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* NobodyHereButUsBirds: The Danites watching the Ferrier house signal to each other by making the sounds of owls and whippoorwills.

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* OutsideRide: Holmes follows a person of interest by clinging to the back of the cab she got into, and then dropping off shortly before it arrives at its destination so he can pretend to be just walking past as she gets out. "That's an art which every detective should be an expert at," he tells Watson.



* TitleDrop: On the very last page, as Holmes sums up what cracking the case has accomplished for him personally:
-->“That’s the result of all our Study in Scarlet: to get [[PoliceAreUseless them]] a testimonial!”

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** Given by Holmes at the end of the fifth chapter:
--->"I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study I ever came across: a study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."
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the very last page, as Holmes sums up what cracking the case has accomplished for him personally:
-->“That’s --->“That’s the result of all our Study in Scarlet: to get [[PoliceAreUseless them]] a testimonial!”
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Spelling/grammar fix - the quote is "the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life", not "skin of life". A skein is a collection of yarn, string, or threads. Check the book yourself if you don't believe me, it's public domain.


->''"There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skin of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."''

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->''"There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skin skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."''
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* ClueOfFewWords: The word ''Rache'' is found written on the wall at a murder scene. The police inspectors think someone was interrupted while trying to write the name Rachel, but Sherlock Holmes points out that "rache" is German for "revenge". [[spoiler:This turns out to be a complete RedHerring. While the murder was an act of vengeance, the killer doesn't speak German and only wrote the word on the wall because he'd read about it happening in another murder case.]]

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