Rosemary Michaud

Sherlock Holmes and the Somerset Hunt (1993)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Tobias Gregson)
Other Characters: East Quantock Porter; Jane Melrose; Andrew Hewitt; Heywood Melrose; Old Pratt; Ned Hewitt; Housemaids; Colonel Laurence Hewitt; David Hewitt; Dr. Hugh Farthingale; Sally Collins; Collins' Children; Servants; Superintendent Bellows; (Dixon; Mrs. Hewitt; Norah Dudley; James Collins; Police Inspector; Constable Johnson; Helena; Mr. Vickers)
Date: March, 1883
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train; Somerset; East Quantock Station; East Quantock; Coombehill; Spring Green Cottage; Farthingale's Cottage
Story: Holmes is called to Somerset to investigate when an old client's daughter's fiancé, Andrew Hewitt, is involved in a riding accident. A stirrup gave way, but after the incident the stirrup leather disappeared. The family has a history of unusual events - an uncle killed in a riding accident thirty years previously, and a mother who disappeared three years before. Holmes and Watson pose as a cousin and friend of the girl, and are invited to stay at the fiancé's family home. It becomes clear that relationships within the house are strained. Holmes discovers that the young couple are already married, and finds himself investigating the disappearance of the mother. To finally bring an end to the case he joins the local hunt, disguised as Hewitt.

Thos. Kent Miller

The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (2005)
Story Type: Pastiche
Biblical Characters: The Virgin Mary (God; The Burning Bush; Gaspar; Jesus; Gabriel; St John)
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Professor Moriarty
Fictional Characters: Allan Quatermain; Zikali; Hans; Sergeant Cuff; Sergeant Daniel Dravot; Sergeant Peachy Carnehan; Axel Lidenbrock; Sherrinford Holmes
(Harry Quatermain)
Historical Figures: Thomas Kent Miller; Judy-Lynn Del Rey; James Turner; H.P. Lovecraft; Sonia H. Greene; Anne Tillery Renshaw; Sally Good; Louis Church; Frederick E. Church; Sir Richard Holmes; Thomas Huxley; Richard Burton; Maria Mitchell;
(Gail Morgan Hickman; Clark Ashton Smith; Theodore II; Charles Darwin; Gary von Tersch; Tomasso Masini da Peretola; Leonardo da Vinci; Gian Giacomo Caprotti (Salai); St Andrew; Godfrey of Bouillon; Raymond of Toulouse; Prince Bohemond of Tarentum; Hugh of Vermandois; Peter Bartholomew; St Batholomew; Joseph of Arimethea)
Other Characters: New York Gallery Proprietor; Zikali's Guards; Quatermain's Men; Bayushtiak; Captain Endfield; Captain Joshua Baker; Alberto Cardinal Cigliutti; Piero Lorenzina; Young Florentine Couple; Carriage Passenger; Shopkeepers; Youths; Bors, Count of Mainz; Duke Stephen; Count Albert of Clermont; William of Saint-Giles; Fulcher of Tyre; Duke Stephen's Men; Thomas of Arc; Danakil Tribesmen; Priests; Tabot Haile Mariam; Villagers; Ruth
(Nicholi Lorenzo; Randy King; Maria Grazia; Duke Stephen; Corporal Saint James)
Date: October 1994 / June, 1925 / January, 1881 / December 25th, 1871-1872 / March 1870 / 1096-1097
Locations: Olana; Boston; New York; The Black Kloof; Durban; Quatermain's House; HMS Deborah; Ethiopia; Annesley Bay; The Granger; The Danakil Desert; 221B, Baker Street; A Cave; Florence; Basilica Santa Croce; Antioch; Sarras; Yemen; Hungary; Transylvania; Chapel of the Immaculate Heart; Sinai
Story: After a double biography of Quatermain & Haggard is turned down, the editor receives a call from Arkham House publisher, Turner, asking him to look at a manuscript which had been found at Brown University. It had originally been given to Lovecraft for polishing, having been found at the home of the artist Frederick Church, and was an account of Quatermain's adventures taken down by Watson, who had accompanied Quatermain to the United States after being introduced to him by his son Harry, a student at Bart's. There, they had visited Church, and one of his paintings had reminded Quatermain of the adventure he went on to recount.
Quatermain is shown a vision by Zikali which sends him in search of a goddess. Returning to Durban, he is met by a British Museum delegation - Richard Holmes, Huxley, Cuff, and a young Holmes in the persona of "Will Scott" - who wish him to lead a joint expedition to investigate rumours of the continued survival of Emperor Theodore of Abyssinia, the discovery of early human fossilised remains in the same area, and the appearance of a possible lost gospel rescued from the Alexandrian Library.
Accompanied by a Zulu warrior, Bayushtiak, they set out aboard HMS Deborah. Arriving at Annesley Bay they are met by another party, comprising of Burton, Mitchell, Dravot & Carnehan, in search of meteorites, which become their first goal, taking them into the Danakil Desert, where they encounter the singing sands and the German vulcanologist, Lidenbrock, and a desert sandstorm, Huxley & Scott find a skeleton, and Scott is caught in quicksand. Cuff reveals the true nature of his group's quest, and its links to the Vatican, Leonardo da Vinci and the Holy Grail, and the First Crusade.
Having found the meteorites graveyard, they are attacked by Danakil tribesmen. One of the party is killed under suspicious circumstances. Travelling on, they come across a church in the middle of the desert. There their wounded are tended to, and they investigate the treasures of the Chapel of the Immaculate Heart, before being taken before the Mother of God in a hidden village.

