John Taylor
"The Battersea Worm" (1993)
Included in: The Unopened Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (John Taylor)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; Sherlock Holmes; (Mrs Hudson)
Other Characters: Caspar Holland; Mrs Fowler; Jethro; Mrs Callendar; Mr Cuthbert; Angel Holland; Inspector String; Constable Pearce; (McAndrew; Thorne; Jack Laslett; Mrs Laslett)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Battersea; Barrowfields; (Scotland; McAndrew's Fell)
Date: Summer, 1885
Story: While Holmes is away, Watson is summoned by an old friend, Caspar Holland, to Barrowfields, the home of Holland's mountaineer father, Angel Holland. There Watson encounters his first elevator, which provide's the only access to Angel's tower-room, where he has shut himself away for two years, insisting that Caspar remain in the house consantly to protect him. Caspar asks Watson to deputise for him in this role, so that he may take a holiday away from the house. Angel tells Watson of a climbing expedition in Scotland which resulted in the death of one of his companion's, the man's widow's vow to unleash the "worm of vengeance" on the survivors, and of the subsequent deaths of his other climbing companions. When Watson finds Angel dead in his room, he summons Holmes to investigate. As they explore the grounds of the house, they hear from the cook that at the time of Holland's death, she saw something that looked like a serpent or great worm climbing the wall of the tower. Inspector String orders a banquet at which he will make an arrest, but it is Holmes who produces the solution. |
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"The Devil's Tunnel" (1993)
Included in: The Unopened Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (John Taylor)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson
Other Characters: McKenna; Sara Thackeray; Pem Thackeray; Ruth Thackeray; Cedric Hayes; Braithwaite; Serving Girl; Vicar; Mr Basham; Innsford Stationmaster
Locations: Theatre; 221B, Baker Street; The Strand; Courtnay's Restaurant; A Train; The Devil's Tunnel; Yorkshire; Quickfall; The Pilgrim's Arms; Strawberry House; Quickfall Mill; Innsford Station; Quickfall Station
Date: Winter, 1882
Story: Watson is introduced to the stage illusionist, Sara Thackeray, by a mutual friend. Her aunts, who have forbidden her from taking to the stage, have discovered that she has disobeyed their wishes and have threatened to cut her from their wills. She asks Watson to accompany her and her aunts, afraid of travelling, on a train journey to the family home in Yorkshire in the hope that this will help restore her to favour. As the train passes through the cursed Devil's Tunnel, Sara disappears. Watson summons Holmes, who visits Sara's aunts and the tunnel, but that night one of the aunts also disappears. When her body is discovered in a local millstream, Holmes reconstructs the original disappearance to solve the crime. |
"The Horror of Hanging Wood" (1993)
Included in: The Unopened Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (John Taylor)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Baker Street Page Boy; Mrs Hudson
Other Characters: Four-Wheeler Driver; Joseph Beard; Chaplin; Martin Sharpless; Miss Felicity Agnew; Cabby; (Jasper Adams; Harry Bannister; Dr Otto Pfeiffer; Sharpless's Informant)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Hanging Wood; Charlton Village; Church Lane; Agnew's Penny Library, Victoria Road
Date: March
Story: Early one morning, Lestrade takes Holmes and Watson to Hanging Wood, the scene of a brutal murder. He fails to tell them that this is the second such murder, and that strange noises have been reported in the wood on a number of occasions. Holmes is able to trace the victim's identity from an examination of the man's fingers and cuffs. They visit the dead man's landlord, and the local library, and begin to suspect links to the world of blood sports, although they are assured that nothing of the sort takes place in the wood. Lestrade makes an arrest, but Holmes is convinced the murderer is still at large, a theory proved by a night-time pursuit through Hanging Wood. |
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"The Paddington Witch" (1993)
Included in: The Unopened Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (John Taylor)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson / Martha
Other Characters: Smokey Crowd; Doll Freeman; Frank Bailey; Ben Freeman; Kate Smullet; Cabby; Bess Smullet; Paddington Green Crowd; Man in Flat Cap; Police; (Fairburn; Garth Ransome; Saul Ransome; Boy; Ashleigh Harcourt)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Paddington; The Smokey; Wilson's Coffee House, Queen's Road; Paddington Green; Smullet's Bakery, Church Street
Date: December
Story: The Smullet sisters, old schoolfriends of Mrs Hudson, open a bread shop in Paddington. When Bess stops serving in the shop, Mrs Hudson learns of the Ransome brothers, who run a protection racket in the neighbourhood, and the burning of the Smullets' dog. The following night she, Holmes and Watson are summoned to the Smokey, the tenement where the Ransomes live, and where Saul Ransome has been found burned to death, after being treated for stomach pains by Bess Smullet, who has since disappeared. Witnesses saw a great flash before his body was found. Later, Bess's burned body is found, with a Biblical quote attached to it, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live", and coins in the mouth. An arrest is made, but Holmes believes the real murderer is still at large, and an attempt is made on Watson's life before justice is served. |
"The Phantom Organ" (1993)
Included in: The Unopened Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (John Taylor)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Mary Morstan)
