The Sherlock Holmes Universe encompasses not only the stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, but also many further adventures of The Great Detective and other characters from Doyle's stories.*
This Sherlock Holmes Universe collection also contains library items about "where Holmes walked", modern deconstructions of some of Holmes' cases, and biographies of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The characters created by Doyle are so enduring that modern authors have written new stories not only about Holmes but also Dr. John Watson and his wife, "the woman" Irene Adler, and Holmes' arch-rival Professor Moriarty. Even the Baker Street Irregulars, Inspector Lestrade, and Sherlock's long-suffering housekeeper Mrs. Hudson have gotten their own stories, and Arthur Conan Doyle appears as a character in several works. Other authors have introduced entirely new characters, the "children of Holmes."
The items on this page are a representative sample -- click through on the Sherlock Holmes Universe to see all the Library items tagged in this wide, varied, and ever-growing collection!
* Once the copyright on characters passes into the public domain, any author may legally use the characters in stories.
The Ultimate Sherlock Holmes Collection!
All of the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle in a 3-volume set, with the original Strand magazine illustrations and over 1,000 annotations examining:
"...the identity of Watson's wives, where Holmes attended college, and what did, in fact, happen at the Reichenbach Falls. Still other notes yield fascinating cultural and historical insights about the Victorian and Edwardian ages, examining an incredible range of topics, including annotations on Victorian bicycling, the development of fingerprinting, the history of the Boer War, the invention of the submarine, the growth of the railroads, the use of the vampire in literature, and the amazingly pervasive fear of premature burial.
Volume II also includes appendices that will prove indispensable to any Sherlockian, including an extensive bibliography and a listing of international societies dedicated to the study of Sherlock Holmes, as well as numerous Web sites for further study of the stories and the times." - from the book jacket
Features short stories about Sherlock Holmes and Watson solving mysteries where a particular piece has been changed, which alters the course of the story and conclusion.
A Sherlockiana primer / Christopher Roden -- The doctor's case / Stephen King -- The horror of the many faces / Tim Lebbon -- The case of the bloodless sock / Anne Perry -- The adventure of the other detective / Bradley H. Sinor -- A scandal in Montreal / Edward D. Hoch -- The adventure of the field theorems / Vonda N. McIntyre -- The adventure of the death-fetch / Darrell Schweitzer -- The shocking affair of the Dutch Steamship Friesland / Mary Robinette Kowal -- The adventure of the mummy's curse / H. Paul Jeffers -- The things that shall come upon them / Barbara Roden -- Murder to music / Anthony Burgess -- The adventure of the inertial adjustor / Stephen Baxter -- Mrs. Hudson's case / Laurie R. King -- The singular habits of wasps / Geoffrey A. Landis -- The affair of the 46th birthday / Amy Myers -- The Specter of Tullyfane Abbey / Peter Tremayne -- The vale of the white horse / Sharyn McCrumb -- The adventure of the Dorset Street lodger / Michael Moorcock -- The adventure of the lost world / Dominic Green -- The adventure of the antiquarian's niece / Barbara Hambly -- Dynamics of a hanging / Tony Pi -- Merridew of abominable memory / Chris Roberson -- Commonplaces / Naomi Novik -- The adventure of the Pirates of Devil's Cape / Rob Rogers -- The adventure of the Green Skull / Mark Valentine -- The human mystery / Tanith Lee -- A study in emerald / Neil Gaiman -- You see but you do not observe / Robert J. Sawyer.Top authors pursue further adventures in the Sherlock Holmes Universe.
You'd better go in disguise / Alan Bradley -- As to "an exact knowledge of London" / Tony Broadbent -- The men with the twisted lips / S.J. Rozan -- The adventure of the purloined Paget / Phillip Margolin and Jerry Margolin -- The bone-headed league / Lee Child -- The startling events in the electrified city / Thomas Perry -- The mysterious case of the unwritten short story / Colin Cotterill -- The case of death and honey / Neil Gaiman -- A triumph of logic / Gayle Lynds and John Sheldon -- The last of Sheila-Locke Holmes / Laura Lippman -- The adventure of the concert pianist / Margaret Maron -- The shadow not cast / Lionel Chetwynd -- The Eyak interpreter / Dana Stabenow -- The case that Holmes lost / Charles Todd -- The imitator / Jan Burke -- A spot of detection / Jacqueline Winspear.
Reichenbach Falls - the infamous site of the battle to the death between Sherlock Holmes and his archnemesis, Professor Moriarty.
The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls reveals the long-held secret of the supposed "death match at the Falls" between Holmes and Moriarty, where both survived but neither was unscathed. - from the book jacket
Entering into service as housekeeper for the distinguished investigator Sherlock Holmes and his associate Dr. Watson, Mrs. Hudson expands her duties beyond keeping things tidy.
The great detective's latest client is a traveler recently returned from the Far East-and nearly killed under mysterious circumstances. He says he's under a Sumatran curse that will end his life.
While Holmes and Watson seek a less superstitious solution to the man's dilemma, Mrs. Hudson and Flottie, the orphan girl in her care, take it upon themselves to investigate the case. They are determined to solve the mystery-even if it entails pointing Mrs. Hudson's employers in the right direction.
Having emerged from a Swiss glacier and solved his first murder case in more than ninety years (described in The Strange Return of Sherlock Holmes), the world’s most famous detective now sleuths through modern London in search of a stolen letter purportedly written by Shakespeare. Holmes displays his usual mental brilliance as he investigates the missing letter and discovers an international plot to arm terrorists. He and his roommate, James Wilson, track the Shakespeare letter and the terrorist arms dealers to a Scottish castle where surprises await . . . and where the two companions quickly find they must be bloody, bold, and resolute if they are to survive. - from the book jacket
The original super-sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, is back on the case - A corpse in a sarcophagus, a headless macaw, and a stolen slice of Black Forest gateau alert Sherlock Holmes to a macabre international crime in progress, and lead him through London’s backstreets to the gloomy moors of Cornwall. People vanish, Greek statues vanish. Even Holmes vanishes – to the distress of his companion, James Wilson, whose emails and text messages go unanswered. But Holmes is in top form, fully recovered from his journey through ice to the twenty-first century and ready to reveal a multitude of secrets . . .
In a momentous period of British history, Donald Thomas's latest Sherlock Holmes adventure pits the Great Detective and his faithful biographer, Dr. John Watson, against an international conspiracy led by a disgraced English officer. Colonel Hunter Moran bears upon him "The Mark of the Beast, his satanic ingenuity leaves a spectacular trail of devastation. It runs from the annihilation of a British armored column by Zulu tribesmen armed only with shields and spears, to a life-and-death struggle on the sinking passenger steamer Comtesse de Flandre.
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Sherlock Holmes referred to her as "the woman" -- one of the few people to get the better of him and the only woman to gain his attention and respect. Carole Nelson Douglas' series follows the adventures of Irene Adler (a character from the Holmes story A Scandal in Bohemia) -- opera singer, globetrotting socialite and amateur sleuth.
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Holmes purists may marvel at the idea of The Great Detective being associated with any woman, except perhaps "the woman" Irene Adler. But Laurie R. King has parlayed this idea into a popular series of books featuring Mary Russell, a brilliant woman who uses Holmes' own techniques to find him and draw him out of bee-keeping retirement and into her life.
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The first book in the Lady Sherlock series.
USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas turns the story of the renowned Sherlock Holmes upside down. With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper class society. But even she never thought that she would become a social pariah, an outcast fending for herself on the mean streets of London.
When the city is struck by a trio of unexpected deaths and suspicion falls on her sister and her father, Charlotte is desperate to find the true culprits and clear the family name. She'll have help from friends new and old-a kind-hearted widow, a police inspector, and a man who has long loved her. But in the end, it will be up to Charlotte, under the assumed name Sherlock Holmes, to challenge society's expectations and match wits against an unseen mastermind.
Would Holmes's son have his brilliant powers of observation and deduction? That is the question examined in these stories about Auguste Lupa, the rumored son of The Great Detective.
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When literary researcher Harold White is inducted into the preeminent Sherlock Holmes enthusiast society, he never imagines he's about to be thrust onto the hunt for Arthur Conan Doyle's missing diary. But after a Doylean scholar is murdered, it is Harold who takes up the search, both for the diary and for the killer.
This clever series pairs Arthur Conan Doyle with the Reverend Charles Dodgson -- better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland !
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In Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, Holmes regularly solved cases that baffled conventional detectives. The representative of the police forces in those stories was Inspector Lestrade, a competent but-not-in-Holmes's-league investigator who sometimes brought his most puzzling cases to The Great Detective. Lestrade comes into his own in this popular series.
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More Sherlock Holmes adventures from author James Lovegrove
It's the autumn of 1890, and a spate of bombings has hit London. The newspapers are full of fevered speculation about anarchists, anti-monarchists and Fenians. But one man suspects an even more sinister hand behind the violence. Sherlock Holmes believes Professor Moriarty is orchestrating a nationwide campaign of terror, but to what end? At the same time, a bizarrely garbed figure has been spotted on the rooftops and in the grimy back alleys of the capital. He moves with the extraordinary agility of a latter-day Spring-heeled Jack. He possesses weaponry and armour of unprecedented sophistication. He is known only by the name Baron Cauchemar, and he appears to be a scourge of crime and villainy. But is this masked man truly the force for good that he seems?
1. The Stuff of Nightmares (2013)It seems that every author who has ever enjoyed the Holmes stories yearns to write one themselves -- there are dozens of novels and hundreds of shorter works utilizing Doyle's settings and characters, as well as thousands of articles about Holmes's influence on modern fiction and crime detection.
Holmes and his cohort make cameo appearances in many another tale, and are often a feature of fanciful time-travel stories. Even characters in other works find inspiration in Doyle's stories, honoring Holmes as their ideal detective.
The Sherlock Holmes Universe is ever growing. This Guide will help you in your explorations of it.