When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth. — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. British writer and physician (1859–1930)
It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?