The Sherlockian Universe

I was interested in creating a list of every Sherlock Holmes-linked story, every book or story or play that takes place in the literary world of Sherlock Holmes, and I assumed I would just search on the internet and find a “definitive” list I could reference. But even Wikipedia falls short in some areas, as do many of the Holmesian fanpages. I find it a bit baffling to be honest. Anyway, so I find myself cobbling a list together from multiple sources and I started grouping them into three buckets:

a. Stories primarily focused on Holmes;

b. Stories based on characters that appeared in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories and novels; and,

c. Derivative works with special characters added to the universe, with or without interactions with Holmes himself.

This is still a huge work in progress, I haven’t even finished editing some of the research I copied from other sources into proper lists yet. If you see anything missing, feel free to add suggestions in the comments!

A. Stories about Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Shortstory Collections

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
His Last Bow
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Novels

A Study in Scarlet
The Sign of the Four
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Valley of Fear

Andrew Lane (Young Sherlock Holmes)

Death Cloud (2010)
Red Leech (2010)
Black Ice (2011)
Fire Storm (2011)
Snake Bite (2012)
Knife Edge (2013)
Stone Cold (2014)
Night Break (2015)

Shane Peacock (The Boy Sherlock Holmes)

Eye of the Crow (2007)
Death in the Air (2008)
Vanishing Girl (2010)
Secret Fiend (2010)
The Dragon Turn (2011)
Becoming Holmes (2012)

Val Andrews

Sherlock Holmes and the Charlie Chaplin Mystery (1990)
Sherlock Holmes and the Eminent Thespian (1988)
Sherlock Holmes and the Brighton Pavilion Mystery (1989)
Sherlock Holmes and the Egyptian Hall Adventure (1993)
Sherlock Holmes and the Houdini Birthright (1995)
Sherlock Holmes and the Yule-tide Mystery (1996)
Sherlock Holmes and the Man Who Lost Himself (1996)
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Dozen (1997)
Sherlock Holmes and the Circus of Fear (1997)
Sherlock Holmes and the Greyfriars School Mystery (1997)
Sherlock Holmes and the Theatre of Death (1997)
Sherlock Holmes and the Sandringham House Mystery (1998)
Sherlock Holmes and the Tomb of Terror (1999)
Sherlock Holmes on the Western Front (1999)
Sherlock Holmes at the Varieties (1999)
The Torment of Sherlock Holmes (1999)
Sherlock Holmes and the Long Acre Vampire (2000)
Sherlock Holmes and the Holborn Emporium (2001)
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Seven (2001)
The Ghost of Baker Street (2006)
The Prince of Ventriloquists: Another Case for Sherlock Holmes (2006)

Loren D. Estleman

Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula; or, The Adventures of the Sanguinary Count (1978)
Dr Jekyll and Mr Holmes (1979)
The Perils of Sherlock Holmes (2012)

Lyndsay Faye

Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson (2009)
The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes (2017)

Anthony Horowitz

The House of Silk (2011)
Moriarty (2014)

Laurie R. King (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes)

  1. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice (1994)
  2. A Monstrous Regiment of Women (1995)
  3. A Letter of Mary (1997)
  4. The Moor (1998)
  5. O Jerusalem (1999)
  6. Justice Hall (2002)
  7. The Game (2004)
  8. Locked Rooms (2005)
  9. The Language of Bees (2009)
  10. The God of the Hive (2010)
  11. Beekeeping for Beginners (2011)
  12. Pirate King (2011)
  13. Garment of Shadows (2012)
  14. Dreaming Spies (2015)
  15. The Murder of Mary Russell (2016)
  16. Mary Russell’s War        (2016)
  17. Island of the Mad        (2018)        
  18. Riviera Gold        (2020)
  19. Castle Shade        (2021)

James Lovegrove (The Cthulhu Casebooks)

  1. Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (2016)
  2. Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities (2017)
  3. Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils (2018)

Bonnie MacBird

  1. Art in the Blood, A Sherlock Holmes Adventure (2015)
  2. Unquiet Spirits, A Sherlock Holmes Adventure (2017)
  3. The Devil’s Due, A Sherlock Holmes Adventure (2019)
  4. The Three Locks, A Sherlock Holmes Adventure ( 2021)
  5. What Child is This?        (2022)

George Mann

  1. Sherlock Holmes: The Will of the Dead (2013)
  2. Sherlock Holmes: The Spirit Box (2014)
  3. Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (as editor, 2013)
  4. Further Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (as editor, 2014)

Larry Millett

  1. Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon (1996)
  2. Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders (1998)
  3. Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery (1999)
  4. Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Alliance (2001)
  5. The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes (2002)
  6. The Mystery of the Jeweled Cross (2002)
  7. The Magic Bullet: A Locked Room Mystery Featuring

Nicholas Meyer

  1. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1974)
  2. The West End Horror (1976)
  3. The Canary Trainer (1993)
  4. The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols (2019)
  5. The Return of the Pharaoh (2021)

Barrie Roberts

  1. Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac (1994)
  2. Sherlock Holmes and the Devil’s Grail (1995)
  3. Sherlock Holmes and the Man from Hell (1997)
  4. Sherlock Holmes and the Royal Flush (1998)
  5. Sherlock Holmes and the Harvest Of Death (1999)
  6. Sherlock Holmes and the Crosby Murder (2001)
  7. Sherlock Holmes and the Rule of Nine (2003)
  8. Sherlock Holmes and the King’s Governess (2005)
  9. Sherlock Holmes and the American Angels (2007)
  10. The Disappearance of Daniel Question (2000)
  11. The Abbus Parva Tragedy: The Mystery of the Christmas Pie (2001)
  12. The Affair of the Christmas Jewel (2002)
  13. The Affair of the Christmas Candle (2003)
  14. The Mystery of the Addleton Curse

Emma Jane Holloway (The Baskerville Affair Series)

  1. A Study In Silks (2013)
  2. A Study In Darkness (2013)
  3. A Study In Ashes (2013)

Charles Veley and Anna Elliott (Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James)

