<P> Some authors have written tales centred on characters from the canon other than Holmes . M.J. Trow has written a series of seventeen books using Inspector Lestrade as the central character, beginning with The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade in 1985 . Carole Nelson Douglas' Irene Adler series is based on "the woman" from "A Scandal in Bohemia", with the first book (1990's Good Night, Mr. Holmes) retelling that story from Adler's point of view . Martin Davies has written three novels where Baker Street housekeeper Mrs. Hudson is the protagonist . Mycroft Holmes has been the subject of several efforts: Enter the Lion by Michael P. Hodel and Sean M. Wright (1979), a four - book series by Quinn Fawcett, and 2015's Mycroft, by former NBA star Kareem Abdul - Jabbar . John Gardner, Michael Kurland, and Kim Newman, amongst many others, have all written tales in which Holmes's nemesis Professor Moriarty is the main character . Anthologies edited by Michael Kurland and George Mann are entirely devoted to stories told from the perspective of characters other than Holmes and Watson . </P> <P> In the 1980 Italian novel The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, the central character William of Baskerville alludes to The Hound of the Baskervilles, and his description in the beginning of the book is a tribute to Dr. Watson's description of Sherlock Holmes when he first makes his acquaintance in A Study in Scarlet . </P> <P> Laurie R. King recreated Holmes in her Mary Russell series (beginning with 1994's The Beekeeper's Apprentice), set during the First World War and the 1920s . Her Holmes, semi-retired in Sussex, is stumbled upon by a teenaged American girl . Recognising a kindred spirit, he trains her as his apprentice and subsequently marries her . As of 2016, the series includes fourteen novels and a novella tied into a book from King's Kate Martinelli series (The Art of Detection). </P> <P> The Final Solution, a 2004 novella by Michael Chabon, concerns an unnamed but long - retired detective interested in beekeeping who tackles the case of a missing parrot belonging to a Jewish refugee boy . Mitch Cullin's novel A Slight Trick of the Mind (2005) takes place two years after the end of the Second World War, and explores an old and frail Sherlock Holmes (now 93) as he comes to terms with a life spent in emotionless logic; this was also adapted into a film, 2015's Mr. Holmes . </P>

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