Lloyd Biggle, Jr.

The Quallsford Inheritance (1986)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Edward Porter Jones
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Baker Street Irregulars; Mrs Hudson; Stanley Hopkins; (Shinwell Johnson; [Charlie] Mercer; Mrs Watson)
Other Characters: Edward Porter Jones; Radbert / Rabby; Joshua Wirt; Spitalfields Stallholders; Market Boys; Emmeline Quallsford; Draper's Clerk; Mr Ginter; Ginter's Servant; Ralph; Sam Bates; Farmer; Doctor; Larissa Quallsford; Doris Fowler; Mr Werner; Joe; Mrs Werner; Nat Whyte; Harry Herks; Sergeant Donley; George Adams; Wilbert Harman; William Prince / Price; Charles Walker; Thomas Strickney; Richard Lyster; David Wyatt; Ben Paine; Grudge Bearers; Derwin Smith; Jack Brown; Taff Harris; Victoria Inn Publican; Quallsford's Stable Boy; Quallsford's Maid; Mr Sims; Gerald Russell; Mrs Andrews; Green Dragon Customers; Looker; Mrs Donley; Milkman; Milkman's Boy; Housewife; Sam Jenks; Mrs Herks; Alvin Pringle; Browne's Mother; Quallsford Servants; Richard Cole; Dead Pig Martley; Mr Cole; Emmeline's Friend in Rye; Mr Hutchings; A.H. Smith; George Newton; Meg Newton; Smugglers; Newton's Children; Paine's Apprentices; Bicycle Boy; Police Officers; Customs Officers; Constables; (Bertha Jones; Boatmen; Mullens; Mrs Mullens; Gentleman at Rules; French Porter; Watson's Colleague; Colleague's Wife; Mr Pettigrew; Gentleman with Goat; Goat Crowds; Hotel Metropole Porter; Hotel Staff; Millingford; Bartlett; Edmund Quallsford; Police; Edmund's Solicitor; Coroner; Oswald Quallsford; Foreign Actress; Charles Monier; Vicar of Mengerton; Charles Jeffery; Joe's Uncle; Schoolmaster; Ned Paine; Tom Barling; Tuggy; Hughes; Emmeline's Friend's Brother; Lara Quallsford; Edbert Quallsford; Alfred Mitchell; Wallace Dickens; Evan Banks; William Allen; Mrs Dickens; Mrs Allen; The Romney Marsh Irregulars; William Lander; Charles Jordan; Browne's Men; Emma)
Date: Monday in late August, 1900
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Wirt's Shop near Great Portland Street; Spitalfields Market; Regent Street Draper's; The Temple; A Train; Isle of Graesney; Havenchurch; Sea Cliffs; The Royal Swan; Quallsford's Office; Herks's Shop; Adams's Drapers Shop; Victoria Inn; Canal Bank; The Tower; Vicarage; Churchyard; Church of St John; Green Dragon Inn; The Marsh; Looker's Hut; Donley's Cottage; Herks's House; Brookland; Stone; East Guldeford; Oast House; Cole's Cottage; Rye; George Hotel; Mermaid Inn; Watchbell Street; Lydd; Hutchings' Shop; New Romney; Smith's Shop; Newton's Cottage; More's Office; Train
Story: Former Irregular Jones has become Holmes's assistant and biographer. Irregular, Rabby tells Holmes that he has heard an old woman in Spitalfields market asking for Pitahayas, which Holmes discovers is a Mexican cactus. He also deduces that she was in disguise, and Rabby says that she obviously didn't expect to find what she was looking for. Jones goes to the market the following day to make enquiries, but a farmer selling them turns out not to be the lead he hoped for. Two weeks later an advertisement in the Times brings Emmeline Quallsford to 221B. She tells Holmes that her brother Edmund, who frequently used the word in a nonsensical way, was murdered two days previously. He had recently taken to spending large amounts of time in a tower in the grounds of his home and turned against his family. The police believe he committed suicide. Holmes sets Porter to follow Emmeline, and then to accompany her back to Kent, where, in the family home he sees the old woman from Spitalfields. The dead man's wife refuses him entry to the house, so he stays in the impoverished village, where he learns about the Quallsford's export business. He hears only good said about the dead man, and finds signs of a one-legged man everywhere he goes. Holmes arrives in disguise. He and Porter visit the tower, track down the one-legged man and learn of an exorcism. Emmeline's sister-in-law turns her out of the house. Holmes and Porter discover a stable that has had manure shovelled into, rather than out of, it. Porter discovers that Quallsford had been seen in neighbouring towns when he was supposed to be in London. holmes announces that there is a massive smuggling operation under way in the area and sets out to bring down a criminal with the genius of a Moriarty, but there are more murders before the case is over. Hopkins is in at the end to help with the arrests.