  1. The Last Moriarty        (2014)
  2. The Wilhelm Conspiracy        (2016)
  3. Remember, Remember        (2017)
  4. The Crown Jewel Mystery        (2017)
  5. The Jubilee Problem        (2017)
  6. Death at the Diogenes Club        (2017)
  7. Flynn’s Christmas        (2018)
  8. The Return of the Ripper        (2019)
  9. Die Again, Mr. Holmes        (2019)
  10. The Clown on the High Wire        (2019)
  11. The Cobra in the Monkey Cage        (2019)
  12. A Fancy-Dress Death        (2019)
  13. The Sons of Helios        (2019)
  14. The Vanishing Medium        (2019)
  15. Christmas at Baskerville Hall        (2019)
  16. The Collected Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Short Stories        (2020)
  17. Watson on the Orient Express        (2020)
  18. Kidnapped at the Tower        (2020)
  19. Five Pink Ladies        (2020)
  20. The Solitary Witness        (2020)
  21. The Body in the Bookseller’s        (2020)
  22. The Curse of Cleopatra’s Needle        (2020)
  23. The Coded Blue Envelope        (2020)
  24. Christmas on the Nile        (2020)
  25. The Missing Mariner        (2021)
  26. Powder Island        (2021)
  27. Murder at the Royal Observatory        (2021)
  28. The Bloomsbury Guru        (2021)
  29. Holmes takes a Holiday        (2021)
  30. Holmes Picks a Winner        (2021)
  31. Galahad’s Castle        (2022)

The Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes

  1. The Adventure of the Peerless Peer        (1974)
  2. War of the Worlds        (1975)
  3. The Giant Rat of Sumatra        (1976)
  4. Sherlock vs Dracula        (1978)
  5. The Stalwart Companions        (1978)
  6. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes        (1979)
  7. The Ectoplasmic Man        (1985)
  8. The Whitechapel Horrors        (1992)
  9. The Seventh Bullet        (1992)
  10. Seance for a Vampire        (1994)
  11. The Angel of the Opera        (1994)
  12. The Titanic Tragedy        (1996)
  13. The Star of India        (1998)
  14. The Scroll of the Dead        (1998)
  15. The Man from Hell        (2000)
  16. The Haunting of Torre Abbey        (2000)
  17. The Veiled Detective        (2004)
  18. The Web Weaver        (2012)
  19. The Grimswell Curse        (2013)
  20. The Devil’s Promise        (2014)
  21. The Albino’s Treasure        (2015)
  22. The White Worm        (2016)
  23. The Ripper Legacy        (2016)
  24. Murder at Sorrow’s Crown        (2016)
  25. The Counterfeit Detective        (2016)
  26. The Moonstone’s Curse        (2017)
  27. The Improbable Prisoner        (2018)
  28. The Devil and the Four        (2018)
  29. The Instrument of Death        (2019)
  30. The Martian Menace        (2020)
  31. The Venerable Tiger        (2020)
  32. The Crusader’s Curse        (2020)

Shadwell Rafferty / Sherlock Holmes

  1. Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon        (1996)
  2. Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders        (1998)
  3. Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery        (1999)
  4. Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Alliance        (2001)
  5. The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes        (2002)
  6. The Magic Bullet        (2011)
  7. Strongwood        (2014)
  8. Sherlock Holmes and the Eisendorf Enigma        (2017)
  9. Rafferty’s Last Case        (2022)

Hugh Ashton

  1. Tales from the Deed Box of John H. Watson MD (2012)
  2. More from the Deed Box of John H. Watson MD (2012)
  3. Secrets from the Deed Box of John H. Watson MD (2012)
  4. The Darlington Substitution (2012)
  5. Notes from the Dispatch-Box of John H. Watson MD (2013)
  6. Further Notes from the Dispatch-Box of John H. Watson MD (2013)
  7. Without My Boswell (2014)

Carole Nelson Douglas (Irene Adler series)

  1. Good Night, Mr Holmes (1990)
  2. Good Morning, Irene (reissued as The Adventuress) (1991)
  3. Irene at Large (reissued as A Soul of Steel) (1992)
  4. “Parris Greene” (1992), printed in Malice Domestic 2, Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, Third Annual Edition, First Cases, Vol. 2
  5. Irene’s Last Waltz (reissued as Another Scandal in Bohemia) (1994)
  6. “Dracula on the Rocks” (1995), printed in Celebrity Vampires
  7. “The Thief of Twelfth Night” (1996), printed in Holmes for the Holidays
  8. “Mesmerizing Bertie” (1998), printed in Crime Through Time II
  9. “A Baker Street Irregular” (1998), printed in Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives
  10. Chapel Noir (2001)
  11. Castle Rouge (2002)
  12. Femme Fatal (2003)
  13. Spider Dance (2004)
  14. “The Private Wife of Sherlock Holmes” (2009), printed in Sex, Lies, and Private Eyes

Nancy Springer (The Enola Holmes Mysteries)

  1. The Case of the Missing Marquess (2006)
  2. The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (2007)
  3. The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets (2008)
  4. The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan (2008)
  5. The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline (2009)
  6. The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye (2010)
  7. Enola Holmes and the Boy in Buttons        (2021)
  8. Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche        (2021)
  9. Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade        (2022)

Tracy Mack (The Baker Street Irregulars)

  1. The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas (2006)
  2. The Mystery of The Conjured Man (2008)
  3. In Search of Watson (2009)
  4. The Final meeting (2010)

G.S. Denning (Warlock Holmes)

  1. “A Study in Brimstone”
  2. “The Hell-Hound of the Baskervilles”
  3. “My Grave Ritual”
  4. “The Sign of Nine”
  5. “The Finality Problem”

Vicki Delany (Sherlock Holmes Bookstore Mystery)

  1. Elementary, She Read        (2017)
  2. Body on Baker Street        (2017)
  3. The Cat of the Baskervilles        (2018)        
  4. A Scandal in Scarlet        (2018)        
  5. There’s a Murder Afoot        (2020)        
  6. A Curious Incident        (2021)        
  7. A Three Book Problem        (2022)        
  8. The Game is a Footnote        (2023)        

Michael Robertson (Baker Street Letters)

  1. The Baker Street Letters        (2009)
  2. The Brothers of Baker Street        (2011)
  3. The Baker Street Translation        (2013)
  4. Moriarty Returns a Letter        (2014)
  5. The Baker Street Jurors        (2016)
  6. The Barrister’s Clerk        (2018)
  7. A Baker Street Wedding        (2018)

Charlotte Holmes

  1. A Study in Charlotte        (2016)
  2. The Last of August        (2017)
  3. The Case for Jamie        (2018)
  4. A Question of Holmes        (2019)

Barry S. Brown (Mrs. Hudson Of Baker Street)

  1. The Unpleasantness at Parkerton Manor        (2010)
  2. Mrs. Hudson and the Irish Invincibles        (2011)
  3. Mrs. Hudson in the Ring        (2013)
  4. Mrs. Hudson in New York        (2015)
  5. Mrs Hudson’s Olympic Triumph        (2017)
  6. Mrs. Hudson Takes The Stage        (2020)
  7. Mrs. Hudson and the Wild West        (2022)

