On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 09:00 AM, RARA-AVIS Digest
wrote:
> Holmes was
> the embodiment of the idea that any problem could
be
> solved by pure reason, and is, on that account,
the
> precursor of characters like Futrelle's S.F.X.
Van
> Dusen, (aka "The Thinking Machine") or
Christie's
> Hercule Poirot with his "little grey
cells."
Yes, and Father Brown??? I think it's time I had another look
at him: it's been decades.
Marianne
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