Several screens into a Bing search, this came up, in a different context.
Where does the name ‘The Art of Detection’ come from? The name comes from Sherlock Holmes himself. In The Adventure of the Abbey Grange Sherlock Holmes was complaining to Watson that he, Watson, in his attempt to please readers, was not paying sufficient attention to the finer points of his art, that is, the art that Sherlock Holmes practises as a detective. As remedy he proposes to spend his retirement years ‘in the composition of a textbook which shall focus the whole Art of Detection into one volume.’ http://psh2.wordpress.com/
However, the manuscript in King's novel was a short story or memoir which read like m/m fan fic, with little if any detection in it.
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Where does the name ‘The Art of Detection’ come from?
The name comes from Sherlock Holmes himself. In The Adventure of the Abbey Grange Sherlock Holmes was complaining to Watson that he, Watson, in his attempt to please readers, was not paying sufficient attention to the finer points of his art, that is, the art that Sherlock Holmes practises as a detective. As remedy he proposes to spend his retirement years ‘in the composition of a textbook which shall focus the whole Art of Detection into one volume.’
http://psh2.wordpress.com/
However, the manuscript in King's novel was a short story or memoir which read like m/m fan fic, with little if any detection in it.