- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (25 Mar 1971)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140032118
- ISBN-13: 978-0140032116
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.9 x 1.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 972,383 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Nine Mile Walk by Harry Kemelman.
Characters: Two men, Nicholas Welt and the unnamed man who relates the tale.
Setting: Two men have breakfast at a restaurant called The Blue Moon and afterward head to the narrator's office.
Plot: It's just a conversation that starts with a bet and ends up solving a murder.
How it starts: Nicky says: "An inference can be logical and still not be true."
Then he says: "Give me any sentence of ten or twelve words and I'll build you a logical chain of inferences that you never dreamed of when you framed the sentence."
So the main characters says: "A nine mile walk is no joke, especially in the rain." From that eleven word sentence, Nicky solves a murder. It's one of the most amazing stories I've ever read.
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