Sam McCarver

The Case of the 2nd Séance (2000)
This is the third story in the John Darnell series
Story Type: Supernatural Detective Story featuring Arthur Conan Doyle
Historical Figures: David Lloyd George; Margaret Lloyd George; Megan Lloyd George; Arthur Conan Doyle; Andrew Bonar Law; Lord Curzon; Lord Milner; Arthur Henderson; Lord Addison; Olwen Lloyd George; Gwilym Lloyd George; Richard Lloyd George; Lady Jean Conan Doyle; (Mair Lloyd George)
Other Characters: Robert Brent; Hugo Stanton; Madame Ilena Ispenska; Mrs. Beecher; Professor John Darnell; Penny Darnell; Sung; Phillips; Chief Inspector Bruce Howard; Mary Marchant; Séance Group; Sergeant Catherine O'Reilly; Ho San; Charles Adler; Maid; Slade; Karl; Baldrik; Police Officers; Mrs. Brent; Sandy MacDougall; Servant; Haas; Thickset Man; Alice Woodley; Tussaud's Crowds; Attendants; Crystal's Waitress; War Office Secretary; Alfred Sheinhofer; Fox and Crow Customers; Waiter; Policemen; Telephone Operator; Train Conductor; Constable Russell Kinney; Woman on Train; Man Who Followed Penny; Wade Pardlow; Village Shopkeeper; Millicent Trelawney; Members of Parliament; House of Commons Spectators; Scotland Yard Officer; Nurse; Policemen; Scott; Jimmy; Hospital Staff; Downing Street Waiters; (Downing Street Doorman; Garage Attendant; Daniel Marchant; Jenkins; Brooke; Jeffrey Darnell; Harris; Millicent; Doctor; Downing Street Guards)
Date: December 14th - 25th, 1916
Locations: 10, Downing Street; Darnell's House; Ispenska's House; Kidnappers' House; Scotland Yard; O'Reilly's Flat; Madame Tussaud's; Crystal's Tea Palace; Alleyway; Sheinhofer's Office; Sheinhofer's Rooms; The Fox and Crow; Railway Station; Kidnapper's Second Hideout; A Train; The Cotswolds; Stow-on-the-Wold; Darnell's Cottage; Village Store; Stanton's Flat; The House of Commons; Victoria Station; The Royal Hospital
Story: During a séance at 10, Downing Street, attended by the Lloyd George's and Conan Doyle, the lights go out, when they come back on, Lloyd George's daughter Megan has disappeared. Conan Doyle calls in psychic investigator John Darnell. Darnell examines the séance room, and advises Lloyd George to call in Scotland Yard. Doyle and Darnell visit the medium, Ispenska, who claims she was in a trance and was not aware of events going on, and suggests another séance. Lloyd George's secretary hears someone on the phone in the Prime Minister's private office, later he finds a strange pack of cards in a briefcase in the same office. At the second séance the lights go out again and Brent is murdered. Darnell examines the premises with O'Reilly and locates a way that those responsible may have got in and out of the building.

Lloyd George receives a letter from the kidnappers demanding he concede the war to the Germans. Darnell & Doyle try to decode the playing cards. Darnell searches the medium's house and receives a message from his dead brother. He returns the next day to find the house empty. His wife Penny is threatened in an attempt to get him to drop the case. Doyle gets a lead from an acquaintance who used to have connections in the German Embassy. Darnell locates the kidnappers' lair, but by the time the police arrive it has been abandoned. A second raid reveals the identity of the ringleader, but fails to rescue Megan. Darnell travels to his own home in the Cotswolds to bring matters to a head, before returning to London to uncover those involved at a higher level at one more séance at the Prime Minister's Christmas party.

Robert E. McClellan

Sherlock Holmes and the Skull of Death (2001)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Professor Moriarty; Holmes's Sussex Housekeeper (Mrs Bradley); Baker Street Irregulars; Stamford; Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes;
(Irene Adler; Wiggins; Moriarty Gang)
Historical Figures: Charles Dawson; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Eugene DuBois; William Jamrach; Dr Arthur Keith; William Gillette; Archduke Franz Ferdinand; Sir Grafton Elliot Smith; Anna (Renee) DuBois; Java Man; Pierre Teilhard de Chardin; Arthur Smith Woodward; Aubrey Strahan; (Piltdown Man; William Lewis Abbott)
Other Characters: Jim Sykes; Two Sudanese Arab Thugs; Dockworker; Mulvaney / Major Simpson; Mr Caruso the Chimpanzee; Mr Bradley; Renee DuBois; Lamb Patrons; Rebecca Howe; Victoria Station Porter; Street Urchin; Cab Drivers; Cyril Hudson; Mrs Hudson;Man in Bowler Hat; Limehouse Residents; Indian; Hwei Fu; Chinese Woman; Hatchetmen; Eva Ashburn; Lady Amelia Ashburn; Scotland Yard Men; Brady; Haymarket Audience; Backstage Crowds; Professor August Von Widmann; Actresses; Gillette's Guests; Servants; C. Potts-Chamber; Morgue Attendant; Bookshop Clerks; Bookshop Customers; Motor Cab Driver; DuBois's Maid; Four Wheeler Driver; Workmen; Ashburn Footmen; Carriage Driver; Williams; Servant; Madam Suzanne Mipistopolis; Captain Colin Ashburn; Demitrius; Otto; Constables; Inspector Todd; Sergeant Simms; Armed Footmen; Army Captain; Von Widmann Doubles; Train Guard; Sergeant Lattanzi; Anastasia Crewmen; Captain Spyros; Spyros's Woman; Lestrade's Men; East End Crowd; Police Drivers; Sergeant; Conference Attendees; Abdul; Mulvaney's Men; Dock Sergeant; Police Stoker; Lookout; Steamer Sailor; Deck Hand: (Dr Dodd; Dr Segal; Scott Adler; Commissionaire; Lestrade's Informant; Constable; Major Simpson; Simpson's Mess Mates; Native Chief; Hans Goettig; Mycroft's Agents; Austrian Ambassador; Moriarty's Bodyguard)
Date: Late Autumn, 1912 / June, 1914
Locations: London Bridge; West India Docks; Holmes's Sussex Farmstead; Piltdown; Haesler's Camp; Piltdown Quarry; The Lamb; Victoria Station; 221B, Baker Street; Watson's Surgery; Ekins' Cab Yard; Jamrach's Emporium; Limehouse; Hwei Fu's Shop; Haymarket Theatre; Gillette's Mayfair Flat; Morgue; The Royal Society; Oxford Street Bookshop; The DuBois Residence; A Train; Ashburn Manor; Station; Goods Wagon; The Anastasia; East End; Conference Hall; Limehouse Pier; A Police Launch on the Thames
Story: Taking a break from his practice, Watson visits Holmes in Sussex, where Haesler, who is working for Dawson in the Piltdown quarry, consults Holmes over a stolen chimp. He and Watson examine Haesler's Gypsy wagon, and visit the quarry, where they encounter Dawson and Doyle. They return to 221B, where Mrs Hudson's nephew, Cyril is now landlord, and set the Irregulars, now led by Wiggins Secundus to find the lorry that brought the chimp to London. A clue on the body of the dead driver takes them to Jamrach's animal emporium and into Limehouse. A letter from Mycroft sends Holmes and Watson to the theatre, to see Gillette in The Importance of Being Earnest. There they encounter Keith, and Lestrade, newly brought out of retirement after receiving a tip-off about an assassination. They also meet the Austrian archaeologist Von Widmann, in England to view the Piltdown skull, and at a party after, are invited to a Séance.

More bodies are discovered, and Holmes turns his attention to the authenticity of the Piltdown skull. DuBois enters their investigations, after his wife visits 221B, and he shows them the Java Man fossils. On their way back to Sussex, Holmes tells Watson that he believes the plot that is afoot is a plan to foment a European war, and that Von Widmann is not who he claims to be. A murder is attempted at the Séance, which ends with two more, the arrival of Mycroft and the departure of a flock of professors. Holmes receives a visit, and an offer, from Moriarty, faces death at the Piltdown conference, and ends the case with a Thames boat chase. He learns of his brother's involvement in Moriarty's schemes.

NOTE: Eugene DuBois's wife was named Anna, not Renee as here.

