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The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches, and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes
The Game Is Afoot Parodies Pastiches and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes Author:Marvin Kaye (Editor) This long awaited volume finally brings to light several cases of the world's most renowned detective originally suppressed to avoid causing scandal and embarrassment to the Crown, to public figures, or to Sherlock Holmes himself. Now, finally, the truth is revealed about Holmes' exploits involving such figures as Ida Tarbell, Consuelo V... more »anderbilt, P.G. Wodehouse, and James McNeil Whistler.
Related by diverse hands, including Watson, Inspector Lestrade, and Holmes himself, detailing untold incidents involving the Titanic, Holmes' rematch with Irene Adler, the childhoods of both Holmes and Watson, and one unfortunate result of Holmes' facility with disguise, this cornucopia of Sherlockiana will delight fans young and not-so-young.
Sherlock Holmes / Frederic Dorr Steele --
The Recollections of Captain Wilkie / Arthur Conan Doyle --
The Original of Sherlock Holmes / Dr. Harold Emery Jones --
Mr. Sherlock Holmes / Dr. Joseph Bell --
The Singular adventure of the unexpected doorscraper / Kenneth Grahame --
The Adventure of the two collaborators / James M. Barrie --
The Mystery of Pinkham's diamond stud / John Kendrick Bangs --
The Umbrosa burglary / R.C. Lehmann --
A La Sherlock Holmes / Charles Loomis --
The Sign of the 400 / R.K. Munkittrick --
The Adventure of the clothes-line / Carolyn Wells --
Sherlock Holmes umpires baseball / Anonymous --
The Adventure of the circular room / August Derleth --
The Adventure of the marked man / Stuart Palmer --
The Strange case of the megatherium thefts / S.C. Roberts --
The Adventure of the unique hamlet / Vincent Starrett --
The Enchanted garden / H.F. Heard --
But our hero was not dead / Manly Wade Wellman --
Sherlock Holmes and the Drood mystery / Edmund Pearson --
In the island of Uffa --
The Tibetan adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Amanda Russell --
The Histrionic Holmes / Marvin Kaye --
How Holmes came to play the violin / Jacques Barzun --
The Really final solution / Nick Pollotta --
The Unmasking of Sherlock Holmes / Arthur Chapman --
The Succored beauty / William B. Kahn --
The Adventure of the second swag / Luke Sharp --
An Irreducible detective story / Stephen Leacock --
The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes / O. Henry --
The Stolen cigar case / Bret Harte --
A Letter from Mycroft Holmes / Jon White --
The Murder of Conan Doyle / Ray Russell --
The Adventure of the Conk-Singleton papers / John Dickson Carr --
Journal of a Ghurka physician / Capt. Daniel M. Pinkwater --
The Struldbrugg reaction / John Sutherland --
The Moriarty gambit / Fritz Leiber --
The Adventure ofilemma of the distressed Savoyard / Crighton Sellars --
The Adventure of the death-fetch / Darrell Schweitzer --
The Theft of the Persian slipper / Edward D. Hoch --