M.J. Trow (Inspector Lestrade)

  1. The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade        (1985)
  2. The Supreme Adventure of Inspector Lestrade        (1985)
  3. Brigade        (1986)
  4. Lestrade and the Hallowed House        (1987)
  5. Lestrade and the Leviathan        (1987)
  6. Lestrade and the Brother of Death / Lestrade and the Brigade        (1988)
  7. Lestrade and the Ripper        (1988)
  8. Lestrade and the Deadly Game        (1990)
  9. Lestrade and the Guardian Angel        (1990)
  10. Lestrade and the Gift of the Prince        (1991)
  11. Lestrade and the Magpie        (1991)
  12. Lestrade and the Dead Man’s Hand        (1992)
  13. Lestrade and the Sign of Nine        (1992)
  14. Lestrade and the Sawdust Ring        (1993)
  15. Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder        (1993)
  16. Lestrade and the Kiss of Horus        (1995)
  17. Lestrade and the Devil’s Own        (1996)
  18. Lestrade and the Giant Rat of Sumatra        (2014)
  19. The World of Inspector Lestrade        (2019)

Other Authors

  1. Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God (2011) by Guy Adams
  2. Sherlock Holmes: The Army of Dr Moreau (2012) by Guy Adams
  3. The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (anthology), edited by Mike Ashley (1997)
  4. Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space (anthology), edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G Waugh (1986)
  5. Repercussions, by Dwight Baldwin and J.M. DeSantis (2009)
  6. Conned Again, Watson!: Cautionary Tales of Logic, Maths and Probability, by Colin Bruce (2001)
  7. The Strange Case of Mrs Hudson’s Cat, by Colin Bruce (1997)
  8. The Italian Secretary, by Caleb Carr (2005)
  9. The Final Solution, by Michael Chabon (2004)
  10. The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr (1954)
  11. Sherlock Holmes and the Heir of Albion, by Ronan Coghlan (2007)
  12. Lillian Holmes and the Leaping Man, by Ciar Cullen (2013)
  13. A Slight Trick of the Mind, by Mitch Cullin (2005)
  14. The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, by Michael Dibdin (1978)
  15. Time for Sherlock Holmes, by David Dvorkin (1983)
  16. “The Adventure of the Laughing Jarvey”, by Stephen Fry (1992)
  17. “A Study in Emerald”, by Neil Gaiman
  18. Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell, by Paul Kane (2016)
  19. “The Doctor’s Case”, by Stephen King (1993)
  20. Murder in the Vatican: The Church Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes, by Ann Margaret Lewis (2010)
  21. El problema de la pequeña cliente, by Alberto López Aroca (2004)
  22. Elemental, querido Chaplin, by Rafael Marín (2005)
  23. The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes, by Jamyang Norbu (1999)
  24. The Curse of the Nibelung: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, by Sam North (2005)
  25. Tales of the Great Detectives (anthology), edited by Philip Purser-Hallard, (2014)
  26. Shadows Over Baker Street (anthology), edited by Michael Reaves and John Pelan (2003)
  27. Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography, by Nick Rennison (2006)
  28. The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes, by Raymond Smullyan (1979)
  29. O Xangô de Baker Street, by Jô Soares (1995)
  30. Ten Years Beyond Baker Street, by Cay Van Ash (1984)
  31. The Last Moriarty, by Charles Veley (2014)
  32. Sherlock Holmes’s War of the Worlds, by Manly Wade Wellman and Wade Wellman (1975)

A[edit]

  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse: Mycroft Holmes (2015), Mycroft and Sherlock (2018), Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage (2019)
  • Guy Adams: Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God (2011), and Sherlock Holmes: The Army of Dr Moreau (2012)
  • Boris Akunin: Jade Rosary Beads (2006 crossover with Erast Fandorin)
  • Poul Anderson: Time Patrol (1955), where the main character meets Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson during time travels.
  • Val Andrews: Famous music-hall artist, he authored about a dozen new Holmes stories (1988-2006), most of them with a magic/music-hall background.[1]
  • Hugh Ashton: Tales from the Deed Box of John H. Watson M.D. (2012), More from the Deed Box of John H. Watson M.D., Notes from the Dispatch-Box of John H. Watson M.D., Further Notes from the Dispatch-Box of John H. Watson M.D., The Darlington Substitution (novel), The Reigate Poisoning Case: Concluded, The Death of Cardinal Tosca (novel), Without My Boswell, 1894, Some Singular Cases of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, The Lichfield Murder, The Bloody Steps (short stories). Ebook-only short stories: “The Case of the Trepoff Murder”, “The Bradfield Push”, “The Adventure of Vanaprastha”. All published by: j-views Publishing.

B[edit]

  • John Kendrick Bangs: R. Holmes & Co.: Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth (1906), illus. Sydney Adamnson; New York and London: Haper & Brothers
  • David Barnett: “Woman’s Work”, a short story in Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (2013)[2]
  • Stephen Baxter: “The Adventure of the Intertial Adjustor” (Holmes and Watson meet H.G. Wells) in The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (1997)
  • Pierre Bayard: Sherlock Holmes was wrong: reopening the case of the Hound of the Baskervilles (2007)
  • Peter S. Beagle: “Mr. Sigerson” in Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years (2004)[3]
  • Sam Benady: Sherlock Holmes in Gibraltar – the true Solution to the Mystery of Mary Celeste and the singular affair of the Duke of Connaught (1990), contains three short stories
  • Lloyd Biggle: The Quallsford Inheritance: A Memoir of Sherlock Holmes from the Papers of Edward Porter Jones, His Late Assistant (1986)[4]
  • Leigh Blackmore : “Exalted Are the Forces of Darkness” in Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes, 2009: “The Arcana of Death”. Strange Detective Stories 4 (2014); “The Adventure of the Metaphysics of Madness”. Mantichore 10 (Apr 2015).
  • Anthony Boucher: The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars NY Simon & Schuster (1940)
  • Rhys Bowen: “The Case of the Lugubrious Manservant” in Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years (2004)[3]
  • Rick Boyer: The Giant Rat of Sumatra (1976)
  • Eric Brown: “The Tragic Affair of the Martian Ambassador”, a short story in Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (2013)[2]
  • Anthony Burgess: “Murder to Music”, a short story in The Devil’s Mode (1989)

C[edit]

