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"I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution."

-- Sherlock Holmes, in The Cardboard Box

The sixty tales that make up the Sherlock Holmes canon -- 4 novels and 56 short stories, published between 1887 and 1927 -- have enthralled mystery fans now for over a century. They have also inspired numerous other writers to add to the legacy of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original work, either in the form of sequels or new original novels featuring the well-known characters of Holmes, Watson and their associates, or by paying tribute with good-hearted parodies or pastiches (stories featuring characters and a writing style patterned after the original works). Whether you're interested in reading new tales featuring the world's foremost consulting detective, are curious about the crime-solving capabilities of supporting characters such as Mrs. Hudson, Irene Adler or Inspector Lestrade, or simply want to laugh at the outrageous adventures of such characters as Schlock Homes, this list includes something for you.

Although this list is large, we don't claim to include 100% of the follow-up novels, parodies or pastiches that have ever been published. We have attempted to include as many Holmesian tales published, in English, by professional publishing companies as we could find accurate records for, with an emphasis on titles which have been published by U.S. publishers. This list does not include "Holmes" titles which were self-published or put out by vanity presses. This list is also composed only of titles for adults. If you know of any titles appropriate to this list, which are not included here, we'd appreciate hearing about them. You can send e-mail to the appropriate staff by visiting our Ask a Librarian page.

In an effort to include as many interesting Holmesian titles as possible, we've included numerous titles on this list which are not owned by the Lincoln City Libraries. These appear here for the sake of providing complete series listings, or to identify classic Sherlock Holmes titles which are long out-of-print. All books owned by Lincoln City Libraries are hotlinked to their entries in our library catalog, so that you may check on their current availability. If you see a title on this list that is not hotlinked to our collection, please consider ordering it through our Interlibrary Loan department.

