Publisher's Synopsis
When Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his fictional sleuth in the 1893 story ""The Final Problem,"" distraught readers resorted to producing their own versions of Sherlock Holmes's adventures ? thus inventing the now-common genre of fan fiction. These tales by famous and lesser-known devotees offer the best of early Sherlockian tributes and parodies. Includes stories by Robert Barr, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, O. Henry, and others.