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"The Adventure of the Beggar's Head" (2008)
Included in:
The Exploits of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Dr Watson; Watson's Maid (Missy Trelawny); (Sherlock Holmes; Mycroft Holmes; Billy)
Historical Figures: (Sir Melville Macnaghten)
Other Characters: Newsvendors; Inspector Robert Laurie; Police Sergeant; Cabman; Constables; Arthur Dindal; Sergeant Tallis; Mr Canning; (Dr Fennyman; Beggars; Coroner; Constables; Robin Canning)
Locations: Watson's Queen Anne Street House; Simpson's-in-the-Strand; New Scotland Yard; St Mary-le-Bow
Story: Watson returns home having been consulted by Laurie over a series of decapitations of beggars by a killer known as 'The Chopper'. All the bodies have been found outside churches. Amelia links the killings to the song "Oranges and Lemons" and suspects that a trap is being set for the police.
"The Adventure of the Bleak House Fire" (2008)
Included in:
The Exploits of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Dr Watson; (Watson's Maid (Missy Trelawny))
Other Characters: Inspector Robert Laurie; Gemma Usher; Crawling Man Customers; Ginny Pete; Sandy Wicking; Hansom Driver; Constables; (Bob Usher; Mr Cruffins; Laurie's Men; Vicar; Gemma's Parents)
Locations: Restaurant; Watson's Queen Anne Street House; New Scotland Yard; Coffee House; The Crawling Man; 12, Cartwell Gardens
Story: Watson and Amelia's dinner is disrupted by Laurie who takes Watson to examine an apparent case of spontaneous human combustion. Watson believes that the foot and ashes have been placed in the bed as a ruse. After the remains have been removed, Amelia is allowed to see the room and Watson develops a new theory. But it is disproved when they learn the man is a reformed drinker and winner of the Irish Sweepstakes.
"The Adventure of the Bramley Court Devil" (2000)
(Also published as "The Clare Market Devil")
Included in:
The Adventures of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Dr. Watson; Watson's Maid (Missy Trelawny)
Other Characters: Elderly Man; Muggearage; Actors; Stage Manager; Inspector Laurie; Hansom Driver; Constables; Constable Ningham; Reporters; Lead Actress; Mrs. Muggerage
Locations: Monarch Theatre; Simpson's; Watson's Queen Anne Street House; A hansom; Holofernes Street; Clare Market; Buszard's
Story: A man bursts onto the stage of the melodrama that the Watsons are watching, shouts that he has seen the Devil in Bramley Court, a slum area currently being demolished, and promptly drops dead, apparently of fright. Later the man's body disappears. The Watsons venture into the slum to investigate, but it is a chance remark by the leading actress, overheard by Mrs. Watson, that offers her the solution to the mystery.
"The Adventure of the Burnt Man" (2008)
Included in:
The Exploits of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Dr Watson; Watson's Maid (Missy Trelawny); Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: George Fortescue; Hansom Driver; Carnival Crowd; Professor Pinky; The Insect Boy; Pete the Skeleton; Dan A. Coloney; Constables; (Carnival Promoter)
Date: 1904
Locations: Watson's Queen Anne Street House; Fleet Offices; Archbishop's Park
Story: Amelia is awoken by the screams of Missy the maid who says she has been attacked by a burnt man smelling of ashes and charcoal, who stopped to put his boots on before he fled. A handprint on her nightgown seems to confirm her story. The following day Missy brings the news that there is a carnival in town, and Watson discovers that someone is publishing Sherlock Holmes stories under his name. A phone call to the editor of The Fleet reveals that the culprit is claiming to be the true author of all the stories, and Watson, looking for his journal to prove his authorship, discovers it has been stolen. A fiery visit to the carnival brings an end to the case.
"The Adventure of the Damsel In Grey" (2000)
Included in:
The Adventures of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Dr. Watson
Other Characters: Gabriel Reeves; Daniel; Emily Reeves; The Damsel In Grey; Sarah Wells; Constable Trout
Locations: Watson's Queen Anne Street House; Moreton-At-Marsh; Nether Sworthing; The Commonwealth Inn; The Church
Story: Watson is invited back to Nether Sworthing, scene of one of Holmes's cases, by village innkeeper, Reeves. Mrs. Watson encounters a woman in the village church, who the villagers believe to be the local ghost - the grey damsel. The following morning however the woman is found dead on the ground outside the inn, having fallen or been pushed from an upstairs window. Mrs. Watson's enquiries reveal that she was an actress, and part of a plot to revive the fortunes of the village, of which Watson was to be an unwitting part. The smell of lemons eventually leads her to the woman's murderer.
"The Adventure of the Diamond Stickpin" (2008)
Included in:
The Exploits of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs. Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Dr Watson; (Sherlock Holmes; Mycroft Holmes)
Historical Figures: Buffalo Bill Cody; (Edward VII)
Other Characters: Henry Two-Trees; Wild West Show Employees; Lieutenant Dan Terrill; Roustabouts; Utah Jim; Hondo Sharpe; Zeb Parker; Windsor Hotel Waiter; Hotel Manager; Inspector Steele; Police Officers; (Hotel Clerk; Terrill's German Associates)
Locations: Watson's Queen Anne Street House; Waterloo Station; Windsor; Windsor Great Park; Windsor Hotel
Story: Watson answers the door to Two-Trees, a Native American boy from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. The following day they visit Cody who tells them that a diamond stickpin, given to him by Edward VII, has been stolen from his ransacked tent. Oddly, the company's takings, also in the tent, were not stolen. Their chief suspect turns up dead, but later they learn that his death was not what it appeared to be. There is another murder, but an assassination plot is averted.
"The Adventure of the Disappearing Coach" (2000)
Included in:
The Adventures of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Watson's Maid (Missy Trelawny); Mrs. Hudson; (Dr. Watson)
Historical Figures: Sir Melville Macnaghten
Other Characters: Harry Benbow; Sergeant; Inspector Corrigan; Warder; Radford Boys; Hoskins; Policeman; Constables
Locations: Watson's Queen Anne Street House; A Bus; New Scotland Yard; A Cab; 221B, Baker Street; Tooley Street; The Tower Subway; Macnaghten's Carriage
Story: Benbow calls Amelia to Scotland Yard where he is being held on a kidnapping charge after being found in possession of a teddy bear belonging to one of the kidnapped boys. He claims that the bear was thrown by the boy from a carriage which he followed to a shed which, when he looked inside, was empty. Amelia arranges his release and together they uncover the shed's secret and locate the missing boys.

"The Adventure of the Georgian Deed" (2008)
Included in:
The Exploits of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Mrs Hudson / Martha; Mycroft Holmes; (Dr Watson; Sherlock Holmes)
Historical Figures: (George II)
Other Characters: Ralph Montfort; Pock-Marked Man; Cabman; Chatterton; Librarian; Wainwright; (Matthew Montfort; Montfort's Father; Sir Robert Montfort; Sir Robert's Cousin; Thomas Rowley; Wainwright's Client; The Prime Minister)

Date: November, 1901 or later
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Piccadilly; Pall Mall; Diogenes Club; Watson's Queen Anne Street House; The Strand; Telegraph Office; British Museum Library; Sturridge Hotel
Story: Amelia Watson is having tea with Martha Hudson when Montfort calls, looking for Holmes, who is feigning retirement while on the trail of an international criminal ring. Montfort's brother has discovered a deed, signed by George II, entitling his family to an estate in Tilbury. The deed is said to carry a curse, and his brother has since been murdered,
and the house searched. Leaving Baker Street with a copy of the document, Amelia is abducted and taken to the Diogenes Club. Mycroft explains the importance of the land deed, and tells her that the expert who examined it has also been murdered. While she is attempting to research the document's history the discovery of missing newspapers that aren't really missing puts her on the path to resolving the case.

"The Adventure of the Glass House" (2000)
Included in:
The Adventures of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Mrs. Hudson; Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Other Characters: Harry Benbow; Nick Johnson; Actors & Film Crew; Maurice Denby; Faversham; Amelia, Lady Ashford; Beryl Hunter; Constables; Sergeant; Inspector Laurie
Locations: Covent Garden; Coram's Field; the Glasshouse; 221B, Baker Street; Watson's Queen Anne Street House; Simpson's
Story: Mrs. Watson is persuaded to join the cast of a film version of the Three Musketeers by Benbow, a friend from her acting days. The following day, she finds a threatening note attached to her clothes in the dressing room, and the wardrobe mistress is found murdered. She realises that the clue to the murder must lie in the glasshouse where the film is being made and venturing back with Benbow, is able to thwart a diamond thief with some last minute assistance from Sherlock Holmes.
"The Adventure of the Haunted Wager" (2008)
Included in:
The Exploits of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Watson's Maid (Missy Trelawny); Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade {Inspector George Stradlee}; (Sherlock Holmes; Head Lama)
Other Characters: Harry Benbow; Fish Shop Serving Girl; Inspector Robert Laurie; Inspector George Stradlee; Constable; William Bliss; Devlin Cardew / The Great Cardini; Stradlee's Men; Sergeant Macgill; (James Gillingwater; Watson's Publisher)
Locations: Watson's Queen Anne Street House; Fish Shop; New Scotland Yard; Whitehall Court; Tea Room; Fleet Street; Bliss's Office; Broad Street; Bookshop; Camden Town
Story: Amelia is visited by Benbow, who has answered an advert in the paper looking for someone to spend the night in an allegedly haunted house in Camden Town. The job is part of a bet between Gillingwater, a medium, and Cardew, a stage magician turned debunker of fake spiritualists. Two days later she reads that Benbow has been arrested running from the house clutching a dagger, while Gillingwater and Cardew lie dead inside. One of the bodies disappears from the morgue. A book and Watson's tales of Holmes's Tibetan experience give Amelia the clue she needs. Watson agrees to kill off Lestrade.
"The Adventure of the Illustrious Patient" (2000)
Included in:
The Adventures of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Mycroft Holmes; Watson's Maid (Missy Trelawny); Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes
Historical Figures: Edward VII; Lord Landsdowne
Other Characters: Dressmakers; Lt. Benjamin Breakstone; Marie Perrault; Sir Francis Lacking
Locations: Watson's Queen Anne Street House; A Royal Coach; Buckingham Palace
Story: Mycroft brings Edward VII to Watson's home and asks Watson to find a drug to make the King appear to be dangerously ill, in order to rally public support. After a firecracker diverts attention while the drug is being administered, the King is instead injected with a deadly drug. Holmes's attempt to trap the assassin fails, but enables Mrs. Watson to provide proof of their identity and to engage them in a duel.
"The Adventure of the Japanese Sword" (2000)
Included in:
The Adventures of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: Bellboy; Hurley Desk Clerk; Caroline Adams; Hanrahan; Holmes's Driver; Policemen; Mr. Bullock; Sally Probert; Sergeant Kellin; Mordecai
Locations: San Francisco; The Westchester Hotel; The Hurley Hotel; Holmes's Carriage; Kellins' office
Story: On holiday in San Francisco, Mrs. Watson opens a letter to her husband, only to find a wedding photo of him and another woman. She travels to the woman, Caroline Adams's hotel, but finds her murdered with a Japanese sword. Her investigations reveal a conspiracy involving the labour unions and reaching right to the mayor's office.
"The Adventure of the Left-Behind Wife" (2000)
Included in:
The Adventures of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Letter written by the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Watson's Maid (Missy Trelawny)
Other Characters: Elizabeth Newington; Grimy Youth; Old Matchwoman; (Dr. Fennyman)
Date: Spring / July, 1903
Locations: Watson's Queen Anne Street House; The Street
Story: When Watson is called away by Holmes, Mrs. Watson becomes aware that she is being watched by an old woman. It is only when the woman enters her house uninvited, insisting on seeing Watson, that she realises who she is, and is able to confront her with her knowledge. Through her adventure she comes to understand more deeply her husband's relationship with Holmes, and, incidentally, to receive a large diamond as a late wedding gift.
"The Adventure of the Nefarious Nephew" (2000)
Included in:
The Adventures of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Dr. Watson; Watson's Maid (Missy Trelawny)
Other Characters: Sir Peter Swindon; Humphrey Jafford; Owen Jafford; Inspector Laurie; Court Spectators; Mr. Strang; Judge Wilkins; Lady Emmaline Belgrave; Law Clerk; Dickie Belgrave; Jury
Date: 1904
Locations: The Old Bailey; The Inner Temple; Watson's Queen Anne Street House; The Royal Opera House; A Cab; An Omnibus
Story: All the evidence points to Owen Jafford having murdered his uncle, except that he has a cast iron alibi - he was seen at the opera. When Swindon, the prosecuting counsel, Watson's patient, is taken seriously ill, it is up to Mrs. Watson to break Jafford's alibi, and proceed with the case disguised as Sir Peter.
"The Adventure of the Ocean Queen" (2008)
Included in:
The Exploits of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Dr Watson; (Sherlock Holmes)
Other Characters: Alfred Pontelli; Lucinda Pontelli; Ursula Woodruff; Sir Joshua Miller; Captain Stanleigh; Jeavons; Wine Steward; Waiter; Officers; Passengers; Walters; (Daniel Miller; Pontelli's Witness)
Locations: The RMS Ocean Queen
Story: Watson and Amelia are sailing home from a lecture tour of America on board the RMS Ocean Queen, and are invited to dine at the Captain's table. Mrs Woodruff is called away by a note delivered to the table and is attacked and robbed on deck by a man smelling of whisky. The Captain asks for Watson's help and reveals that there have been three prior robberies from staterooms. When the jewels are recovered and an arrest made, Amelia is convinced that the wrong person has been accused.
"The Adventure of the Other Woman" (2000)
Included in:
The Adventures of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Watson's Maid (Missy Trelawny)
Other Characters: Grimy Street Urchin; Ragamuffin; Mr. Neville; Cab Driver; Owen; James Stephens
Date: 1903
Locations: Watson's Queen Anne Street House; A Cab; Theobald Road; Neville & Cushing Publishers' offices; 221B, Baker Street; Limehouse; 7, Leeside Alley
Story: Holmes's head has been stolen from Madame Tussaud's. When Watson is lured away by means of a forged note from Holmes (who had also received a similar note claiming to come from Watson), it is Mrs. Watson who deduces where the forger could have obtained handwriting samples. Holmes realises that Watson's abduction is part of a revenge plot against himself, and when he and Mrs. Watson meet the villain face to face it is their powers of disguise that enable them to save Watson.

"The Adventure of the Queen's Letters" (2008)
Included in:
The Exploits of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs. Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Mycroft Holmes; (Dr Watson; Sherlock Holmes)
Historical Figures: Edward VII; (John Brown; Queen Victoria)
Other Characters: Palace Servants; Lieutenant Benjamin Breakstone; Alexander 'Sandy'
Brown / Andrew Brown; Jenny Brown; Innkeeper's Wife; Caithness Constable; (Major Woodbridge; Innkeeper; Physician; Sir William Macaulay Barrington; Breakstone's Father; Breakstone's Mother)
Date: Late October
Locations: Welbeck Street; Wigmore Street; Buckingham Palace; Scotland; Caithness; The Running Man Inn; Brown's Cottage; Constable's Station; A Trainw
Story: Mycroft takes Amelia to King Edward who tells her that Brown, claiming to be the nephew of John Brown, claims to have love letters from Queen Victoria to his uncle, and is offering to sell them for a substantial price. He wants Amelia to examine them to see if they truly are love letters. She travels to Scotland with Breakstone, the King's equerry. When they examine the letters, one does seem to suggest a relationship deeper than friendship
. After buying the letters from Brown, Amelia realises that they may have an entirely different meaning to the one she had presumed.

"The Adventure of the Retiring Detective" (2000)
Included in:
The Adventures of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Dr. Watson; Irene Adler; Sherlock Holmes; (Godfrey Norton)
Other Characters: Randolph Harding Bowers; Simon Belfont; Cab Driver; John Hemmings; Belfont's Abductors; Belfont's Cabman; A Constable; Policemen; Sergeant Potts; Readers; Elderly Scholar; Bowers' Men
Locations: Watson's Queen Anne Street House; 221B, Baker Street; A Cab; Great Russell Street; The British Museum Library; Bow Street
Story: Watson reads in the papers that Irene Adler's body has been found in the Thames, yet when the Watsons call on Holmes, it is Irene who opens the door. Her life is threatened by Bowers, an American tycoon and politician who was being investigated by Godfrey Norton before his death. Norton's notebooks containing the evidence he had gathered were sent to Belmont, a friend in London, but the man has disappeared along with the notebooks. Mrs. Watson takes Irene home, but Belfont is there, badly beaten by Bowers's men, he gives a cryptic clue to the notebook's location. Mrs. Watson is able to uncover the notebook's whereabouts but the case's conclusion leads to Holmes announcing his retirement.

"The Adventure of the Ripper's Scrawl" (2000)
Included in:
The Adventures of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Watson's Maid (Missy Trelawny); Mrs. Hudson (Martha)
Historical Figures: Melville MacNaghten; Jack The Ripper
Other Characters: MacNaghten's Guests; Lord Rodger Wilby; Vurczak; A Constable; Dr. Thedgehughes; Galahad Arnaught; Sir Robert Blamefort; Francis Notting; Cab Driver; Wilby's Servant; Vuczak's Son
Date: 1901 (?)
Locations: Chelsea; MacNaghten's House; Watson's Queen Anne Street House; 221B, Baker Street; A Cab; Mayfair; Wilby's House
Story: At a party to celebrate his appointment as head of the CID MacNaghten tells the Watsons that Holmes has not spoken to him for twelve years, saying he will only do so when he can tell him the name of Jack The Ripper. MacNaghten is called from the party to investigate a Ripper-like murder, the first of a series, this time of well-to-do men. Holmes calls Mrs. Watson to assist him in a deciphering of the "Juwes" message, which he has always believed to be the key to the mystery. Later, at home, she realises that the message has a very different interpretation to that put forward by Holmes, and points to there being another victim in the current series of murders. With Holmes & Watson she travels to the man's home where the connections between the two sets of murders and the truth behind the Ripper are made clear, and Holmes exercises his own form of justice.

"The Adventure of the Tangled Web" (2008)
Included in:
The Exploits of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Dr Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Watson's Maid (Missy Trelawny); (Mrs Hudson / Martha; Mycroft Holmes)
Other Characters: Lester Grinney / Harry Benbow; Cab Drivers; Mr Stigg; Buckingham Palace Constables; Buckingham Palace Crowd; Stigg's Associate; Coach Driver; (Bobbie; French Prime Minister)
Locations: Watson's Queen Anne Street House; Maiden Lane; Royal Mews; Buckingham Palace Road
Story: Having Holmes staying with them is driving Amelia mad. He reads in the papers that St James Hall is being demolished having been apparently damaged by explosives. He is visited by Grinney, whose rooms have been broken into and a gold and black onyx scarab left in his bed, while he was sleeping, by the intruder. Holmes dismisses him as an impostor. Amelia realises that her plan to get Holmes out of her house is not going well, and have resulted in her friend Benbow becoming embroiled in an assassination plot.
"The Adventure of the Three Verners" (2000)
Included in:
The Adventures of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Dr. Watson; Watson's Maid (Missy Trelawny); Mycroft Holmes; (Dr. Verner)
Other Characters: Elizabeth Newington; Dennistoun Peale; Montague Verner; Hermione Verner; Douglass Verner; Caroline Erskine; Caldwell; Colin Erskine; Inspector Laurie
Date: 1905
Locations: Watson's Queen Anne Street House; Tudor Street; Peale's office; Scotland Yard; Erskine's Shop
Story: Mrs. Watson learns from a solicitor that she was adopted by her supposed parents and has been left a substantial amount in his will by her real father, Montague Verner. After the reading of the will she is lured back to the solicitor's office and threatened by a large man to give up her claim to the inheritance. She eventually realises the identity of the man. Later, she learns from Watson that Holmes, too, is related to the Verners.
"The Adventure of the Two Mrs McGregors" (2008)
Included in:
The Exploits of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Dr Watson; (Sherlock Holmes)
Other Characters: Jack Tyson; Vauxhall Bridge Workmen; Andrew MacGregor; Hetty MacGregor; Vauxhall Spectators; London Aero Club Secretary; Balloonists
Locations: A Hot Air Balloon; Vauxhall Gardens; Watson's Queen Anne Street House; Hyde Park; London Aero Club; Mary
Story: Watson and Amelia take a trip in a hot air balloon to celebrate his birthday. Through a telescope, Amelia sees another balloonist, MacGregor strangling his wife in his balloon. When the balloon lands there is a different, but very alive, woman in it.
"The Adventure of the Empty Lighthouse" (2014)
Included in:
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #14 (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters:
Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Watson's Maid (Mistletoe 'Missy' Trelawny); Mycroft Holmes; (Dr Watson; Sherlock Holmes)
Other Characters: Benedict McCrory / Baron Alexander von Neuss; Telephone Operator; Mr Granger; Train Conductors; Train Passengers; Workmen; Soldiers; (Mr Wilmer; Watson's American Publisher; Mr Everett / Mr Elliot; Paxton; Everett's Solicitor; Railway Official; Armed Men; Laurence Delancey)
Date: After 1901
Locations: Watson's Queen Anne Street House; Kings Cross Station; A Train; Doncaster Station; Kingston-upon-Hull Station; Wandsea Station; Clytendom Odd Station; Roundhouse; Clytendom Odd; The Prince of Wales
Story:
Bank clerk McCrory has received a map showing the location of smuggler's treasure in the Yorkshire village of Clytendom Odd, from a client, Mr Everett, whose ancestor Paxton was the last of the smugglers. He had previously travelled to Clytendom to take photos for Everett, but on returning with the map, he discovered that the village has disappeared, with only a railway station remaining. When Missy is abducted while attending the theatre with McCrory, Amelia enlists the aid of Mycroft's department, and travels up to Yorkshire to fnd her.
"The Adventure of the Wrong Watson" (2008)
Included in:
The Exploits of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Dr Watson; Watson's Maid (Missy Trelawny)
Other Characters: Gloria Watson; Dr Simons / Jeremiah Watson; Pedestrians; PC Turley; Police Constables; Inspector Robert Laurie; (Missy's Sister; Dr Fennyman)
Locations: Watson's Queen Anne Street House
Story: Sick with a cold, and left alone in the house, Amelia discovers a letter that has been mis-delivered to the wrong Watson household, it contains a sinister message. The real recipients lay siege to her house and eventually inveigle their way inside.
"The Beast of Guangming Peak" (2004)
Included in:
Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years (Michael Kurland)
Story Type:
Third Person Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes (Greison / Sigerson); The Head Lama
Folkloric Characters: (The Yeti)
Historical Figures: (Eric Shipton; Michael Ward)
Other Characters: Colonel Colin Mackay; Cynthia; Military Pensioners; Glendower; Rooney; Rimpoche Chatang; Captain Sir George Lennox; Patrick Foss; Ang; Sangwa; Passang; (Nimu; Lhamu)
Date: December, 1951 & May, 1892
Locations: A Retirement Home; Tibet; (Bei Peak; Guangming Peak)
Story: In his retirement home in 1951 Colonel Mackay sees a newspaper photograph of a yeti footprint, it reminds him of when he was nineteen and in Tibet: separated from his party while trying to trace the source of a mysterious call he encounters the explorer Greison who is looking for the Sherpa Nimu who was guiding Mackay's expedition. Mackay tells him that Nimu has been killed by a yeti. Mackay realises that Greison is really the Norwegian explorer Sigerson. Greison gets Mackay back to his camp. Another Sherpa is killed and Greison's guide disappears. Greison uncovers the secret behind the deaths. The photo in the newspaper may reveal the fate of one of the members of the expedition.

