A title in bold indicates that the story is a retelling, reworking, heavily influenced by, a parody of, or a sequel to A Scandal in Bohemia. Titles in italics indicate that the original story is merely mentioned.
Page numbers indicate the page on which the case is mentioned. Where no page numbers are given it should be assumed that the case is referred to frequently throughout the story, or that the entire story is a reworking of the case in question.

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A

Sherlock Holmes and the Egyptian Hall Adventure (Val Andrews) 81; Sherlock Holmes and the Eminent Thespian (Val Andrews) 74; Sherlock Holmes and the Man Who Lost Himself (Val Andrews) 37-38; The Torment of Sherlock Holmes (Val Andrews) 47; "Sherlock Holmes vs Conan Doyle" (Anonymous) 276; Young Sherlock Holmes (Alan Arnold) 9; "International Investigators, Inc." (E.G. Ashton) 73

B

Sherlock Holmes The Adventure of the Frankenstein Monster (Don W. Baranowski) 9-11, 13
"The Adventure of the Ethical Assassin" (Matthew Baugh) 224
"Irene, Good-Night" (D.R. Bensen) 8-9, 13-17, 21-22

"The Adventure of the Brimstone Chalice" (Dr. Hill Barton) 283, 288; "Zindernuff's Treasure" (Dana Martin Batory) 171; "The Tale of the First Adventure" (Derrick Belanger) 36; Sherlock Holmes in New York (D.R.Bensen) 16-17, 57-58, 96; "The Modjeska Waltz" (Rose Biggin) 542; The House at Baker Street (Michelle Birkby) 114, 120, 122-123, 159, 166, 173, 238, 253; The Women of Baker Street (Michelle Birkby) 35; "Cabaret Aux Assassins" (Cara Black) 222; The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 251; The Baker Street Phantom (Fabrice Bourland) 89; "As to ‘An Exact Knowledge of London’" (Tony Broadbent) 35; "Peril at Carroway House" (Eric Brown) 331, 359; "The Strange Case of the Voodoo Priestess" (Carole Buggé) 287

C

The Adventure of the Dead Rabbits Society (Philip J. Carraher) 102, 110; The Adventure of the New York Ripper (Philip J. Carraher) 139; Watson’s Last Case (Ian Charnock) 76; The Barker Street Regulars (Susan Conant) 22, 219-220; "The Mystery of the Wires" (L.F.E. Coombs) 205; "The Royal Arsenal Affair" (Leslie F.E. Coombs) 143; Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? (Paul Cornell) 104; "The Book of Tobit" (Carla Coupe) 109, 114

D

The Veiled Detective (David Stuart Davies) 170
Sherlock Holmes and the Apocalypse Murders (Barry Day) 30-32, 45-49, 53, 102
Good Night, Mr. Holmes (Carole Nelson Douglas) 1-4, 6-9, 194-402

Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair (David Stuart Davies) 135; Sherlock Holmes and the Shakespeare Globe Murders (Barry Day) 10; Elementary, She Read (Vicki Delany) 41; The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Michael Dibdin) 148, 188; The Case of the Missing Masterpiece (Terrance Dicks) 32-33; "By Any Other Name" (Michael Dirda) 202; Castle Rouge (Carole Nelson Douglas) 48, 125; Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 34-35, 48, 89, 107, 130-133, 147-150, 157-159, 234, 236-237, 240, 243, 278, 307-308, 318, 325, 404, 459-460; Femme Fatale (Carole Nelson Douglas) 32, 34, 38-40, 54, 77-79, 81, 181, 200, 225, 255-256, 279, 293; Good Morning, Irene (Carole Nelson Douglas) 2, 8, 12, 16, 152-153, 163, 190-191, 195, 205-206, 296, 326, 336-337, 368; Irene at Large (Carole Nelson Douglas) ix, 19-22, 25-26, 58, 82-83, 100, 112, 114, 169-172, 174, 182, 203-206, 266, 278-280, 282, 284, 312-313, 316, 320, 326, 331; Irene's Last Waltz (Carole Nelson Douglas) 44, 56, 59-60, 62, 98, 111, 113, 115, 118, 124, 153, 184, 191, 194, 199, 224, 227-228, 242-243, 397, 417, 454-455; Spider Dance (Carole Nelson Douglas) 42, 62, 87-89, 91, 93, 160, 187-188, 195, 261, 304, 345, 386; "The Thief of Twelfth Night" (Carole Nelson Douglas) 213, 229; "The Adventure of the Sealed Room" (Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr) 126; "The Adventure of the Seven Clocks" (Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr) 11

