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Lora Roberts
The Affair of the Incognito Tenant (2004)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Charlotte Dodson
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes / Mr. Sigerson; Colonel Moran; Dr. Watson
Other Characters: Charlotte Dodson; William Bagshaw; Mrs. Clithoe; Violet Wilkins; Rose Wilkins; Mildred Wilkins; Thurlow; Thurlow's Cronies; Reverend Hanover; Peregrine Simms; Church Congregation; Evaline Hanover; Eurydice Hodges; Millicent Rutledge; Rutledge's Eldest Daughter; Harold Bagshaw; Intruder; Billy White; Tim White; Dr. Richard Mason; Constable Ritter; Squire Rutledge; Percy Staines; Fishmonger; Mr. Beddoes; Journalists; Inquest Crowds; Coroner; Mr. Trotten; Eurydice Hodges; Moelson; Superintendent Potter; Sergeant Simkins; Townshend; Schoolboys; Maxwell Sturges "Stubby" Dodson; (Major Sir Arthur Fallowes; Patience Saunderson Staines; Mary Beedle; Raja; PunwalliVillagers; Mary Judson; Sally White; Clarice Barlow)
Locations: Sussex; Stafford-on-Arun; Larchbanks; Church; Stafford Lane; Thurlow's Cottage; The Rose and Crown; Parish Hall; Stubby's School; A Train; (India; Punwalli)
Date: May, 1903
Story: Under threat from Colonel Moran, escaped from Dartmoor, Holmes disguised as Mr. Sigerson rents a house, Larchbanks, in a Sussex village, where Charlotte Dodson is the housekeeper. She finds her solicitor's nephew, Harold, in the library, from which he steals a letter detailing her inheritance of the legendary Orb of Kezir from her former employer, Fallowes, a legacy she has not been able to claim, the Orb being hidden somewhere in the house. Holmes retrieves the letter before Harold leaves. Later she disturbs another intruder in the library. The village curate calls and discovers a hidden drawer, empty apart from a note signed "S" in the Major's desk. Sigerson leaves for a couple of days after news appears in the papers of a fire at Holmes's villa. The vicar's sister is found dead, apparently the victim of a vampire. Watson arrives in the village, and a stranger appears to be observing him. Charlotte finally realises who Sigerson is. She also discovers that she is falling in love with him.
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Ralph Roberts
"The Greatest Detective of All Time" (1995)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg)
Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Professor Moriarty; (Mrs Hudson)
Other Characters: Chief Primary Inspector Charles LeBeck; Dead Tourist; Terran Rangers; Martian Constabulary Officers.
Date: 1890s (?) / 2368
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Mars; The Black Dome
Story: Holmes is interrupted while administering a 7% solution by the arrival of time traveller LeBeck of the Mars Constabulary, from the 24th Century. Holmes and Watson now have computer implants, and are able to access historical records through to the 55th Century, so recognise him and realise that, approaching retirement, he is seeking their help in the only unsolved case of his career, the "Black Dome" murders of tourists on Mars over a twenty-year period. They travel to Mars in 2368, where a copy of The Final Problem, edited by Moriarty, in LeBeck's office, alerts them that they are walking into a trap. They view a hologram of the latest murder scene, and follow a set of footprints in the Martian desert, where Holmes activates a bomb, which is deactivated by a surprising saviour. Holmes reveals the killer and his own manipulation of events to ensnare Moriarty. |
Richard Roberts
Rags to Riches: The Case of the Hire Shop Fiend (2006)
Story Type: Children's Rhyming Picture Book Story
Detective: Sherlock
Other Characters: Saville Row; Tiffany Ball-Gown; Rags; Poly Esther Dress; Madame Chanel; Valentino; Fingers; Thumbs; General Homestores Blazer; (The Humans)
Locations: Totterdown Street; Rags To Riches
Story: The costumes at Rags to Riches clothes hire shop are alarmed after Saville the Suit is shot with red wine at the annual ball. Tiffany Ball-Gown, who witnessed the event, is next to fall victim to the ripper. The clothes go to their leader, the General, but he is unable to provide a solution. Luckily, Sherlock, the Sherlock Holmes costume overhears and, after checking the hire orders book, begins questioning those who were at the ball. He receives a confession, but new information about the background of one of the costumes reveals the true villain, and there is a happy surprise for the survivors. |
