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The Detective and the Investor: Uncovering Investment Techniques from the Legendary Sleuths

At a time when the practices and investment techniques of Wall Street analysts are being questioned widely for being biased and superficial, Robert Hagstrom shows how investment professionals and personal investors can take investment decisions into their hands successfully by applying the methods of some of the world's most famous detectives, such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe's Auguste Dupin and G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown. Hagstrom advocates that the careful mental process that these great analytical detectives use to evaluate evidence and reach a logical conclusion can be used to evaluate potential investments. Each detective has his own set of analytical skills that can be matched with certain types of investors. There is something for everyone, and as Hagstrom teaches investors how to reach within themselves and learn to develop their own set of skills, logic and perceptions similar to those of the detectives rather than relying on published analyst reports, financial statements and newspapers.