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Conan Doyle, Adrian and Carr, John Dickson. The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, London: John Murray, 1954; New York, Random House, 1954. A collection of twelve stories based on the unrecorded cases referred to by Watson. Some have the air of authenticity but most are apocryphal. The stories are (all prefixed "The Adventure of…") "The Seven Clocks", "The Gold Hunter", "The Wax Gamblers", "The Highgate Miracle", "The Black Baronet", "The Sealed Room", "Foulkes Rath", "The Abbas Ruby", "The Two Women", "The Dark Angels", "The Deptford Horror" and "The Red Widow".

Davies, David Stuart. Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair. Romford, Ian Henry, 1991. Apocryphal novel set in 1895. Holmes in Ruritania.

Davies, David Stuart. The Tangled Skein. Romford, Ian Henry, 1992. Almost certainly a genuine case though the date of 1888 following on from the Baskerville case must be wrong.

DeWeese, Gene. "The Silent Night Before Christmas", Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 1996. A faithfully rendered story set in the first Christmas after Holmes's return from the grave.

Dibdin, Michael. The Last Sherlock Holmes Story. London, Jonathan Cape, 1978; New York, Pantheon, 1978. A totally apocryphal novel which brings Holmes and Moriarty together in the murders of Jack the Ripper.

Elward, Miles. Sherlock Holmes in Canterbury. Canterbury, Wynne Howard, 1995.Three stories set in Kent which should be apocryphal but have a considerable authenticity.

Fisher, Charles. Some Unaccountable Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, Philadelphia: Sons of the Copper Beeches, 1956. Seven very short and rather frivolous accounts, originally written for the Philadelphia Record in 1939-1940.

Gardner, John. The Return of Moriarty, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974; New York, Putnam's, 1974; and The Revenge of Moriarty, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975; New York, Putnam's, 1976.Very evident apocrypha, but extremely good stories.

Green, Richard Lancelyn (editor). The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes, London, Penguin Books, 1983. An anthology of seventeen pastiches, parodies and associated ephemera by Conan Doyle.

Green, Richard Lancelyn (editor). The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, London, Penguin Books, 1985. An anthology of eleven excellent pastiches, some of them faithful reconstructions of cases. The stories are (all prefixed "The Adventure of…") "… the First-Class Carriage", Ronald A. Knox (The Strand, February 1947); "… the Sheffield Banker", ArthurWhitaker; "… the Unique Hamlet" by Vincent Starrett; "… the Marked Man" by Stuart Palmer (Ellery Queen's, July 1944); "… the Megatherium Thefts", S.C. Roberts; "… the Trained Cormorant" W.R. Duncan Macmillan (originally "Holmes in Scotland", Blackwood's Magazine, September 1953); "… Arnsworth Castle", Adrian Conan Doyle; "… the Tired Captain", Alan Wilson; "… the Green Empress", EP. Cillié; "… the Purple Hand", D.O. Smith, and "… Hillerman Hall", Julian Symons.

Greenberg, Martin H., and Waugh, Carol-Lynn (editors). The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. NewYork, Carroll & Graf, 1987. Anthology of fifteen original stories: "The Adventure of the Unique Holmes" by Jon L. 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 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.