Sena Jeta Naslund

Sherlock in Love (1993)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Watson & Holmes
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Wiggins; Mycroft Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; Irene Adler; King of Bohemia; Godfrey Norton
Historical Figures: Richard Pankhurst; Emmeline Pankhurst; Sir Leslie Stephen; Julia Duckworth Stephen; Stella Stephen; Vanessa Bell; Virginia Woolf; Thoby Stephen; Ludwig II; Hornig; Hesselschwerdt; Osterholzer; Count Holnstein; Dr. Gudden; Count Dürckheim; Duchess Ludovica; (Albert Einstein)
Other Characters: Red-Haired Man; Mary, Mrs. Hudson's Maid; Nannerl; St. Giles Doorkeeper; St. Giles Patients; Nurse; Lucinda; Karl Klaus; Victor Sigerson; Musicians; King's Spur Clientele; Slab Boy; King's Spur Waiter; Violet Sigerson; Hans Bachaus; Suffragettes; Opera-Goers; Klaus's Friend; Sigerson's Assistant; Lock Man; Sigerson's Audience; Masked Servant; Holnstein's Attendants; Ludwig's Servants; Grooms; Alphonse Welcker; Ludwig's Valet; Ludwig's Coachman; Peasants; Ilse; Munich Commissioners; Dungeon Guards; Innkeeper; Berg Servant; Irene's Servants
Date: 1922 & 1886
Locations: Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street; St. Giles' Hospital; A Carriage; St. Paul's Cathedral; A Cab; Wiggins's Lodgings; Regent Street; Bow Street; Sigerson's Hotel; St. James's Park; The King's Spur Pub; Opera House; Charing Cross Station; A Train; Edinburgh; St. Andrew Square; Bavaria; Linderhof; A Carriage; Oberammergau; Hohenschwangau Palace; Neuschwanstein Castle; Berg Castle; Lake Starnberg; Munich; Another Train
Story: Two years after Holmes's death Watson places an advertisement in The Times asking for biographical information on his friend. One evening, returning home to Baker Street, he thinks he sees Holmes's shadow on the blind, but when he gets upstairs the room is empty. A note in Holmes's violin case reminds him of a violinist named Victor Sigerson, but when he looks up Sigerson in Holmes's index books the relevant pages have been removed. He later receives a letter warning him to give up his investigations into Holmes's past. The following day Watson receives a visit from Wiggins, now a consulting psychiatrist, who tells him of a missing patient. Watson describes a woman, who fits her description, he has seen standing opposite 221B. That night he finds more pages cut from Holmes's index books. At St. Giles' Hospital Watson encounters Wiggins's patient, Nannerl, who greets him with the words, "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive." Wiggins receives a note from the same sender, and refuses to allow Watson to see letters Holmes has sent him. As Watson is leaving they discover Wiggins's dog, Toby, with its throat cut. At a concert at St. Paul's Watson sees a woman in red, who he suspects to be the writer of the notes. She flees, and he is attacked when he follows her. At Baker Street the next day he is told that an old man has tried to remove Holmes's index books. He discovers an attempt to tear pages from his own notebooks, and begins to read them.

The notebooks tell of an early case: Holmes is asked to analyse the varnish of a violin for a violinist named Victor Sigerson. He discovers it is a Stradivarius. Later, he hears Sigerson playing and is enchanted. Following Sigerson, Holmes watches him playing snooker, and later beating Lestrade, juggling, and making deductions equal to Holmes's own. Holmes takes a violin lesson with Sigerson, and deduces that the violinist is deliberately concealing his true identity, and is manipulating the situation to satisfy some fascination he has with Holmes. Eventually, after spying on Sigerson in his hotel room he learns that he is really a woman, Violet Sigerson, an orphan, who asks Holmes to investigate her family background. Holmes follows Violet to Edinburgh where she falls ill after performing an escapology act.

Later in the year Holmes is asked to assist in the delivery of some letters from Ludwig II of Bavaria to the French Government. At first he is reluctant until he learns that Sigerson is with Ludwig. In Bavaria Holmes sets out to rescue Violet from the King, while also protecting the King from his enemies.After Holmes is injured in a carriage accident, and Sigerson & Watson locked in the Neuschwanstein dungeons, they are called upon to prevent a suicide bid by Ludwig. Later at Berg Castle they fail to prevent the drowning of Ludwig, Sigerson & Dr. Gudden in the lake.

Irene Adler arrives at the Baker Street rooms, and, later, Nannerl, and the truth about Holmes's relationship with Sigerson is finally revealed.

Kim Newman

Anno Dracula (1998)
Story Type: Homage / Alternate World Fantasy
Canonical Characters: Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes; Colonel Moran; Professor Moriarty; John Clayton
Fictional Characters: Dr. Seward; Lulu Schön; Geneviève Dieudonné; Arthur Holmwood; Kate Reed; Danny Dravot; Countess Geschwitz; Kostaki; Dr. Henry Jekyll; Lord Ruthven; Ezzelin Von Klatka; Martin Cuda; Count Vardalek; A.J. Raffles; Fu Manchu; Peko; Griffin; Macheath; Bill Sikes; Inspector Mackenzie; Gorcha; Orlando; Lucy Westenra; Mina Harker; Jonathan Harker; Van Helsing; Quincey Morris; Renfield; Louis Bauer; Basil Hallward; M. Vampire; Mrs. Amworth; Poole; Dr. Moreau; Lestat de Lioncourt; Iorga; Rupert of Hentzau; Sir Danvers Carew; Caleb Croft; Dr. Ravna; Graf Orlok; John Netley; Dracula
Characters Derived from Fictional Characters: Sir Mandeville Messervy; Mr. Waverly; Angry Little American Reporter
Historical Figures: Jack the Ripper; Arthur Morrison; Florence Stoker; James Whistler; Frederick Abberline; Sergeant Thicke; George Godley; Catherine Eddowes; Wynne Baxter; Constable George Neve; Rebecca Kosminski; Kosminski Family; Dr. George Bagster Phillips; Rose Mylett; John Thain; George Augustus Sala; Oscar Wilde; Frank Harris; Frances Coles; William Le Queux; Mary Jane Kelly; Montague John Druitt; PC Albert Collins; Elizabeth Stride; PC Edward Watkins; Sir Charles Warren; Daniel Halse; Louis Diemschutz; Algernon Swinburne; Theodore Watts-Dunton; Henry Matthews; George Lusk; John Merrick; Queen Victoria; Countess Barbara de Cilly
Characters Derived from Historical Figures: Georgie Woodbridge; Mick Ripper
Other Characters: Lily Mylett; John Jago; Florence's Guests; Charles Beauregard; Penelope Churchward; Bessie; Diogenes Messenger; Carriage Driver; Salvation Army Band; Jago's Crowd; Desk Sergeant; Commercial Road Prisoners; Diogenes Valet; Schön Inquest Crowd; Reporters; Court Artist; Anarchists; Inquest Clerk; Constables; Chicksand Street Crowds; Detective Constable; Vampire Prostitute; Cabby; Ten Bells Customers; Woodbridge; Accordion Player; Gypsy Girl; Chinese Men; Dacoit; Diarmid Reed; Commercial Road Policeman; Coles' Soldier; Bairstow; Mackenzie's Men; Carpathian Guardsmen; Eddy's Equerry; Cleveland Street Occupants; Cleveland Street Crowd; Labourers; Purfleet Inmates; Murgatroyds; Fox Malleson; Café de Paris Proprietor; Urchins; D'Onston; Ned; Lestrade's Men; Star Reporter; Constables; Jago's Man; Mitre Square Crowds; Orthodox Jew; Mitre Square Constable; Paper Boys; Cabby; Spitalfields Crowd; Watts-Dunton's Driver; Diogenes Guard; Mounted Policemen; Woman with Little Girls; Holmwood's Manservant; Toynbee Nurse; Christian Crusaders; Turnkey; Jago Residents; Jago Rough; Opium Den Sailor; Chinese Girl; Mrs. Yeovil; Mrs. Churchward; Matron; Limehouse Policeman; False Constable; Yeoman Warder; Cabman; Knife-Grinder; Collins' Companion; Palace Guards; Footman; Servants; Courtiers
Date: September, 1888
Locations: Whitechapel; Chicksand Street; Toynbee Hall; Stoker's House; Commercial Street Police Station; Diogenes Club; Lecture Hall; 10, Downing Street; Flower & Dean Street; The Ten Bells; Limehouse; The Criterion; Commercial Road; Cheyne Walk; Beauregard's Rooms; Osnaburgh Street; 19, Cleveland Street; Purfleet Asylum; Soho; Wardour Street; D'Arblay Street; Malleson's Shop; The Minories; Café de Paris; Kingstead Cemetery; Hampstead Heath; The Spaniards; Mitre Square; Goulston Street; Jekyll's House; Spitalfields Market; Putney; Miller's Court; Marlborough Street; St. James's Park; Cadogan Square; Holmwood's House; Brick Lane; The Old Jago; Caversham Street; The Churchward House; A Wharf; Scotland Yard; Tower of London; Dorset Street; Buckingham Palace
Story: Dracula has married Queen Victoria. Jack the Ripper is murdering vampire prostitutes in the East End. Lestrade alerts Geneviève at Toynbee Hall to the murder of Lulu, and asks her help in calming the situation. She suggests Holmes would be more helpful, but he has been removed to a concentration camp on the Sussex Downs. At one of Florence Stoker's soirées Beauregard announces his engagement to Penelope, but is summoned away to the Diogenes Club. The ruling cabal there is somewhat depleted, but Mycroft sets Beauregard on the trail of the Ripper. Geneviève sees Beauregard at the Schön inquest, where Lestrade suggests that Holmes would have solved the murders easily. Geneviève makes enemies of a number of elders in a bar-room brawl, and Beauregard faces a group of infamous criminal masterminds, including Moriarty and Moran, in Limehouse, who for their own reasons offer their support in hunting the Ripper. Seward records the events surrounding Dracula's first visit to England. A Deadly Chinese adversary is set on Geneviève's trail. Seward meets Mary Kelly at Lucy's tomb. Lis Stride is brought, still alive after her attacker was interrupted, to Toynbee Hall. Beauregard is summoned, but she goes berserk and is killed before she can be questioned. Beauregard and Geneviève begin working together. Riots break out, apparently fuelled by the Diogenes Club. Penelope voluntarily becomes a vampire. Seward enters into a relationship with Kelly. Colonel Moran disposes of the man he believes is the Ripper, but is punished for his mistake. Inspector Mackenzie detects a conspiracy but is murdered before he can reveal its root. Beauregard and Geneviève discover the Ripper's identity, then pay a visit to Buckingham Palace.

