Holmesian Pastiches Ahoy!

[DomaDoma]

Man, I'm still laughing about Jamyang Norbu's take on the Great Hiatus. It's a decent ride - if maybe a bit Buddhist, but it's Jamyang Ruddy Norbu, what do you expect - until we abruptly run into a ninja with levitating swords. Without spoiling anything further, let's just say that it's the barest tip of the vast iceberg of crazy that follows.

But I've been thinking: there are so many takes on the Great Hiatus in pastiches... but are you honestly telling me that in a hundred and eighteen years, nobody has ever put forward their take on the missing four months? The closest I've ever heard of is Sherlock, which is an amazingly awesome modernization, I'll agree, but it reverses the whole Holmes-Moriarty dynamic, so it's not quite what I'm looking for.

I mean, I know not everyone can be Tsugumi Ohba, but in a hundred and eighteen years, someone must have made at least a game attempt, right?

[WalkingTarget]

I'm not a walking encyclopedia of the Holmes stories (yet), but I want to say that the Hiatus (which was from 1891-1894 ~3-4 years, not months) is a somewhat popular pastiche setting for other authors.

There's Meyer's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven-Per-Cent_Solution) which gives an alternate "real" account for why Holmes was inactive for those years.

It's been a while since I read any of them but Gaiman's entry, but I want to say that the Lovecraft/Holmes mashup Shadows Over Baker Street had at least a few set in that period.

Neither of those is really in keeping with the canonical stories, though.

Here's (http://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmes-Hidden-Michael-Kurland/dp/0312315139) a collection I found on Amazon.

[Fri]

I only know (and have) the seven percent solution. I remember there's a sci-fi take on it, on how holmes ressurection is the reason of fermi's paradox. No kidding.