Editing Sherlock Holmes (section)

===Related and derivative writings===
{{Main|Sherlock Holmes pastiches}}{{Further|List of authors of new Sherlock Holmes stories}}
[[File:Chas-05.jpg|alt=Painting of a woman shooting a man in a room|thumb|upright|1904 [[Sidney Paget]] illustration of "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton"]]
In addition to the [[Canon of Sherlock Holmes|Holmes canon]], Conan Doyle wrote other material featuring Holmes, especially plays: 1899's ''[[Sherlock Holmes (play)|Sherlock Holmes]]'' (with [[William Gillette]]), 1910's ''[[The Speckled Band (play)|The Speckled Band]]'', and 1921's ''The Crown Diamond'' (the basis for "[[The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone]]").<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Theatrical Sherlock Holmes|last=Hayes|first=Paul Stuart|publisher=Hidden Tiger|year=2012|isbn=978-1-291-26421-0|pages=6–12}}</ref> These and other Holmes-related but non-canonical works have been collected in several works released since Conan Doyle's death.<ref name=":9">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/06/classics-of-sherlockiana-apocrypha-of.html|title=Classics of Sherlockiana: the Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes|last=O'Leary|first=James C.|date=4 June 2014|website=I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere|access-date=2 January 2020|archive-date=2 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102200751/https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/06/classics-of-sherlockiana-apocrypha-of.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In terms of writers other than Conan Doyle, authors as diverse as [[Agatha Christie]], [[Anthony Burgess]], [[Neil Gaiman]], [[Dorothy B. Hughes]], [[Stephen King]], [[Tanith Lee]], [[A. A. Milne]], and [[P. G. Wodehouse]] have all written Sherlock Holmes [[pastiches]]. Contemporary with Conan Doyle, [[Maurice Leblanc]] directly featured Holmes in his popular series about the [[gentleman thief]], [[Arsène Lupin]], though legal objections from Conan Doyle forced Leblanc to modify the name to "Herlock Sholmes" in reprints and [[Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes|later stories]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Maurice_Leblanc|title=Maurice Leblanc|website=The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia|access-date=26 December 2019|archive-date=7 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807062600/https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Maurice_Leblanc|url-status=live}}</ref> Mystery writer [[John Dickson Carr]] collaborated with Arthur Conan Doyle's son, [[Adrian Conan Doyle]], on ''[[The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes]]'', a pastiche collection from 1954.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Exploits_of_Sherlock_Holmes|title=The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes|website=The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia|access-date=26 December 2019|archive-date=7 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807131215/https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Exploits_of_Sherlock_Holmes|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2011, [[Anthony Horowitz]] published a Sherlock Holmes novel, ''[[The House of Silk]]'', presented as a continuation of Conan Doyle's work and with the approval of the Conan Doyle estate;<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/27/house-silk-anthony-horowitz-sherlock-holmes|title=The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz – review|last=Sansom|first=Ian|date=27 October 2011|work=The Guardian|access-date=31 December 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=7 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807054817/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/27/house-silk-anthony-horowitz-sherlock-holmes|url-status=live}}</ref> a follow-up, ''[[Moriarty (novel)|Moriarty]]'', appeared in 2014.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Flood|first1=Alison|title=Sherlock Holmes returns in new Anthony Horowitz book, Moriarty|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/10/anthony-horowitz-new-sherlock-holmes-book-moriarty|access-date=9 August 2014|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited|date=10 April 2014|newspaper=Guardian|archive-date=11 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811005406/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/10/anthony-horowitz-new-sherlock-holmes-book-moriarty|url-status=live}}</ref> The "MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories" series of pastiches, edited by David Marcum and published by MX Publishing, contains fifty-two volumes and features hundreds of stories echoing the original canon which were compiled for the restoration of [[Undershaw]] and the support of Stepping Stones School, now housed in it.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-07-15/largest-ever-collection-of-new-sherlock-holmes-stories-will-raise-money-to-restore-conan-doyles-house/|title=Largest ever collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories will raise money to restore Conan Doyle's house|date=15 July 2015|work=[[Radio Times]]|access-date=14 July 2019|archive-date=14 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190714194059/https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-07-15/largest-ever-collection-of-new-sherlock-holmes-stories-will-raise-money-to-restore-conan-doyles-house/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.steppingstones.org.uk/Community/Undershaw-A-school/|title=Stepping Stones School|access-date=14 July 2019|archive-date=19 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919003159/https://www.steppingstones.org.uk/Community/Undershaw-A-school/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1980's ''[[The Name of the Rose]]'', Italian author [[Umberto Eco]] creates a Sherlock Holmes of the 1320s in the form of a Franciscan friar and main protagonist named Brother [[William of Baskerville]], his name a clear reference to Holmes per ''[[The Hound of the Baskervilles]]''.<ref name="haft">{{cite book |last1=Haft |first1=Adele J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQogJS1WSOYC |title=The Key to "The Name of the Rose" |last2=White |first2=Jane G. |last3=White |first3=Robert J. |author3-link=Robert J. White |publisher=[[The University of Michigan Press]] |year=1999 |isbn=9780472086214 |pages=194 |access-date=23 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211223040825/https://books.google.com/books?id=SQogJS1WSOYC |archive-date=23 December 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> Brother William investigates a series of murders in the abbey alongside his novice Adso of Melk, who acts as his [[Dr. Watson]]. Furthermore, Umberto Eco's description of Brother William bears marked similarities in both physique and personality to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's description of Sherlock Holmes in ''[[A Study in Scarlet]]''.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ipbOrcd8q9UC&pg=PA257 |title=Reading Eco: An Anthology |date=February 22, 1997 |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] |isbn=9780253112828 |editor-last=Capozzi |editor-first=Rocco |access-date=23 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211223040824/https://books.google.com/books?id=ipbOrcd8q9UC&pg=PA257 |archive-date=23 December 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Laurie R. King]] recreated Holmes in her [[Mary Russell (character)|Mary Russell]] series (beginning with 1994's ''[[The Beekeeper's Apprentice]]''), set during the First World War and the 1920s. Her Holmes, semi-retired in Sussex, meets a teenage American girl. Recognising a kindred spirit, he trains her as his apprentice and subsequently marries her. As of 2024, the series includes eighteen base novels and additional writings.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Russell & Holmes |url=https://laurierking.com/books/series/russell-holmes/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240118094338/https://laurierking.com/books/series/russell-holmes/ |archive-date=18 January 2024 |access-date=18 January 2024 |website=Laurie R. King |language=en-US}}</ref>

