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I mean: Ira/Irene Adler even have the same name. Lazarus/Watson is a locum doctor who has a bullet scar in his shoulder from Afghanistan, and then we have Professor and crime lord combo: Goddard/Moriarty. I haven't even met St. Andrews yet, but he's the one that made the parallel in the first place. Is this a spoof? Is it an homage? Fanfic? I'm confused and I barely know any Sherlock Holmes...

I'm puzzled as to why the writer has one of the characters (St. Andrews) wanting himself to be known as the Sherlock Holmes of wherever it was, inviting secondhand ridicule from the reader through the MC's POV and at the same time have all the main characters be obvious Sherlock Holmes derivatives.