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Abbey School (BLAN)
Sherlock Holmes and the Abbey School Mystery (John Hall)

Abergavenny Murder (PRIO)
"The Abergavenny Adventure" (Clive Brooks)
"The Case of the Suicidal Lawyer" (Martin Edwards)
 "The Adventure of the Mad Baritone" (Lindsay Faye)
"The Case of the Ferrers Documents" (June Thomson) 105-106, 113; The Winged Wheel (Peter H. Wood) 153

Abernetty Family, The dreadful business of the - which was first brought to Holmes' notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day (SIXN)
"The Adventure of the Sunken Parsley" (David W. Barber)
 "The Adventure of the Hollow Bank" (Matthew Booth)
"An Empty House" (Lindsay Faye)
"The Abernetty Mystery" (Paul D. Gilbert)
Sherlock Holmes and the Shakespeare Letter (Barry Grant) 111-112, 132-137
"The Case of the Incumbent Invalid" (Claire Griffen)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Michael & Mollie Hardwick) 23
"The Three Monarchs" (Anthony Horowitz)
"The Dilemma of the Distressed Savoyard" (Crighton Sellars) 449, 454-460
"The Case of the Wimbledon Tragedy" (June Thomson)
"The Coole Park Problem" (Michéal & Clare Breathnach) 171; Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 157; "The Adventure of the Extraordinary Lodger" (M.J. Elliott) 25; The House of Silk (Anthony Horowitz) 56; Moriarty (Anthony Horowitz) 57, 145; The Adventure of the Stalwart Companions (H. Paul Jeffers) 18; Murder Most Irregular (H. Paul Jeffers) 146; Death by Gaslight (Michael Kurland) 159; "The Adventure of the Bathing Machine" (Henry Ledgard & Andrew Singer) 42; The Labyrinth of Death (James Lovegrove) 128; "Stately Homes and the Invisible Slasher" (Arthur Porges) 96; The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man (Daniel Stashower) 185; Sherlock Holmes ~ The Way of All Flesh (Daniel Ward) 15-16

Abrahams, Old - who was in mortal terror of his life (LADY)
"The Case of the Shopkeeper's Terror" (June Thomson)
Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 40, 45-49, 54-55, 64, 80, 82, 84, 99, 255, 276 {The Mortal Terror of Old Isaacs}; The Revenge of the Hound (Michael Hardwick) 20, 41, 87

Addleton Tragedy (GOLD)
"Time Patrol" (Poul Anderson) 19-37
"The Adventure of the Giant’s Hand" (Matthew Booth)
"The Adventure of Foulkes Rath" (Adrian Conan Doyle)
"The Case of the Addleton Tragedy" (Jack Grochot)
"The Adventure of the Red Barrow Horror" (Daniel McGachey)
"The Case of the Ancient British Barrow" (Terry McGarry)
"The Mystery of the Addleton Curse" (Barrie Roberts)
"The Case of the Addleton Tragedy" (June Thomson)
"The Adventure of the Rara Avis" (Carolyn Wheat)
"The Repulsive Story of the Red Leech" (Morgan Llywelyn) 60; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 185; The Dead Can Wait (Robert Ryan) 110; "The Case of the Smith-Mortimer Succession" (June Thomson) 163

Agar, Dr Moore - Dramatic Introduction to (DEVI)
"The Tragedy at Saxon’s Gate" (Matthew Booth)
Dust and Shadow (Lyndsay Faye)
Enter the Lion (Michael P. Hodel & Sean M. Wright) 47-49, 51, 73-75, 79-81, 110, 208
"The Shadows on the Lawn" (Barry Jones)
The West End Horror (Nicholas Meyer) 134-139
"The Adventure of the Faithful Retainer" (Amy Myers) 367-368
"The Case of the Harley Street Specialist" (June Thomson)
The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 146; "The Three Monarchs" (Anthony Horowitz) 292; Sherlock Holmes and the Earthquake Machine (Austin Mitchelson & Nicholas Utechin) 52; "The Siren of Sennen Cove" (Peter Tremayne) 51

Alicia, The Cutter - which sailed one spring morning into a small patch of mist from where she never again emerged (THOR)
"The Greatest Tertian" (Anthony Boucher) 82
"The Adventure of the Alicia Cutter" (Clive Brooks)
"The Case of the Disloyal Servant" (Colin Bruce) 172-174
"The Problem of the Sore Bridge - Among Others" (Philip Jose Farmer) 57-63
"The Disappearance of the Cutter Alicia" (John Hall)
Sherlock Holmes Vs. Dracula (Loren D. Estleman) 11, 173-174; Sherlock Holmes and Frankenstein’s Diary (Barry Grant) 126, 152; "The Adventure of the Sally Martin" (H. Paul Jeffers) 167; "Morte De Sherlock" (Stephen A. Kallis) 167; "The Adventure of the Solitary Grave" (Christian Klaver) 2; Sherlock Holmes & Dracula (Christian Klaver) 2; The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (Nicholas Meyer) 150; "The Adventure of A Rat" (Adrian Middleton) 178; Sherlock Holmes and the Affair in Transylvania (Gerry O’Hara) 5; "The Adventure of the Extraterrestrial" (Mack Reynolds) 180-181; "The Adventure of the Command Performance" (J.W. Sovine) 20; "The Siren of Sennen Cove" (Peter Tremayne) 55

Aluminium Crutch, The Singular Affair of (MUSG)
"The Affair of the Aluminium Crutch" (H. Bedford-Jones)
"The Adventure of the Aluminium Crutch" (Clive Brooks)
"The Singular Affair of the Aluminium Crutch" (Ian Charnock)
"The Adventure of the Aluminum Crutch" (S.E. Dahlinger)
"The Adventure of the Cripple Parade" (John L. DeAndrea)
"The Affair of the Aluminium Crutch" (Paul D. Gilbert)
"The Case of the Aluminium Crutch" (June Thomson)
"The Adventure of the Brimstone Chalice" (Dr. Hill Barton) 288; The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 113-126; "Nothing of Value" (Alan Bradley) 62; The Adventures of Young Stamford (Richard M. Caplan, M.D.) 3; Watson's Last Case (Ian Charnock) 21; "The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers" (Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr) 67; "Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Hamlet" (Emanuel E. Garcia) 7; I, Sherlock Holmes (Michael Harrison) 6; The Secret Diary of Dr. Watson (Anita Janda) 47; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 5; Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (James Lovegrove) 58; "Dr Blackadder’s Clients" (Arthur Porges) 63; Dead Man’s Land (Robert Ryan) 88; "Sussex Interview" (P.M.Stone) 414; A Three-Pipe Problem (Julian Symons) 19; "The Case of the Boulevard Assassin" (June Thomson) 59

Amateur Mendicant Society - who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a furniture warehouse (FIVE)
"The Adventure of the Amateur Mendicant Society" (John Betancourt)
"The Adventure of the Mendicant's Face" (M.J. Elliott)
"The Adventure of the Beggar’s Feast" (Lindsay Faye)
"The Case of the Amateur Mendicants" (Ken Greenwald)
Death By Gaslight (Michael Kurland) 144-151, 215
"The Queen’s Writing Table" (Julie McKuras)
"The Case of the Amateur Mendicants" (June Thomson)
The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 95; Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 88; The Improbable Prisoner (Stuart Douglas) 256; Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 184-186 {The Laymen Mendicant Society}; "The Singular Affair of Mr. Phillip Phot" (The Greek Interpreters of East Lansing) 79); "The Case of the Camberwell Poisoners" (Ken Greenwald) 141; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 90-91; Sherlock Holmes and the Golden Bird (Frank Thomas) 141; "The Case of the Vanishing Barque" (June Thomson) 143; The Mycroft Memoranda (Ray Walsh) 118

