Sherlock Holmes pastiches

Sherlock Holmes has long been a popular character for pastiche, Holmes-related work by authors and creators other than Arthur Conan Doyle. Their works can be grouped into four broad categories:

• new Sherlock Holmes stories;
• stories in which Holmes appears in a cameo role;
• stories about imagined descendants of Sherlock Holmes;
• and stories inspired by Sherlock Holmes but which do not include Holmes himself.

There can be found also many pop culture references to Sherlock Holmes.