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"IT'S as easy as shelling peas to be a detective in fiction," grunted / the Barrister. "He's merely the author of the yarn disguised as a / character, and he knows the solution before he starts."
"But the reader doesn't, if the story is told well," objected the / Doctor. "And that's all that matters."