Living in the Modern Sherlockian Age

I recently finished reading author and screenwriter Nicholas Meyer’s splendid Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell (Mysterious Press), his sixth novel starring Holmes and the steadfast Doctor John H. Watson. So when I spotted Sherlock authority Steven T. Doyle’s article, in CrimeReads, looking back at the 1976 release of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, I had to read it right away. It begins:

For those who weren’t there, who didn’t live through the transition, it may be impossible to understand what it was like. Even for those who were, enough time has passed that perhaps the memory has dimmed under the successive tides of Sherlockian enthusiasm. But the fact is that 1974 is a watershed year in the history of Sherlock Holmes. The Great Detective went mainstream with the debut of Nicholas Meyer’s novel, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. We now live in a Sherlockian universe permanently transformed by this single volume, a pastiche that inaugurated the modern Sherlockian age.

You can enjoy the complete essay by Doyle (and what a convenient moniker that is!) simply by clicking here.