From Bob Tostevin’s book ‘The Promethean Illusion: The Western Belief in Human Mastery of Nature’: After Poirot has picked up whatever clues he deems relevant, he likes to retire to an armchair or maybe to a table, where he may steady his nerves by building a house of cards: there and then, voila! He uses … Continue reading Poirot vs Holmes: Rationalism vs Empiricism