Sherlock Holmes pastiches old man,' solving the case of the missing parrot belonging to a nine-year-old Jewish refugee boy from Germany. While readily solving the mystery, 'the old man,' as well as the rest of the characters in the novella, fail to see what the parrot's incessant muttering of random German numbers really means. Caleb Carr was approached to pen a tale for the anthology "Ghosts of Baker Street". Carr's short story grew to become a full length novel which became 2005's "The Italian Secretary". An example of Sherlock Holmes pastiche is found in "The Curse of the Nibelung: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery"
Sherlock Holmes pastiches Holmes, but it features many Conan Doyle's stories such as "The Hound of the Baskervilles", "The Valley of Fear", "The Speckled Band", "The Silver Blaze", "The Musgrave Ritual", "The Gloria Scott", and "The Copper Beeches". "The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra" is a comedy album created by The Firesign Theatre featuring Hemlock Stones and Flotsam. Sherlock Holmes pastiches Sherlock Holmes has long been a popular character for pastiche, Holmes-related work by authors and creators other than Arthur Conan Doyle. Their works can be grouped into four broad categories: New Sherlock Holmes stories fall into many categories, including: In