Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
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And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.
Arthur Conan Doyle in Sherlock Holmes
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Hotel Detective
She's got her ear to the walls and she's tappin' the calls
If you've got a secret boy, forget about it, 'cause she's a
Hotel detective
My little
Hotel detective
Yeah she's a
Hotel detective
Why don't you check her out
Well the bellhop is funky
The dumbwaiter's a monkey
If there's a knock at the door, boy, forget about it, 'cause she's a
Hotel detective
My little
Hotel detective
Yeah
Hotel detective
Cone on and check her out
She says she likes my face
She says she owns the place
Forget about it, 'cause she's a
Hotel detective
My little
Hotel detective
Come on her
Hotel detective
Why don't you check her out
Hotel detective
Come on and swing with me
Hotel detective
From the top of a tree
Hotel detective
And make me feel like a bee
Hotel detective
That's where i want to know you
song performed by by They Might Be Giants
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(She Was A) Hotel Detective (single Mix)
She's got her ear to the walls and she's tappin' the calls
If you've got a secret boy, forget about it, 'cause she's a
Hotel Detective
my little
Hotel Detective
yeah she's a
Hotel Detective
Why don't you check her out
Well the bellhop is funky
The dumbwaiter's a monkey
If there's a knock at the door, boy, forget about it, 'cause she's a
Hotel Detective
my little
Hotel Detective
yeah
Hotel Detective
Cone on and check her out
She says she likes my face
She says she owns the place
Forget about it, 'cause she's a
Hotel Detective
my little
Hotel Detective
come on her
Hotel Detective
Why don't you check her out
Hotel Detective
Come on and swing with me
Hotel Detective
From the top of a tree
Hotel Detective
And make me feel like a bee
Hotel Detective
That's where I want to know you
song performed by by They Might Be Giants
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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
quote by Arthur C. Clarke
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Tether My Free-Wheeling Mind
Finally finished reading The Valley
Of Fear - I freaked out, ran shouting
through the house: Sherlock Holmes
is the best, once again, history of early
America, Pinkerton Men, lawlessness,
Arthur Conan Doyle changing me into
a convert for law and order
Helped me to cross the border between
wishing for freedom and being responsible,
now I really have nothing else to read, to-
morrow I must go to the library or die in
agony and sorrow, being without mental
stimulation would turn me into the devil
himself, breathing fire and brimstone
A whirling dervish of impatience to get
my hands on something that will tether
my free-wheeling mind…
"Sherlock Holmes - The Complete Illustrated
Novels" - Reprinted in 1991 Reed International
Books Ltd.
poem by Margaret Alice Second
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Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.
The game is afoot.
Arthur Conan Doyle in Sherlock Holmes
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This is quite a three-pipe problem.
Arthur Conan Doyle in Sherlock Holmes
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows [Oh, How I've Missed You Holmes!]
Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law
from Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows [Are You Happy?]
Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows [Are You Drinking Embalming Fluid?]
Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows [He's Not Slow Witted Like You Led Me to Believe]
Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Stephen Fry
from Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows [Do You Have the Letter?]
Rachel McAdams, Jared Harris
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows [Be Careful with the Face Boys]
Robert Downey Jr., Rachel McAdams
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows [I Agree It's Not My Best Disguise]
Noomi Rapace, Jude Law, Robert Downey Jr.
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows [I Timed It Perfectly]
Rachel McAdams, Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law
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These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.
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Sherlock Holmes
Rachel McAdams, Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Mark Strong, James Fox
from Sherlock Holmes (2009)
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Time Lag Case Solution Hiccups
There is absolutely no benefit
in being repeatedly proven right
with a time lag months of delay
due to being fed bogus
disinformation
from the star witness.
When all facts constantly fit
an original hypothesis
a good cross examination
in preliminary questioning
is key to solving such cases;
early. A key witness telling
the truth believing
disinformation
is fatal distracting
wild card red herring
causing inconvenient
lethal time delays.
All hail modern
improved
detective techniques
of twenty-first century
Sherlock Holmes
case solved no loose threads.
Still however exceptional
investigative detailed minds
are distinguished by innate
human intuition
application of logic
knowing nose for truth.
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Mysteries
All last night I kept speaking in this
archaic language, because I had been reading
Poe and thinking about him. I read 'The Murders
in the Rue Morgue' which is supposedly the first
detective story. Who dun it? I wondered.
It turns out an orangutan was the murderer.
It looks to me like the detective story genre got off
to a pretty ridiculous start. I used to visit
Poe's house in the Bronx. I used to think,
God, Poe must have been a midget. Everything
is so small. Poe died in Baltimore and I can see why.
In Baltimore, all the people are very big and sincere.
During dinner last night, I told Doug and Susan
about 'Murders in the Rue Morgue.' I said I hadn't
finished it yet, but it looked like the murderer
was going to turn out to be an orangutan, unless
the plot took a surprising new twist. Then Doug
suggested that he and I collaborate
on a series of detective stories in which
the murderer is always an orangutan.
[from The Great Indoors, Story Line Press, 1995]
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poem by Terence Winch
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