In addition to reminiscences, picture books and music books by performers, conductors and others connected with, or simply about, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, the Light Opera of Manhattan, the J. C. Williamson Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company and other Gilbert and Sullivan repertory companies, numerous fictional works have been written using the G&S operas as background or imagining the lives of historical or fictional G&S performers. Recent examples include Cynthia Morey's novel about an amateur Gilbert and Sullivan company, "A World That's All Our Own" (2006); Bernard Lockett's "Here's a State of Things" (2007), a historical novel that intertwines the lives of two sets of London characters, a hundred years apart, but both connected with the Gilbert and Sullivan operas; and "The Last Moriarty" (2015) by Charles Veley, about an actress from D'Oyly Carte who seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes. "Secret Words" by Jonathan Strong uses a local production of "Utopia, Limited" as a background. In "The Getaway Blues" by William Murray, the main character names all his racehorses after Gilbert and Sullivan characters and constantly quotes G&S. "Gilbert and Sullivan Set Me Free" is a novel by Kathleen Karr based on a historical event in 1914, when the inmates of Sherborn Women's Prison in Massachusetts, U.S., put on a performance of "The Pirates of Penzance". In the novel, the prison's chaplain uses the transformative power of music and theater to help reform the inmates, bringing them together to work on the show as a spirited community. "The Mikado" is a villainous vigilante in the comic book superhero series "The Question", by Denny O'Neil and Denys Cowan. He dons a Japanese mask and kills malefactors in appropriate ways – letting "the punishment fit the crime". A humorous illustrated booklet, "A Parody on Iolanthe", was written and published by D. Dalziel in 1883 and concerns the Chicago & Alton Railway.