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"The Mystery of the Spot Ball" (1893)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes
Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899
(Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Other Characters: Mrs Boddle; Baker Street
Policeman; Plainclothes Officers; Mugson; Mr
Tollocks; (Police Inspector; Police Constables;
Police Detectives)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; 16, Tooral
Terrace
Story: After his deductions about Watson's
night out are disproved, Holmes is called upon by
Mrs Boddle, who after hearing strange noises outside
her house, has discovered that her lodger, Mr
Tollocks, has disappeared. At Mrs Boodle's
house, Chief Mugson shows Holmes a billiard ball and
slip of paper, and after examing the garden and house,
Holmes deduces that a murder has been committed by a
secret society from the South Pacific.
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Peter Calamai
"The Puzzle of the Vanishing
Laboratory" (2003)
Included in: Curious
Incidents 2 (J.R. Campbell & Charles
Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Athelney Jones
Historical Figures: (Herbert Beerbohm
Tree)
Other Characters: Jeffrey Carruthers;
Jeremiah Beglo; Patricia Saunders; Four-Wheeler
Driver; A Constable; Professor A.T.M. Jakobsen; (Count
Gerster; Pevensey Bay; Sergeant; J.T. Wexham;
Walter J. Wexham; Royal Society of Musicians
Chairman)
Date: An Edwardian August
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train;
Eastbourne; A Four-Wheeler; Norman's Bay Martello
Tower; (Pevensey Bay Police Station; Lisle
Street; Royal Society of Musicians Offices)
Story: Holmes has read in the papers about a
Hungarian found in Sussex, with surveying equipment,
claiming he was looking for a site for a new
restaurant. Meanwhile Watson has read of a young
couple exploring a Martello Tower in Norman's Bay.
When the young woman entered the tower it was full
of scientific equipment, but in the time it took for
her to climb down and bring her companion up, all
the equipment had disappeared. Carruthers, a
reporter, brings the couple to Holmes, who travels
down to Sussex to investigate. An electric switch
that seems to serve no purpose, wooden mouldings on
the wall, a visit to the Royal Society of Musicians,
and the actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm-Tree, set
Holmes on the path to solving the mystery and
connecting the two news stories.
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"The Riddle of the Rideau Rifles"
(2007)
Included in: The
MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part II:
1890-1895 (David Marcum); An Investees'
Anthology (David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Bartholomew
Evans
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes /
Sigerson; (Meyers; Dr Watson)
Historical Figures: Sir John
Thompson; (William Gladstone; Colonel Arthur
Percy Sherwood; George M. Dawson)
Other Characters: Bartholomew Evans; Private
Secretary; Evans's University Classmate; Inspector
Jack Wells; Detective Constable O'Reilly; Jephro
Clarke; Patterson, Sr; Patterson, Jr; Hack Driver;
Hibernian Debating Society Members; Colonel Benjamin
Saunders; Police Constables; (Jonathan Evans;
Geological Survey Assistant; Armourer; Carpenter;
Deputy Minister of Militia and Defence)
Date: November, 1940 / March, 1894
Locations: Canada; Ottawa; Prime Minister's
Office; Railway Station; Russell Hotel; Police
Station; Parliament Hill; The Commissariat; LeBreton
Flats; Duke Street; Couillard Hotel
Story: Junior Canadian government aide
Bartholomew Evans is summoned to the Prime Minister's
office. Gladstone is sending a private investigator,
Sigerson, to Canada to help discover who might be behind
a rise in anti-American sentiments in the country, and
Evans is assigned to assist him. They learn that a young
police detective, who had been investigating the
smuggling of explosives, has been found dead in the
Rideau Canal. A tour of the Commissariat and a disguised
infiltration of a meetig of the Hibernian Debating
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"The Steamship Friesland" (2008)
Included in: Gaslight Grimoire
(J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; The Steamship Friesland; James
Calhoun; Calhoun's Mates (Billy & Darrell);
John Openshaw; (Colonel Moran; Mrs Watson; Mrs
Hudson; The Lone Star; Lone Star Crew)
Historical Figures: (Arthur
Conan Doyle)
Other Characters: Karl Neustaedter;
Swarthy Ruffians; Lascars; (Watson's Solicitors;
Mrs Watson's Relatives; Jan Brouwer; McFarlane;
Friesland First Officer; River Police)
Date: Early Summer, 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Friesland;
Preston Road
Story: Watson wakes to find Holmes
apparently talking to himself in the sitting room. The
following day Holmes asks Watson to arrange an
appointment with Doyle. On his returns, he tells Watson
that he has been discussing the possibility of
communication with the spirits of the dead, and shows
him a cutting describing the discovery of the body of
Brouwer, First Officer of the Friesland, in
the Thames. He says that he believes he has heard the
spirit voice of John Openshaw accusing Calhoun and his
mates of Brouwer's murder. He and Watson board the Friesland,
aboard which the Klansmen now work, and attempt to bring
justice to the killers, but it is from another world
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"The
Suspicious Closure of the Wig & Pen" (2003)
Included in: The Book of Love Letters (Paul and
Audrey Gresco)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson;
(Mary Morstan)
Historical Figures: Peter Calamai;
Mary Calamai
Other Characters: London Constable
Date: 2003
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: The hundred-and-fifty-year old Sherlock
Holmes deduces that Watson has spent the afternoon
with Mary Morstan, then tells him of his visit from Mr
and Mrs Calamai and their account of the events of the
past year. He deduces that Professor Moriarty
is behind the closure of the Wig & Pen Club.
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Cy Caldwell
"The
Amazing Adventure of the Punctured Major General"
(1934)
Included in: Aero Digest, November 1934
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade
Historical Figures: (Billy Mitchell; Cliff
Henderson)
Characters Based On Historical Figures: Major General Sir
Benjamin Chummy-Chumley Foulois (Benjamin Foulois);
Sir
Douglas MacArthur; (Jim Farley (James Farley);
King Franklin I (Franklin D. Roosevelt))
Other Characters: (Surgeon General
Carver)
Unnamed Characters: Cabby; Stuffed Admiral;
Ex-Chief of Staff; The General Staff
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Muddled Mansions
Story: When Major General Sir Benjamin
Chummy-Chumley Foulois, Chief of the Air Corps, is
stabbed in the back, Lestrade takes Holmes and Watson
to Muddled Mansions, the headquarters of the War
Department, to investigate. There they encounter a
sleeping General Staff and Sir Douglas MacArthur.
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Laura Caldwell
"Art in the Blood" (2014)
Included in: In the Company of
Sherlock Holmes (Laurie R. King & Leslie
S. Klinger)
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes;
Professor Moriarty)
Historical Figures: (Vernet)
Other Characters: Drew Dekalb VanWerden; Post
Reporter; Benjamin "Binny" Moriarty; Barbara "BB"
Baden-Shore; Charlotte Raford-Jennings; Tomasina
Winters; BB's Waitstaff; Prisoners; (Gargeau;
Tad; Vietnamese Grocery Clerk; Dekalb's Mother;
BB's Husband; Dekalb's Customers; Christie's
Appraiser; William Sharton)
Locations: USA; New York; Madison Avenue;
Dekalb's Office; BB's House; Dekalb's Apartment;
Prison
Story: Dekalb has been labelled "the
Sherlock Holmes of the Art World" by the New
Yorker, but is accused by a Post
reporter of selling a forged Gargeau painting, Wheels
of a Rogue, and receives a letter
from his former assistant and lover, Binny Moriarty,
saying that he has the real Gargeau.
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Cami
"A Strange
Suicide" (1921)
Included in: Inter-America, Volume IV Number 5,
June 1921
Story Type: Parody Script
Canonical Detective Loufock-Holmes
Unnamed Characters: Unknown Visitor; (Visitor's
Brother)
Locations: Argentina; Loufock-Holmes'
Consulting Room
Story: A sardine-executioner tells
Loufock-Holmes that he committed suicide two hours
previously. Loufock-Holmes visits his house to ascertain
the truth.
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Kenneth
Cameron
Winter
at Death's Hotel (2011)
Story Type: Homage
Historical Figures: Louisa Doyle;
Arthur Conan Doyle; Theodore Roosevelt; Sir Henry
Irving; Buffalo Bill Cody; Marie Corelli; Victoria
Woodhull; (Carrie Brown; Inspector Thomas
Byrnes; Ameer ben Ali)
Other Characters: George Manion; Ethel
Grimstead; Mrs Harding; Gerald Oppenheimer; William
Carnahan; Patrolman James Malone; Mrs Amos Simmons;
Alexander Newcome; Lieutenant Jack Cleary; Roscoe G.
Harding; Sergeant Grady; Sergeant Harry Dunne;
Detective L. Cassidy; Finn; Mr Carver; Dr Strauss;
Harvard Harry; Francotte; Mr Galt; Lady Jane;
Anne-Marie "Minnie" Fitch; Musgrove; Mamie; McClurg;
Mr Clapp; Fred / Daniel Gerrigan; Cullum; Leonard
Rogers; Mrs Wayne; Anna May; Frederick; Philly
Nugent; Herman "Hermie" Steinhoffer; Richard
Hoffman; Deputy Chief Francis Xavier Halloran;
Lieutenant Banks; Old Woebegone; Gargan; Detective
Forcella; Detective Mercer; Detective-Probationer
Matthews; Marion McCousins; Old Mr Carver; (General
Sammartino; Cyrus Bickle; Masters; Mrs Alonzo
Gappert; Colonel Beauregard; Tenny McLean; Duncan
Moy; Mrs McCrae; Mrs Brown; Lina; Tipple; Officer
Flynn; Miss Castle; Jackson; Foley)
Unnamed Characters: New Britannic
Receptionists; Wagon Driver; Street Sweeper; Barrow
Man; Shop Worker; Elevator Boy; Hotel Cleaners; Bell
Boys; Waitress; Hotel Guests; News Vendor; News
Stall Customers; Murder Squad Detectives; Nurse;
Police Stenographer; Cab Drivers; Wild West Show
Man; Sandwich Board Man; Express Building
Crowds; Express Lift Operator; Express
Receptionist; Urchin; Express Staff; Copy
Boys; Holtzer's Cashier; Tenth Precinct Officer; Express
Telephone Operator; Hotel Waitress; Restaurant
Waiter; City Hall Staff; Park Crowds; Hotel Waiter;
Tenement Woman; Morgue Attendants; Paresis Doorman;
Paresis Hall Clientele; Musicians; Barman;
Walking-Stick Shopkeeper; Wild West Show Performers;
Hotel Night Doorman; St Bartholomew's Parishioners;
Golden Pit Clientele; Golden Pit Barman; Policemen;
Mulberry Street Residents; Murdered Hack Driver;
Milkman; Brooklyn Bridge Toll Operator; Hotel Cooks;
Chief of Police; Police Commissioners; Night Watch
Commander; Deputy Chief of Police; El Passengers;
Copy Editor; Seventy-Seven Patrons; Seventy-Seven
Barman; Roosevelt's Maid; Halloran's Driver; Doyle's
Editor; Pawn Shop Customer; Pawnbroker; Italian
Waiter; Séance Women; Firemen; Man on Train; Ferry
Passengers; Brooklyn Cab Driver; Journalists; (Specialist;
Homeless People; Cleary's Brother; Cleary's
Sister; Medical Examiner; Architect; French Maid;
Doyle's Audiences; Harding's Secretary;
Hotel Housemaid)
Date: January, 1896
Locations: USA; New York; New Britannic
Hotel; Sixth Avenue; Greenwich Village; Bleecker
Street; The Bowery; Mott Street; Elizabeth Street;
Twenty-Third Street; City Mortuary; Mulberry Street;
Police Headquarters; Printing House Square; New
York Express Offices; Holtzer's; Park Row;
Tenth Precinct Station; Restaurant; The Authors
Club; Fifth Avenue; City Hall; The Tombs; Brooklyn
Bridge; Shankey's; Sixth Avenue Saloon; Paresis
Hall; Fifth Avenue; Union Square; Walking-Stick
Shop; Central Park; Madison Square Garden; Clark's;
St Bartholomew's Church; Thirty-Fourth Street;
MacDougal Street; The Golden Pit; West Street;
Spring Street; Washington Street; Van Dam Street;
Varick Street; Worth Street; Broadway; Elm Street;
Centre Street; Park Row; The Seventy-Seven Saloon;
Chatham Square; Madison Avenue; Roosevelt's House;
Nassau Street; Chase's Bank; Publisher's Office;
Seventh Avenue; Friendly Pawn Shop; Madison Square;
Brooklyn Heights; Cleary's House; Jersey City;
Pennsylvania Railroad Terminal; The Brooklyn Ferry
Story: The Doyles arrive at the New
Britannic Hotel in New York with their maid, Ethel. A
beat cop discovers a body dumped in an alley in the
Bowery. Louisa Doyle reads of the murder in the
newspapers the following morning, and realises that
she had seen the dead woman in the hotel the previous
day. Roosevelt brings millionaire Roscoe G. Harding to
the morgue to identify the body of his wife, and
orders Cleary, Commander of the Murder Squad, to keep
the victim's identity out of the public record. A
sprained ankle prevents Louisa from accompanying Doyle
on his lecture trip, and forces her to remain at the
hotel. She sends a message to Roosevelt about the
young woman and the man she saw her with, but receives
a visit from the police warning her to stay quiet.
Looking for more information, she takes her story to
newswoman Minnie Fitch. Dunne, the detective assigned
to close off the case, continues to investigate behind
the backs of his superiors.
A second murder is committed, the body disfigured in
similar ways to the first. Manion, the hotel
detective, assists Louisa in finding the details of
the first murder. She spends time at City Hall looking
for evidence of police corruption, and attempts to
view the bodies at the city morgue. Edith, Louisa's
maid tells her about the ghost of a French maid who
disappeared in the hotel two years previously. A guard
is killed during the dumping of a third victim's body,
but a police pursuit fails to catch the killer. Louisa
fears that Minnie is the latest victim, and arrives
back from the morgue to discover that a murder has
been committed at the hotel. After being assaulted
outside her room, Louisa learns the secret of the
hotel.
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Steve Cameron
"The
Mysterious Drowning at St Kilda" (2017)
Included In: Sherlock
Holmes: The Australian Casebook (Christopher
Sequeira)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Historical Figures: Inspector
Richard John Webb; Constable Davidson; J.L. Toole;
Mr Beck (Coffee Palace Manager); Mrs Bowers; (Pauline
Levi; Louis Lightman; James Shannon (Lightman's
Companion); Mrs Breslau (Pauline's Landlady);
Alexander J. Reid (Young Man on Ship); Samuel
Sicklemore; Matilda Roberts; John Edgar Roberts;
Miss Clayton (Matilda's Sister); Constable
Fleming; Thomas Higgins (Boatman); Dr G.A. Syme
(Autopsy Doctor))
Other Characters: Mrs Withers; Asylum
Matron; Dr Henry Parker; Mrs Parker; Theatregoers;
Coffee Palace Employee; Harold Peters; Doctor; (Visitors;
Parker's Son; Asylum Attendant; Shipping Agent;
Constable Cutler)
Date: Late May, 1890
Locations: Australia; Fitzroy; Morgue; Kew
Asylum; Melbourne; Parker's House; Collins Street
Café; Theatre; St Kilda; Pier; South Yarra; Coffee
Palace; Carlton; Rathdowne Street
Story:Inspector Webb of the Melbourne
police force, consults Holmes over the mysterious
drowning of a woman at St Kilda who had first been
identified as Pauline Levi, an English woman, who
disappeared on the eve of her wedding to Mr Lightman,
and then as Mrs Roberts, the Tasmanian wife of an
inmate of Kew Asylum.
