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"
Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire Storm someone, and this was what prompted him to set the book in Edinburgh. Lane learned much of the historical background for the novel from Michael Fry's book "Edinburgh - a History of the City". Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire Storm Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire Storm is the fourth novel in the Young Sherlock Holmes series. It was written by Andy Lane and released in 2011. The story begins with Sherlock Holmes discovering that Mrs. Eglantine, the housekeeper of Holmes Manor, is blackmailing his Uncle Sherrinford and Aunt Anna into keeping her employed. Sherlock also discovers that Mrs. Eglantine is working for