All-Consuming Fire Wildthyme and Friends Investigate" from Obverse Books. Holmes' creator Arthur Conan Doyle appears in the Virgin Missing Adventures novel "Evolution" by John Peel, where it is implied that he based some elements of the fictional Holmes on the Fourth Doctor. As well as Sherlock Holmes, the novel includes appearances by Sherlock's older brother Mycroft, who first appeared in "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", and another yet older brother, Sherringford (sic) along with a cameo from their father, Siger (Siger and the similarly named Sherrinford were invented by Holmesian scholar William S. Baring-Gould to resolve an apparent contradiction in the
Detective fiction developed... Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?" Ellery Queen is a fictional detective-hero, created by Manfred Bennington Lee (1905-1971), and Frederic Dannay (1905～1982), as well as a joint pseudonym for the cousins Dannay and Lee. Ellery Queen first appeared in "The Roman Hat Mystery" (1929), and was the hero of more than 30 novels and several short story collections, During the 1930s and much of the 1940s, that detective-hero was possibly the best known American fictional detective. Many detectives appear in more than one novel or story. Here is a list of