Odysseys was not just clever in war. For example he uses wordplay and disguise to escape from capture by the Cyclop. Loki and Odysseus are examples of "trickst

Odysseys was not just clever in war. For example he uses wordplay and disguise to escape from capture by the Cyclop. Loki and Odysseus are examples of "trickstes", legendary characters who use cunning rather than strength to get ahead. They are often also morally ambiguous and subverts the rules of society though, while detective stories like Holmes are about restoring order and justice, even if the detective have to bend the rules a bit along the way. Oedipus is perhaps a closer parallel - Oedipus Rex is basically a detective story where he has to investigate who killed King Laius in order to lift a curse. Turns out it was Oedipus himself! Justice is restored, but of course at great cost to Oedipus himself.