Sam Siciliano

The Angel of the Opera (1994)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Dr Henry Vernier
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Toby; (Dr Watson; Professor Moriarty; François le Villard)
Fictional Characters: Armand Moncharmin; Firmin Richard; Comte Philippe de Chagny; Vicomte Raoul de Chagny; Erik, The Phantom of the Opera; Christine Daaé; Madame Giry; The Persian; Meg Giry; Carlotta; Sorelli; The Concierge; (Monsieur Poligny; Monsieur Debienne; César; Joseph Buquet; Monsieur Mifroid)
Historical Characters: (Charles Garnier)
Other Characters: Dr Henry Vernier; Susan Lowell; Catherine; Major Lowell; Opera Attendants; Hotel Doorman; Hotel Clerk; Comte's Coachman; Chez Armand Proprietor; Chez Armand Waiter; Dog-walking Woman; Pedestrians; Hotel Bellman; Opera Performers; Pierre; Monsieur du Boeuf; Carpenters; Corps de Ballet; Piano Player; Dance Master; Monsieur Gris; Gris's Assistant; Stagehands; Diligence Driver; Setting Sun Innkeeper; Lannion Ticket Clerk; Opera Audience; Republican Guards; Conductor; Carriage Drivers; Carlos Fontana; Masked Ball Guests; Notre Dame Visitors; Priest; Gas Men; Elderly Hotel Couple; Hotel Maids; Train Guard; Opera Guard; Mifroid's Men; Fontana's Attendant; Monsieur Gérard; Jacob the Rat Catcher; Victor; Michelle Vernier; (Violet Sherrinford; Sherlock Vernier; Thugs; Colonel Davidson; Colonel Broderick; Priest; Mrs Lowell; Russell; Madame Sponelli; Monsieur Bossuet; Second-Rate Poet; Police Inspector; Elderly Nobleman; Pickpocket; Carlotta's Physician; Prompter; Wardrobe Master; Holmes's Oxford Girlfriend; Young Earl; Commodore; The Sultana)
Date: July, 1939 / January-March, 1890 (?)
Locations: Wales; A Castle; France; Paris; Paris Opera House; Boulevard des Capucines; Hotel; Chez Armand; The Brittany Express; Brittany; Lannion; Perros; Inn of the Setting Sun; Cemetery; Church; Lannion Station; Notre Dame Cathedral; Louvre; Gare du Nord
Story: Vernier decides to publish his story after Holmes and Watson are both dead. He reveals that Moriarty was created by Watson so that he could "kill off" Holmes after a falling out. The events of this story took place after that.

At the home of blind pianist, Susan Lowell, and her father, Holmes wraps up a case involving Thugs and a statue of Kali. He invites his cousin Vernier, to accompany him to Paris, where he has been summoned to investigate the ghost that is haunting the Opera House. On arrival they are told of the problems that have beset the Opera since a box, traditionally reserved for the Phantom, has been put back in use. Comte de Chagny hires Holmes to find out young singer Christine's intentions towards his brother, who also consults him over a voice he has heard in Christine's dressing-room. Holmes receives a warning note from the Phantom. He and Vernier tour the Opera, then travel to Brittany with Raoul, where Christine is visiting her father's grave. The Phantom follows.

When the Opera managers refuse to bow to the Phantom's demands that Christine should sing Marguerite in Faust, the Phantom causes the chandelier to fall into the audience during the performance. Christine disappears, but a note to Raoul promises a meeting at the Opera Masked Ball, where the Phantom makes an appearance as the Red Death. Holmes and Vernier venture from the heights of the towers of Notre Dame to the depths of the cellars beneath the Opera and up again to its rooftops in search of the Phantom. Watson sends Toby to assist in the hunt, leading to a confrontation in the Phantom's cellar home, traps, and an explosion. Holmes returns to Wales to bring a happy ending to both his cases.

Lou Silverstone & Jack Rickard

"The Return of the Ripper" (1980)
Included in: The Mad Book of Mysteries (Lou Silverstone & Jack Rickard)
Story Type: Parody / Comic Strip
Detectives: Shamus Homes & Dr. Whatso
Fictional Characters: Mickey Mouse (cameo appearance)
Historical Characters: Jack The Ripper
Other Characters: Professor Mortuarity; Miss Bunburry; Inspector La Strada; Constable; Baskerville
Date: 1890
Locations: 221, Baker Street; London
Story: Whatso announces that Jack the Ripper has returned, and La Strada takes Homes to the scene of the Ripper's latest killing: a chocolate factory worker named Baskerville. Homes's investigations involve embarrassing encounters with Watson's patient Miss Bunburry, and lead him to believe that his old enemy Professor Mortuarity is behind the killings. Why then is he so reluctant to bring the criminal to justice?