Cara Black

"Cabaret Aux Assassins" (2003)
Included in: My Sherlock Holmes (Michael Kurland)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Irene Adler
Canonical Characters: Irene Adler; Sherlock Holmes
Historical Characters: Comte Esterhazy; (Alfred Dreyfus)
Other Characters: Neige Adler; Nurse; Stagehand; Organ Grinder; Organ Grinder's Son; Meslay; Charcoal Seller; Anton; Léonie Guérard; Bijou; Chat Noir Performers; Chat Noir Clientele; Czechs; Emil Cavour; Alimentaire Proprietaire; Madame Lusard; Père Angelo; Soup Kitchen Clientele; Vartan; Concierge; Bijou's Sister; Card Players; Child; Child's Mother
Date: 1914 & February, 1896
Locations: Nice; A Hospital; Paris; Théâtre Anglais; Montmartre; Place Goudeau; A Café; Irene's Garret; Le Chat Noir; Pigalle; Cabaret Aux Assassins; Alimentaire; Rue Lepic; Bouillon de Pères; Rue Androuët
Story: Irene Adler dies in Nice in 1914, but leaves her daughter Neige an account of her past. In February 1896 she was performing in Paris when Holmes approached her and asked her to use her contacts to investigate Comte Esterhazy, the real traitor in the Dreyfus Affair. She is later also approached by her brother-in-law, Meslay, to do the same on behalf of the French government. As her enquiries progress she realises that she is being followed, and is warned off the case. When Holmes comes to her rooms she is faced with a choice between helping England or France. Neige finally learns the true identity of her father.

Robert Bloch

"The Dynamics of an Asteroid" (1953)
Included in: The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: Professor Moriarty
Historical Characters: (Albert Einstein)
Other Characters: Miss Hawes; Dr. Cooper
Locations: Moriarty's Apartment
Story: Miss Hawes is nursemaid to an old man who tells her that he was once a master criminal, until a detective brought an end to his career and left him for dead at a waterfall in Europe. He survived the fall and reformed, and contributed much to the development of humanity's ventures into space travel, communicating with Einstein on the subject. When he hears that the Government is finally launching a satellite he feels he can die in peace. Miss Hawes decides to look up his book: The Dynamics of An Asteroid.

Ruskin Bond

"The Stolen Daffodils" (2004)
Included in: Rusty Goes to London (Ruskin Bond)
Story Type: Children's Story
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; (Dr Watson; Mrs Watson)
Historical Characters: Ruskin 'Rusty' Bond
Other Characters: Large Elderly Woman with Pomeranian; Gardener
Date: March
Locations: Baker Street; Regent's Park; Greenhouse
Story: Having come to London from India, Rusty is taking a day off work and strays from his walk along Baker Street into Regent's Park. There he encounters Holmes who has been called on to investigate a series of daffodil thefts. Together they lie in wait and capture the culprit, but when Rusty returns with a gardener, both Holmes and the thief have disappeared. Rusty later believes he sees the detective in Baker Street, but a passing bus blocks his view, and Holmes disappears again.

