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Peter Calamai

"The Puzzle of the Vanishing Laboratory" (2003)
Included in: Curious Incidents 2 (J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Athelney Jones
Historical Characters: (Herbert Beerbohm Tree)
Other Characters: Jeffrey Carruthers; Jeremiah Beglo; Patricia Saunders; Four-Wheeler Driver; A Constable; Professor A.T.M. Jakobsen; (Count Gerster; Pevensey Bay; Sergeant; J.T. Wexham; Walter J. Wexham; Royal Society of Musicians Chairman)
Date: An Edwardian August
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train; Eastbourne; A Four-Wheeler; Norman's Bay Martello Tower; (Pevensey Bay Police Station; Lisle Street; Royal Society of Musicians offices)
Story: Holmes has read in the papers about a Hungarian found with surveying equipment in Sussex, claiming he was looking for a site for a new restaurant. Meanwhile Watson has read of a young couple exploring a Martello Tower in Norman's Bay. When the young woman entered the tower it was full of scientific equipment, but in the time it took for her to climb down and bring her companion up, all the equipment had disappeared. Carruthers, a reporter, brings the couple to Holmes, who travels down to Sussex to investigate. An electric switch that seems to serve no purpose, wooden mouldings on the wall, a visit to the Royal Society of Musicians, and the actor-manager, Herbert Beerbohm-Tree, set Holmes on the path to solving the mystery and connecting the two news stories.

J.R. Campbell

"The First Mate's Jacket" (2002)
Included in: Curious Incidents (J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Other Characters: Constable Henry; Inquiry Board; Cluney; Mrs. Mary Ranstead; Cab Driver; Constable; Diver; Captain Dove; (Dock Crowd; Innkeeper; Mr. Ranstead; Embezzler)
Locations: Falmouth; Train Station; Killigrew Street; Cab; Beach
Story: While assisting Holmes in an embezzlement case in Falmouth, Watson is called to aid the survivor of a shipwreck, Mrs. Ranstead. She and crewman, Cluney, were the only survivors from a ship which was transporting an ancient meteorite from St. John's to Falmouth. Holmes and Watson attend the official enquiry, and Holmes seems taken with a rope burn on Cluney's jacket. He sends the local constable out on an errand, and the next day the mount watch on a buoy he has located. As they wait Watson spots a rowing boat heading towards it, and the truth of the matter is made clear.
"The Missing Coppertop" (2003)
Included in: Curious Incidents 2 (J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Tobias Gregson; Mrs. Watson
Other Characters: Leslie Warboys; Mrs. Bodmer; Military Man; Cab Driver; Constable Rimbly; Gregson's Prisoner; Holmes' Messenger; Mrs. Warboys; Men on Engine; Norris Bodmer; Constables
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Goddington Street; Gregson's Hideout; Watson's House; Warboys' House; Scotland Yard; The Embankment; A Cab
Story: Warboys, a railway man, consults Holmes over an engine that has gone missing. When Watson visits the house of a retired driver, who Warboys has remembered recently commenting on the engine, he sees a military-looking man, whom Holmes identifies as being connected to a blackmail case over which Gregson is currently holding a man prisoner. It soon becomes apparent that the two cases are linked and that Scotland Yard itself is under attack.

Peter Cannon

"The Adventure of the Noble Husband" (1998)
Included in: The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson
Fictional Characters: (Adrian Mulliner)
Historical Characters: Louise Hawkins Doyle; Arthur Conan Doyle; Jean Leckie; P.G. Wodehouse; E.W. Hornung; Constance Hornung; Mary Doyle
(Jack Hawkins; Mary Conan Doyle; Kingsley Conan Doyle; Fletcher Robinson)
Other Characters: (Mason)
Date: Summer, 1900
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Lord's Cricket Ground; Paddington Station; Gloucester; The Everson; (Undershaw)
Story: Louise Doyle visits Holmes and tells him that she suspects her husband of having an affair. She says that he is involved in a literary feud, has taken up the banjo, and has been pressing snowdrops in books. When Doyle returns from South Africa, Holmes sends Watson to meet him at a cricket match at Lord's, where he finds him in the company of Jean Leckie. Doyle travels to Gloucester after a confrontation with his brother-in-law, Hornung, and Holmes follows him there, having learned of his destination from Wodehouse, to find him in the company of more than one woman.
"Sherlock Holmes and the Loss of the British Barque Sophy Anderson" (1996)
Included in: Resurrected Holmes (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Third Person Pastiche (in the style of C.S. Forester)
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Billy; Dr Watson; (Mycroft Holmes)
Other Characters: Sir Joseph Porter; Commander Henry Bush; Lt. Richard Hornblower; Lt. Patrick McCool; Captain George Budd, M.D.; Jack Luhulu; (Sophy Anderson Crew; Howard Grimes; Captain Koch; Nurse)
Date: 1887
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train; Portsmouth; Naval Headquarters; The Admiralty
Story: Admiralty Sea Lord Porter calls at Baker Street. The Sophy Anderson under command of Lt. Richard Hornblower (great-grandson of Horatio Hornblower) and sporting new experimental engines has sunk in the North Sea after an explosion. Porter asks Holmes to discover whether foreign agents were responsible for the sinking. He believes that a German submarine may have been behind the disaster, and that this may be part of a plot centred around the maritime events that will be a part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations. Holmes travels to Portsmouth to interview the ship's survivors. A comatose Polynesian steward seems to be the focus of Holmes's concern, and an impersonation brings the case to a close.

Caleb Carr

The Italian Secretary (2005)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; (Shinwell Johnson)
Historical Characters: Queen Victoria; (Mary, Queen of Scots; Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley; David Rizzio; Lord Salisbury; Edward VII)
Other Characters: Military Intelligence Officer; Naval Officer; Intelligence Men; Train Attacker; Lord Francis Hamilton; Gavin Hackett; Andrew Hackett; Mrs Hackett; Dennis McKay; Alison Mackenzie; Robert Sadler; "Likely Will" Sadler; Fife & Drum Barman; Fife & Drum Patrons; Colour Sergeant; Roxburghe Clerk; Garrison Commandant; Policemen; Duke of Hamilton; Golden-Haired Girl; Punjabi Shop Proprietor
(Sir Alistair Sinclair; Alec Morton; Jackson)
Date: September (before 1901)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Euston Station; Train; Scotland; Edinburgh; Prince's Street Station; Holyroodhouse; The Fife and Drum; Roxburghe Hotel; Edinburgh Castle; Balmoral Castle; Baker Street; Punjabi's Shop[
Story: Holmes receives a cryptic telegram from Mycroft summoning him to Scotland after the deaths of the architect and foreman involved in restoration work at Holyroodhouse. Holmes astonishes Watson by suggesting that the ghost of David Rizzio, the murdered secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots may be at the root of the killings. Travelling to Scotland they undergo a bomb attack on their train, and are accused of one of the murders. Mycroft tells them of a number of attempts on the Queen's life, and that the perpetrator of the latest has escaped from the prison ship on which he was being transported. At Holyrood they examine one of the victim's injuries, find a damsel in distress and a secret passage and hear a ghostly voice. After Holmes identifies those involved in the events at the palace, he and Watson arrange to be taken on an illicit ghostly tour of the palace, but instead come under siege from an enemy armed with mediaeval weaponry. Watson has an encounter with a spirit.
"The Adventure of the Conk-Singleton Papers" (1948)
Included in: The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye); The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sebastian Wolfe)
Story Type: Parody / Script
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Conk-Singleton; Professor Moriarty; (Porlock)
Historical Characters: (William Ewart Gladstone; Queen Victoria)
Other Characters: Narrator; (Lord Scarborough)
Date: 1st January, 1888
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Lord Cosmo Conk-Singleton visits Baker Street with letters sent between the Queen and the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister, it seems, has been poisoned by whiskey laced with prussic acid, sent to him as a Christmas present by the Queen. Holmes refuses to investigate, but reveals that one of the letters, and his client, are fakes, and that it is part of a plot to steal the Scarborough Emeralds.
"The Adventure of the Paradol Chamber" (1949)
Included in: The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sebastian Wolfe)
Story Type: Parody / Script
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Colonel Moran; (Inspector Lestrade; Tobias Gregson; Athelney Jones)
Historical Characters: (Queen Victoria)
Other Characters: Narrator; Lady Imogene Ferrers; M. De Marquis De Paradol; (Lord Matchlock; Men in Masks)
Date: August, 1887
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: After reading of Lord Matchlock's fainting spell, and deucing that he was wearing no trousers, Holmes and Watson are visited by his daughter, Lady Imogene, with a pair of trousers which had been thrown from a window of Buckingham Palace, where her father was in talks with the Queen and the French ambassador, de Paradol, who also arrives at Baker Street to get his pants back, which he had taken off in front of the Queen. A treaty, which was concealed in a copper lined chamber of the trousers has disappeared and a traitor is revealed in their midst.

