Brett Spencer & Dorian David

Sherlock Holmes: Draco, Draconis (1996)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Mary Morstan; Professor Moriarty; The Moriarty Gang; Colonel Moriarty; Stationmaster Moriarty; Colonel Moran; The Hound of the Baskervilles)
Folkloric Characters: (Dragon)
Other Characters: John McGregor; Shepherds; Wigner; Mrs Felton; Sir James Moriarty; Sarah Toler; Delia McGregor; Robert Seymour; Villagers; Father Finley; Duncan Piggot; Mrs Piggot; Piggot Baby; Thorburn; Pusey; The Beadle; (Watson's Locum; Police Sergeant; Lady Irene Aldhelm; Shepherd; Rebecca Harden; John Tickell; Old Madman; Jacob Newbury; Old Tom; Transport Firm Owner; Delivery Boy; Indian; policemen)
Date: September, 1895
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Moriarty Residence; The Moor; The Village; Parsonage; Piggot's Farm; A Cavern
Story: Holmes is called on by a masked man whom he quickly recognises, and taken to the home of Sir James Moriarty, the Professor's young nephew and heir, who is in fear of his life after his accountant, Seymour, has been slaughtered, reawakening rumours of the return of the legendary dragon that is said to have once lived in the area. An arson attack is made on the house, and Holmes discovers a hidden room and documents that reveal that Seymour was on a treasure hunt connected to the monoliths on the moor outside. An examination of a slaughtered sheep gives Holmes a picture of the creature they are facing, but they are driven away by hostile villagers. From the insane ravings of the local priest thy learn something of the history of the village: witch-burnings, devil worship, disappearances of men and sheep, and the two dragons that have been seen. After interviewing a farmer, Holmes tests out a theory about the meaning of the menhirs, and Watson is attacked by the 'dragon'. After a village boy is killed, a lynch mob attacks the Moriarty residence and are only prevented from hanging Moriarty by an appearance by the beast. After fleeing the house, Holmes decides that Moriarty must be used as bait for the creature, which the three of them battle on the moor. Moriarty's reputation is restored in the village, a celebration takes place, and Holmes sets about finding the treasure, which is not what they expect it to be.

NOTE: John McGregor was the driver of the two-horse van that attempted to run Holmes down in The Final Problem.

Keith Spore

Death of a Scavenger (1980)
Story Type: Homage
Detectives: Dr Hugo Enclave & Watson (Henry Schneider)
Historical Characters: (Bob Woodward &Karl Bernstein ["Post Reporters"]; John McCone; Richard Nixon [Thomas Posten])
Other Characters: Sergeant James Foot; Fred Smith; Norvel Kochs; Paul Slane; Lisa Slane; Jane Kochs; Dora Rockmore; Conrad Moriarity; John Lincoln; Patricia Lincoln; Girl & Her Date; Man with Dog; Commissioner Phelps; Houston Detective; Gerald Jefferson; Rodney Carroll; George McCaulker; McCaulker's Aide; Detective Harris Horagan; Caddie; Patrolmen; FBI Agents; Slane's Butler; Billy Alessi; Cindy Wagner; Miami Cabby; Beach Buoy Doorman; Desk Clerk; Cabana Attendant; Peter; Ralph; Millie; Daughter; Miami Beach Police Officers; Police Artist; Kevin Blaine; Hearings Crowd; Attorney General Elton Nichols; Aquadoor Committee; Senator Erving Samuels; Marshals; Officious Man; Stretcher Bearers; Doctor; Airport Patrolman; Waitress; Hospital Patrolmen; Secret Service Agents; Hospital Staff; Hospital Visitors; Patients; Police Lieutenant; Peter; Hilda; Reporters; Forrest Zank; (Harland Rockmore; Children; Medical Examiner; Secretary; GeAnne Moriarity; Commissioner Constant; Mrs Enclave; Moriarity's Friends & Associates; Renard Garcia; Garcia's Companions; Justice Department Source; Justice Department Investigators; Pilot; Co-pilot; Posten's Press Secretary; Pelicant; Police Spokesman; Humphrey O'Malley; Gallup Spokesman; O'Malley Campaigner; GOP Senator; Posten Administration Official; Television Announcers; Robert Coddle; Television Newsmen; Jerry Stewart; Telephone Operator; Stewart's Attorneys; Stenographers; Aquadoor Security Guard; Ernesto; Donald Teeg; Dr Heinrich Frost; Radio Commentator; Hearing Guard; Coast Guard)
Date: September - December, 1974
Locations: United States of America; Maryland; Enclave's House; Washington, D.C.; Detective Bureau; The Lincoln Home; Paine Parkway; Houston; Moriarity's Home; Atlanta; Jefferson's Office; Washington National Airport; Federal Aviation Administration; McCaulker's Office; Blazing Tree Country Club; Slane's Home; New York Police Headquarters; Miami Airport; Miami Beach; Beach Buoy Hotel; Senate Hearing Room; Rochambeau Memorial Bridge; Riverside Hospital
Story: Foot consults Sherlockian enthusiast and emulator, and amateur sleuth, Enclave, who refers to his secretary, Schneider, as Watson, over the murder of Harland Rockmore during a scavenger hunt. Rockland's body was found, strangled, in a muddy, wooded area, yet the only footprints present were his own and those of the children who found him. A series of rectangular marks, however, were found near the body. After seeing the evidence, Enclave announces that he has some insight into the case and asks for the principals to be gathered together, whereupon he describes how the marks in the mud were made, and photographs everyone's feet.