D[edit]

  • Adrian Conan Doyle (Doyle’s son, and former holder of his estate)- collaborations with John Dickson Carr (c.f.) The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (1954)
  • Jean Dutourd: Les Mémoires de Mary Watson (1980)- the meeting of Dr Watson with his future wife, Mary Morstan, during Holmes’ investigation of the death of Morstan’s father

E, F[edit]

G[edit]

  • Neil Gaiman: “A Study in Emerald” in the multi-author collection Shadows Over Baker Street. Won the 2004 Hugo for Best Short Story. Also “The Case of Death and Honey” in the collection A Study in Sherlock.
  • Arnould Galopin: “Herlockoms” (another avatar of Sherlock Holmes in French literature) crossover with Allan Dickson, the Australian detective, in “La ténébreuse affaire de Green Park” (1910) and “L’homme au complet gris” (1931) – another Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper story
  • Juan García Rodenas: Two short stories in Spanish, “La guerra del Doctor Watson” (Doctor Watson’s War), about Watson’s campaign in Afghanistan, and “La Aventura del Magnicidio Resuelto” (The Adventure of the Solved Assassination), about young Holmes and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; both in Antes de Baker Street, Academia de Mitología Creativa Jules Verne de Albacete, 2008.[10]
  • David Gerrold: short story “The Fan Who Molded Himself”[11]
  • Theodora Goss: The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter (2017 novel)
  • Denis Green (& Anthony Boucher): scripts and short stories for the American broadcast show The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939–1946)

H[edit]

  • Edward D. Hoch: “The Adventure of Vittoria the Circus Belle” in The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (1997)
  • Mark Hodder: “The Loss of Chapter Twenty-One”, a short story in Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (2013)[2]
  • Anthony Horowitz: The House of Silk, Little Brown and Company (2011)

I, J, K[edit]

  • Enrique Jardiel Poncela: Novísimas aventuras de Sherlock Holmes (Spanish Very new adventures of Sherlock Holmes), seven short parodic stories originally published in magazines in 1928 and several times published in book form.
  • Stephen King: “The Doctor’s Case” (1987), in which Watson solves a case before Holmes.
  • John R. King: The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls (2008)
  • Laurie R. King: The Mary Russell series of novels set in Holmes’ later life (ongoing as of February 2009).
  • Ronald A. Knox: “The Adventure of the First-Class Carriage” in The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1985.
  • Michael Kurland: The Infernal Device (1978), Death by Gaslight (1982), The Great Game (2001), The Empress of India (2006), Who Thinks Evil (2014); and the short stories “The Paradol Paradox” (2001), “Years Ago and in a Different Place” in My Sherlock Holmes, (2003), “Reichenbach” in Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years (2004)[3] and “The Picture of Oscar Wilde” (2013). In this series, Professor Moriarty is the real hero who helps the bewildered Holmes solve crimes by providing him clues to discover the real villains.

L[edit]

M[edit]

  • Jonathan Maberry: “The Adventure of the Greenbrier Ghost” in Legends of the Mountain State Volume 2 (2008). Holmes and Watson deal with a West Virginia murder and the ghost that follows.
  • Bonnie MacBird: Art in the Blood (2015) and Unquiet Spirits (2017)
  • F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre: “The Enigma of the Warwickshire Vortex” (1997) and “The Adventure of Exham Priory ” in the “H.P. Lovecraft-sounding” Shadows Over Baker Street anthology (2003)
  • Eddie Maguire: a short story in Sherlock Holmes and the Three Poisoned Pawns (2008) : Holmes meeting the Kaizer during a WE in Dorset
  • Paul Magrs: “Mrs Hudson at the Christmas Hotel”, a short story in Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (2013)[2]
  • Michael Mallory: Short stories in the anthologies My Sherlock Holmes (2003), Sherlock Holmes: the Hidden Years (2004)[5] and Sherlock Holmes: the American Years (2010), in addition to a series of short stories and novels featuring “Amelia Watson,” the second wife of Dr. John H. Watson.
  • George Mann: Sherlock Holmes: The Will of the Dead (2013) and Sherlock Holmes: The Spirit Box (2014). Also “The Case of the Night Crawler”, a short story in Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (2013)[2]
  • Rafael Marín: Elemental, querido Chaplin (2005, ISBN 84-450-7542-X) is presented as an unpublished manuscript in which Charles Chaplin tells how, as a London poor child, he helped Sherlock Holmes in an adventure against Fu Manchu.
  • Rodolfo Martínez: four novels in Spanish language incl. Sherlock Holmes y la Boca del Infierno and Sherlock Holmes y la Subiduría de los Muertos (2008)
  • Keisuke Matsuoka: Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Japan (2017). Translated into the English language by James Balzer. Originally published in the Japanese language as Shaarokku Homuzu tai Ito Hirobumi (2017).[15]
  • Vonda N. McIntyre: “The Adventure of the Field Theorems” in Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (1995)
  • Nicholas Meyer: Five novels The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1974), The West End Horror (1976), The Canary Trainer (1993), The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols (2019), The Return of the Pharaoh (2021)
  • Thomas Kent Miller: Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World (1987), The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (2005), The Sussex Beekeeper at the Dawn of Time (2013), Sherlock Holmes in the Fullness of Time (2017)

N, O, P, Q[edit]

  • Philip Pullman: Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror (1992)
  • Michel Pagel: a short story in Les nombreuses Vies de Sherlock Holmes (2005)
  • Stuart Palmer: “The Adventure of the Marked Man” in The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, (1985)
  • Anne Perry: short stories “The Watch Night Bell” in Holmes for the Holidays (1999) and “The Christmas Gift” in More Holmes for the Holidays
  • Van Allen Plexico: 2 short stories: “The Problem at Stamford Bridge” and “The Adventure of the Tuvan Delegate” in Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective Volume One (Cornerstone Book Publishers, June 2009)
  • Alex Prior: “The Lost Case Files of Sherlock Holmes” (2020)

R[edit]

  • Vithal Rajan: Holmes of the Raj (2011)[16]
  • Anthony Read: the Sherlock Holmes’s (sic) Baker Street Boys series (1983)
  • Theodore (Ted) Riccardi:The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (2003), Between the Thames and the Tiber (2011)
  • Kel Richards: The Curse of the Pharaohs (1997)
  • Barrie Roberts: Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac (1994), Sherlock Holmes and the Devil’s Grail (1995), Sherlock Holmes and the Man From Hell (1997), Sherlock Holmes and the Royal Flush (1998. Sherlock Holmes and the Harvest Of Death (1999), Sherlock Holmes and the Crosby Murder (2001), Sherlock Holmes and the Rule of Nine (2003), Sherlock Holmes and the King’s Governess (2005), Sherlock Holmes and the American Angels (2007)
  • Sydney Castle Roberts: “The Adventure of the Megatherium Thefts” in The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, (1985).
  • Samuel Rosenberg: Naked is the Best Disguise: The Death and Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes, (1974). Fiction or non-fiction ? That’s the question …
  • André-François Ruaud: with Xavier Mauméjean Les nombreuses vies de Sherlock Holmes a ” biography ” of Sherlock Holmes with short stories by Michael Moorcock, Michel Page, Patrick Marcel, Jean & Randy Lofficier and Béatrice Nicodème

S[edit]

  • Fred Saberhagen: The Holmes-Dracula File (1978) and Seance for a Vampire (1994)
  • Santiago R. Santerbás: “La aventura del quinteto inacabado”, a short story in Tres pastiches victorianos (1980) in Spanish.
  • Vincent Starrett: novels and short stories “The Adventure of the Unique Hamlet” in The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1985) and the revised and expanded edition of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1933, revised and expanded edition 1960)
  • Julian Symons: “The Adventure of Hillerman Hall” in The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, (1985)

T, U, V[edit]

  • Ludwig Thoma: “Der Münzdiebstahl oder Sherlock Holmes in München”, (1906)
  • Frankie Thomas Sherlock Holmes and the Golden Bird (1973), Sherlock Holmes and the Sacred Sword (1980)
  • Donald Thomas: The Secret Cases of Sherlock Holmes (1997),Sherlock Holmes and the Running Noose (2001), Sherlock Holmes and the Voice from the Crypt (2002), The Execution of Sherlock Holmes (2007), Sherlock Holmes and the King’s Evil (2009), Sherlock Holmes and the Ghosts of Bly (2010), Death on a Pale Horse: Sherlock Holmes on Her Majesty’s Secret Service (2013)
  • June Thomson (aka June Valerie Thomson): The Secret Files of Sherlock Holmes (1990), The Secret Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes (1992), The Secret Journals of Sherlock Holmes (1993), Holmes and Watson: A Study in Friendship (1995), The Secret Documents of Sherlock Holmes (1999), The Secret Notebooks of Sherlock Holmes (2004), The Secret Archives of Sherlock Holmes (2012) and Sherlock Holmes and the Lady in Black (2015)
  • Peter Tremayne: “The Affray at the Kildare Street Club” in The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, (1997)
  • Harry Turtledove, The Scarlet Band, an Alternative History story in which the very thinly disguised English detective Athelstan Helms and his associate and biographer Doctor James Walton visit a never-sunk Atlantis.
  • Mark Twain: “A Double-Barrelled Detective Story” (1902), a story featuring Sherlock Holmes and making a farce on Holmes’s style and deduction.
  • Cay Van Ash: Ten Years Beyond Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Matches Wits with the Diabolical Dr. Fu Manchu (1985); Holmes versus Fu Manchu
  • Alan Vanneman: Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra (2002) and Sherlock Holmes and the Hapsburg Tiara (2003)
  • Yves Varende: Le Requin de la Tamise, Le Tueur dans le Fog, Le Secret de l’Ile aux Chiens, Les Meurtres du Titanic, L’Otage de Fraulein Doktor; anthologies : Sherlock Holmes revient, Sherlock Holmes et les Fantômes

W, X, Y & Z[edit]

Anthologies[edit]

  • Adams, John J. (ed.) The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. San Francisco: Night Shade, 2009.
  • Ashley, Michael (ed.) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1997.
  • Asimov, Isaac, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G Waugh (eds.) Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986.
  • Kaye, Marvin (ed.) The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.[19]
  • Kaye, Marvin, and David Stuart Davies (eds.) The Game is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995
  • Penzler, Otto (ed.) The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories. New York: Pantheon, 2015.
  • Prepolec, Charles, and J. R. Campbell (eds.) Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes. Calgary: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Pub., 2008.
  • Prepolec, Charles, and J. R. Campbell (eds.) Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes. Calgary: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Pub., 2009.
  • Prepolec, Charles, and J. R. Campbell (eds.) Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes. Calgary: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Pub., 2011.
  • Queen, Ellery (ed.) The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. Little, Brown and Company, 1944.
  • Reaves, Michael, and John Pelan (eds.) Shadows Over Baker Street. New York: Ballantine, 2003. A cross-over collection of Holmes stories set in the Cthulhu Mythos universe.
  • Resnick, Michael D., and Martin H. Greenberg (eds.) Sherlock Holmes in Orbit. New York: DAW Books, 1995.
  • Smith, Denis O. (ed.) The Mammoth Book of the Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes: 12 New Adventures and Intrigues. London: Running Press, 2014.

From <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authors_of_new_Sherlock_Holmes_stories>

Other Stories/Pastiches

In 1913, the Greek novel Sherlock Holmes saving Mr. Venizelos (Ο Σέρλοκ Χολμς σώζων τον κ. Βενιζέλον) was serialized in the magazine Hellas. Written by an anonymous author, it describes Holmes’ attempts to save Eleftherios Venizelos from a Bulgarian organization’s assassination plot during the London Conference of 1912–13. It is considered the first detective novel of Greek literature.[citation needed]

In January 1928, the short story “My Dear Holmes” was published in Punch, or the London Charivari. The sub-title of the story was: “His positively last appearance on earth.” Written from the point of view of Holmes, it starts out in the usual way, and then ends rather lamely with no mystery presented or solved, but Holmes dead of incautiously (and improbably) sniffing excessively at a bottle of an anesthetic (“A.C.E.”) he has asked Watson to bring with them on an errand.[citation needed]

Arthur Conan Doyle’s son, Adrian Conan Doyle, wrote—in a joint effort with John Dickson Carr—12 Sherlock Holmes short stories that were published under the title The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes in 1954.

