Watching The Pearl of Death (1944)
A gift is delivered for Holmes of a "1757 Folio first edition of Johnson's dictionary."
Holmes GUESSES that the book is booby trapped, based on the restriction that only he open it.
He never mentions the two obvious flaws in the courier's description of the gift.
First Johnson's Dictionary was first published in 1755, not 1757.
Second, the volume provided by the props master was not a Folio. It is, maybe, Quarto.
Holmes missed these details, but I didn't. I didn't!
"Nobody's smart but me!"
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