The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures

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, 'TheYuletide 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of the Second Generation', 'The April Fool's Adventure', 'The Case of the Amateur Mendicants', 'The Adventure of the Out-of-Date Murder', 'The Case of the Demon Barber', 'Murder Beyond the Mountains', 'The Case of the Uneasy Easy Chair', 'The Case of the Baconian Cipher', 'The Adventure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; NewYork, 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 NewYork.The book is apocryphal but is remarkably convincing.

Kaye, Marvin (editor). The Game is A foot, NewYork, 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 Bugge, 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 protegee.

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. TheWest-End Horror. NewYork, 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.