Is there a market out there for a series of interconnected short stories featuring the same cast of characters?

Hey, guys. So I've always loved the Sherlock Holmes short story collections and the Jeeves and Wooster stories - that is, collections which feature the same few characters solving different kinds of problems. So I started constructing my own series of short stories (also crime fiction, btw) around a similar bent. But it's only quite recently, once I'd actually *finished* quite a few, that I realized I have no idea where and how to market these stories, and where.

Like, most online web fiction or serials are *serials*. They usually have one long, continuous story, and from what I've read a lot of the marketing and building of an audience is shaped around that. I have no idea how to manage the equivalent of that here.

And secondly, while I have seen demand for short stories out there, they tend to be for individual contests or magazines, where the full benefit of characters carrying over their development or a slowly expanding world within the stories would be lost.

Option two is just traditionally publishing these stories in a collection - I do like this option, and I have a little experience with publishing traditionally, but again I'm not sure if there's a market out there for this sort of thing.

It sucks, because it feels like comic books (especially Western comics) and TV shows have a lot more room for telling the format of stories I want to write. But I'm a poor sucker who's mostly good at writing, so I can't say I want to go for that kind of option yet.

I'd really like some advice here. If you guys can think of modern examples of the kind of story I'm talking about, I'd be really gratefully if you guys could share that, too. Thanks in advance!