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S.C. Roberts
"Christmas Eve " (1936)
Included in: The Misadventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen); Holmes And Watson (S.C. Roberts)
Story Type: Parody / Script
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson
Story: Watson mistakes a disguised Holmes for a burglar. A client, Miss de Vinne, arrives: her employer, the Countess of Barton's pearl necklace has been stolen. Miss de Vinne is not all she seems, but Holmes enters into the Christmas spirit in his dealings with her. |
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"The Strange Case of the Megatherium Thefts" (1945)
Also published as "The Adventure of the Megatherium Thefts"
Included in: The Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Richard Lancelyn Green); The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye); Holmes And Watson (S.C. Roberts)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Other Characters: Professor Wiskerton; Cabman; Megatherium Head Porter; Wiskerton's Landlord
Date: November, 1889
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Megatherium Club; Wiskerton's Rooms
Story: Professor Wiskerton makes a dramatic, Huxtable-esque entrance into 221B, and tells of a series of thefts of library books from his club, the Megatherium. After conducting investigations, in which he learns that the club's head porter is an old acquaintance, Holmes & Watson visit the club's library, and Wiskerton's rooms. With the help of Wiskerton and his landlord, Holmes restores the missing volumes to the club. |
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Linda Robertson
"Mrs. Hudson Reminisces" (2003)
Included in: My Sherlock Holmes (Michael Kurland)
Story Type: Interview with Mrs. Hudson
Canonical Characters: Mrs. Hudson; Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Tobias Gregson; (Mrs. Watson; Mrs. Hudson's Maid)
Other Characters: Miss Gunn; Dog Dealer; Harry Hudson; O'Brien; Sir Roderick Parr; Postlethwaite; Mr. McBeath; Maurice Delagnes; Peter Moodie; Elizabeth Moodie; Stritch; Major Jack Colfax
Locations: Perthshire; Mrs. Hudson's Cottage; 221B, Baker Street; Edinburgh; A Pub; offices of Yukon & MacKenzie
Story: An interviewer visits Mrs. Hudson at her cottage in Scotland. She tells of her early life and career on the stage, and her first meeting with Holmes. Her husband was a con man, falsely accused of murder. Holmes helped clear her husband's name, in return for which he was taught the tricks of the conman's trade, and helped with his disguises. |
"The Mystery of Dr. Thorvald Sigerson" (2004)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years (Michael Kurland)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by John L. Osborne
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes (Professor Thorvald Sigerson)
Other Characters: John L. Osborne; Henry Mayes; Eilif Bergsson; Lieutenant Edgewater; Reverend Strong; Lucy Elisaok; Katherine Strong; Tungweruk; Tungweruk's Wife; Captain Belcher; Myra Crew; Neakpuk; Neakpuk's Father; John Sanders; Tom Sanders; Evers; Eskimo Villagers; Tungweruk's Baby; Third Mate Guest; Village Elders; Martha; Village Boy; Mr Harris
(Illustrated Weekly News Editor; Mr Gutkind; Captain Fellowes; Konok; Ongualok)
Date: August, 1893 - September 30th, 1894
Locations: Alaska; Cape Stevenson
Story: Sigerson, his assistant Bergsson and the journalist Mayes arrive at Cape Stevenson in Alaska. Sigerson plans to travel north to investigate the possibility of there being islands under the ice north of Point Barrow. The whaler Myra arrives in port and the First Mate, John Sanders, buys an eskimo girl, Neakpuk, from her father. Sanders disappears after losing at a game of cards and Sigerson's expedition sets off into the northern wilderness. Sanders' body is found after the expedition returns. When she is accused of the murder, Sigerson sets out to prove Neakpuk's innocence. |
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Frank M. Robinson
