Titles in regular type are those in which Cocaine or The Needle is used by Holmes or appears. Titles in italics indicate that it is merely mentioned. Numbers indicate the page on which the item appears or is mentioned.

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A

"Dr Watson" (Charlie Adams, Gareth Hale & Norman Pace) 153-154
"Sherlock Holmes Boards a Pirate Craft" (Anon.) 33

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Seven (Val Andrews) 36
"Baffled" (Anon.) 43-44
"Holmes and the Startled Banker" (Anon.) 30
"The Marischal Manor Mystery" (Anon.) 113
"Mary of the Prairie, or, Should She Have Let Him?" (Anon.) 123
"Purple Peanut" (Anon.) 131
"The Reigate Road Mystery" (Anthony Armstrong) 62-64
"The Adventure of the Second Scarf" (Mark Aronson) 83

B

The Pursuit of the House-Boat (John Kendrick Bangs) 30, 122-123, 136
"The Stolen Daffodils" (Ruskin Bond) 39
"The Curious Case of Miss Violet Stone" (Poppy Z. Brite & David Ferguson) 150-152
Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) 2, 4, 6, 12, 56, 149, 161, 167

The Strange Adventures of Charlotte Holmes (Hilary Bailey) 212
Durkheim Is Dead! (Arthur Asa Berger) 19, 31
"Cabaret Aux Assassins" (Cara Black) 224
"Exalted are the Forces of Darkness" (Leigh Blackmore) 196
The Secret of Sherlock Holmes (Gary F. Boothe) 4, 24
"The Adventure of the Bogle-Wolf" (Anthony Boucher) 426
"The Case of the Detective's Smile" (Mark Bourne) 19
"The Case of the Lugubrious Manservant" (Rhys Bowen) 114
Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance (Gyles Brandreth) 143, 174, 187-188
The Haunting of Torre Abbey (Carole Buggé) 59, 123, 140
"The Strange Case of the Tongue-Tied Tenor" (Carole Buggé) 333

C

"The Steamship Friesland" (Peter Calamai) 188
The Adventure of the Dead Rabbits Society (Philip J. Carraher) 12, 16
"The Unmasking of Sherlock Holmes" (Arthur Chapman) 231
"The Adventure of the Old Russian Woman" (Ian Charnock) 100-101
"The Record of the Tarleton Murders" (Ian Charnock) 46-47, 49-50, 52
"The Affair of the Politician, The Lighthouse, and the Trained Cormorant" (Howard Collins) 196
Chronicles of the Lost Years (Tracy Cooper-Posey) 193
An East Wind Coming (Arthur Byron Cover) 15, 42, 166, 236
"The Adventure of the Christmas Bear" (Bill Crider) 167

"The Adventure of the Glass Room" (Philip J.Carraher) 147
The Adventure of the New York Ripper (Philip J. Carraher) 13, 44, 62
"The Singular Affair of the Aluminium Crutch" (Ian Charnock) 132
"The Problem of the Sussex Scalping" (David N. Cisler) 103
The Case of the Philosophers' Ring (Randall Collins) 24, 95-96, 139
The Case of the Reluctant Agent (Tracy Cooper-Posey) 180

D

The Curse of the Nibelung (Marcel D'Agneau) 64-65, 164, 166-167, 196, 217
The Scroll of the Dead (David Stuart Davies) 23
The Shadow of the Rat (David Stuart Davies) 63, 124
The Veiled Detective (David Stuart Davies) 20, 81-82, 92-93, 155, 168, 171-173
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Michael Dibdin) 10, 21, 24-26, 51, 130, 141, 148-149, 167-169, 172-175, 177, 180, 183, 190
"Watson!" (Captain A.E. Dingle) 7, 19
Good Morning, Irene (Carole Nelson Douglas) 1-2, 334