Gary F. Boothe

The Secret of Sherlock Holmes (1997)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated in the third-person
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Birdy Edwards; Mrs. Watson; Dr. Watson; (Dubuque)
Historical Characters: Theodore Roosevelt; Marie Curie; Irene Curie; (Pierre Curie)
Other Characters: Baron Heindrick von Hoffman; Elsa; Hans Stihl; Donald Swanson; Mrs. McPhearson; Ambassador Greason; Embassy Staff & Visitors; Queensland Passengers; Alice 'Boomer' LaGraine; Redcap; Restaurant Car Diners; Jim Simpson; White House Guard; White House Butler; Roosevelt's Bodyguards; Colonel Goodman; Mr. Stanton; Mr. Parrott; John Weissman; Mr. Strong; Cliffton Sawyer; Roosevelt's Guests; Gertrude Swanson; Cab Driver; Bellhop; Schiller's Landlord; Wally Reisenweiver; Kyle Dreison; Von Hoffman's Men; Gate Guard; Footman; Butler; Staff; Policemen; Carriage Driver; Molly; (Vivian LaGraine; Charlie Thompson; John Gorensky; Mrs. Gorensky; Tiddleman's Proprietor; Sandra Castleman; Printer's Clerk; Jean Perrin; Professor Hans Schilling; Michelle; Professor Chaves)
Date: January 16th, 1906 (prologue); April 7th, 1907 - May, 1907; (1894 - LaGraine flashback)
Locations: Germany; Baron's Castle; Holmes's Sussex Villa; McPhearson's House; Grover's Inn; American Embassy; The Queensland; New York; Pier 19; A Trolleycar; Grand Central Station; A Train; Washington D.C.; Westin Hotel; The White House; Treasury Department; Bethesda; Applegate Street; Sawyer's House; The Evening Star; France; Paris; Boulevard Kellerman; Curie's House; 16, Rue Flatters; Café Mouserante; French Train; Frankfurt; Police Station; Guest House; Karlstadt; The Koener Inn; Sceaux; 6, Rue Chemin; Harley Street; Watson's Home; (The Mediterranean; Barcelona; Shadle Park)
Story: The Baron sends his colleague off on a job, while he plans the theft of the century. Secret Service man Swanson, arrives in Sussex with a letter from Roosevelt asking Holmes to take on a case in America. Arriving in New York, he is met by Boomer, who Swanson soon learns, is Holmes's daughter, and who accompanies them to Washington. Holmes tells Boomer of his relationship with her mother, and of a previous love, killed by Moriarty. Their meeting with the President is also attended by Birdy Edwards. They learn that the plates for the $20 bill have been stolen, in a seemingly impossible crime, from its place in one, randomly chosen for its keeping, of two thousand security boxes. The secret service, clearly believes that a murdered security guard was responsible for the theft, aided by treasury man, Sawyer's carelessness over security precautions. Pinkerton's have been unable to come up with anything against the murdered man. Burns on the victim's hands, tape marks on the security boxes, and string marks in the dust on top of them provide clues, but it is a chance remark by Sawyer's wife that finally enables Holmes to deduce how the plaes were stolen. Holmes contacts Dubuque in Paris, because he believes the theft is connected to the death of Pierre Curie and the Scandal surrounding Marie Curie. Holmes, Boomer & Swanson visit Curie in Paris, then travel to Germany in pursuit of a radium thief. In Frankfurt, Reisenweiver, a former Irregular, now a police detective, is able to set him onto his man. They set out to retrieve the radium and the plates.

Anthony Boucher

"The Adventure of the Bogle Wolf" (1949)
Included in: The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mary Morstan; Kate Whitney; (Mycroft Holmes)
Fictional Characters: (Little Red Riding Hood; The Wolf; Granny; The Woodcutter)
Other Characters: Elias Whitney; Isa Whitney, Jr.
Date: January, 1889
Locations: Watson's Paddington Home
Story: Holmes visits Watson while he is baby-sitting young Elias Whitney. After listening to Watson tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood, Holmes reduces Elias to tears by deducing the truth about Granny and the Wolf.

Mark Bourne

"The Case of the Detective's Smile" (1995)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson
Fictional Characters: The Cheshire Cat
Historical Characters: Alice Liddell; (Lewis Carroll)
Date: January, 1898
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; (Wonderland)
Story: Alice Liddell comes to Baker Street on the death of Lewis Carroll, having just returned from a visit to Wonderland. She brings with her a glass box containing a gift in tribute to Holmes for a case he solved there during the hiatus.

Rhys Bowen

"The Case of the Lugubrious Manservant" (2004)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years (Michael Kurland)
Story Type: Third Person Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes (Fritzi)
Historical Characters: Sigmund Freud; Edward VII
Other Characters: Frau Muller; Outriders; Footman; Baron Rudi Vizkelety; Hansi Muller; Hunting Lodge Servants; Baroness Vizkelety; Prince Ruprecht von Saxe-Coburg; Princess Gisela; Count Von Strezl; Countess Von Strezl; Major Johnny Watling-Smythe; Gun Bearer; Hans; Chambermaid
(Frau Muller's Sister; Frau Muller's Brother-in-law)
Date: Autumn, 1891
Locations: Switzerland; White Horse Inn
Story: Freud is staying at an inn in Switzerland where he encounters the simpleto servant Fritzi, pulled from a mountain torrent six months earlier by the landlady's brother-in-law. Baron Vizkelety and his hunting party stop at the inon their way to the Baron's hunting lodge. The following day Fritzi drives Freud to the hunting lodge where the royal guests include the Prince of Wales. His encounter with the English members of the party begins to restore some of Fritzi's memory. An accident occurs during the shoot and Freud is called to tend to the victim, but Count Von Strezl is already dead. Fritzi points out signs on the body that indicate that the death was more than a simple shooting accident. He procedes to reveal the solution to the case and to uncover his own identity.

