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| | Review of The Alternative Sherlock Holmes: Pastiches, Parodies and Copies by Peter Ridgway Watt & Joseph Green |
 | | Nicholas Meyer's third pastiche, The Canary Trainer, is noticeably absent, as are all of Frank Thomas's novels (cynics might say understandably so, but they are historically important in a survey of pastiches, being the first series of Holmes novels to be published in the mass market), and Robert Lee Hall's The King Edward Plot. |
 | | The Pursuit of the Houseboat, the first novel-length story to feature Holmes as a character, gets a only a brief mention (inaccurately) as another book by John Kendrick Bangs which contained a Sherlock Holmes pastiche, under the erroneous title In the Pursuit of the Houseboat and does not appear in the index. |
 | | Gerald Frow’s two Young Sherlock novels, Watkin Jones’s The Case of the Scarlet Woman, Sydney Hosier’s Elementary, Mrs Hudson and its sequels, Nicholas Meyer’s The Canary Trainer (though Sam Siciliano’s simultaneous take on the same theme, The Angel of the Opera, is included), and others. |
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