Minor Sherlock Holmes characters a character called Wiggins (played by Graham Armitage) who is a footman at the Diogenes Club. He delivers a note to Mycroft Holmes (played by Christopher Lee) and receives instructions concerning various items. The character, credited as "Bill Wiggins", also appears in the series three finale of "Sherlock" portrayed by Tom Brooke as a drug user who actually demonstrates the beginning of Sherlock's deductive skills, and later appoints himself a "pupil" of Sherlock's. Some fictional characters associated with Sherlock Holmes are not part of the Conan Doyle canon and were created by other writers. Auguste Lupa is the son of
Sherlock Holmes pastiches short stories that were published under the title "The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes" in 1954. Using his alternate name of H.F. Heard, Gerald Heard wrote three novels about a reclusive beekeeper in the English countryside who goes by the name of Mycroft; he's clearly intended to be Sherlock Holmes, but the books were written before the Doyle estate gave permission for other writers to use the name. The three stories are "A Taste for Honey", "Reply Paid" and "The Notched Hairpin". "A Taste for Honey" was adapted for American TV in 1955 as "Sting of Death," with Boris Karloff as