Sherlock Holmes discussion

Sherlock Holmes has spawned a myriad of pastiches; some really good (Seven Per Cent Solution) and some awful.
What are your favorites?
If you haven't seen Sherlock Holmes Mystery MAgazine (Wildside Press) would invite everyone to check it out:
http://www.sherlockmag.com/

I like Andrew Lane's series the best. However, I don't think that he makes enough alusions to Sherlock's later life. For example, in the series, the young Sherlock acts like an average teenager. However, as we know, Sherlock is, like many geniuses, frequently misunderstood, and conveyed as strange, or eclectic. I feel that he should address this as soon as possible, or else i don't think I will continue to hold them in the same light.
Now, since we're on the subject, i'm actually writing a Sherlock Holmes pastiche. What it's about: I will not say. But I will say that it will be different.

I've always been wary of the book and magazine pastiches of Sherlock Holmes. Reading a Holmes story that wasn't Arthur Conan Doyle's sounds like it would bother me. But I don't know, maybe I'll branch out and try that magazine. Thanks for this!

My favorite pastiche is The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel. It's best experienced as an audiobook.

Probably the first two Nicholas Meyer books (I still haven't read the Canary Trainer yet) and The Last Sherlock Holmes Story by Michael Dibdin. Meyer's are probably the better, but Last Sherlock Holmes story was great because it was such a mindfuck.

I really liked the first few L King "Beekeepers Aperence" books and the first few L Millnet (sp?) "SH and the red daemon". The problem is as the series grow they get farther away form Doyle.

That seems to happen with lot of Sherlock Holmes adaptations. Over time they grow more and more different from the original stories.

The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr, The Seven Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer and A Taste of Honey by H. F. Heard still remain among the best, they all seem to be close to Holmes ( dreadful pun...).

I always thought 'The Man Who Was Wanted' by Arthur Whitaker had the most interesting back story because it was originally published in 1948 as a lost Conan Doyle short story.

http://www.diogenes-club.com/wantedin...

http://www.diogenes-club.com/wanted.htm