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Heroes and Monsters: A Guide to Holmes and Company

 "The British Empire has always encountered difficulty distinguishing between its heroes and its monsters." - Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen I've completed my guide - all 60 stories (56 short stories, 4 novels) of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes; and also Stoker's Dracula  and Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. What's in the guide?   Notes for each of the stories; for the Holmes' stories, the timeline of each case and any clues to when the case is set A gazetteer of all places mentioned in these stories, focused on London, then England, then the rest of the world A list of Holmes' cases that are only mentioned From the pre-Hiatus stories, where Moriarty could conceivably be lurking in the background List of royalty, British and European, that appeared List of government officials, primarily in the British Empire The case timeline (as indicated in the past post) And with that, another project that I had worked off a...

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