From the days when parodies were allowed and public domain was much much stronger, Sherlaw Kombs is a hilarious parody of Sherlock Holmes.
Robert Barr (16 September 1849 – 21 October 1912) was a short story writer and novelist who also worked as a newspaper and magazine editor. He published the first Sherlock Holmes parody, "Detective Stories Gone Wrong: The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs" (also known as "The Great Pegram Mystery") in The Idler in 1892.
A crackling read it kind of reminded me of the recent BBC adaptation Sherlock , where the MC is just so convinced of his own superiority that he falls on his face.
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