TheChineseOrangeMystery

The Chinese Orange Mystery Ellery Queen “The detection¯or rather the solution¯of crime calls for a combination of scientist and seer in the completest development of the detective. The genius for prophesying from events is a very special endowment of Nature and has been granted in its highest form only to a favored few . . . . “I might paraphrase that interesting observation in Schlegel's Athenaeum goes: ‘DER HISTORIKER IST EIN RIICKWARTS GEKEHRTER PROPHET/ BY POINTING OUT THAT: ‘THE DETECTIVE IS A PROPHET LOOKING BACKWARDSOR CARLYLE’S MORE SUBTLE OBSERVATION ABOUT HISTORY BY AGREEING THAT: THE PROCESS OF DETECTION (AS OPPOSED TO HISTORY ) IS ‘A DISTILLATION OF RUMOR.’” ¯EXCERPT FROM AN ANONYMOUS ARTICLE IN ESOTERICA AMERICANA,ATTRIBUTED BY SOME TO MATSOYUMA TAHUKIY THE NOTED JAPANESE AUTHORITY ON THE OCCIDENT. FOREWORD I AM NATURALLY PREJUDICED IN FAVOR OF MY FRIEND MR. ELLERY QUEEN. FRIENDSHIP ABORTS THE CRITICAL FACULTIES; ESPECIALLY FRIENDSHIP WHICH HAS BEEN INVITED TO PARTAKE OF FAME. AND YET, EVER SINCE THOSE ANCIENT DAYS WHEN I WAS FIRST PERSUADING ELLERY TO WHIP HIS NOTES INTO FICTION FORM¯THROUGH ALL THE EX......