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>Bond is to spies as Sherlock Holmes is to detectives.
This got me thinking a bit. There are elements of a James Bond like story: the high-tech gadgets, the world-trotting, the evil criminal who captures the spy and tries to kill him with an elaborate trap, the final showdown between spy and evil criminal, without needing James Bond and without going into parody territory like Austin Powers. For instance Kim Possible is an example of this. With Sherlock Holmes, I am not sure what elements there are that distinguishes a Sherlock Holmes story from other detective stories, besides Sherlock Holmes himself. Is it a Watson-like character? Is it the Victorian London? Is it the logical deductions? Maybe detective stories are more distinguishable for their main characters:Hercule Poirot, Columbo, Monk, Detective Conan and so on, rather than the structure of the story or the elements in it, and yes, Columbo differs since it already shows you who the criminal is, and it's more how he catches the criminal, but I think my point still stands. So I don't think your assertion that "Bond is to spies as Sherlock Holmes is to detectives" is correct, because there is not much to copy from Sherlock Holmes, besides the character himself.