The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (86 page)

Brown, Russell A.
Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde,
New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1988. Set in 1895.

Chujoy, Anatole. “The Adventure of the Tainted Worm”,
Baker Street Journal,
July 1955. A faithful attempt to recreate the story of Isodora Persano and the remarkable worm.

Cillié, François P. “The Adventure of the Second Stain”,
Sunday Times
of South Africa, 3 December 1967; also reprinted as “The Adventure of the Green Empress”.

Clarke, Benjamin. “Sunshine, Sunshine”,
Baker Street Journal Christmas Annual
#5, 1960. Another of the many apocryphal attempts to explain the disappearance of James Phillimore.

Collins, Randall.
The Case of the Philosophers’ Ring,
New York, Crown, 1978; London, Harvester, 1980. A self-evident apocryphal novel with little regard for Holmesian data, but an interesting philosophical novel which pits Holmes’s wits against those of Aleister Crowley.

Conan Doyle, Adrian and Carr, John Dickson.
The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes,
London: John Murray, 1954; New York, Random House, 1954. A collection of twelve stories based on the unrecorded cases referred to by Watson. Some have the air of authenticity but most are apocryphal. The stories are (all prefixed “The Adventure of …”) “The Seven Clocks”, “The Gold Hunter”, “The Wax Gamblers”, “The Highgate Miracle”, “The Black Baronet”, “The Sealed Room”, “Foulkes Rath”, “The Abbas Ruby”, “The Two Women”, “The Dark Angels”, “The Deptford Horror” and “The Red Widow”.

Davies, David Stuart.
Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair.
Romford, Ian Henry, 1991. Apocryphal novel set in 1895. Holmes in Ruritania.

Davies, David Stuart.
The Tangled Skein.
Romford, Ian Henry, 1992. Almost certainly a genuine case though the date of 1888 following on from the Baskerville case must be wrong.

DeWeese, Gene. “The Silent Night Before Christmas”,
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine,
January 1996. A faithfully rendered story set in the first Christmas after Holmes’s return from the grave.

Dibdin, Michael.
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story.
London, Jonathan Cape, 1978; New York, Pantheon, 1978. A totally apocryphal novel which brings Holmes and Moriarty together in the murders of Jack the Ripper.

Elward, Miles.
Sherlock Holmes in Canterbury.
Canterbury, Wynne Howard, 1995. Three stories set in Kent which should be apocryphal but have a considerable authenticity.

Fisher, Charles.
Some Unaccountable Exploits of Sherlock Holmes,
Philadelphia: Sons of the Copper Beeches, 1956. Seven very short and rather frivolous accounts, originally written for the
Philadelphia Record
in 1939–1940.

Gardner, John.
The Return of Moriarty,
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974; New York, Putnam’s, 1974; and
The Revenge of Moriarty,
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975; New York, Putnam’s, 1976. Very evident apocrypha, but extremely good stories.

Green, Richard Lancelyn (editor).
The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes,
London, Penguin Books, 1983. An anthology of seventeen pastiches, parodies and associated ephemera by Conan Doyle.

Green, Richard Lancelyn (editor).
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,
London, Penguin Books, 1985. An anthology of eleven excellent pastiches, some of them faithful reconstructions of cases. The stories are (all prefixed “The Adventure of …”) “… the First-Class Carriage”, Ronald A. Knox (
The Strand,
February 1947); “… the Sheffield Banker”, Arthur Whitaker; “… the Unique
Hamlet“
by Vincent Starrett; “… the Marked Man” by Stuart Palmer
(Ellery Queen’s,
July 1944); “… the Megatherium Thefts”, S.C. Roberts; “… the Trained Cormorant” W.R. Duncan Macmillan (originally “Holmes in Scotland”,
Blackwood’s Magazine,
September 1953); “…
Arnsworth Castle“,
Adrian Conan Doyle; “… the Tired Captain”, Alan Wilson; “… the Green Empress”, F. P. Cillié; “… the Purple Hand”, D.O. Smith, and “… Hillerman Hall”, Julian Symons.

Greenberg, Martin H., and Waugh, Carol-Lynn (editors).
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
New York, Carroll & Graf, 1987. Anthology of fifteen original stories: “The Adventure of the Unique Holmes” by Jon L. Breen, “The Adventure of the Persistent Marksman” by Lillian de la Torre, “Dr and Mrs Watson at Home” by Loren D. Estleman, “Moriarty and the Real Underworld” by John Gardner, “The Two Footmen” by Michael Gilbert, “The Adventure of the Gowanus Abduction” by Joyce Harrington, “Sherlock Holmes and
‘the
Woman’ ” by Michael Harrison, “The Return of the Speckled Band” by Edward D. Hoch, “Sherlock Holmes and the Muffin” by Dorothy B. Hughes, “The Shadows on the Lawn” by Barry Jones, “The Final Toast” by Stuart Kaminsky, “The Doctor’s Case” by Stephen King, “The Curious Computer” by Peter Lovesey, “The Infernal Machine” by John Lutz, “The Phantom Chamber” by Gary Alan Ruse and “The House That Jack Built” by Edward Wellen.

