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-"A fact pointing in a certain direction is just a fact: two pointing in the same direction become a coincidence: three--and you begin to get into the regions of certainty. But you must be very sure of your facts."
Thus ran Ronald Standish's favourite dictum: and it was the astonishing skill with which he seemed to be able to sort out the facts that mattered from the mass of irrelevant detail, and having sorted them out, to interpret them correctly, that had earned him his reputation as a detective of quite unusual ability.