The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes

We bring you the finest of these parodies and pastiches. They are the next best thing to new stories — unrecorded cases of The Great Man, not as Dr. Watson related them, but as some of our most brilliant literary figures have imagined them. These "misadventures" - these Barriesque adventures that might have been — are all written with sincere reverence, despite the occasional laughter and fun-pokings, which are only a psychological form of adoration — or, perhaps, downright envy. The old proverb — "imitation is the sin-cerest flattery" — reveals in a single laconic sentence the comprehensive motif of this book.
You will see Holmes through the eyes of Mark Twain, O. Henry, Bret Harte, Sir James Barrie, Stephen Leacock, and lesser lights — all Devotees of Doyle and Sycophants of Sherlock, all humble Watsons paying homage from their own, the eternal sanctuary of perpetual youth.