Greenberg, Martin H., Lellenberg, Jon L. and Waugh, Carol-Lynn (editors).
Holmes for the Holidays.
New York, Berkley, 1996. An anthology of fourteen new stories each set at Christmas. Stories are “The Adventure of the Canine Ventriloquist” by Jon L. Breen, “The Adventure of the Christmas Ghosts” by Bill Crider, “The Adventure of the Christmas Tree” by William L. DeAndrea, “The Thief of Twelfth Night” by Carole Nelson Douglas, “The Adventure of the Three Ghosts” by Loren D. Estleman, “The Italian Sherlock Holmes” by Reginald Hill, “The Christmas Client” by Edward, D. Hoch, “A Scandal in Winter” by Gillian Linscott, “The Adventure in Border Country” by Gwen Moffat, “The Sleuth of Christmas Past” by Barbara Paul, “The Watch Night Bell” by Anne Perry, “The Yuletide Affair” by John Stoessel, “The Adventure of the Angel’s Trumpet” by Carolyn Wheat and “The Adventure of the Man Who Never Laughed” by J.N. Williamson. All are well written, but most are apocryphal.

Greenwald, Ken (adapter).
The Lost Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,
New York, Mallard Press, 1989. Thirteen stories adapted from the original 1945 US radio series scripted by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher and starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. The stories are of dubious authenticity but are good fun. They are: “The Adventure of the Second Generation”, “The April Fool’s Adventure”, “The Case of the Amateur Mendicants”, “The Adventure of the Out-of-Date Murder”, “The Case of the Demon Barber”, “Murder Beyond the Mountains”, “The Case of the Uneasy Easy Chair”, “The Case of the Baconian Cipher”, “The Adventure of the Headless Monk”, “The Case of the Camberwell Poisoners”, “The Adventure of the Iron Box”, “The Adventure of the Notorious Canary Trainer” and “The Case of the Girl with the Gazelle”.

Greenwood, L.B.
Sherlock Holmes and the Raleigh Legacy,
New York, Atheneum, 1986; Bristol, Chivers, 1988. An early case set in 1881 with a ring of authenticity.

Greenwood, L.B.
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of Sabina Hall,
New York, Simon & Schuster, 1988. Set in 1882 where Holmes follows up a request from an old college friend.

Greenwood, L.B.
Sherlock Holmes and the Thistle of Scotland,
New York, Simon & Schuster, 1989. Set in 1890 where Holmes investigates the theft of a legendary Scottish jewel.

Haining, Peter (editor).
The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,
London, W.H. Allen, 1981. An anthology of fifteen items by Conan Doyle with Holmesian associations.

Hall, Robert Lee.
Exit Sherlock Holmes,
London, John Murray, 1977; New York, Scribner’s, 1977. Moriarty returns to London in 1903 which forces Holmes into retirement.

Hardwick, Michael,
Prisoner of the Devil,
London and New York, Proteus Publishing, 1979. Holmes takes on the Dreyfus case.

Hardwick, Michael,
Sherlock Holmes, My Life and Crimes,
London, Harvill Press, 1984; New York, Doubleday, 1984. A purported autobiography of Holmes.

Hardwick, Michael.
The Revenge of the Hound,
New York, Villard Books, 1987.

Iraldi, James C.
The Problem of the Purple Maculas,
Culver City, Luther Norris, 1968. A serious attempt to recreate the case of Henry Staunton.

Jeffers, H. Paul.
The Adventure of the Stalwart Companions,
London, Cassell, 1978; New York, Harper & Row, 1978. Set in July 1880. Holmes and Roosevelt team up to investigate a crime in New York. The book is apocryphal but is remarkably convincing.

Kaye, Marvin (editor).
The Game is A foot,
New York, St Martin’s Press, 1994. An anthology of fifty “parodies, pastiches and ponderings”, very few of which are authentic.

Kaye, Marvin (editor).
Resurrected Holmes,
New York, St Martin’s Press, 1996. A gimmick-based book where Watson’s unchronicled cases are apparently written up by such celebrities as H.G. Wells, Somerset Maugham, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lord Dunsany and even H.P. Lovecraft. The real perpetrators of this anthology are John Gregory Betancourt, Carol Buggé, Peter Cannon, William L. DeAndrea, Craig Shaw Gardner, Edward D. Hoch, Marvin Kaye, Morgan Llywelyn, Richard A. Lupoff, Terry McGarry, Mike Resnick, Roberta Rogow, Darrell Schweitzer, Henry Slesar and Paula Volsky. Although most of the stories are apocryphal at least one is based on apparently authentic notes.