They set up a stakeout at the murder site, during which Watson is killed in a karate fight. They identify his attacker as Moriarity, a partner in the firm of attorneys Rockmore worked for. Moriarity disappears, Foot is assigned fulltime to the case, Enclave continues to be interested in the break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters at the Aquadoor hotel, and suggests that Foot move into his house. A story in the Washington Post links Moriarity to the Aquadoor affair, and Foot and Enclave begin questioning his friends and colleagues, and looking deeper into the death of his wife in a plane crash, while Enclave teaches Foot yoga.

Another of the guests who was at the scavenger hunt party is shot in an apparently impossible golf course murder on the day before he is to give testimony at the Aquadoor hearings. Rockmore's wife, Moriarity's lover, also goes missing. Foot's girlfriend, Cindy, is sent to Mexico City to trace the source of the money that Mrs Moriarty had in the plane with her. President Posten is re-elected. They trace another party guest, in hiding, in Miami, but he is murdered before they can talk to him, giving them a locked-room mystery to solve.

Enclave and Foot attend the Aquadoor hearings. The President agrees to take a polygraph test, but Enclave, knowing his yogic abilities, doubts that it has any worth as evidence. The last of Moriarity's business partners is shot in the Senate Hearing Room, as is Rockland's wife. Enclave reveals to Foot that they are really working to find those who are responsible for a plot against the President, and they lie in wait at a hospital for Moriarity.

NOTE: Aquadoor = Watergate. Geddit? Thomas Posten = Richard Nixon.

Nancy Springer

The Case of the Missing Marquess (2006)
Story Type: Children's Homage Detective Story
Detective: Enola Holmes
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Mycroft Holmes; Inspector Lestrade
Other Characters: Stranger Woman; Eastenders; Mrs Holmes; Lane; Mrs Lane; Cooper; Kineford Constables; Vicar's Wife; Villagers; Telegraph Boy; Chaucerlea Crowds; Station Boy; Seamstress; Dick Lane; Cyclist; Gypsies; Peddler; Belvidere Townspeople; Gentleman; Constables; Detectives; Tea-Shop Hostess; Railway Porter; Lodge-Keeper; Lady Basilwether; Maids; Madame Laelia Sibyl de Papaver; Train Conductor; Passengers; Mrs Culhane; Cutter; Squeaky; Viscount Tewksbury, Marquess of Basilwether; Newsboy; Cab Driver; Desk Sergeant; Constable; Four-Wheeler Driver; (Lady Eudoria Vernet Holmes; Apothecary; Harley Street Physician; Old Pickering; Basilwether Under-Gardener; Upstairs Maids; Lord Basilwether)
Date: July-November, 1888
Locations: The East End; Ferndell Hall; Kineford Village; Chaucerlea; Belvidere; Tea-Shop; Basilwether Park; A Train; London; Aldersgate; A Boat; Culhane's Used Clothing Emporium; A Park; Scotland Yard
Story: Enola Holmes, younger sister of Sherlock Holmes, is left alone at the family home, Ferndell Hall, on her fourteenth birthday, when her mother sets off with her sketch-book and fails to return. She searches the estate and village, before her brothers arrive. Seeing the Hall, Mycroft realises that the money he has been sending his mother has not been used for the puposes he believed. They suggest that the disappearance is part of a long-term plan which began in an argument over inheritance after the death of their father. Mycroft arranges to send Enola to finishing school, but after following clues in a book left by her mother, she sets off for London, disguised as a grieving widow. In the town of Belvidere she hears of the kidnapping of Viscount Tewksbury, and visits Basilwether Park where she believes she knows where to find him. There, she encounters the spiritualist Madame Laelia and Inspector Lestrade. She tells the latter where she believes he will find the missing boy, and journeys on to London, where she is immediately taken captive along with the Viscount.

