It is how the detectives respond to superstition which cements the connections between the Conan Doyle and Christie stories
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Agatha Christie never explicitly said so, but many of her Belgian detective’s character traits could be interpreted as being autistic.
Personal ads of ‘the Agony Column’ were full of longing, tragedy and profound misfortune. Intrigue they generated has had an enduring effect on literature and film.
Arthur Conan Doyle wasn’t the only author spinning tales of cunning detectives.
Created in response to Sherlock Holmes, detective Martin Hewitt is less operatic and more pragmatic.
In Sherlock, domination is something to be revered, rather than challenged.
Wild coastlines, rich folklore and a sense that it’s a place unto itself, at once England and not, has made Cornwall the ideal setting for Gothic tales.
Arthur Conan Doyle may have stitched something into the detective books that nobody ever noticed.
The BBC’s Sherlock – along with most contemporary adaptations – seems to indicate that the values of the intellect are not those of society.
For too long the Scottish writer was seen as a populist pedlar of boy’s own adventures. This didn’t happen by accident.
As Benedict Cumberbatch prepares to return to 221B Baker Street for a Sherlock Christmas Special, a great, unsolved mystery remains: what is the source of the detective’s enduring appeal?
A new novel starring Lisbeth Salander has been written, despite creator Stieg Larsson’s death. But is it a continuation, adaption, or pale imitation? What gets lost when authorship changes hands?
Fanfiction is nebulous, confusing and often mocked. It’s also explosively popular. So what is it?
Works of fiction are brimming with economic principles, but perhaps none more so than the detective story.
If you think of Sherlock Holmes, you will invariably think of London – to be precise, 221B Baker Street, which the great detective shared his adventures with Dr Watson. A new exhibition based, unsurprisingly…
Mention the word “logistics” and most people would probably think of trucks or the shipping of freight at a mundane best. A more textbook definition might be that logistics is the managed movement of resources…
Earlier this month, the US Supreme Court dismissed a plea from the Conan Doyle Estate, which was trying to stop the publication of a new book based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective Sherlock…
Even the briefest glance at recent cinema listings and television schedules suggests that the remake is everywhere. Currently showing in the UK is The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, an update of the 1947…
The third season of the BBC’s Sherlock opens with a bang and gives us Derren Brown, Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock in an action hero window smash, followed by an insouciant hair tousle and a Hollywood…
Sherlock Holmes faces his greatest challenge – since his fight to the death with Professor James Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. Who owns Sherlock Holmes, the world’s greatest detective? Is it the estate…
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