Seeing is not knowing

Sherlock Holmes

Seeing and observing are not the same. In one room, only one man does the second.

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1. You Have Been in Afghanistan

Observation 1, At a First Meeting

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- observation
- first meeting
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2. The Word on the Wall

Observation 2, Two Men Read One Word

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- evidence
- misdirection
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3. A Photograph to Get Back

Observation 3, The Reading Was Right and the Case Was Lost

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- prediction
- opponent
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4. A Post That Never Existed

Observation 4, The Stranger It Is, the Easier It Gets

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- the odd thing
- motive
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5. The Vanished Bridegroom

Observation 5, What Only the Client Cannot See

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- the answer in plain view
- what we want to believe
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6. A Jewel in the Goose

Observation 6, The Certain and the Merely Probable

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- grades of inference
- reach
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7. A Whistle in the Night

Observation 7, A Leap That Needs All Three (End of Part One)

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- sealed room
- overlapping signs
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8. The Box a Father Left

Testimony 1, The Story Has Already Passed Through Someone

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- testimony
- secondhand accounts
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9. The Chase on the River

Testimony 2, Which of the Conflicting Accounts to Throw Out

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- elimination
- the recorder
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10. Five Seeds in an Envelope

Testimony 3, He Read It All and Could Not Save Him

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- postmarks
- too late
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11. The Gentleman Who Turned Beggar

Testimony 4, Her Account and His Silence Point One Way

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- disguise
- taking someone at their word
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12. The Severed Thumb

Testimony 5, What Was Seen Arrives Mixed With What Was Guessed

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- designed testimony
- the centre of the circle
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13. The Bride Who Walked Out

Testimony 6, Put in Order of Time, the Gap Shows

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- order of time
- what was called trivial
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14. The Coronet Held in Pledge

Testimony 7, Trust Covers the Evidence (End of Part Two)

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- seen with his own eyes
- covering with the truth
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15. The Yellow Face at the Window

Error 1, A Story That Covers Every Fact Is Not Thereby True

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- an explanation that covers everything
- Norbury
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16. The Securities Gone From the Safe

Error 2, The Answer Lay Open on the Table All Along

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- the paper in plain sight
- reading it too late
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17. The Note That Broke a Father

Error 3, The Method Was Right and He Did Not Know Where to Use It

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- the first case
- every third word
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18. The Questions Handed Down

Error 4, The Two Words He Left Out

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- a document that lost its meaning
- restoration
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19. The Lawsuit Between Two Houses

Error 5, Being Wrong on Purpose

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- incidental and vital
- a manufactured mistake
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20. The Old Soldier With a Bent Back

Error 6, A Wrong With No Court to Hear It (End of Part Three)

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- a case with no culprit
- thirty years
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21. The Hound the Moor Remembers

The Legend 1, A Story Two Centuries Old and a Print Three Months Old

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- legend and evidence
- twenty yards
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22. The Heir Who Went to the Moor

The Legend 2, An Instruction to Send Facts Only

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- the recorder left alone
- a letter cut and pasted
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23. The Man in the Stone Hut

The Legend 3, The Recorder Acts on His Own

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- Watson's judgement
- the mind of a follower
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24. The Name a Neighbour Hid

The Legend 4, The Hole in the Record

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- the hidden observer
- the portrait
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25. What Came Out of the Fog

The Legend 5, The Legend Was Made and the Hound Was Real (End of Part Four)

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- phosphorus
- what the mire took
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26. The Dog That Did Nothing

Equals 1, When a Thing That Did Not Happen Becomes Evidence

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- evidence of absence
- curried mutton
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27. The Napoleon of Crime

Equals 2, The Other Man Uses the Same Method

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- an equal adversary
- certainty without proof
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28. The Note Left at the Falls

Equals 3, Holmes Puts His Own Death Into the Reckoning

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- the decoy letter
- what is left behind
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29. Waiting in the Empty House

Equals 4, Holmes Accounts for Three Missing Years

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- testimony that cannot be checked
- a shadow used as bait
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30. The Dancing Figures

Equals 5, Solving Is Not the Same as Preventing

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- frequency analysis
- a solution that came late
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31. The Man Who Buys Letters

Equals 6, If the End Is Right, Are the Means Right Too

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- blackmail as a business
- an exception one grants oneself
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32. Among Three Students

Equals 7, Where Elimination Cannot Reach

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- the limit of elimination
- the person outside the frame
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33. The Detective Who Sat as Jury

Judgment 1, Holmes Delivers a Verdict of His Own

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- private judgment
- three glasses
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34. The Missing Second Stain

Judgment 2, The Business of a Nation Against the Business of One Person

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- a danger you cannot measure
- marks that do not match
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35. The Body on the Line

Judgment 3, Where the Body Lay Was a Lie From the Start

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- where a thing was placed
- character against circumstance
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36. The Powder Above the Lamp

Judgment 4, Where Testing a Hypothesis Ends and Gambling Begins

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- an experiment on himself
- burning and air
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37. The Lady Who Was Not There

Judgment 5, He Was Late, and the Reason Was His Own Misjudgment

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- the remark that slipped past
- a coffin made to measure
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38. The Man Who Played Dying

Judgment 6, If the Chronicler Is Deceived, What Is the Record

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- acting and being
- the ivory box
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39. The Diagnosis Fear Made

Judgment 7, The One Chapter With a Different Narrator

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- an unverified worst case
- a record written by Holmes
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40. The Night Before the War

Judgment 8, The Two of Them Stand Together One Last Time

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- an east wind
- two years under another name

Sherlock Holmes

1. You Have Been in Afghanistan

2. The Word on the Wall

3. A Photograph to Get Back

4. A Post That Never Existed

5. The Vanished Bridegroom

6. A Jewel in the Goose

7. A Whistle in the Night

8. The Box a Father Left

9. The Chase on the River

10. Five Seeds in an Envelope

11. The Gentleman Who Turned Beggar

12. The Severed Thumb

13. The Bride Who Walked Out

14. The Coronet Held in Pledge

15. The Yellow Face at the Window

16. The Securities Gone From the Safe

17. The Note That Broke a Father

18. The Questions Handed Down

19. The Lawsuit Between Two Houses

20. The Old Soldier With a Bent Back

21. The Hound the Moor Remembers

22. The Heir Who Went to the Moor

23. The Man in the Stone Hut

24. The Name a Neighbour Hid

25. What Came Out of the Fog

26. The Dog That Did Nothing

27. The Napoleon of Crime

28. The Note Left at the Falls

29. Waiting in the Empty House

30. The Dancing Figures

31. The Man Who Buys Letters

32. Among Three Students

33. The Detective Who Sat as Jury

34. The Missing Second Stain

35. The Body on the Line

36. The Powder Above the Lamp

37. The Lady Who Was Not There

38. The Man Who Played Dying

39. The Diagnosis Fear Made

40. The Night Before the War