Poul AndersonA Midsummer Tempest [1974]
Charlton AndrewsThe Resources of Mycroft Holmes [1973]
Val Andrews[series of 28 Sherlock Holmes novels, published betwen 1980 and 2001]
Daniel A. AntidormiSherlock Holmes: My Brother's Keeper (Sherlock Holmes Meets Col. James Moriarty) [1982]
Alan ArnoldYoung Sherlock Holmes [1985] [movie novelization]
Edmund AubreySherlock Holmes in Dallas [1980]
Graham AverySherlock Holmes and the Strange Events at the Bank of England [1997]
Hilary BaileyThe Strange Adventures of Charlotte Holmes [1994]
Abbey Pen BakerIn the Dead of Winter [1994]
Robert BarrThe Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs [1979]
Sam BenadySherlock Holmes in Gibraltar [1990]
D.R. BensenSherlock Holmes in New York [1976]
Irene, Good Night [1982]
Arthur Christopher BensonThe Book of the Queen's Dolls' House [1924]
Lloyd BiggleThe Quallsford Inheritance [1986]
The Glendower Conspiracy [1990]
Matthew BoothSherlock Holmes and the Giant's Hand and Other Stories [2001]
Gary F. BootheThe Secret of Sherlock Holmes [1997]
Anthony BoucherThe Case of the Baker Street Irregulars [1980]
Richard L. BoyerThe Giant Rat of Sumatra [1976]
A Sherlockian Quarter [1998]
Clive BrooksThe Memoirs of Professor Moriarty [1990]
Sherlock Holmes Revisited: Hitherto Unchronicled Adventures [2 vol.] [1990]
Russell BrownSherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde [1988]
Carol BuggeThe Star of India [1998]
The Haunting of Torre Abbey [2000]
P.H. CannonPulptime: Being a Singular Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, H.P. Lovecraft and and the Kalem Club, as if narrated by Frank Belknap Long, Jr. [1984]
Caleb CarrThe Italian Secretary [2005]
John Dickson CarrThe Door to Doom: and Other Detections [1980]
The Nine Wrong Answers [1986]
Philip J. CarraherSherlock Holmes and the Dead Rabbits Society [2001]
Tim ChamplinDeadly Season: A Western Story [1997]
Ian CharnockThe Elementary Cases of Sherlock Holmes [1999]
Watson's Last Case [2000]
S. Beach ChesterThe Arsine Lepine-Herlock Soames Affair [1912]
John CleeseThe Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It [1977] [movie novelization]
Randall CollinsThe Case of the Philosopher's Ring, by Dr. John H. Watson [1978]
Susan ConantThe Barker Street Regulars [1998]
Joe CooperThe Case of the Cottingley Fairies [1997]
Basil CooperThe Dossier of Solar Pons [1979]
The Further Adventures of Solar Pons [1979]
The Secret Files of Solar Pons [1979]
The Uncollected Cases of Solar Pons [1980]
The Exploits of Solar Pons [1993]
The Recollections of Solar Pons [1995]
Paul CornellHappy Endings [1996] [Doctor Who]
Arthur Byron CoverAn East Wind Coming [1979]
Mitch CullinA Slight Trick of the Mind [2005]
Marcel D'AgneauThe Curse of the Nibelung: Being the Last Case of Lord Holmes of Baker Street and Sir John Watson [1981]
Lorraine DalySherlock Holmes and the Lusitania [1998]
Martin DaviesMrs. Hudson and the Spirits' Curse [2004]
Barry DaySherlock Holmes and the Shakespeare Globe Murders [1997]
Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murder [2000]
Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders [2001]
Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Deadly Sins Murders [2002]
John DeChancieFrom Prussia With Love: A Castle Falkenstein Novel [1996]
Masterminds of Falkenstein: A Castle Falkenstein Novel [1996]
August DerlethIn Re: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventures of Solar Pons [1945]
The Memoirs of Solar Pons [1951]
Three Problems for Solar Pons [1952]
The Return of Solar Pons [1958]
The Casebook of Solar Pons [1965]
Praed Street Papers [1965]
Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey [1968]
A Praed Street Dossier [1968]
The Chronicles of Solar Pons [1973]
The Reminiscences of Solar Pons [1975]
The Exploits of Solar Pons [omnibus of "In Re:" and "Chronicles..."]
The Solar Pons Omnibus [1982]
Michael DibdinThe Last Sherlock Holmes Story [1996]
Carter DicksonThe Plague Court Murders [1934]
R.H.W. DillardThe Book of Changes [1974]
Carol Nelson DouglasGood Night, Mr. Holmes [1990]
Good Morning, Irene [1990]
Irene at Large [1992]
Irene's Last Waltz [1993]
Chapel Noir [2001]
Castle Rouge [2002]
Femme Fatale [2003]
Spider Dance [2004]
Noel DowningDoctor Watson and the Invisible Man [1991]
Adrian Conan Doyle
& John Dickson Carr
The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes [1954]
David DvorkinTime for Sherlock Holmes [1983]
Umberto EcoThe Name of the Rose [1983]
Miles ElwardSherlock Holmes in Canterbury [1995]
Loren D. EstlemanSherlock Holmes vs. Dracula; or, The Adventures of the Sanguinary Count [1978]
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes [1979]
Grant EustaceAbsolute Discretion [1997]
Philip Jose FarmerThe Adventure of the Peerless Peer [1976]
Quinn FawcettDeath Wears a Crown [1993]
Napoleon Must Die [1993]
The Adventures of Mycroft Holmes [1994]
Against the Brotherhood [1997]
Embassy Row [1998]
The Flying Scotsman [1999]
The Scottish Ploy [2000]
Lewis FeuerThe Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter: Sherlock Holmes Meets Karl Marx [1983]
Robert L. FishThe Incredible Schlock Homes [1966]
The Memoirs of Schlock Homes [1974]
Schlock Homes: The Complete Bagel Street Saga [1990]/td>
Denny Martin FlynnLady Killer [DATE]
San Francisco Kills [DATE]
Corey FordThree Rousing Cheers for the Rollo Boys [1925]
Berkley ForsytheExpo '98: Sherlock Holmes in Omaha [1987]
George MacDonald FraserFlashman and the Tiger [2000]
Brian FreemantleThe Holmes Inheritance [2004]
Kinky FriedmanSpanking Watson [1999]
Esther FriesnerDruid's Blood [1988]
Mark FrostThe List of 7 [1994]
The Six Messiahs [1995]
Luke Steven FullenkampSherlock Holmes and the Search for Excaliber [2004]
Jostein GaardnerSophie's World [1995]
John E. GardnerThe Return of Moriarty [1974]
The Revenge of Moriarty [1975]
Randall GarrettToo Many Magicians [1966]
Murder and Magic [1979]
John Gibson/R.L. GreenMy Evening With Sherlock Holmes [1981]
Ken GreenwaldThe Lost Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [1989]
L.B. GreenwoodSherlock Holmes and the Case of the Raleigh Legacy [1986]
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of Sabina Hall [1988]
Sherlock Holmes and the Thistle of Scotland [1989]
John HallThe Travels of Sherlock Holmes [1997]
The Abominable Wife and Other Unrecorded Cases of Sherlock Holmes [1998]
Sherlock Holmes and the Telephone Murder Mystery [1998]
Sherlock Holmes and the Boulevard Assassin [1999]
Sherlock Holmes and the Disgraced Inspector [1999]
Sherlock Holmes and the Abbey School Mystery [2001]
Sherlock Holmes and the Adler Papers [2001]
Sherlock Holmes and the Hammerford Will [2001]
Robert Lee HallExit Sherlock Holmes: The Great Detective's Final Days [1977]
The King Edward Plot [1980]
Leslie HalliwellThe Ghost of Sherlock Holmes: Seventeen Supernatural Stories [1934]
Charles HamiltonThe Adventures of Herlock Sholmes [1976]
The Complete Casebook of Herlock Sholmes [1989]
David L. Hammer
(a.k.a. Angus Maclaren)
The Twenty-Second Man: In Re: Sherlock Holmes, German Agent [1989]
My Dear Watson: Being the Annals of Sherlock Holmes [1995]
Edward B. HannaThe Whitechapel Horrors [1992]
HapiThe Adamantine Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure in Tibet and India [1974]
Michael HardwickThe Private Life of Sherlock Holmes [1971] [movie novelization]
Prisoner of the Devil [1980]
The Private Life of Doctor Watson [1983]
