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La
Bruckman, Arbie (Algerian Murder Suspect, Carrie Brown
Case)
The Adventure of the New York Ripper (Philip J. Carraher) 38
La Farge, John (American Artist, 1835-1910)
The Fifth Heart (Dan Simmons) 151, 275, 330-331, 465
La Fontaine, Jean de (French Fabulist, 1621-1695)
The Devil and the Four (Sam Siciliano) 175
La Forge, Geordi (Star
Trek: The Next Generation - TV series)
The Light Fantastic (Jeffrey Lang) 20-37, 41-57, 90-97, 118,
123-129, 135, 145-151, 170-176, 189-202, 210-216, 227-233,
237-239, 241, 244, 249-252, 257-260, 266-281, 285, 290-308,
310, 314-315, 317, 319-326, 329-332, 337-339, 344-348, 350,
352-353, 357-361
La Guardia, Fiorello (Mayor of New York (1934-45),
1882-1947)
"The Hero-Killer Principle!" (Richard Marschall, Gene
Colan & Tony DeZuniga) 21
La Mettrie, Julien Offray (French
Physician, 1709-1751)
The Bookman (Lavie Tidhar) 69-70, 315
La Rochefoucauld,
Francois, Duc de (French Epigrammatist, 1613-1680)
The Mystery of the Scarlet Rose (Irene Adler) 202; Oscar
Wilde and a Death of No Importance (Gyles Brandreth) 187,
270; The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Michael Dibdin) 152;
"The Adventure of the
Extraordinary Lodger" (M.J. Elliott) 26
La Rue, Danny
(British Entertainer, 1927-2009)
Detective Constable La Rue: Lestrade and the Dead
Man's Hand (M.J.Trow), 17-18, 152
Mr. de la Rue (in charge of women): Lestrade and
the Magpie (M.J.Trow) 72
La Salle, Robert de (French Explorer,
1643-1687)
Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich)
239
La Voisin (Catherine Deshayes) (French
Fortune Teller & Poisoner, c.1640-1680)
"A Death in Venice" (Ted Riccardi) 113
Labouchère, Henrietta Hodson
(British Actress, 1841-1910)
Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 82, 119-121, 320,
324-326, 328, 330-331, 335-338, 340-342
Labouchère,
Henry (British Liberal Politician & Journalist,
1831-1912)
Jack the Ripper: Case Closed (Gyles Brandreth) 130-131, 144,
197, 219, 221, 224-226, 234, 286-287, 307, 309-314, 322,
324, 326-328, 331, 333-335, 337-340, 343-346
Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde
(Russell A. Brown) 30, 101-102, 171; "The Well-Educated
Young Man" (William P. Coleman) 119-120; The Dracula Diary
(Michael Geare & Michael Corby) 119; Anno Dracula (Kim
Newman) 435; The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade
(M.J.Trow) 164, 189; Lestrade and the
Brother of Death (M.J.Trow) 175-176; Lestrade and theDead
Man's Hand (M.J.Trow) 170, 184, 189; Lestrade and the Deadly
Game (M.J.Trow) 31;Lestrade and the Giant Rat of Sumatra
(M.J. Trow) 146; Lestrade and the Ripper (M.J.Trow) 213;
Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (M.J.Trow) 86; Wilde About Holmes (Milo
Yelesiyevich) 119-120, 335
Labouchere Amendment: Sherlock Holmes and the
Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) 129;
Sherlock Holmes and the Royal Flush (Barrie Roberts) 35;
Anatomy of Evil (Will Thomas) 121, 287
Labouchere Law: Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious
Friend of Oscar Wilde (Russell A. Brown) 155
Labourer (The Turn of the Screw - Henry
James)
Two Carters: "The Case of the Ghosts at
Bly" (Donald Thomas) 98
Lacassagne, Alexandre (French Professor of Forensic
Medicine, 1843-1924)
The Unpleasantness at Parkerton Manor (Barry S. Brown)
82; "The Blue Eyed Dog" (Frank Thomas) 55; Sherlock Holmes
and the Treasure Train (Frank Thomas) 16
Lachaise, Père (French Priest, Confessor of Louis XIV)
The Canary Trainer
(Nicholas Meyer) 144
Père Lachaise Cemetery: "The Prideaux Manuscript" (Cara Black) 276;
Femme Fatale (Carole Nelson Douglas) 464; The
Language of Bees (Laurie R. King) 40; The Canary
Trainer (Nicholas Meyer) 138-139, 143-157, 181; The Devil and the Four (Sam
Siciliano) 129, 247, 249, 253-254; "The Case of the Unseen
Hand" (Donald Thomas) 117; Everybody's Favorite Duck
(Gahan Wilson) 201
LaChance, Gordon (The Body - Stephen King /
Stand By Me - Movie)
The Bookman (Lavie Tidhar) 141
Lacombe, Louis (The Seven of Hearts - Maurice Leblanc)
"Be Seeing You!" (Xavier Mauméjean) 125
Lactantius (North-African Christian Author,
c240-c320)
"The Adventure of the Medium" (Tony Reynolds) 79
Ladd, Alan (American Actor)
The Night Mayor (Kim Newman) 24, 87
Laddie Badd: "The Murder of Conan Doyle" (Ray
Russell) 265
Lady, The (The Lady or the Tiger - Frank R. Stockton)
"Sherlock Holmes and 'The Woman' (Michael Harrison) 127
Lady Alice (The Return of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs)
Lady in the Lake, The (Arthurian Legend)
The Star of India (Carole Buggé) 189; The Unlikely Escape
of Uriah Heep (H.G. Parry) 19; Lestrade and the Magpie (M.J.
Trow) 124; "Father of the Man" (Stephen Volk) 84
Lady Luck (Personification of Chance)
"The Case of the
Gambling Nobleman" (Colin Bruce) 21, 38;
Good Morning, Irene (Carole Nelson Douglas) 139;
"Orchids in the Night" (Jean-Claude Dunyach) 49; The
Bughouse Affair (Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini) 161; Eye
of the Crow (Shane Peacock) 212; "The House of Blood" (Tony
Richards) 196; Death on
a Pale Horse (Donald Thomas) 97; "The Case of the Maupertuis
Scandal" (June
Thomson) 227; Sherlock Holmes and the Lady in Black
(June Thomson) 115
Dame Luck: The List of 7 (Mark Frost)
277
Lady of Shalott
(Arthurian Romance)
Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day)
149, 171; Good
Night, Mr. Holmes (Carole Nelson Douglas) 265; Lestrade
and the Kiss of Horus (M.J.Trow) 38
Lady Satan (Lady
Satan Comics)
Prophecy (Ron Marz & Walter Geovani) 14
Lady Vain, The (The Island of Dr Moreau - H.G. Wells)
Laertes (Hamlet - William Shakespeare)
Sherlock Holmes: The Army of Dr Moreau (Guy Adams) 64;
"The Curse of Edwin Booth" (Carole Buggé) 174, 192, 200-201;
Sherlock Holmes and the Shakespeare Globe Murders (Barry
Day) 142, 170-174; Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 27, 65,
113, 155, 162, 235; San Francisco Kills (Denny Martin Flinn)
172;
"Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Hamlet" (Emanuel E.
Garcia) 35, 41, 54-55; "The Case of the Danish Prince"
(Miles Kington) 138; The Surrogate Assassin (Christopher
Leppek) 43; "The Case of the Matinee
Idol" (Donald Thomas) 301
LaFarge, John (American Artist, 1835-1910)
The Adventure of the Stalwart Companions (H. Paul Jeffers)
125
Lafarge, Marie (French Murderer, 1816-1852)
The Adventure of the Deadly Dimensions (Lois H. Gresh) 125
Lafargue, Paul (French Labour Activist, Husband of
Laura Marx, 1842-1911)
The Case of the
Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 104,
111
Lafayette, Marie Joseph (French Military Leader,
1757-1834)
Sherlock Holmes in Dallas (Edmund Aubrey) 111
Lafayette Ball: Wilde
About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 33
Lafayette Opera House: "Sherlock Holmes:
The Actor" (Donald Thomas) 276
Lafayette Park: The Holmes Factor (Brian Freemantle)
194, 286; Locked Rooms (Laurie R. King) 190-191, 352
Lafayette Square: The Fifth Heart (Dan
Simmons) 51
Lafeu (All's Well That Ends Well - William
Shakespeare)
Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde) 2
Laffan, Sir Robert (Irish Politician, 1821-1882)
Laffan's Plain: Brigade (M.J. Trow) 314-315
Lafitte, Jean (18th Century French Pirate)
Castle Rouge (Carole
Nelson Douglas) 305
Lagarde, Paul Anton de (German Biblical Scholar,
1827-1891)
"The Case of the Two
Coptic Patriarchs" (John A. Wilson) 77
Lagrange, Joseph Louis, Comte de (French Mathematician
& Astronomer, 1736-1813)
"The Ultimate Crime" (Isaac Asimov) 352; The Return of
Moriarty (John Gardner) 15
LaGrange Points: "The
Adventure
of the Second Scarf" (Mark Aronson) 91
Lahmi (Bible - Chronicles)
"You Miss, You Die" (Len Bailey) 134
Lahr, Bert (American Actor, 1895-1967)
Visitors from Oz (Martin Gardner) 119
Laine, Cleo (British Singer, 1927- )
The Night Mayor (Kim Newman) 179
Laine, Frankie (American Singer, 1913-2007)
“Farewell My Falcon! or The Maltese Lovely!” (Denis Gifford
& Terry Wakefield) 41; East of Ealing (Robert Rankin) 97
Laird, William Harris
(American Businessman, 1833-1910)
Laird & Norton: Sherlock Holmes and
the Red Demon (Larry Millett) 76
Lairre, Marie (British Nun, Ghost said to
haunt Borley Rectory)
Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (M.J.Trow) 125, 127, 134-139,
142
Laius (King of Thebes, Father of Oedipus)
The Case of Emily V. (Keith Oatley) 37
Lake, Veronica (American Actress, 1922-1973)
"Art in the Blood" (Laura Caldwell) 111; The Night Mayor
(Kim Newman) 38
Laking, Sir Francis (British Royal Surgeon,
1847-1914)
The King Edward Plot (Robert Lee Hall) 278
Lakington, Henry (Bulldog
Drummond series - Sapper)
"The Last Detective Story
in the World" (Maurice Richardson) 66, 68
Lakmed (Lakme - Leo Delibes)
San Francisco Kills (Denny Martin Flinn) 97
Lakshmi (Hindu Goddess)
Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra (Paul D.