E

"The Case of the Missing Sister" (Jan Edwards) 244; "The Deadly Sin of Sherlock Holmes" (Tom English) 51; "The Adventure of the Three Ghosts" (Loren D. Estleman) 102; "The Riddle of the Golden Monkeys" (Loren D. Estleman) 142; "And The Rest" (C.D. Ewing) 364

F

Arrowood (Mick Finlay) 209, 314-318
"Good Night, Mr Holmes" (Robert Loren Fleming & Ted McKeever) 5-8, 20
San Francisco Kills (Denny Martin Flinn) 24, 26
Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 32

Dust and Shadow (Lyndsay Faye) 204; The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 17, 47, 53, 58, 60, 77, 110-111, 120

G

The Case of the Bashful Bohemian" (S.M. Ghatak)
"The Adventure of the Second Generation" (Ken Greenwald) 17

The Revenge of Moriarty (John Gardner) 55, 269-271, 281; Sherlock Holmes and the Unholy Trinity (Paul D. Gilbert) 45; The Carnelian Crow (Colleen Gleason) 18; The Chess Queen Enigma (Colleen Gleason) 264; The Clockwork Scarab (Colleen Gleason) 11-12; The Spiritglass Charade (Colleen Gleason) 10, 164, 261; The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes (Leonard Goldberg) 64-65, 298; European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (Theodora Goss) 30, 151; "The Case of the Demon Barber" (Ken Greenwald) 71

H

Sherlock Holmes and the Adler Papers (John Hall) 9-10, 13, 30-38, 55, 121, 155
The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 15, 18, 20, 24, 31-32, 111-114, 120
"Sherlock Holmes & 'The Woman'" (Michael Harrison)
"A Scandal in Montreal" (Edward D. Hoch) 85, 86, 95

Sherlock Holmes and the Boulevard Assassin (John Hall) 106-107; The Whitechapel Horrors (Edward B. Hanna) 272-273; The Revenge of the Hound (Michael Hardwick) 101, 171, 256, 305; Sherlock Holmes: My Life And Crimes (Michael Hardwick) 42, 52; The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Michael & Mollie Hardwick) 62; I, Sherlock Holmes (Michael Harrison) 43; A Study in Silks (Emma Jane Holloway) 449; Moriarty (Anthony Horowitz) 262

J

The Secret Diary of Dr. Watson (Anita Janda) 74, 146, 150-156, 159-160, 164-166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 185, 187-188

Inspector Ginkgo Tips His Hat To Sherlock Holmes (Alex Jack) 111, 196; "The Adventure of the Fateful Malady" (Craig Janacek) 399; "Sherlock Holmes and the Belgravian Letter" (Roger Jaynes) 111-112; "The Book of Tobit" (H. Paul Jeffers) 92, 99; "The Clue of the Hungry Cat" (H. Paul Jeffers) 140; "The Darlington Substitution" (H. Paul Jeffers) 216-217; "In Flanders Field" (H. Paul Jeffers) 25; Murder Most Irregular (H. Paul Jeffers) 4, 94; "The Paradol Chamber" (H. Paul Jeffers) 37; "The Singular Affair of the Dying Schoolboys" (H. Paul Jeffers) 148, 157; "The Hidden Church" (Watkin Jones) 50

K

"The Adventure of the Six Sherlocks" (Toni L.P. Kelner) 132; The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls (John R. King) 252; The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Laurie R. King) 93, 191-192; Castle Shade (Laurie R. King) 17, 83; Justice Hall (Laurie R. King) 298; The Language of Bees (Laurie R. King) 27-28, 115, 234; O Jerusalem (Laurie R. King) 329; "The Adventure of the Disappearing Sovereign" (Terry Klasek) 73; "Reichenbach" (Michael Kurland) 236

