1) ever since .... have -ing
2) scholarship: HERE: activity of a “scholar”
(NOT
„Stipendium“!)
3) narrative sleuth(s)
4) to sift through
5) the canon
6) handsome
7) mock-academic
8) treasure trove (cf: French “trouver”)
9) copious
10) deduction
11) to dream up
12) to date
13) tome
14) replete with (cf:
“complete with”)
15) nugget
16) minutiae >>> minute
17) reputable (cf: reputation)
18) contribution
19) weird
20) to revolve around
21) nobody .... worth his salt: IDIOM
22) to devise (~ to contrive, see below #24)
23) plot
24) to contrive
25) locked in (mortal) combat
26) nemesis : from Greek: the goddess of retribution
27) hiatus
28) to lie low cf:
to keep a low profile = sich zurückhalten
29) reprisal
30) (they) will have none of this: IDIOM
31) ,COMMA however (nachgestellt)
32) to posit (formal)
33) (to be on) secondment verb: to
second
34) to undergo
35) in the guise of
cf:disguise (noun/verb)
36) to supersede
37) comprehensive
38) repository
39) arcane
40) Sherlockiana
41) curious (two different meanings, here: ..........)
42) actually: FALSE FRIEND!
43) erudite (noun: erudition)
44) unfathomable (verb: to fathom)
45) enigma (adjective: enigmatic)
46) to put down (UMPTEEN meanings! Here: to .........)
AND NOW FOR
SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT:
#192) detective joke (1), Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock
Holmes: video links
"Wiki" on The Final Problem and The Reichenbach Falls:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichenbach_Falls
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