I have much fondness for Michael Chabon's The Final Solution which manages to work because of being intensely unholmesian. And it has a parrot in it. It does my head in to think that a Holmes story could be set during WWII because that is Modern Recent Stuff and Victorians aren't and what do you mean it's not that long between them. Stupid history being the shape of time and not preconception.

Also generalised Holmes yay. Obviously.