L

Sherlock Holmes and the Highgate Horrors (James Lovegrove) 81, 155-156, 397

All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 300; Double Trouble Squared (Kathryn Lasky) 176; Rasputin's Revenge (John T. Lescroart) 138-139; "A Scandal In Winter" (Gillian Linscott) 72; Gods of War (James Lovegrove) 104; The Thinking Engine (James Lovegrove) 73; "The Curious Computer" (Peter Lovesey) 237; "Happy Birthday, Mr Holmes!" (Gary Lovisi) 95; The Mystery Surrounding Watson’s Lost Dispatch Box (Gary Lovisi) 3, 6-7, 16, 26-27, 123-124; "A Scandalous Calculation" (Catherine Lundoff) 52; "God of the Naked Unicorn" (Richard Lupoff) 286, 288

M

"Tea Time In Baker Street" (Russell McLauchlin) 320-321
Sherlock Holmes in Australia: The Adventure of the Kidnapped Kanakas (Ken Methold) 4-15, 20-21, 61, 80, 189

Holmes Entangled (Gordon McAlpine) 91; "The Adventure of the White Python" (Adam McFarlane) 77; "Sherlock Holmes and the Highcliffe Invitation" (Eddie Maguire) 160; Sherlock Holmes and the Twelve Thefts of Christmas (Tim Major) 151-152; "The Adventure of the Retiring Detective" (Michael Mallory) 100; Skullduggery (Peter Marks) 125; The West End Horror (Nicholas Meyer) 18; Jewel of the Thames (Angela Misri) 171, 184, 199; Thrice Burned (Angela Misri) 261; Sherlock Holmes and the Earthquake Machine (Austin Mitchelson & Nicholas Utechin) 61-62, 71; "Missing Parsons" (Douglas Moreton) 144; "The Oxford Calendar" (K.V.K. Murthy) 54; Sherlock Holmes The Missing Years: Timbuktu (Vasudev Murthy) 127; "The Woman" (Aline Myette-Volsky) 178-179, 196

N

"Commonplaces" (Naomi Novik) 357, 360

Sherlock in Love (Sena Jeter Naslund) 18, 203-204, 210

O

The Case of Emily V. (Keith Oatley) 308, 345

P

"The Adventure of the Red Dress" (Ana Teresa Pereira) 145; "The Adventure of the Jersey Girl" (Bill Peschel) 356; "The Final Problem" (Rohase Piercy) 122; The Rose of Africa (Tim Pigott-Smith) 60, 97, 161; "The Pressed Carnation (or A Scandal in London)" (Saviour Pirotta) 38, 47; "Death in the Christmas Hour" (James Powell) 328

R

Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 39, 121-124, 130, 132, 242

Shadowfall (Tracy Revels) 39; "The Case of the Viceroy's Assistant" (Ted Riccardi) 20; "A Death in Venice" (Ted Riccardi) 115; "A Singular Affair at Trincomalee" (Ted Riccardi) 224; Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac (Barrie Roberts) 78; "Mrs. Hudson Reminisces" (Linda Robertson) 216; "Second Fiddle" (Kristine Kathryn Rusch) 275; The Dead Can Wait (Robert Ryan) 385; Dead Man’s Land (Robert Ryan) 159; The Sign of Fear (Robert Ryan) 234

S

"The Prima Donna’s Finger" (Will Schaefer) 99
"Nor Hell a Fury" (Cavan Scott) 152-153, 156, 158, 160, 174-175
The Siam Question (Timothy Francis Sheil) 56, 71, 243, 245-247, 278, 456, 474-478, 481, 490, 550
 "A Scandal in Constantinople" (Alan Stewart) 5

Whitechapel: The Final Stand of Sherlock Holmes (Bernard J. Schaffer) 82-83; Sherlock Holmes and the Titanic Tragedy (William Seil) 31, 36, 41, 78; Sherlock Holmes and the Plague of Dracula (Stephen Seitz) 158; Sherlock Holmes at the 1902 Fifth Test (Stanley Shaw) 46; The White Worm (Sam Siciliano) 170; The Fifth Heart (Dan Simmons) 20-21, 115-116, 168, 486-488, 511; Death's Angel (Kathleen Sky) 107; Season of Madness (Aaron Smith) 104; Sherlock Holmes: Draco, Draconis (Brett Spencer & Dorian David Altamont) 5; Sherlock Holmes: My Life (Lawrence R. Spencer) 17; "Conversation in Baker Street" (Howard Spring) 112, 114; The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man (Daniel Stashower) 29; Sherlock Holmes' Lost Adventure (Lauren Steinhauer) 20; Sherlock Holmes and the Nine-Dragon Sigil (Tim Symonds) 19, 23; The Kentish Manor Murders (Julian Symons) 71