NOTE: Sir Mandeville Messervy is presumably a forebear of Admiral Sir Miles Messervy, Ian Fleming's 'M', and Mr. Waverly of Alexander Waverley of U.N.C.L.E. Georgie Woodbridge and Mick Ripper are derived from Hammer Horror film regulars George Woodbridge and Michael Ripper. The Angry Little American is Kolchak.

"The Private Files of Mycroft Holmes" (2002)
Included in: Crime Time 26: The Sherlock Holmes Issue
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; (Mycroft Holmes)
Fictional Characters: Lord Ruthven; Mansfield Smith-Cumming; Robert Elsmere; Sergeant Daniel Dravot
Historical Figures: Winston Churchill; David Lloyd George
Other Characters: Charles Beauregard; Smith-Cumming; Robert Elsmere; Sexton; Diogenes Guards; Fink-Nottle
Locations: Kingstead Cemetery; the Diogenes Club
Story: At Mycroft's funeral Beauregard meets Holmes, who finally learns the truth about the Ripper killings. Beauregard travels on to the Diogenes Club, where he is met by lord Ruthven, the Prime Minister who is eager to learn the secrets contained in Mycroft's private vault. Beauregard is unwilling to reveal the secret to opening the vault, but it becomes apparent that someone has already done so and the papers have been burned.

NOTE: This was originally a chapter of Newman's The Bloody Red Baron not included in the final published version.

Robert Newman

A Puzzle For Sherlock Holmes (1978)
Published in the USA as The Case of the Baker Street Irregular
Story Type: Children's Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Baker Street Irregulars; (Sam) Wiggins; Mrs Hudson;
Inspector Gregory
Other Characters: Andrew Craigie; Train Guard; Herbert Dennison; Paddington Porter; Cabbies; Mrs Gurney; Muffin Man; Omnibus Driver; Lamplighter; Beggar; Screamer (Sara Wiggins); Alf; Bert; Zoo Crowds: Langham Attendant; Page Boys; Verna Tillet; The Honorable Adam Lytell; Dr Harvey Moore; Jonathan Walker / Roger Lytell; Sebastian; Marylebone Road Sergeant; Nursemaid & Baby; Costermongers; Woman; Meg; Mrs Wiggins; Lem Dingell; Margaret Harker; Blind Ben; Orchard Street Passers-by; Baker Street Policeman; Danny; Rookery Dwellers; Big Danny; Gin Shop Customers; Irish Navvy; Barman; Newsboy; Victor Lucas; Christie's Porters; Inspector Leggett; Jones; Simmons; Lucas's Assistants; Christie's Employees; Barney; Derek Wilson; Henry Street Landlady; (Agnes Craigie; Jack Trefethen; Lord Lowther; John Harker; Rachel Harker; Mrs Wagner; D.B. Cox; Follette; Jerry Wragge; Andrew)
Locations: Paddington Station; 24, York Street; Baker Street; Marylebone Road; Oxford Street; Regent's Park Zoo; Portland Place; 221B, Baker Street; Bart's; Marylebone Road Police Station; Canal Basin; Wiggins's House; King Street; Orchard Street; Soho Square; Tottenham Court Road; St Giles Rookery; Ben's Rooms; Gin Shop; Piccadilly; St Giles Circus; General Post Office; Christie & Manson's Auction Rooms; St John's Wood; 12, Henry Street; Warehouse
Story: After the death of his aunt, Andrew arrives in London, from Cornwall, with his schoolmaster guardian, Dennison. He is puzzled about the whereabouts of his mother and whether his father is really dead as he has been told. The following day Andrew meets Wiggins's sister, Screamer, outside 221B. Andrew notices a number of strange people seem to be taking an interest in Dennison, and sees him apparently abducted in a cab. Holmes is consulted by Lytell who has been involved in a fracas at his father's club, the events of which he has little memory of. He fears that it may have led to the death of his father from a heart attack that same night. Later Holmes is called on by Walker whose import-export business has suffered a minor arson attack after refusing to act as a fence or pay protection money to a mysterious man in a hansom cab. Dennison fails to return, and an attempt is made to abduct Andrew, who finds himself rescued by the Wigginses. Holmes turns down Mrs Harker's request to return her daughter from Paris where she has been taken by her father, but after Gregory consults him over the bombing of Baker Street Station he decides to travel to Paris after all. Wiggins finds Andrew a job taking care of a blind street fiddler, Ben. Andrew finds himself in a fight in a slum, defending their fish and chips. Ben is interested in the man who attempted to abduct Andrew, and questions him about Dennison and his parents. Together they steal Watson's stethoscope, and Ben lets Andrew in on a secret. The bomb squad clear Christie's, where Lytell is selling some family paintings, after which Holmes discovers the paintings have been replaced with forgeries. He calls on Andrew, who, accompanied by Screamer, assists in bringing all the strands together and the case(s) to a close, and is reunited with his mother.

P. Nikitin

"The Commercial Centre Mystery"
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in Russia (Alex Auswaks)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Other Characters: Post Hotel Porter; Ivan Vladimirovitch Terehoff; Smith Copton; Alferakki / David Gabudidze; Waiter; Ivan Veskoff; Passers-by; Vertunoff's Waiter; Policemen; Ivan; Bank Director; Coachman; Security Guards; Head of Security; Cashier; (Terehoff's Shop Assistants; Senior Shop Assistant; Policemen; Commercial Centre Crowd; Chief of Detectives; Detectives; Mrs Terehoff; Simon Reshkin; Senior Policeman; Chemist; Doctor; Fire Brigade; Coachmen; South African Tribesman)
Date: July, 190-
Locations: Russia; Nijni-Novgorod; Post Hotel; Ferry; Commercial Centre; Terehoff's Shop; Restaurant in the Park; Vertunoff's Tavern; Bentakurovsky Canal; Bank Director's House; Bank Strongroom; Police Station
Story: Merchant Terehoff consults Holmes over a series of strange events at his linen and clothing shop in the Commercial Centre of Nijni-Novgorod. A shrouded human-like, skull-faced, knife-wielding creature has been seen dancing in the window of the locked shop, which proved to be empty when searched. Terehoff's staff have quit and he had to employ new shop assistants. On the day of the Great Nijni-Novgorod fair, the shop was overwhelmed by an appalling stench, causing his new staff to leave. Terehoff has moved to new premises and the shop has been taken over by a Turkish trader, Alferakki. Holmes deduces that a major crime is under way, centred on Terehoff's old shop. Holmes and Watson keep watch on their two suspects, while seeking the identity of the third member of the conspiracy, and attempt to prevent a bank robbery.

