The following is an alphabetical list and selected bibliography of authors, other than Sherlock Holmes's creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who have written Holmes stories:
A Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse: Mycroft Holmes (2015), Mycroft and Sherlock (2018), Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage (2019) Guy Adams: Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God (2011), and Sherlock Holmes: The Army of Dr Moreau (2012) Boris Akunin: Jade Rosary Beads (2006 crossover with Erast Fandorin) Poul Anderson: Time Patrol (1955), where the main character meets Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson during time travels. Val Andrews: Famous music-hall artist, he authored about a dozen new Holmes stories (1988-2006), most of them with a magic/music-hall background.
B John Kendrick Bangs: R. Holmes & Co.: Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth (1906), illus. Sydney Adamnson; New York and London: Harper & Brothers David Barnett: "Woman's Work", a short story in Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (2013) Stephen Baxter: "The Adventure of the Intertial Adjustor" (Holmes and Watson meet H.G. Wells) in The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (1997) Pierre Bayard: Sherlock Holmes was wrong: reopening the case of the Hound of the Baskervilles (2007) Peter S. Beagle: "Mr. Sigerson" in Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years (2004) Sam Benady: Sherlock Holmes in Gibraltar - the true Solution to the Mystery of Mary Celeste and the singular affair of the Duke of Connaught (1990), contains three short stories Lloyd Biggle: The Quallsford Inheritance: A Memoir of Sherlock Holmes from the Papers of Edward Porter Jones, His Late Assistant (1986) Leigh Blackmore : "Exalted Are the Forces of Darkness" in Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes, 2009: "The Arcana of Death". Strange Detective Stories 4 (2014); "The Adventure of the Metaphysics of Madness". Mantichore 10 (Apr 2015). Anthony Boucher: The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars NY Simon & Schuster (1940) Rhys Bowen: "The Case of the Lugubrious Manservant" in Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years (2004) Rick Boyer: The Giant Rat of Sumatra (1976) Eric Brown: "The Tragic Affair of the Martian Ambassador", a short story in Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (2013) Anthony Burgess: "Murder to Music", a short story in The Devil's Mode (1989)
C Caleb Carr: The Italian Secretary (2005). John Dickson Carr: The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (1954) collaboration with Adrian Conan Doyle Michael Chabon: The Final Solution (2004) features an unnamed elderly Sherlock Holmes Arthur Chapman: "The Unmasking of Sherlock Holmes" in The Game is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes (1994), Marvin Kaye editor Michael Collins: "Cross of Gold" in Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years (2004) Paul Cornell: "The Deer Stalker" (2014)"The Deer Stalker" at BBC Bert Coules: the scripts/story boards for the BBC show The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2002) Jon Courtenay Grimwood: "The Spy's Retirement" (2004)"The Spy's Retirement" at BBC Arthur Byron Cover: An East Wind Coming (1979?) Mitch Cullin: A Slight Trick of the Mind (2005)
D David Stuart Davies: He is the author of seven Holmes novels: Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair (1991), The Tangled Skein (1995), The Scroll of the Dead (1998), Shadow of the Rat (1999), The Veiled Detective (2004), The Devil's Promise (2014) and The Ripper Legacy (2016). His Holmes short stories include "The Darlington Substitution Scandal" (in The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, 1997), "The Adventure of the Whitrow Inheritance", "Sherlock Holmes and the Ghost of Christmas Past" and "Sherlock Holmes and the Reichenbach Secret" (all in The Game's Afoot, 2008). Jeffery Deaver: "The Westphalian Ring" in the 2006 short story collection More Twisted. Colin Dexter: "A Case of Mis-Identity", in his short story collection Morse's Greatest Mystery (1993). Michael Dibdin: The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (1978) Richard Dinnick: "The Adventure of the Swaddled Railwayman"', a short story in Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (2013) Stuart Douglas: The Albino's Treasure (2015), featuring Monsieur Zenith the Albino, and The Counterfeit Detective (2016). Adrian Conan Doyle (Doyle's son, and former holder of his estate)- collaborations with John Dickson Carr (c.f.) The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (1954) Jean Dutourd: Les Mémoires de Mary Watson (1980)- the meeting of Dr Watson with his future wife, Mary Morstan, during Holmes' investigation of the death of Morstan's father
E, F Loren D. Estleman: Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula; or, The Adventure of the Sanguinary Count (1978) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes (1979) Philip José Farmer: The Adventure of the Peerless Peer (1974), in which Holmes teams up with Tarzan. This was later extensively rewritten as The Adventure of the Three Madmen due to copyright troubles.The Adventure of the Three Madmen Lyndsay Faye: Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson (2009) and The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes (2017). Jorge Fernandez Diaz: "El Dilema de los Proceres" (2009). Features Sherlock Holmes solving a mystery during the early 20th century in Argentina. Christopher Fowler: "The Lady Downstairs" (2007)"The Lady Downstairs" at BBC George MacDonald Fraser: Flashman and the Tiger (1999)
G Neil Gaiman: "A Study in Emerald" in the multi-author collection Shadows Over Baker Street. Won the 2004 Hugo for Best Short Story. Also "The Case of Death and Honey" in the collection A Study in Sherlock. Arnould Galopin: "Herlockoms" (another avatar of Sherlock Holmes in French literature) crossover with Allan Dickson, the Australian detective, in "La ténébreuse affaire de Green Park" (1910) and "L'homme au complet gris" (1931) - another Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper story Juan García Rodenas: Two short stories in Spanish, "La guerra del Doctor Watson" (Doctor Watson's War), about Watson's campaign in Afghanistan, and "La Aventura del Magnicidio Resuelto" (The Adventure of the Solved Assassination), about young Holmes and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; both in Antes de Baker Street, Academia de Mitología Creativa Jules Verne de Albacete, 2008.Antes de Baker Street David Gerrold: short story "The Fan Who Molded Himself"Alternate Gerrolds by David Gerrold Theodora Goss: The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter (2017 novel) Denis Green (& Anthony Boucher): scripts and short stories for the American broadcast show The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939–1946) Dominic Green: "Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Lost World" (2004)"The Adventure of the Lost World" at BBC Robert Greenberger (and Steven Savile): Murder At Sorrow's Crown (2016).
