Sherlock Holmes Pastiches recommendations!

[chongjasmine]

I like pastiches which maintain original voice or style and looks something like what Doyle will actually write and set in the canonical universe. So no female sherlock, sherlock in mars, or things that go out of characters.
Kindly recommend them here, please.

[Macklunkey]

I've liked the one by Anthony Horowitz, "The House of Silk" and "Dust and Shadow" by Lyndsay Faye. 

James Lovegrove has also written a few.

[john]

Dust and Shadow is the cream of the crop, imo, although I suppose it’s debatable whether ACD would have written a long novel about Jack the Ripper.

Caleb Carr wrote decent book in the Doyle style, The Italian Secretary.

Recently I’ve been enjoying the Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota series by Larry Millett. They’re not really in the style (sometimes departs from Watson’s first person if you can believe it), although Holmes and Watson speak and act like themselves, but they are very good anyway.

Edited July 8, 2023 by john

[James Arryn]

Dust and Shadow, seconded. I read the first series of mysteries nominally from Arthur Conan Doyle and Prof. Bell…a knife in the fog, I think…Harkness or similar…good job maintaining the ‘voice’, good development, maintaining that slight, er, innocence of the originals, etc. while dealing with the brutality of the Ripper. No idea if they’re good from here but I’m intending on reading more.

 

 

Edited July 9, 2023 by James Arryn

[SeanF]

Flashman and the Tiger has is an amusing one.

[Wilbur]

The scenes with Holmes and Watson in Flashman and the Tiger are darkly hilarious.

[Ray Curto]

The Return of Moriarty and Revenge of Moriarty both written by the late John Gardner.  Moriarty, in these books, has been called Gaslight Godfather.