"The Disappearance of Caroline Erskine" (2008)
Included in:
The Exploits of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs. Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Tobias Gregson; Watson's Maid (Missy Trelawny); Dr Watson; Mycroft Holmes; (Sherlock Holmes)
Historical Figures: (Cleopatra; Mark Antony; Herod; Edward VII)

Other Characters: Teahouse Waiter; Oakley Street Constables; Constable Hacker; Beggar; Coffee Shop Waiter; Post Office Clerk; Harrod's Lift Operator; (Caroline Erskine; Colin Erskine; Caroline's Neighbours; Postman)
Locations: Teahouse; Oakley Street; Caroline's House; Coffee Shop; Westminster Bridge Road; Post Office; Victoria Embankment; Cleopatra's Needle; Harrod's
Story: When her cousin Caroline fails to arrive for tea, Amelia goes to her house to learn she has disappeared. Collecting a package addressed to Caroline from the Post Office, she finds it contains a cryptic message referring to a needle in a beehive. It is the first of a series of clues
that lead her to an unexpected meeting and the revelation that she has been a pawn in a game designed to ensnare Holmes.

Murder in the Bath (2004)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs. Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Watson's Maid (Missy Trelawny) (Missy Trelawny); Dr Watson; (Mary Morstan; Mycroft Holmes)
Other Characters: Cult of Cam; George Frankham; Bella Standish; Lexius Fielding; Train Conductor; Bath Stationmaster; Cab Drivers; Elizabeth Grimes; PC Richter; Reporters; Grocer; Geoffrey Creach; Pump Room Attendant; Street Musician; Painters; Gaol Constables; Inspector James McCallum; Ronald Standish; Mr Bryce; Peter Poole; J. Allardice; Timothy Dawes; Kitty Cornwell; Shepherd; Edgar; Lord Beckham; Lynds; Cart Driver; Sergeant Quinlan; Nurse & Child; Peter Wellins; Sergeant; (Felicity; Lord D'Arbany; Mrs Blethyn)
Date: 19 April - ?, 1905
Locations: A Wood outside Bath; Bath; Stall Street; The Great Bath; 17, Queen Anne Street; Paddington Station; Bath Station; The Roman Hotel; Albert Street; Standish Residence; The Pump Room; The Royal Crescent; Ashdown Crescent; City Gaol; Frankham Residence; Argyle Street; Lending Library; Old Road; Beckham's Abbey; Allardice's Shop; Sydney Gardens
Story: During a pagan ritual, Frankham calls down damnation on the architect Standish. He is murdered in the Great Bath after answering a cry of distress on his way home. When Standish is charged with the murder, his wife, a former nursery charge, writes to Mrs Watson, asking her to persuade Holmes to prove his innocence. With Holmes away in pursuit of Irene Adler's killers, Mrs Watson travels to Bath to solve the case herself. The two men, she learns had argued obver an archaeological site uncovered while Standish was digging to build a patio for Frankham. Her trip to the gaol to visit Standish with his lawyer is disrupted when they learn that Standish has escaped. She leaves Missy, her maid, posing as Bella Standish at the Standish's house, while she smuggles Bella back to her hotel. A gold medallion, a burned photograph and a few scrawled letters provide clues, and a cycle ride to a gothic abbey information about the god Cam and his worshippers. Watson arrives, angry at her presence in Bath, and explains its connections with Mary Morstan. A photographer is killed and the Watsons come under suspicion before this murder, too, is blamed on Standish. Some photographic plates and a button in a portrait help to clear up the mystery, but the Watsons find their lives at stake before justice is done.
"The Murderer at the Falls" (2000)
Included in:
The Strand Magazine, Issue IV, April-July 2000
Story Type:
Canonical re-visioning
Canonical Characters:
Sherlock Holmes; Professor Moriarty; (Dr Watson)
Historical Figures: Arthur Conan Doyle
Date: April, 1891
Locations: Switzerland; Reichenbach Falls
Story:
With Watson returned to Meiringen, Holmes awaits Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. As he waits, he sees a figure falls to its death, and the adversary he finally grapples with is not the one he expected it to be.

"The Riddle of the Young Protestor" (2003)
Included in:
My Sherlock Holmes (Michael Kurland); The Exploits of the Second Mrs Watson (Michael Mallory)
Story Type: Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Watson's Maid (Missy Trelawny); Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Historical Figures: (Duke of Monmouth)
Other Characters: Harry Benbow; Mr. Chippenham; Phaeton Driver; Chippenham's Staff; Jane Ramsay; Charles Ramsay; Mary Ramsay; British Museum Visitors; Librarian; Cab Driver; Policemen
Locations: 17, Queen Anne Street; Mayfair; Edward Chipenham & Co. Showrooms; Oxford Street; British Museum Reading Room; A Hansom Cab; Lambeth; Ramsay's House; (Seven Dials)
Story: Mrs. Watson is approached by an old friend, Benbow, now working for a firm of antique dealers, who asks her to help decipher an ancient riddle that has been brought to him by a client. Following a series of historical clues, she comes to realise that the secret lies in London's changing geography, and dates back to the time of James II. When Benbow's client disappears, she and Benbow are taken prisoner by the woman's husband. It is only the lucky intervention of Holmes that prevents him from killing them both. When she finally deciphers the riddle fully, she decides to keep its solution a secret.
"The Sacred White Elephant of Mandalay" (2010)
Included in:
Sherlock Holmes: The American Years (Michael Kurland)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Stamford
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Young Stamford
Historical Figures: Nancy Barnum; P.T. Barnum; (Mindon Min)
Other Characters: Bridgeport Stationmaster; Charles Weymouth; Workmen; Davy; Telegrapher; Café Waiter; Pierre Carraveaux / étienne Artaud; Police Officer; Xanthippe the Elephant; (Dr Shanks)
Locations: USA; New York; Boarding House; A Train; Connecticut; Stamford; Bridgeport; Went Field; Waldemere; Telegraph Office; Parisian Café
Story: Stamford has accompanied Holmes to New York, where he is auditioning for the Symphony Society. While waiting to hear from the auditioning panel, he reads of a white elephant being displayed by barnum, and takes Stamford to Bridgeport to see it. Before they can do so, they are taken at gunpoint to see Barnum. They learn that Barnum has received a letter threatening the elephant, a gift to the Sovereign of Upper Burma, and they have been mistaken for its senders. Barnum recruits them to protect the elephant, but it disappears, along with its keeper, while Stamford is on guard, and they face the task of tracking it down.

