The BBC's New Detective Series Isn't "Agatha Christie Meets Sherlock," It Turns Agatha Christie Into Sherlock

While the BBC’s upcoming detective drama sounds like a fitting replacement for Sherlock, the show finds a fascinatingly meta use for Hercule Poirot’s real-life creator Agatha Christie. Technically, Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories represent some of the earliest pieces of popular detective fiction in literary history. However, this can be a little misleading, as the closely related murder mystery genre is what many readers think of when discussing detective fiction.