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““WATSON: -Sherlock is alarmingly well read. SHERLOCK: -Nothing alarming about it. WATSON: -'The Stray Animal Cook Book' by Alfred Bligh; "An Illustrated Guide to Human Decomposition' by Warren Court; 'How to Kill a Man with Cutlery' by Shelley Von Trampp. I stick by the word 'alarmingly'.””

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