Philip J. Carraher

"The Adventure of the Captive Forger" (2002)
Included in: Alias Simon Hawkes (Philip J. Carraher)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated in third person
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: William Marsden Lancaster; James Lancaster; Lancaster's Driver; Station Attendant; George; Annette Ballard; (Charles Buonocore)
Locations: New York; The Dead Rabbits Society, Prince Street; Fifteenth Street; Twenty-Ninth Street; The Bronx
Story: Called out to the Bronx to examine a possible forged painting, William Lancaster meets with a severe beating. He tells Holmes of a woman he believes is being held prisoner in the home of Buonocore, the man who called on his services. Holmes and the Lancasters travel back to the Bronx, where Holmes is able to locate the house William was taken to, but they arrive to find it in flames. William rescues the young woman, and they hear her story, and how her artistic skills nearly led to her death.
"The Adventure of the Glass Room" (2002)
Included in: Alias Simon Hawkes (Philip J. Carraher)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated in third person
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: Alwyn Pritchett; Detective Blaine; Patrolmen; Detective Cullen; Eileen Burgess; Parish; William Burgess; Gordon Burgess; (Charlotte Davreux; Mary Faliciano)
Date: August, 1893
Locations: New York; The Dead Rabbits Society, Prince Street; Pritchett's House
Story: Holmes is called to the scene of a murder-suicide. An acquaintance, Pritchett has apparently shot a medium, then himself, inside a locked glass compartment which he was using to test her abilities. Holmes's discovery of bloodstains outside the locked box, suggest that matters are not as straightforward as they seem.
"The Adventure of the Magic Alibi" (2002)
Included in: Alias Simon Hawkes (Philip J. Carraher)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated in third person
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Historical Characters: Inspector William "Big Bill" Devery; (Servais Le Roy)
Other Characters: David Conroy; Skeleton Attendants; Servants; Magicians; Band; Greenleaf's Guests; Clifford Greenleaf; Detective Cullen; Virginia Greenleaf; Harvey; Singing Newsboys; Dime Museum Barker; Patrolman Baker; Mrs. Durbin; Mrs. Victor Cleary; Joseph Taylor; Blake; Rat Catchers; Rat Baiting Crowd; Jane Montane (Jane Orleneff); Dead Rabbits Desk Clerk; Stableboys; Police officer; Ticket Seller; Grand Duke's Audience; Actors; Peter "Re-Pete" Orleneff; Hansom Driver; Alice Lake (Alice Steffens); Alice's Companion; Cushman's Bartender; Cushman's Musicians Cushman's Clientele; Burnt Rag Police officer; Johnny Dobbs; Policemen
Date: 1893
Locations: New York; The Pontseele House; The Dead Rabbits Society, Prince Street; Grand Street; The Bowery; Steve Brodie's Saloon; Fourteenth Street; Black Pete's Saloon; Montane's Apartment; Grand Duke's Theatre; The Tenderloin; Cushman's Palace of Delights; Bloomingdales; Brookstone's; The Burnt Rag Saloon
Story: At a Halloween party Greenleaf announces that he will disappear from a locked room into 'the spiritual world' and twenty witnesses, who are outside the room while he stages the disappearance, will be able to search it to prove he is not in there. When his wife is murdered in another part of the house during the stunt, he becomes the chief suspect, but claims that he had never left the room, and reveals the secret of his trick as proof. Cullen, convinced of his guilt, approaches Holmes, in New York in the guise of Simon Hawkes, to prove his suspicions. The following day, a showgirl, Montane, another of Greenleaf's guests is found dead of a drug overdose. After investigating her recent shopping expedition, Holmes begins to see the net closing around Mrs. Greenleaf's murderer. A false arrest and a re-enactment of the crime bring the case to an end.
"The Adventure of the Talking Ghost" (2002)
Included in: Alias Simon Hawkes (Philip J. Carraher)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated in third person
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: Broome Street Policemen; Detective George Blaine; Madam Tollier; Joseph Carter; Riley; Rosemary Lametta (Howard Mendelson; George O'Neil; Eleanora Carter; Laura Carter)
Date: December, 1893
Locations: New York; Lafayette Street; Broome Street; (Staten Island; Central Park)
Story: A former client of Holmes, Joseph Carter, has been shot by Tollier, a gypsy fortune teller, who says that he had tried to kill her to stop her contacting a spirit, after a Séance at which the spirit of Carter's daughter had appeared and stated that she had been murdered. Holmes's investigation reveals connections with his former case - the murder of Carter's wife.
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Dead Rabbits Society (2001)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated in third person by Watson
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Other Characters: Angela Costispoti; George Hammond; Charles Dunmore; Franklin Dunmore; Drunkard; Woman Tenant; Dead Rabbits Desk Clerk; Dead Rabbits Waiter; Jolly Pigeon Waiter; Edward Madden; Detective Hawthorne; Landau Driver; Amelia Hammond; William Huxley; Braxton; Dr. Rogers; Robert Costes; Benjamin Willis; Agatha Willis; Charlotte; Tramp; Detective Riley; Urchin; Rogers' Patients; Mrs. Costispoti; Mr. Costispoti; Dunmore's Bodyguard; Detective Cullen; Howard Lethbridge; Girls; Costes' Brother; Hammond's Driver; Hammond's Assailants; Holmes's Cook
