The Case of the Two Gregsons: From A Study in Scarlet to Elementary

Hudácskó, B. I.: The Case of the Two Gregsons: From A Study in Scarlet to Elementary.
In: Victorian Detectives in Contemporary Culture : Beyond Sherlock Holmes. Ed.: Lucyna Krawczyk-Zywko, Palgrave Macmillan, New York; London; Houndmills in Basingstoke, 57-76, 2017. ISBN: 9783319693118

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authors:

Hudácskó Brigitta Ilona

published:

2017

type:

book chapter

genre:

study, dissertation

language:

English

HAC:

Humanities, Literary and Cultural Studies

subjects:

Fin de Siecle, Flaxman Low, ghost stories, occult detectives, pastiche, supernatural tv series, Sherlock Holmes, Police procedural

abstract:

CBS's most recent series featuring the Great Detective- Elementary-is renowned for inviting both a public outcry and vehement praise for reimagining several characters in novel ways. Among them is Inspector Tobias Gregson of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories transformed into the fully-fledged character of Captain Tommy Gregson, a police officer who can boast more than the dubious title of being "the smartest of the Scotland Yarders." The chapter presents him as someone who has managed to accept and integrate the Holmesian vision into everyday police work and has inscribed Holmes himself into the matrix of interpersonal- and familial-relationships.