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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 book by novelist/anthologist Kaye (Penguin Book of Ghosts) is a compilation of good-natured lampoons, clever spoofs and somewhat academic examinations of Sherlock Holmes's cases. — Contents: — * Acknowledgments — * Introduction — * Preliminary Ponderings — . Sherlock Holmes by Frederic Dorr Steele — . The Recollections of Captain Wilkie by Arthur... more » Conan Doyle
. The Original of Sherlock Holmes by Dr. Harold Emery Jones
. Mr. Sherlock Holmes by Dr. Joseph Bell
* Early Parodies -- Con Amore
. The Singular Adventure of the Unexpected Doorscraper by Kenneth Grahame
. The Adventure of the Two Collaborators by James M. Barrie
. The Mystery of Pinkham's Diamond Stud by John Kendrick Bangs
. The Umbrosa Burglary by R.C. Lehmann
. A La Sherlock Holmes by Charles Loomis
. The Sign of the "400" by R.K. Munkittrick
. The Adventure of the Clothes-line by Carolyn Wells
. Sherlock Holmes Umpires Baseball Anonymous
* Six Classic Pastiches
. The Adventure of the Circular Room by August Derleth
. The Adventure of the Marked Man by Stuart Palmer
. The Strange Case of the Megatherium Thefts by S.C. Roberts
. The Adventure of the Unique Hamlet by Vincent Starrett
. The Enchanted Garden by H.F. Heard
. But Our Hero Was Not Dead by Manly Wade Wellman
* Scholarly Ponderings
. Sherlock Holmes and the Drood Mystery by Edmund Pearson
. In the Island of Uffa by Poul Anderson
. The Tibetan Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Amanda Russell
. The Histrionic Holmes by Marvin Kaye
. How Holmes Came to Play the Violin by Jacques Barzun
* Parodies Absurdes et Cruelles
. The Really Final Solution by Nick Pollotta
. The Unmasking of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Chapman
. The Succored Beauty by William B. Kahn
. The Adventure of the Second Swag by Luke Sharp
. An Irreducible Detective Story by Stephen Leacock
. The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes by O. Henry
. The Stolen Cigar Case by Bret Harte
. A Letter from Mycroft Holmes by Jon White
. The Murder of Conan Doyle by Ray Russell
. The Adventure of the Conk-Singleton Papers by John Dickson Carr
. Journal of a Ghurka Physician by Capt. Daniel M. Pinkwater
. The Struldbrugg Reaction by John Sutherland
* New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
. The Moriarty Gambit by Fritz Lieber
. The Adventure of the Missing Countess by Jon Koons
. The Gibraltar Letter by Sam Benady
. The Strange Case of the Tongue-Tied Tenor by Carole Bugge
. The Problem of the Purple Maculas by James C. Iraldi
. Our American Cousins by Roberta Rogow
* Pieces Problematical
. The Field Bazaar by Arthur Conan Doyle
. Sussex Interview by P.M. Stone
. From the Diary of Sherlock Holmes by Maurice Baring
. Mrs. Hudson Speaks by ZaSu Pitts
. The Adventure of the Bogle-Wolf by Anthony Boucher
. Sherlock Holmes in Oz by Ruth Berman
. The Sinister Cheesecake by Craig Shaw Gardner
. The Dilemma of the Distressed Savoyard by Crighton Sellars
. The Adventure of the Death-Fetch by Darrell Schweitzer
. The Theft of the Persian Slipper by Edward D. Hoch