Word: mycroft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wilder's invention, Sigi should not be confused with Sherlock's older brother Mycroft, who was a lazy mathematical genius...
When the chronicler decides to develop these allusions to the canon into important plot devices, they are terrific. In the original, neither Holmes's cocaine consumption nor the intelligence of Mycroft Holmes was a significant subject, although both matters have since tantalized all inquisitive Sherlockians. In The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, they have flowered into captivating themes...
...brother Mycroft catches me in an intellectual trap...
...drily. "Personally, I admire parody - when it pinks the host, not the parasite. Wilder never understood his subjects well enough to satirize us. He is even off in his details - my brother, for instance, is played by the lean Christopher Lee. As you have noted in The Greek Interpreter, Mycroft is 'absolutely corpulent.' The entire effort may, I think, be ascribed to an insufficiency of imagination, not unlike Sir Henry Baskerville...