<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><BR><BR>--- On <B>Sat, 3/24/12, Gerry Quinn <I><gerry@bindweed.com></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Gerry Quinn <gerry@bindweed.com><BR>Subject: Re: (urth) Short story 2: The Case of the Vanishing ghost<BR>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net><BR>Date: Saturday, March 24, 2012, 6:56 AM<BR><BR>
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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=marcaramini@yahoo.com href="http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=marcaramini@yahoo.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:marcaramini@yahoo.com">Marc Aramini</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">I haven’t read the story in question, but I will note that two classic mystery series had detectives named, respectively, Philo Vance and Ellery Queen.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">I would guess that the reference is to these names, plus, as you say, the adage that “philosophy is the queen of science”.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"> Yes, you are correct - as I said, I am not very familiar with detective stories beyond Poe/Doyle. </DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>I think I am going to do The Grave Secret next - it is the first one that has a really Wolfean feel, but I can't find it online. So if anyone has Young Wolfe it is included there. It was also published in 1951, and it is better than these first two stories in that it is truly and clearly Wolfean, though he still "reveals" the punch line at the end. Perhaps I will post that tonight, keeping the same basic format.</FONT> </DIV>
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