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Case

       A Strange Disappearance

       The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow

       That Affair Next Door

       Lost Man's Lane

       The Circular Study

       Ellis Parker Butler

       Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective

       Maurice Leblanc

       Arsene Lupin

       The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin

       R. Austin Freeman

       Dr. Thorndyke's Cases

       The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke

       Dr. Thorndyke's Casebook

       A. E. W. Mason

       At the Villa Rose

       The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel

       Mary Roberts Rinehart

       The Circular Staircase

       The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry

       Tish – The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions

       More Tish

       Arthur Conan Doyle

       A Study in Scarlet

       The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

       The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

       The Sign of Four

       The Hound of the Baskervilles

       The Valley of Fear

       Mabel & Paul Thorne

       The Sheridan Road Mystery

       Marion Harvey

       The Mystery of the Hidden Room

       Grace Livingston Hill

       The Mystery of Mary

      Edgar Allan Poe

       Table of Contents

      The Murders in the Rue Morgue

       Table of Contents

       What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions are not beyond all conjecture.

      — SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Urn-Burial.

      The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment. As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles. He derives pleasure from even the most trivial occupations bringing his talents into play. He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension preternatural. His results, brought about by the very soul and essence of method, have, in truth, the whole air of intuition. The faculty of re-solution is possibly much invigorated by mathematical study, and especially by that highest branch of it which, unjustly, and merely on account of its retrograde operations, has been called, as if par excellence, analysis. Yet to calculate is not in itself to analyze. A chess-player, for example, does the one without effort at the other. It follows that the game of chess, in its effects upon mental character, is greatly misunderstood. I am not now writing a treatise, but simply prefacing a somewhat peculiar narrative by observations very much at random; I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess. In this latter, where the pieces have different and bizarre motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex is mistaken (a not unusual error)

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