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Painting_Agency t1_j62j506 wrote

Reply to comment by ricarleite2 in "Hounds of Baskervilles" question [Spoilers] by ricarleite2

> stealing footwear wearing a fake beard in London for no fucking reason

The answer is "because Doyle was an author who wrote about potboiler shit like fake spectral dogs and fake-beard-wearing shoe thieves (and people pretending to be scabby beggars and geese eating jewels), not guys who just flat out gank their enemies"... a notable exception being Col. Moran who just ganked his enemies.

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abnrib t1_j62tysh wrote

>a notable exception being Col. Moran who just ganked his enemies.

But in an interesting and hard to immediately deduce way

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