William B. Kahn

"The Succored Beauty" (1905)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes In America (Bill Blackbeard); The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Oilock Combs & Dr. Spotson
Other Characters: Ysabelle, Duchess of Swabia
Locations: 62, Fakir Street
Story: Spotson visits Combs hoping for reconciliation after Combs worked for his wife to obtain a divorce. Combs deduces that Spotson is currently servantless, from a piece of plaster on his finger. The Duchess arrives and cries "I am lost!" Combs is able to solve her problem simply by running out into the street.

Stuart M. Kaminsky

"The Final Toast" (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 Irregulars; Mrs Hudson)
Historical Characters: (Charlie Chaplin)
Other Characters: Tall Boxer; Constable; (Tubercular Man; Rose; Nicholas; Malcolm Bell)
Date: Winter, 189-
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Bellowdnes Road
Story: When Holmes appears at Baker Street when he should be on his way to Glasgow, Watson suspects that he may be an impostor. An newspaper advertisement calls for a man answering exactly to Holmes's description. Holmes attends the audition and finds himself in a plot to help a condemned man escape the gallows. He quickly realises that not is all as it appears annd that a plot is afoot against his own life.

George Kaplan

"The Adventure of the Patient Adversary"
Included in: Sherlock Magazine, Issue 56
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade; (The Spencer John Gang)
Fictional Characters: Ram Singh; (Casper Holland)
Other Characters: Dr Angus Molesworth; Catherine Ellis; Mathew Cranmer; Dr Synott; (Professor Chen Ta-Kai; Sir Carmichael Pertwee)
Date: 1897
Locations: Watson's Kensington Practice; 221B, Baker Street; Winchester; Aberfeldy
Story: A letter from an old friend, Molesworth, sends Watson to Baker Street. Travelling to Winchester, he and Holmes find Molesworth bed-ridden. He believes he is being murdered in revenge for the actions of his father in Pekin during the invasion of the Forbidden City. Holmes visits a Chinese poisoner and uses fingerprints to prove his case, but the outcome is not what he would have wished.

NOTE: Watson's old friend Caspar Holland appears in "The Battersea Worm" by John Taylor.