Arnsworth Castle Business (SCAN)
"The Adventure of the Red Widow" (Adrian Conan Doyle)
"The Case of the Arnsworth Affair" (June Thomson)
"The Adventure of the Hanging Tyrant" (M.J. Elliott) 77; "Sussex Interview" (P.M.Stone) 414; Sherlock Holmes ~ The Way of All Flesh (Daniel Ward) 109

Atkinson Brothers at Trincomalee, The Singular Tragedy of (SCAN)
"The Vanishing of the Atkinsons" (Eric Brown)
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Michael Dibdin) 139-145
 "The Oxford Calendar" (K.V.K. Murthy)
Watson's Last Case (Ian Charnock) 186; The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 41; "The Paradol Chamber" (H. Paul Jeffers) 42; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 40; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 92; "A Singular Affair at Trincomalee" (Ted Riccardi) 224-225, 232; Sherlock Holmes and the Nine-Dragon Sigil (Tim Symonds) 17; Sherlock Holmes and the Golden Bird (Frank Thomas) 37

Bishopgate Jewel Case (SIGN)
"The Puzzle of the Vanishing Laboratory" (Peter Calamai) 9; "The Case of the Addleton Tragedy" (Jack Grochot) 98; Moriarty (Anthony Horowitz) 54; The Surrogate Assassin (Christopher Leppek) 7; The Mycroft Memoranda (Ray Walsh) 26; Sherlock Holmes ~ The Way of All Flesh (Daniel Ward) 44
Bishopegate Jewel Case: Sherlock Holmes and the Treasure Train (Frank Thomas) 98

Blackmailer - one of the most revered names in England is being besmirched by (HOUN)
"The Adventure of the Two Women" (Adrian Conan Doyle)
"Memoranda upon the Gaskell Blackmailing Dilemma" (Lindsay Faye)
"The Case of the Exalted Client" (June Thomson)
And Then There Was No One (Gilbert Adair) 59; "The Adventure of John Vincent Harden" (Hugh Ashton) 294; The Secret Diary of Dr. Watson (Anita Janda) 62, 65, 71, 92

Bogus Laundry Affair, The (CARD)
The Ersatz Laundry Affair: Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 67-69

British Barrow, The Ancient - The Singular Contents of (GOLD)
"Time Patrol" (Poul Anderson) 18-37
"The Adventure of the Giant’s Hand" (Matthew Booth)
Young Sherlock: The Adventure At Ferryman's Creek (Gerald Frow)
"The Adventure of the Double-Edged Hoard" (Craig Janacek)
"The Adventure of the Red Barrow Horror" (Daniel McGachey)
"The Case of the Ancient British Barrow" (Terry McGarry)
"The Adventure of the Arab's Manuscript" (Michael Reaves)
"The Mystery of the Addleton Curse" (Barrie Roberts)
"The Case of the Addleton Tragedy" (June Thomson)
"The Adventure of the Rara Avis" (Carolyn Wheat)
Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 234, 236-243, 248, 252, 278; "The Repulsive Story of the Red Leech" (Morgan Llywelyn) 60; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 185; The Crimes of Dr Watson (Duane Swierczynski) 9; "Report of A Recent Conversation In A Remote Cottage on the South Downs" (Norman W. Ward) 76

Brooks - who had good reason for taking Holmes' life (BRUC)
"The Case of Young Vamberry, the Wine Merchant" (Ian Charnock)
I, Sherlock Holmes (Michael Harrison) 6

Camberwell Poisoning Case (FIVE)
"The Camberwell Poisoner" (Ruth Douglass)
"The Adventure of the Gold Hunter" (Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr)
"The Case of the Camberwell Poisoners" (Ken Greenwald)
Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 91
"The Case of the Camberwell Poisoning" (June Thomson)
"The Adventure of the Sunken Parsley" (David W. Barber) 199; Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 88; "The Adventure of the Forgetful Assassin" (M.J. Elliott) 100; Dust and Shadow (Lyndsay Faye) 15; "Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Mary Celeste" (Tristan Jones) 59; Death by Gaslight (Michael Kurland) 159; "Sussex Interview" (P.M.Stone) 414; "The Case of the Vanishing Barque" (June Thomson) 143

Conk-Singleton Forgery Case (SIXN)
"The Conk-Singleton Affair" (Clive Brooks)
 "The Adventure of the Conk-Singleton Papers" (John Dickson Carr)
"The Case of the Conk-Singleton Forgery" (June Thomson)
"A Study in Abstruse Detail" (Wendy C. Fries) 313; The Pandora Plague (Lee A. Matthias) 8; "Codeine (7 Per Cent)" (Christopher Morley) 424-425
Cook-Singleton forgery: "The Haunting of Sherlock Holmes" (H. Paul Jeffers) 108

Coptic Patriarchs, Case of the Two (RETI)
"The Adventure of the Coptic Patriarch" (Séamus Duffy)
Sherlock Holmes and the Unholy Trinity (Paul D. Gilbert)
The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 49-76, 78, 112
"The Case of the Two Coptic Patriarchs" (John A. Wilson)
"The Finishing Stroke" (M.J. Elliott) 113; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 57; Sherlock Holmes and the Nine-Dragon Sigil (Tim Symonds) 17-18

Crosby the Banker, The Terrible Death of (GOLD)
 "The Case of the Red Leech" (Clive Brooks)
"The Adventure of the Touch of God" (Peter Crowther)
"The Adventure of the Willow Basket" (Lyndsay Faye)
"The Adventure of the Red Leech" (Paul D. Gilbert)
The Final Solution (Walter J. Harmidarow) 76-128
The Vampire Serpent (Kel Richards)
Sherlock Holmes and the Crosby Murder (Barrie Roberts)
"The Case of the Barton Wood Murder" (June Thomson)
Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) 32; "Sunshine, Sunshine" (Benjamin S. Clark) 291; The Revenge of Moriarty (John Gardner) 15; "The Mystery of the Mumbling Duellist" (Paul D. Gilbert) 188; Prisoner of the Devil (Michael Hardwick) 15; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 5; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 185; "The Case of the Eccentric Bequest" (Jane Rubino) 151; The Crimes of Dr Watson (Duane Swierczynski) 9
Hope The Banker: Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 63, 83, 88, 93-101, 115, 120, 196, 213

Darlington Substitution Scandal (SCAN)
"The Darlington Substitution Scandal" (David Stuart Davies)
"The Adventure of the Honest Wife" (Lindsay Faye)
"The Darlington Substitution" (H. Paul Jeffers)
"The Darlington Substitution Scandal" (Henry Slesar)
"The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers" (Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr); "Murder at the Murray Hill" (Edgar W. Smith) 66; Sherlock Holmes ~ The Way of All Flesh (Daniel Ward) 109

Dowson, Baron - who said the night before he was hanged that in Holmes's case what the law had gained the stage had lost (MAZA)
"Sherlock's Christmas Gift" (Frank Thomas) 90

Dundas Separation Case, The - The husband...had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife (IDEN)
"The Dundas Separation Case" (Paul D. Gilbert)
All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 173-174
The Hampstead Poisonings (Glen Petrie) 1, 15

Etherege, Mrs. - whose husband Holmes found so easy when the police and everyone had given him up for dead (IDEN)
"The Adventure of the Command Performance" (J.W. Sovine) 21; The Mycroft Memoranda (Ray Walsh) 145

Farintosh, Mrs. - a case concerned with an opal tiara (SPEC)
"Mrs. Farintosh & An Opal Tiara" (Ian Charnock)
"Mrs. Farintosh and the Opal Tiara" (James R. Stefanie)
Watson's Last Case (Ian Charnock) 22; I, Sherlock Holmes (Michael Harrison) 6, 61; Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (James Lovegrove) 287; The Childhood of Sherlock Holmes (Mona Morstein) 1-2; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 36; Sherlock Holmes and the Golden Bird (Frank Thomas) 2, 4; Sherlock Holmes and the Masquerade Murders (Frank Thomas) 231

