The ideal reasoner would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which had preceded it but also all the ramifications which would follow.
— Arthur Conan Doyle Modern

Sherlock Holmes

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A Study in Scarlet

Date / Period

1887

Category

Humorous

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/244/244-h/244-h.htm

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