What is the meaning of "baffle detection"?
But, strangely enough, she didn’t seem interested in Veronal. Instead she changed the subject, and asked me if it was true that there were certain poisons so rare as to baffle detection.
“Ah!” I said. “You’ve been reading detective stories.”
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Hi That is the Murder of Roger Ackroyd Baffling: something is done - or happens - that no one can explain. To baffle, is to create a problem that is hard Detection: finding a thing that is difficult to find - or the art of solving difficult crimes Agatha Christie is playing on the meanings there - could it be that the victim's blood contains a poison that no one has thought of? And could it be that it was done deliberately, in a way that a detective might not notice?
- Hi That is the Murder of Roger Ackroyd Baffling: something is done - or happens - that no one can explain.
- To baffle, is to create a problem that is hard Detection: finding a thing that is difficult to find - or the art of solving difficult crimes Agatha Christie is playing on the meanings there - could it be that the victim's blood contains a poison that no one has thought of?
- And could it be that it was done deliberately, in a way that a detective might not notice?
- Hope this helps, Dave
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That is the Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Baffling: something is done - or happens - that no one can explain. To baffle, is to create a problem that is hard
Detection: finding a thing that is difficult to find - or the art of solving difficult crimes
Agatha Christie is playing on the meanings there - could it be that the victim's blood contains a poison that no one has tho
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