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Armchair detective — Wikipedia (en)

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Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armchair_detective
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An armchair detective is a fictional investigator who does not personally visit a crime scene or interview witnesses; instead, the detective either reads the story of the crime in a newspaper or has it recounted by another person. As the armchair detective never sees any of the investigation, the reader can attempt to solve the mystery on the same terms as the detective. The phrase possibly originates in a Sherlock Holmes story from 1893, The Greek Interpreter, in which Holmes says of his brother Mycroft, "If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an arm-chair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived."

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Armchair detective» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armchair_detective
Wikidata Q987874: «genre of detective fiction» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q987874
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armchair_detective?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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