Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2002)
Story Type: Coming-of-Age Story with Sherlockian References
Characters: Christopher Boone; Eileen Shears; Siobhan; Policeman; Policewoman (Kate); Police Sergeant; Ed Boone; Police Inspector; Mr. Thompson's Brother; Woman at No.44; Mr. Wise; Mrs. Alexander; Shopkeeper; Rhodri; Mrs. Davis; Mrs. Peters; Judy Boone; Roger Shears; Joseph Fleming; Tyrone; Julie; Patrick's Mother; Patrick; Railway Café Assistant; Railway Station Policeman (Nigel); Ticket Clerk; Man With Dreadlocks; Man With Golf Clubs; Train Passengers; Paddington Policeman; Paddington Guard; Man on Station; Information Clerk; Underground Passengers; Man on Underground Station; Woman with Guitar Case; Drunk; Shopkeeper; Men Dressed as Vikings; Woman With Cat Box; Willesden Policeman; Men in Chapter Road; Man on Hampstead Heath; Reverend Peters
(Mr. Jeavons; Terry; Mrs. Forbes; Sarah; Mrs. Gascoyne; Melissa Brown; Mr. Ennison; Mr. Land; Bentalls Manager; Jack; Polly)
Locations: Swindon; Twycross Zoo; Swindon Station; Train; Paddington Station; Willesden Junction; Willesden; Chapter Road; Brent Cross Shopping Centre; Hampstead Heath
Story: Mrs. Shears poodle is killed, and Christopher, 15 years old & autistic, is accused. He is taken into custody after hitting the policeman who comes to investigate. After being released with a caution he decides to find out who killed the dog, and to write a book about it. His chief suspect becomes Mr. Shears, separated from his wife, who he learns was having an affair with Christopher's mother, who died two years previously of an unexpected heart attack. When his teacher points out that it is usually people who are killed in detective stories, he reminds her that two dogs were killed in The Hound of the Baskervilles, which is his favourite book. His father discovers the book he has been writing details of his investigation in and throws it away. When Christopher tries to find it, it is no longer in the bin, and he eventually finds it in his father's cupboard, along with a pile of letters seemingly written to him by his mother after her death, from which he learns that she left with Mr. Shears and is not dead. He discovers who killed the dog and decides to travel to London to live with his mother. He makes his way there by train, and after living with his mother for a short time they move back to Swindon, where attempts begin to reconcile him with his father. |
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Kelly Hale
Erasing Sherlock (2006)
Story Type: Science Fiction with Sexual Themes (No. 5 in the Faction Paradox series)
Canonical Characters: Baker Street Maids (Gillian Petra / Rose Donnelly; Liza Murray; Margaret); Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Shinwell Johnson; Mycroft Holmes; (Professor Moriarty)
Historical Characters: (Oscar Wilde)
Other Characters: Mrs Merriam; Old Man; Penny-toy Seller; Spitalfields Women; Woman with Baby; Three Irishmen; Jack Hudson; Gerard Cavendish; Thomas Peerson Corkle / Mr Gray; Post Office Clerk; "China" Crow; News Vendor; Ice Gentleman; Previtali's Waiter; Jarvey; Street Arabs; Violet; Lady Holbrook; Lucius Maitland; Jewellery Store Clerk; Café Royal Diners; Harry Hughes; Hughes's Companions; Café Royal Waiters; Georgio L. Santelli; Young Couple; Café Customers; Café Proprietor; Good Samaritan Couple; Men With Van; Mrs Neekham; Mrs O'Leary; Constable McBride; Telegraph Boy; CID Man; Holy Cross Congregation; Stewart Ronaldson; Little Girl; Lestrade's Constables; Detective Inspector Clarke; Baker Street Crowd; Police Officer; Three Drunks; Petty Thief; Mr Pitty; Chief Constable Morrison; Cab Driver; Alice; Urchin; Belvedere Club Members; Iris; Cellist; T. Evelyn Wickford; Nigel Davies; Ben; Middlesex Hospital Nurses; Doctors; Patients; Mr Murray; Anjer Carriage Driver; Sailors; Bar Girls; Kenneth Dalby; Javanese Servant; Villagers; Servants; (Mrs Sterling; Maddie Collins; Abigail Hewitt; The Professor; Herschel O'Malley / Edward LaCroix / Handsome Eddie; Holmes Family Servants; Holmes Family Maid; Holmes's Mother; Genevieve (Jenny) Holmes; Holmes's Father; Mrs Dougherty; Mrs Hudson's Sister-in-Law; Rose Donnelly; Station Pimp; Francis Black; Lord Merrill Holbrook; Henrietta Barstow; Blackmailers; Mrs Barstow; Dr James Armitroy; Henrietta's Companion; Companion's Fiancé; Merrill's Friends; Ralph Pritchart; Shamus Tiramory; Gentleman Cracksman; Chemist; Chemist's Wife; Arthur Templethwaite; Dodd or Griffith; Ronaldson's Parents; Tom Thornton; Carolina Lopenski; Sir Felix Upton; Julia Upton; Midhope Street Landlady; Dick Smiley; Moole; Convicts; Hope Sailor; Coolies; The Van der Vermers)
Date: 1882 - August 26th, 1883
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Marylebone; Petticoat Lane; Spitalfields; Harvey's; Post Office; Tea Stall near Portman Square; News Stall; Holy Cross Church, St Pancras; Oxford Music Hall; Previtali's, Covent Garden; Arundel Place; Tottenham Court Road; Dress Shop; Stephen Street; Portman Square; Café Royal; Soho; Santelli's Shop; Café; Johnson's Rooms; Police Station; Marylebone Police Court; Midhope Street; St John's Wood; Hughes's House; Belvedere Club; Corkle's Base; Middlesex Hospital; Java; Anjer; Sailors' Bar; Imperial Hotel; Corkle's Manor House; Serang
Story: Working undercover as a maid at Baker Street, time traveller Gillian Petra is observing the young Sherlock Holmes, and having Shinwell Johnson investigate his family background. He suspects she is following him while he is working on a jewel robbery for a female client. Rose's fellow maid, Liza becomes the latest victim of a child murderer, and Gillian suspects she is being followed. Johnson tells her that Holmes is making enquiries into her background, and her room is searched. Her verbal sparring with Holmes becomes increasingly sexual, and he rescues her from an attack by Mrs Hudson's wayward son. Their relationship becomes a physical one, before falling apart.
With the aid of Corkle, another lodger at 221, Baker Street, who is, like her, an agent of Jimmy Moriarty, Rose bugs Holmes's rooms, overhearing arguments with Watson, and a consultation with new client, Lady Holbrook, who is being blackmailed over her grandson's sexual predilictions, and who wants Holmes to find the grandson, Lord Merrill, who is missing on the Continent. At the Café Royal he is asked by an old school friend to find another missing young man, Ronaldson. An abduction attempt is made on Gillian, and Holmes sends for Mycroft after receiving news of his father's death. Mycroft wishes to place their sister, Jenny in an asylum. Gillian learns from Johnson that the CID are following her. She discovers disturbing video tapes in Corkle's room, and finds herself under arrest.
After Holmes proves her innocence, she and Watson are abducted. After her rescue, she speculates on Moriarty's plans, and she and Holmes sail for Java in pursuit of Corkle, to rescue Watson. Their visit coincides with the eruption of Krakatoa. |
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Robert Lee Hall
Exit Sherlock Holmes (1977)
Story Type: Pastiche (Science Fiction)
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Violet Hunter; Professor Moriarty; Inspector Lestrade; Tobias Gregson; Billy; Wiggins; Athelney Jones
Historical Characters: Arthur Conan Doyle; Ivan Caryll; Gertie Millar; The Gaiety Girls; Gus Elen; George Edalji; Harry Champion; Marie Lloyd
Other Characters: Emily Percy Hall; Sister Milbank; Cabmen; Baker Street Neighbours; Firemen; Policemen; Shoppers; Mrs. Pickett; Diogenes Club Members; Simon Bliss; Flower Girls; Hotel Desk Clerk; Barrel-Organ Man; Mrs. Grimsby; Alfred Fish; Street Musicians; Hare & Hounds Regulars; Barmaid; Alexander; Maestro Franco; Bertram Stiles; Nell Simpson; Escott's Assistants; Pavilion Audience; Charwomen; Railway Porter; Mr. Franklin; Sailor-boy
Date: Tuesday 11th October, 1903
Locations: Bart's; Watson's Gloucester Road surgery; Queen Anne Street; 221B, Baker Street; 2, Devonshire Place; London Bridge Station; 221B Basement; Baker Street; hansom cabs; Welbeck Street; Bentinck Street; Manchester Square; Paddington Street ; Marylebone High Street; The Diogenes Club; Pall Mall; Bond Street; Regent Street; Piccadilly Circus; Shaftesbury Avenue; Cambridge Circus; Charing Cross Road; Leicester Square; The Strand; The Gaiety Theatre; The Adelphi Bar; Oxford Street; St. James's Street; Trafalgar Hotel; 288, Kennington Road; Westminster Bridge; Hare & Hounds pub; Marcini's; Whitehall; Long Lane; Bermondsey; Pavilion Theatre; Jamaica Road; Waterloo Road; York Hotel; Victoria street; Victoria station; a train; Sussex; The Sussex Downs; Haywards Heath; Polegate; Willingdon; Birling Farm; Oxford Theatre
Story: Watson is summoned to Baker Street by Holmes who tells him that Moriarty has survived Reichenbach and is back at work. Holmes goes undercover, announcing his retirement, to track down Moriarty. After several weeks with no contact from Holmes, during which Lestrade & Gregson report an alarming rise in the London crime rate, Watson receives a note, brought by Billy the page, from Holmes. Arriving at Baker Street, Watson is shown a secret basement laboratory kept by Holmes. Moriarty appears, and sets fire to the lab. Watson is rescued from the conflagration by Mrs. Hudson's new lodger, the actor Frederick Wigmore, who reveals that he used to be Wiggins of the Baker Street Irregulars. Setting out on an investigation of his own, Watson makes a disturbing discovery at the Diogenes Club. With Wiggins' help he finally tracks down Mycroft, and thereafter traces Holmes to the Pavilion Theatre, where he learns the truth about Holmes and Moriarty's relationship. |
The King Edward Plot (1980)
Story Type: Extra-canonical adventure of Wiggins
Canonical Characters: Stamford; Mrs Hudson; Wiggins; Baker Street Irregulars; Vamberry; (Sherlock Holmes)
Historical Characters: Gertie Millar; Gaby Deslys; The Gaiety Girls; Lord Nathaniel Rothschild; Louise Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire; Lord Hartington, Duke of Devonshire; Reginald Brett, Lord Esher; Frederick Ponsonby; Marquis Luis de Soveral; Sir Francis Knollys; Admiral Sir John Fisher; Edward VII; Queen Alexandra; Viscount Henry Chaplin; Sir Ernest Cassel; Viscount Haldane; Paul Cambon; Count Mensdorff; Charles, Lord Carrington; Sir Thomas Lipton; Sir Blundell Maple; Lord Iveagh; Sir Charles Hardinge; Lady de Grey; Daisy, Princess of Pless; Sir Arthur Bigge; Arthur Paget; Sir Dighton Probyn; Arthur, Duke of Connaught; George V; Princess May of Teck; Princess Louise; Duke of Fife; Princess Maud; Prince Charles of Denmark; Princess Victoria; Alice Keppel; Superintendent Patrick Quinn; (George Keppel; Lionel Rothschild; Superintendent William Melville; Lord Hardinge; Lady Cromer; Ferdinand Rothschild; George Edwardes; Wilhelm II; Sir Francis Laking)
Other Characters: Herbert Munns; Adelphi Customers; Barman; Savile Row Clerks; Simon Bliss; Jack Merridew; Alfred; Mrs Beddoes; Diogenes Staff Cook; Mrs Broek; Jimmy Thompson; Mr Stalker; Diogenes Valets; Club Members; Colonel Cooke; Baron Sigmund Czinner; Sir Charles Ormsby; Maids; Mr Wetheridge; Samuel Jarrett; Inspector Nelson Faraday; Mr Dorland; Simpson's Head Waiter; Wine Steward; Mrs Cannon; Diogenes Steward; Mrs Franks; Maid; Mr Salt; Billy Gully; Nancy; Rothschilds Gateman; Hansom Driver; Rothschilds Couriers; Art Dealers; Rothschild's Page; Clerks; Rothschild's Driver; Boothby; Cab Driver; Ramsgate Barman; Spiker; Jamaica Road Constable; Freddie; Mr Rance; Sophie Bernard; Armand Bernard; Wilhelm Luscher; Herr Bünz; Piccadilly Policeman; Mr Raddles; Jessie; Gert Wumble; Mr Giddings; Mary; Frances; Cosette; Monsieur Dasté; Brooks's Hall Porter; Brooks's Club Members; Page Boy; Frank Cardew; Royal Train Servants; Lady McKellar; Charlene; Jane; Passengers; Daimler Drivers; Mr Laney; Mr James; Footmen; Sandringham Guests; Gottlieb; Lord Glendinning; Lady Glendinning; Sir Julius Zarchin; Servants; Beaters; Loaders; Workmen; Actors; (Nance Castle; Rose Mappin; Alfie Whitehead; Mr Pickering; Monsieur Ménager)
Date: January- 16 November, 1906
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Romano's; Gaiety Theatre; Adelphi Bar; The Strand; Savile Row; Diogenes Club; Shooters Hill Road; Fleet Street; Simpson's; Bond Street; Carlyle's Gallery; Curzon Street; Bliss's House; New Court; Rothschilds Bank; Chatsworth House; Whitechapel; Wapping High Street; The Ramsgate Pub; Jamaica Road; Seecombe Exporting Offices; Pike's Mews; Devonshire's London House; Kettner's, Greek Street; Baker Street; Hyde Park; The York Hotel; Piccadilly Circus; 24, Norfolk Street; Brooks's Club, St James's Street; St Pancras Station; The King Edward Special; Wolferton Station; Sandringham House; Flitcham Farm
Story: Ex-Cox's bank clerk, Munns, moves into 221B Baker Street, on the advice of Old Stamford, taking Mrs Hudson's suite on her retirement to the South Downs, where his fellow resident is Frederick "Wiggins" Wigmore, an actor whose hobby is "helping people". He also starts spending time with his uncle, Simon Bliss, at the Diogenes Club, who also makes a habit of helping out with problems. Wiggins tells him of his time in the Irregulars and how he has tackled cases for people who have come looking for Holmes since his retirement, and asks him to become his partner. Bliss tells his page, Jack, to watch new club member Czinner, and he overhears him in an argument with a visitor, Jarrett, who he later finds murdered. One look at the dead man convinces Bliss that there is a plot afoot against the king, who he was clearly meant to impersonate. Munns who was visiting his uncle when the body was found, brings Wiggins into the case, who discovers that Sophie Bernard, the King's latest mistress is involved with Czinner. Bliss learns more of Czinner from Rothschild, and of Sophie from the Duchess of Devonshire. All the signs suggest that the plot, whatever it is, will come to fruition at Sandringham on the King's birthday. Wiggins sets the Irregulars to find out who Jarrett really was. A burglary by the Irregulars provides details of Czinner's doings, and a list of spies, and Wiggins's investigations turn up Czinner's body, pulled from the Thames, and information on Jarrett's relationship with Sophie.
Bliss obtains an invitation to Sandringham, and arranges through Ponsonby for Wiggins to appear in a play as part of the celebrations. Wiggins arranges watches to be kept on the principals of the plot, and a collision with Sophie's carriage. Munn's faces Lubscher's brutish manservant and Bliss infiltrates Jack into the Bernard household. Lord Esher is brought in to help work out a plan of action at Sandringham. At Sandringham action is taken to save the King and discredit Lubscher, and Wiggins performs on and off stage, while Munns and Jack are taken as hostages, and the case ends in a shootout with some unexpected participants. |
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Leslie Halliwell
"The Ghost of Sherlock Holmes" (1984)
Included in: The Ghost of Sherlock Holmes (Leslie Halliwell)
Story Type: Homage
Detectives: Nathaniel Gelding & an un-named doctor
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: Superintendent George Fitch; Colonel Aspinall; Marcus Leonard; Charles Franklin; Constable Jenkins
Locations: The Sussex Downs; Birling Gap; East Dean; Beekeeper's Cottage; Birchington Manor
Story: On a weekend trip to Sussex the narrator and his companion, Gelding, an antiquarian book-dealer & "passive member of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London" visit Birling Gap, the location of Holmes' retirement cottage. Later, in the village of East Dean, Gelding spots the mysterious silhouetted figure of a man on a tor. Approaching the spot where he was seen, the two find the crumbling remains of "Beekeeper's Cottage". The following morning the doctor is called upon by local police to examine the body of Marcus Leonard, the paper manufacturer and as they leave the inn they see again the man on the tor. Leonard appears to have been killed during the course of a burglary, but with the aid of a displaced scarecrow, and perhaps inspired by the Ghost of Sherlock Holmes, Gelding is able to come to quite a different explanation of the events of the previous night. |
Barbara Hambly
"The Adventure of the Antiquarian's Niece" (2003)
Included in: Shadows Over Baker Street (Michael Reaves & John Pelan)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Billy
Fictional Characters: Carnacki
Other Characters: Burnwell Colby; Stable Boy; Carstairs Delapore; Judith Delapore; Gaius, Viscount Delapore
Date: August 20th-22nd 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Embankment; Carnacki's House; Shropshire; High Clum; The Cross of Gold; Depewatch Priory
Story: Colby calls on Holmes with a letter from the girl he hopes to marry. She has been forbidden from doing so by her grandfather, and the letter says that she is being kept by him as a servant. Holmes visits Carnacki, and learns of the strange history of the family's house in Shropshire, but the next day his client returns and says that the matter has been resolved. when Holmes notices that Colby now writes with his left hand when the previous day he had used his right, he resolves to continue his investigations and travels to Shropshire with Watson, arranging to meet Carnacki there. In his inn room, Watson has disturbing dreams of bizarre rituals in a cavern beneath Depewatch Priory, from which he is rescued by Holmes & Carnacki. |
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"The Dollmaker of Marigold Walk" (2003)
Included in: My Sherlock Holmes (Michael Kurland)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Mary Morstan
Canonical Characters: Mary Morstan; Mrs. Hudson; Dr. Watson; Billy; Watson's Maid; Sherlock Holmes; Mrs. Turner
Other Characters: Tzivia Wolff; Rebecca; Zoltan Berg; Mrs. Berg; Mrs. Berg's Friend; Mrs. Orris; Lionel Thorne; Viola Thorne; Julietta Thorne; Mrs. Robertson; Florrie; Rag-and-Bone Man; Flower Girls; Queenie; Tramp; Pea-Shellers; Old Market Woman; Street Boys; Gordon "Ginger" Robinson; A Jarvey; Men in Marigold Walk
Date: 1889
Locations: Whitechapel; Wordsworth Settlement House; An Alley Behind the Fish & Ring; Portman Square; Audley Street; 221, Baker Street; Limehouse; 3, Colt Street; The Ropewalk; Ropewalk Fields; Watson's Kensington Home; Piccadilly; Covent Garden Market; A Cab; Marigold Walk
Story: Mary, at her volunteer post at an East End settlement house, hears from Mrs. Wolff how a friendly toff approached her and knocked her out. While she was unconscious a metal box she had made was stolen. Mary hears of two other similar attacks in which there was no theft, both on peddlars of home made dolls. Visiting Martha Hudson (who we learn is Holmes's lover) she learns of a case Holmes is working on of a woman who has been missing from home for six years, but who has been sending letters to her daughter and husband from all over the world since her disappearance. Mary manages to recover Mrs. Wolff's box, and realises that the two cases are connected. She and Mrs. Hudson venture into the East End to bring the case to its conclusion. |
"The Lost Boy" (2008)
Included in: Gaslight Grimoire (J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Fantasy Pastiche narrated by Mary Morstan
Canonical Characters: Mary Morstan; Dr Watson; Sherlock Holmes; (Mrs Hudson / Martha)
Fictional Characters: Mary (Meg) Darling; Peter Pan; The Gallipoot; (George Darling; Wendy Darling; John Darling; Michael Darling; Nana; Thomas Carnacki; The (First) Doctor; The Mermaids; The Pirates; The Red Indians)
Folkloric Characters: Fairies
Other Characters: Ten Stars; Black Knights; Robert "Bobbie" Lewensham, Viscont Mure; Nightcrow / Jakob Krähnacht; (Mrs Clegg; Earl of Wylcourt; Black Knight of Ravensmire; The King of Dreams; Cloverberry; Wizards; Delphine Tremlow; Mr Gower; Chief Walking Wolf; Melegriance; Queen of the Night Island)
Date: c.1892
Locations: Watson's House; Kensington Gardens; 221B, Baker Street; Deptford; 37, Barsham Lane; A Dungeon in the Nightmare Realm; The Neverlands
Story: Mrs Darling calls on Mary Watson, who is seriously ill, while Mr Darling consults with Holmes over the disappearance of their children. Walking in a dream that night, Mary sees Holmes and Peter Pan fight a creature from the shadow between the two worlds. Holmes arranges the return of the children, and continues to meet with Peter, who eventually consults him, taking Mary, who remembers him from her childhood with him, when he is blamed for the disappearance of a boy in Yorkshire. Holmes, Peter and Mary journey into the nightmare realm to face metal warriors, and an evil wizard, to try to rescue the boy.
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Charles Hamilton
"The Adventure of the Biscuit Tin" (1915)
Included in: The Complete Casebook of Herlock Sholmes (Charles Hamilton )
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Herlock Sholmes & Dr. Jotson
Other Characters: Inspector Pinkeye; The Duke of Shepherd's Bush; Special Constables; Mr. Bakenphat
Locations: 101, Shaker Street; Hotel d'Oof
Story: After Sholmes deduces that Jotson got out of bed this morning, Pinkeye tells him that the Duke of Shepherd's Bush's diamonds have been stolen, and only a biscuit tin with the lid off left behind. Sholmes tracks down a biscuit-loving man with a tin watch to the kitchens of the Hotel d'Oof. |
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"The Adventure of the Diamond Pins" (1915)
Included in: The Complete Casebook of Herlock Sholmes (Charles Hamilton )
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Herlock Sholmes & Dr. Jotson
Other Characters: Sholmes's Landlady; Visitor; Inspector Pinkeye
Locations: 101, Shaker Street
Story: Sholmes deduces that Jotson has not shaved, then through the use of a newspaper advertisement traps the Hornsey Rise murderer and diamond pin thief, handing him over to Pinkeye who believes that it was a lucky fluke. |
Edward B. Hanna
The Whitechapel Horrors (1992)
Story Type: Pastiche (Told in third person)
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Wiggins; Baker Street Irregulars; Mycroft Holmes; Billy; Shinwell Johnson
Historical Characters: Inspector Abberline; Sergeant Thicke; Jack The Ripper; Polly Nichols; Annie Chapman; Inspector Chandler; Sir Charles Warren; Lord Randolph Churchill; Elizabeth Stride; Major Henry Smith; PC Alfred Long; Inspector Daniel Halse; Dr. Frederick Brown; Dr. George Sequeira; Henrietta Barnett; Reverend Samuel Barnett; Oscar Wilde; George Bernard Shaw; The Duke of Clarence; J.K. Stephen; Lord Salisbury; Edward VII; Christopher Sykes; Superintendent Thomas Arnold; Mary Jane Kelly; Dr. George Bagster-Phillips; George Hutchinson; Dr. Roderick MacDonald
(Emma Smith; Martha Tabram; PC John Neil; PC Haine; PC Misen; George Cross; John Paul; Dr. Ralph Llewellyn; Robert Mann; James Hatfield; John Davis; Jack Kent; James Green; Albert Cadosch; Elizabeth Long; William Piggott; John Richardson; Amelia Richardson; Louis Diemschutz; PC Edward Watkins; George Morris; PC James Harvey; PC James Holland; Sir Francis Knollys; Thomas Bowyer; John McCarthy; Inspector Walter Beck; Elizabeth Praten; John Netley; Sir William Withey Gull)
Other Characters: Ronald F. Jones; Strand Crowds; Simpson's Diners; Simpson's Staff; American Couple; American Man's; Business Associate; Jarveys; Vagrants; Mortuary Worker; Telegraph Boy; Hanbury Street Policemen; Hanbury Street Crowds; Sergeant; PC Bagley; Dick; Britannia Drinkers; Bledsoe; Lansdowne; Commercial Road Pub Customers; Streetwalkers; Customers; Squint; Man in Deerstalker; Derelicts; Solly the Slip; Elderly Gentleman; International Men's Working Club Members; Berner Street Policeman; Other Policemen; Nurse; Doctor; Constable at Hospital; Mitre Square Policemen; Large Detective; Inspector Hunt; Goulston Street Constable; Dorset Street Policemen; Workhouse Worker; Toynbee Hall Children; Phaeton Driver; Chelsea Servant; Chelsea Crowd; Waiter; Dicky; Belcher; Downing Street Constable; Porter; Stillwell; Equerry; Marlborough Doorman; Peregrine Burton-FitzHerbert; Miller's Court Crowds; Young Detective; Policemen; Photographers
Date: September 1st - November 11th, 1888 / January 28th, 1895
Locations: Claridge's Hotel; The Strand; Simpson's; Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street; Whitechapel; Spitalfields; Old Montague Street Mortuary; Buck's Row; Hanbury Street; Britannia Pub; Dorset Street; Scotland Yard; Diogenes Club; Baskerville Hall; Dartmoor; Commercial Road; Aldgate High Street; Charlotte Street; Berner Street; Hospital; Mitre Square; Goulston Street; Dorset Street; Golden Lane Mortuary; Workhouse; Toynbee Hall; Paddington Station; Chelsea; 10, Downing Street; The Marlborough Club; Miller's Court; Commercial Street; The Ten Bells; Bishopsgate; Bishopsgate Station; Mayfair; Norfolk; King's Lynn; Sandringham
Story: The new manager of Claridge's finds a portfolio left in the safe by Anstruther's son. It contains a manuscript by Watson.
After an evening at the Lyceum and Simpson's, Holmes & Watson return home to find Abberline & Thicke waiting for them. They ask for Holmes's help in solving the murder of Polly Nichols. Holmes examines the body and the murder site, but concludes that all that can be done is to wait for the next murder, although he returns to Spitalfields the next day, but meets with no success in learning anything. On his return from a week spent on the Manor House case, he is summoned to the site of Chapman's murder, where he finds an expensive cigarette end that the police have overlooked. He sets the Irregulars on the case and Wiggins arrives with cigarette ends found at a spot where Chapman had been seen with a man. Scotland Yard ignore his findings and carry out a series of arrests and releases of suspects. Believing he has given up the case, Mycroft and Randolph Churchill, at the instigation of the Queen attempt to convince Holmes to continue his investigations.
While Watson is at Baskerville Hall, the Ripper takes two more victims. Holmes sets up a vigil in Whitechapel, and follows a man h believes to be the Ripper, but is too late to prevent Stride's murder, and is mistaken for the Ripper, attacked and knocked unconscious, before he can follow the man, who goes on to kill Eddowes. Holmes receives word of the second murder in hospital and travels to the scene to investigate. Another cigarette end is found. His investigations take him to all quarters of the diistrict, including Toynbee Hall. On his return from Baskerville Hall he disappears for several days. When he returns he has sent for Eddowes possessions, among which he focuses on a cufflink, which, along with the cigarette ends, suggests a possible royal connection. Holmes takes Watson to a house in Chelsea where they encounter Wilde, Shaw and the Duke of Clarence. Holmes reveals that during his absence he had followed several young men wearing identical cufflinks to the house.
Holmes is sent a kidney by the Ripper, and receives a visit from Churchill, who seems to know more about it than he is telling. Mycroft expresses concern at the effect Holmes's suspicions would have on the country. The Prime Minister insists they be kept confidential until action can be taken. Watson plays snooker with the Prince of Wales, who sends Burton-FitzHerbert to act as their palace liaison, from whom they learn about Stephen, the Duke's tutor & companion in Chelsea. Johnson brings information about Cleveland Street. Mary Kelly is murdered. After touring all the murder sites, Holmes believes he has found the Ripper's means of escape. It is only years later that Holmes reveals the truth of his investigations to Watson. |
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Hapi (Alex Jack)
The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (1974)
Story Type: Pastiche cum Parody cum Scholarship / Revisioning of the Canon
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; The Head Lama; Professor Moriarty; Irene Adler; Godfrey Norton; Mycroft Holmes; Mary Morstan; Jonathan Small; Captain Morstan; Tonga; Major Sholto; Thaddeus Sholto; Bartholomew Sholto; Lal Rao; Athelney Jones; Inspector Lestrade; Mr. Melas; Colonel Moran; Daulat Ras; Melas's Housekeeper; Paul Kratides; Sophy Kratides; The Speckled Band; Grimesby Roylott; Roylott's Butler; Mrs. Stoner; Major-General Stoner; Julia Stoner; Helen Stoner; The Moriarty Gang; Stationmaster Moriarty; Stoke Moran Blacksmith; Lord Robert St. Simon; Hatty Doran; Francis Hay Moulton; Colonel Hayter; William Kirwin; Cunningham; Alec Cunningham; Acton; Annie Morrison; Percy Trevelyan; Blessington; Russian Count; Count's Son; Percy Phelps; Annie Harrison; Joseph Harrison; Fred Porlock; James Ryder; Isadora Persano; Sir Charles Baskerville; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Dr. Mortimer; Sir Henry Baskerville; Stapleton; Beryl Stapleton; Selden; Barrymore; Mrs. Barrymore; Laura Lyons; Swiss Boy; Sick Englishwoman; Trelawney Hope; Lord Bellinger; Eduardo Lucas; Madame Fournaye; Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope; Von Herder; Oberstein; Cadogan West; Sir James Damery; Violet De Merville; Baron Gruner; Kitty Winter; Tregennis Family; Dr. Leon Sterndale; Mrs. Saunders; Nathan Garrideb; Killer Evans; James Phillimore; Von Herling; Von Bork; Martha
Fictional Characters: Father Brown; Flambeau; C. Auguste Dupin; Rue Morgue Orangutang
Historical Characters: Lt. Francis Younghusband; Annie Besant; Subha Chandra Bose; Mahatma Gandhi; Sir Ernest Budge
Mythical & Legendary Characters: Tulpa; The Yeti
Other Characters: Avalokiteshvara Milas; J. Quincy Adams the Tenth; Colonel H. Bably Holland-Bennett; Cornelio "Balkan" Dimitrier; Professor Horst Hummel; Julio Chavez; Rick Weaver; Vice-Chancellor of Lhasa University; Abbot Rimpoche Dharma-Raja; Redlock Regis; Jawaharlal Ibn Wadi; William Lloyd; Devi Melas; Ahmed Ibn Harah, The Desert Fox; Inspector Hermaneuti; Pilgrims; Quffah; Dragoman; Brother Frumentius; Brother Aedesius; Child; Jewish merchant; Sufi Dervish; Rug Weaver; Blind Seer
Date: 1891 onwards
Locations: Milas & Adams' Apartment; Lhasa; Madras; Calcutta; the Durga Temple; Redlock & Jawaharlal's Rooms; Bombay; Vienna; London; The Diogenes Club; New Delhi; Egypt; Wadi Natrun; The Abbey of Our Lord's Flight; Stoke Moran; The Crown Inn; Roylott's House; Melas' Lodgings
Story: The book is divided into separate, but inter-linked chapters:
Twelfthnight
Avalokiteshvara Milas expounds to his colleague J. Quincy Adams the tenth, on the similarities between Holmes and Jesus, on the Baker Street irregulars, and the writings on the writings, and the links between their rituals and ancient Egyptian ceremonies. He gives Quincy a new biography of Holmes by the Master Hapi to read.
The Jewel in the Lotus
In 1891 Holmes attends a lecture on Buddhism at a monastery in Lhasa in the guise of Norwegian explorer Ole Sigerson. He receives a note from the spy, Balkan, informing him he is in danger, and requesting a meeting at the end of the lecture. The Head Lama states that two members of his audience are Tulpas (fictional creations made real through meditation), Holmes deduces that these are Father Brown & Flambeau, but Father Brown points out that Dupin and the Rue Morgue orangutang are also present, he also reminds Holmes of their meeting when he was a child. At their meeting Balkan reveals himself as Moriarty, but Holmes overcomes him. He is removed to another monastery, where Holmes hears later he has reformed and become the abbot.
Skillful Means & Supreme Wisdom
After Godfrey Norton has been imprisoned on Devil's Island for financial irregularities, Irene Adler stages her own death and sets out on the trail of Holmes, having deduced he did not die at Reichenbach. Arriving in Lhasa she takes on the guise of Little Iron Hare, temple maiden & actress. Holmes decides to explore more fully the ways of Buddhism. In order to practice the tantra he is joined by Little Iron Hare, and from their relationship a child is born after he has been ordered to return to England by Mycroft. The Head Lama ordains that the child must remain in the care of the monks.
The Kali Ghat
The child takes to thievery, and adopts the name of Redlock Regis. He comes under the care of an abbot from the North, Rimpoche Dharma-Raja, who has a strange habit of oscillating his head from side to side. When the English arrive in Tibet, Younghusband takes Redlock to Madras, where he is put into the care of Annie Besant. It is here he first reads the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and finds himself strongly identifying with the villains. He escapes the Theosophists and flees to Calcutta, where he meets Jawaharlal Ibn Wadi, a fellow despiser of the British, particularly Holmes, and Watson, in whose writings they detect anti-Indian sentiments, and deduce that, rather than the Agra treasure being lost as claimed, or returned to India as it should be, it was in fact kept and split between Holmes, Watson & Mary, and Athelney Jones. The Sign of Four was written specifically to cover up the facts.
Mycroft's Last Warning
Redlock & Jawaharlal further examine the canon and find increased evidence, not only of Holmes & Watson's anti-Indian sentiments, but a general antipathy to all that is foreign, a general lack of morality, and evidence of participation in criminal activities. They plan to take revenge against Holmes, Watson, and particularly Mycroft, who they see as responsible for upholding British colonialism. After freeing a group of prisoners by digging a tunnel from the shop of an Englishman who they have employed elsewhere to copy out the works of Dr. John H. Watson, and other attacks on the British Empire, they travel back to Tibet to see Dharma-Raja. The abbot gives them a set of printing plates for the British five-pound note to fund their efforts, asking in return to be given Redlock's first-born child. They then travel to Europe, and attempt to have Mycroft expelled from the Diogenes Club. Returning to India, Redlock meets and marries Devi Melas, and they have a son, Avalokiteshvara Milas, who as agreed is sent to the abbot. Redlock & Devi are killed attempting to stop unrest during the Independence celebrations in New Delhi. Jawaharlal travels the world continuing his endeavours to overthrow the empire.
The Case of the Two Coptic Patriarchs
Two Anchorites sit atop pillars in the Egyptian Desert. It is said that one is the bandit, The Desert Fox, Ahmed Ibn Harah, the other Inspector Hermaneuti who had been in pursuit of him. They have sat there for over 40 years, the one waiting for the other to lead him to his treasure hoard, the other waiting for the first to give up the chase. They have been there so long that no one knows any longer which is which. One morning one of the stylites is gone. Mycroft sends Holmes & Watson, along with Mr. Melas, as translator, to the Wadi Natrun, to investigate. Examining the base of the pillars they find no trace of the missing man's footprints. From a collection of rock chips, date stones and wicker fragments, Holmes is able to deduce the fate of the stylite, and learns from the remaining man that he is right in all but the names, and that it is the other stylite that has disappeared. The two stylites are finally reunited, but the treasure is irretrievable.
The Greek Interpreter Reinterpreted
Mr. Melas, the Greek Interpreter, is really Samdup Milas, agent of the Tibetan Government. He used his network of contacts to stage the affair of the Greek Interpreter to gain the confidence of the Holmes brothers. During his investigations on behalf of Bombay Zoo to restore animals stolen by Grimesby Roylott, he recognises the hand of Colonel Moran and the Moriarty Gang in the deaths of Julia Stoner & her uncle, and the presence of the worm unknown to science. He recognises the same hand at work in the events of the Resident Patient. Meanwhile he has arranged the affair of the Noble Bachelor as part of his attempt to destabilise the British Empire. The chapter goes on to explain the involvement of Milas and his housekeeper, in a variety of disguises, in The Reigate Squires, The Naval Treaty (in which Daulat Ras and the Speckled Band play a surprising role), The Valley of Fear and the Blue Carbuncle, either as part of their work against British colonialists, or in an effort to protect Holmes from the Moriarty Gang, in order to preserve his best means of gaining information.
Her Last Bow
Milas & his housekeeper are also involved in the Baskerville case (as are the Moriarty Gang and the remarkable worm), at the behest of the Head Lama, seeking restitution for a South African tribe affected by Sir Charles' South African Speculations. They also ensure Holmes's safety at Reichenbach, and engineer his visit to Tibet during the hiatus. Likewise the events of the Second Stain are set in motion at the behest of the Head Lama, as are those of the Illustrious Client. It is from this latter investigation that Milas is able to deduce the role of the remarkable worm in a whole string of deaths and madnesses beginning with Isadora Persano. After retiring to Tibet, Milas is sent back to England to impersonate Von Herling. After the events of His Last Bow, Holmes recognises Martha as Irene Adler, who he goes on to realise was posing as Melas's housekeeper. He goes on to recognise their involvement in a score of cases, after re-reading the canon. In apartment 221a, he finds Melas's hideaway. The next morning he and Mycroft confront Melas & Irene. Melas returns to Tibet, Irene decides to stay with Holmes in his Sussex villa.
The Test Tube Bearer
Avalokiteshvara tells Adams that the second part of Hapi's work tells of the continuing feud between Holmes & Dharma-Raja, and that Holmes led a saintly existence after retiring to Sussex with Irene. |
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Joyce Harrington
"The Adventure of the Gowanus Abduction" (1987)
Included in: The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Martin H. Greenberg, Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh & Jon L. Lellenberg)
Story Type: Homage
Detectives: Diana Irene Adler & John Conan Watson / Moriarty
Canonical Characters: (Irene Adler; Godfrey Norton; The King of Bohemia)
Other Characters: Carlos; Bicycle Messenger; Rameshwar Das; Diana Irene Adler; Krishnamurthi's Son; Alfred J. O'Brien; Purander Krisnamurthi; Anjali Krishnamurthi; (Kidnappers)
Date: January of a recent year
Locations: New York; Watson's Penthouse, Central Park South; Brooklyn; Union Street; Plaza Hotel
Story: Watson, Diana Adler's friend and biographer, receives an envelope, by bicycle messenger, containing a magazine and Diana's (who has been away in search of her past for two years) ring. He visits the address on the mailing label. He finds a locked building, but is met by another cyclist, who says he is one of the 'Irregulars'. They break into the building, where Wason is reunited with Diana, and they rescue a kidnapped boy. Irene says that after travelling around the world, she has finally solved the mystery of her ancestry. |
Michael Harrison
"Sherlock Holmes and 'The Woman' " (1987)
Included in: The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Martin H. Greenberg, Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh & Jon L. Lellenberg)
Story Type: Pastiche / Canonical Re-visioning
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Irene Adler; King of Bohemia; Billy; (Princess Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen; Mary Morstan)
Historical Characters: Lillie Langtry; Prince Alexander of Battenberg (Edward Langtry; Edward VII; Hortense Schneider; Count Emile de Bionne; Queen Alexandra; Lady Malcolm; Sir Hugo de Bathe; Lady Dudley; Princess Victoria of Prussia; George Lewis; Adam Worth)
Other Characters: (Appraiser; Bank Official)
Date: Christmas, 1929 / April, 1888
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Watson reveals the true identities of Irene Adler and the King of Bohemia, and reveals how Prince Alexander of Battenberg hired Holmes to recover a set of family jewels he had given to Lillie Langtry. Unfortunately the jewels have been stolen from Langtry's bank, under a forged signature, and Holmes has been retained to recover them. Holmes believes the theft to be the work of Adam Worth. Langtry comes to Baker Street claiming to have obtained the jewels back from Worth. Holmes wonders how involved the lady actually was in the plot. |
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Bret Harte
"The Stolen Cigar Case" (1902)
Included in: The Shadows Of Sherlock Holmes (David Stuart Davies); The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye); The Misadventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen)
Story Type: Parody
Detective: Hemlock Jones & an un-named narrator
Other Characters: Narrator
Locations: Jones's Brook Street Lodgings; The East End
Story: Having deduced that it is raining, Jones reveals that he has lost a diamond-encrusted cigar case, presented to him by the Turkish ambassador. After many days of investigation he concludes that it has been stolen by his colleague, who, however, is able to show Jones its actual location. |
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Simon Hawke
The Dracula Caper (1988)
Story Type: Science Fiction Homage (#8 in the Time Wars series)
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes)
Fictional Characters: Dr Moreau; Dracula
Folkloric Characters: Werewolf; Vampire
Historical Characters: Arthur Conan Doyle; H.G. Wells; Amy Robbins; Henry Irving; Bram Stoker; Oscar Wilde; Lord Alfred Douglas; (Harry Cust; C. Lewis Hind; Ellen Terry)
Other Characters: Janos Volkov; Underground Passengers; Constable Allan Jones; Chief Inspector William Grayson; Captain Delaney; Creed Steiger; Lieutenant Andre Cross; Angeline Crewe; Lin Tao; Ming Li / Jasmine; Private Scott Nielson / Mr Nelson; Corporal Thomas Davis / Thomas Daniels; Private Richard Larson / Richard Locker; Private Paul Ransome; Sergeant Anthony Rizzo; Sergeant Christine Brant; Private Linda Craven; Ian Holcombe; Cafe Royal Manager; Wilde's Companions; Glynnis 'Goodtime Gordy ' Gordon; Pall Mall Gazette Reporter; Tearoom Customers; Stanley Turner; Werewolf Victim; Turner's Neighbours; Mrs Turner; Joe Tully; Constable Wilkes; Tony Hesketh; 27th Century Londoners; Drakov's Creations; Coachman; Chan; General Moses Forrester; Policeman; Constable Thorpe; Dr Darkness; Coach Driver; Green Dragon Tong Members; Bordello Couple; Old Woman; Lyceum Crowd; Inspector Tremayne; Policemen; Charing Cross Hotel Guests; Hansom Driver; Madame Tchu; Violet Anderson; (Randall Jarvis; Nikolai Drakov; Metropole Staff; Temporal Corps Soldiers; Dr Albrecht Mensinger; Reporter; Violet's Landlady; Director General Vargas)
Date: 1894
Locations: Whitechapel Station; Morgue; 7 Mornington Place; Lyceum Theatre; Limehouse; Lin Tao's Shop; Northumberland Avenue, Hotel Metropole; Regent Street; Cafe Royal; Fleet Street; ABC Tearoom; Whitechapel; Turner's Apartment Building; The Beefsteak Club; 27th Century London; Richmond Hill; Drakov's House; Bow Street; Transylvania; Castle Dracula; London Pub; Scotland Yard; Forrester's Office; The House of Blue Lights; Charing Cross Hotel; Drakov's Warehouse
Story: A policeman has his throat torn out on Whitechapel Station, Doyle is called in to examine the body and makes an unorthodox deduction about the killer. Members of the Temporal Observer Corps. call on Wells, believing that their quarry, a cross-time terrorist named Drakov, and the scientist he abducted, Moreau, may have influenced his writing. An actress at the Lyceum dies, apparently of a vampire's bite. Chinese apothecary, Lin Tao and his granddaughter, Jasmine, have a new lodger, 'Morro', in the rooms above their Limehouse shop - he, too, is searching for Drakov. The Time Corps take samples from the Whitechapel murder to be analysed in the 27th Century, and confirm that the killer is a genetically engineered werewolf. Doyle examines the vampire victim. Inspector Grayson gets a lead from Wilde, but his quarry is already a prisoner, and is becoming a vampire. Moreau encounters Wells, enlists his help, and introduces him to time travel. There are further werewolf killings. Grayson interviews Stoker, about the Lyceum murder, who tells him of a meeting with Count Dracula. Meanwhile Drakov has taken Time Corps member, Ransome, prisoner, and attacks are made on other members of the team, who move bases to Wells's house. Lin Tao sets the Green Dragon tong to search for Drakov, and they locate Dracula's base, but he and Drakov have relocated to Transylvania, where an army of creatures is being created. Stoker and Doyle are taken prisoner. The final showdown comes in Castle Dracula. |
Jacob Hay
"A Story for Which the World is Now Prepared" (1975)
Included in: Ellery Queen's A Multitude of Sins (Ellery Queen)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Wilson, the Cannary Trainer)
Other Characters: Alastair Wracke; Rhuewin; General the Earl of Passclamore; (Deborah Amberson)
Locations: Wracke & Rheuwin's offices; Castle MacMornay, Mornay, Scotland; A beach near the capital city of a certain South American country; (Lashnamurnah; Grimpen)
Story: Wracke & Rhuewin, Private Investigators, have been employed by Holmes to solve many of his cases, including most of Watson's untold adventures, for which he takes the credit. After failing to bring to justice the perpetrator of the theft of the MacMornay Treasure, Wracke & Rheuwin retire to South America. |
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