Sherlock Holmes has long been a popular character for
pastiche, Holmes-related work by authors and creators other than
Arthur Conan Doyle. Their works can be grouped into four broad categories:
- new Sherlock Holmes stories;
- stories in which Holmes appears in a cameo role;
- stories about imagined descendants of Sherlock Holmes;
- and stories inspired by Sherlock Holmes but which do not include Holmes himself.
There can be found also many
pop culture references to Sherlock Holmes.