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The Symbolic Logic of Murder (1960)
John Reese
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Through a combination of biblical mnemonics and Boolean algebra, our heroes are able to solve a mysterious murder. Appears in Mathematical Magpie.

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  6. Go, Little Book by Isaac Asimov
  7. Sixty Million Trillion Combinations by Isaac Asimov
  8. Musgrave Ritual by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  9. Who Killed the Duke of Densmore? by Claude Berge
  10. The Image in the Mirror by Dorothy Leigh Sayers
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Mathematical Content:
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Literary Quality:
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Categories:
GenreMystery,
MotifReligion,
TopicLogic/Set Theory,
MediumShort Stories,

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