Other Characters: Four-Wheeler Driver; Lord Alistair Hembury; Hugh Hembury; Cordelia Partridge; Reverend James Partridge; Jennifer Farway; Giles Derriman; Inspector Wolfe; Dr Beeston; Addiscombe; Hembury's Servant; Fenton; Lady Maude Hembury; (Joshua Farway; Mr Cassidy; Jordan Farway)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Devon; Windwhistle; Hembury Hall; The Vicarage; St Simeon's Church; Jameswater / Itley Brook
Story: Holmes is summoned by Lord Hembury to Windwhistle in Devon, where the vicar's wife, Cordelia Partridge, is a cousin of Mary Morstan. Hembury's brother has been trampled to death by horses. His death had been preceded by a warning note on the church noticeboard, and accompanied by a ghostly rendition of the "Post-horn Gallop"on the church organ. Holmes & Watson stay with the Partridges, from whom they hear of the resentment in the village against the Hemburys. They also meet the widow of the man who built the organ. Holmes and Watson hear the organ being played, but find the church empty on investigating. A note threatens the life of Lord Hembury. During his explorations, Holmes shows particular interest in an old Romany caravan being used as a beehive. Hembury dies mysteriously in a moving carriage while fleeing the village. A final threat is made against Lady Hembury, before Holmes brings the case to its end and offers up his own brand of justice. |
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"The Wandering Corpse" (1993)
Included in: The Unopened Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (John Taylor)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Mrs Hudson
Other Characters: Clarissa Smallbone; Professor Horace H. Smallbone; Clarissa's Parents; Smallbone's Cousin; Jeremiah Ballantyne; Smallbone's Maid; Hannah Aubrey; Albert Aubrey; (Edward Davey)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Hackney; Stoke Newington Cemetery; Ballantyne's Office; The Smallbone Vault
Story: Holmes & Watson read of Smallbone's claims that he has used electricity to revive recently deceased animals. Later, Watson receives a letter from Smallbone asking him to visit. When he arrives at Smallbone's house, he meets the man's wife, who shows him her husband's dead body in his laboratory. She asks Watson to help bring the body upstairs, and to examine it and sign the death certificate. He diagnoses heart failure. Some days later he receives a letter from a friend saying that the dead man has been seen buying shaving equipment in a Knightsbridge pharmacy. Holmes and Watson visit the Smallbone vault, where they encounter an empty coffin, a distressed wif, and the smell of honeysuckle soap. A second client with a missing husband proves to be connected to the case, but Watson faces electrocution before it is brought to a conclusion. |
Roy Templeman
"Sherlock Holmes and the Chinese Junk Affair" (1998)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes & The Chinese Junk Affair and Other Stories (Roy Templeman)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mycroft Holmes; Lord Bellinger; Mrs Hudson; (Inspector Lestrade)
Historical Characters: (Sir Marc Aurel Stein)
Other Characters: Sir Simon Clayton; Train Passengers; Station Hotel Proprietor & Wife; Hardy's Gardener; Trap Driver; 'Trimmer' Timmons; Cabby; Timmons's Nurse; Henshaw's Shop Assistants; Henshaw's Clerk; James Henshaw; Henshaw's Son; Brighton Nurse; Cabinet Ministers; Policemen; Five Chinese Sailors; Five Chinese Craftsmen; Workshop Area Locals; (Holmes & Watson's Friend; Rodger Hardy; Hardy's Stableboy; Mrs Penrose; Mrs Penrose's Daughter; Hardy's Great-Grandfather; Great-Grandmother; Chinese Scientists; Photographer; Sir Beconfield; Poacher; Chinese Doctor; Timmons's Father; Henshaw's Wife Sons; Holmes's Casual Worker; Villagers; Hing Sung; Lord Chief Justice)
Date: (Clayton's Story: Late September - March)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Mycroft's Office; 10, Downing Street; Train; Station Hotel; Halam Hall; Clayton's House; Brook Street; James Henshaw & Sons Food Shop; Henshaw's London House; Brighton; Henshaw's Brighton House; Workshop; The Thames
Story: Mycroft takes Holmes and Watson to Downing Street, where Bellinger introduces them to Clayton. He tells them of a visit with an old university friend, Hardy, who was constructing a Chinese junk in the underground ballroom of his ancestral home. Each month he was invited back to the house to see the progress the team of Chinese boatbuilders are making, he also hears of Hardy's invention, a "Transposer", a teleport device, which he uses to transport the junk to the River Thames. He has offered to sell the Transposer to the government, and Hardy wants Holmes to find out if it the invention is genuine. Holmes and Watson visit Halam Hall, but fail to find any evidence relating to the machine or the junk. Watson is called away to attend a patient in Brighton. After his return, Holmes summons Bellinger and his ministers to a workshop where he replicates Hardy's demonstration, then goes on to show how the transfer really took place, and how Chinese funerary traditions led him to a solution. |
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"Sherlock Holmes and the Tick Tock Man" (1998)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes & The Chinese Junk Affair and Other Stories (Roy Templeman)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Baker Street Irregulars)
