That's an assumption. Holmes financial needs are off-page.
There's enough room to assume either way.
I said PIs not cops. While police officers have slipped into
the genre, it's primarily one of PIs. Since my point involves
the devolution of the genre and not one of it's evolutionary
traits, it's the PI aspect that's definitive not whether or
not the lower classes could enter the police force.
-- Anthony Dauer Alexandria, Virginia
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-----Original Message----- From: Jess Nevins Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 9:24 PM
He never *needs* to accept a paycheck. He does so to amuse himself.
No--lower class Victorians went into the police force, where they were markedly more hard-boiled than, say, Holmes. See Tom Fox and Waters. Hell, see Dick Donovan.
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