A 'what if?' anthology, centred on the question What if Sherlock Holmes had a different offsider than Doctor Watson?
Some of the doctors are fictional and drawn from either other novelists' works (e.g., Dr Henry Jekyll [Robert Louis Stevenson] and Dr Antonio Nikola [Guy Boothby], some are fictional and drawn from Conan Doyle's own work (e.g., Dr Grimesby Roylott [from 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band']), and some are historical (e.g., Dr John Dee, Doc Holliday, and Conan Doyle himself).
Contents indexed selectively. This volume also contains work from the following international writers: Ron Fortier, Nancy Holder, Rafe McGregor, Will Murray, Dennis O'Neill, Andrew Salmon, and I.A. Watson.
Doctors:
Christopher Sequeira, Watson in ‘The Final Prologue’.
Dennis O’Neil, Doc Holliday (historical figure, known for his association with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral).
Nancy Holder, Dr John Seward (from Bram Stoker's Dracula).
Will Murray, Dr Herbert West (from H.P. Lovecraft's 'Herbert West—Reanimator').
Ron Fortier, Dr Amelia Van Helsing (the imagined daughter of Abraham Van Helsing, from Bram Stoker's Dracula).
Rafe McGregor, Dr Grimesby Roylott (from the Sherlock Holmes short story, 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band').
Andrew Salmon, Dr Conan Doyle (Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories).
I. A. Watson, Dr John Dee (Anglo-Welsh mathematician, occultist, and advisor to Queen Elizabeth 1).
J. Scherpenhuizen, Dr Heironymus Mabuse (a villainous character created by Luxembourgish writer Norbert Jacques, and the subject of three Fritz Lang films).
Brad Mengel, Dr Antonio Nikola (from the Dr Nikola series of novels by Guy Boothby).
Philip Cornell, Dr Henry Jekyll (from R.L. Stevenson's Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde).
Julie Ditrich, Dr Theodore Moriarty (Irish occultist and Freemason [not connected to Holmes' nemesis of the same surname).
Sherlock Holmes and his assistant for this alternate-world adventure, Dr Henry Jekyll, find themselves tracing a villain known as Mr Hyde.
In this alternate-world Sherlock Holmes story, Holmes is accompanied by Dr Theodore Moriarty, and Irish occultist and Freemason, It uses aspects of Moriarty's real career, including a period spent at Mossel Bay in South Africa.
Moriarty (an historical figure) is not connected to Holmes' nemesis of the same surname, but the story does play with the connection. He is also the subject of fictional stories by his mentee Dion Fortune (who wrote about him as the character Dr Taverner).
In this alternate-world Sherlock Holmes story, Holmes is accompanied by Dr Heironymus Mabuse, a villainous character created by Luxembourgish writer Norbert Jacques, and the subject of three films by German film-maker Fritz Lang.
