Charlie Adams, Gareth Hale & Norman Pace

"Dr Watson" (1985)
Included in: Falsies: Forged Diaries of the Famous (Charlie Adams, Gareth Hale & Norman Pace)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Other Characters: Churchwarden; Scrote; His Lordship
Date: 8th July
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Hillman Hunter Estate
Story: After some banter about the churchwarden's pipe and Holmes's violin, he and Watson travel to the Hillman Hunter estate and after some banter with the butler and his lordship, Holmes shoots the murderer with a comedy gun and they return home for some more banter.

A.E.P.

"The End of Sherlock Holmes" (1927)
Included in: The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Martha
Date: 1903-1905
Story: Watson visits a married Holmes, who is having enormous difficulty coping with his three year old son, also named Sherlock, who has inherited his father's talent for detection.

Steven-Elliot Altman

"A Case of Blood Royal" (2003)
Included in: Shadows Over Baker Street (Michael Reaves & John Pelan)
Story Type: Fantasy Pastiche narrated by H.G. Wells
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Fictional Characters: The Shoggoth
Historical Characters: H.G. Wells; Queen Emma of Waldeck Pyrmont; Princess Wilhelmina; King Willem III; Elisabeth Cookson; (Prince Nicolaas; Prince Alexander)
Other Characters: Turkish Baths Valet; Wells's Coachman; Captain of the Dordrecht; Elderly Couple; Dutch Soldiers; Jan Gent; Passersby; Girl; Palace Guards; Lady-in-Waiting; Palace Servants; Sanatorium Attendant; Sarah Cookson; Guardsmen
Date: February, 1888
Locations: 33, Northumberland; 221B, Baker Street; The Dordrecht; Holland; Rotterdam; Noordeinde Palace; A Coach; Leiden; Public Sanatorium; The Veluwe
Story: Holmes recruits Wells to assist in investigating a purported poltergeist attack on a member of the Dutch Royal Family. The young princess, Wilhelmina, has been seeing a young girl around the palace. After the first appearance, she was found with blood on her neck, but no wounds. Holmes finds a copy of the Necronomicon hidden in the library, and Wells dreams of the Dark Ones. Visiting the courtesan, Cookson, in Leiden sanatorium, they find a picture of the girl in her locket. They identify her as Sarah, her daughter, and Gent arrests her. Later that day Wells is visited by the girl, and realises that she is some kind of creature. Returning to Leiden, they learn of the creature's origins and set out to track and destroy it.

Victor G. Ambrus

"Humpty Dumpty: Did He Fall or Was He Pushed?" (1981)
Included in: Dracula's Bedtime Storybook (Victor G. Ambrus)
Story Type: Children's Comic Picture Story
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Fictional Characters: Humpty Dumpty; All the King's Horses; Old Mother Hubbard & Her Dog; Little Miss Muffet & Her Spider; The Grand Old Duke of York & His Men; Simple Simon; The Owl and the Pussycat; Jack; Cock Robin; The Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe & Her Children; Little Jack Horner; Hansel & Gretel, and the Witch; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; Jack The Giant Killer; The Cow Who Jumped Over The Moon; The Queen of Hearts; Dracula
Story: Holmes interviews a number of fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters to discover the truth about Humpty's fall. Eventually jammy fingerprints lead him to the killer.

Kingsley Amis

"The Darkwater Hall Mystery" (1978)
Included in: Collected Short Stories (Kingsley Amis)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Mrs. Hudson
Other Characters: Lady Emily Fairfax; Sir Harry Fairfax; Black Ralph; Carlos; Miles Fairfax; Captain Jack Bradshaw; Dolores
Date: Closing days of July, 1885
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Darkwater Hall, Wiltshire; (Hurlstone)
Story: With Holmes, a victim of depression, sent off to stay with Reginald Musgrave, Watson is alone at Baker Street when Lady Fairfax arrives. She tells Watson that her husband, Sir Harry's life is in danger from a poacher named Black Ralph. Watson suggests she consult Lestrade or one of Holmes' rival investigators, but she persuades him to investigate for her. He travels to Darkwater Hall where he meets Sir Harry's twenty-minute-younger twin brother, Miles, and Captain Bradshaw who is clearly in love with Lady Emily. Black Jack is seen at the window, and a rifle discovered missing from the armoury. The following day, Sir Harry is shot at during a shooting party. Watson brings the investigation to its conclusion.