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J.R.
Campbell
"Court
of Honour" (2011)
Included In: A Study in
Lavender (Joseph R.G. DeMarco)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Fictional Characters: Arthur Birling
Other Characters: Mrs Nyland; Eric Birling;
Schrader; Gillis; Dr Jenkins; (Adam Bellamy;
Headmaster)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; School;
Chapel
Story: Watson delivers the news of her
brother's suicide by poisoning to Mrs Nyland. After
their client has departed, Watson announces that he is
hiring Holmes to bring those who drove Bellamy to take
his own life to justice. They take Bellamy's lover,
Birling, back to the men's old school, where they
carry out a ritual court of honour in the chapel
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"The Entwined" (2008)
Included in: Gaslight
Grimoire (J.R. Campbell & Charles
Prepolec)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Other Characters: Catherine
Drayson; Mr Drayson; Cabbie; Theodore Willingham;
The Rider; Scotland Yard Officers; (Doctors;
Asylum Staff; Ronald A.Pursey; Jonathan E.
Mulchinock; Russell B.Wolfe; David J. Johnson;
Robert W. Elliott; Mrs Drayson)
Date: Spring
Locations: Asylum; A Cab; Drayson's Home;
221B, Baker Street; Wilingham's Lodgings
Story: Asylum inmate Catherine
Drayson asks Holmes to find out if she has murdered a
number of men, whose names she has given him. Holmes
has confirmed that at least three of the men have been
murdered, while the other two are out of the country.
Miss Drayson, however, has been confined in the asylum
for nearly two years, so could not have committed the
murders unless, as she claims, she can fly between two
worlds. They try to prevent a sixth murder, learn of
the Brotherhood and the Melvaris, and sit vigil
waiting for the killer to appear.
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"The
First Mate's Jacket" (2002)
Included in: Curious Incidents
(J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Other Characters: Constable Henry; Inquiry
Board; Cluney; Mrs. Mary Ranstead; Cab Driver;
Constable; Diver; Captain Dove; (Dock Crowd;
Innkeeper; Mr. Ranstead; Embezzler)
Locations: Falmouth; Train Station; Killigrew
Street; A Cab; A Beach
Story: While assisting Holmes in an
embezzlement case in Falmouth, Watson is called to aid
Mrs. Ranstead, the survivor of a shipwreck. She and
crewman, Cluney, were the only survivors from a ship
which was transporting an ancient meteorite from St.
John's to Falmouth. Holmes and Watson attend the
official enquiry, and Holmes seems taken with a rope
burn on Cluney's jacket. He sends the local constable
out on an errand, and the next day they mount watch on
a buoy he has located. As they wait Watson spots a
rowing boat heading towards it, and the truth of the
matter is made clear. |
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"Lord
Garnett's Skulls" (2015)
Included in: The
MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part II:
1890-1895 (David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Other Characters: Cab Driver; Detective
Constable Cambers; Garnett's Head Buttler; Lord
Garnett; Cambers' Constables; Henry Garnett; Climbing
Boy; (Garnett's Dinner Guests; Garnett's Chief
Cook; Lady Garnett; Lady Garnett's Physician;
Workman; Sailor; Chimneysweep)
Date: Late 1890 or Early 1891
Locations: A Hansom Cab; Lord Garnett's House
Story: Watson encounters Holmes in a hansom in
the street and is whisked off to Lord Garnett's house.
He had been called in by Detective Constable Cambers
after four skulls that Garnett brought back from
Borneo had been stolen from a locked room, but now
Garnett's young son has also been abducted. A list of
visitors to the house, the servants' tales of
treasure, and the boy's story of hearing a ghost in
the night lead Holmes to a resolution of the case. |
"The
Missing Coppertop" (2003)
Included in: Curious Incidents
2 (J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Tobias Gregson; Mrs. Watson
Other Characters: Leslie Warboys; Mrs. Bodmer;
Military Man; Cab Driver; Constable Rimbly; Gregson's
Prisoner; Holmes' Messenger; Mrs. Warboys; Men on
Engine; Norris Bodmer; Constables
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Goddington
Street; Gregson's Hideout; Watson's House; Warboys'
House; Scotland Yard; The Embankment; A Cab
Story: Warboys, a railway man, consults Holmes
over an engine that has gone missing. When Watson
visits the house of a retired driver, whom Warboys has
remembered recently commenting on the engine, he sees
a military-looking man, whom Holmes identifies as
being connected to a blackmail case over which Gregson
is currently holding a man prisoner. It soon becomes
apparent that the two cases are linked and that
Scotland Yard itself is under attack. |
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"Mr
Other's Children" (2009)
Included in: Gaslight
Grotesque (J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Inspector Bradstreet; (Mrs Watson; Mrs
Hudson)
Other Characters: Mrs Bradstreet; Cabbie;
Sarah; Hotel Guests; Mr Other; Constables; Coroner; B
Division Officers
Date: December
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Baker Street;
Bradstreet's House; Watson's House; Hotel
Story: Inspector Bradstreet's wife calls on
Holmes when her husband disappears, having threatened
to end his own life. Holmes and Watson find Bradstreet
preparing his own grave, and persuade him to accompany
them back to Baker Street. A key in Bradstreet's
billfold leads them to a strangely lit hotel room, an
unconscious woman, and a concealed journal in which
she writes about her dealings with Mr Other. They fail
to rouse the woman, and watch as creatures begin to
emerge from her scalp. Watson discovers Mr Other's
true nature, and they realise the nature of
Bradstreet's fears. |
"Relating
to One of My Old Cases" (2015)
Included in: The
MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part IV: 2016
Annual (David Marcum)
Story Type: Third Person Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Mrs Hudson; (Tobas
Gregson; Dr Watson)
Other Characters: Mrs Mason; Reginald Mason;
Tristan; Mary Leahy; Fireman Second Class Tarven; (Mr
Mason; Darrel Norville; Clara Norville; Police
Officers; Robbie Norville; Tristan's Landlady;
Firemen)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Mason's House;
Portsdown Road; Police Station
Story: Two years after his investigation into
her husband's death, Holmes is visited by Mrs Mason,
who asks for an explanation of his behaviour on the
night of the murder. She has come to him in relation
to the death of her late husband's mistress, Clara
Norville, wanting him to prove that her son was not
behind the fire in which they died. |
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Nick Campbell
"The Adventure of the Decadent
Headmaster" (2014)
Included in: Further
Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (George Mann)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Inspector Lestrade)
Historical Figures: Nick Campbell
Other Characters: Secretary of the Chelsea
Psychical Society; The Marvel of Montmartre; Marcus
Crawthew; Students; Tiger Kit Marlowe; Beetle;
Cricket Captain; Schoolmasters; "Froggy" Lemaitre;
Mr Grimes; Policemen; (Cox & Co. Girl;
Arnold Bragg; Mr Tournier; Bragg's Father;
Marlowe's Father)
Date: August, 2013 /
November-December 31st, 1899
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Primrose Hill;
Meadowbrook College for Boys; Regent's Park; The
Langham Hotel
Story: Campbell visits a medium to get a
new story from Dr Watson.
Watson receives a letter from an
anonymous master at Meadowbrook College asking Holmes
to investigate the strange behaviour of the school's
headmaster, involving the departure of one of the
students and the apparent delivery of a woman's body
to the headmaster's rooms. Holmes dismisses the letter
as a schoolboy prank, but the following week the press
carries a story of a master murdered at the school.
The solution to the case is linked to a card-playing
wax automaton, the Marvel of Montmartre.
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Robin N. Campbell
"The Case
of the Great Grey Man" (1985)
Included in: One Step in the Clouds (Audrey
Salkeld & Rosie Smith)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; James Phillimore; (Mrs Hudson;
Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes)
Historical Figures: Hugh T.
Munro; Queen Victoria; Tsar Nicholas II; (J. Norman
Collie; Harold Raeburn; Edward VII)
Other Characters: Mr Scott; Dundee Wullie; (Duke
of Fife; Donald; Macdonald)
Unnamed Characters: Police Officers;
Highlander; Ghillies; Lynwilg Landlord; Ponyman;
Airship Crew; (Shooting Party; Landlord's Boy)
Date: August-September 189-
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; North London;
Phillimore's House; Scotland; Braemar; Lynwilg Hotel;
Derry Lodge; Coire Sputan Dearg; Ben Macdhui
Story: James Phillimore, a scientist suspected
of selling secrets to a foreign power disappears after
stepping back inside his house for an umbrella,
despite the house being surrounded by twenty police
officers, Holmes and Watson. Frustrated at his failure
to find Phillimore, Holmes resorts to cocaine. His
mood is lifted by a letter from his cousin, Norman
Collie about a giant spectre that has been seen in the
Cairngorm Mountains. After travelling to Braemar, they
are told of other sightings of strange lights, faeries
and a giant bird, and a second death attributed to the
spectre. They encounter a giant hairy beast atop a
mountain, and Holmes flies a kite to avert an
assassination. |
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J.B. Cannon
"Mister
Misty's Missing Mystery" (1932)
Included in: The Journal (Wofford College),
Volume 43 Number 1, November 1932
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detective: "Misty" Sherlock Watson
Vance Philo Holmes
Other Characters: (Vanwagon Family; Martha;
Freddie the Rat)
Unnamed Characters: Narrator;
Chocolate Center Residents; Police Officers; Waiter;
Vanwagon's Butler; Detective; Judge
Date: June
Locations: Chocolate Center; Dining
Establishment; 420 E-Z Street; Courtroom
Story: The narrator encounters Sherlock Watson
Vance Philo Holmes, whose friends call him Misty, in
the village of Chocolate Center. Holmes has been hired
by the Vanwagon family to find the murderer of Martha,
whom they had adopted several years previously. They
arrive at the Vanwagon's mansion to find it infested
with rats. They discover that the victim is not all
that they expected, and the butler confesses to the
crime.
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P.H. Cannon
Pulptime (1984)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes /
Altamont; (Dr Watson; Mrs Watson; Irene Adler)
Historical Figures: Frank Belknap Long; May
Doty Long; H.P. Lovecraft; Frank Belknap Long, Sr;
Bess Houdini; Harry Houdini; Sam Loveman; Rheinhart
Kleiner; Everett McNeil; George Kirk; Arthur Leeds;
Wheeler Dryden; James F. Morton; Hart Crane;
Detective Thomas F. Mahoney; (George Kirk; E.L.
Sechrist; Anne Tillery Renshaw; Lillian Clark;
Arthur Conan Doyle; C.M. Eddy, Jr; Vincent
Starrett; Sonia Greene; Sarah Phillips Lovecraft;
Winfield Lovecraft; Farnsworth Wright)
Other Characters: Jan Martense; Manuel;
Cordelia Garrison; Dinah; (Jack Altamont)
Unnamed Characters: IRT
Passengers; Street Toughs; Speakeasy Doorman;
Speakeasy Customers; Speakeasy Waitress; Bouncer;
Fifth Avenue Doorman; Garrison's Maid; Red Hook
Residents; Illegal Immigrants; Martense's
Lieutenants; Church Girls; Nurse; Dockside Crowd; (Persian
Lodger; Martense's Cook; Wolcott Street Locals;
Doctor)
Date: April, 1925
Locations: USA; New York; Upper West Side;
825 West End Avenue; Brooklyn; Borough Hall Station;
Willoughby Street; John's Spaghetti Place; Clinton
Street; 169 Clinton Street; Riverside Park; 278 West
113th Street; 110th Street; Suydam Street; Red Hook;
Wolcott Street; O'Connell's Saloon; Gotham Hotel;
Fifth Avenue; 50 Fifth Avenue; Madison Avenue;
Columbia Heights; Loveman's Apartment; Parker Place;
A Sewer; Martense's Underground Lair; Dance-Hall
Church; Brooklyn Hospital
Story: Long and Lovecraft assist
Lovecraft's elderly neighbour, Mr Altamont of Chicago,
after he is assaulted by street toughs outside his and
Lovecraft's lodging house in Brooklyn. Altamont
reveals that he is Sherlock Holmes and has been
recommended Lovecraft, by Houdini, as a guide to the
backstreets of New York. Houdini tells them of Jan
Martense, a Brooklyn bootlegger with a chain of
speakeasies, who is also involved in people
trafficking. he is also closely involved with the
spirit medium, Cordelia Garrison, and has possession
of sensitive documents belonging to Holmes's
illustrious English client. They attend visit a
speakeasy, and attend a séance. Holmes sets a plan in
motion to retrieve the documents from Martense's Red
hook lair with the aid of the literary members of the
Kalem Club. Holmes, Long and Lovecraft descend into
the sewers to face Martense in his underground lair.
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"The Rummy Affair of Young
Charlie" (1994)
Story Type: Supernatural Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes /
Altamont
Fictional Characters: Bertie Wooster;
Jeeves; Aunt Agatha Gregson; Charles Dexter Ward;
Blandot; Aged Money-Lender; Upholsterer; Erich Zann; (Arthur
Jermyn; Pongo, the White Ape; Tuppy Glossop;
Theodore Howland Ward; Mrs Ward; Uncle Tom Travers;
Claude Wooster; Eustace Wooster; Dr Marinus Bicknell
Willett; Randolph Carter; Strange Old Mulatto; Uncle
Willoughby; Sir Alfred Jermyn; Beefy Bingham; Doctor
Muñoz; Student of Metaphysics; Mrs Herrero)
Other Characters: (St John)
Unnamed Characters: Gamin; Rue
d'Auseil Residents
Locations: Berkeley Mansions; France; Paris;
Hotel; Rue d'Auseil
Story: Bertie Wooster and Jeeves travel to
Paris, at the behest of Aunt Agatha, to keep Charles
Dexter Ward, the son of her American friends, out of
trouble. when Ward disappears, Jeeves tracks him down
to a house in the Rue d'Auseil, where he has
apparently moved to be in closer association with the
violinist Erich Zann. Also lodging in the house is the
elderly American, Altamont, who gets them to assist
him in a plan to extract the details of a mysterious
manuscript from Zann using the soothing powers of
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Peter Cannon
"The Adventure of the Noble Husband"
(1998)
Included in: The
Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
(Marvin Kaye); The Big Book
of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson
Fictional Characters: (Adrian Mulliner)
Historical Figures: Louise Hawkins Doyle;
Arthur Conan Doyle; Jean Leckie; P.G. Wodehouse;
E.W. Hornung; Constance Hornung; Mary Doyle; (Jack
Hawkins; Mary Conan Doyle; Kingsley Conan Doyle;
Fletcher Robinson)
Other Characters: (Mason)
Date: Summer, 1900
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Lord's
Cricket Ground; Paddington Station; Gloucester; The
Everson; (Undershaw)
Story: Louise Doyle visits Holmes and tells
him that she suspects her husband of having an
affair. She says that he is involved in a literary
feud, has taken up the banjo, and has been pressing
snowdrops in books. When Doyle returns from South
Africa, Holmes sends Watson to meet him at a cricket
match at Lord's, where he finds him in the company
of Jean Leckie. Doyle travels to Gloucester after a
confrontation with his brother-in-law, Hornung, and
Holmes follows him there, having learned of his
destination from Wodehouse, to find him in the
company of more than one woman.
