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I was a very serious Holmesian for awhile, member of the Goose Club of the Alpha Inn and a correspondent with the editor of the Baker Street Journal.

One of the novels I outlined and churned out a couple of sample chapters for was a Holmes paen; postulating a German Sherlock Holmes, with a bit of Mycroft and Moriarity in him, but who let slip that he was a great fan of Sir Arthur, as well as a couple of other authors, German and English, of the Victorian period.

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There is a whole industry in Holmes pastiches. August Derleth wrote a whole series. There are enough of them that several folks have put together anthologies.

Have you checked out Baring-Gould's Annotated Sherlock Holmes? It's just chock full of odds and ends.

A German Sherlock Holmes . . . . ? Hmmm . . . THAT is an odd thought. Do Germans tolerate the sort of eccentricities that Holmes cultivated? Maybe among the nobility . . . it's an interesting idea.