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 (video game series) The games are a commercial success. The series has sold 4 million copies on PC alone as of 2012. Sherlock Holmes (video game series) Sherlock Holmes is a series of adventure games developed by Frogwares. The game is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. John H. Watson. While the franchise is based on "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", each game has an original plot and storyline. Each game in the series lets the player control Holmes or Dr. Watson from either a first-person or third-person perspective. This