Sherlock Adjacent Casebook (Paperback)

At 221B, the cases ended. Next door, the conversation never did. Sherlock Holmes belongs to the world now. For more than a century, readers, writers, actors, scholars, filmmakers, and devoted fans have carried the Great Detective far beyond the fogbound streets of Victorian London. They have argued over the canon, reconsidered Watson, reinvented Irene Adler, enlarged the roles of Moriarty and Mycroft, transported Holmes across cultures, and returned him to life through novels, films, television, radio, comics, anime, parody, and pastiche. Unlike a guide to Sherlockian stories and pastiches, The Sherlock Adjacent Casebook explores the worldwide culture that has grown around the world’s most famous consulting detective. Across more than eighty essays, Paul Bishop examines Holmes and Watson, Irene Adler and Moriarty, Conan Doyle and the Great Game, international interpretations, changing ideas about race and gender, real-world detection, fandom, adaptation, and the strange cultural immortality of Baker Street. Designed to be browsed rather than obeyed, this is a book for seasoned Sherlockians, curious newcomers, and anyone who has ever wondered not merely what happened after Conan Doyle, but what Sherlock Holmes has become. The fire is stoked. Your armchair awaits. Welcome to 221A.