Ferrers Documents, Case of the (PRIO)
"The Adventure of the Dark Angels" (Adrian Conan Doyle)
"The Case of the Ferrers Documents" (June Thomson)

Forgery Case - which Lestrade got himself into a fog over (STUD)
"The Case of the Racing Certainty" (Donald Thomas)
Watson's Last Case (Ian Charnock) 164; "The Adventure of the Double-Edged Hoard" (Craig Janacek) 97; "A Letter To Posterity From John H. Watson, M.D." (Donald Thomas) 14; "The Case of the Three-Handed Widow" (June Thomson) 124

Forrester, Mrs Cecil - her little domestic complication (SIGN)
"The Camberwell Poisoner" (Ruth Douglass)
"A Discreet Investigation" (Rohase Piercy) 53-72
"The Adventure of the Suspect Servant" (Barbara Roden)
"The Case of the Uncommon Necklace" (Jane Rubino)
"The Case of the Camberwell Deception" (June Thomson)
The Veiled Detective (David Stuart Davies) 146; "The Adventure of the Old Russian Woman" (Jack Grochot) 50; The Whitechapel Horrors (Edward B. Hanna) 18; "The Adventure of the Command Performance" (J.W. Sovine) 20

French Government - for whom Holmes was a engaged on a matter of supreme importance (FINA)
"The Matter of the Assassination League" (David L. Hammer) 48-50
Chronicles of the Lost Years (Tracy Cooper-Posey) 4-5; The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Michael Dibdin) 155-156; Exit Sherlock Holmes (Robert Lee Hall) 23; Sherlock Holmes and the Knave of Hearts (Steve Hayes & David Whitehead) 16; "The Problem of the Purple Maculas" (James C. Iraldi) 380; Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell (Paul Kane) 192; The Great Game (Michael Kurland) 3; "The Ciphered Message" (Henry Ledgard & Andrew Singer) 104; "A Bauble in Scandinavia" (James Lovegrove) 284; The Stuff of Nightmares (James Lovegrove) 293; "The Adventure of the Orcival Rain" (Nigel Malcolm) 158; The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (Nicholas Meyer) 21; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 130-131; The Cry of the Innocents (Cavan Scott) 13-14, 37, 145, 358; Sherlock Holmes and the Zombie Problem (Nick S. Thomas) 11, 14; "The Case of the Boulevard Assassin" (June Thomson) 43; "The Case of the Gustaffson Stone" (June Thomson) 219; "The Final Solution" (Larry Townsend) 229, 232; Dr Mortimer and the Barking Man Mystery (Gerard Williams) 6

Friesland, the Shocking Affair of the Dutch Steamship - which nearly cost Holmes & Watson their lives (NORW)
"The Steamship Friesland" (Peter Calamai)
"The Affair of the Politician, The Lighthouse, and the Trained Cormorant" (Howard Collins) 199, 202-203
"The Shocking Affair of the Steamship Friesland" (Jack Grochot)
"The Shocking Affair of the Dutch Steamship Friesland" (Mary Robinette Kowal)
"The Adventure of A Rat" (Adrian Middleton) 178-179, 181-182, 185
"The Adventure of the Pirates of Devil’s Cape" (Rob Rogers)
"The Case of the Friesland Outrage" (June Thomson)
"The Adventure of the Missing Bit" (B. Conan Doyle) 60; "Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Hamlet" (Emanuel E. Garcia) 7; Prisoner of the Devil (Michael Hardwick) 15-16; "A Story For Which The World Is Now Prepared" (Jacob Hay) 39; The Secret Diary of Dr. Watson (Anita Janda) 275; "The Adventure of the Sally Martin" (H. Paul Jeffers) 167; "The Adventure of the Black Key" (Naching T. Kassa) 212; The Labyrinth of Death (James Lovegrove) 150; "Dr Blackadder’s Clients" (Arthur Porges) 63; "The Case of the Watchful Waiter" (June Thomson) 255, 280; "The Siren of Sennen Cove" (Peter Tremayne) 55; The Winged Wheel (Peter H. Wood) 108

Giant Rat of Sumatra, The (SUSS)
And Then There Was No One (Gilbert Adair) 30, 58-87, 93, 217
The Giant Rat of Sumatra (Richard L. Boyer)
"Bad Day On Baker Street" (Worthen Bradley) 155
"The Case of the Missing Energy" (Colin Bruce)
"Matilda Briggs and the Giant Rat of Sumatra" (Ian Charnock)
"The Affair of the Politician, The Lighthouse, and the Trained Cormorant" (Howard Collins) 199, 202-203
The Shadow of the Rat (David Stuart Davies)
Mrs Hudson and the Spirits' Curse (Martin Davies)
"Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra" (Matthew Dennion)
The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 103-106
Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 191-192
"The Strange Case of Ludwig the Unspeakable" (Esther M. Friesner)
Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra (Paul D. Gilbert)
The Giant Rat of Sumatra (Daniel Gracely)
"The Case of the Giant Rat of Sumatra" (Spencer Holst)
"The Giant Rat of Sumatra" (Orville Horwitz & H.A.Schroeder)
"The Giant Rat of Sumatra" (J. Jeremy Johnston)
All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 72-75, 225
"A Father's Tale" (Sterling E. Lanier)
"The Adventure of the Giant Rat of Sumatra" (John T. Lescroart)
"The Adventure of A Rat" (Adrian Middleton)
Sherlock Holmes and the Story For Which The World Is Not Yet Prepared (Stephen E. Pierce)
"The Giant Rat of Sumatra" (Tony Reynolds)
"The Giant Rat of Sumatra" (Ted Riccardi)
"And Such Small Deer" (Chris Roberson)
The Holmes-Dracula File (Fred Saberhagen)
Disquiet at Albany (N.M. Scott)
Sherlock Holmes' Lost Adventure (Lauren Steinhauer)
The Giant Rat of Sumatra (Jake & Luke Thoene)
"The Case of the Sumatran Rat" (June Thomson)
Lestrade and the Giant Rat of Sumatra (M.J. Trow)
Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra (Alan Vanneman)
"The Giant Rat of Sumatra" (Paula Volsky)
Sherlock Holmes and the Sandringham House Mystery (Val Andrews) 97; The House at Baker Street (Michelle Birkby) 327; "The Adventure of Bell Rock Light" (Rick Boyer) 90; The Haunting of Torre Abbey (Carole Buggé) 53; The Adventures of Young Stamford (Richard M. Caplan, M.D.) 3; The Nine Wrong Answers (John Dickson Carr) 169; Watson's Last Case (Ian Charnock) 185; Sherlock Holmes and the Lusitania (Lorraine Daly) 8; "The Adventure of the Curious Canary" (Barry Day) 155; Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 88; The Giant Rat of Sumatra (Franklin W. Dixon) 2, 5-9, 11, 18-22, 31, 33-34, 39-42, 62, 65, 82, 87, 93, 96, 101-102, 110, 113-115, 122-124, 130, 133-136, 142, 147-148, 152; "The Musgrave Version" (George Alec Effinger) 17; Sherlock Holmes Vs. Dracula (Loren D. Estleman) 11; "Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Hamlet" (Emanuel E. Garcia) 7; "The Fan Who Molded Himself" (David Gerrold) 261; "The Abernetty Mystery" (Paul D. Gilbert) 70; "The Strange Case of the Displaced Detective" (Roy Gill) 172; Elementary, My Dear Groucho (Ron Goulart) 107; "The Case of the Notorious Canary Trainer" (Ken Greenwald) 184; "Spring-Heeled Jack" (Terrance Griep & Joe Staton) 80; The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 64; I, Sherlock Holmes (Michael Harrison) 6; "A Story For Which The World Is Now Prepared" (Jacob Hay) 39; The House of Silk (Anthony Horowitz) 240; The Secret Diary of Dr. Watson (Anita Janda) 47; Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell (Paul Kane) 18; "The Adventure of the Solitary Grave" (Christian Klaver) 2; Sherlock Holmes & Dracula (Christian Klaver) 2; The Surrogate Assassin (Christopher Leppek) 7; Copper Beeches (Arthur H. Lewis) 26; The Labyrinth of Death (James Lovegrove) 46; The Mystery Surrounding Watson’s Lost Dispatch Box (Gary Lovisi) 91-92; "The Adventure of the White Python" (Adam McFarlane) 76; The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 17; Sherlock Holmes in Australia: The Adventure of the Kidnapped Kanakas (Ken Methold) 29, 115; "Codeine (7 Per Cent)" (Christopher Morley) 426; "Dr Blackadder’s Clients" (Arthur Porges) 63; The Vanishing Man (Philip Purser-Hallard) 223; "A Killing Thought" (Josh Reynolds) 325; "A Singular Affair at Trincomalee" (Ted Riccardi) 221; Dead Man’s Land (Robert Ryan) 207; "You See But You Do Not Observe" (Robert J. Sawyer) 349; The Crimes of Dr Watson (Duane Swierczynski) 54; Lestrade and the Guardian Angel (M.J.Trow) 45; Sherlock Holmes ~ The Way of All Flesh (Daniel Ward) 90; "The House That Jack Built" (Edward Wellen) 297; Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds (Manly W. Wellman & Wade Wellman) 16; "The Property of a Thief" (Mark Wright) 294

