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
Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective Dan Turner, also known as the Hollywood Detective, was a fictional private detective created by Robert Leslie Bellem. His first appearance was in the second issue of the pulp magazine "Spicy Detective", dated June 1934, and he continued to appear regularly in that magazine (which was retitled "Speed Detective" in 1943) until its demise in February 1947. He also appeared in his "own" magazine, "Hollywood Detective", which was published by Culture Publications (later Trojan Publishing) and ran from January 1942 to October 1950. Dan Turner was a typical hardboiled private eye, who worked in the Hollywood