"The Phantom of the Barbary Coast" (1995)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Mycroft Holmes
Historical Characters: (Edward VII)
Other Characters: Lt. Michael Van Dyke; Waiter; Hattie Daniels; Josiah Martin; Willy Green; Opium Addicts; Cobweb Waitresses; Barbary Revelers; Carriage Driver; The Phantom; Seamen; Sailor; Carousers; Leona Adler; William McGuire
Date: Autumn, 1895
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; San Francisco; Palace Hotel; Adler's Lodgings; The Cliff House; Tivoli Theatre; Chinatown; Opium Den; Cobweb Palace; The Barbary Coast; Pacific Street
Story: Mycroft asks Holmes to travel to San Francisco on behalf of the Prince of Wales to investigate the disappearance of irene Adler's sister, Leona. Watson is not eager to go, having met and lost his first wife there. In San Francisco, they learn that Adler had an unsuccessful singing career there, fell in love with a man who left and never came back, and after waiting in vain for him to return, disappeared. Police lieutenant Van Dyke tells them that a body pulled out of the bay was identified as Adler's. He also tells them of the Phantom of the Barbary Coast, the ghost of a woman dressed in white. On a tour of th area, they see the phantom, but she disappears before they can get to her. Holmes and Watson return the following night and Watson is lured into a trap by the phantom. Holmes saves him, brings an end to the exploits of the phantom, restores Leona's happiness, but is unable to tell her family or the Prince of her whereabouts.
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Barbara Roden
"The Adventure of the Suspect Servant" (1997)
Included in: The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike Ashley)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Mrs. Cecil Forrester; Mary Morstan
Other Characters: Cecil Forrester; Sarah; Policeman; Cook; Cook's Family; Mrs. Lodge; Mrs. Lodge's Friend; The Forrester Twins; The Twins' Friend; Clerk
Date: October, 1886
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; offices of Williams & Co.
Story: Mrs. Cecil Forrester tells Holmes of the theft of a number of small items from her home. The police have investigated and accused her maid, Sarah, although Mrs. Forrester believes her to be innocent. Holmes visits her husband, who has taken to working late hours over the previous few months, at his office at Williams & Co., near Threadneedle Street. |
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Roberta Rogow
"The Adventure of Ricoletti of the Club Foot (and his abominable wife)" (1996)
Included in: Resurrected Holmes (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche in the style of P.G. Wodehouse
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; Ricoletti; Ricoletti's Abominable Wife; (Victor Trevor)
Historical Characters: Mr Darwin (One of Charles Darwin's sons)
Other Characters: Lord Pemberthy; Duxbury House Footman; Earl of Duxbury; Duxbury's Coachman; Duxbury Place Footmen; Reeves; Lady Ginny Olney; Lady Gertrude Duxbury; Lord Sylvester Varleigh; Professor Moreton; Mrs Moreton; Mr Darling; Duxbury's Guests; (Annie Milsap)
Date: November, 1890 & While Holmes was at University
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Regent's Park; Duxbury House; Mycroft's Rooms; Duxbury Place
Story: Holmes receives an invitation to a hunting party at Duxbury Place and tells Watson of his last visit there: During the long vac from Oxford Holmes runs into Lord Pemberthy who invites him home to meet his father, Duxbury, and Ricoletti who is helping him choose paintings to be hung at Sandringham House. Duxbury invites him to a weekend party at Duxbury Place where there has been a spate of thefts. When they arrive one of Lady Duxbury's brooches has been stolen. Reeves the butler assists Holmes in his investigations, offering advice and aphorisms, but the Ricolettis shadow him everywhere preventing him from entering Lady Duxbury's room to investigate the scene of the crime. When he finally does manage to do so he is caught under a bed by one of the rooms occupants to the hilarity of the whole house. Holmes solves the case but ends up having to change Universities as a result of the weekend's activities. |
