Line #16 Literature/SherlockHolmesAndDoctorWasNot


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3	''Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Was Not'' is a 2019 '[[{{Elseworld}} what if]]' anthology edited by Christopher Sequeira and based around the premise 'What if Literature/SherlockHolmes had a different offsider than Doctor Watson?'.
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5	Sherlock Holmes truly trusted but one person--Doctor John H. Watson--but in an ocean of infinite realities it must be possible that in some of them Holmes' fellow tenant at 221B Baker Street could be some other doctor, from any page of history or the annals of literature!
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7	Come with us now as we peer into the bizarre and sometimes terrifying fates that await the Master Sleuth when his cases, his reputation, and his very fate rests in the hands, or claws--of some very different medicos!
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10	* ''The Final Prologue'' by Christopher Sequeira
11	* ''The Forlorn Death of Sally at the Crossroads'' by Dennis O’Neill (featuring Doc Holiday)
12	* ''The Sign of Two: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Jekyll'' by Philip Cornell (featuring [[Literature/DrJekyllAndMrHyde Doctor Henry Jekyll]])
13	* ''The Adventure of the Madman by John Seward Together with an Addendum by His Wife'' by Nancy Holder (featuring Dr. John Seward)
14	* ''Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Nikola: The Adventure of the Empty Throne'' by Brad Mengel (featuring Dr. Nikola)
15	* ''The Adventure of the Reckless Resurrectionist'' by Will Murray (featuring [[Literature/HerbertWestReanimator Doctor Herbert West]])
16	* ''The Angel of Truth'' by I. A. Watson (featuring Doctor John Dee)
17	* ''The Locked Cell Murder'' by Ron Fortier (featuring Dr. Van Helsing)
18	* ''The Adventure of the Slaughter Stone'' by Rafe [=McGregor=] (featuring [[Literature/TheSpeckledBand Doctor Grimsby Roylott]])
19	* ''The Adventure of the Walk-Out Wardrobe'' by Julie Ditrich (featuring Dr. Theodore Moriarty)
20	* ''Curtain Call'' by J. Scherpenhuizen (featuring Doctor Hieronymus Mabuse)
21	* ''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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24	!!The tropes are afoot!
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26	* ActionGirl: Dr. Amelia Van Helsing in "The Locked Cell Murder" is a monster hunter who wields a pair of ''wakizashi'' and comes to Holmes' rescue by making a SuperWindowJump through the skylight of a warehouse.
27	* AnimalAssassin: In "The Adventure of the Sacrifice Stone", Lady Sarah plans to murder Flower with a red-bellied black snake. Roylott speculates she might have been intending it as a FrightDeathtrap as the bite of the snake is unlikely to be immediately fatal.
28	* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Holmes 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.
29	* BegoneBribe: In "The Adventure of the Sacrifice Stone", Lady Sarah offers her son's fiancée, Flower Dalrymple, a cheque for one thousand pounds if she breaks off the engagement and never returns.
30	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In "Curtain Call", Dr. Faustus hypnotises a man into believing that he murdered Dr. Mabuse, and then later into actually murdering Professor Moriarty.
31	* 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 the doctor in this story is Dr. John Seward.
32	* ClearTheirName: In "The Forlorn Death of Sally at the Crossroads", Holmes has to clear Doc Holliday from a spurious charge of murder.
33	* CowboyEpisode: In "The Forlorn Death of Sally at the Crossroads", Holmes teams up with Doc Holliday to solve a murder in a small town in TheWildWest.
34	* DeathRow: In "The Locked Cell Murder", Holmes and Dr. Amelia Van Helsing investigate when a convicted murderer is found [[LockedRoomMystery strangled in his locked cell on death row]] two days before he was due to be executed.
35	* DirectLineToTheAuthor: In "The Adventure of the Madman", author Nancy Holder claims 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.
36	* {{Elseworld}}: The premise of the collection is 'What if Literature/SherlockHolmes had a different offsider than Doctor Watson?'.
37	* EvilCounterpart
38	** 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.
39	** 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.
40	* 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.
41	* 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, then after Walsingham died by the Queen so she could consolidate her position.