Date: 1893
Locations: New York; The Brooklyn Bridge; The Dead Rabbits Society; Dunmore's House; Apartment Building Opposite Dunmore's; The Bend; The Jolly Pigeon, Cherry Street; A Landau; Brooklyn; Madden's Boarding House; A Train; Grand Hotel Station; Black Oak; Another Train; Lafayette Street; A Carriage; Rogers' Surgery; Willis's House; Costes' Parents' House; Another Landau; Costes' Apartment; Another carriage; Hester Street Italian Restaurant; Holmes's Home Outside London
Story: During the hiatus Holmes is in New York in the guise of Simon Hawkes, a Scotland Yard detective. He is called in by police to view the body of a pregnant girl who has thrown herself off the Brooklyn Bridge. A week later Franklin Dunmore, a fellow member of the Dead Rabbits Society, tells him of two attempts on his life - a strangling and a rifle shot - which he suspects his brother of being responsible for. He asks Holmes to investigate. After the body of a dead cat is found strung up in his room, Dunmore agrees to go into the country to stay with George Hammond. While there, another attack occurs, and Hammond's wife is killed by the bullet intended for Dunmore. Holmes journeys out to Black Oak to investigate. After returning to New York to interview the witnesses who have already left, Holmes discovers Dunmore's body, and later learns of the suicide of another of Hammond's guests, confessing to the murder. Holmes believes things are not that simple, and ultimately must bring about justice in his own way.
Sherlock Holmes in New York: The Adventure of the New York Ripper (2005)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated in third person and by Watson
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Captain W.C. Streeter; (Mycroft Holmes; The Moriarty Gang; Colonel Moran)
Historical Characters: Francis J. Tumblety; Mulatto Servant; (Wolfe Mandelbaum; Frederika Mandelbaum; Jack the Ripper; Chief Inspector Thomas Byrnes; Carrie Brown; James Jennings; Captain Richard O'Connor; Eddie Fitzgerald; Doran; Griffin; Inspector Alex Williams; Mary Miniter; C. Kniclo; Mamie Harrington; Frenchy / Ameer Ben Ali; Mary Ann Lopez; Kelly; Arbie La Bruckman; Frederick House; Inspector George 'Chesty' McClusky; Martha Tabram; George Collier; Dr Timothy R. Killeen; Henry Tabram; Ann Morris; Private; Corporal; P.C. John Neil; Polly Nicholls; Thrawl Street Residents; Ellen Holland; Mary Ann Monk; Emma Elizabeth Smith; Green Family; Walter Perkins; Annie Chapman; John Davis; John Pizer; Louis Diemschutz; Elizabeth Stride; George Morris; Constable Edward Watkins; Catherine Eddowes; Constable Alfred Long; George Lusk; Dr Thomas Openshaw; Dr Gordon Brown; Sir Charles Warren; Daniel Halse; Queen Victoria; Barnaby & Burgho; Robert Lees; Mary Kelly; Joseph Barnett; Thomas Bowyer; John McCarthy; James Whitehead; Mary Ann Cox; Sarah Lewis; Rose Mylett; Constable Robert Goulding; Constable Joseph Allen; Alice McKenzie; Dr George Bagster Phillips; Sir Melville Macnaghten; Montague John Druitt; Duke of Clarence; Aaron Kosminski; Thomas Neill Cream; Inspector John Littlechild [Littlefield]; Batty Street Landlady; Dr Lispenard; Philomene Dumas; Mrs McNamara; Margaret Tumblety; Patrick Tumblety; Michael Ostrog; Sir William Gull)
Other Characters: Sally "Rhyming Child" McBride; Kyosuke Ikegami; Dead Rabbits Members; Inspector Cullen; Rosie / Beverly Melas; Patrolmen; Carriage Driver; Nancy Putnam; Dixon; Kumiko Ikegami; Amy Ikegami; Carl Ikegami; Streeter; Powers Desk Clerk; Joseph Cushing; Ostlers; Stuart; Harold Whittier; Cushing's Son; Tumblety's Servant; Stableman; Pauper; Stableman; Clerk; Rochester Patrolman; Bobby; Grand Central Patrolman; Grand Central Crowds; Cab Driver; Preacher; Margaret "Old Maggie" Stoddard; Barbara Woodall; Mary / "Gentle" Sadie Chandler; Stable Watchman; New York Police
(Sally Jenkins; Coroner; Meyer; Sea Beach Staff; Mr Kelly; Rochester Police; Whittier's Cleaning Lady; Mr Hardin; Rochester Smithy; Chestnut Vendor; Ikegami's Kaishkumin)
Date: 1893 / 1911
Locations: New York; East Side Hotel; The Dead Rabbits Society; Prince Street; The Bowery; Alley; Delancey Street; Gouverneur Street; Water Street; Lafayette Street; The Battery; Ferry Terminal; Steamer; Brooklyn; Coney Island; Sea Beach Hotel; Rochester; Powers Hotel; Clarissa Street; Sophia Street; Cushing's Stable; Full Cups Pub; Stuart Stables; St Peter's Churchyard; 616, Weld Street; Grand Central Terminal; Henry Street; Old Maggie's Boarding House; Five Points; Elizabeth Street
Story: A prostitute, Rhyming Child, is murdered in New York. Holmes tells Watson of his investigation: in the city under his Simon Hawkes alias he is taken to the scene of another murder, against orders, by Inspector Cullen. The murder is similar to those of Jack the Ripper, and the city officials wish to keep it under wraps. An arrest has been made, but Cullen believes it is the wrong man. He also believes it may be connected to the murder of Carrie Brown in 1891, believed to be a copycat Ripper killing, and gives Holmes details of the earlier case and the embarrassment that the current one could cause to Chief Inspector Byrnes. More murders follow, including one of Holmes's friends. He wires Mycroft for details of the London Ripper killings, and on reviewing them, develops a theory as to the original Ripper's identity. He visits Rochester in search of his suspect, but it is a different man he follows back to New York, where the case reaches its conclusion.