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"The Problem of the Three
Edwardian Pennies" (2013)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes
Mystery Magazine #10 (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson;
Sherlock Holmes
Historical Figures: Arthur Machen
Unnamed Characters: Suffolk Trap
Driver; Men in Blue Jerseys; Inquest Official; (Machen's
Editor; Fishermen)
Date: After 1901(During the Reign of
Edward VII)
Locations: High Holborn; The Dog and
Duck; Suffolk; Martello Tower; Station
Story: Since Holmes's retirement,
Watson has made the acquaintance of Arthur Machen, who
tells him of his own encounter with Holmes at a
treasure-trove inquest into a horde of coins found in
Suffolk after a section of cliff collapsed. |
"Holmes and the Loss of the British
Barque Sophy Anderson" (1996)
Included in: Resurrected
Holmes (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Third Person Pastiche (in the style
of C.S. Forester)
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Billy;
Dr Watson; (Mycroft Holmes)
Other Characters: Sir Joseph Porter; Commander
Henry Bush; Lt. Richard Hornblower; Lt. Patrick
McCool; Captain George Budd, M.D.; Jack Luhulu; (Sophy
Anderson Crew; Howard Grimes; Captain Koch; Nurse)
Date: 1887
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train;
Portsmouth; Naval Headquarters; The Admiralty
Story: Admiralty Sea Lord Porter calls at
Baker Street. The Sophy Anderson under
command of Lt. Richard Hornblower (great-grandson of
Horatio Hornblower) and sporting new experimental
engines has sunk in the North Sea after an explosion.
Porter asks Holmes to discover whether foreign agents
were responsible for the sinking. He believes that a
German submarine may have been behind the disaster,
and that this may be part of a plot centred around the
maritime events that will be a part of the Queen's
Golden Jubilee celebrations. Holmes travels to
Portsmouth to interview the ship's survivors. A
comatose Polynesian steward seems to be the focus of
Holmes's concern, and an impersonation brings the case
to a close. |
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Wilson Cantrell
"Right
Dress" (1957)
Included in: The Dude, November 1957
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Hemlock Sholmes'
Doctor Whatsup;
Canonical Characters: (Professor
Moriarty)
Other Characters: Fifi LaRuelaRue
Locations: USA; New York; Madison Avenue
Story: Fifi LaRuelaRue plots the death of
Hemlock Sholmes who has spurned her love, despite
the fashionable wardrobe of gifts she has given him.
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Bernard
E.J. Capes
"A
Notable Interlude" (1907)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches II:
1905-1909 (Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock
Holmes; Dr Watson
Other Characters: Narrator; Mr
Shapter; Valombroso; Inspector Jannaway; (Mr
Dalston; Johnny; The D's; Coachman)
Story: When Valombroso objects to
working with Jannaway on the search for Dalston, it is
decided that he will work with Holmes instead.
NOTE: This is a chapter from
Capes's novel The Great Skene Mystery.
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Montgomery Carmichael
"On the Threshold of the Chamber of
Horrors" (1894)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes
Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899
(Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Other Characters: Edward Clay; Waxworks
Attendant; Policeman
Locations: Baker Street; Marylebone Road; St
John's Wood Station; Mme Tussaud's Wax Museum;
Marlborough Road Station; Grovend Road; Lisson
Grove; Bloomsbury; Temperance Hotel
Story: Edward Clay, the London Road
Murderer, is hiding out in a Temperance Hotel in
Bloomsbury. As he is walking down Baker
Street he notices the celebrated detective and his
companion looking down at him. With the two in
pursuit, he flees, arriving eventually in Mme
Tussaud's where he encounters a wax model of himself.
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Caleb Carr
The Italian Secretary (2005)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; (Shinwell
Johnson)
Historical Figures: Queen Victoria; (Mary,
Queen of Scots; Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley; David
Rizzio; Lord Salisbury; Edward VII)
Other Characters: Military Intelligence
Officer; Naval Officer; Intelligence Men; Train
Attacker; Lord Francis Hamilton; Gavin Hackett;
Andrew Hackett; Mrs Hackett; Dennis McKay; Alison
Mackenzie; Robert Sadler; "Likely Will" Sadler; Fife
& Drum Barman; Fife & Drum Patrons; Colour
Sergeant; Roxburghe Clerk; Garrison Commandant;
Policemen; Duke of Hamilton; Golden-Haired Girl;
Punjabi Shop Proprietor; (Sir Alistair Sinclair;
Alec Morton; Jackson)
Date: September (before 1901)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Euston
Station; Train; Scotland; Edinburgh; Prince's Street
Station; Holyroodhouse; The Fife and Drum; Roxburghe
Hotel; Edinburgh Castle; Balmoral Castle; Baker
Street; Punjabi's Shop[
Story: Holmes receives a cryptic telegram
from Mycroft summoning him to Scotland after the
deaths of the architect and foreman involved in
restoration work at Holyroodhouse. Holmes astonishes
Watson by suggesting that the ghost of David Rizzio,
the murdered secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots may
be at the root of the killings. Travelling to
Scotland they undergo a bomb attack on their train,
and are accused of one of the murders. Mycroft tells
them of a number of attempts on the Queen's life,
and that the perpetrator of the latest has escaped
from the prison ship on which he was being
transported. At Holyrood they examine one of the
victim's injuries, find a damsel in distress and a
secret passage, and hear a ghostly voice. After
Holmes identifies those involved in the events at
the palace, he and Watson arrange to be taken on an
illicit ghostly tour, but instead come under siege
from an enemy armed with mediaeval weaponry. Watson
has an encounter with a spirit.
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John Dickson Carr
"The
Adventure of the Conk-Singleton Papers" (1948)
Included in: The
Game Is Afoot (Marvin Kaye); The Misadventures of
Sherlock Holmes (Sebastian Wolfe)
Story Type: Parody / Script
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Conk-Singleton; Professor Moriarty; (Porlock)
Historical Figures: (William Ewart
Gladstone; Queen Victoria)
Other Characters: Narrator; (Lord
Scarborough)
Date: 1st January, 1888
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Lord Cosmo Conk-Singleton visits Baker
Street with letters sent between the Queen and the
Prime Minister. The Prime Minister, it seems, has been
poisoned by whiskey laced with prussic acid, sent to
him as a Christmas present by the Queen. Holmes
refuses to investigate, but reveals that one of the
letters, and his client, are fakes, and that it is
part of a plot to steal the Scarborough Emeralds. |
"The
Adventure of the Paradol Chamber" (1949)
Included in: The Misadventures
of Sherlock Holmes (Sebastian Wolfe)
Story Type: Parody / Script
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Colonel Moran; (Inspector Lestrade;
Tobias Gregson; Athelney Jones)
Historical Figures: (Queen Victoria)
Other Characters: Narrator; Lady Imogene
Ferrers; M. De Marquis De Paradol; (Lord
Matchlock; Men in Masks)
Date: August, 1887
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: After reading of Lord Matchlock's
fainting spell, and deducing that he was wearing no
trousers, Holmes and Watson are visited by his
daughter, Lady Imogene, with a pair of trousers
which had been thrown from a window of Buckingham
Palace, where her father was in talks with the Queen
and the French ambassador, de Paradol, who also
arrives at Baker Street to retrieve his pants, which
he had taken off in front of the Queen. A treaty,
which was concealed in a copper lined chamber of the
trousers has disappeared and a traitor is revealed
in their midst.
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The Nine
Wrong Answers (1952)
Story Type: Homage
Historical Figures: (C.T. Thorne;
Abraham Lincoln; William H. Seward; Edwin M.
Stanton; John Hay; Jefferson Davis; George
Washington; Stonewall Jackson)
Other Characters: William (Bill) Dawson;
George Amberley; Laurence Herbert (Larry) Hurst; Joy
Tennent; New York Taxi Driver; Dingala's Patrons;
Vagrant; James Brook; Howard Fowler; G. Vassilov;
G.V. Aguinopopolos; Ronald Wentworth; Marjorie
Blair; Plane Passengers; Dingala's Police Officer;
Waldorf Doorman; Hotel Guests; Walfdorf
Receptionist; Bus Passengers; Idlewild Passport
Officer; Woman in Queue; Air-Line Counter Girl; Air
Steward; Albert Court Hall Porter; Hatto; Gaylord
Hurst; Tuffrey; Eric Cheever; Bus Conductor;
Chemist; BBC Reception Girl; Bee Roberts; Walter
Kuhn; Norma; Del Durrand; Felicity; BBC Orchestra;
Radio Announcer; Actors; Franz; Monica Carslake;
Robert MacTavish; Studio Attendant; Rabbie; Joe the
Radio Man; Programme Engineers; Times
Radio Critic; Controller of Programmes; Dr Pardoner;
Patricia Conway; Thomas / Tommy; Rev. James Dawson;
Admiral Hooker's Guests; Sergeant Frank Green; Chief
Inspector Partridge; Inspector Conway; Old Lady on
Green Park Station; Uniformed Policeman
(Miss Ventnor; Lady Alice Penrith; Joe the
Elevator Man; Bill's Mother; Larry's Mother;
Herbert Hurst; Ann Heston; Harry Trevor;
Lieutenant Michael T. McGinnis; Assistant Medical
Examiner Gortz; Howard McHavern; Sir Ashton
Cowdray, K.C.; Vice-Admiral the Hon. Benbow
Hooker; Horace Snufferley; Dr Lambert; Bradley
Somers; Old Gentleman; John Blair; Marjorie's
Mother; Edward J. Riley; Dora Riley; H.F.
Thompson; Mrs Thompson; Harry T. Pinckney; Mrs
Pinckney; Picot; Albert Street Police Officers;
Police Surgeon; Bill's Grandfather; Oculist)
Date: Tuesday, 12th June - 22nd June, 1951
Locations: USA; New York; 120 Broadway;
Greenwich Village; Sheridan Square; Bleecker Street;
Arcadia Street; Dingala's Bar; Park Avenue;
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; Madison Avenue; Wall Street;
Broadway; Fourth Avenue; Idlewild Airport; Highgate;
Albert Street; Albert Arms, 14A, Albert Court; South
Kensington Underground Station; Green Park
Underground Station; Piccadilly; St James's Street;
68, St James's Place; Piccadilly Circus; Boots the
Chemist; Broadcasting House; The Mall; Green Park;
Piccadilly Circus Underground Station; Baker Street
Underground Station; Baker Street; Abbey House
Story: Summoned to the New York offices of
Amberley, Sloane and Amberley, regarding a legacy
from his grandmother in England, Bill Dawson is asked
to witness Larry Hurst sign a document involving a
legacy from his uncle. Hurst asks Dawson to take his
place travelling to England for six months to visit
his uncle, a requirement of the agreement he has
signed. He tells Dawson about the cruel tricks that
his uncle used to play on him, and that he fears for
his life. When Larry is murdered, Dawson swears
vengeance.
On the plane to England he meets Marjorie, an old
flame, and persuades her to play the role of Larry's
fiancée. The first evening of humiliation at the hands
of Gaylord and his servant Hatto is interrupted by an
unexpected arrival. The evening ends with Gaylord
threatening to murder Dawson some time in the
following three months. Later that evening, Dawson
comes under attack at Broadcasting House. The final
showdown takes place at the Festival of Britain
Sherlock Holmes Exhibition in Baker Street.
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Molly Carr
"The Curious Case of the Well-Connected Criminal"
(2016)
Included in: The
MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part V:
Christmas Adventures (David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Billy; (Baker Street Irregulars;
Mrs Turner; Mycroft Holmes)
Other Characters: Willie Cameron;
Constance Cameron / Marquise de Brinvilliers / Madame de
Pompadour; (Albert Block; Elsie; Edward Stokes)
Unnamed Characters: Oxford Street Shoppers;
Savoy Waiter; Hotel Employee; (Police Constables;
Physician; Watson's Patients; Highlands Laird; Factor)
Date: December
Locations: Oxford Street; 221B, Baker Street;
Savoy Hotel; London Hospital
Story: While Christmas shopping in Oxford Street,
Watson realises that he is being followed. This leads to
an encounter at the Savoy Hotel with Constance Cameron,
whose fiancé, Albert Block, has disappeared. Summoned to
the London Hospital, they learn of Albert's demise. The
case ends in a confrontation with an intruder at 221B
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Gethyn Carr-Harris
"The Case of the Scruffy Note" (1984)
Included in: The Rampant Lion 1983-1984 (Glenlyon
Norfolk School, Victoria, British Columbia)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Inspector Lestrade
Other Characters: Mr Chumwit; Roy
Hickmagog; Danny Chumwit
Unnamed Characters: School Receptionist; Form
Eight Teacher; (Bishop of St Paul's Cathedral)
Date: August, 1880
Locations: 222B, Baker Street; Le
Willows-Crescent School
Story: Newly arrived from Canada, Mr Chumwit, a
cousin of the Bishop of St Paul's Cathedral, calls on
Holmes when his eight-year-old son, Danny, is kidnapped.
A ransom has been demanded. A clue in the ransom note
sends Watson to a French-speaking school.
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Philip J. Carraher
"The Adventure of the Captive Forger"
(2002)
Included in: Alias Simon Hawkes (Philip J.
Carraher)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated in third person
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: William Marsden Lancaster;
James Lancaster; Lancaster's Driver; Station
Attendant; George; Annette Ballard; (Charles
Buonocore)
Locations: New York; The Dead Rabbits
Society, Prince Street; Fifteenth Street;
Twenty-Ninth Street; The Bronx
Story: Called out to the Bronx to examine a
possible forged painting, William Lancaster meets
with a severe beating. He tells Holmes of a woman he
believes is being held prisoner in the home of
Buonocore, the man who called on his services.
Holmes and the Lancasters travel back to the Bronx,
where Holmes is able to locate the house William was
taken to, but they arrive to find it in flames.
William rescues the young woman, and they hear her
story, and how her artistic skills nearly led to her
death.
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"The
Adventure of the Glass Room" (2002)
Included in: Alias Simon Hawkes (Philip J.
Carraher)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated in third person
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: Alwyn Pritchett; Detective
Blaine; Patrolmen; Detective Cullen; Eileen Burgess;
Parish; William Burgess; Gordon Burgess; (Charlotte
Davreux; Mary Faliciano)
Date: August, 1893
Locations: New York; The Dead Rabbits Society,
Prince Street; Pritchett's House
Story: Holmes is called to the scene of a
murder-suicide. An acquaintance, Pritchett has
apparently shot a medium, then himself, inside a
locked glass compartment which he was using to test
her abilities. Holmes's discovery of bloodstains
outside the locked box suggest that matters are not as
straightforward as they seem. |
"The
Adventure of the Magic Alibi" (2002)
Included in: Alias Simon Hawkes (Philip J.
Carraher)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated in third person
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Historical Figures: Inspector William "Big Bill"
Devery; (Servais Le Roy)
Other Characters: David Conroy; Skeleton
Attendants; Servants; Magicians; Band; Greenleaf's
Guests; Clifford Greenleaf; Detective Cullen; Virginia
Greenleaf; Harvey; Singing Newsboys; Dime Museum
Barker; Patrolman Baker; Mrs. Durbin; Mrs. Victor
Cleary; Joseph Taylor; Blake; Rat Catchers; Rat
Baiting Crowd; Jane Montane (Jane Orleneff); Dead
Rabbits Desk Clerk; Stableboys; Police officer; Ticket
Seller; Grand Duke's Audience; Actors; Peter "Re-Pete"
Orleneff; Hansom Driver; Alice Lake (Alice Steffens);
Alice's Companion; Cushman's Bartender; Cushman's
Musicians Cushman's Clientele; Burnt Rag Police
officer; Johnny Dobbs; Policemen
Date: 1893
Locations: New York; The Pontseele House; The
Dead Rabbits Society, Prince Street; Grand Street; The
Bowery; Steve Brodie's Saloon; Fourteenth Street;
Black Pete's Saloon; Montane's Apartment; Grand Duke's
Theatre; The Tenderloin; Cushman's Palace of Delights;
Bloomingdales; Brookstone's; The Burnt Rag Saloon
Story: At a Halloween party Greenleaf
announces that he will disappear from a locked room
into 'the spiritual world' and twenty witnesses, who
are outside the room while he stages the
disappearance, will be able to search it to prove he
is not in there. When his wife is murdered in another
part of the house during the stunt, he becomes the
chief suspect, but claims that he had never left the
room, and reveals the secret of his trick as proof.
Cullen, convinced of his guilt, approaches Holmes, in
New York in the guise of Simon Hawkes, to prove his
suspicions. The following day, a showgirl, Montane,
another of Greenleaf's guests is found dead of a drug
overdose. After investigating her recent shopping
expedition, Holmes begins to see the net closing
around Mrs. Greenleaf's murderer. A false arrest and a
re-enactment of the crime bring the case to an end. |
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"The
Adventure of the Talking Ghost" (2002)
Included in: Alias Simon Hawkes (Philip J.
Carraher)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated in third person
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: Broome Street Policemen;
Detective George Blaine; Madam Tollier; Joseph Carter;
Riley; Rosemary Lametta (Howard Mendelson; George
O'Neil; Eleanora Carter; Laura Carter)
Date: December, 1893
Locations: New York; Lafayette Street; Broome
Street; (Staten Island; Central Park)
Story: A former client of Holmes, Joseph
Carter, has been shot by Tollier, a gypsy fortune
teller, who says that he had tried to kill her to stop
her contacting a spirit, after a séance at which the
spirit of Carter's daughter had appeared and stated
that she had been murdered. Holmes's investigation
reveals connections with his former case: the murder
of Carter's wife. |
Sherlock
Holmes: The Adventure of the Dead Rabbits Society
(2001)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated in third person
by Watson
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson
Other Characters: Angela Costispoti; George
Hammond; Charles Dunmore; Franklin Dunmore; Drunkard;
Woman Tenant; Dead Rabbits Desk Clerk; Dead Rabbits
Waiter; Jolly Pigeon Waiter; Edward Madden; Detective
Hawthorne; Landau Driver; Amelia Hammond; William
Huxley; Braxton; Dr. Rogers; Robert Costes; Benjamin
Willis; Agatha Willis; Charlotte; Tramp; Detective
Riley; Urchin; Rogers' Patients; Mrs. Costispoti; Mr.
Costispoti; Dunmore's Bodyguard; Detective Cullen;
Howard Lethbridge; Girls; Costes' Brother; Hammond's
Driver; Hammond's Assailants; Holmes's Cook
Date: 1893
Locations: New York; The Brooklyn Bridge; The
Dead Rabbits Society; Dunmore's House; Apartment
Building Opposite Dunmore's; The Bend; The Jolly
Pigeon, Cherry Street; A Landau; Brooklyn; Madden's
Boarding House; A Train; Grand Hotel Station; Black
Oak; Another Train; Lafayette Street; A Carriage;
Rogers' Surgery; Willis's House; Costes' Parents'
House; Another Landau; Costes' Apartment; Another
carriage; Hester Street Italian Restaurant; Holmes's
Home Outside London
Story: During the hiatus Holmes is in New York
in the guise of Simon Hawkes, a Scotland Yard
detective. He is called in by police to view the body
of a pregnant girl who has thrown herself off the
Brooklyn Bridge. A week later Franklin Dunmore, a
fellow member of the Dead Rabbits Society, tells him
of two attempts on his life - a strangling and a rifle
shot - which he suspects his brother of being
responsible for. He asks Holmes to investigate. After
the body of a dead cat is found strung up in his room,
Dunmore agrees to go into the country to stay with
George Hammond. While there, another attack occurs,
and Hammond's wife is killed by the bullet intended
for Dunmore. Holmes journeys out to Black Oak to
investigate. After returning to New York to interview
the witnesses who have already left, Holmes discovers
Dunmore's body, and later learns of the suicide of
another of Hammond's guests, confessing to the murder.
Holmes believes things are not that simple, and
ultimately must bring about justice in his own way. |
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Sherlock
Holmes in New York: The Adventure of the New York
Ripper (2005)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated in third person
and by Watson
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Captain W.C. Streeter; (Mycroft Holmes;
The Moriarty Gang; Colonel Moran)
Historical Figures: Francis J. Tumblety;
Mulatto Servant; (Wolfe Mandelbaum; Frederika
Mandelbaum; Jack the Ripper; Chief Inspector Thomas
Byrnes; Carrie Brown; James Jennings; Captain
Richard O'Connor; Eddie Fitzgerald; Doran; Griffin;
Inspector Alex Williams; Mary Miniter; C. Kniclo;
Mamie Harrington; Frenchy / Ameer Ben Ali; Mary Ann
Lopez; Kelly; Arbie La Bruckman; Frederick House;
Inspector George 'Chesty' McClusky; Martha Tabram;
George Collier; Dr Timothy R. Killeen; Henry Tabram;
Ann Morris; Private; Corporal; P.C. John Neil; Polly
Nicholls; Thrawl Street Residents; Ellen Holland;
Mary Ann Monk; Emma Elizabeth Smith; Green Family;
Walter Perkins; Annie Chapman; John Davis; John
Pizer; Louis Diemschutz; Elizabeth Stride; George
Morris; Constable Edward Watkins; Catherine Eddowes;
Constable Alfred Long; George Lusk; Dr Thomas
Openshaw; Dr Gordon Brown; Sir Charles Warren;
Daniel Halse; Queen Victoria; Barnaby & Burgho;
Robert Lees; Mary Kelly; Joseph Barnett; Thomas
Bowyer; John McCarthy; James Whitehead; Mary Ann
Cox; Sarah Lewis; Rose Mylett; Constable Robert
Goulding; Constable Joseph Allen; Alice McKenzie; Dr
George Bagster Phillips; Sir Melville Macnaghten;
Montague John Druitt; Duke of Clarence; Aaron
Kosminski; Thomas Neill Cream; Inspector John
Littlechild [Littlefield]; Batty Street Landlady; Dr
Lispenard; Philomene Dumas; Mrs McNamara; Margaret
Tumblety; Patrick Tumblety; Michael Ostrog; Sir
William Gull)
Other Characters: Sally "Rhyming Child"
McBride; Kyosuke Ikegami; Dead Rabbits Members;
Inspector Cullen; Rosie / Beverly Melas; Patrolmen;
Carriage Driver; Nancy Putnam; Dixon; Kumiko Ikegami;
Amy Ikegami; Carl Ikegami; Streeter; Powers Desk
Clerk; Joseph Cushing; Ostlers; Stuart; Harold
Whittier; Cushing's Son; Tumblety's Servant;
Stableman; Pauper; Stableman; Clerk; Rochester
Patrolman; Bobby; Grand Central Patrolman; Grand
Central Crowds; Cab Driver; Preacher; Margaret "Old
Maggie" Stoddard; Barbara Woodall; Mary / "Gentle"
Sadie Chandler; Stable Watchman; New York Police
(Sally Jenkins; Coroner; Meyer; Sea Beach Staff; Mr
Kelly; Rochester Police; Whittier's Cleaning Lady;
Mr Hardin; Rochester Smithy; Chestnut Vendor;
Ikegami's Kaishkumin)
Date: 1893 / 1911
Locations: New York; East Side Hotel; The Dead
Rabbits Society; Prince Street; The Bowery; Alley;
Delancey Street; Gouverneur Street; Water Street;
Lafayette Street; The Battery; Ferry Terminal;
Steamer; Brooklyn; Coney Island; Sea Beach Hotel;
Rochester; Powers Hotel; Clarissa Street; Sophia
Street; Cushing's Stable; Full Cups Pub; Stuart
Stables; St Peter's Churchyard; 616, Weld Street;
Grand Central Terminal; Henry Street; Old Maggie's
Boarding House; Five Points; Elizabeth Street
Story: A prostitute, Rhyming Child, is
murdered in New York. Holmes tells Watson of his
investigation: in the city under his Simon Hawkes
alias he is taken to the scene of another murder,
against orders, by Inspector Cullen. The murder is
similar to those of Jack the Ripper, and the city
officials wish to keep it under wraps. An arrest has
been made, but Cullen believes it is the wrong man. He
also believes it may be connected to the murder of
Carrie Brown in 1891, believed to be a copycat Ripper
killing, and gives Holmes details of the earlier case
and the embarrassment that the current one could cause
to Chief Inspector Byrnes. More murders follow,
including one of Holmes's friends. He wires Mycroft
for details of the London Ripper killings, and on
reviewing them, develops a theory as to the original
Ripper's identity. He visits Rochester in search
of his suspect, but it is a different man he follows
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Lenore Carroll
"Before the Adventures" (1977)
Included in: Murder, My Dear
Watson (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg
& Daniel Stashower); Sons
of Moriarty and More Stories of Sherlock Holmes
(Loren D. Estleman) Story Type:
Homage
Detectives: Budger & Doc
Historical Figures: H. Greenhough Smith
Other Characters: Ticket Agent; Dr.
Morestone; Miss Morestone; Brougham Driver; Boy With
Handcart; Maid
Locations: Doc's Rooms; The George &
Dragon; Bankside; Harley Street
Story: Greenhough Smith receives a letter
from "Doc" telling how he came to write stories
about his famous detective character. He tells how,
on returning home, wounded, from Afghanistan, he met
the mysterious Budger, a man able to make startling
deductions from simple observations. Budger claims
to be a private agent, matching people up with those
who require their services. By some discreet
manipulations Budger is able to set Doc up as
assistant to Dr. Morestains, and help him achieve
literary success.
NOTE: Originally published in Baker
Street Miscellany in 1977.
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Susan Casper
"Holmes Ex Machina" (1995)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes in
Orbit (Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg)
Story Type: Science Fiction Homage
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock Holmes)
Other Characters: Dr John Watson; Gene;
Sophie; Mike; Landers
Locations: Vid-Tech Offices
Story: Watson is working for Vid-Tech,
transforming old 2-D movies to 3-D. When the only
surviving copy of Godzilla vs the Smog Monster
goes astray, he programs a holographic Holmes to
assist in finding it.
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Casey
"The
Missing Leek" (1909)
Included in: Labour Leader, Vol. 6 No. 16, 1
April 1909
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detective: Sherlock Jones
Canonical Figures: (Dr Watson)
Fictional Characters: (Mr Dooley; Mr
Hennessy)
Historical Figures: Casey
Characters Based on Historical Figures:
(Donan Coyle)
Other Characters: Evans; (Clarkson;
William Thomas; Newman; Harry Davies; George Gethin;
D.F. Griffiths; Lewis Lewis; Rees Rees; Morgan
Morgan; Avon Avon; Owen More; Philbin; Comrade
Richards)
Unnamed Characters: Labour Leader Editor;
Labour Supporters; Ticket Collectors
Date: April 1, 1909
Locations: Labour Leader Offices;
Train; Wales; Glamorgan; Blaengwnfi;
Yrhewnnaweithionafwytaedchwaith
Story: When the St David's Day leek disappears
from outside the editor's office, Casey is sent to
Wales to investigate. There he meets Welsh detective
Sherlock Jones.
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Jules Castier
"The Footprints on the Ceiling"
(1920)
Included in: The Misadventures
of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen); Sherlock Holmes
Jazz Age Parodies and Pastiches I: 1920-1924
(Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Pastiche (in the style of Doyle's
Professor Challenger stories)
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Fictional Characters: Austin; Mrs.
Challenger; Professor Challenger; Edward Malone; Mr.
McArdle; Lord John Roxton
Story: Professor Challenger has disappeared.
Holmes sends Watson to the Daily Gazette to
fetch Malone to help in the investigation. On the
way to Challenger's home they meet Holmes and
Roxton. Challenger's disappearance seems to be
connected somehow to Zeeman's Phenomenon.
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Brittany Cavallaro
A Study in Charlotte (2016)
Story Type: Young Adult Homage
Sherlockia Detectives: Charlotte
Honoria Holmes & Jamie Watson
Canonical Characters: (Sherlock
Holmes; Dr. Watson; Helen Stoner; Julia Stoner;
Grimesby Roylott; Professor Moriarty; Culverton
Smith)
Historical Figures: (Edward
VII; Gary Snyder)
Other Characters: Tom Bradford; Lena;
Monsieur Cann;
Lee Dobson; Randall; Mrs Dunham; Detective
Ben Shepard; Harry; Peter; Mason; J. Watson; Grace
Watson; Shelby Watson; Cassidy; Ashton; Ted Wheatley;
Will Tillman; Taylor; Lucas; Penelope; Elizabeth
Hartwell; Bryony Downs / Davis; John Smith; Mrs
Hartwell; Kline;
Larson; Coach Q; Gabriel Tinker; Abigail
Watson; Malcolm Watson; Robbie Watson; Milo Holmes;
Peterson; Michaels; Dr Warner; Lucien Moriarty;
Sherringford Students; Governor Schumer's Son;
Teachers; The Dean; Policemen; Reporters; BBC
Reporter; BBC Cameraman; Waiter; Restaurant Customers;
Casino Dealers; DJ; Elizabeth's Rommate; EMTs; Medical
Examiner; Rugby Team; Nurse; Michigan Poet Girl;
Firemen; (Rose
Milton; Sherringford Athletic Director; Lawrence
Hall Hall Mother; Araminta Holmes; Dobson's
Sister; Jameson; Alistair Holmes; Emma Holmes;
Murdered Glasgow Girls; Charlotte's Scotland Yard
Contact; BBC Radio Presenter; Fiona; Marquess of
Abergavenny; Kristof Demarchelier; Comtesse Tracy
van Landingham; Innsbruck School Headmistress;
Quentin Wilde; Basil; Thom; August Moriarty;
Mariella; Kate; Anna; Maisie; Milo's Agent; Aaron
Davis; Leander Holmes; Charlotte's Cosin Margaret;
Charlotte's Great-Aunt Agatha; Charlotte's Lawyer;
Biology Teacher; Scotland Yard Officers;
Philadelphia Cop; CDC Girlfriend; D.I. Green;
Lena's Boyfriend; Mr Jones; Hadrian Moriarty;
Phillipa Moriarty; Wheatley's Brother; School
Therapist; Andrew; Sherringford Parents; Physics
Teacher; Henry Holmes; Henry's Mother; Henry's
Sons; Julian Holmes; Oxford Don; Charlotte's
Fencing Instructor; Bookshop Owner; August's
Parents; Bryony's Mother)
Date: September - October
Locations: USA; Connecticut;
Sherringford School; Michener Hall; Lawrence Hall;
Sherringford; Restaurant; Underground Tunnels;
Police Station; Jamie's Father's House; Hospital;
Morgue; Market Street; Greene Street; Cafe; Bryony's
Flat
Story: Jamie Watson, the
great-great-great-grandson of Dr Watson, first meets
Charlotte Holmes, the
great-great-great-granddaughter of Sherlock Holmes
at an illicit party at Sherringford School,
in Connecticut, where he is a rugby scholar. A
schoolmate, Dobson, with whom Jamie has had a fight,
is murdered, and Jamie and Charlotte come under
suspicion, particularly in light of the copy of The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes clutched in
Dobson's hand, and that the murder seems to be a
recreation of "The Speckled Band". Charlotte believes
that the clues are a warning to them. After an attack
during the school dance, imitating "The Blue
Carbuncle", they discover another attempt by the
killer to incriminate Charlotte, in the tunnels
beneath the school. Jamie becomes suspicious about
Charlotte's past relationship with August Moriarty,
and when the scale of the threats against them
increases, he summons Charlotte's brother, Milo, and
sees the darker side of Charlotte.
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Steve Cavanagh
"The
Box" (2015)
Included in: The Adventures of Moriarty
(Maxim Jakubowski)
Story Type: Extra-canonical adventure of
Professor Moriarty
Canonical Characters: (Professor
Moriarty; Sherlock Holmes)
Historical Figures: Sir Henry
Fielding Dickens
Other Characters: Thomas Clay; Albert
Ruthnick; Judge Campbell; Ham Burglar; Mr Roderick;
Jury; Clerk of Court; Mr Deery; Trial Attendees;
John Robinson; Hugo Loffler; (Sir Kenneth
Horatio Rochesmolles; Royal College Dean; Mr
Triebel; Police Officer; Dock Constables;
Innkeeper)
Date: 29th January - May, 1894 /
14th April, 1916
Locations: The Old Bailey; Dickens's
Chambers
Story: Sir Henry Dickens is hired to
defend art student Ruthnick, who is being tried at the
Old Bailey, charged with forging a document in an
attempt to steal a box belonging to the German artist
Hugo Loffler.
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Randy Cerveny
"The
Mystery of "Eliminating the Impossible"" (2009)
Included in: Weather's Greatest Mysteries
Solved! (Randy Cerveny)
Story Type: Pastiche
Sherlockian Detective: The Great Detective
Other Characters: Rita Monroe-Whittingham;
Alex Whittingham; Harold Reamus; Alfred; (Lord
Raymond Whittingham)
Unnamed Characters: Climatologist;
(White Hart Patrons)
Locations: Whittingham Manor
Story: The meerschaum-pipe-smoking Great
Detective gathers the suspects together at Whittingham
Manor to reveal the murderer of Lord Raymond Whittingham
during a thunderstorm on the previous night. It is a
climatologist, however, who solves the case.
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Michael Chabon
The Final Solution (2003)
Story Type: Third Person Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes (The
Old Man)
Other Characters: Linus Steinman; Bruno the
Parrot; Richard Woolsey Shane; Simon Parkins; Reggie
Panicker; Reverend Panicker; Mrs Panicker; Detective
Inspector Michael Bellows; Detective Constable
Quint; Martin Kalb; Noakes; Woollett; Soldier; Mr
Sackett; Colonel Threadneedle; Threadneedle's
Driver; East Grinstead Policemen; Mrs Dunn;
Postmaster; Young Women;
(Mr Wilkes; Joseph Black; Satterlee; Fatty
Hodges; Dr Julius Steinman; Le Colonel; Herr
Obergruppenführer; Kalb's Brother)
Date: July, 1944
Locations: Sussex; The South Downs; Holmes's
Cottage; The Vicarage; Hallows Lane; Police Station;
Gabriel Park; The London Road; East Grinstead;
London; Club Row; Black's Shop; Kalb's Rooms;
Railway Station
Story: The old man sees a boy with a parrot
on his shoulder walking along the railway tracks
near his cottage. The parrot lists numbers in
German. The boy indicates that he is German, but
does not answer the old man's questions, or speak at
all. At the Panickers' Vicarage-cum-boarding-house,
Parkins has been keeping tabs on the parrot, which
quotes Goethe and Schiller, and suspects that new
arrival, Shane has been sent there for the same
purpose. When Shane is murdered, and the parrot goes
missing, the local police consult the old man.
Panicker's son is arrested for the crime, but the
old man believes him innocent. His investigations
take him to an experimental dairy farm that may have
a hidden agenda, and he receives a visitor from
London who fills in the boy's background. The old
man, intercepting Panicker, extends his search for
the bird to London where he witnesses the effects of
the Blitz and reinterprets the boy's writings.
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William E. Chambers
"The Curse of Bridges Falls" (2011)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes
Mystery Magazine #6 (Marvin Kaye)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Mara Bridges
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Wiggins; Mrs Hudson; (Mycroft
Holmes)
Other Characters: Mara Bridges; Edmond
Bridges the Fourth; Farrell; Bridges' Servants;
Brighton Groundskeeper; Coachman; (Edmond
Bridges the First; Johannes Koopman; Lillian
Bridges; Farrell's Great-Grandfather; Samson
Leeds; Grandfather Bridges; Bridges' Father;
Farrell's Grandfather; Granfather Bridges'
Servants; Grandmother Bridges; Bridges' Mother;
Farrell's Father; Farrell's Mother; Mrs Bridges'
Parents; Phoebe; Arthur Leeds; Leeds's
Intermediary; Jiro Nakabayasha)
Date: December, 1894
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Bridges' House
(a mile from Baker Street); Brighton
Story: Holmes is consulted by Edmond
Bridges and his wife as Bridges approaches his
fortieth birthday, his father, grandfather, and
great-grandfather all having fallen to their deaths on
theirs. The curse was placed on the family by his
great-grandfather's Dutch partner, killed in a duel
over Bridges' great-grandmother Lillian. After
visiting Bridges' house, Holmes sends the Bridges to
Brighton, asking them to return on the eve of Bridges'
birthday. A set of Ninja armour sets Holmes on the
path of a solution.
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Tim Champlin
Deadly Season (1997)
Story Type: Western
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; (Inspector Lestrade)
Fictional Characters: Jay McGraw
Historical Figures: Blind Boss Buckley; (Chief
Patrick Crowley; Willard B. Farwell; Dr John E.
Kunkler; E.B. Pond; Matt Fallon)
Other Characters: Lieutenant Fred Casey;
Cal; O'Toole; Jeff Brady; Bernard Kohl; Jason Neal;
Dr Donnelly; Captain Thomas Kingsley; Katherine
"Katie" O'Neal; Ivan Sarkoff; Bridget O'Neal; Tub
Moran; Jim Bellson; Kevin O'Toole; Sergeant Davis;
Patrolman Todd; Dr D.L. Dorr; P.J. Vanderpool; Ho
Ming; Roscoe; Harvey Bascomb; Captain John Moreland;
Mar Tan; Oliver Bledsoe; Kem Ying; Jeffrey Dunhill;
Sheriff Joe Cutliffe; Art; Chinese Opium Smugglers;
Cable Car Gripman; Bridget's Boarders; Stormy
Petrels Baseball Team; Seattle Woodmen Baseball
Team; Buckley's Companion; Sweatshop Guard; Chinese
Workers; Sweatshop Supervisor; Chinatown Residents;
Shop Proprietor; Li Po Tai's Clerks; Police wagon
Driver; Police Wagon Attendant; Chinese Vendor; Desk
Sergeant; O'Toole's Funeral Guests; Priest; Chinese
Fish Vendor; Woman Shopper; Central Pacific Stars
Baseball Team; DuPont Street Doorman; Chinese
Prostitutes; Chinese Madam; Chinese Client; Chinese
Hatchet Men; Star of the West Barman; Tramp; Star of
the West Customers; Lunch-Time Pedestrians; Salinas
Stationmaster; Chinese Bath Attendant; Chinese
Bathhouse Owner; Chinese Laundry Owner; Palace Hotel
Clerk; Hack Driver; Opium Smokers; Celestial
Delights Doorman; Celestial Delights Proprietor;
Seafood Waiter; Bartender; Seafood Customers; Golden
Gate Park Strollers; Salinas Ranch Hands; Orient
Moon Deckhands; Passengers; Chinese
Slavegirls; Tremont Guests; Salinas Train Depot
Family; Baggage Handler; Train Passengers; Train
Messenger; Tremont Employees; Kearney Street
Businessmen & Shoppers; Chinese Restaurant
Customers; Chinese Waiters; Chinese Cooks; Street
Vendor; Carriage Driver; Hack Driver; Schooner Crew;
Beach Onlookers; Courtroom Spectators; Prosecutor;
Jury; Reporters; Defense Attorney; Judge; Character
Witnesses; Bailiff; (Snuffy; Finney; Fishermen;
Schooner Crew; Chinese Cook; Susie; Lab Men; Ho
Ming's Madams; Dr Andrew Bennett; Professor Colin
Wilson; Tessie Waters; Harvey Sullivan; Jim Scala;
Marcella Stewart; Marcella's Cousin; Toy Gum;
Cutliffe's Deputy; Thompson; Lopez; Mister Hanson)
Date: June, 1885
Locations: USA; California; San Francisco;
Beach; Station House; California Street; Market
Street; O'Neal's Boarding House; Mission District;
Baseball Field; Boyle's Saloon; Sweatshop;
Chinatown; Shop; Washington Street; Li Po Tai's
Chinese Tea Herb Sanitarium; Dunscombe Alley;
Cemetery; DuPont Street; Ho Ming's Whorehouse; Cave;
Oakland; Bush Street; Star of the West Saloon;
Salinas; Salinas Train Depot; Hotel; Bathhouse;
Palace Hotel; California Street; Cooper's Alley;
House of Celestial Delights Opium Den; Sutter
Street; Chinese Restaurant Kitchen; Seafood
Restaurant; Waterfront; Golden Gate Park; Casey's
Rooming House; Pacific Coast Steamship Company; Pier
Six; Livery Stable; City Hall; The Western Adition;
Kingsley's House; Kearney Street; Chinese
Restaurant; Waterfront; Pier Seven; San Francisco
Bay; Aboard Moreland's Schooner; Sausalito Beach;
Courtroom
Story: Jay McGraw is taking temporary leave
from Wells Fargo in San Francisco helping his friend
in the police department, Fred Casey, bust a Chinese
opium smuggling ring, and playing on the Stormy
Petrels baseball team.In Chinatown they are
summoned to view the headless corpse, which McGraw
identifies as a cop he had seen talking to Blind Boss
Buckley after a baseball game. After escapng from a
sea cave, and taking his landlady's daughter on a
picnic, McGraw visits Buckley and gets a potential
lead while taking a bath in Salinas.
A professor friend of Casey's introduces
them to Dr Watson, who is in San Francisco with
Sherlock Holmes. Holmes identifies the murder weapon
as a tenth-century Danish war axe, possibly stolen
from the British Museum. Watson asks them to take him
and Holmes to a Chinatown opium den. McGraw is taken
captive in Chinatown, and his enquiries lead to a
murder in a Salinas hotel. The case ends in a boat
chase in San Francisco Bay.
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A. Bertram Chandler
"Hall of Fame" (1969)
(Also Published as "The Kinsolving's Planet
Irregulars")
Included in: The Commodore at Sea (A. Bertram
Chandler)
Story Type: Homage / Science Fiction
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Fictional Characters: Mephistopheles;
Jeeves; Lady Macbeth; Hamlet; Frankenstein's
Monster; Dracula; Robin Hood's Men; King Arthur's
Knights; Dr. Faustus (Horatio Hornblower; Queeg;
Captain Ahab; James Bond; Tarzan; Jane Porter;
Mellors; Lady Chatterley)
Historical Figures: Buffalo Bill; A. Bertram
Chandler (Noah)
Other Characters: Commodore John Grimes;
Sonya Grimes; Admiral Kravinsky; Mayhew; Clarisse;
Commander Williams; the Major of Marines; Mr.
Tallent; Mr. Mackenzie; Mr. Briggs
Locations: The Rim Worlds; Port Forlorn; the
spaceship Faraway Quest; Kinsolving's
Planet; Faustus's Castle; Sherwood Forest; Camelot;
Earth; the ship Kantara
Story: The Commodore's wife Sonya brings
back Sherlock Holmes's pipe as a gift for him from
her trip to Earth. Kravinsky sends the Commodore on
an expedition to Kinsolving's planet, a planet where
attempts at colonising have been unsuccessful: there
is something psychologically strange about it. On
Kinsolving's Planet Grimes soon finds himself in a
world populated by characters from fiction, and a
few confused souls (Buffalo Bill, Hamlet) who are no
longer sure if they are real or fictional. Holmes
& Watson approach him to reclaim Holmes's pipe.
Later, Jeeves introduces him to some of the other
residents and takes him to Dr. Faustus's castle,
from where he finds himself on Earth, on the Kantara,
in the cabin of his own creator, A. Bertram
Chandler.
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Arthur Chapman
"The Unmasking of Sherlock Holmes"
(1905)
Also published as "M. Dupin Calls On Sherlock
Holmes"
Included in: The Game Is Afoot
(Marvin Kaye); The
Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto
Penzler); Sherlock
Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches II:
1905-1909 (Bill Peschel); A Bedside Book
of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches
(Charles Press)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mrs. Hudson
Fictional Characters: C. Auguste Dupin
Locations: 221B, Baker Street
Story: Dupin arrives in Baker Street,
accuses Holmes of being a slavish imitator, and
states that Poe's great virtue was that he knew when
to stop writing about him. He condescends to admit,
however, that Holmes is not really such a bad
fellow.
