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The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes

Collection of Sherlock Holmes pastiches, published in 1944

The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes

Editor	Ellery Queen
Language	English
Genre	Detective fiction
Publisher	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date	March 1944
Publication place	United States
Pages	363

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

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]

• The Great Pegram MysterybyRobert Barr
• Holmlock Shears Arrives Too LatebyMaurice Leblanc
• The Adventure of the Clothes-LinebyCarolyn Wells
• The Unique HamletbyVincent Starrett
• Holmes and the DasherbyAnthony Berkeley
• The Case of the Missing LadybyAgatha Christie
• The Adventure of the Illustrious ImposterbyAnthony Boucher
• The Disappearance of Mr. James PhillimorebyEllery Queen
• The Adventure of the Remarkable WormbyStuart Palmer

Part Two: By Famous Literary Figures[edit]

• The Adventure of the Two CollaboratorsbyJ.M. Barrie
• A Double-Barrelled Detective StorybyMark Twain
• The Stolen Cigar CasebyBret Harte
• The Adventures of Shamrock JolnesbyO. Henry

Part Three: By Humorists[edit]

• The Umbrosa BurglarybyR.C. Lehmann
• The Stranger Unravels a MysterybyJohn Kendrick Bangs
• Shylock Homes: His Posthumous Memoirs by John Kendrick Bangs
• Maddened by Mystery: or, The Defective DetectivebyStephen 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 RiddlebyAugust Derleth
• The Mary Queen of Scots Jewel by William O. Fuller
• The Ruby KhitmandubyHugh Kingsmill
• His Last Scrape: or, Holmes, Sweet Holmes!ByRachel Ferguson
• The Adventure of the Murdered Art EditorbyFrederic Dorr Steele
• The Canterbury Cathedral MurderbyFrederic Arnold Kummer and Basil Mitchell
• The Case of the Missing PatriarchsbyLogan Clendening
• The Case of the Diabolical Plot by Richard Mallett
• Christmas EvebyS. C. Roberts
• The Man Who Was Not DeadbyManly Wade Wellman

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