''[[The Final Solution (novel)|The Final Solution]]'', a 2004 novella by [[Michael Chabon]], concerns an unnamed but long-retired detective interested in [[beekeeping]] who tackles the case of a missing parrot belonging to a Jewish refugee boy.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Thompson |first=Sam |date=26 February 2005 |title=Review: The Final Solution by Michael Chabon |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/feb/26/fiction.arthurconandoyle |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191226200647/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/feb/26/fiction.arthurconandoyle |archive-date=26 December 2019 |access-date=26 December 2019 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> [[Mitch Cullin]]'s novel ''[[A Slight Trick of the Mind]]'' (2005) takes place two years after the end of the [[Second World War]] and explores an old and frail Sherlock Holmes (now 93) as he comes to terms with a life spent in emotionless logic;<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 February 2005 |title=A Slight Trick of the Mind |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/mitch-cullin/a-slight-trick-of-the-mind/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191220224907/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/mitch-cullin/a-slight-trick-of-the-mind/ |archive-date=20 December 2019 |access-date=26 December 2019 |website=Kirkus Reviews}}</ref> this was also adapted into a film, 2015's ''[[Mr. Holmes]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Scott |first=A. O. |date=16 July 2015 |title=Review: For Ian McKellen's 'Mr. Holmes,' Retirement Is Afoot |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/movies/review-for-ian-mckellens-mr-holmes-retirement-is-afoot.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102195925/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/movies/review-for-ian-mckellens-mr-holmes-retirement-is-afoot.html |archive-date=2 January 2020 |access-date=2 January 2020 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