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Ian Charnock
"The Adventure of the Old Russian
Woman" (1999)
Included in: The Elementary Cases of Sherlock
Holmes (Ian Charnock)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Young
Stamford
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Stamford; The Old Russian Woman (Olga Pleshkarova);
Mycroft Holmes; (Baker Street Irregulars)
Historical Figures: Karl Marx
Other Characters: Dead Lamplighter; Police
Sergeant; Library Assistant; Readers; Reading Room
Staff; One-Armed Librarian; Oscar Lundholme;
Holmes's Assistant; Constable; Sam Belcher;
Tarantula-bitten Market Porter; Visiting Surgeon;
Cyril Boddy; Alley Attacker; Policeman
Date: January
Locations: Bart's; Back Hill, Lodging House;
British Museum Reading Room; Holmes' Montague Street
Rooms; Hotel Russell Square; Kentish Town High Road;
The Butcher's Arms; Boddy's Tobacconist; Alley;
Diogenes Club; Pall Mall
Story: Holmes asks Stamford to accompany him
in breaking into a lodging house. The adventure
began in the British Museum Reading Room where the
only other reader there, aside from Holmes, sat on a
pin. He retrieves a paper thrown away by his fellow
reader and attempts to decipher the Russian
lettering on it, and begins to pay special attention
to the man in order to learn more about his
persecutor. He is particularly interested in an old
Russian cleaning woman whom he follows home, and
from whose rooms he follows a young man. After
visiting his tobacconist, Stamford saves Holmes from
a stiletto attack in an alleyway. The full facts of
the case are revealed during a visit to the Diogenes
Club and an interview with Mycroft.
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"The
Case of Vamberry, the Wine Merchant" (1999)
Included in: The Elementary Cases of Sherlock
Holmes (Ian Charnock)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Young Stamford
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Stamford; (Josiah) Vamberry; Inspector Lestrade;
Brooks; Woodhouse; (Professor Moriarty; Victor
Lynch)
Historical Figures: Louis Pasteur
Other Characters: Stamford's Mother; Stamford's
Sister; The Cook; Stamford's Father; Alderman Roach;
Stamford's Landlady; Inspector Craggs; Desk Sergeant;
Mr Beal; Mr Wilson; Constable; Lawyer; (Mrs
Craggs; Chief Inspector John Morrissey; Pinkertons
Agent)
Locations: Bart's; Lee, Kent; Stamford's
Family Home; Stamford's Lodgings; Lee Police Station;
Vamberry's Wine Merchants
Story: Holmes is invited to a dinner given by
Stamford's parents to meet Louis Pasteur. Holmes
advises Stamford's father to pull his money out of
Vamberry's wine business, which he deduces is not
successful. Pasteur invites Holmes to France to work
on the phylloxera problem affecting the
vineyards there. After his return, Vamberry is
murdered and Stamford's father arrested. Holmes visits
the scene of the crime and with Lestrade, takes
Vamberry's assistants, who are not who they claim to
be, into police care, from which they are removed by a
Chief Inspector who is also something other than he
appears. Holmes discovers the man behind the crime,
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"A
Full Account of Ricoletti of the Club Foot & His
Abominable Wife" (1999)
Included in: The Elementary Cases of Sherlock
Holmes (Ian Charnock)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Young Stamford
Canonical Characters: Stamford; (Guglielmo
Feliz) Ricoletti; Ricoletti's Abominable Wife
(Angelina); Tobias Gregson; Sherlock Holmes
Folkloric Characters: The Abominable Snowman
Other Characters: Ricoletti's Audience; Rosa;
Palace Audience; Cabby
Locations: Bart's; Leather Lane; Greville
Street; Palace Music Hall
Story: Stamford encounters Ricoletti at
Bart's. A former prizefighter who had disappeared for
some length of time, he had previously earned money by
displaying his club foot for the benefit of students
there. He meets him again, with Holmes, playing a
barrel organ and advertising the "Missing Link" on
show at the Palace Music Hall. They attend the show
and Holmes takes special interest in the creature. He
also tells Stamford of two jewel robberies that
occurred during Ricoletti's street performance. A
murder and a battle with Ricoletti reveal the missing
link between Ricoletti's wife and a Music Hall diva,
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"Matilda
Briggs and the Giant Rat of Sumatra"
(1999)
Included in: The Elementary Cases of Sherlock
Holmes (Ian Charnock)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Young
Stamford
Canonical Characters: Stamford; Victor
Trevor; Giant Rat of Sumatra; Sherlock Holmes;
Mycroft Holmes; (Squire Trevor / James
Armitage; Morrison, Morrison and Dodd)
Other Characters: Laxman Shiva; Dr Roberto H.
Sinnotti; Piero Cresczi; Calcutta Police; Owain Bress;
Captain of the Matilda Briggs; Morrison,
Morrison & Dodd Representative; Crew of the Matilda
Briggs; Dodd's Son; Pearl Fishers;
Trincomalee Harbormaster's Staff; Tea Buyer;
Messenger; Singapore Police; (Esperanza
Deckhands; Esperanza Crew; Bruce Duggan;
Vernon Maclure; Doctors; Li Xian Kyuong)
Date: 1880-1881
Locations:
India; Pilibhit; The English Club; The Terai;
Trevor's Plantation; Sumatra; Bay of Bengal;
Calcutta; Aboard the Matilda Briggs;
Ceylon; Trincomalee; Diogenes Club
Story: Stamford, using the alias Surgeon
Stewart, meets Trevor in a club in India, and is
invited to his plantation. Trevor shows him
documents relating to the case of the Giant rat of
Sumatra.
After the Esperanza is washed asore in
Sumatra in a storm, Dr Sinnotti, who specialises in
rats, disappears into the interior in search of
specimens that have escaped from the ship. Trevor
later buys the ship and changes its name to Matilda
Briggs, and in July of 1881 the ship is discovered
sailing at full steam, but with no one on board.
Investigations reveal the ship to have been overrun
with rats. Investigations aboard reveal a ratking.
Trevor invites Holmes to investigate. He
later receives a letter from Holmes telling him of a
threat to the British Government .
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"Mrs
Farintosh and an Opal Tiara" (1999)
Included in: The Elementary Cases of Sherlock
Holmes (Ian Charnock)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Young
Stamford
Canonical Characters: Stamford; Sherlock
Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; Wainwright; (Dr
Watson; Ricoletti; Percy Phelps; Mrs Farintosh)
Historical Figures: (Sidney
Paget; Walter Paget; Arthur Conan Doyle; Queen
Victoria; Eleanor of Castile; Edward I; El Cid;
Dona Ximena; The Pope)
Other Characters: Crossy Stamford; Post
Office Messenger; Fleckingham Arms Landlord;
Fleckingham Arms Customers; Mr Myrland; Mr Reyde;
Fleckingham's Retainer; Lord Fleckingham; Mr Fomalhaut; Lady
Katharine (or Eleanor) Fleckingham; Harold
Fleckingham; Isabella Eleanor Plantagenet
Fleckingham; Niccolo da Boninsegna, Count of
Noto-Palma; Count's Retainer; (Sam
Belcher; Mrs Farintosh's Sister; Alured
Fleckingham; Henry Fleckingham; Police; Hungarian
Knight; Stamford's Father; Wainwright's Gang;
Tuscan Goldsmiths; Matilda Plantagenet; Ruling
Council Member; Matilda's Husband)
Date: End of May, 1880
Locations: Stamford's Home; Montague Street;
Suffolk; Woodham Hoo; Fleckingham Arms; Fleckingham
Hall
Story: Holmes calls on Stamford's sister
when Mrs Farintosh, servant to Isabella
Fleckingham, consults him. She has been let go from
her position, followed, and her sewing box has been
stolen. Miss Stamford is to be bridesmaid at the
wedding of Isabella and the Count of Noto-Palma. He
travels to the Fleckingham estate in Suffolk, where he
learns from Lestrade that Mrs Farintosh has been
accused of stealing an opal tiara that once belonged
to Eleanor of Castile, from whom Lady Fleckingham is
descended. Holmes faces an art forger and uncovers the
truth, but it is down to the Count to return the
tiara.
NOTE: Lady Katharine (or Eleanor)
claims descent from the third daughter of Eleanor of
Castile. It is not clear which of Eleanor's daughters
this refers to, as her third, Joanna, died before she
was a year old. As her first was stillborn, her third
living daughter was Eleanor (1269-1298). The third of
her daughters to survive into adulthood was Margaret
of Brabant (1275-?).
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"The
Record of the Tarleton Murders" (1999)
Included in: The Elementary Cases of Sherlock
Holmes (Ian Charnock)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Young Stamford
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Stamford; (Inspector Lestrade)
Other Characters: Mrs Parsons; Major Hicks;
Hodgson; The Hon. Thomas Wriggleton; Count Constantine
Bellaysarius; Constable; Maid; Unhired Domestics;
Hiring Fair Head Man; Madame Yalta; The Great Alcalde;
Alexander Knox Pennington; Police; (The Hon. Clive
Melvin Moreton-Ashbee; Mayan War Party)
Locations: Bart's; Train; Chipping Oversomer,
Oxfordshire; Police Station; Sibberton Hall;
Sheepstown-by-Stower; (Yucatan)
Story: Holmes shows Stamford the dead body of
a woman and a news item on the death of
Moreton-Ashbee. Travelling to the dead man's home,
Holmes tells Stamford of his acquaintance with
Moreton-Ashbee and his friends, members of the
Festival Hams, an Oxford dining society dedicated to
demeaning its guests. They visit the coroner and
attend the funeral where Stamford encounters the other
Hams, Wriggleton & Bellaysarius. As they are
leaving, Wriggleton's sister brings news that her
brother is dead. Returning to the house, Holmes learns
that the dead man was found in a room identical to
that in which the previous death occurred, and sharing
a common chimney flue with it. Holmes finds a
cigarette end that he does not recognise. His
investigations lead him to a hiring fair looking for a
man of South American origins. They learn the
connection between the deaths in England and an
expedition to the Yucatan, and Holmes is introduced to
cocaine. He and Stamford rush back to the Hall to
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"The
Singular Affair of the Aluminium Crutch" (1999)
Included in: The Elementary Cases of Sherlock
Holmes (Ian Charnock)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Holmes
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Inspector Lestrade
Other Characters: Delicia Ogilvy; Mary Ogilvy;
Miss Slocombe; Tewson & Billings Head Clerk;
Jarvey; Police Sergeant; (Algernon Berry;
Detective; Mrs Berry)
Locations: Montague Street; 34, Percy Terrace,
Shepherd's Bush; Tewson & Billings' Office
Story: Holmes tells Stamford of his first case
after having placed his first newspaper advertisement
calling for clients. Delicia Ogilvy consulted him over
the disappearance of her fiancé, Berry, a crippled
scientist. He vanished in his own house leaving behind
only his crutch. Holmes examines the man's home and
notices a burning smell in the lab and a large amount
of ash in the grate. He also finds burn marks on the
man's crutch, which is surprisingly light even though
it seems to be made of teak. Interviewing the staff he
learns that the cook is Miss Ogilvy's mother. While
pondering the solution, Holmes encounters Lestrade for
the first time, who reveals that Berry's body has been
found in the Thames. Holmes now has to prove to the
police that his client is innocent of murder. His
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Watson's Last Case (2000)
Story Type: Extra-canonical adventures of Dr
Watson narrated by Young Stamford & Mycroft Holmes
Canonical Characters: Young Stamford; Dr
Watson; Mycroft Holmes; Victor Trevor; Squire Trevor;
Trevor's Bull Terrier; Reginald Musgrave; Hudson
(GLOR); Mrs St Clair; (Sherlock Holmes; Von Bork;
Ricoletti; Ricoletti's Wife; The Matilda Briggs;
Old Russian Woman (Olga Pleshkarova);
Vamberry; Watson's Bull Pup; Mary Morstan; Count
Negretto Sylvius; Steve Dixie; Susan; Von Herling;
Beddoes; The Gloria Scott; Head Lama; The
Lion's Mane; Professor Moriarty; Killer Evans;
Neville St Clair; Inspector Lestrade; H. Watson
(Father); H. Watson (Brother); Percy Phelps; Ghazi;
Agatha; Eugenia Ronder; Anna Coram)
Fictional Characters: (Professor
Challenger)
Historical Figures: General Edmund Allenby;
T.E. Lawrence; Arthur Conan Doyle; Sir George
Buchanan; Sergei "Iliodor" Trufanov; Prince Felix
Yusupov; Count Vladimir Fredericks; Tsar Nicholas II;
Tsarevich Alexis; Dr Eugene Botkin; Dr Vladimir
Derevenko; Dr Ostrogorsky; Dr Sergei Fedorova; Dr
Rauchfuss; Alexandra Fedorovna; Rasputin; Grand
Duchess Olga; Grand Duchess Anastasia; Grand Duchess
Tatiana; Grand Duchess Marie; Pierre Gilliard; Sydney
Gibbes; Eugene Kobylinsky; Klementy Nagorny; Alexander
Kerensky; Lewis Carroll; Joseph Conrad; (Edward
VII; George V; Jacob Sverdlov)
Other Characters: Meadows; B-----; H-----;
D-----; James Campbeuil; Arthur Rowbotham; Duchess
Prushnikov; Mrs Rowbotham; Mrs Trevor / Miss Matthews;
Neb; Sherrinford Holmes; Grandfather Mycroft Holmes;
Grandmother (Vernet) Holmes; Sherlock Holmes, Sr; Hans
Rugler; Carel Rugler; Dieter Netzer; Carolyn Foggarty;
Mr Foggarty; M'twali; James Stamford; Andrew Stamford;
Felicity Carolyn Stamford; (Algernon Berry;
Delicia Ogilvy; Dick Renton; Yuri)
Unnamed Characters: Criterion Customers;
Soldiers; Nurses; Devonshire Regiment; RAF Man;
Piccadilly Circus Crowds; Lawrence's Arabs; Camel
Corps; Diogenes Club Porters; Diogenes Club Members;
HMS Torquay Crew; HMS Torquay
Passengers; American Reporter; Ethiopian Eunuch;
Troika Driver; Grand Dukes; Grand Duchesses; Princes;
Buchanan's Guests; Secret Police; Tsarkoe Selo
Cossacks; Foot Soldiers; Tsarkoe Selo Servants; Yar
Customers; Policemen; English Club Steward; Workers;
Peasants; Revolutionary Guards; Sverdlov's Agents;
Railway Workers; Engine Driver; Old Retainer; Perm
Officials; Rowbotham's Children; Interrogator;
Trevor's Sister; Neb's Father; Fortune Teller; Indian
Boy; Oxford Tutors; Ship's Surgeon; Gang of Toughs;
Italian Organ-grinder; Cockney Songstress; Holmes's
Mother; Old Sailor; Stour Cook; Dutch Sailor;
Pompadour Crew; American Sailors; Cormorant
Fishermen; Stamford's Children 187; (War Cabinet
Members; Rolls Royce Enthusiasts; European Royal
Families; Duke; Mycroft's Colleagues; Watson's
Co-driver; Hansom Cabbie; Watson's Mother; Watson's
Aunt; Watson's Uncle; Dressers; Wounded Soldier;
Rich Chinese)
Date: January - November, 1918 / Early 1916 /
1874 / 1878 - 1879 / 1897
Locations: Criterion Bar; Piccadilly Circus;
221B, Baker Street; Pall Mall; Diogenes Club; Doyle's
Office; Montague Street
Egypt; Palestine; Beersheba; Bair; Aboard HMS
Torquay; Russia; Murmansk; St Petersburg;
British Embassy; English Club; Tsarkoe Selo; Alexander
Palace; Yar Restaurant; Perm; Tobolsk; India; The
Terai; Trevor's Plantation; Pilibit; Kerala; Norfolk;
Donnithorpe; Oxford; Holmes's College; St Giles;
France; Afghanistan; North Sea; Aboard the Stour;
Netherlands; Amsterdam; USA; San Francisco; Japan;
Yokohama; Liverpool; West Africa; Guinea; China;
Shanghai; American Club
Story: Stamford recalls his meeting with
Watson in the Criterion Bar, and on Armistice night
encounters him there again. Watson takes him back to
Baker Street, and tells him how Mycroft sent him to
Palestine, with his Rolls Royce, to meet with,
and work alongside Lawrence of Arabia, before he dies.
