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
Jack Spratt (fictional detective) happily married with five children. In addition, he is shown in the beginning of "The Big Over Easy" to be an experienced and accomplished police detective, but low on self-confidence, virtually incapable of securing convictions and never recognized for the ones he does make. The reason for this is that police funding is based on public approval, which is in turn influenced by the news magazine "Amazing Crime Stories". This enormously popular "true crime" magazine prints glamorous police cases--usually involving noir clichés like secret societies, mafia assassins and baffling, meticulously planned murders--that are allegedly true and unedited, but actually largely