threads together to resolve the case. Watson's fiancée reveals the contents of the King's letter.

Michael & Mollie Hardwick