Re mysteries -- responding to Mitch

Maybe I love Fargo so much because it's so unrelentingly dark that it comes out the other side – funny, if sort of like  rubber-crutch funny.  Franz Kafka funny.

I liked Longmire a lot, too.  Glad to see that they've signed up for another season.

Yes, Elementary is the version I like, with the long-suffering and sexy Asian woman as Watson.  Holmes as a dysfunctional beyond-geeky polymath.

I wonder how many versions of Holmes have been on teevee.  ("Look it up on Wiki" is not an easy answer.  The list goes on and on, with variations fantastical and obscure.)

I don't read a lot of detective stories, but in high school and college I loved Nero Wolfe, and probably read about all of them.  Should pick one up again for nostalgia's sake.  Any opinions as to the best one?

(Cannon was a reasonable facsimile, given the limitations of teevee drama, but he didn't have Wolfe's absolute inertia.  I loved his counting beer-bottle caps and fussing with his orchids.)

The Holmes story pattern and character archetype are rock-bottom basic to modern western storytelling, of course, and certainly to science fiction.  Evil is mysterious and murky; rational action is human and pure.

Joe