Table Of Contents:
Preface vii

Umberto Eco

Thomas A. Sebeok
Abbreviations in the Text xi

Thomas A. Sebeok

One, Two, Three Spells UBERTY 1(10)

Thomas A. Sebeok

``You Know My Method'': A Juxtaposition of Charles S. Peirce and Sherlock Holmes 11(44)

Thomas A. Sebeok

Jean Umiker-Sebeok

Sherlock Holmes: Applied Social Psychologist 55(26)

Marcello Truzzi

Morelli, Freud, and Sherlock Holmes: Clues and Scientific Method 81(38)

Carlo Ginzburg

To Guess or Not To Guess? 119(16)

Massimo A. Bonfantini

Giampaolo Proni

Peirce, Holmes, Popper 135(19)

Gian Paolo Carettini

Sherlock Holmes Confronts Modern Logic: Toward a Theory of Information-Seeking through Questioning 154(16)

Jaakko Hintikka

Merrill B. Hintikka

Sherlock Holmes Formalized 170(9)

Jaakko Hintikka

The Body of the Detective Model: Charles S. Peirce and Edgar Allan Poe 179(19)

Nancy Harrowitz

Horns, Hooves, Insteps: Some Hypotheses on Three Types of Abduction 198(23)

Umberto Eco
References 221