Lenore Carroll

"Before the Adventures" (1977)
Included in: Murder, My Dear Watson (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower)
Story Type: Homage
Detectives: Budger & Doc
Historical Characters: H. Greenhough Smith
Other Characters: Ticket Agent; Dr. Morestone; Miss Morestone; Brougham Driver; Boy With Handcart; Maid
Locations: Doc's Rooms; The George & Dragon; Bankside; Harley Street
Story: Greenhough Smith receives a letter from "Doc" telling how he came to write stories about his famous detective character. He tells how, on returning home, wounded, from Afghanistan, he met the mysterious Budger, a man able to make startling deductions from simple observations. Budger claims to be a private agent, matching people up with those who require their services. By some discreet manipulations Budger is able to set Doc up as assistant to Dr. Morestains, and help him achieve literary success.

NOTE: Originally published in Baker Street Miscellany in 1977.

Susan Casper

"Holmes Ex Machina" (1995)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg)
Story Type: Science Fiction Homage
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes)
Other Characters: Dr John Watson; Gene; Sophie; Mike; Landers
Locations: Vid-Tech Offices
Story: Watson is working for Vid-Tech, transforming old 2-D movies to 3-D. When the only surviving copy of Godzilla vs the Smog Monster goes astray, he programs a holographic Holmes to assist in finding it.

Jules Castier

"The Footprints on the Ceiling" (1920)
Included in: The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen)
Story Type: Pastiche (in the style of Doyle's Professor Challenger stories)
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Fictional Characters: Austin; Mrs. Challenger; Professor Challenger; Edward Malone; Mr. McArdle; Lord John Roxton
Story: Professor Challenger has disappeared. Holmes sends Watson to the Daily Gazette to fetch Malone to help in the investigation. On the way to Challenger's home they meet Holmes and Roxton. Challenger's disappearance seems to be connected somehow to Zeeman's Phenomenon.

Michael Chabon

The Final Solution (2003)
Story Type: Third Person Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes (The Old Man)
Other Characters: Linus Steinman; Bruno the Parrot; Richard Woolsey Shane; Simon Parkins; Reggie Panicker; Reverend Panicker; Mrs Panicker; Detective Inspector Michael Bellows; Detective Constable Quint; Martin Kalb; Noakes; Woollett; Soldier; Mr Sackett; Colonel Threadneedle; Threadneedle's Driver; East Grinstead Policemen; Mrs Dunn; Postmaster; Young Women
(Mr Wilkes; Joseph Black; Satterlee; Fatty Hodges; Dr Julius Steinman; Le Colonel; Herr Obergruppenführer; Kalb's Brother)
Date: July, 1944
Locations: Sussex; The South Downs; Holmes's Cottage; The Vicarage; Hallows Lane; Police Station; Gabriel Park; The London Road; East Grinstead; London; Club Row; Black's Shop; Kalb's Rooms; Railway Station
Story: The old man sees a boy with a parrot on his shoulder walking along the railway tracks near his cottage. The parrot lists numbers in German. The boy indicates that he is German, but does not answer the old man's questions, or speak at all. At the Panickers' Vicarage-cum-boarding-house, Parkins has been keeping tabs on the parrot, which quotes Goethe & Schiller, and suspects that new arrival, Shane has been sent there for the same purpose. When Shane is murdered, and the parrot goes missing, the local police consult the old man. Panicker's son is arrested for the crime, but the old man believes him innocent. His investigations take him to an experimental dairy farm that may have a hidden agenda. The old man receives a visitor from London who fills in the boy's background. The old man, intercepting Panicker, extends his search for the bird to London where he witnesses the effects of the Blitz and reinterprets the boy's writings.

A. Bertram Chandler

"Hall of Fame" (1969)
(Also Published as "The Kinsolving's Planet Irregulars")
Included in: The Commodore at Sea (A. Bertram Chandler)
Story Type: Homage / Science Fiction
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Fictional Characters: Mephistopheles; Jeeves; Lady Macbeth; Hamlet; Frankenstein's Monster; Dracula; Robin Hood's Men; King Arthur's Knights; Dr. Faustus (Horatio Hornblower; Queeg; Captain Ahab; James Bond; Tarzan; Jane Porter; Mellors; Lady Chatterley)
Historical Characters: Buffalo Bill; A. Bertram Chandler (Noah)
Other Characters: Commodore John Grimes; Sonya Grimes; Admiral Kravinsky; Mayhew; Clarisse; Commander Williams; the Major of Marines; Mr. Tallent; Mr. Mackenzie; Mr. Briggs
Locations: The Rim Worlds; Port Forlorn; the spaceship Faraway Quest; Kinsolving's Planet; Faustus's Castle; Sherwood Forest; Camelot; Earth; the ship Kantara
Story: The Commodore's wife Sonya brings back Sherlock Holmes's pipe as a gift for him from her trip to Earth. Kravinsky sends the Commodore on an expedition to Kinsolving's planet, a planet where attempts at colonising have been unsuccessful: there is something psychologically strange about it. On Kinsolving's Planet Grimes soon finds himself in a world populated by characters from fiction, and a few confused souls (Buffalo Bill, Hamlet) who are no longer sure if they are real or fictional. Holmes & Watson approach him to reclaim Holmes's pipe. Later, Jeeves introduces him to some of the other residents and takes him to Dr. Faustus's castle, from where he finds himself on Earth, on the Kantara, in the cabin of his own creator, A. Bertram Chandler.

Arthur Chapman

"The Unmasking of Sherlock Holmes" (1905)
Included in: The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson
Fictional Characters: C. Auguste Dupin
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Dupin arrives in Baker Street, accuses Holmes of being a slavish imitator, and states that Poe's great virtue was that he knew when to stop writing about him. He condescends to admit, however, that Holmes is not really such a bad fellow.

