The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures - Mike Ashley [297]
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