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Over many years, I have developed
a massive number of pastiches, characters, and crossovers inspired (heavily)
from the Sacred Writings, the Titus Canon, the Disney film, Victorian
history, and more. Because of the sheer mass of ideas, I am forced
to divide them into individual sections, therefore I proudly present the
following GMD universes, created by Diane
N. Tran:
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A nineteen-year-old Sherringford Basil enters the illustrious
Christ Church at the University of Oxford, from 1873 to 1878, and
his whole world turns upside down! His curious deductive powers
attract attention across the university, as he gathers a small group
of friends Sir Reginald Musgrave, Armitage Trevor, the Maharajah
of Bengistan, and Oscar Milde, who will become his closest companion.
The chronicles include Corpus
impolitum, a Myerricroft Basil mystery. |
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Completing university with a "double
first" in Sciences, Sherringford Basil arrives in the bustling
metropolitan city of London and first takes residence at Lower 23
Montague Street, opposite to the British Museum, from 1878 to 1881,
where he begins to pioneer his career as a detective. His
closest friend Oscar Milde (and, sometimes, his cousin, Doctor Prometheus
Verner) accompanies him in many of these first cases. |
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Sherringford Basil establishes new rooms at Lower 221B Baker
Street and begins the greater part of his professional career as
a consulting detective, where he becomes involved in over two hundred
cases, between the years of 1881 and 1897. Recently, he has
begun to suspect that a "mastermind" is responsible for
some of the most diabolical crimes of London.
His closest friend Oscar Milde (and,
sometimes, his cousin, Doctor Prometheus Verner) accompanies him
in many of these first cases. |
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The "death" of the nefarious
Professor James Ratigan hurls the criminal underworld into an uproar! The
years of 1897 to 1904 are the busiest and most productive of Sherringford
Basil's career. His friend and biographer, Doctor David Q.
Dawson, chronicles these new adventures at the height of the career
of the Great Mouse Detective.
This includes three Scotland Yard
mysteries, with Vole, Greyson, and Clawes; De profundis, a
poignant memoir of the death of Oscar Milde, with his friend at
his side, in Paris 1900; and Hell, London, a thriller "for
which the world is not yet prepared..." |
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A new century brings
a new age. After twenty years of active practice, Sherringford
Basil retires in quiet amenity to a small farm in the beautiful
Sussex Downs, happily immersing himself in writing, study, and apiculture
(bee-keeping). Sporadically, between the years of 1904 to
1927, he has been forced out of his peaceful existence for the sake
of duty of the most international importance.
It includes the upcoming novella,
Endless Waltz, which is the anticipated continuation of
the "romance" between Sherringford Basil and Irene Relda,
in Vienna 1910; and House of Cards is where he crosses
swords with the international spymaster, Sidney Reilly, between
1909 to 1919 twice as an enemy and once as an ally.
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The year is 1932, a turbulent time
between two world wars and a "golden age" of detectives.
Criminologists, sleuths, private eyes, and amateur hobbyists of
all sorts, from the glamourous to the hard-boiled, have spawned
out of the legendary footsteps of the Great Mouse Detective and
integrated the Master's teachings of science and deduction into
their own generation, and carried them onto the next century.
Nonetheless, our beloved Mr. Sherringford
Basil cannot help but conveniently pop his head, once in
a while, into a few of their cases. |
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