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 nunca" (2004), where Sherlock Holmes meets Mary Poppins. The Conan Doyle estate commissioned Anthony Horowitz, author of the Alex Rider novels, "The Power of Five" and TV's "Foyle's War", to write a new, uniquely "authorised" Sherlock Holmes novel. Published by Orion Books in 2011 under the title "The House of Silk", the content and title were a "closely guarded secret" before publication. . The BBC's TV series "Sherlock" re-imagines Holmes and Watson (played by Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman) as contemporary figures with Watson publishing his accounts of Holmes' exploits online. The US TV series "Elementary" features a modern Holmes