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something fresh, wodehouse
""Why, I was forgetting that you were a writer of detective stories. You ought to be able to solve this mystery in a moment. Ask yourself, 'What would Gridley Quayle have done?'"
"I can answer that. Gridley Quayle would have waited helplessly for some coincidence to happen to help him out."
"Had he no methods?"
"He was full of methods; but they never led him anywhere without the coincidence. "
http://www.online-literature.com/pg-wodehouse/something-new/11/
""Why, I was forgetting that you were a writer of detective stories. You ought to be able to solve this mystery in a moment. Ask yourself, 'What would Gridley Quayle have done?'"
"I can answer that. Gridley Quayle would have waited helplessly for some coincidence to happen to help him out."
"Had he no methods?"
"He was full of methods; but they never led him anywhere without the coincidence. "
http://www.online-literature.com/pg-wodehouse/something-new/11/