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The Real Sherlock Holmes
Irving Wallace
One evening, about the turn of the century, after a weekend shoot in Scotland, a dozen guests sat around a dinner table discussing human monsters, famous murders, and unsolved . One of the guests, Dr. Joseph Bell, the eminent surgeon and medical instructor, had the others wide-eyed with his detective acrobatics.
“The trouble with most people,” he said, “is that they see, but do not observe. Any really good detective ought to be able to tell, before a stranger down, his occupation, habits, and past history through rapid observation and deduction.(1)Glance at a man and you find his nationality written on his face, his means of livelihood on his hands, and the rest of his story in his gait, mannerisms, tattoo marks, watch chain ornaments, shoelaces, and in the lint adhering to his clothes.
The guests were fascinated but . One challenged Dr. Bell to give an example of applied observation. Happily, Dr. Bell obliged.
“A patient walked into the room where I was instructing the students, and his case seemed to be very simple one. I was talking about what was wrong with him. ‘Of course, gentlemen,’ I happened to say, ‘he has been a soldier in a Highland regiment, and probably a bandsman.’ I pointed out the swagger in his walk, suggestive of the Highland piper; while his shortness told me that if he had been