Using his alternate name of H.F. Heard, Gerald Heard wrote three novels about a reclusive beekeeper in the English countryside who goes by the name of Mycroft; he is clearly intended to be Sherlock Holmes, but the books were written before the Doyle estate gave permission for other writers to use the name. The three stories are A Taste for Honey, Reply Paid and The Notched Hairpin. A Taste for Honey was adapted for American TV in 1955 as “Sting of Death,” with Boris Karloff as Mr. Mycroft.[1]

American novelist and filmmaker Nicholas Meyer has written five Holmes novels: The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1974), The West End Horror (1976), The Canary Trainer (1993), The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols (2019), and The Return of the Pharaoh (2021).[2]

In 1977, the novel Exit Sherlock Holmes: The Great Detective’s Final Days by Robert Lee Hall was published and featured an exploration of Holmes’ origins with a science fiction twist. In this account Holmes and Moriarty are revealed to be from the future.[3]

Randall Collins published in 1978 The Case of the Philosophers’ Ring, under the pseudonym Dr. John H. Watson, with Holmes’ services requested at Cambridge, around 1914, by Bertrand Russell, and meeting the Cambridge Apostles (Moore, Hardy, Keynes…) Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Annie Besant and of course, Aleisteir Crowley as a perfect villain.[4]

Michael Dibdin’s novel The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (1979) confronts a somewhat psychopathic Sherlock Holmes with the crimes of Jack the Ripper, whom Holmes suspects to be none other than James Moriarty. Raymond Smullyan wrote The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes (1979), in which Holmes (with Watson) applies retrograde analysis to solve chess problems.[5]

The detective novelist Loren D. Estleman wrote several short stories and two novels featuring Holmes; the novels pit the detective against Count Dracula and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, respectively. The former was adapted for radio by the BBC.[6]

Cay Van Ash wrote the novel Ten Years Beyond Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes matches wits with the diabolical Dr. Fu Manchu (1984), set in 1914, in which the apparently retired detective comes into conflict with Sax Rohmer’s villainous master criminal.[7]

Canadian writer Ron Weyman published three novels between 1989 and 1994 which imagined Sherlock Holmes as being sent to Canada at the behest of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and investigating crimes there.[8]

Holmes aficionado Stephen Fry wrote a short story featuring Holmes, “The Adventure of the Laughing Jarvey”, in which Holmes and Watson encounter a great Victorian writer and are engaged on a mission to recover a lost manuscript. It includes introductory text claiming the tale itself to be a long-lost manuscript, which modern analysis has shown to use linguistic style and grammar typical of Watson. The story appears in Fry’s collection of journalism and early writings, Paperweight (1992). In Stephen King’s short story “The Doctor’s Case” (1993), Holmes’s alleged allergy to cats prevents him for once from solving the problem quicker than Watson. Barrie Roberts penned a series of Holmes pastiches, including Sherlock Holmes and the Man from Hell and Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac from 1994 until his death in 2007. O Xangô de Baker Street (1995) tells the comic story of Sherlock Holmes’s visit to Brazil, invited by the Emperor Dom Pedro II, to solve the disappearance of a Stradivarius violin which becomes a hunt for a serial killer.[citation needed] Larry Millett has written six books and a short story featuring Holmes solving mysteries in Minnesota.[9] Michael Mallory has written more than two dozen short stories and two novels featuring “Amelia Watson,” the second wife of Dr. Watson. These are not pastiches so much as original detective stories that view Holmes and Watson from a different, somewhat humorous, point of view.[citation needed] Colin Bruce’s The Strange Case of Mrs. Hudson’s Cat: And Other Science Mysteries Solved by Sherlock Holmes (1997) and Conned Again, Watson!: Cautionary Tales of Logic, Maths and Probability (2001) are books of Sherlock Holmes stories in which Holmes uses scientific and mathematical approaches, respectively, to solve mysteries. The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes: The Missing Years (1999), by Tibetan author Jamyang Norbu is an account of Holmes’s adventures in India and Tibet where, posing as Sigerson, he meets the Dalai Lama and Huree Chunder Mookerjee, a character from Rudyard Kipling’s novel Kim.

Vithal Rajan’s Holmes of the Raj (2011)[10][11] is again set in India, in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson sail to India in 1888 on a secret mission in the service of Empire, their adventures taking them from Madras, to the princely courts of Hyderabad, jungles of the Central Provinces, and the bustling metropolis of Calcutta. While Holmes is engaged in unraveling the central mystery, Watson busies himself helping Ronald Ross track the malaria parasite and advising Dhyan Chand, a schoolboy on the finer points of hockey. The book has vignettes of life and politics in colonial India, wherein Holmes and Watson meet Lord Ripon, Madame Blavatsky, Francis Younghusband, Kipling and Kim himself, Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Ramanujan, Motilal Nehru, Tagore, Jinnah and many others.[12]

Italian conservative Catholic author Rino Cammilleri published in 2000 a novel with the title Sherlock Holmes e il misterioso caso di Ippolito Nievo (“Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Case of Ippolito Nievo”) set in London, Turin and Naples.

The collection Shadows Over Baker Street (2003) contains 14 stories by 20 authors pitting Holmes against the forces of the Cthulhu Mythos. Among them is Neil Gaiman’s “A Study in Emerald”, which won the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. The title is a play on A Study in Scarlet. The narrator, never named (but whose initials in the end point him to be the criminal henchman of James Moriarty, Sebastian Moran; his tour in Afghanistan point to this as well), meets the protagonist (who is also never named, but likely James Moriarty himself, in a surprising role-reversal, making him the detective and Holmes the criminal) under similar circumstances to the meeting of Holmes and Watson in A Study in Scarlet, even down to the deduction that the narrator has recently been in Afghanistan. The protagonist is tall and thin, a detective, chemist, and master of disguise. However, as the narrator and his friend investigate a murder of one of the Royal Family (shown to be the Great Old Ones of the Cthulhu Mythos) the murderer is revealed to be a tall, thin, pipe-smoking man, going by the name Sherry Vernet (a reference to the first name Sherlock, or possibly Conan Doyle’s earlier “Sherrinford”, and the last name of Holmes’ grandmother). He is assisted by a “limping doctor”, later tentatively identified as John (or possibly James) Watson. “Vernet” also had gone by the name Sigerson. Inspector Lestrade also appears in the story.[citation needed] Gaiman has also written a short story called “The Case of Death and Honey”, which was featured in “A Study in Sherlock” and “Trigger Warning.”

