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...random number." In other words, the chances are more than random that a random number will be divisible by 17. A Masters and Johnson study found that the average male has a sex-related thought every 17 seconds; there are 17 steps from the landing to the door in Sherlock Holmes' house at 221b (13 x 17b) Baker Street; Harvard's College Board code is 3434 (17 times 202); and the world record for sitting in a tub of tomato ketchup is 17 hours...
...track Abbott by telephone. He set up a command post in the basement of his Staten Island home. Using a nationwide network of law-enforcement contacts, he plotted Abbott's moves on a map of the U.S. Majeski's reading runs from works on psychology to Sherlock Holmes, and it served him well in his remote-control manhunt. So did In the Belly of the Beast. "All the clues to what he is, how he thinks, what he would do were in the book...
...worked with would like to have been and what quite a few of them in their cockier moments thought they approached. For your private detective does not--or did not ten years ago when he was my colleague--want to be an erudite solver of riddles in the Sherlock Holmes manner he wants to be a hard and shifty fellow, able to take care of himself in any situation, able to best anybody he comes in contact with, whether criminal, innocent by-stander, or client. Dashiell Hammett...
...local libraries will attest). But in Europe Poe's reputation was up there with the best, and fifty years later, his stories would influence another European, Arthur Conan Doyle, as he tried his hand in the amateur detective mode. When, in 1887, A Study in Scarlet introduced Sherlock Holmes, a whole new era in detective fiction began, one that was both ingenious and literate--a kind of highbrow distraction for the well-educated who didn't necessarily want to delve into Byron...
...raves that cocaine has enjoyed in the past. In 1885, Parke-Davis, a U.S. pharmaceutical company, promoted it as a wonder drug that would "supply the place of food, make the coward brave, the silent eloquent, and free the victims of alcohol and opium habit from their bondage." Sherlock Holmes, of course, injected a 7% solution to while away the days between cases. In his classic Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin snorted a white powder before taking on all challengers. Freud, who prescribed the drug for treatment of morphine addiction, stomach disorders and melancholia, wrote of getting from it "exhilaration...