Sherlock Holmes: My Life and Crimes [1984]
Revenge of the Hound [1987]
Michael HarrisonI, Sherlock Holmes [1977]
Owen HaskellSherlock Holmes and the Fall River Tragedy [1996]
Edmund HastieSherlock Holmes and the Disappearing Prince and Other Stories [2000]
Simon HawkeThe Dracula Caper [1988]
H.F. HeardA Taste for Honey [1941]
Reply Paid [1942]
The Notched Hairpin [1949]
The Amazing Mycroft Mysteries: Three Novels [1980]
Peter J. HeckThe Guilty Abroad: A Mark Twain Mystery [1999]
John Buxton HiltonSlickensides [1987]
William HjortsbergNevermore [1994]
Michael P. Hodel
& Sean Wright
Enter the Lion [1979]
Tom HollandSupping With Panthers [1996]
G. Randolph HolmsThe Hounds of the Vatican; or Holmes Last Bow [1986]
Tom HoltMy Hero [1996]
Sydney HosierElementary, Mrs. Hudson [1996]
Murder, Mrs. Hudson [1997]
Most Baffling, Mrs. Hudson [1998]
The Game's Afoot, Mrs. Hudson [1998]
Ned HubbleThe Adventures of Creighton Holmes [1979]
Mary & Irving JaffeeBeyond Baker Street [1973]
Norbu JamyangSherlock Holmes: The Missing Years - The Adventures of the Great Detective in India and Tibet [1999]
Harry Paul JeffersThe Adventure of the Stalwart Companions: Heretofore Unpublished Letters and Papers Concerning a Singular Collaboration Between Theodore Roosevelt and Sherlock Holmes [1978]
Murder Most Irregular  [1983] [large print only]
Jill JonesBloodline [2000] [pb only]
Phyllis Ann KarrIdylls of the Queen [1985]
Marvin KayeThe Incredible Umbrella [1979]
The Amorous Umbrella [1981]
Stephen KendrickNight Watch: A Long-Lost Adventure in Which Sherlock Holmes Meets Father Brown [2001]
Laurie R. KingThe Beekeeper's Apprentice, Or On the Segregation of the Queen [1994]
A Monstrous Regiment of Women [1995]
A Letter of Mary [1996]
The Moor [1998]
O Jeruslam [1999]
Justice Hall [2002]
The Game [2004]
Locked Rooms [2005]
William KotzwinkleTrouble in Bugland: A Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries [1983]
Michael KurlandDeath by Gaslight [1982]
Ten Little Wizards [1988]
A Study in Sorcery [1989]
The Infernal Device and Others: A Professor Moriarty Omnibus [2001]
The Great Game: A Professor Moriarty Novel [2001]
My Sherlock Holmes: Untold Stories of the Great Detective [2003]
Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years [2004]
Maurice LeblancThe Exploits of Arsene Lupin [1907]
Arsene Lupin Versus Herlock Sholmes [1910]
Maurice Leblanc & Edgar JepsonArsene Lupin [2002]
Jon L. LellenbergNova 57 Minor: The Waxing and Waning of the Sixty-First Adventure of Sherlock Holmes [1990]
Christopher LeppekThe Surrogate Assassin [1998]
John T. LescroartSon of Holmes [1986]
Rasputin's Revenge: The Further Startling Adventures of August Lupa - Son of Holmes [1987]
Mark LovellThe Spy Who Fell Off the Back of a Bus [1988]
Peter MarksSkullduggery [1987]
Lee MatthiasSherlock Holmes and Harry Houdini and the Adventure of the Pandora Plague [1981]
Ed McBainThe Heckler [DATE] [87th Precinct novel]
Regis McCaffertyThe Sherlock Holmes Adventure [2004]
Sam McCarverThe Case of the Second Seance [2000]
Robert E. McClellanSherlock Holmes and the Skull of Death [2001]
Nicholas MeyerThe Seven-Per-Cent Solution [1974]
The West-End Horror: A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D. [1976]
The Canary Trainer: From the Memoirs of John H. Watson, M.D. [1993]
Larry MillettSherlock Holmes and the Red Demon [1996]
Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders [1998]
Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery [1999]
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Alliance [2001]
The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes [2002]
A.A. MilneThe Red House Mystery [1922]
Gladys MitchellWatson's Choice [1976]
