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Conned Again Watson!: Cautionary Tales In Logic, Math, And Probability Mathematical Connections In Colin Bruce's Book, Conned Again Watson!: Cautionary Tales In Logic, Math, And Probability As the title suggest, Conned Again, Watson! Cautionary Tales of Logic, Math, and Probability, by Colin Bruce (Perseus Publishing, 2002), is a collection of mathematical tales set in the form of Sherlock Holmes adventures. Each of the stories has a mathematical connection and several touch on issues related to the theme of this chapter (particularly relevant are “The Case of the Gambling Nobleman” and The Case of the Surprise Heir,” but several others deal with probability topics as well). The story that I choose to read was “The Case of the Surprise Heir”. This just like the other stories are set in the tone of a Sherlock Holmes novel. With Holmes and his faithful friend Watson analyzing different cases of a mathematical nature that have been brought to them by various people around London. The time period the story is set in is revealed in the beginning of the story. Sherlock Holmes happens to picks up a British newspaper and in commenting on the masthead reveals that the year is that 1900. The story begins with Sherlock Holmes and Watson discussing an article in the holmes, watson, out, one, sherlock, lists, dates, story, two, tells, states, probability, list, fact, explains, astrological, now, knew, great, conclusion, both, being, asks, under, spread, sort, signs, sign, set, readers, predictions, pick, numbers, newspaper, mathematical