Sharyn McCrumb

"The Vale of the White Horse" (2002)
Included in: Murder, My Dear Watson (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower); The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (John Joseph Adams)
Story Type: Pastiche (Narrated in third person)
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Other Characters: Grisel Rountree; Tom Cowper; James Dacre; Evelyn Ambry; Sir Henry Dacre; Millie Hopgood; Christabel Ambry
Date: June 12th
Locations: A Hill Fort; A White Horse Hill Figure; Grisel's Cottage; Old Hall
Story: Village Wise-woman, Rountree, finds the mortally wounded doctor, James Dacre, in the eye of the chalk carving of a white horse outside her village, stabbed with a seam ripper. His dying words are, "Not a maiden". The local police call in Holmes and Watson. The solution to the mystery seems to lie with the family of Dacre's brothers fiancée, a family long rumoured to have a changeling child in each generation. It requires Watson's skills as much as Holmes's to solve the mystery.

David McDaniel

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. #13: The Rainbow Affair (1967)
Story Type: Spy Story / Man From U.N.C.L.E. Tie-in Homage
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes (William Escott)
Fictional Characters: Napoleon Solo; Illya Kuryakin; Mr Waverly; Inspector West; Inspector Claude Teal; Neddie Seagoon; Fu Manchu; Peko; Sir Denis Nayland Smith; John Steed; Emma Peel; Adam Adamant; Miss Marple; Father Brown
Historical Figures: Johnnie Rainbow; (Retired Superintendent John Gosling; T.E. Lawrence)
Other Characters: Pub Customers; Man in the Gray Suit; Barmaid; Dingo Harry; John; Scotland Yard Constable; West's Secretary; Lascars; Oriental Girl; MI-5 Man; Taxi Driver; Stake-out Men; Jewelry Store Robbers; Constables; Rainbow's Guards; Josephine ("Joey"); Pete; Willy; Lighthouse Guards; Bert; Harry; Bill; (Devlin; Ward Baldwin; Baycombe Constable; Commander Horatio Dascoyn)
Date: May, 1967
Locations: A Pub; UNCLE Headquarters; Scotland Yard; Soho; Fu Manchu's Rooms; Hotel; Flat Overlooking St James's Park; New Bond Street; Devonshire; Baycombe; Montague Street; Woburn Place; Rainbow's Manor House; Restaurant; Holmes's Sussex Bee Farm; Stonehenge; Wiltshire Farmhouse; Shaftesbury; Police Station; Park; Baycombe Pillbox; Donzerly; Lighthouse
Story: Dingo Harry is approached by an agent of THRUSH wanting to contact his superior. After a Rothschild gold robbery, Waverly sets Solo & Kuryakin on the trail of ex-British Army officer, Johnnie Rainbow, a man who THRUSH are also interested in. In London they meet West at Scotland Yard, who assures them that Rainbow is a myth. The THRUSH agent tries to recruit Fu Manchu. Fu Manchu's lascars capture Solo and Kuryakin, but they are freed by Nayland Smith, who sends them to MI-5. Their MI-5 contact involves them in a stake-out on Rainbow's next robbery, where they find themselves taking on more than they bargained for, Illya is aided by Adam Adamant, and Solo is taken prisoner again. After escaping he finds himself with a girl on a motorcycle, and getting advice from Miss Marple and Father Brown on the location of Rainbow's headquarters. Illya is captured again and comes face to face with Rainbow. Marple and Brown direct Solo to Escott's Sussex bee farm; Escott points them towards an airdrop at Stonehenge. Having thwarted it they return to Escott, and after another visit with Marple and Brown, set out for Rainbow's island lighthouse base, find themselves captive again, and learn of his dealings with THRUSH.

NOTE: The 1935 Brough-Superior motorcycle which Illya collects Solo from Shaftesbury on was borrowed "from our friend at Clouds Hill, near Dorchester" (p.106). This is a reference to T.E. Lawrence who lived at Clouds Hill and was killed while riding a Brough-Superior in 1935.

NOTE 2: Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu played by Holmes on his violin (p.108) inspired the song I'm Always Chasing Rainbows which leads to Solo's comment, "A whole island of punsters".

NOTE 3: The "Rollison file" mentioned by West (p.23) refers to John Creasey's character the Honourable Richard Rollison aka "The Toff".

W.J. McDonnell

"Holmes Out-Sherlocked" (1919)
Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey)
Story Type: Parody
Detective: Scotland Yard Detective
Other Characters: Narrator; Patient; Doctor; Orderlette; Sister; Colonel; Night Nurse; The M.C.
Locations: Q Ward
Story: A patient's bottle of stout, ordered by the doctor, fails to appear. The War Office is informed, and a Scotland Yard detective is sent. He has a number of theories as to why only one bottle from a case of twenty-three has been taken. A furtive pursuit of a night nurse discovers only a milk bottle. The M.C.'s failure to attend a whist drive puts the detective on the right path.

Terry McGarry

"The Case of the Ancient British Barrow" (1998)
Included in: The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mycroft Holmes; Mrs Hudson; Baker Street Irregulars
Historical Figures: (William Ewart Gladstone)
Other Characters: Cab Driver; Workmen; Constable; Manservant; Sergeant; Richard Addleton; William Addleton; Estate Attendant; Groundsmen; Pub Landlord; Landlord's Wife; James Addleton; Slaves; Government Men; (Burkum Stacy)
Date: Early 1894
Locations: Bloomsbury; Wiltshire; 221B, Baker Street; Diogenes Club
Story: Holmes arrives at his client's house to find his client, anthropologist Richard Addleton, and his brother William dead. In the basement they discover a private museum, and a letter announcing the withdrawal of funding from Addleton's archaeological dig. Having deduced that the deaths were a suicide-murder, he and Watson travel to Wiltshire where they are refused entry to the excavation site, which they hear ghostly rumours about in the village. Returning to the barrow at night, they discover bodies, the bones dissolved, but the flesh preserved by the boggy ground. There they hear a story of slavery and politics and are escorted from the site by government agents. The Prime Minister's reputation rests on Holmes's discovery for the men responsible for sending fifty slaves to their deaths. The Baker Street rooms are ransacked, Addleton's rooms burned and the barrow blown up before the case reaches its unsatisfactory conclusion at the hands of Mycroft.

Rafe McGregor

"The Long Man" (2008)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The Game's Afoot (David Stuart Davies)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Roderick Langham
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; The Sophy Anderson; (Tobias Gregson; Mycroft Holmes)
Historical Figures: Nikulica Makedonski
Other Characters: Roderick Langham; Signor Rossi; Professor Edford; Hughes; Parker; Scipio; Nevskaja; Joseph Munro; Stable Boy; Dolphin Publican; Lilian Younger Sailors; Constable Hampton; Inspector Brown; Dr Roundtree; Signora Rossi; Star Night Porter; Star Maids; Sid; (Edford's Daughter; Albert Langham; Emma Langham; Assistant Commissioner; Mrs Wright)
Date: Friday in June
Locations: Sussex; The South Downs; Alfriston; Star Inn; Wilmington; Windover Hill; Newhaven; The Dolphin; Castle Hill
Story: Undercover in Sussex on the trail of the Macedonian, Scotland Yard man, Langham, accompanies archaeologist, Edford, to his excavation below the Wilmington Giant, a chalk figure on Windover Hill. At the inn where they are staying, he encounters Holmes and Watson, although does not recognise them. Later, in Newhaven, he sees Holmes, in disguise, also keepoing wartch on Makedonski's contacts. Edford is found murdered at his excavation, and Langham finds Holmes already on the scene. Holmes reveals that he believes the ship he was observing in Newhaven to be the missing Sophy Anderson. After ruling out other suspects, Holmes and Langham reach the same unexpected and unwelcome conclusion.

F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre

"The Adventure of Exham Priory" (2003)
Included in: Shadows Over Baker Street (Michael Reaves & John Pelan)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Professor Moriarty; Mary Morstan
Other Characters: Jephson Norrys; Cabman; Montagny; James Woodville; Titus Sempronius; (Three Hooded Figures)
Date: April, 1901
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train;Shropshire; Exham Priory; (Reichenbach Falls)
Story: Holmes receives a fragment of blood-stained pottery, and then a visit from Norrys. He shows a similar piece of pottery from a cave beneath the Reichenbach Falls. As they journey to Norrys' home in the Welsh Marches he tells Watson the true story of his final meeting with Moriarty and the "Reichenbach Horror". Watson also reads of Norrys' encounter with something strange in the cellar of his home, Exham Priory. Meanwhile Norrys seems to be degenerating into something less than human. At Exham Priory they descend into the cellars where both Holmes and Watson encounter figures from their pasts, and face the entrance to another world.

