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...believe it was Sherlock Holmes who said go out and get the facts and build a hypothesis with them. That to me is much too reasoned. My response is to come up with the broad hypothesis and fit the facts into it. This style is a much more exciting means to go about pursuing the truth because what is truth anway except what I perceive it to be. The one truth I held in high school, that of Harvard, proved to be false. I'll never have such a love affair again...
...seems to know how good, or how bad, the Crimson will be this year. Not Sherlock Holmes, and not even Harvard Coach Pete Roby...
...some 12,000 books about the sacred writings. The familiar lean figure with Inverness cape, deerstalker and underslung pipe regularly appears in the headlines. Speculating two weeks ago on who laid the mines plaguing U.S. convoys in the Persian Gulf, David Mellor, a British Foreign Office official mused, "Sherlock Holmes wouldn't take too long to resolve that...
Great Scott ! Sherlock Holmes is 100 ! But the immortal sleuth and Dr. Watson are still very much in popular demand...
...clash comes instead over format. Most writers seem to prefer one-shot stories, as full of catharsis as a classic tragedy, while publishers -- and readers -- clamor for series in which a likable, marketable character appears again and again. The series hero offers predictable pleasures, and some outstanding examples -- Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Nero Wolfe -- attract faithful followers who are not otherwise fans of the mystery form. For writers, however, the series format imposes so many constraints that they may feel they are writing the same book over and over. Small wonder that Conan Doyle sent Holmes plummeting over the Reichenbach...