The treasure of Sherlock Holmes

From The Times of London:

SHERLOCK HOLMES stories written by authors other than Conan Doyle continue to be a prolific sub-genre of the detective story. Doyle wrote four Holmes novels and 56 short stories; others since 1927 (the last Holmes collection) have written thousands of imitations, homages, tributes, parodies and pastiches. The formula is almost always the same. Dr Watson, the Great Detective’s sidekick and chronicler of his adventures, is known from the original Doyle stories to have kept a full record of all Holmes’s cases, in a “battered tin dispatch box” stored in the vaults of Cox & Co in Charing Cross. Many, Watson explained, were too sensitive to be revealed to the reading public. Others, Watson did not have time to write up.

It's amazing how the previously undiscovered stories from Dr. Watson's pen continue to turn up. I found Lucy Westenra's diary, Henry Armitage's Journal and an unpublished tale from William Hope Hodgson in an old Wood's Primrose Tea crate with a stack of London newspapers from 1893. I almost had thrown the crate out, but the color print of Chinese workers sifting loose tea leafs and the logo of the Thomas Wood & Co. of Boston attracted my attention and I kept it.