VIDEO: Sherlock Holmes Pastiches

Something a little different today, but still on topic. All but one of these (R. Holmes & Co.) I've covered here on The Battered Tin. Enjoy.

The Dartmoor Horror (2021)

More problems at Dartmoor. Sir Henry, just move already! While this is touted as a sequel to The Hound of the Baskervilles, an authorized sequel, The Revenge of the Hound, came out in 1987.

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DR. WATSON RETURN TO THE MOORS IN THE SHOCKING SUPERNATURAL SEQUEL TO THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES.  

All is finally safe and secure at Baskerville Hall. The legendary Hound from Hell has been shot and killed by Sherlock Holmes; the dog's master, Jack Stapleton, has been sucked down into the depths of the Grimpen Mire, and the case Dr. Watson chose to call "The Hound of the Baskervilles" for readers of The Strand Magazine is officially closed...or is it?

Mysterious events and untimely deaths continue to swirl around the squire of Baskerville Hall, prompting a frightened Sir Henry to call upon the services of the great detective once again. Holmes and Watson return to the moor to save the last of the Baskervilles; but this time, they must also combat supernatural forces that were so quickly dismissed before. The question then becomes...how can they possibly succeed?

Title: The Dartmoor Horror
Author: Joe DeSantis
Year: 2021
Publisher: Berlanger Books
Purchase: Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk

The Devil's Blaze (2022)

The second novel by Robert J. Harris set during the time of the Universal Basil Rathbone films. Why then the cover image of Rathbone and Bruce from the Victorian-set 20th Century Fox films? That's the true mystery!

The world’s greatest detective returns. 

London, 1943. Across the city prominent figures in science and the military are bursting into flame and being incinerated. Convinced that the Germans have deployed a new terror weapon, a desperate government turns to the one man who can track down the source of this dreadful menace - Sherlock Holmes.

The quest for a solution drives Holmes into an uneasy alliance with the country’s most brilliant scientific genius, Professor James Moriarty. Only Holmes knows that, behind his façade of respectability, Moriarty is the mastermind behind a vast criminal empire. As they pursue the trail of incendiary murders, Holmes is quite sure that the professor is playing a double game and that there lies ahead a duel to the death which they cannot both survive.

A tribute to the classic Universal Pictures Sherlock Holmes film series starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.

Title: The Devil's Blaze
Author: Robert J. Harris
Year: 2022
Publisher: Polygon
Purchase: Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk

Under a Raven's Wing (2021)

A collection of shorts stories by Stephen Volk that finds a young Sherlock Holmes in Paris under the mentorship of Auguste Dupin.

The Apprenticeship of Sherlock Holmes 

In 1870s Paris, long before meeting his Dr Watson, the young man who will one day become the world’s greatest detective finds himself plunged into a mystery that will change his life forever. 

A brilliant man―C. Auguste Dupin―steps from the shadows. Destined to become his mentor. Soon to introduce him to a world of ghastly crime and seemingly inexplicable horrors. The spectral tormentor that is being called, in hushed tones, The Phantom of the Opera . . . The sinister old man who visits corpses in the Paris morgue . . . An incarcerated lunatic who insists she is visited by creatures from the Moon . . .  A hunchback discovered in the bell tower of Notre Dame . . .  And―perhaps most shocking of all―the awful secret Dupin himself hides from the world. 

Tales of Mystery, Imagination, and Terror. Investigated in the company of the darkest master of all.

Title: Under a Raven's Wing
Author: Stephen Volk
Year: 2021
Publisher: PS Publishing
Purchase: Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk