Sherlock Holmes' Further Adventures
Updated 3/09
The Italian Secretary by Caleb Carr
Mycroft Holmes, Queen Victoria's head of intelligence, calls upon his brother and Dr. Watson to help solve a mystery. Men have been killed at Holyrood in Edinburgh in a fashion similar to the slaying centuries before of David Rizzio, an Italian confidant of Mary, Queen of Scots. Are the killings the work of Scottish nationalists? Or are they perhaps the sign of a restless ghost?
The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
An 89-year-old former detective in rural England during World War II becomes involved with a young mute boy – a refugee from Nazi Germany – whose sole companion, an African grey parrot, spews out a series of numbers in German that could hold the key to a dangerous secret.
Good Night Mr. Holmes by Carole Nelson Douglas
Here is the story of the mysterious singer Irene Adler, the only woman Sherlock ever admired. Adler once kept herself going by being a private detective much like Holmes. As she rose to stardom, she left sleuthing and became romantically entangled with the King of Bohemia, then was forced to outwit not only the King, but Holmes himself.
The Holmes Inheritance by Brian Freemantle
Sebastian Holmes's brilliant father Sherlock and even more brilliant uncle Mycroft ship him off to America aboard The Lusitania to thwart a German alliance on the eve of WWI. At loose ends after graduating from Heidelberg, Sebastian is thrilled his forebears think him savvy enough to discover German sympathizers who will force the U.S. to support the Kaiser. Meanwhile, coded telegrams cross the Atlantic, lovely Anna keeps popping up, and munitions are headed for Germany unless he can stop them, a task complicated by the death of a double agent and an explosion.
Moriarty by John Gardner
Surviving the confrontation with Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, Professor James Moriarty is on the verge of successfully building crime syndicates throughout the United States, when his criminal empire is threatened by a mysterious rival, Sir Jack Idell.
Ghosts in Baker Street - Story Collection, shelved under GHOSTS
Featuring an all-star cast of Doyle devotees that includes Caleb Carr and Daniel Stashower, hosts of Baker Street is the third collection of original mystery stories featuring the literary world’s greatest detective (Murder in Baker Street; Murder, My Dear Watson)—and these stories bring Holmes and Watson up against the supernatural. This latest installment in the New Tales of Sherlock Holmes series—edited by Martin H. Greenberg, one of crime fiction's most awarded editors and anthologists—brings the reader more adventures where the ultimate disbelieving detective tackles mysteries with a distinctly strange flavor, featuring crimes and situations that may possibly be not of this world.
Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith
In 1893, inspired by their hero, master sleuth Sherlock Holmes, two cowboys, Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer, put their detecting skills to use to uncover the truth about the murder of a ranch hand on their Montana cattle ranch.
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King
Sherlock Holmes takes on a young, female apprentice in this delightful addition to the master detective's casework. In the early years of WWI, 15-year-old American Mary Russell encounters Holmes, retired in Sussex Downs where Conan Doyle left him raising bees. Mary impresses the sleuth with her intelligence and acumen, and Holmes initiates her into the mysteries of detection.
The Empress of India: a Professor Moriarty Novel by Michael Kurland
England:1890. A cargo ship, the Empress of India, is about to dock with a large shipment of gold, but somehow, the gold vanishes while the ship is still at sea. The British government turns to the one man they know can solve the crime: Sherlock Holmes, who soon surmises that only one villain is clever enough to pull off such a feat: Professor James Moriarty. But, Moriarty is innocent. Of course, nobody believes him, so he decides to solve the crime himself and, soon enough, winds up face-to-face with a villain at least as fiendishly clever as he is.
Son of Holmes by John Lescroart (Adult Fiction)
A young chef named Auguste Lupa is asked to join the weekly homemade-beer-and-conversation sessions of undercover French spy Jules Giraud, who is on the trail of a master German saboteur during World War I. An armory is blown up and an attempt is made on Lupa’s life before he unmasks the German spy, but the supposed proof of Lupa’s true heritage via his illegitimate father is the real focus of this detective novel.
Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders by Larry Millett
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travel to St. Paul, Minnesota, in the midst of the tumult of St. Paul's annual Winter Carnival and match wits with a pesky American would-be detective to solve a murder.
Sherlock Holmes: the Hidden Years
Story Collection, shelved under SHERLOCK
This lively all-original anthology chronicles the "Great Hiatus," that period when Sherlock Holmes was believed dead following a tumble into Reichenbach Falls with archfiend Professor Moriarty. These original stories include contributions by such writers as Peter Beagle, Rhys Bowen, Bill Pronzini and Michael Kurland: the Editor.
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice From the Crypt by Donald S. Thomas
The Great Detective is challenged with six cases taken from the true-crime annals of late 19th- and early 20th-century crime, presented by Dr. Watson as "unpublished" cases of Sherlock Holmes. Nothing, it seems, is too challenging for Holmes' deductive powers, and a large part of the reader's fun comes from watching poor Watson's attempts to figure out, let alone keep pace with, the course of Holmes' inquiry.
Sherlock Holmes and the Hapsburg Tiara by Alan Vanneman
In a crafty new novel featuring the world’s greatest literary detective, Alan Vanneman extends the boundaries of the Sherlock Holmes canon with a knotty investigation that takes the celebrated sleuth and his cohort, Dr. Watson, far from the cozy Victorian comforts of 221B Baker Street.