Sherlock Holmes is a government official. Mycroft has a unique civil service position as a kind of human database for all aspects of government policy. He lacks Sherlock's interest in physical investigation, however, preferring to spend his time at the Diogenes Club. Holmes says that he first developed his methods of deduction as an undergraduate; his earliest cases, which he pursued as an amateur, came from fellow university students. A meeting with a classmate's father led him to adopt detection as a profession, and he spent several years after university as a consultant before financial difficulties led him to accept John H.
Sherlock Holmes pastiches sequel, "The Kentish Manor Murders", and Symons also wrote a Holmes short story pastiche. Thomas Brace Haughey wrote a series of six novels "in the best tradition of Holmes and Watson" from 1978-1986 with Geoffrey Weston as the Sherlock character (and a descendant of Mycroft Holmes) and John Taylor as his Watson, living at 31 Baker Street. These stories, "The Case of the Invisible Thief", "The Case of the Frozen Scream", "The Case of the Maltese Treasure", "The Case of the Kidnapped Shadow", "The Case of the Hijacked Moon", and "The Case of the Unbolted Lightning", are all deeply imbued