"The Mark of Tadjidi"
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in Russia (Alex Auswaks)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Other Characters: Boat Captain; Stevedores; Foreman; Shipping Line Representative; River Policemen; Waiter; Chief of Police; Count Piotr Vassilievitch Tugaroff; Countess Irra Benaliradjewa Tugarova; Mr Dewlay; Mrs Dewlay; Daudalama; Hammer; (Old Indian Woman; Countess's Mother; Count's Nurse; Count's Steward; Count's Watchmen; Dimitri; Madam Beckman; Pupils; Rajah Ben-Ali; Countess's Nurse; Count's Cook; Cemetery Watchman)
Locations: Russia; Kazan; A Boat on the Volga; Kostroma; Pier; Warehouse; Moscow; Hotel; India; Bombay; Kharkov; Oriol; Countess's Apartment; Bolhovsky Street; Hotel; Dewlay's Apartment; Restaurant
Story: Having a short break from a boat trip down the Volga, Holmes and Watson are in Kostroma when a dismembered corpse is discovered in a warehouse. Sailing on to Moscow, they follow coverage of events in Kostroma in the press. the body is identified as a Count from Kazan. His wife asks Holmes to investigate. She tells him how she had been given to the Count as a young child in Bombay, and had been brought up by his nurse. She talks of a time in her childhood when the Count warned her to stay inside because of a madman on the loose, and the person she had seen in the garden, and how the same evening they left the estate, and the Count hid her in a boarding school. Later they fell in love and married, but he had promised to return her to her true parents. A week before he disappeared he received a worrying letter. Holmes examines the Count's study, finding an envelope sent from Calcutta. He realises that the scar on the Count's leg was the mark of a blood-oath among the Indian Tadjidi tribe, shared with two other people. A search through back issues of the Times reveals the Countess's true origins. Holmes and Watson keep watch in the Countess's apartment, but a warning letter appears on her bed. Holmes tells the Countess the secret of her youth, and reveals the identity of her secret protector.

Jack Nimersheim

"Moriarty by Modem" (1995)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg)
Story Type: Science Fiction Homage
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes; Professor Moriarty; Dr Watson; Boris Nikolayevitch Kartzeff; Nikolai Nikolayevitch Kartzeff)
Historical Figures: (Charles Babbage)
Other Characters: Programmer
Locations: Programmer's Home; Cyberspace
Story: Holmes discovers that he is a crime-solving computer program. His programmer tells him about his origins in the discovery of papers relating to "Project 221B", an attempt by Charles Babbage to create a similar program, a project in which Watson, actually a minor government recording clerk, also played a part. The Moriarty program, a subroutine in the 221B system that was created to identify and catalog the darker attributes of humanity, has escaped the confines of his computer into cyberspace. Holmes is released onto the internet to track down Moriarty, and quickly becomes expert in identifying computer viruses. For several months they find no trace of Moriarty, then Holmes himself disappears. He reappears, playing Strawberry Fields Forever, but his holographic representation appears unstable. He announces that through reconsideration of the binomial theorem he has been able to locate and contain Morarty. His solution, however, ultimately destroys himself, leaving his programmer the task of reconstructing the program.

