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Subject: Re: (tears) The Men and the Mirror by Ross Rocklynne
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 07:11:33 -0000 (UTC)
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Scott Dorsey wrote:

> Default User <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Holmes to the "professor of mathematics” from her dealings with
> > Baron Maupertuis. This a result of events adjacent to the untold
> > story "The Case of the Netherland-Sumatra Company and of the
> > Colossal Schemes of Baron Maupertuis".
> 
> Is the Netherland-Sumatra company by any chance plagued with those
> giant rats?

Hard to say. Doyler certainly seems to have had Sumatra on his mind.

<https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Case_of_the_Netherland-Sumatra_Company_and_of_the_Colossal_Schemes_of_Baron_Maupertuis>


Brian