Alex Simmons & Bill McCay

The Raven League: Sherlock Holmes is Missing! (2006)
Story Type: Children's Extra-Canonical Adventure of Wiggins
Canonical Characters: (Archibald Francis 'Archie') Wiggins; Baker Street Irregulars; Mrs Hudson; Dr Watson; Baker Street Maid (Mary); Sherlock Holmes; (Mycroft Holmes)
Historical Characters: Queen Victoria
Other Characters: Nat Blount; Owens; Mr Shears; Mrs Wiggins; Clara James; Eugenia 'Jennie' James; Vegetable Hawker; William 'Dooley' Doolan; Jacob Geismar; Mr Geismar; Alfie Sinnott; Cab Drivers; Twitter; Mr Pilbeam; Owens' Neighbour; Mrs Owens; Limehouse Lew / Lewis Webb; His Honor's Driver; His Honor; Egyptian Servants; Egyptian Noble; Underground Attendant; Businessmen; Fleet Street Crowds; Miss McManus; Bruiser Rowley; Harry; Fire Crowd; Jubilee Crowds; Osiris Guards; Dock Workers; Sailors; Policemen; Inspector; Wagon Drivers; Tinker; Street Arab; Verger; Assassin; Soldiers; Paddington Attendant; Royal Attendant; Courtiers; (Tim Doolan; Robert Wiggins; Allen James; Wiggins's Brother; Mr Keyes; Coachmen; Three Posh Men; Copper; River Men; Maharajah of Jampur; Simon Peters; Governor-General of Australia; Duke of Steyne; Lemuel)
Locations: The East End; An Alley; Shears's Barbershop; Whitechapel Road; Wiggins's House; Geismar Tailors Shop; The Raven Pub; Upper Swandam Lane; Owens' Home; Warehouse; Limehouse's Office; Outside St Ranulph's Church; Underground Station; Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street; Fleet Street; Dooley's House; Gowers Walk Warehouse; Jennie's House; Commercial Road; East India Docks; HMS Osiris; St Ranulph's Church; Paddington Station; Train
Date: The week leading up to 21st June, 1887
Story: After the murder of Baker Street irregular, Tim Doolan, Wiggins is beaten up and drummed out of the Irregulars. He is rescued by Owens. At home, his mother's old friend, Clara is visiting, with her daughter, Jennie. He learns from Doolan's brother, Dooley, that Holmes has disappeared. Dooley believes he has been kidnapped by the men responsible for his brother's murder. Jennie and Dooley set about prving that the deerstalker Dooley has found belongs to Holmes. In the process, they are pursued by one of the kidnappers. Recognising the involvement of Limehouse Lew, Wiggins recruits Owens to keep watch on Lew's headquarters. Following him, they encounter an Egyptian carriage, which, the following day, they see Watson entering. The old Irregulars are now working for Limehouse Lew, and after he finds Holmes, Wiggins has to fight to protect his friends lives, and free his employer, and uncovers a plot against the Queen.

Janni Lee Simner

"Illusions" (1995)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg)
Story Type: Fantasy Homage
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes)
Historical Characters: Arthur Conan Doyle; Lily Loder-Symonds; Richard Doyle
Other Characters: Joshua Wentworth; Doctor; Doctor's Wife
Locations: London
Story: At a Séance, and concentrating on his next historical novel, Doyle receives a visitation from the spirit of his uncle, Richard Doyle, who brings a strange request.