King, Laurie R.
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice,
New York, St Martin’s, 1994 and
A Monstrous Regiment of Women,
New York, St Martin’s, 1995. Set after Holmes’s retirement, in 1914 and 1920 respectively, these are the investigations of Mary Russell who becomes Holmes’s protegée.

Kurland, Michael.
The Infernal Device,
New York: Signet Books, 1978; London, New English Library, 1979. Set in 1885, it brings Holmes and Moriarty together against a common enemy.

Kurland, Michael.
Death by Gaslight,
New York, Signet Books, 1982.

Lloyd-Taylor, A. “The Wine Merchant”,
Sherlock Holmes Journal,
Winter 1959. A faithful attempt to recreate one of the early cases.

Lumb, Tony.
Sherlock Holmes and the Featherstone Policeman,
Feather-stone, Yorkshire, Briton Press, 1993; and
Sherlock Holmes and the White Lady of Featherstone,
Featherstone, Yorkshire, Briton Press, 1995. Two totally apocryphal cases set in 1893 and 1904 and involving Holmes in two local historical incidents.

Meyer, Nicholas.
The Seven Per-Cent Solution.
New York, Dutton, 1974; London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1975. A totally apocryphal novel in which Holmes and Sigmund Freud collaborate.

Meyer, Nicholas.
The West-End Horror.
New York, Dutton, 1976; London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1976. Holmes investigates murders in London’s theatreland.

Meyer, Nicholas.
The Canary Trainer.
New York, Norton, 1993. An apocryphal novel set after Holmes’s feigned death in 1891. He becomes involved in Paris with the Phantom of the Opera. See also Siciliano’s
The Angel of the Opera.

Michaud, Rosemary.
Sherlock Holmes and the Somerset Hunt,
Romford, Ian Henry, 1993. An early tale set in 1883 and quite possible an authentic case.

North, John.
Sherlock Holmes and the Arabian Princess,
Romford, Ian Henry, 1990; and
Sherlock Holmes and the German Nanny,
Romford, Ian Henry, 1990.

Pearsall, Ronald.
Sherlock Holmes Investigates the Murder in Euston Square.
Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1989. Set in 1879 the novel presents a series of reports of a murder and then lets Holmes loose on the case. Whilst it has all the appearance of an authentic case, the author’s tendency to spoof spoils the overall effect.

Queen, Ellery.
The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes,
Boston, Little, Brown, 1944. The earliest anthology of pastiches and parodies, most of them apocryphal but including a few tantalizing items.

Resnick, Mike and Greenberg, Martin H. (editors).
Sherlock Holmes in Orbit,
New York, DAW Books, 1995. An anthology of twenty-six all new Holmes stories, most of them with a science-fiction or fantasy base and all apocryphal. It includes the excellent story “The Case of the Detective’s Smile” by Mark Bourne which is so delightful that it ought to be true.

Roberts, Barrie.
Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac.
London, Constable, 1994;
Sherlock Holmes and the Devil’s Grail,
London, Constable, 1995; and
Sherlock Holmes and the Man from Hell,
London, Constable, 1997. Three potentially authentic novels though the author himself states he cannot vouch for certain.

Roberts S.C. “The Death of Cardinal Tosca”,
Sherlock Holmes Journal,
June 1953. A purportedly authentic recreation of one of the unrecorded cases. Roberts also wrote
The Strange Case of the Megatherium Thefts,
Cambridge, privately printed, 1945, which is reprinted in Green’s
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Rosenkjar, Pat. “The Adventure of the Persecuted Millionaire”,
Studies in Scarlet,
December 1965; and “The Little Affair of the Vatican Cameos”,
Baker Street Pages,
August–September 1965. Fairly faithful attempts to recreate two unrecorded cases.

Siciliano, Sam.
The Angel of the Opera,
New York: Otto Penzler Books, 1994. An entirely apocryphal but highly enjoyable novel in which Holmes encounters the Phantom of the Opera. See also Meyer’s
The Canary Trainer.

Smith, Denis O.
The Adventure of the Purple Hand,
private, 1982;
The Adventure of the Unseen Traveller,
Newport Pagnell, Diogenes, 1983;
The Adventure of the Zodiac Plate,
Diogenes, 1984;
The Secret of Shoreswood Hall,
Diogenes, 1985 and
The Adventure of the Christmas Visitor,
Diogenes, 1985. Faithful accounts of unrecorded cases that suggest a strong air of authenticity.