Hugh Laurie, precursor of Benedict Cumberbatch  One Fixed Point:
“Sherlock,” Sherlock Holmes, and the British Imagination:  The
forces at work in the modern Holmes boom, which began with the
Guy Ritchie films in 2009, the first major adaptation in more
than a decade, culminate in two relatively different modernized
television shows, Sherlock and Elementary. The consulting
detective in the present day gets at a great deal of nuance, and
Sherlock in particular in many ways is a study of adaptations as
much as of the canon. (The term canon, by the way, traditionally
referred to the Bible, but it was in fact first applied to
literature with Sherlock Holmes fans and their fan works, in
1911.)  To get at the heart of the appeal, you have to go to the
source. The Victorian period saw a dramatic rise in crime,
particularly in the British capital, and the invention of the
literary detective was a direct response to public fears.
Scotland Yard was formed in 1842, and through the establishment
of methodical police work,