Grice-Patersons in the Isle of Uffa, The Singular Adventures of (FIVE)
"The Adventure of the Grice-Paterson Curse" (August Derleth)
"Sherlock Holmes, Dragon-Slayer" (Darrell Schweitzer)
"The Adventure of the Silver Buckle" (Denis O. Smith)
"The Case of the Scottish Tragedy" (June Thomson)
The House at Baker Street (Michelle Birkby) 25; The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 95; "The Affair of the Politician, The Lighthouse, and the Trained Cormorant" (Howard Collins) 199; "By Any Other Name" (Michael Dirda) 209; "The Tale of the Forty Thieves" (C.H. Dye) 220; "A Story For Which The World Is Now Prepared" (Jacob Hay) 39; The Secret Diary of Dr. Watson (Anita Janda) 47, 146; "Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Mary Celeste" (Tristan Jones) 59; The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 197; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 301; Copper Beeches (Arthur H. Lewis) 221; "Dr Blackadder’s Clients" (Arthur Porges) 63; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 91-92; "The Case of the Vanishing Barque" (June Thomson) 143

Grosvenor Square Furniture Van, The Little Problem of the (NOBL)
"The Little Problem of the Grosvenor Square Furniture Van" (Patrick LoBrutto)
"The Queen’s Writing Table" (Julie McKuras)
"At the St James’s Theatre" (Max Beerbohm) 40; "A Study in Abstruse Detail" (Wendy C. Fries) 317-318; The Mycroft Memoranda (Ray Walsh) 70

Harden, John Vincent, the tobacco millionaire - the peculiar persecution to which he had been subjected (SOLI)
"The Adventure of John Vincent Harden" (Hugh Ashton)
"The Problem of the Peculiar Pipes" (Clive Brooks)
"The Adventure of the Regular Passenger" (Paul D. Gilbert)
Sherlock Holmes and the Devil's Grail (Barrie Roberts)
"The Case of the Millionaire's Persecution" (June Thomson)
Sherlock Holmes and the Harvest of Death (Barrie Roberts) 91; The Disappearance of Edwin Drood (Peter Rowland) 104-105

Hiatus, The Great (Period Between FINA & EMPT)

Hobbs, Mr. Fairdale - a simple matter (REDC)
Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds (Manly W. Wellman & Wade Wellman) 11-14
The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 146

Holland, Reigning Family of - mission Holmes accomplished so delicately & successfully (SCAN)
"A Case of Royal Blood" (Steven-Elliot Altman)
"A Matter of Royal Honour" (David L. Hammer) 78-81
"The Adventure of the Bogle-Wolf" (Anthony Boucher) 426; The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Michael Dibdin) 142; Sherlock Holmes and the Unholy Trinity (Paul D. Gilbert) 16, 167, The Giant Rat of Sumatra (Daniel Gracely) 10; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 94; The Pandora Plague (Lee A. Matthias) 259; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 132; Sherlock Holmes’s Tibetan Adventure (John F. Rice) 11; Dead Man’s Land (Robert Ryan) 159; The Mycroft Memoranda (Ray Walsh) 151; The Jewel of Covent Garden (Wayne Worcester) 7

Huret, The Boulevard Assassin - the tracking & arrest of, for which Holmes received the Legion of Honour (GOLD)
"The Adventure of the Boulevard Assassin" (Kathleen Brady)
Sherlock Holmes and the Boulevard Assassin (John Hall)
"The Adventure of the Boulevard Assassin" (Richard A. Lupoff)
Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 185-188
"The Case of the Boulevard Assassin" (June Thomson)
"The Adventure of the Parisian Gentleman" (Robert Weinberg & Lois H. Gresh)
"The Adventure of the Brimstone Chalice" (Dr. Hill Barton) 288; Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 157; Prisoner of the Devil (Michael Hardwick) 16, 95-96, 98, 169-170, 252; "The Adventure of the Red Barrow Horror" (Daniel McGachey) 146, 185; "The Adventure of the Seventh Stain" (Daniel McGachey) 381; The Pandora Plague (Lee A. Matthias) 259; Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon (Larry Millett) xiii; Hellbirds (Austin Mitchelson & Nicholas Utechin) 78; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 130-131; The Disappearance of Edwin Drood (Peter Rowland) 106; The Crimes of Dr Watson (Duane Swierczynski) 9; "The Case of the Unseen Hand" (Donald Thomas) 110, 119, 129
Hamid The Baker Street Assassin: Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 66, 74-79, 82-83, 90, 100, 104-106, 166

Klopman the Nihilist (LAST)
Sherlock Holmes and the Earthquake Machine (Austin Mitchelson & Nicholas Utechin) 64-72
Hellbirds (Austin Mitchelson & Nicholas Utechin) 184-185; The Winged Wheel (Peter H. Wood) 139-140

Long Island Cave Mystery, The (REDC)
 "The Adventure of the Mocking Huntsman" (M.J. Elliott)
Watson's Last Case (Ian Charnock) 160-161; "The Ignoble Sportsmen" (Josh Reynolds) 132

Lynch, Victor - the forger (SUSS)
"Victor Lynch, The Forger" (Terry McGarry)
"Art in the Blood Revealed" (Regina Stinson) 32
"The Case of Vamberry, The Wine Merchant" (Ian Charnock) 74, 84-85; "The Singular Affair of the Aluminium Crutch" (Ian Charnock) 114; "The Adventure of the Pallid Mask" (Daniel McGachey) 254; Sherlock Holmes and the Golden Bird (Frank Thomas) 17-18
Vincent Lynch, The Forger: Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 29

Maberley, Mortimer - one of Holmes's early clients (3GAB)
Stone Cold (Andrew Lane) 207-302
"The Case of Vamberry, The Wine Merchant" (Ian Charnock) 69; I, Sherlock Holmes (Michael Harrison) 6

