House shares multiple themes and parallels with several crime fiction stories. Some of the most familiar parallels are those between House and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes. In addition to their names, the two characters have many other things in common, such as addiction to some type of drug; House is addicted to Vicodin and Homes is addicted to cocaine. Both also have the trusted sidekicks of Dr. Watson and Dr. Wilson, and the inept police force of the Holmes stories are portrayed as a team of specialists in House's world. However, these similarities created by the writers are not the reason why House has become in a sense its own version of detective fiction. The TV show may never be lumped into the detective genre, but the similarities of the themes connect it to older forms of Edgar Allan Poe and many others. The setting of House MD introduces the atmosphere and tone of the fictional work, but also depicts the social structure and separation of the hospital's different levels of staff. Many crime novel authors focused on the social prejudices and division of the society they wrote about and the competition it produced among members of society. Although citizens of the United States are equal, the actual equality of different classes is questionable and the difference is demonstrated in House MD which describes the social climate of separation and competition in the present day which is similar to the separation of 150 years ago. Although it has many different settings, the main setting of the television series House, MD is the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. This main setting can be understood by all viewers because almost everyone has been... in the middle of the paper... and fifty years ago. House MD may never be considered a crime fiction series, but, despite its classification as a medical drama, the show will always share obvious and less notable similarities with the crime fiction genre. David Shore, one of the show's writers, created a setting in which the division of social classes can be recognized; this same concept has inspired many crime novel authors to show social division through the structure of the city. The connection between the TV show and the detective genre also extends to the title character and his extreme similarities to Sherlock Holmes, including an addiction, a sidekick, and the similarity of the names House and Holmes. Crime fiction has slowly faded into a literary genre that is not as popular as it once was, however, the genre is still alive in the television series House M.D..