“Elementary, my dear Jane,” is never spoken in My Particular Friend, but it would be appropriate because in this book the worlds of Jane Austen and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle collide in the persons of Miss Charlotte House, who has the intellect of Sherlock Holmes, and Miss Jane Woodsen, who has the good sense of Miss Elizabeth Bennet.

He’s insufferably proud and she’s not as perceptive as she thinks she is, but Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet are perfect for each other (especially after she catches sight of Pemberly). And while you’re reading this, imagine the Muppets version of Pride and Prejudice, with Miss Piggy as Mrs. Bennet.

The bay of a spectral hound brings death to the Baskerville family, and Holmes and Watson must brave the terrors of Dartmoor, an escaped prisoner and a family curse to protect Sir Henry Baskerville.

Marianne Dashwood loves too well and not too wisely, while Elinor Dashwood loves cautiously, but no less fervently. The Dashwood family, including the mother and a younger sister, are forced from their home after the heir to their estate (and his detestable wife) show them no mercy. But the sisters find love, after no little difficulty, in Devonshire.

John Carter, a fighting man of Virginia, finds himself transported to Mars, where he fights the savage green men of Mars, serves aboard fantastic airships and discovers the secrets of the dying, all that he might serve the incomparable Dejah Thoris, princess of Helium.