Talk:For Want of a Clue, Part 2/@comment-99.179.103.38-20140826191031/@comment-25262271-20140831140019

Well, where else could one go with the scraps then? Let's think about this. What do we know?

The scraps must reference something knowable. In other words, they must reference something that one could reasonably know or be expected to know.

Given the theme of the book, it's also likely that the scraps do not reference any information that would not be knowable during the time period the book takes place. For example, the scraps probably don't reference television shows, movies, or events that happened in the past 100ish years.

The front of the book contains a card that references other famous authors who have checked out the book, so maybe that's a clue? Are the scraps somehow references to other great works of fiction? This is certainly knowable information, especially since those works of fiction would be in the public domain by now (for example, one of the people to check out a book was Doyle, and the Sherlock novels are all public domain now).