The Adventure of the Red Widow

"The Adventure of the Red Widow" is a short Sherlock Holmes murder mystery by Adrian Conan Doyle, the youngest son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Sherlock Holmes creator. The story was published in the 1954 collection The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Collier's on 2 October 1953, and was illustrated by Robert Fawcett in Collier's.^[1]

Plot

Holmes and Watson are invited by Scotland Yard Inspector Gregson to accompany him to an ancient country mansion in Derbyshire. The crime scene remains undisturbed, indicating that the lord of the manor has been decapitated by the guillotine in his own museum. His head and his cousin, Captain Lothian, are both missing, along with a horse from the stable. Holmes annoys a local police inspector named Dawlish by lingering over the crime scene, but quickly resolves the mystery.^[2]

References

^ De Waal, Ronald Burt (1974). The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Bramhall House. p. 425. ISBN 0-517-217597.
^ The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, Chapter 12

Literary pastiches of Sherlock Holmes

The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes
by Adrian Conan Doyle
and John Dickson Carr

"The Adventure of the Seven Clocks" (1952)
"The Adventure of the Gold Hunter" (1953)
"The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers" (1953)
"The Adventure of the Highgate Miracle" (1953)
"The Adventure of the Black Baronet" (1953)
"The Adventure of the Sealed Room" (1953)
"The Adventure of Foulkes Rath" (1953)
"The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby" (1953)
"The Adventure of the Dark Angels" (1953)
"The Adventure of the Two Women" (1953)
"The Adventure of the Deptford Horror" (1953)
"The Adventure of the Red Widow" (1953)

by Nicholas Meyer

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1974)
The West End Horror (1976)
The Canary Trainer (1993)
The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols (2019)
The Return of the Pharaoh (2021)

by Loren D. Estleman

Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula (1978)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes (1979)
The Perils of Sherlock Holmes (2012)

by Michael Hardwick

The Prisoner of the Devil (1979)
The Revenge of the Hound (1987)

by David Stuart Davies

Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair (1991)
The Tangled Skein (1995)
The Scroll of the Dead (1998)
Shadow of the Rat (1999)
The Veiled Detective (2004)
The Devil's Promise (2014)
The Ripper Legacy (2016)

by Barrie Roberts

Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac (1994)
Sherlock Holmes and the Man from Hell (1997)

Mary Russell series
by Laurie R. King

The Beekeeper's Apprentice (1994)
A Monstrous Regiment of Women (1995)
A Letter of Mary (1997)
The Moor (1998)
O Jerusalem (1999)
Justice Hall (2002)
The Game (2004)
Locked Rooms (2005)
The Language of Bees (2009)
The God of the Hive (2010)
Pirate King (2011)
Garment of Shadows (2012)
Dreaming Spies (2015)
The Murder of Mary Russell (2016)
Island of the Mad (2018)

by Donald Serrell Thomas

The Secret Cases of Sherlock Holmes (1997)
Sherlock Holmes and the Running Noose (2001)
The Execution of Sherlock Holmes (2007)
Sherlock Holmes and the King's Evil (2009)
Sherlock Holmes and the Ghosts of Bly (2010)
The Lost Casebooks of Sherlock Holmes (2012)
Death on a Pale Horse: Sherlock Holmes on Her Majesty's Secret Service (2013)

by Lyndsay Faye

Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson (2009)
The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes (2017)

Young Sherlock Holmes
by Andy Lane

Death Cloud (2010)
Red Leech (2010)
Black Ice (2011)
Fire Storm (2011)
Snake Bite (2012)
Knife Edge (2013)
Stone Cold (2014)
Night Break (2015)

by Guy Adams

The Breath of God (2011)
The Army of Dr. Moreau (2012)

by Anthony Horowitz

The House of Silk (2011)
Moriarty (2014)

by Kim Newman

Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles (2011)
The Man From The Diogenes Club (2017)

by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
and Anna Waterhouse

Mycroft Holmes (2015)
Mycroft and Sherlock (2018)
Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage (2019)

by James Lovegrove

The Stuff of Nightmares (2013)
Gods of War (2014)
The Thinking Engine (2015)
The Labyrinth of Death (2017)
The Devil's Dust (2018)
Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (2016)
Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities (2017)
Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils (2018)
Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon (2019)
Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons (2020)
Sherlock Holmes & The Three Winter Terrors (2021)
Sherlock Holmes & The Highgate Horrors (2023)

by Cavan Scott

Sherlock Holmes: The Patchwork Devil (2016)
Sherlock Holmes: Cry of the Innocents (2017)

The Lady Sherlock Series
by Sherry Thomas

A Study in Scarlet Women (2016)
A Conspiracy in Belgravia (2017)
The Hollow of Fear (2018)

Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota
by Larry Millett

Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon (1996)
Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders (1998)
Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery (1999)
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Alliance (2001)
The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes (2012)
Sherlock Holmes and the Eisendorf Enigma (2017)

Other works

Novels	The Pursuit of the House-Boat (1897) A Double Barrelled Detective Story (1902) Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes (1908) Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street (1962) The Ultimate Crime (1976) The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (1978) The Whitechapel Horrors (1992) All-Consuming Fire (1994) The Strange Case of Mrs. Hudson's Cat (1997) The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (1999) Shadows Over Baker Street (2003) The Final Solution (2004) A Slight Trick of the Mind (2005) The Italian Secretary (2005) Erasing Sherlock (2006) Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (2006) Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong (2007) The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls (2008) Dead Man's Land (2013) The Albino's Treasure (2015) Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell (2016) The Counterfeit Detective (2017)
Short stories	"The Doctor's Case" (1987) "A Study in Emerald" (2003)
Novel series	The Enola Holmes Mysteries (2006–10) The Boy Sherlock Holmes (2007–12) Gaslight series (2008–18)