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Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter
which present the greatest difculties, let the enquirer begin
by mastering more elementary problems.
Sherlock Holmes, in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study
in Scarlet
I am afraid, my dear Watson, that most of your conclusions
were erroneous. When I said that you stimulated me I meant,
to be frank, that in noting your fallacies I was occasionally
guided towards the truth.
Sherlock Holmes, in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The
Hound of the Baskervilles
Money laundering has been described as the “crime of the
1990s” and even the “crime of the twenty-rst century.”
While I’d guess someb ...