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Author: Cassis

Jan 27th 2013 at 10:02:04 AM

Seconding Historical Detective Fiction...

I've been trying to come up with some non-literary examples. I feel like I've definitely seen comics that fall into this category, but none come to mind at the moment. Maybe Sandman Mystery Theatre? Although I'm not sure how much of that was actual detection.

Film:

* The FilmOfTheBook of ''The Name of the Rose'' (1986) has Sean Connery as William of Baskerville, a monk investigating mysterious deaths in a fourteenth-century abbey.

Live-Action TV:

* In BBC America's 2012 ''series/Copper'' Kevin Corcoran is an Irish immigrant living in the Five Points neighborhood of New York City during the 1860s. He returns from fighting in the American Civil War to find that his daughter is dead and his wife has disappeared. Robert Morehouse, Corcoran's former commanding officer, uses his family's connections to arrange for Corcoran to be appointed a detective in the New York Police Department.

(Note: I cribbed the Copper description from its TV Tropes page since I don't watch it.)

What do you think about all the Sherlock Holmes pastiches (or for that matter Sir Peter Wimsey, or any other time-anchored detective)? The originals were set in the then-present, but current additions (barring modernizations like Sherlock and Elementary) are indeed set in the increasingly distant past.