Eliminare l’impossibile: Darwin, Winwood Reade e l’adagio di Sherlock Holmes
This essay looks at the origin and success of Sherlock Holmes’s most famous maxim: “when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth”. Arthur Conan Doyle’s repeated use of the phrase in numerous Sherlock Holmes stories published between 1892 and 1927 s...
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| Language: | English |
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Urbino University Press
2012-11-01
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| Series: | Linguae &: Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne |
| Online Access: | http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/linguae/article/view/295 |