The Game is On

By Cheryl Powers

Facts, while indisputable, merely describe the state of something. They point to things which are real, which exist but which don't necessarily explain why or how they got that way. And which, if viewed from another vantage point, may even seem to prove something else entirely.

Sherlock Holmes knows this well. Holmes out-sleuthed the police detectives time after time. He was especially fond of showing Detective Lestrade, who always seemed confused by the facts of a case, the errors in his thinking. Lestrade was notorious for drawing incorrect conclusions, making disastrous assumptions, and taking circumstantial evidence at face value -- all of which left him unable to solve crimes. Until Sherlock arrived on the scene, that is.

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