"The Adventure of Vanderbilt and the Yeggman" (1998)
Included in: The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated in part by Holmes
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; The Yeggman (Mike Magill); Wilson Hargreave
Historical Characters: Consuelo Vanderbilt; Lady Jennie Churchill; William Henry Vanderbilt; Alva Smith Vanderbilt
Other Characters: Margaret Magill; Policeman; Sergeant; Vanderbilt's Lawyer; Margaret's Landlady; Vanderbilt's Maid; Footman; Charles; Police Officers; Consuelo's Nurse; (Sandringham Thief; Policeman)
Date: November, 1896 and 1880
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; New York; Theatre; The Tombs; Margaret's Lodgings; Fifth Avenue; Vanderbilt Residence; Sussex
Story: Holmes turns down a request to recover the Duchess of Marlborough's stolen jewels. He explains to Watson that while he was in New York, in the guise of the actor Escott, a fellow actor, Margaret Magill's brother, a locksmith, was imprisoned for cracking William Henry Vanderbilt's safe. Visiting him in prison they learn that although he had been involved in crime before, he had been persuaded to go straight by Vanderbilt, but had been accused of the theft by Alva Vanderbilt while installing locks on the property. Vanderbilt brings in Hargreave to work the case and Holmes assists him in his investigations at the Vanderbilt residence where he faces the wrath of Alva and encounters Consuelo for the first time. |
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"Our American Cousins" (1994)
Included in: The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Historical Characters: Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Eleanor Roosevelt; (Theodore Roosevelt)
Other Characters: Browns' Manager; Mrs. Dawson; Betty; Diego Mendez; Concessionaire; Barman; Mendez's Landlady
Date: June, 1905
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Brown's Hotel; Whitechapel; La Paloma Tavern; Mendez's Lodgings near London Bridge; The Thames
Story: Holmes is visited by Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt. A letter from Thedore Roosevelt has been stolen from their hotel room. Holmes narrows down the suspects to the chambermaid, but it is Eleanor's questioning that finally draws the truth out of her. Franklin joins Holmes & Watson in pursuit of the thief, and after a boat chase on the Thames the matter reaches its resolution, and an attempt on the President's life is forestalled. |
Jane Rubino
"The Case of the Eccentric Bequest" (2000)
Included in: Knight Errant (Jane Rubino)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Dr Mortimer
(Mary Morstan; Inspector Lestrade)
Other Characters: Charles Turner; White Crane Waiter; Mr Treadwell; Seven Swans Boy; Seven Swans Customers; Waiters; Waiting Girls; Ostler; Leah Paar; Anne Smith; Susan Treadwell; Marianna Smith; Moseley & Gayle Clerks; Cab Driver; John Mortimer; Turner's Landlady; Ticket Agent; Station Master; Train Driver; Fireman; Dorchester Lad; Mrs Langston
(Adeline Junot; Sir Sanford Mortimer; Mr Moseley; Mr Gayle; Doctor; Lady Emma Mortimer; Martin Smith)
Date: First Monday in September, 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Wilton; The White Crane Pub; Weymouth; Seven Swans Pub; The August House; Langston Cottage; Devereaux Court; Moseley & Gayle's Offices; Praed Street; Turner's Lodgings; Station; Dorchester; Beach
Story: Holmes is approached by solicitor, Turner, over the irregular will of his client, Sir Sanford Mortimer, who now lies in a coma as a result of a brain tumour. The bulk of Mortimer's estate has been left to Marianna Smith, the daughter of an innkeeper, with no connection to the Mortimer family. Turner asks Holmes to find the girl, the innkeeper having recently been lost at sea and his wife and daughter gone away. Watson sends Watson off alone to enquire about the Mortimer family in Wilton, where he meets Dr Mortimer, and learns that he is a cousin of Sir Sanford. From there he goes on to visit the inn near Weymouth where he learns that Marianna's father was an artist, and that the inn had not opened for business at all this year. Smith's wife denies knowing Sir Sanford. Holmes deduces the true nature of Sir Sanford's connection to the girl, but realises the deception that has been worked on him too late to stop the case ending in violence and death. |