Brian Stableford

"Art in the Blood" (2003)
Included in: Shadows Over Baker Street (Michael Reaves & John Pelan)
Story Type: Third Person Fantasy Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Mycroft Holmes; Sherlock Holmes; (Dr. Watson)
Other Characters: Diogenes Secretary; John Chevaucheux; (Dan Pye; Pearsall; Fotherington: Sam Rockaby; Mrs. Pye; Doctor; Mycroft's Men)
Locations: The Diogenes Club; (S.S. Goshen)
Story: Watson refers the sailor, Chevaucheux, to Holmes, who takes him to Mycroft at the Diogenes Club. The sailor shows them a small figurine, and tells them of the last voyage of the S.S. Goshen, how one of the sailors, Rockaby, appeared to go mad, and the Captain, Pye (an agent of the Diogenes Club), was stricken with a mysterious illness, which turned his flesh to something like grey fish scales, a disease which he now has contracted. Mycroft sends them to look for Rockaby, and the rest of the figurines which he is known to have, for research at the Diogenes' lab. When Holmes returns he tells Mycroft of Cheveaucheux's fate.

The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires (1996)
(Originally appeared in a shorter form in Interzone)
Story Type: Fantasy
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes (A Consulting Detective); Dr. Watson (A Stout and Stolid Doctor)
Fictional Characters: Dracula (Count Lugard)
Historical Characters: Jean Lorrain; Octave Uzanne; Lorrain's Mother; Oscar Wilde; M.P. Shiel; H.G. Wells; Sir William Crookes; Nikola Tesla; (Guy de Maupassant; Arminius Vambery; Bram Stoker; William Henley; Count Stenbock; Florence Stoker; Constance Wilde; Lord Alfred Douglas; Drumlanrig; Marquess of Queensberry; John Lane)
Other Characters: Mourier; Mourier's Seconds; Lugard's Coachman; Professor Edward Copplestone; Copplestone's Manservant; Townspeople; Overmen; Satyrs; Centaur; Mechanical Golem; Disembodied Head; Piccadilly Girl / "Laura"; (Laura Vambery; Russian Vampire)
Date: 1895 / The Future
Locations: Paris; Rue de Courty; London; Soho; Roche's; Copplestone's House; Hillside; Town; House; Barn; Underworld; Valley; Waterfall; Flying Machine; Mountainside; Lugard's Carriage; Baker Street; Piccadilly; Lugard's House off the Edgware Road
Story: Paris: Lorrain and Uzanne act as seconds to a foreign count in a duel against Mourier who has accused him of being a vampire.

London: Wilde takes his new friend Lugard to Copplestone's house where a group of men have gathered, at Copplestone's invitation, the group is comprised of Shiel, Wells, Crookes, Tesla, Watson, and his friend on whom he based the character of Holmes, a situation which led the friend to believe that he really is a consulting detective. Copplestone tells them that using a compound of shamanic drugs, and overseen by Watson, he has made three spiritual journeys into the future. On his first trip he finds himself in a town where the people live simplistic, disinterested lives. At night, he follows them to a barn-like building full of machinery and learns the purpose they serve. During a break in the story, Wells tells Lugard of the similarities between Copplestone's account and his own story, The Time Machine. Copplestone tells of his capture by the future world's vampire masters. On his second trip, further into the future, he encounters a race of satyr and centaur-like creatures. He is bothered by a swarm of insects which coalesce into a metallic human figure, which knows his name. It takes him to a flying machine, where he is questioned on his origins by a disembodied head. He learns the fate of the human race and the origin of the creatures he has seen, and of the advances made by the overmen.