Bradley H. Sinor

"The Adventure of the Other Detective" (2001)
Included in: Dark and Stormy Nights (Bradley H. Sinor)
Story Type: Fantasy Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Professor Moriarty; Murray; Inspector Lestrade; Mary Morstan; Mycroft Holmes; Sherlock Holmes; Colonel Moran
Fictional Characters: Arthur Pym
Historical Characters: Edward VII; Prince Albert
Other Characters: Mr. Harris; Mr. Hobbs; Constable; Cab Driver; Butler; Dr. R.A. Throckmorton; Train Passengers; Porter; Conductor
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Delvechio's Warehouse; A Cab; 10, Cudugan Square; Druid's Hill Asylum
Date: 13th October, 1894 & 1889 (in another dimension)
Story: Watson is summoned to tend to an accident victim in a warehouse, but when he arrives the man is already dead. After experiencing a spell of nausea on the way home, he arrives at Baker Street to find not Holmes, but Moriarty and Murray in residence, who claim to have been sharing the rooms since 1885. Moriarty theorises that there exist many parallel worlds and Watson has passed from one to another. Lestrade arrives with the news that Moran has escaped from Dartmoor Prison. Moriarty takes Watson to a meeting of the highest in the land, where he reveals his belief that Moran & Holmes plan to free Jack the Ripper from the asylum where he is being held, a plan that could spell ruin for the monarchy. Moriarty & Watson journey to the asylum accompanied by Doctor Mary Morstan, but find that Holmes & Moran are already there. They make off with the Ripper and Mary, and it is up to Moriarty and Watson to stop them. Eventually the real Holmes arrives in the other dimension and the question of their return to their own world arises.

Herbert Skimpole

"The Bounder of Camberville" (1921)
Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Horlock Shem & Dr Westcott
Other Characters: Professor Carson
Locations: Shem's Rooms
Story: Westcott returns from an all-night dance at the Camberville Club which was disrupted by the appearance of an ancient mummy. Shem argues against Carson's contention that the same thing must be beautiful to everyone and under all circumstances. Carson arrives and says that the events at the dance refute his claims. Shem reveals the origins of the mummy.

Kathleen Sky

Death's Angel (1981)
Story Type: Science Fiction with Sherlockian references (Star Trek tie-in novel)
Fictional Characters: Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy; Captain James T. Kirk; Nurse Christine Chapel; Mr. Spock; Lt. Cdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott; Mr. Sulu; Mr. Chekov; Lt. Uhura; Sarek
Folkloric Characters: The Angel of Death
Other Characters: Security Officer Jamison; Security Officer Matthews; Medical Technician 2nd Miriam Raymond; Dr. M'benga; Dr. Jeff Carter; Security Officer Bobby Robinson; Grace Temple; Dr. Ruth Rigel; Lt. Cdr. Greg Collier; Ambassador Telson; Ambassador Neko; Ambassador Sirenia; Marmeluke of Antares; Ambassador Agnatha; Ambassador Karhu; Ambassador Damu; Ambassador Spiracles; Ambassador Hotep; Ambassador Si-s-s-s(click); Ambassador Rovar; Ambassador Edentata; Ambassador Naja; Ensign; Enterprise Security Officers; Colonel Elizabeth Schaeffer; Colonel Alexis Schaeffer; Lt. Col. Derek Gleason; Détente Station Security Officer; Engineers; Lt. Kyle
Date: Stardate 6914.6 - Stardate 6982.3
Locations: Starship Enterprise; Delta Gamma Four; Star Base Seven; Federation Embassy; Détente Station One; The Neutral Zone
Story: Spock & Kirk are in a coma, along with several other members of a landing party after their bodies have been invaded by spores from an alien lifeform, usually spread by telepathic rodents. When they finally awaken there appear to be no ill effects, except for eccentric sleep patterns and evidence, though no memory, of intense dreaming. A few weeks later the Enterprise is ordered to transport a group of ambassadors to the Neutral Zone for détente talks with the Romulans. The atmosphere aboard the ship becomes very tense, among the crew and the ambassadors, until one of the ambassadors is found dead.

After a second ambassador is found dead, Kirk is informed that the Angel of Death has been seen aboard the ship. Special Security Division officer Elizabeth Schaeffer is sent out to the Enterprise to investigate. She orders the ship brought to a standstill and placed under quarantine while she investigates. A third ambassador dies of a stroke while Schaeffer is watching over him. When she sets out to interview the remaining ambassadors (after finding herself falling for Kirk) she encounters Si-s-s-s(click) a giant blue alien alligator-like alien, dressed in Inverness cloak and deerstalker and smoking a calabash pipe. He has decided to investigate the deaths and asks her to be his Watson. She allows him to assist in her investigations. The angel appears to another ambassador, warning him to vote in favour of the détente.

