Gillian Linscott

"The Adventure of the Late Orang Outang" (2006)
Included in: Ghosts in Baker Street (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Other Characters: St Simeon's Principal; Ancient Etruscan Expert; Man On Watson's Left; Servants; James Doughty; Peter Alderbrook; Dons; Cab Driver; Farm Labourer; College Scout; John Alderbrook; (Sir Thomas Alderbrook; George the Orang Outang; Game Keeper; Butler; Housekeeper; Sally Nebbs)
Locations: Oxford; St Simeon's College; 221B, Baker Street; Regent's Park Zoo; Nether Alderbrook
Story: At a college dinner after solving a case in Oxford, Holmes and Watson witness a disagreement between two students, both in competition for a Fellowship at the college, and hear the tale of a ghostly orang outang said to haunt a tower of the family home of one of the students. When a local girl is found dead at the base of the tower, Holmes is called back to Oxford, and stages an apparition of his own in order to bring the killer to justice.

Morgan Llywelyn

"The Repulsive Story of the Red Leech" (1996)
Included in: Resurrected Holmes (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche (in the style of Ernest Hemingway)
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade
Other Characters: Pallid Man; Much Markle Station Master; Dog-Cart Driver; Mrs Peebles; Miss Frances; Dr Horatio Floyd; Pub Customers; Dead Woman
Date: Late Summer, 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train; The Cotswolds; Much Markle; Hope Hill; The Swan & Cygnets Pub; Bart's
Story: Watson persuades Holmes to take a break in the country at his former colleague's house in the Cotswolds. Arriving at Much Markle they discover that a man who shared their railway compartment is also a guest of Dr Floyd. When they arrive at Hope Hill they learn that their host is not present, nor is he due to be. They learn that Floyd often sends his patients there to convalesce. Another of Floyd's patients arrives and, after a few days, a telegram from Lestrade saying that Jack the Ripper has returned to London. Several bloodless bodies have been found around the city. Holmes claims to have already solved the mystery. The solution lays in a larder full of beef and the denouement lays at Bart's in a case of porphyria and a man who sucks the blood from leeches.

Patrick LoBrutto

"The Little Problem of the Grosvenor Square Furniture Van" (1998)
Included in: The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Parody narrated in part by Lestrade (ascribed to Arthur Stanley Jefferson aka Stan Laurel)
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Mrs Hudson
Other Characters: Finlay; Cannady; Crowd; Police
Locations: 221B, Baker Street;
Story: Watson visits Holmes, despite a toothache and the tender ministrations of his new wife, to show him a manuscript written by Lestrade. It tells of Holmes and Watson's attempts to have a piano moved up to their rooms at 221B, which he witnessed having visited to consult Holmes on the case of a missing poet. The delivery men, assisted by Holmes and Watson are less than efficient, and their efforts end in a fight between the four men and the arrival of the police. There is more disgruntled slapstick between Holmes, Watson and Mrs Hudson after the deliverymen have been arrested, and the piano ends up back out on the street, down which Holmes and Watson flee the wrathful Mrs Hudson. Lestrade agrees to suppress the manuscript for a price.

Charles Loomis

"A La Sherlock Holmes" (1899)
Included in: The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Jones
Other Characters: Narrator; Farmer Phelps
Locations: Upper Connecticut
Story: Driving through Connecticut, Jones and the narrator are discussing Sherlock Holmes. Jones announces he can give a practical demonstration of the powers of observation & deduction. Jones makes a series of deductions about the weather and a poultry farm from a number of cakes of ice. Farmer Phelps is able to tell the true story.

Marc Lovell

The Spy Who Fell Off the Back of a Bus (1988)
Story Type: Homage / Spy parody
Historical Figures: (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Other Characters: Appleton Porter; Albert; Dead-Battery; Angus Watkin; Agnes; Marie; Shoe Shop Man; Wig Woman; Warehouse Man; Library Browsers; Library Staff; Hotel Maid; Mérimée Policeman; Carlton Girls; Carlton Waiters; Carlton Patrons; Brit Agent; Wiley; Falcon; Boules Players; Susan; Italian Waiter; Mérimée Owner; Denver Campbell; Bullybeef; Carl Schmidt; Lincoln Headwaiter; Lincoln Guests; Tilda; Hattie; Waiter; Grim-faced Couple; Hindi Cook; Baldy; Pedestrians; Punk Girls; Mimi; Sailor; Priest; Finnish Couple; Spanish Waiter; Greek Pressmen; Linda Dexter; Waiter; Small Girl; Girl's Mother; Cabbie; Angler; Reginald; Percy; Falcon's Steward; Tall Trio; Policewoman; Shoppers; Stallholders; Wheelchair Man; Chiropodist's Patients; Nurse; Bar Customers; English Waitress; Tourist Couples; Gallery Crowd; Shoestore Salesgirl; Manager; Teenagers; Auctioneer; Auction Girl; Auction Guards; Bicycle Owner; Pre-teen Girl; Policemen on Bus; Bus Passengers; Marcel; Bus Driver; (Walter Brent)
Locations: Harlequin Mansions, Bloomsbury; Junk Shop; Suburban House; Shoe-repair Shop; Wigmaker's; East End Warehouse; Public Library; France; Cannes; Hotel Mérimée; The Croisette; The Carlton; Italian Restaurant; Railway Station; Hotel Lincoln; Indian Restaurant; The Bunker; Spanish Restaurant; Sidewalk Café; Rue d'Antibes; Linda's Hotel; Café; Falcon's Yacht; Café; Store; Market; Chiropodist's Waiting Room; Wiley's Hotel; Bar; John Bull's Pantry; Gallerie Centrale; Shoestore
Story: British spy Appleton Porter is given the job of impersonating a Canadian billionaire at a bibliophile convention in Cannes in order to retrieve a manuscript over which two people have already died. The manuscript is an attack on Sherlock Holmes written by Arthur Conan Doyle revealing the despicable truth behind the character. It is vital for to the honour of the nation that it should not fall into the wrong hands but that it should be destroyed. It soon becomes apparent that Cannes is full of agents of many different countries and Apple is kept guessing whether they are goodies or baddies, while trying to discover who is selling the manuscript and who is trying to buy it. He anonymously receives a photocopied page of the manuscript and has his identity tested, and keeps losing girls. He finds himself abducted in a taxi, and pursuing a car on a motorcycle with two Finns. When a fourth girl is abducted he follows her to a yacht where he sees a double of himself before being taken prisoner, and is rescued just as he is about to free himself. When he learns that the manuscript has been left for safety at an auction house he has to outbid the others to get hold of it, despite having been offered it for free. When the manuscript is stolen, a bicycle and bus chase ensues, the agents congregate and each nation makes its claim on Holmes's origins. Finally, the manuscript is rescued and Apple has to make a decision between the demands of espionage and the needs of literature.

Peter Lovesey

"The Curious Computer " (1987)
Included in: The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Martin H. Greenberg, Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh & Jon L. Lellenberg)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes (Professor Moriarty; Irene Adler)
Other Characters: "Grievous" George Harmer; Lilian 'Silicon Lil' Norton; Crime Bosses; Porno Sullivan; 'Hash' Brown
Locations: Belgravia; Victoria Station
Story: Crime boss Harmer is concerned about Holmes (Home Office Large Major Enquiry System), Scotland Yard's new computer system. He confesses his fears to stripper Silicon Lil, who suggests he convene a gathering of British crime bosses, and introduces him to 'The Professor', the only man capable of defeating 'Holmes', who tells them of his mathematical expertise, his treatise on the binomial theorem, a climbing accident in Switzerland, and his computer hacking skills. When he succeeds in cracking the computer with his own system, Moriarty (Microcomputer Output Rendered Impotent And Rot The Yard), Harmer gathers the nations crime bosses together, and only then does he learn about Lil's great-grandmother, her relationship with the Professor, and the Professor's true identity.

"The Four Wise Men" (1999)
Included in: More Holmes for the Holidays (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Other Characters: Colonel Sloane; Ruff; Andrew Hall; Alison Pugh; Cicely Dawson; Cicely's Sister; Mr & Mrs Dawson; Congregation; Two Policemen; Jeb Wiggs; Rector; Church Wardens; Ticket Collector; Elderly Couple; Young Woman & Child
Date: December, 1895
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train; Taunton; Bullpen; The Feathers Inn; Bullpen Church; Taunton Station
Story: Watson receives an invitation from Sloane, his old commanding officer, to spend Christmas in Bullpen, near Taunton, and play the role of Joseph in the local Christmas masque, simultaneously helping guard the Star, one of the most valuable medieval treasures in England, traditionally used in the pageant. After the church service Holmes reveals that the star is a fake and sets out to recover the real one before the last train leaves Taunton.

Gary Lovisi

"The Adventure of the Missing Detective" (2004)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years (Michael Kurland)
Story Type: Fantasy / Canonical Revisioning narrated by Holmes
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Tobias Gregson; Colonel Sebastian Moran; Professor Moriarty; (Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes)
Historical Figures: 13th Dalai Lama; (Albert Edward Victor (Eddy), Duke of Clarence; Queen Victoria; Edward VII)
Other Characters: Hans; Gerda; Baker Street Neighbour; Diogenes Butler; Cock & Crow Barman; Hyde Park Crowds; Police Captain; Bobbies; Household Guardsmen; Grand Hotel Majordomo; Tibetan Monks; (Old Man; Reynolds)
Date: May, 1891-1894?
Locations: Switzerland; Reichenbach Falls; Hans & Gerda's Farm; Village Inn; Cemetery; London; Victoria Station; Baker Street; Diogenes Club; Pall Mall; The Cock & Crow; Watson's Lodgings at the Whistle & Thump; Great Russell Street; Lestrade's Flat; Hyde Park; Grand Hotel
Story: After falling after Moriarty at Reichenbach, Holmes is nursed through a coma by a farming couple, who found him at the bottom of a ravine, miraculously uninjured. Months later, in a copy of the Times, he reads that Eddy, the Duke of Clarence, is King of England after the deaths of Victoria and Edward, and that he is awarding a knighthood to Moriarty, who apparently has not died at Reichenbach. He also reads of strange political turmoils all over the world. He disinters Moriarty and finds what appears to be his own body in the grave. Fearing for the future of the world he heads back to London where he finds 221B has been destroyed by a fire, and that Mycroft has been assassinated. He finds Watson, taken to drink, in an East End pub. Holmes comes to the conclusion that he has somehow been transported to a parallel world. A visit to Scotland Yard by Watson reveals that Lestrade and Gregson have been dismissed and that Moran is now in control. Holmes enlists Lestrade and Gregson's aid, witnesses a riot in Hyde Park and visits the Dalai Lama in order to bring the reign of terror to an end and return to his own world.

James Lowder

"The Weeping Masks" (2003)
Included in: Shadows Over Baker Street (Michael Reaves & John Pelan)
Story Type: Canonical Revisioning
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Murray
Fictional Characters: He Who Is Not To Be Named
Other Characters: Wounded Soldier; The Berkshires; The Ghazis; Dying Soldiers; Afghan Soldier; Afghan Villagers; Village Elder; Boy; Masked Priests; Women; Head Priest; Ghurkas
Date: July, 1880
Locations: Afghanistan; Maiwand; An Afghan Village; A Cave; Peshawar
Story: Watson Tells of his time in Maiwand: his injury, and rescue by Murray. They find themselves sheltering in an Afghan village, where many of the villagers have been afflicted with a mysterious disease. After some days the sick room is visited by the masked priests, The Weeping Ones. Watson observes them bending over the sick villagers. As one bends over him he sees the tears that give them their name, and which seem about to fall on him, until Murray interrupts the priest. The following morning the villagers are dead, and Murray gone. Believing that he has gone to face the priests, Watson sets off for the priests' cave to help him. There he witnesses their rites and learns the truth about the plague.

Richard A. Lupoff

"The Adventure of the Boulevard Assassin" (1996)
Included in: Resurrected Holmes (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Parody in the style of Jack Kerouac
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Mary Morstan
Other Characters: Female Client; Cab Driver 1; Cab Driver 2; Gertrude Kaye; Fred Westcott; Whitechapel Drab; Her Patron de Nuit; Dead Body; Belgravia Servants; Party Guests; Maids; Butlers; Undercover Men; Maid; Kashmiri Rajah; Brigadier; Musicians; Fraulein Von Trepow; Von Trepow
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Cab; Whitechapel; Music Hall; Belgravia
Story: There is a knock on the door and Watson wonders who it is. A female client enters and asks Holmes to find her missing husband. After Watson makes a series of deductions regarding the woman, he and Holmes travel to Whitechapel, visit a Music Hall and meet Mrs Hudson who is hiding something. They carry on to a party in Belgravia where a Kashmiri rajah has his true identity revealed when his jewels are stolen. Watson discovers their client's true, unexpected identity. The following day he encounters a Prussian officer and two Mrs Hudsons at Baker Street.

"God of the Naked Unicorn" (1976)
Lupoff wrote this story as "Ova Hamlet"
Included in: Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space (Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh); Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years (Michael Kurland)
Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Irene Adler; Sherlock Holmes
Fictional Characters: Doc Savage; Patricia Savage; The Avenger; The Shadow; Flash Gordon; Captain Future; John Carter; David Innes; The Spider; The Green Lama; Tarzan; The League's Assistants
Other Characters: Watson's Landlord; Cab Drivers; Mariners; Mechanician; Albert Payson Agricola
Locations: Limehouse; 221B, Baker Street; Watson's Rooms; West India Dock Road; A Cab; Ladbroke Grove Underground Station; An Underground Train; Irene's Autogyro; The Arctic; The Fortress of Solitude; Savage's Autogyro; Angkor Wat; The Temple of the Sun; Easter Island; Peoria; New York; Lower Seventh Avenue
Story: After Holmes's retirement to Sussex, Watson, finding himself in straitened circumstances, is forced to take inferior lodgings in Limehouse. There he is visited by Irene, now married to the King of Bohemia, who wishes him to investigate the disappearance of the statue of the God of the Naked Unicorn. Instead of taking him to Bohemia as expected, Irene flies Watson in an autogyro to Doc Savage's Fortress of Solitude, where he is introduced to a number of other heroes, the League of Protectors, and where it is revealed that the theft of the statue is part of a much larger plot. He also learns that Irene is Savage's cousin. Savage tells him that Holmes & Tarzan have been kidnapped, shrunk to the size of pygmies by a device wielded by their captor. Watson & Savage track the villain around the world, finally running him to earth in London, at a familiar address, where he is using his insidious machine to control Holmes & Tarzan's actions and to shrink them smaller and smaller in stature. As Savage, too, comes under his control it is left to Watson to save the day.