Vonda N. McIntyre

"The Adventure of the Field Theorems" (1995)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg); The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (John Joseph Adams)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; (Mycroft Holmes)
Historical Figures: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Lady Jean Conan Doyle
Other Characters: James; Robert Holder; Doyle's Tenants; Doyle's Butler; Holder's Children; Little Robbie; Sightseers; Constable Brown; Photographer
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train; Surrey; Hindhead; Undershaw
Story: Doyle calls on Holmes to investigate crop circles that have appeared in the fields of his tenants, wanting him to disprove other possibilities in order that Doyle might prove the phenomenon to have spiritual origins. In Surrey, Holmes meets the farmer, Holder, who claims to have heard a roaring noise and seen some kind of craft floating above his field, which disappeared in a flash of light. As they drive out to view a new circle, Doyle's car mysteriously stops working. Holmes finds a wooden stake in the field. When the car's engine dies again on the way home, they too see the hovering lights, and Doyle disappears. When he returns, he says he was taken aboard a Martian craft. A bent piece of metal, some burned leaves and a parallelogram, along with his own past experiences, eventually lead Holmes to a solution.

Tracy Mack & Michael Citrin

The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas (2006)
Story Type: Children's Story / Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Baker Street Irregulars
Canonical Characters: Wiggins; Baker Street Irregulars; Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Billy; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Professor Moriarty
Historical Figures: Edward VII; (Charles II; Queen Victoria)
Other Characters: Avalon Barboza / Abel Price; Wolfgang Zalinda; Wilhelm Zalinda; Werner Zalinda; Circus Crowd;Well-Dressed Man; Osgood 'Ozzie' Manning; Alfie; Rohan Punjabi; Elliot; Simpson; Fletcher; Barnaby; James; Pete; Shem; Shirley the Ferret; Royal Coachman; Footman; Prince's Assistant; Officer Grey; Cart Driver; Lion Trainer; Angelina & Balina; Clarence; Indigo Jones; The Flying Joneses; Irma Jones; Frankie; Madam Estrella; Pilar Ana Maria Reina de la Vega; Karlov; Floppy Hat / Watty; Big Collar; Jack Crumbly; Hackney Driver; Orlando Vile; Hunchback; Brougham Driver; Brougham Passenger; Dockland Policemen; River Police; Moriarty's Men; Coach Drivers; (Bearded Woman; Penelope; Cesar Zalinda; Canary Trainer; Palace Guards; Palace Maids; Holmes's Swiss Contacts)
Date: September, 1889
Locations: St John's Wood; The Grand Barboza Circus; Baker Street; The Castle; 221B, Baker Street; Oxford Scriveners; Dock; Oxford Street
Story: Three members of the Zalinda family are killed in a fall during a tightrope act at the Grand Barboza Circus. Wiggins and newest Irregular, Ozzie (who is searching for his unknown father) see the Prince of Wales visiting 221B. They follow Holmes, Watson and the Prince to Buckingham Palace. Later, Billy brings them a summons to Baker Street, where Holmes sets them observation duty at the circus. The Irregulars begin by interviewing the circus performers - a lion tamer, a two-headed woman, the human cannonball and the bearded woman - and Alfie overhears the trapeze artists planning to take over the tightrope act. Holmes arrives at the Circus, with Watson and Lestrade, and Wiggins painfully locates the murder weapon. Ozzie has his fortune told and receives a warning. Barboza tells Holmes of a rope salesman who had been associating with the Zalindas recently. Ozzie and Wiggins team up with Pilar, the fortune teller's daughter, to question the knife thrower, whose assistant ran off with one of the Zalindas, while the others tackle the Flying Joneses.

Ozzie faces a possible killer on the tightrope, but is able to learn of the involvement of Orlando Vile, the fourth most dangerous man in London. Holmes tells them that the circus case is related to his commission from the Prince to recover the Stuart Chronicle, a jewelled guide to monarchy, stolen from Buckingham Palace. Ozzie is injured escaping the forger in whose care his mother left him, and Stitch performs surgery. A watch is set on the docks where Vile conducts business, and Holmes realises that Moriarty is involved. They capture Vile and despatch Moriarty, but fail to recover the Chronicle. Moriarty reappears, and Ozzie finds himself in charge of the book. Holmes alters his plans to bring the case to its conclusion.

The Mystery of the Conjured Man (2009)
Story Type: Children's Story / Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Baker Street Irregulars
Canonical Characters: Baker Street Irregulars; Wiggins; Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Billy; Inspector Lestrade; (Mrs Hudson)
Other Characters: Konstantine Zweig; Tara Brown; Christopher Brown; Greta Berlinger; Elsa Hoff; Osgood "Ozzie" Manning; Alfie; King Henry the Bloodhound; Elliot; Shirley the Ferret; Rohan Punjabi; Fletcher; Pete; Simpson; Pilar Ana Maria Reina de la Vega; Madam Estrella; Covent Garden Customers & Mongers; Enrique; Old Woman; James; Barnaby; Shem; Konstantine's Clients; Seven Dials Residents; Carlos; Spangler Zweig / Gunther Berlinger; London Bridge Passers-By; Berlinger's Bodyguards; Konstantine's Footman; Lestrade's Men; (Great Aunt Agatha; Ozzie's Father; Greta's Doctors; Séance Guests; Pilar; Pilar's Mother; Greta's Solicitor; Gentlemen; Carriage Driver; Elsa's Helpers; Elsa's Cook; Alister; Penelope; Gunther's Business Associate)
Date: November, 1889
Locations: Chelsea; Konstantine's Mansion; The West End; The Castle; 221B, Baker Street; Baker Street; Covent Garden Market; Pilar's Flat; Seven Dials; Carlos's Hovel; Adelaide's Milliner's Shop; Elsa's House; London Bridge
Story: Greta Berlinger dies at a séance led my the young medium Konstantine. Ozzie is still hoping to find his father. Alfie brings a bloodhound, King Henry, to the Irregulars' headquarters, the Castle. Berlinger's niece, Elsa, consults Holmes, who sends Billy to fetch the Irregulars. Elsa tells them of her aunt's attempts to contact her late husband. Holmes sets the Irregulars to watch Konstantine's Chelsea house. Ozzie consults the fortune tellers, Pilar and Madam Estrella. Pilar takes him to Seven Dials, where they are chased by a crowd who want their clothes, to meet Carlos, a medium, who warns them against the Browns, Konstantine's custodians.

A secret tunnel system is discovered under Konstantine's house where the Irregulars face rats and dogs. Holmes's research pulls up information on Konstantine's background. An attempt is made on Elsa's life and Holmes sends Watson and Pilar home with her for protection. In Konstantine's house the boys discover the secrets of the apparitions. Elsa receives a note from someone claiming to know the details of her aunt's death, and asking to meet on London Bridge. Ozzie realises the true identity of Konstantine's father. Elsa is abducted on the bridge, and Holmes and the boys work to save her life. Ozzie leaves the Irregulars to look for his father.

In Search of Watson (2009)
Story Type: Children's Story / Extra-Canonical Adventure of the Baker Street Irregulars
Canonical Characters: Baker Street Irregulars; Wiggins; Moriarty Gang; Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Professor Moriarty; Billy; Inspector Lestrade; (Mrs Hudson)
Other Characters: Calico Finch; Carter; Osgood "Ozzie" Manning; Agatha Manning; Mrs Bentley; Pilar Ana Maria Reina de la Vega; Elliot; Alfie; Rohan Punjabi; James; Alistair; Simpson; Scotland Yard Officers; Man of the Streets; Allegro Tuttle; Fletcher; Shem; Barnaby; Pete; The Gents; The Duke; Beefeaters; Workmen; Cart Driver; Tower Visitors; Cab Driver; Mark Lane Crowds; Station Attendant; Elderly Woman; Diggers; Mick
(Banbury Vegetable Monger; Winston Manning; Julia Manning; Madam Estrella; Old Workhouse Man; Library Assistant; Museum Night Watchman; Jack Crumbly)
Date:
Locations: British Museum; Oxfordshire; Wroxton; Banbury; The West End; The Castle; Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street; Norwood Cemetery; Tower of London; Lambeth Bridge; Jennie's Gin Shop; Mark Lane Station; Tower Hill Station; Temple of Diana
Story: Finch, an elderly archaeologist, on the trail of a Roman relic, is attacked in the British Museum. Ozzie locates his great-aunt Agatha. She is in no condition to tell him anything, but papers in a trunk lead him to believe his father may be Holmes. In London, Pilar is wondering when she will be invited to join the Irregulars, while Alistair escapes from the workhouse and rejoins them. A message from Holmes takes Wiggins, Pilar and Alistair to the museum, where they are given the task of searching for witnesses outside. They learn that Finch was searching for relics of the goddess Diana, and that Moriarty had a hand in his death. Wiggins and Pilar discover a coded message on the pavement near their headquarters. Holmes reveals that WatsonB has been abducted, and sends the Irregulars to investigate the Norwood cemetery catacombs, where the have a run-in with a gang known as the Gents. After being rescued by Ozzie, they discover a cryptic message from Watson, which leads them to the Tower of London.

