Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac

Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche novel by Barrie Roberts which pits Sherlock Holmes against an anarchist who is bombing trains.[1]

Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac
First edition
Author	Barrie Roberts
Language	English
Genre	Mystery novels
Publisher	Constable & Co.
Publication date	1994
Media type	Print (paperback)
ISBN	0-7490-0546-7 (first paperback edition)

The story involves real life incidents such as the Siege of Sidney Street.[1][2]

The events of the novel bookend the original Doyle story His Last Bow.[3]

Reception

Eric Monahan called the book a "first rate pastiche"[2] while Roger Johnson stated that Roberts "captures the Watson-Doyle style better than most".[1]

References

The District Messenger, no. 217 7 December 2001 the newsletter of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London
The Torr, Spring, 2002 the newsletter of The Poor Folk Upon the Moors
Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac at Amazon.com

Pastiches of Sherlock Holmes
The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr	"The Adventure of the Seven Clocks" (1954) "The Adventure of the Gold Hunter" (1954) "The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers" (1954) "The Adventure of the Highgate Miracle" (1954) "The Adventure of the Black Baronet" (1954) "The Adventure of the Sealed Room" (1954 "The Adventure of Foulkes Rath" (1954) "The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby" (1954) "The Adventure of the Dark Angels" (1954) "The Adventure of the Two Women" (1954) "The Adventure of the Deptford Horror" (1954) "The Adventure of the Red Widow" (1954)
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)
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)
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	The Pursuit of the House-Boat (1897) A Double Barrelled Detective Story (1902) Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street (1962) The Ultimate Crime (1976) The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (1978) "The Doctor's Case" (1987) 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) "A Study in Emerald" (2003) Sherlock Holmes: The Way of All Flesh (2004) The Final Solution (2004) A Slight Trick of the Mind (2005) The Italian Secretary (2005) Erasing Sherlock (2006) Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (2006) The Enola Holmes Mysteries (2006–10) Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong (2007) The Boy Sherlock Holmes (2007–12) The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls (2008) Gaslight series (2008) Dead Man's Land (2013) The Albino's Treasure (2015) Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell (2016) The Counterfeit Detective (2017)
Parody	Everybody's Favorite Duck The Adventure of the Peerless Peer The Fossil Island Lizzie Newton: Victorian Mysteries Sherlock Bones Solar Pons Stoker and Holmes Thuppariyum Sambu
Related	221B Baker Street (board game) Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective

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