More parodies have been written targeting Sherlock Holmes than anyone else dead or alive fictional or real James M Barrie the author of Peter Pan started it all back in the early 1890s and Sherlockian parody has been coming out regularly ever since right into the age of the internet While Sherlocks creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lived close to 400 appeared in Britain and America In these early parodies Sherlock is off on the wrong track in the great Coleslaw mystery struggling with the disappearance of the Presidents Whisker rescuing that damsel in distress Elsa Lohengrin and even delving into the spirit worldand much more Mark Twain the Mr Dooley of Finley Peter Dunne Kenneth Grahames Ratty of The Wind in the Willows John Kendrick Bangs Bret Harte Ring Lardner C K Chesterton and O Henry all contributed to this early Bedside collection Sherlock turns up at Wellseley College and Yale Hades and The Garden of Eden Peoria and the Oklahoma Territory in the trenches of War I and often in his familiar Baker Street hangout Sherlockian Charles Press began collecting these early lampoons as a hobby after retiring from Michigan State University He is the author of two Sherlockian monographs Parodies and Pastiches Buzzing Round Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Looking Over Sir Arthurs Shoulder and When Did Arthur Conan Doyle Meet Jean Leckie in The Baker Street Journal

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