All Fiction One Long Series?

Successful fiction becomes part of the language of later writers. The following is one minor sequence:

Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes refers to Poe's Dupin;

Ian Fleming's From Russia, With Love refers to Sherlock Holmes (see Enemies' Appraisals);

Poul Anderson refers to Holmes several times and to James Bond once (see here);

Stieg Larsson quotes "From Russia, With Love" (see the second link above) and, in the same volume, -

"The strange thing about the dog is that it did not bark, my dear Watson."
-Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire (London, 2010), CHAPTER 15, p. 251;

David Lagencrantz continues Larsson's characters.

And that brings us up to date. But Poul Anderson stands in several literary traditions as we have already outlined on this blog. Need I say more?

For the next two days, I will be in Lancaster but busy with other activities.