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It is only when a female character points out the gains brought with time and technology, and the comforts that would be lost living in the past, that White begins to realize just how good he has it living in the 21st century. Similarly, White states at one point, “It’s funny, I’m so much more familiar with Britain a hundred years ago than Britain today.” His love of Doyle, his detective Holmes, and their overly romanticized depiction of the Victorian era have almost completely overtaken his existence. Doyle does not seem to welcome the future, and looks longingly back at his life in London, dragging his feet as he is forcibly taken into a London of electric street lamps where women fight for the vote. Equally significant is the wistfulness Moore gives to each character about times other than their own.
It is interesting to watch each “detective,” one Holmes’ creator and the other an obsessive Holmes fan, try to utilize the methods and madness of the fictional character to solve very real crimes that have intruded upon their lives. The mysteries presented in both eras are fascinating with the intertwining of references to actual events.
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