Feet of Clay

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Terry is challenging the Sherlock Holmes school of detection as being “an insult to the glorious variety of human life.” P G Wodehouse does the same in one of his Psmith stories, in which Psmith observes the local plumber sitting in his garden, dressed well because it’s Sunday and reading Shakespeare because he likes it, while Psmith is studying the “How To Detect” booklet that says a plumber is unlikely to dress well/read Shakespeare.