Rick (Richard L.) Boyer

"The Adventure of the Bell Rock Light" (1998)
Included in: A Sherlockian Quartet (Rick Boyer)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson
Other Characters: Clive Wallace; Carriage Driver; Robert Ross; John Cormack; George Hay; PetrelCaptain; Engineer; Fireman; Hutchenson; Mitchell; Evans; Hayne Edwards; Edwards' Housekeeper; Douglas Burnham; McPhereson; Inspector Drummond; Bagpipers; (Lucille Maccarg)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Scotch Express; Dundee; A Carriage; Arbroath; Wallace's Cottage; The Petrel; Bell Rock Lighthouse; A Golf Course; Arbroath Jail; Edwards' House; The Three Caltrops Pub
Story: Visiting a friend, Wallace, in Scotland, Holmes learns of the death of a keeper, Robert Ross, in the Bell Rock lighthouse. The other keepers both claim to have been asleep when the man died, but a scrawled note, "Killed by Corm" seems to implicate one of them, Cormack. The murdered man was killed by cyanide gas released from a glass capsule found in the room with him. Holmes & Watson travel out to the lighthouse where they must spend the night after high seas force their ship to leave without them. Holmes examines the remains of the capsule and learns of the death of Ross's wife three years before, and of his rivalry with Hayne Edwards over her. Holmes later interviews Edwards, learns of his time spent living in China, and admires a picture of Chinese fishermen on his wall. When he hears of Edwards' recent holiday, a telegram to the keepers of the Skerryvore Light brings a solution to the problem.

The Giant Rat of Sumatra (1976)
Included in: A Sherlockian Quartet (Rick Boyer) and as a novel in its own right
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Mrs. Hudson; Tobias Gregson; Jack Stapleton
Other Characters: Baker Street Strollers; Murder Crowd; Raymond Jenard; Ambulance Attendants; Reporters; Constables; Mulvaney; Fire Crowds; Police Wagon Driver; Firemen; Fire Victims; Abbie; Abbie's Mother; Josiah Griggs; John Sampson; Jennings; Captain James McGuinness; Customs Inspectors; Detectives; Binnacle Waitress; Sailors; Alf; Red Scanlon; Scotty; Winkler; Thomas; Binnacle Waiter; Beryl Haskins; Mrs. Redding; Mortimer; Blacksmith; Blackwall Onlookers; Nip & Tuck; Allistair's Butler; Lord Peter Allistair; Lady Allistair; Paddington Crowds; Brundage; Farm Labourers; Gypsy; White Hart Innkeeper; White Hart Guests; Ian Farthway; Wiscomb; Betsy; Telegraph Operator; Julia; Charles Compson; Reverend Ripley; Mr. Jones; Wangi; Alice Allistair; Servants
(Ambulance Driver; Constable Roberts; Matilda Briggs Crew; Dhow Crew; Mason-Jones; Meg Brundage; King Zoltan; Harun Sarouk; Peter Allistair)
Date: September 15th - October, 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Baker Street; The Docks; The Isle of Dogs; Preston Street; East Commercial Street; Limehouse; Blackwall Reach; Customs Launch; The Matilda Briggs; Robin Hood Lane; The Binnacle Public House; Whitechapel Road; Balfour Lane; Ballantine's Livery & Smith Shop; Portman Square; 13, Bayswater Road; Paddington Station; A Train; Shropshire; Shrewsbury; Rutlidge; The White Hart Inn; Strathcombe; The Clun Forest; Henry's Hollow; Farthway's Cottage
(Batavia; The Straits of Sunda; Sumatra; Bombay; Madras; Kutaradja)
Story: Holmes and Watson follow an ambulance to the site of the murder of a sailor on Baker Street. From there they accompany Lestrade to a fire on the docks. Holmes suggests that the murdered sailor had been coming to see him, and discovers that he had arrived in London aboard the Matilda Briggs from Batavia. Sampson, another member of the crew, visits Holmes in Baker Street and tells him of the Matilda Briggs' latest voyage. Three passengers were taken aboard, and of the coast of Sumatra oversaw the loading of a crate, which Jenard, the murdered man had discovered to contain a giant rat, as big as a calf. When Holmes, Watson & Lestrade board the Matilda Briggs, they find it deserted except for the body of the Captain, mauled by a huge animal. With the aid of bloodhounds, they learn how the creature was removed from the ship, and discover that Ripley, responsible for bringing it to England, had been following them during their investigations. Lord & Lady Allistair receive a ransom note for their daughter, whose disappearance in Bombay Holmes has been investigating. He sends Watson to their country home where the payment is to be made, while he continues investigations in London.
In Shropshire, Watson becomes aware of a pair of gypsies, who seem to be interested in the house, and a spy is uncovered on the staff. He also hears of a large wild boar which has appeared, leaving traces in the surrounding forest. A message arrives from Alice Allistair, with a second pin-pricked secret message, which Watson is unable to decode. Later he and Farthway, the gamekeeper, find the body of one of the maids' boyfriend, with injuries identical to those of the Captain of the Matilda Briggs. Holmes arrives at Strathcombe, and Watson is selected by the kidnappers to deliver the ransom with Lord Allistair. In the forest he is forced to face both the giant rat and an old adversary.

NOTE: Holmes recalls his fight with Bully Boy Rasher (p.71-72). This fight was first mentioned in The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers by Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr.

Worthen Bradley

"Bad Day on Baker Street" (1959)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Grimesby Roylott; Mrs. Hudson; The Giant Rat of Sumatra)
Other Characters: (Ryckerjak)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Watson returns to Baker Street and is able to deduce how long Holmes has been asleep, and reminds him of an embarrassing incident with Roylott, and another with a victim of the Giant Rat. Holmes is unsuccessful in deducing Watson's doings or thoughts.

Kathleen Brady

"The Adventure of the Boulevard Assassin" (1998)
Included in: The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson
Historical Characters: Ida Tarbell; Sam McClure
Other Characters: Policeman; Hotel Concierge; Police Clerk; Inspector; Sergeant; Policemen; Henri Troutout; Martin Kaspi; Georges Jacquot; Charles Coman; Edouard Knodler; Gilbert Daziell; Basil Pontell; Picot; Door Guard; Clerk; Tarbell's Assistant
(Luc; Ernst; Night Watchman)
Date: 3rd October, 1894
Locations: Paris; 221B, Baker Street; Hotel; Boulevard des Italiens Police Station; Avenue de l'Opéra; Compagnie de Darmaux Offices; New York; McClure's Offices
Story: Holmes and Watson are in Paris, being interviewed by Tarbell, when a police station is blown up during the anarchist campaign anticipated by Holmes. Tarbell accompanies them to the scene of the explosion. A man's dying words take them to the offices of an industrial firm where, they learn, the bomb had initially been delivered. Tarbell does some investigating of her own and leads Holmes to his man. As a result of the case Watson gains a contract with McClure's magazine.

Michéal & Clare Breathnach

"The Coole Park Problem" (2006)
Included in: Ghosts in Baker Street (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson
Historical Characters: Lady Gregory; William Butler Yeats; George Bernard Shaw; Biddy Early
Other Characters: Lady Gregory's Man; Undershaft; Mrs Warren; Mary Sheridan; (Dr Connelly)
Date: 20th June, 1897
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Ireland; Gort; Coole Park; Kilbarron
Story: After receiving a letter from Lady Gregory, Holmes and Watson travel to Ireland, where, at Coole House, they meet Yeats and Shaw, and a servant girl who is seeing visions in the night. After a gathering of ravens, and an outburst from the girl, Lady Gregory disappears, local superstition suggests she has been abducted by fairies. Their search takes them on a visit to a legendary figure, whose counsel changes all their lives.