On their return they discover more coded messages, and find that their headquarters has been ransacked. They realise that Holmes is lying to them and that there is a traitor in their midst. Ozzie, Pilar and Wiggins are tied up on a burning boat. Elliot leads them underground to the site of the Temple of Diana, but tey are captured by Moriarty.

Russell McLauchlin

"Tea Time in Baker Street" (1948)
Story Type: Playscript
Canonical Characters: Mrs. Hudson; Mary Morstan; Irene Adler; Wiggins; Professor Moriarty
Other Characters: Mrs. Wiggins
Date: 1890
Locations: Mrs. Hudson's Rooms
Story: Mrs. Wiggins calls on Mrs. Hudson, complaining about Holmes's use of her son. She is followed by Mrs. Watson, complaining that she never sees Watson these days, Mrs. Hudson tells her that he and Holmes are working on the Blue Carbuncle case. Mrs. Hudson is expecting a visitor who Mary recognises to be Irene Adler, who has decided to return the picture of her and the King of Bohemia, but wants to do so in a clever way. She steams open a letter, which transpires to be from Moriarty demanding the return of the carbuncle and announcing his impending arrival. Mrs. Hudson doesn't believe that Holmes has the jewel, so the three resolve to intercept the Professor, and in so doing manage to discover the jewel's hiding place.

Kieran McMullen

Watson's Afghan Adventure (2010)
Story Type: Extra-canonical Adventure of Dr. Watson
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Private Liam) Murray; Watson's Father (Henry Watson); Watson's Brother (Henry Watson, Jr); Mrs Hudson
Historical Figures: General John Watson; Sir F. P. Haines; Captain D.M. Strong; Major John Robert Dyce; Major C.F. Oliver; Surgeon-Major A.F. Preston; Captain John R. Slade; Captain T.J. Cullen; Captain W. Roberts; Lieutenant Faunce; William Collins; Major C.V. Oliver; Lieutenant T.P. Geoghegan; Lieutenant HectorMaclaine; General Nuttall; Lieutenant Newton Plomer Fowell; Major Ready; Lieutenant E.G. Osborne; Colonel Griffith; General Burrows; Colonel Oliver St John; Major Edward Pemberton Leach; Lieutenant Anderson; (Dr Joseph Bell; Fred Archer; William Hay Macnaghton; Major General William Elphinstone; Akbar Khan; Lt John Leigh Doyle Sturt; Benedict Goes; Dr James Hanbury; Alexandrina Sturt; Captain Garrett O'Moore Creagh; Colonel Galbraith; Major Blackwood; Lieutenant E. Monteith; General Roberts)
Other Characters: Eileen Duffy; Violet Enderby; Colonel Enderby; Lt Sutter Sturt; Lt Arthur "Arty" McMullen; Bandleader; Katherine Enderby; Katherine's Friends; Waiter; Ladies; Bartender; Hotel Waiter; Simpson's Waiter; Sally; J.W. Stuart; Frederick Dibble; Lieutenant Thomas Godard / Lieutenant Dragon; Lieutenant-Colonel Rowland; Surgeon-Major Thomas Bennett; Orderlies; Major Tucker; Sergeant Ryan; B.G. Tyler; Captain Thompson; 13th Lancers; Malalai; British Soldiers; Afghan Tribespeople; Guhkta; Doolie Bearers; Captain Trotter; Colonel Barnes; Lieutenant Pollack; Armistead; Lieutenant Withers; General Doran; Colonel Dawson; Lieutenant Bradford; Colonel Martin; Captain Kilgour; Colour Sergeant Wood; Captain Mayes; Chaplain; General Headquarters Sergeant; Private John Holmes; Lieutenant Smith; Lieutenant Jones; Blackwood's Corporal; Sergeant Ryan; Surgeon Carter; Kandahar Surgeon; Assistant Surgeon Banks; Father O'Callahan; (Murray's Daughter; Murray's Son-in-law; Murray's Grandchildren; Murray's Wife; Watson's Mother; Watson's Grandfather; Captain Beamish; Armenian Elder; Sturt's Son)
Date: April / 1852-1880
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Australia; Hampshire; Wellington College; Netley; Epsom Race Course; Hurling; Enderby's House; Doncaster; Simpson's-in-the-Strand; Hotel; Aboard the Kaiser-I-Hind; India; Bombay; Watson Hotel; Aboard the Vingoria; Afghanistan; Karachi; Lahore; Jhelum; Rawal Pindi; Peshawar; Jamrud; Hospital; Bazar Valley Plain; Pesh-Bolak; Deh-Sarakh Plain; Mausam; Safed-Koh; Darawazai; Dakka ; Jalalabad; Dabela; General Headquarters; Sibi; Kandahar; Kohkaran; Kushk-i-Nakhud; Mis Karez; Maiwand; Ashikan
Story: After Murray calls at 221B and leaves a package of mementos, Watson decides to tell Holmes about his early life.

Watson's father takes his sons to Australia after their mother's death, and while there, marries their nanny, Eileen Duffy. When his father and brother move on to San Francisco, Watson is sent to Wellington College. Inspired by his correspondence with his cousin John, an army lieutenant in India, he resolves to become an army surgeon. While at Netley he falls in love with colonel's daughter Violet Enderby. Before he leraves for Afghanistan he is given a Webley-Pryse revolver while dining at Simpson's. On the voyage to India, his colleague Sturt, tells him of a treasure map given to an ancestor of his by an Afghan merchant.

As they go about their duties in Afghanistan, Sturt sets about a search for the treasure. Watson rescues a young Shinwari woman, and sets up a hospital for the Afghans. They participate in more battles and skirmishes. Murray provides the clue that finally unlocks the treasure map's secret, but they face treachery in their attempt to recover the treasure. After one of their party is killed in action, Watson is sent to Kandahar to join the 66th Regiment of Foot. He moves on to Maiwand with them where he meets an old acquaintance.

Bob Madison

"Red Sunset" (2008)
Included in: Gaslight Grimoire (J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Supernatural Hard-Boiled Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; (Dr Watson)
Fictional Characters: Dracula
Other Characters: Private Eye; Nurse; Gas Station Attendant; Miles Landau; (Monica Landau; Theresa Vincenzo)
Date: May, During World War II
Locations: Los Angeles; Nursing Home; Gas Station; Edgecombe
Story: Evacuated from Britain during the war, Holmes is living in a nursing home in Los Angeles, when he is called upon by the Private Eye narrator. A man he has shot three times has gotten up and walked away. He has been investigating the case of the missing importer, Miles Landau, having been hired by his wife, Monica. Landau has recently handled a shipment of boxes from Romania. Together they go to the address the boxes were delivered to, where Holmes comes face to face with an old foe.

Richard Mallett

"The Case of the Diabolical Plot" (1935)
Included in: The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: The Great Detective & J. Smith
Story: The Great Detective investigates a spate of thefts of piano keys, elephants & billiard balls by a group known as "The Hippy Hops", disguised as badgers, and reveals a plot to overthrow the British Empire.

Michael Mallory

Barry N. Malzberg

"Dogs, Masques, Love, Death: Flowers" (1995)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg)
Story Type: Science Fiction Homage
Historical Figures: Jack the Ripper
Other Characters: Sharon; Technicians; The Captain; The Holmes
Locations: Spaceship; Whitechapel
Story: Sharon is woken from hypersleep, and dreams of murder, because there have been five murders aboard her spaceship. The Holmes, a reconstruct, has been activated to investigate, but is malfunctioning, and the technicians want her to fix it.

