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R. Holmes and Company by John Kendrick Bangs.
If you are a Sherlock Holmes devotee, as am I, you will get a big kick out of this pastiche. Raffles Holmes is the son of the marriage of Sherlock Holmes and the daughter of the legendary thief and cracksman, Raffles.* His Raffles side and his Holmes side continually struggle (though the Holmes side usually wins). The adventures are marvelously tongue-in-cheek and quite good fun.
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*This, of course, is absolute bosh.
Thanks to William S. Barring-Gould’s biography of Nero Wolfe, we all know that, while wandering in Asia after the affair at Reichenbach Falls, Holmes came across Irene Adler, whom Holmes always referred to as “The Woman,” and the result of their meeting was Nero Wolfe. There is no question that Irene Adler was the only woman in Holmes’s life.