Jon L. Breen

"The Adventure of the Canine Ventriloquist" (1996)
Included in: Holmes for the Holidays (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson
Other Characters: Oliver Marplethorpe; Elspeth Hawley; Charles Vickery; Colin Ragsdale; Coachman; Vickery's Guests; Miss Cavendish; Madame Larousse
Date: 24th - 25th December (and references to events over the previous year)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Vickery's Country House; Marplethorpe's Kensington Rooms; Marplethorpe's Club
Story: Holmes is consulted by Marplethorpe, a writer, who after writing an article on ventriloquism, was presented with a painting of a life-size ventriloquist's dummy and a dog. Within the next few months he is given a terrier identical to the one in the picture, and which he believes talks to him in the night. The dummy's face comes to resemble more and more his own, and items disappear from the painting and appear in his rooms. As a result of the distress caused he has lost his job and his fiancée. Events come to a conclusion at a Christmas Day Séance in a country house.

"The Adventure of the Naturalist's Stock Pin" (1999)
Included in: More Holmes for the Holidays (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson
Historical Characters: Charles Darwin; (Thomas Henry Huxley; Erasmus Darwin; Jean Lamarck; Sir Charles Lyell; Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker; Alfred Russel Wallace; George Romanes; Romanes's Butler)
Other Characters: Ecuadorian Guide; Cab Driver; Edgar Gamble / Lamburt LeSue / Merwin A. Drauss / Mark Caljane; (Professor Isaiah Corcoran)
Date: Christmas 1881
Locations: Galapagos Islands; 221B, Baker Street; The Highwayman's Rest, Fleet Street
Story: The author is given a manuscript while on holiday in the Galapagos Islands.
Holmes is visited by Darwin, calling himself Mr Beagle, who has received a series of messages from individuals with unlikely names, the latest inviting him to a social event, where he fears an attempt will be made upon his life, but at which he hopes to regain possession of a stolen stock pin. Holmes advises Darwin to accept the invitation, but attends the rendezvous at the Highwayman' Rest himself, disguised as the naturalist, where he faces a charge of plagiarism in Darwin's stead and retrieves the pin.

Poppy Z. Brite & David Ferguson

"The Curious Case of Miss Violet Stone" (2003)
Included in: Shadows Over Baker Street (Michael Reaves & John Pelan)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Other Characters: Thomas Stone; Anna; Mrs. Stone; Violet Stone
Date: 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Baker Street; A Cab; Highgate; 10, Percy Lane; (Greece; Knoxos)
Story: Stone asks Holmes to help his sister, Violet, who was taken ill after swimming in a pool in Greece, and who has not eaten for three years, yet is still alive. She has recently asked her brother to bring her a copy of the Necronomicon. A visit to the girl's house and a reading of her diary, send Holmes back to cocaine and the building of a machine.

Eric Brown

"The Vanishing of the Atkinsons" (1997)
Included in: The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike Ashley)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Victor Trevor; The Atkinson Brothers
Other Characters: The Atkinsons' House-Boy; Sergeant Mortimer; Plantation Under-Managers; Plantation Workers; Kitchen Boys; Anya Amala; Doctor; Planters; Planters' Wives; Madras Line Clerk; Tamil Ex-Shipping office Manager; Boy; Anya's Son; (Young Sinhalese)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Eastern Empress; Ceylon; Jaffna; The Atkinsons' Plantation; The Hospital Bungalow; Trincomalee; Police Headquarters; Madras Line offices; Bicycle Repair Shop; Post office; Trevor's Trap; Bungalow on MacPherson's Hill; Storage Shed
Date: August, 1888
Story: Watson visits Holmes who tells him of an incident in Ceylon, where he was summoned by Victor Trevor, now an estate manager for the Royal Ceylonese Tea Company, to investigate the disappearance of two tea-planters, Bruce & William Atkinson. In the Atkinsons' house a table and lamp have been knocked over. Holmes' tours the plantation, learning that the crop has been affected by blight, and visits the brothers' pregnant housekeeper. He also learns that they had considerable gambling debts. The estate workers claim to have heard the brothers' wailing spirits, but other planters believe they have fled the island to avoid their debts. When Holmes learns of an estate worker buying tickets to Madras, and sees Anya's newborn son, he is able to see an end to the problem. A letter about a kidnapping brings about the final discovery of the brothers' whereabouts.

