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Many of Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories examine male characters facing emotional catastrophe, betrayal and moral dilemmas.
New series such as ‘Elsbeth’ and ‘Patience’ continue a long tradition of sleuths who come across as eccentric or aloof. But now there’s a name for these minds that work differently.
In many of the Sherlock Holmes stories, the detective fixes the problems in the home by investigating its architecture.
Combining behavioural and data science yields high-quality insights from complex datasets.
It is how the detectives respond to superstition which cements the connections between the Conan Doyle and Christie stories
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…
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