10) Tiny Tim
Yes! The adorable ragamuffin son of beleaguered Scrooge employee Bob Cratchit himself! In “The Adventure of the Three Ghosts,” a tale in Loren D. Estleman’s Sherlock Holmes anthology The Peril of Sherlock Holmes, it’s revealed that Tiny Tim grew up to take over Scrooge’s business and decided not to give his workers their Christmas bonuses. As a result, he’s hassled by the same ghosts that visited Scrooge and come to Holmes for help. As it turns out, Tim’s disgruntled employees are pretending to be ghosts to terrorize/guilt him into giving out those bonuses… just as, as Sherlock Holmes discovers, Bob Cratchit once did to Ebenezer.
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