The Stratford Conspiracy (2011)
Story Type:
Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Second Mrs. Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs. Watson (Amelia Pettigrew); Dr Watson; Watson's Maid (Missy Trelawney); (Sherlock Holmes; Mycroft Holmes; Mrs Hudson)
Historical Figures: Elizabeth I; Robert Cecil; William Shakespeare; (James I: Christopher Mountjoy; Sir Melville Macnaghton; Edward VII; Lady Arbella Stuart; Richard Burbage; Anne Hathaway; Charles Edward Flower)
Other Characters: Rodger Cushing; Gordon Plummer; Professor Todhunter Macnee; Hathaway Broughton / Harry Benbow; Moll; Inspector Robert Laurie; Inspector Horatio "Horrie" Islington; Mr Rothstein; Emrys Price; Glynis Price; Mary Chelish; Graham "Gray" Chelish; Constable Derrick Constable; Morland Greaves; Richard; Trevor Warbeck; Talfryn Bowen; Inspector Fox; Muldoon; Toby; Lecture Audience; Lecture MC; Hansom Driver; Cabriolet Driver; Fox & Hen Customers; Omnibus Conductor; Scotland Yard Desk Officer; Train Conductor; Stratford Station Master; Greengrocer; Stratford Policemen; Gentleman; Black Bittern Landlord; Black Bittern Customers; Black Bittern Waitress; Actors; Stratford Police Sergeant; Stratford Hansom Driver; George Inn Innkeeper; (Mr Neville; Dr Fennyman; Beth Newington; Robert Newington; Newspaper Boy; Major Bertram Pettigrew; Rachel Verner; Glynis's Parents; Graham's Uncle; Frewer; Woodward; Hugh Price; Mrs Donnelly; Terrence Chelish; Ralph Chelish; Solicitor)
Date: 1603 / 1906
Locations: Richmond Palace; Queen Anne Street; Madame Tussaud's; The Earl of Winchester; Lambeth; Auckland Street; Benbow's Rooms; Wigmore Street; The Hen and Fox; Embankment; New Scotland Yard; Marylebone; Rothstein's Clothiers; A Train; Warwickshire; Stratford-upon-Avon; Stratford Station; The Tudor Rose; Eating House; Church Street; Bull Street; 919, Bull Street; Greengrocer's Shop; Sheep Street; Police Station; Holy Trinity Church; Tea Shop; Henley Street; Shakespeare's Birthplace; New Place; The Black Bittern; Shakespeare Memorial Theatre; Lemon's Eatery; Rother Street - Police Headquarters; Park; Southwark; Bankside; George Inn
Story: Elizabeth I writes Troilus and Cressida as she awaits the arrival of James VI of Scotland.

Having been commissioned by his publisher to write a Galsworthy-style novel, Watson moves into one of the other rooms at 221, Baker Street. Amelia attends a lecture on the true identity of Shakespeare, and encounters Harry Benbow in disguise. Coincidentally, the following day she receives a request from her friend Beth, whose brother-in-law has vanished in Stratford-upon-Avon. She reads of the murder of Macnee, the Shakespeare lecturer, in the Times, and that Benbow is a suspect. Her suspicions about Watson's fidelity begin to grow at the same time.

Amelia takes Benbow to Stratford with her. On the train they meet Plummer, a Canadian investigator, who has been working for Macnee, and who is looking for a letter written by Robert Cecil that has been stolen from the professor. She learns from Beth's sister Mary, that her husband Graham was working on a book on the authorship of Shakespeare, but no sooner has she been told, than Graham appears at the front door, having been found trying to break into Shakespeare's grave, and is shortly thereafter found dead in his bed. After another murder, a body disappears.

Cecil calls on Shakespeare in Southwark.

NOTE: Many of the characters here are named after actors who have portrayed Sherlock Holmes:
Rodger Cushing = Peter Cushing
Gordon Plummer = Christopher Plummer (Both are Canadian)
Professor Todhunter Macnee = Patrick Macnee
Emrys Price = Jonathan Pryce
Frewer = Matt Frewer
Woodward = Edward Woodward
Mr Neville = John Neville