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Sleuthing Sherlock Holmes

Arthur and George
Julian Barnes
Chronicles the lives of two boys--one who is forgotten by history, and one who becomes the creator of the world's most famous detective--as they pursue their separate destinies until they meet in a remarkable alliance.
Baker Street Letters
Michael Robertson
In Los Angeles, a geological surveyor maps out a proposed subway route--and then goes missing. His eight-year-old daughter, in her desperation, turns to the one person she thinks might help--she writes a letter to Sherlock Holmes.
Beekeeper's Apprentice, or, On the Segregation of the Queen
Laurie R. King
Chance meeting with a Sussex beekeeper turns into a pivotal, personal transformation when fifteen-year-old Mary Russell discovers that the beekeeper is the reclusive, retired detective Sherlock Holmes, who soon takes on the role of mentor and teacher.
Brigade: Further Adventures of Inspector Lestrade
M.J. Trow

There is a new broom at Scotland yard: Nimrod Frost. His first little job for Lestrade is to investigate the reported appearance of a lion in Cornwall, a supposed savager of sheep and frightener of men. Hardly a task for an Inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department...

Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Marvin Kaye, ed.
Now, the truth is finally revealed regarding Holmes's exploits involving the Titanic, his rematch with Irene Adler, the childhoods of both Holmes and Watson, and such figures as Ida Tarbell, P.G. Wodehouse, and James McNeil Whistler.
Dust and Shadow: an Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson
Lyndsay Faye
From the gritty streets of nineteenth century London, the loyal and courageous Dr. Watson offers a tale unearthed after generations of lore: the harrowing story of Sherlock Holmes's attempt to hunt down Jack the Ripper.
Final Solution: a Story of Detection
Michael Chabon
Set in the English countryside during World War II, this... work...follows an elderly detective on what will become his final--and most profound--case
Good Night Mr. Holmes
Carole Nelson Douglas
The classic first adventure of Mrs. Irene Adler--the beautiful American opera singer who is the only person to have ever bested Sherlock Holmes
Holmes on the Range
Steve Hockensmith
Two German cowboy brothers, Gustav (Old Red) and Otto (Big Red) Amlingmeyer, have been reading the adventures of Sherlock Holmes in magazines and take on the roles of the master detective and his sidekick, Watson, when an albino cowboy turns up dead in a locked outhouse.
Italian Secretary: a Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Caleb Carr
Commissioned by and written with the approval of the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...(this book) blends detailed history and thrilling suspense while giving perfect cadence to the verbal discourse between Holmes and Watson.
Night Watch: a Long-lost Adventure in Which Sherlock Holmes Meets Father Brown
Stephen Kendrick
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson--with some assistance from Father Brown--must discern if a killer is indeed one of the leaders of the world's greatest faiths.
Oscar Wilde and a Death of no Importance
Gyles Daubeney Brandreth
In 1889 London, writer Oscar Wilde finds the corpse of a male artist's model in a house used by men for assignations. Wilde later returns with friends Robert Sherard and Arthur Conan Doyle, but the body has vanished, the room cleaned, and the police declare that nothing has happened.
Other Worlds
Barbara Michaels
In a small Connecticut town, a newly married widow and her children move into her second husband's home to find their lives possessed by an unimaginable demon....
Sherlock Holmes and the King's Evil: and Other New Adventures of the Great Detective
Donald Serrell Thomas
Five original tales inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's iconic character feature Holmes taking on such challenges as the famed siege of Sydney Street, a planned German invasion of America, and a supernatual curse.
Sherlock in Love
Sena Jeter Naslund
(A) lonely Dr. Watson has decided to alleviate his melancholy by writing a biography of his late partner. He runs a notice in a London paper requesting information on Holmes, but rather than courteous responses, he receives death threats, has his rooms burglarized, and seems to have attracted the attention of a ghost.
Slight Trick of the Mind
Mitch Cullin
(A) quiet novel about an aging Holmes, still brusque and brilliant but also frail and forgetful.
The Angel of the Opera: Sherlock Holmes Meets the Phantom of the Opera
Sam Siciliano
In this lively yet respectful pastiche, the Phantom created by Gaston Leroux comes up against Arthur Conan Doyle's remarkable detective, who has been engaged by the managers of the Paris Opera to thwart the Phantom's blackmail scheme.
The Beekeeper's Apprentice, or On the Segregation of the Queen
Laurie R. King

This volume introduces Mary Russell, a wealthy orphan, and delightfully explores what happens when she is befriended by her retired neighbor, Sherlock Holmes. The first in a series.

The Final Solution: A Story of Detection
Michael Chabon

"In deep retirement in the English country-side, an eighty-nine-year-old man, vaguely recollected by locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African gray parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out--a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts perhaps? Or something more sinister? Is the solution to this last case -- the real explanation of the mysterious boy and his parrot--beyond even the reach of the once-famed sleuth?"

The Last Sherlock Holmes Story
Michael Didbin
(P)its the sleuth of Baker Street against the Butcher of Whitechapel--the archfiend Jack the Ripper. (This book) gives readers a Holmes possessed of greater and more disturbing depths than the one they thought they knew.
The Patient's Eyes: the Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
Davie Pirie
An atmospheric, literary thriller that partners Dr. Joseph Bell (widely believed to be the model for Sherlock Holmes himself) and Arthur Conan Doyle as innovators in criminal investigation, exploring the strange underworld of violence and sexual hypocrisy running beneath the surface of the Victorian era.
The Whitechapel Horrors
Edward B. Hanna
Hanna resurrects the world's most famous fictional detective that he might solve one of history's most infamous crimes.