How I Learned to Create an Effective Sherlock Holmes Pastiche | Literary Hub

Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes wasn't the first of his kind-Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin arguably owns that distinction-but The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was revolutionary nevertheless. Placing beautifully drawn characters in a series of self-contained episodic conundrums was groundbreaking, anticipating the blockbuster movie franchises and TV series to come. Add in Sherlock Holmes' knowledge of the literary killing John Watson was making off his crime-solving career-and well, there you have a living, breathing, self-aware horse of an entirely different color. Arguably no pop culture heroes have been more beloved than the Great Detective and the Good Doctor; their influence spans so many cultures and forms of media that a UFO-shaped hat and magnifying glass have become a symbolic replacement for the very word "detective." They were better than merely original-they've also been proven to be timeless.