Lugard takes home Holmes, who has been observing him closely, and Watson, from whom he steals Copplestone's formula. The following evening the men gather to hear of Copplestone's third visit to the still more distant future, but learn on their arrival that he has died during the night, and the last vial of his formula has been stolen. He has left a written account of his third voyage, which Watson reads out: Copplestone finds a world full of machines which infect him with artificial germs which give him visions of the entire universe. Having discussed the veracity, provenance and interpretation of Copplestone's visions, the men depart, but three days later Holmes confronts Lugard, who tells him of Vambery's crusade against him. Lugard and his new love, Laura, take the drug, and await the return of Holmes.

H.W. Starr & Orville Horwitz

"The Adventure of the Barnegat Burglaries" (1976)
Included in: More Leaves from the Copper Beeches (The Sons of the Copper Beeches)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Sir James Damery; The Politician (Alfred Mugg); The Trained Cormorant; (Wilson Hargreave; J. Neil Gibson)
Fictional Characters: (Dr John Thorndyke)
Other Characters: Lady Damery; Renifleurette Natis; Bathers; Duverney; Hotel Manager; Swingin' Sammy Sarcocele; (Mrs Van Bullet; Mrs Rossbach; British Agent; Mrs Ructus; Pinkerton Agent)
Date: May
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; TheVariola-Verruca; United States; Philadelphia; Camden; Barnegat; Oceanic Hotel; Damery's Summer House; Hotel; (New York)
Story: Holmes & Watson sail to America at the request of Damery, now attached to the Washington Embassy, who takes them to his island summer house. On the island they meet politician, Mugg who shows them the Barnegat lighthouse, where they encounter his trained cormorant. Lady Damery tells them of a series of jewel robberies in the area. Plans for a submarine stealth device, concealed in Damery's gold pen, are stolen. Holmes finds no trace of entry to the room. He and Watson meet Duverney, a detective investigating the crimes, who shows them the scenes of some of the thefts, his prime suspect: an acrobat, an the chemical analysis of a substance found in one of the burgled rooms. Holmes travels to New York and returns with a plan to trap the thief.

Vincent Starrett

"The Unique Hamlet" (1920)
(also published as "The Adventure of the Unique Hamlet")
Included in: The Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Richard Lancelyn Green); The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye); The Misadventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen); 221B: Studies In Sherlock Holmes (Vincent Starrett)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson
Historical Characters: (William Shakespeare)
Other Characters: Harrington Edwards; Sir Nathaniel Brooke-Bannerman; Miles; Tall Servant; Villagers; Edwards's Maid
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train; Walton-on-Walton; Railway Station; Poke Stogis Manor; (Brooke-Bannerman's House)
Story: Harrington Edwards, the greatest Shakespearean commentator in the world, asks Holmes to retrieve a stolen copy of a 1602 copy of Hamlet, inscribed and signed by Shakespeare, and on loan from his neighbour, Sir Nathaniel Brooke-Bannerman. The book was stolen by Sir Nathaniel's own servants while they were accompanying Edwards home with it. Visiting the village, Holmes traces the assailants footprints to Edwards's own back door, and is able to solve the mystery, and locate the remains of the missing folio.

Daniel Stashower

Frederic Dorr Steele

"The Case of the Murdered Art Editor" (1933)
Included in: The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson
Historical Characters: Frederic Dorr Steele
Date: March 1933
Story: The partially dismembered body of art editor, Elijah J. Grootenheimer is found in the East River. Holmes & Watson travel to New York to investigate. They track down their suspect, Steele, to the coast of Maine, where he keeps a cavern full of dynamite.

