Wanjiru died last year from a fall in Kenya, increasing his legend and, ahead of Sunday's Olympic marathon, raising anxiety that somebody may try to repeat his tactic.
On the other hand, it is this resolute over-egging of the pudding that gives "The House of Silk" its charm: a kind of constant creative exuberance, born of a suspicion that unless every single element of the Holmes legend can be brought to the feast, the story is bound to fall flat.
Such a brazen display of indifference to his repeated fall failings is simply unforgiveable in Gotham, where every Yankee legend from Ruth to Reggie to Jeter has earned his pinstripes during the month of October.