CONTENTS
Introduction by Otto Penzler
THE MASTER
Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Field Bazaar”
Arthur Conan Doyle, “How Watson Learned the Trick”
FAMILIAR AS THE ROSE IN SPRING
Vincent Starrett, “The Unique Hamlet”
Bret Harte, “The Stolen Cigar-Case”
Arthur Whitaker, “The Case of the Man Who Was Wanted”
James M. Barrie, “The Adventure of the Two Collaborators”
O. Henry, “The Sleuths”
A. B. Cox, “Holmes and the Dasher”
Stephen Leacock, “An Irreducible Detective Story”
Stephen King, “The Doctor’s Case”
THE LITERATURE OF CRIME
Davis Grubb, “The Brown Recluse”
Kingsley Amis, “The Darkwater Hall Mystery”
J.C. Masterman, “The Case of the Gifted Amateur”
James M. Barrie, “The Late Sherlock Holmes”
Edmund Pearson, “Sherlock Holmes and the Drood Mystery”
A.A. Milne, “The Rape of the Sherlock”
P. G. Wodehouse, “From a Detective’s Note-Book”
Hugh Kingsmill, “The Ruby of Khitmandu”
August Derleth, “The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm”
H. F. Heard, “The Enchanted Garden”
Ring Lardner, “A Study in Handwriting”
Neil Gaiman, “The Case of Death and Honey”
Anthony Burgess, “Murder to Music”
IN THE BEGINNING
James M. Barrie, “An Evening with Sherlock Holmes”
Robert Barr, “Detective Stories Gone Wrong: The Adventures of
Sherlaw Kombs”
Anonymous, “Sherlock Holmes vs. Conan Doyle”
R. C. Lehmann, “The Duke’s Feather”
Roy L. McCardell, “The Sign of the ‘400’”
HOLMESLESS
Christopher Morley, “Codeine (7 Per Cent)”
Laurie R. King, “Mrs. Hudson’s Case”
Bliss Austin, “The Final Problem”
NOT OF THIS PLACE
Anthony Boucher, “The Adventure of the Bogle-Wolf”
Poul Anderson, “The Martian Crown Jewels”
Anonymous, “Sherlock Among the Spirits”
Logan Clendening, “The Case of the Missing Patriarchs”
Loren D. Estleman, “The Devil and Sherlock Holmes”
KEEPING THE MEMORY GREEN
S. C. Roberts, “The Strange Case of the Megatherium Thefts”
Peter Cannon, “The Adventure of the Noble Husband”
William O. Fuller, “A Night with Sherlock Holmes”
Leslie S. Klinger, “The Adventure of the Wooden Box”
Donald Thomas, “The Case of the Unseen Hand”
Sam Benady, “The Abandoned Brigantine”
Barry Day, “The Adventure of the Curious Canary”
Frederic Dorr Steele, “The Adventure of the Murdered Art
Editor”
David Stuart Davies, “The Darlington Substitution Scandal”
James C. Iraldi, “The Problem of the Purple Maculas”
YOU THINK THAT’S FUNNY?
Robert Barr, “The Adventure of the Second Swag”
Stanley Rubinstein, “Sheer Luck Again”
John Kendrick Bangs, “A Pragmatic Enigma”
Anonymous, “Herlock Sholmes at It Again”
Anthony Armstrong, “The Reigate Road Murder”
William B. Kahn, “The Succored Beauty”
Gregory Breitman, “The Marriage of Sherlock Holmes”
E. F. Benson and Eustace H. Miles, “The Return of Sherlock
Holmes”
Arthur Chapman, “The Unmasking of Sherlock Holmes”
George F. Forrest, “The Adventure of the Diamond Necklace”
Robert L. Fish, “The Adventure of the Ascot Tie”
CONTEMPORARY VICTORIANS
Colin Dexter, “A Case of Mis-Identity”
Thomas Perry, “Startling Events in the Electrified City”
Lyndsay Faye, “The Case of Colonel Warburton’s Madness”
John Lutz, “The Infernal Machine”
Peter Tremayne, “The Specter of Tullyfane Abbey”
Daniel Stashower, “The Adventure of the Agitated Actress”
Michael Moorcock, “The Adventure of the Dorset Street Lodger”
Bill Crider, “The Adventure of the Venomous Lizard”
June Thomson, “The Case of the Friesland Outrage”
Carol Buggé, “The Strange Case of the Tongue-Tied Tenor”
Tanith Lee, “The Human Mystery”
Anne Perry, “Hostage to Fortune”
Jon Koons, “The Adventure of the Missing Countess”
Rick Boyer, “The Adventure of Zolnay, The Aerialist”
John Lescroart, “The Adventure of the Giant Rat of Sumatra”
THE FOOTSTEPS OF A GIGANTIC AUTHOR
Julian Symons, “Did Sherlock Holmes Meet Hercule…?”
H. R. F. Keating, “A Trifling Affair”
Barry Perowne, “Raffles: The Enigma of the Admiral’s Hat”
Barry Perowne, “Raffles on the Trail of the Hound”
Edward D. Hoch, “The Cipher in the Sand”
Kenneth Millar, “The South Sea Soup Co.”
Carolyn Wells, “The Adventure of the Clothes-Line”
Dorothy B. Hughes, “Sherlock Holmes and the Muffin”
Stuart M. Kaminsky, “The Man from Capetown”
Manly Wade Wellman, “But Our Hero Was Not Dead”
Stuart Palmer, “The Adventure of the Marked Man”
OTTO PENZLER is the editor of twelve Vintage Crime/Black Lizard anthologies, including The Big Book of Pulps, The Big Book of Black Mask Stories, and, most recently, The Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries. He lives in New York City, where he is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop.
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“The breadth of this anthology, which spans over a century and
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genius in creating such an iconic character. . . . Perhaps
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obscurity talented writers who have captured the Watsonian
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mesmerizing plots. . . . This volume is a must for all fans of the
great detective.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred, boxed
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“Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 60 stories about Holmes, and more
than 6,000 have been penned by other authors since. This collection
gathers the best of those stories from Holmes admirers. . . . The
pieces are separated into categories, which makes choosing a story
more fun for the reader. . . . A must-have for all libraries. This
is the only book of its kind to collect so many pastiches dedicated
to Holmes, 83 total. Fans of the fictional detective will find
great joy in this tome.”
—Library Journal (starred review)
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