For today's class, my group was assigned to give an overview of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Though I have read some of Doyle's work before, I have never seen it in its original illustrated format. I found this to be particularly fascinating because the images work to bring the text to life, and - in my opinion - help solidify Sherlock Holmes as the iconic fictional character he continues to be today. The illustrator for Sherlock Holmes, Sidney Paget, crafted the artwork in the photomechanical half-tone contemporary sketch style that was a popular feature of 1890s illustrated books. Much of the artwork throughout this collection of stories utilizes the narratological theory of picture-text relation: Paget's illustrations are often repetitive, and work to solidify key features of the mystery genre. As such, many of the pictures I saw while looking through the book feature Holmes and Watson together, Holmes sitting alone, smoking a pipe and looking distinguished, or Holmes discovering the scene of a crime. Paget, whose drawings were done independently, and without the direction of Doyle, is essentially affirming the conventions of the mystery genre through his artwork. In doing so, he is also solidifying Holmes as a defining feature within this type of literature. Giving Holmes a visual aspect allows readers to further connect with the character and associate him with the mystery genre as a whole.