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Mary Sue run riot. Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain, and somewhere in Heaven Arthur Conan Doyle probably wishes he was in hell thanks to efforts like Sherlock Holmes and the Vampire Invasion. I confess to reading Sherlock Holmes pastiches. Som ...more |
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