Other Characters: Mr Hudson; Street Photographer; Marylebone Boys & Mother; Train Driver; Fireman; Garrett's Director; Stout Gentleman; Bakewell Stallholders; Rutland Arms Chambermaid; Churchgoers; Vicar; Sidesman; Jim; Shopkeepers; Shepherd; Tom Jackson; George Hotel Landlord; Tideswell Churchyard Lady; Nether Froggatt Landlord; Landlord's Father-in-law; Villager; Reverend Stevens; Stevens's Cook; Stevens's Maid; Bookshop Owner; Joe; Eyam Villagers; Eyam Hall Woman; Eyam Historian; Eyam Shepherd; Miners' Arms Landlord; Gypsy Family; Boy with Dog; Blacksmith; Dr Charles Draycott; (Mrs Hudson's Sister; Mrs Hudson's Niece; The Tick Tock Man / Hans Reitch; Mrs Stevens; Nether Froggatt Children; Jimmy Fletcher; Mrs Fletcher; Jim's Uncle; Joe's Wife; Grocer; Schoolmaster; Farmer; Old Ted)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Marylebone Station; Train; Bakewell; Rutland Arms; Church; Tideswell; George Hotel; Churchyard; Peak District; Nether Froggatt; Inn; Church; Rectory; Eyam; St Lawrence's Church; Miners' Arms Inn; Reitch's Cottage
Story: With Mr & Mrs Hudson going away, Holmes and Watson decide to take a holiday in Derbyshire. In Bakewell Church they hear mention of a murder involving the 'Tick Tock Man'. In the village of Nether Froggatt they hear a raven repeating the words "Tick Tock Kiefernzapfen", and are told about the death of the Tick Tock man, a clockmaker, three weeks previously, and that the raven belonged to him. There was a small wound on his neck, his house was found in disarray, and it was believed that he had hidden wealth which was presumed the motive for the murder. The local vicar believes gypsies were responsible. After visiting the plague village of Eyam and meeting the gypsies, they return to Nether Froggatt and examine the Tick Tock Man's cottage. Holmes reveals the truth about the man's death and the location of his treasure. |
"Sherlock Holmes and the Trophy Room" (1998)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes & The Chinese Junk Affair and Other Stories (Roy Templeman)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson
Other Characters: Baker Street Crowds; Viscount Siddems; Street Vendors; Oyster Seller; Railway Porter; Lady Siddems; Harry; Gamekeepers; Mr Wilson; Stevens; Head Gardener; Inn Patrons; Shaw; Jim Roberts; Jack Page; Landlord; Prize Fighter; Footman; Fisherman; Stout Gentleman; Thin Lady; Porters; Cabbies; Train Passengers; Flower Sellers; Newspaper Boys; Workers; (Siddems' Father; Burglar; Police; Farmers; Gardeners; Architect; Young Jackson; Bill Jackson; Johnson; Brown; Parsons; Smith; Estate Workers; Village Boy; Sanders; Viscount's Friends; Estate Sawyer; Pond Girl; Jack's Mother; Jack's Grandmother; Jack's Neighbours; Girls Brothers & Sisters; Roberts's Wife)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Train; Viscount's Home; Village Inn; Station
Story: Viscount Siddens consults Holmes over minor thefts from his trophy room, a building separate from his house, containing polo trophies and oriental armour, surrounded by man-traps and tripwires, with a flock of geese as watchdogs. |
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Byron Tetrick
"The Future Engine" (1995)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Baker Street Irregulars; (Mrs Watson; Professor Moriarty)
Historical Characters: Henry Babbbage; (Charles Babbage)
Other Characters: Major-General Harold Thompson; Lestrade's Men; Tom; Tavern Customers; Seaman; (Import-Export Merchant; Thieves; Watchman; Willie Stokes; Bobby)
Date: October
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Simpson's-in-the-Strand; Babbage's Warehouse; Pub; Babbage's Home; Moriarty's Warehouse; Tavern near Waterloo Bridge; Moriarty's Base
Story: On the way to dinner with Watson's old commanding officer at Simpson's, Holmes bemoans the effect of the economy on his investments, as if someone is manipulating it to his disadvantage. The General discusses future advances in the machinery of warfare. The following day they are visited by Babbage, son of the inventor of the Analytical Engine. His father's device and papers have been stolen. When he learns that it works on the basis of the Binomial Theorem, Holmes quickly surmises that Moriarty is behind the theft, and using the machine to manipulate the financial markets. They visit Babbage's warehouse, and Holmes is able to deduce how the machine was removed, and his researches reveal the location of the warehouse Moriarty has taken it to. With Lestrade, they stage a raid, but find the device has already been removed. The Irregulars are set to track down its new location, but one of them is killed while doing so. Holmes locates Moriarty and the engine, and ensures that Moriarty will not be able to make further use of it. |
Jake & Luke Thoene
The Thundering Underground (1998)
Story Type: Children's Pastiche (third person) / Extra-canonical adventure of the Baker Street Irregulars with Christian emphasis
Canonical Characters: (Danny) Wiggins; The Baker Street Irregulars; Mrs Hudson; Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: Workmen; "Iron" Kelly; Riley; Chas; Charles Ruby; Reverend Mitchell Henry; Peachy Carnehan; Clair Avery; Inspector Jonathan Avery; Duff Bernard; Peachy's Customers; Billy Kelly; Marquis of Anglesey Customers; Marquis of Anglesey Host; George; Surveyor's Clerk; Carriage Driver; Protestors; Construction Site Guard; Chestnut Seller; Job Applicants; Wagon Driver; Interviewer; Cabbie; Henry; Bernardo Martinez; Randall Hanson; Gamble; Night Watchmen; Jailer; Vela; Prisoners; Cab Driver; Messenger Office Clerk; Deaf Surveyors Clerk
Locations: Tottenham Court Road; Construction Site; Whitefield Tabernacle Methodist Church; Covent Garden; Russell Street; Wellington Street; Marquis of Anglesey Pub; London Surveyors' Office; Charing Cross Road / St. Martin's Lane Intersection; Russell Street; Waterloo Bridge; Victoria Embankment; 221B, Baker Street; Waterloo Road Ragged School; Baker Street; Newgate Prison; London Messenger Service Office; Graveyard
Date: 22nd January - ?
