Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a Suppressed-Statist. His contempt for the The Pig? Half-ass and perverse! The dreams of a Bourgeois-Bohemia. Does Inspector Holmes not embody the WASPY false-fascist who, at once, relishes in his superior intellect (vis-a-vis Stanley Hopkins) but only so to guise the horror of his pure-pig-possession (Scotland Yard).
We do agree with Doyle on one point;
"There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman"*
Thaddeus Sholto in n The Sign of Four, ch. 4 (1889).
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