T

"The Case of the Greek Key (Donald Thomas) 104; "The Case of the Matinee Idol" (Donald Thomas) 287-288; "Sherlock Holmes: The Actor" (Donald Thomas) 274; "The Case of the Arnsworth Affair" (June Thomson) 136; "The Case of the Camberwell Deception" (June Thomson) 185; "The Case of the Colonel’s Madness" (June Thomson) 73; Sherlock Holmes and the Lady in Black (June Thomson) 23, 163-169; Bloodguilty (Raymond Thor) 46, 119; Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Vampire (Dean P. Turnbloom) 93

V

"The Vampire of the Lyceum" (Charles Veley & Anna Elliott) 432; "The Adventure of the Missing Necklace" (Daniel D. Victor) 52; The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor) 153, 171

W

"The Case of the Vanishing Inn" (Stephen Wade) 295; "The Song at Twilight" (Michael Walsh) 320; The Mycroft Memoranda (Ray Walsh) 61; "The House that Jack Built" (Edward Wellen) 283-284; "The Case of the Rival Queens" (Carolyn Wheat) 288; The Arcanum (Thomas Wheeler) 217; The Jewel of Covent Garden (Wayne Worcester) 7; "My Dear Holmes (His Positively Last Appearance on Earth)" (Ralph Wotherspoon) 227

Y

Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich)