Note: This story is a biting attack on Philip José Farmer's pairing of Tarzan & Holmes in THE ADVENTURE OF THE PEERLESS PEER. The character Albert Payson Agricola represents Farmer ("Agricola"), accused of diminishing or trivialising the two characters. The name is also derived from the author Albert Payson Terhune, famous for his dog stories.

John Lutz

"The Infernal Machine" (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; Mrs Hudson
Other Characters: Wilson Edgewick; King's Knave Patrons; Beech; Annie; Robby Smythe; Eames; Millicent Oldsbolt; Phoebe Oldsbolt; Major Ardmont; Coachman; Landen Edgewick; (Sir Clive Oldsbolt; Doctor; Ingraham Codder; Chief Constable Roberts)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Alverston; King's Knave Inn; The Oldsbolt House
Story: Wilson Edgewick consults Holmes after the father of his brother's fiancée, a munitions manufacturer is shot dead, apparently with a Gatling gun, for which the two brothers are the sole British agents. His brother, Landen, has been arrested for the murder. In Alverston, Holmes meets witnesses who heard the gun, the only one in England, being fired, and at the Oldsbolt house encounters the dead man's daughters and his old military friend. Holmes discovers the source of the noises heard and a missing pillow, and tinkers with a car to solve the crime and bring the killer to justice.

Miriam Lynch

Creighton's Castle (1975)
Story Type: Homage / Gothic Mystery
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Irene Adler; Mrs Hudson)
Historical Figures: (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Other Characters: Judith Devereaux; Michael Creighton; Taxi Driver; Mother Superior; Billy Devoe; Eva Hudson; Roger Creighton; Chickie Landell; Margaret Halliday; Charles Alvin; Storm Kingsley; Hal Chisholm; Cigar Smoking Train Passenger; Conductor; Maurice Todhunter "Toddy" Halliday; Williams; Theatre-Goers
(Sister Eulalia; Brother Matthew; Sister Melitas; News Broadcaster; Little Edna Barlett; Louise Devereaux; Doctor; Police)
Date: November, mid-1970s / November, 1926 / November, 1918
Locations: A Theatre; Connecticut; Creighton's Castle; St Monica's Academy; New York; Amsterdam Avenue; Trains; Station; West Sixty-Sixth Street
Story: Attending a performance of 221B, Baker Street, in the 1970s, Judith is reminded of events in 1926: She arrives at Creighton's Castle, home of actor Roger Creighton, noted for his performance as Sherlock Holmes in the self-penned 221B, Baker Street, sent by her father, the comedian, Billy Devoe, to deliver a letter. She recalls the death of Charles Alvin during her previous visit in 1918, and discovers that the same houseguests are present again, that Creighton is planning a revival of the play, and that she is forced to stay the night. She recalls Creighton's apparent infatuation with her, and its abrupt ending, and her fondness for his son, Michael. She is waiting to meet Creighton outside when a falling rock barely misses her, and she spots a deerstalker-clad head peering over the roof. She becomes increasingly aware of the tensions between Creighton and his guests. A Séance is organised at which a "spirit" makes accusations against the host, and later Judith is attacked again. Michael tells her about his mother and about Creighton's past in the circus. Before she can leave, the following morning, another of the guests, Chisholm, is murdered. Judith begins to suspect Michael may be involved, and that her father might be blackmailing Creighton.
She returns to New York, but is soon on her way back to Connecticut, following her father, who has gone to confront Creighton. There, she finds herself locked in Creighton's private museum, and realises that the murder has been covered up, and Michael has gone away, only to reappear with a strange young boy who tells her that the Castle residents plan to kill both of them. Michael tells her who the boy really is, and Judith realises who the murderer must be, but when she and the rest of the castle guests are held at gunpoint she learns her mistake, and discovers that the roots of the murders lie even further back in time than she suspected, and more people are to die before things come to a close.

NOTE: Roger Creighton is modelled on William Gillette.