Isaac Anderson

"The Great Security Bank Mystery" (1902)
Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey)
Story Type: Parody
Detective: Showman Hoyle
Other Characters: Watchman; Bank President; Cashier; Police Sergeant; Patrolmen
Locations: The Security National Bank
Story: The Watchman awakes to find the bank has been robbed. He calls the bank president, and the great detective Showman Hoyle is called in, deduces that their has been a robbery, and sets the police on the trail of the suspect.

K.J. Anderson

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
(from a screenplay by James Dale Robinson, based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill)
Story Type: Fantasy Adventure
Canonical Characters: Professor Moriarty; (Sherlock Holmes)
Fictional Characters: The Phantom of the Opera {The Fantom}; Allan Quatermain; Captain Nemo; Ishmael; Dorian Gray; Edward Hyde; Henry Jekyll; ('M')
Other Characters: Bartholomew Dunning; Bartholomew's Sisters; Constable Dunning; Policemen; Bank Soldiers; Fantom's Henchmen; Lieutenant Dante; German Guard; Karl Draper; Factory Prisoners; German Soldiers; Kenyan Hawkers; Sanderson Reed; Wagon Driver; Britannia Club Members; Valet; Bruce; Nigel; Assassins; Elderly Hunter; Hansom Driver; Rodney Skinner; Nemo's Crew; Herr Muller; Eva Draper; Gondolier; Carnival Crowds; Guards; British Representative; German Ambassador; French Leader; Russian Diplomat; Italian Diplomat; Spanish Ambassador; Portuguese Ambassador; Patel; Lady Recordist; Mongolian Guards; Kidnapped Scientists; Mongolian Workers; Foreman; Scientists' Families; M's Valet; British & American Soldiers; Campion Bond; Aide
Date: 1899
Locations: London; Moorgate Passage; Tabard Row; Threadneedle Street; Bank of England; Germany; Hamburg; Valkyrie Zeppelin Works; Kenya; Nairobi; The Britannia Club; Tottenham Court Road; The Albion Museum; Tiger Bay; France; Paris; Rue Morgue; The Nautilus; The Mediterranean Sea; Italy; Venice; Mongolia; The Amur River
Story: The Bank of England is robbed by the Fantom and Da Vinci's plans of Venice stolen. A German Zeppelin factory is destroyed and an engineer kidnapped. The two countries blame each other & war seems imminent. M sends Reed to recruit Quatermain to lead a team to stop the Fantom's planned attack on a peace conference in Venice. He is joined by Nemo, the invisible Skinner (who stole Griffin's formula), and Mina. They are attacked by the Fantom's men when they go to recruit Gray, and are aided in the fight by American agent Sawyer. In Paris they capture Hyde, who is also essential to the mission. As they attempt to prevent the destruction of Venice, it becomes clear that there is a traitor in their midst, and the Nautilus is almost destroyed. They realise that the Fantom has taken a sample of that which gives each of them their special qualities, and is planning to create super warriors, alongside his advanced battle machinery. They follow him to his lair in Mongolia - where it is revealed that he is really Moriarty - and endeavour to foil his plans.

Poul Anderson

"Eve Times Four" (1960)
Included in: Time and Stars (Poul Anderson)
Story Type: Homage / Science-Fiction
Characters: Arsang XXXIII; Teresina Fabricant; John Jacob Newhouse; Hedwig Trumbull; First Mate Lefkowitz; Captain Ironsmiter; Marie Quesnay; Mr. Fred; Kamala Chatterji; Sir John Baskerville; (Mr. Manfred)
Locations: A spaceship; a lifeboat; an unknown planet; the planet Holmes; the town Irene
Story: En route from Earth to Xenophon, a spaceship meets trouble while in the vicinity of the double planet Holmes-Watson. A lifeboat from the ship, its navigation charts missing, is forced to land on an unknown planet. Faced with no hope of rescue, third mate Newhouse suggests that they must start a colony and begin to poulate this new world, citing a law that planetary castaways must have children, and that former marriages are annulled. The women of the party are not so enthusiastic about this. Rescue eventually comes in the shape of Sir John Baskerville, legal officer of Irene, the only town on the planet Holmes.

Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson

"The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound" (1953)
Included in: Earthman's Burden (Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson); Sherlock Holmes Through Time & Space (Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh)
Story Type: Parody / Science Fiction
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes; Lestrade; Mrs. Hudson; Sir Henry Baskerville; The Hound of the Baskervilles)
Other Characters: Whitcomb Geoffrey; Alexander Jones; Rajat Singh; a Hoka bobby; landlord; Farmer Toowey; a ppussjan
Locations: The planet Toka: Jones's office; Devonshire, England; London; 211-B, Baker Street; Dartmoor; St. Vitus-Where-He-Danced; The George & Dragon Inn; Baskerville Hall; Grimpen Mire
Story: Whitcomb Geoffrey is investigating an interstellar dope smuggling ring operated by the ppussjans. His investigation brings him to the planet Toka, inhabited by small teddy-bear-like Hokas, creatures who have adopted their characters & civilisation from Victorian literature. Geoffrey & Jones journey to the Hoka version of London, where they meet a Hoka version of Lestrade, who takes him to see a Hoka Holmes, who insists on referring to Geoffrey as Gregson, and Jones as Watson. The group journey to Dartmoor in search of the renegade ppussjan, where they are told of the fate of Sir Henry Baskerville, swallowed whole by an enormous hound. They suspect there may be a connection between the hound affair and the ppussjan, and their investigations lead them to a confrontation at Grimpen Mire.