Ian Charnock

"The Adventure of the Old Russian Woman" (1999)
Included in: The Elementary Cases of Sherlock Holmes (Ian Charnock)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Young Stamford
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Stamford; The Old Russian Woman (Olga Pleshkarova); Mycroft Holmes; (Baker Street Irregulars)
Historical Characters: Karl Marx
Other Characters: Dead Lamplighter; Police Sergeant; Library Assistant; Readers; Reading Room Staff; One-Armed Librarian; Oscar Lundholme; Holmes's Assistant; Constable; Sam Belcher; Tarantula-bitten Market Porter; Visiting Surgeon; Cyril Boddy; Alley Attacker; Policeman
Date: January
Locations: Bart's; Back Hill, Lodging House; British Museum Reading Room; Holmes' Montague Street Rooms; Hotel Russell Square; Kentish Town High Road; The Butcher's Arms; Boddy's Tobacconist; Alley; Diogenes Club; Pall Mall
Story: Holmes asks Stamford to accompany him in breaking into a lodging house. The adventure began in the British Museum Reading Room where the only other reader there aside from Holmes sat on a pin. He retrieves a paper thrown away by his fellow reader and attempts to decipher the Russian lettering on it, and begins to pay special attention to the man in order to learn more about his persecutor. He is particularly interested in an old Russian cleaning woman who he follows home, and from whose rooms he follows a young man. After visiting his tobacconist, Stamford saves Holmes from a stiletto attack in an alleyway. The full facts of the case are revealed during a visit to the Diogenes Club and an interview with Mycroft.
"The Case of Vamberry, the Wine Merchant" (1999)
Included in: The Elementary Cases of Sherlock Holmes (Ian Charnock)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Young Stamford
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Stamford; (Josiah) Vamberry; Inspector Lestrade; Brooks; Woodhouse; (Professor Moriarty; Victor Lynch)
Historical Characters: Louis Pasteur
Other Characters: Stamford's Mother; Stamford's Sister; The Cook; Stamford's Father; Alderman Roach; Stamford's Landlady; Inspector Craggs; Desk Sergeant; Mr Beal; Mr Wilson; Constable; Lawyer; (Mrs Craggs; Chief Inspector John Morrissey; Pinkertons Agent)
Locations: Bart's; Lee, Kent; Stamford's Family Home; Stamford's Lodgings; Lee Police Station; Vamberry's Wine Merchants
Story: Holmes is invited to a dinner given by Stamford's parents to meet Louis Pasteur. Holmes advises Stamford's father to pull his money out of Vamberry's wine business, which he deduces is not successful. Pasteur invites Holmes to France to work on the phylloxera problem affecting the vineyards there. After his return, Vamberry is murdered and Stamford's father arrested. Holmes visits the scene of the crime and with Lestrade, takes Vamberry's assistants, who are not who they claim to be, into police care, from which they are removed by a Chief Inspector who is alaso something other than he appears. Holmes discovers the man behind the crime, and the origin of the phylloxera.
"A Full Account of Ricoletti of the Club Foot & His Abominable Wife" (1999)
Included in: The Elementary Cases of Sherlock Holmes (Ian Charnock)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Young Stamford
Canonical Characters: Stamford; (Guglielmo Feliz) Ricoletti; Ricoletti's Abominable Wife (Angelina); Tobias Gregson
Folkloric Characters: The Abominable Snowman
Other Characters: Ricoletti's Audience; Rosa; Palace Audience; Cabby
Locations: Bart's; Leather Lane; Greville Street; Palace Music Hall
Story: Stamford encounters Ricoletti at Bart's, a former prizefighter who had disappeared for some length of time, he had previously earned money by displaying his club foot for the benefit of students there. He meets him again, with Holmes, playing a barrel organ and advertising the "Missing Link" on show at the Palace Music Hall. They attend the show and Holmes takes special interest in the creature, he also tells Stamford of two jewel robberies that occurred during Ricoletti's street performance. A murder and a battle with Ricoletti reveal the missing link between Ricoletti's wife and a Music Hall diva, the Missing Link, a pickpocket and the jewel robberies.
"The Record of the Tarleton Murders" (1999)
Included in: The Elementary Cases of Sherlock Holmes (Ian Charnock)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Young Stamford
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Stamford; (Inspector Lestrade)
Other Characters: Mrs Parsons; Major Hicks; Hodgson; The Hon. Thomas Wriggleton; Count Constantine Bellaysarius; Constable; Maid; Unhired Domestics; Hiring Fair Head Man; Madame Yalta; The Great Alcalde; Alexander Knox Pennington; Police; (The Hon. Clive Melvin Moreton-Ashbee; Mayan War Party)
Locations: Bart's; Train; Chipping Oversomer, Oxfordshire; Police Station; Sibberton Hall; Sheepstown-by-Stower; (Yucatan)
Story: Holmes shows Stamford the dead body of a woman and a news item on the death of Moreton-Ashbee. Travelling to the dead man's home, Holmes tells Stamford of his acquaintance with Moreton-Ashbee and his friends, the Festival Hams society, at Oxford, a dining society dedicated to demeaning its guests. They visit the coroner and attend the funeral where Stamford encounters the other Hams, Wriggleton & Bellaysarius. As they are leaving Wriggleton's sister brings news that her brother is dead. Returning to the house, Holmes learns that the dead man was found in a room identical to that in which the previous death occurred, and sharing a common chimney flue with it. Holmes finds a cigarette end that he does not recognise. His investigations lead him to a hiring fair looking for a man of South American origins. They learn the connection between the deaths in England and an expedition to the Yucatan, and Holmes is introduced to cocaine. He and Stamford rush back to the Hall to prevent another death.
"The Singular Affair of the Aluminium Crutch" (1999)
Included in: The Elementary Cases of Sherlock Holmes (Ian Charnock)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Holmes
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Inspector Lestrade
Other Characters: Delicia Ogilvy; Mary Ogilvy; Miss Slocombe; Tewson & Billings Head Clerk; Jarvey; Police Sergeant; (Algernon Berry; Detective; Mrs Berry)
Locations: Montague Street; 34, Percy Terrace, Shepherd's Bush; Tewson & Billings' Office
Story: Holmes tells Stamford of his first case after having placed his first newspaper advertisement calling for clients. Delicia Ogilvy consulted him over the disappearance of her fiancé, Berry, a crippled scientist. He vanished in his own house leaving behind only his crutch. Holmes examines the man's home and notices a burning smell in the lab and a large amount of ash in the grate. He also finds burn marks on the man's crutch, which is surprisingly light even though it seems to be made of teak. Interviewing the staff he learns that the cook is Miss Ogilvy's mother. While pondering the solution, Holmes encounters Lestrade for the first time, who reveals that Berry's body has been found in the Thames. Holmes now has to prove to the police that his client is innocent of murder. His final solution meets with no approval.

Agatha Christie

"The Case of the Missing Lady" (1929)
Included in: Partners in Crime (Agatha Christie); The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen)
Story Type: Homage
Fictional Characters: Tommy & Tuppence Beresford
Story: Tommy & Tuppence of Blunt's Brilliant Detectives emulate Holmes in their attempt to help Arctic Explorer, Gabriel Stavansson, trace his missing fiancée, the Honourable Hermione Crane. When they finally locate her in Maldon, Sussex, the play is not nearly as foul as they expected.

Note: In each story in Christie's PARTNERS IN CRIME Tommy & Tuppence adopt the techniques of a different fictional detective. The version published in Ellery Queen's THE MISADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES is a conflation of chapter 3 "The Affair of the Pink Pearl", and chapter 9 "The Case of the Missing Lady".

Anatole Chujoy

"The Adventure of the Turned Worm" (1955)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Other Characters: Band of the Grenadier Guards; Ticket Seller; Audience; Charles Ghoti; Charles Fish
Date: August Bank Holiday
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Embankment; Embankment Gardens
Story: Holmes & Watson run into Lestrade at a band concert. He has solved a forgery case and arrested one of the men involved, but cannot find his accomplice. He has the man's name, Charles Ghoti, and his address in an apartment block, but there are fifty apartments, no one knows the name, and he cannot get a warrant to search them all. Watson is able to suggest the name he ought to look for.

