The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story. (Rex Stout)

The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.

Rex Stout

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