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 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