"The Adventure of the Curious Canary" (Barry Day) 155
Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 21
Castle Rouge (Carole Nelson Douglas) 61, 458, 470
Femme Fatale (Carole Nelson Douglas) 45, 78, 231
Good Night, Mr Holmes (Carole Nelson Douglas) 102
Irene at Large (Carole Nelson Douglas) 205-206, 219, 313, 324, 326
Irene's Last Waltz (Carole Nelson Douglas) 455
Spider Dance (Carole Nelson Douglas) 29, 62, 120
"The Crime" (Miss Drew) 68
Time for Sherlock Holmes (David Dvorkin) 6

E

"The Adventure of the Celestial Snows" (George Alec Effinger) 337
"The Adventure of the Bulgarian Diplomat" (Zakaria Erzinçlioglu) 452, 457
"The Adventure of the Greatest Gift" (Loren D. Estleman) 86, 102
Dr Jekyll and Mr Holmes (Loren D. Estleman) 70, 116

"The Finishing Stroke" (M.J. Elliott) 121
"The Devil and Sherlock Holmes" (Loren D. Estleman) 2
Sherlock Holmes Vs. Dracula (Loren D. Estleman) 71
"The Case of the Poisoned Finger" (Exile) 117

F

Dust and Shadow (Lyndsay Faye) 1, 20, 119, 204, 227, 316-317, 319
"The Lady Downstairs" (Christopher Fowler) 62
The Holmes Factor (Brian Freemantle) 3, 18-19, 30-31, 55-56, 70-71, 309
The Holmes Inheritance (Brian Freemantle) 2, 72, 85-88, 110, 133, 230, 309
The List of 7 (Mark Frost) 273-274, 327, 383-384

The Adventure of the Three Madmen (Philip José Farmer) 107
Against the Brotherhood (Quinn Fawcett) 24
The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 130
The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 54-56
"Shady Sinners of the Styx" (Lawrence Daniel Fogg) 9, 16
Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 8, 29, 73

G

The Revenge of Moriarty (John Gardner) 25-26, 53, 61-62, 68, 211, 253, 255-256, 280-283
Dracula's Diary (Michael Geare & Michael Corby) 59, 117, 124
"The Missing Don Giovanni" (Paul D. Gilbert) 68, 81
"My Dear Holmes" (Michael Green) 42

"The Perfect Crime or The Mystery of the Maligned Medic" (Marie Gibb) 71
"The Adventure of the Dying Gaul" (Paul D. Gilbert) 197
"The Remarkable Disappearance of James Phillimore" (Paul D. Gilbert) 61
"The Adventure of the Second Generation" (Ken Greenwald) 15
"The Case of the Incumbent Invalid" (Claire Griffen) 46, 66

H

The Whitechapel Horrors (Edward B. Hanna) 77-78
Prisoner of the Devil (Michael Hardwick) 18-19
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Michael & Mollie Hardwick) 18, 26-27, 30-35
Supping with Panthers (Tom Holland) 318, 463-464
"The Giant Rat of Sumatra" (Orville Horwitz & H.A. Schroeder) 19, 21, 29-30

Faction Paradox: Erasing Sherlock (Kelly Hale) 51
Sherlock Holmes and the Boulevard Assassin (John Hall) 24
Sherlock Holmes at the Raffles Hotel (John Hall) 15, 23
Exit Sherlock Holmes (Robert Lee Hall) 12, 251
"The Adventure of the Biscuit Tin" (Charles Hamilton) 15, 17
The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 17, 30, 32

J

An Opened Grave (L. Frank James) 9, 18-23, 25, 48, 61, 154
"The Scarlet Woman" (Watkin Jones) 64

Inspector Ginkgo Tips His Hat To Sherlock Holmes (Alex Jack) 42, 184
The Secret Diary of Dr. Watson (Anita Janda) 41, 45, 106-110, 229

K

"The Adventure of the Suffering Ruler" (H.R.F.Keating) 326
The Great Game (Michael Kurland) 3-5

