Paula Cohen

"The Adventure of the Dog in the Nighttime" (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; Mrs Watson
Other Characters: Hilda Blakey; Robby the Dog; Ellen McCadden; Edwin Prentice; Gregory McCadden; (Mr Farrington; Mc Cadden's Captain & Shipmates)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; St John's Wood; Miss Blakey's Cottage; Gatti's Ice House
Date: November, 1890 - January, 1891
Story: Holmes is consulted by Hilda Blakey after her sister's two children, the daughter blind, who live with her, disappear. She tells him of a shipmate of Gregory's who has been paying court to her niece, but whom she doesn't trust because of his strange behaviour around the house and his smooth hands. Holmes and Watson arrive at Miss Blakey's cottage to find it ransacked and her dog dead. When they finally track down the kidnapper, help comes from an unexpected source.

Howard Collins

"The Affair of the Politician, the Lighthouse, and the Trained Cormorant" (1947)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Wilson the Canary Trainer {Victor Conk-Singleton Wilson}
Other Characters: Pig & Whistle Proprietor; Stanley Smith-Mortimer
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train; Little-Tooting-by-the-Sea; The Pig & Whistle; The Lighthouse
Date: September, 1887
Story: Wilson falls into the Baker Street sitting room. He tells Holmes that he is the lighthouse keeper at Little-Tooting-by-the-Sea, and that his trained cormorant Gwendolyn has lately taken to sitting motionless on top of the lighthouse and ignoring him: he believes she is being poisoned by a stranger he has seen lurking near the lighthouse. The lighthouse looks out to the Island of Uffa, once home of the Grice Patersons, suspected wreckers of the Sophy Anderson. The Netherlands-Sumatra company's ship Friesland, with a cargo of giant rats is due to sail past the lighthouse: Holmes suspects Moriarty is going to sink her. Travelling to Little-Tooting, Holmes & Watson examine the stranger's hotel room. Lying in wait by the lighthouse they observe the stranger, who Holmes now knows to be the antiquarian, Smith-Mortimer, feeding the cormorant. Watson sneezes and scares him off, but they manage to corner him in his room where the truth behind his activities is revealed.

Michael Collins

"Cross of Gold" (2004)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years (Michael Kurland)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Daniel Fortune
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Fictional Characters: Dan Fortune
Historical Characters: (Jon Sontag; Chris Evans)
Other Characters: Tadeusz Jan Fortunowski; Colin "Condor" Cameron; Fortunowski's Second Wife; Racetrack Physician; John J. McKane; Exercise Boys; Andrew Evans; Policemen
Date: Spring - Summer, 1893
Locations: New York; A Seventh Street Tenement; Brooklyn; Sheepshead Bay; Racetrack Stables; Jail
Story: Cameron is found dying in his racetrack stables and recent immigrant stablehand Fortunowski is accused of his murder. An Englishman visits him in jail and announces his intention of proving his innocence. Fortunowski is released from jail and taken by Chief McKane and the Englishmen to a tenement where the roots of the murder are revealed to lie in Californian railways and outlaws.

Joe Cooper

"The Case of the Yorkshire Fairies" (1990)
Included in: The Case of the Cottingley Fairies (Joe Cooper)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Historical Characters: Arthur Conan Doyle; Edward Gardner; (Arthur Wright; Polly Wright; Elsie Wright; Annie Griffiths; Frances Griffiths)
Date: Early August, 1920
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; (Cottingley)
Story: Doyle & Gardner bring two of the Cottingley Fairies photographs to Holmes for analysis. Holmes concludes that they are fakes, and describes the evidence in the photographs that leads him to this conclusion.

Tracy Cooper-Posey

Chronicles of the Lost Years (1999)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Professor Moriarty; The Moriarty Gang; The Baker Street Irregulars; Colonel Moran; Mrs. Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; Tobias Gregson; Wiggins
Other Characters: Elizabeth Sigerson; Two Cabbies; Matron; Elizabeth's Guard; Other Guards; Hotel porter; Desk Clerk; Telegram Boy; Straker; Elizabeth's Assailant; Al-Sahib Crowds; Sullah's Attackers; Children; Sullah Muhammad Zia-ad-din Ahmad; Sullah's Men; Doctor; Tayisha; Sheba; Mary; Sullah's Guests; Lord Barrington Edgewater; Carlo Ricco; Young Man; Sullah's Caravan; Caravan Guards; Bandits; Ch'ang T'i; Ts'e; Ts'iang; Ts'iang's Family; Bandits; Guide; Elise; Hyde Park astrollers; Stableboys; Mrs. Thacker; Horace Thacker; Cartwright; Hansom Driver; Desk Clerk; Station Clerk; Lestrade's Men; Camden House Occupants; Dartmoor Prison Governor; Prisoners; Workman; Watson's Watchers; Watson's Double; Docker; Indian; Elizabeth; Beatrice O'Connor; Sikmah Rijkmah; Sikmah's Guards; Sikmah's Desk Clerk; Captain Sarawan; Dock Workers; Andhra's Pride Crew; Majah; Bobbies; Watson's Guide; (Dartmoor Shepherd)
Date: January, 1891 - March, 1904
Locations: Watson's Consulting Rooms; A Hansom; 221B, Baker Street; Another Hansom; Elizabeth's Home; Dockside Warehouse; Victoria Station; A Train; Canterbury; Strasburg; Dartmoor; Reichenbach Falls; Meiringen; The Englischer Hof; An Alpine Hut; Italy; Florence; A Hotel; A Hostel; Constantinople; An Inn; The Hagia Sophia; Al-Sahib Square; Sullah's Palace; Persia; The Elburz Mountains; Sullah's Home; Tibet; Ts'iang's Village; Khartoum; Omdurman; Aden; Marseilles; Montpelier; Hyde Park; Baker Street; A Hansom Cab; A Train; Perth; Hotel; Station; Train; The Diogenes Club; Camden House; Another Train; Dartmoor Prison; Oxford Street; Bloomsbury; Bethnal Green; Whitechapel; Elizabeth's Hideout; Sikmah's Hostel; Wiggins' Rooms; Docks; Aboard The Andhra's Pride; Warehouse; Teheran; Mashhad
Story: Holmes tells Watson of a set of clothes found buried on Dartmoor. Although they resemble men's clothes, he says they were actually tailored for a woman. A month later, while Holmes is in France, Watson receives a patient, Elizabeth Sigerson, who exactly matches Holmes's description of the clothes' owner. Holmes returns the clothes to her, failing to learn the story of their provenance, but shortly thereafter Elizabeth is captured by Moriarty. After rescuing her, Holmes decides that the three of them must flee to Europe until Moriarty's gang has been rounded up by the police. In Strasburg he learns that this has happened, but Moriarty has escaped. He tries to send Watson & Elizabeth back to London, but they insist on staying with him. During their travels Elizabeth tells them how she came to kill a man on Dartmoor.

After Holmes's (and Elizabeth's) disappearance at Reichenbach & eventual return to London, Watson becomes jealous of his new closeness to Elizabeth. She tells him of their adventures after the death of Moriarty.

Holmes & Elizabeth flee Reichenbach with Moran in pursuit. In Constantinople, Elizabeth rescues a tall man from an attack by three Arabs, believing he is Holmes. She & Holmes flee the scene, but are captured and taken to the home of Sullah, the man they saved. After a dinner party at Sullah's palace Holmes & Elizabeth begin a physical relationship. Sullah invites them to travel to his home in Persia as guards for his caravan. After arriving there, Holmes decides they will visit Tibet. Arriving in that country they come across a lone pregnant woman. After assisting with the birth, they travel to her village, where they stay for two years, living as goatherds. After Holmes visits the Llama [sic] in Lhasa, they begin the journey home, receiving a telegram from Mycroft which sends them to Khartoum, from where Holmes travels to Omdurman to meet the Khalifa, and eventually to Montpelier where Holmes reads of the Adair murder. Three years later Sullah comes to England, bringing Holmes & Elizabeth's horses with him. He advises Watson to make Elizabeth's existence public knowledge, but Watson decides not to.

In 1903 Holmes travels to Perth to investigate the disappearance of a draper. On his arrival a telegram from Mycroft is waiting calling for his return to London. The case was a ruse to lure him away while Elizabeth was kidnapped. as they examine the wrecked Baker Street sitting room Lestrade arrives with the news that Moran has escaped from prison. Later a shot through the window wounds Holmes, who sends Mycroft, Watson, Gregson & Lestrade over to Camden House to apprehend the shooter. When they return, after failing to find anyone, he has disappeared. Watson travels to Dartmoor Prison with Lestrade and learns the details of Moran's escape, and about his sister, Beatrice O'Connor, who he feels cannot be considered as part of the plot.

Aware that he is being watched, Watson stays in Baker Street for several days. Then, on an outing to Oxford Street he spots Wiggins, who he follows, eventually being taken to Holmes, who has tracked Moran & Elizabeth to a hostel run by the Indian, Sikmah. The final showdown between Holmes & Moran comes aboard a sinking ship, but Holmes fails to find Elizabeth.

Jay Coote

"The Modern Radio Sleuth" (1929)
Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey)
Story Type: Educational Pastiche
Detectives: Sheerluck Coames & Dr Botson
Date: November
Locations: Coames's Dacre Street Chambers
Story: Coames has become interested in radio, and installed a receiver set in his Dacre Street rooms. Botson arrives, asking Holmes to help identify the origins of foreign transmissions featuring the song of a nightingale, the word "Allah", a language which Coames identifies as Esperanto. He proceeds to give Botson tips on identifying overseas broadcasters.

Basil Copper

"The Adventure of the Haunted Rectory" (1980)
Included in: The Uncollected Cases of Solar Pons (Basil Copper)
Story Type: Pastiche
Detectives: Solar Pons & Dr. Lyndon B. Parker
Canonical Equivalents: Mrs. Johnson = Mrs. Hudson
Other Characters: Duke of Porchester; Passers-by; Mr. Barker; Porchester's Chauffeur; Elizabeth Stuart; Trap Driver; Hannah; Major Alan Kemp; Reverend Isaac Stokesby; Brackett & Prall's Representative; Judson Higgins; Higgins' Companion; Jethro Carpenter; Munro Slater; (Reverend Stuart; Mrs. Stuart; Stuart's Doctor; Intruder; Police Sergeant; Constable; Elizabeth's Legal Practice Friend; Jeremy Stuart; Inspector Jamison; Bancroft Pons; Sir Roger Cresswell; Dartmoor Prison Warden; Prison Nurse)
Date: Early June
Locations: Regent Street; Piccadilly Circus; Haymarket; 7B, Praed Street; A Train; Haslemere Station; Grassington, Surrey; The Old Rectory; The Church; The Cresswell Arms; Godalming; Surrey Observer Office; (Cresswell Manor; Dartmoor Prison)
Story: Pons is called on by Elizabeth Stuart to investigate a prowler who seems to have a special interest in the books in her late rector father's study. Pons travels to Grassington and on examining the books the intruder was looking at, discovers a slip of paper with Bible verses written on it in one of them. Pons breaks the code, which leads to hidden treasure, and after retrieving it he places an advertisement about the sale of Stuart's book in the local paper hoping to lure in the intruder. After discovering that the paper has disappeared after the book-viewing, Pons and Parker lie in wait in the church for their man.

"The Adventure of the Persecuted Painter" (1997)
Included in: The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike Ashley)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs. Hudson
Other Characters: Aristide Smethurst; Eveline Reynolds; Eveline's Aunt; Jabez Crawley; Amos Hardcastle; Jacob Ashton; Manager of the George & Dragon; Carriage Driver; Hardcastle's Receptionist; Waiter at The George & Dragon; Mrs. Hobbs
Date: March, 1895
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train; A Country Station; Parvise Magna; The George & Dragon Inn; A Carriage; Smedhurst's Cottage; The Quarry; Hardcastle's office; Reynolds' House; A Cave in the Quarry; Hardcastle's House
Story: Smedhurst, a painter & writer, moved to Dorset two years ago, to be near a young lady, Reynolds, to whom he had formed an attachment. Since then he has been persecuted - his house searched, noises in the night, a face at the window - and shot at. Holmes & Watson travel down to Dorset & examine the cottage & a nearby quarry. Holmes tells Smedhurst to leave town, and ensures that the lawyer responsible for the sale of the house, Smedhurst's estranged fiancée, and the man Smedhurst believes she has taken up with, are all aware of his absence, and he and Watson begin a late night vigil in the cottage.

Necropolis (1980)
Story Type: Victorian Gothic featuring Canonical Figures
Canonical Characters: Inspector Lestrade; Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Other Characters: Clyde Beatty; Mrs. De Carton; Dotterell; Angela Meredith; Tredegar Meredith; Dr. Horace Couchman; Mrs. Throgmorton; Meredith's Parlour Maid; Cabby; London Bridge Station Clerk; London Bridge Station Ticket Collector; Elderly Lady Passenger; Elderly Gentleman Passenger; Trap Driver; Woking Ticket Collector; Woking Cab-Driver; White Horse Waiter; Toby Stevens; White Horse Landlord; Miss Price; Brookfield Inmates; Black-Bearded Attendant; Mad Bess; Ladies On Woking Station; Dr. John Rossington; Inspector Munson; Munson's Driver; Cemetery Attendants; Bateman; Lewis Archer; James Varley; Bateman's Manservant; White Horse Clientele; Ostler; Messenger; Cronk; McMurdo's Clerk; Mrs. Varley; Chophouse Waiter; McMurdo's Customers; Patriolling Constable; Drunken Carter; Beatty's Cab Driver; Cab Passengers; Waterloo Station Crowds; Waterloo Ticket Collector; Undertakers' Mutes; Clergymen; Undertakers; Station Master; Mourners; London Necropolis Company Representative; Sation Workers; Farm Workers; Station Buffet Assistant; Abraham Beardsley; Teashop Clientele; Teashop Waitress; Sir Inigo Walton; Bank Messenger; Bank Customers; Bank Clerks; Muirhead; Penrose; Inspector Bull; Mrs. Cleek; McMurdo's Men; Dr. Sanders; Mrs. Grice; Beatty's Parlour-Maid; South Bank Crowds; Policemen; Dorn; Bank Clerk; Connors; Standish; Peters; Prostitutes; Chestnut Seller; Girl; Child-Mute; Hearse Driver; Alasdair Vail; McMurdo; Constable; Sergeant Bassett; Ticket Inspector; Buffet Proprietor; Lestrade's Men; Train Driver; Train Guard; Lowell; Balsover; Freight Train Driver; Villagers; Constable Turner; Fireman; Railway official; Rosalind; (Mrs. Stevens; Angela's Aunt)
Date: January
Locations: Holborn; Beatty's office; A Cab (Cheapside; London Bridge); Tooley Street; London Bridge Station; A Train (New Cross; Norwood; Croydon; Caterham Junction; Merstham Tunnel); Reigate; A Train (Holmesdale Valley; Box Hill Tunnel; Dorking); Guildford; A Train; Woking; The White Horse Hotel; Stevens' Cab; Brookfield Nursing Home; Woking Station; Brookwood Cemetery; St John's Wood; Meredith's House; Brookwood House; Elgin Terrace; McMurdo & Co.; Chophouse; Cab; Blackfriars Bridge; Waterloo-road Station; The Ghost Train; Station Buffet; Teashop; City & Suburban Bank; Cheyne Walk; Beatty's House; The South Bank; McMurdo's Central Depot; McCorqudale's Funeral Parlour; The Firs
Story: Angela Meredith hires private investigator, Clyde Beatty, to investigate the death of her banker father who she suspects has been murdered. He travels to Woking to interview the man's doctor, Couchman, who runs an asylum. The dead man's body is exhumed from its grave in Brookwood Cemetery, but a post-mortem by Beatty's friend, Rossington, reveals nothing. When they report to Miss Meredith, they learn from a photo of her father that they have examined the wrong body. They return to the cemetery, and discover that Meredith had indeed been poisoned. Before they can question Couchman he flees to London. Beatty receives word from Munson, the Woking Police Inspector, that the cemetery foreman has been found dead in London. Couchman was at the scene of the death, and Beatty trails him to Blackfriars Bridge, but is unable to prevent him taking his own life. He returns to the cemetery on "The Ghost Train", a special train carrying coffins and mourners from London to the cemetery, and with his assistant, Dotterell goes to investigate some workman's huts, which he has twice been warned away from.

Meanwhile, Inspector Bull is called in by the City & Suburban Bank (at which Meredith had worked), to advise on security after a series of bullion robberies in the city. Beatty discovers a tunnel in one of the sheds, but is knocked unconscious and left for dead before he can investigate further. He lures the cemetery under-foreman, Beardsley, to London, but is again thwarted in his plans by the man's death. Angela arranges for Beatty to advise the bank on security measures, and he begins to look into the bullion robberies.

Beatty travels again on the Ghost Train, back to the cemetery, this time accompanied by Lestrade and some of his men to bring matters to a head. At the end of the adventure Holmes & Watson are seen passing by Beatty's house.

Solar Pons Versus the Devil's Claw (written 1977 / published 2004)
Story Type: Pastiche
Detectives: Solar Pons & Dr. Lyndon B. Parker
Canonical Equivalents: Mrs. Johnson = Mrs. Hudson
Other Characters: Hugh Mulvane; Two Elderly Clerics; Andrew Peters; Inspector Stone; James Tolpuddle; Constable Entwhistle; Sarita Peters; Angela Coutts; Sybil Masterson; Vincent Tidmarsh; Smithers; Ironmonger; Librarian; Sheldon; Woman in Post Office; Villagers; Cab Driver; Motherly Woman; Estate Workers; Sergeant; Amos Brown; Man in Turban; Bicyclist; Students; Peters' Housekeeper; Sergeant Matthews; Two Constables; Brice
(Roscoe Abernathy; Simon Hardcastle; Dr. Erik Backer; Sidona Sheldon; Poacher; Inspector Stapleton; Police Surgeon; Professor John Brewer; Parker's Locum; Pons' Friend at Somerset House)
Date: Early January
Locations: 7B, Praed Street; A Train; Buckinghamshire; Chalcroft; Railway Station; Chalcroft Manor; Cemetery; Ironmonger's Shop; Library; Post Office; Tea Shop; Chalcroft College; Yeoman's; The Folly
Story: Pons is consulted by Mulvane whose uncle, Hardcastle, has been found dead, no marks on his body and a look of loathing on his face, and by the body were footprints, neither animal nor human, which had often been seen in the district, known locally as the devil's claw. Mulvane tells how he moved to Chalcroft at his uncle's request, and how a few months previously the locals had suddenly become hostile towards him, a situation his uncle seemed to relish. He tells Pons that his uncle had told him that he had been threatened by the secret Ram Dass Society. A well as seeing the strange footprints, Mulvane has also heard a strange whistling on a number of occasions, a tune identified by Pons as 'The Devil's Waltz'. On the night of his uncle's death he had followed him to the cemetery attached to the house and into a lighted mausoleum there where he was knocked unconscious.
Pons and Parker travel to Chalcroft where they learn the police surgeon's findings on the means of death. Pons examines the murder scene, the tomb, and the dead man's office where he finds a burned scrap of paper. From the Manor staff he learns more of Hardcastle's character, and at a dinner given by Mulvane he meets some of Hardcastle's neighbours. While Pons carries on his investigations in the village and by phone, the estate manager is attacked. Parker sees a man in a turban. A search for Hardcastle's will meets with little success. A second attempt on the estate manager is made before a local bookmaker comes looking for him. Pons lays a trap in a ruined folly to bring the murderer to justice.

NOTE: The book's cover artwork by Les Edwards uses Peter Cushing as the model for Solar Pons, and, rather bizarrely, Stratford Johns as Dr. Parker.

NOTE 2: On page 52 Pons "pull[s] gently at the lobe of his left ear", a nervous habit shared with Sax Rohmer's Sir Denis Nayland Smith.

Alan Coren

Arthur and the Great Detective (1979)
Story Type: Children's Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Inspector Lestrade
Historical Characters: William S. Gilbert; Sir Arthur Sullivan
Other Characters: Passengers; Arthur William Foskett; Captain; Chief Steward; Stewards; New York Policeman; Bosun; Red-Bearded Man; Duchess of Cricklewood
Locations: Aboard The SS Murgatroyd in the Atlantic Ocean
Story: Arthur meets Holmes & Watson aboard the SS Murgatroyd. Taking a stroll on the deck, he & Holmes find the bosun singing in the lifeboat, then run into a man in a false beard. Holmes pursues, but loses, him. They hear Watson shouting from the dining room, and find him grappling with a figure who turns out to be Lestrade, aboard ship guarding the "Scarlet Horace", a jewel belonging to the Duchess of Cricklewood. Arthur meets Gilbert & Sullivan. The manuscript of Patience has been stolen, along with a trunk of props & costumes from Gilbert's cabin. Holmes sets off in pursuit of the red-bearded man. Arthur examines the cabin, learns that the chief steward and the bosun are both leaving the ship at the end of the voyage, and discovers the red-bearded man's cabin. Holmes rushes to the cabin and the man's secret is revealed. Gilbert & Sullivan are astonished when Arthur is able to play a tune from the manuscript, and he reveals the reason for its disappearance.

An East Wind Coming (1979)
Story Type: Philosophical Science Fiction
Canonical Characters: The Consulting Detective; The Good Doctor; A Surfeit of Red-Headed Men
Fictional Characters: The Wolfman; The Ace Reporter = Lois Lane; The Lawyer = "Ham" Brooks; The Fat Man = Kaspar Gutman; The Universal Op = The Continental Op; The Gunsel = Wilmer the Gunsel; The Incredible Hulk; Otto of the Silver Hand; Fu Manchu (?) = Monarch in Yellow Robes; The Wizard of Whoopee = The Unknown Comic; The Unknown Comedian = The Unknown Comic; (The Other Fat Man = Nero Wolfe; The Big Red Cheese = Captain Marvel)
Historical Characters: Jack the Ripper; The Mature Eternal Child = Elvis Presley; The Colonel = "Colonel" Tom Parker; (The Hermit = L. Ron Hubbard)
Other Characters: Eternal Children; The Man in the Yellow Suit; The Demon; The Demon's Tapeworm; The Beautiful Woman; The Bird Woman; Shrike; Batelur Eagle; Bird of Light; The Woman Without a Nose; Good Doctor's Lover; Dark-Haired Woman Carrying a Rusty, Blunted Sword; The Editor; The Tatterdemalion; The Eighth-Dimensional Man; The Eighth-Dimensional Woman; The Pubescent Eternal Child; The Soprano; The Terrible; Two Cheerleaders; The Thinking Machine; The Shrink; The Shrew; Newspaper Staff; The Old Man; The Minstrel; The Stage Manager / Bernie / The Armadillo of Destruction; Captive Actors; The Invisible Individual; The Wanderer; The Wanderer's Shadow; The Woman in the Black Veil; Pubescent Eternal Child with a Guitar; Third Victim; Kitty; Woman Playing a Flute; Seller of Speculations; The Doughnut-Mix Specialist; Waitress; Skinny Waitress; Diner Customers; Emotional Derelicts; Hip Dude; Slut in Leopard Skin; Man with a Face like a Mandrill; Depressed Woman; The Cubical Man; Dashing Blond Swordsman; Grim Man with a Mace; Fat Buffoon; Joy Legion Official; Suspect
Date: Two million years in the future
Locations: The Forest; The Golden City; The East End; A Bridge; The Demon's Castle; The Locker Room; Consulting Detective's Apartment; The Fields; Africa; The Jungle; The Deserted Neighborhood; The Newspaper Office; The Mature Eternal Child's Mansion; The Soprano's Cottage; The Terrible's Castle; The Park; Thinking Machine's Mountain; The Shrink's Office; The Eibon Theatre; The Land of Melodious Comets; The Lawyer's Quarters; The Ripper's Apartment; A Diner; The Joy Mission; The Tatterdemalion's Apartment
Story: Men have been turned into godlike men and the lawyer, the demon and the fat man have instilled depression upon them in the hopes that it will lead to them achieving their full potential. The East End a squalid area of the golden city has grown out of godlike man's wishes and many godlike men and women are moving there.

The wolfman enters the city, but as he is about to attack the ace reporter he is teleported back to the forest by the consulting detective who warns the reporter not to move to the East End. He tells the good doctor that he believes a murderer will appear for the first time. The lawyer's only love, Kitty, has disappeared and the detective has passed the case on to the universal op. The lawyer's walk is interrupted by the man in the yellow suit's unsuccessful suicide attempt. The man in the yellow suit suggests that the murderer may not be extraordinary, but may be very ordinary. The demon teleports to Africa to meet his love, the bird woman. The woman without a nose is murdered in the East End. After all the reporters leave, the fat man becomes editor of the newspaper. The detective trades rags for answers with the tatterdemalion. The questioning continues through a range of potential suspects and witnesses. A letter is received from the ripper. The demon brings the bird woman to assist in the hunt, but they cannot prevent another murder. More suspects are interviewed, and the rampant sexism between godlike men and women is highlighted by the shrew and another letter from the ripper appears on the fat man's desk during his interview with her. The minstrel disappears from the theatre lobby just after the universal op has promised to protect him from the stage manager who is turning people into zombies. On the stage the op finds hundreds of glowing cocoons from which vampire moths hatch and attack. When he finally encounters the stage manager he finds him to be an old acquaintance. The wanderer has been separated from his shadow, which he believes is trying to kill him. The man in the yellow suit is side-tracked to another planet by the woman in the black veil. The consulting detective encounters Kitty, who hints at the reasons for her disappearance and who is the only truly happy person he has met. Two more murders take place that night, Kitty being one of the victims, and the op is bested in a scuffle with the ripper. The consulting detective sets out after the ripper but does not succeed in catching him. The ripper attends a show at the Joy Mission but is more enchanted by a butterfly. He takes the seller of speculations to the tatterdemalion's apartment to commit further atrocities, before facing the consulting detective and his colleagues.

NOTE: The end of the conversation between the man in the yellow suit and the woman in the black veil is made up almost entirely of song titles, predominantly by the Rolling Stones (pp.229-230).

NOTE 2: The book's cover artwork by Boris Vallejo uses George C. Scott as the model for the consulting detective.

Oswald Crawfurd

"Our Mr. Smith" (1907)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes In America (Bill Blackbeard): The Misadventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Queen)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Purlock Hone & Jobson
Story: After discussing the current state of world politics, Hone & Jobson are visited by Mr. John Smith, who turns out not to be a client after all.

Bill Crider

"The Adventure of the Christmas Bear" (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
Historical Characters: Oscar Wilde; (Buffalo Bill)
Other Characters: Carolers; Wilde's Carriage Driver; Actors; Buffalo Hunter; Audience; Police
Date: 23rd December
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Wild West Showgrounds; Theatre; (America)
Story: Holmes is called on by Wilde who believes his life is in danger after seeing a man who looks like a bear. In America, some years previously, his life had been threatened by two buffalo hunters, one of whom had been killed by the person who rescued him. He believes that the attempts on his life have been made by the surviving hunter seeking revenge. The investigation takes them to the now deserted Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show grounds, and Wilde's biblical recollections take them to a theatre where he and his adversary become embroiled in a hand to hand fight.

"The Adventure of the St Marylebone Ghoul" (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
Other Characters: Benjamin Swaraj; Stanley Forbes; (Jonathan Holden)
Date: November
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; St Marylebone Cemetery
Story: After reading of the depredations of a ghoul at St Marylebone Cemetery, Holmes is visited by the cemetery's caretaker, who tells him of his Indian father, a Christian minister married to an Englishwoman, and how he has been forced to leave his father's village after a series of small animal deaths and poison-pen letters accusing him of the crimes. He believes that the ghoul is linked to these former events, and tells them that he has seen it. Holmes and Watson visit the cemetery where they lay in wait for the ghoul.

NOTE: The Character of Benjamin Swaraj is based on George Edalji.

Peter Crowther

"The Adventure of the Touch of God" (1997)
Included in: The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike Ashley)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Crosby the Banker
Other Characters: Inspector Gerald John Makinson; Sergeant Jim Hewitt; Terence Wetherall; Raymond Woodward; Gertrude Ridge; A Cleaner; Mr. Cardew; Ridge's Colleagues; Diana Wetherall; Jean Woodward: Frank Garnett; Woman in the Pump Rooms
Date: November, 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; King's Cross Station; A Train; Harrogate; Police Station; Police Station Morgue; The Daleside Bank, Parliament Street; Ridge's School; A Carriage; Harrogate Pump Rooms
Story: Holmes is called to Harrogate by Inspector Makinson. There has been a series of murders, each of the bodies being mutilated in some way. Three, including the latest, that of a banker named Crosby, have had the hearts cut out, while the other had the limbs and arms removed. Holmes deduces that each murder occurred at a place other than that at which the murder occurred. He also learns that each victim had a disfiguring birthmark. Holmes is able to demonstrate his profiling skills in his search for the killer, who is finally confronted in the pump rooms of the local spa.

Mitch Cullin

A Slight Trick of the Mind (2005)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Constable (Tom) Anderson; (Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Mrs Watson; Mycroft Holmes)
Historical Characters: (Winston Churchill; Lewis Carroll)
Other Characters: Mrs. Munro; Roger Munro; Thomas R. Keller; Ann Keller; Mr Portman; Madame Schirmer; Tamiki Umezaki; Hensuiro; Maya; Jeffrey's Mother; Jeffrey; Ambulance Men; Japanese Drunk; Workman; Graham; Scarred Japanese Woman; Noodle Cook; Atom Bomb Dome Women; Shukkei-en Man & Boy; Monk; Village Processsion; Waitress; Em Anderson; Shimonoseki Ryokan Hostess; Wakui's Wife; Fishermen; Wakui; Elderly Couple at Shrine; Beachcombers; Chikuzan Takahashi; Children
(Enlisted Men & Officers; Indian Beggar; Matsuda Umezaki; Dr Baker; Coroner; T.R. Lamont)
Date: After World War II / Spring, 1902
Locations: Holmes's Sussex Farmhouse; 221B, Baker Street; Montague Street; Portman's Booksellers & Map Specialists; Schirmer's Flat; Japan; Tokyo; Shinjuku; Kobe; Tottenham Court Road; A Train; Hiroshima; The Atom Bomb Dome; Shukkei-en Garden; Hofu; Momiji-so Spa; Yameguchi Inn; The Physics & Botanical Society; Diogenes Club; Yamaguchi-ken; Shinonoseki; The Shimonoseki Ryokan; An Izakaya
Story: The 93 year old Holmes, his memory failing, returns to Sussex from Japan. His housekeeper's young son, Roger, has been looking after his bees and secretly exploring his study, where he has discovered an unfinished manuscript, The Glass Armonicist. It tells of a case from 1902:

Holmes is visited by Keller, who, after his wife suffered two miscarriages, tried to interest her in learning to play a glass armonica inherited from an uncle. He discovered Schirmer, an armonica player, in Montague Street, who agreed to give her lessons. Keller has found his wife, encouraged by Schirmer, using the instrument to try to communicate with the spirits of their miscarried children. Since stopping the lessons, and getting rid of the instrument, Ann has taken to disappearing at regular intervals. Although he has seen her going into the flat, Schirmer has denied her presence there.

Holmes tells Roger of his investigations of Japanese bees, but finds his memory of some events in Japan impaired. He recalls his meeting with the Umezaki brothers in Kobe. Exploring the city he is shocked at its post-war poverty. He recalls a woman who brought a dead baby to his Sussex home. He deduces that Umezaki and Hensuiro are not really brothers.

Holmes and Keller follow Ann to Schirmer's flat, but find only a young boy playing the armonica there.

He finds Roger's scrapbook and is reminded of his visit to Hiroshima, and his discussion of his methods with Umezaki. During their tour of Hiroshima, Umezaki asks Holmes for details of his father, whom he says had dealings with Holmes in England. Later Holmes finds Roger dead, his head covered in stings, and, his faculties fading, attempts to unravel the circumstances of his death.

Holmes needlessly prolongs the Keller investigation for his own reasons, and, in disguise, sets about following Ann Keller.

He dissuades Mrs Munro from destroying his bees, and finds the real culprit behind the boy's death. He recalls those who have died - Mrs Hudson, Watson & Mycroft - he realises that the secrets of Umezaki's father may have lain in the volumes of Watson's journals he burned after his friend's death. In Japan he learns how to prepare prickly ash, and feels that he has become a substitute father. Holmes's memories of Umezaki's father, and his connections with Mycroft return. In Sussex he has one last encounter with Roger's mother.

Holmes reads of Ann's death and visits her husband and the places where he had followed her.