NOTE: The ships which take the various parties to Ethiopia, HMS Deborah & the Granger, are named after the stars of the 1950 film version of King Solomon's Mines, Deborah Kerr & Stewart Granger (who played Allan Quatermain). Their captains, Endfield and Baker, are named after the director and star of the 1964 film Zulu, Cy Endfield and Stanley Baker.

Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World, or The Adventure of the Wayfaring God (1987)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Leo Vincey
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes (as Sigerson)
Fictional Characters: (Foreword: Vincey); Leo Vincey; Horace Holly
Historical Figures: (Foreword: Thomas Kent Miller; Jayne Miller); The Regent (Choekyi Gyaltsen Kundeling); The 13th Dalai Lama; (The Journal of Issa: St. Issa / Jesus Christ; Thomas)
Other Characters: (Foreword: Jan Needleman); Brother Paljori; Police Monks; Monks; Wan Po; Guards; Brother Sigme; Undertaker; Brother Linga; (Brother Sun-Li)
Date: 1891
Locations: (Foreword: California); Tibet; Lhasa; The Library; Sigerson's Rooms; The Jo-Kang; The Potala; Sky Burial Site; Paljori's Rooms
Story: When a neighbour returned from a visit to Nepal she brought Miller back a package of hand-made stationery as a gift. On opening it, he discovered that it also contained a manuscript, written by Vincey.

After the events recounted in She Vincey and Holly are in Lhasa, carrying out research to aid in their ongoing quest for Ayesha. In the library they encounter the Norwegian explorer, Sigerson, who has read of their adventures, and who is admonished for smoking by the librarian, Paljori. The following day the librarian is found murdered, and a sacred book stolen. The three are accused of the crime and brought before the Regent, who orders them imprisoned. Some days later they are brought before the Dalai Lama, who outlines the evidence aganst them. Holmes proves its unreliability, and suggest that he should take over the investigation. He examines the murder site and the dead man's rooms, and interviews the mortician and the chief medical officer, before announcing that he will be able to offer a solution the following day. When the book is finally recovered, their granted reading of it forces them to re-evaluate all their previously held beliefs.

Larry Millett

Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders (1998)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Historical Figures: Potter Palmer; Bertha Palmer; Clifton Wooldridge; Mickey Finn; The Star Cleaners; William Best; Joseph Pyle; Jack Pine Twins (Laura Olson); Billy Bouquet; John J. O'Connor; James J. Hill; Edward Fitzgerald; Mollie Fitzgerald
(Mrs Hill; Hill's Children; Cass Gilbert; Lillie Langtry; James Hill, Jr.; Louis Hill)
Other Characters: Hill's Driver; Ice Palace Workmen; Tommy; Shadwell Rafferty; Jonathan Upton; Delivery Boy; Swedish Girl; Lars Melander; Ice Palace Crowds; Policemen; Giuseppe Dante; Hill's Servants; Laura Forbes; George; Cadwallader Forbes; Forbes's Employees; Jedediah Lapham; Mr Yates; George Upton; Rafferty's Customers; George Washington Thomas; Rafferty's Barmen; Frederick Forbes; Police Sergeant; Drunken Vagabonds; Hill's Butler; Globe Staff; Mr Peterson; Jail Guards; Prisoners; Michael Riley; Young Man; Mrs Dvorak; Mr Dvorak; Hill's Physician; Boys
(Thomas Greene; Drunks; Mrs Swanson; Mr Parry; Frederick's Friend; Bohemian Girl; Upton's Driver; Upton's Servant; Locksmith; Spider; Michael Defiel; Red Wing Judge; Dr Morrison; Captain Thomas Gray; Red Wing Police Officers; Forbes's Servant Girl; Muskrat Club Members; Sheriff of Ramsey County; Bouquet's Friends; Virginia Soldier; Apartment Superintendent; Mr Fandreau; Robert Street Irregulars; Beatrice Dante; Mother Ursula; Beatrice's Aunt; Dog Breeder)
Date: January 2nd - February 3rd, 1896
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Aboard the Campania; United States; New York; Chicago; Union Station; The Palmer Estate; The Levee; Lone Star Saloon; The Holmes House; Minnesota; St Paul; Union Depot; Hill's Mansion; Central Park; Ice Palace; Swede Hollow; Olson's House; Dante's Apartment; Police Headquarters; lowertown; Forbes's Offices; Summit Avenue; Upton Mansion; Ryan Hotel; Rafferty's Saloon; City Dump; Muskrat Club; Globe Offices; Rice Park; Ramsey County Jail; Cedar Street; Corner of Ninth & Fort Streets; St Peter Street; Wabasha Street; Bench Street; Jackson Street; The Mississippi; West Side Flats; Dvorak's Home
Story: Holmes and Watson travel to Chicago at the summons of Potter Palmer. After resolving the case, they tour the Chicago underworld, and receive a letter from Hill inviting them to St Paul to investigate the disappearance of Upton on the eve of his wedding. They arrive in St Paul during the Winter Carnival, and find the city full of Ice Sculptures, including the massive domed Ice Palace in which Upton was last seen. They first encounter Rafferty, who recognises them despite their use of aliases, at the Ice Palace. He is also investigating the disappearance. Their discovery of a decapitated head and Muskrat Club pin turns the investigation into one of murder. From the Palace guard they learn of the presence of Upton's prosperous father and future father-in-law, and Police Chief O'Connor on the night of the disappearance. Upton's fiancee seems unconcerned and hints at an upcoming scandal. Rafferty is called off the investigation by his client, Upton's father. Rafferty saves Holmes from attack by the cross-dressing footpad, Bouquet. Upton's fiancee's brother receives a threatening letter, similar to one he says Upton received before his death, Upton's body is found, but his father and fiancee both disappear. Discovery of Upton's diary reveals sexual misconduct and blackmail, and an account book shows irregularities in the finances of the Ice Palace Committee. Another body is discovered, by the Fitzgeralds, at the Ice Palace, and an arrest is made, but Holmes believes the wrong man has been convicted. Further threats are made, Rafferty's dog is killed, and Holmes faces death and muskrats on the frozen Mississippi, and a jailbreak occurs, but the case is concluded in the melting Ice Palace.