Gilbert) 116
Lakshmi Bai (Rani of Jhansi,
1828-1858)
"Dead Man's Manuscript" (I.A. Watson) 142, 144-145, 153,
161-162, 173-174
"The Case of the Murdering Saint" (Vithal Rajan) 53;
"The Indian Summer of Sherlock Holmes" (Vithal Rajan)
226-227, 230
Lal (Star Trek: The Next
Generation - The Offspring)
The Light Fantastic (Jeffrey Lang) 8, 12-17, 21-24, 26-28,
38-41, 44-46, 48-54, 56-57, 66-83, 89, 95-96, 105-106,
111-117, 129-139, 150, 152-154, 162-169, 177-178, 194,
202-209, 214-226, 229-233, 236, 240-242, 246, 252-257, 278,
285, 287-290, 308-309, 311-313, 315, 318, 323-324, 326-330,
332-337, 339, 342-343, 346-351, 354-367, 369-370
Lal Beg (Indian Deity, God of Sweepers &
Scavengers)
The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (Jamyang Norbu) 21
Laliman, Leo (French Winegrower)
"The Case of Young Vamberry, the Wine Merchant" (Ian
Charnock) 70
Lalique, René (French Jeweller, 1860-1945)
A Slight Trick of the Mind (Mitch Cullin) 60
Lalique Glasses: Watson’s Last Case (Ian Charnock) 81
Lallou, Monsignor William J. (American
Cleric & Sherlockian, 1880-1973)
Copper Beeches (Arthur H. Lewis) 10, 19, 36
Lalo, Édouard (French
Composer, 1823-1892)
The Labyrinth of Death (James Lovegrove) 11
Laloo the Hindoo (Indian Sideshow Act,
1874-1905)
Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich)
217
Lamarck, Jean (French Botanist & Zoologist,
1744-1829)
"The Adventure of the
Naturalist's Stock Pin" (Jon L. Breen) 195,
197; European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman
(Theodora Goss) 451; The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s
Daughter (Theodora Goss) 208-209; "And Such Small Deer" (Chris
Roberson) 67
Lamarr, Hedy (Austrian-Czech Actress)
The Night Mayor (Kim Newman) 74
Lamartine, Alphonse de
(French Poet, 1790-1869)
Lestrade and the Kiss of Horus (M.J.Trow) 92
Lamb, Lady Caroline (British
Novelist, 1785-1828)
"The Case of the Portuguese Sonnets" (Donald Thomas) 164-165,
167
Lamb, Charles (British Writer, 1775-1834)
The Quallsford Inheritance (Lloyd Biggle Jr.) 221; "Sons of
Moriarty" (Loren D. Estleman) 126; Sherlock Holmes: The
Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 151
Lamb, Henry (British Police
Constable, Ripper Case, 1851-?)
Dust and Shadow (Lyndsay Faye) 88-96, 145, 279
A Knife in the Fog (Bradley Harper) 117-118
A Study in Darkness (Emma Jane Holloway) 426
Whitechapel: The Final Stand of Sherlock Holmes (Bernard J.
Schaffer) 122-123, 149-150, 177-181, 210-211, 231-232, 238,
248-250, 253-257, 261-263, 271-273, 282, 290-294, 307,
315-316, 318, 336-337
Lamb, Jack (British Sailor, Steward on the
Hope, Arthur Conan Doyle's Whaling Ship)
Evolution (John Peel)
37-38
Lambert, Joseph (British
Bookseller, Witness in the Camden Town Murder Case)
"The Case of the Camden Town Murder" (Donald Thomas) 223, 226,
240
Lamborghini, Ferruccio (Italian
Industrialist, 1916-1993)
Lamborghini Car: A Three-Pipe Problem
(Julian Symons) 13-14, 17, 86
Lambrino, Carol (Son of Carol II of Romania,
1920-2006)
Castle Shade (Laurie R. King) 177
Lambton, John (Lambton Worm Legend)
"The Adventure of the Unknown Worm" (Daniel McGachey) 66;
The White Worm (Sam Siciliano) 29
Lambton, Lucinda (British Writer & Photographer,
1943- )
"The Lion of
Draksville" (Julian Rathbone) 141
Lambton, William (British Surveyor,
c.1753-1823)
"Kim and Kim Again" (Vithal Rajan) 132
Lambton Worm (English Folklore)
"The Adventure of the Unknown Worm" (Daniel McGachey) 66;
The Monster of the Mere (Philip Purser-Hallard) 78; The
White Worm (Sam Siciliano) 29
Lame Boy (The Pied Piper of Hamelin -
Robert Browning)
Lestrade and the Gift of the Prince (M.J. Trow) 104
Lament Configuration: see Lemarchand's Box
Lamour, Dorothy
(American Actress, 1914-1996)
The Curse of the Nibelung (Marcel D'Agneau) 161;
The Night Mayor (Kim Newman) 171
Lampros Family (Keepers of the Secret of
Greek Fire)
"The Greek Invertebrate" (Kim Newman) 342
Lancaster, Burt (American Actor,
1913-1994)
Your Monkey’s Shmuck (Simon Louvish) 57
Brute Miscaster: Your Monkey’s Shmuck
(Simon Louvish) 93
Lancaster, James (British Optician)
J. Lancaster & Son:
The House of Silk (Anthony Horowitz) 266
Lancaster, Osbert (English Cartoonist, 1908-1986)
His acute osbert lancaster: "The
Singularge Experience of Miss Anne Duffield" (John Lennon)
225
Lancelot, Sir (Arthurian Legend)
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep (H.G. Parry) 73, 108, 110,
113, 188, 255-257, 263, 344, 377, 381, 394
The Firland Saga (Norman
S. Power) 106, 108-109, 112
Stanley Bagshaw and the Frantic Film Fiasco (Bob Wilson)
"The Lancelot Connection" (Matthew Booth) 33, 48; The Star
of India (Carole Buggé) 119, 121; Good
Night, Mr. Holmes (Carole Nelson Douglas) 183; The Holmes
Inheritance (Brian Freemantle) 84; The Three Winter Terrors
(James Lovegrove) 218; The Night Mayor (Kim Newman) 97; "The
Macabre Affair" (Bill Paxton) 46;"Sherlock Holmes,
Dragon-Slayer" (Darrell Schweitzer) 119; The Devil and the
Four (Sam Siciliano) 327; The Venerable Tiger (Sam
Siciliano) 300; Sherlock Holmes and the Masquerade Murders
(Frank Thomas) vi; The Limehouse Text (Will Thomas) 230; The
Final Page of Baker Street (Daniel D. Victor) 57, 100, 182,
192; Dr. Mortimer and the Aldgate Mystery (Gerard Williams)
67
Lanchester, Elsa (British-American Actress 1902-1986)
Elsa the Lanchester car: Lestrade and the Deadly Game (M.J.Trow) 56;
Lestrade and the Devil's Own (M.J. Trow) 94; Lestrade and the Hallowed
House (M.J.Trow) 630
Lanchester, Frederick (British Automobile &
Aviation Pioneer, 1868-1946)
The Dracula Caper (Simon Hawke) 13
Lanchester cars: Lestrade and the Brother of Death
(M.J. Trow) 144; Lestrade and the Deadly Game (M.J.Trow) 56;
Lestrade and the Devil's Own (M.J. Trow) 93, 134; Lestrade
and the Hallowed House (M.J.Trow) 453-454, 457,
598, 630; Lestrade and the Leviathan (M.J. Trow) 71, 73, 77,
79-81, 83, 85, 89, 93, 162, 232-234, 245-246;
Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder (M.J. Trow) 37, 148
Lancia, Vincenzo
(Founder of Lancia Cars, 1881-1937)
Lestrade and the Devil's Own (M J Trow) 75
Lancia Car: Escapade (Walter Satterthwaite) 5-9,
274
Lancia Epsilon: The Return of the Pharaoh (Nicholas
Meyer) 205
Land, Ned (20,000 Leagues Under The Sea -
Jules Verne)
The Other Log of Phileas Fogg (Philip José Farmer) 10, 109-111
The Evil in Pemberley House (Philip José Farmer & Win
Scott Eckert) 90
Landlady (The Man with the
Watches - Arthur Conan Doyle)
"The Girl and the Gold Watches" (Robert Ryan) 444
Landless, Helena (The Mystery of Edwin
Drood - Charles Dickens)
The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini) 105-412
"At the Sign of the
Ship" (Andrew Lang) 474, 476-480
"Sherlock Holmes and the Drood Mystery" (Edmund
Pearson) 156, 159, 161-162
The Disappearance of Edwin Drood (Peter Rowland) 17, 77,
79-86, 88-89, 103, 123-141, 143, 154, 163-166, 168-170, 172
"Sherlock Holmes Solves The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Harry B.
Smith) 218, 220-224
The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F.
Fleissner) 11, 59
Landless, Neville (The Mystery of Edwin
Drood - Charles Dickens)
The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini) 106-412
"At the Sign of the
Ship" (Andrew Lang) 475, 478-480
"Sherlock Holmes and the Drood Mystery" (Edmund
Pearson) 156-157, 159-162
The Disappearance of Edwin Drood (Peter Rowland) 17-19, 21-23,
25, 29, 42, 44, 52, 60-61, 73-74, 77, 80, 89, 92, 99, 102-103,
122-123, 126-133, 136-140, 156-160, 162-163, 169
"Sherlock Holmes Solves The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Harry B.
Smith) 215, 218-225
The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F.
Fleissner) 42, 124; The
Surrogate
Assassin (Christopher Leppek) 58
Landless's Stepfather (The Mystery of
Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens)
The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini) 139
Langemann, Dr (The Silver Hatchet - Arthur
Conan Doyle)
"The Adventure of the Double-Edged Hoard" (Craig Janacek) 93
Landlord of the Invisible Man (The
Invisible Man - H.G. Wells)
Doctor Watson and the
Invisible Man (Noel Downing) 3-10, 14, 18, 20, 22-23,
26, 29-30, 35, 51-52, 61-64, 69, 111, 115, 121, 126, 135-137,
140, 142
Landolt, Edmund (French Oculist, 1846-1926)
The Demon Device (Robert Saffron) 44
Landor, Walter Savage (English Poet, 1775-1864)
Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison)
152
Landouzy, Louis (French Neurologist,
1845-1917)
"The Lunacy of Celestine Blot" (Stephen Volk) 368
Landregan, Bridget (American Murder Victim,
?-1873)
Moriarty (Anthony Horowitz) 31
Landru (Star Trek - TV Series "The Return of the
Archons" episode)
"Everything Comes In Circles" (Dana Martin Batory) 15
Landseer, Sir Edwin
(British Artist, 1802-1873)
Sherlock Holmes and the Holborn Emporium (Val
Andrews) 108; Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
(Gyles Brandreth) 252-253; Sherlock Holmes and the
Apocalypse Murders (Barry Day) 175; Absolute Discretion
(Grant Eustace) 12; "Moriarty’s Fiendish Plan" (Roger
Jaynes) 204; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 7; Skullduggery
(Peter Marks) 66; The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols
(Nicholas Meyer) 215; Jewel of the Thames (Angela Misri) 27;
Baskerville (John O’Connell) 52; "The Lion of Draksville"
(Julian Rathbone) 151; The Problem of the Missing Miss
(Roberta Rogow) 150; "The Haunted House" (Alan
Stockwell) 217; "The Case of the Matinee Idol" (Donald
Thomas) 293; Lestrade and the Gift of the Prince (M.J.Trow)
55; The Mycroft Memoranda (Ray Walsh) 28
Landsteiner, Karl (Austrian Physician,
1868-1943)
"Blood Brothers" (Kim Krisco) 336
Lane (The Importance of
Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde)
The Spider’s Web (Philip Purser-Hallard) 122-126, 132, 137,
200-205, 229-230, 233, 244, 265, 278
Lane, Catherine (Ripper Case: Stride gave
her a piece of velvet to look after)
Castle Rouge (Carole
Nelson Douglas) 80
Chapel Noir (Carole
Nelson Douglas) 267, 316
Lane, Dr (Isabella Bankes's Doctor)
"The Ghost in the Machine" (Donald Thomas) 24, 37
Lane, Hugh (Irish Art Dealer, 1875-1915)
The Year of the Gun (H.B. Lyle)
Lane, John (British Publisher, 1854-1925)
The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires (Brian Stableford) 134,
151
Lane, Lois (Superman comics)
The Ace Reporter: An East Wind Coming (Arthur Byron
Cover) 6-12, 15, 61, 67, 170, 172, 278, 350
Lane, Margo (The Shadow series - Maxwell Grant)
"God of the Naked
Unicorn" (Richard Lupoff) 309
Lane, Mark (American Attorney & Author, 1927-2016)
Sherlock Holmes in Dallas (Edmund Aubrey) 31
Lane Sisters, The (American Singers)
Elementary, My Dear Groucho (Ron Goulart) 188
Lang, Andrew (Scottish
Scholar, 1844-1912)
"At the Sign of the Ship" (Andrew Lang) 473, 478, 480
"Over The Plum Pudding" (John Kendrick Bangs) 210; "The
Fairy Thieves" (Dana Martin Batory) 142;
"The Questionable Parentage of Basil Grant" (R. Bostoun
Cromer) 54, 57; "By Any Other Name" (Michael Dirda) 209;
"Sherlock Holmes Solves The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Harry B.
Smith) 217, 219, 221, 223, 225
Lang, Fritz (Austrian-American Film Director,
1890-1976)
And Then There Was One (Gilbert Adair) 7; "Xenolith" (Dana
Martin Batory) 45; Elementary, My Dear Groucho (Ron Goulart)
24, 128; Pirate King (Laurie R. King) 228
Lang,
Milton (American Sherlockian)
"Murder at the Murray Hill" (Edgar W. Smith) 63-64
Langdon, A.M. (British
Barrister)
Dead Man’s Land (Robert Ryan) 375
Lange, A. (German Watchmaker)
A. Lange & Söhne: "The Adventure of
the Vanished Village" (Michael Mallory) 119
Langevin,
Paul (French Scientist, Lover of Marie Curie,
1872-1946)
The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 154
The Secret of Sherlock Holmes (Gary F. Boothe) 77, 94, 96
Langham,
Hope (Soldiers of Fortune - Richard Harding
Davis)
"Gossip" (Anonymous) 318
Langham & Platt
(English Solicitors)
The Quallsford Inheritance (Lloyd Biggle, Jr.) 253-254
Langstroth, Lorenzo Lorraine (American Apiarist,
1810-1895)
"The Case of Death and
Honey" (Neil Gaiman) 182, 184; "The Enigma of the
Warwickshire Vortex" (F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre)
461
Langstroth Box: The
Language of Bees (Laurie R. King) 13, 73, 109
Langstroth Hive: The Language of Bees (Laurie R.
King) 73; Ten Years Beyond Baker Street (Cay Van Ash) 18
Langstroth Spaces: "A
Country Death" (Simon Kurt Unsworth) 130
Langtry, Edward (Husband of
Lillie Langtry, 1847-1897)
Riviera Gold (Laurie R. King) 6, 8
Sherlock Holmes and the
Twelve Thefts of Christmas (Tim Major) 153-160, 162-164,
171-172, 178-181, 195, 200-201, 206-210, 220, 240, 244, 262
Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 122-123, 333,
340, 348-352, 355
Good Night, Mr Holmes (Carole Nelson Douglas) 77; "Sherlock
Holmes & 'The Woman'" (Michael Harrison) 111, 113-114,
124
Langtry, Jeanne Marie (Daughter
of Lily Langtry, 1881-1964)
Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 72, 114, 176, 192-194,
246, 257-258, 305, 207-314, 332-333, 345, 351-352, 354-355
The Surrogate Assassin (Christopher Leppek) 219
Langtry,
Lillie (British Actress, 1853-1929)
Good Night, Mr. Holmes (Carole Nelson Douglas) 17, 61-62,
64, 77, 83-85, 97, 99, 155, 175, 331
"Sherlock Holmes & 'The Woman'" (Michael
Harrison) 111-118, 121-129
Riviera Gold (Laurie R. King) 6-8, 35-38, 59-63, 81-85, 115,
118-119, 129-147, 149-152, 154, 167-170, 174, 184-185,
193-194, 200-201, 207, 234-236, 257, 269-271, 273-279,
282-283, 299, 301, 308-309, 323-327, 330, 341
Sherlock Holmes and the Twelve Thefts of
Christmas (Tim Major) 156-160, 163-173, 177-181, 206-207,
210-212, 215, 240, 262
Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 17-27,
71-74, 81-85, 88, 92-93, 95-96, 100-101, 103, 106, 110-117,
119-133, 137-140, 143-144, 147, 149-160, 162, 164, 176, 178,
182-184, 186-187, 190. 192-194, 197-204, 207, 212, 215-216,
228, 234, 246-247, 250, 252, 255-261, 296, 301, 305,
307-309, 313-358
Sherlock Holmes and the Sandringham House Mystery (Val
Andrews) 62; Jack the Ripper: Case Closed (Gyles
Brandreth) 283; Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
(Gyles Brandreth) 71, 135; "The Adventure of the Magic
Alibi" (Philip J. Carraher) 83; The Curse
of the Nibelung (Marcel D'Agneau) 45, 47; Sherlock
Holmes and the Apocalypse Murders (Barry Day) 44; Chapel
Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 187-188, 192, 277; Femme Fatale
(Carole Nelson Douglas) 228; Good Morning, Irene (Carole
Nelson Douglas) 156, 191, 209-210, 232; The Evil in
Pemberley House (Philip José Farmer & Win Scott Eckert)
147; "Flashman and the Tiger" (George MacDonald Fraser) 314,
317; The King Edward Plot (Robert Lee Hall) 40, 89, 198; The
Game's Afoot Mrs. Hudson (Sydney Hosier) 77; Locked Rooms
(Laurie R. King) 259; A Study in Sable (Mercedes Lackey)
206; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 142; The Surrogate
Assassin (Christopher Leppek) 219; "The Adventure of the
Illustrious Patient" (Michael Mallory) 78; Sherlock Holmes
and the Ice Palace Murders (Larry Millett) 21;
"It is a riddle wrapped
inside a mystery inside an enigma" (Frank Muir) 19; "The
Adventure of the Six Maledictions" (Kim Newman) 257-258; The
Hampstead Poisonings (Glen Petrie) 76; The Problem of the
Spiteful Spiritualist (Roberta Rogow) 237; W.G. Grace's Last
Case (William Rushton) 17; The Web Weaver (Sam Siciliano)
168; Anatomy of Evil (Will Thomas) 10; Lestrade and the Dead
Man's Hand (M.J.Trow) 145; Lestrade and the Giant Rat of
Sumatra (M.J. Trow) 60; Lestrade and the Gift of the Prince
(M.J.Trow) 19; Lestrade and the Hallowed House (M.J.Trow)
546; Dr. Mortimer and the Aldgate Mystery (Gerard
Williams) 89, 107-108; The Jewel of Covent Garden (Wayne
Worcester) 70
Langtry Alberts: The Return of Moriarty (John
Gardner) 251
Lilly Langtree: "The Man From Capetown"
(Stuart M. Kaminsky) 12
Langtry, William (Father of Edward Langtry)
Wilde About Holmes (Milo
Yelesiyevich) 349
Languish, Lydia (The Rivals - Richard
Brinsley Sheridan)
The Strange Return of Sherlock Holmes (Barry Grant) 43,
72-73, 160-161
Lankester,
Sir Edwin Ray (British Zoologist, 1847-1929)
The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer)
13, 21, 52, 66, 100-103, 112, 114, 157-158
Skullduggery (Peter Marks) 21, 41-42, 47, 51, 53, 83,
145, 181
Sherlock Holmes: My Life (Lawrence R. Spencer) 145-146
Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice,
4th Marquess of (British Politician, 1816-1866)
"The Case of the Murdering Saint" (Vithal Rajan) 53
Lansdowne Fountain: Mycroft & Sherlock: The Empty
Birdcage (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anna Waterhouse) 218
Lansdowne,
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of (British
Statesman, Viceroy of India (1888-94) & Foreign
Secretary (1900-1905), 1845-1927)
"The Adventure of the Illustrious Patient" (Michael Mallory)
78-83
"Art, Crime, and Enlightenment" (Vithal Rajan) 167, 169-177,
181-184, 188, 192, 196-198, 202-203
Lestrade and the Hallowed House (M.J.Trow) 561-565, 606, 622
"The Fifth Browning" (Jürgen Ehlers) 533; Exit Sherlock
Holmes (Robert Lee Hall) 221;
"Sherlock Holmes and
the Belgravian Letter" (Roger Jaynes) 79; The
Pandora Plague (Lee A. Matthias) 238; Sherlock
Holmes in Japan (Vasudev Murthy) 119; The Mandala of
Sherlock Holmes (Jamyang Norbu) 86-87; "The
Bite Worse Than Death" (Vithal Rajan) 92; "The Case
of the Murdering Saint" (Vithal Rajan) 52-53; "Kim and Kim
Again" (Vithal Rajan) 143, 161; "The Naga Baiga of Moogli
Hills" (Vithal Rajan) 101; The Siam Question (Timothy
Francis Sheil) 90
The Foreign Secretary: "The Adventure of the Greatest
Gift" (Loren D. Estleman) 101
The Viceroy: "The Case of Anton Furer" (Ted Riccardi)
183, 186; "An Envoy to Lhasa" (Ted Riccardi) 125-126, 128,
131-133, 149
The Viceroy's Palace: "The Death of Mycroft
Holmes" (Ted Riccardi) 66
The Viceroy's Staff: The Last Sherlock Holmes Story
(Michael Dibdin) 139
Lansdowne, Maud Petty-Fitzmaurice,
Marchioness of (Wife of the 5th Marquess of
Lansdowne, 1850-1932)
"Art, Crime, and Enlightenment" (Vithal Rajan) 165-167, 169,
174, 181, 184-186, 192-193, 197, 201
Lansing, Robert (American
Politician, 1864-1928)
"The Case of the Zimmermann
Telegram" (Donald Thomas) 309, 319
Lanston, Tolbert (American Inventor,
1844-1913)
Lanston Monotype Caster: The Thinking
Engine (James Lovegrove) 119
Lantier, Jacques (La Bête Humaine - Movie)
The Bloody Red Baron (Kim Newman) 41-42, 46, 50, 56-58, 91
Lanyon, Hastie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde -
Robert Louis Stevenson)
"The Sign of Two: Sherlock Holmes and Dr Jekyll" (Philip
Cornell) 57, 60-61, 65-66
Dr. Jekyll & Mr.
Holmes (Loren D. Estleman) 40-41, 136-146, 160, 168,
170, 179, 216, 228, 233, 237-241
"The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
& Mr Holmes" (Steven Philip Jones & Seppo Makinen)
19, 26
Sherlock Holmes: My Life (Lawrence R. Spencer) 209
"Mr. Homes Solves A Question of Authorship" (John Kendrick
Bangs) 215; Dracula's
Diary
(Michael Geare & Michael Corby) 57; European Travel
for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (Theodora Goss) 451; W.G.
Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 120
Lanyon's Butler (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde -
Robert Louis Stevenson)
Dr. Jekyll & Mr.
Holmes (Loren D. Estleman) 139-140, 144-146
Lanz, Adolf (Austrian Mystic, 1874-1954)
Doctor Watson and the
Invisible Man (Noel Downing) 69-70, 113, 117-119,
123, 126, 141, 158-159, 161, 164-172
Lanza, Mario (Italian-American Singer)
The Night Mayor (Kim Newman) 3
Lao Tzu / Laozi (Chinese Philosopher, 570-490BC)
Sherlock Holmes and
Frankenstein’s Diary (Barry Grant) 44; The Travels of
Sherlock Holmes (John Hall) 113; The Case of the Invisible
Thief (Thomas Brace Haughey) 98-99; "The Adventure of la
Soupe Chinoise" (MacLean O’Spelin) 89, 92; The Year of
High Treason (Vithal Rajan) 123; "Sherlock Holmes and the
Lizzie Borden Connection" (William Schley-Ulrich) III: 11;
Sherlock Holmes: My Life (Lawrence R. Spencer) 221;
Sherlock Holmes and the Nine-Dragon Sigil (Tim Symonds)
31; The Limehouse Text (Will Thomas) 79; The Mycroft
Memoranda (Ray Walsh) 133
Laocoön (Priest of
Apollo in Greek Mythology)
The Pursuit of the Houseboat (John Kendrick Bangs)
164-165; The
Demon Device (Robert Saffron) 210
Laocoön's Sons
(Greek Mythology)
The Demon Device (Robert Saffron) 210
Laplace, Pierre-Simon (French Mathematician,
1749-1827)
"The Caribbean Treaty Affair" (Jill Braden) 398; The White
Worm (Sam Siciliano) 73
Lardner, Ring (American Writer, 1885-1933)
Nevermore (William
Hjortsberg) 64, 220-221
"A Lesson in Handwriting Analysis" (Ring W. Lardner) 204
Larkin, Fay (Riders
of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey)
"A Volume in Vermilion" (Kim Newman) 76-78, 82-85, 87-98
Larkin, James (Irish Republican, 1874-1947)
The Year of the Gun (H.B. Lyle) 40
Larkin, Philip (British Poet, 1922-1985)
A Three-Pipe Problem (Julian Symons) 124
Larousse, Pierre (French Lexicographer, 1817-1875)
Larousse: The Adventure of the Peculiar
Protocols (Nicholas Meyer) 18
Larrabee, James (Sherlock Holmes - William Gillette)
"The Adventure of the Agitated Actress" (Daniel Stashower)
93-95, 98, 100
Larrabee, Madge (Sherlock Holmes - William Gillette)
"The Adventure of the Agitated Actress" (Daniel Stashower)
96, 98
Lars Porsena (King of Clusium)
Lestrade and the
Hallowed House (M.J.Trow) 578
Larsen, Arronaxe (Tarzan Alive - Philip
José Farmer)
The Evil in Pemberley House (Philip José Farmer & Win
Scott Eckert) 25, 27, 69, 72, 142
Larsen, Viggo (Danish Actor, 1880-1957)
Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison)
244
Larsen, Wolf (The Sea Wolf - Jack
London)
"The Adventure of the Fallen Stone" (Win Scott Eckert) 77-80,
82, 84, 87-91
LaRue, Alfred 'Lash' (American Cowboy Actor,
1917-1996)
The Incredible Umbrella
(Marvin Kaye) 149
Lasalle, Antoine Charles Louis de (French
Cavalry Officer, 1775-1809)
No Place Like Holmes (Jason Lethcoe) 102
LaSalle, Robert de (French Explorer,
1643-1687)
LaSalle Automobile: "Red Sunset" (Bob
Madison) 261
Lascaris, Beatrice (Wife of Filippo Maria
Visconti, 1378-1412)
Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 50
Lascelles, Lawrence (Billy Bunter series -
Charles Hamilton)
Sherlock Holmes and the Greyfriars School Mystery (Val
Andrews) 28
Lascelles, Lord: see Cornwallis West, William
Laski, Harold J. (British Political
Scientist, 1893-1950)
The Case of the
Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 7-12
Łaski, Olbrecht (Polish Alchemist, ?-1604)
"The Angel of Truth"
(I.A. Watson) 134
Lasky, Jesse (American Film Director, 1880-1958)
Lasky Company: Pirate King (Laurie R.
King) 48
Merv Letoffsky:
Believe (William Shatner & Michael Tobias)
222
Lassalle, Ferdinand
(German Socialist, 1825-1864)
The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer)
44
Lassiter, Jim (Riders of the
Purple Sage - Zane Grey)
"A Volume in Vermilion" (Kim Newman) 75-80, 82-97
"The Hound of the D’Urbervilles" (Kim Newman) 171;
"The Problem of the Final Adventure" (Kim Newman) 399
Lassus, Orlandus
(Flemish Composer, 1532-1594)
"The Affair
of the Politician, The Lighthouse, and the Trained
Cormorant" (Howard Collins) 200; The Case
of the Philosophers' Ring (Randall Collins) 2; The Devil’s
Promise (David Stuart Davies) 18; Sherlock Holmes and the
Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 161; The Last Sherlock Holmes
Story (Michael Dibdin) 42; The Master Sleuth on the Trail of
Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 23;
"Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Hamlet" (Emanuel E.
Garcia) 12; Exit Sherlock Holmes (Robert Lee Hall) 116; The
Adamantine Sherlock Holmes (Hapi) 56; Sherlock Holmes: My
Life And Crimes (Michael Hardwick) 114-117, 131;
All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 6; The West End Horror
(Nicholas Meyer) 23; The Dorking Gap Affair (Glen Petrie)
26-27, 201-202; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography
(Nick Rennison) 19; "A Case of Criminal Madness" (Ted
Riccardi) 37; "The Case of the French Savant" (Ted Riccardi)
118; Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac (Barrie Roberts)
146; "The Case of the
Zimmermann Telegram" (Donald Thomas) 280, 286, 288;
"The Execution of Sherlock Holmes" (Donald Thomas) 24;
Sherlock Holmes and the Sacred Sword (Frank Thomas) 99;
"The Pale Reflection" (L.C. Tyler) 255-257, 262, 270;
"Jerusalem Keep" (Mark Valentine & John Howard) 366;
"The Adventure of the
Missing Master" (Phillip Vine) 231, 233, 244, 253; The
Jewel of Covent Garden (Wayne Worcester) 5
Via Orlando di Lasso: "The Case of the Two
Bohmes" (Ted Riccardi) 181
Lathom, Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Earl
of (British Politician, 1837-1898)
The Lord Chamberlain: Unquiet Spirits (Bonnie
MacBird) 245, 297
Latimer, Andrew J. (Chief Steward Aboard
the Titanic)
Sherlock Holmes and the
Titanic Tragedy (William Seil) 86
Latimer, Charles (A Coffin for Diitrios -
Eric Ambler)
The Book of Changes (R.H.W. Dillard) 91
Latimer, Hugh (British Bishop, c.1487-1555)
The Thinking Engine (James Lovegrove) 294
Latour, Louis (French Wine Grower)
Louis Latour Chardonnay: The Abduction of
Pretty Penny (Leonard Goldberg) 123-125
Lauder, Sir Harry (Scottish Entertainer,
1870-1950)
Lestrade and the Gift of
the Prince (M.J.Trow) 89-90, 95, 116-121, 123
"Hoot Mon!" (Joseph H. Firman) 3; "No Mystery at All"
(Kenneth L. Roberts) 20
Lauengram, Albert of (The
Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope)
The Zenda Vendetta (Simon Hawke) 81, 146-149, 157, 172-174,
186-187
Laughton, Charles (British-American Actor, 1899-1962)
The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 127; The Night
Mayor (Kim Newman) 70; The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of
Death (Daniel Pinkwater) 370
Laura (Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le
Fanu)
European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (Theodora Goss)
459-468, 470, 472-475, 480, 483-485, 487-494, 496-502, 506,
530, 535, 538, 560, 562, 565, 591-595, 611-612, 624-625,
627-628, 631-632, 646-647, 653, 656, 660, 664, 667, 688-691,
696, 698, 700
The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (Theodora Goss)
9, 24-28, 180-184, 320-325, 375, 381, 383, 392-393, 414-416,
418-419, 433
Laura (Man-size in Marble
- Edith Nesbit)
"The Adventure of the Stone Men" (Charles R. Rutledge) 111,
113-118, 121, 123, 125-126, 129, 139, 141
Laura's Father (Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le
Fanu)
European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (Theodora
Goss) 460, 468, 491, 498; The Sinister Mystery of the
Mesmerizing Girl (Theodora Goss)26-27
Laura's Housekeeper (Carmilla -
J. Sheridan Le Fanu)
European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (Theodora Goss)
470-472, 483-484, 502
Laura's Mother (Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le
Fanu)
European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (Theodora
Goss) 460, 468
Laurel, Stan (British-American Actor, 1890-1965)
"The Little Problem of the
Grosvenor Square Furniture Van" (Patrick LoBrutto)
(Written as if by Laurel)
Laurel & Hardy (British
/American Comedy Duo)
The Curse of the Nibelung (Marcel D'Agneau) 196;
The Case of the Missing Masterpiece (Terrance Dicks) 7; My
Hero (Tom Holt) 219; "Elementary, My Lovely" (Sarah Montague
Joffe) 11; The Spy who Fell off the Back of a Bus (Marc
Lovell) 154; The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
(Daniel Pinkwater) 340-342; The Book of the Dead (Robert
Richardson) 81-82; Lestrade and the Sawdust Ring (M.J.Trow)
171
NOTE: "The Little Problem of the Grosvenor Square
Furniture Van" (Patrick LoBrutto) is based on Laurel &
Hardy's piano-movers routine.