Russell A. Brown

Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (1988)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson / Martha; Billy; Stanley Hopkins; Langdale Pike; Stamford; Baker Street Irregulars; Wiggins; Murray; (Mary Morstan; Mrs Turner; Inspector Lestrade; Watson's Brother; Cartwright; Mycroft Holmes; Dr Mortimer; Shinwell Johnson; Von Bork; Count Von und Zu Grafenstein; Tobias Gregson)
Historical Characters: Oscar Wilde; Constance Wilde; Cyril Wilde; Alfred Nobel; Lady Queensberry; Charles Brookfield; Harry Baskerville; (Edward VIII; Winston Churchill; Lord Alfred Douglas; E.F. Benson; George Bernard Shaw; Sir William Wilde; Joseph Stoddart; Marquess of Queensberry; W.T. Stead; Henry Labouchere; Arthur Conan Doyle; Alfred Taylor; Charles Parker; Fred Atkins; Walter Granger; Edgar Allan Poe; General Gordon; General Kitchener)
Other Characters: Wilde's Butler; Protestors; Soldiers; Jackie; Landau Driver; Lady Queensberry's Butler; Charlie; Kiosk Boy; Emma; Men from the Baths; Constable; Jarvey; Doctors; St James's Clientele; Violette du Bois; Sally; Constable; Loafers; Cab Driver; (Sir Frederick Mackintosh; Mrs Turner's Children; Constable Turner; Watson's Mother; The Guv'nor; Young Man's Uncle; Nobel's Former Secretaries; Blackmailers; Captain Galbraith; Messenger-Manager Wilson; Sidney Cartwright; Roughs with Bludgeons; Margerie Rogers; Beryl Kornet; Murray's Sister; Murray's Father; Murray's Mother; Murray's Stepfather; Man from London; Cleveland Street Man; Captain Bruce; Noble Lord; Jackie's Brother; Constables; Sussex Bicyclist; Randolph; Susan Hudson)
Date: Spring 1988 / Spring 1895 / 5th April, 1928
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Tite Street; Wilde's House; Buckingham Palace Hotel; Cadogan Place; Lady Queensberry's House; Sloane Square; Pall Mall; Watson's Club; Nevill's Turkish Baths; Northumberland Avenue; Trafalgar Square; Charing Cross Hospital; St James's Bar; Regent Street; Charles Second Street; The Private House; Holmes's Sussex Villa
Story: 1988: Workers in a house formerly owned by Sir Frederick Mackintosh discover a safe containing a Watsonian manuscript.
1895: Wilde calls on Holmes on behalf of a friend who is being blackmailed. Billy arrives, pursued by Hopkins, having been arrested leaving a house "like that on Cleveland Street". Holmes and Watson set out to the house on Charles Second Street to "defend the Family", but call on Wilde instead, where they find the family very much defended. Wilde offers to look into Billy's case if Holmes will take on Wilde's friend's. They visit the friend, who is ill and masked, at his hotel, and hear how he was taken by a young man to the house in Charles Second Street of the ensuing blackmail, and how he has faked his own death to escape it, but to no avail. (Watson's attempts to have Holmes write a portion of the story result in a blazing row, and Watson's departure from Baker Street is only prevented by the intervention of Mrs Hudson.) Holmes tells Wilde that the blackmail of his friend is only a step towards a larger crime. He is warned by Lady Queensberry that the Marquess, is seeking revenge for Holmes's role in their divorce. Watson returns to Baker Street after seeing Wilde being propositioned in Trafalgar Square to discover that Holmes is in hospital after being attacked on Charles Second Street. Watson rushes to the hospital, getting a lift from Pike, where Holmes is being tended by Stamford. He takes him home in Baskerville's cab. Wilde learns more about Billy's visit to the house, from his half-brother, Wilson, and also learns of the Guv'nor's blackmailing schemes. Holmes beleves the Guv'nor is in league with Queensberry. Watson and Wiggins are sent undercover to lure out the Guv'nor's assistant, Jackie. Separated from Holmes, Watson finds himself in Charles Second Street, where he finds himself face to face with an old acquaintance. Holmes arrives, but the place is overrun with constables as he and Watson escape, with the help of Hopkins, Wilde, and Wilde's friend.
1928: On Watson's death, Holmes reminisces on the fates of those involved in the case, and tells how Martha Hudson came to work for him in Sussex.

NOTE: Watson's statement that Langdale Pike "had pursued an acting career under the name Brookfield...[and] wrote an 'extravaganza' which caricatured us, with Pike playing Holmes" identifies Pike as Charles Brookfield who wrote and appeared in the Holmes burlesque Under the Clock.

NOTE 2: Wilde's "mysterious friend" is Alfred Nobel.