Val Andrews

Sherlock Holmes and the Houdini Birthright (1995)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Holmes's Sussex Housekeeper; Baker Street Irregulars; (Inspector Lestrade; Watson's Brother)
Fictional Characters: (Dr Locke)
Historical Characters: Harry Houdini; Arthur Conan Doyle; Jean Leckie; Bess Houdini; Daisy White; Theodore "Dash" Weiss / Hardeen; Bernard Ernst; Bess's Guets; Joseph Dunninger; John Mulholland; Milbourne Christopher; Burton L. King; Jim Collins; Jim Vickery; (Greenhough Smith; Cecelia Weiss; Kingsley Doyle; General Gordon; Will Goldston; William Ellsworth Robinson / Chung Ling Soo; Whitehead; Dr Kennedy; Detroit Surgeons; Arnold De Biere; Horace Goldin; The Great Cirnoc; Kleppini; Dr A.M. Wilson; Clinton Burgess; Al Jennings; Jesse James; Bob Ford; Walter B. Gibson; Kaiserin Josephine; Ehrich Weiss; Gladys Weiss; Prince Erich; David Hammel; Al Capone; Dr Leo Dretzka; Dr George L. LeFevre; Welsh Brothers Clowns; Welsh)
Other Characters: Houdini's Chauffeur; Blandford Hall Ticket Woman; Professor Bernard; Bernard's Audience; Mary Fraser; Godfrey Sheridon; Miss Smith; Kate Courtney-Smythe; Embankment Constable; Woman; Richard Hawke; Dr Robert Blackthorne; Marina Blackthorne; Mrs Morgan; Ritz Waiter; Movie Director; Actors; Technicians; Scene Shifters; Brownstone Bellboy; Capone's Collector; Appleton Registrar's Assistant; Burlesque Dancers; Grand Central Crowds; Grand Central Waitress; Hungarian Agents; Budapest Jewish Quarter Residents; Registry Assistant; Georges Zoltan; Zoltan's Accomplice; Captain Maroc; Countrysiders; Maroc's Companions; Contessa Irena; Taxi Driver; Hotel Clerk; Budapest Police Sergeant; Constables; Paris Street Artists; Artist's Audience; Boston Matron; Photographer; The Manhattan Deerstalkers; Brownstone Desk Clerk; Zookeeper; Joe Casey; Reverend Joshua Bridger; (Chinese Mandarin; Grimes; Major George Armitage; Armitage's Lover; Wallace; Chimney Sweep's Boy; Charlie; Artisan; Doc Brady; Montreal Princess Theatre Manager; Detroit Garrick Theatre Manager; Detroit Nurse; Medical Team; Elmer; Cockney; Cop; Guy in Golfing Knickers; Chief Eagle Hawk; Atlantic City Jeweller)
Date: Summer, 1922 / November, 1926 / Midsummer, 1927
Locations: Watson's Finchley Practice; Sussex; Fowlhaven; Charing Cross Hotel; Blandford Hall; The Polytechnic; British Museum; Fleet Street; The Embankment; Piccadilly; The Ritz; New York; Brownstone Hotel; 67 Payson Avenue; Movie Studio; Houdini's Storehouse; Little Italy; Italian Restaurant; Train; Chicago; Appleton, Wisconsin; Registrar's Office; Burlesque Theatre; Grand Central Station; Refreshment Room; Hungarian Embassy; Hungary; Budapest; 12, Sip Street; Hotel; Castle; City Centre Hotel; Police Headquarters; France; Paris; Cafe; Aboard the Burgundy; New York Steamship Office; Central Park Zoo; Joe's Diner; Algonquin Hotel
Story: Houdini calls on Watson and asks to be taken to Holmes's Sussex cottage to ask him to help judge the veracity of a spirit written message from his mother channelled through Lady Jean. He also tells Holmes of Marina Blackthorne, a medium he is trying to prove to Doyle is a fake. Holmes attends a seance in disguise, while Watson, banished from the hotel, saves a young woman from suicide. Holmes arranges for an announcement of his own death to be printed in order to prove his case. In 1926, Watson reads of Houdini's death. The following year, Holmes arrives at Watson's door, and invites him to a meeting with Bess Houdini at the Ritz. She believes Houdini was murdered, and asks Holmes to travel to New York to investigate. From Houdini's brother, Holmes hears of a Hungarian assistant, Zoltan, who worked for Houdini for a short time just before his death. From his lawyer and friends he hears a list of people who had grudges against Houdini. A sealed box, left by Houdini, leads them to Walter B. Gibson, and suggests links with a Magyar Nationalist society. Watson travels to Wisconsin, to look into Houdini's birth, while Holmes travels to Montreal, to learn more about the punch that killed him. The Trail takes them to Hungary, where, after being imprisoned in a Siberian lorry, and later a castle dungeon, they learn the truth about Houdini's parentage and his last great escape. Before reporting to Bess in New York, they stop off in Paris, attend a Sherlockian gathering, and accompany the Doyles to another seance.

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Seven (2001)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Billy; Inspector Lestrade
Other Characters: Septimus Culthorpe (Brother Prior); Brother Pisces (Godfrey Carrington); Shopkeeper; Campion (Brother Shepherd); Brother Reaper (Brother Orchard); Brother Carp; Brother Abacus; Brother Chef; Brother Orchard; Ghostly Army; Village Boy; Izaak Tapforth; Village Constable; Carrington's relatives; Judge Burroughs; Peddlers; Crowd at the Prison; (Gerald Carter; J.D. Norton; Sir Arthur Carrington; Sir Richard Forrest)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Sussex; Grimstone Station; A Dogcart; Grimstone Priory; Grimstone Village; The Old Bailey; Regents Park; Outside a Prison
Story: The Secret Seven are not Enid Blyton's child detectives but a group of non-religious monks, seven in number, living in a priory in Sussex. The group's founder and leader, Septimus Culthorpe, tells Holmes & Watson that two of the monks have died in recent weeks, seemingly of natural causes, after receiving identical letters in the post. A third monk has just received a similar letter. Holmes & Watson join the order in the guise of Brother Hive & Brother Healer, and having found one of the letters hidden away, Holmes is quick to deduce the manner in which the monks were killed, but not the culprit.

