Ellery Queen’s A Study in Terror (1966), probably the first in which the Baker Street sleuth took on Jack the Ripper, was the novelization of a movie. Mycroft, but any knowledgeable reader knew it was Sherlock and not his brother. Heard’s A Taste for Honey (1941) was the pioneer-the beekeeping sleuth in this novel and two sequels was known as Mr. And that's only one of his new adventures.įor reasons related more to fear of litigation by the Arthur Conan Doyle estate than any lack of irregular enthusiasm, novel-length Sherlock Holmes pastiches were rare indeed before the 1970s. In The Ectoplasmic Man, Harry Houdini joins forces with Holmes and Watson is given the chance to play stooge to a genius magician as well as a genius detective.
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