Story: A series of accidents leads to the death of workers working on the construction of the new Central & South London Railway underground line, and protests are taking place. Peachy sees Billy Kelly collecting plans from a suspicious-looking man and follows him to the construction site. Duff gets a job at the site. Holmes invents silly putty. Foreman Kelly accuses Ruby, the construction company owner of cutting corners. Wiggins finds strange burns on Duff's trousers. Holmes and Wiggins enter the site in disguise, and Wiggins and Peachy are captured when they return later, and find themselves in Newgate Prison. After being freed they race to prevent more deaths and a robbery. |
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Donald Thomas
"The Case of the Greek Key" (2007)
Included in: The Execution of Sherlock Holmes (Donald Thomas)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Baker Street Maid; Inspector Lestrade; Tobias Gregson; Baker Street Irregulars; (Mycroft Holmes)
Fictional Characters: Alfred Swain
Historical Characters: Admiral Sir John Fisher; Viscount Esher; James Leigh Strachan-Davidson; (Edward VII; Lewis Carroll; Superintendent William Melville; Admiral Von Tirpitz)
Other Characters: Naval Officers; Whitehall Dignitaries; Coachman; Annie Constantine; Paddington Crowds; Charles Henshaw / Karl Henschel; Ashmolean Visitors; Dr Gross; Mitre Page Boy; Mitre Concierge; Billy; (Mr Lethbridge; Constantine's Maid; Preston; Draftsmen; German Intelligence Officer)
Date: October, 1908 / October - November, ? / 1914
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Dorset, St Alban's Head; Diogenes Club; Paddington Station; A Train; Oxford; Beaumont Street; Ashmolean Museum; Mitre Inn; Balliol College; Charing Cross Hotel; Scotland Yard
Story: Holmes and Watson attend a demonstration of a newly built Dreadnought battleship. Some time later they are visited by Fisher and Esher who ask him to break a German code being used by a spy in the Admiralty. Each time he cracks the code, it is changed. Lestrade brings Annie Constantine to 221B, who tells them of an explosion that caused no damage in her lodger's room. This leads Holmes and Watson to the Ashmolean Museum and a collection of Linear B tablets from the Minoan Palace on Crete, about which he consults the scholar, Strachan-Davidson. After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Holmes is consulted by Superintendent Swain of Special Branch over the still unidentified Admiralty spy to identify the lines of communication between him and those already identified as his confederates and use them against the Germans.
NOTE: Alfred Swain is a character in a series of books by Donald Thomas. |
"The Case of the Peasenhall Murder" (2007)
Included in: The Execution of Sherlock Holmes (Donald Thomas)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade
Historical Characters: Constable Eli Nunn; Rose Harsent; Dr Charles Lay; Sir Ernest Wild; Arthur Leighton; William Gardiner; William Crisp; Georgeanna Crisp; William (George) Wright; Alfonso Skinner; (Mr Guy; Georgina Gardiner; Henry Rouse; Mr Justice Grantham; Thomas Gurrin; Jury; Sir Charles Gill; Sir Edward Clarke; Mr Justice Lawrence; Sir Edward Carson; Mr Smyth; Rose's Brother; Rosanna Dickenson; Gardiner's Children; Amelia Pepper; Dr Stevenson)
Other Characters: Bell Hotel Landlady; Prison Governor; Prison Guards; (Bank Examiners; Waxworks Proprietor)
Date: June - January, 1904
Locations: Saxmundham, Saxmundham Church; Bell Hotel; Peasenhall; Providence House; Great Yarmouth; 221B, Baker Street; A Train; Ipswich Station; Ipswich Prison; The White Hart; The Doctor's Chapel, Peasenhall
Story: On an archaeological holiday with Holmes in Saxmundham, Watson is called upon to examine the body of a young woman, Rose Harsent, six months pregnant, found dead in nearby Peasenhall. Holmes accompanies him. The girl has been stabbed twice in the neck, and attempts appear to have been made to burn the body. A local chapel official, Gardiner, had been the subject of local gossip in regard to his relationship with the girl, and is charged with the murder. Six months later, Wild, his defence lawyer, consults Holmes, asking him to work with Scotland Yard to prove his client's innocence. Holmes and Lestrade visit Gardiner in prison and question him over his relationship with Harsent. Holmes and Watson return to Peasenhall to test the reliability of his accusers at the local chapel. |
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"The Case of the Phantom Chambermaid" (2007)
Included in: The Execution of Sherlock Holmes (Donald Thomas)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Tobias Gregson; (Mrs Hudson; Baker Street Page)
Historical Characters: Edmund Gurney; (Comte Henri-Gratien Bertrand; Napoleon)
Other Characters: Reverend James Milner; Mrs Deans; Effie Deans; Royal Albion Waiter; Professor Joshua D. Chamberlain; Aquarium Audience; Madame Elvira; Charles Smith; Chamberlain's Assistant; Royal Albion Night Porter; Pageboy; Hotel Manager; Steamer Passengers; Hansom Drivers; Policeman; Library Clerk; Jobson; Hotel Guests; (Hotel Porter; The Todgers; Alf Deans)
Date: Midsummer, 1887
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train; Brighton; Royal Albion Hotel; Brighton Aquarium; Chain Pier; Brighton Station; Victoria Station; Haymarket; Messageries Maritimes; Pall Mall; St James's Street Library; Kentish Town; Fortress Road