His researches at the local library reveal that some years before, some jewels were stolen from the priory. On the evening of his discovery a ghostly civil war army appears in the fields outside. Holmes leaves the priory to continue his investigations outside, but in his absence the monks' lambs and chickens and fish are slaughtered. Holmes returns to reveal the guilty party.

Anonymous

"The Ape of Agate" (1926)
Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey)
Story Type: Parody
Detective: The Great Detective & His Boy Assistant
Other Characters: "Chink"; Policeman
Locations: The Great Detective's Rooms; Hotel Magnificent; The Zoo
Story: The great detective investigates the murder of the Maharajah of Chung-Lo. He learns from a servant that the Maharajah's agate has been stolen by the Chinese. After a deal of thought he visits the monkey cage at the zoo.

"Jack El Destripador" (1945 translation by Anthony Boucher)
Included in: The Harlot Killer (Allan Barnard)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Historical Characters: Jack The Ripper; Mr Warrn (Sir Charles Warren)
Other Characters: Murphy; Lilian Bell; Harriette Blunt; Grover Bell; Harry Taxon; Mrs. Bonnet; Mrs. Cajana; Comtesse de Malmaison; Marquis de Malmaison; Comtesse's maid; Carlos Lake; Dr. Roberto Fitzgerald; Ruth Fitzgerald; Captain Harry Thomson
Date: 1888
Locations: Warrn's office; Lilian's bedroom; opium den
Story: Warrn is telling Holmes of the 37 victims of the Ripper, when Holmes's rival, Murphy, arrives with news of another - the singer Lilian Bell. Holmes & Murphy make a £1000 bet as to which of them will catch the Ripper. Holmes visits an opium den, at which Bell was a customer and learns that she was supplied by an Indian doctor. At that moment the Ripper claims another victim, the Comtesse de Malmaison. Holmes finally resorts to disguising himself as a woman in order to catch the Ripper.

NOTE: The "translation" by Anthony Boucher that appears in EQMM and The Harlot Killer is, in fact, a summary of the plot of the original Spanish version. Holmes's assistant is named Harry Taxon, their landlady is Mrs. Bonnet.

Anthony Armstrong

"The Reigate Road Murder" (1926)
Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Holmlock Shears & Watnot
Other Characters: Lady; Husband
Locations: Shears's Baker Street Rooms; Lady's House; (Shears's Baker Street Urchins)
Story: Shears is visited by a lady whose husband has been murdered. Scotland Yard are baffled: not only can they not find the murderer, they can't even find the corpse. Shears visits the house and deduces that the three murderers rode away on bicycles in the direction of Reigate.

Jake Arnott

"Ten Lords A-Leaping" (2004)
Included in: Best British Mystery Stories 2006 (Maxim Jakubowski); 12 Days (Shelley Silas)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; (Reginald Musgrave)
Fictional Characters: Inspector Bucket
Historical Characters: Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels
Other Characters: Lord Beckworth; Parsons; Working Men's Association Delegate; Constable; Elizabeth Cardew; Chinaman; Malays; Opium Smokers; Policemen; (Ralph Beckworth; Ralph's Footman; Beckworth's Parlour Maid)
Locations: Marx's Rooms; Bloomsbury; Soho; Greek Street; Mayfair; The Beckworth House; A Pub; Limehouse; Opium Den; British Museum
Story: Although the description of the cigars in the coal scuttle, the Persian slipper and the jack-knife would have us believe otherwise, we are, in fact, in the rooms lived in by Karl Marx. Engels introduces Lord Beckworth to Marx. Beckworth tells them of the family curse which has led to death through various types of fall for the previous nine lords. Visiting his Mayfair house the following day, they learn that Beckworth has been killed falling downstairs, and find Inspector Bucket in attendance. Parsons the butler is missing, and there is a small green flower clenched in the hand of the corpse. Marx takes on the task of solving the crime and notices that they are being followed. A visit to Little Italy, an interview with the dead man's fiancée and a visit to a Limehouse opium den draw the case to its unhappy close. A week later Marx introduces Engels to a young man he has met at the British Museum, just embarking on a career as a private detective.

Mark Aronson

"The Adventure of the Second Scarf" (1995)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg)
Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: Elias Hatch; Drimba; Altor Benn; Aliens; Imperial Prime Ministers; Guards; Four-Armed Waiter; The Filgi
Date: Autumn, 1897
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Baker Street; Liverpool Street Station; Drimba's Building; Drimba's Spacecraft; Benn's Ship; The Moon
Story: Returning to Baker Street after a walk on which Holmes astounds Watson with his deductions, they encounter Drimba, who Holmes deduces to be an alien. He takes them aboard his spacecraft to investigate the murder of Altor Benn, a mediator, aboard his ship, with no way for the murderer to escape. Benn has been stabbed through the neck, an orange scarf wrapped tightly around the neck, and his ship drained of oxygen. At a base station on the moon where interplanetary peace talks are underway, Holmes is introduced to the Filgi guards, a computer, which he rapidly names "Mycroft" and the Prime Ministers of two worlds, one of whom he must save from assassination.

Marvin Aronson

"There's a Time and a Place for Everything" (1976)
Included in: More Leaves from the Copper Beeches (The Sons of the Copper Beeches)
Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche
Canonical Characters: James Phillimore; Mrs Hudson; Sherlock Holmes; (Dr Watson)
Historical Characters: Marvin Aronson
Other Characters: Cox & Co Attendant; Auctioneer; Millenium Debater; Sightseeing Couple; Newsboy; Student Nurse
Date: 11th April, 1975 / July 7th, 1999 / July 7th, 1899 - April, 1900
Locations: London; Cox & Company; Holmes Hotel; Lewes, Delaware; Greenwich; Naval Museum; Seaman's Hospital; Bond Street; 221B, Baker Street
Story: On holiday in London, Aronson attends an auction at Cox & Co., where he finds himself sitting next to Phillimore. Phillimore buys a gasogene, and after himself buying a dispatch box, Aronson notices that Phillimore has left his umbrella behind. The dispatch box contains a manuscript that tells a story written in 1900, but beginning in 1999 when the narrator finds himself transported from Delaware to Greenwich in 1899. After an attempt to reverse the process he finds himself in hospital being addressed as "Mr Phillimore". He decides to visit Holmes for help, and after he has tested him on his knowledge of the canon, Holmes makes calculations that will return him to his own time. A second document in the dispatch case reveals Phillimore's true identity.

Isaac Asimov

"The Ultimate Crime" (1976)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes Through Time & Space (Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: (Professor Moriarty)
Other Characters: Roger Halsted; Thomas Trumbull; Emmanuel Rubin; Geoffrey Avalon; Mario Gonzalo; Henry; Ronald Mason; James Drake
Story: After general discussion of Sherlockian activities at a Black Widowers' monthly banquet, discussion turns to finding a suitable topic for a Sherlockian paper for Mason, a member of the Baker Street Irregulars. They choose to attempt to deduce the topic of Moriarty's Dynamics of An Asteroid. After much discussion it is Henry, their waiter, who comes up with the most acceptable solution.

