>sherlock holmes has received countless modern-day adaptations, including retarded american hollywood adaptations
>agatha christie works like miss marple and hercule poirot get a bit of BBC treatment and nothing else, even though she was a far superior mystery author
Really chogs the nog.
>far superior
yeah all that racist jingoism is such a better read
It's simple, Holmes can be sold as a "sexy" character, Poirot and Marple not so much.