Acknowledgments -- Introduction. -- Preliminary ponderings: Sherlock Holmes / Frederic Dorr Steele -- The recollections of Captain Wilkie / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The original of Sherlock Holmes / Dr. Harold Emery Jones -- Mr. Sherlock Holmes / Dr. Joseph Bell. -- Early parodies, con amore: The singular adventure of the unexpected doorscraper / Kenneth Grahame -- The adventure of the two collaborators / James M. Barrie -- The mystery of Pinkham's diamond stud / John Kendrick Bangs -- The Umbrosa burglary / R.C. Lehmann -- A la Sherlock Holmes / Charles Loomis -- The sign of the 400 / R.K. Munkittrick -- The adventure of the clothes-line / Carolyn Wells -- Sherlock Holmes umpires baseball / Anonymous. -- Six classic pastiches: The adventure of the circular room / August Derleth -- The adventure of the marked man / Stuart Palmer -- The strange case of the megatherium thefts / S.C. Roberts -- The adventure of the unique hamlet / Vincent Starrett -- The enchanted garden / H.F. Heard -- But our hero was not dead / Manly Wade Wellman. --Scholarly ponderings: Sherlock Holmes and the Drood mystery / Edmund Pearson -- In the island of Uffa -- The Tibetan adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Amanda Russell -- The histrionic Holmes / Marvin Kaye -- How Holmes came to play the violin / Jacques Barzun. -- Parodies absurdes et cruelles: The really final solution / Nick Pollotta -- The unmasking of Sherlock Holmes / Arthur Chapman -- The succored beauty / William B. Kahn -- The adventure of the second swag / Luke Sharp -- An irreducible detective story / Stephen Leacock -- The adventures of Shamrock Jolnes / O. Henry -- The stolen cigar case / Bret Harte -- A letter from Mycroft Holmes / Jon White -- The murder of Conan Doyle / Ray Russell -- The adventure of the Conk-Singleton papers / John Dickson Carr -- Journal of a Ghurka physician / Capt. Daniel M. Pinkwater -- The Struldbrugg reaction / John Sutherland. --New adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Moriarty gambit / Fritz Leiber -- The adventure of the missing countess / Jon Koons -- The Gibraltar letter / Sam Benady -- The strange case of the tongue-tied tenor -- The problem of the popular maculas -- The American cousins / Roberta Rogow. -- Pieces problematical: The field bazaar / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Sussex interview / P.M. Stone -- From the diary of Sherlock Holmes / Maurice Baring -- Mrs. Hudson speaks / ZaSu Pitts -- The adventure of the bogle-wolf / Anthony Boucher -- Sherlock Homes in Oz / Ruth Berman -- The sinister cheescake / Craig Shaw Gardner -- The dilemma of the distressed Savoyard / Crighton Sellars -- The adventure of the death-fetch / Darrell Schweitzer -- The theft of the Persian slipper / Edward D. Hoch -- The dynamics of an asteroid / Robert Bloch -- Daydream / Basil Rathbone. -- Appendix I. Miscellaneous notes -- Appendix II. Holmesiography.