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"The Analytical Engine" (1982)
Story Type:
Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Other Characters: (Professor; Mathematicians )
Date: Late Spring, Shortly after SPEC
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Holmes tells Watson of his interest in the development of an Analytical Engine at the Cavendish Laboratories in Cambridge, and the difficulties and limitations of the language used to program it. He announces his decision to use the Engine in his work whenever possible.
"Murder at the Metropolitan Club" (1982)
Story Type:
Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Other Characters: (Artist; Sir Raymond Jasper; Robert Holman; Colonel Reginald Woodley; James Pope)
Date: Shortly after "The Analytical Engine"
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; (The Metropolitan Club; The Strand)
Story: An artist is murdered at the Metropolitan Club in the Strand, and there are four suspects. Holmes reaches his conclusion about the murderer's identity through logical deduction, then attempts to program the Analytical Engine to follow his patterns of logic.
"Holmes Gives a Demonstration" (1982)
Story Type:
Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Other Characters: (Sir Raymond Jasper; Robert Holman; Colonel Reginald Woodley; James Pope)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Holmes shows Watson a new version of his Metropolitan Club algorithm.
"The Adventure of the Bathing Machine" (1982)
Story Type:
Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Inspector Lestrade)
Other Characters: Telegraph Office Director; (Watson's Patient; Baroness of Whitelsey; Baroness's Attendants; Baron Whitelsey)
Date: June
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train; Yorkshire; Scarborough; Hotel; Telegraph Office
Story: Holmes and Watson travel to Yorkshire where the Baroness of Whitelsey has disappeared while bathing in the sea at Scarborough. Holmes has been called in by the family of one of the Baroness's attendants who has been arrested by Lestrade. Holmes takes his investigations to Whitby, and arranges with Watson to establish a telegraphic link to the Analytical Engine. He creates an algorithm to establish the state of the tide at the time of the Baroness's disappearance.
"A Study in Cigar Ash" (1982)
Story Type:
Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Holmes decides to develop a program using information from his monograph on tobacco ash to enable the use of the Analytical Engine in identifying ashes.
"The Adventure of Clergyman Peter" (1982)
Story Type:
Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson
Other Characters: Peter Cowesworthy; Huxtable Penwether; Anderson's Hall Porter
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Fleet Street; Anderson's Hotel
Story: Oxford clergyman Cowesworthy consults Holmes over the theft of the Mazarin Bible. Having deduced that Cowesworthy's companion has been in Birmingham, he takes Watson to search their hotel rooms, paying particular attention to Penworthy's clothing. Holmes develops a program to check the possible train journeys Penworthy may have taken.
"The Ciphered Message" (1982)
Story Type:
Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Mycroft Holmes; Carina)
Historical Figures: (Charles Babbage)
Other Characters: Home Office Undersecretary
Date: Winter
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: A Home Office undersecretary consults Holmes over coded government messages that are regularly being intercepted and decoded. He asks Holmes to develop a more secure cipher, which he proceeds to do with the aid of the Analytical Engine.
"An Advertisement in the Times" (1982)
Story Type:
Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Other Characters: (Robbery Suspects)
Date: Early August after Watson's marriage
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Holmes believes that the two men behind a series of robberies are communicating with each other through advertisements in the Times. The solution leads him to develop a program for working out days of the year.
"A Study in Chemistry" (1982)
Story Type:
Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Historical Figures: (Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleeff)
Other Characters: (Harley Street Specialist; Mrs Woolwich)
Date: Spring, 1891
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Holmes has been advised to rest by a noted Harley Street specialist, but has instead been attempting to duplicate the poisonous gas used in the case of the Hyde Park Horrors, nearly poisoning himself and Watson in the process. He sets out to develop a program to calculate molecular weights based on the periodic table of elements developed by his friend Mendeleeff.
"The Coroner's Report" (1982)
Story Type:
Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Other Characters: (The Honourable Colin Wiggs; Dr Harrison)
Date: October
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: A year after solving the Wiggs murder, Holmes programs the Analytical Engine to produce a coroner's report form based on input data.
"The Adventure of the Gold Chip" (1982)
Story Type:
Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Inspector Lestrade; (Professor Moriarty; Colnel Sebastian Moran)
Other Characters: (Miser; Labourer; Royal Marines Officer)
Locations: A Train; Reading; Reading Station
Story: Holmes and Watson are summoned to Reading by Lestrade. A miser has been murdered, and was last seen in the village of Eyford with a man who may be his murderer. Having gathered evidence of the killer's habits and appearance, Holmes using a database stored on the Analytical Engine to generate a list of possible suspects' names, including that of Moriarty.
"Holmes Delivers a Lecture" (1982)
Story Type:
Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Other Characters: Royal Society Members
Date: Late Autumn, 1895
Locations: The Royal Society; 221B, Baker Street
Story: Holmes delivers a lecture at the Royal Society on the benefits of the Analytical Engine.
"The Final Programme" (1982)
Story Type:
Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Watson's Maid; Mrs Hudson; (Young Stamford)
Historical Figures: Henry Prevost Babbage; (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Locations: Watson's Home; Holmes's Sussex Villa
Story: Watson visits Holmes in Sussex. On arrival he finds that Babbage is also visiting. Holmes explains how he is going to use the Analytical Engine to prepare the manuscript of his magnum opus, The Whole Art of Detection.