Phillip Margolin & Jerry Margolin

"The Adventure of the Purloined Paget" (2011)
Included in: A Study in Sherlock (Laurie R. King & Leslie S. Klinger)
Story Type: Homage
Historical Figures: The Baker Street Irregulars; (Arthur Conan Doyle; Sidney Paget; Queen Victoria; John Jacob Astor)
Other Characters: Ronald Adair; Drivers; William Escott; Robert Altamont; Peter Burns; Phillip Lester; Hilton Cubitt; Security Staff; Inspector Andrew Baynes; Forensic Experts; (Chester Doran; Chef)
Date: Early 21st Century
Locations: Dartmoor; Cubitt Hall
Story: Video game designer and Baker Street Irregular Ronald Adair is on Dartmoor with other Sherlockian collectors, visiting the home of Hilton Cubitt, a collector of Sherlockian art. Cubitt tells them of a lost Holmes story, written by Doyle and illustrated by Sidney Paget, produced for Queen Victoria on her Diamond Jubilee. He shows them the only surviving picture from the story and says he will auction it the following day, but the following morning the Paget has disappeared and Cubitt is dead.

Margaret Maron

"The Adventure of the Concert Pianist" (2011)
Included in: A Study in Sherlock (Laurie R. King & Leslie S. Klinger)
Story Type: Extra-canonical Adventure of Mrs Hudson & Dr Watson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Hudson; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson's Maid (Alice); Sherlock Holmes; (Mary Morstan; Mycroft Holmes; Baker Street Irregulars; Ronald Adair)
Historical Figures:
Other Characters: Elizabeth Breckenridge; William Breckenridge; Sir Anthony Stockton; Lady Anne Stockton; Sarah Manning; Maria; Sir Ernest Fowler; Newsboy; (Mr Powell; Mrs Jamison; Lord P----; Giorgio)
Date: April, 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Breckenridge's House; Theatre
Story: During the hiatus, Watson calls on Mrs Hudson. While he is there, her niece Elizabeth arrives, looking for Holmes. She is in London with her concert pianist husband, and believes that she is being poisoned by him. Mrs Hudson visits Elizabeth's husband, while Watson refers to Holmes's notes on poisons. The solution comes at a piano recital that evening. When she returns home, Mrs Hudson receives a surprise visitor.

Lee A. Matthias

The Pandora Plague (1981)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Inspector MacDonald; Billy; Mrs. Hudson; Shinwell Johnson; Mycroft Holmes; Tobias Gregson; Baker Street Irregulars; Inspector Lestrade; Baker Street Pageboy; Dubuque; (Stanley Hopkins; Professor Moriarty; Anna Coram)
Fictional Characters: Dr. John Thorndyke
Historical Figures: Harry Houdini; Bess Houdini; Franz Kukol; Theo "Dash" Weiss; Arthur Conan Doyle; Marie Curie; Pierre Curie; William Gillette; Percy Lyndal; Kropotkin; Emma Goldman; Hans Richter; Arthur James Balfour
Characters based on Historical Figures: Al Fateel / Albert Fatelli {The Great Cirnoc }; Superintendent Dick {Superintendent Melville}; D.C. Slattery {C. Dundas Slater}; Harry Dayton {Harry Day}; Hodgkins {William Hope Hodgson}; Heinrich Stübler {Schutzmann Werner Graff};
Other Characters: Houdini's Girl Assistant; Houdini's Assistants; Audience Volunteers; Alhambra Ushers; Alhambra Stage Doorman; Harley Street Doctors; Abraham Holzinger; Jeweler; Man Following Houdini; Lamplighter; Policeman; Nivens; Streetwalkers; Port Bow Clientele; Percy Stiveney; Murd's Clientele; Four-wheeler Driver; Alhambra Watchman; Gregson's Constables; Gregson's Superior At Scotland Yard; Constables; Wagon Driver; Empire Theatre Audience; Orchestra; Holmes's Attacker; Coachman; Mycroft's Doctor; Nurse; Man Following Houdini; Hospital Guards; Holmes's Doctor; Turbanned Man; Reporters; Dr. Phineas Hatherley; Moustached Guard; Jail Guards; Prisoners; The Angel Clientele; Johnson's Men; Hospital Assassins; Patient; Foreign Service Guards; Coster; Street Urchins; Constable Harris; Railway Passengers; Telegraph Operator; Dr. Christopher; Blackburn Audience; Herr Waldemar; Waldemar's Maid; Waldemar's Family; Leeds Orchestra; Stage Crew; Pundar; Passing Stranger; Sims; Brewery Men; Stagehands; Jenkins; Stage Manager; Theatre manager; Cab Driver; Nevill's Customers; Anarchists; Speaker; Another Cab Driver; Mr. Throgmorton; Opera Cast; Caterers; Covent Garden Audience; Mycroft's Men; Foreign office Man; Stagehand; Musicians; (Petr Alekseevich; Gebhardt; Courier; Von Goff)
Date: July, 1900 & September, 1902
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Leicester Square; Alhambra Theatre; Empire Theatre; Various Cabs; Fitzroy's Jewelers, Savile Lane; Pall Mall; Port Bow Tavern; Murd's Tavern; The Diogenes Club; Scotland Yard; Bart's Hospital; The Langham Hotel; The Holborn; Thurston's Billiard Parlour; Metropolitan Jail Cells; Shadwell; The Angel Tavern; Northumberland Avenue; Nevill's Turkish Baths; the Strand; Rotherhithe; Wapping; Coventry Street; Whitechapel; Metropolitan Police Records office; Café Royale; St. Pancras Station; A Train; Blackburn; A Telegraph office; Blackburn Hotel; Blackburn Palace Theatre; Burnley; Leeds; Waldemar's House; Leeds Hotel; Turkish Baths; A Car; Manchester; Manchester Station; A Train; Leicester Station; St. Pancras Station; Clerkenwell; Streatham; London Bridge; Southwark; Kennington; Camberwell; Brixton; Stockwell Station; Middlesex; Northumberland Avenue; Covent Garden; Bow Street; Royal Opera House
Story: Holmes, Watson & MacDonald attend a performance by Houdini. Two years later they meet the magician again and he tells them of an audience member who ran out of the theatre, shouting, after he borrowed his watch for a trick. The man never returned for the watch, but when Houdini takes Holmes to his dressing room, it has disappeared. Houdini, working from Holmes's deductions, retrieves the watch from the theatre's ex-manager, Slattery, an old friend who wants him to open an extremely heavy, precious chest, with a strange lock. A rat Holmes has been experimenting on is terrified by the watch, and dies, and returning to Baker Street one evening, Watson sees a strange green glow in the sitting room. Holmes tracks down the watch's owner, Holzinger, a jeweler, who seems strangely nervous and ill-looking, but sends him away with a replica of the watch.

Holmes assisted by Shinwell Johnson begins making enquiries among London's underworld, and visits Mycroft. Later, they break into the Alhambra Theatre to examine Slattery's chest, but he has removed it. They find a set of notes written by the late Professor Moriarty, apparently relating to the chest, and a green glow coming from the space the chest had been hidden in. On leaving the theatre they are arrested by Gregson and taken to Scotland Yard, where Holmes spots Dr. Thorndyke. Mycroft arrives and has them released from custody. Later they read of Holzinger's suicide, his body, when found, covered in strange sores.

Bess Houdini is sent to stay with Mrs. Watson & her sister in Wales after threats are made against her. Holmes is shot while in pursuit of a man who seems very interested in Bess's departure. confined to hospital, Holmes assigns Watson to guard Houdini on his upcoming tour to the North of England. After the police guard is withdrawn, Watson enlists Johnson & his men to guard Holmes's hospital room. They manage to thwart an attack on Holmes by a husband & wife team of assassins, shortly after which, Dubuque arrives. Mycroft tells Watson of a nihilist plot involving the chest, which had been created by Moriarty. Moriarty's document refers to a substance called Pandorium, and Holmes realises that he is dealing with a radioactive substance. He brings in Marie & Pierre Curie to advise on the matter. Before heading North, Watson gives Houdini a tour of London. He asks to be shown the sites of the Ripper murders.

During the northern tour Holmes joins them in Leeds, but Houdini is kidnapped from the theatre. Travelling by train to London, in pursuit, they receive word that Bess, too, has disappeared. Holmes employs William Gillette & Percy Lyndal to impersonate him and Watsonre, and lead their trackers astray, while they investigate the anarchists. At an anarchist meeting they are able to contact Houdini, who tells them he has overheard that an attack is planned at Covent Garden.

