"How on earth did you know?" she said. Mr. Campion sighed with relief.
"The process of elimination," said he oracularly as he picked up the suitcase and trudged back to the car with it, "combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labour. Which being translated means: I guessed it."
(from The Gyrth Chalice Mystery, by Margery Allingham)
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