One of my favorite authors is Laurie R. King, who's written an entire series of novels featuring the "retired beekeeper" and his very eccentric (and scandalously young) wife. Of course, there have been many others who've done various versions of this with Holmes, but I think King is perhaps the best at capturing the mood of the original books.

King even manages to work a Sherlock Holmes link into her modern detective series, by way of a club of eccentric fans who have monthly Holmes Dinners in period costume . . . until one of the characters is murdered, of course.

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Richard Aiken