"The Singular Habits of Wasps" is a science fiction/horror story by Geoffrey A. Landis, about Sherlock Holmes.
Sherlock Holmes is mutilating corpses in Whitechapel... but for a reason no one could have suspected.
[3] Writing in Locus Online, however, Nick Gevers faulted it as "polished but pointless", and a "curious violation of the spirit of its enterprise".
[5] In 2000, the story was published in the magazine Leading Edge, credited to Phillip S. Barcia; Barcia was subsequently identified as a Florida prisoner who had plagiarized at least two other published stories.
Leading Edge formally apologized to Landis, paid him standard reprint fees,[6] and physically modified all the printed copies of Leading Edge so as to correctly credit him.