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.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And that bit about the dog which did not bark has to be one of the most quoted texts from the Holmes canon!
Ad astra! Sean
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