The Intricacies of Detective Work and Philosophical Exploration

This opening episode includes the book's introduction, epigraph and preface, as well as the first chapter of the purported Wittgenstein hardboiled noir detective story, 'Dear Old Blood', which the academic Herbert Denk claims to have discovered. It finishes with a series of end notes including:

• the title 'Dear Old Blood'
• the detective's name, Nix
• the reference to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
• the similarities between philosophy and detection

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