Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective is a 1962 novel by William S. Baring-Gould. The book purports to be a biography of Sherlock Holmes. Some aspects of the book were loosely based on the life of Baring-Gould's paternal grandfather, Sabine Baring-Gould. Five years later, Baring-Gould would go on to publish an "Annotated Sherlock Holmes", which would be considered definitive, at least until Leslie S. Klinger published "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes" in 2004–2005. Baring-Gould used many biography details he invented in "Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street" for his
Sherlock Holmes pastiches 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 1913 the Greek novel "Sherlock Holmes saving Mr. Venizelos" ("Ο Σέρλοκ Χολμς σώζων τον κ. Βενιζέλον") was serialized in the magazine "Hellas". Written by an anonymous author, it describes Holmes' attempts to save Eleftherios Venizelos from a Bulgarian organization's assassination plot during the London Conference of 1912–13. It is considered the first detective novel of the Greek