The Devil's Blaze

Modern addition to the Sherlock Holmes canon. It's WW2 and someone has invented a way to cause people to spontaneously combust, seemingly without outside interference. Sherlock & Watson are supposedly based on the Basil Rathbone duo, although Watson seems a lot more intelligent and capable than he was in those films, as does Lestrade. Plenty of adventures, with life-threatening peril. It was convincing as a Conan Doyle copy, and an enjoyable read.