As her investigations proceed, Si-s-s-s(click) drops the Sherlockian image in favour of Sam Spade, and they get roaring drunk together, during which process another ambassador is hideously mutilated. Further investigations reveal that Kirk's dreams may be turning into reality, and Schaeffer begins to wonder if the spores on Delta Gamma Four didn't have something to do with events on the ship. When she learns that Spock, too, has been dreaming, she questions him, and learns of his dark side. After the ship's quarantine is lifted prematurely by Schaeffer's jealous husband, a meeting of the ambassadors & crew is called. After an anti-Romulan outburst by McCoy, she realises that he may become the next victim and resolves to lie in wait in his room to face the Angel of Death.

Henry Slesar

"The Case of the Notorious Canary Trainer" (1996)
Included in: Resurrected Holmes (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Pertwee (in the style of W. Somerset Maugham)
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Wilson the Canary Trainer
Other Characters: Lord William D.Pertwee; Club Members; Muggeridge; Mrs Moulton; Hugh; Arno; Club Secretary; (Street Urchin)
Locations: The Hippocratic Club; Pertwee's Residence
Story: Pertwee meets Watson at his club and falls out with him immediately after questioning Holmes's reputation and abilities. Pertwee receives a box at the club containing a dead canary. The following night he receives a similar package. After another bird arrives Pertwee asks Watson to enlist Holmes's help.Holmes shows no interest in the case. A further bird turns up in an unlikely location. Pertwee resigns from the club and resolves to solve the case himself. On his last night at the club Holmes arrives just in time to save his life.

Dean Wesley Smith

"Two Roads, No Choices" (1995)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg)
Story Type: Science Fiction Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Historical Characters: Frederick Fleet; James Moody; (William Murdock)
Other Characters: Dr Carl Frederick; Dr Henry Serling; Titanic Passengers; (Man on Telegraph)
Date: June, 1912 / April, 1912
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Aboard the Titanic
Story: Holmes wakes Watson, to meet two visitors, Frederick & Serling, who tell them that the Titanic should have sunk on its maiden voyage, two months previously. They want Holmes to find out why it didn't. Holmes has already deduced that his visitors are from the future. They had travelled back in time to observe the sinking, but it didn't happen, now, with their history altered, they are unable to return to their own time as it was when they departed. They travel back in time and find themselves aboard the Titanic, revisiting the time of the collision four times and viewing events from different locations before returning to Baker Street. Holmes faces the choice between setting history straight or saving hundreds of lives.

Denis O. Smith

Edgar W. Smith

"Murder at the Murray Hill" (1957)
Included in: Leaves from the Copper Beeches (The Sons of the Copper Beeches)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Historical Characters: Christopher Morley; Fletcher Pratt; Leslie Marshall; James Montgomery; H.W. Starr; Theodore Hunt; Elmer Davis; Rex Stout; Robert Keith Leavitt; William Baring-Gould; P.M. Stone; William S. Hall; Allen Robertson; C.R. Andrew; Earle Walbridge; Howard Haycraft; Roland Hammond; Milton Lang; Julian Wolff; Richard Horace Hoffmann; Charles Goodman; Wilbur K. McKee; Rufus Tucker; Page Heldenbrand; Frederick Dannay; Anthony Boucher; Morris Rosenblum; Felix Morley; Nathan Bengis
Other Characters: Hat-Check Girl; Dora; Fred Van Bibber; Aloysius Moriarty
Locations: The Murray Hill Hotel, New York
Date: 1945
Story: The Baker Street Irregulars are holding their final meeting at the Murray Hill hotel before it is torn down. One of the guests Fred Van Bibber is found dead, only when the body is examined it is found not to be Van Bibber at all. The doctors present suggest that he has been injected with cocaine & Christopher Morley resolves that the Irregulars should solve the case before calling the police. The dead man's age suggest his year of birth as 1891, and as Morley reaches a hideous realisation an old man appears in the doorway to reveal his true identity.