H Edward D. Hanna: The Whitechapel Horrors (1993). Michael Hardwick: The Prisoner of the Devil (1979), Sherlock Holmes: My Life and Crimes (1984), The Revenge of the Hound (1987) Robert J. Harris: A Study in Crimson (2022), The Devil's Blaze (2022) Michael Harrison: I, Sherlock Holmes - Memoirs of Mr Sherlock Holmes, OM, late Consulting Private Detective-in-Ordinary to Their Majesties Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King Georges V (1977) Edward D. Hoch: "The Adventure of Vittoria the Circus Belle" in The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (1997) Mark Hodder: "The Loss of Chapter Twenty-One", a short story in Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (2013) Anthony Horowitz: The House of Silk, Little Brown and Company (2011)
I, J, K Enrique Jardiel Poncela: Novísimas aventuras de Sherlock Holmes (Spanish Very new adventures of Sherlock Holmes), seven short parodic stories originally published in magazines in 1928 and several times published in book form. Kenneth Johnson: Holmes Coming (2022) Stephen King: "The Doctor's Case" (1987), in which Watson solves a case before Holmes. John R. King: The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls (2008) Laurie R. King: The Mary Russell series of novels set in Holmes' later life (ongoing as of February 2024). Ronald A. Knox: "The Adventure of the First-Class Carriage" in The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1985. Kaoru Shintani: Young Miss Holmes (2006) Michael Kurland: The Infernal Device (1978), Death by Gaslight (1982), The Great Game (2001), The Empress of India (2006), Who Thinks Evil (2014); and the short stories "The Paradol Paradox" (2001), "Years Ago and in a Different Place" in My Sherlock Holmes, (2003), "Reichenbach" in Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years (2004) and "The Picture of Oscar Wilde" (2013). In this series, Professor Moriarty is the real hero who helps the bewildered Holmes solve crimes by providing him clues to discover the real villains.
L : The Great Detective Sherlock Holmes series Mercedes Lackey: A Study in Sable (2016), A Scandal in Battersea (2017), The Bartered Brides (2018), The Case of the Spellbound Child (2019) Geoffrey A. Landis: "The Singular Habits of Wasps" (1994), nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards. Andy Lane: The Young Sherlock Holmes series;Young Sherlock Death Cloud and Red Leech. Also, All-Consuming Fire (1994), where the Doctor from Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes team up to battle the forces of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Maurice Leblanc: crossover with Arsène Lupin in: Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes (1910)Histoire de l'holmésologie française Alexis Lecaye: French novelist and TV scriptwriter "Marx et Sherlock Holmes", "Einstein et Sherlock Holmes" (1989) Jean-Marc Lofficier & wife Randy Lofficier: short story in Les nombreuses vies de Sherlock Holmes (2005) James Lovegrove: "The Fallen Financier", a short story in Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (2013), Sherlock Holmes: The Stuff of Nightmares (2013), Sherlock Holmes: Gods of War (2014), Sherlock Holmes: The Thinking Engine (2015), and Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (2016), Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities (2017), Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils (2018), Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Dust (2018), features both Holmes and Allan Quatermain, Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon (2019), Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons (2020), Sherlock Holmes and The Three Winter Terrors (2021) James Lowder: "The Weeping Masks" in Shadows Over Baker Street anthology (2003)
M Jonathan Maberry: "The Adventure of the Greenbrier Ghost" in Legends of the Mountain State Volume 2 (2008). Holmes and Watson deal with a West Virginia murder and the ghost that follows. Bonnie MacBird: Art in the Blood (2015) and Unquiet Spirits (2017) F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre: "The Enigma of the Warwickshire Vortex" (1997) and "The Adventure of Exham Priory " in the "H.P. Lovecraft-sounding" Shadows Over Baker Street anthology (2003) Eddie Maguire: a short story in Sherlock Holmes and the Three Poisoned Pawns (2008) : Holmes meeting the Kaizer during a WE in Dorset Paul Magrs: "Mrs Hudson at the Christmas Hotel", a short story in Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (2013) Michael Mallory: Short stories in the anthologies My Sherlock Holmes (2003), Sherlock Holmes: the Hidden Years (2004) and Sherlock Holmes: the American Years (2010), in addition to a series of short stories and novels featuring "Amelia Watson," the second wife of Dr. John H. Watson. George Mann: Sherlock Holmes: The Will of the Dead (2013) and Sherlock Holmes: The Spirit Box (2014). Also "The Case of the Night Crawler", a short story in Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (2013) Rafael Marín: Elemental, querido Chaplin (2005, ) is presented as an unpublished manuscript in which Charles Chaplin tells how, as a London poor child, he helped Sherlock Holmes in an adventure against Fu Manchu. Rodolfo Martínez: four novels in Spanish language incl. Sherlock Holmes y la Boca del Infierno and Sherlock Holmes y la Subiduría de los Muertos (2008)