Nero Wolfe...

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... creation of author Rex Stout, is the subject of today's Under the Influence post!

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The Seven Percent Solution but not the original Holmes stories?

Me, I thought The Seven Percent Solution was clever and not mean spirited or utterly wrongheaded, but I didn't like its take on the Holmes canon AT ALL.

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The Holmes canon tends to be something I enjoy one step removed. I have read the original stories, but I re-read them rarely, preferring adaptations in other media.

Yeah, I'm weird.

Oh, and Solution is definitely AU fanfic, but it's well written AU fanfic, like the earlier Mary Russell books.

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Yes, that's a good description. It's a good AU Fanfic.

My favorite "AU Fanfic" of Holmes of THAT type is undoubtedly "Young Sherlock Holmes".