Michael Chabon wrote The Final Solution in 2004. This book, that received favorable reviews,[13][14] deals with an elderly Sherlock Holmes, referred to only as ‘the old man,’ solving the case of the missing parrot belonging to a nine-year-old Jewish refugee boy from Germany. While readily solving the mystery, ‘the old man,’ as well as the rest of the characters in the novella, fail to see what the parrot’s incessant muttering of random German numbers really means.[13]

Caleb Carr was approached to pen a tale for the anthology Ghosts of Baker Street.[15] Carr’s short story grew to become a full length novel[15] which became 2005’s The Italian Secretary.[15] An example of a Sherlock Holmes pastiche is found in The Curse of the Nibelung: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (2005) by Sam North, which is currently in reprint. It finds Holmes at the very end of his career, together with a geriatric Watson, sent by Winston Churchill to Nazi Germany to help uncover a terrible secret.[citation needed] Elemental, querido Chaplin, by Rafael Marín (2005, Minotauro, Barcelona, ISBN 84-450-7542-X), is presented as an unpublished manuscript in which Charles Chaplin tells how, as a London poor child, he helped Sherlock Holmes in an adventure against Dr. Fu Manchu.[citation needed] Nick Rennison’s 2006 Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography is a “biography” of the detective much like William S. Baring-Gould’s earlier Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World’s First Consulting Detective.

Mitch Cullin’s novel A Slight Trick of the Mind (2005) takes place two years after the end of the Second World War, and explores the character of Sherlock Holmes (now 93) as he comes to terms with a life spent in emotionless logic. Now old and frail, his once-steel trap mind begins to fail him as he loses items and forgets whole parts of his day. The story follows Holmes both at his home where he now tends bees in quiet retirement, as well as a vacation in Japan where he observes their post-war society first-hand. The novel is also interspersed with chapters of Sherlock’s own book which reveals a fleeting moment of love that even he does not yet realise.[16] It was adapted into the film Mr. Holmes starring Ian McKellen. The film released in 2015.

Manly W. Wellman’s Sherlock Holmes’ War of the Worlds combined the elements of Holmes canon with H.G. Wells’s science fiction classic and describes Holmes’ and Watson’s adventures in the Martian-occupied London (in passing, the book also asserts that Holmes had a long-lasting romantic relationship with Mrs. Hudson, but the puritanical Dr. Watson never noticed it).

Laurie R. King recreates Sherlock Holmes in her Mary Russell series (starting with The Beekeeper’s Apprentice), set during World War I and the 1920s. Her Holmes is (semi-)retired in Sussex, where he gradually trains a teenage Russell as his apprentice. The series includes 11 full length novels and a short story tie-in with a book from her Kate Martinelli series, The Art of Detection.

Repercussions is a short comic story by Dwight Baldwin and J. M. DeSantis in the literary trade paperback Iconic (Summer 2009) by members of the Comicbook Artists Guild. In it, Holmes and Watson are on the trail of the legendary Jack the Ripper.[citation needed]

Another story which pits Holmes and Watson against Jack the Ripper is Lyndsay Faye’s Dust and Shadow (2009).

In Robert Wilton’s ‘The Adventure of the Distracted Thane’, Holmes investigates the assassination of King Duncan I of Scotland, previously explored by William Shakespeare in Macbeth (which itself, according to this interpretation, featured Dr. Watson).

For younger readers, Shane Peacock has written The Boy Sherlock Holmes series. Andy Lane begun a young adult series of Sherlock Holmes adventures with the publication of Death Cloud in 2010. This series is the first authorized series of teenage adventures.[17] Alberto López Aroca wrote “El problema de la pequeña cliente”, a short story included in the book Nadie lo sabrá nunca (2004), where Sherlock Holmes meets Mary Poppins.[18]

The Conan Doyle estate commissioned Anthony Horowitz, author of the Alex Rider novels The Power of Five and TV’s Foyle’s War, to write a new, uniquely authorised Sherlock Holmes novel. Published by Orion Books in 2011 under the title The House of Silk, the content and title were a “closely guarded secret” before publication.[19][20]

Japanese mystery author Keisuke Matsuoka published Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Japan in 2017, exploring the time between Holmes’ alleged death at Reichenbach Falls and his reappearance three years later.[21]

Print

August Derleth’s Holmes-inspired sleuth Solar Pons is an obvious and early homage to Holmes. Derleth began to write the stories in 1928 after asking permission of Arthur Conan Doyle to continue the series of Sherlock Holmes stories (it was denied). The first collection of Pons stories was published in 1948, and Derleth’s stories are contained in 13 additional books, several published after his death in 1971. Basil Copper continued the Pons series with an additional eight books, the most recent published in 2005.

The protagonist of Umberto Eco’s novel The Name of the Rose. Friar William of Baskerville and his novice Adso (who, like Watson, is the narrator), are patterned on Holmes and Watson. William of Baskerville is physically similar to Holmes, has the habit of addressing his companion with “My dear Adso” and the story itself is about a strictly rational brain following a path of investigation of a seemingly inexplicable chain of violent deaths.

Poul Anderson wrote several stories in which characters modelled themselves on Holmes, including “The Martian Crown Jewels”, “The Queen of Air and Darkness”, and “The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound”.

In Robert A. Heinlein’s The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966), one of the characters is a computer, a model “HOLMES IV”, which adopts the name Mycroft, after Sherlock Holmes’ brother.

Julian Symons created a character named Sheridan Haynes, an actor immersed in the role of Holmes for an epic project to adapt the entire canon for television (almost ten years before Jeremy Brett took up a similar challenge), in the 1975 novel A Three Pipe Problem. Haynes finds himself confusing his own identity with Holmes’, and becomes involved in a mystery. The character returned for a 1988 sequel, The Kentish Manor Murders, and Symons also wrote a Holmes short story pastiche.

Thomas Brace Haughey wrote a series of six novels “in the best tradition of Holmes and Watson” from 1978–1986 with Geoffrey Weston as the Sherlock character (and a descendant of Mycroft Holmes) and John Taylor as his Watson, living at 31 Baker Street. These stories, The Case of the Invisible Thief, The Case of the Frozen Scream, The Case of the Maltese Treasure, The Case of the Kidnapped Shadow, The Case of the Hijacked Moon, and The Case of the Unbolted Lightning, are all deeply imbued with an Evangelical Christian outlook.

Charles Hamilton under the pseudonym Peter Todd wrote almost 100 short parodies of the Holmes short stories from 1915 onwards. The characters became Herlock Sholmes and Dr Jotson, living in a Shaker Street apartment; and the sophisticated deductive reasoning of the original became absurdity in the spoofs, which were mainly published in a range of boys’ comics of the period (The Greyfriars Herald, The Magnet, The Gem, etc.). Although satirical and often mocking contemporary mores (and World War I shortages), the stories had a real feel for the dialogue and structure of the originals. They were all reprinted in The Complete Casebook of Herlock Sholmes (Hawk Books 1989).

