Goodreads asked Bill Powers:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Bill Powers One of my top fictional book worlds is the Victorian and Edwardian London of Sherlock Holmes. Not the Hollywood version, which I try to avoid, but the world created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – the foggy, shadowy world of Sherlock, Dr. Watson, their landlady, Mrs. Hudson, Professor Moriarty and Inspector Lestrade and of course, Sherlock’s brother, Mycroft. Most of the stories were set in or around London from 1880 to 1914.
As a young boy, I became obsessed with the eccentric, neurotic, brilliant Sherlock and remain so to this day.
As to what I would do, hmm… maybe I could “tag-along” with Sherlock and Watson as they solve a crime. I am a toxicologist and perhaps my knowledge of poisons could be helpful. And if Sherlock did not want my help, well then, I just may have to go and see Professor Moriarty…

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