"All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind": Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 121; Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 25, 101
"The chest and limbs of a Hercules": Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown)151; "Nor Hell a Fury" (Cavan Scott) 174
"Complete happiness and the home-centred interests...": Irene at Large (Carole Nelson Douglas) 205
"From week to week between cocaine & ambition": Irene at Large (Carole Nelson Douglas) 205
"Good night, Mr Sherlock Holmes": "Irene, Good-Night" (D.R. Bensen) 8, 22; The Case of the Philosophers' Ring (Randall Collins) 94; Good Night, Mr Holmes (Carole Nelson Douglas) 7, 380, 402; Spider Dance (Carole Nelson Douglas) 88; The Language of Bees (Laurie R. King) 28; "Sherlock Holmes and the Butterfly Effect" (Cristina Macía with Ian Watson) 294; The Fifth Heart (Dan Simmons) 486; A Three-Pipe Problem (Julian Symons) 47
"He had arisen out of his drug-created dreams...": Irene at Large (Carole Nelson Douglas) 206
"He never spoke of the softer passions save with a gibe and a sneer": Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 132; Irene at Large (Carole Nelson Douglas) 205; Hellbirds (Austin Mitchelson & Nicholas Utechin) 117; "Commonplaces" (Naomi Novik) 361; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 121; The Siam Question (Timothy Francis Sheil) 245; A Three-Pipe Problem (Julian Symons) 45; Sherlock Holmes and the Lady in Black (June Thomson) 169
"His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every fresh part that he assumed.": Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 31
"Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul": Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) 38; "Recalled To Life" (Paula Cohen) 203; "A Discreet Investigation" (Rohase Piercy) 18; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 39
"I am lost without my Boswell"
"In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex": Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 101
"It is a capital mistake to theorise...": see Second Stain below.
"It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler": Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 132; Irene at Large (Carole Nelson Douglas) 205; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 121; Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 101
"The late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory": Good Night, Mr Holmes (Carole Nelson Douglas) 7; "Nor Hell a Fury" (Cavan Scott) 157
"My own complete happiness, and the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment": Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 112
"She eclipses and predominates…”: The Barker Street Regulars (Susan Conant) 22
"She has a soul of steel": Good Morning, Irene (Carole Nelson Douglas) 4, 12; Sherlock Holmes and the Lady in Black (June Thomson) 166
"She is the daintiest thing under a bonnet": Good Morning, Irene (Carole Nelson Douglas) 32; The Tulpa (J.N.Williamson) 178; Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 82, 110
"The stage lost a fine actor...": "The Adventure of the Second Scarf" (Mark Aronson) 84; The Quallsford Inheritance (Lloyd Biggle, Jr.) 27; The Star of India (Carole Buggé) 166; Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 136; The Empress of India (Michael Kurland) 209; The Great Game (Michael Kurland) 215; Sherlock Holmes and the Skull of Death (Robert E. McClellan) 139; "The Bughouse Caper" (Bill Pronzini) 161; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 242; "Call Me Wiggins" (Norman Schreiber) 74; "The Seven Walnuts" (Daniel Stashower) 232; "Sherlock Holmes: The Actor" (Donald Thomas) 274; The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor) 145; Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 110
"Wedlock suits you": The Veiled Detective (David Stuart Davies) 173
"What a queen she would have made": Irene's Last Waltz (Carole Nelson Douglas) 49
"What a woman": Femme Fatale (Carole Nelson Douglas) 180;Good Night, Mr Holmes (Carole Nelson Douglas) 7, 393; Inspector Ginkgo Tips His Hat To Sherlock Holmes (Alex Jack) 196; Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 159
"Women are naturally secretive.": "And The Rest" (C.D. Ewing) 364
"Would she not have made an admirable queen?": Good Night, Mr Holmes (Carole Nelson Douglas) 2
"You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.": Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) 42; "The Ciphered Message" (Henry Ledgard & Andrew Singer) 105
"You see but you do not observe": Sherlock Holmes The Adventure of the Frankenstein Monster (Don W. Baranowski) 43; "The Adventure of the Sunken Parsley" (David W. Barber) 200; "The Mystery of the Department of State Cardboard Invert Proofs" (Stanley M. Bierman) 158; "My Silk Umbrella" (Darryl Brock) 45; "The Abergavenny Adventure" (Clive Brooks) 31; Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) 90; "The Case of the Ruby Necklace" (Bob Byrne) 31; "The Adventure of the Fallen Star" (Simon Clark) 177; Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 19, 157; Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Deadly Sins Murders (Barry Day) 8, 141; "The Adventure of the Englander Diamond" (Rock DiLisio) 81; "The Adventure of the Solitary Engineer" (John M. Ford) 118; "Attuclac" (David Gomm) 7; The Whitechapel Horrors (Edward B. Hanna) 21; "Sherlock Holmes and 'The Woman' (Michael Harrison) 118; The House of Silk (Anthony Horowitz) 180; Moriarty (Anthony Horowitz) 122; The Secret Diary of Dr. Watson (Anita Janda) 131; "Sherlock Holmes and the Belgravian Letter" (Roger Jaynes) 77; "The Adventure of the Blarney Stone" (H. Paul Jeffers) 79; "A Slaying In Suburbia" (G. Kelly) 50; The Murder of Mary Russell (Laurie R. King) 253; Riviera Gold (Laurie R. King) 152; "All the Single Ladies" (Gini Koch) 268; "The Walk-In" (Harley Jane Kozak) 46; The Great Game (Michael Kurland) 214; The Legacy of Deeds (Nick Kyme) 18; "The Curious Case of the Compromised Card-Index" (Andrew Lane) 45; "The Fallen Financier" (James Lovegrove) 336; The Return of the Pharaoh (Nicholas Meyer) 105; The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (Jamyang Norbu); "The Return" (H. Beam Piper & John J. McGuire) 119; Shadowfall (Tracy Revels) 187; "The Case of the Vermilion Face" (Ted Riccardi) 201, 205; "The Stolen Diamonds" (W.L. Riordan) 200-201; Sherlock Holmes and the Devil's Grail (Barrie Roberts) 52; "The Case of Peter the Painter" (Donald Thomas) 256, 259; The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor) 128; The Monster of St. Marylebone (Wayne Worcester) 42
"You took me in completely": San Francisco Kills (Denny Martin Flinn) 26
"You would certainly have been burned had you lived a few centuries ago.": The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Laurie R. King) 20; The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (Jamyang Norbu) 15; Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich)