PHLB55H3 Chapter Notes -Two Tricky, Reductio Ad Absurdum, Sentence Clause Structure
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The duke has been murdered by a dastardly foe. Fortunately, sherlock holmes is on the scene, ac- companied by his trusty sidekick watson. They know exactly six people were in the manor house at the time: These six suspects fall into categories as follows: Men: the heir, the footman, the butler. Young people: the heiress, the heir, the. Old people: the dutchess, the cook, the. Not rub them out, but eliminate them from considera- tion: to gradually narrow down the class of people who might have done it until only one person is left. Then that person is the one who must have done it. Initially, holmes starts out with a blank slate, where all six suspects still might have done it: heiress dutchess heir heiress heiress dutchess dutchess heir heir upstairs cook footman butler cook cook footman footman butler butler. A square in white represents someone still under consideration.