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* ''The Adventure of the Walk-Out Wardrobe'' by Julie Ditrich

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* ''Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Nikola: The Adventure of the Empty Throne'' by Brad Mengel (featuring Dr. Nikola Tesla)

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* ''Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Nikola: The Adventure of the Empty Throne'' by Brad Mengel (featuring Dr. Nikola Tesla)Nikola)
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* ''The Final Prologue'' by Christopher Sequeira
* ''The Forlorn Death of Sally at the Crossroads'' by Dennis O’Neill (featuring Doc Holiday)
* ''The Sign of Two: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Jekyll'' by Philip Cornell (featuring [[Literature/DrJekyllAndMrHyde Doctor Henry Jekyll]])
* ''The Adventure of the Madman by John Seward Together with an Addendum by His Wife'' by Nancy Holder (featuring Dr. John Seward)
* ''Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Nikola: The Adventure of the Empty Throne'' by Brad Mengel (featuring Dr. Nikola Tesla)
* ''The Adventure of the Reckless Resurrectionist'' by Will Murray (featuring [[Literature/HerbertWestReanimator Doctor Herbert West]])
* ''The Angel of Truth'' by I. A. Watson (featuring Doctor John Dee)
* ''The Locked Cell Murder'' by Ron Fortier (featuring Dr. Van Helsing)
* ''The Adventure of the Slaughter Stone'' by Rafe [=McGregor=] (featuring [[Literature/TheSpeckledBand Doctor Grimsby Roylott]])
* ''The Adventure of the Walk-Out Wardrobe'' by Julie Ditrich
* ''Curtain Call'' by J. Scherpenhuizen (featuring Doctor Hieronymus Mabuse)
* ''The Investigation into the Dawning Od: A Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle Mystery'' by Andrew Salomon (featuring Dr. Creator/ArthurConanDoyle)
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* CassetteCraze: In "The Adventure of the Madman", author Nancy Holder claims [[DirectLineToTheAuthor the story is transcribed from phonograph cylinders found in the effects of one of her ancestors, Mary Holder]], who is a major character in the story. This is a ShoutOut to ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', as tthe doctor in this story is Dr. John Seward.

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* CassetteCraze: In "The Adventure of the Madman", author Nancy Holder claims [[DirectLineToTheAuthor the story is transcribed from phonograph cylinders found in the effects of one of her ancestors, Mary Holder]], who is a major character in the story. This is a ShoutOut to ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', as tthe the doctor in this story is Dr. John Seward.
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* CassetteCraze: In "The Adventure of the Madman", author Nancy Holder claims [[DirectLineToTheAuthor the story is transcribed from phonograph cylinders found in the effects of one of her ancestors, Mary Holder]], who is a major character in the story. This is a ShoutOut to ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', as tthe doctor in this story is Dr. John Seward.

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* EvilCounterpart
** In "The Final Prologue", Moriarty has discovered TheMultiverse and is exploiting it for criminal gain, summoning evil alternates to [[ActuallyADoombot impersonate himself]] or KillAndReplace their counterparts in this world. He summons eleven evil counterparts of Holmes and Watson, with the most powerful duo challenging our heroes in a duel to the death.
** In "The Adventure of the Slaughter Stone", Holmes is a criminal mastermind like Moriarty, with Dr Grimesby Roylott (the villain from "The Adventure of the Speckled Band") as his offsider. Instead of solving a murder he's asked by his client to commit one.



* FalseFlagOperation: In "The Angel of Truth", Holmes discovers that a seeming Catholic plot against Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethI was in fact instigated by her spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham to allow him to continue his crackdown on Papists.

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* FalseFlagOperation: In "The Angel of Truth", Holmes discovers that a seeming Catholic plot against Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethI was in fact instigated by her spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham to allow him to continue his crackdown on Papists.Papists, then after Walsingham died by the Queen so she could consolidate her position.
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* ShoutOut: Some of the other Holmes and Watson pairings seen in "The Final Prologue" include one where Holmes is {{Dracula}} and Watson is the FrankensteinMonster, and another where Holmes in ComicBook/TheJoker and Watson is ComicBook/ThePenguin.

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* ShoutOut: Some of the other Holmes and Watson pairings seen in "The Final Prologue" include one where Holmes is {{Dracula}} and Watson is the FrankensteinMonster, and another where Holmes in is ComicBook/TheJoker and Watson is ComicBook/ThePenguin.

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* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Holmes choses to do this when he rejects Herbert West's chemical immortality in "The Adventure of the Reckless Resurrectionist". Watson hopes he will someday be able to join Holmes.

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* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Holmes choses chooses to do this when he rejects Herbert West's chemical immortality in "The Adventure of the Reckless Resurrectionist". Watson hopes he will someday be able to join Holmes.



* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In "Curtain Call", Dr. Faustus hypnotises a man into believing that he murdered Dr. Mabuse, and then later into actually mudering Professor Moriarty.

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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In "Curtain Call", Dr. Faustus hypnotises a man into believing that he murdered Dr. Mabuse, and then later into actually mudering murdering Professor Moriarty.


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* ShoutOut: Some of the other Holmes and Watson pairings seen in "The Final Prologue" include one where Holmes is {{Dracula}} and Watson is the FrankensteinMonster, and another where Holmes in ComicBook/TheJoker and Watson is ComicBook/ThePenguin.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In "Curtain Call", Dr. Faustus hypnotises a man into believing that he murdered Dr. Mabuse, and then later into actually mudering Professor Moriarty.


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* KillAndReplace: In "Curtain Call", [[Theatre/DoctorFaustus Dr. Johann Faustus]] kills and [[Film/DrMabuseTheGambler Dr. Hieronymus Mabuse]] and assumes his identity as part of his plan to take control of London's underworld.
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* EvilSorcerer: In "The Investigation into The Dawning Od: A Sherlock Holmes and Dr Arthur Conan Doyle Mystery", Otto Von Reichenbach is a practitioner of the [[BlackMagic dark arts]] who desires power over the Od. During [[UsefulNotes/TheSecondBoerWar the Boer Wars]], Von Reichenbach has an army of British soldiers positioned in South Africa [[WaterSourceTampering poisoned]], turning them into monsters under his control who slaughter their loved ones upon returning home. Unleashing them on Britain, Von Reichenbach harvests the power created from their carnage, intending to use to it open a portal using the Od to release an army on the world to brutally put it under his foot.
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* OutsideContextProblem: A good description of the reason for Holmes’s failure in the cases of “The Sign of Two” and “Curtain Call”, as Holmes’s logical, scientific mind means that he literally cannot comprehend the idea that Jekyll and Hyde could be the same man or that his long-time friend Doctor Mabuse is actually an immortal agent of Sata

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* OutsideContextProblem: A good description of the reason for Holmes’s failure in the cases of “The Sign of Two” and “Curtain Call”, as Holmes’s logical, scientific mind means that he literally cannot comprehend the idea that Jekyll and Hyde could be the same man or that his long-time friend Doctor Mabuse is actually an immortal agent of SataSatan.

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