James R. Stefanie

"The Case of Vamberry, the Wine Merchant" (2002)
Included in: Curious Incidents (J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Vamberry; Mrs. Hudson
Other Characters: Donnelly; Printer; Donald Jameson; Ross / Anatoly Rossokovsky; Constable Parkins; Inspector Dougherty; Police Driver; Hotel Clerk; Ross's Companion
Date: Mid-March 1903 (framing action only)
Locations: Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street; Donnelly's Pub; Cab; Kilreddy Street; Vamberry's Warehouse; Charing Cross Hotel
Story: Watson visits Holmes during a quiet spell and learns from him of one of his early Montague Street cases. Drinking and deducing in his local pub, Holmes was interrupted by the arrival of Jameson, whose employer, Vamberry has disappeared. The landlord, Donnelly, suggests that Holmes tackles the case. Vamberry disappeared after recieving a letter, delivered by hand from a stranger. Holmes searches Vamberry's warehouse and a crowd of wine flies, where there shouldn't be wine flies, leads to a discovery in the cellar. He realises that events in the warehouse are linked to recent events in Europe and an anarchist group.

Lauren Steinhauer

Sherlock Holmes' Lost Adventure: The True Story of the Giant Rats of Sumatra (2004)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Baker Street Irregulars; The Giant Rat of Sumatra; The Matilda Briggs; (Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes; Tobias Gregson)
Historical Characters: Gregor Mendel; Emma Darwin; Charles Darwin; (Queen Victoria)
Other Characters: Laura's Mother; Lucy Gates; American Client; Dr Bell; Cab Driver; Tommy; Chef de Brigade; Ernst Klauske; Tav Customer; Tav Waiter; Chef de Brigade 2; Waiter; Young Man in Buttons; Monastery Intruder; Catherine de Quincey; Four-Wheeler Driver; Darwin's Gardener; Darwin's Maid; Servants; News-Boy; Nurse; Laura; James; Dead Sailor; Street Arab; Police Inspector; Detective; Constables; Alice Fair Crew; Captain A.R. Paulsen; Helmsman; Stamford; Smithers; O'Brien; Prestwick; Bo'sun; First Mate; Passengers; Matilda Briggs Crew; Captain; Lofcadio Hearseborne III; Creatures; Guards; Brigid O'Shaugnessy; (Costermonger; Lucy's Servant; Watson's Official Registry Acquaintance; De Quincey's Husband; Sergeant or Constable; Luther Squibb; Peter)
Date: 1882
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; District Messenger Office; 32, Campton Lane; Watson's Club; Victoria Station; A Train; A Ferry; France; Paris; L'Étoile Restaurant; Hotel; Train; Austria; Vienna; Hotel; Pastry Shop; The Tav Tavern; Train; Brünn; Mendel's Monastery; Hotel; Train; Kent; Sydenham; Down; Down House; Sydenham Station; Bart's; Old Badley; The Sewers; Liverpool; Aboard the Alice Fair; Sumatra; Teluk Semangka; Aboard the Matilda Briggs; Hearseborne's Lair
Story: Returning home, Watson encounters a woman whom Holmes has refused to help find her missing daughter, while upstairs Holmes is with another client, Lucy, whose servant has been murdered and a typewriter stolen, whom he also refuses to help. Another client arrives with another tale of a stolen typewriter, Holmes again sends him away. Watson has become infatuated with Lucy and begins trying to track her down, while Holmes suggests a European holiday. Holmes sends the Irregulars out in search of the typewriters and Lucy disappears.

Holmes & Watson travel through Paris, and in Vienna encounter the metaphysician, Klauske, who warns them of danger. On the train to Prague they meet Mendel and accept an invitation to his monastery where they interrupt the theft of his papers on heredity. Mendel tells them of other notes that have gone missing. They return to London where they rescue de Quincey who has collapsed in the street and after hearing her story they employ her as a secretary. The three travel to Kent to meet with Charles Darwin who has been in communication with Holmes. He believes he is being poisoned, and tells them of the Nine Unknown Men, a secret society sworn to protect mankind from itself.