Marvin Kaye

The Incredible Umbrella (1980)
Story Type: Fantasy Parody
Canonical Characters: James Phillimore (as J. Adrian Fillmore); Isadora Persano; Colonel Moran; The Moriarty Gang; Professor Moriarty; Sherlock Holmes; Mrs. Hudson
Apocryphal Characters: Ormond Sacker; (Sherrinford Holmes)
Fictional Characters: John Wellington Wells; Frederic; Samuel; Rose;The Pirate King; Sir Joseph Porter; Ralph Rackstraw; Captain Corcoran; Dick Deadeye; Sir Desmond Murgatroyd; Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd; Ko-Ko; Katisha; Mr. Pickwick; Augustus Snodgrass; Martha Bardell; Mrs. Raddle; Dracula; Dracula's Bride; Frankenstein's Monster; Abu Hassan; A Square; (Professor Challenger; Lord John Roxton)
Historical Characters: Richard D'Oyly Carte; Samuel Cellier; Arthur Conan Doyle; Jonathan Wild; Jack Sheppard
Mythical Characters: Roc; Troll; Fairies; The Fairy Queen
Other Characters: Students; Quintana; Rose; Postman; Fillmore's Neighbour; Pirates; Pinafore Crew; Japanese Girls; Grenadiers; Peers; Samurai; Japanese Villagers; Jailer; Courtroom Crowd; Jurors; Policeman; Foreman of the Jury; A Civil Servant; Darts Players; Tapster of the George & Vulture; Hansom Driver; Ferret-faced Prisoner; Warder; Fleet Constable; Bentinck Street Constable; Bentinck Street Lurker; Bentinck Street Crowd; Persano's Cabbie; Villa Cascana Occupant; A Waiter; Diogenes Club Retainer; Wild's Brigands; Blueskin; Flatlanders; The Chief Circle; Isosceles Triangles
Locations: The Sorceror's Shop; College Hills, Pa.; Parker College; Bellavista Falls; Rose's Shop; Fillmore's House; A Cornish Beach; H.M.S. Pinafore; A Gondola; A Fishing Village; Ruddigore Castle; London; Japanese Village; The Fleet Prison; A Courtroom; Newman Street; Lombard Street; George Yard; The George & Vulture Tavern; A Hansom; 221B, Baker Street; Bentinck Street; Persano's Hansom; Transylvania; Castle Dracula; Italy; The Villa Cascana; The Reichenbach Falls; Rosenlaui; A Pot House; A Barn; The Diogenes Club; Moriarty's Mansion; Wild's Cellar Stronghold; An Island in the Southern Tropics; Aladdin's Palace; Flatland; A Mental Institution; Moriarty's Fortress; A Fairy Land
Story: Bored with his life as a Professor of English at Parker College, J. Adrian Fillmore spends his weekends rummaging in junk stores. Rose, owner of one such, persuades him to buy a broken umbrella from her stock. The following morning, as he sets out for work it is raining, he steps back into his house for his umbrella, and tries to open the broken one. He immediately finds himself transported to a beach in Cornwall, where he is taken prisoner by Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, and unwillingly betrothed to the pirate, Ruth. He escapes during a battle, but, returning to the pirate camp to retrieve the umbrella, finds himself a captive aboard H.M.S. Pinafore. While he is aboard he dreams that he is held captive by Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd in Castle Ruddigore. He enlists the help of Dick Deadeye to escape. He finds himself, next, in a Japanese village near Hyde Park. He asks Ko-Ko for help in finding the sorcerer John Wellington Wells, he avoids being imprisoned by the Mikado, but finds himself thrown in prison on a piracy charge. In court he manages to persuade the judge (the ex-pirate king) that he is innocent. Outside the courtroom he meets the Sorcerer, who tells him of the umbrella's origins and the rules governing its use. He uses the umbrella to flee just as Ruth bursts into the room with the police.

The umbrella takes him to a London in which he meets Mr. Pickwick, who sends him to 221B, Baker Street, which Fillmore finds to be inhabited by Sherrinford Holmes, Ormond Sacker, and their landlady, Mrs. Bardell, who is a dead ringer for Ruth, and who has him imprisoned for breach of promise. In prison he meets I.A.Persano, who appears to covet his umbrella. Persano is released, and Fillmore is set free the following day after Mrs. Bardell is murdered. After several attempts on his own life he finds himself a prisoner of Persano, from whom he learns that Moriarty is the umbrella's inventor. Escaping from Persano's hansom cab he flees back to Baker Street, where he is betrayed and handed back to Persano by Holmes's new landlady, Mrs. Raddle. As he is about to meet his doom at the point of Persano's sword, the umbrella transports him to Dracula's castle. Trapped by the Count, Phillimore deduces the secret of the umbrella, and attempts to transport himself to Holmes. He finds himself at Reichenbach, where he intervenes in the duel, but loses the umbrella in the falls. Holmes helps Phillimore understand the workings of the umbrella, and allows him to accompany him as he sets out from Rosenlaui.

Holmes decides to accompany Challenger on his expedition to the Lost World, so Fillmore, now going by the name Phillimore, returns to London to take up residence in the now unoccupied rooms in Baker Street. He is summoned to the Diogenes Club, where Mycroft adds further to his understanding of the umbrella, and suggests that Moriarty may have used it to survive Reichenbach. Phillimore must find Moriarty's own umbrella and use it to find the Professor and retrieve his. He looks for clues to the Professor's destination in Moriarty's library, but is interrupted by Persano, who forces him to take him with him by umbrella to Jonathan Wild's stronghold. Trussed up by Wild, they are freed by his rival, Jack Sheppard. On the umbrella's next flight Persano is lost, but Phillimore picks up another passenger, they land on an Arabian Nights Island, where he meets Abu Hassan, who takes him to see a Roc's nest. The following morning he is attacked by the purple troll, from which he is saved only by the arrival of the equally menacing Frankenstein Monster. He manages to win the monster's allegiance, and together they travel to China to find Aladdin's lamp. Having defeated the wizard to gain control of the lamp, Phillimore has the genie send him to whatever place Moriarty is, and finds himself in Flatland, without the umbrella, and having lost the Monster on the way. He is incarcerated in a Flatland mental institution, from which he is rescued by Holmes, they infiltrate Moriarty's fortress, but are captured. The Frankenstein Monster arrives in the nick of time, and in the ensuing fracas Moriarty dies. The umbrella is found, and Phillimore takes the Monster to a fairy paradise.

"Too Many Stains" (1996)
Included in: Resurrected Holmes (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Canonical Revisioning in the style of Rex Stout
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Mycroft Holmes; Lady Hilda Trelawny Hope; Mrs Hudson; Mme Fournaye; Fritz Von Waldbaum; Dubuque; Inspector Lestrade; Dr Watson; (Eduardo Lucas; Trelawny Hope; Lord Bellinger)
Fictional Characters: A.J. Raffles; Arnold Zeck (The "well-known criminal investigator" of "The Man with the Watches")
Other Characters: Dr Raoul Johnnee; Von Waldbaum's Assistant; Johnnee's Assistant; Adolphus Zecchino; Mr Maturin; (Journalists; British Operative; Sir Henry J. Pettycloch)
Date: 1886 / February, 1893 / November, 1893 / 1904 / 1892 / 1903
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; France; Rièges; Rièges Asylum; La Trique au d'Huit Bistro; Paris; Trelawny Hope's House; Templeton Square; Zecchino's House; A Cab; New York; Garrick Theatre
Story: Holmes reveals the details that Watson was forced to suppress in his account of the Second Stain - his references to the case having been produced at the instigation of Mycroft to obscure the actual facts. Hiding out at Baker Street during the hiatus Holmes receives a visit from Lady Hilda who tells Mrs Hudson that she knows Holmes is alive,convinced that the letter in the press regarding the "man with the watches" case was written by Holmes. Shortly thereafter Mycroft also arrives. He is concerned over Lady Hilda's gambling, which he fears may open her up to blackmail, a scenario which she tells him is already being played out. She and Holmes tell Mycroft of the theft and recovery of the letter from a foreign potentate some years previously. The spy Zecchino is still in possession of the letter used by Lucas to blackmail Lady Hilda, that which was returned to her having been a forgery, and the events surrounding its previous use are being played out again. Holmes and Mycroft set out to prevent the theft of another document and to preserve the life of Lady Hilda and her unborn child. Holmes visits an asylum in France to assess the threat that Mme Fournaye still poses and encounters Von Waldbaum. and Dubuque. Lestrade and Mycroft beat Holmes in bringing the case to a close and evealing the truth behind the earlier incidents.

NOTE: The postscript indicates that the burglar Mr Maturin who was "a casualty of the Boer War...[who] died saving the life of his best friend, a reformed burglar" was A.J. Raffles, and that Adolphus Zecchino, who was spotted in New York in 1903 and "may find the wolf at his door" became Nero Wolfe's nemesis, Arnold Zeck.

H.R.F. Keating

"The Adventure of the Suffering Ruler" (1983)
Included in: The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike Ashley)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Other Characters: Mr. Smith; Josef; A Gipsy; Oxford Street Passers-by; Count Palatine of Ilyria; A Seaman; Maltravers Bressingham
Date: Autumn, 1896
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Smith's Residence near Rickmansworth; Oxford Street; A Photographer's Shop; Watson's Club; A Train; (Illyria)
Story: Watson calls in on Holmes after visiting a patient in Hertfordshire. Mr. Smith had sent a servant to find a doctor in London, because he was terrified of any of his neighbours knowing that he was ill. A week later Watson returns to his patient and, while tending him, sees a face outside the window. He chases him through the grounds of the house, eventually capturing a gipsy, before encountering Holmes, who believes that Smith is a foreign King. He later shows Watson a photo, and tells him that Smith is Count Palatine of Illyria, and the man who has recently appeared in the newspapers is a double, standing in for the Count while he is ill, as the political situation in Illyria is currently rather unstable. As Watson's patient recovers, Holmes warns that the need for vigilance is greater than ever, but Watson learns that there is no unrest in Illyria, and Holmes receives a visitor before the matter is brought to an end.

G. Kelly

"A Slaying in Suburbia" (2002)
Included in: Curious Incidents (J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Tobias Gregson; Mrs. Hudson; (Mycroft Holmes)
Other Characters: Mark Lowe; Arthur Dunn; Cedric Tomkins; Albert Gough; Prison Warders; Ambrose Fowler; Major's Receptionist; N. Major; Thomas Pritchard; Jonas T. Rimmer
Date: July
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Gough's Cab; Wormwood Scrubs; Scotland Yard; Pimlico; Major's office; Wardour Street; Rydal Avenue; Fowler's House; Lowe's office
Story: Solicitor Lowe seeks Holmes's help in clearing his client, who he believes innocent, of the murder of his neighbour, Dunn. Holmes's inquiries reveal that while Dunn appears not to exist, another neighbour, Fowler, is not who he appears to be. Holmes puts his theory as to how the man could be murdered at a distance with an ordinary air rifle to the test, but his act leads to another man's death. He begins to recognise the hand of a successor to Moriarty's criminal empire in the events, and is visted by his adversary in Baker Street.

Stephen Kendrick

Night Watch (2001)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes
Fictional Characters: Father Brown
Historical Characters: Stephen Kendrick; Arthur James Balfour
Other Characters: New York Holmesians; Mary Watson Alston; Pavilion Club Receptionist; Mr Jennings; Pavilion Club Waiter; A Brass Band; The Reverend Dr. Sidney Rosewater; Jeffrey Rosewater; Children; Elizabeth Rosewater; Abigail Thompkins; Humphrey Thompkins; Augustus Simon; Reverend Paul Appel; Policemen; Canon Hugh McCain; Constable Dick Collins; Kozan; Cardinal Luigi Cappellari; Archbishop Aleksandr Demetrius; Krishnan Viswarath; Ali al-Khaledis; Rabbi Leonard Mandleberg; Malik Losse; Harruad Losse; Mrs. Senet Desta; Shunapal; Constable Forbes; Constable Henderson; Sergeant Bill Allen; River Police officer; Police Boat Captain; Dockman; Franklin Guard; Franklin Sailors; Balfour's Secretary; Victoria Williams; Valeriy Medved; Street Cleaners; Roman Catholic Priests
Date: 24th-26th December, 1902 & January, 1903
Locations: A New York Club; A Taxi on Madison Avenue; A Bed & Breakfast near Russell Square; The Pavilion Club, Pall Mall; 221B, Baker Street; Oxford; A Hotel; St. Mark's College; A Train; Euston Station; St. Thomas's Church; A Hansom Cab; Regent Street; Pall Mall; The Diogenes Club; Park Lane; Knightsbury; Belgravia; Sloane Street; Another Hansom Cab; Westminster Pier; A Police Tug; The River Thames; St. Katherine's Dock; SS Franklin; Docks office; Balfour's Morris; The British Museum; The British Library; The King's Library; McCain's office; A Graveyard.
Story: (After the publication of his first book on Holmes, Kendrick was lecturing to a group of Holmesians in New York, one of whom gave him the address of Mary W. Alston, in London. On his next trip there she revealed that she was the daughter of Dr. Watson & his second wife. She gave Kendrick Watson's final manuscript to edit & publish.)

In Oxford on Christmas Eve, Holmes & Watson are invited to dinner by Holmes's old tutor, Dr. Sidney Rosewater. They dine with his family and are then taken to see the college's prize possession, The Glastonbury Gospel. A valuable ruby, the scintilla stone has been prised from the cover and stolen, Holmes realises it must have been done by someone in the household. The clearing up of the mystery leads to a compassionate reconciliation between brothers.

Returning to Baker Street on Christmas afternoon, they are visited by Lestrade who takes them to the Diogenes Club. They are to be supervised by Mycroft in the investigation of the murder of Appel, the rector of St. Thomas's church, where a secret meeting of leaders of the seven major world religions is taking place. Constables have been on guard outside all day, and there are no footprints in the snow around the building, so the murderer must still be inside.

The priest, Appel's body was found in the church undercroft by curate (later to become Father) Paul Brown. It was frenziedly slashed, its legs tied, and its clerical vestments reversed. Brown heard whispering and saw shadows, but did not see the murderer. Watson notices that the tea in the dead man's apartment is prepared in the Himalayan style. Holmes begins to interview the occupants of the church, beginning with Appel's servants, two Mongolian brothers whom Appel allowed to build a small Buddhist shrine inside the church, and the cook, who has a one year old son whose head bandages seem to interest Holmes. He then moves on to the religious leaders. Later that night the two servants flee the church, killing a constable in their flight, and Brown sees the cook struck down by a masked figure who appears to be trying to kill the child.

They trail the brothers to St. Katherine's Dock, where they have booked passage on a ship to India. The brothers, however, take their own lives rather than allowing themselves to be captured. After a meeting with the Prime Minister, they return to the church to learn that an anti-semitic article by Appel has been found in the rabbi's Torah scroll, and as Holmes's investigations continue it becomes apparent that most of the religious leaders had motives for killing Appel. Watson is attacked in a hallway, and saved by Brown. Lestrade brings Appel's ex-fiancée to the church. But there are more deaths, and Brown is taken prisoner, before the case, which has its roots in the Great Game being played out in Tibet, is finally brought to its conclusion with the aid of a Christmas cracker.

It is not until a visit from Brown two weeks later, that Holmes learns of the much more personal origins of the murder.

Caitlín R. Kiernan

"The Drowned Geologist" (2003)
Included in: Shadows Over Baker Street (Michael Reaves & John Pelan)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche narrated by Tobias H. Logan
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes (Dr. Watson)
Fictional Characters: The Demeter
Other Characters: Dr. Tobias H. Logan; Reverend Henry Swales; Innkeeper; Edward; Sir Elijah Purdey; Harbourmaster; Constable; Men on Beach; (Dr. Ogilvey)
Date: June 1897- May 1898
Locations: Whitby; Hotel on Drawbridge Road; Quayside; Whitby Museum; Pier Road; West Cliff; American Museum, Manhattan; (Scotland)
Story: Logan writes to Watson of a recent visit to Whitby. After a day spent examining fossils in the museum, he walked past the abbey until he came in view of the Russian schooner Demeter, which had run aground a few days previously. On the beach he encounters a tall, aquiline stranger who deduces his profession and origins. He asks Logan to give his opinion on a tablet covered in heiroglyphs which he has discovered in the same rock strata as Logan's fossils. The following day he is called to a drowning on the beach, the dead man being Purdey, who he was supposed to be meeting in Whitby that day. In the dead man's hand is a recently dead example of a mollusc which should only exist as a fossil.

Laurie R. King

Stephen King

"The Doctor's Case" (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; Inspector Lestrade; Mrs Hudson
Other Characters: Waggon Driver; Constables; (Lord Albert Hull; William Hull; Lady Rebecca Hull; Jory Hull, Stephen Hull; Mr Barnes; Barnes's Assistant; Oliver Stanley; Servants; Constable)
Date: November, 1899
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Savile Row
Story: Approaching his hundredth birthday, Watson recalls a case he was able to solve before Holmes. Lestrade takes Holmes and Watson to the Savile Row home of Lord Hull, stabbed in the back in his locked study. He tells them that Hull beat his wife regularly, and was planning to disinherit her and his sons in favour of a cats' home. Watson solves the case by looking at the shadows on the study floor, but charitably ascribes Holmes's failure to do so to his allergy to cats. It is only when he is explaining it, though, that he realises the full scope of the murder plot. Lestrade and Holmes allow Watson to make the decision as to how justice should best be served.

Robin Kingsland

Shirley Holmes Case Book: The Case of the Sheik's Missing Shake Maker (1993)
Story Type: Children's Homage
Detective: Shirley Holmes
Other Characters: Molly Harty; Headmistress; Boris Morris; Kai Lee; Arty Harty; Nass T. Ferret; Hugh Izzey; Sheik Anvahk; Ali Abdul Ben Anva; Palace Guards; Camel Riding Troupe; Nomads; Stallholder
Locations: Shirley's School; El Zappopihn; Palace; Sports Ground; Desert; Market
Story: Shirley's school are invited to El Zappopihn for a sports day against the young Sheik. Molly Harty is not allowed to go because of her bad behaviour record, but puts her gang through a training routine and manages to get a placer on the coach. After seing the Sheik's treasure, Molly is injured in the relay race, but it is part of her plan to steal the treasure, which Shirley's gang and the Sheik's son set out on camels to retrieve before the Sheik knows it's missing.

Hugh Kingsmill

"The Ruby of Khitmandu" (1932)
Included in: The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen)
Story Type: Parody (Written partially in the style of E.W. Hornung's Raffles stories)
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson
Fictional Characters: Bunny Manders; A.J. Raffles
Story: Holmes has traced the theft of the Maharajah of Khitmandu's ruby to Raffles. Although he has agreed to return it, Raffles plans to replace it with a fake. Through the farcical bungling of Watson & Bunny nothing goes according to plan.

Ronald Knox

"The Adventure of the First Class Carriage" (1947)
Included in: The Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Richard Lancelyn Green); The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook (Peter Haining)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson
Other Characters: Mrs Hennessy; Nathaniel Swithinbank; John Hennessy; Railway Guard; Fussy-Looking Gentleman at Paddington; Coachman; Alexander Macready; (Mrs. Swithinbank; John Macready)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Paddington Station; A Train; Reading; Tilehurst; Oxford; Banbury; Guiseborough St. Martin; Guiseborough Hall; The Lodge
Story: Mrs. Hennessy tells Holmes of her employer, Swithinbank, who has recently taken up residence at Guiseborough Hall, on a short lease. From what she has overheard, and scraps of correspondence from his waste basket, she has realised that he is in debt, is suffering marriage problems, and intends to kill himself. Another scrap gives directions to a location by the lake. Holmes & Watson travel to the Hall on the same train as Swithinbank, but when the train arrives in Oxford, he has disappeared from his compartment. Arriving at the Hall, Holmes & Watson find Lestrade waiting to arrest the missing man on charges of fraud. Holmes is able to deduce the truth from a newspaper story about the recent death of an Australian sheep farming magnate.

Jon Koons

"The Adventure of the Missing Countess" (1994)
Included in: The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mary Morstan; Inspector Lestrade; Mrs. Hudson
Other Characters: Countess Virginia Thorgood Willoughby; Alexandra Willoughby; Ken Osgood; Maid; Ringmaster; Circus Crowd; Band; Clowns; Acrobats; Horseback Rider; Chuck Hanson; Hanson's Assistant; The Man of Steel; Circus Performers
Date: Spring, 1889
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Cab; Kensington; Willoughby's House; Kensington Gardens; R.J. Toby's Colossal Travelling Circus; Tunbridge Wells
Story: Holmes and Watson visit the Countess's home from where her daughter, Alexandra, has been abducted, furniture has been turned over, and a ransom note left. Watson finds some sawdust on the floor, and Holmes draws his attention to a knife stuck through a picture of the girl, before going to examine her bedroom. Three days later Watson & Mary receive a summons to visit the circus in Tunbridge Wells, where they are joined by the Countess, Osgood & Lestrade. Mary feels that one of the clowns is very familiar. Holmes introduces them to Hanson, the knife thrower and brings an end to the case.

Frederic Arnold Kummer

"The Adventure of the Queen Bee" (1933)
Based on the Play The Holmeses of Baker Street by Basil Mitchell
Included in: The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (Basil Mitchell & Frederic Arnold Kummer)
Story Type: Homage / Pastiche narrated by Joan Watson
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Mrs Watson; Holmes's Sussex Housekeeper (Mrs Jennings)
Historical Characters: (Cosimo Medici)
Other Characters: Shirley Holmes; Joan Watson; William; Harry Canning; Detective-Inspector Withers; Policemen; Slim; Alf; Cabman; Postman; Sergeant "Scrunchy" Laker; Larry Cartwright; (Sir Henry / Joseph Masterson; Giuseppe Pirelli; Ellen; Masterson's Butler; Lord Brayling)
Date: The end of May, 1930s
Locations: The Holmeses' Baker Street Rooms; Baker Street; A Taxi Cab; Finchley; The Watson Residence; Sussex; Eastmill
Story: Joan visits Shirley, up from Sussex, in Baker Street and first hears of the White X gang who always announce their robberies in advance and leave a large chalk 'X' at the scene. Their latest target is the Medici pearl belonging to Sir Henry Masterson. Holmes has been asked to take the case but refused,the gang having threatened revenge on Shirley if he does so. He receives a new queen bee from an Italian bee expert, Mrs Watson suggests to the girls that they steal it to revive Holmes's flagging interest in crime. Downstairs neighbour, Canning, who owns a radio shop is drawn into the plot. Withers arives with news that Masterson's butler has been murdered and that, under torture, Masterson has revealed to them that he has sent the pearl to Holmes in the box with the bee purportedly from Itay. While going to retrieve the pearl from Mrs Watson, Joan and Shirley are attacked by members of the gang. The pearl is stolen from Mrs Watson, and Shirley deduces that it was Holmes who did so. He later hurls the box into the Baker Street traffic in front of a suspicious cabman.

The Holmeses and Watsons travel down to Eastmill, Holmes's Sussex home, along with, at Shirley's invitation, Canning, who has come under suspicion of being a gang member. Joan becomes aware that the house is under surveillance, and she, Shirley and Holmes are taken captive, but their captors are not who they appear to be. Masterson arrives at the house, the pearl's location is revealed and the villains apprehended.

Frederic Arnold Kummer & Basil Mitchell

"The Canterbury Cathedral Murder" (1933)
Included in: The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (Basil Mitchell & Frederic Arnold Kummer); The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen)
Story Type: Homage
Detectives: Shirley Holmes; Joan Watson
Story: Holmes & Watson's daughters investigate the murder of the poet, Eric Sefton, stabbed through the heart with a silver pencil on the site of Thomas à Becket's assassination. Their investigations reveal that the murder is connected to the theft of the Wellesley Van Dyck.

Michael Kurland

Harvey Kurtzman & Bill Elder

"The Hound of the Basketballs" (1954)
Included in: The Brothers Mad (William M. Gaines)
Story Type: Comic Strip Parody
Detectives: Shermlock Sholmes; Dr. Whatsit
Fictional Characters: Cathy (Wuthering Heights)
Historical Characters: Benjamin Franklin
Other Characters: Arty Morty; Pru Basketball; Coolidge Basketball; Servants; Policemen
Locations: 2½, Baker Street; Railway Station; Basketball Hall; The Great Grimpen Moor
Story: After being shot in mistake for a plaster bust by Arty Morty, Sholmes is visited by Pru Basketball, who tells him the legend of the Hound of the Basketballs. After some persuasion, Sholmes & Whatsit travel to Basketball Hall on the edge of Grimpen Moor, where Sholmes leaves Whatsit. Lost in a fog on the moor, Whatsit hears the hound and, in a roundabout way, effects its capture, only to learn that it really is a hound from Hell.