Mycroft Holmes in "The Greek Interpreter", his blundering approach to the case nearly costs the client his life. Mycroft resembles Sherlock, but is described in "The Greek Interpreter" as being "a much larger and stouter man". In "The Bruce-Partington Plans", the following description is given: Mycroft spends most of his time at the Diogenes Club, which he co-founded. He is the only character to refer to Sherlock exclusively by his first name. Mycroft Holmes has been portrayed many times in film, television, and radio adaptations of the Holmes stories. The character has been used many times in works that are not adaptations
Sherlock Holmes pastiches Mr. Mycroft. American novelist and filmmaker Nicholas Meyer wrote three Holmes novels: "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" (1974), "The West End Horror" (1976), and "The Canary Trainer" (1993). In 1977 the novel "Exit Sherlock Holmes: The Great Detective's Final Days" by Robert Lee Hall was published, and featured an exploration of Holmes' origins with a science fiction twist. In this account Holmes and Moriarty are revealed to be from the future. Randall Collins published in 1978 "The Case of the Philosophers' Ring", under the pseudonym Dr. John H. Watson, with Holmes' services requested at Cambridge, around 1914, by Bertrand Russell, and meeting