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 sequel, "The Kentish Manor Murders", and Symons also wrote a Holmes short story pastiche. Thomas Brace Haughey wrote a series of six novels "in the best tradition of Holmes and Watson" from 1978-1986 with Geoffrey Weston as the Sherlock character (and a descendant of Mycroft Holmes) and John Taylor as his Watson, living at 31 Baker Street. These stories, "The Case of the Invisible Thief", "The Case of the Frozen Scream", "The Case of the Maltese Treasure", "The Case of the Kidnapped Shadow", "The Case of the Hijacked Moon", and "The Case of the Unbolted Lightning", are all deeply imbued