Point of View: Scientific writing is not a murder mystery

  1. Charlotte A Dodson  Is a corresponding author
  1. Department of Life Sciences, University of Bath, United Kingdom
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The Hound of the Baskervilles rewritten in the style of a scientific paper.

https://cdn.elifesciences.org/articles/112853/elife-112853-supp1-v1.pdf
Supplementary file 2

Copy of Supplementary file 1, colour-coded to make the different stylistic statements explicit.

https://cdn.elifesciences.org/articles/112853/elife-112853-supp2-v1.pdf
Supplementary file 3

List of seventy-five perfumes considered by Sherlock Holmes.

https://cdn.elifesciences.org/articles/112853/elife-112853-supp3-v1.pdf

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  1. Charlotte A Dodson
(2026)
Point of View: Scientific writing is not a murder mystery
eLife 15:e112853.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.112853