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The Case of the Industrial Extortion.
Italian inventor (Vilfredo Pareto) found dead in locked
room, his brain child has been stolen.
Holmes takes up the case and discovers an industrial
extortion ring (not it's not the Teamsters as our
transatlantic cousins might say). By reversing the polarity
on the Pareto device, vast numbers of little things go
wrong in the factories, if they pay up, it stops.
Holmes manages to triangulate onto the device by using
the Baker Street Irregulars (they need more fibre imho)
getting them to pretend to be boot-blacks and map out
the
unusual failure modes.
Holmes deposits the device in the Scotland Yard vaults
collection, next to Sieve of Eratosthenes used to crash
the
stock market encryption system in 1897.
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This is excellent. Can you explain it again? |
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Maybe ... what was the last episode you saw ? The one with the stolen Zeppelin electric tram, or the one with the poisoned elephant's-foot umbrella-stand ? |
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// This is excellent. Can you explain it again? // |
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[Max], you're not deliberately seeking tag-line plaudits are you? |
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//[Max], you're not deliberately seeking tag-line
plaudits are you?// [marked-for-tagline] |
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We came.
We saw.
We concurred. |
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//Can you explain it again? |
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I'm not sure I explained it the first time, even to myself. I
blame the 80:20 rule. |
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//the stolen Zeppelin electric tram, or the one with the
poisoned elephant's-foot umbrella-stand |
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It was the Zeppelin electric tram with a poisoned foot, in
the episode I watched. |
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