Armchair detective fan and bibliographer Allen J. Hubin." It was published from 1967 to 1997. Armchair detective An armchair detective is a fictional investigator who does not personally visit a crime scene or interview witnesses; instead, he or she either reads the story of the crime in a newspaper or has it recounted by another person. As the armchair detective never sees any of the investigation, the reader can attempt to solve the mystery on the same terms as the detective. The phrase possibly originates in a Sherlock Holmes story from 1893, "The Greek Interpreter", in which Holmes says of his brother
Minor Sherlock Holmes characters actually a coded message that invited Sherlock to Eurus's room, allowing Sherlock to save his friend by making a genuinely emotional appeal to Eurus, giving her the love of an older brother and a form of relationship he'd denied her as a child, which convinces her to stand down. She is returned to incarceration, with Mycroft describing her as reduced to a catatonic state, although she responds in duet when Sherlock plays the violin near her cell. Mary Russell is a fictional character in a book series by Laurie R. King, focusing on the adventures of Russell and her mentor