The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes (2002)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Watson & in third person
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Abe Slaney; Wilson Hargreave; Mrs. Hudson; Elsie Cubitt; Inspector Martin
Historical Figures: Clifton Wooldridge; General Richard Montgomery; William Devery; Bathhouse John Coughlin; James J. Hill; Joseph Pyle; John R. Tanner; Minna Everleigh
Other Characters: The Conspirator; Hargreave's Men; North Walsham Carriage Driver; Agnes; Two Stable Boys; Chief Groom; Martin's Men; Ridling Thorpe Servants; Butler; Elsie's Banker; Peter Smythe; Carriage Driver; Deputy Chief Inspector David Butler; Rector; North Walsham Station Ticket Agent; Walter Pashley; St. Pancras Crowds; Porter; St. Pancras Hotel Desk Clerk; Liverpool Cab Driver; Cunard Passengers; Cunard Ticket Agent; North Western Hotel Desk Clerk; Unremarkable Man Following Holmes & Watson; North Western Hotel Guests; Hansom Driver; Matron; New York Police officer; Policemen; Taxi Driver; American Line Clerk; Cabman; Astor House Clerk; Mr. Morgan; St. Paul Steward; Hackman; Ambulance Attendants; Grocer; Coach Driver; Shadwell Rafferty; Rafferty's Clientele; George Washington Thomas; Telephone Operator; Policeman At Gay Street; Messenger; Two Detectives; Cab Driver; Astor's Servant; DuBois's Cabman; John Coffin; Hotel Albert Doorman; Hargreave's Driver; Union Square Strollers; Patrolman; Shabbily Dressed Man; Bearded Cab Driver; Gatemen; Coach Driver; Walter Smith; Tall Man; Urchin; Irish Detective; El Passengers; Warren Street Station Attendant; Well Dressed Gentlemen; Two Detectives; Lieutenant Michael Bissen; Mrs. Mortimer; Detective James Hurley; Four Pregnant Women; Belgian Jack Flannery; Little Pete O'Riley; Boy; Devery's Men; Charlie; Jenny Bissen; Pennsylvania Limited Porter; Altoona Policeman; Altoona Pickpocket Victims; Altoona Ticket Agent; Bellboy; Billy Wainwright; Concierge; Brawlers; Jacque LeClair; Bang-Bang Billy Perdue; Timothy Van Ness; Union Station Doorman; Men Following Rafferty; Danny Banion; Joe; Cadets; Man With Pistol; Everleigh Girls; Everleigh Customers; Paulie; Stable Hand; Mary Robinson; G. Hargens
Date: July 3 - August 6, 1900
Locations: London: 221B, Baker Street; St. Pancras Station; St. Pancras Hotel; The Liverpool Train
Norfolk: North Walsham; A Carriage; Ridling Thorpe Manor; Another Carriage; Smythe's Inn; A Church Army Wagon; Another Carriage; Church Army Wagon Shed; North Walsham Station; Worstead Station; The London Express
Liverpool: Lime Street Station; A Cab; Trials Hotel; Cunard offices, Strand Street; North Western Hotel; Criterion Restaurant; A Hansom Cab
S.S.Oceania; S.S.St. Paul; S.S.Lucania
New York: St. Paul's Chapel; Broadway; Chelsea Piers; New York Harbour; Gansevoort Pier; freight office; A Taxi; American Line Terminal; A Hansom Cab; An Ambulance; Slaney's Apartment; The Astor House Hotel; Greenwich Village; Gay Street; Hotel Albert; Madison Avenue; Hotel Manhattan; A Cab; Fifth Avenue; Brooklyn; Orange Street; A Hansom; Union Square; 17th Street; Another Cab; Times Square; Columbus Circle; Eighth Avenue; A Courtyard; A Small Coach; Riverside Drive; Grant's Tomb; 110th Street & 9th Avenue Intersection; 104th Street El Station; An El Train; Warren Street El Station; Hargreave's House; Miss Parry's House, Joralemon Street; Henry Street; The Brooklyn Bridge; Devlin's Clothing Store; Park Row; City Hall Park; Warren Street; Pneumatic Railway Tunnel; Tavern in the Bowery; Chelsea; Bissen's Apartment, West 23rd Street; Pennsylvania Railroad Ferry
St. Paul, Minnesota: Rafferty's Saloon; Aberdeen Hotel
The Pennsylvania Limited; Jersey City; Altoona, Pennsylvania; Horseshoe Curve; Train From Minneapolis; A Freight Train
Chicago: Potomac Apartments; Dearborn Street Tavern; The Sherman House; Randolph Street; Michigan Avenue; Washington Street; Wells Street; Union Station; Sons of Hibernia Hall; The El; Dearborn Street; Springfield; The Everleigh Club; State Street; A Paddy Wagon; 21st Street; Murran's Livery Yard; Clark Street; The Chicago River
Story: Holmes is waiting outside a church in New York laying a trap for a kidnapper, but disappears after being enticed inside. the next morning's newspapers contain headlines implicating him in murder & kidnapping.

The story flashes back to Baker Street & Holmes receives a letter in the dancing men code, apparently from Abe Slaney, who is supposed to have died while escaping from prison, although his body was never found. He travels to Ridling Thorpe Manor to see Elsie Cubitt, to whom he has become quite attached since the murder of her husband, only to find that she has been kidnapped. He meets a bogus spiritualist who has recently become Elsie's closest confidante. Holmes and Watson follow a trail of clues, which Holmes believes to have been deliberately planted, to London, Liverpool, and then aboard the liner, Oceania, to New York, but not before his adversary has placed the body of his murdered female accomplice, who has been impersonating Elsie, in Holmes's hotel room in Liverpool.

Arriving in New York, they are met by Wilson Hargreave, ostensibly to take Holmes into custody, who agrees to assist them. They receive a ransom demand from the kidnapper and Watson follows a trail of messages around Manhattan, finally arriving back at St. Paul's Chapel in time to witness Holmes's disappearance. Holmes manages to escape his kidnappers on board a train heading to Chicago, and it is in Chicago that Holmes, Watson and Shadwell Rafferty eventually converge to solve the crime and reveal the deep-seated web of revenge lying beneath it.

Austin Mitchelson & Nicholas Utechin

Hellbirds (1976)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Wiggins; Mycroft Holmes; Von Bork; Count von und zu Grafenstein
Historical Figures: Adolph Hitler {Corporal Schickelgruber}; Manfred Von Richthofen; Kaiser Wilhelm II; Herbert Asquith; Lord Kitchener; (Sir Francis Bertie)
Other Characters: Polly Dempster; Ezekial Sloe; Mrs. Gamadge; Mycroft's Chauffeur; Tower Warder; Colonel Briland MacWyre; Tower Soldiers; Tower Sentries; Tower Sergeant; Diogenes Attendants; Naval Ratings; Orderly; Army Sergeant; Constables; Train Driver; Dover Police Sergeant; Soldiers; Dover Constable; Police Driver; Von Bork's Men; Dover Police officers; Harbour-Master; Launch Captain; Sailors; Calais Gendarme; Cab Driver Station official; Paris Crowds; Wagram Commisionaire; Monsieur Dalmy; French Soldiers; Guillaume Lamartine Palmier; Henri La Falliere; La Falliere's Men; Gendarme; Cab Driver; Lubin; Police Surgeon; Roisterers; La Falliere's Driver; Bookseller; Eiffel Tower Attendants, Gendarmes & Passersby; Barman; Waiter; Station Crowds; Captain Lockyer; Corporal; Soldiers; Medical Orderly; Major; Sharpshooters; Private Dorling; Colonel; Two Lieutenants; Corporal; Lieutenant; Sergeant; German Soldiers; British officer; German officer; Chateau Sentries; Flunkeys; Maidservants; Drivers; French Servants; Nina Vassilievna; Inn Landlord; Count Hantelmann; Heinrich; German Infantrymen; Kaiser's Aide; Lombez Guards; Airfield Guard; German Pilots; Royal Flying Corps officer; British Soldiers; Major James Lawson; Orderly; Ground Crewman; Royal Scots officer; Albert Hall Crowds; Attendant; Cabinet Members; Usher; Belgian Orchestra; Conductor; German Agents
Date: 18th December, 1914 - 1st January, 1915
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Baker Street; Oxford Street; Oxford Circus; Marylebone Road; Ludgate Circus; Liverpool Street Station; The Great Eastern Hotel; A Four-wheeler; Bishopsgate; Tower Bridge; The Tower of London; Diogenes Club; Heaven's Portal; Victoria Station; A Special Train; Dover; A Steam Launch; France; Calais; A Train; Paris; Gare du Nord; Taxi Cab (Rue Lafayette; Avenue de l'Opera); Hotel Wagram; Rue de Rivoli; Ile de la Cité; Notre Dame Cathedral; Prefecture de Police; Le Faliere's Car; The Latin Quarter; The Sorbonne; Rue Valette; The Eiffel Tower; A Cab; A Troop Train; Arras; An Ambulance; Fleurbaix; The Front; A Dug-out; No Man's Land; The German Trenches; A Charcoal Burner's Hut; Von Richthofen's Car; Lombez; An Inn; Chateau Lombez; German Airfield; A German Plane; British Airfield; Airfield Near London; The Royal Albert Hall
Story: After bemoaning their lack of contribution to the war effort, and a walk along Oxford Street, during which Holmes deduces the nature of the owner of a misplaced parasol, Holmes & Watson are asked by Polly Dempster to look for her uncle, Ezekial Sloe, who has vanished from the coastal East Anglian village of Heaven's Portal. She tells them of the legend of the Hell Birds, sent by the Devil to rule over the village, which have been seen many times recently. Holmes refuses to accept the case, believing that it has a mundane, rather than supernatural solution. The following day they read of the discovery of Sloe's body and are visited by Wiggins, now a detective inspector with Scotland Yard, who tells them that the body was covered in tiny scratches as if it had been pecked to death by a giant bird.