42	* FrightDeathtrap: In "The Adventure of the Sacrifice Stone", Dr. Roylott speculates that Lady Sarah intends the red-bellied black snake to frighten Miss Dalrymple to death than as an actual AnimalAssassin. Holmes disagrees, pointing out that their client is hardly a hysterical young woman who will keel over at the sight of a serpent. [[spoiler:As it turns out, Lady Sarah is insane and probably believed her scheme would work.]]
43	* {{Gaslighting}}: In "The Adventure of the Madman", Moriarty sprinkles powdered Devil Foot Root on the wood Dr. Seward is burning to heat his asylum: hoping to send the doctor mad so no one will ever believe there was a patient called 'M'.
44	* GodGuise: In "The Angel of Truth", Dr.John Dee is seeking divine assistance in unraveling a plot against Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethI. He attempts to summon and bind the Angel of Truth. Who he in fact summons is Sherlock Holmes, who tartly observes that what Dee requires is not the Angel of Truth, but rather the Angel of Deduction. Throughout the adventure, Dee remains convinced that Holmes is an angel.
45	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Real world doctors who get paired with Holmes include Doc Holliday, Doctor John Dee, Doctor Theodore Moriarty (a Victorian spiritualist and occultist), and Creator/ArthurConanDoyle.
46	* ImprovisedCross: In "The Final Prologue", Holmes snaps off a section of handrail and its crossbar from the railway carriage, and uses it to repel his vampiric counterpart.
47	* 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.
48	* LockedRoomMystery: In "The Locked Cell Murder", Holmes and Dr. Amelia Van Helsing investigate when a convicted murderer is found strangled in his locked cell on DeathRow two days before he was due to be executed.
49	* MakeUpIsEvil: Referenced in "The Adventure of the Walk Out Wardrobe". Holmes is explaining the odd actions of the victim, and comments that because commercial cosmetics are associated with prostitutes and actresses, respectable ladies wishing to enjoy the benefits of makeup often attempt to make their own.
50	* MyBelovedSmother: In "The Adventure of the Sacrifice Stone", Lady Sarah has vowed that her son will never marry. When his son brings home a fiancée, she initially tires to drive her away with hostility, and then attempts to buy her off. When this fails, she [[MurderIsTheBestSolution decides to murder her]].
51	* MythologyGag: In "The Locked Cell Murder", Holmes busts up a cult that sounds suspiciously like the one defeated by the teenaged Sherlock Holmes in the movie ''Film/YoungSherlockHolmes''.
52	* 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 Satan.
53	* PhotographicMemory: Dr. Amelia Van Helsing possesses this quality in "The Locked Cell Murder". Holmes comments on how useful it is in their of work, and has her memorise the guards' files and recite the facts back to him as he needs them.
54	* {{Prospector}}: A stereotypical grizzled old prospector, looking for his missing mule, plays a major role in the solution of the mystery in "The Forlorn Death of Sally at the Crossroads".
55	* TheRealRemingtonSteele: In "The Investigation into the Dawning Od", Creator/ArthurConanDoyle has written a series of short stories about Secret Agent Holmes, based on series of outlandish rumours he had heard in Whitehall. He is shocked when the real Literature/SherlockHolmes turns up, not at all happy about having his cover blown.
56	* 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 is ComicBook/TheJoker and Watson is ComicBook/ThePenguin.
57	* SuperWindowJump: In "The Locked Cell Murder", Amelia Van Helsing enters the story by leaping through the skylight of a warehouse to save Holmes from a gang of cultists.
58	* TroubleMagnetGambit: In "The Adventure of the Sacrifice Stone", Samuel splashes Miss Dalrymple's coat with a herbal potion designed to attract snakes.
59	* WaterSourceTampering: In "The Investigation into the Dawning Od", Dr. Otto Von Reichenbach poisons the water supply for the British troops bivouacked outside Bloemfontein with a magic potion that will transform those who have consumed it into monsters after they have returned to England.
60	* WritingIndentationClue: In "The Sign of Two", Holmes rubs a pencil over the top sheet of Dr. Jekyll's notebook and is able to bring up some of his notes: enough to give him an indication of what he is working on.
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