Colin Bruce

"The Adventure of the Dying Doctor" (2002)
Included in: Murder, My Dear Watson (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Professor Moriarty; Mycroft Holmes
Other Characters: Sarah; Postman; Dr. Nagel; Ushers; Students; Moriarty's Audience; Margaret Blackstock
Date: September, 1882
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Watson's Surgery; Hyde Park; The Royal Albert Hall; (Peshawar, Eastbourne)
Story: On the same day, Watson learns that he has an illegitimate son by a nurse he met in Peshawar and diagnoses himself as having Marchant's disease and only a year to live. Furthermore, while attending a lecture given by Moriarty he learns that there is a good chance of a comet crashing into the Earth. It takes the combined minds of both Holmes brothers to solve all his problems.

Carol Buggé

The Haunting of Torre Abbey (2000)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Inspector Lestrade
Other Characters: Sir Charles Cary; Elizabeth Cary; Sally Gubbins; William; Grayson; Lady Marion Cary; Annie; Police Sergeant; Police Wagon Driver; Father John Norton; Dr. McKinney; Lydia Norton; Madame Olenskaya; Merwyn The Magnificent; Newspaper Seller; Passers-By; Hawkers; Street Entertainers; Hansom Driver; Ticket-Taker; Musicians; Audience; Caroline Cocoran; London Constables; London Sergeant; Stagehands; Ushers; Sergeant Flannery; Master Stevens; Torquay Sergeant Victor Cary; Detective Jonathan Samuels; Torquay Constables; (William Norton; Simon Hastynges; Christopher Leganger; Hugo Cary)
Date: October, After 1882 & HOUN
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Trains; Torquay; Torre Abbey; Paddington Station; A Hansom Cab; A Theatre; Scotland Yard; Cockington; The Rectory; The Devon Moors; A Brougham; A Beach; Torquay Station
Story: Holmes receives a letter from Sir Charles Cary of Torquay saying that his family is being haunted by a headless monk, followed shortly thereafter by a telegram stating that the family is in danger. He and Watson travel immediately to Torquay, where they meet members of the Cary family and staff, including the cook and her illegitimate son, William, and learn of the ghosts of the headless monk, William Hastynges, and the cavalier, Hugo Cary, said to haunt the Abbey. Watson begins to sense that all is not as it seems at the Abbey, everyone, from the family to the half-Indian butler (formerly servant to the last Lord Cary, who was drowned at sea, his body never found), seems to have hidden secrets. The following night the Abbey bell seems to ring by itself, and the dead body of the cook, Sally Gubbins, is found in the kitchen. Holmes & Watson learn of a secret chapel under the Abbey, a family curse, and visit the tithe barn, where 400 Spanish prisoners were kept at the time of the Spanish Armada.

The next night the household is awakened by a scream. Holmes reveals its inhuman origins. Watson follows Cary's sleepwalking sister, Elizabeth, to the tithe barn, where he is knocked unconscious. The following evening a Séance is held, and Elizabeth appears to become possessed by the spirit of a Spanish girl, said to haunt the barn. After another appearance by the Cavalier, Holmes begins to suspect the involvement of a professional magician, and sends Watson to London to interview Merwyn the Magnificent, who has been performing in the area. Before he can do so, however, a trick goes wrong and Merwyn is shot dead. After his return to the Abbey, Lady Cary's dog is poisoned.

The following day Holmes & Watson take part in a fox hunt. Both Holmes' & Cary's mounts are sabotaged. Watson sees the Demon Hunter. The day after the hunt, William is found drowned in the pond. Holmes and Watson announce that they are returning to London, but go back to the house under cover of night, where Holmes is able to reveal the identity of the murderer and the accomplice within the house.

Bob Byrne

"The Adventure of the Tired Captain" (2002)
Included in: Curious Incidents (J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Homage
Historical Characters: William Gillette; Arthur Conan Doyle
Other Characters: Desk Sergeant; Inspector Gregory; (Captain Jonathon Grimshaw)
Date: Autumn, 1901
Locations: Doyle's Hotel; Simpson's; Police House; (The Langham Hotel)
Story: Gillette calls on Doyle, who tells him his theory regarding a captain who has been reported as having disappeared from his hotel room. Gillette believes Doyle to have hit on the correct solution, and the two impersonate Holmes & Watson to present his theory to the police, who use it to track down the man.

NOTE: This story is based on an actual case investigated by Doyle.