Stamford takes Watson's final stories to Conan Doyle.
They discover an account of his last case hidden in the
lining of his briefcase.
In 1916, at Sherlock's suggestion, Mycroft sends
Watson to the court of Nicholas II, to assess and
report back on the situation Russia. There, he is
summoned to the bedside of the ailing Tsarevich, where
he encounters Rasputin and pledges to cure the
Tsarevich. Illness and orders from Mycroft lead to him
being present to witness the Revolution, and being
tasked with the rescue of the Romanoffs.
Stamford sheds some light on Holmes's early years.
Victor Trevor tells him of his childhood encounter in
Norfolk with Sherrinford Holmes, and his first
encounter and friendship with Holmes in Oxford. Holmes
decides to give up Biblical scholarship and become a
consulting detective. Stamford's sister, who would
become Mrs Neville St Clair, tells of Holmes's family
background.
Stamford sheds some light on Watson's rugby-playing
youth, and reveals the details of his own youth,
sea-faring days, war service, and his role in Holmes's
addiction to cocaine.
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Simon Cheshire
"The Adventure of the Dented
Computer" (2003)
Included in:
Story Type: Children's Homage
Sherlockian Detectives: Kevin; Weasel Watson
Other Characters: Mrs Womsey; Wayne Banks;
Jonathan "Thug" Robinson; Mega-Maurice; (Sally
Robinson; Sickly O'Sullivan)
Unnamed Characters: Kevin's Mum; Kevin's
Grandad; Students; St Egbert's Irregulars; Thug's Dad;
(Cleaning Lady)
Date: 2000s
Locations: St Egbert's School; Kevin's House;
Thug's House
Story: Kevin is a Sherlock Holmes fan, wears a
deerstalker he found in his grandad's attic, and is
even considering changing his name to Sherlock Holmes.
The students of 7A are bewildered when Thug Robinson
starts handing in pieces of outstanding work across a
whole range of subjects. Kevin recruits Weasel Watson
to help him investigate. After following Thug for
several days, and recruiting the infants as his St
Egbert's Irregulars, Kevin spots Thug talking to
Mega-Maurice, the smartest boy in school. Kevin and
Watson infiltrate Thug's bedroom looking for a
battered computer.
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Lionel Chetwynd
"The Shadow Not Cast" (2011)
Included in: A
Study in Sherlock (Laurie R. King & Leslie
S. Klinger)
Story Type: Homage
Other Characters: Rabbi Eliezar Burman;
Sergeant-Major Robert Jackson; Jackson's Students;
Captain Snow; Zakaria; Captain Eric Turner; Baxter;
Policeman; Gerry Rivers; Freyda Simon; Gorgi Pelachi;
Will Diamond; Sergeant; Bar Patrons; P.K.; P.K.'s
Bodyguards
Date: 21st Century
Locations: USA; Washington D.C.; Synagogue;
Carlisle Barracks; Columbia Heights; Pelachi's
Offices; Diamond's Office; Ninth Street; Jackson's
Home
Story: A rabbi is killed during a burglary.
When FBI agent Hamstein tells Captain Turner of
another related murder, of a financial reporter,
across town, Turner brings in army investigator
Jackson, who brings along his new student, Snow. At
the site of the second murder they find the rabbi's
business card with a list of biblical citations.
NOTE: Aside from the
methods of the investigators there is no Sherlockian
content in this story.
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Lee Child
"The Bone-Headed League" (2011)
Included in: A
Study in Sherlock (Laurie R. King & Leslie
S. Klinger)
Story Type: Homage
Other Characters: FBI Agent; Scotland Yard
Sergeant; Inspector Bradley Rose; Ezekiah Hopkins
Date: February, 21st Century
Locations: Baker Street; Scotland Yard;
British Library; USA; Kansas; Leavenworth Prison
Story: An FBI agent working at the American
Embassy in London is called to the scene of a murder
on Baker Street. The victim appears to have false
papers, and the agent recommends Inspector Rose, the
investigating officer, to read The Red-Headed
League, believing the body to be a decoy.
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Rob Chilson
"Logos: My Tale Is Read" (1991)
Included in: Amazing Stories, #561, August 1991
Story Type: Fantasy Homage
Sherlockian Detective: Sir Stanleigh Storm
Historical Figures: Rob Chilson
Other Characters: Hugh Hesseltine; Maria; (Will
Honeycutt)
Unnamed Characters: Hostess; Villagers; Singing
Boy; Carrier; Hostler's Boy; Father
Locations: Langdon; Wheat and Sickle Pub
Story: Hugh Hesseltine arrives at the Wheat and
Sickle pub in Langdon, where he encounters the
briar-smoking, deerstalker-wearing great detective Sir
Stanleigh Storm. They realise that each, to the
other, is a fictional character from a series of books
by R. Chilson. While they are examining the
strange flowers on the front of the pub, Chilson himself
arrives. The three tool up to face a dire beast.
NOTE: Sir Stanleigh Storm owns a Watson .39
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Mike Chinn
"The Adventure of the Haunted Room" (2017)
Included in: The MX Book of New Sherlock
Holmes Stories Part VII: Eliminate the Impossible
1880-1891 (David Marcum)
Story Type:
Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson
Historical Figures: (William Friese-Green;
John Rudge)
Other Characters: Violet Trecoming;
Gwen Westgate; Grantford Sparks; (Hubert Trecoming)
Unnamed Characters: Cabbie; Cherry Road
Passers-by
Date: Early Spring, 1890
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Camberwell; East
Dulwich; 187, Cherry Road
Story: Mrs Trecoming consults Holmes over an
apparition of a man that has been seen multiple times in
the window of the front room of the home in East Dulwich
that she shares with her sister. Her sister, Gwen, also
claims to have seen it appear in the room itself. That
night, Holmes and Watson visit Cherry Road and witness
the phenomenon for themselves.
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"The Adventure of the
Vanishing Man" (2016)
Included in: The
MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part V:
Christmas Adventures (David Marcum)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Billy
Historical Figures: (Louis Le
Prince)
Other Characters: Jerzy Krakowski;
Mrs Krakowski; Edwin M'Gurk; Connie; Jocelyn Barrington;
Laura Whitside; (Wenman Higgins; Mr Whitside)
Unnamed Characters: Mrs Hudson's
Guests; Trap Driver; Gardener; (Laura's Family;
Higgins's Cook)
Date: 24 - 25 December
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Norfolk; Norwich
Station; Corvin House; North Walsham
Story: Mrs Hudson's Christmas party is
interrupted by the arrival of Edwin M'Gurk, whose
employer, Wenman Higgins has vanished before his eyes
while walking across the lawn of his home in Norfolk.
Information about Higgins's pastimes and finances leads
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"A
Function of Probability" (2015)
Included in: The
Adventures of Moriarty (Maxim Jakubowski)
Story Type: Extra-canonical adventure of
Professor Moriarty
Canonical Characters: Professor Moriarty; (Moriarty
Gang; Colonel Moran; Sherlock Holmes)
Historical Figures: Wilhelm I; (Frederick
III; Otto von Bismarck; Kaiserin Augusta; Wilhelm
II; Andreas Schlüter)
Other Characters: Hawes; Leonard Eastman /
Leofric, Duke of Granat-Östermann and Baron von
Reichschliesser; Herr Eisenerz; Stadtschloss Servants;
Screaming Woman; (Heinrich Sciffersohn; Serb
Servant; Kaiser's Physician)
Date: 1888
Locations: College; Moriarty's Study; Germany;
Unter den Linden; Kaffeehaus; Berliner Stadtschloss
Story: Professor Moriarty is called on
by Leofric, a minor German nobleman, who seeks his help
in assassinating Kaiser Wilhelm. Moriarty travels to
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Sam Christer
The House of Smoke (2016)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by Simeon
Lynch
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes;
Professor James Moriarty; Colonel Sebastian Moran; (Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson)
Historical Figures: Louise Masset;
Patrick Hoolihan; Edward VII: (James
Billington; John Bellingham; Herbert Spencer;
William Warbrick; Sir Matthew White Ridley; Merry
Hampton; The Baron; George Baird; Queen Victoria)
Other Characters: Simeon Lynch / Terry
Perch; Sebastian the Jew; The Scuttlers;
Danny; Fingers; Professor Brogan Moriarty; Tobias
Johncock; Surrey Breed; Sirius Gunn / Thierry De
Breton; Dr Reuss; Lady Elizabeth Audsley / Lizzie
MacIntosh; Michael Brannigan; Alexander Rathbone;
Boardman; Baker; Jane; Bailey; Cornwell; Harrison
Huntley; Ralph; Theodore Levine; The Blinders;
Billy; Henry; Briggs; Father Francis Deagan / Ernest
Braithwaite; Mrs Ellis; Victoria Graftbury; Lady Graftbury;
Lord Graftbury; Giles; Brandon Timms;
Jeremiah Beamish; Charles Arthur Connor; James Arthur
"Jimmy" Connor; Blackson / Bosede Bangura; Miller;
Jonathan J. Clark; Mr Gray; Mr Southgate; Thackeray; Cyril Lynch;
Philomena Lynch; Leadbetter; Reece; Huiwi
Chan; Lee Chan; Wu Chan; PC Thomas J. Jackson; Isaac
Pickering; Wallace; Molly Lynch; Frederick; Inspector
Mather; Lin; Sun Shi; Benjamin Crowther; Christopher
Ellis Ackborne; Willy Watkins; Newgate Warders; Scuttlers'
Women; Moriarty's Servants; Newgate Prisoners;
Prison Orderlies; Asylum Staff; Asylum Inmates;
Bargemen; Moriarty's Kitchen Maid; Newgate Governor;
Prison Chaplain; Workhouse Governors; Workhouse
Boys; Workhouse Inmates; Boxing Crowd; Workhouse
Doctor; Tissington Hall Judge; Matlock Police
Officer; Moriarty's Groom; Photographer;
Undertakers; Workhouse Masters; Workhouse Boys;
Workhouse Matron; Pall-Bearers; Funeral Attendant;
Brannigan's Cousins; Brannigan's Nieces; Peak
District Villagers; Moriarty's Men; Hoolihan's Gang;
Southwark Police; Derby Coachman; Derby Station
Crowds; St Pancras Porters; Albert Road Servants;
Chan's Men; Highway Robbers; Lincoln Whore; Banker;
Gypsy Fortune-teller; Epsom Racegoers; Moriarty's
Business Partners; Trainers; Jockeys; Members of
Parliament; James Moriarty's Chauffeur; Motor Car
Driver; James Moriarty's Coachman; Lee Chan's
Bodyguards; Harley Street Police Officers; Rookery
Inhabitants; Cab Driver; Clerkenwell Police; Prison
Doctor; Baldy; Young Convicts; Warbrick's
Assistants; Execution Crowd; (Old Bailey Judge;
Wilberforce Singleton; Singleton's Butler;
Singleton's Cook; Singleton's Housemaid; Holmes's
Cocaine Supplier; Lady of the Night; French
Mechanic; Tavern Patrons; Alice Armer; Mario;
Moriarty's Mother; Moriarty's Bostonian Friend;
Betsy; Chan; Bertrand de Breton; Graftbury's Cook;
Harvard Businessman; Workhouse Matron; Blackston's
Parents; Tavern Landlord; Drunkards; Mr Potts; Mr
Flanders; Mr Addison; Surrey's Parents; Moriarty's
Father; The Fireman; Bai Chan; Equestrian
Veterinarian; Andrew O'Connell; Elizabeth's
Father; Elizabeth's Maid; Elizabeth's Doctor; P.C.
Cross; Moriarty's American Men; Moriarty's
American Servants; Harley Street Surgeon; Alice's
Madam; Royal Secretary; Sheffield Pawnbroker;
Leeds Jeweller; Home Office Doctor; Coroner's
Officer)
Date: May, 1884 - 19 January, 1900
/ 1875 / 1878
Locations: London; Newgate Gaol; East
End; Workhouse; Southwark; St Pancras Station; Albert
Road; Moriarty's House; Harley Street; Rookery;
Clerkenwell; Police Station; Manchester; A River; A Mill;
Goddard Grange; Derbyshire; Peak District; Dovedale;
Moriarty's House; Tissington Hall; Matlock Bath;
Graveyard; Derby Station; A Train; Milldale; Viator's
Bridge; Birmingham;
Winson Green; All Saints Mental Asylum;
Warwickshire; Graftbury's House; Lincoln; Surrey;
Epsom Station; Epsom Racecourse; Tattenham Corner;
Tavern; Mycroft's House
Story: From his cell in Newgate Gaol,
awaiting his execution, Lynch recounts his life story:
He flees to Manchester after his first murder in 1884,
where he meets Sebastian the Jew and is recruited into
the Scuttlers, a gang of thieves. After working his
way up through the ranks, he is recruited to work for
Professor Brogan Moriarty.
In Newgate, he is visited by Holmes who
attempts to persuade him to turn Queen's evidence
against Moriarty. He also discovers that his life may
be ended before ever he meets the executioner, and
receives a ghostly visitor. An anonymous gift provides
a possible means of escape.
The theft of a tiara is Moriarty's first
test for Lynch, after which he learns that he is
destined to become a member of Moriarty's Trinity. He
tells of his first boxing match and how he joined the
Hooligans, and is shown Moriarty's collection of
skulls. His position in Moriarty's organisation rises
as does the number of deaths he carries out, until his
final arrest.
He learns the truth of his parentage,
and of his saviour.
