Elementary skills to free your inner super sleuth
Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova. Canongate, €21.40. Reviewed by Jonathan O'Brien.
Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes
**By Maria Konnikova**
**Canongate, €21.40**
**Reviewed by Jonathan O'Brien**
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Like Batman and vampires, Sherlock Holmes is one of those cultural tropes that seem incapable of simply going away and being given a decent burial. Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous creation has been somewhat difficult to avoid in recent times - there have been two Hollywood films since 2009, both of them starring Robert Downey Jr ...