"The Adventure of the Patient Adversary" (George Kaplan) 23
"A Slaying In Suburbia" (G. Kelly) 35
Night Watch (Stephen Kendrick) 137-138
The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls (John R. King) 76, 247
The Art of Detection (Laurie R. King) 275
The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Laurie R. King) 37, 160, 227-228, 325, 388
A Letter of Mary (Laurie R. King) 6, 33
A Monstrous Regiment of Women (Laurie R. King) 74
"The Doctor's Case" (Stephen King) 306

L

"The Coroner’s Report" (Henry Ledgard & Andrew Singer) 168
"The Adventure of the Boulevard Assassin" (Richard A. Lupoff) 213-216
"The Incident of the Impecunious Chevalier" (Richard Lupoff) 8, 10, 12, 16-17, 20

All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 202
"The Highland Intrigue" (Steve Leadley) 77
"The Horror of the Many Faces" (Tim Lebbon) 247
"The Analytical Engine" (Henry Ledgard & Andrew Singer) 5
"The Moriarty Gambit" (Fritz Leiber) 301
Son of Holmes (John T. Lescroart) 14
The Spy Who Fell Off the Back of a Bus (Marc Lovell) 25
"The Adventure of the Missing Detective" (Gary Lovisi) 318
"The Loss of the British Bark Sophy Anderson" (Gary Lovisi) 30
"Mycroft's Great Game" (Gary Lovisi) 118
"God of the Naked Unicorn" (Richard Lupoff) 286, 316
"The Infernal Machine" (John Lutz) 15
Creighton's Castle (Miriam Lynch) 2, 12, 76-77, 141

M

"Holmes In Scotland (W.R.Duncan Macmillan) 127
"The Adventure of the Field Theorems" (Vonda N. McIntyre) 38, 50, 64
The Canary Trainer (Nicholas Meyer) 158

"The Adventure of the Illustrious Patient" (Michael Mallory) 79
"The Adventure of the Left-Behind Wife" (Michael Mallory) 10
"The Adventure of the Other Woman" (Michael Mallory) 21
"The Adventure of the Retiring Detective" (Michael Mallory) 100
"The Adventure of the Tangled Web" (Michael Mallory) 87
Murder in the Bath (Michael Mallory) 15
The Canary Trainer (Nicholas Meyer) 39
The West End Horror (Nicholas Meyer) 23
Sherlock Holmes and the Earthquake Machine (Austin Mitchelson & Nicholas Utechin) 82, 130
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Allan Moore & Kevin O'Neill) 102
"Missing Parsons" (Douglas Moreton) 146
"The Sign of the '400' " (R.K.Munkittrick) 56
"The Adventure of the Faithful Retainer" (Amy Myers) 367, 371

N

Sherlock in Love (Sena Jeter Naslund) 133-135, 140, 215
The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (Jamyang Norbu) 88, 96, 138

P

The Monstrous Regiment (Glen Petrie) 174-176, 179-180, 190
Sherlock Holmes and the Story For Which The World Is Not Yet Prepared (Stephen E. Pierce) 133, 161, 173, 196, 199
"A Discreet Investigation" (Rohase Piercy) 9, 21, 45-46, 57-58, 62, 75
"The Final Problem" (Rohase Piercy) 82-83, 94-95, 98, 111, 130
"The Bughouse Caper" (Bill Pronzini) 190
"The Adventure of 221C" (Steve Punt & Hugh Dennis) 180

"The Episode of the Bold Bad Undergraduate and the Postage Stamps" (P) 98
"The Mystery of the Worm" (John Pelan) 192
"The Adventure of the Tuvan Delegate" (Van Allen Plexico) 112-113