Manor House Case (GREE)
Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (Gerald Frow)
"The Manor House Case" (Edward D. Hoch)
"The Manor House Ghost" (S. Subramaniam)
"The Case of the Manor House Mystery" (June Thomson)
The Whitechapel Horrors (Edward B. Hanna) 42-43; "The Queer Affair of the Greek Interpreter" (Larry Townsend) 170

Margate, The Woman at (SECO)
Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 120

Matilda Briggs, The (SUSS)
The Giant Rat of Sumatra (Richard L. Boyer)
"The Case of the Missing Energy" (Colin Bruce)
"Matilda Briggs and the Giant Rat of Sumatra" (Ian Charnock)
The Shadow of the Rat (David Stuart Davies)
Mrs Hudson and the Spirits' Curse (Martin Davies)
"The Giant Rat of Sumatra" (J. Jeremy Johnston)
All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 137-155
"A Father's Tale" (Sterling E. Lanier)
"The Adventure of A Rat" (Adrian Middleton)
Sherlock Holmes and the Story For Which The World Is Not Yet Prepared (Stephen E. Pierce)
"The Giant Rat of Sumatra" (Tony Reynolds)
"And Such Small Deer" (Chris Roberson)
The Holmes-Dracula File (Fred Saberhagen) 31
Sherlock Holmes' Lost Adventure (Lauren Steinhauer)
"The Giant Rat of Sumatra" (Paula Volsky)
"The Abandoned Brigantine" (Sam Benady) 8; Watson's Last Case (Ian Charnock) 21, 129, 185; I, Sherlock Holmes (Michael Harrison) 6; "The Adventure of the Sally Martin" (H. Paul Jeffers) 167; "Codeine (7 Per Cent)" (Christopher Morley) 424, 426; The Mycroft Memoranda (Ray Walsh) 131; Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds (Manly W. Wellman & Wade Wellman) 16

Maupertuis, Baron - The Netherland-Sumatra Company and the Colossal Schemes of (REIG)
"Baron Maupertuis" (Paul D. Gilbert)
"The Adventure of A Rat" (Adrian Middleton)
Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 86-87
"And Such Small Deer" (Chris Roberson)
"The Case of the Maupertuis Scandal" (June Thomson)
Sherlock Holmes and the Strange Events at the Bank of England (Graham Avery) 25; "The Caribbean Treaty Affair" (Jill Braden) 397; "The Strange Affair of the Vourdalak" (Gordon Derry & Dan Day) 4, 8, 11; "The Tale of the Forty Thieves" (C.H. Dye) 220; "The Dundas Separation Case" (Paul D. Gilbert) 43; "The Singular Affair of Mr. Phillip Phot" (The Greek Interpreters of East Lansing) 73; The Surrogate Assassin (Christopher Leppek) 7; "The Problem of the Final Adventure" (Kim Newman) 386, 428-429; "The Adventure of the Silver Buckle" (Denis O. Smith) 135; The Kentish Manor Murders (Julian Symons) 62; A Three-Pipe Problem (Julian Symons) 19; "The Pilfered Paintings" (Frank Thomas) 124; Sherlock Holmes and the Masquerade Murders (Frank Thomas) 14, 134-135, 155; Sherlock Holmes and the Treasure Train (Frank Thomas) 40, 103-104, 110; "The Three Hats" (Frank Thomas) 12; "The Adventure of the Aspen Papers" (Daniel D. Victor) 262; The Mycroft Memoranda (Ray Walsh) 131

Merridew of Abominable Memory (EMPT)
"The Adventure of the York Place Prophecy" (Matthew Booth)
"Merridew of Abominable Memory" (Chris Roberson) 235-250
"The Case of the Notorious Practitioner" (Jane Rubino)
Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 57

Montpensier, Mme - whom Holmes saved from hanging (HOUN)
Good Morning, Irene (Carole Nelson Douglas) 53-
"The Adventure of the Black Baronet" (Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr)
"The Case of the Missing Belle Fille" (June Thomson)
The Women of Baker Street (Michelle Birkby) 144, 203, 208-209; Irene at Large (Carole Nelson Douglas) 22, 26, 34, 68; The Mycroft Memoranda (Ray Walsh) 56-57

Morgan the Poisoner (EMPT)
"The Abernetty Mystery" (Paul D. Gilbert)
"The Case of the Sporting Squire" (Guy N. Smith)

Most Repellent Man of Holmes' Acquaintance (SIGN)
Young Sherlock Holmes (Alan Arnold) 49; Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 24

Most Winning Woman Holmes Ever Knew - who was hanged for poisoning three little children (SIGN)
Sherlock Holmes: My Life And Crimes (Michael Hardwick) 37-38
Scarlet In Gaslight (Martin Powell & Seppo Makinen)
Young Sherlock Holmes (Alan Arnold) 49; Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 82-83; Murder Most Irregular (H. Paul Jeffers) 138; "The Paradol Chamber" (H. Paul Jeffers) 37; "Sherlock Holmes and the Lizzie Borden Connection" (William Schley-Ulrich) III: 11; "The Case of the Boulevard Assassin" (June Thomson) 66; "The Case of the Three-Handed Widow" (June Thomson) 127-128; Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 24
The Most Fetching Lady: Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 151-164

Murillo, The Papers of Ex-President (NORW)
"The Adventure of the Hanging Tyrant" (M.J. Elliott) 69
The Labyrinth of Death (James Lovegrove) 149-150
"The Two Footmen" (Michael Gilbert) 190

Nonpareil Club, The Famous Card Scandal of the (HOUN)
"The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby" (Adrian Conan Doyle)
"A Memo from Inspector Lestrade" (Marvin Kaye)
"The Case of the Upwood Scandal" (June Thomson)
"The Adventure of the Second Stain" (F.P. Cillié) 201; "The Adventure of the Grand Old Man" (H. Paul Jeffers) 185; "The Adventure of the Minor Canon" (Denis O. Smith) 413; Sherlock Holmes and the Golden Bird (Frank Thomas) 17, 22, 24; Sherlock Holmes and the Masquerade Murders (Frank Thomas) 92; The Mycroft Memoranda (Ray Walsh) 56, 111-112

Old Russian Woman, The Adventure of the (MUSG)
"The Adventure of the Old Russian Woman" (Ian Charnock)
Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 146-148
"The Adventure of the Old Russian Woman" (Jack Grochot)
"The Adventure of the Old Russian Woman" (H. Paul Jeffers)
"The Russian Countess" (David Scott)
"The Case of the Old Russian Woman" (June Thomson)
The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 167-176, 247; Exit Sherlock Holmes (Robert Lee Hall) 88; I, Sherlock Holmes (Michael Harrison) 6; "The Adventure of the Illegal Alien" (Anthony R. Lewis) 331

Paradol Chamber, The Adventure of the (FIVE)
"The Adventure of the Paradol Chamber" (John Dickson Carr)
"The Tale of the Forty Thieves" (C.H. Dye)
"The Peculiar Adventure of the Paradol Chamber" (Jack Grochot)
"The Paradol Chamber" (H. Paul Jeffers)
"The Paradol Paradox" (Michael Kurland)
Black Ice (Andrew Lane)
"The Case of the Paradol Chamber" (June Thomson)
All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 299; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 90; "The Case of the Vanishing Barque" (June Thomson) 143; The Secret Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes (June Thomson) 8

Parsley in the Butter: see Abernetty Family
"The Adventure of the Sunken Parsley" (Mark Alberstat)