Paul Nizza

The Adventures of the Five Puce Map Tacks (1976)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Doorlock Homes; Dr John H. Whatson
Characters Based On Canonical Characters: The Bonker Street Irregulars = The Baker Street Irregulars; Bobby = Billy; Mrs Spudson = Mrs Hudson; Inspector Obtuse = Inspector Lestrade; Hayloft Homes = Mycroft Homes; Gunky = Porlock; (Professor Artie Morey = Professor Moriarty; The Apocryphal Face = Professor Moriarty; Miss Morestains = Mary Morstan)
Historical Figures: Jack the Ripper
Other Characters: Delivery Man; Murray Charles; Four-Wheeler Driver; Bucephalus Desk Clerk; Blood-orangeman; Chicken Herder; Police Constable; Tobacconist; Pontifax Beet; The Tooting Terror; Soames Freep; Wynott Gedowd-O'Here; Bucephalus O.R.U. Sanscephalic; Constable Slagheap; Mr Squinge; Mrs Squinge; Adams; Det. Supt Haddock; Costermonger
Date: 1889
Locations: Wormwood Scrubs; 221B, Bonker Street; Great Codfish Street; The Bucephalus Club; Tobacconists; Mollusc Mews
Story: After demonstrating his deductive prowess to Whatson, Homes receives a coded message from Gunky warning him that Obtuse will arrest him if he stays in London. Charles comes to Homes after receiving an envelope containing five puce map tacks. It proves a ten-cigarette problem and the Bonker Street Irregulars are called in. Homes looks into similarities between Charles and Jack the Ripper, but is informed by Haddock that there are none, but Homes continues in his belief that they are the same man. Charles says he will take the case to the Bucephalus Club, and Obtuse brings news of a murder outside Homes's own door. One of the map tacks is attached to the body. Homes deduces some sort of link to the Apocryphal Face and takes a cabman-drawn cab to call on his brother Hayloft at the Bucephalus Club, where, after some intellectual sparring with his brother, he learns that the map tacks are a symbol of the club. They visit the tack-maker, passing a tobacconists where a robbery that appears to be linked to the case has taken place. Hayloft reveals Charles's true identity. Homes reveals his deductions and injects a 7% solution of coffee, but the dead man makes a startling reappearance and Hayloft confesses to a mistake. The secret of the map tacks is revealed and the tobacconist robberies solved. Whatson leaves Bonker Street to marry Miss Morestains.

Jamyang Norbu

The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (1999)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Hurree Chunder Mookerjee (From Kipling's Kim)
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Professor Moriarty; (Colonel Moran; Mycroft Holmes)
Fictional Characters: Hurree Chunder Mookerjee; Captain Strickland; Colonel Creighton
Historical Figures: Kintup; The 13th Dalai Lama
Other Characters: Ticca-Ghari Coachman; Gujurati Harbour Clerk; Coolies; Dockhands; Harbour officials; Lascars; Jacob Asterman (Ferret-Face); Ferret-Face's Driver; Clerks; Government Subordinates; Vendors; Kunjris; Urchins; Tram Conductors; Wedding Procession; Groom; Traffic Policeman; Hurree's Driver; Taj Mahal Commissionaire; Taj Mahal Manager; Burra Mem; Murdered Hotel Servant; Hotel Guests; Old Bhangi; Inspector MacLeod; Carvallo; Hotel Porter; Waiter; Hotel Clerks; Boys; Sadhus; Bazaar Crowds; Chaprasi; Urchin; Ghariwallah; Symington; Constables; Police Sergeant; Crowd in Horniman Circle; Dr. Patterson; Beggars; Station Crowds; Station Beggars; Station Vendors; Bookstall Keeper; Porter; Royal Warwickshire Regiment Soldiers; Ticket Collector; Railway Bearer; Thugs; Bhisti; Delhi Vendors; Delhi Beggars; Tongawallah; British officers; Pathan Horse Dealers; Travellers; Mahout; Nikku; Hurree's Contacts In Simla; Holmes's Pahari Manservant; Chokras; Shukkur Ali Gaffaru; Jamspel; Rajah of Bushair; Bandits; Asterman's Men; Letter Bearer; Tsering; Phurbu Thondup; Thondup's Servant's; Harvesters; Funeral Party; Pilgrims; Lhassa Crowds; Servitors; Soldiers; Grooms; Warrior Monks; Monk Attendants; Lama Yonten; Yonten's Servants; Chinese Assassin; The Dark One; Dark One's Guards; Monk Physician; Senior Chapel Attendant; Lord Chamberlain; (Swiss Guide; Cairo Assassins)
Date: July, 1891 - November 1892
Locations: India; Bombay; Malabar Point; Ballard Pier; Harbourmaster's office; The SS Kohinoor; Customs Shed; Horniman Circle; The Taj Mahal Hotel; A Ghari; The Beach Road; The Borah Bazaar; Bombay Natural History Society; The Victoria & Albert Museum; Frere Street; Horniman Circle Police Station; Victoria Terminus; A Train; Delhi; Umballa; Kalka; Simla; Dovedell Hotel; Lower Bazaar; Hurree's Apartment; Runnymeade Cottage; Lurgan's Shop; Narkhanda; Hindustan-thibet Road; Fagu; Rampur; Chini; Asterman's Camp; Tibet; The Shipki Pass; Tsaparang; Thöling; The Governor's Mansion; The Plains of Barga; Lake Manasarover; Thokchen; Tradun; Tashi lhunpo; Shigatse; Lhassa; The Norbu Lingka; The Potala; (Reichenbach Falls; Shepherd's Hut; Hospenthal; St. Gotthard Pass; Como; Florence; Gezirah Palace Hotel, Cairo)
Story: Hurree is ordered by Colonel Creighton to follow Sigerson, a mysterious Norwegian, when he arrives in Bombay. Following the man, who has met up with Strickland at the docks, Hurree notices that they are being followed by a ferret-faced man. At Sigerson's hotel, Strickland introduces Sigerson to Hurree and reveals that he is Sherlock Holmes. A hotel servant is killed, his body covered in blood, which will not stop flowing, the attack on him appears to have happened in the room assigned to Sigerson. Ferret-face is seen fleeing the hotel. Holmes tells them of the true events at Reichenbach, and of several attempts on his life since then. The following day, after a visit to the Bombay Natural History Society, Holmes announces he has solved the case, and arranges for Hurree to meet him in his room later that night. Lying in wait, Hurree & Strickland witness the murderer at work, and Holmes reveals the nature of the servant's death, and that Colonel Moran was behind the attempts on his life. For safety's sake Holmes & Hurree take a train to Simla. Holmes manages to divert a Thuggee attack on the way. In Simla Holmes spends his time preparing to journey into Tibet.