See also: Oliver
Hardy
Laurence, Friar (Romeo and Juliet - William
Shakespeare)
The Case of the Spellbound Child (Mercedes Lackey) 60;
"The Flowers of Utah" (Robert Pohle) 96
Laurie, Leah (Wife of Will Goldston)
Sherlock Holmes and the Holborn Emporium (Val Andrews)
59-60
Laurier, Sir Wilfrid (Canadian Prime-Minister
(1896-1911), 1841-1919)
"Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Anexationist
Conspiracy" (Jack Batten & Michael Bliss) 66, 70, 78;
"A Scandal in Montreal" (Edward D. Hoch) 88; The Winged
Wheel (Peter H. Wood) 74
Lauth, Captain Jules (French Intelligence
Agent)
Prisoner of the Devil
(Michael Hardwick) 256-257, 298-299, 305-314, 316,
328, 335, 398
Lautréamont, Comte de: see Ducasse, Isidore
Laveau, Marie, I (American Voodoo
Priestess, 1794(?)-1881(?))
Shadowfall (Tracy Revels) 26-28, 33, 77, 81-85, 130-131, 137,
140, 143, 146-149, 157, 159, 162, 164-176, 180-184, 186, 188,
191
The Arcanum (Thomas Wheeler) 87, 129-130, 132, 196-198
Shadowblood (Tracy Revels) 52, 58, 104, 141, 263
Laveau, Marie, II (American Voodoo
Priestess, 1827-1897)
The Arcanum (Thomas Wheeler) 86-91, 95-98, 101, 104-105, 110,
112-114, 116, 118-121, 128-135, 141-142, 170-173, 177, 179,
181, 184-185, 187, 192-193, 195-200, 205-207, 210, 214-216,
218-220, 227-233, 236-242, 247-248, 250-251, 261, 264, 289,
296, 300-301, 307, 309-315, 323, 325
Lavelle (War of the Worlds - H.G.Wells)
Sherlock Holmes's War of
the Worlds (Manly W. Wellman & Wade Wellman) 43
The League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen (Allan Moore & Kevin O'Neill)
33
Lavenza, Elizabeth (Frankenstein
- Mary Shelley)
Sherlock Holmes The Adventure of the Frankenstein Monster (Don
W. Baranowski) 14, 22, 24, 27-30, 33-34, 38, 41-42, 46-49,
51-58, 61, 76, 113-115, 119-120, 123-126, 129-130, 136-138,
140-146, 148, 157, 162
The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter (Theodora
Goss) 338, 342, 344
Laver, Rod (Australian Tennis Player, 1938- )
My Hero (Tom Holt) 6
Lavoisier, Antoine
Laurent (French Chemist, 1743-1794)
"The Adventure of the Old Russian Woman" (Ian Charnock)
94; Exit Sherlock Holmes (Robert Lee Hall) 44; The
Childhood of Sherlock Holmes (Mona Morstein) 266; Sherlock
Holmes and the Story For Which The World Is Not Yet Prepared
(Stephen E. Pierce) 150
Law, John: see Margaret
Harkness
Law, Jude (English Actor, 1972- )
"As to ‘An Exact Knowledge of London’" (Tony Broadbent)
32, 37; The Great Shelby Holmes and the Coldest Case
(Elizabeth Eulberg) 47
Lawende,
Joseph (Ripper Case, Saw Eddowes with a man like a
sailor)
Joseph Lavende: Murder by Decree (Robert Weverka) 26,
47-48
The Whitechapel
Horrors (Edward B. Hanna) 179-180; Lestrade and the Ripper
(M.J.Trow) 192
Lawes, Henry (English Composer, 1595-1662)
The Bookman (Lavie Tidhar) 104
Lawley, Sue (British TV Presenter, 1946- )
Aunt Edna’s Guide to Paradise (Keith Sharp) 7
Lawrence, D.H. (British Author, 1885-1930)
The Evil in Pemberley House (Philip José Farmer & Win
Scott Eckert) 97; The Language of Bees (Laurie R. King) 153;
The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols (Nicholas Meyer)
40-41, 44; The Bloody Red Baron (Kim Newman) 217; Lestrade and the Magpie
(M.J.Trow) 116
Lawrence, Edward (English Brewer)
"The Case of the Sporting Major" (Donald Thomas) 134
Lawrence, James G (American Mill Owner, 1886-1927)
Strongwood (Larry Millett) 44
Lawrence, Mr Justice (British Judge, Rose Harsent
Murder Case)
"The Case of the Peasenhall Murder" (Donald Thomas) 181
Lawrence, Marc (American Actor, 1909-2005)
The Night Mayor (Kim Newman) 6, 9-10
Lawrence, Penelope, Millicent &
Dorothy (Founders of Roedean School)
Miss Violet Lawrence: Lestrade and the
Hallowed House (M.J. Trow) 451-452, 454, 473-480, 515
Miss Petronella Lawrence: Lestrade and the
Hallowed House (M.J. Trow) 476-478, 480
Miss Agatha Lawrence: Lestrade and the
Hallowed House (M.J. Trow) 476-478, 480
Lawrence, St
(Roman Martyr, c.225-258)
Irene's Last Waltz (Carole Nelson Douglas) 246;
"Sherlock Holmes and the Tick Tock Man" (Roy Templeman) 123
Ayot St Lawrence: Lestrade and the Magpie (M.J. Trow)
52
Bradstone St Lawrence: "The Case of a
Boy’s Honour" (Donald Thomas) 10, 16, 20, 22, 59
Church of St Lawrence: "Nightmare in Wax"
(Simon Clark) 429
Hospital of St Lawrence: "Sherlock Holmes
and the Beast of Bodmin" (Jonathan Green) 65, 74
St Laurent: Prisoner of the Devil (Michael
Hardwick) 121, 125
St Lawrence River: "A Scandal in Montreal" (Edward D.
Hoch) 86; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick
Rennison) 220; "The Case of the Yokohama Club" (Donald
Thomas) 297; "The Reluctant Assassin" (Peter Tremayne)
216-217
St Lawrence Seaway: Lestrade and the Leviathan
(M.J.Trow) 86
Lawrence, Sarah: see Sarah Junner
Lawrence,
T.E. (British Soldier, "Lawrence of Arabia",
1888-1935)
Watson's Last Case (Ian Charnock) 26-43
"The Petrifying Well" (Martin Gately) 56-68
O, Jerusalem (Laurie R. King) 28, 63, 87, 118, 148, 167, 243,
366
The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 48, 50
Aunt Edna’s Guide to Paradise (Keith Sharp) 123-126, 128-129
The Case of the Reluctant Agent (Tracy Cooper-Posey) 16;
The Art of Detection (Laurie R. King) 216; The Game (Laurie
R. King) 83; Garment of Shadows (Laurie R. King) 44-45, 249,
260; Island of the Mad (Laurie R. King) 284; Justice Hall
(Laurie R. King) 4; A Letter of Mary (Laurie R. King) 22,
25; The Rainbow Affair (David McDaniel) 106; The Baker
Street Letters (Michael Robertson) 189; A Study in Murder
(Robert Ryan) 49; Escapade (Walter Satterthwaite) 280; The
Confessions of Mycroft Holmes (Marcel Theroux) 102; Lestrade
and the Kiss of Horus (M.J.Trow) 44, 64, 84; Lestrade and
the Magpie (M.J.Trow) 117-119, 125, 157
Lawrence, Sir Thomas (British Artist,
1769-1830)
Jack the Ripper: Case Closed (Gyles Brandreth) 255; Oscar
Wilde and a Death of No Importance (Gyles Brandreth) 248;
The House of Silk (Anthony Horowitz) 20
Lawrence, William (British Bank
Clerk)
"The Case of the Naked Bicyclists" (Donald Thomas) 129
Lawrie, Dr Edward (Scottish
Doctor)
"The Bite Worse Than Death" (Vithal Rajan)
61-62, 66, 68
Lawson, Geoff
(Australian Cricketer, 1957- )
'Legbreaker' Lawson: Lestrade and the Dead Man's
Hand (M.J.Trow) 73
Lawson,
Nigel (British Politician, 1932-2023)
Lawson, Nigel and Partners: "The Vanishing Legacy"
(Anonymous) 1600
Lay, Charles (English Doctor)
"The Case of the Peasenhall Murder" (Donald Thomas) 171-173,
178, 204
Laye, Evelyn (British Actress, 1899-1996)
"You’d Better Go In Disguise" (Alan Bradley) 16
Lazare, Bernard (French Writer, 1865-1903)
Prisoner of the Devil (Michael Hardwick) 332-333
Lazarus (Bible - John)
"Dead Man Walking" (Len Bailey) 137-138, 140-145, 147, 150-156
Oscar Wilde and a
Death of No Importance (Gyles Brandreth) 232; The Lazarus
Machine (Paul Crilley) 190; "The Remarkable Disappearance
of James Phillimore" (Paul D. Gilbert) 64; The Strange
Return of Sherlock Holmes (Barry Grant) 93; "Adventure of
the Opera Ghost" (Steven Philip Jones & Aldin Baroza)
24, 33; The Labyrinth of Death (James Lovegrove) 85; Art
in the Blood (Bonnie MacBird) 66; "The Adventure of the
Fellow Traveller" (Daniel McGachey) 362; "A Death at the
Cricket" (Eddie Maguire) 66; The Canary Trainer (Nicholas
Meyer) 62; The Holmes Affair (Graham
Moore) 321; "The Adventure of the Lazarus Child" (Dr L.J.M.
Owen) 223, 233; Ghosts of Dracula (Martin Powell & Seppo
Makinen) v4: 6; The Angel of the Opera (Sam Siciliano) 78,
162, 171; The Fifth Heart (Dan Simmons) 202; Sherlock Holmes
and the Terror Out of Time (Ralph E. Vaughan) 25; "Father of
the Man" (Stephen Volk) 84; "Sweet Rewards" (Wayne Worcester) 385-386
Lazarus-like: "As to ‘An Exact Knowledge of
London’" (Tony Broadbent) 42; "The Adventure of the
Reckless Resurrectionist" (Will Murray) 110
Lazarus Moment: The Dead Can Wait (Robert Ryan)
91
Lazarus (Bible - Luke)
"The Abergavenny
Adventure" (Clive Brooks) 13
Lazarus, Emma (American Poet, 1849-1887)
Castle Rouge (Carole
Nelson Douglas) 332
Lazenby, George (Australian Actor, 1939- )
Lestrade and the
Guardian Angel (M.J.Trow) 203-204
Lazovert, Stanislaus (Russian
Army Doctor, Involved in Rasputin Assassination)
Rasputin's Revenge (John T. Lescroart) 264, 274-276
Le Bon, Alphonse (The Murders in the Rue
Morgue - Edgar Allan Poe)
"The Comfort of the Seine" (Stephen Volk) 17; "The Lunacy
of Celestine Blot" (Stephen Volk) 387
Le Bon, Gustave (French Sociologist)
Durkheim Is Dead! (Arthur Asa Berger) 82
Le Breton, Emilie Davis Martin (Mother of
Lillie Langtry)
Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich)
140, 350
Le Breton, Reggie (Brother of
Lillie Langtry, ?-1877)
Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich)
139-140, 319, 322, 340
Le Breton, William (Brother of Lillie
Langtry)
Wilde About Holmes (Milo
Yelesiyevich) 122
Le Breton, William Corbet (Father
of Lillie Langtry, 1815-1888)
Wilde About Holmes (Milo
Yelesiyevich) 121, 157, 339-340
Good Night, Mr Holmes (Carole Nelson Douglas) 61; "Sherlock
Holmes and 'The Woman' (Michael Harrison) 112;
Le Carré, John (British Author, 1931- )
My Hero (Tom Holt) 200
Le Cat, Claude-Nicolas (French Surgeon,
1700-1768)
The Bookman (Lavie Tidhar) 126, 202
Le Corbusier (Swiss-French Architect, 1887-1965)
Copper Beeches (Arthur H. Lewis) 14
Le Désossé, Valentin / Jacques Renaudin
(French Dancer, 1843-1907)
"Irene, Good-Night" (D.R. Bensen) 20
Le Duc, Paul (Playing With Fire - Arthur
Conan Doyle)
"Hounded" (Stephen Volk) 22
Le Fanu, Fletcher (Irish
Clergyman, 1860-1939)
"The Irish Professor" (Eddie Maguire) 82-84
Le Fanu, Sheridan
(Irish Author, 1814-1873)
The Mystery of the Scarlet Rose (Irene Adler) 37; The
Baker Street Phantom (Fabrice Bourland) 170; "The
Adventure of the Haunted Room" (Mike Chinn) 378; The
Devil’s Promise (David Stuart Davies) 161; Castle Rouge
(Carole Nelson Douglas) 256; Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson
Douglas) 98; The Crusader’s Curse (Stuart Douglas) 7-8,
10; "The Case of the Suicidal Lawyer" (Martin Edwards)
387; "The Sunleys of Canterbury" (Miles Elward) 27; The
Dracula Caper (Simon Hawke) 21, 33, 90; Castle Shade
(Laurie R. King) 40; Sherlock Holmes and the Plague of
Dracula (Stephen Seitz) 65; The Grimswell Curse (Sam
Siciliano) 12, 168; The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires
(Brian Stableford) 135
Le Gall, Louis (French
Secretary to Félix Faure)
"The Case of the Unseen Hand" (Donald Thomas) 133-140
Le Grand, Charles
(British Private Detective)
A Knife in the Fog (Bradley Harper) 188, 215-216, 218
Le Maire, Jakob (Dutch Explorer)
"The Macabre Affair"
(Bill Paxton) 53
Le Neve, Ethel (Crippen's Lover &
Accomplice, 1883-1967)
The Red Ribbon (H.B. Lyle)
66-67, 208
Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison)
219-221
"The Two Failures of Sherlock Holmes" (Donald Thomas) 3-8
Lestrade and the Leviathan (M.J.Trow) 9-10, 42-43,
73-75, 80-81, 86-88, 116
"The Case of Peter the Painter" (Donald Thomas) 209; "The
Case of the Matinee Idol" (Donald Thomas) 344-345; "The Case
of the Missing Rifleman" (Donald Thomas) 249;
"Sherlock Holmes: The Actor" (Donald Thomas) 275; "Hounded"
(Stephen Volk) 24
Le Nôtre, André (French Landscape Architect,
1613-1700)
"Professor and Colonel" (Ruth Berman) 65
Le
Petomaine (Joseph Pujol) (French Entertainer,
1857-1945)
W.G. Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 219-221, 243, 245
M. Le Petomaine's Academy for Young Ladies:
Lestrade and the Deadly Game (M.J.Trow) 210; Lestrade and the Devil's
Own (M J Trow) 103; Lestrade and the Kiss of Horus
(M.J.Trow) 160; Lestrade and the Leviathan (M.J.Trow) 26,
30, 34, 233; Lestrade and the Magpie (M.J. Trow) 110
Le Pileur, A. (French Physiologist)
A Samba for Sherlock (Jô Soares) 52
Le Prince, Louis (French Cinema Pioneer,
1842-1890)
Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison)
129-130, 242
"The Adventure of the
Haunted Room" (Mike Chinn) 383; "The Adventure of the
Vanishing Man" (Mike Chinn) 370; "The Enigma of
the Warwickshire Vortex" (F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre)
465-466
Le Queux, William (Britsh Writer &
Journalist, 1864-1927)
Anno Dracula (Kim Newman) 173-176
"The Adventure of the
Missing General" (Anonymous) 6; I, Sherlock Holmes
(Michael Harrison) 7; The Bloody Red Baron
(Kim Newman) 16; Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography
(Nick Rennison) 233; A Study in Murder (Robert Ryan) 75; The
Winged Wheel (Peter H. Wood) 4, 17
Le Roy, Mary Ann "Talma"
(American Magician, 1868-1944)
"The Adventure of the
Magic Alibi" (Philip J. Carraher) 36
Le Roy, Servais (American Magician,
1865-1953)
"The Adventure of the
Magic Alibi" (Philip
J. Carraher) 36, 108
Sherlock Holmes and the Houdini Birthright (Val Andrews) 80
Le Sage, Alain Rene (French Novelist, 1668-1747)
The Adventure of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons (James Francis
Thierry) 97
Le Sorcier, Charles (The
Alchemist - H.P. Lovecraft)
Sherlock Holmes: My Life (Lawrence R. Spencer) 239, 243-245,
247-250, 252
Leach, Sir Edward Pemberton (British
Military Commander, 1847-1913)
Irene at Large (Carole
Nelson Douglas) 13; Watson's Afghan Adventure (Kieran
McMullen) 164, 185-186
Leacock, Agnes Butler (Mother of Stephen
Leacock)
"A Scandal in Montreal" (Edward D. Hoch) 89
Leacock, Beatrix Hamilton (Wife of Stephen
Leacock, ?-1925)
"A Scandal in Montreal" (Edward D. Hoch) 89-90
Leacock, Peter (Father of Stephen Leacock)
"A Scandal in Montreal" (Edward D. Hoch) 89
Leacock, Stephen (British-Canadian
Humorist, 1869-1944)
"A Scandal in Montreal" (Edward D. Hoch) 87-95
Leakin Steamcock: "The Mystery of the Chewed
Pencil" (A. Comyn Boyle) 7
Leacock, Stephen Lushington (Son of Stephen
Leacock, 1915-?)
"A Scandal in Montreal" (Edward D. Hoch) 89
Leadbeater,
Reverend C.W.