Story: Holmes bemoans the fact that his only case in hand is of little interest, until he hears its full details: A chambermaid, Effie Deans has been dismissed from her job at the Royal Albion Hotel, Brighton, after reportedly being seen entering Edmund Gurney's room during the night. Her mother claims that on the night in question, Effie was at home. Gurney had been investigating a pair of spiritualists, Chamberlain and Elvira, performing at the aquarium. Holmes and Watson take rooms at the Royal Albion, and attend Chamberlain's demonstration of mesmerism and mind-reading. Holmes takes an interest in the pair's imminent departure in the middle of a successful run. He uses Gurney's chloroform addiction as a ruse to enter his hotel room. A search reveals a letter from Chamberlain that may not be all it seems. A pursuit to London becomes a race to save Gurney's life. |
"The Execution of Sherlock Holmes" (2007)
Included in: The Execution of Sherlock Holmes (Donald Thomas)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Charles Augustus Milverton; Milverton's Murderess; Inspector Lestrade; Tobias Gregson; Captain James Calhoun; Jabez Wilson; (Lady Eva Brackwell; The Earl Of Dovercourt; Colonel (Captain Alexander) Dorking; The Hon. Miss (Clementina) Miles; Countess d'Albert; Mrs Hudson; Hugo Oberstein; Giuseppe Gorgiano; Mycroft Holmes; Colonel James Moriarty; Harold Latimer; Wilson Kemp; Baker Street Irregulars; Billy)
Historical Characters: (Henry Williams; Dr John Tyndall)
Other Characters: Henry Caius Milverton; Petty Officer Alker; Crellin; McIver; Carters; Costermongers; Fothergill; Organ Grinder; Constable; Pall Mall Beggars; Diogenes Club Porter; Pall Mall Watcher; Eagle Customers; Flower Girl & Sister; Post Office Clerk; Post Office Customers; Refreshment Stall Customers; Lounger; City Road Crowd; Underground Passengers; (American Treasury Agent)
Date: January, 1899 / Spring - mid-April, 1902
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Hampstead; Appledore Towers; Hampstead Heath; Newgate Prison; Newgate Street; Trafalgar Square; Pall Mall; Diogenes Club; The East India Club; The City Road; Denmark Square; Shepherdess Walk; The Eagle Tavern; Oculist's Shop; Baker Street; Post Office; Refreshment Stall; Kensington Station; Hyde Park; Rotten Row
Story: Three years after Milverton's death, Holmes finds himself a drugged prisoner of the blackmailer's son, who plans to put him "on trial" and execute him before an audience of old adversaries. Watson spends weeks searching for him. Holmes realises he is in Newgate Prison, and begins battling the drugs he is given and planning an escape. After his escape he communicates with Watson through coded messages in the press and with the aid of Jabez Wilson to finish off the rest of the gang. |
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"The Queen of the Night" (2007)
Included in: The Execution of Sherlock Holmes (Donald Thomas)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Alexander (Lord) Holder; Mycroft Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; Colonel Moriarty; (Arthur Holder; Tobias Gregson; Professor Moriarty; Jabez Wilson; Stationmaster Moriarty; Captain James Calhoun)
Fictional Characters: (Count Fosco)
Historical Characters: Edward VII; Queen Alexandra; George V; Queen Mary; Muzaffar al-Din; (William IV; Major Georges Piquart; The Lord Mayor (Sir Joseph Dimsdale))
Other Characters: Inspector Jago; Jago's Men; Lord Adolphus Longstaffe; Luncheon Guests; Shah of Persia; Dressers; Provost Guards; Captain; Lord Mayor's Chamberlain; City of London Police Superintendent; Constable; Police Driver; Charing Cross Passengers; Ticket Collectors; Telegraph Office Manager; Hotel Lift Boy; (Lord Alfred Longstaffe; Lady Adeline Longstaffe; Raoul Grenier; Major Robert Moriarty; Henrietta Jane Moriarty; Young Girl; Girl's Father; Mary Jeffries; Earl of Dorset; Colonel Lemonnier)
Date: Early 1902
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Mansion House; Charing Cross Station; Charing Cross Hotel
Story: Holmes is consulted again by Alexander, now Lord Holder. His client, Lord Adolphus Longstaffe, herald to the Prince of Wales is owner of the ceremonial Queen of the Night diamond, to be worn at the upcoming Coronation. Holder has learned that a copy has been commissioned and fears that a theft is planned. Holmes reveals that he is already aware of this, and later tells Watson of Colonel Moriarty's involvement, and the role of Moriarty family history in the plot. Mycroft and Lestrade call on Holmes to protect the Crown Jewels during the Coronation, but he refuses. Later he condescends to view the route of the Coronation procession, and rooms at the Mansion House where the Lord Mayor's luncheon will be held some days after the main event. Holmes deduces that Moriarty will make his move at the luncheon, and makes arrangements with Jago to prevent the theft, but all does not go according to plan and a chase across London ensues. |
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Will Thomas
Some Danger Involved (2004)
Story Type: Extra-canonical adventure of Barker (Holmes's "hated rival" in "The Retired Colourman")
Canonical Characters: Barker
Historical Characters: Charles Haddon Spurgeon; Sir Moses Montefiore; Lord Rothschild; Israel Zangwill