Events come to a head at a Wagner evening at the Covent Garden Opera House when the box is finally opened.

Xavier Mauméjean

"Be Seeing You!"
Included in: Tales of the Shadowmen 2: Gentlemen of the Night
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Von Bork; (Dr Watson; Mycroft Holmes)
Fictional Characters: Number Two; Sir Denis Nayland Smith; Azzef; Number One; (Ned Hattison; Professor Cavor)
Historical Figures: Winston Churchill
Other Characters: Cyclist; Waitress; Chef; Village Residents
Date: 1912
Locations: The Village; Holmes's Cottage; Café
Story: Holmes wakes up as a prisoner, nicknamed "Danger Man" in the Village. Number Two tells him that he wants information about Mycroft, and he notices that all the other occupants of the village appear to be captured spies, including Von Bork with whom he plans an escape, although it is Lupin who brings the plan to fruition, leaving Churchill, Number One, to make new plans for the Village's future.

The League of Heroes (2002 / English Version 2005)
Adapted by Manuella Chevalier
Story Type: Alternate World Fantasy-Adventure / Homage
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; (The Giant Rat of Sumatra; Professor Moriarty)
Fictional Characters: Professor Cavor; The Lost Boys; The Indians; Tiger Lily; The Pirates; Captain Hook; Peter Pan; Tarzan (Lord Greystoke); Phileas Fogg; Wendy Darling; Slightly; Nibs; Tootles; Curly; Sinbad; Smee; Cecco; Gentleman Starkey; Bill Jukes; Tinkerbell; The Forty Thieves; Kid Colt; The Nyctalope; Baron Stromboli; Zenith the Albino; Kio-Hako; Ken Barlow; Ena Sharples; Dr Moreau; The Mangani; Jane Porter; Big Brother; Arnold Bedford; Spargus; Gibbs; Solomon Caw; Julian James; Great Big Little Panther; M; (Admiral Sir Miles Messervy); J.G. (John) Reeder; (Sandy Arbuthnot; Doctor Natas; Numa Pergyll; Judex; Miss Mousqueterr; Captain Mors; Corsair Triplex; John Bull; Charles O'Malley; Professor Challenger; Hercule Poirot; Jules Poiret; Gully Foyle (The Red Tiger); President Barbicane; Cookson)
Folkloric Characters: Fairies; The Jinn; The Roc; The Dullahan; Leprechauns
Historical Figures: Sir George Frampton; Edward VII: Queen Victoria; Kaiser Wilhelm II; The Archbishop of Canterbury; Queen Alexandra; Nikola Tesla; Thomas Edison; Lord Lytton; George V; Walther Schwieger; Charles Frohman; John Maclean; David Kirkwood; Willie Gallagher; Paul von Hindenburg; V.I. Lenin; Winston Churchill; Georges Clemenceau; Alexander Dovzhenko (The Steel Comrade); Leon Trotsky (Lev Bronstein); George; Llewelyn-Davies Boys; Lars Christensen; George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair); Warren G. Harding; James Cox; Michael Collins; Henri Poincaré; Paul Langevin; Adolf Hitler; Alfred Rosenberg; Edward VIII; Josef Stalin (Joseph Vissarionovich Jughashvili); Ramsay MacDonald; Robert Williams; Hamilton Fyfe; Thomas Bell; Mohandas Gandhi; Francis Hawkins; Oswald Mosley; H.G. Wells; Henri Poincaré; Charles Lindbergh; The Lindbergh Baby; Anne Morrow Lindbergh; Betty Gow; J. Edgar Hoover; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Henry Breckinridge; Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf; Sergei Gusev; Robert Goddard; Sir Robert Baden-Powell; Eamon de Valera; Kevin O'Higgins; (J.M. Barrie; La Goulue; Sir Frederick Treves; Karl Baedeker; Hugo Gernsback; T.E. Lawrence; Mata Hari; Captain William Turner; Alfred Vanderbilt; Ivan Pavlov; Woodrow Wilson; Henry White; Edith Wilson; David Lloyd George; Henry Cabot Lodge; Vyacheslav Molotov; David O. Selznick; Cary Grant; Louella Parsons; W.C. Fields; Paul McCartney; John Lennon; Yoko Ono; Issy Bon; Lady Guernsey; Stanley Baldwin; Charles Nungesser; FranÁois Coli; Freda Dudley Ward; Viscountess Furness; Agatha Christie; Alan Turing; Laurence Olivier; Sergei Eisenstein; Joseph Smith; Edgar Rice Burroughs; J.R.R. Tolkien; Jules Verne; Arthur Conan Doyle)
Other Characters: Lord Kraven; Prince Spada; Mercenaries; Servants; Edward-Albert Doubles; English Bob / Rupert Hammerstein / Robert Hammerstone; Vulpinia; Stilson; Afghani War Veteran; Plunder; Cavor's Technicians; Flanders; Captain of the Steam Guard; Doctor Fatal / Sir Reginald Plumdritch; The Singh; Hook's Crew; Shala Khan; Gunner; Defector; Cairo Informer; French Embassy Guards; Doctor Auguste de Grandin; Grandin's Giant Companion; Sorceror; Major James West III; Bertram's Manager; West's Men; Fairy Girl; Lusitania Passengers; Steward; Radio Operator; Third Officer; Mrs Van Dusen; Baron Manfed von Tod; Piccadilly Crowds; Zeppelin Pilots; Home-front Volunteer; Child; Civil Engineers; Strikers; Soldiers; Hammerstone's Soldiers; Prussian Soldiers; Prussian Officer; Lothar von Tod; Journalists; Salvation Army Volunteers; Reform Club Servant; Duty Officer; Fogg's Butler; Paris Delegates; The Steel Comrade / Alexander Dovzhenko; George; Government Bureaucrats; George's Wife; George's Sons; Syd; Bus Passengers; Chip Seller; School Janitor; Students; Miss Wentworth; Headmaster Putnam; Bolo; Cambridge Prefect; House Master; Olga Lovinsky; English Bob's Landlady; White Hart Bum; Double-O Agents; Actors; Paddy McKenzie; Willy Masterson; Theatre Cook; Mrs Smith; Ministry Officer; Chief Commissioner Zyd; Aloysius Keys; Joris Lodge; Bonnie; Stagehand; Hoover's Agents; 009; Smith Son; Smith Daughter; Mr Smith; St Thomas Snipers; Orderly; Turkish Bath Attendants; Fogg's Agents; Projectionist; Seven Seers; Los Alamos Soldier; Robert Meadows-Taylor; Alice; Travellers' Club Hall Porter; The Hawklords; Reform Roster Officer; Men-in-White; Colt's Young Man; Prussian Soldiers; Lieutenant Syd Barrett; Nurse Zydblinski; Soldiers; Children
(The Siegfried Legion; Loki; The Hammer of Thor; Arthur Pyke; Lord Roger Shamwell; Lady Shamwell; The Rt. Hon. Ronald Partridge; Señor Miranda; Pilar Miranda; Mrs Latimer; Evans; Shamwell's Chef; Zyd's School Friend; Zyd's Principal)
Date: June 1896 / September 1900 / January 1901 / June 1902 / September 1906 / February 1909 / March 1911 / August 1914 / May 1915 / January 1916 / May 1916 / September 1916 / June 1917 / February - April 1918 / November 1918 - January 1919 / March 1919 / January 1920 / July 1936 / 1969-1970 / Spring 1897 / 1920-1922 / 1925-1928 / September 1930 / March 1929 / May 1930 / January 1929 / 1928 / 1900 / May 1924 / March-May 1928 / April 1930 / October 1899 / 1927 / December 1930 / 1905 / January 1931
Locations: Albion; Kensington Gardens; Ingolstadt Castle; Aboard HMS Albion Ascendant; Warehouse; Limehouse; Vulpinia's Residence; Drummond Street; Kraven's Residence; League of Heroes Headquarters; The Crystal Palace; Westminster Cathedral; Fatal's Lab; Aboard the Jolly Roger; Krakatoa; Sinbad's Lair; Aboard the Siddh‚rta; Egypt; Cairo; Lunatic Asylum; Bertram's Hotel; Aboard the Lusitania; A Prussian U-20; Piccadilly; Piccadilly Circus; Whitcomb Street; Northumberland Avenue; Pub by the Thames; Glasgow; George Square; A Trench near Portsmouth; A Sopwith Camel above the Somme; The Reform Club; Paris Conference; George's House; Syd's Van; A Bus; School; Macklin Street; Pub; Comics Convention; Cambridge; Christ's College; Northumberland; Military Training Camp; English Bob's Room; Park; Bolo's House; The White Hart Hotel; Adelphi Theatre / The Theatre of Crime; Baker Street; Holmes's Building; Buckingham Palace; Keys' Shop; Kent; Lympne Castle; New Jersey; The Lindbergh Residence; Madison Square Gardens; Mosley's Office; St Thomas Hospital; Turkish Baths; Los Alamos; Pall Mall; The Travellers' Club; Hospital; Cafeteria; CONTROL Office; Piccadilly Avenue; The Embankment
Story: In 1896 a hole in the aether allows the inhabitants of Neverland to appear in England. Most find a place in Albion society, and Neverland magic blends with British technology to help protect the Empire, but Peter Pan remains in Neverland, an enemy of the Empire. In 1900 Lord Kraven rescues the Prince of Wales from Prince Spada, and Cavor unsuccessfully demonstates his Mechaman. After the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, and the defeat of Dr Fatal in 1906, Greystoke & Hook face Pan's ally, Sinbad, his allies the Singh, and his forty thieves, at sea and on the island of Krakatoa. In 1911, Kraven goes undercover in Cairo's lunatic asylum to investigate a spate of terrorist bombings in the city. Just before the Great War an incident between Kid Colt and a fairy girl at Bertram's Hotel leads to Greystoke attempting to resign from the League. In 1915, English Bob and Kraven are aboard the torpedoed Lusitania, the following year a zeppelin raid takes Hook and Greystoke, and Kraven's actions among Glasgow strikers prove fatal, and the League continues to disintegrate, the Prussians invade Albion, and Kraven faces von Tod in an aerial dogfight. After a peace speech in Paris, Kraven alienates himself further from the League, and in 1920 goes missing on an expedition to the South Pole. Six years later a movie is made of his life.