==== Minor characters ====
Some authors have written tales centred on characters from the canon other than Holmes. Anthologies edited by [[Michael Kurland]] and [[George Mann (writer)|George Mann]] are entirely devoted to stories told from the perspective of characters other than Holmes and Watson. [[John Gardner (British writer)|John Gardner]], Michael Kurland, and [[Kim Newman]], amongst many others, have all written tales in which Holmes's nemesis [[Professor Moriarty]] is the main character. [[Mycroft Holmes]] has been the subject of several efforts: ''Enter the Lion'' by [[Michael P. Hodel]] and Sean M. Wright (1979),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/michael-p-sean-m-wright-hodel/enter-the-lion-a-posthumous-memoir-of-mycroft-h/|title=Enter the Lion: A Posthumous Memoir of Mycroft Holmes|date=1 July 1979|website=Kirkus Reviews|access-date=4 January 2020|archive-date=19 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219042818/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/michael-p-sean-m-wright-hodel/enter-the-lion-a-posthumous-memoir-of-mycroft-h/|url-status=live}}</ref> a four-book series by [[Quinn Fawcett]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://us.macmillan.com/author/|title=Quinn Fawcett|website=Macmillan Publishers|language=en-US|access-date=4 January 2020|archive-date=5 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105025352/https://us.macmillan.com/author/|url-status=live}}</ref> and 2015's ''[[Mycroft Holmes (novel)|Mycroft Holmes]]'', by [[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]] and Anna Waterhouse.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/kareem-abdul-jabbar-returns-to-his-other-passion-sherlock-holmes/2018/10/02/e1564636-c591-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html|title=Review {{!}} Kareem Abdul-Jabbar returns to his other passion: Sherlock Holmes|last=Dirda|first=Michael|date=3 October 2018|newspaper=Washington Post|language=en|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003124607/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/kareem-abdul-jabbar-returns-to-his-other-passion-sherlock-holmes/2018/10/02/e1564636-c591-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html|archive-date=3 October 2018|access-date=4 January 2020}}</ref> [[M. J. Trow]] has written a series of seventeen books using [[Inspector Lestrade]] as the central character, beginning with ''The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade'' in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mjtrow.co.uk/lestrade/|title=The Lestrade Series|last=Trow|first=M.J.|website=M. J. Trow, Author and Lecturer|language=en|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701151145/http://www.mjtrow.co.uk/lestrade/|archive-date=1 July 2016|access-date=26 December 2019}}</ref> [[Carole Nelson Douglas]]' Irene Adler series is based on "the woman" from "A Scandal in Bohemia", with the first book (1990's ''Good Night, Mr. Holmes'') retelling that story from Adler's point of view.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://carolenelsondouglas.com/book-series/irene-adler/|title=The Irene Adler Series|website=Carole Nelson Douglas|access-date=26 December 2019|archive-date=26 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191226200647/http://carolenelsondouglas.com/book-series/irene-adler/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Martin Davies (writer)|Martin Davies]] has written three novels where Baker Street housekeeper [[Mrs. Hudson]] is the protagonist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://martindaviesauthor.com/the-holmes-%26-hudson-series|title=The Holmes & Hudson Series|website=Martin Davies|access-date=26 December 2019|archive-date=10 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190910123913/http://www.martindaviesauthor.com/the-holmes-%26-hudson-series|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==== Parodies ====
A popular form of Holmesian pastiche is the [[parody]]. "My Evening with Sherlock Holmes", by [[J. M. Barrie]], was released in 1891, four years after Holmes first appearance in print and four months after “A Scandal in Bohemia” appeared in ''The Strand''; it is generally considered a parody.<ref name=":8" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=My Evening with Sherlock Holmes - The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia |url=https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/My_Evening_with_Sherlock_Holmes |access-date=2025-02-05 |website=www.arthur-conan-doyle.com}}</ref> Many others soon followed, with the protagonists often given thinly veiled names such as Sherlaw Kombs (by [[Robert Barr (writer)|Robert Barr]]),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Victorian Short Fiction Project - Detective Stories Gone Wrong: The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs |url=https://vsfp.byu.edu/index.php/title/detective-stories-gone-wrong-the-adventures-of-sherlaw-kombs/ |access-date=2025-02-05}}</ref> Picklock Holes (by [[R. C. Lehmann]]), Shamrock Jolnes (by [[O. Henry]]), Holmlock Shears, Shylock Homes, and so on.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pastiches & Parodies - The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia |url=https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Pastiches_&_Parodies |access-date=2025-02-05 |website=www.arthur-conan-doyle.com}}</ref>

Conan Doyle himself contributed to this style, with 1898's "[[The Lost Special]]" featuring an unnamed "amateur reasoner" intended to be identified by his readers as Holmes. The author's explanation of a baffling disappearance argued in Holmesian style poked fun at his own creation. Similar Conan Doyle short stories are "[[The Field Bazaar]]", "The Man with the Watches", and 1924's "[[How Watson Learned the Trick]]", a parody of the Watson–Holmes breakfast-table scenes.<ref name=":9" />

In 1944, American mystery writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee (writing under their joint pseudonym [[Ellery Queen]]) published ''[[The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes]]'', a collection of thirty-three pastiches written by various well-known authors, featuring numerous parodies.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/scriblio_test_044/mode/2up |title=The misadventures of Sherlock Holmes |publisher=Little Brown |year=1944 |editor-last=Queen |editor-first=Ellery}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Nevins |first=Francis M. |title=Ellery Queen: The Art of Detection: The story of how two fractious cousins reshaped the modern detective novel. |publisher=Perfect Crime Books |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-935797-47-0 |language=English}}</ref> 

==== Scholarly works ====
There have been many scholarly works dealing with Sherlock Holmes, some working within the bounds of the Great Game, and some written from the perspective that Holmes is a fictional character. In particular, there have been three major annotated editions of the complete series. The first was William Baring-Gould's 1967 ''The Annotated Sherlock Holmes''. This two-volume set was ordered to fit Baring-Gould's preferred chronology, and was written from a Great Game perspective. The second was 1993's ''The Oxford Sherlock Holmes'' (general editor: [[Owen Dudley Edwards]]), a nine-volume set written in a straight scholarly manner. The most recent is [[Leslie S. Klinger|Leslie Klinger's]] ''[[The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes]]'' (2004–05), a three-volume set that returns to a Great Game perspective.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/dec/04/classics.arthurconandoyle|title=Review: The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes edited by Leslie S Klinger|last=Hickling|first=Alfred|date=4 December 2004|work=The Guardian|access-date=4 January 2020|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=5 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605213836/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/dec/04/classics.arthurconandoyle|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/30/books/case-of-the-lawyer-with-a-sherlock-holmes-bent.html|title=Case of the Lawyer With a Sherlock Holmes Bent|last=Weingarten|first=Marc|date=30 December 2004|work=The New York Times|access-date=4 January 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=21 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021033828/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/30/books/case-of-the-lawyer-with-a-sherlock-holmes-bent.html|url-status=live}}</ref>