Lillian de la Tour

"The Adventure of the Persistent Marksman" (1987)
Included in: Holmes for the Holidays (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson;
Other Characters: Major Barrett Desmond; Agnes Desmond; Denis Mullen; Penelope Desmond; Sally Parker; Tamms; Mrs Sattler; Pantry-boy; Maggie Murphy; Admiral's Head Landlord; Jem Parker; Ned Bickford; Wilt Birkett; Inspector Clempson; Mr Needleton; (Colonel Luttridge; Clegg; Distinguisehed Client; Dr Ledyard)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Belting Park; The Admiral's Head; Belting Station
Story: Racehorse breeder, Desmond, consults Holmes after being repeatedly shot at on his Sussex estate. Holmes and Watson travel to Belting Park, where Desmond shows them his gun collection. At dinner they become aware of tensions in the family, all of whom are expert marksmen. Another attempt is made on the Major's life, and he organises a party to hunt down the shooter, managing to get off a shot at him, but failing to stop or identify him. Holmes returns to London to deal with another client, and the Major is killed before he returns. Holmes chooses not to tell the police who the killer was.

William L. DeAndrea

"The Adventure of the Christmas Tree" (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; Mycroft Holmes
Other Characters: Joseph Camber; Nancy Camber; MacBurney; Havering; The Duke of Balleshire; Stefan Geitzling; Cabbie; Perkins; Othmar Untermeyer; Lady Caroline Bentley; Frau Geitzling; Servant; Von Tepper
Date: 23rd-25th December, 1889
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Diogenes Club; A Cab; South Kensington; An Ironmongers; Ounslow Square; Balleshire's House
Story: Holmes is visited by Camber, a forester on the estate of the Duke of Balleshire. The Christmas tree he had chosen to send to London from the Duke's estate in Scotland has disappeared, so he sent a second one. When he saw the tree in the Duke's London house, however, it was the one he had originally chosen. Holmes visits Mycroft and learns that the Duke is currently engaged in government negotiations with representatives of the Kaiser. Holmes visits the Duke, and on Christmas Eve is able to bring to light an anarchist plot and save the reputations of all involved.

John DeChancie

From Prussia with Love (1996)
Story Type: Alternate Universe Fantasy
Canonical Characters: Professor Moriarty
Fictional Characters: Van Helsing; Inspector Clouseau; Captain Nemo; Obadiah Slope
Folkloric Characters: Oberon {Auberon}; Merlin {Morrolan}; The Kraken
Historical Characters: Ludwig II; Franz Von Pfistermeister; Otto Von Bismarck
Other Characters: Tom Olam; Captain Karlheinz Jäger; Airman Schultz; helmsman; First officer Wendt; navigator; sailors; Zeppelin skipper; airmen; Prussian airman; Rupert Hauptmann; Rhyme Enginemaster; Fritz; servant; Colonel Rudolph Von Tarlenheim; Countess Marianne; Ruggiero Zambelli; Aida Zambelli; Enrico Zambelli; Luigino Zambelli; Zambelli brothers; Alberich Ringmaker; Prussian Ambassador; Ambassador's wife; Ambassador's aides; Goethe; goblin-demons; duchess; lancer general; M. Giroud; three thugs; castle guards; Moriarty's crew; bellhop; Lord Ashton Montague; a dragon; footmen; Henderson; Wyndham Brewster; Hashamose; mummy; basilisk; Inspector Motherwell; Nautilus crewmen; Steamfitter; Riveter; nautilus officer; interrogator; orderly; turnkey; corporal; The Unseelie adversary; Prussian soldiers; farmers; Uncle Franz; Willy; Henrietta the pigeon; guard; Berenice
Date: 1872
Locations: New Europa; the Aeroship Richard Wagner; the Prussian Zeppelin Gottland; Castle Falkenstein; Tuscany; Zambelli's estate; a train; Paris; Giroud's Bookstore; Paris sewers; Calais; The English Channel; a packet steamer; Dover Bay; London; Piccadilly Circus; Paddington station; Hampshire; Beechtree Court; Kazak Corom; Brewster Hall; the airship Stephanie May; The Nautilus; the Nautilus' diving bell; Prussia; Berlin; Peenemünde; The Swanship Lohengrin; a hayfield
Story: When the Bavarian airship Richard Wagner comes under attack from a Prussian Zeppelin, Tom Olam realises that the Prussians are developing rocket technology. He persuades King Ludwig II that Bavaria must also carry out rocket research. Marianne travels to Florence to bring rocket scientist, Ruggiero Zambelli, back to Bavaria. Rhyme Enginemaster's cousin, working for the Prussians, tries to persuade him to swap a Sending Glass (magic mirror) for a Babbage Machine. Double-agent Goethe sends Olam to Paris in search of a rare technical book. After being ambushed in the bookshop, Olam finds himself a prisoner in a cellar with Abraham Van Helsing. They escape and are pursued through the Paris sewers by Moriarty & his men. Olam is captured again, this time by a mummy, at Lord Ashton Montague's estate in Hampshire. After escaping, they head for London in Wyndham Brewster's airship, only to crash and be rescued by Captain Nemo, who is obsessed with hunting down the Kraken. Finally they are captured by the Prussians and find themselves at a rocket demonstration where Von Bismarck is the guest of honour and the rockets are set against Castle Falkenstein itself.

August Derleth

"The Adventure of the Circular Room" (1946)
Included in: The Memoirs of Solar Pons (August Derleth); The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson
Other Characters: Miss Manahan; Wellman Davies; Pauline Davies; Lydia Thornton; (Mr. Thornton; Lavinia Thornton)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Richmond; 23, Linley Road; A Brougham
Date: An April in the early nineties
Story: Miss Manahan has recently been employed as nurse to Mrs. Thornton who has just been released from a psychiatric hospital. She is worried about her patient, who lives with her niece & nephew, and who claims that she hears her late husband's voice speaking to her in the night, and that when she wakes up the furniture in her room has been moved around - yet whenever Miss Manahan goes to check, it is all in its normal place. The outbreaks seem often to happen after visits by her sister-in-law, with whom she is having disagreements. Holmes travels to Richmond to examine the house, particularly the round bedroom that Mrs. Thornton sleeps in and the summer house.

NOTE: Derleth included this story, reworked as a Solar Pons adventure, in The Memoirs of Solar Pons in 1951.

August Derleth & Mack Reynolds

"The Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus" (1955)
Included in: The Science-Fictional Sherlock Holmes (Robert C. Peterson)
Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche
Detectives: Solar Pons & Dr. Lyndon B. Parker
Other Characters: Inspector Jamison; Terence Allen; Tomas Kanczeny; Captain Martin Verne; Constable MacEachern; Constable Leeds; Mauritanian; Abraham Weddigan; Cab Driver; Josef Zollern
Date: 1920s
Locations: 7B, Praed Street; A Cab; Southampton Row; Camden Town
Story: Jamison wires Pons that he wishes to consult him regarding two child murders in London. When he arrives, however, he reveals that the culprit, Verne, has been captured, and confessed, but died as a result of injuries sustained during his arrest. Pons believes the murders are linked to others that have occurred throughout Europe, and his reading of Verne's garbled confession leads him to the fortune teller Weddigan, who owns the crystal ball that belonged to Nostradamus. He shows them a vision of the next child to be murdered, and explains the reason for the killings. Pons & Parker race to prevent the next murder.

Colin Dexter

"A Case of Mis-Identity" (1989)
Included in: Morse's Greatest Mystery (Colin Dexter); Winter's Crimes 21 (Hilary Hale); Murders for the Fireside: The Best of Winter's Crimes (Maxim Jakubowski)
Story Type: Canonical Re-Visioning
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mycroft Holmes; Mrs Hudson
Characters Derived From Canonical Characters: Charlotte Van Allen = Mary Sutherland; James Wyndham = James Windibank; (Horatio Darvill = Hosmer Angel; Mrs Wyndham = Mrs Windibank; Mr Van Allen = Mr Sutherland)
Other Characters: Cabman; Bank Manager; Wyndham's Lawyer
Date: November, 188-
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Wyndham House; St Saviour's Church; Stepney; Whitechapel Hospital; St Thomas's Hospital; A Bank
Story: While Watson and Mycroft are visiting Holmes he receives a call from Miss Charlotte Van Allen who tells of the disappearance of her fiancé on their wedding day. Holmes gives his solution and challenges her stepfather, James Wyndham. Mycroft suggests that Holmes's solution is wrong and offers his own, but ultimately it is Watson who is able to provide the true facts of the case and Holmes flees retribution.

Michael Dibdin

The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (1978)
Story Type: Pastiche / Canonical Re-Visioning
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Billy; Mrs Hudson; Baker Street Maid; Mary Morstan; Dubuque; Fritz Von Waldbaum; The Atkinson Brothers (Henry and Edward); Watson's Maid; Gemmi Pass Guide; Peter Steiler; (Jefferson Hope; Tobias Gregson; Jonathan Small; Captain Morstan; Grimesby Roylott; Helen Stoner; Tonga; Young Stamford; Mrs Cecil Forrester; Professor Moriarty; The Moriarty Gang; Silver Blaze; Francis Hay Moulton; Hatty Doran; Lord Robert St Simon; Mycroft Holmes; Rough with a Bludgeon; Trepoff; Head Lama; Thaddeus Sholto)
Historical Characters: Arthur Conan Doyle; Louise Hawkins Doyle; Dr Frederick Gordon Brown; Catharine Eddowes; PC Edward Watkins; Daniel Halse; Mary Kelly; George Hutchinson; (Martha Tabram; Polly Nichols; Annie Chapman; Dr George Bagster Phillips; Wynne Baxter; John Pizer; Sergeant William Thicke; William Stevens; Sir Henry Smith; Elizabeth Stride; Sir Charles Warren; Louis Diemschutz; John Kelly; Annie Philips; Frederick Abberline; George Lusk; Kidney Pathologist; Elizabeth Prater; Alice McKenzie; Frances Coles; Tom Sadler)
Other Characters: Watson's Great-Nephew; Cox & Co. Manager; Telegram Boy; Cabbies; Policemen; City Police Inspector; York Place Passer-by; Tramp; Music Hall Artistes; Theatre Attendants; Street Sweepers; Commercial Street Detectives; Spitalfields Residents; Whitechapel Man; Vagrants; Lodging-house Man; Old Woman; Bar Hag; Procession Crowds; Elizabeth Atkinson; Native Overseer; Naval Doctor; Captain; Watson's Cook; William; Swiss Police; (Chippenham Landlord; West Lavington Boy; Trepoff's Valet; Russians with Coffin; Dutchman; Watson's Bank Manager)
Date: 1976 / 1922 / Friday 28th September, 1888 - May, 1891
Locations: Cox & Co.; 221B, Baker Street; Southsea; Manchester Square Garden; Aldgate; Mitre Square; Goulston Street; Wentworth Model Dwellings; Baker Street; York Place; Marylebone Road; Edgware Road; Portland Road; The Embankment; Hotel; St James's Park ; Commercial Street Police Station; Shoreditch High Street; Oxford Theatre; Chippenham; West Lavington; Salisbury Plain; Whitechapel; Spitalfields; Miller's Court; Bar; Brighton; Cromer; Watson's Club; Watson's Paddington Practice; Russia; Odessa; India; Darjeeling; Ceylon; Colombo; Trincomalee; Service Club; Atkinson Plantation; Switzerland; Reichenbach Falls; Von Waldbaum's Hotel; Paris; The Sûreté; Café; Watson's Kensington Practice; Nîmes; Blandford Street; Camden House; Alfred Place West; South Kensington Station; Peckham; Victoria Station; Chartham; Inn; Geneva; Gemmi Pass; Meiringen; Englischer Hof
Story: 1976: Papers deposited at Cox & Co. by Watson to be released 30 years after his death are read out to the gathered crowd. Campaigns for their suppression begin almost immediately.

1922: Watson resolves to write his account of the Ripper affair, but is worried that he cannot imitate Conan Doyle's style, and recalls the beginning of his partnership with the author, and Holmes's reaction to his marriage.

1888: Lestrade brings Holmes a letter from the Ripper. Holmes sets out for the East End in disguise, summoning Watson when the body of another victim is discovered. He views Eddowes' remains, then hears of the discovery of Stride's body. Holmes shows him the "Juwes" message. Holmes is otherwise occupied for two weeks (on SILV & NOBL), but, when these are concluded, he spots the Ripper watching from Camden House, and after a pursuit through London, reveals to Watson that the Ripper is Moriarty, and that he is engaged in a personal duel with Holmes, who goes into hiding. Lestrade receives another letter from the Ripper directing him to see Watson, but it is Holmes who reveals its source, and points out a pattern in the murders. He tells Watson of attempts on his life by Moriarty. As a newly-appointed Acting Chief Inspector, Holmes sets up a police watch in Whitechapel, but the Ripper breaks his pattern and no murder occurs. Holmes disappears again, hoping to lure Moriarty out of the city, and Watson makes a stunning discovery in Pigeonhole M. Holmes returns, and, with Watson in Spitalfields, spots the Ripper, and sends Watson for Lestrade. Watson however takes his own initiative and witnesses the Ripper commit his final murder. He goes on to tell of his marriage, the case of the Atkinson Brothers of Trincomalee, and the true events of the journey to Switzerland and the struggle at Reichenbach.

Terrance Dicks

The Cop Catchers (1981)
Story Type: Children's Detective Story Homage
Detectives: The Baker Street Irregulars: Dan "Robbo" Robinson; Jeff Webster; Liz Spencer; Mickey Denning
Other Characters: Marko Santos; Baskerville; Mr. Robinson; Desk Sergeant; Chief-Inspector Brevett; Detective-Sergeant Fred Summers; Mrs. Hoskins; Anderson's Workers; Dave Burton; Secretary; Mr. Anderson; Fred Sowery; Mr. Webster; M. Carabosse; Charles Carabosse; André Carabosse; Bruno Carabosse; Mrs. Fillmore; Fillmore & Patterson's Customers; Fillmore & Patterson's Shop Assistants; Harry Patterson; Old Sam; Goalkeeper; Anderson's Apprentices; Jacko; Mrs. Denning; James Fillmore; Mrs. Robinson; Mrs. Spencer; Motorway Policeman; Hijackers; Policemen in Lorry; Old Buffer at Yacht Club; Detective-Sergeant Herbert "Happy" Day; Yachtsmen; Policemen at Yacht Club
Date: 1970s/1980s
Locations: London; Dan's House; Police Station; Day's House; Premises of Anderson Transport; Mr. Webster's Bank; Premises of Carabosse & Co. in the High Street; Fillmore's House; Premises of Fillmore & Patterson Ltd.; Archdeacon's Avenue; Carabosse's House; High Street Cafe; The Library; A Train; Another Train; Essex; A Marina; Yacht Club; The Jolly Roger; Essex Police Station
Story: Collecting his dog, Baskerville, from the police station, Dan learns that his friend, Sergeant Day, is being investigated for leaking information on police investigations, and that on the day the investigation began, Day disappeared. Dan and his friends, who are known as "The Baker Street Irregulars" decide to find Day and prove his innocence. They discover Day's notebook, which contains details of three cases - lorry hijackings, the disappearance of a local businessman and the theft of a diamond necklace - which Dan announces they must solve if they are to find Day. Mickey learns that only selected lorry loads are hijacked, despite all precautions to conceal the nature of all loads on the part of the manager. He is caught snooping around the yard, but ends up officially working for the company. Jeff enlists his dad's help in investigating the jewel theft, and is shown the impenetrable safe from which the necklace was stolen. Liz inveigles her way into the home of the missing man, Fillmore, and his garden centre, where she learns that the business is being sold. Mickey finds himself trapped under a lorry, and Dan sets a plan in action to catch the hijackers. The following day he enacts a reconstruction of the opening of the jeweller's safe, and reveals the whereabouts of Fillmore. But there is one more crime to be solved in Day's book before he is found.

Rock Dilisio

"The Adventure of Jackthorn Circle" (2002)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes: Mysteries of the Victorian Era (Rock Dilisio)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson
Other Characters: Gladys Joncock; Woman; Bertha Jane Tittleman; Shelton Melnow; (Sylvester Joncock; Penelope Archer)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Jackthorn Circle
Story: The new cook at Holmes's old school (which Watson also attended) consults him about an apparition that appears in the vicinity of a well near her house. Holmes and Watson visit Jackthorn Circle a couple of times and see nothing. They discover an old house, hidden by vines, and learn of a child that drowned in the well because of an inattentive baby sitter. The apparition appears, the baby-sitter is exposed.

John H. Dirckx

"The Adventure of the Oval Window" (1983)
Included in: Ellery Queen's Prime Crimes (Eleanor Sullivan)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson
Other Characters: Mr. Ordway; Julia Ordway; Theobald Lawrence; Fetters; Elizabeth Fetters; Ludwick; Inspector Skinner; Landlord
Date: Late Summer, 1896
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Moorcroft; Hanford
Story: Diamond dealer, Ordway, tells Holmes of two murderous attacks on his niece Julia, and begs Holmes & Watson to protect her while he is away on business in Calais. They travel to the Ordway estate, Moorcroft, and that night a bullet is fired through an oval window at Miss Ordway. Footprints found in the grounds seem to implicate Ordway himself, and a telegram to Calais reveals that he is not there, nor was he expected to be. Holmes's investigations, however, reveal that the answer is not as simple as it would seem.

Gerard Dole

"The Witch of Greenwich" (2003)
Included in: My Sherlock Holmes (Michael Kurland)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Billy
Canonical Characters: Billy; François Le Villard; Tobias Gregson; Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: Karolina Szokoli, Countess Vetcha; Constable Curland; Constable Flanders; Firemen; Beresford; Bystanders; Sergeant McLean; Woman in Burning House; Constable Miles; Bog Town Gang; Monsieur Victor; Sleepwalking Girl; Count Vetcha
Locations: Swains Lane; Highgate Cemetery; Oakeshott Avenue; Highgate Road; Hansom; Greenwich; Churchbury Road; Queenscroft Road; Eltham; Vetcha's House; Scotland Yard; Bog Town; 221B, Baker Street; Oxford Street
Story: Le Villard & Billy are at Highgate Cemetery, where they see the ghost of Countess Vetcha, the Witch of Greenwich. The Countess's house burns down, a woman is seen inside, a fireman goes in to rescue her, but on the way out starts performing hideous contortions, drops her back in the fire and throws himself to his death. His body shows signs of bubonic plague. Holmes & Le Villard open the Countess's coffin and find it empty. In Bog Town, a shanty town on the edge of London, the entire population has been wiped out by bubonic plague. Holmes, Billy & Gregson meet Constable Miles there. They are chased up a heap of rubbish by an angry gang. Luckily Miles finds a secret tunnel in which they find the dying flea trainer, M. Victor, and an empty treasure chest. At Baker Street they find fireworks set up on the roof and a sleepwalking girl, then a hideous ghost appears and Holmes shoots it. Later in Oxford Street, Billy finds himself surrounded by ghosts again, Holmes appears, the sleepwalking girl appears, the Countess's caretaker appears. Holmes explains how it was a plot to steal the wealth of the entire city, even the crown jewels, and apparently it does all make sense really.

Arthur Douglas

"The Case of the Baker Street Dozen" (1981)
Included in: Crime Wave (introduced by Desmond Bagley)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; (Mrs. Watson)
Historical Characters: Jack The Ripper; Sir Charles Warren; Louis Diemschutz; Elizabeth Stride; Major Sir Henry Smith; Catherine Eddowes; (Barnaby & Burgho; Mary Ann Nichols; Dr. Ralph Llewellyn; Coroner Wynne E. Baxter; Annie Chapman; Dr. George Bagster Phillips; Inspector Chandler; John Richardson; Inspector Abberline; James Monro; Sir Robert Anderson; Martha Tabram; George Lusk; Thomas Bowyer; Mary Kelly; Pedachenko)
Date: Autumn, 1888
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Whitechapel; Berner Street; Commercial Road; Aldgate; Mitre Square; Church Passage; Duke Street; Houndsditch; Middlesex Street; Goulston Street; wentworth Street; Bell Lane; Artillery Passage; Drury Lane; Oxford Street; Baker Street; (Miller's Court)
Story: Watson's visit to Holmes in Baker Street is interrupted by the arrival of Sir Charles Warren who describes to Holmes the first two Ripper killings. Sir Charles fears that if the killings continue a pogrom is imminent. Holmes recognises a link to Jewish holy days in the killings, and on the due night of the next killing summons Watson to the predicted murder site and sets him in pursuit of the Ripper. Coming upon the killer in the act of the second murder that night, Watson chases, but loses him. Holmes approaches Watson after being summoned to Miller's Court, where Mary Kelly has been murdered. He explains how he has deduced the Ripper's identity, and sets about seeing that justice is done.

Noel Downing

Doctor Watson and the Invisible Man (1991)
Story Type: Extra-canonical Adventure of Dr. Watson
Canonical Characters: Langdale Pike; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; 'Porky' Shinwell Johnson; Fred Porlock; Inspector Lestrade; Sherlock Holmes; (Von Herling)
Fictional Characters: Landlord of the Invisible Man [Walter Duckinck]; (Griffin (The Invisible Man))
Historical Characters: Aleister Crowley; Arthur Machen; The Order of New Templars; Adolf Lanz
Other Characters: Tilly Footage; Dispatch Writers; Night Editor; Thomlinson; Inspector Anderson; Telephone Operator; Cabman; Second Cab Driver; Commissionaire; Crowley's Landlady; Growler Driver; Two Men in Growler; Bill McCarthy; Embankment Passers-by; Embankment Constable; Strand Crowds; Diogenes Doorman; Commissionaire; Otto Eber Kleist; Augustus Schiller; Lestrade's Men; Police Photographer; Anderson's Constables; Constable Todd; PC Moreton; Templar Guard
Date: 1907 (Introduction February, 1912)
Locations: The Invisible Man Inn, Port Stowe, Sussex; Watson's Queen Anne Street Rooms; 221B, Baker Street; A Bank; London Dispatch Offices; A Hansom Cab (via Bond Street; Piccadilly); Jermyn Street; Another Cab (via Lower Regent Street; Portland Place; Marylebone Road); Lisson Grove; Edward House; Third Cab; 84, Jermyn Street; A Growler (via St. James's Street; Piccadilly; Lower Regent Street; Trafalgar Square; The Strand; Fleet Street; Ludgate Circus; Cannon Street); The East End; A Flour Wagon (Commercial Road; The Embankment); Villiers Street; Charing Cross Station; The Strand; Pall Mall; Outside the German Embassy; The Diogenes Club; Curzon Street; Kleist's House in Half Moon Street; Curzon Street
Story: Pike attempts to buy Griffin's journals from the landlord of the Invisible Man and learns that they have recently been shown to Crowley. Pike asks Watson to let him see Holmes's (who is away in France) index books to find out about Crowley, after which they learn that the landlord has been murdered and the books stolen, and Pike is the chief suspect. The knife used in the murder is found to have a strange symbol engraved on it. Watson & Pike follow Crowley to Machen's house. They learn something of the symbol from Machen, and more when they visit Crowley, who denies ever having been at the Invisible Man. The two are abducted by two men who, after escaping, they follow to the German Embassy. From Mycroft they learn of Kleist, an Austrian embassy official, known to dabble in the occult. Watson sets Porky Shinwell to follow him. They break into Kleist's house where they discover a list bearing the names of many high-ranking officials, leaders of the Jewish community and Crowley, and a secret in the cellar. Against their will they engage Crowley's assistance in infiltrating the Order of the New Templars. When Watson and Pike are attacked by the man they believe killed the landlord, Lestrade enters into the investigation. It is clear that the Templars hope to create an invisible army, and Watson, Pike, Anderson and Crowley, set out to retrieve the evidence they need to bring the landlord's murderers to justice, at the group's next meeting, and face an invisible man. Holmes shows up after it is all over.

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Michael Doyle

"The Legacy of Rachel Howells" (1994)
Included in: The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike Ashley)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Rachel Howells; (Reginald Musgrave; Richard Brunton)
Other Characters: Garrison Bolt; Nathaniel Musgrave; Baker Street Postal Worker; Barkerville Postal Workers; William Topping; Musgrave's Driver; (Newman Musgrave)
Date: After May, 1901
Locations: Hallamshire; 221B, Baker Street; Baker Street Post office; A Train; Hurlstone Station; Hurlstone Manor; The National Portrait Gallery; (Barkerville, Canada)
Story: After the death of Reginald Musgrave, Watson's publisher, Bolt, receives a letter addressed to a deceased employee, Newman Musgrave, and postmarked Baskerville, Canada. When it is opened it is found to contain two blank sheets of paper. He takes it to Holmes who deduces that its sender intended all along that he should receive it. He sets to interpret the envelope's meaning, and finds himself heading back to Hurlstone Manor, with Watson. The Manor is now owned by Musgrave's cousin. There he uncovers further treasures, and reconstructs the true facts of Brunton's death and Rachel Howells' disappearance.

Miss Drew

"The Crime" (1931)
Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey)
Story Type: Parody
Detective: Hubert
Other Characters: Narrator; Hubert's Wife
Locations: Hubert's Study
Story: Having amassed dressing-gown, violin, cocaine, and a half-witted assistant, Hubert now feels ready to become an amateur detective. He announces that his method will be to find clues first, then deduce the crime. His first case begins with a Japanese knife missing from his study and an open window and ends with a telephone call from his wife.

F.P.Dunne

"Sherlock Holmes" (1902)
Included in: Observations by Mr Dooley (F.P. Dunne)
Story Type: Homage / Parody
Other Characters: Mr. Dooley; Mr. Hennessy; Dorsey; Dugan; Muggins
Story: When Hennessy tells Mr. Dooley about Dorsey's accusation that Dugan has stolen his dog, Mr. Dooley begins extolling the virtues of Sherlock Holmes, and proceeds to give a demonstration of the way Holmes's techniques can be used to discover the true thief. He finally reaches the conclusion that such matters are better left to the police, and goes on to tell of his friend Muggins, the bank robber, who Holmes would never have been able to catch.

David Dvorkin

Time for Sherlock Holmes (1983)
Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; Professor Moriarty
Fictional Characters: The Time Machine; (The Time Traveller)
Historical Characters: Arthur Conan Doyle; Spencer Perceval; John Bellingham; (H.G. Wells)
Other Characters: Letitia Chalmers; Wilford; Downing Street Policemen; Concorde II Passengers; Hitman; Taxi Driver; Sivestre's Men; Mr. Silvestre; Moriarty's Men; Newsman; Harry Brown; Motel Visitors; Lily Cantrell; Hotel Clerk; Car Rental Receptionist; Moriarty's Workmen; Guard; President's Guardian Clones; Airport Crowd; Reporters; Dignitaries; Politicians; President Wolff; Xian Phitsanulok; Assassins; Crowd; Police; BBC Announcer; Stadium Crowd; Men in Wood; Junior Rex; Johnny Wu; Interpreter; Woman assassin; Farm's New Owner; Sir John Morgenthaler; Exeter Passengers; Exeter Crew; Workmen; Immigration Clerk; Martian Citizens; Hrachia Dashnakian; Water Engineers; Government Receptionist; Sherrinford's Secretary; kambayashi; Meesian; Philo Tremusson; Young Technician; Thomas Cantrell; Martian Armies; Meesian IV; Moriarty's Students
Date: 1925; 1991-1992; 2001; 2014; 2018-2019; 2034; 2042; 2067; 2071; January, 1885-Summer, 1886; 2148; 1868; 11th May, 1812; 25th June, 2170
Locations: Sussex; Hewisham Station; Holmes's Wagon; Holmes's Farmhouse; Windlesham; Metropolitan Police Headquarters; A Taxi; 10, Downing Street; Concorde II; New York; A Taxi; Holmes's Hotel; Another Taxi; A Warehouse Near the Harbour; Silvestre's Jaguar; A Town in Northern New York State; A Gas Station; A Park; A Zoo; Silvestre's Contact's House; Detroit; Grosse Pointe; Ottoworld Motel; A Car; A Men's Clothing Shop; Chicago; A Car; Lily's Flat; Holmes's Hotel; A Plane; Kansas City; Car Rental Agency; A Car; Green Hills; Moriarty's Headquarters; Salt Lake City; Moriarty's Factory; A Car; Salt Lake City Airport; Laos; Vientiane; The Libration Satellite; A Flyer; Stadium; A Wood; A Spaceship; Venice, CA; Watson's Home; The Landing Dock; The Exeter; Immigration office; The New Hope; Mars; Spaceport Terminal; Mariner Valley; New Way City; Hopetown; A Cabin Outside Newmanton; Government Building; Claritas Fossae; Hewisham (Mars); Olympus Mons; Research Station; Martian Plain; San Francisco; Moriarty's Rooms; The House of Commons; Meesian IV's office; Europa
Story: Watson visits Holmes in Sussex to find that he has discovered a way to reverse the aging process and extend the lifespan. He has already shared it with Mrs. Hudson & Mycroft, but refuses to release the secret to the rest of humanity. In 1991 Holmes reads of the assassination of the Prime Minister, who has been found dead in her locked office. He travels to London to investigate, having spotted something in a newspaper photo. Mycroft is in charge of the Prime Minister's security services. In the Prime Minister's office, Holmes draws Watson's attention to an old book full of complex scientific formulae, then insists that they fly immediately to New York. Holmes tells Watson that the mystery involves the Time Machine that he had been told of by his friend H.G. Wells, which is now in the hands of Moriarty who plans to assassinate the President. They trail Moriarty to northern New York State, and Detroit, where a piece of paper found on the body of one of his minions directs them to seek out Lily Cantrell, a name from Watson's past, in Chicago. She has been blackmailed into joining Moriarty's organisation. Holmes & Watson offer her assistance, but when Watson accompanies her to Kansas City she leads him into a trap. As a captive of Moriarty he is transported to Salt Lake City, where Moriarty reveals his plan to kill the President , start a nuclear conflagration, and ultimately take over the entire planet. Holmes has infiltrated Moriarty's plant and sabotaged his device. He rescues Watson & Lily, and the bomb destroys Moriarty's factory as he is setting the Time Machine in motion.

At the beginning of the new century Holmes & Watson (now married to Lily) are watching a video of the assassination of a great South-East Asian leader. They see an image of Moriarty appear in the video. Holmes realises that the time between the Utah explosion and this appearance, is equal to the time between the assassination of Anwar Sadat and the Utah explosion. Holmes believes Moriarty is penduluming back & forth through time, influencing political assassinations. While holidaying on the Libration Satellite, another assassination occurs, and Watson encounters Moriarty. Watson decides to become a doctor on the satellite, while Holmes works out when Moriarty's reappearances will occur. A few years later Holmes arrives on the satellite disguised as a space sailor on a ship on which the entire crew and all the passengers have been killed by Moriarty's men. He tells Watson that he is moving on to Mars, and urges him to move there with Lily.

Their arrival on Mars, arranged by Siger Sherrinford, coincides with another assassination. Watson eventually discovers that the government on Mars is being run by a slimmed down Mycroft, assisted by Holmes. They are, however unable to prevent a further assassination, during the course of which Moriarty captures Lily, the time shift depositing her in 19th Century San Francisco, where an extraordinary encounter occurs. Holmes finally puts his master plan, in development for many years, into operation to bring an end to Moriarty's campaign, but not before Moriarty is able to visit his own past.