The case of the celibate detectives
Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot were defiantly asexual. What did Sir Doyle and Agatha Christie have against sex?
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Christopher Wallace
Entertainment Sherlock Holmes, Books, Mysteries
Chris Wallace is a writer living in New York. His work has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, GQ, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Daily Beast and The New York Times among others.
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