Michael Chabon’s novella The Final Solution (2004) features an unnamed protagonist that is likely a retired Holmes. The story takes place during World War II, and features the Holmes character investigating the appearance of a mute boy with a parrot who repeatedly calls a string of seemingly random numbers in German. References to Holmes are plentiful: the protagonist is a bee keeper, is familiar with detectives in London, and smokes a pipe. The title simultaneously refers to the Nazi plan for genocide hinted at in the book and mirrors one of Doyle’s own shorts, “The Final Problem”.

Transposed in an alternative London with angels and werewolves, Sarah Monette wrote The Angel of the Crows in 2020, where Dr Watson is portrayed as a field surgeon injured during the Second Anglo-Afghan War instead of India, and Sherlock Holmes as an angel. The work tries to be an anthology of several Holmes cases.

Leilehua Yuen, under the pen name of Fevronia H. Watkins began a series of novellas, The Adventures of Kamaka Holmes in late 2020. It begins with He Huli ʻUlaʻula—A Study in Scarlet. The first books are set in Hilo, Hawaiʻi in the final years of the Hawaiian Monarchy. It features two teenage cousins of Sherlock Holmes (3rd cousins, once removed), Kamaka Holmes and Fevronia Watkins. To date, there are no plans for a Sherlock Holmes cameo, though the girls are avid readers of Dr. Watson’s writings on the great detective. The mysteries are written as historical fiction.

In the O. Henry short stories The Sleuths, The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes and The Detective Detector —story collections: Sixes and Sevens (1911);[56] Waifs and Strays (1917)[57]— the character Shamrock Jolnes parodies Sherlock Holmes’ deductive methods and disguises.

In Bret Harte’s collection of burlesques of contemporaneous writers, Condensed Novels: New Burlesques,[58] the character Hemlock Jones in the story “The Stolen Cigar Case By A. Co—n D—le” has been praised by Ellery Queen as “probably the best parody of Sherlock Holmes ever written”.[59]

In the first of three novels in Joyce Ballou Gregorian’s “Tredana Trilogy”, The Broken Citadel, a young girl is transported from our world to a fantasy world called Tredana. There she learns that the only previous traveller from our world to there is a Norwegian explorer named Sigerson, who was taught how to get there by the Dalai Lama. In Conan Doyle’s stories, during the period in which Holmes is presumed dead between the events of The Final Problem and The Empty House, one identity Holmes adopts is a Norwegian explorer named Sigerson who meets with the Dalai Lama.

Mycroft Holmes

he character has been used many times in works that are not adaptations of Holmes stories:

American former basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse authored Mycroft Holmes, released September 2015,[24] as well as two sequels entitled Mycroft and Sherlock released in 2018[24] and Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage released in 2019.[25]

In Jasper Fforde’s series of books about Thursday Next, Mycroft is revealed to be Thursday’s uncle, having escaped into fiction and taken up residence in the Sherlock Holmes series to escape the evil Goliath Corporation.

He was the main character in a series of mystery novels by the author Quinn Fawcett beginning with Against the Brotherhood: A Mycroft Holmes Novel[26]

He is a recurring character in the Mary Russell mystery series by Laurie R. King, which feature a retired Sherlock Holmes as a major character. Mycroft is portrayed as a senior figure in the British Secret Service, who occasionally calls on Russell and Holmes for assistance in specific cases.

A young Mycroft Holmes is the protagonist of a mystery-adventure “edited” by Michael P. Hodel and Sean M. Wright, Enter the Lion: A Posthumous Memoir of Mycroft Holmes (published in hardcover by Hawthorn Books in 1979 in the U.S. and by JM Dent & Sons Ltd. in 1980 in London and in paperback by Playboy Press in 1980).[27] The action takes place in 1875, ten years after the end of the American Civil War, at the time when Mycroft Holmes was a minor official in the Foreign Office. Mycroft is aided by his younger brother Sherlock, Victor Trevor (who appears in Doyle’s tale “The Adventure of the Gloria Scott”), and an adventurer known as “Captain Jericho”, a mysterious former slave. They band together in an effort to prevent an attempt by former Confederate officers to involve the British government in a scheme to overthrow the United States government. The story also provides an explanation as to the antagonism between Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty.

Mycroft has a small but extremely important role in Ray Walsh’s novel The Mycroft Memoranda, published in London by Andre Deutsch, 1984 (ISBN 0-233-97582-9), in which Sherlock Holmes, at the request of Major Henry Smith, Acting Commissioner for the City of London, becomes involved in the hunt for Jack the Ripper.

Mycroft and the Diogenes Club play an important part in Kim Newman’s novel Anno Dracula.

The Doctor Who novel All-Consuming Fire featured Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, as well as the apocryphal Sherringford Holmes. The Doctor’s companion Bernice Summerfield was then reunited with Mycroft in the 2008 audio play The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel where he was voiced by David Warner.

The novel Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders by Gyles Brandreth suggests that Oscar Wilde’s friendship with Arthur Conan Doyle led Doyle to create Mycroft as a caricature of Wilde: mentally brilliant, but indolent and lazy.

He appears in the novel The Italian Secretary (2005) by Caleb Carr.

In the Enola Holmes series, Mycroft is the official legal guardian of their much younger sister, Enola, after the mysterious departure of their mother on her daughter’s 14th birthday. Rather than submit to his wish for her to be sent to boarding school to conform to contemporary feminine social mores, Enola instead runs away to secretly become a private detective in London while eluding her brothers. Through the series, Mycroft is steadfastly determined to capture her while Sherlock gradually grows to respect her considerable talents and begins to understand her reasons for her defiance. However, it is Mycroft who suspects that Enola may well be determined to become an adult colleague in his brother’s profession, a notion Sherlock finds difficult to accept.

The Young Sherlock Holmes series by Andrew Lane features Mycroft Holmes.

In the story “Whitechapel Rose” by Lorelei Shannon, contained in Jordan K. Weisman’s Into the Shadows anthology of short stories set in the universe of the Shadowrun role-playing game, Mycroft is revealed to be legendary among deckers (an in game term for futuristic hackers).

He is a recurring character in the Amelia Watson series of novels and short stories by Michael Mallory, which recast him as a close confidant of King Edward VII and the head of England’s fledgling secret service bureau.

The Dorking Gap Affair by Glen Petrie published February 1, 1990 [28] by Bantam (first published 1989) ISBN 9780593016961

The Monstrous Regiment by Glen Petrie published by Bantam.[29] Glen Petrie was commissioned by Transworld to publish a series of 10 books on Mycroft Holmes. He was paid but Transworld was sold and the books were not finished.