In 1969 an old man, sent to live with his daughter and son-in-law, struggles to remember his real identity, and as his memories come back, stimulated by the comic strip Garth, reconstructs the birth of the League of Heroes.

In 1897 Kraven is recruited to the League, established as a response to the arrival of the Fairy Folk as a precaution should they ever turn against the Empire. After training, Kraven sets about recruiting further members, the first of whom, Tiger Lily's shaman, takes on the mantle of Sherlock Holmes following the detective's death at Reichenbach. His selections, even from the beginning, distance him from the League's founder, Fogg.

In 1970, Kraven, tries to discover what happened to him after his "death" in the Antarctic, and why the world he is in seems different from the Albion he knew, and how he has come to be there. After being abducted and rescued he forms a new League.

After Kraven's death, the League continues under Holmes's leadership, but disbands in 1922. By 1926 Fogg has taken advantage of civil unrest to deport all Fairy Folk to Ireland and become Prime Minister, and by 1937, Lord Protector of England.

In 1930 Holmes is reduced to performances, at the Theater of Crime, of plays by Agatha Christie, The Woman, and is living in communal housing, when he is summoned by the Party to investigate the death of Turing, stabbed with a fairy dagger at the Outer Space Research facility. Accompanied by the young female Commissioner, Zyd, who reminds him of English Bob, his investigations lead him back to the Theater, and to Cavor's castle in Kent where he learns of the development of the computer. He also recalls his involvement in the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, apparently by Peter Pan and Tiger Lily. After two more murders, Holmes finds himself captured by Pan, and faces the ultimate decision when he comes face to face with Fogg.

The new League plan the kidnapping of Fogg, and Kraven penetrates the Reform Club, a task he finds confusingly easy, but which lands him in hospital surrounded by familiar faces, where he finally learns the true nature of his existence and the world he's living in.

NOTE: James West III is presumably the grandson of James West of Wild Wild West.

NOTE 2: Bertram's Hotel is from Agatha Christie's At Bertram's Hotel.

NOTE 3: The veiled woman on the Lusitania who lost her husband, Professor Auguste Van Dusen, on the Titanic, is based on May Futrelle, wife of Van Dusen's creator, Jacques Futrelle.

Ardath Mayhar

"The Affair of the Midnight Midget" (1989)
Included in: The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sebastian Wolfe)
Story Type: Parody narrated by Mrs Hudson
Canonical Characters: Mrs Hudson / Martha; Sherlock Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; (Dr. Watson; Mrs Watson; Baker Street Irregulars; Mycroft Holmes)
Other Characters: Midget; Diogenes Club Usher; Tilly; Andrew Holmes; Dr Jermyn; Danvers; (Mycroft's Wife; Holmes's Distant Cousin; Lord Tinningsly; Millicent Tinningsly; Baker Street Servants; Constable)
Date: 3rd - 10th November
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: In letters to a convalescing Dr Watson, Mrs Hudson tells of her fears for Holmes. He has been coming home late, the Irregulars are strangely absent, a well-dressed midget has left an exploding package for him, there is a bloodstain on the carpet, and he is refusing to open the door. She later hears footsteps in the sitting room while Holmes is out. Lestrade arrives, searching for Holmes's nephew, Andrew, who has been accused of murdering his fiancée's father. When Holmes is hospitalised with pneumonia, he turns Andrew over to Mrs Hudson's care. The murdered man is Lord Tinningsly, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and his death is part of a plot against the British currency. Mrs Hudson lays a trap to catch the real murderer.

NOTE: It is not really clear in this story whether Andrew's father is Mycroft or a third "reclusive" Holmes brother.

William Patrick Maynard

"The Tragic Case of the Child Prodigy" (2009)
Included in: Gaslight Grotesque (J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; (Mary Morstan; Mrs Hudson; Billy)
Fictional Characters: (Solar Pons)
Historical Figures: (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Characters Based On Historical Figures: Christopher Frawley (Aleister Crowley)
Other Characters: Arthur Tremayne; Audience; Mr Jago; Bertram Chase; Cabman; Hellfire Club Doorman; Hellfire Club Members; Deirdre Tremayne; Agathodaimon; (Brother Milagro)
Date: Sunday
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Lyceum Theatre; Greyhound Tavern
Story: Watson invites Holmes to the Lyceum to see the young violin prodigy, Tremayne. They visit the boy after the concert, and he asks their help to rescue his mother who has become involved with a group of occultists led by Christopher Frawley. At the Greyhound Tavern they gatecrash a meeting of the Hellfire Club, where they witness Frawley transfer the lifeforce of a woman into a simulacra. They do battle with Frawley and his creation, but are unable to bring a happy ending for Tremayne.

NOTE: Holmes's confusion between the violinist Tremayne and the pianist Ellis, may be a reference to crime writer Peter Tremayne whose real name is Peter Ellis.

Matthew P. Mayo

"The Folly of Flight" (2012)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The Crossovers Casebook (Howard Hopkins)
Story Type: Comic Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson
Fictional Characters: Arsène Lupin
Historical Figures: (Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin)
Other Characters: Telegraph Clerk; Surrey Driver; Madame Hammelin; Professor Henri Plouff; Hammelin; Lord Ruddy; (Clarice Plouff)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train; Little Dimpling; The Dimpled Arms Pub; Ruddy Manor; An Airship
Story: Holmes and Watson read of the visit of French balloonist Plouff to the home of Lord Ruddy and receive a telegram from Lupin stating that foul play is afoot at the Ruddy Estate. They travel to Little Dimpling, where Holmes believes they will find that Plouff has been murdered, pushed from his balloon. He rescues Lupin from the cook and examine's Plouff's body and the airship plans that Lupin has liberated from it. Together they thwart a plan to take the plans to Germany, and rescue Watson from a prototype airship.

William Meikle

"The Color That Came To Chiswick" (2011)
Included in: Gaslight Arcanum (J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Baker Street Irregulars
Other Characters: Brewery Workers; Men with Hoses; Cab Driver; Vauxhall Bridge Crowd; Vauxhall Policemen; (Widow Murray; Gerard Jones)
Date: May, 1887
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Hospital; Chiswick; Fullers Brewery; Vauxhall Bridge
Story: Watson arrives at Baker Street to find Holmes working on a new case after a period of uneasy house rest. He is carrying out tests on a sample of beer from Fullers Brewery in Chiswick, where someone is suspected of sabotaging the brewing process. The samples contain what appears to be a green, slime-mould-like organism. Lestrade takes Watson to see a brewery worker who has been infected by the substance. After Holmes takes action at the brewery, Lestrade's efforts may inadvertently have made matters worse. The final showdown comes on a boat at Vauxhall.

