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Sherlock Holmes
Stories, Parodies and Pastiches

 

 
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No character in mystery fiction, perhaps in all fiction, has become as archetypal than Sherlock Holmes, created in 1887 by Arthur Conan Doyle.  The "consulting detective" appeared in 4 novels and 56 short stories.  Almost immediately, Holmes inspired imitators, pastiches and parodies.  See the Doyle and His School page for other mystery work by Arthur Conan Doyle. (see Mike Grost's discussion of Doyle's work.)

Arthur Conan Doyle
Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories are very popular recordings on Librivox.  I will link to entire collections of Holmes stories, as well as to readings, in other collections, of individual stories.

A Study in Scarlet - Novel

Sign of the Four - Novel

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Short story collection

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Short story collection

  • Silver Blaze
  • The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
  • The Adventure of the Yellow Face
  • The Stockbroker's Clerk
  • The Gloria Scott
  • The Musgrave Ritual
  • The Adventure of the Reigate Squire
  • The Adventure of the Crooked Man
  • The Resident Patient
  • The Greek Interpreter
  • The Naval Treaty
  • The Final Problem

The Hound of the Baskervilles - Novel

The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Short story collection

  • The Adventure of the Empty House (the return of Holmes)
  • The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
  • The Adventure of the Dancing Men
  • The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
  • The Adventure of the Priory School
  • The Adventure of Black Peter
  • The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
  • The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
  • The Adventure of the Three Students
  • The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez
  • The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter
  • The Adventure of the Abbey Grange
  • The Adventure of the Second Stain

The Valley of Fear - Novel

His Last Bow - Short story collection

  • The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
  • The Adventure of the Red Circle
  • The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
  • The Adventure of the Dying Detective
  • The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
  • The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
  • His Last Bow (told in the third person)

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes - Short story collection

  • The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone (told in third-person)
  • The Problem of Thor Bridge
  • The Adventure of the Creeping Man
  • The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
  • The Adventure of the Three Garridebs
  • The Adventure of the Illustrious Client
  • The Adventure of the Three Gables
  • The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier
  • The Adventure of the Lion's Mane
  • The Adventure of the Retired Colourman
  • The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
  • The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place

A friend of Doyle, Robert Barr wrote one of the first Holmes parodies, The Adventures Of Sherlaw Kombs in 1892 and followed it up in 1904 with The Adventure Of The Second Swag.  They are the last two recordings in this collection.

The first chapter of Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock's Nonsense Novels is a parody entitled Maddened by Mystery: or, The Defective Detective.

Mark Twain parodies Holmes in A Double Barreled Detective Story.

French author Maurice LeBlanc had his gentleman-burglar Arsene Lupin meet up with Holmes in the last story in the Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin.  After Doyle objected to the use of his character, LeBlanc called the character Herlock Sholmes in later uses.  Sholmes appears slightly in The Hollow Needle.


- Mike Grost's recommended reading

- A Hayworth-Queen Cornerstone

- Link to etext

- Available on Amazon.com