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"The Case of the Notorious Practitioner" (2000)
Included in: Knight Errant (Jane Rubino)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Stamford; Dr Barnicot; Mary Morstan; Merridew; (Cartwright)
Other Characters: Constance Alva, Lady Ellenmere; Cavendish Square Constables; Janet Booth; Mary Booth; Faustine Dupuy; Sophie Albie; Coroner's Men; Weimer's Page; Dr Edward Murdstone; Esme Forrester; Four-Wheeler Driver; Miss Paget; Meadows Patients; Meadows Nurses; Dr John Weimer; Francis Fraser Linton, Marquis of Ellenmere; Cabbies; Watson's Patients; Adeline Junot; (Mrs Alva; Lambeth Doctor; Trainee Nurse; Barnicot's Patient; Young Lad; Savoy Ticket Agent; Lady Fairchild; Cyrus Alva)
Date: Wednesday in the first week of December - ?, 1888
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; 33, Cavendish Square; Harley Street; Weimer's Surgery; St Thomas Street; Murdstone's Surgery; Kennington Road; Barnicot's Surgery; Denmark Hill; The Forrester House; Hampstead Grove; The Meadows; St James Place; The Ellenmere House; Watson's Club
Story: Holmes is visited by the veiled Constance Alva, American wife of the Marquis of Ellenmere, who wishes him to hold some papers in safekeeping for two days for a friend. Holmes refuses, not knowing the contents of the documents. Watson is able to deduce that the friend is Adeline Junot, the abortionist, who is rumoured to be planning to publish her diaries. Lestrade arrives with the news that a servant girl has died in Junot's house. Holmes realises the apparent suicide was a murder, and the intended victim may have been Junot (who has disappeared) herself. Stamford gives Watson the names of three doctors to interview who have, in the past, unsuccessfully brought charges against Junot. Junot's clothes are found in the Thames. Realising that Lady Ellenmere, too, is in danger, but with the Marquis standing in the way of any attempts to remove her from it, Holmes realises he must be proactive in removing the danger itself, and with Lestrade and another unexpected ally, lays a trap which, thanks to Lestrade, fails to snare the killer, but the real contents of the "diaries" are revealed. It is left to Junot and the newspapers to bring about justice. |
"The Case of the Uncommon Necklace" (2000)
Included in: Knight Errant (Jane Rubino)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Lord (Neville) Backwater; Colonel Moran; Mrs Cecil (Julia) Forrester; Tobias Gregson; Cecil Forrester; Stamford; (Victor Trevor; Inspector Forrester; Lord Robert St Simon; Lord Eustace St Simon; Lady Clara St Simon; Sir Augustus Moran; Murray; John Clay; Patience Moran; Professor Moriarty)
Historical Characters: (James Whistler; Lord Frederick Cavendish; Thomas Burke)
Other Characters: Avril Forrester; Backwater's Driver; Mrs Ballentine; Seamstresses; Esme Forrester; Verity Morgan/Moran; Ned Forrester; Ballentine; Sarah Tilley; Constables; Irina's Housekeeper; Irina Mendl; Madame Zeline; Servants; Bridal Attendants; (Duke of Southwold; Augustus Forrester; Charles Forrester; Police; Ceylon British Resident; Backwater's Sisters; Constables; Esme's Former Governess; Jeweller; Selden Moran; Serenity Moran; Faith Moran; Prudence Moran)
Date: April 21st - ?, 1882
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Backwater's Carriage; Camberwell; 121, Denmark Hill; Forrester's Cell; 12, Queen Anne's Gate; Italian Restaurant
Story: Holmes is called on by Backwater and his fiancée, Avril Forrester. An emerald necklace has been stolen from the house where she lives with her aunt and uncle, Mr & Mrs Cecil Forrester. Avril was attacked during the robbery. Holmes and Watson accompany Avril to the Forrester home, where they encounter Moran, Mrs Forrester's half-brother. Although the house is full of valuable wedding gifts, only the necklace, made by Avril's late father, was taken. Gregson arrives at Baker Street with the news that the necklace has been recovered and Cecil Forrester, known for extravagant spending, has been arrested for its theft, it haing been found in his possession. The emeralds, however, have been removed from their settings. The Forresters' young daughter, Esme, sees red eyes, previously seen by Avril, in her room, and her governess, Miss Morgan resigns. Holmes learns that the necklace had been valued by an appraiser named Clay, who has since left his job. From Forrester's geologist son, Ned, they learn the true nature of the stones. Holmes makes a nighttime foray to the Forrester house. Holmes arranges for the recovery of the jewels on Backwater's wedding day, and unknits the complex web of relationships and concealed identities within the house for Watson and Gregson. He tells Watson that he believes a higher power than Moran was behind the theft. |
