"What are you working on, O'Malley?" I said entering Shamrock's study.
"Well, Walton, you know that the smallest facts often lead to unraveling the most confusing cases?"
"Indeed. I read an article by Mr. Holmes about deciphering differences in tobacco ashes."
"Bah! How many people smoke in Victorian London? Seriously? No, I'm interested in profitable areas of investigation: Ascertaining Sasquatch hair!"
". . . Why?"
"Sasquatch attacks account for 87 percent of all homicides, but they hide by shaving and blending in with humans. Find the Sasquatch; find the murderer!"
O'Malley's 563 page treatise Discovering Hidden Sasquatches Among Us failed to find a publisher.
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More cases from the files of Shamrock O'Malley
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