Persano, Isadora - the well-known journalist & duellist who was found stark staring mad with a matchbox in front of him which contained a remarkable worm said to be unknown to science (THOR)
"The Greatest Tertian" (Anthony Boucher) 82
"The Problem of the Sore Bridge - Among Others" (Philip Jose Farmer) 39-63
"The Mystery of the Mumbling Duellist" (Paul D. Gilbert)
The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 82-84, 88, 92, 98, 100, 103, 105-107, 116
The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 128-172, 197
"The Adventure of the Unknown Worm" (Daniel McGachey)
"The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm" (Stuart Palmer)
"The Mystery of the Worm" (John Pelan)
"The Case of the Remarkable Worm" (June Thomson) 72, 75-78, 81-82, 90-91, 94
The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 94; "The Adventure of the Purloined Bunyip" (Philip Cornell) 299; Sherlock Holmes Vs. Dracula (Loren D. Estleman) 11; Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra (Paul D. Gilbert) 11; "The Mystery of the Mumbling Duellist" (Paul D. Gilbert) 178-179; Prisoner of the Devil (Michael Hardwick) 114-115; "Morte De Sherlock" (Stephen A. Kallis) 167; "The Case of the Strange Erasures" (Stefan Kanfer) 336; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 64; Sherlock Holmes and the Affair in Transylvania (Gerry O’Hara) 5; "The Adventure of the Extraterrestrial" (Mack Reynolds) 181; Ten Years Beyond Baker Street (Cay Van Ash) 233

NOTE: "The Case of Isadora Persano" (Ted Riccardi), although nominally appearing to be an account of this case, shares none of the features Watson describes.

Phillimore, James - who stepped back into his own house to get his umbrella, and was never more seen in this world (THOR)
"There's a Time and a Place for Everything" (Marvin Aronson)
"The Ripe Moment" (John Ball)
"The Procurator of Justice" (Stephen Barr)
"The Greatest Tertian" (Anthony Boucher) 82
"The Disappearance of James Phillimore" (Clive Brooks)
"The Case of the Great Grey Man" (Robin N. Campbell)
"Sunshine, Sunshine" (Benjamin S. Clark)
Mrs Hudson and the Malabar Rose (Martin Davies)
"The Adventure of the Highgate Miracle" (Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr)
"The Finishing Stroke" (M.J. Elliott) 108, 111-112, 121, 123
"The Problem of the Sore Bridge - Among Others" (Philip Jose Farmer) 37-63
"Notes Regarding the Disappearance of Mr James Phillimore" (Lindsay Faye)
"The Remarkable Disappearance of James Phillimore" (Paul D. Gilbert)
"The Adventure of the Forgotten Umbrella" (Mel Gilden)
The Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 108
The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye)
Night Break (Andrew Lane)
"The Enigma of the Warwickshire Vortex" (F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre)
"The Disappearance of Mr. James Phillimore" (Ellery Queen)
"The Adventure of the Extraterrestrial" (Mack Reynolds) 180-186
"The Disappearance of Daniel Question" (Barrie Roberts)
"The Eccentric Gentleman" (Alan Stockwell)
"The Case of the Reformed Sinner" (S. Subramanian)
"The Case of the Vanishing Head-Waiter" (June Thomson)
"The Specter of Tullyfane Abbey" (Peter Tremayne)
"The Adventure of the Naturalist's Stock Pin" (Jon L. Breen) 199; Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 88; "Dr. & Mrs. Watson At Home" (Loren D. Estleman) 182; Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra (Paul D. Gilbert) 152; Sherlock Holmes and Frankenstein’s Diary (Barry Grant) 126, 152; "Morte De Sherlock" (Stephen A. Kallis) 167; Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell (Paul Kane) 233; "The Adventure of the Solitary Grave" (Christian Klaver) 2; Sherlock Holmes & Dracula (Christian Klaver) 2; "The Adventure of the First Class Carriage" (Ronald Knox) 46; The Infernal Device (Michael Kurland) 129; Sherlock Holmes and the Affair in Transylvania (Gerry O’Hara) 5; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 130; "The Adventure of the Death-Fetch" (Darrell Schweitzer) 462; "The Adventure of the Command Performance" (J.W. Sovine) 20; "How A Hermit Was Disturbed In His Retirement" (Julian Symons) 256; The Secret Files of Sherlock Holmes (June Thomson) 11

Politician, The Lighthouse and the Trained Cormorant, The (VEIL)
"The Adventure of the Pius Missal" (Ralph A. Ashton)
"The Adventure of Bell Rock Light" (Rick Boyer)
"The Affair of the Politician, The Lighthouse, and the Trained Cormorant" (Howard Collins)
"The Politician, The Lighthouse, and the Trained Cormorant" (Craig Shaw Gardner)
"The Dundas Separation Case" (Paul D. Gilbert)
"Adventure of the Opera Ghost" (Steven Philip Jones & Aldin Baroza) 53
Death By Gaslight (Michael Kurland) 52
"Holmes In Scotland" (W.R. Duncan MacMillan)
The Headless Monk (Kel Richards)
"The Adventure of the Barnegat Burglaries" (H.W. Starr & Orville Horwitz)
"The Case of the Abandoned Lighthouse" (June Thomson)
"The Fairy Thieves" (Dana Martin Batory) 143; The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 94; "As to ‘An Exact Knowledge of London’" (Tony Broadbent) 35; "The Puzzle of the Vanishing Laboratory" (Peter Calamai) 25; Watson’s Last Case (Ian Charnock) 22; Sherlock Holmes and the Alice In Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 33; Sherlock Holmes and the Apocalypse Murders (Barry Day) 29-30; Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 88; "The Adventure of the Forgetful Assassin" (M.J. Elliott) 99; Sherlock Holmes Vs. Dracula (Loren D. Estleman) 11; "Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Hamlet" (Emanuel E. Garcia) 7; Prisoner of the Devil (Michael Hardwick) 114; "The Case of the Strange Erasures" (Stefan Kanfer) 336; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 14; "Codeine (7 Per Cent)" (Christopher Morley) 424-425; The Vanishing Man (Philip Purser-Hallard) 223
The Statesman, The Beacon Keeper and the Tame Cormorant: Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 217-243

Prendergast, Major - who was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards in the Tankerville Club Scandal (FIVE)
"The Adventure of the Reluctant Spirit" (Paul D. Gilbert) 149; "The Case of the Camberwell Poisoners" (Ken Greenwald) 142; "The Shadows on the Lawn" (Barry Jones) 133; "Sussex Interview" (P.M.Stone) 414; The Final Page of Baker Street (Daniel D. Victor) 61, 207; Sherlock Holmes ~ The Way of All Flesh (Daniel Ward) 109

Red Leech, The Repulsive Story of (GOLD)
"The Adventure of the Inertial Adjustor" (Stephen Baxter) 259, 266-267
"The Case of the Red Leech" (Clive Brooks)
"The Adventure of the Red Leech" (Paul D. Gilbert)
The Final Solution (Walter J. Harmidarow) 76-128
"The Repulsive Story of the Red Leech" (David Langford)
"The Repulsive Story of the Red Leech" (Morgan Llywelyn)
The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (Jamyang Norbu) 17-65, 133-134
The Vampire Serpent (Kel Richards)
"The Case of the Barton Wood Murder" (June Thomson)
Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) 32; "The Adventure of the Young British Soldier" (Bill Crider) 19; Sherlock Holmes and the Lusitania (Lorraine Daly) 8; "Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Hamlet" (Emanuel E. Garcia) 7; The Revenge of Moriarty (John Gardner) 15; "The Mystery of the Mumbling Duellist" (Paul D. Gilbert) 188; Prisoner of the Devil (Michael Hardwick) 15; The Incredible Umbrella (Marvin Kaye) 197; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 5; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 185; Dead Man’s Land (Robert Ryan) 88-89; The Crimes of Dr Watson (Duane Swierczynski) 9
The Crimson Leech: Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 95-101, 172, 213

