Daily Archives: April 15, 2015

“The Great Detective” is an interesting book. It has elements of a scholarly study on the character of Sherlock Holmes but is not wholly that. It delves into the various trendiness of the detective through the ages, from the very first parodies and remakes which began a short time after the publishing of the short story form began in “The Strand Magazine” to the present versions of the BBC’s “Sherlock”, the US series “Elementary” and even the Robert Downing Jr. movies.

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