#great detectives

[baavri]

‘Agatha Christie’s Great Detectives Poirot and Marple’ (2004)

[sparklywaistcoat]

The Westminster Mews Irregulars

One of the cool things about “November Five” is Steed’s little pair of Irregulars. Evidently he has recruited these two old ladies to shuffle around the Houses of Parliament and scoop up information for him. They make perfect spies: nobody will ever suspect a pair of sweet old ladies of being up to something.

When we first see Steed, he is hanging out in the Houses of Parliament, waiting to talk to an MP, Major Swinburne, who is a suspect in the case he’s working. The two little old ladies walk up to him and start a cheerful conversation, asking Steed if he is an MP himself. They exchange some banter about this. Then the man Steed has been waiting for shows up, and the women make themselves scarce. Once the MP is gone, the ladies come back for further instructions, the whole time gushing about how cool it is to be visiting Parliament.

Then Steed goes all serious. “Follow the Major,” he tells them, and off they go to tail the guy Steed talked to earlier. So now we know that they’re more than just two voluble old women: they’re working for Steed.

Later, the women find Steed again, this time on the terrace. They have more conversation about how wonderful Parliament is. And the taller woman shakes hands with Steed before she and her friend leave.

This isn’t a benign little handshake as among friends, though. The woman has passed Steed a note with important information on it.

This is the only episode that I can recall where Steed actively employs Irregulars a la Sherlock Holmes. It’s rather sweet how he plays spymaster to these women, and how well and enthusiastically they play their role in the case.

[sparklywaistcoat]

Great Detectives Think Alike: II

In an earlier post, I discussed the apparent confluences between the The Avengers Season 2 episode “Mr Teddy Bear” and a handful of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. W…

I found more Steedy-Holmesy things.

[skjam]

Pulptober 2021 Day 15: Sherlock Holmes/Great Detective

Not actually the first great detective, but the one all subsequent great detectives are measured against.

http://www.skjam.com/2016/01/16/book-review-the-big-book-of-sherlock-holmes-stories/

 Sometimes the derivation is direct.

http://www.skjam.com/2021/01/16/book-review-the-further-adventures-of-solar-pons/

Sometimes it’s something very much like the original but distorted.

http://www.skjam.com/2020/06/21/movie-review-terror-by-night/

And sometimes, it’s not the greatest detective in the world, but a tribute.

http://www.skjam.com/2020/02/23/manga-review-case-closed-volumes-69-72/

[shelleythesoft]

Great Detectives edited by David Willis McCullough

[sparklywaistcoat]

If y’all want to read about confluences between the Sherlock Holmes canon and “Mr Teddy Bear,” click over to this here blog thingie:

Great Detectives Think Alike

[mackenzie-brown]

He recalled the pungent smell of pipe tobacco and peppermint, before blacking out again.

He didn’t know it at the time but this had been Sean’s second encounter with Delbert Walsh.

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