... expect from a fellow whose first spoken line ever is: "I have found a re-agent which is precipitated by haemoglobin, and by nothing else!" To make Holmes palatable to mass audiences, screenwriters, playwrights, and actors realize that the cold, logical facade must crumble to reveal a humorous and witty underside. In "A Scandal in Bohemia," for example, Doyle may dramatically describe the "slow and heavy ... . This cuts across schools. It is a dominant tradition among intuitionist writers, such as Carr, Queen and Chesterton, but one also finds it in Rinehart, Frederick Irving Anderson, an...

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