Sigegard Ainsworth, Chapter 3
Om avsnittet
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A mystery serial presented as an homage to Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot.
Chapter Three: In which my friend explains to me how he took up his vocation and tells me his name.
An Excerpt
“So,” I said. “A private detective, but not a Seamus. Are you in the line of Sherlock Holmes?[1]”
“Pff,” Sige retorted, furrowing his brow. “The marvel of Sherlock Holmes is not his genius, but his encyclopedic capacity. Moreover, the thrill of the storytelling is not in the method of the character, but in the withholding of key information which the reader could never know, not unless he’d read a nonexistent monograph on the one-hundred thirty-five ash variants of cigars. I mean, really…”
“Well, then,” I asked. “Perhaps your approach is more like Hercule Poirot.”
“Pah!” Sige exclaimed. “Sigmund Freud with a Belgian accent. Freud! What a fraud! And red herrings stinking up the place. ‘It’s the psychologie, Hastings, the psychologie!’ Nonsense! You can’t systematize psychology, in the first place, and, in the second place, it’s wisdom, simply wisdom.”
“Fine,” I said. “Then you’re Frank or Joe Hardy.”
He scowled. “Droll,” he said. “Very droll. Mark Twain.”
“Come again?”
“My model is Mark Twain. After all, he’s the one who invented fingerprinting.”
“No way.”
“Yes way.”
“I did not know that.”
“Now you do,” said Sige. “Totally invented it all by himself, then wrote about it in one of his later, pessimistic novels. Some police detective in Buffalo read the book, then started using it. The method spread like crime, and now everybody’s using it.”
“I thought DNA was the thing,” I said.
“Hm…” said Sige. “DNA will go the way of fingerprinting, you know.”
“What?”
“It’s all probabilities, not certainties,” he said. “Nothing will ever replace eyewitness accounts.”
[1] See, I was right. You intended to ask the question not implying the popular caricature of the character, but implying the entire literary creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Thus I answered it—SA.
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