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First, the editor wishes to thank the delegates of the Sherlock Holmes: Past and Present conference held at University College London, June 20–22, 2013, for the role they played in instigating the creation of this book. A book such as this cannot be produced without the collaborative efforts of various scholars in the ﬁeld who give so generously of their time and expertise. The editor wishes to thank the following reviewers: Janice Allan; Jamie Bernthal; Clare Clarke; Christine Ferguson; Agnieszka Jasnowska; Beth Le Roux; Dave McLaughlin; Christopher Pittard; Antonija Primorac; Steve Rothman; and Megan Van Der Nest. Also, I am grateful to the editors and publishers at Palgrave Macmillan, April James, Peter Cary, Paula Kennedy, and Tomas Rene for their expert guidance throughout this project. A very special thanks to Theo and Gemma, for their meticulous, tireless, and skilled efforts. And ﬁnally, this book would not have been possible without the efforts of Tom Ue, who is a committed and passionate Sherlockian scholar.

v CONTENTS

Introduction 1 Sam Naidu

“All that Matters is the Work”: Text and Adaptation in Sherlock 7 Ann McClellan

Clients Who Disappear and Colleagues Who Cannot Compete: Female Characters in the BBC’s Sherlock 39 Benedick Turner

“I, Too, Mourn the Loss”: Mrs. Hudson and the Absence of Sherlock Holmes 61 Charlotte Beyer

The Trickster, Remixed: Sherlock Holmes as Master of Disguise 83 Benjamin Poore

Holmes and his Boswell in Cosplay and Roleplay 101 Lynn Duffy

A “Horriﬁc Breakdown of Reason”: Holmes and the Postcolonial Anti-Detective Novel, Lost Ground 115 Sam Naidu

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Sherlock Holmes and the Fiction of Agency 133 Martin Wagner

The Savage Subtext of The Hound of the Baskervilles 149 David Grylls

Holmes into Challenger: The Dark Investigator 167 Douglas Kerr

Modernizing Holmes: Location and Bringing Sherlock into the Twenty-First Century 187 Emily Garside

Index 201 LIST OF FIGURES

Fig. 1 “Season One Credits (‘A Study in Pink’).” BBC, 2010. Author’s screenshot 10 Fig. 2 “Based on the Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (‘A Scandal in Belgravia’).” BBC, 2012. Author’s screenshot 11 Fig. 3a, b PBS “His Last Vow” credits (“His Last Vow”). PBS, 2014. Author’s screenshots 13 Fig. 4 Newspaper clip (“The Reichenbach Fall”; emphasis added). BBC, 2012. Author’s screenshot 14 Fig. 5a, b Moriarty in “The Reichenbach Fall” and The Woman in Green. BBC, 2012; Universal Studios, 1989. Author’s screenshots 16 Fig. 6 “The Geek Interpreter.” (“A Scandal in Belgravia”). BBC, 2012. Author’s screenshots 18 Fig. 7 “The Speckled Blonde.” (“A Scandal in Belgravia”). BBC, 2012. Author’s screenshots 19 Fig. 8 What next for the Reichenbach hero? (“The Reichenbach Fall”). BBC, 2012. Author’s screenshot 20 Fig. 9 “The Reichenbach Fall” Title (“The Reichenbach Fall”). BBC, 2012. Author’s screenshot 20 Fig. 10 Hound (“The Hounds of Baskerville”). BBC, 2012. Author’s screenshot 21 Fig. 11 H.O.U.N.D. (“The Hounds of Baskerville”). BBC, 2012. Author’s screenshot 22 Fig. 12a, b Hound project (“The Hounds of Baskerville”). BBC, 2012. Author’s screenshots 23

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Fig. 13 Press conference “wrong” (“A Study in Pink”). BBC, 2010. Author’s screenshot 25 Fig. 14 “You know where to ﬁnd me. SH” (“A Study in Pink”). BBC, 2010. Author’s screenshot 26 Fig. 15a, b Bruce-Partington plans text (“The Great Game”). BBC, 2012. Author’s screenshots 27 Fig. 16 Lauriston Gardens (“A Study in Pink”). BBC, 2010. Author’s screenshot 28 Fig. 17 Baker Street. Come at once text (“A Study in Pink”). BBC, 2010. Author’s screenshot 30 Fig. 18 If inconventient, come anyway (“A Study in Pink”). BBC, 2010. Author’s screenshot 30 Fig. 19 Till the next time, Mr. Holmes (“A Scandal in Belgravia”). BBC, 2012. Author’s screenshots 31 Fig. 20 “Let’s Have Dinner” (“A Scandal in Belgravia”). BBC, 2012. Author’s screenshot 32 Fig. 24 Dubercelle, The Devil upon Two Sticks. 1726. Le Diable boiteux. By Alain-René Lesage. Vol. 1. Paris: Veuve Pierre Ribou 1726, 25. (Copied from Meglin 1994: 265; Meglin takes the image from a 1779 edition of the novel [Paris: Chez Musier], but the engraving appeared ﬁrst in 1726) 137 Fig. 25 Final scene of They Might Be Giants: Justin Playfair (George C. Scott) and Mildred Watson (Joanne Woodward) awaiting Moriarty’s arrival. Universal, 1971. Author’s screenshot 143