It’s come to my attention that many people don’t know about the Basil of Baker Streets books, nor the insanity contained therein. With this in mind, please enjoy some details from Eve Titus’s Basil of Baker Street books
Basil is consciously copying Sherlock Holmes
Basil and Dawson get tired of trekking to spy on Sherlock Holmes in the snow, so they construct an entire town in the cellar of 221B and move in along with no fewer than 44 families
The town is called Holmestead, and it has shops, a school, a library, and a town hall
Basil and Dawson live together with their mousekeeper, Mrs. Judson
Basil has a tailor copy Sherlock Holmes’s entire wardrobe so he can dress like Holmes
Basil tried to make a mouse-sized violin, but it sounded so bad that Dawson made him stop and he stuck to playing the flute. He uses the flute to charm snakes
Basil keeps a collection of Holmes souvenirs, including “scraps of paper his hero had written upon, old pen points he had used, a torn blotter, a broken pocket lens, a whittling of Holmes done by Basil himself, and other odds and ends.”
Basil practices his archery indoors
Basil has a mouse-sized microscope
Basil dresses up as a sailor by the name of Captain Baker, and Dawson disguises himself as his first mate, Mr. Street. They practice talking like sailors together
Instead of Scotland Yard, they have Mouseland Yard
Dr. Dawson heals the niece of the Loch Ness Monster, who was suffering from a cold.
Basil leads an expedition up Mt. Emmentaler, past the Bachenreich Falls, and discovered the Adorable Snowmouse
Professor Ratigan is a mouse, not a rat. Ratigan has a Moran, whose name is Doran
Basil solves the theft of the Mousa Lisa
Basil visits a remote island, uncovers artifacts, and takes them back to the British Mousemopolitan Museum
There is a mouse Irene Adler. Her name is Mademoiselle Relda, and she disguises herself in drag to adventure with Basil when he says women can’t climb mountains
Basil discovered penicillin and communicated this to Alexander Fleming
Basil is an amateur archaeologist
Basil and Dawson are both strongly pro-women’s suffrage, but Basil is generally sexist and Dawson is more progressive
Dawson thinks that Holmes knew Basil was listening to him, and “that it pleased him to pass his methods on to a mouse.”