Holmes and Watson are prevented from travelling to Heaven's Portal by Mycroft who catches them at Liverpool Street station with the news that Von Bork has disappeared from the Tower of London. At the Tower, Holmes quickly deduces the nature of the escape, and learns that he is fleeing back to Germany, taking British secrets to the Kaiser aboard the steam yacht Ariadne. Mycroft takes them to the secret government war room under the Diogenes Club, from where the plan to intercept the yacht is launched. The Ariadne is destroyed, but Von Bork escapes, coming ashore at Heaven's Portal. Holmes, Watson & Wiggins pursue him to Dover, and thence Holmes & Watson continue the pursuit to France & Paris where Von Bork is to make contact with the German agent, Lubin. Circumstances are against them in Paris and, unable to discover if Von Bork's information has been transmitted, Holmes decides that they must cross the front lines and seek out the Kaiser himself. They cross the lines during a Christmas Day soccer match played in No Man's Land by the British & Germans.

After a brief encounter with Corporal Schickelgruber, Holmes and Watson are taken to Lombez by von Richthofen, who invites Holmes to a dinner to be attended by the Kaiser. There they learn that the British Agent is Irene Adler's daughter, Nina Vassilievna, and arouse the suspicions of Von Richthofen and the secret police. She tells them of a plan, already afoot, to assassinate members of the British government, and of German advances in air warfare. Captured by the Germans, they are interviewed by the Kaiser, and encounter the Count von und zu Grafenstein. Holmes resolves to escape and take the German secrets and Nina back to London. Back in England they must thwart the assassination attempt, and clear up the mystery of Heaven's Portal. Events come to a head at a concert at the Royal Albert Hall attended by Asquith & Kitchener.

Gwen Moffat

"The Adventure in Border Country" (1996)
Included in: Holmes for the Holidays (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Billy
Other Characters: Clement Daw; Miles Aubrey; Helen Aubrey; Minnie; Rosie Yewdale; Salkeld; Village Children; Daw's Manservant; Aubrey's Maid; Aubrey's Coachman; Aubrey's Grooms; Stableboy; Butler; Minnie's Nurse; Daw's Servants Families
Date: The days leading up to Christmas
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train; Cumberland; The Lake District; Daw's House; Swithins Hall; The Shooting Cabin; Rosie's Cottage
Story: Holmes is visited by Clement Daw a Cumberland tobacco importer, on behalf of his neighbour, Helen Aubrey, whose husband has disappeared. Holmes and Watson travel up to Cumberland, where they meet Aubrey's wife and step-daughter, Minnie, and are shown a shooting cabin where Aubrey obviously held an assignation on the night of his disappearance, its table laid with a meal and champagne. They interview Rosie Yewdale who was known to be seeing Aubrey, but she had an alibi for the night of his disappearance. On their way back to Daw's house, alerted by a flock of Ravens, they discover Aubrey's body, where it has fallen from a cliff. Holmes is worried that the knapsack that he must have been carrying is missing. Eventually Holmes learns of Aubrey's secret predilections, and is inclined to leave a verdict of accidental death, whatever the truth of the matter.

James J. Montague

"Dr Watson Gets Peeved" (1908)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in America (Bill Blackbeard)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Watson gets annoyed with Holmes that he no longer makes startlingly detailed deductions about his clients. Holmes explains why.

Michael Moorcock

"The Adventure of the Dorset Street Lodger" (1993)
Included in: The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike Ashley)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Inspector Lestrade
Other Characters: Mrs. Ackroyd; James Mackelworth; Sir Geoffrey Mackelworth; Mrs. Beck; Jean 'Petit Pierre' Fromental
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; 2, Dorset Street; Madame Tussaud's; 18, Dahlia Gardens, Willesden Green; A Train; South Leigh Station; A Pony Cart; High Cogges; Cogges Old Manor; High Cogges Post office
Date: September, 1894
Story: While 221B is being redecorated, Holmes & Watson take up lodgings with Mrs. Hudson's sister-in-law, Mrs. Ackroyd. Returning from a visit to the Kinema, Holmes notices an American carrying a heavy Gladstone bag. The bag contains a silver statuette, the Fellini Perseus, and the American is James Mackelworth. He has been contacted by an English cousin, of whom he was formerly unaware, Sir Geoffrey Mackelworth, and asked, in the event of him hearing of Sir Geoffrey's death, to come to England and report to an address in Willesden Green. He did so, having learnt of Sir Geoffrey's suicide, and was met by Sir Geoffrey's housekeeper, Mrs. Gallibasta, who presented him with the statuette to take back to America. At first it seems like a simple case of insurance fraud - the statuette had been reported stolen some years earlier, but Holmes's researches uncover evidence of murder and the involvement of a New Orleans gangster.

Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II (2003)
Story Type: Fantasy Graphic Novel
Canonical Characters: Professor Moriarty; Sherlock Holmes; Colonel Moran; Mycroft Holmes; (The English Woman; Dr Watson; The Moriarty Gang)
Fictional Characters: Mina (Harker) Murray; Allan Quatermain; The Nautilus; Captain Nemo; C. Auguste Dupin; Mr Hyde; Dr Jekyll; Dick Donovan; Rosa Coote; Olive Chancellor; Katy Carr; Rebecca Randall; Pollyanna; Professor Cavor; Fu Manchu; Quong Lee; Shanghai Charlie / Shen Yan; Ho Ling; Broad-Arrow Jack; Ishmael; The Artful Dodger; The Victoria; Ally Sloper; Weary Willy; Tired Tim; The Huge Hunter; Martians; (M; Umslopogaas; Madame L'Espanaye; Camille L'Espanaye; Rue Morgue Orangutan; Sailor; Nana Coupeau; Hetty Duncan; Robur; Plantaganet Palliser; Lavelle; Septimus Harding; Miss Flaybum; Lord & Lady Pokingham; Ayesha; Brobdingnagian; Yahoo; Lilliputians; Arne Saknussemm; Otto Lidenbrock; Captain Mors; Lemuel Gulliver; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Marguerite Blakeney; Dr Syn; Fanny Hill; Natty Bumppo; Marie Quatermain; Sexton Blake; Klimo; Dr Nikola; Phileas Fogg; Dr Samuel Ferguson; Baron Munchhausen)
Folkloric Characters: Fairy
Historical Figures: (Jack the Ripper; Arthur Conan Doyle; H. Rider Haggard; Edgar Allan poe; Sax Rohmer; Robert Louis Stevenson; Bram Stoker; Jules Verne; H.G. Wells; Napoleon)
Other Characters: Campion Bond; Coachman; Various Crowds & Bystanders; Egyptian Guides; French Streetwalker; Nautilus Crew; Policemen; Schoolgirls; Poorhouse Proprietor; Inmates; Chinese Guards; PC 813; Cabby; Sergeant; Moriarty's Men; Dodger's Boys; Firemen; Mitchell; Watts;
Locations: Dover; Cairo; Paris; Rue Morgue; Quartier St Roche; London; Edmonton; Rosa Cootes' Academy; British Museum; Limehouse; Quong Lee's; Rotherhithe Bridge; Shanghai Charlie's; Poorhouse; Rotherhithe Tunnel; Wapping; MI5 Building; Reichenbach Falls; Vauxhall; St Paul's; Moriarty's Airship
Date: May - July, 1898 / May 4th, 1891
Story: With Nemo already on board, Bond sends Mina to recruit Quatermain, Hyde and Griffin to the League at the behest of the mysterious 'M', whom she suspects is Mycroft Holmes. She finds Quatermain in an opium den in Cairo, Hyde terrorising the Rue Morgue, and Griffin haunting a girls' school. Bond reveals that their task is to retrieve stolen Cavorite from Fu Manchu, whom they trace to the uncompleted Rotherhithe tunnel beneath the Thames, where they find an airship under construction. A flashback shows events at Reichenbach and Moriarty's rescue. Griffin learns that 'M' who is now in possession of the Cavorite is Moriarty, who plans to use it to bomb Limehouse from the air as part of his war against Fu Manchu. The League take to the air by balloon to battle Moriarty.