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Stanley Rubinstein
"Sheer Luck Again" (1923)
Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Sheerluck Combs & Whatson
Other Characters: George Blarnie; Mrs Whatson; Whatson's Patient; Postman
(Postman; Emess and Script; Whatson)
Locations: Combs's Baker Street Rooms; Whatson's House
Story: Whatson calls on Combs to tell him that the unpublished records of his cases have been stolen. They visit Whatson's house, where Combs's suspicions fall on Mrs Whatson. He continues his investigations at the Duke of Edinburgh pub, and is in female disguise when Whatson calls on him the following day. He tells Whatson that he has ruled out his wife and is expecting the papers to arrive any minute. The following day Combs reveals how he retrieved the papers. |
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
"Second Fiddle" (1995)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg)
Story Type: Science Fiction Homage
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: Ned Zaleski; Kimberly Marie Caldicott; Forensics Men; Police Photographer; Detectives; Rae Ann; Birmar; Cocktail Waitress; Police Chief; Police Officers; Lost Cat Woman; Caldicott's Classmates; Lorena Haas; FBI Agents; (Football Player; Two Movie Stars; Senator's Wife; Police Dispatcher; Dead Girl)
Date: 1990s
Locations: California; Santa Lucia; Police Headquarters; Bar; San Francisco; FBI Headquarters
Story: The Santa Lucia police department hire a private time travel company to transport Holmes to the present to assist homicide detective Zaleski investigate a series of murders of the rich and famous. Zaleski believes the latest victim is a copycat killing, Holmes believes it represents the key to solving the case. He also disagrees with the profilers, but is impressed with the speed at which information can be gathered and disseminated. He deduces that the killer is a woman, and when they discover the latest victims identity, a High School yearbook is all that is needed to resolve the case. |
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Gary Alan Ruse
"The Phantom Chamber" (1987)
Included in: The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Martin H. Greenberg, Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh & Jon L. Lellenberg)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Mrs Hudson)
Other Characters: Grace Farrington; Mr Bryswicket; Trap Driver; Jeremy Wollcott; Joshua Trenton; Cook; Lester Thorn; Lady Penelope
Date: Spring
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Atwater's Offices; A Train; Surrey; Thaxton Manor
Story: Grace Farrington returns from India with her husband to stay with her Great-Aunt, but finds the manor house run-down and her aunt in ill health in the company only of Wollcott, a distant cousin of Grace's, who is surprised at their arrival. That night wandering through the house Grace discovered a monogrammed glove and a baby's rattle, and saw a room full of glowing, ghostly eyes, and some living thing covered in a net which it clawed at horribly. When she returns to the room with her husband it has transformed into an empty grand hall. Holmes and Watson travel to Thaxton Manor, where Holmes makes a rooftop exploration prior to making their arrival known, and where they witness the drawing up of Lady Penelope's will and prevent its signing. Holmes reveals the secret of the phantom chamber and an impostor, prevents a murder, and uncovers a family secret. |
"The Holmes Team Advantage" (1995)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg)
Story Type: Science Fiction Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Inspector Lestrade
