The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes to form a satisfying whole." The reviewers of "Electronic Gaming Monthly" wrote of the 3DO version "Great graphics, excellent sound effects – this game really shows off the system's capabilities while providing a challenging mystery." They scored it a 6.6/10 average. In 2011, Adventure Gamers named "Case of the Serrated Scalpel" the 22nd-best adventure game ever released. This game was released September 27, 1996. Holmes' brother Mycroft is caught in an explosion when his club, the Diogenes, is blown up. The player, first as Doctor Watson and then as Sherlock Holmes, investigates the explosion and discovers that it was not
Sherlock Holmes pastiches Friends Investigate. Mycroft Holmes, Dr John Watson and Professor George Challenger also appear in the same book. Boris Akunin's short story "The Prisoner of the Tower, or A Short But Beautiful Journey of Three Wise Men" in the "Jade Rosary Beads" compilation describes Holmes and Erast Fandorin's race to thwart a devious extortion plan by Arsène Lupin. Author Nancy Springer writes a series of novels of the adventures of Enola Holmes, the much younger teenage sister of Sherlock and Mycroft. Upon their mother's disappearance, Enola discovers that she in fact left of her own volition according to a carefully devised