Editing Sherlock Holmes (section)

==== 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>