The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures - Mike Ashley [298]
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.
Starrett, Vincent. The Unique Hamlet, Chicago, private, 1920. A recognized classic with all the hall marks of an authentic case. This is reprinted in Ellery Queen’s Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes and in Starrett’s own The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (University of Chicago Press, 1960).
Symons, Julian. “How a Hermit was Disturbed in his Retirement” in The Great Detectives, London, Orbis, 1981; New York, Abrams, 1981; also reprinted as “The Adventure of Hillerman Hall”. Wherein an aged Holmes is visited by a young Miss Marple. Obviously apocryphal, but delightful none the less.
Taylor, John. The Unopened Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, London, BBC Books, 1993. Six apocryphal stories adapted by the author from his BBC radio series. “The Wandering Corpse”, “The Battersea Worm”, “The Paddington Witch,”, “The Phantom Organ”, “The Devil’s Tunnel” and “The Horror of Hanging Wood”.
Thomson, June. The Secret Files of Sherlock Holmes, London: Constable, 1990. Seven stories based on the unchronicled cases, all prefixed “The Case of …”: “The Vanishing Head-Waiter”, “The Amateur Mendicants”, “The Remarkable Worm”. “The Exalted Client”, “The Notorious Canary Trainer”, “The Itinerant Yeggman” and “The Abandoned Lighthouse”. This and the next two volumes contain some of the best Sherlockian pastiches and have the ring of authenticity, though several are clearly apocryphal.
Thomson, June. The Secret Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes, London: Constable, 1992. Seven more stories: “The Paradol Chamber”, “The Hammersmith Wonder”, “The Maplestead Magpie”, “The Harley Street Specialist”, “The Old Russian Woman”, “The Camberwell Poisoning” and “The Sumatran Rat”.
Thomson, June. The Secret Journals of Sherlock Holmes, London: Constable, 1993. Seven further cases: “The Millionaire’s Persecution”, “The Colonel’s Madness”, “The Addleton Tragedy”, “The Friesland Outrage”, “The Shopkeeper’s Terror”,