R

"Holmes Receives a Visitor" (R.C.R.-G.) 110-111
Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 112, 188-190, 197
"The Case of Anton Furer" (Ted Riccardi) 171
"The Mystery of Jaisalmer" (Ted Riccardi) 287-288
"The Greatest Detective of All Time" (Ralph Roberts) 303-304, 317
"The Adventure of Ricoletti of the Club Foot (and his abominable wife)" (Roberta Rogow) 137
W.G. Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 29

"The Adventure of the Missing Group" (A.S. Reeve) 153-154
"The Adventure of the Pearly Gates" (Mike Resnick) 369
"The Adventure of the Extraterrestrial" (Mack Reynolds) 162, 172
"The Case of the Viceroy's Assistant" (Ted Riccardi) 12
The Prayer of the Night Shepherd (Phil Rickman) 29
Sherlock Holmes and the Crosby Murder (Barrie Roberts) 10
Sherlock Holmes and the Devil's Grail (Barrie Roberts) 13
Sherlock Holmes and the Royal Flush (Barrie Roberts) 9, 75
"The Case of the Notorious Practitioner" (Jane Rubino) 76
"The Murder of Conan Doyle" (Ray Russell) 265

S

"The Darlington Substitution Scandal" (Henry Slesar) 9
"Murder at the Murray Hill" (Edgar W. Smith) 64, 72
A Samba for Sherlock (Jô Soares) 42, 153-154, 165, 231, 253
Sherlock Holmes: Draco, Draconis (Brett Spencer & Dorian David) 2, 53
The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Nancy Springer) 129
Sherlock Holmes' Lost Adventure (Lauren Steinhauer) 1, 6, 11, 43, 52, 139-140

The Demon Device (Robert Saffron) 27
"The Adventure of the Locked Room" (Andrew Salmon) 70
"You See But You Do Not Observe" (Robert J. Sawyer) 349-350
The Siam Question (Timothy Francis Sheil) 307, 386
"The Bounder of Camberville" (Herbert Skimpole) 107-108
"The Adventure of the Command Performance" (J.W. Sovine) 26
Death of a Scavenger (Keith Spore) 69
The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires (Brian Stableford) 23, 57, 188
"The Adventure of the Unique Hamlet" (Vincent Starrett) 79
The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man (Daniel Stashower) 36, 97, 105, 164
"The Sulky Pony" (Alan Stockwell) 38; "Sussex Interview" (P.M.Stone) 410
"The Struldbrugg Reaction" (John Sutherland) 280

T

"The Case of the Gustaffson Stone" (June Thomson) 186
The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade (M.J.Trow) 69-70, 157, 159-160

"The Bound of the Haskervilles" (T.P.J.) 167
"The Execution of Sherlock Holmes" (Donald Thomas) 18
"The Kidnapping of Mycroft Holmes" (Peter Tremayne) 233
Lestrade and the Hallowed House (M.J. Trow) 508, 510, 553, 561, 568-569, 627

U

The Lost Holmes (David Upton) 2
Sherlock Holmes's Christmas (David Upton) 222

V

"Hounded" (Stephen Volk) 33, 35

"Jerusalem Keep" (Mark Valentine & John Howard) 348
Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra (Alan Vanneman) 7
"The Giant Rat of Sumatra" (Paula Volsky) 170

W

Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds (Manly W. Wellman & Wade Wellman) 91, 166-169
"The Remarkable Worm" (Carolyn Wheat) 221

"The Song at Twilight" (Michael Walsh) 328
The Mycroft Memoranda (Ray Walsh) 26, 46
Sherlock Holmes ~ The Way of All Flesh (Daniel Ward) 8, 14
"The House that Jack Built" (Edward Wellen) 267, 270
"The Adventure of the Rara Avis" (Carolyn Wheat) 89
"From a Detective's Notebook" (P.G. Wodehouse) 244
The Jewel of Covent Garden (Wayne Worcester) 7
The Monster of St. Marylebone (Wayne Worcester) 217

Y

Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 22, 36, 100, 102, 206, 208

Z

"A Study in Sussex" (Leah A. Zeldes) 186