George H. Smith

The Second War of the Worlds (1976)
Story Type: Humorous Science Fiction Pastiche narrated in third person
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson (as Dr. W.); Sherlock Holmes (as Mr. H.)
Fictional Characters: The Martians
Historical Characters: Master Koot Hoomi
Other Characters: Dylan MacBride; Clarinda MacTague; Professor Bartolome Lombosa; Shawn MacTague; Clarinda's Brothers & Sisters; Groom; Keel Man; Thunderbolt Crew; Lady Philippa Dunnmuir; Steamer Crew; Steamer officer; Dylan's Maid; Major F. Woodrow Churchward; Philander's Guests; Cabman; Angel Annie; Professor Philander; Mrs. Vanders; Mike MacTague; A Constable; A Mounted Policeman; Noel Bran ap Lynn; Paddy MacTague; Sean O'Hara; St. John; Van Rasselway; General Horwitz; Police Sergeant; Firemen; A Death Shadow; Passers-by; Seamen; Mr. Asbury; Long-Arm Gibbon; Picts; Lieutenant Reardon; Marines; Skerling Scouts; Lean Buck; Lady Philippa's Guides; Lady Philippa's Butler; Dean Matthews; The Circle of Life; soldiers; St. Rory Refugees; Gun Crews; Avallonians; Staff officer; Lieutenant Fenshaw; Quartermaster; Chief Engineer; Bos'n; Dagda MacTague; The Great MacTague; (Bishop Tishman; Lady Alice; Baron Leofric)
Locations: Annwn; Avallon; 12, Fishmonger Row; Clarinda's Apartment; The Strandside Riding Academy; The Silver Strand; The South Canal; The Volksrend Steamship Company Dock; Aboard The Thunderbolt; Professor Philander's Town House; Paradise Gardens; South Park Lane; Koot Hoomi's Rooms; Belham Row; Imperial Services Museum; United Service Club; Arthur's Way; Lake Pegillos; Lake Camlam; Caer Kari; The Medelgo River; St. Rory; The Myrk River; Hell's Gate Canyon; The Old Deer Trail; Myrk Lake; The Circle of Life Camp; The Old South Docks; A Lorry; Greenfields
Story: On the planet Annwn (which may be reached through a mystic gateway from Earth) Dylan MacBride is planning an expedition to the Ice Caves. The incompetent Professor Lombosa offers him use of his "diving ram" Thunderbolt. He is summoned by his fiancée, Clarinda, a priestess of Keridwen, who has had a vision of tentacled creatures on the planet Thor. The test voyage of the Thunderbolt is a disaster, but Dylan meets the mysterious Lady Philippa when he stops her runaway horse. She seems to be being watched by two men, one tall & wearing a deerstalker. Dylan is visited by Dr. W. who has travelled from Earth to warn Annwn of an impending invasion by the creatures that invaded Earth from Mars, but which are believed to have originated on Thor. They are being aided by a group known as The Circle of Life (Moriarty is a member). Lady Philippa is a leading member & W. asks Dylan to try to find out where their base is, through her. At a party thrown by Philippa's uncle, Professor Philander, Dylan meets Master Koot Hoomi, who tells him of great discoveries to be made in the Ice Caves, and that he should go there in the Thunderbolt. Philippa tells him they were lovers in a past life. Walking home through the park he is attacked by a were-tiger, which dematerialises after a mysterious cab driver shoots it. The cabby tells Dylan that it was sent by Koot Hoomi. After Dylan searches Koot Hoomi's flat with Mr. H., a meeting is called to discuss the Martian menace, and H. decides that the Thunderbolt could be a formidable weapon against the invaders.

Dylan learns the origins of the Circle of Life's pact with the invaders from Philippa, who also tells him that a death shadow has been called into being by Koot Hoomi to kill him. He is pursued by the creature, and rescued only by the timely appearance of H. & Dr. W. in a newly re-outfitted Thunderbolt. They sail up the Myrk River, to where H. has deduced the Circle of Life base is, being attacked on the way by a Pictish army. They fail to find the base on the river, but their Skerling Guides tell them that a Martian flying machine has been seen. Clarinda looks into her future-seeing cauldron, and is able to see enough for them to deduce that the camp is actually on Myrk Lake, she also sees Avallon over-run by the Martians. Travelling overland they are taken captive by the Circle of Life, and are trying to escape as the first Martian cylinder lands. Freed through the intervention of Keridwen, they are in time to see the Martians destroy the Circle of Life. They begin their attack upon the invaders, but are unable to stop them leaving their cylinders. They journey back to Avallon to alert the population, and Dylan captains the Thunderbolt against the Martians. The Thunderbolt is sunk with Dylan aboard, and the Martians build an atomic bomb. Only Clarinda's powers can save her fiancé and the planet.