NOTE: Pagination for this story in the character index section is taken from the omnibus edition in which pages are not numbered. I have taken the first page of story images ("Dover. May, 1898": Campion Bond waiting for Mina) as page 1. Page numbers run to 144.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II (2003)
Story Type: Fantasy Graphic Novel
Canonical Characters: Mycroft Holmes; (Professor Moriarty; Sherlock Holmes)
Fictional Characters: Gullivar Jones; Martians (Burroughs version); John Carter; Thoats; Martians (Wells version); Sorns; Hither People; The Crystal Egg; Mina (Harker) Murray; Alan Quatermain; Captain Nemo; Dr Jekyll; Griffin, The Invisible Man; War of the Worlds Narrator; Narrator's Neighbour; Septimus Harding; Mr Hyde; Colonel (Major) Blimp; The Nautilus; Broad-Arrow Jack; Ishmael; Professor Gray (Jimmy Grey); Teddy Prendrick; Rupert Bear; Jumbo Elephant; Tiger Tim; Mr Badger; Ally Sloper; Weary Willy; Mr Toad; Dr Moreau; Algy Pug; Jemima Puddleduck; Puss in Boots; Mole; Ratty; Peter Rabbit; Jacko Monkey; Toby Twirl; Georgie Giraffe; Bonzo; (Hither People; Michael Kane; The Sorns; Dejah Thoris; M; Dr Nikola; Jonathan Harker; Baron Münchhausen; W.C. Cording; Dorian Gray; Dr Syn; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Sherlock Holmes; Tom Sawyer; Dr Omega; Old Man of Coblenz; José de Silvestra; The Beetle; Brobdingnagian; Fu Manchu; Stella Quatermain; Gipsy Granny; Nemo's Wife; Nemo's Child)
Folkloric Characters: Centaur
Historical Figures: Nipper; (Queen Victoria; The Mad Mahdi; Jean-Marc Lofficier; Robert Louis Stevenson; Gustave Moreau)
Other Characters: Various Crowds & Bystanders; Policemen; Campion Bond; Soldiers; William Samson, Sr.; Miss Mopp; Nautilus Crew; Animals; Train Crew
Locations: Mars; Horsell Common; The Bleak House; Maybury; Museum Street; British Museum; Wapping; Victoria Station; Barnes; Aboard the Nautilus; The South Downs; Bell End; The Olde Stump; Wildwood Station; London Bridge; Serpentine Park
Date: July - August, 1898 / September, 30th, 1898
Story: After a battle against Gullivar, Carter and their allies on Mars, the Martian molluscs start leaving for Earth. The League meet Bond at the site of the first Martian cylinder's landing, witness the first use of the heat ray, and are left by Bond to keep watch. Griffin makes contact with the Martians. The League return to London to receive orders from Mycroft. Griffin attacks Mina, stealing military plans to take to the invaders. Mycroft suggests the League splits up and leaves London: Hyde & Nemo aboard the Nautilus to defend the Thames, and Quatermain and Mina to contact Moreau. The Nautilus is stranded by the red weed, and Quatermain and Mina are captured by Moreau's creatures. Hyde goes after Griffin. Quatermain & Mina return with one of Moreau's creations.

NOTE: Pagination for this story in the character index section is taken from the omnibus edition in which pages are not numbered. I have taken the first page of story images ("July, 1898": Gullivar on flying carpet sequence) as page 1. Page numbers run to 146.

James A. Moore

"Emily's Kiss" (2009)
Included in: Gaslight Grotesque (J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes; (Mary Morstan)
Other Characters: Hugh Corin; Corin's Maid; Sanatorium Matron; Rupert Corin; Emily Elizabeth Corin; (Horatio Corin; Roderick Corin; Groundkeeper)
Date: December
Locations: Battersea Wharf; 221B, Baker Street; Corin's House; Lourne Sanatorium
Story: Holmes is consulted by Hugh Corin over the abduction of his family. After the attack he had woken to find himself on Battersea Wharf, where Holmes discovers strange tracks leading to the river, and marks high on a wall. At Corin's home he examines medical books, and sculptures and carvings of tentacled creatures collected on their travels and studied by his family. Watson learns of a medical condition, involving mould-like skin growths, afflicting Corin's sister, Emily, and his explorer uncle, Rupert, who has been missing since he departed on his last expedition. Corin's doctor father, Roderick, had been working on a cure. Roderick's journals suggest that Emily is also possessed of strange powers. When Corin is also abducted, Holmes and Watson set off in pursuit, but it is Emily whom they encounter, and the meeting has a lasting impact on Watson.

Douglas Moreton

Mark Morris

"The Affair of the Heart" (2009)
Included in: Gaslight Grotesque (J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson
Other Characters: William Boulting; Joe Boulting; (Lady Miriam Allcott; Earl of Salisbury; Charles Boulting)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Shoreditch; Joe Boulting's Shop
Story: Holmes receives a box containing a human heart and a warning message. The heart is wrapped in a sheet of newspaper bearing the following day's date. Holmes believes it is the work of the Boultings, brothers of a murderer whose capture he had effected some six years previously and who had recently died in jail. He and Watson enter one of the brother's shops in Shoreditch, where they discover the corpse of a man identical to Holmes in every way. Holmes realises that somehow they have travelled forward in time and that he must now work to prevent his own murder.

Sonora Morrow

"The Landlady's Journal" (1977)
Included in: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (Sept 1977)
Story Type: Pastiche (Narrated by Mrs. Hudson)
Canonical Characters: Mrs. Hudson; Lestrade; (Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson)
Other Characters: Jeremy Coggins; Mr. Courtney Beggs; Mrs. Beggs; Constable; (John & Alfred Wembly)
Date: April 7, 1883
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Insurance salesman Jeremy Coggins calls at Baker Street, only to find that Holmes is out on a case. He tells Mrs. Hudson of a client, Mr. Beggs, whom he suspects of trying to poison his wife for the insurance money. Now, a fire at the Beggs' house has claimed Mrs. Beggs's life. Mrs. Hudson travels to the scene of the fire with Coggins, and then on to Scotland Yard to report her suspicions to Lestrade.

Pat Mullen

"The Case of the Woman in the Cellar" (1998)
Included in: The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Sir Henry Baskerville; Jack Stapleton; Mrs Watson; Dr James Mortimer; Beryl Stapleton; (Sherlock Holmes; Sir Charles Baskerville)
Other Characters: Club Servants; Warrington; Abigail Ferncliffe; Baronet Ferncliffe; Mrs Agrafe; Landlady; Constables; (Lester Stanley; Anthony)
Date: May 1-26, 1893
Locations: The Continental Club; The Ferncliffe Residence; Woman's Room
Story: Lestrade is attacked near a theatre. Sir Henry is to marry Abigail Ferncliffe. Watson visits him at the Continental Club, and tells him about a coach which recently almost ran him down. After dinner at the Ferncliffe house, during which Sir Henry's character seems to change, he calls Watson to a house in a poor part of London where he finds a badly scarred woman. The woman disappears and the recently arrived Mortimer is murdered. When Watson realises who the woman was, Lestrade accuses Sir Henry both of her murders and of the death of Sir Charles. Another death, a revelation of identity, and Watson's reinterpretation of the events on Dartmoor precede the capture of the villain.

R.K. Munkittrick

"The Sign of the '400' " (1894)
Included in: The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye); The Misadventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Athelney Jones
Other Characters: The Countess of Coldslaw; Major Smythe; Burglar
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; 72, Chinchbugge Place; 239, Toff Terrace
Story: Athelney Jones summons Holmes to investigate the theft the Dowager Countess of Coldslaw's diamonds. Holmes quickly links the muddy footprints in the Countess's boudoire to a prominent member of the '400', who is quickly arrested. Holmes is disgruntled when later, Jones arrests another man, a notorious burglar, for the theft.

Amy Myers

"The Adventure of the Faithful Retainer" (1997)
Included in: The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike Ashley)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; Lord Bellinger; Sir George Lewis; Inspector Lestrade; Adolph Meyer; (Dr. Moore Agar)
Historical Figures: Queen Victoria {Lady X}; (John Brown {as The Faithful Retainer}; Edward VII}
Other Characters: Robert Mannering; Baroness Pilski; Driver; Cook-Housekeeper; Von Holbach; Meyer's Servants; Crowds in St. James's Park; Ice Cream Vendor; Bandstand Audience; German Band; Young Lady; Colonial Troops; Royal Procession; Jubilee Crowds
Date: 1911 & February - June, 1897
Locations: Holmes's Sussex Villa; 221B, Baker Street; The Diogenes Club; Cornwall; An Inn; A Cottage near Poldhu Bay; A Train; Blackheath; Blackheath Station; The Dover Road; Shooter's Hill; A Villa on Shooter's Hill; Birdcage Walk; St. James's Park; Whitehall
Story: A compromising letter to Lady X from her faithful retainer is being used to blackmail the government. Mycroft summons Holmes to the Diogenes Club, where Lord Bellinger, Sir George Lewis & Mannering ask him to recover it. He reasons that the letter is in the possession of Baroness Pilski. A cryptic clue takes him to Cornwall, but after two months of inaction he realises that he has been duped by Adolph Meyer and returns to London, where a further set of clues in the agony columns lead him to a villa in Blackheath, where the Baroness was to auction off the letter. He arrives too late, however, and finds her murdered by Meyer. Events come to a head during Jubilee week, when Holmes uses his knowledge of Meyer's enthusiasms to deduce the location in which he will hand over the papers to his boss, Von Holbach.

"The Affair of the 46th Birthday" (2009)
Included in: The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (John Joseph Adams)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Lord Holdhurst; Inspector Lestrade; (Mrs Watson)
Historical Figures: (Umberto I of Italy; Prime Minister (Lord Salisbury); Queen Victoria)
Other Characters: Count Panelli; Coachman; Surrey Police; Carlo Mandesi; Michael Anthony; Guests; (Count Litvov; Giuseppe Rupallo; Phelps; Carriage Driver; Servants)
Date: 14th March, 1891
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Surrey; Chartham Beeches
Story: King Humbert is celebrating his 46th birthday in England. Holdhurst brings Panelli, the Italian ambassador to Baker Street. A party is being thrown by Holdhurst at his home, Chartham Beeches in Surrey, to be attended by a number of foreign emissaries, but a threatening note has been received. The anarchist, Rupallo is believed to be behind the threat. Holmes and Watson travel to Surrey, where Lestrade is already present, and an attempt on the life of Humbert has resulted in the death of his secretary. A Medici portrait and Queen Victoria's gift of a ring enable Holmes to see through the plot and ensure the ongoing safety of the King.

Aline Myette-Volsky

"The Woman" (1998)
Included in: The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Irene Adler
Historical Figures: (Edward VII)
Other Characters: Hotel Clerk; Cleaning Woman; Hotel Guests; Ex-officer; Jeweller; Street Arabs; Lady Fitzbarry; (Irene's Maids; Fitzbarry's Coachman; Lord Fitzbarry)
Date: Winter
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Irene's Hotel; Jewellery Store; Coffeehouse; Park
Story: Holmes is visited by Irene Adler (now Norton) who has been subjected to a series of physical attacks and thefts, but Holmes believes she is keeping something back from him. He and Watson set up watch in Irene's hotel lobby. They identify a man watching Irene, but are unable to discover who employed him, they also trace some of her jewellery, but are again unable to discover who sold it to the jeweller. Holmes eventually identifies a royal connection in the case, and must negotiate to maintain the reputations of all involved and save Irene's career. Irene eventually departs England taking a new lover with her.