On their return they read in the Times that the Irregulars have been attacked by some kind of beast. From a drunkard Holmes hears tales of giant rats in the sewers. A dead man clutching a coded note is found on the doorstep of 221B. The note leads Holmes & Watson to Sumatra but their ship is sunk and their quarry escapes, leaving them marooned on an island until their pre-arranged pickup ship, the Matilda Briggs, arrives, to face wild beasts and a volcanic eruption. Back in London Holmes suspects a traitor in their household, Watson receives a summons from Lucy, and he and Holmes come face to face with their opponent and the creatures he has created. Rescue comes from an unexpected source.

R.L. Stevens

"Five Rings in Reno" (1976)
Included in: The Mammoth Book Of Historical Whodunnits (Mike Ashley); Ellery Queen's A Multitude Of Sins (Ellery Queen)
Story Type: Homage
Historical Characters: Arthur Conan Doyle; Jack London; Jack Johnson; Jim Jeffries
Other Characters: Charlie Summons; Monica Malone; Colonel Raff Grayson; Nevada Wade; Tom Andrews; Draco; Police detectives
Date: July 2nd-4th, 1910
Locations: Reno, Nevada
Story: Doyle arrives in Reno to referee a boxing match between Jack Johnson & Jim Jeffries. He is approached by Monica Malone, whose fiancée, reporter Tom Andrews has been murdered, leaving her a note referring to the fifth day of Christmas. Draco, a race-course racketeer about who Tom had written an exposé, is seen in town. Doyle decides to investigate.

Regina Stinson

"Art in the Blood Revealed" (2003)
Included in: Curious Incidents 2 (J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Mrs. Hudson; (Head Lama; Professor Moriarty; Colonel Moriarty; Station Master Moriarty; Colonel Moran; Victor Lynch)
Other Characters: (Florentine Artist)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; (Italy; Florence; Tibet; France; Montpelier)
Date: Some weeks after CREE & during the hiatus
Story: Watson visits Holmes who reveals an unexpected talent as an artist and shows him some of his sketches & paintings. He also tells him how, while in Montpelier during the hiatus he was able to use his research into coal-tar derivatives to show that Moriarty's Greuze, on display there, having been sold by his brothers after his death, is a fake, although the one he had seen in the Professor's study was undoubtedly genuine. He is able to deduce the identities of both the forger and the man who arranged the forgery.

Alan Stockwell

John Stoessel

"The Yuletide Affair" (1996)
Included in: Holmes for the Holidays (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Inspector MacDonald; Inspector Lestrade; Tobias Gregson; Athelney Jones; John Rance
Other Characters: Vinny Shadwell; Dr. Eden
Date: 1923 (introduction only); December 23rd
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Cab; Bart's
Story: MacDonald takes Watson to Bart's (where the staff are overloaded with work because of an influenza epidemic) to tend to Lestrade who is unconscious after being stabbed in the chest. All attempts to revive him have failed. The police are holding petty crook Vinny Shadwell, who was caught running from the scene by Constable Rance. Shadwell says he was running for help, Rance says he stabbed Lestrade. It takes Watson's medical and deductive skills to prove the truth of the matter, which leads to Shadwell's eventual rehabilitation.

P.M. Stone

"Sussex Interview" (1940)
Included in: The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye); 221B: Studies In Sherlock Holmes (Vincent Starrett)
Story Type: Account of an Interview with Holmes
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: Mr. Godfrey; Retainer; Telford; Housekeeper
Locations: Faraway, Holmes's Sussex Farmhouse; Crown Lydgate
Story: Godfrey travels to Sussex to interview Holmes, who still has many relics of Baker Street in his farmhouse, Faraway, and who tells him of the ultimate fates of Watson, Mycroft & Mrs. Hudson; of his plans to write up several of his old cases; and clarifies the facts of Moriarty's end and true name.

