Viewing the police as incompetent, which Holmes did, is
fairly common across the history of detective fiction.
Viewing the police as venal, which the hardboileds did (with
good reason), is not, and was not the case during the
Victorian era.
jess
rara-avis@icomm.ca wrote:
> Holmes opinion of his peers on the police force is
definitely in line withthe hardboiled view.
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> One of the essential differences is that the mean
streets Holmes
> walked were, in the Holmes universe, essentially
correctable, and
> not irredeemably corrupted.
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