This opening episode includes the book's introduction, epigraph and preface, as well as the first chapter of the purported Wittgenstein hardboiled noir detective story, 'Dear Old Blood', which the academic Herbert Denk claims to have discovered. It finishes with a series of end notes including:

• the title 'Dear Old Blood'
• the detective's name, Nix
• the reference to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
• the similarities between philosophy and detection

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Horace Murgatroyd continues his reading of the purported hardboiled noir written by Ludwig Wittgenstein, which rogue academic Herbert Denk claims to have found. In it, our investigator Nix lands in Cambridge and begins to tail the 'wise guy' philosopher, Godwit. End notes include:

• Piero Sraffa
• David Pinsent
• The philosophy of detection

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Horace Murgatroyd continues his reading of rogue academic Herbert Denk's 'find of the century' - the purported hardboiled noir written by Ludwig Wittgenstein. In it, our investigator Nix follows the 'wise guy' philosopher Godwit into a meeting of the Cambridge Apostles. End notes include:

• Cambridge Apostles
• Schubert lieder
• the Philosopher Kings
• Street & Smith Detective Story Magazine (Fig. 1, of the July 1948 issue, mentioned in the recording below)

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