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* [[Hercule Poirot]] once solved a crime without leaving his room for a bet. No phone was involved though, he just asked for police reports (and used his friend Hastings to run errands). On another occasion he was in bed with flu, and contacted Hastings at the scene via telegram.
* The Argentine detective Don Isidro Parodi, created by [[Jorge Luis Borges]] and Adolfo Bioy Casares under the pen name H. Bustos Domecq, is a man unjustly imprisioned to whom friends (and friends of friends) come visit at his cell with stories about mysteries and crimes, which he never fails to solve just by listening to their reports.
** Don Isidro [[Meaningful Name|Parodi]] is a [[Deconstructive Parody]] of this (and many others mysteries) tropes combined with a juvenalian [[Satire]] of Argentinean society: All the ''"friends"'' who consult him are truly [[Jerkass|JerkAsses]] whom could not care less about Parodi’s [[Miscarriage of Justice]] [[Government Conspiracy|being falsely accused and judged by]] a [[Kangaroo Court]] [[Frame
* Henry, of [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''Black Widowers'' mysteries, can solve any mystery after hearing it described over dinner.
** Another Asimovian detective, Wendell Urth, was so afraid of travelling that he, like [[Nero Wolfe]], worked almost entirely from home.
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