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About the Author: Martin Hill Ortiz has four published novels, over thirty-five short stories published, including more than a dozen in Mystery Magazine. Keith Jones's debut novel, Mayan Equinox, won the San Diego Book Awards Association in the Mystery/Thriller category and the Seventh Annual Salvo Press Mystery Novel Award.
In my years of working with Sherlock Holmes, I had never seen him so devitalized. I encountered him in our sitting room at 221B Baker Street draped over his favorite chair, slumping so deeply that the front edge of the cushion barely met his posterior. With his legs straight as a plank, his shoes stretched out to near the fireplace coals.
“The greatest mystery,” he said languidly, “is the human mind. I am biased in that I treat my brain as a thinking machine. That metaphor does not extend to the fellow members of my species. Is the human skull no more than a bowl of chemical soup with alphabetti pasta as its language? Is humankind held sway to the humors of unfathomable passions?”
“What brought about these musings?” I asked. Having returned from a house call, I set down my medical bag and took off my gloves.
“My dear Watson, I have spent the last three days as a spectator in the gallery of an inquest. I had read about the crime in the dailies and it seemed such a puzzle as to motive, I decided to visit the hearings to gain some sense of it.
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