Almost all Sherlock Holmes adventures were short stories, so it is in the short story field you will find the best Holmes take-offs, whether pastiche or parody.
You might think of August Derleth's Solar Pons series of stories, very much in the character of the originals; or at the other extreme the outright spoofs and jokes versions, by everyone from J M Barrie and Bret Harte onwards.
There are many spoofs and pastiches in the Past Masters series of anthologies of short stories in the Patricia Clarke Memorial Library.
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