Ricoletti of the Club Foot & His Abominable Wife (MUSG)
"The Gibraltar Letter" (Sam Benady)
"A Full Account of Ricoletti of the Club Foot & His Abominable Wife" (Ian Charnock)
"The Adventure of the Abominable Wife" (Paul D. Gilbert)
"The Adventure of Ricoletti of the Club Foot (and his abominable wife)" (Roberta Rogow)
"The Adventure of the Brimstone Chalice" (Dr. Hill Barton) 281-282, 284; The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 47, 65, 86, 94-95, 175-176, 229; Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) 32; "The Adventure of the Conk-Singleton Papers" (John Dickson Carr) 268; "Mrs. Farintosh & An Opal Tiara" (Ian Charnock) 172, 174; Watson's Last Case (Ian Charnock) 21-22; "The Adventure of the Highest Beast" (Frank J. Eustace) 12; The Revenge of Moriarty (John Gardner) 249; I, Sherlock Holmes (Michael Harrison) 6; "The Italian Sherlock Holmes" (Reginald Hill) 231; Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (James Lovegrove) 58; The Hampstead Poisonings (Glen Petrie) 14-15; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 37, 57; A Study in Murder (Robert Ryan) 393; "Sherlock Holmes, Dragon-Slayer" (Darrell Schweitzer) 120; "Report of A Recent Conversation In A Remote Cottage on the South Downs" (Norman W. Ward) 76; "The Adventure of the Tired Captain" (Alan Wilson) 178
George of the Clubfoot & His Abominable Wife: Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 7

NOTE: Although "The Adventure of the Highest Beast" (Frank J. Eustace) appears to have been written as an account of the Ricoletti case, a sentence towards the end, "I once met another club—footed man with a name like yours; he was married, too", makes it clear that it is not.

St. Pancras, Dead Policeman in (SHOS)
Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds (Manly W. Wellman & Wade Wellman) 37-40

Scandinavia, The Royal Family of (FINA), The King of (NOBL)
"The Case of the Gustaffson Stone" (June Thomson)
The Great Game (Michael Kurland) 3; Who Thinks Evil (Michael Kurland) 40; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 94; "The Ciphered Message" (Henry Ledgard & Andrew Singer) 104; "A Bauble in Scandinavia" (James Lovegrove) 286; "The Final Problem" (Rohase Piercy) 126; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 130-131; Dead Man’s Land (Robert Ryan) 159; The Fifth Heart (Dan Simmons) 168; Sherlock Holmes and the Zombie Problem (Nick S. Thomas) 14; "The Final Solution" (Larry Townsend) 232; The Mycroft Memoranda (Ray Walsh) 151; The Jewel of Covent Garden (Wayne Worcester) 7

Second Stain, The Adventure of the - which implicated so many of the first families in the kingdom (NAVA)
"The Adventure of the Second Stain" (F.P. Cillié)
"Too Many Stains" (Marvin Kaye)
"The Adventure of the Seventh Stain" (Daniel McGachey)
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Michael Dibdin) 148-150

Services which may perhaps some day be described (for which Holmes was offered a knighthood) (3GAR)
Sherlock Holmes and the American Angels (Barrie Roberts)

Slipshod Elderly Woman (STUD)
"The Adventure of the Slipshod Charlady" (John Hall)

Smith-Mortimer Succession Case, The Famous (GOLD)
"The Affair of the Politician, The Lighthouse, and the Trained Cormorant" (Howard Collins)
"A Study in Abstruse Detail" (Wendy C. Fries) 311-317
"The Case of the Eccentric Bequest" (Jane Rubino)
"The Case of the Smith-Mortimer Succession" (June Thomson)
Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Deadly Sins Murders (Barry Day) 52; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 185

Sophy Anderson, The Loss of the British Barque (FIVE)
"Holmes and the Loss of the British Barque Sophy Anderson" (Peter Cannon)
"The Loss of the British Bark Sophy Anderson" (Gary Lovisi)
"The Long Man" (Rafe McGregor) 128-129
"The Case of the Vanishing Barque" (June Thomson)
"The Affair of the Politician, The Lighthouse, and the Trained Cormorant" (Howard Collins) 199; The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Michael Dibdin) 148; Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 108, 111, 127, 147 {The Loss of the British Barque Maura Oisin}; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 299; Copper Beeches (Arthur H. Lewis) 10; "The Adventure of A Rat" (Adrian Middleton) 178; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 91; "The Siren of Sennen Cove" (Peter Tremayne) 55
Sophie Anderson: "The Singular Affair of the Dying Schoolboys" (H. Paul Jeffers) 148-149, 151;
"Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Mary Celeste" (Tristan Jones) 59

Staunton, Arthur H. - the rising young forger (MISS)
"Holmes Delivers a Lecture" (Henry Ledgard & Andrew Singer) 198

Staunton, Henry - whom Holmes helped hang (MISS)
"The Case of the Lichfield Murder" (Hugh Ashton)
"The Adventure of the Memento Mori" (Lindsay Faye)
"The Problem of the Purple Maculas" (James C. Iraldi)
"The Adventure of the Grace Chalice" (Roger Johnson)

Stevens, Bert (NORW)
"The Adventure of the Deptford Horror" (Adrian Conan Doyle) 253

Tankerville Club Scandal: see Prendergast, Major

Tarleton Murders, The (MUSG)
"The Record of the Tarleton Murders" (Ian Charnock)
"The Case of the Tarleton Murders" (Jack Grochot)
Watson's Last Case (Ian Charnock) 22; Exit Sherlock Holmes (Robert Lee Hall) 88; I, Sherlock Holmes (Michael Harrison) 6; Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (James Lovegrove) 58; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 36; "Sussex Interview" (P.M.Stone) 414; "Report of A Recent Conversation In A Remote Cottage on the South Downs" (Norman W. Ward) 76

Tired Captain, The Adventure of the (NAVA)
"The Adventure of the Tired Captain" (Bob Byrne)
"The Adventure of the Tired Captain" (Alan Wilson)
The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 130-145; "The Adventure of the Second Stain" (F.P. Cillié) 188-189; "Sherlock Holmes and the Titanic Swindle" (Len Deighton); Sherlock Holmes: My Life (Lawrence R. Spencer) 63

Tosca, The Sudden Death of Cardinal - an investigation which was carried out at the express desire of His Holiness the Pope (BLAC)
"The Sudden Death of Cardinal Tosca" (Isaac S. George)
Sherlock Holmes and the Unholy Trinity (Paul D. Gilbert)
"The Disappearance of the Vatican Emissary" (Jack Grochot)
"The Matter of the Sudden Death of Cardinal Tosca" (David L. Hammer)
Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 193-194
Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Nine (Barrie Roberts)
"The Case of the Cardinal's Corpse" (June Thomson)
"A Study In Orange" (Peter Tremayne)
"The Adventure of the Brimstone Chalice" (Dr. Hill Barton) 285-286, 288, 291; Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Deadly Sins Murders (Barry Day) 29; "The Adventure of the Deptford Horror" (Adrian Conan Doyle) 229; Prisoner of the Devil (Michael Hardwick) 93; Sherlock Holmes: My Life And Crimes (Michael Hardwick) 39; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 301; Copper Beeches (Arthur H. Lewis) 182; The Thinking Engine (James Lovegrove) 30; "The Adventure of the Treacherous Traps" (Merrell Noden) 264; "A Death in Venice" (Ted Riccardi) 123; The Disappearance of Edwin Drood (Peter Rowland) 105-106; The Dead Can Wait (Robert Ryan) 115; "The Adventure of the Command Performance" (J.W. Sovine) 24, 26-27
Cardinal Cosca: "The Accidental Murderess" (H. Paul Jeffers) 51-52

