Published Fanfic Recs

[bcaluroso.livejournal.com]

 Can anyone recommend to me some decent published Holmes fanfiction? Not relatively obscure books like Rohase Piercy's, (what an awesome name)  but something that I might conceivably be able to get at my local library or bookstore?

Preferably something with Holmes and Watson in it, so not Mary Russel or those books from the POVs of Adler or Moriarty.

Also, does anyone know if there's any fanfiction for the Vasily Livanov or Basil Rathbone series? I've found two for the latter, and wrote one for the former, but surely there must be more - Rathbone <i>was</i> Holmes for a long time.

Comments

[notkerouac.livejournal.com]

The 'Further Adventures Of..." series should be relatively easy to get. It's reprints of older pastiches, and they can be a bit hit and miss but they publish one every few months. They tend to be more adventurey, though - there's crossovers with War of the Worlds and Jekyll and Hyde, and the most recent book is a Jack the Ripper mystery.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Have you read Larry Millett's books? My favorite is Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace murders : from the American chronicles of John H. Watson, M.D. (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/larry-millett/sherlock-holmes-and-ice-palace-murders.htm)

I think there are 5 or 6 in the series so far, they have the very interesting OC Shadwell Rafferty as a private investigator/saloon keeper.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Dust and Shadow by Lindsey Faye is a good read, and I'll second the Further Adventures, which have been recently reprinted and are therefore much easier to find than a lot of other pastiches.

Mind you, if you start getting pastiches at Amazon they'll tell you about all sorts of self-published wonders. Sherlock Holmes and the Zombie Problem, anyone? (Fair warning, it could have used a beta. The French Artillery Officer is much better, and while it is third person, so not a proper pastiche, it does feature a Watson who is both a BAMF and a gentleman.)

There's surprisingly little fanfic which is specific to Rathbone and Bruce -- although if you can find it, the Lost Adventures of Sherlock Holmes recaps some of the radio plays they did.

[echoindarkness.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed most of the stories in the Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (except the Laurie King/Mary Russell story, actually)