At 01:44 PM 9/7/01 -0400, Jess wrote:
>One of the essential differences is that the mean
streets Holmes
>walked were, in the Holmes universe, essentially
correctable, and
>not irredeemably corrupted.
I've always thought that villains in the Holmes milieu (maybe
Victorian fiction generally) had made a choice to be bad:
Moriarty is after all just Holmes with an evil cackle. But in
H-B fiction people are just mean, whether because they are
born bad, or because something happened to them in the past
that they can't back out of. On the other hand, as I've
mentioned here before, Doyle does mention Pinkerton
detectives now and then. The American scenes in THe Valley of
Fear could come straight out of the hard-boiled canon.
Chris
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