February 22nd, 2012 at 10:29PM
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chronicluscious asked: You've probably been answered this before, but I was recently rereading "Fragile Things", and I couldn't help but notice the, uh, more-than-coincidental similarities between the story "A Study in Emerald" and the pilot for the BBC's new "Sherlock" series. What's the story with that?

Well, in 1887 a man named Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the first of his Sherlock Holmes story. It was called “A Study in Scarlet”. 

Back in 2002, when I came to write my Holmes/Lovecraft story, I used elements from Conan Doyle’s tale to make “A Study in Emerald”. When Steven Moffat wrote his updated Sherlock Holmes story, he used elements from “A Study In Scarlet” to write “A Study In Pink”.

That’s the story with that.

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    IN WHICH I AM A COMPLETE IDIOT. In my defense, I DID know that ACD wrote the original Sherlock Holmes stories, I’d just...
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    I never actually thought that somebody wouldn’t...heard of the original
  5. whitneydrake said: Oh dear. I think someone needs to actually read Sherlock Holmes.
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    #facepalming so hard there are red marks on my forehead
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