Holmes & Hurree journey into Tibet with Kintup as their guide. En route they are attacked by bandits, from whom they are rescued by Ferret-Face, who reveals himself to be an emissary of the Grand Lama, and offers them safe conduct to Lhassa. In Lhassa, the Dalai Lama's secretary Yonten tells them that Holmes has been called to protect the young Dalai Lama's life. Holmes declines the task.

That night a Chinese assassin breaks into the Lama's palace and steals a Mandala. The man is killed but not before a mysterious figure, with the power to make objects move by themselves takes the Mandala from him. Yonten tells them that the man they saw was the Dark One, responsible for the murder of the last Dalai Lama. The Mandala was the property of the first Dalai Lama. Holmes & Hurree plan to infiltrate the Chinese Legation to retrieve it. There, they discover that the Dark One is actually Moriarty, who demonstrates the rediscovered powers of his mind, which also enabled him to survive Reichenbach. Holmes is able to retrieve the Mandala, and escape the legation. He travels to the Ice Cavern of Shambala with Hurree, Yonten and the Dalai Lama. They are attacked by Manchu troops, but manage to gain entrance to the temple, where Holmes solves the secret of the Mandala. Moriarty has beaten him to the cavern, and gained control of the Power Stone of Shambala. Holmes learns his own true identity and draws on forgotten powers to combat his nemesis. After the conflict Holmes resumes his duties as Abbot of the White Garuda Monastery until he is summoned back to London to clear up the remainder of the Moriarty Gang.

Years later Jamyang Norbu meets an old monk of the monastery and asks him about Holmes's reign as abbot.

Naomi Novik

"Commonplaces" (2008)
Included in: The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (John Joseph Adams)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: Godfrey Norton; Irene Adler; (Sherlock Holmes; Professor Moriarty; Dr Watson; King of Bohemia; Mary Morstan)
Other Characters: Street Boys; Mrs Ballou; Paris Women; Lamplighters; Ushers; Musicians; Irene's Maid; Opera-Comique Manager; Stage Door Boys; Mademoiselle Parnaud; (Irene's Neighbours; Doctor; Mrs Lydgate; Mrs Darrow; Mrs Wessex; Irene's Paris Acquaintance)
Date:1891
Locations: Portugal; Lisbon; Irene's House; Mrs Wessex's House; France; Paris; Café; Opera-Comique; Holmes's Room
Story: Norton reads Irene the news of Holmes's death. She travels to Paris with her maid and spots Holmes playing in the orchestra at the Opera-Comique, and under an alias gets herself a part in the chorus. He is waiting for her when she leaves the theatre after the performance. He tells her that some of Moriarty's gang have escaped and are watching Watson, and she realises the truth of his disappearance. They spend the night together, and in the morning she writes to Godfrey.