Okay....so how effective do you think this method is. Now, I'm not discounting that if it works for her then it's good, but esp. in comparison to Holmes.
Spot on, Gen, absolutely spot on. I really think that Ms. Marple's method, pitted up against Holmes' infallible method of deduction, would not hold much water. Especially if the two were used in this day and age. Holmes' method is timeless and perhaps, if grafted by a competent detective, can still be used to solve crimes today. Ms. Marple's method however, would be more likely to err as human nature is never as truly constant as is depicted in the Marple stories. People simply do not follow the same patterns of life. Sure, people may bear similar traits and act somewhat the same, but that does not mean that they would act the same under the exacty same circumstances. The one loophole in Marple's method is that it disregards the singular nature of humans. Holmes' method, however, relies solely on the one thing that, as John Grisham from C.S.I. famously says, "never lies", and that is the evidence. Blood is still blood, no matter what; human emotions however, are not as constant as the blood on a suspect's sleeve may be.
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:) nice. i can't say anything to that. Make me look like a bad commentor now..uhhh..no i got nothing. I think that was like a perfect response.
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