The Case of the Philosophers' Ring (Randall Collins)
104-107, 134-136
Leader,
The (Marvel Comics)
Deadpool Killustrated (Cullen Bunn & Matteo Lolli) 6-9,
11-12
Leakey, Louis (British Paleoanthropologist, 1903-1972)
Skullduggery (Peter Marks) 17; Sherlock Holmes: My Life
(Lawrence R. Spencer) 139
Leakey family: The Great Detective at the Crucible of
Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 16
Leal, Mercedes (Mother of Jô Soares)
A Samba for Sherlock (Jô Soares) 56-59
Leander (Hero & Leander)
Island of the Mad (Laurie R. King) 256
Lear, Edward (British Humourist, 1812-1888)
The Case of the Baker
Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 83;
Doctor Watson and the Invisible Man (Noel Downing) 121;
Murder in the Bath (Michael Mallory) 34; The Dragon Turn
(Shane Peacock) 148; A Study in Murder (Robert Ryan) 111;
The Bookman (Lavie Tidhar) 21, 54; Lestrade and the Giant
Rat of Sumatra (M.J. Trow) 13-14
Lear, King (King Lear - William
Shakespeare)
My Hero (Tom Holt) 59
The Dark Lady (Irene Adler) 53; Sherlock Holmes
and the Lusitania (Lorraine Daly) 102; Sherlock Holmes and
the Shakespeare Globe Murders (Barry Day) 32, 36, 184; The
Flying Scotsman (Quinn Fawcett) 64; The Master Sleuth on the
Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 64, 97-98; The
List of 7 (Mark Frost) 280; Moriarty (John Gardner) 55, 149;
; The Return of Moriarty (John Gardner) 106; "The Accidental
Murderess" (H. Paul Jeffers) 53; The Incredible Umbrella
(Marvin Kaye) 120; Dreaming Spies (Laurie R. King) 65, 187;
"The Case of the Danish Prince" (Miles Kington) 133; "The
Case of the Haphazard Marksman" (Andrew Lane) 210; Sherlock
Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities (James Lovegrove)
52; Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (James
Lovegrove) 60; Sherlock Holmes and the Skull of Death
(Robert E. McClellan) 61; "The Adventure of the Pallid Mask"
(Daniel McGachey) 234, 238; Murder in the Bath (Michael
Mallory) 48; The Stratford Conspiracy (Michael Mallory) 207,
252; The Bloody Red Baron (Kim Newman) 14; The Dons and Mr
Dickens (William J. Palmer) 70; The Monstrous Regiment (Glen
Petrie) 288; The Grimswell Curse (Sam Siciliano) 38; The Web
Weaver (Sam Siciliano) 322; "The Adventure of the Witanhurst
Ghost" (Peter Swanson) 159, 173; "The Case of the Matinee
Idol" (Donald Thomas) 280; "Sherlock Holmes: The Actor"
(Donald Thomas) 280; The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor)
90; "The Purloined Face" (Stephen Volk) 257
See also: King Lear (play)
Lear's Fool (King Lear - William Shakespeare)
Sherlock Holmes and the Shakespeare Globe Murders (Barry
Day) 36; Dreaming Spies (Laurie R. King) 65, 187;
"The Case of the Haphazard Marksman" (Andrew Lane) 210; The
Stratford Conspiracy (Michael Mallory) 207; Call the Turn
(Zeke Masters) 88
Lear, William Powell (American Inventor,
1902-1978)
Lear Jet: Murder Most Irregular (H. Paul
Jeffers) 31
Learned Judge, The (Trial By Jury - Gilbert &
Sullivan)
The Incredible Umbrella
(Marvin Kaye) 24-25
Leary, Timothy
(American Psychologist, 1920-1996)
The Case of the Philosophers' Ring (Randall Collins) 152;
Sherlock Holmes and Frankenstein’s Diary (Barry Grant) 154
Leather, Ella Mary (British Folklorist)
The Prayer of the Night Shepherd (Phil Rickman) 97,
222-223, 269, 324, 331, 333, 472, 498
Leather Apron (Ripper suspect): see Pizer, John
Leavitt,
R.K. (American Sherlockian)
"Murder at the Murray Hill" (Edgar W. Smith) 60
Lebedoueff (Russian Chief of Police,
Challenged Houdini)
Lebedin: Believe
(William Shatner & Michael Tobias) 8-10, 13-16,
314
Lebel, Colonel Nicholas (French Soldier)
Lebel Rifle: Sherlock Holmes and the Knave of
Hearts (Steve Hayes & David Whitehead) 209; The Stuff of
Nightmares (James Lovegrove) 137, 202; Sherlock Holmes: The
Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 89; The Siam Question
(Timothy Francis Sheil) 134; The Fifth Heart (Dan
Simmons) 173-174
Leblanc, Maurice (French Author,
1864-1941)
The Year of High Treason (Vithal Rajan) 20, 25-59
The Patchwork Devil (Cavan Scott) 70
Leblois, Louis (French Attorney)
Prisoner of the Devil (Michael Hardwick) 405
Lebrun, Robert (The Awakening - Kate Chopin)
The Case of Emily V. (Keith Oatley) 366
Leckie, Jean
(Second Wife of Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sherlock Holmes and the Houdini Birthright (Val
Andrews) 8, 10-13, 18, 23, 30, 35-41, 47-57, 143, 145-146,
149, 152, 154-155
The Baker Street Phantom (Patrice Bourland) 9-14, 19-31,
34-36, 39-40, 45, 50, 73, 75, 77, 80-81, 90, 94-95, 108-123,
125-126, 129-135, 139-142, 156, 168-169, 172-173, 177-179
"The Adventure of the
Noble Husband" (Peter Cannon) 42-46, 48-50, 52
"By Any Other Name" (Michael Dirda) 199-201, 208-213
"The Doll Who Talked to the Dead" (Nev Fountain) 117, 125, 136
Nevermore (William
Hjortsberg) 17-21, 23, 46-48, 55, 57-58, 61, 71-72, 75, 82,
84, 95, 98-99, 101, 106, 120, 127-132, 138, 144, 147-148,
154-155, 170, 176, 197, 200-201, 214, 220, 222, 229, 231,
239, 273, 291, 294
The Case of the Second Séance (Sam McCarver) 204, 210
"The Adventure of the Field Theorems" (Vonda N. McIntyre)
50, 52, 57, 60-61, 67
The Demon Device (Robert Saffron) 16-18, 52, 95, 99, 124,
137, 146, 227, 261
Believe (William Shatner & Michael Tobias) 75-78, 80-88,
90-96, 98-100, 116, 119-120, 122-124, 126-127, 134-136,
146-147, 14-150, 156-157, 159-163, 166, 173-174, 176-177,
181-184, 186, 189-190, 192-195, 202-216, 219, 231, 252-256,
258-260, 274, 276-280, 284, 286-291, 293-295, 297, 300-301,
303, 305, 308-309, 312, 316-318
The Arcanum (Thomas Wheeler) 7, 9-10, 13-14, 31-32, 49, 52,
72, 90, 211, 248
Jack the Ripper: Case Closed (Gyles Brandreth) 344;
"Sherlock Holmes and the Titanic Swindle" (Len Deighton);
The Art of Detection (Laurie R. King) 86; Holmes Entangled
(Gordon McAlpine) 39, 42-43, 173; The Holmes Affair
(Graham Moore) 15, 31, 100, 160, 193, 257, 279, 304;
Baskerville (John O’Connell) 21, 77, 133, 142-143;
"Are You There?" (Neal R. O’Hara) 22; The
Prayer of the Night Shepherd (Phil Rickman) 107-108, 260;
Escapade (Walter Satterthwaite) 121;
Sherlock Holmes: My Life (Lawrence R. Spencer) 143
Leckie, Malcolm (Brother of Jean Leckie)
Nevermore (William
Hjortsberg) 17; Believe (William Shatner & Michael
Tobias) 75, 81, 84; The Arcanum (Thomas
Wheeler) 10
Leclanché, Georges (French Physicist, 1839-1882)
"The Strange Death of Sherlock Holmes" (Andrew Darlington)
188
Leclanché Battery: "The Puzzle of the
Vanishing Laboratory" (Peter Calamai) 7, 11, 21; "The
Siren of Sennen Cove" (Peter Tremayne) 73
Leclanché Cell: "The Puzzle of the Vanishing
Laboratory" (Peter Calamai) 13; "The Mystery of the Wires" (L.F.E. Coombs)
204; "The Macabre Affair" (Bill Paxton) 88; "The
Siren of Sennen Cove" (Peter Tremayne) 69
Lecoq
(Lecoq Series - Emile Gaboriau)
"The
House-boat" (Anonymous) 306
"Mr Homes Makes a Sensational Exit"
(John Kendrick Bangs) 15
"Mr. Homes Solves A Question of Authorship" (John Kendrick
Bangs) 216
The Pursuit of the Houseboat (John Kendrick Bangs) 21, 23-25,
37, 46, 123-124, 130, 136-137
"The Adventure of the Orcival Rain" (Nigel Malcolm) 161-168
"The Return of Herlock Sholmes: The Ghost of the Pantheon"
(Niblick) 10-11
"The Adventure of the Clothes-line" (Carolyn Wells) 59-61
"The Adventure of the Lost Baby" (Carolyn Wells) 12
"The Adventure of the Mona Lisa" (Carolyn Wells) 22, 24-25
"Cherchez la Femme"
(Carolyn Wells) 140, 142, 144, 147
"Sure Way To Catch Every Criminal. Ha! Ha!" (Carolyn
Wells) 106-107
And Then There Was No One (Gilbert Adair) 33; "The Bound
of the Astorbilts" (Charlton Andrews) 136; "The Adventure
of the Missing Three Quarters" (Jon L. Breen) 310;
Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde
(Russell A. Brown) 145; "The Last of Mr.
Sherlock Holmes" (August Derleth) 4; "The Case of the
Suicidal Lawyer" (Martin Edwards) 397; "Moriarty’s Return"
(T. Arnold Johnston) 77; Arsene Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes
(Maurice Leblanc) 50, 83; Copper Beeches (Arthur H. Lewis)
150; "The Resuscitation of Sherlock Holmes" (James
MacArthur) 84; "Behind the Mask of the Ripper" (Jean-Marc
Mouiller) 176; Baskerville (John O’Connell) 133; Wilde About Holmes (Milo
Yelesiyevich) 113
Lecouvreur, Adrienne (French Actor, 1692-1730)
A Samba for Sherlock (Jô Soares) 49-50
Lecter, Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter series - Thomas
Harris)
And Then There Was No One (Gilbert Adair) 200; Who Killed
Sherlock Holmes? (Paul Cornell) 163; The Art of Detection
(Laurie R. King) 266; A Samba for Sherlock (Jô Soares)
185-192
NOTE: The chapter in A Samba for Sherlock
in which Holmes confronts Dr. Aderbal Câmara at the Dom Pedro
II Asylum is a parody of Silence of the Lambs.
Led Zeppelin (British Rock Group)
The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 104
Leda (Greek Mythology)
"The Hungarian Diamond" (R.C.Lehmann) 150; Wilde About
Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 118
Leduc, Pierre (French-American
Barber)
Sherlock Holmes and the Fall River Tragedy (Owen Haskell)
33-37, 39-40
Lee, Ann (British Mystic, Founder of the Shakers,
1736-1784)
The 6 Messiahs (Mark
Frost) 290
Lee, Bruce (American
Actor, 1940-1973)
"Ethan Unbound" (Gary
Blackwood) 70-71
Holmes Coming (Kenneth Johnson) 117
Lee, Christopher (British Actor, 1922-2015)
"A Study in Scarborough" (Guy Adams) 146; Elementary, She
Read (Vicki Delany) 1, 5, 21-22, 225; The Cinema Swindle (Terrance Dicks) 110
Lee, Gypsy Rose (American Striptease Artiste,
1914-1970)
The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 192; Copper Beeches
(Arthur H. Lewis) 93
Lee, James Paris
(Scottish Gunsmith, 1831-1904)
Lee-Enfield: "Sherlock Holmes and
the Great Game" (Kevin Cockle) 143; "The Adventure of the
Mocking Huntsman" (M.J. Elliott) 25; Arrowood (Mick
Finlay) 54; The Private Life of Dr Watson (Michael
Hardwick) 273; O Jerusalem (Laurie R. King) 29, 135; "The
Case of the Haphazard Marksman" (Andrew Lane) 193; The
Thinking Engine (James Lovegrove) 171; The Irregular (H.B.
