Story Profile: “Intruders at Baker Street”
I have two stories in the anthology The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories: Some More Untold Cases Part XXII: 1887-1897. Other than “Merridew of Abominable Memory,” the volume includes my story “Intruders at Baker Street,” which is inspired by a reference to the “Darlington Substitution Scandal” in the original Canon.
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson are inextricably linked with 221B Baker Street in the public imagination. It is very probable that multiple people lived at that famous address before the most famous inhabitants lived there. Holmes lived at 221B by himself during Watson’s marriage to Mary Morstan, and the sleuthing pair left the premises after Holmes’ retirement. Someone probably moved in soon after they left, but we have no clue who those people could be.
The thought of anybody but Holmes and Watson living at 221B just seems wrong somehow, That’s when I got the idea. What if, at one point during Watson’s marriage, he returned to 221B for a visit and found someone other than Holmes living there? And what if he had trouble convincing the authorities that the intruders were not the true residents? Who would supplant Holmes in his own domicile and why? That was the genesis of “Intruders at Baker Street.”
The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories: Some More Untold Cases Part XXII: 1887-1897 is available for sale now from Amazon.com and MX Publishing in both hardcover and paperback.
–Chris Chan
Chris Chan’s first book, Sherlock & Irene: The Secret Truth Behind “A Scandal in Bohemia” was released on August 27thfrom MX Publishing, and is available for sale at Amazon.com and the MX Publishing website, as well as at Book Depository (with free worldwide shipping there). It is also available in a Kindle edition.
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