John Sutherland

"The Struldbrugg Reaction" (1964)
Included in: The Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Science Fiction Parody
Detectives: Haricot Bones & Dr. Dawson
Other Characters: George; Anthony; Rose-Albertine's Grandmother; Rose-Albertine Chandler; Mickey O'Reilly; Street Urchins; Cassius "Cash" O'Toole; Lefty Spaghanini; Bones's Contacts; Bones's Leftenant [sic]; Crime Bosses; Police Detectives
Date: August, Late 20th Century
Locations: New York; Bones' Hotel Suite; A Cab; O'Reilly's Office; Toilet
Story: The wheelchair-bound, 95 year old detective, Bones, is visiting New York, when he is called on by a woman, who asks him to assist her grand-daughter's employer, private detective O'Reilly. O'Reilly's partner, O'Toole, has been killed and he sets out for revenge. Bones tells Dawson that their state of agile minds in decaying bodies is the result of a formula put in their tea some years ago by Dr. O'Shaunessy, and that O'Toole & O'Reilly are related to him. He believes that O'Shaunessy sent them documents relating to the "Struldbrugg Reaction", from which he could discover the secret of eternal youth. O'Reilly goes on a killing spree before Bones is able to finally lure him back to the office, where he is able to finally get his man while, ironically, bringing about his own death at the same time. Bones tells the full story, while his man, Anthony, retrieves the secret of the Struldbrugg Formula, with the assistance of Rose-Albertine.

R.E. Swartwout

"The Omnibus Murder " (1929)
Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Fictional Characters: Dr John Thorndyke; Nathaniel Polton; (Inspector Gabriel Hanaud; Father Brown)
Historical Characters: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Edgar Wallace; A.E.W. Mason; Agatha Christie; R. Austin Freeman; Ronald Knox; (Bernard Courtois; Torquemada (Crossword Compiler))
Other Characters: Editor; Sid "the Soaker" Blibbers; Inspector Holmes; Poirolmes; Narrator; Father Thorndyke; Inspector Sims; Bert the Biffer; (Corregio; Major McMurdo Bilson; The Red-Nosed League; Bald-Headed Liberal; Superintendent Watts)
Date: October, 1892
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Silchester Police Station; Tottenham Court Road; Euston Station
Story: Dirty Work at the Crossroads by Sir A. Conan Doyle: Watson calls on Holmes who is writing a new monograph. He deduces the identity of a morning visitor from a pair of braces left behind. The doorbell rings. The Adjourned Inquest by Edgar Wallace: Doyle argues with Wallace over the interpretation of "ring". Blibbers arrives with a message for Inspector Holmes: "Beware of the Crimson Arrer". Superintendent Watts is Puzzled by Agatha Christie: Blibbers is shot with a crimson arrow. Mason accuses Christie of stealing his character. The Verdict by R. Austin Freeman: The arrow is taken to Thorndyke who passes it on to Polton. The Inspector Makes a Discovery by Ronald Knox: Freeman argues with Knox for having turned Thorndyke into a priest. Thorndyke gets a clue from a railway timetable and a crossword puzzle. The Beginning of the End by J.S. Fletcher: Bert the Biffer arrives with information. Murder Most Foul! by Freeman Wills Croft: The inspector sets off in pursuit.

Julian Symons

"How a Hermit was Disturbed in his Retirement" (1981)
Also published as "The Adventure of Hillerman Hall"
Included in: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Richard Lancelyn Green); The Great Detectives (Julian Symons)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Fictional Characters: Miss Marple
Other Characters: Captain Jack Rogers; Bertie; Jane's Parents; Tom Pringle; Mrs. Pringle; Inspector Beddoes; (Black Ned Silverman; Pascoe)
Date: After 1918
Locations: The Sussex Downs; Holmes's Cottage; Jane's House; Hillerman Hall, near Reigate; A Train; Beaconsfield; Maple Lodge; The Isle of Wight; Bertie's Ford
Story: Jane calls on the retired Holmes at his Sussex cottage, pretending to be a reporter. Once he has seen through the sham she tells him of her fiancé, Captain Rogers, who she met through her brother Bertie, although they had only known each other a few days. After their engagement was formalised, they toured the countryside looking for a home; Rogers always found some reason for not choosing each place, until they discovered Hillerman Hall. Then, two weeks before the date of their wedding, he told her he had been called away on secret government business. She has not seen him since. They pay a visit to the Hall's former residents, the Pringles, and Holmes is interested in learning of periods of time when they were away from the house. After researches at the British Library and Scotland Yard, and a visit to the prison on the Isle of Wight, Holmes is able to explain how Rogers' disappearance is connected to a 1913 bank robbery, and they travel out to Hillerman Hall to bring an end to the affair.