Holmes Reads Holmes

<p>Starting in the Victorian Age Holmes became a great name. First there was the best-selling essayist and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Then as the 19th century turned to the 20th his son Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. rose to fame as a judge and almost simultaneously Sherlock Holmes rose to fame as a detective. The careers of those three Holmeses and their respective reputations in both literature and in law intertwined over seven decades - from the Civil War in the 1860s to the Supreme Court during the Depression years of the 1930s - as they occasionally influenced or entertained each other and sometimes even shared the public spotlight.</p>