Other Characters: Lord Desmond Farthington; Apollo; Cabbie; Eddie Mangles; Rosewarne's Hooligans; President of the London and North Western Railway; Dupilcate Railway President; Sylvester Rosewarne; Ross; Holmes Duplicates; Scotland Yard Officers; Bank of England Security Men; (Farthington's Servants; Police; Farthington's Driver)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The West End; Farthington's House; Broad Street; The Preening Peacock Inn; East End Warehouse; Scotland Yard; Euston Station
Story: Lord Farthington's prize pit terrier, Apollo, has been stolen, then brought back two hours later. Holmes has read of similar incidents of stolen items being returned recently. Holmes recognises footprints around the kennel as belonging to a pair of boots which should be in the evidence locker at Scotland Yard. They spot their owner, Mangles, and three other men, carrying what appears to be a body, and follow them to an East End warehouse. When the men come out with another body, Holmes and Watson search the warehouse; finding six duplicate Apollos, the machine that created them, and its inventor, Rosewarne. They are tied up by Rosewarne's thugs, but Holmes manages to escape, uncovers the plot that is afoot, and uses the machine to create duplicates of himself to bring the gang to justice, prevent a robbery, and save an innocent man from prison. |
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William Rushton
W.G. Grace's Last Case (1984)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Professor Moriarty; (Sherlock Holmes; Mycroft Holmes; Lady Frances Carfax; Baker Street Irregulars)
Fictional Characters: A.J. Raffles; Dr Jekyll; Martians; Lord Greystoke (John Clayton); Mr Hyde; Scarlett O'Hara; Rhett Butler; The Lone Ranger (?); The Red Weed; Poole; Sir Patrick Cullen; Sir Colenso Ridgeon; Cutler Walpole; Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonington; (Bunny Manders; Svengali; Alice Clayton; Tarzan; Inspector Mackenzie; Dr Hastie Lanyon; Sir Danvers Carew; Dracula)
Historical Characters: W.G. Grace; George S. Patterson; Henry Newbolt; Buffalo Bill; Francis J. Dickens; James McNeill Whistler; Whistler's Mother; Henry James; Bret Harte; Mark Twain; K.S. Ranjitsinghi; The Sydney Ducks; Allan Pinkerton; Thomas Edison; Karl Marx; Queen Victoria; Mrs Beeton; The Crowned Heads of Europe; Lord Salisbury; Marquess of Queensberry; Lord Alfred Douglas; Sarah Bernhardt; Oscar Wilde; Emile Zola; Le Petomane; La Goulue; Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; Jean Béraud; Edgar Degas; Claude Monet; Edouard Vuillard; Pierre Auguste Renoir; Pierre Bonnard; Emile Bonnard; Paul Cézanne; Pablo Picasso; Maurice Utrillo; Henri Rousseau; Edward VII; Kaiser Wilhelm II; H.G. Wells; Jules Verne; Henri Garcet; (Poundmaker; Big Bear; Commissioner MacLeod; Red Crow; Louis Riel; Queen Victoria; George Bernard Shaw; Frank Harris; Jeff Chandler; Henry Miller; Theodore Roosevelt; Robert Louis Stevenson; Gustave Eiffel; Frederic Bartholdi; Alexander Graham Bell; Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury; Charles Gleyre; Vincent Van Gogh; Paul Gauguin; Alfred Sisley; Comte de Nieuwerkerke; Theophile Gautier; Gustave Courbet; Ambroise Vollard)
Other Characters: Lord's Crowd; Cricketers; Philadelphia Bowler; Castor Vilebastard; Umpires; Wicket-Keeper; Hansom Driver; Red Indians; Diogenes Porter; Diogenes Members; Sir Horace; Pollux Vilebastard; Diogenes Waitress; Waiters; Head Waiter; Charlie; Wild West Show Stage Hands; Performers; Seth McGurk; Furnitureville Stationmaster; Reverend Studholme; Bar-flies; Dancing Girl; Desperadoes; Elmer Gatsby; Cryer; Serving-Wench; 'One-Eye' Jake McSwine; Bartenders; Card Dealers; Obadiah Hawkspit; Apaches; Gay Dog; Charlie / Mountain-Cat Who Hates Tall Buildings; Detective-Sergeant Chesterton; Scotland Yard Constable; 'B' Company, Seventh Cavalry; Court Martial Prosecutor; General; Trooper O'Toole; Henry Miller's Great-Uncle; Hotel Guests; Flanagan; Hotel Maid; Edison's Maid; Duke of Relwick's Mounted Foot; Captain Grimes; Downing Street Butler; Foreign Office Men; Funeral Procession; Chinamen; Rabbis; Guards Officers; El Turco's Women; Jekyll's Guests; Raffles's Lad; Jekyll's Waiter; Downing Street Aide; Military & Naval Officers; Lestrade's Men; Albany Porter; Paradiso Residents; Jean-Paul; Maurice; Upstairs Maid; Hortense; Cleaners; Can-Can Dancers; Moulin Rouge Customers; Hotel Manager; Cyclists; Paris Apaches; Alsace Concierge; Fat Maid; Life Guards Major; Hired Assassin; Verne's Maid; (Fort Battleford Commanding Officer; Dawson Constable; Eskimo; King & Queen of Ruritania; Downing Street Constable; Downing Street Servant; Henrietta Lumley; Indian Governor-General; Mjanji; The Great Ralpho; Wanda)
Date: June, 1890's
Locations: Lord's Cricket Ground; Park Lane; Diogenes Club; 221B, Baker Street; Earl's Court; New York; Grand Central Station; A Train; Wheeling; Scarlett's Diner; Furnitureville, Arizona; Golden Camel Saloon; Apache Village; Scotland Yard; Warwick Road; The Albany; Jekyll's House; Great Manhattan Gargantua Hotel; Menio Park [sic]; Primrose Hill; 10, Downing Street; St James' Park; Duke of York's Steps; Pall Mall; El Turco's, Air Street; Piccadilly Circus; Paris; Rue Morgue; Hotel Paradiso; Bar du Gros Nez; The Moulin Rouge; Bois de Boulogne; Hotel d'Alsace; Paris Exposition; The Eiffel Tower; The Moon; Gibraltar; Queensberry's Office; Amiens; 44, Boulevard de Longueville
Story: A year after the Martian invasion, Castor Vilebastard (it's pronounced 'Villibart') is killed while bowling at Lord's, shot with an Apache arrow. Grace, Jekyll & Watson confirm that the man is dead. Grace meets Watson at the Diogenes Club where the dead man's twin, Pollux, is also dining in the company of Mr Hyde. Watson & Grace accompany Lestrade to Earl's Court to question Buffalo Bill about his entourage. Returning to Baker Street, Grace tells them about an MCC tour of America:
The team's ship is met in New York by the Vilebastards, and taken to Arizona, where they save a Mountie, son of Charles Dickens, from a lynching, and learn that the Vilebastards are wanted men. Forced to leave town by stagecoach, they are pursued by Apaches, who take them to their village, where, after an incident with an arrow and a cricket box, Grace is revered as a God. After defeating a cavalry attack, the Vilebastards insult the tribes ancestors, an act which leads Grace to believe that chief Gay Dog is behind the murder at Lords. He remains puzzled by the actions and prophecies of the tribe's medicine man, Charlie.
Setting out to locate the remaining Vilebastard, Grace, Raffles and Watson call on Jekyll, who tells them that the Vilebastards had shown interest in his latest project. Grace is reminded of the destruction of Edison's laboratory, and being accused of murder, transvestism and stealing Liberty's face. Grace and Watson are abducted by the army and taken to a brothel that turns out not to be a brothel. Watson has a close encounter with a certain gracious lady, and 221B is blown up. The Prime Minister reveals that the case is a matter of national security. At a party that is disrupted by a horde of Hydes, Jekyll announces a cure for the common cold. Following the trail to the Rue Morgue, Grace faces a cobra, Wilde and La Goulue in his hotel room. Watson encounters Moriarty at the Moulin Rouge, and a battle takes place in the Bois de Boulogne between the Impressionists and Vilebastard's Apaches. Watson visits the Exposition, and everyone visits the Moon. |
Ray Russell
"The Murder of Conan Doyle" (1955)
Included in: The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Parody / Script
Detectives: Hemlock Foames & Dr. Squatson
Other Characters: Mother Mulrooney; Laddie Badd; Quentin Drake-Chalmers; Sidonie Brassiere; Professor Goryarty
Locations: Foames's Baker Street Apartment; The Thespian Society, Fleet Street
Story: Squatson believes Foames dead, drowned in a vat of boiling coffee with Professor Goryarty, but Foames reappears in Baker Street, disguised as their landlady, Mother Mulrooney. They attend a party at the Thespian Society in Fleet Street, where Foames identifies actress Sidonie Brassiere, who supposedly disappeared at the same time as he did, as Goryarty who has been posing as the actress to blackmail famous actors. He rips off her clothes to prove his point, but it is Squatson who discovers that it is in fact Foames who is the impostor. |
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