ABSTRACT
Each of the epigraphs comes from an easily recognisable genre. Can you identify them? ‘Of course’, you say: a newspaper report, The Bible (King James version, Matthew 8 26-7), a Sherlock Holmes novel and notes made as a record of a conversation. But is that right? Well ‘yes’ and ‘no’. Two of the texts are not what they seem. Text C is an advertisement for the Scottish alcoholic liqueur, Drambuie, using the genre of a Sherlock Holmes novel in which to embed the drink as an advertised product, and Text D is discussed in Chapter 6, as a disputed text. In this case the police claimed that it was a record of a conversation made from memory, but the defendant in the case claimed that the record was too accurate to have been made from memory and that it had in fact been covertly tape-recorded.
