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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.

Stephen King even wrote a Holmes story, in one of his collections of shorts.

Know what I'd like to see? A Sherlock Holmes story set in the present day. It'd be fascinating to see Holmes use modern tech, like the Internet, to solve his cases.

An imaginative writer could make much of this concept.

(and I be Holmes would've been a FReeper.)

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. 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.

No, but I promise that I will. FYI, I've got a list of over 200 books that I've used for references and background, including all of the Arthur Conan Doyle books, of course.

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.

True, Holmes doesn't sound like a stiff-necked Prussian or NordDeutscher, but that's not quite the direction I've gone in; I've postulated him as an Austrian/Bavarian veteran of the First World War, disgusted with German politics and the nationalism that got so many of his fellow soldiers killed. On a disability pension from the war, he lives with his wife and reads, a particular fan of the Holmes novels, and follows in the British consulting detective's footsteps; I'm even playing with the idea of having an aging Dr. Watson turn over his old crumbling files and notes on the late Holmes' unfinished cases to The German Detective. We'll see.