Baker Street Irregulars discussion

Charles Press brings us a summary of early Sherlockian pastiches and parodies. Apparently James M Barrie (Peter Pan) was one of the first to parody Holmes in the 1890s and whilst ACD was alive, over 400 were written. Philip K Jones has an international database of pastiches that numbers over 10,000 now. This collection though focuses on the early ones as collected by Charles since he retired from teaching at the Michigan State University. Does anyone have a favourite early pastiche?

I rather liked Vincent Starrett's 'The Unique Hamlet'.

Here's the link to the database.

I almost cried tears of happiness when I opened it. I have so much reading to do.


http://sherlock-holmes.es/database.php

I have read ones by
Vincent Starrett
Adrian Conan Doyle
Ellery Queen
Anthony Boucher
Michael Dibdin
John Dickson Carr

These were some of the earliest writers who put out Holmes pastiches in the early and mid 20th century. Today there are a lot of anthologies and tales now that most of Holmes is in public domain.

There were some Sherlock Holmes stage comedies written by a Tim Kelley, around the 1960s - One was The Last of Sherlock Holmes, which featured Holmes, Watson, Mrs. Hudson, Moriarty and the other called for a 7 woman cast in "If Sherlock Holmes Were a Woman" about a coed "Shirley Holmes" who investigates a murder with her dorm-mates.

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I like Lyndsay Faye’s SH pastiches. Her Watson’s Voice is one of the most truest to ACD.

Faye's books aren't really early works - they're pretty recent.
I found out that there was a novel in Spanish called "El hijo de Sherlock Holmes" (the son of Sherlock Holmes) written in the early '30s by the author of several adventure novels aimed at young adults.

Found out that James Barrie wrote a Sherlock Holmes parody called "The Adventure of the Two Collaborators."

I read two short parodies recently, by Robert Barr, a Canadian who emigrated to London in the 1880s.
The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombes, pub 1892
The Adventure of the Second Swag, pub 1904

I'm not a big fan of Barr's other work, but I thought that these two were absolutely hilarious.