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Abstract
Anissa M. Graham and Jennifer C. Garlen take as their starting point Irene Adieus observation in the BBC episode "A Scandal in Belgravia" that "Brainy' s the new sexy" and demonstrate that through illustration, stage, and film adaptations, "the sexualization of Sherlock Holmes began almost as soon as the first stories went to print" (25), contributing to the rise of the "sexy geek as icon, hero, and heartthrob" (33). Rhonda Harris Taylor looks at two modern Sherlocks: Detective Robert Green of Law and Order: Criminal Intent and FBI Agent Aloysius Pendergast of the Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child book series. Neil Gaiman, a favorite author of many readers of this journal, has written two short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. "A Study in Emerald" is a twisty mirror-universe Lovecraftian mash-up, and "The Case of Death and Honey," set after Holmes's retirement, centers around a favorite Gaiman theme- Death.