He was never James Bond, but he did play a secret agent with plenty of gadgets in the Kingsman movies. It’s fitting to see ...

Oh, Sherlock Holmes is going to save the nation. Yes. He's been a detective. Now he's a master spy. Bit of James Bond, really. It is. It's very James Bond. He escapes from Conan Doyle very early ...

In fact, some have posited the idea of Mycroft as the original M, tying Sherlock Holmes to the "shaken, not stirred" martini-enjoyer James Bond. In 1893, Doyle decided to kill off Sherlock Holmes ...

Anthony Horowitz:Some of these characters become so familiar to us, they seem to have existed forever, like James Bond, Robin Hood, Superman or the world's most famous detective Sherlock Holmes.

Holmes is also a precursor to James Bond—surely another neo-Thatcherite ... “It is not of the first flight,” he wrote, “and Sherlock, like his author, grows a little stiff in the joints ...