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The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes is an anthology of thirty-three Sherlock Holmes pastiches and parodies,[1] first published in 1944.[2]

The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes
EditorEllery Queen
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreDetective fiction
PublisherLittle, Brown and Company
Publication date
March 1944
Pages363

The first collection of Holmes pastiches,[3] it consists of stories written by many prominent authors including Agatha Christie,[3] Mark Twain,[3] O. Henry,[4] Anthony Boucher, James M. Barrie,[3] and Anthony Berkeley Cox. It was edited by the American mystery writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee under their joint pseudonym Ellery Queen.[4][5][6] The book angered the heirs of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (the creator of Sherlock Holmes)[1][4] and it was pulled from publication after the original run.[7][8]

List of stories edit

The stories are divided into multiple segments[5]

Part One: By Detective-Story Writers edit

Part Two: By Famous Literary Figures edit

Part Three: By Humorists edit

  • The Umbrosa Burglary by R.C. Lehmann
  • The Stranger Unravels a Mystery by John Kendrick Bangs
  • Shylock Homes: His Posthumous Memoirs by John Kendrick Bangs
  • Maddened by Mystery: or, The Defective Detective by Stephen Leacock
  • An Irreducible Detective Story by Stephen Leacock

Part Four: By Devotees and others edit

  • The Adventure of the Table Foot by Allan Ramsay
  • The Sign of the "400" by R. K. Munkittrick
  • Our Mr. Smith by Oswald Crawford
  • The Footprints on the Ceiling by Jules Castier
  • The End of Sherlock Holmes by A. E. P.
  • The Adventure of the Norcross Riddle by August Derleth
  • The Mary Queen of Scots Jewel by William O. Fuller
  • The Ruby Khitmandu by Hugh Kingsmill
  • His Last Scrape: or, Holmes, Sweet Holmes! By Rachel Ferguson
  • The Adventure of the Murdered Art Editor by Frederic Dorr Steele
  • The Canterbury Cathedral Murder by Frederic Arnold Kummer and Basil Mitchell
  • The Case of the Missing Patriarchs by Logan Clendening
  • The Case of the Diabolical Plot by Richard Mallett
  • Christmas Eve by S. C. Roberts
  • The Man Who Was Not Dead by Manly Wade Wellman

References edit

  1. ^ a b Byrne, Bob (October 20, 2014). "The Public Life of Sherlock Holmes: Ellery Queen's Misadventures of SH". Black Gate. Retrieved September 29, 2023.
  2. ^ Eyles, Alan (1986). Sherlock Holmes: A Centenary Celebration. Harper & Row. p. 98. ISBN 0-06-015620-1.
  3. ^ a b c d Bunson, Matthew (1997). Encyclopedia Sherlockiana: an A-to-Z guide to the world of the great detective. Macmillan. p. 135. ISBN 0-02-861679-0.
  4. ^ a b c Redmond, Christopher (2009). Sherlock Holmes Handbook: Second Edition. Dundurn Press. p. 212. ISBN 9781459718982.
  5. ^ a b Queen, Ellery, ed. (1944). The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. Little Brown.
  6. ^ "Books and Authors". The New York Times. 1944-03-19. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-29.
  7. ^ Nevins, Francis M. (2013). Ellery Queen: The Art of Detection. Perfect Crime Books.
  8. ^ Boström, Mattias (2018). From Holmes to Sherlock. Mysterious Press. pp. 250–251. ISBN 978-0-8021-2789-1.
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