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Since the death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, fans and scholars of Sherlock Holmes have extensively debated expanding the official canon to include other works by Doyle as well as works in other media. While rumors persist of lost Sherlock Holmes stories and recent investigations have uncovered more additions to the canon, there is no definitive authority to determine what is officially part of the canon beyond Doyle's original novels and stories. However, as many as eighteen potential additional works have been identified, including plays, poems, and essays about Sherlock Holmes. Three books from the 1980s discussed several of these potential additions and their place in the canon, though they contained somewhat different selections of additional works.

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Since the death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, fans and scholars of Sherlock Holmes have extensively debated expanding the official canon to include other works by Doyle as well as works in other media. While rumors persist of lost Sherlock Holmes stories and recent investigations have uncovered more additions to the canon, there is no definitive authority to determine what is officially part of the canon beyond Doyle's original novels and stories. However, as many as eighteen potential additional works have been identified, including plays, poems, and essays about Sherlock Holmes. Three books from the 1980s discussed several of these potential additions and their place in the canon, though they contained somewhat different selections of additional works.

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Since the author's death, professional and amateur Holmesians have discussed

endlessly the expansion of this canon, to include other works by Doyle, including
works in other media, into the current complete adventures.[4] Rumours have
always surrounded lost works,[1] and in recent years further investigations have
revealed more to the traditionally collected canon. As there exists no definitive body
to argue what is, and what is not canon beyond the already established novels and
stories, it is unlikely that any piece, no matter how good its claim to be "canonical"
will ever be popularly received into published versions of the Complete Sherlock
Holmes. However, as many as eighteen works have been cited as possible entrants.
These works include plays, poems, essays on the character, and even short stories.

Three works which speak most on this subject were published in the 1980s:
Sherlock Holmes: The Published Apocrypha edited by Jack Tracy, The Final
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes edited by Peter Haining and The Uncollected
Sherlock Holmes, edited by Richard Lancelyn Green. These works discussed several
titles and their place in the canon. More recently, the final volume of Leslie S.
Klinger's Sherlock Holmes Reference Library contained the Apocrypha. All of these
works have at least slightly different contents.

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