Lyle) 171; "Kim and Kim Again" (Vithal Rajan) 144, 150, 157;
"The Adventure of the Missing Rubies" (Tony Reynolds) 177; The Dead Can Wait (Robert Ryan)
136, 172, 200; Dead Man’s Land (Robert Ryan) 164,
174, 220; The Sign of Fear (Robert Ryan) 241, 285-286; "The
Case of Peter the Painter" (Donald Thomas) 219, 265; "The
Case of the Missing Rifleman" (Donald Thomas) 268; Lestrade
and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J. Trow) 5, 114; Lestrade and the
Devil's Own (M.J. Trow) 123, 130; Lestrade and the Leviathan
(M.J. Trow) 129; Lestrade and the Magpie (M.J. Trow) 81;
Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (M.J. Trow) 114; Sherlock
Holmes and the Hapsburg Tiara (Alan Vanneman) 295
Lee-Metford Rifle: The Return of Moriarty (John
Gardner) 30; The Stuff of Nightmares (James Lovegrove) 137,
202; The Thinking Engine (James Lovegrove) 170-171; "Kim and
Kim Again" (Vithal Rajan) 157;
"The Last Detective
Story in the World" (Maurice Richardson) 66; Sherlock
Holmes and the Zombie Problem (Nick S. Thomas) 48, 62, 100;
Lestrade and the Hallowed House (M.J. Trow) 479
Martini-Lee Rifle: "Tiger! Tiger!" (Elizabeth Bear)
29
Lee, John "Babbacombe" (English Murderer, "The Man
They Could Not Hang", 1864-1941(?))
The Prayer of the Night Shepherd (Phil Rickman) 319
Lee, Nelson (Nelson Lee series - Maxwell
Scott)
"The Strange Case of the Three Revolvers" (Anthony Grey) 66-67
"The Shades of Pemberley" (Win Scott Eckert) 10;
The Evil in Pemberley House (Philip José Farmer & Win
Scott Eckert) 112
Lee, Peggy (American Singer, 1920-2002)
The Night Mayor (Kim Newman) 28
Lee, Robert E.
(American Confederate General, 1807-1870)
The Nine Wrong Answers (John Dickson Carr) 115;
Deadly Season (Tim Champlin) 230; The 6 Messiahs (Mark
Frost) 153; I, Sherlock Holmes (Michael Harrison) 2; Enter
the Lion (Michael P. Hodel & Sean M. Wright) 85, 121;
Red Leech (Andrew Lane) 29, 78, 261, 270; "The Circle of
Blood" (Steve Leadley) 51; The Surrogate Assassin
(Christopher Leppek) 168, 229-231; Sherlock Holmes and the Ice
Palace Murders (Larry Millett) 220; Sherlock
Holmes and the Devil's Grail (Barrie Roberts) 59; The Fifth
Heart (Dan Simmons) 279; Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand
(M.J.Trow) 38; "A Ghost from Christmas Past" (Thomas A.
Turley) 134
The Robert E. Lee (spaceship): "The
Interrupted Game" (Dana Martin Batory) 124-126, 128
Lee, Stan (American Editor & Writer, 1922- )
The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 118
Lee, W.H.F. 'Rooney' (American Confederate
General & Congressman, 1837-1891)
"The Circle of Blood" (Steve Leadley) 51
Lee French, Edward (British
Colonial Police Official, 1860-1932)
The Year of High Treason (Vithal Rajan) 298, 301
Leeds, Arthur (American Writer,
1882-1952?)
Pulptime (P.H. Cannon) 37, 39, 59, 62, 65, 67, 76-79
Leeford, Edward "Monks" (Oliver Twist - Charles
Dickens)
"At the Sign of the
Ship" (Andrew Lang) 480
Lees, Grace
(Wife of Robert Lees)
Murder by Decree (Robert Weverka) 61-66, 73-76, 78-80, 103
Lestrade and the Ripper (M.J.Trow) 249
Lees,
Robert (Psychic Involved In Ripper Case)
"My Three Ripping Years at the Yard" (Douglas Moreton) 25
Lestrade and the Ripper (M.J.Trow) 247-252, 282
Murder by Decree (Robert Weverka) 53-54, 56-66, 70-71,
73-80, 102-103, 105, 116, 139, 151
The Adventure of the New York Ripper (Philip J. Carraher)
100; "Sherlock Holmes and the Autumn of Terror" (J.G.
Grimmer) 43; Anno Dracula (Kim Newman) 108, 332; The
Adventures of Inspector Lestrade (M.J.Trow) 139;
Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder (M.J. Trow) 178
Lees, Sophie Lily (Wife of
Willie Wilde, 1859-1922)
Jack the Ripper: Case Closed (Gyles Brandreth) 31, 99-102,
106, 114, 286, 296, 349
Leeson (British Police Sergeant, Wounded at the Sidney
Street Siege)
Lestrade and the
Leviathan (M.J.Trow) 130, 202
Leetha (The New Doctor Who
Adventures: Sky Pirates! - Dave Stone)
Happy Endings (Paul Cornell) 128-131, 256
LeFevre, George L. (American Physician,
1865-1944)
Sherlock Holmes and the Houdini Birthright (Val Andrews)
114-115
Leffing, Lucius (Lucius
Leffing series - Joseph Payne Brennan)
Seven Stars (Kim Newman) 180
Lefler, Mr (Lodger at 4, Euston
Square)
Sherlock Holmes Investigates the Murder In Euston Square
(Ronald Pearsall) 61, 180, 183-185
Lefroy, Percy: see Percy Lefroy Mapleton
Lefty
Louie (American Hoodlum, aka Louie Rosenberg)
The Year of the Gun (H.B. Lyle) 117, 160-161, 182
Nevermore (William
Hjortsberg) 66
Léger, Fernand (French Artist, 1881-1955)
Riviera Gold (Laurie R. King) 48; The Year of High Treason
(Vithal Rajan) 35
Legion (Biblical Demons)
The Case of the Invisible Thief (Thomas Brace Haughey) 156,
158-159
Happy Endings (Paul Cornell) 2; Seven Stars (Kim Newman)
354; Sherlock Holmes: Draco, Draconis (Brett Spencer &
Dorian David) 109
Lehar, Franz (Austro-Hungarian Composer,
1870-1948)
Disquiet at Albany (N.M. Scott) 64
Lehmann, Lilli (German Soprano, 1848-1929)
"The Anomaly of the Empty Man" (Anthony Boucher) 34
Lehmann, Lotte (German-American Soprano, 1888-1976)
"The Anomaly of the
Empty Man" (Anthony Boucher) 34
Lehmann, R.C. "Cunnin Toil" (British Humourist)
Brigade (M.J.Trow)
238
Leibniz, Gottfried
Wilhelm (German Philosopher, 1646-1716)
The Case of the Philosophers' Ring (Randall Collins) 14;
The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer)
40; The D. Case (Carlo Fruttero &
Franco Lucentini) 56; European Travel for the Monstrous
Gentlewoman (Theodora Goss) 119, 252; Death Cloud (Andrew
Lane) 55; "Dynamics of a Hanging" (Tony Pi) 335, 339;
Anatomy of Evil (Will Thomas) 265; "The Lunacy of
Celestine Blot" (Stephen Volk) 388; The Tulpa
(J.N.Williamson) 76
Leicester, Robert
Dudley, First Earl of (British Politician, Favourite of
Elizabeth I, 1532-1588)
Sherlock Holmes' Last Case (Robert D'Artagnan) 150-151,
178, 284-285, 290; Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the
Raleigh Legacy (L.B.Greenwood) 102; "The Angel of Truth" (I.A.
Watson) 159, 161
Leichner, Ludwig (German Opera Singer,
1836-1912)
Leichener Theatrical Powder: Sherlock
Holmes and the Man Who Lost Himself (Val Andrews) 22
Leichner make-up: Lestrade and the Giant
Rat of Sumatra (M.J. Trow) 211, 226
Leigh, Amyas (Westward
Ho! - Charles Kingsley)
"Gossip" (Anonymous) 318
Leigh, Lord (British Landowner)
The Adventures of
Inspector Lestrade (M.J.Trow) 89, 94-96
Leigh,
Vivien (British Actress, 1913-1967)
"Curtain Call" (T.W. Knowles II) 74, 76
The Case of
the Baker Street Irregulars (Anthony Boucher) 19;
The Curse of the
Nibelung (Marcel D'Agneau) 76; The League of Heroes
(Xavier Mauméjean) 140
Leighton, Arthur (English Solicitor)
"The Case of the Peasenhall Murder" (Donald Thomas) 188, 198
Leighton, Sir Frederick (British Artist, 1830-1896)
The Adventures of
Inspector Lestrade (M.J.Trow) 75; The
Jewel of Covent Garden (Wayne Worcester) 69-70
Leinster, Augustus Frederick Fitzgerald, Duke of
(Irish Peer, 1791-1874)
"The Affray at the Kildare Street Club" (Peter Tremayne) 29
Leipoldt, Johannes (German Religious Scholar,
1880-1965)
"The Case of the Two
Coptic Patriarchs" (John A. Wilson) 77
Leiter, Levi
(American Wholesaler)
Sherlock Holmes: My Life And Crimes (Michael Hardwick)
33
Leith, Robert (Lusitania
Radio Operator, 1885-1933)
Sherlock Holmes and the Lusitania (Lorraine Daly) 42, 44, 46,
51, 168
Leitz, Ernst (German Mechanic, 1843-1920)
Leitz Binoculars: The Dead Can Wait (Robert Ryan)
353
Leland, Jedediah
(Citizen Kane - Movie)
The Bloody Red Baron (Kim Newman) 55
Lely, Peter (Dutch Artist, 1618-1680)
"The Hound of the D’Urbervilles" (Kim Newman) 183
Lemarchand, Philip (The Hellbound Heart -
Clive Barker)
Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell (Paul Kane) 122,
136, 154, 172, 176
Lemarchand's Box (Hellraiser
series)
Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell (Paul Kane) 11-14,
50, 104, 124, 129, 133, 153-154, 167-176, 179-180, 201,
203-206, 214, 227, 255, 292, 294, 298
Lemercier-Picard (French Forger, The Dreyfus Affair)
"The Case of the Unseen Hand" (Donald Thomas) 112, 144
Lemon, Mark (British Editor, 1809-1870)
The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F.
Fleissner) 32
Lemon Drop Kid, The (The Lemon Drop Kid -
Damon Runyon)
"The Sinister Cheesecake"
(Craig Shaw Gardner) 444
Lemora (Lemora: A Child's Tale of the
Supernatural - Movie)
The Bloody Red Baron (Kim Newman) 102-104