![]() “It went to him – you know, the boy, the one who my grandfather automatically identified as the one who’d be interested in reading about and solving mysteries. When she was a young girl, her grandfather gave her little brother a leather-bound edition of the Holmes stories. I love that Elementary (a TV series with Lucy Liu as “Joan” Watson) reimagined Watson as a woman, but it’s important to have the complicated, difficult genius – the person actually calling the shots – be a girl.”Ĭavallaro experienced firsthand the casual assumption that mysteries are a man’s domain. “I thought it was crucial to give girls – especially now, with young girls so interested in the television and film adaptations of Sherlock – a genius character that looked like them. It was important for me to do a feminist retelling of Sherlock Holmes,” she says over Skype from her home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “There’s been a gold rush of adaptations, but it seemed like Sherlock was getting reimagined every which way but as a teenage girl. With her debut young adult novel A Study In Charlotte, American writer Brittany Cavallaro, 29, fills that gap. ![]() He has been a hound, one half of an African-American duo busting crime in modern-day Harlem and has, over the years, matched wits with everything from Martian invaders to flesh-eating zombies.īut Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, the great detective who continues to inspire legions of adaptations across mediums, is rarely reimagined as a young girl. ![]()
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