F.P. Cillié

"The Adventure of the Second Stain" (1967)
Also published as "The Adventure of the Green Empress"
Included in: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Richard Lancelyn Green)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Dubuque; Fritz von Waldbaum; (Mary Morstan; Watson's Patient)
Other Characters: A Cabbie; Lord Malton; Lady Elizabeth Malton; The Duke of Lindford; Major Hugo Dashwood; Sir Graham Hylton-Smith; Cabman; (Johnson; James Morgan; Lucy; Beryl; Cathy)
Date: Monday 23rd, July, 1888
Locations: The East End; A Public House; A Cab; Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street; Another Cab; Summerdowne
Story: After Holmes makes a series of deductions about a visitor to Baker Street from his walking stick, the man himself, Lord Malton, the Secretary for War arrives and tells of the disappearance of an emerald, the Green Empress from his wife's bedroom. Returning to her room unexpectedly, Lady Malton discovered her brother, the Duke of Lindford - known to be in financial difficulties - standing with her jewelry box in his hands, the emerald ring gone. A search of his room failed to turn up the stone. Dubuque & Von Waldbaum have been hired, but have failed to make any progress. Examining Lady Elizabeth's room, Holmes finds a recent inkstain in a drawer, and points out to Watson the significance of there being no second stain. A search of the house's refuse bins yields up an ink-stained handkerchief. After an interview with Lindford, Holmes calls together Malton, Dubuque and von Waldbaum, and displays the stolen emerald, which he then proceeds to smash, and announces that this is a case not of theft, but of fraud. The motive for the disappearance of the ring, he says, is gambling debts, and goes on to tell the facts of the matter, the significance of the missing stain, and the dreadful choice Lindford had to make.

David N. Cisler

"The Problem of the Sussex Scalping" (2003)
Included in: Curious Incidents 2 (J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Historical Characters:
Other Characters: Eliza Savegin; Peter Savegin; Abigail Savegin; Rail Passengers; Roger Warren; Manservant; Sir Roger Warren; Shepherd, The Butler; Stableboys; Cabby; 'Skinny' Skolnic; Mrs. Roberts; Thomas Packard; Charlie; Constable; Constable Jones; Sergeant Neal
Date: A Monday in Early January, 1891
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train; Sussex; Lewes; Roger's Carriage; Brantworth Manor; The White Hart; The Crown Inn; A Dogcart; A Bakery; A Stable; The Twittens
Story: Holmes learns that a former client, Eliza Savegin, daughter of Sir Ronald Warren, has been kidnapped and her husband, Peter, disappeared. Eliza's father has received a ransom note and her cut-off hair. Holmes believes the husband to have been involved in a similar case before, and so, likely to be responsible for, rather than a victim of, the events. Examining the Savegin's rooms, Holmes discovers a football schedule, a visit to a bakery opposite a stable provides him with further evidence, and he is able to explain the events behind the disappearance.

Simon Clark

"The Adventure of the Falling Star" (1997)
Included in: The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike Ashley)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Other Characters: Professor Charles Hardcastle; Cabbie; Maid; Edward Hardcastle; Dr. Columbine; Clarkson the Gardener; Police
Locations: A Four-Wheeler; The Strand; Hampstead; Hardcastle's House
Date: June
Story: Holmes is summoned by an old acquaintance, Professor Hardcastle, to investigate the disappearance of a meteorite from a collection in his locked laboratory. The meteorite reappeared in his son's bedroom the following day. When Holmes & Watson arrive at the Professor's home, they find him raving in the garden clutching some sprigs of thyme, amongst which he has found another of his meteorites, again in his son's bedroom. He suggests that the thyme links the disappearances to an old colleague, Dr. Columbine, who has been dead for five years.
"Nightmare in Wax" (2003)
Included in: Shadows Over Baker Street (Michael Reaves & John Pelan)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche narrated by Moriarty, Holmes & Watson
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Professor Moriarty; Victor Hatherley; Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: Watson's Visitors; Dr. Cowley; Village Creatures; Navvies; Soldiers; (Father Solomon Buchanan)
Locations: Watson's House; A Train; Burnston
Date: 1915 & November 1st, 1903
Story: Three high-ranking government officials bring Watson a phonograph cylinder on which Moriarty has recorded an account of his attempt to use the Necronomicon to become all-powerful. He is journeying by train to the location of a lost village, Burnston, which had been drowned beneath the North Sea and which he has hired a company of hydraulic engineers to recover. The navvies have discovered living creatures in the village which have, according to Hatherley who has stopped the train to inform Moriarty of events, started attacking them.

Logan Clendening, M.D.

"The Case of the Missing Patriarchs" (1934)
Included in: The Misadventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen); Profile By Gaslight (Edgar W. Smith)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Historical / Fictional Characters: Adam; Eve; Jehovah
Story: Dead and in Heaven, Holmes is called upon by Jehovah to locate the missing Adam & Eve.