A.A. Attanasio

"Sherlock Holmes and Basho" (1984)
Included in: Beastmarks (A.A. Attanasio)
Story Type: Pastiche (Narrated partly by Basho)
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Historical Characters: Basho
Other Characters:
Locations: The castle town of Broken Skulls; the anciant caves of potters; 221B, Baker Street
Story: The poet, Basho, meets an ugly stranger on a journey, who makes a number of deductions about him. In Baker Street, Holmes tells Watson of a dream in which he met the poet.

Bliss Austin

"The Final Problem" (1946)
Included in: The Queen's Awards, 1946 (Ellery Queen)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: (Professor Moriarty; Colonel Moran)
Fictional Characters: Ellery Queen; Inspector Queen; Sergeant Velie
Historical Characters: Christopher Morley; Howard Haycraft
Other Characters: Hugh Ashton; Dr. Dundy; Professor Gill; Hale Club doorman; night watchman
Date: 1946
Locations: Ellery Queen's Study; Christopher Morley's Study; A Train; Old Haven; Hale University; A Hotel; Ashton's Rooms; (The Hale Club)
Story: Ellery tells Morley & Haycraft that he has received a plain envelope containing a playing card in the morning post. He then mentions a story by Hugh Ashton, a graduate student, entered in the EQMM short story competition. Ashton has asked for its return, because a friend, Professor Moriarty, has offered to publish it for him. Shortly thereafter Ellery dies, he has clearly been poisoned. The following day Ashton's body is found at the foot of a cliff. Morley & Haycraft travel with Inspector Queen to Old Haven to investigate; they are met at the station by Colonel Moran, a local police officer. In Ashton's rooms they find evidence of a new story outline on a piece of carbon paper, but during the night it is stolen from Inspector Queen's room. When the Inspector himself is shot it is left to Morley, Haycraft & Velie to wrap up the loose ends.

Graham Avery

Sherlock Holmes and the Strange Events at the Bank of England (1997)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; (Mycroft Holmes)
Fictional Characters:
Historical Characters: Samuel Stewart Gladstone; Augustus Prevost; Arthur Conran Blomfield; Earl of Rosebery
Other Characters: Gladstone's Coachman; Bank Gatekeeper; Bank Messengers; Bank Porters; Junior Clerk; Charles Pedric; Cabbies; Mrs. Carter; James Carter; Lad in Collinson Street; Golden Fleece Landlord; Sir Peter Langaton; Cowley Place Servants; Langaton's Guests; Valentina D'Arth; Ralph Dickinson; Lady Sinclair; Amelia Dingleton; Henson; German Commercial Attaché; Diplomat; Diplomat's Wife; Prison Warder; Bank Duty Officer; (Bank Guards; Head Storeman; Geldstein; Hajardo; Landrous; Fielstein; Li Wang; Count Rossildi; Night Porter; Charlie Slade 'The Count' / 'Counterfeit Charlie'; D'Arth's Women)
Date: August, 1899 or 1900, (or 1894-1895)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Bank of England; Hansom Cabs; Southwark; 14, Collinson Street; The Golden Fleece; Surrey; Cowley Place; Wormwood Scrubs
Story: Mycroft sends Gladstone, the governor of the Bank of England to Holmes after several cases of special bonds printed for the bank's centenary are found to be missing from its vaults. Holmes travels to the bank, where he meets Lestrade, and examines the vaults. His underworld contacts can tell him nothing about the theft, and Mycroft is little more help. Returning to the bank he learns of a night porter who reported hearing a ghostly women's voices three nights before the robbery. Although the theft seems pointless, the bonds being worth nothing until the issue day, and, besides, having traceable serial numbers, the Prime Minister arrives at Baker Street and tells Holmes that the theft represents a threat to the stability of the British Empire. Invited to Cowley Place, Sir Peter Langaton's country house, they encounter Valentina D'Arth, heiress to a large building company. The following day Langaton is stricken with a mystery illness. Holmes believes he has solved the case, but has no evidence of how it was done. Back in London Lestrade announces an arrest. Another visit to the Bank, and a visit from a lady draw Holmes closer to a solution. A second visit reveals the truth.