Nicholas Meyer

The Canary Trainer (1993)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated to Watson by Holmes
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Sherman; Irene Adler; (Mycroft Holmes)
Fictional Characters: Christine Daaé; Erik, The Phantom of the Opera; Carlotta / Sorelli; Jammes; César; Meg Giry; Madame Giry; Monsieur Debienne; Monsieur Poligny; Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny; Philippe, Comte de Chagny; Mother Valerius; Armand Moncharmin; Firmin Richard; Mercier; The Concierge; The Concierge's Husband; Valerius' Maid; Mifroid; Mauclair; Mauclair's Assistants; (Joseph Buquet)
Historical Figures: Nicholas Meyer; Gaston Leroux; Edgar Degas; Jean de Reszke; Pol Plançon; Charles Garnier; Herbert Asquith
Other Characters: Fred Malcolm; Gerald Forrester; Madame Solange; Guzot; Opera Audiences; Opera Cast; Monsieur Frédéric; Jérôme; Violinist Applicants; Third Audition Judge; Door-Shutter; Ponelle; Bela; Orchestra; Corps De Ballet; Jacques; Scene-Shifters; Guard; Reception Guests; Café de la Paix Waiter; Diners; Cab Driver; Henri; Movers; Gerhardt Huxtable; Léonard; Desk Clerk; Hostlers; Groom; Irene's Maid; Planning Commission Clerks; Waiter; Cemetery Attendants; Cabby; Eiffel Tower Visitors; Ball Guests; Prefecture Guards; Edouard Lafosse; Workmen; Nuns; Doctors; Mifroid's Secretary
Date: December 1992 (Editor's Foreword) / June, 1912 (Introduction) / September, 1891
Locations: Burley Manor Farm, Sussex; Milan; Paris; Gare D'Orsay; Les Champs Élysées; Place de la Concorde; Hotel in Rue Saint-Julien-Le-Pauvre; Holmes's Rooms in Rue Saint-Antoine; The Paris Opéra; The Marais; A Bistro; The Café de la Paix; A Cab; 36, Avenue Kléber; Valerius's Rooms in Rue Gaspard; Grand-Hôtel de Paris; 76, Rue de Varenne; 92, Rue de Varenne; Boulevard Saint-Germain; A Café; Père Lachaise Cemetery; Garnier's Tomb; A Cab; A Brougham; The Eiffel Tower; Opéra Cellars; Underground Lake; Phantom's House; Hospital of Saint Sulpice
Story: A manuscript donated to Yale Library by Mrs. Hudson's son-in-law is discovered when the libraries archives are being transferred to digital media & is sent to Nicholas Meyer.

Watson visits Holmes in Sussex and persuades him to tell him something of his adventures during the hiatus.

After Reichenbach, Holmes visits Milan, but eventually winds up in Paris, where he gets a job as violinist at the Paris Opéra, where he hears stories of the Opera Ghost. When a production of Carmen is mounted, one of the performers is Irene Adler. He attempts to conceal his presence from her, but she recognises him in a picture painted by Degas and tracks him down to his rooms where she tells him of the death of Buquet the scene-shifter who was in love with Christine, the rising young singer, and a rival of Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny for her affections. She tells him also of a man she has heard in Christine's dressing room and asks him to look after Christine. At a farewell reception for the opera managers, Holmes hears more about the ghost, then sets off to explore the theatre. At the site of Buquet's death he is attacked by Raoul, believing him to be the Ghost, or another of Christine's admirers. Raoul tells him of a voice he has heard in Christine's dressing room, and of her recent refusals to see or speak to him. The managers tell him of their contract with the Ghost, and the new managers' refusal to honour that contract, selling the ghost's box, refusing to make payments to him, and their intention of replacing Christine with Sorelli in a performance of Faust. Christine tells him that the Angel of Music visits her and has been training her voice, but is jealous of her suitors, she fears he will hurt Raoul.

During a rehearsal Irene is the victim of an attack. The horse César is stolen, Sorelli is driven from the stage and a chandelier falls during a performance. Investigating, Holmes finds a note addressed to himself. Irene leaves for Amsterdam. When Holmes tries to examine the building's plans he discovers that they have disappeared, but after breaking into the architect, Garnier's tomb, he believes that he has identified the Phantom. The Phantom appears as the Red Death at the Opera's masked ball. Holmes pursues him & his accomplice into Christine's dressing room, where they disappear. Mifroid arrests Holmes and charges him with the Phantom's crimes. Leroux insists that he play in the concert before he is taken away, during which the Phantom abducts Christine. Holmes pursues them into the cellars under the Opéra, where he finds the missing horse, an injured Raoul, and ultimately, the Phantom's house, where he and Raoul are trapped in a water-filled chamber.

The Prime Minister arrives in Sussex to seek Holmes's help in apprehending Von Bork.

NOTE: Meyer appears to have combined the two characters Carlotta the diva and Sorelli the dancer into one.

The West End Horror (1976)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Stanley Hopkins; Dr. Moore Agar; (Tobias Gregson)
Historical Figures: George Bernard Shaw; Oscar Wilde; Lord Alfred Douglas; Richard D'Oyly Carte; W.S. Gilbert; Walter Passmore; Mr. Crathie; Bram Stoker; Ellen Terry; Henry Irving; Sir Arthur Sullivan; Frank Harris
Other Characters: Jonathan McCarthy; Bloomsbury Crowd; Constables; Mr. Brownlow; Brownlow's Men; Holborn Waiter; Mr. Fitzgerald; Avondale Clerk; Wilde's Companions; Elderly Sleeper; Savoy Actors; Stagehands; Stage Manager; Jessie Rutland; Dr. Benjamin Eccles; Simpson's Diners; Waiter; Constables; Terry's Coachman; Lyceum Carpenters; Café Royal Patrons; Hezekiah Jackson; Achmet Singh; Soho Folk; Cab Drivers; Ostlers; Agar's Housekeeper; (Rutland's Landlady; Edith Morstan; Eccles' Family; Dr. Spellman)
Date: 1974-1975 (Foreword) / March 1st, 1895
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Bloomsbury; South Crescent; The Holborn; Regent Street; Dunhill's; Piccadilly; The Avondale; The Strand; The Savoy Theatre; Simpson's; The Lyceum Theatre; The Café Royal; Whitehall; Scotland Yard; Soho; Porkpie Lane; Baker Street; Harley Street; Marylebone; Wyndham Place
Story: In the wake of publishing The Seven-Per-Cent Solution Meyer receives a number of new Watson manuscripts, most fakes, but one, from the widow of a descendant of the Vernet family, he believes to be genuine.

Holmes refuses to allow Watson to write up the case of the West End Horror until most of the principals are dead and Watson suggests that it should be recorded for history, not publication, and handed over into Holmes's care.

Shaw wishes Holmes to investigate the fatal stabbing of fellow critic McCarthy. At the victim's house Holmes discovers a cigar that he doesn't recognise. Lestrade & Hopkins show him a copy of Romeo & Juliet that the murdered man had taken from his shelves as a final act. Holmes takes the cigar to Dunhill's for identification, then seeks out Oscar Wilde, who tells them that McCarthy was a blackmailer. Following information obtained from Wilde, they proceed to the Savoy Theatre, but, while they are there, McCarthy's mistress, Rutland, a chorus girl, is also murdered. After meeting Shaw at Simpson's, both Holmes & Watsonery are assaulted in an alley, and forced to drink from a phial of liquid. The following morning they receive a message warning them to stay away from the Strand. A visit to Sir Arthur Sullivan reveals that Rutland had another, married, lover. Holmes begins to show an interest in Bram Stoker as a suspect, but Lestrade announces he has caught the killer, arresting Singh, Rutland's lover. A visit to Singh's cell, convinces Holmes that he is not their man, and a visit to Stoker's Soho hideaway reveals an unexpected secret. Hopkins is waiting at Baker Street, on their return, and tells them that Brownlow, the police surgeon has disappeared, along with the bodies of McCarthy & Rutland. Holmes finally puts the pieces together, but cannot bring the killer to justice.