He is the world’s most famous detective and has lately become quite a dish, thanks to Benedict Cumberbatch and Robert Downey Jr. Of late, the forensic expert seems to have seemingly fixated himself in the Indian literary imagination Partha Basu in his The Curious Case of 221B, had a Sherlock traipsing through Bihar while Vitthal Rajan’s Holmes of the Raj, conjectured a tete-a-tete between Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore and Holmes. Meenakshi Mukherjee, acclaimed literary critic called Neelam Saran Gour’s Messrs Dickens, Doyle & Wodehouse Pvt. Ltd. “a literary tour de force”.

The book is premised during the missing years of Holmes when he is killed off in the short story, The Final Problem in a tussle between him and his arch-rival Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. Pic/Getty