Neil Gaiman

"A Study in Emerald" (2003)
Included in: Shadows Over Baker Street (Michael Reaves & John Pelan); The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (John Joseph Adams)
Story Type: Alternate-Universe Fantasy / Canonical Revisioning
Canonical Characters: Colonel Sebastian Moran; Professor Moriarty; Inspector Lestrade; Sherlock Holmes; Wiggins; (Dr. Watson)
Historical Figures: Prince Albert; Queen Victoria
Other Characters: Clients; Shoreditch Policemen; Prince Franz Drago of Bohemia; Footman; Orange Seller; Orchestra; The Strand Players; Audience; Stage Doorkeeper; Sherry Vernet; Cab Driver
Date: 1881
Locations: Albion; Bart's; The Baker Street Rooms; A Shoreditch Rooming House; Buckingham Palace; Drury Lane; The Royal Court Theatre; A Hansom Cab; (Afghanistan)
Story: A wounded Afghanistan veteran returns to London where he takes up lodgings in Baker Street with a consulting detective. Lestrade takes them to a rooming house in Shoreditch, where one of the Queen's nephews, one of the Great Old Ones, has been murdered and the word 'Rache' scrawled on the wall. Outside the house they encounter a footman who takes them to the palace for a meeting with the Queen. Investigations eventually lead them to a Drury Lane theatre, where the lead actor, and his writer friend, become their chief suspects, and a plan is laid to bring them to justice.

NOTE: There is an unnamed landlady of the Baker Street rooms who may or may not be Mrs. Hudson (p.3). The leading lady of the Strand Players whose "voice carried through all the theatre" is, presumably, Irene Adler.

Paul Gallico

"Solo Job" (1937)
Included in: The Female of the Species (Ellery Queen)
Story Type: Homage
Detective: Sally (Sherlock) Holmes Lane
Other Characters: Pop Durant; Ira Clarke; John Polonok; Bertha Polonok; Joe Semaglino; Frank Morris; Anthony Pedani; Mike Rocco; Hoe Seward; Little Sam Angy; nurse; elderly man
Locations: Polonok's farm; North Haverhill, New Jersey; New York Standard offices; Italian restaurant; Sally's apartment; hospital
Story: Reporter Sally Holmes Lane (known as "Sherlock") has been covering the story of a farmer's wife who has shot two children digging for treasure on her farm. Sally suspects that there is more to the story and goes to the farm in the role of Mary Donovan, a runaway girl. The Polonoks let her stay on as a servant. She continues to carry out her investigations, until one night she is drugged by Mrs. Polonok.

Craig Shaw Gardner

"The Affair of the Counterfeit Countess" (1998)
Included in: The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade
Other Characters: Colonel Gelthelm; Count Orlock; Orlock's Companions;Embassy Guards; Embassy Guests; Grand Duke; Serving Staff; Countess; (Professor Van Zummann)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Balkan Country Embassy
Story: Holmes arrives at Baker Street disguised as the Baroness Von Stuppell. The previous day a bomb had exploded outside the embassy of a small Balkan country, Holmes suspects the involvement of the anarchist, Van Zummann. Lestrade has found it impossible to interview those inside the embassy because of the presence of the Grand Duke. The following day Holmes attends an embassy tea, disguised as the Baroness, with Watson accompanying him as the Baroness's physician, and finds himself the object of the Grand Duke's amorous intentions, whom he nonetheless saves from an attempted assassination even as he reveals another cross-gender disguise.

John Gardner

The Return of Moriarty (1974)
Also published as Moriarty
Story Type: Canonical Revisioning / Extra-Canonical Adventure of Professor Moriarty
Canonical Characters: Professor Moriarty; Colonel Moran; The Moriarty Gang; Stationmaster Moriarty; Inspector Lestrade; Sherlock Holmes; Parker; (Ronald Adair; Dr Watson; Mrs Adair; Hilda Adair; Inspector Patterson; Mycroft Holmes; Peter Steiler; English Lady; Swiss Lad)
Historical Figures: John Kelly; Catherine Eddowes; Policemen who Picked Eddowes Up; Bishopsgate Jailer; Sergeant on Duty; Montague John Druitt; Jack the Ripper; Samuel Barnett; Thomas Bowyer; John M'Carthy; Mary Kelly; Oscar Wilde; John Meiklejohn; Edward VII; Princess Alexandra; The Duke & Duchess of York; (Polly Nichols; Annie Chapman; George Bagster Phillips; Eliza Gold; Nat Druscovich; Chief Inspector Clark; Walters; Edwin Murray; Kurr; Petty Criminal; Mr Jonge; Superintendent Williamson; Comtesse de Goncourt; Mr Montgomery; William Gifford; Edward VII)
Other Characters: Ember; Paget; Spear; Lee Chow; Road Sweeper; Hetty Jacobs; Sweeper; Solly Abrahams; Bill Fisher; Bert Clark; Dick Gay; Larson; Larson's Wife; Bostock; John Dobey; Mrs Dobey; Sally Hodges; Rosie McNiel; Mary McNiel; Cabbie; Parker's Lurkers; Kate Wright; Mildred Fenning; Hop Pickers; Tom; Lamb Customers; Potboy; Albert Davis; Frederick Hawkins; Hawkins' Runner; Hawkins' Relief; Punishers; Terremant; Nursemaid; Corporal; Soldier; Victory barman; Landlord; Mr Halling; Bartholomew Wright; Moriarty's Hansom Driver; Boy in Lambeth; Horsemonger Gatehouse Warder; Prisoners; Turnkeys; Williams; 'A' Block Warder; Police Surgeon; Colonel Jock Fraser; Roger Alton; Café Royal Major-domo; Diners; Manager; Wilde's Companions; Jonas Fray; Walter Roach; Michael the Peg; Peter the Butler; Beggar; Small Boy; Cart Driver; Harkness; Hector Hasledean; Arthur Bowers; The Honourable Norman De Frayse; Sir Richard De Frayse; University Vice-chancellor; Squire Bowers; Jack Moore; Moore's Customers; Mr Mace; George; Herbert; Mary McNiel; Inspector Angus McCready Crow; Sylvia Cowles; Constable; Commissioner; William Sandhill's Clerk; Growler Driver; Constable D.H. Jackson; Michael the Peg; Peter the Butler; The Peg's Men; Bridget; Slimper I; Patch; Toph; Blind Sam; Italian Millionaire; Emile Lefantome; French Cracksmen; Dover Police; Moriarty's Swiss Agent; Broody; Lee; Sergeant Tanner; Horsemonger Governor; Bovey; Gibbs; Collins's Crow; Edward Collins; William Collins; Howard Collins; Collins Women; John Togger; Israel Krebitz; Nelson Street Guards; Woman; Slimper II; Zebedee Smith; Lookout; Bernard; Steel Staff; Deputy Governor; 'B' Block Warder; Prisoners; Junior Warder; William Jacobs; Bertram Jacobs; Jean Grisombre; Wilhelm Schleifstein; Franz; Luigi Sanzionaire; Sanzionaire's Bodyguards; Adele Asconta; Esteban Bernardo Segorbe; Grisombre's Bodyguards; Paul Golden; Dr Night / William S. Wotherspoon; Rosie; Alhambra Audience; Sergeant Cuthbert Frome; Alhambra House Manager; Detective following Sanzionaire; Delphine Merchant; Assistant Commissioner; Docklands Sergeant; St Andrew's Curate; Old Ladies; Wedding Band; Wedding Guests; Alhambra Stage Door Keeper; Call Boy; Mr Reeves; Mr & Mrs Burroughs; Paget's Cabbie; Scotland Yard Desk Sergeant; Mrs Harrington; Cab Driver; Police Raid Team; Paddington Porter; Ticket Collector; Guard; Bespectacled Passenger; Alhambra Stage Manager; Stage Hand; Workmen; Equerry; Alhambra Manager; Equerry's Companions; Sandringham Workmen; Conductor; Orchestra Leader; Constable; Sandringham Porter; King's Lynn Inspector; Sandringham Guests; Master of Ceremonies; Police Drivers; Constables; Flunkeys; (Millie Hubbard; Jack Hubbard; Bland; Frederick Warner; Mary Ann Dobey; Tappit; Maggie Rutter)
Date: Thursday April 5th - Saturday April 28th, 1894
Locations: Limehouse; Moriarty's Chambers; The Strand; Conduit Street; Moran's Rooms; The Anglo-India Club; Baker Street; Camden House; The Bagatelle Club; 427, Park Lane; Moriarty's House off the Strand; Whitechapel; Kent; Bishopsgate; Lamb Street; The Lamb Public House; Bishopsgate Police Station; Mitre Square; Toynbee Hall; The Inner Temple; Miller's Court; 9, Eliot Place; The Howard Arms Public House; The Victory Public House; Horsemonger Jail; Lambeth; Stone's-end; Lowndes Square; Fraser's Restaurant; Scotland Yard; The Café Royal; The Nun's Head; A Public House near Aldgate; The Minories; Pole Street; Lambeth; Harrow; Beeches Hall; A General Store; The Bird in the Hand; Paddington Station; 63, King Street; 221B, Baker Street; Nelson Street; Paris; Switzerland; Meiringen; The Reichenbach Falls; Collins' House; Lupus Street; Jermyn Street; Haymarket; Bermondsey; Togger's House; Commercial Road; Horton; City Road; Meiklejohn's Office; Coldbath Fields Prison (The 'Steel); Victoria station; Leicester Square; The Alhambra Palace of Varieties; St Andrew's Church, Limehouse; Paddington station; A Public House off Leicester Square; Night's Lodgings; Kensington; Wolferton; Sandringham House; A Tavern in Wolferton; King's Lynn; Dersingham; A Tavern near Leamington Spa; Aboard Le Conflit
Story: Moriarty returns to London and to his "Family" and learns that Holmes is also back. Moran, who has killed his gambling partner, Adair, is resentful of Moriarty's return. Moriarty calls a gathering of his chiefs of staff from around Europe. Moran disobeys Moriarty's orders to avoid Holmes and attempts to kill him, getting himself arrested in the process. Moriarty receives members of "The Family" with requests for aid, or simply paying their respects. When Moran is captured Moriarty decides to take action before he can talk. He also puts into play an investigation into Paget's girlfriend Fanny's past. He recalls how he put an end to the Ripper murders. Fanny is sent to take food to Moran in prison, and Spear is instructed to take revenge on Halling, the butler who had her fired from her previous position. Revenge is also to be taken on those who have deserted him while he has been absent, and on Tappit, who threw acid in Ann Mary Dobey's face. We learn about Moriarty's family background and the fate of his elder brother, the first Professor James Moriarty. Paget scopes out the site of the harrow robbery.
Crow is put on the Moran murder case in place of Lestrade and told to investigate rumours that Moriarty is back in London. While Moriarty's men are out finding out what state Moran has left the organisation in Spear is captured by the Peg. Meanwhile Holmes refuses to co-operate with Crow and we learn the truth about the events at Reichenbach. Moriarty is shot and an all out attack is made on the Peg and Butler's men and Spear is rescued, after which Moriarty learns that one of the women close to him is a traitor. Crow's investigations lead him back to Moriarty's involvement in the de Goncourt Scandal. Moriarty uses the recent clash with the peg's men to facilitate the release of the Jacobs brothers from prison and take revenge on the deserters. His European associates arrive in London and begin to plan a campaign of anarchy and assassinations throughout the continent. Moriarty announces that he will assassinate the Prince of Wales. Crow asks Mrs Cowles to marry him. Spear exacts vengeance on Halling. Paget & Fanny get married, Crow infiltrates the ceremony and Green & Butler the wedding party, after which the traitor is revealed. Crow is given extra men to find Moriarty's headquarters, Moriarty plans to move headquarters and Paget decides to leave the organisation. He sets Crow on Moriarty's trail to cover his escape and Crow learns of the assassination plot and endeavours to prevent it.

Moriarty (2008)
Story Type: Canonical Revisioning / Extra-Canonical Adventure of Professor Moriarty
Canonical Characters: Professor Moriarty / Stationmaster Moriarty; (Sherlock Holmes; Colonel Moriarty; Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade)
Historical Figures: Eugene Stratton; Kaufman's Trick Cyclists; Paul Cinquevalli; Fred Karno and his Speechless Comedians; Martin Chapender; Dan Leno; Marie Lloyd; Vesta Tilley; George Robey; (Thomas Agnew; Junius Spencer Morgan; J. Pierpont Morgan; Adam Worth; Thomas Gainsborough; Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire; Edward VII, Queen Victoria; Prince Albert)
Other Characters: Daniel Carbonardo; Tabitha; James ThomasTerremant; Sir Jack "Idle Jack" Idell; Jack's Woman; Jack's Men; Glenmoragh Cabbies; Sal Hodges / Mrs James; Albert Spear; Nick Ember; Lee Chow; Sheet Anchor Patrons; Old Man with Newspaper; Ebb Kimber; Will Brooking; William (Billy) Walker; Hoxton Cabbie; Walter Taplin; Nursing Sister Gwendolyn Smith; Bridget Briggs; Harold Judge; Hyde Park Crowds; Hurdy-Gurdy Man; Oxford Street Crowds; Josiah Osterley; Sidney Gresham Streeter; Jonah Whalen; Sheet Simpson; Mermaid Tavern Cook; Mermaid Patrons; Mermaid Landlord; Glittering George Gittins; Dropsy Carmichael; Michael Cadvenor; Cadvenor's Assistants; Telegram Boy; Ben Harkness; Post Office Customers; Sarah Maddingley; William Jacobs; Armand; Press Customers; Sir Duncan; Cecil; Eel Pie Shop Owner; Shop Owner's Daughters; Owner's Wife; Pie Shop Customers; Bertram Jacobs; Minnie; Haymarket Punishers; Haymarket Girls; Polly; Carbonardo's Cabbie; Alhambra Crowd; Bobby Boax; Rouster Bates; The Honourable Nellie Fletcher; Broad Darryl Wood; Alhambra Orchestra; Performers; Matthew Shotton; Leicester Square Police; Jessie Rippon; Jessie's Man; Huckett's Men; White Hart Customers; Jonathan Booker; White Hart Pot Boy; Fanny Jones; Pip Paget; Cabbie; Tom; Samuel Brock; Iain Hunter; George Huckett; Huckett's Foreman; Hunter's Assistants; Karl Franz von Hertzendorf; Terremant's Lurkers; Ebeneezer Jephcote; Red Annie; Gypsy Smith; Connie Best; Sukie Williams; Dark Delilah Amphet; Goldie Goode; Coax's Boy; Gwyther's Clerks; Abott; Arthur James Moriarty; Micah Rowledge; Lennie Adler; Regent's Park Policeman; Postman; Nick Palfrey; Joe Zwingli; Moggy Camm; "Dutch" Nightingale; Dick Clifford; Marvin Henry; "Welsh" Bruce; Benny Brian; Lazarus Grosewalk; Trafalgar Square Police Officer; (Angus McCready Crow; Christopher Mysson; Ernie Moat; Perry Gwyther; "Leaky" Lewis; Charlie "The Draughtsman" Dainton; Christ Church Choirmaster; Agnew's Nightwatchman; Captain Ratford; Diplomat; Diplomat's Butler; Roderick "Roister" Idell; Violet Spear; Paul Walker; Moriarty's Shadows; Lucy Moriarty; Sean Michael Moriarty; Father O'Flynn; Dublin Coroner; Hector Hasledean; Ada Belcher; Dirty Ellen; Emma Norfolk; Hard Harry Wickens; Jawcrack Makepeace; Ratford's Wife; Coroner; Dotty Carmichael; Arthur Bowers; The Honourable Norman de Frayse; University Vice-Chancellor; Boat Passengers; Kate Wright; Joey Coax; Charlie Hodges; Beatrice Maddingley; Mrs Hodges; Guy Grenaux; Emile Dantray; Rosie; Sir John Grant; Lady Pam; Ned Day; Simon Day; Bright's Yard Watchman; Alhambra Front-of-House Man; Dr Night; Viscount Pitlochry; Ivy Shotton; Roger Idell; Kimble Idell; William Evans; Corny Trebithik; Michael Trewinard; Oxford Gig Owner; Bridget Spear; Bartholomew Wright; Mr Halling; Delilah; Sylvia Cowels; Cresswell; Dixon; Roberts; Wilson; Knight; Richards; Stimpson; Taylor; Murch; Smith; Amy Stencil; Gertie Ward; Emma Baisley; Jean Grisombre; Wilhelm Schleifstein; Luigi Sanzionaire; Esteban Bernardo Segorbe; Peter Alexander; Arno Wilson; Corkie Smith; Rickie Cohen; Chinese Sailors; Mr Quimby; Albert Stebbings)
Date: January 15th - September, 1900
Locations: Hoxton; North New Road; Hawthornes; Moriarty's Westminster House; Glenmoragh Private Hotel; Oxford; Mitre Hotel; Old Bond Street; Idle Jack's Knocking Shop; Poplar; The Sheet Anchor Public House; St George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner; St James's Bordello; Hyde Park; Marble Arch; Oxford Street; Hackney Wick; Mermaid Tavern; Coventry Street; Captain Ratford's Rooms; Brick Lane; The Beehive Lodging House; Wapping; St Martin's Le Grand Post Office; Pole Street; Dover; St Luke's Road; Cadvenor's Funeral Parlour; Notting Hill; Post Office; Regent Street; The Press Dining Room; High Holborn; Eel Pie Shop; Haymarket Bordello; Leicester Square; Alhambra Theatre; Bedford Square; Idell's House: Twin Willows; The White Hart; Willow Manor; A Train; Oxford Livery Stable; Kensington; Pembroke Gardens; Poplar Warehouse; Victoria Station; Paddington Station; Bristol Docks; St Giles's; Gray's Inn Road; Gwyther's Office; Calais; Ratcliffe Highway; Regent's Park; Bayley Street
Story: Moriarty, returned to London, tells Carbonado that there is a traitor among the Praetorian Guard, one who has sold out to Crow, Carbonardo is to find out from Sal Hodges who it is, but his attempt is thwarted by upcoming crime boss, Idle Jack. Moriarty is installed in a new house in Westminster, with Gainsborough's Duchess of Devonshire on the wall. The rest of the Praetorian Guard return from the USA and Spear is given the task of finding a new warehouse base. Meanwhile Idle Jack learns Moriarty's fears about his "family". Moriarty sends his men out to find out who is still loyal to him, bring back those who are and deal with those who aren't. While his men learn of Sal Hodge's murder, Moriarty remembers his assumption of his older brother's identity. He begins plotting the downfall of Idle Jack and the return of Pip and Fanny Paget to the family, and hatches a blackmail plan involving a royal double and a society photographer.

Randall Garrett

"A Case of Identity" (1964)
Included in: Lord Darcy (Randall Garrett - compiled & edited by Eric Flint & Guy Gordon)
Story Type: Alternate Universe Fantasy
Sherlockian Heroes: Lord Darcy & Sean O'Lochlainn
Other Characters: Armsman Robert; Armsman Jack; Old Jean; Paul Sarto; Sergeant-at-Arms; Richard, Duke of Normandy; The Bishop of Guernsey & Sark; The Marquis of Rouen; Footman; Elaine, Marquise of Cherbourg; Sir Gwiliam de Bracy; Lord Seiger; Captain Sir Androu Duglasse; Henri Vert; Sorceror; Armsman; Sergeant; Lady-of-the-House; Father Patrique; Cook; Seamen Guards; Guardsmen; Bosuns; Hugh, Marquis of Cherbourg; Ladislas; Captain Olsen; Sir James le Lein; (Servant; King Casimir IX of Poland; King John IV; Ordwin Vayne; Tunnel Guard; Polish Sorceror)
Date: 13th-14th January, 1964
Locations: Cherbourg; Rue King John II; The Blue Dolphin; Quai Sainte Marie; The Docks; Castle Cherbourg; Le Lein's Rooming House; Benedictine Monastery; Warehouse; The Esprit de Mer;
Story: A missing inn servant is discovered naked and dying in Cherbourg. Darcy is sent to Cherbourg to investigate the disappearance of the Marquis, who had previously shown signs of mental disturbance. The Marquis had been an agent of the King working against a gang of Polish agents provocateurs. Matters become more puzzling when the dead servant is identified as the Marquis, and Darcy discovers that Secret Service agent, le Lein, disappeared on the same night as the Marquis. After ruling out psychic attack, demonic possession and multiple personality disorder, a phial of brandy, the revelation of a protected psychopath among the suspects, and a secret tunnel point the way to a solution, and the shipboard capture of the Polish agents.

NOTES: Sean O'Lochlainn: It has been suggested that this is a reference to John H. Watson - Sean being the Irish form of John. The "O" prefix in Irish surnames means "grandson of" and perhaps we can equate the "Wat" of "Watson" to water which links with the "Loch" of "Lochlainn".
Lord Seiger: Siger Holmes : "His lordship comes from Yorkshire - North Riding, if I'm not mistaken" (P.80) is clearly a reference to Holmes's father in William S. Baring-Gould's Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: "Siger and Violet Holmes [of the] farmstead of Mycroft in the North Riding of Yorkshire." (p.11))
Sir James le Lein, agent of His Majesty's Secret Service: James Bond ("Lien" is French for "bond")
Kaplan-Sheinwold test (P.70): Used to establish the weapon used in the attack. It is named after a bidding system in the game of bridge, developed by Edgar Kaplan & Alfred Sheinwold.
The Jacoby Transfer method (P.84) : Used to compare the blood of two individuals to establish whether they are related. It is actually another term for bids at bridge, named after its creator Oswald Jacoby.

Michael Geare & Michael Corby

Dracula's Diary (1982)
Story Type: Humorous Homage
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Sherlock Holmes; (Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes)
Fictional Characters: Dracula; Dracula's Brides (Trandafira, Vlastimila, Pavola); Jonathan Harker; Mina Harker; Arthur Holmwood; Dr Abraham Van Helsing; Dr Henry Jekyll; Poole; Edward Hyde; Demeter Captain (Kitsov); Demeter Crew; Half-breed Mastiff; Lucy Westenra; Mrs Westenra; Dr Seward; Quincey Morris; Patrick Hennessey; Renfield; (Countess Dolingen; Sister Agatha; Sweeney Todd; Strickland; Hastie Lanyon; Lord Godalming; Arminius)
Characters Derived From Fictional Characters: Mr Drummond (Bulldog Drummond); James Stock (James Bond); K (M)
Historical Figures: Vlad the Impaler; Dr Charles Goodford; Dr James Hornby; Dr Joynes; Frederick Roberts; George Harris; Algernon Swinburne; Dr Jowett; Alfred Austin; Bram Stoker; Lord Arthur Somerset; P.C. Jonas Mizen; James Monro; Inspector Abberline; Inspector James McWilliam; Sergeant William Thicke; P.C. John Neil; Mary Kelly; Oscar Wilde; (Prince Metternich; Robert Peel; Florence Nightingale; Lord Robert Baden-Powell; William Ewart Gladstone; Edward VII; Jack the Ripper; Duke of Clarence; George V; Queen Alexandra; Lord Salisbury; Louis Diemschutz; Sir William Gordon-Cumming; Sir John Maple; Prince Milan of Serbia; Queen Victoria)
Characters Derived From Historical Figures: Andreas Deutsch (Andre Deutsch); Henry Brute (Henry Cooper); Janos Paislic (Ian Paisley); Amanda Rice-Todhunter (Mandy Rice-Davies); Woodcott (Barbara Woodhouse); Harry Candler (Harry Chandler)
Other Characters: Editor; Mrs Bobescu; Mrs Lupescu; Biro; Mikhail Footescu; Hoch; Niklaus; Tomas; Horrolds; Roy Dracula; Shirley Dracula; Roberts; The Hon. Crispin Bell-Mountain; Mr Walton; Erika Walton; Eton Boys; Cotterell Ghost; The Earl of Cotterell; General Rice-Todhunter; Mrs Merry; Pamela Merry; Dr Wilfred; Moral Tutor; Goodwin's Court Listeners; Drummond's Man; Bogdanadov / Silkinsky; Bogdanadov's Men; Doskos; Doskos's Confederate; Calèche Driver; Castle Dracula Footman; Bucktov; Roddish; Mossevsky; Mrs Barbitznin; Demeter First Mate; Petrovsky; Kaiser-i-Hind Master; Whitby Citizens; Arapad Howkoja; Dracula's Tailor; Georgie; Curates; Mr Dunning; Conquest Master of Ceremonies; Audience; Musicians; Scarborough Hotel Clerk; Dailygraph Reporter; Mr Dowen; Lord & Lady Cooper; St George Fillerby; Irma, Baroness Chnoupek; Lady Grylle; Lord; Roza's Maid; Mrs Roza; Janine; Helene; Miss Buckle; Cabbie; Journalists; Paul Trott; Harry Dale; Van Helsing's Men; Chinese Dentist; Nancy Lee Gan; Fyodor; Mrs Nemesklai; Eastgate; Jake Nobbs; Veterinary Doctor; Casanova; Lajos; Café Royal Drunk; Romano's Waiter; Jeweller; Trandafir Bobu; Castle Guards; Ludovic Bobu; Prince Ranko; Carriage Driver; Serbian Soldiers; Tourists; (Dracula's Father; Peasant Girls; Fiona; Louis Tree; David Whiterood; Toby Tunnel; Tommy Mountjoy; Simonyi Maculesky; Sir Ray Boycott; Livingstone-Tachbrook; Fisherman; Chopper; Fraser; Mayor of Scarborough; Trombonist; Algernon; Larry; Harry; Chi Minh; Lubomir Hula)
Date: September 15th, 1886 - November 24th, 1888 (or the 1870s)
Locations: Castle Dracula; Half Moon Street; 347, Piccadilly; Eton; Walton's House; Cotterell Castle; Oxford; Balliol College; Marlborough Club; Jekyll's Home; 221B, Baker Street; Goodwin's Court; K's Residence; New Row; A Train; Romania; Angst; Hotel Bortello; Beograd; Doskos's Rooms; Hotel Gradasevic; Borgo Pass; Aboard the Demeter; Whitby; Bloomsbury; Harker's House; Piccadilly; Royal Hotel, Whitby; Scarborough; Conquest Theatre; Scarborough Hotel; Seward's Asylum; Millers Court; Commercial Street; Dentist's Surgery; Dyott Street; Café Royal; Romano's; Serbia; Kaledan Castle
Story: The editor finds Dracula's diary in a henhouse in Angst, Romania.
Dracula receives a diary on his 18th birthday from his Uncle Vlad. On the same day, his father is staked through the heart. His English tutor, Mr Dummond ("Our family nickname is Bulldog"), arranges with Vlad to send Dracula to England, to be finished as an English gentleman. Vlad informs Dracula that they are vampires, and sets about training him in vampiric skills. Harker arrives to arrange the purchase of a property in Piccadilly. Arriving in London, Dracula is enrolled at Eton, and introduced to society. Worried at his daytime lassitude, Drummond takes him to his doctor, Watson. He meets his English relatives, Roy and Shirley. He falls in love with an Eton housemaster's daughter. At a schoolfriend's home, he encounters Holmwood and Van Helsing. After Eton, Dracula goes on to Oxford. He witnesses his doctor, Jekyll transform into Hyde, and so goes to see Watson instead, meeting Holmes for the first time. Drummond and Stock enlist him to work for the Secret Service. K sends him to Belgrade to kill a Russian spymaster. He returns to Castle Dracula to find it taken over by the unions. After resolving the situation, he sails for England aboard the Demeter. In Whitby he encounters the Harkers again, along with their friends, including Stoker, who persuades him to take to the stage. He negotiates with Candler to make Castle Dracula a tourist destination. He visits Seward's asylum. K assigns him to the Ripper case, on which, during his investigation, he again encounters Holmes and Watson. His romantic life becomes more complicated. He is sent to rescue a Serbian prince, and has his final confrontation with Van Helsing.

Isaac S. George

"The Sudden Death of Cardinal Tosca" (1948)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Cardinal Tosca
Historical Figures: Father Luigi Tosti; William Ewart Gladstone; Cardinal Vaughn
Other Characters: American Publisher's Representative; Passersby; Reverend Father Bonadeo; Reverend Timothy Brendan; (Father Francisco; Father Bernardo; Leo; Brother Jeppi; Doctor Scialdone)
Date: August 20th-21st, 1914 (prologue) / 1897
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; (Monte Cassino)
Story: On the death of Pope Pius X, Watson is asked for an account of the death of Cardinal Tosca. Gladstone & Vaughn call on Holmes at the request of the Pope, to ask him to investigate the sudden death of the historian Tosti (incorrectly recorded elsewhere as Cardinal Tosca), to discover if it was, in fact, a suicide. Tosti was involved in talks to reconcile the Vatican & Quirinal, and was due to meet with Gladstone on the day after his death. After listening to the facts Holmes reassures them that it was murder, not suicide, and after their departure lays a bet with Watson that he will be proved right. Two weeks later they learn the facts of the case and of the Camorra's involvement in it.

David Gerrold

"The Fan Who Molded Himself" (1995)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg)
Story Type: Science Fiction Parody / Canonical Re-visioning
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; (Giant Rat of Sumatra; Mrs Watson (Tess); Squire Trevor; Professor Moriarty)
Historical Figures: (Mike Resnick)
Other Characters: Manuscript Sender; Sender's Father; Daniel James Eakins; (Sender's Grandfather)
Locations: Sender's House; 221B, Baker Street; Scotland Yard
Story: Resnick receives sixteen copies of a manuscript, from various locations and through various delivery services. The sender has received it from his estranged father, who says that it will put his life in danger. He had received it from his own father, Watson's nephew.

Watson admits that although he shared rooms with a man who matched Holmes's description, his accounts of his intellectual abilities are pure fiction, although he did have amazing luck in successfully solving cases. Watson is approached by an American, Eakins, shortly after the death of Mrs Watson. Eakins tells Watson that he is a time traveller. He presents Watson with the next day's Standard as proof, and Watson challenges him to travel back in time to solve one of the headline stories, the "Trevor Mystery". When Lestrade asks for an explanation of how he solved the mystery, Watson develops Holmes's system to cover up the time-travel angle. Eventually Watson fells guilty that they are using the time belt for their own gain and glory, when they could be using it to prevent the tragedies that., instead, they are using it to "solve" and publish. Others start to suspect Holmes, including Moriarty, and Watson realises that Holmes is prepared to kill to keep his secret.

Marie Gibb

"The Perfect Crime or The Mystery of the Maligned Medic" (1993)
Included in: Serpentine Muse-ings - Volume One (Susan Z. Diamond & Marilynne McKay)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Mrs. Hudson)
Other Characters: (Watson's Colleague)
Date: January
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Watson returns to Baker Street to find Holmes in a state of excitement. His violin has been stolen and there is a severed finger lying in a pool of blood. Returning from Simpson's some days later they discover that the violin has been returned. Holmes is unable to find the culprit and Watson reveals the truth.

Michael Gilbert

"The Two Footmen" (1987)
Included in: The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Martin H. Greenberg, Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh & Jon L. Lellenberg)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; Sherlock Holmes; (Murray {see note})
Other Characters: Mary Macalister; Len / Inspector Leonard Blunt; Pearce's Daughter; Tapster; Kings Arms Landlady; Sergeant Sam Pearce; Lodge Keeper; Mrs Pearce; Bernstorff; Kings Arms Hall Porter; Boy; (Sergeant Jacob Pearce; John Pearce; Sir Rigby Bellairs; Terence Black; Mrs Ruyslander; Peterson; Bellairs's Guests; Bellairs's Staff; Mrs Barnby; Coroner; Coroner's Jury; Chief Inspector Leavenworth; Alice Macalister; Jim the Fly; Boy)
Date: Autumn, 1894 / November, 1882
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Corby; The Kings Arms; Pearce's Cottage; Corby Manor
Story: Watson, looking through Holmes's files is reminded of an old case: Mrs Hudson brings her niece, Mary, a maid at Corby Manor, to see Holmes. Her fiancée, Black, a footman at the Manor, has been shot during a diamond robbery, in which the police believe he was an accomplice. Holmes sends Watson to Corby, where he makes contact witrh some of the Manor servants at the local inn. When he rescues a girl from a runaway horse, he comes back in contact with his old orderly, Pearce, now head gardener at the Manor. Watson becomes suspicious of a temporary stableman and a new footman, who he sees conspiring together. He is summoned to the Manor by a message from Holmes, but on arrival comes face to face with the stableman.

NOTE: The character Sam Pearce is described by Watson as being the orderly who took him by packhorse to Kandahar after he was wounded at Maiwand. This character was, of course, called Murray in A Study in Scarlet.

Paul D. Gilbert

Mel Gilden

"The Adventure of the Forgotten Umbrella" (2003)
Included in: My Sherlock Holmes (Michael Kurland)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by James Phillimore
Canonical Characters: James Phillimore; Inspector Lestrade; Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: Alice Madison; Mary Anne; Harvey Maynard; Phillimore's Cook; Lestrade's Men; Street Mongers; Loafers; Twin Lambs Clientele; Waiter; Policemen
Locations: Morehouse & Co., Throgmorton Street; Phillimore's Home; Luigi's Restaurant, Broad Street; 221B, Baker Street; Paddington Street; East Street; The Twin Lambs Hotel
Story: Phillimore's wife, Alice, discovers that her former husband, Maynard, whom she thought had died escaping from Dartmoor Prison, is still alive, and he blackmails her into stealing a thousand pounds from her husband's office safe. When Lestrade arrives at Phillimore's home to arrest him for the theft he has devised a clever plan to stage his own disappearance from the face of the Earth. Holmes, who has been hired by Phillimore's employers, sees through the ruse, and learns the facts behind the theft. Together they track down Maynard, and the climax of the case comes in a bar-room brawl in a seedy hotel.

A. Conning Goil

"The Finger Print Failure" (1913)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in America (Bill Blackbeard)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Shirley Combs & Marietta
Other Characters: M'sieu Roquette; (Chu Chu the Locomotive / Amos Ward; Roquette's Men; Circus Hands; Circus Audience; Arson the Fire; Dago the Red; Tal the Dip)
Locations: Faker Street; Cubist Exhibition
Story: Shirley Combs is visited by the prefect of the Paris police. Chu Chu the Locomotive has stolen the takings of Scarnum & Scaley's Circus and disappeared. The place has been searched but only the Locomotive's fingerprint's found. After ordering an exhumation revealing a skinned hand, Shirley proves that the Locomotive was not the thief.

Ron Goulart

Elementary, My Dear Groucho (1999)
Story Type: Homage
Historical Figures: Groucho Marx; Rosalind Russell; Merle Oberon; Joan Crawford; P.G. Wodehouse; C. Aubrey Smith; Irene Dunne; Randolph Scott; Conrad Nagel; George Raft; Dashiell Hammett; (Zeppo Marx; Raymond Chandler; Chico Marx)
Other Characters: Frank Denby; Mammoth Workmen; Oscar; Isobel Glidden; Felix Denker; Security Guard; Jane Danner; Policeman; Sergeant Jack Norment; Detective Ernie Sales; Erika Klein; Siegel; Plainclothesman; Marker's Secretary; Lew Marker; Ira Mellman; Mrs Peter Goodman; Nan Sommerville; Enery McBride; Bayside Customers; Reisberson; Johnny Whistler; Merlinwood Cop; Mammoth Guard; Hawaiian Customers; Guy Pope; Gunther; Olaf Hamsun; Mary Jane McLeod; Leonard Hershberger; Tourists; Orlando; Miles Ravenshaw; A Santa Claus; Victoria St John; Waiter; Press Photographer; Middle-Aged Woman & Husband; Cigar Store Proprietor; Altadena Students; Beach Woman; Professor Ernst Hoffman; Cutting Room Barman; The Spiegelman Brothers (Leroy, Edwin & Mort); Tourists; Britannia Club Secretary; Waiter; Britannia Members; Boswell's Owner; Ivy Hotel Woman; Desk Clerk; Tim O'Hearn; Golden Hills Nurse; Larry Zansky (Zanzibar the Astounding); Rathskeller Band; Waiters; Barmaids; Bund Members; Customers; Lionel Von Esh; Jack O'Banyon; Warren Sawtell; Silver Shirts; Girl with Jean Harlow Hair; Ebbtide Counterman; Glendale Cops; Funeral Crowds; Roger Connington; Newsboy; Randy Grothkopf; Dennis Truett; Man with Elephant; Burbank Police Officer; Lew Marker; Gil Lumbard; Dan Bockman; Norm Lenzer; Photographers; Johnny Whistler's Legman; Dorgan the Bloodhound; (Lew Goldstein; Marsha Tederow; Harlan Waffle; Alma Avon; Franz Henkel; Dr Helga Krieger; Randell McGowan; Cowboy; Frederick Bauer; Harry Whitechurch; Elena Sederholm; McLeod's Secretary; Stuntman)
Date: December, 1938
Locations: Los Angeles; Mammoth Studios; Sunset Strip; Groucho's Office; Bayside Diner; Mattilda Road; Denby's Beach Cottage; Merlinwood Estate; The Hawaiian Hideaway; Señorita Rio Mexican Café; Hollywood Boulevard; Los Palmas; Musso & Frank's Grill; Sunset; 232, Paloma Lane, San Amaro; Cigar Store; Altadena Community College; The Cutting Room; Beverly Hills; The Britannia Club; Ivy Hotel; Golden Hills Rest Home; Siegfried's Rathskeller; Venice; Ebbtide Café; Peaceable Woodlands Cemetery; Little Chapel of the Wayfarer; Westwood; Connington's House; North Hillcrest Drive; Groucho's House; Santa Barbara; Ravenshaw's Cabin
Story: Visiting Mammoth Studios to pitch a movie, Groucho and Denby discover the body of German director, Denker, on the Baker Street set of a movie version of The Valley of Fear. They learn from the girl who found the body that this is the second death in five days, and discover a number 4 scrawled in his own blood by Denker on the cover of a Strand magazine. The film's writer, Clair Rickson, is found passed-out drunk, yards from the body. Ravenshaw, the actor playing Holmes, and a former policeman, challenges Groucho to solve the murder before he does. Investigations reveal that Denker was having an affair with the dead art director, but his anti-Nazi stance may also have provided a motive for the murder. Groucho learns that Denker's widow has received threatening letters, and Denker finds anti-Semitic literature, is knocked unconscious, and encounters an old friend investigating a suspected blackmailing. Ravenshaw announces that he will name the murderer at a Christmas party being thrown by him and his wife, but Groucho learns details of his past which don't gel with the story he is telling. Denker receives a threatening letter and Groucho faces Nazi sympathisers in a German Rathskeller and is shot at at Denker's funeral, while Ravenshaw disappears. After finding Ravenshaw, Groucho calls a press conference on the 221B set to reveal the murderer's identity.

Daniel Gracely

The Giant Rat of Sumatra (2001)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Mycroft Holmes; Fred Porlock; Inspector Lestrade; Baker Street Irregulars; (Professor Moriarty; The Giant Rat of Sumatra)
Other Characters: Winnie Entremont; Sir Alfred Claiborne; Constable Edmund Hough; Diogenes Members; ex-Moriarty Gang Members; Gemenden's Butler; Apple Gemenden; Maris Rybka; Entremont's Guards; Mr. Howland; Lestrade's Men; William; (Old Rybka; William's Father; Deckhands)
Date: Autumn, 1895
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Mycroft's Cab; Pall Mall; The Diogenes Club; Porlock's House; Watson's Cab
Story: After concocting a rather noxious anti-flea formula, Holmes is taken to the Diogenes Club , by Mycroft, where the Foreign Secretary has been murdered. A ballooning trophy, won by Dr. [sic] Moriarty was stolen at the same time and replaced with a replica. Holmes & Watson must become members of the club in order to investigate. Holmes makes contact with Porlock who tells him of a massive weapon Moriarty had developed before his death, and that the Moriarty Gang has been taken over by a Greek named Gemenden, who is working with a German mechanic, Rybka. Meanwhile the gutter press is full of stories of the giant rat of Sumatra, which has been seen near the docks, and which Holmes connects with Moriarty's papers on gigantism. He wonders if the same effect could have been applied to an explosive. Holmes realises that Moriarty was responsible for the Krakatoa explosion. He must act to prevent a similar fate befalling London, and Watson must impersonate Rybka to help him do so.

Harold Gray

"Murder in the Library" (1930)
Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson
Fictional Characters: Hawkshaw; Reggie Fortune; Stanley Lomas; Dr John Thorndyke; Nathaniel Polton; Lord Peter Wimsey; (Inspector French; Hercule Poirot; Father Brown; Rouletabille; Bulldog Drummond; Madame Rosika Storey; Colonel Anthony Ruthven Gethryn; Philo Vance)
Other Characters: Sir Jasper; The Butler; (Karlow; Sir Jasper's Wife; Sir Jasper's Brother)
Locations: The Manor House Library
Story: Sir Jasper is dead in the library in a house full of detectives. Hawkshaw and Watson investigate. In one hand the victim holds a scalpel, in the other a Bradshaw. Pondweed and a replica Cellini provide further clues. Hawkshaw has Fortune examine the body and Thorndike [sic] look for fingerprints, but Polton's demonstration of how the murder was done dispatches Watson and several other detectives. The only suspects remaining are Wimsey and Gethryn. Hawkshaw interviews Wimsey who brings the case to a close in his own way.

The Greek Interpreters of East Lansing

"The Singular Affair of Mr. Phillip Phot" (1947)
(Compiled by Page Heldenbrand)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mycroft Holmes; Inspector Baynes
Historical Figures: Unity Mitford; Adolf Hitler
Other Characters: Cab Driver; Diogenes Attendant; Mycroft's Housekeeper; Constables; German Agents; Gladstone Captain; (Foreigners; Phillip Phot; Tall Man)
Date: Spring, 1945
Locations: Holmes's Sussex Villa; The London Train; 221B, Baker Street; Baker Street; A Cab; Whitehall; The Diogenes Club; Mycroft's Lodgings; Holmes's Sedan; A Residential Area of London; Soho; A Pub; A Police Launch on The Thames; The Gladstone
Story: Holmes & Watson are summoned to London, from Surrey, by Mycroft. They re-establish themselves at 221B, and travel to the Diogenes Club to meet with him. On the way they are followed by a car full of foreigners. Arriving at the club they are told that Mycroft is not there, but has left a message that he can be contacted through a Mr. Phillip Phot; a tall man has also been trying to locate Mycroft, both at the club and at his rooms. A bomb is placed in the phone at 221B. Holmes follows the foreigners, and along with Baynes arrests a group of German agents, but the woman Holmes has been trailing, and their leader, escape. Mycroft arrives in time to put them on the trail of the Gladstone, a freighter sailing down the Thames, on which they finally witness the demise of their quarry, 'the most terrible man in the world'.

Dominic Green

"The Adventure of the Lost World" (2004)
Included in: The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (John Joseph Adams)
Story Type: Fantasy Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Fictional Characters: (Professor Challenger; Edward Malone; Lord John Roxton; Professor Summerlee; Mrs Challenger)
Historical Figures: (Barnum Brown; George V; Cecil Spring-Rice)
Other Characters: Policemen; Trombonist; Mr Green / Mr Glass; Police; Barman; (Major of Rifles; Trombonists; Peshawar Subaltern; Stone Age Women; Ship's Purser; Gladys; Walton; Challenger's Children; Glass's Men)
Date: Autumn, 1918
Locations: Watson's Consulting Rooms; Hampstead Heath; Jack Straw's Castle Inn
Story: Watson's surgery on an elderly Major of Rifles is interrupted by the voice of Holmes. He tells Watson of attacks on trombonists on Hampstead Heath. Each has been playing Holst's Thaxted, attacked from above and partially eaten. They travel to Hampstead to view the latest headless victim, and Holmes identifies the tracks of a megalosaurus. He shows Watson Challenger's accounts of his expedition to the Lost World, and the creature he brought back. Witnesses report the sound of violin music accompanying the attacks, leading Holmes to reason that someone is using the creature for murder, and sets off, armed with a trombone, to prove it and prevent the assassination of the King.

Michael Green

"My Dear Holmes" (1983)
Included in: Don't Swing from the Balcony, Romeo: Further Undiscovered Letters (Michael Green)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; (Sherlock Holmes; Professor Moriarty; Irene Adler; The Speckled Band; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Mrs Hudson; Mrs Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes)
Date: December 5th, 1905
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Watson writes to Holmes to tell him he is moving to France, having tired of his cocaine addiction, indoor shooting practice and violin, and accuses him of being a coward and an impostor. He is going to marry Mrs Hudson and set up his own detective bureau, and has left a particularly nasty revenge behind for Holmes, which will dumbfound Lestrade.

L.B. Greenwood

Anthony Grey

"The Strange Case of the Three Revolvers" (1927)
Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Fictional Characters: Sexton Blake; Nelson Lee
Other Characters: Chief of New Scotland Yard; Booking-Clerk; (Duke of Blankstare)
Locations: Whitehall; Trafalgar Square Underground Station
Story: Holmes sets off for New York in search of missing pearls. After five weeks with no word the Chief of New Scotland Yard sends for Sexton Blake. Two months later, with no word of either Holmes or Blake, the chief sets Lee on their trail. Three months later, with no word from Lee, Holmes arrives back, he sets off in search of Lee, Blake returns, and sets off again to look for Holmes, Lee returns and goes off to look for Blake, Holmes comes and goes again.

Claire Griffen

"The Case of the Incumbent Invalid" (1997)
Included in: The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike Ashley)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; The Abernetty Family; Mrs. Hudson; Inspector Lanner
Historical Figures: Dan Leno
Other Characters: Lady Abernetty/Alice Pemberton; Mabel Bertram; Aston Plush; Sabina Abernetty; Charles Abernetty; Dr. Royce Miles; Minter; Mrs. Minter; audience; policemen; (Sir William Abernetty; President of Footlights Amateur Dramatic Society; Dr. Halliwell; Randell Burke)
Date: January, 1885
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Mayfair; Grosvenor Square; Oxford Street
Story: Mabel Bertram tells Holmes she is worried about her stepmother, Lady Abernetty, who has become a recluse over the past few months, and is refusing to see her, despite a previously good relationship. Holmes, in the guise of actor Sebastian Flood, makes the acquaintance of her son, Charles Abernetty, who has recently become a member of the Footlights Amateur Dramatic Society. Visiting Charles & his sister, over both of whom Lady Abernetty has kept a firm, controlling hand in the past, for a game of whist, Holmes & Watson attempt to see Lady Abernetty, but it is only on a return visit, and after a long wait that they are allowed to do so, and then only in a darkened room.

John Courtenay Grimwood

"The Spy's Retirement" (2005)
Included in: The Best British Mysteries 2006 (Maxim Jakubowski)
Story Type: Canonical Re-visioning
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Mycroft Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; (Professor Moriarty)
Historical Figures: (Queen Victoria)
Other Characters: Colonel John Hamish Watson; Hunter; Crowd; Professor Sigerson; Woman; Clerk; Dr Sigerson; Sigerson's Landlady; Constable; Blacksmith; Edwards; Winchester Woman; Farmer; Policeman
Locations: Kingston upon Thames; Sigerson's Rooms; Winchester High Street
Story: Colonel Watson is involved in a carriage accident in Kingston, but soon realises that the man his driver swerved to avoid is not as badly injured as he appears. He gives his names as "Professor Sigerson", and his accomplice, his brother's as "Dr Sigerson", but they have both disappeared when he visits their home, along with their landlady's furniture and Watson's money. He sets Lestrade to find them, and learns from the wallet taken from the injured man that their real name is Holmes, former students of Professor Moriarty. He follows them to Winchester, where the same trick is pulled, and makes them an offer they cannot refuse.