Trepoff Murder, The Case of the - summons to Odessa in (SCAN)
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Michael Dibdin) 137-138, 146
"The Adventure of the Seven Clocks" (Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr)
The Infernal Device (Michael Kurland)
The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 172; The Veiled Detective (David Stuart Davies) 172; Irene at Large (Carole Nelson Douglas) 323; The Adventure of the Peerless Peer (Philip José Farmer) 41; The Adventure of the Three Madmen (Philip José Farmer) 106; "The Travels of Sherlock Holmes (John Hall) 289-290; The Three Monarchs" (Anthony Horowitz) 292; "The Adventure of the Illegal Alien" (Anthony R. Lewis) 331; Sherlock Holmes and the Earthquake Machine (Austin Mitchelson & Nicholas Utechin) 55, 59; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 92; Sherlock Holmes and the Nine-Dragon Sigil (Tim Symonds) 17; A Three-Pipe Problem (Julian Symons) 18-19; "The Four Detectives" (Frank Thomas) 138. 142, 144; "A Ghost from Christmas Past" (Thomas A. Turley) 141
Trepov Murder: "The Paradol Chamber" (H. Paul Jeffers) 42; The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 9, 78
Tripoff Murder: "The Adventure of the Old Russian Woman" (Jack Grochot) 54

Turkey, A Commission from the Sultan of (BLAN)
"The Adventure of the Bulgarian Diplomat" (Zakaria Erzinçlioglu)

Upwood, Colonel, The Atrocious Conduct of (HOUN)
"A Memo from Inspector Lestrade" (Marvin Kaye)
"The Case of the Upwood Scandal" (June Thomson)
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Holmes (Loren D. Estleman) 102; Sherlock Holmes and the Golden Bird (Frank Thomas) 17, 22, 24; The Mycroft Memoranda (Ray Walsh) 55-56, 111-112

Vamberry The Wine Merchant, The Case of (MUSG)
"The Case of Vamberry, The Wine Merchant" (Ian Charnock)
"The Adventure of the Vintner’s Codex" (Lindsay Faye)
"A Study in Abstruse Detail" (Wendy C. Fries) 318-325
"The Case of Vamberry the Wine Merchant" (Jack Grochot)
"Mrs. Vamberry Takes A Trip" (Mike Resnick)
"The Case of Vamberry, The Wine Merchant" (James R. Stefanie)
"The Caribbean Treaty Affair" (Jill Braden) 402; Watson's Last Case (Ian Charnock) 22; Exit Sherlock Holmes (Robert Lee Hall) 88; I, Sherlock Holmes (Michael Harrison) 6; "Sherlock Holmes and the Mummy's Curse" (H. Paul Jeffers) 88; Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (James Lovegrove) 58; East of Ealing (Robert Rankin) 49, 58; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 36
Vendee, The Wine Merchant: Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 193, 201-204, 207-208

Vanderbilt and the Yeggman (SUSS)
I, Sherlock Holmes (Michael Harrison) 61-65
"The Adventure of Vanderbilt and the Yeggman" (Roberta Rogow)
"The Case of the Itinerant Yeggman" (June Thomson)
"The Case of the Maplestead Magpie" (June Thomson) 65-67, 80-85
The Adventure of the Stalwart Companions (H. Paul Jeffers) 18, 59, 80

Vatican Cameos, The Little Affair of (HOUN)
"The Matter of the Vatican Cameos" (David L. Hammer)
Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Nine (Barrie Roberts) 7-17, 70
"The Case of the Vatican Cameos" (June Thomson)
"The Sudden Death of Cardinal Tosca" (Isaac S. George) 81; "The Matter of the Sudden Death of Cardinal Tosca" (David L. Hammer) 52; "The Case of the Strange Erasures" (Stefan Kanfer) 336; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 12; "The Adventure of the Bathing Machine" (Henry Ledgard & Andrew Singer) 36; Copper Beeches (Arthur H. Lewis) 182; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 193

Venomous Lizard, or Gila (SUSS)
"The Adventure of the Venomous Lizard" (Bill Crider)
"The Singular Affair of the Dying Schoolboys" (H. Paul Jeffers)
Sherlock Holmes and the Crosby Murder (Barrie Roberts) 168-176
Ten Years Beyond Baker Street (Cay Van Ash) 68-114
The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 157-164, 169, 177; "A Study in Abstruse Detail" (Wendy C. Fries) 313; Prisoner of the Devil (Michael Hardwick) 93
The Poisonous Lizard: Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 121, 144-146, 213

Vigor, The Hammersmith Wonder (SUSS)
"The Adventure of Queen Hippolyta" (Denis O. Smith)
"The Case of the Hammersmith Wonder" (June Thomson)
"A Study in Abstruse Detail" (Wendy C. Fries) 312; Prisoner of the Devil (Michael Hardwick) 93; A Three-Pipe Problem (Julian Symons) 19

Vittoria the Circus Belle (SUSS)
"The Adventure of Vittoria The Circus Belle" (Edward D. Hoch)
"The Case of Vittoria The Circus Belle" (Jay Sheckley)
"The Case of the Ainsworth Abduction" (June Thomson)
Vittoria The Circus Dancer: Druid's Blood (Esther M. Friesner) 29-33, 38-39, 44, 63
Prisoner of the Devil (Michael Hardwick) 93; Sherlock Holmes ~ The Way of All Flesh (Daniel Ward) 109

Warburton's Madness, Colonel (ENGR)
"The Last Encore of Quentin Carol" (S.F. Bennett)
"The Adventure of the York Place Prophecy" (Matthew Booth)
"The Madness of Colonel Warburton" (Carole Buggé)
"The Adventure of the Sealed Room" (Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr)
"The Case of Colonel Warburton’s Madness" (Lyndsay Faye)
"The Adventure of the Devil’s Father" (Morris Hershman)
All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane)
"The Case of the Colonel's Madness" (June Thomson)
"Colonel Warburton's Madness" (Norman W. Ward)
The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 147-154; "The American Ambassador" (David Scott) 1; "The Adventure of the Command Performance" (J.W. Sovine) 20

Wilson, Messenger Manager - a little case which saved his good name, and perhapd his life (HOUN)
Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) 32

Wilson, The Notorious Canary Trainer - whose arrest removed a plague-spot from the East End of London (BLAC)
"The Adventure of the Deptford Horror" (Adrian Conan Doyle)
"The Case of the Notorious Canary Trainer" (Ken Greenwald)
"The Tell-Tale Tea Leaves" (Keith Moray)
"The Case of the Notorious Canary Trainer" (Henry Slesar)
"The Case of the Notorious Canary Trainer" (June Thomson)
"The Adventure of the Curious Canary" (Barry Day) 174; Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Deadly Sins Murders (Barry Day) 29; "Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Hamlet" (Emanuel E. Garcia) 7; "Sound Alibi" (Peter Guttridge) 26; Prisoner of the Devil (Michael Hardwick) 93; Sherlock Holmes: My Life And Crimes (Michael Hardwick) 39; "A Story For Which The World Is Now Prepared" (Jacob Hay) 39; Copper Beeches (Arthur H. Lewis) 182; The Labyrinth of Death (James Lovegrove) 303; The Canary Trainer (Nicholas Meyer) 12; The Waters of Death (Kel Richards) 101; The Disappearance of Edwin Drood (Peter Rowland) 105; The Dead Can Wait (Robert Ryan) 115; Dead Man’s Land (Robert Ryan) 88-89; "The Adventure of the Solitary Bride" (Norma Schier) 48; Sherlock Holmes and the Golden Bird (Frank Thomas) 37; "The Case of the Cardinal's Corpse" (June Thomson) 93; "The Case of the Itinerant Yeggman" (June Thomson) 155; "The Case of the Maplestead Magpie" (June Thomson) 65

Woodhouse - who had good reason for taking Holmes' life (BRUC)
"The Case of Young Vamberry, the Wine Merchant" (Ian Charnock)
I, Sherlock Holmes (Michael Harrison) 6