A busy season for literary mashups

New and forthcoming fiction inspired by literary classics:

— Nelly Dean: A Return to Wuthering Heights by Alison Case (Pegasus, on sale now)

A retelling of Emily Bronte’s classic tale about brooding Heathcliff, by the housekeeper.

— Jane and the Waterloo Map by Stephanie Barron (Soho Crime, on sale now)

In the 13th in a series, amateur sleuth Jane Austen proofs the manuscript of Emma while trying to solve a murder tied to a Napoleonic war map.

— The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell (Touchstone, on sale March 1)

A modern-day descendant of the Brontes searches for the family’s secret estate.

— Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye (Putnam, on sale March 22)

Faye’s stand-in for Jane Eyre exacts revenge on those who done her wrong.

— Reader, I Married Him, edited by Tracy Chevalier (William Morrow, on sale March 22)

Stories inspired by Jane Eyre, from modern women writers including Chevalier, Francine Prose and Audrey Niffenegger.

— The Murder of Mary Russell by Laurie R. King (Bantam, on sale April 5)

Sherlock Holmes’ wife disappears, leaving a trail of blood behind, in a case tied to the mysterious past of his housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson; 14th in a series.