[kolodny]

One of my favorite books is the "The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes" which describes a technique called retrograde analysis

https://www.amazon.com/Chess-Mysteries-Sherlock-Holmes-Recre...

[tunesmith]

I found this book after reading The Flanders Panel, a thriller novel that also uses retrograde chess analysis. Both great books.

[zem]

same here; in fact it might have been the first smullyan book I read, since I was a huge sherlock holmes fan before I ever heard of him