The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures - Mike Ashley [295]
Biggle, Jr., Lloyd. The Quallsford Inheritance, New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1986; and The Glendower Conspiracy, Tulsa, Council Oak Books, 1990. Two cases related by Edward Porter Jones, a former Baker Street Irregular, the first set in 1900, the second in 1904. Excellent stories, though the authenticity is suspect.
Boyer, Richard L. The Giant Rat of Sumatra, New York: Warner Books, 1976; London: W.H. Allen, 1977. One of the most highly regarded pastiches.
Brooks, Clive. Sherlock Holmes Revisited, London: Hallmark Books, 1990. Seven stories based on the following unrecorded cases cited by Watson: “The Abergavenny Adventure”, “The Alicia Cutter”, “The Aluminium Crutch”, “The Red Leech”, “The Conk-Singleton Affair”, “The Disappearance of James Phillimore” and “The Problem of the Peculiar Pipes”.
Brooks, Clive. Sherlock Holmes Revisited, Volume Two. Southampton, Spy Glass Books, 1990. Five further cases based on unrecorded episodes mentioned by Watson: “The Friesland Case”, “The Politician, Lighthouse and Trained Cormorant”, “The Abernetty Affair”, “The Case of the Canary Trainer” and “The Adventure of the Amateur Mendicants”.
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