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No Slump, Sherlock — This Year’s Dogs That Didn’t Bark
Or, the curious case of the Big Things that were supposed to happen but didn’t.
Recession wasn’t so elementary after all.
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Some stories just keep giving. Prime among them is the Sherlock Holmes tale Silver Blaze. It’s about the theft of a racehorse and the murder of its trainer in mysterious circumstances. Holmes sorts everything out, but only after deducing that almost nothing about the scene of the crime was as it seemed.