Guy N. Smith

"The Case of the Sporting Squire" (1997)
Included in: The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike Ashley)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Morgan the Poisoner
Other Characters: Gloria Morgan; Squire Royston Morgan; Violet Morgan; Dr. Lambeth; Randall the Gamekeeper; Jenkins the Butler; (Eva Dann)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train; Hampshire; Andover; Winchcombe Hall
Date: February, 1888
Story: Gloria Morgan accuses her father, a keen country sportsman, of killing her mother, who she found dead in the locked library after dinner. The local doctor stated that death was due to lockjaw. Holmes suspects poison, but Gloria says her father fed the rest of the food to the dogs with no ill effect. Holmes travels down to Winchcombe Hall, where he draws Watson's attention to a stain on the victim's finger. Holmes is finally led to a solution by Mrs. Morgan's copy of Little Dorrit and the molehills on the lawn.

P. Smith

"The Grey Nun Legacy" (1992)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in The Loss of the British Bark Sophy Anderson and The Grey Nun Legacy (Gary Lovisi & P. Smith)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson
Other Characters: Lady Esther Somel; Lord Leslie Somel; Lord Evers; Lady Gloria Evers; Constance Wrey; Mrs. Chatsby; Maid; Butler; Housekeeper; Lady Somel's Personal Maid; Barman; Harry; Tucker; Cab Driver; Wrey's Landlady; Wrey's Employer; Mildred; Doctor; (Jeremy Caster; Lord Donald Somel; Blithe Caster; Sigmund Winter)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Offices of Somel & Evers; A Train; Surrey; Somel's House; An Inn; Evers' House; Railway Station; 31, Saghow Lane
Story: Lady Somel asks Holmes to investigate the death of her husband, who fell from a railway station platform, and the disappearance of the Grey Nun pearl from his valise. She shows Holmes a replica that has been made of the pearl. Holmes interviews her son, the new Lord Somel, and learns that the night before his father's death, his fiancée had died after falling down stairs, having been loaned the Grey Nun by his mother that evening. He also tells them of the presence of Winter, a decorator, and his assistant Wrey at the house. From The Evers's, other dinner guests on the night of Blithe's death, he learns of arguments between the Somels, and the rumour that Lord Somel was having an affair with a younger woman. A night at the village inn, a visit to a London lodging house, and a telegram from New York help put the pieces in place to bring about a conclusion to the case.

Jô Soares

A Samba for Sherlock (1995 - Translated 1997)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson
Historical Characters: Jack The Ripper; Sarah Bernhardt; Maurice Grau; Artur Azevedo; Emperor Pedro II; Baroness of Avaré; Pardal Mallet; Guimarães Passos; Belmiro de Almeida; Angelo Agostini; Aurélio Vidal; Maurice Bernhardt; Olavo Bilac; Empress Teresa Maria; Sizenando Nabuco; Edward Jarrett; Philippe Garnier; Coelho Neto; Paula Nei; Aluísio Azevedo; José do Patrocínio; Chiquinha Gonzaga; José White; Princess Isabel; Princess Leopoldina; Artur Napoleão
Other Characters: Slaves; Prostitute; Audience; Boys In Livery; Actors; Interpreter; Hotel Staff; Vidal's Guests; Múcio Prado; Eduardo Joaquim Correa; Alberto Fazelli; Miguel Solera de Lara; Marquis of Salles; Salomão Calif; Roland Blanchard; Inspector Mello Pimenta; Dr. Saraiva; Broom Vendor; Baroness's Housemaid; Vendors; Students; Francisca Meireles; Coachmen; Policemen; Aquitania Passengers; Shark Fishermen; Steward; Rowers; Martha Noirment; Marie Jullien; Berthier; Bookstore Customers; Peddlers; Mercedes Leal; Laurindo; German Bar Owner; Morgue Watchman; Gervásio; Boatman; Coachman; Hotel Porters; Inojozas; Liveried Slave; Mukumbe; Viscount of Ibituaçu; Anna Candelária; Isidoro; Father Marcial Fiúza; Giacomo Peruggio; Amorim; Sarmento; Pipoca; Haraldo Borges; Ibituaçu's Servants; Ibituaçu's Guests; Santana Doormen; J.R. Macedo; Fernando "Sorrel" Limeira; Streetcar Owner; waiters; Albion Doorman; Carolina De Lourdes; Coachman; Bar Proprietor; Bar Employee; Josué Calixto; Antônio Belmonte; Dona Paciênca; Dr. Hélio Pedregal Noronha; Dr. Aderbal Câmara; White's Audience; Race Crowd; Calif's Family; Stableman; Policeman; Prisoners; Guards; Afrânio
Date: May - June, 1886
Locations: Rio De Janeiro; Regente Street; Imperial Theatre; Grande Hotel; Morgue of the Third Order of Penitents; Empress's Chamber; Baroness's House; Guarda Velha Street; Carioca Square; Carioca Fountain; Police Station; Aphrodite's Retreat Bookstore; The Morgue Bar; Pharoux Quay; De Salles' Landau; Hotel Albion; Boa Vista Palace; Isidoro's Kiosk; Fresca Street; Campo dos Frados Passageway; Lavradio Street; Nora dos Arcos Street; National Library; The Viola D'Ouro; Amorim's Café; Santana Theatre; Restaurant De La Terrasse; Ibituaçu's Mansion; Canstituiçâo Square; Calif's Tailor Shop; Effantin's Barber Shop; Public Promenade; Fifth District Police Station; Jail; Gamboa Hill; Lacombe Restaurant; Cosme Velh; National Imperial Museum
221B, Baker Street; The Aquitania; Recife; The Kaikoura
Story: A prostitute is murdered on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, her throat cut and a violin string left on the body, from which a flap of skin has been removed. The Emperor Pedro II visits Sarah Bernhardt's dressing room after a performance and tells her of a stolen Stradivarius, a gift from him to the Baroness of Avaré. Bernhardt recommends her friend Holmes to investigate the theft. A second victim, a maid at the royal palace is murdered after receiving Bernhardt's autograph. Bernhardt is later called to the police station to make a statement as a fellow actress has accused her of assault. Inspector Pimento shows her the card bearing her autograph found in the second victim's hand. She recommends Holmes to him, too. Arriving in Rio, Holmes learns the history of the violin from the Emperor, and questions the Countess.

When the killer strikes a third time, Holmes is luckily on hand to answer the victim's cries for help. He pursues the killer into the National Library, where he escapes by leaping through a window. Holmes falls for the woman he has saved, Anna Candelária, and traces her to the Santana Theatre where she is performing in the revue The Woman-Man. Another victim is butchered, and Holmes & Pimento visit the Dom Pedro II Asylum, where they are taken to see the cannibal, Dr. Aderbal Câmara, who points them towards the city of Petrópolis, where they attend a concert, Holmes entering into a violin duel with the Marquis of Salles. A further, misguided search for clues leads them to the racecourse, but the murderer is already focusing in on his final victim.

En route to Bernhardt's final performance in Rio, Holmes & Watson are called to a Yoruba ritual, where Watson, possessed by a female demon, reveals that they already know the murderer, the demon refuses to reveal his identity, however. The murderer claims his final victim, the Countess of Alvaré, but remains uncaught, sailing to England on the same ship as Holmes & Watson, there to become Jack The Ripper. Dom Pedro II presents Holmes with the stolen Stradivarius, which has been left by the murderer in Holmes's hotel room.

NOTE: Some of the characters I have listed under "Other Characters" may be historical figures I have been unable to track down.

NOTE 2: The tarot-reading character, Mercedes Leal, is named after Soares' mother.

NOTE 3: The character Dr. Aderbal Câmara ("Aderbal the Cannibal") is a parody of Hannibal Lecter.

J.W. Sovine

"The Adventure of the Command Performance" (1958)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; Mrs. Cecil Forrester; Colonel Warburton; James Phillimore; Baker Street Irregulars; Wiggins; Dr. Leslie Oakshott; Professor Presbury; Sir Henry Baskerville; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Watson; Mary Morstan; Mrs. Etherege; Mary Sutherland; James McCarthy; Neville St. Claire; Mrs. Hudson; Helen Stoner; Victor Hatherley; Lord Robert St. Simon; Violet Hunter; Colonel Ross; The Illustrious Client; Cardinal Tosca; Professor Moriarty
Biblical Characters: Adam & Eve; St. Luke; God
Other Characters: Cabbie; Alicia Crewman; Saints
Date: August
Locations: Oxford Circus; Cavendish Square; Wigmore Street; Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street; Heaven
Story: Holmes is picked up by a strange cabbie and taken to 221B, where he is met by Inspector (now Saint) Lestrade, and put on heavenly trial by a large gathering of old acquaintances. Permitted to enter heaven, he deduces the nature the deaths of Watson & his wife, and inquires into the colour-coding of haloes. Moved on to the Higher Court, he finds himself once more face to face with Moriarty. The Higher Court cannot reach a decision and he is passed on to a Higher Authority for final judgement.