Sena Jeter NaslundSherlock in Love [1993]
Kim NewmanThe Night Mayor [1989]
Anno Dracula [1992]
The Bloody Red Baron: Anno Dracula 1918 [1996]
Jamyang NorbuThe Mandala of Sherlock Holmes [1999]
William J. PalmerThe Detective and Mr. Dickens [1991]
Gilbert PearlmanThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother [1975] [movie novelization]
Edmund L. PearsonThe Adventure of the Lost Manuscripts and One Other [1911]
Elizabeth PetersLion in the Valley [1986]
Martin PowellSherlock Holmes: A Case of Blind Fear [1996]
Sandra West ProwellThe Killing of Monday Brown [1994]
Ellery QueenA Study in Terror [1966] [film tie-in] [large print only]
Ted RiccardiThe Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes [2003]
Robert RichardsonThe Book of the Dead [1989]
Lora RobertsThe Affair of the Incognito Tenant: A Mystery With Sherlock Holmes [2004]
Roberta RogowThe Problem of the Missing Miss [1998]
The Problem of the Sinister Spiritualist [1999]
The Problem of the Evil Editor [2000]
Leo RostenSilky [1979]
Peter RowlandThe Disappearance of Edwin Drood [1991]
Fred SaberhagenThe Holmes-Dracula File [1978]
The Third Book of Lost Swords: The Stonecutter's Legacy [1988]
Seance for a Vampire [1994]
Robert SaffronThe Demon Device [1979]
Walter SatterthwaitEscapade [1995]
Norma SchierThe Anagram Detectives [1979]
John SentesiSherlock Holmes and the Crossbow Incident [2003]
Stanley ShawSherlock Holmes at the 1902 Fifth Test [1985]
Sherlock Holmes Meets Annie Oakley [1986]
Sam SicilianoThe Angel of the Opera: Sherlock Holmes Meets the Phantom of the Opera [1994]
Michael SladePrimal Scream [1998]
Burnt Bones [2000]
George Hudson SmithThe Second War of the Worlds [1976]
Raymond SmullyanThe Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes [1979] [794.12 Smu]
Daniel StashowerThe Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man [1985]
Lauren SteinhauerSherlock Holmes' Lost Adventure: The True Story of the Giant Rats of Sumatra [2004]
Alan StockwellThe Singular Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [2003]
Julian SymonsA Three-Pipe Problem [1975]
The Kentish Manor Murders [1988]
Marcel TherouxThe Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: A Paper Chase [2001]
Donald ThomasThe Secret Cases of Sherlock Holmes [1999]
Frank ThomasSherlock Holmes and the Golden Bird [1979]
Sherlock Holmes and the Masquerade Murders [1986]
June ThomsonThe Secret Files of Sherlock Holmes [1990]
The Secret Notebooks of Sherlock Holmes [2004]
Raymond ThorBloodguilty [1997]
Peter ToddThe Adventures of Herlock Sholmes [1976]
M.J. TrowThe Adventures of Inspector Lestrade [1985]
Brigade: Further Adventures of Lestrade [1986]
Lestrade and the Hallowed House [1987]
Lestrade and the Leviathan [1988]
Lestrade and the Deadly Game [1990]
Lestrade and the Ripper [1988]
Lestrade and the Brother of Death [1988]
Lestrade and the Guardian Angel [1990]
Lestrade and the Gift of the Prince [1991]
Lestrade and the Magpie [2000]
Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand [2000]
Lestrade and the Sign of Nine [2000]
Lestrade and the Sawdust Ring [2000]
Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder [2001]
Lestrade and the Devil's Own [2001]
Lestrade and the Kiss of Horus [2001]
Cay VanAshTen Years Beyond Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Matches Wits With the Diabolical Dr. Fu Man Chu [1984]
The Fire of Fu Manchu [1987]
Alan VannemanSherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra [2002]
Sherlock Holmes and the Hapsburg Tiara [2004]
Ray WalshThe Mycroft Memoranda [1984]
Thomas WheelerThe Arcanum [2004]
Wayne WorcesterThe Monster of St. Marylebone [1999]
The Jewel of Covent Garden [2000]

