![]() ![]() That we have fought the good fight, side by side, in the past or in the future, I do not know. ![]() “I have a feeling,’ he said, ‘I have a feeling that we were meant to be together. ![]() Just like in the original story, the unnamed narrator and the eccentric consulting detective become friends and, after being summoned by the police, consult together on the murder of a member of the German nobility. The story begins with an unnamed narrator, a veteran of the war agains what he describes as against “the men and gods of Afghanistan, detailing his first meeting with an eccentric consulting detective after he returned to ‘Albion’ (presumably England). Aside from the main references to Sherlock Holmes and Cthulhu, the short story is also peppered with ads that reference the works of Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, and Robert Louis Stevenson. The title of the story is a reference to Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel, A Study in Scarlet, where he debuted his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes. Neil Gaiman’s A Study in Emerald is a short mystery that tells a story about a Holmesian investigation of a murder set into a world where Lovecraftian Old Gods has risen and taken over all of humanity. Story Review: A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman ![]()
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