Reports of certain events in london questions

These are great questions! I love detective fiction and definitely a lot of what we do on the show would qualify as that. But I'm not sure I'd give that label to this story. I think this feels more like an academic inquiry or perhaps even an exploration narrative than like a detective story simply because the investigation is largely into events in the past and mostly involves reading documents. But I think the line between academic and detective stories is pretty thin, and there's a reason they are both near the top of my favorite genres.

I'd love a counter-argument, though!