Anthologies

Collections of short stories, by a variety of authors in the same book. Depending on the specific title, not all the stories in each book will feature Holmes or Holmes-like characters.

Mike AshleyThe Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures [1997]
Isaac AsimovSherlockian Limericks [1978] [811 Asi]
Isaac Asimov,
Martin H. Greenberg
& Charles Waugh
Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space [1985]
Richard Lancelyn GreenThe Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [1985]
Martin H. GreenbergThe New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [1987] [813.08 Gre]
Holmes for the Holidays [1996] [813.08 Gre]
More Holmes for the Holidays [1999] [813.08 Gre]
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [1987] [813.08 Gre 1999] expanded edition
Murder in Baker Street [2001] [813.08 Gre]
Murder, My Dear Watson [2002] [813.08 Gre]
The Ghosts of Baker Street: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes [2005]
Hugh GreeneRivals of Sherlock Holmes: Early Detective Stories [1970] [823.08 Gre]
Cosmopolitan Crimes: Foreign Rivals of Sherlock Holmes [1971] [808.83 Gre]
American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes [1976]
Further Rivals of Sherlock Holmes [1976]
Marvin KayeThe Game is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes [1994] [813.08 Kay]
The Resurrected Holmes: New Cases From the Notes of John H. Watson, M.D. [1996] [813.08 Kay]
The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes [1998] [813.08 Kay]
Michael KurlandMy Sherlock Holmes: Untold Stories of the Great Detective [2003] [813.08 Kur]
Ellery QueenThe Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes [1944]
To the Queen's Taste [1946] [808.83 Q3t]
Michael Reaves [ed.]Shadows Over Baker Street [2003] [813.08 Rea]
Mike Resnick
& Martin H. Greenberg
Sherlock Holmes in Orbit [1995]
Alan K. RussellThe Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: 40 Stories of Crime and Detection From Original Illustrated Magazines [1978] [813.08 Rus]
Sebastian WolfeThe Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes [1991]

Original Radio Programs

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

From 1939-1946, Americans gathered around their radios to listen to The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- featuring Basil Rathbone as the famous crime solver and Nigel Bruce as his able assistant, Dr. Watson. Witty, fast-paced and always surprising, these great radio plays -- written by the prolific writing team of Anthony Boucher and Denis Green -- are as fresh today as they were then. 52 episodes of this radio program were released in pairs on 26 tapes in the 1980s and 1990s, and the library still owns many of them. Although a few of the stories are adaptations of actual "canon" tales, most of these are new "original" works for radio, and are therefore included in this list of Holmesian followups, sequels, pastiches and parodies.

Vol. 1: The Unfortunate Tobacconist; and, The Paradol Chamber
Vol. 2: The Viennese Strangler; and, The Notorius Canary Trainer
Vol. 3: April Fool's Day Adventure; and, The Stranger Adventure of the Uneasy Easy Chair
Vol. 4: Mystery of the Headless Monk; and, The Strange Case of the Demon Barber
Vol. 5: The Amateur Mendicat Society; and, The Case of the Vanishing White Elephant
Vol. 6: The Case of the Limping Ghost; and, The Girl With the Gazelle
Vol. 7: The Case of the Out of Date Murder; and, The Waltz of Death
Vol. 8: Colonel Warburton's Madness; and, The Iron Box
Vol. 9: A Scandal in Bohemia; and, The Second Generation
Vol. 10: In Flanders Fields; and, The Eyes of Mr. Leyton
Vol. 11: The Tell Tale Pigeon Feathers; and, The Indiscretion of Mr. Edwards
Vol. 12: The Problem of Thor Bridge; and, The Double Zero
Vol. 13: Murder in the Casbah; and, The Tankerville Club
Vol. 14: The Strange Case of the Murderer in Wax; and, The Man With the Twisted Lip
Vol. 15: The Living Doll; and, The Disappearing Scientistists
Vol. 16: The Terrifying Cats; and, The Submarine Caves
Vol. 17: The Adventure of the Speckled Band; and, The Purloined Ruby
Vol. 18: The Guileless Gypsy; and, The Camberville Poisoners
Vol. 19: The Book of Tobit; and, Murder Beyond the Mountains
Vol. 20: The Manor House Case; and, The Adventure of the Stuttering Ghost
Vol. 21: The Great Gandolfo; and, The Adventure of the Original Hamlet
Vol. 22: Murder by Moonlight; and, The Singular Affair of the Coptic Compass
Vol. 23: The Gunpowder Plot; and, The Babbling Butler
Vol. 24: The Accidental Murderess; and, The Adventure of the Blarney Stone
Vol. 25: The Night Before Christmas; and, The Darlington Substitution
Vol. 26: The Haunting of Sherlock Holmes; and, The Baconian Cipher

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