Other Characters: Thomas Llewelyn; Job Applicants; Jenkins; Ho; Ho's Customer's; Asian Waiter; John Racket; Tailor; Cobbler; Barber; Haberdasher; Tobacconist; Import Firm Proprietor; Jacob Maccabee; Morgue Guard; Morgue Attendants; Inspector Terence Poole; Louis Pokrzywa; P.C. Morrow; Dr. Vandeleur; Rabbi Mocatta; Rabbi's Assistants; Montefiore's Footman; Market Traders; Petticoat Lane Constable; Michael Da Silva; Bucharest Waiter; Reb Moishe Shlomo; Chinese Workmen; Etienne Dummolard; Simon Ben Loew; Rabbi; Funeral Congregation; Reverend Andrew McClain; Tower Constables; Raven Master; Yeoman Warders; Robert; Scotland Yard Desk Officer; Police Officers; Cabman; Schoolchildren; Simon Ben Loew; Arthur Weinberg; Levi Rosenthal; Ira Moskowitz; Theodore Ben Judah; Isaiah Birnbaum; Ferd Kosminski; Mrs. Silverman; Reverend Algernon Painsley; Reverend Brunhoff; Rushford's Sikh Manservant; Walter Rushford; Neapolitan Waiters; Victor Gigliotti; Antony; Gigliotti's Guards; Nightwine's Butler; Sebastian Nightwine; Frederick Rosewood; Rebecca Mocatta; Mabel Mocatta; Pavilion Audience; Ushers; Asher Cowen; Cowen's Audience; Barbados Club Proprietor; Mrs. Stahl; Mocatta's Footman; Waldman; Upstairs Maid; Servants; Aldgate Policemen; Constable; Miriam Smith; Orient Street Residents; Jasper; Street Artist; Attackers; Veiled Woman; Albert McElroy; Petticoat Lane Mob; The Golem Squad; John Smith; Dr. Allcroft; Nurse; Cabbie; Mireille Drummolard; (Wilhelm Koehler; James 'Bully Boy' Briggs; Smith's Audience; Hyde Park Constables; Ioan Llewelyn; Mr. Wynn; Lord Glendinning; Palmister Clay; Jenny (Ashby) Llewelyn; Cora Ashby; Clay's Friends; The Widow)
Date: 13th- after 20th March, 1884
Locations: Whitehall Street; British Museum Reading Room; 7, Craig's Court; Whitechapel; Ho's Restaurant; Holborn; K&R Krause, Tailor's Shop; Savile Row; Oxford Street; Mincing Lane; Newington; Barker's Residence; Whitehall; The Rising Sun; Waterloo Road; The Metropolitan Tabernacle; Tower Road Morgue; Aldgate; St. Swithen Lane; Montefiore's Residence; Petticoat Lane; Bevis Marks Synagogue; Duke's Place; The Bucharest Café; Jewish Cemetery; Mile End Road; McClain's Mission; Tower of London; Scotland Yard; The Jews' Free School; 43, Wilkes Street; Poplar; First Messianic Church; Painsley's Church; Camden; The Universal Church of the New Jerusalem; The Minories; Racket's Stable; Chelsea; Cheyne Row; Marsham Street; The Neapolitan Restaurant; Belgravia; Jermyn Street; Pavilion Theatre; Waterloo; Waterloo Bridge; Brick Lane; Flower and Dean Street; Cowen's Meeting Room; Cornhill Street; St. Michael's Alley; Barbados Club; St. John's Wood; Mocatta's Residence; Aldgate Station; 327A, Orient Street; Le Tondre d'Or Restaurant; (Hyde Park; Cwmbran, Gwent; Oxford; Holywell Street; China; Foochow)
Story: Responding to an advertisement in the Times, Llewelyn finds himself working for enquiry agent, Barker. His first case with Barker is the murder of a Jewish teacher, Pokrzywa, who bears a strong resemblance to El Greco's Christ, and who has been crucified. Sir Moses Montefiore links the murder to a growing tide of Anti-Semitism in the country. They attend the dead man's funeral, and arrange to talk with those who knew him. Llewelyn continues his training in the skills he will need as Barker's assistants and meets more of Barker's contacts. Barker enquires into Pokrzywa's relationship with Rabbi Moccatta's daughter, and in his rooms they find his journals. Barker detects a recent growing interest in Christianity in Pokryzywa leading up to his death. Their continuing investigations take them among Londons anti-Semite and eugenicist communities. Llewelyn is shot at, and the shooting may be linked to the Camorra. At a meeting of Jews, Llewelyn hears of the Golem, and finds himself working as a servant in a rabbi's house. While he is there another biblical murder occurs, this time a woman. A pitched battle in Petticoat Lane and a betrayal lead the case to its conclusion, after which Barker strikes a deal with Lord Rothschild. |
Brian M. Thomsen
"Mouse and the Master" (1995)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; A Baker Street Irregular (Wilson)
Fictional Characters: Dracula; Dr. Jekyll; Alice; Dorian Gray; Phileas Fogg
Historical Characters: Arthur Conan Doyle; Brian M. Thomsen
Other Characters: Malcolm 'Mouse' Chandler; Madame Morbid; Lothar
Locations: Chandler's Quarters; 221B, Baker Street; Whitechapel; Six Bells Tavern
Story: Holmes summons private investigator, Chandler, to Baker Street for some help in relation to Watson. He explained that much of Watson, now a bigamist, writes is wildly inaccurate, based on the fact that he is hard of hearing. He now claims to be hearing voices and communicating with "Artie". Holmes sends Chandler to a Séance Watson is attending, to look after him, prior to his enforced retirement trip to the Reichenbach Falls. The Séance is attended by a number of familiar figures, all trying to communicate with their creators. Chandler believes the Séance is a set-up, until he hears a voice of his own. Returning later to investigate the rooms in which the seance was held, he is blackjacked, and learns of the medium's schemes, before his voice helps him get free. |
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James Thurber
"The Case Book of James Thurber" (1953)
Included in: Thurber on Crime (James Thurber)
Story Type: Homage / Parody
Detective: James Thurber
Other Characters: George Spencer; Harry Huff; Shirley Combs
Story: While investigating the Case of the Gloucestershire Sympathizer, Thurber is reminded of the Case of the Young Woman Named Sherlock Holmes. Thurber was told by his friend Spencer of a man, Harry Huff, who was going to marry a woman called Sherlock Holmes. Thurber phones Huff to find out the truth.
