H.F. Heard

"The Enchanted Garden" (1949)
Included in: The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche
Detectives: Mr. Mycroft & Sydney Silchester
Other Characters: Hetty Hess; Bookseller; Hiram Hess, Jr.
Locations: Southern California; Mr. Mycroft's Home; A Taxi; Hess's Hummingbird Gardens; A Garbage Heap
Story: Having read of the death of Hetty Hess of complications from a fall several weeks earlier in her garden, Mr. Mycroft takes Silchester to the garden in question, a bird sanctuary devoted entirely to hummingbirds. During their walk round the garden Mr. Mycroft takes a fall himself, and on the way home stops at a garbage heap to pick up some brightly coloured paper. The next day he insists they return to the garden where they meet Hess, the owner, who asks them to pose for a publicity photo on the bridge, Silchester in a cloak of feathers with a flower behind his ear. As he poses, something seems to flash in his face, and he falls over the bridge to be caught by the leg and hauled back by Mr. Mycroft. A nest box, an absence of red flowers, a fountain, and a new strain of typhus bacteria help point towards a solution to the murder.

Johan Heliot

"The Very First Affair" (2005)
Included in: The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures (Mike Ashley & Eric Brown)
Story Type: Science Fiction
Canonical Characters: Professor Moriarty; Mycroft Holmes; Dr Watson; (Sherlock Holmes)
Fictional Characters: Passepartout; Phileas Fogg; Mr Fix; Aouda Jejeebhoy; Fantômas; Fu Manchu; Dr Arliss Loveless; (Colonel Stamp Proctor; Captain Nemo; James West; Jérôme Fandor)
Other Characters: Mongolia Captain; Captain's Guests; Rangoon Employee; Opium Den Chinese Man; Opium Smoker; Fogg's Brother; Sioux Braves; (Reform Club Members; Reform Club Servant)
Date: Wednesday 2 October, 1872 - ?
Locations: A Train; The Mongolia; India; The Rangoon; Singapore; Hong Kong; The General Grant; Nebraska;
Story: Passepartout narrates the true events behind Around the World in Eighty Days. Passepartout, a French Information Services operative is assigned to Fogg as his first mission. The Reform Club, from which Fogg's journey began, are involved in attempts to contact the spirit world. Aboard the train through Europe, Passepartout sees Fogg disappear into an empty compartment. Aboard the ship to Bombay, Fogg disappears from inside his own locked cabin. In a temple in Singapore, Passepartout witnesses the materialisation of Fogg's brother. After being rescued from the Sioux in Nebraska, Passepartout sees another brother appear and learns Fogg's true identity, nature and criminal intent, and the origin of his "brothers". The story ends with Passepartout's revelation of his own real identity.

O. Henry

"The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes" (1911)
Included in: The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye); The Misadventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Shamrock Jolnes & Whatsup
Other Characters: Rheingelder; Women On Streetcar; Major Winfield R. Ellison
Locations: New York; Headquarters; A Streetcar; A Café
Story: Jolnes deduces that Whatsup has had elecricity installed in his house, from his cigar; that he must buy flour, from a string tied around his own finger; what Rheingelder of City Hall had for breakfast, from egg on his shirt; and the background of Major Winfield R. Ellison of Fairfax County, Virginia, from the fact of his sitting on a streetcar, his boutonnière, and a smell of mint.

Reginald Hill

"The Italian Sherlock Holmes" (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
Other Characters: Count Leonardo Montesecco; Giuseppe Strepponi; Count Bruno Montesecco; Signora Grillo; Execution Crowds; Flunkey; Montesecco's Guests; Soldiers; Judge Pinelli; Signora Masina; Mrs. Jardine; Signor Randone; Captain Zardi; Dr. Provenzale; Claudia Medioli; Violetta; Susi; Serge Rosi; Pressmen; Endo Chiari; Giulio Tebaldo; Executioner; Priest
Locations: Italy; Rome; A Pensione; A Carriage; Piazza San Cassiano; Montesecco's Palazzo; Via di Monserrato; A Train
Story: Holmes is recuperating in Rome after working on a case in Italy. He is invited by a young Italian nobleman, who has adopted Holmes's methods and styled himself "The Italian Sherlock Holmes, to the hanging of the man who killed his uncle, and thus provided his first successful case. To Watson's astonishment Holmes agrees to attend. In the house hired by the nobleman, overlooking the square where the hanging is to take place, Holmes & Watson hear how he solved the case. Holmes's comments place some doubt on his deductions, but nothing is done to prevent the hanging. On the train back to England, Holmes reveals to Watson the reason for his actions, or lack of action.

William Hjortsberg

Nevermore (1994)
Story Type: Supernatural Thriller
Historical Characters: Harry Houdini; Jim Collins; Jim Vickery; Damon Runyon; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Lady Jean Conan Doyle; The Duchess of Marlborough (Consuelo Vanderbilt); Bess Houdini; Theo "Dash" Weiss (Hardeen); Bernard Ernst; Mrs. Ernst; Tad Dorgan; Mrs. Runyon; Leonora Piper; Hamlin Garland; Edgar Allan Poe; Adolph Ochs; Edward F. Albee; Melville Stone; Howard Thurston; Bernard Gimbel; Jim Vickery; Jim Collins; Denis Conan Doyle; Malcolm Conan Dyle; Jean Conan Doyle; W.C. Fields; Hype Igoe; Captain Cornelius Willemse; Nathan "Kid Dropper" Kaplan; Louis Cohen; Ed Wynn; Fanny Brice; Sid Grauman; Louis B. Mayer; Douglas Fairbanks; Mary Pickford; Charlie Chaplin; Buster Keaton; Senator James J. Walker; Ring Lardner; Gene Fowler; Jack Dempsey; Luis Firpo; Babe Ruth; Bob McGraw; Casey Stengel; Paul Whiteman; Grover A. Whalen; Mrs. Whalen; Rodman Wanamaker; Joseph "King" Oliver & his Creole Jazz Band (Baby Dodds, Honore Dutrey, Bill Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Lil Hardin-Armstrong)
Other Characters: "Dapper Dave" Conrad; Violette Speers; Palace Stagehand; Mary; Iris; Palace Audience; Wilma; Elmer Conklin; Sergeant James Patrick Heegan; Leon Fishkin; Detective; Telephone Operator; Woman on Phone; Captain Francis Xavier Boyle; Homicide Detectives; 39th Street Crowd; Patrolmen; Police Drivers; Mrs. Esp; Esp's Neighbours; Police Photographer; Lieutenant "Bulldog" Bremmer; Miss Esp; Mauretania Passengers; Brig. Gen. Sir Nevil Soames; Frederick Randell; Mrs. Randell; V.T. Podmord; Lord Burliegh; Lady Burliegh; Mauretania Steward; Opal Crosby Fletcher; Walter Clarke Fletcher; Opal's Audience; Reporters; Cab Driver; Delmonico's Doorman; Head Waiter; Maude Marchington; Chester Marchington; Bloom; Plaza Waiter; Houdini's Servants; Librarian; Lindy's Clientele; Millicent Cooper; Cooper's Friend; Eddie Hallenbeck; Sidney Rammage; Carnegie Usher; Carnegie Audience; Old Man; Reporters; Hansom Driver; Mary Rogers; George Paterson Dobbs; Marathon Dancers; Musicians; Bus Passengers; Blair; Washington Square Crowds; Bleecker Street Passers-by; McAlpin Guests; Biltmore Crowds; Physician; Houdini's Assistants; Lifeguards; Anthony "Toot Toot" Scalisi; Deck-Hands; Albert L. Portman; Clown; Ashton; Martha; Lee; Klansmen; Essex Market Crowds; Irene Kaplan; George Katz; Lloyd; Astor's Guests; Astor's Bartender; Doyle's Billiards Partner; Dumphry, Hale & Simmons Staff; Palace House Manager; Arnold Small; Tap Dancers; Automat Customers; Zebra Doorman; Zebra Waiter; Plaza Desk Clerk; Boxing Referee; Boxing Crowds; Patrolman; Dempsey's Trainer; Doyle's Driver; Halloween Ball Guests; Laundresses; Lincoln Waiter; Chicago Cab Drivers; Charley; Ace; Ohio Crowd; Drake Hotel House Detective; Williamsport Airfield Manager; New York Cabbies; Aquitania Crowds
Date: 1923
Locations: New York; Palace Theatre; Twenty-Ninth Precinct House; Police Headquarters; Thirty-Ninth Street; The Mauretania; Liederkranz Hall; Delmonico's; Hotel Stanley, 124 West Forty-Seventh Street; Plaza Hotel; Central Park; 278, West 113th Street; Seventh Avenue; Public Library; Lindy's; Thirty-Eighth Street; Carnegie Hall; Roseland Ballroom; Broadway; Washington Square; MacDougal Street; McAlpin Hotel; Baltimore; Biltmore Hotel; New York Harbour; Atlantic City; Ambassador Hotel; Madison Avenue; Eighty-Fifth Street; Philadelphia; Bellevue Hotel; Bookbinder's Restaurant; Washington D.C.; Pennsylvania Avenue; The Mall; The Friars Club, 110, West Forty-Eighth Street; Essex Market Court; Essex Street; Hoboken; The Roosevelt Theatre; Fifth Avenue; Vincent Astor's House; Hollywood; Pine Street; Dumphry, Hale & Simmons offices; Forty-Fifth Street; Small's office; The Earl Carroll Theatre; Times Square; An Automat; Battery Park; Castle Clinton; Park Avenue; Denver; Brown Palace Hotel; West Forty-Eighth Street; The Zebra Club; Plaza Hotel; The Polo Grounds; The Bronx; Fordham; The Poe Cottage; Detroit; Statler Hotel; Yankee Stadium; Buffalo Central Station; Chicago; The Lincoln Gardens; Majestic Theatre; Skokie Airfield; Ohio; Williamsport, Pennsylvania; Thirty-First Street; Pier 56; The Aquitania;
Story: While Houdini is performing at the Palace, the 29th Precinct gets a call from a woman who claims to have seen a gorilla carrying a woman along 38th Street. Damon Runyon arrives at the scene of a brutal double murder on 39th Street which seems to replicate the events of Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue. On board the Mauretania, Doyle holds a Séance to contact the spirits of those who died in the Titanic disaster. After using a trick to reveal medium, Opal Crosby Fletcher, as a fraud, Houdini is invited, by her, to a Séance. At the Hotel Stanley a woman is found dead, walled up in a closet with a black cat. Doyle sees an apparition of Poe in his hotel room. Houdini announces to the press that Doyle will solve the "Poe Murders". A further murder, of Mary Rogers, a showgirl, occurs. Doyle discovers that Poe can also see him, as an apparition, in his own time. Houdini realises that all the murders are linked to him in some way. Houdini's mother speaks to him at Fletcher's Séance. Doyle convinces Poe to assist in his investigation. One of Houdini's assistants becomes the killer's next victim. Houdini & Doyle fall out over a Séance at which Lady Jean claims to have transmitted a message from Houdini's mother. Fletcher's attentions towards Houdini increase in their fervour, and Houdini's suspicions of her increase likewise. As investigations continue, Doyle and Houdini both find themselves lured into traps. Houdini is finally able to identify the killer and they race to prevent further deaths.

Edward D. Hoch

Steve Hockensmith

Holmes on the Range (2006)
Story Type: Homage
Detectives: Gustav "Old Red" Amlingmeyer & Otto "Big Red" Amlingmeyer
Canonical Characters: Duke of Balmoral (Richard Brackenstall de Vere St. Simon); Lady Clara St Simon; (Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Silver Blaze; Earl of Blackwater; Lord Robert St Simon; Hatty Doran; Sir Charles Appledore)
Other Characters: Uly McPherson; Ambrose "Spider" McPherson; Tall John Harrington; Hornet's Nest Customers; Bartender; Pinky Harris; Swivel-Eye Smyth; Crazymouth Nick Dury; Anytime McCoy; Perkins; Drovers; The Peacock; Curly; The Swede; Jack Martin; Stage Driver; George Edwards; William Brackwell; Shotgun Rider; Emily; Wagon Crew; Hungry Bob Tracy; Nathaniel Horne; (Blacksmith; Langer; Sheriff Staples; Franklin Dammers; Dr Edwards; Mrs Edwards; Mule Skinner)
Date: Spring, 1893
Locations: Montana; The Bar QV Ranch / Cantlemere Ranche; Miles City; The Hornet's Nest
Story: The Amlingmeyers, Montana ranch hands, discover the remains of a body, apparently trampled to death by cattle. Having read The Red-Headed League a year earlier, Old Red fancies himself a detective. On arriving at the Cantlemere Ranche three months earlier, they had their guns taken away, and told to stay away from any parts of the ranch they had not been told to go to, and were allowed no visitors. A deputy marshal brings news of an escaped lunatic, and old Red finds tracks of a man, but is warned off following them. The dead man is ranch manager, Perkins. Spider brands and fires one of the other men. Old Red draws his brother's attention to the fact that the dead man's horse is missing, suggests there is a spy in their bunkhouse, and gets hold of three new Holmes stories. Their boss, Uly McPherson, splits the Amlingmeyers up. Balmoral, the ranch owner arrives, along with two other stockholders, including Brackwell, son of the Earl of Blackwater, and his daughter, Lady Clara St Simon. Shortly after, a body turns up in the privy, and on a wager, the Duke has the Amlingmeyers investigate the murder. Old Red makes a shocking discovery in the dead man's Levi's. After enraging the Duke by referring to Holmes's involvement with his family, Old Red is shocked to learn of Holmes's death in Switzerland. The Amlingmeyers set out to explore those parts of the range they have been warned to stay away from, discovering the secrets of the ranch, and encountering some strange beasts and a bounty hunter, before heading back to the ranch house where Old Red presents the local deputy with a solution to the mystery.

Michael P. Hodel & Sean M. Wright

Enter The Lion (1979)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Mycroft Holmes
Canonical Characters: Mycroft Holmes; Sherlock Holmes; Victor Trevor; Dr. Moore Agar; Inspector Lestrade; Professor Moriarty; Colonel James Moriarty
Historical Characters: Robert Cumming Schenck; William Ewart Gladstone; Benjamin Disraeli; (James D. Bulloch; James I. Waddell)
Other Characters: Sylvanus Griffin; Colonel Mordecai Leland; Captain Samuel Ravenswood; Tyler Carteret; William Bankhead; Pickpocket; Man with Parcels; Pub Clientele; Barmaid; Alfie; Policemen; Goldini's Waiters; Goldini's Diners; Headwaiter; Landau Driver; Rachel Leland; Millicent Deane; Langham Doorman; Carriage Driver; The Rt. Hon. Jerrold Moriarty; Captain Jericho; Simpson's Headwaiter; Senior Clerk or Draughtsman; Hansom Driver in the Strand; Housewife and Child; Lamplighter; Hansom Driver outside Simpson's; Tom; Tom's Partner; Hank; Calvin Trent; Moriarty's Driver; Foreign Office Messenger; Hansom Driver; Lord & Lady Tarleton; Admiralty Ball Guests; Doorman; Waiters; Sir Rodney Stevain Ploveson Fairndales; Arabella Fitzwalter; Professor Moriarty's French Creole Companion; Colonel Moriarty's Companion; Major Eggleston; Major-domo; Admiralty Lord and his Wife; Billiard Room Attendants; Langham Commissionaire; Dawes; Hansom Driver; Downing Street Policeman; Downing Street Butler; Alexander Stafford Clark; Hansom Drivers; Raspberry Mitre Barmaid; Constable; Disraeli's Messenger; Jericho's Driver; Anchor Clientele; Publican; Jim; Duke; Dock Worker; Langham Desk Clerk; Page; Disraeli's Special Messenger; Soldiers; Colonel; Stokers; Police; Civilian Politicos; (Ames; The Rt. Hon. Cyril P. Harvey; Langham Hotel Desk Clerk; Langham Hotel Messenger; Foreign Office Porter; Rachel's Hansom Driver; Locksley Street Housemaid; Dr. Fordyce; Sir Robert Hyde; Mrs. Crosse; Paul Terhune; Phineas Tourney; Army-Navy Club Chamberlain; Ostlers, Grooms & Farriers; Foreign Office Special Messenger; Sir Edmund Darlington; Commissionaire; William H. Phillips)
Date: May, 1934 (introduction) / Late November, 1875
Locations: The Foreign Office; A London Street; A Pub; Goldini's; Gloucester Road; A Landau; The Langham Hotel; Holmes's Montague Street Rooms; A Hansom; Simpson's-in-the-Strand; The Strand; Mycroft's Rooms at 42, St. Chad's Street; The American Embassy, Grosvenor Square; Moriarty's Carriage; The Army-Navy Club; Moriarty's Kensington House, 10, Downing Street; St Martin's-in-the-Fields; British Museum; The Raspberry Mitre Pub; Jericho's Carriage; Bankside; The Anchor Pub; Waterloo Station; A Train; Salisbury Station; Salisbury Plain; A Balloon; (Regent Street; Southwark)
Story: Mycroft receives a trade delegation from Alabama in his office at the Foreign Office. A coded phrase tells him that actually they have come with important military information for his superior, Jerrold Moriarty. While dining at Goldini's with his brother and Victor Trevor, Mycroft receives word that Leland, the leader of the delegation has been shot. Ravenswood, one of the delegation is hostile towards the Holmes brothers' being brought into the affair. The following day Mycroft is visited by Rachel who tells of her suspicions of Ravenswood and his involvement in something to do with the War between the States. He also receives a visit from Captain Jericho, a former slave with a Derringer. Later he is attacked by two thugs in Leland's suite at the Langham. Returning home he is again confronted by Jericho, who says that Leland's party are planning a deal that will lead to the return of slavery in the United States and return the country to the British. Mycroft and Moriarty are called to account by Schenck, the American Ambassador, and Mycroft is visited by the American Secret Service, and learns of the presence of a valuable diamond necklace as a complication in the situation.

Moriarty attends the Admiralty ball with the Ameicans and two of his three sons, where he has arranged a meeting in the billiards room with a number of well-placed ministry figures. Sherlock is also there in disguise. Mycroft accompanies Rachel Leland back to the Langham, where they find her father murdered and Millicent Deane missing. Sherlock learns of the rebels' plans to use auto-gyros in their attack on America's chief cities. Mycroft attempts to alert Disraeli, but is turned away by his secretary, and is also refused help by Gladstone. Later, however, he finds himself summoned into the presence of the two men. Returning home he is kidnapped by Captain Jericho, ending up in Bankside in company with Sherlock, Lestrade and Trevor. After freeing Deane, the Holmeses return to the Langham to find the remaining Americans gone. A confrontation with Moriarty ends in tragedy. The final showdown comes at a military demonstration of the autogyro on Salisbury Plain and in a balloon above the Plain.

P.C.Hodgell

"A Ballad of the White Plague" (1998)
Included in: The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mycroft Holmes
Other Characters: Blanche Vernet; Irisa; Siger Holmes; Holmes's Mother (Dr. Charles Vernet; Alice Vernet; Alyse Vernet)
Date: August, 1902 (Framing Story)
Locations: a pony trap; Sussex; Morthill Manor; Bagshot; a train
Story: Holmes & Watson are driving a pony trap through Surrey, and are apparently lost, when Holmes directs Watson to turn into the driveway of Morthill Manor. As they explore the house, Holmes reveals that it was the home of his Vernet cousins, and goes on to tell Watson of his mother's cousin's affair with his father, and the cousin's father's role in the death of his twin daughters. Their story bears disturbing similarities to the story told in the folk song The Mistletoe Bough.

Tom Holland

Supping with Panthers (1996)
Story Type: Horror Novel with Sherlockian overtones
Sherlockian Hero: Dr. John Eliot
Fictional Characters: Lord Ruthven; Haidée
Folkloric Characters: Circe; Lilith
Historical Characters: Bram Stoker; Henry Irving; Oscar Wilde; Mary Jane Kelly; Florence Stoker; Lord Byron; Inspector Stephen White; Jack the Ripper; Polly Nichols; Dr. Rees Ralph Llewellyn; Elizabeth Stride; Catherine Eddowes; (Dr. Joseph Bell; Joseph Barnett)
Other Characters: Colonel Sir William Moorfield; Colonel Rawlinson; Colonel Arthur 'Pumper' Paxton; Huree Jyoti Navalkar; Mrs. Paxton; Timothy Paxton; Moorfield's Men; Brahmin; Russian Soldiers; Private Haggard; Woman Captive; Private Compton; Sergeant-Major Cuff; Hillsmen; Prisoners; Sri Sinh; Paxton's Men; Guardians of Kali's Shrine; European Man; Tonga Driver; Arthur Ruthven; Lucy Ruthven; Sir George Mowberley; Lady Rosamund Mowberley; Eliot's Nurse; Eliot's Patients; Rosamund's Maid; Edward Westcote; Ruthven's Coachman; Mr. Headley; Lyceum Actors; Lyceum Audiences; Rajah of Kalikshutra; Cab Drivers; Streetwalker; Riverman; Rajah's Boatman; Old Malay Woman; Opium Smokers; Musicians; Suzette; Stumps; Lilah; Rotherhithe Crowd; Policeman; Whitechapel Policemen; Arthur Westcote; Westcote's Housemaid; Blonde Woman; Policeman; Surgery Attendants; Civil Servant; Ruthven's Servant Girl; Ruthven's Companions; Commercial Street Drunks; Streetwalkers; Dr. Renfield; Lizzie Seward; Asylum Orderlies; Rotherhithe Drinkers; Mowberley's Butler; Stoker's Guests; Sarmistha; Eliot's Orderly; Cab Company Doorman; King's Cross Guards; Holidaymakers; Harcourt Housekeeper; Mrs. Harcourt; Rosamund Harcourt; Charlotte Westcote; Westcote's Maid; White's Men; Sallow Man; Whitechapel Crowds; Nichols' Man; Señora Susanna Celestina del Tolosa; Streetwalker; Aldgate Policemen; (Jyoti's Brother; Lady Westcote; Mowberley's Servants; Policeman; Coin Dealer; Sailor; Black Woman; Lilah's Servants; Subaltern)
Date: 15th December, 1897 (prologue) / June-July, 1887 / January-November, 1888 / October, 1897 / August, 1895
Locations: India; Simla: The Himalayas; The Kalibari Pass; Kalikshutra; Whitechapel; Hanbury Street; Surgeon's Court; Mayfair; Grosvenor Street; The Lyceum Theatre; Drury Lane; Floral Street; Bond Street; Covent Garden; The East End; The Thames; Rotherhithe; Coldlair Lane; Clerkenwell; Liverpool Street; Bishopsgate Whitechapel Road; Whitehall; Rotherhithe High Street; Highgate; Commercial Street; New Cross; Waterloo Bridge; Chelsea; House of Commons; Myddleton Street; British Library; Farringdon Road; National Portrait Gallery; Bloomsbury; Piccadilly Circus; King's Cross Station; Whitby; Harcourt Hall; St. Mary's Church; York; Bloomsbury Square; Calcutta; Whitechapel Street; Simpson's; Aldgate; Mitre Street; The Jack Straw's Castle; Highgate Cemetery; Highgate Hill; Miller's Court; Dorset Street; Brushfield Street
Story: Part One: Moorfield is sent into the Indian mountains, to Kalikshutra, sacred to the goddess Kali, to investigate sightings of Russians there. En route he meets Dr. John Eliot (a former student of Dr. Joseph Bell) who is working in the area. They are attacked by the Russians who appear to be vampires, although Eliot says they are suffering from a rare blood disease. In Kalikshutra they witness a human sacrifice and are taken prisoner, but Jyoti is able to rescue them, and Paxton's troops take them back to Simla, where Paxton's son becomes the final victim of the disease.

Part Two: Eliot returns to London, where his friend Arthur Ruthven is murdered, and another, Mowberley, goes missing. Mowberley's wife, Rosamund, asks Eliot to investigate. Eliot notices marks on her neck. Both Arthur and Mowberley were working on a Parliamentary bill regarding the Indian frontier. Arthur received a strange message before his death, Lady Mowbray before her husband's disappearance. She tells Eliot also of a bearded foreigner and a woman who burgled her husband's study. Bram Stoker is visited by Eliot at the Lyceum. He wants to interview Mowberley's ward, and Arthur's sister, Lucy, an actress there. In her dressing room they find her cousin, Lord Ruthven, who has just returned from overseas, and seems to take a strange interest in her. Lucy tells Eliot how she believes she has seen Mowberley murdered, but on entering the building with a policeman, encountered the man & woman Rosamund had seen at her house; they had also been at the theatre for that night's performance - their box was booked in the name of the Rajah of Kalikshutra. It transpires that Lucy is now married to Westcote, whose mother was killed, and sister disappeared in Kalikshutra. Eliot and Stoker visit the rooms where Lucy saw Mowberley, and his investigations lead Eliot to believe that Mowberley, too, is a victim of the disease. Further investigations lead to the discovery that both men had been lured to Rotherhithe by Polidori. They follow the Rajah to Polidori's shop, which they discover is a front for an opium den, from where they gain access to a strangely-furnished warehouse where they find a little girl who directs them to Mowberley. On their return they come across a crowd surrounding a prostitute who has been attacked, Eliot takes her to his surgery for treatment, Stoker later learns that her name is Mary Kelly. Mowberley tells Eliot of Lilah, the woman he has become enraptured with. Ruthven pays Eliot to discover a cure for the blood disease he is suffering from.

Eliot follows Mowberley back to Lilah's warehouse, whose interior seems to defy logic, where the child, Suzette, is reading A Study In Scarlet. Kelly is obsessed with the idea that her blood has been stolen and attacks a dog, and later, Mowberley. Eliot & Stoker visit Renfield's asylum, where Seward displays similar behaviour to Kelly, while also demonstrating the urge to consume living creatures. Eliot returns to the warehouse and finds himself falling under Lilah's spell. Westcote receives word that his missing sister, Charlotte, has been seen in the Kalikshutra region. Eliot reads A Study In Scarlet (Doyle is an old university friend); Suzette seems intrigued with the idea of situations in which reason does not work. Mowberley becomes increasingly jealous of Eliot over Lilah. Conversation at a dinner at Stoker's turns to eternal youth, Oscar Wilde is a leading contributor. Huree arrives in London to assist Eliot. Lucy shows increasing signs of illness, and Eliot loses increasing amounts of time in Rotherhithe. Huree realises Lucy is being visited by a vampire and sets up defenses in her room, he is also able to explain the link between her and Lord Ruthven, and Ruthven and Polidori, and reveals Ruthven's true identity. Huree learns Lilah's origins and identity, as Eliot learns who Suzette's nurse, Sarmistha, really is. They, along with Stoker, pursue Lucy's attacker, who has abducted Lucy's child, to Whitby. Their quarry isn't there, but they must face a vampire in Lady Mowberley's family tomb. Returning to London they find that Charlotte has returned and is with Lucy. Lucy's condition worsens, she is abducted and Westcote is killed, after which Eliot, too, disappears. Meanwhile, the Ripper killings are taking place in Whitechapel.

Part Three: Eliot returns to Rotherhithe, where he saves Mary Kelly from being sacrificed, but, himself undergoes a transformation under Lilah's powers, and becomes involved in the Ripper murders. He learns that the events he hs been through have been a game inspired by A Study In Scarlet. Suzette induces him to take a seven-per-cent solution of cocaine. He eventually escapes, and, with Huree, sets out to rescue Lucy, bring the Ripper's crimes to an end, and joins with Lord Byron in an attempt to destroy Lilah.

Tom Holt

My Hero (1996)
Story Type: Fantasy
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Professor Moriarty; (Mrs Hudson)
Biblical Characters: God / The Burning Bush; The Devil; Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; The Antichrist
Fictional Characters: Hamlet; King Lear; Mr Darcy; Lydia Bennet; Oberon; Puck; Fairies; Titania; Peaseblossom; Moth; Mustardseed; The White Rabbit; Mole; Yorick; Hamlet's Ghost; Ratty; Superman; Mad Hatter; March Hare; Dormouse; Alice; Captain James T. Kirk; Polonius; Piglet; Hercule Poirot; Miss Marple; Dracula; Nick Bottom; Curly; (Goneril; Regan; Cordelia; Macbeth; Claudius; Gertrude; William Collins; Mr Bennet; Mr Bingley; Mr Derwent; Bottom; Mr Toad; Mr Badger; Winnie the Pooh; Eeyore; Philip Marlowe; Dr Haydock; Mickey Mouse; Tom & Jerry; Rosencrantz & Guildenstern; Mr Magoo)
Historical Characters: Wild Bill Hickock; (Doc Holliday; Wyatt Earp)
Other Characters: Regalian of Perimadeia / George; Gordian of Saressus/ Neville; Emperor Maxen / Max; Perimadeia Globe Correspondent; Jane Armitage; Dave; Doris; Linda / Lady Helionassa; Albert Skinner / Carson Montague; Jonah LaForce; Posse; Scholfield; Pub Landlord; Alf / Jotapian the High Priest; Norman Frankenbotham; Stanley Earnshaw; Mr Stein; Mr Kraftig; Central Casting; Blackfoot Warriors; Dances With Pigeons; Chief Three Blind Mice; Cheryl; Regalian's Landlady; Man In A Black Hat; Child & Mother; Actor Playing Polonius; Cheadle Bookshop Customer; Trish; Mr Shark; Shark's Assistant; Mr Prosser; Tall Man; Man in Red Shirt; Third Man; Bartender; Slim O'Shea / Max; O'Shea's Heavies; Dr Sebastian Rossfleisch; Tracy; Desk Sergeant; Rossfleisch's Assistants; Robot; Schoolgirl; Continuity Girl; Danny Bennet; Man in Dungarees; Claudia Van Sittaert; French Soldiers; Police; Moriarty's Companion; Igor Braithwaite; Stanley Earnshaw #2; Dead Man; Skinner's House; Marlowe's Office; Butler; Barman; Slushpile Characters; Comic Irishman; Blonde; Policemen; Accident Crowd; Ambulanceman; Nurses; Goblins; Lin; George; Non-Fiction Man; Goblin Captain; Consultant; Native Americans; Take Forty-Two; Umpire; Children; Poker Players; Sarah; Mummy; Daddy; Kieron; Julie; Christine; Hogan; Remington; Webley; Scorpion; Cindy; (Maldezar; Dunthor; Ragged Bear; Miss Withers; Chalkie Wainwright's Dad; Maybury; Stein; Pedersen; Michaels; Gobler; Shaftberg; Hellman; Thelma; Chase Pavlinski)
Locations: Arena; Jane's House; Pub; Street; Canyon; Dewsbury; Kraftig & Stein's Office; Central Casting Office; Wild West Town; Barn; Blackfoot Village; Regalian's Flat; Bookshop; Stockport; Chicopee Falls, Mass.; Skinner's House; Main Street; Stratford-On-Avon; Cheadle; Saloon Bar; Shark's Office; Prosser's Funeral Parlour; Lucky Strike Saloon; Longbourn; A Wood Near Athens; Rossfleisch's Lab; Police Station; Rabbit Hole; Mole End; River Bank; Post Office; TV Studio; Wonderland; 221B, Baker Street; Library of Congress; Battlefield; Hundred Acre Wood; Piglet's House; Rotherhithe; Moriarty's Lair; The Slushpile; Sorting Office; Crypt; Non-Fiction; Hill Overlooking Jerusalem; Hospital; Central Casting; Dodge City; Hogan's Ironmongery
Story: Facing writer's block, Jane Armitage is visited by fellow-author Skinner in a dream. He has been stuck in a fictional world for thirty-six years, with a talking gun, and is being hunted by one of his cowboy characters and needs her to help him escape by rewriting book he's stuck in. Jane's charcter, Regalian, tries to organise his fictional character-playing colleagues to take greater autonomy over their plots. Hamlet communicates with Jane through her computer, asking if she has any work for him. Frankenbotham creates an invincible cricketer named Stanley Earnshaw, brought to life by lightning. God gets public relations advice. Jane tells Skinner she can't do pastiche, so he tells her to send her hero, who will be able to take him into one of her books from which she can write him home, instead. Hamlet finds himself playing Frankenbotham's creature. He seeks out Jane to help get him out of the real world and back into fiction. Regalian's love of country music finally convinces him to take the job. King Lear's lawyer persuades him to give his kingdom to his daughters. Regalian finds Skinner, and suggests that he may be able to get back to the real world via Alice in Wonderland via Pride and Prejudice. Bounty hunter O'Shea, meanwhile, is on their trail, and a gunfire ensues at the Bennet house.

An accident with a first folio Shakespeare finds Skinner & Reg in a wood near Athens encountering Shakespeare's fairies and the bounty hunter. Hamlet is abducted and undergoes an overhaul as part of a plan to rule the world, and with a bomb inside his chest set to explode to the tune of Buffalo Girl. Having fallen in love with the now donkey-eared Skinner, Titania insists on tagging along. Hamlet's revamp causes a personality change or the worse. A wrong turn down the rabbit hole fetches Reg, Titania and Skinner up in Wind in the Willows, prisoners of Mr Mole, and become drug mules for Ratty as a way of getting to Wonderland where they disrupt the Mad Hatter's tea party.

Jane rushes to help Hamlet who finds himself transported to 221B, Baker Street, while Regalian finds himself transported through the looking glass into the real world. Jane visits the library of congress where there is said to be a breach between fiction and reality, and finds herself in War and Peace. Titania and Skinner thake Piglet hostage. Hamlet digs his way out of 221B. Polonius sets superagent Claudia the task of finding Hamlet, and she enlists Holmes to help. Moriarty is given a free holiday in Switzerland. Frankenbotham makes another creature, which becomes occupied by O'Shea, and the laws of fiction propel Titania and Skinner into a Poirot story where they drink drugged cocktails. Hamlet ends up back at 221B. Jane is rescued by an emergency-plot dog, ending up in Marlowe's office. Regalian builds a character bomb, and is attacked by O'Shea in his new body. Claudia reunites everyone at 221B and announces that she has bought the rights to all of them and that they are to star in the end of the world. Dracula is delivered, by mistake to Frankenbotham. Jane and friends are thrown on the slushpile and must find away to escape and save the world with Dracula's help, but not before they all become vampires.

Orville Horwitz & H.A. Schroeder

"The Giant Rat of Sumatra" (1976)
Included in: More Leaves from the Copper Beeches (The Sons of the Copper Beeches)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Professor Moriarty; The Giant Rat of Sumatra; Mycroft Holmes; Violet Hunter
Other Characters: Stage Coach Driver; Rickshaw Driver; Magnamus Porter; Navy Officer; Bosun Manners; Palembang Natives; (Osler)
Date: 1891
Locations: Reichenbach Falls; Amsterdam; A Holland-India Mailship; Sumatra; Bangka; Palembang; Diogenes Club; The Empress of India; Singapore; Magnamus Hotel; A Navy Cutter
Story: A few months after Reichenbach Watson receives a letter from Holmes. Holmes has journeyed to Sumatra with Moriarty who has bred a strain of giant rats there, which he plans to unleash on the world. Holmes was able to defeat Moriarty, but needs Watson to meet him in Singapore so that together they can deal with the rats. Watson collects some items from Mycroft before he departs. A month of scientific research and a night-time jungle stake-out are in order before the menace can be stopped.

Sydney Hosier

Elementary, Mrs Hudson (1996)
Story Type: Extra-canonical adventure of Mrs Hudson
Canonical Characters: Mrs (Emma) Hudson; (Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson)
Other Characters: Violet Warner; Farmer; Hogarth; Sir Charles St Clair; Lady Margaret St Clair; Inspector Jonas Thackeray; Squire Henry St Clair; Colonel Wyndgate; Dr Thomas Morley; Constable McHeath; Will Tadlock; Mary O'Connell; Ben; Nora Adams; Boy at Level Crossing
(Captain & Mrs Roger Abernathy; William Hudson; Malay Pirates; Arnold Warner; Lady Agatha St Clair; Duke of Norwall; Cook; Molly Dwyer)
Date: October 8-9, 1898
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Twillings; Haddley Hall; Twillings Police Station; (Portsmouth; An Island off Malaya; Warner's Chandlery; Porter Street)
Story: Mrs Hudson recounts her life history then tells of an investigation that began with the delivery of a telegram from her old friend Violet Warner asking her to persuade Holmes to go to Haddley Hall. As Holmes and Watson are away on holiday, she goes herself. Violet believes that her employer, Lady Agatha, has been murdered. They overhear her son and daughter-in-law discussing something that happened in the old lady's bedchamber on the night of her death, and resolve to investigate her death. Violet reveals that she has the power to make her spirit body leave her physical body, and on the night of the murder she had astrally projected herself into Lady Agatha's bedroom and seen a figure holding a cloth over her face. That night Mrs Hudson hears crying and the sound of a body falling. The police arrive the following day investigating the murder of a young woman whose body has been found on the estate. Mrs Hudson views the body and searches for a missing ear-ring, but the police believe they already have the murderer. Exploring the house, Mrs Hudson finds signs of habitation in a supposedly unoccupied room and the murder weapon. She also has Violet astrally eavesdrop on the other inhabitants of the house. Further exploring the house, Mrs Hudson finds herself under attack and rescued by an apparition. A song reminds Mrs Hudson of where she has seen the murdered girl, who she has learned was pregnant, before. While one of those involved takes his own life, Mrs Hudson arranges another apparition to flush out the girl's murderer.

Colin Howard

"As It Might Have Been" (1939)
Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Inspector Lestrade)
Other Characters: Lord F---; Lady F---; (The Hon. C---)
Date: June
Locations: Watson's Home; Tooting Bec
Story: Holmes calls on Watson, who deduces he has recovered from an attack of rheumatism. Watson invites Holmes to accompany him to Tooting Bec on a case, Holmes agrees to accompany him, saying that Lestrade can take care of his current workload. They visit Lady F---, who has an unseasonal cold which has baffled Harley Street. Watson astonishes them all by tracing the cause to a bunch of flowers.

Ned Hubbell

Dorothy B. Hughes

"Sherlock Holmes and the Muffin" (1987)
Included in: The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Martin H. Greenberg, Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh & Jon L. Lellenberg)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Baker Street Maid (Muffin); Mrs Hudson; (Inspector Lestrade; Baker Street Cook; Baker Street Irregulars)
Other Characters: Jacky; Little Jemmy; Fireboy; Hansom Driver; Jicky Tar; Tar's Men; Policemen; Signor Antonelli; (Prince of Poona Captain; Viceroy; Gaekwar of Baroda)
Date: December
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Ironmonger's Lane
Story: After an encounter with the new maid, Muffin, Holmes tells Watson of the theft of an Indian chest of jewels, in search of which he visits the docks disguised as a lascar. Muffin asks for his discarded boots for her mother. The following day she is followed by two boys who she believes mean harm to Holmes, but who instead bring him a box of rocks. Jicky Tar tries to gain possession of the box. The diamonds are recovered and Holmes considers the merits of playing Father Christmas.