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Agatha Christie
"The Case of the Missing Lady" (1929)
Included in: Partners in Crime (Agatha
Christie); The
Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery
Queen)
Story Type: Homage
Fictional Characters: Tommy & Tuppence
Beresford
Story: Tommy and Tuppence of Blunt's
Brilliant Detectives emulate Holmes in their attempt
to help Arctic Explorer, Gabriel Stavansson, trace
his missing fiancée, the Honourable Hermione Crane.
When they finally locate her in Maldon, Sussex, the
play is not nearly as foul as they expected.
Note: In each story in
Christie's PARTNERS IN CRIME Tommy & Tuppence
adopt the techniques of a different fictional
detective. The version published in Ellery Queen's
THE MISADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES is a conflation
of chapter 3 "The Affair of the Pink Pearl", and
chapter 9 "The Case of the Missing Lady".
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Anatole Chujoy
"The Adventure of the Turned Worm"
(1955)
Included in: The Baker Street Journal, July
1955
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Other Characters: Band of the Grenadier
Guards; Ticket Seller; Audience; Charles Ghoti;
Charles Fish
Date: August Bank Holiday
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The
Embankment; Embankment Gardens
Story: Holmes and Watson run into Lestrade
at a band concert. He has solved a forgery case and
arrested one of the men involved, but cannot find
his accomplice. He has the man's name, Charles
Ghoti, and his address in an apartment block, but
there are fifty apartments, no one knows the name,
and he cannot get a warrant to search them all.
Watson is able to suggest the name he ought to look
for.
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Dwight Church
"Shylock Combs and the Case of the
Flying Phonograph" (1941)
Included in: Advocate, Volume 52 Number 1,
December 1941
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detectives: Shylock Combs &
Dr Potsam
Other Characters: Peter Q. Piffle; Angus
Flanagan; Patrick McTavish / Looie the Dip
Unnamed Characters: Boarding House
Occupants; Police Officers; (Looie's Mother)
Date:
Locations: Combs's Rooms; Pigs-Knuckle Avenue;
The Sign of the Sour Dishrag Restaurant; Police
Headquarters
Story: Pickle magnate Peter Q. Piffle
consults Combs after an attempt is made on his life
with a phongraph dropped from a great height.
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F.P. Cillié
"The Adventure of the Second Stain"
(1967)
Also published as "The Adventure of the Green
Empress"
Included in: The Further
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Richard
Lancelyn Green)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Dubuque; Fritz von Waldbaum; (Mary
Morstan; Watson's Patient)
Other Characters: A Cabbie; Lord Malton; Lady
Elizabeth Malton; The Duke of Lindford; Major Hugo
Dashwood; Sir Graham Hylton-Smith; Cabman; (Johnson;
James Morgan; Lucy; Beryl; Cathy)
Date: Monday 23rd, July, 1888
Locations: The East End; A Public House; A
Cab; Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street; Another Cab;
Summerdowne
Story: After Holmes makes a series of
deductions about a visitor to Baker Street from his
walking stick, the man himself, Lord Malton the
Secretary for War, arrives and tells of the
disappearance of an emerald, the Green Empress, from
his wife's bedroom. Returning to her room
unexpectedly, Lady Malton discovered her brother,
the Duke of Lindford - known to be in financial
difficulties - standing with her jewelry box in his
hands, the emerald ring gone. A search of his room
failed to turn up the stone. Dubuque & Von
Waldbaum have been hired, but have failed to make
any progress. Examining Lady Elizabeth's room,
Holmes finds a recent inkstain in a drawer, and
points out to Watson the significance of there being
no second stain. A search of the house's refuse bins
yields up an ink-stained handkerchief. After an
interview with Lindford, Holmes calls together
Malton, Dubuque and von Waldbaum, and displays the
stolen emerald, which he then proceeds to smash, and
announces that this is a case not of theft, but of
fraud. The motive for the disappearance of the ring,
he says, is gambling debts, and goes on to tell the
facts of the matter, the significance of the missing
stain, and the dreadful choice Lindford had to make.
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David N. Cisler
"The Problem of the Sussex Scalping"
(2003)
Included in: Curious
Incidents 2 (J.R. Campbell & Charles
Prepolec)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Historical Figures:
Other Characters: Eliza Savegin; Peter
Savegin; Abigail Savegin; Rail Passengers; Roger
Warren; Manservant; Sir Roger Warren; Shepherd, The
Butler; Stableboys; Cabby; 'Skinny' Skolnic; Mrs.
Roberts; Thomas Packard; Charlie; Constable;
Constable Jones; Sergeant Neal
Date: A Monday in Early January, 1891
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; A Train;
Sussex; Lewes; Roger's Carriage; Brantworth Manor;
The White Hart; The Crown Inn; A Dogcart; A Bakery;
A Stable; The Twittens
Story: Holmes learns that a former client,
Eliza Savegin, daughter of Sir Ronald Warren, has
been kidnapped and her husband, Peter, has
disappeared. Eliza's father has received a ransom
note and her cut-off hair. Holmes believes the
husband to have been involved in a similar case
before, and so, likely to be responsible for, rather
than a victim of, the events. Examining the
Savegins' rooms, Holmes discovers a football
schedule, and a visit to a bakery opposite a stable
provides him with further evidence, enabling him to
explain the events behind the disappearance.
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Benjamin S. Clark
"Sunshine, Sunshine" (1960)
Included in: The Baker Street Journal,
Christmas Annual 1960
Story Type: Homage
Canonical Characters: James Phillimore (Edgar
Smith); Merryweather; (Crosby the Banker; Dr
Watson; Sherlock Holmes)
Other Characters: (Mr Graves;
Phillimore's Naive Wife; Phillimore's Children;
Phillimore's Servants)
Date: Ten years after Phillimore's
disappearance
Locations: A Pacific Island; Phillimore's
Beach House; 20, Sloane Square; Sloane Square;
Sloane Square Station
Story: James Phillimore awakes in his beach
house, ten years after his disappearance. He
recalls his job in a bank, the means by which he
effected his disappearance and his reasons for it, and
the way he chose his new name. He receives a surprise
when he settles down to read "Thor Bridge".
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Simon Clark
"The
Adventure of the Falling Star" (1997)
Included in: The Mammoth Book
of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Mike Ashley)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Other Characters: Professor Charles
Hardcastle; Cabbie; Maid; Edward Hardcastle; Dr.
Columbine; Clarkson the Gardener; Police
Locations: A Four-Wheeler; The Strand;
Hampstead; Hardcastle's House
Date: June
Story: Holmes is summoned by an old
acquaintance, Professor Hardcastle, to investigate the
disappearance of a meteorite from a collection in his
locked laboratory. The meteorite reappeared in his
son's bedroom the following day. When Holmes and
Watson arrive at the Professor's home, they find him
raving in the garden clutching some sprigs of thyme,
amongst which he has found another of his meteorites,
again in his son's bedroom. He suggests that the thyme
links the disappearances to an old colleague, Dr.
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"The Case of the Wrong-Wise Boots"
(2017)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes's
School for Detection (Simon Clark)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; (Inspector Lestrade)
Other Characters: Miss Charlton; Mr Garret; Mr
Paswan; Charles Keppel / Major Robin Fox-Warren;
Joplin; Mrs Keppel; Mrs Jacob; Thomas Rawcliff;
John Lavelle;
Gwyneth Fox-Warren; Gwyneth's Daughter; Railway
Engineer's Wife; Mrs Keppel's Servants; Mrs
Keppel's Maids; London Constables; North Reiff Constables;
Station Porter; Lavelle's Gang; (Man in Dover;
Fifteen-year-old Bootboy; Bootboy's Mother;
Falmouth Poisoner; Sir Benjamin Keppel; Physician;
Jeremiah Poole; Rawcliff's Father; Rawcliff's
Grandfather; Fox-Warren's Landlord; Gwyneth's
Friend; Sailors; Shopkeepers; Ship's Captain;
Captain's Wife; Stationmaster)
Date: November
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; 9, Juniper
Terrace; A Train; Scotland; North Reiff; Bothy Road;
Harbour View; Chapel Cottage; Police Station
Story: After setting six of his
students investigative tasks, Holmes invites them to
stay to listen to the story of his latest client,
Keppel, who tells them that he has recently discovered
himself in a strange street, wearing strange clothes,
in front of a house which he recognised as his own,
even though he has no recollection of ever living
there. On making enquiries at the house he was told
that he has been dead for two years. As the case
proceeds, Keppel faces a charge of murder. Holmes
sends his students ahead of him to Scotland where they
encounter a pair of boots filled with flower petals.
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"The Climbing Man" (2015)
Included in: The
Mammoth Book of Sherlock Holmes Abroad (Simon
Clark)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Other Characters: Grey Guards; Dhow Helmsman;
Sarim; Edward Priestly; Compound Sentry; Mousaf;
Professor Hendrik; Eden Hendrik; Native Workers;
Tribesmen; Benjamin Gordon Priestly; (Bandits;
Harold Priestly; Prudence Hendrik; Captain Grey)
Locations: Mesopotamia; Euphrates River;
Priestly's Camp; Tirrash
Story: Holmes and Watson come under
fire while in Mesopotamia on the trail of a European
gang of plunderers of ancient sites. Holmes is wounded,
and when the dhow transporting them down the Euphrates
runs aground, they encounter Edward Priestly, an
archaeologist. He tells them how he has found the dead
body of his brother, missing for four years, inside a
sealed underground chamber that has not have been opened
in three thousand years. They soon realise that they are
in their enemies' camp, but Holmes is determined to
solve the mystery. He must make his deductions with only
two small-viewing holes cut into the chamber walls, and
under the threat of earth tremors. |
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"Holmes
Receives a Most Intriguing Proposal" (2017)
Included in: Sherlock
Holmes's School for Detection (Simon Clark)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; (Mrs Hudson)
Other Characters: Baker Street Pedestrians; (Burglar;
Undertaker's Assistant)
Date: Autumn, 1890
Locations: Baker Street; 221B, Baker Street
Story: Returning home after a tussle
with a burglar, Holmes and Watson find Lestrade waiting
for them. Holmes deduces that Lestrade has been engaged
in a case involving an undertaker. Lestrade asks Holmes
to mentor students in detection at the newly established
Imperial Academy of Detective Enquiry and Forensic
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"Nightmare
in Wax" (2003)
Included in: Shadows Over Baker
Street (Michael Reaves & John Pelan)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche narrated by
Moriarty, Holmes & Watson
Canonical Characters: Dr. Watson; Professor
Moriarty; Victor Hatherley; Sherlock Holmes
Other Characters: Watson's Visitors; Dr.
Cowley; Village Creatures; Navvies; Soldiers;
(Father Solomon Buchanan)
Locations: Watson's House; A Train; Burnston
Date: 1915 & November 1st, 1903
Story: Three high-ranking government officials
bring Watson a phonograph cylinder on which Moriarty
has recorded an account of his attempt to use the Necronomicon
to become all-powerful. He is journeying by train to
the location of a lost village, Burnston, which had
been drowned beneath the North Sea and which he has
hired a company of hydraulic engineers to recover. The
navvies have discovered living creatures in the
village which have, according to Hatherley, who has
stopped the train to inform Moriarty of events,
started attacking them. |
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"Sherlock Holmes and the Diving
Bell" (2011)
Included in: Gaslight Arcanum
(J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson
Other Characters: Tugboat Captain; Captain
Smeaton; Fitzwilliam Crew; Jessup; Katrina
Barstow; Claudine Millwood; George Barstow; (Winch-Man;
Edith's Father; Edith)
Date: 1904
Locations: Cornwall; Fowey; Tugboat; Aboard
the Fitzwilliam
Story: Holmes summons Watson to Fowey,
from where he takes him out to the location of a sunken
diving bell. Five years earlier, Barstow had been lost
when the submarine chamber Pollux had become
snagged on the wreck that the crew of the salvage vessel
Fitzwilliam were trying to recover silver
bullion from. The Fitzwilliam has returned to
attempt to salvage the diving bell. The diving bell Castor
has returned from its search with both its crewmembers
dead, and noises resembling a voice have been heard over
the communication cable from the Pollux.
Holmes and Watson descend in the Castor to
uncover the truth. |
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Logan Clendening, M.D.
"The Case of the Missing Patriarchs"
(1934)
Included in: The Misadventures
Of Sherlock Holmes (Ellery Queen); Profile By
Gaslight (Edgar W. Smith); The Big Book of
Sherlock Holmes Stories (Otto Penzler)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Historical / Fictional Characters: Adam;
Eve; Jehovah
Story: Dead and in Heaven, Holmes is called
upon by Jehovah to locate the missing Adam and Eve.
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Elka
Cloke
"The
Adventure of the Poesy Ring" (2011)
Included In: A Study in
Lavender (Joseph R.G. DeMarco)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Mrs Hudson; Baker Street Irregulars;
Inspector Lestrade; (Dr Verner)
Other Characters: Frederick Croft; Russell
Carter; Bathhouse Attendant; Bathhouse Patrons;
Clay's Servant Girl; Walter Clay; (Captain
Elliot Clay; Doctor)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street;
Knightsbridge; Jermyn Street; Turkish Baths; Rye;
Clay's House
Story: Croft asks Holmes to locate a
missing opal ring which belonged to his late partner
Captain Elliot Clay and disappeared from his hand on
the night of his death. A visit to the Turkish baths
reveals the ring's location, but a visit to Clay's
house in Rye is needed to reveal the truth about his
death. Watson makes moves to bring a change to his
relationship with Holmes.
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J.
Storer Clouston
"The
Truthful Lady" (1920)
Included In: I Believe in
Sherlock Holmes (Douglas G. Greene); Sherlock Holmes
Jazz Age Parodies and Pastiches I: 1920-1924
(Bill Peschel)
Story Type: Parody
Canonical Characters: Dr Watson; (Sherlock
Holmes)
Other Characters: Narrator; F.T. Carrington;
Carrington's Companion; (Lord Algernon
Fitzpatrick; Duke of Munster; 1st Duke of Munster;
Lady Diana Mountfalcon)
Locations: Carrington's Office
Story: Carrington tells the story
of how he was once consulted by Dr Watson.
Watson has been consulted by Lord Algernon
Fitzpatrick whose late father's will, leaving
everything to him, has gone missing. Only an earlier
will, leaving everything to his sister, remains. The
pink bon-bons that Watson is sucking prove vital in
leading Carrington to a solution.
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John
Clunk
"The
Strange Case of Cornelius Candlewick III" (1940)
Included In: The Old Line (University of
Maryland), Volume 10 Number 3 (December 1940)
Story Type: Parody
Sherlockian Detective: Hotshot H. Holms
Other Characters: Peeves; Cornelius
Candlestick II; Cornelius Candlestick III
Unnamed Characters: Co-ed
Date: November
Locations: USA; Baltimore; Maryland; Holms's
Rooms; University of Maryland
Story: Hotshot Holms, a sophomore at the
College of Agronomy resolves to become a campus leader.
Cornelius Candlestick II summons him for help when his
son, Cornelius Candlestick III, fails to achieve
straight As. Holms follows Cornelius around the
University making note of his activities.
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