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Originally Posted by Pulpmeister
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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There is a series called the Peschel Press 223B Casebook Series that has collected a huge number of these -- by year. Along with essays and more than 150 footnotes! I haven't bought any of them (yet), so I don't know what the ebook quality is like.
Here is the first one on Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/sh...-and-pastiches
The reviews of the first one on Amazon were pretty bad, mostly because people didn't like the stories. But I think people expected the stories to be more like pastiches and were upset to get a lot of parodies.
But how else are you going to find a penny dreadful story about Sherwood Hoakes without spending a lot of money?