NOTE: The Case of the Young Woman Named Sherlock Holmes is only part of "The Case Book of James Thurber", which also relates the Case of the Gloucestershire Sympathizer and the Curious Adventure of the Oral Surgeons' Mouse. Neither of these sections has any Sherlockian content. |
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T.P.J.
"The Bound of the Haskervilles" (1930)
Included in: As It Might Have Been (Robert C.S. Adey)
Story Type: Parody
Detectives: Herlock Sholmes and Dr Jotson
Other Characters: Mrs Bloomer; Doctor; Train Guard; The Earl of Haskerville; The Hon. Horace Marmaduke Haskerville; (Oil Magnate)
Locations: Shaker Street; Little Wartlebury-in-the-Marsh; Haskerville House
Story: Sholmes and Jotson are called upon by the Haskerville family doctor. The Haskerville heir, on attaining his majority, is traditionally told a secret and set the task of jumping a dyke. The current heir, however, cannot jump. Sholmes agrees to help solve the problem. He and Jotson travel to Haskerville Hall where a gift from an Eastern oil magnate makescthe heir leap and Jotson faint. |
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Peter Tremayne
"The Affray at the Kildare Street Club" (1997)
Included in: The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike Ashley); An Ensuing Evil and Others (Peter Tremayne)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mycroft Holmes; Professor Moriarty; Colonel Moran
Other Characters: Waiters; Lord Rosse; Viscount Massereene & Ferrard; Lord Clonmell; Marquess Beresford of Waterford; Beresford's Brother; The Duke of Cloncury & Straffan; Head Waiter; Club Chairman; Cloakroom Attendant; Doorman
Date: September, 1873
Locations: Dublin; The Kildare Street Club; a cab
Story: Holmes tells Watson of an early case in Dublin. Dining at the exclusive Kildare Street Club, Mycroft identifies two fellow diners as Professor Moriarty & Colonel Moran. Later the two are seen to argue and leave, Moran later returns. Meanwhile the Duke of Cloncury & Straffan has had a silver hairbrush stolen in the cloakrooms. Holmes is able to use his powers of observation & analysis to recover the missing object. |
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"The Kidnapping of Mycroft Holmes" (2003)
Included in: An Ensuing Evil and Others (Peter Tremayne)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Lord Maynooth; Mycroft Holmes; (Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade)
Historical Characters: Superintendent John Mallon; Mr O'Keeffe; (Lord Frederick Cavendish; Thomas Burke; William Ewart Gladstone)
Other Characters: Constable; MacVitty; Cap'n; Cap'n's Companion; Shadowy Guard; Bearded Man; IRB Man; Messenger; Irish Police; Maulnagower Guards
Date: May 6, 1882
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Ferry; Dublin; Merrion Square; Kildare Street Club; Corner of Dawson Street & St Stephen's Green; Train; Maulnagower
Story: After receiving a cryptic telegram from Mycroft, Holmes learns that his brother has been kidnapped in Dublin, and travels to Ireland with Watson. There he learns that Mycroft was abducted at gunpoint in a carriage. Holmes and Watson are themselves abducted by carriage, and their meeting with Mycroft's masters, who fear a plot is afoot to discredit both Parnell and Gladstone, is interrupted by news of the assassination of Burke and Cavendish. Holmes decode's Mycroft's telegram to uncover a traitor in their midst. |
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"The Siren of Sennen Cove" (2001)
Included in: Murder in Baker Street (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower); An Ensuing Evil and Others (Peter Tremayne)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Dr. Moore Agar; Mr. Roundhay; Mortimer Tregennis; The Sophy Anderson)
Other Characters: Mrs. Chirgwin; Sir Jelbart Trevossow; Trevossow's Coachman; Mr. Neal; Noall Tresawna; Captain Silas Trevossow; Harry Penwarne; Penwarne's Manservant; (Shipwreck Survivors; Skipper & Crew of the Torrington Lass)
Date: April, 1897
Locations: Cornwall; Poldhu Bay; Holmes & Watson's Cottage; Sennen; Chy Trevescan; Pedn-men-du; Sennen Cove; Tregriffian House
Story: While still in Cornwall after the Devil's Foot affair Holmes is visited by Trevossow who tells him of stories that a beautiful siren has been luring ships onto the rocks in Sennen Cove. Survivors report seeing a naked woman, large and shimmering white, dancing on the rocks, and hearing heavy breathing from the direction of the rocks. Holmes and Watson journey to Sennen and are rowed out into the Cove to investigate. They see the phantom and save a ship, but the woman disappears before they can investigate further. They return the following night and examine the cliff on which the woman appeared - it appears impossible for anyone to stand on it. Investigation of nearby rocks reveals some broken glass and a Leclanche cell which lead Holmes to his solution. |
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"The Specter of Tullyfane Abbey" (2001)
Included in: Villains Victorious (Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers); An Ensuing Evil and Others (Peter Tremayne)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; James Phillimore; Professor Moriarty; Mycroft Holmes
Historical Characters: Bram Stoker; George Stoker; (Sir William & Lady Wilde; Oscar Wilde)
Other Characters: Jack Phillimore; Agnes Phillimore; Malone; Dennis McGillycuddy; A Young Boy; Dr. John MacDonnell; Sub-Inspector Dalton; Dr. Simms-Taafe
Date: 1871 or after
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Dublin: The Theatre Royal; A Train; Tullyfane Abbey
Story: Reading Watson's draft of Thor Bridge, Holmes berates him for providing the public with a list of his failures, including the case of Colonel James Phillimore. Holmes proceeds to tell Watson of the affair, which occurred in his youth. Holmes & Stoker meet Holmes's Oxford acquaintance Jack Phillimore at the theatre in Dublin. Holmes is disappointed that Jack's sister, Agnes, is not with him, moreso when he is told that she is to be married in one month, to a Professor Moriarty. Jack invites Holmes to Tullyfane Abbey where they are "having increasing problems with the family ghost". Jack's father Colonel Phillimore is approaching his 50th birthday, the day on which he will die, according to the family curse. Meanwhile, Moriarty is trying to gain possession of Tullyfane Abbey. At dinner the sound of a child's sobbing is heard, Moriarty offers to buy the house, but the Colonel refuses. The following day as they are about to set out on a walk into town, the Colonel steps back into the house for his umbrella, and completely disappears. It is only years later that Holmes is finally able to put all the pieces together. |
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"A Study in Orange" (2003)
Included in: My Sherlock Holmes (Michael Kurland); An Ensuing Evil and Others (Peter Tremayne)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Watson & Colonel Moran
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Colonel Moran; Cardinal Tosca; Mycroft Holmes;
Historical Characters: Inspector John Littlechild; Wolf Shield (Lord Randolph Churchill); (Pope Leo XIII; Lord Salisbury)
Other Characters: Dr. Thomson; Sir Gibson Glassford; Glassford's Housemaid; Hogan; Father Michael; Detective Inspector Gallagher; Cardinal Tosca's secretary; Coroner; Father Michael's Housekeeper; Glassford's Wife; Glassford's Servants; Workmen; Elderly Lady; Bert Small; Glassford's Nanny; Glassford's Cook; Special Branch Men
Date: 1903 & November 1890
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Gayfere Street; Glassford's House; Scotland Yard; A Hansom Cab; Mortuary; Soho, St. Patrick's Church; Another Hansom; Canon Row; Small's office; Westminster Bridge; The Embankment; Underground Tunnels
Story: Holmes allows Watson to read Moran's account of the death of Cardinal Tosca. The Cardinal's body was found in the guest bedroom of MP Sir Gibson Glassford. Sir Gibson denies ever having met the Cardinal. Holmes discovers that the Cardinal had been invited to London to take part in discussions on the Irish Problem. After smelling the clothes that the Cardinal had been wearing, Holmes starts searching London's various underground tunnel systems, and eventually uncovers a plot to overthrow the government.
NOTE: "Wolf Shield" in Anglo-Saxon translates to "Randolph". |
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Mark Twain
A Double-Barrelled Detective Story (1902)
Included in: The Mammoth Book Of Comic Crime (Maxim Jakubowski); The Misadventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen) and as a novel in its own right.
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: Virginia Jacob Fuller; Mrs Fuller / Stillman; Farmers; Mrs Fuller's Father; Archy Stillman; Villagers; Reporter; Train Conductor; Denver Jacob Fuller / David Wilson / James Walker; Sammy Hillyer; Flint Buckner; Fetlock Jones; Pat Riley; Miners; Jake Parker; Peter Hawes; Ferguson; Billy Stevens; Ham Sandwich; Peterson; Mrs Hogan; Injun Billy; Hogan's Child; Constable Harris; Tom Jeffries; Daly's Gorge Gang; Shadbelly Higgins; Sheriff Jack Fairfax
Date: 1880 / 1886 / April 3, 1897 - October, 1900
Locations: Virginia; New England; Denver; Silver Gulch, Montana; San Francisco; Hope Canyon, California
Story: Jacob Fuller, bearer of the 'Sedgemoor Trademark' ties his young bride to a tree and sets his bloodhounds on her and flees. Their son is born in New England, where she takes the name, Stillman. The boy, Archy, is blessed with the sense of smell of a bloodhound and can see in the dark. When he becomes sixteen she tells him about his father, now a gold-miner, and sends him to torment him by driving him out of any place he finds him. Archie sets out on the task, finding his father in Denver, and following him to Silver Gulch mining camp in Montana. Returning to Denver Archy learns that he has the wrong Jacob Fuller. He finds the man gone when he returns to Silver Gulch, and sets out to find him and restore his fortunes. He follows him all over the world, finally coming back to California where he rests up in Hope Canyon, another mining camp. The black sheep of Hope Canyon is Flint Buckner, who has an English youth, Fetlock Jones as his servant. Although mistreated, he is scared to leave Buckner, but dreams of murdering him. He comes up with a plan after Buckner leaves him in a hole with a burning fuse. Archy helps find a missing child.
Holmes arrives in Hope Canyon, which makes his nephew Fetlock's plans to kill Buckner more complicated. Buckner is killed in an explosion at his cabin. After investigating, Holmes accuses Hillyer of the crime. Archy sets out to prove his innocence. Holmes challenges him on his deductions. Archy examines everyone's feet, and Holmes finds himself implicated in the murder. The murderer is imprisoned, Holmes is captured by a gang from Daly's Gorge, and Archy finally achieves his goal with both Fullers. |
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