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This is, of course, a regular feature of mysteries or else they’d all be over in five minutes, but there is an especially high level of mistakenness and misdirection here.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026

One almost blushes at having to explain, in a popular style, the mistakenness, to use the mildest word, of these objections.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George